you going to do the postal bill, save the postal bill? i hope that's the next thing up because we need to work in a truly bipartisan manner. once again, who's here? senator lieberman, senator collins, senator carper, and me, we're pushing to try to save the post office. that should be the next thing. what's next after that? we need to address our fiscal and financial issues so we can come out of this three-year recession in a lean and mean manner to be a better country, to be able to compete on a global business -- global basis. put the american people's interests first instead of everybody else's. i usually get in trouble when i go off like this but i think it's critically important to let people know one good deed begets another good deeds begets another good deed. this is the stirs step in this 234u calendar year to do just that. thank you and i yield the floor. mr. lieberman: thank you, senator brown. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. i'm pleased to report that i just received notic

homeowner says he plans to find a repairman who specialized in those clocks and send the postal service the bill> it's back. we have a little snow in the sierra finally. all you skiers out there have to be happy about this. this is the site people have been hoping see all season long. many expected several inches of snow. this morning, caltrans has 200 people and 135 pieces of equipment on standby including plows and sanders waiting to get to work and chain up those cars and, you know, say hello to winter once again. >>> we got a lot of rain coming this weekend. let's check in with lawrence to find out -- i guess it's phase 2, right? >> this one looks stronger as a matter of fact. winter storm warnings go up again this evening as we have a stronger storm headed up in that direction so up to high country bring the chains. you will need it. still, the first storm winding down. some leftover showers in the bay area but we're already beginning to see the first part of the next storm system. see the big green batch off the coastline? that's the warm front that's now headed toward the bay area. that w

postal worker carelessly tossing a package over his fence. in that box, an anti-cuckoo clock that was shipped ais kro the country. what is wrong with cuckoo clocks, bill? the postal service is now investigating. and at one school in northern california, you won't have to call another country to get tech support. the school is turning to one of its own students. in fact, many of them, some of them just 10 years old, all trying to fix aging computers. teachers say the kids often know more about the equipment than they do. and now for a look at your national weather, we turn to bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning you to, bill. >> we're excited about the snowment we're a little giddy. >> yeah. i'm saying, you know, it's nice to wake up and see a wlil snlitw on the ground. >> at least it's on the weekend. but for chicago and other areas, that's where we have concern today. people have to get home in the snow from school and from work. right now the snow is coming down over iowa. this will track, as we mentioned, from iowa this morning all the way through southern new england and off the coast of new jersey as we go throughout th

going to do the poster -- postal bill? i hope that's the next thing up. we need to work in a truly bipartisan manner. once again, who is sneer senator lieberman, sneer -- senator collins and me. we're trying to save the post office. that's the next thing. and what's next after that? we need to address orifice school financial issues and come out of this recession in a leaner, meaner manner to be able to compete on a global basis and stop putting -- start putting te american people's interests first instead of everybody elses. so i usually get trouble when i go off like this but i think it's critically important to let the american people know that one good deed begets another good deed and another good deed, and this is a chance to do just that, and thank you, and i yield the floor. >> thank you, senator. i appreciate your commentses. >> senator from connecticut. >> thank you, chair. mr. president, i'm pleased to report i just received notice that within the hour, the administration put out a statement of the administration policy, strongly endorsing this

the postal service says last year's losses could amount to 14 bill -- billion. and they're shutting down 3700 post offices nationwide this year. >> 49er fever has been spreading spreading and fans were showing off their pride on the web site today. this is part of our slide show on 49ers pride. tom in alamo sent this picture of cooper. sf care bear sent this group shot. and meet the 49ers twins, tim sent us this photo of jc and jp who were fired up. and you can upload video at you report/abc news.com. >> let's go to weather, leigh glaser. >> leigh: it was a great day city stick. all across the bay area. plenty of sunshine. hope you enjoyed it. we definitely get colder tomorrow. 60 right now in oakland. 56 in san francisco. 58 with sunshine. a little sunshine as it is setting there in mountain view, and 62 in livermore. here's a look the highlights. a cold night inland again. much colder air mass will move in tomorrow. the wind picks up, keeps a chill in the air, and looks like finally winter will return as the rain returns. here's a look at the high clouds movin

