. >> reporter: in racine, wisconsin, that's where the younger generation steps in, brightening up theiday with their music, their gifts and smiles. all part of a program called "be a santa to a senior". trees are set up in local shops and decorated with ornaments containing requests from the needy. volunteers then buy the gifts, donate them, and they're all wrapped up, often by youngsters, for a very special delivery. school kids and grownups then swoop in to deck the halls of local retirement communities with laughter and song. >> how does it look? >> it looks perfect on you. >> reporter: each resident gets a present. >> i'm so happy. very happy. thank you so much for everything. >> a scarf, yeah! >> reporter: locally the program will distribute 700 gifts this year. nationwide, 1.5 million packages have been presented since 2004. leaving the master gift giver himself very impressed. >> all you hear is the bad stuff about the kids. right now you can see that there's so much good in this country. >> to see them happy, it's awesome. >> what does christmas mean to you? >> to be nice to p

fred cook, the attorney in the civil matter, racine is the attorney in the civil matter, he said that he will have civil comments and not at that time. we're hoping to ask more about mr. thomas, quite frankly, to see if he was in the house but we didn't get far in the efforts. >> i know you have been out there all day long. any chance you got a look at the search warrant and what the feds were looking for, in particular? >> reporter: we didn't. we called the fbi and the u.s. tarp's office and both were vague saying it was a part of the ongoing investigation. you know, some of the money that was spent, some of the $300,000 that was said that he spent it on a luxury suv, it was an outy -- audi suv. thomas got rid of the car and obtaind this tahoe, and that was the focus of a lot of attention here today, this morning and searching it thoroughly, ripping it a part and taking things out of it before towing it away. >>> our team coverage continues with the reaction to the fbi raid in ward 5 and the wilson building, where fellow d.c. council members are shaking their head. bob has the latest

karl racine is thomas' attorney. >> mr. thomas has cooperated fully to date.nterest in this matter but we also ask you respect mr. thomas and his family. >> reporter: the fbi took documents from the home as well as an suv and motorcycle. thomas was not arrested but stayed out of sight. >> wanted to commend you on the work. >> reporter: last summer councilman thomas agreed to pay back $300,000 from his children's charity after being accused of using its money on luxury cars, meals and trips, but the agreement did not end the investigation. >> i don't know what they're going to do, but we'll find out. >> reporter: the d.c. council scheduled a late afternoon personnel hearing on the matter before council president kwame brown quickly postponed it. >> what i want to do is reschedule this till monday so we can have every single men around and so we'll look at -- member around and so we'll look at it really monday. >> reporter: other council members expressed concern for thomas' family. >> i hope they're doing well under these trying circumstances. >> reporter: have

let's take a look at of racine's of the occupy movement around the nation.n tampa florida, 29 people were arrested when they refused to leave a part after closing hours. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. here is a live look at the james lick freeway to. we are traffic light. >>mark: welcome back to the kron4 morning news. we have a gusty winds at higher elevations around the bay area. here is the view from mt. tam. let's get the latest of a forecast with james. >>james: here is a looking from the mt. tam camera. we are beginning with breezy weather today. sunny and warm this afternoon. the wins will die down a little bit. it may not be as chilly for you. it may actually feel warmer although the thermometer will be at the same mark that it was yesterday. we are looking for continued mild and stable weather as we head into the weekend and next week. here is where we see the winds right now. as you look at the map you'll notice the majority of the stronger winds are confined to the north. napa has the strongest winds with 30 mi. per hou

and they handed over the biggest pile of scrap in racine. -- pile of crap i have ever seen.hese candidates are a complete and utter joke. the people who will lose the most at the end of the comedians. come on, this is all they have to offer? all that they do is-the president. they have nothing to offer. we know what they are against. what are they for? i am going from a rock -- going for barack obama. i hope that the middle class people in america do not vote for republicans, because they are cutting their own throat. worst of all, you're cutting the throats of your friend, your family and neighbors, everyone in the middle class. host: one of the stories this morning about newt gingrich's that the tea party groundwork is of little help to newt gingrich. host: peggy noonan also writes in "the wall street journal," today, "newt gingrich makes mitt romney look better." host: tucson, massachusetts. sam, good morning. caller: my wife and i are the 51%. in and out of work engineer. i have had 15 engineering jobs in five field and none are coming back. aircraft, shipbuilding, and n

racine was too obscure, classic for far too long. now we have these brilliant translations, literature in its own right. and we honor jeffrey alan argent for the complete plays of racine, volume one, with the american book award for 2011. also who could not join us today, miriam jimenez and juan flores, editors of the latino heritage, and i'll read to you from the notes or from this work which comes to us. the latino reader helps to define a very important cultural manifestation that bridge between latino and afro deseven dancy. the spanish-language caribbean is racially anarchistic. as for centuries afro blacks have intermarried with spaniards ever since the spaniards came in 1492, the same year that the last muslim city of granada fell into the hands of the christian recon keyes that. the spain of this period was populated by the moors which we could divide into berbers. they were from southern morocco, close to the regions of mali, senegal, ghana. as such, they were also variously black, chocolate, hazelnut and mulatto, ginger-ski