california mom is taking on a fast food giant with the help of the consumer group center for yzscience and publnald's to force them to offer lower calorie meals. she says her 6-year-old is so she can't win. >> you're a mom, you're their mom, isn't it your job to tell them no? >> i can tell them no all day long, they still see that you've really got to have this. >> mcdonald's says it does offer lower calorie happy meal options, and couldn't disagree more with the y. of our foods and marketing practices. san francisco recently became the first city to ban fast food restaurants from including toys meet those nutritional guidelines. >>> at a time when it seemed difficult enough to hold on to the job you have, a new approach is catching on. starting your own business in the company of other people, trying to [÷do the exact same thing. samantha hayes shows us a new kind of office space where coffee brakes is mandatory and sharing ideas is the biggest perk of all. >> reporter: on the roof of t washington d. c. condo building sits the realization of zach axelrod's dream. >> literally it's as simple as

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census data report shows that more and more washington area residents are ditching their cars for publtransportation. betwn 205 and two nine, 14% of washington commuters used public transportation and that is up from % recorded during the 2000 census. fewer people are also driving solo. 66% of drivers travel alone. and that's compared to 68% in 2000. thmost common time for people to leave work -- leave for work, rather, is between 7:00 and 7:29 a.m. right after they watch us. >> exactly. and so if you wait till 7:30 you're home free. >> your ride to work this morning may be snow-free b your ride home will not. >> coming up next at 6:30, meteorologist tom kierein is going to let us know when the snow will start to fall in your neighborhood, and just how much you might expe. >>> snow worries for now. snowstorm is inching closer to the metro area. meteorologist tom kierein is going to lets know when it will arrive and just how mu snow you will see. >> that's cute, joe. >> i only say them. don't write the thanks for waking up with us this morning. i'm joe krebs. >> i'm eun yang. it is thur

james carville and political columnist, john, a political independent and republican stat gist and publublisher. what do you make of this debate over christmas? does it sound ridiculous? >> it's utterly silly. plus, senator demint, i don't know what religion he is but if he thinks christmas is the most sacred holiday, he's wrong. it's easter. and most are right, most people have to work on christmas eve. a lot of people have to work the day after christmas. not everybody in the country takes a three-week christmas break. i mean, gee whiz. would it be asking too much to have health insurance and everything else and salary and staff to work a little bit. i don't know? >> what is interesting, a group of religious leaders, they were liberal groups. but nevertheless, they thought that republicans were not playing this well and that they didn't have a case. what do you make of this being used as a tragedy, a tactic until the new congress comes? >> i think it's a necessary tactic. the major arms control treaty deserves a careful look and a close look and i think that in and of itself is enough

sure, all of us have stuff we're not proud of or things that we might not want to be made publ public. that wasn't the case with porteous, which i'll explain in a second. but we heard uncontradicted testimony that if you just now said i'd answer no to that question, you wouldn't be alone. the f.b.i. agent who testified said in his 25 years in the f.b.i., he had never seen anyone answer yes to that question. we brought in the leading expert on the confirmation process. he said that he was unaware of a single person ever saying yes to that question. it is so ambiguous that most people just say no. people have to sit there and wonder, what would be embarrassing to president clinton? and you're supposed to say, well, i can think of this or that, maybe that would embarrass president clinton. they don't do that. they say, look, i don't think my life is embarrassing to people. these lunches that they keep on citing? they were in public places. they weren't held underneath a car. they were held in open restaurants. he never tried to hide them. they were legal. they happen all the time. there

sure, all of us have stuff we're not proud of or things that we might not want to be made publ public. that wasn't the case with porteous, which i'll explain in a second. but we heard uncontradicted testimony that if you just now said i'd answer no to that question, you wouldn't be alone. the f.b.i. agent who testified said in his 25 years in the f.b.i., he had never seen anyone answer yes to that question. we brought in the leading expert on the confirmation process. he said that he was unaware of a single person ever saying yes to that question. it is so ambiguous that most people just say no. people have to sit there and wonder, what would be embarrassing to president clinton? and you're supposed to say, well, i can think of this or that, maybe that would embarrass president clinton. they don't do that. they say, look, i don't think my life is embarrassing to people. these lunches that they keep on citing? they were in public places. they weren't held underneath a car. they were held in open restaurants. he never tried to hide them. they were legal. they happen all the time. there

sure, all of us have stuff we're not proud of or things that we might not want to be made publ public. that wasn't the case with porteous, which i'll explain in a second. but we heard uncontradicted testimony that if you just now said i'd answer no to that question, you wouldn't be alone. the f.b.i. agent who testified said in his 25 years in the f.b.i., he had never seen anyone answer yes to that question. we brought in the leading expert on the confirmation process. he said that he was unaware of a single person ever saying yes to that question. it is so ambiguous that most people just say no. people have to sit there and wonder, what would be embarrassing to president clinton? and you're supposed to say, well, i can think of this or that, maybe that would embarrass president clinton. they don't do that. they say, look, i don't think my life is embarrassing to people. these lunches that they keep on citing? they were in public places. they weren't held underneath a car. they were held in open restaurants. he never tried to hide them. they were legal. they happen all the time. there