. >> the postal service will pay the bill to repair the clock.the driver should lose his job just be reprimanded and given more training. >> didn't he see the fedex story several weeks ago? >> wow. there is more to come on news 4 at 4:00 including our app of the day. >> taco bell is about to make over its menu. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. why do gas prices end in 0.9 of a cent? that is the question and the answer is >>> sometimes getting around in a cab is just the easiest thing to do because parking in the city can be such a hassle and it's just easier. so now there's an app for that. it's called taxi magic. it is free and it is so cool. it has -- loads up all the taxies in the area so if say you want a d.c. yellow cab, you just press book. you type in where you want to be picked up. and next you load up your credit card. you start an account with them. or if you don't want to do that just pay in the taxi. then you want to be picked up now or i'm not going to be ready yet. i won't be ready until 6:15. so i select that. and then you do it and it will a

postal supervisors. [applause] from our mail handlers union, local 301, new england president of the mail handlers union, tim dwyer. [cheers and applause] and the branch president of the white river junction, billnd i'd also like to recognize a number of current postal employees that are here in the audience tonight as well as and i would ask for a lot of applause for every tire postal employees. [applause] as information come with two cameras located >> in the back of the room and i would like to invite c-span being here tonight and they will be filming throughout the night. i very much appreciate you to take your time to come to white river junction tonight. into my rate, the two women will be recording all that is said tonight and making it as a matter of the record. just briefly, why are we are here, the purpose is to get input from postal service is looking for input relative to a current study that is being conducted with the white river junction plant processing facility. the reason that this study is being conduct did this the postal service fans ourselves in a financial difficult situation. and that is no new news to anybody. as information since the year 2006, our urbanization has see

communications options available people in businesses are moving away from using the postal service for sending billsstatements and other documents that were once mailed exclusively through first class mail. the simple fact is that the postal service must adjust its mail processing network to evolve as our nation's mailing habits change. most mail processing occurs during overnight hours with the majority of the processing occurring between midnight and 6:00 am. during the day, however, there is little processing that actually occurs. most of the work during these hours involve business mail acceptance and maintenance. so for a significant part of the day, the plant is largely idle. here's the problem, when there is a lot of capacity to process an ever dwindling volume of mail, how can the current system of mail processing be changed with little or no impact on the customer? the answer has to do with something called mail service standards. what most customers may not realize is that first class mail currently receives overnight service in metropolitan areas. because of this standard, the nationwide

postal supervisors. [applause] from our mail handlers union, local 301, new england president of the mail handlers union, tim dwyer. [cheers and applause] and the branch president of the white river junction, bill kramer. and i'd also like to recognize a number of current postal employees that are here in the audience tonight as well as and i would ask for a lot of applause for every tire postal employees. [applause] as information come with two cameras located >> in the back of the room and i would like to invite c-span being here tonight and they will be filming throughout the night. i very much appreciate you to take your time to come to white river junction tonight. into my rate, the two women will be recording all that is said tonight and making it as a matter of the record. just briefly, why are we are here, the purpose is to get input from postal service is looking for input relative to a current study that is being conducted with the white river junction plant processing facility. the reason that this study is being conduct did this the postal service fans ourselves in a financial difficult situation. and that is no new news to anybody. as information since the year 2006, our urbanizati

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postal supervisors. [applause] from our mail handlers union, local 301, new england president of the mail handlers union, tim dwyer. [cheers and applause] and the branch president of the white river junction, billkramer. and i'd also like to recognize a number of current postal employees that are here in the audience tonight as well as and i would ask for a lot of applause for every tire postal employees. [applause] as information come with two cameras located >> in the back of the room and i would like to invite c-span being here tonight and they will be filming throughout the night. i very much appreciate you to take your time to come to white river junction tonight. into my rate, the two women will be recording all that is said tonight and making it as a matter of the record. just briefly, why are we are here, the purpose is to get input from postal service is looking for input relative to a current study that is being conducted with the white river junction plant processing facility. the reason that this study is being conduct did this the postal service fans ourselves in a financial difficult situation. and that is no new news to anybody. as information since the year 2006, our urbanizatio

decision into the sixth sophie's choice about laying off workers and repealing a bill intended to privatize the u.s. postal service. a release that is what i've understood tonight. so my question to you is since we are short on time, whitey jamaica is watch propaganda film instead of letting this comment about the post office, which is what we are here to do. thank you. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the input. our commitment is to out everybody who has something to say to do that tonight. the presentation is part and informational session if you offer those folks up to date with postal ways perhaps as you are. so that was the purpose. next, please. >> my name is heather, a volunteer with the vermont workers center and for the past several months we been having these people put people first meetings. there'll be one heartland on january 25th -- hartford, i'm sorry. hartford on january 25th. you know, we had one for another several months ago and what we find there is that we are living in communities, where wages have been stagnant for many, many years. unfortunately, we have had many waves of public worker

