patten for a tattoo that would vibrate when somebody tries to reach you on your phone. talking about letting technology get under your skin. >>> peyton manning is officially a bronco. and then a woman goes up for the dunk. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> very impressive, but not as impressive as the record-high temperatures across the great lakes. that's coming to an end. your forecast is coming up. you are watching "early today." >>> very good >>> good morning to you. if you are just waking up this is "early today." in sports last night in the fourth straight game since the coach resigns, the new york knicks were winners. >> good morning. if you think it's hard to figure out the knicks, you are not alone. after tkrauling six in a row, they are now a perfect four in a row under the new coach. they played defense. knicks are rolling once again and beat the raptors 106-107. the heat decided to show up in playing the sun. chris bosh led the way, and 99-95. and lakers used to be able to take over a game in a blink of an eye. the rockets fed off t

. >> we're getting pattens are being awarded to california fourth times the rate of the next state, which is new york. >> reporter: job wise there are two californians. >> there's a tech company that's going gang busters, both these large firms and the smaller firms. then there's the rest of the economy that's basically hanging on. >> we're going abroad looking to bring people in. >> reporter: even the construction development gained a few thousand jobs in the last month. >> the private-sector is growing. people have to realize that because it means schools and it means public safety and it means taking care of the most vulnerable. >> reporter: a lot of people remain on their own when it comes to buying basic services. >> i'm seeing out of pocket as opposed to insurance. >> reporter: in all of last year california gained more than 130,000 jobs leaving 2 million still unemployed. >> we're coming back steadily, the trend is coming back. but it's going to take us a while to get back to where we need to be. >> reporter: reporting live consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> now he

since patten has more than 50 employees, he may be required to offer them health insurance that he is not sure he can afford. >> we need affordable healthcare, there's no question about it. i don't think a government mandated program is the way to go because eventually the cost is going to spiral out of control even worse than it is now. >> pat believes small business owners have been unfairly portrayed as unwilling to provide health insurance to their employees. he says he tried on numerous occasions to bring it to his employees, but for a variety of reasons, it's never worked. he says he just hasn't had enough employees who wanted to sign up for an insurance company to sign on. but he worries about the governments involvement. >> i'm very aware of, you know, the same politicians that promised us they wouldn't touch the social security lock box trust fund. this isn't going to happen that way? come on. >> the real problem of rising healthcare costs has not been addressed. issues such as malpractice and tort reform. he is watching the supreme court case closely and hopes the high court

romney strude bring jobs back to the united states and said china cheats by stealing american designs, pattens, and brand names. >> i am going to insist china plays by the same rules everyone else do. if they do, we will win jobs back. they will have jobs too. we will fight on a level playing field. >> he plans to campaign tomorrow in north dakota, another super tuesday state. all together, voters in 10 states will be voting next tuesday. >>> tonight, rick santorum shook off his losses in arizona and michigan and set his sites on the super tuesday states. . >> you know what? we are doing all right. we feel really good about tennessee, oklahoma, we will spend time in ohio. >> rick santorum rallied supporters in tennessee. he said has not written off the big states. 400 delegates are at steak. mitt romney is leading the race with 171. rick santorum has 52. newt gingrich 38. ron paul has 27. 1,144 are needed for the win. coming up, find out where newt gingrich is putting all of his chips and who focused on his day job today. >>> hurkialys is facing a crisis and what officials call unacceptable cu

their life, they came together and became what was later known once the political career started, the patten-dick team. >> reporter: it began at a community theatre oddnition whittier, california n1938. a young lawyer, richard nixon, was quite schmidten by the lovely school teacher, pat ryan and courted her with dogged persistence and a series of letters. >> you remember the funny guy who asked to you go to a 20, 30 ladies night two years ago? >> reporter: some of the correspondence is going display at the richard nixon presidential library as part of a exhibit commemorating the life of pat nixon. >> richard's letters are ardent and poetic even, demon straightive of how he feels about pat. >> reporter: after two years of courtship and dozens of letters back and fort, they got married. >> her letters are lighter in tone and affectionate. one of my favorite lines from one of the letters is when he said -- she said if you get done early come, by and i'll burn a hamburger for you. >> he calls his wife to be his irish gencey and dearest heart and refers to himself in the third person. >> when the wind

he's very consciously pattened his -- patterned his career on his distant cousin, theodore roosevelt. roosevelt had been elected to the state legislature, the new york legislature as was franklin, and t.r. had become assistant secretary of the navy as now had f,dr. all that was left was for fdr to become vice president and president because that's what happened to t.r.. teddy roosevelt after serve anything the cabinet as assistant secretary of the navy then went on to become vice president and president of the united states. and in 1916 roosevelt was assistant secretary of the navy. hughes had been appointed to the court as an associate justice by president william howard taft. and, but he resigned in 1916 to become the republican candidate for president. and he ran against woodrow wilson. ran a dreadful campaign. he was the odds-on favorite, but he ultimately lost california by 4,000 votes and, therefore, the election. he went to bed the night of the election thinking that he had won. franklin roosevelt, who was a big wilson supporter, went to bed thinking that hughes had won. and th