. >> katie: you remember your cousin r.j., right?> will: [ babbles ] >> ridge: hey, that's the same blank stare you always give me. i remember that. check this out. turn off the tv. take out the garbage. >> katie: [ laughs ] >> ridge: put down your video game. see what i mean? >> katie: wow. >> ridge: it's the same. >> katie: don't worry. th

. >> brooke: [ gasps ] >> ridge: for r.j.

r.j., great to chat with you, h.j. hottovy. now, the snowball is just beginning for the u.s.rn a series of storms will punch much of the country over the next week. punxsutawney phil looks to be right. jennifer, tell us more. >> oh, yes. we are talking about a big mess out there. anywhere you're looking behind me in blue, winter weather alerts and warnings out there for nearly two dozen states. a lot of this still is targeting to kick off right now. we're showing you on the rarity what is happening. across parts of the plains, oklahoma city as well as wichita. blues, purple is the wintry mix. all this has to go somewhere and it's going to be traversing parts of the midwest as well as eventually hitting parts of the northeast. once again to give you an idea of what we're talking about, we're going to be looking at the heavier snowfall. the wintry mix and purple icy conditions set up for the midwest, this is going to be messy travel. once again, new york, we're going to be looking at more snow, as well, as well as some of that wintry mix. we're going to see that moving into new

r.j. reynolds says they respect the commercial decision. this smoker says now she will have to find another place to buy her cigarettes. >> i don't think it's going to make an impact on people not smoking. >> reporter: this morning, the ceo was asked whether or not the store chain would consider banning other things that are considered unhealthy like alcohol or candy. he said no, because those things in moderation just don't have the same adverse health effects as cigarettes do. live in daly city, anne makovec, kpix 5. >> thank you, anne. >>> the clouds are building today and rain is coming. we have a super soaker on the way to the bay area. kpix 5 meteorologist lawrence karnow in the weather center tracking the storms as in plural, i guess, right? >> yeah. the next couple storms we may see more rain in these two storms than we have seen all year so far. so with that in mind, right now it is quiet on our hi-def doppler radar, we are scanning your skies but a little later on we expect that rain to move in. in fact, it's not that far away. yo

charlie r.j. the spectacular journey of the olympic torch as it ends its odyssey stay with us after this short break. is there a new cold war brewing pitting the west against russia what is being called a reset relations at the start of the obama presidency today is in tatters western media and politicians are determined to between russia and the worst possible light even to the point of undermining the sochi games one of these new cold warriors hoping to achieve. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rate they really need to buy guns and burn how to use them. this is the one that i want to go with them once again it's the fear of. women definitely the target of the gun lobby one you don't kill them when you're killing money but if somebody would you would piss with her. i've noticed that more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here

r.j. your thoughts on the. rich rich well i mean sure the passive voice populist says shift happens when it comes to inequality rather than explaining why but i also think you know this is a town right now you know washington d.c. like any group of people as a culture it has its folkways and says this is this is a culture right now that it's fetishizing ronald reagan and tip o'neill at the moment in history when they were able to agree on something it's taken two individuals and a moment in time and made that a totem of some kind but what they forget is that both ronald reagan and tip o'neill were reporter ical firebrands for two very different points of view what would is missing from the debate now is that you know where reagan was a firebrand for conservatism o'neill was a firebrand for old school liberalism what we have now is a rhetoric of washington that that fetishizing talks are just cupper mys for compromises sake and what gets lost in that idiology has become a dirty word in washington but idiology is

. >> you've got chef boy r.j. >> we've become micro masters after a while and no open flame or anythingfter trial and error, here we are. >> i don't know but i'm smelling some chicken. >> that's black beans. >> i was hoping for watermelon, collard greens, something. >> the hazards of neighbors and short walls. >> well, i'm in the santa fe level ii murph. which is just a minimum restrict unit, which is, you've got more movement than the level iiis. with me it's kind of hard because i got two kids by myself. my kids will ask me what i do to get in here. and i don't know if they understood me but i tried to tell them the best i could. >> what did you tell them, literally? >> literally, i just told them like sometimes people die and i asked them you know how sometimes people die? and they said yeah. and i said, okay, well, you see tv a lot, how people are shooting other people and stuff like that? and they're like, yeah. on movies? and i said, yeah, just like the movies. that's what happened to me, i was being bad. i shot a guy and i came in here. i don't think they really understood it, bu