decision into the sixth sophie's choice about laying off workers and repealing a bill intended to privatize the u.s. postal service. a release that is what i've understood tonight. so my question to you is since we are short on time, whitey jamaica is watch propaganda film instead of letting this comment about the post office, which is what we are here to do. thank you. >> thank you. >> i appreciate the input. our commitment is to out everybody who has something to say to do that tonight. the presentation is part and informational session if you offer those folks up to date with postal ways perhaps as you are. so that was the purpose. next, please. >> my name is heather, a volunteer with the vermont workers center and for the past several months we been having these people put people first meetings. there'll be one heartland on january 25th -- hartford, i'm sorry. hartford on january 25th. you know, we had one for another several months ago and what we find there is that we are living in communities, where wages have been stagnant for many, many years. unfortunately, we have had many waves of public worker

postal service prices. lot of people use the internet now to pay their bills.rity express mail, that's going to go up in the next couple of weeks. first-class stamps will increase by a penny for 45 cent and what about the markets, felicia, what are they doing? >> we got a nice rally. exactly. we're up about $4.5 of 1%. we got good news coming out from alcoa and all eyes are still in europe. right now, a very healthy rally in the first couple of days of this week. >> that's on good thing. considering that we have to pay more for a whole bunch of stuff. >>> republican lawmakers, this didn't make him happy, it didn't stop barack obama of throwing richard cordray into the driver's seat at the consumer protection bureau. coming up in the next hour. >>> and round two of the presidential race. voting is now under way in the new hampshire primary. we'll talk with a democratic strategist about what he hopes will come out of this contest. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise

bill dollars. equivalent of 3 week of school. more on the budget now from capitol correspondent annette in sacramento. >> governor brown budget prosecute postal is a mixed ba bag. using arts that show how much nagging deficit has been eliminated he says the state is on the right track. >> good news is california is recovering. the fiscal health of the state is improving. and we now have a plan. >>reporter: but more work needs to be done and he says deeper budget cuts are necessary. welfare will be hit the hardest. nearly 1 bill and a half dollars left. that includes cutting cal works from 4 years to 2 years if recipient don't work and slashing cash aid for children saving the state 9 46 million dollars. health coverage for the poor is slashed 8 42 million dollars. and reducing child care subsidy by 71,000 slots for poor parents will save the state 4 50 million dollars. >> when you say we don't have enough money, you have to cut some of that goods and that's what we are doing. we have to bite the bullet. >> we are not going to jump to that. cutting should be a last resort. >>reporter: governor also wants to avoid even bigger cuts by raising ta

next birthday card or utility bill may cost a little bit more as the price of stamps is going up again. starting sunday, first class postal stamp will go up by a penny to 45 cents. it is the first increase in more than two years. in the past ten years, the first class stamp has gone up eight cents. the postage for post cards are also going up three cents to 32 cents total. and letters to canada or mexico will now cost a nickel more to 85 cents. >>> northern virginia lawmakers wants to impose a 20-cent plastic bag tax. that's four times higher than the cost in the district and montgomery county. supporters stay the tax will encourage more shoppers to use recyclable bags that would cut down on litter and help fund the chesapeake bay cleanup but there is stiff opposition among lawmakers and consumers. >> i wouldn't want to spend 20 cents a bag. >> for 20 cents a bag i will go back to reusable. >> virginia lawmakers will be reviewing the bag tax in committee meetings today. >>> home purchases up 5% in december. let's check in with bertha coombs. she joins us live with more on that. happy friday to you. >> happy friday. it is

bill: about 16 minutes now before the hour. the price to mail a letter going up. now costing 45 cents. the postal hopes the hike will generate additional $888 million a year in revenue. the cofounders of blackberry maker, research in motion. they're stepping down as ceo's. the two replaced by current operating officer after the company lost billions in market value. >>> another hollywood marriage has gone bust. model heidi klum, singer seal announcing their separation after six years of marriage. the two say they have grown apart. they have four children together. they're not really hollywood. they're new york. martha: hollywood marriages, they never last. bill: beyonce said we'll never survive unless we get crazy. martha: they always seemed happy. getting remarried all the time. celebrating their vows. back to the major story this morning, brand new polls coming into "america's newsroom" on the florida republican primary. we're looking forward to see what is happening next in this story as are we. hear is the new raz muse send reports poll of likely republican voters in the primary. take a look.

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bill and now they have it. reubenstein is footing half of the money needed. he donated $4.5 million to the zoo for their panda program. he is son of a postal worker and grew up in the area and he would like to keep the things in the city running. he's donated money to the national archive and kennedy center. there will be a press event held here at 9:00 a.m., where we learn more about this gift and what that means for the monument, specifically how long will it be until repairs get underway and this reopens. i'm stacey cohan. back to you. >> thank you. >>> now to the other top stories we're following this morning. a warning for kids and parents out of fairfax county. this is going on near clairmont elementary school. five incidents of a man in a red pickup truck staring at, waving at and calling children near the school. no children have been hurt or touched in the incident. he said to have short black hair and a goatee. in the december incidents he wore a red national baseball cap and gold chains. the truck is red with scratches, dents and rust. call police if you've seen him. >>> bethesda now, where a smoke alarm revealed something poten

bill: apparently the barrier outside of his house was too much for this guy to handle. michael says the clock will have to be repaired. he filed a complaint with the postal because that stuff is --. martha: oh. all right. well now this for you this morning. many of our veterans returning home from iraq and afghanistan and finding themselves in yet another fight, the fight to find themselves a good job. in their home country. there is a look at unemployment rate for veterans right now, 7.7% in december. more than 850,000 of them currently out of work but the veterans administration is trying to help. peter doocey is live from washington today. peter, how many jobs are available at this job fair today for veterans? >> reporter: 6500, martha. it is a very big number. that represents not only the people who will be receiving job offers today, but people very least will receive a call back about a follow-up meeting to potentially lead to a job offer. it is -- public companies are here. big ones and small ones as well as federal agencies. look behind me, some of the companies here, citibank, coca-cola, lockheed martin, microsoft, the defense department, the ts

better deal than paying for your your bills on the internet and i would appreciate being added to the record as a recommendation on the way to reinvigorate the postal service. >> thank you. [applause] >> the final question, comment of the night. >> my name is michael coming and with my wife and my two sons operating in vermont i'm going to come at this in a little bit of a different way. i was here this afternoon for the mailers meeting and made some comments and would be willing to speak to people more. as a major i know a lot of the nuances on the structure in light seen where things might be tweaked which i would be glad to share. but i realize it's a business. it's a business to be without the vitality of the post office cease to exist. we provide a service to a lot of small companies, businesses, organizations, that type of thing. we are doing things for them to earn them the maximum amount of discounts they can to invite them to continue to the best benefits. for our congressional delegation, you're the ones that are going to be able to get some of the hard answers to the many questions that exist. we can read things. we can't discern how tru

we have the highway bill, the finance committee is going to mark up how that is going to be paid for next week. we have the postal reform, we have to do that. the answer is, i've kind of laid out some of the things we need to do in the immediate future. >> what issues in the payroll tax conference, the idea of making it difficult or impossible for illegal immigrants to claim the refundable child tax credit. it was rumored you object to that in discussions with senator mcconnel. >> i object to that. >> can you give your position on that? >> i think the child tax credit is working just fine and there's no need to punish children. that's -- we're supposed to be trying to help them. we're going to have some amendments, we'll see in a day or two how many are really interested in improving this bill, how many amendments are germane or relevant, and we'll look at it in a day or two. in the meantime, i hope we start having some votes. >> [inaudible] >> no, never have. we have an obligation as members of congress to fulfill our constitutional duty. one of those duties is to make sure we do congressionally directed spendin

postal service. in october at the hearing of h.r. 3117, the fish and wildlife service supported the program. i commend my colleagues, congressman wittman, and congressman ronds kind, for introducing this bill and for their leadership on this issue. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. . mr. wittman: i'd ask the gentleman from the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands if he has any more speakers. mr. sablan: no, i don't. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. mr. wittman: with that, madam speaker, we have no further speakers and i also yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 3117, as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. mr. wittman: madam speaker. the

you going to do the postal bill, save the postal bill? i hope that's the next thing up because we need to work in a truly bipartisan manner. once again, who's here? senator lieberman, senator collins, senator carper, and me, we're pushing to try to save the post office. that should be the next thing. what's next after that? we need to address our fiscal and financial issues so we can come out of this three-year recession in a lean and mean manner to be a better country, to be able to compete on a global business -- global basis. put the american people's interests first instead of everybody else's. i usually get in trouble when i go off like this but i think it's critically important to let people know one good deed begets another good deeds begets another good deed. this is the stirs step in this 234u calendar year to do just that. thank you and i yield the floor. mr. lieberman: thank you, senator brown. the presiding officer: the senator from connecticut. mr. lieberman: i thank the chair. i'm pleased to report that i just received notic