we asked r.j. tobacco what they think. they said, look, we've had a nice working relationship arks long-term working relationship with cvs. we value that and respect their commercial decision. this is a commercial decision. it is something that's being hailed and lauded by health care experts and the former smoker and chief, the president of the united states. this is, indeed, something that's about its brand and what the growth markets are for cvs. in terms of other companies following suit, we know rite-aid and walgreens are evaluating their product mixes but have made no commitment to this. we also know that wall street analysts will be wondering if some of the dollar stores and some of those chains will see their sales earn crease, gincre stations and the like because they will be the place to go to buy cigarette and tobacco products. >> when mayor bloomberg stops snoeking, all of the sudden, people are doing that as well. >>> a couple of other really big headlines we have on the docket, today, texas is set to execute

. >> r.j. is more important than just any one governor. it's not about the chairman.wasn't about the chairman when i was chairman last year. it's not about the chairman this year. the reality is rga is about the 29 governors that are members. it's also about the 36 governors' elections we've got this year. i know the media's got attention on one particular governor in rga. he has been an effective leader of rga. i think he should remain. the reality is chris -- he is taking responsibility. he has said he'll cooperate with all of the investigations. i don't know what more we can ask him to do beyond that. yes, he can be effective. >> chris christie is not the only republican governor with problems these days. >> question. if county workers were doing nothing wrong, why should they be using a private e-mail account? >> well, but that's exactly to my point. you had a democratic district attorney spend almost three years looking at every single one of those communications. interviewing people, talking to people. and closed the case -- >> private e-mail account. >> it's on

. >> acknowledge that they have a number of initiatives to turn that situation around, r.j.? if we do, what will it be based on? which initiatives do you like the most? >> yeah, i think it would be later this year, possibly 2015. i like the idea that they're working with high density prep table, which is a modified version of their line from the back of the kitchen where you can have more kous tomorrowization, toppings, that will add a new level of innovation, something you can market more. something that will see an impact later. >> jeff, asia, middle east, africa the standout. it's a gain of 5.4%. i wonder to a degree which that is because it was already beaten down, and now the trouble that everybody had in china with the chicken scare, so it flattens the numbers. >> that's true. other thing to note is that specifically in china, which led the asia market the new year shift benefited january but it will have a negative impact on february. come bin in addition of the new year shift and the lap of the chicken supplier issue last year makes it difficult to read one month and

. >> host: r.j.liams, pell broke pines, florida. , mail: is margaret chase smith, our republican of maine, senatorial decision ever discussed, and do you consider christina of summers a feminist colleague? >> guest: good lord. yes, i include the history of women who have run in my classes, absolutely, and we spend a lot of time on women in politics. who was the first, who were the unknown candidates. christina love summers has been very critical of women's studies, and a lot of her books are very hostile to the field. i'm happy to talk back to that viewpoint. i think that the field is both academically viable, scholarly -- sound in a scholarly way. there's very mixed stereotypes about women's studies. one is that we're all, you know, like axe-wielding, castrating man-haters. that's a very harsh image. and and then there's the opposite which is we're tree-hugging, you know, nothing really goes on in the classroom, it's all airy fairy and so on. wrong, wrong, wrong. what's startling to my students is j

. >> host: r.j. williams, pell broke pines, florida. , mail: is margaret chase smith, our republican of maine, senatorial decision ever discussed, and do you consider christina of summers a feminist colleague? >> guest: good lord. yes, i include the history of women who have run in my classes, absolutely, and we spend a lot of time on women in politics. who was the first, who were the unknown candidates. christina love summers has been very critical of women's studies, and a lot of her books are very hostile to the field. i'm happy to talk back to that viewpoint. i think that the field is both academically viable, scholarly -- sound in a scholarly way. there's very mixed stereotypes about women's studies. one is that we're all, you know, like axe-wielding, castrating man-haters. that's a very harsh image. and and then there's the opposite which is we're tree-hugging, you know, nothing really goes on in the classroom, it's all airy fairy and so on. wrong, wrong, wrong. what's startling to my students