they crossed the rhine river and pushed deeper and deeper into germany. eventually ended up in czechoslovakia. one ranger said to me they asked the rangers, sidney solomon was a very good friend of mine, did you just land on d-day? no. it was a very long walk from normandy all the way to check a slovakia. that is what these men did. they led the way across germany. thank you very much. i will take your questions. [applause] >> did they capture any camps? >> yes they did. several of the men encounter camps along the way. in those stories, many of the men in headquarters company encountered camps and they talked about seeing these human skeletons in side of the camp. it crystallized everything that they were fighting for. they had seen firsthand exactly what the third reich had done to people and they realize it became very self evident what the war was about. yes, sir? >> you have written a lot about a lot of incredible courage, particularly personal. what are the more compelling stories you have experienced as a result of your research? >> it is an honor

they crossed the rhine river, and they pushed deeper and deeper into germany, eventually ending up in czechoslovakia. one ranger said to me -- they asked the ranger, sydney solomon, who was a very good friend of mine, they said did you just land on d-day? he's like, no. it was a very long walk from normandy all the way to czechoslovakia. and that's what these men did. they led the way across europe. thank you very much. i'll take your questions at this point. [applause] sir. >> did they encounter any of the camps on their travels? >> yes, they did. several of the men encountered camps along the way, and those stories are sort of -- many of the men in headquarters companies, actually, encountered the camps, and they talked about seeing these human skeletons inside of the camp. and it became -- it crystallized everything that they were fighting for. they had saw firsthand exactly what the third like had done to people -- reich had done to people, and they realized, it became very self-evident what this whole war was about. yes, sir. >> patrick, you've written a lot about the incredible

mat rhine hits tony gonzalez. 14-0 atlanta.ourth quarter, ryan couldn't do anything wrong. 270 yards, falcons with the 34-0 shutout over the giants. >>> packers and bears. what a game for san jose state alum james jones. three t.d. catches. green bay clinches the nfc north for the second straight season and if the 49ers lose the packers with pass them for the second seed in the nfc. 41-13 the final. >> cowboys still in the playoff, facing the steelers. overtime, ben roethlisberger picked off by carr who takes it in to the one yardline. dallas with the field goal to win. cowboys in a three-way tie with washington and the giants for the nfc division. >> and adrian peterson led the vikings over the st. louis rams, 212 yards rushing and one china. 294 yards shy of the all-time record. he could give it with two games left. >> ama: it would be great if both our teams win today. a return to middle earth just ahead. how "the hobbit" stacks up to >> ama: join me at 9:00 on cable 13. we'll take a look at a massive asteroid three miles wi

you've got paul rhine, who has gotten a big boost in name recognition from his run as vice presidentn the recent election. he's at the top of the list with 75% of support. then you've got new jersey gorngs chris christie. very outgoing, has been talked about as a candidate for 2016. he's got 59% and florida senator marco rubios right behind him at 58%. >> the brian monroe. thank you very much. we appreciate it. >>> there's no deal on the fiscal cliff. that we know. and many americans are not happy about it we'll hear your take on it. meanwhile, new york city is preparing for the new year's eve celebration. anderson and kathy griffin want you to get ready for our special coverage tomorrow night. we'll hear from them both. cut take a look at what joseph siegel says. >> my new year's message to washington is to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity. invest in our children, in our schools and in our communities. raise taxes on the rich, and eliminate corporate loopholes. and do not cut social security or medicare. thank you and happy new year. >>> now, our reporters

jerry rhine holtz was at the funeral. >> the people that spoke, there were little stories about jack being in heaven tossing footballs at the angels and nothinging their halos off of their head and everyone got a chuckle out of that. >> reporter: the one funeral home in newtown will hold 11 funerals between now and christmas. funeral director shauna molloy came from a neighboring town to help out at jack pinto's funeral. did the kids seem to understand what was going on? >> i think some do. you know, i don't know that they can fully -- i mean, they're so little. unfortunately they probably understand more than they should. >> reporter: investigators hoping to understand exactly what happened at sandy hook elementary school now hope to learn more from two staff members who were wounded last friday but are recovering. lieutenant paul vance is with the connecticut state police. >> they will shed a great deal of light on the facts and circumstances of this tragic investigation that we're undertaking. >> reporter: one of the two adults was the lead teacher at sandy hook elementary. she wa

in the wall street journal about how they all get together for dinner involves switzerland over the rhine river and now all the stuff that's in the good example of that but but you know the problem is who's going to actually buy the treasure i said you want to get inflation about nominal rates a lot of people say well gee if inflation gets to three or four percent aren't rates going to go to five percent won't the bond vigilantes come in and trash the bond market the answer is no this is where financial repression comes in the federal budget themselves the commercial banks are kept the buyers will just turn to the commercial banks and say you have to buy them or we'll show you down me and solve it we can do that whenever we want and the third leg of the store was japan so between the fed's balance sheet the commercial banking system in japan will be enough buying power to keep a lid on nominal rates bring on the inflation through the currency wars get the negative real rates try to get people lending and spending again so we turn to the old consumption and driven model yeah yeah the model

that being confirmed this hour by phillipe rhines at the state department.e course of a follow-up exam today, secretary clinton's doctors discovered a blood clot formed stemming from the concussion she sustained several weeks ago. she's being treated with anti-coagulants at new york presbyterian hospital so they can monitor the medication over the next 48 hours. her doctors will continue to assess her condition, including other issues that may be associated with the concussion and then determine if further action is required. you may remember that she had a severe stomach virus and became severely dehydrated, and then we learned, in the middle of december, that after she canceled an overseas trip, that she had fainted and because of that severe dehydration, and suffered that concussion, she also had to cancel her testimony on benghazi. we have been told that she was expected to go back to work soon and she had been working from her home, continuing to do stuff from there. but now we obviously have learned that she has developed this blood clot. but it was a

if you're going to select congressman ryan, run on the rhine and budget. guest: they wanted to get it in before then but there was the massacre at the sikh temple. i don't know exactly what the study on why they did not wait, but i think romney saw a lot of himself in ryan. serious, cares about policy and ideas. i think he saw him as someone who could be a respectable running mate to help him politically what you could really help him. romney thought he was going to be president. in his mind, ryan was someone to keep those guys in the building behind you in line especially in the house. i think romney saw a lot of promise in him from the governing standpoint. he is known in the political world for his budget, yet when he picked him, he never fully embraced the ryan budget and had his own ideas. instantly, you are having an odd bit of tension there. why would pick someone from wisconsin, who came from a swing district in wisconsin and then never really try to campaign in wisconsin? i believe was the same weekend he picked ryan and he never went back until t

the budge laid out by paul rhine rhine - ryan. >> dave: that had nothing to do with the benghazi ax tack why are republicans late comers to the issue of the security . why is it now? >> national security has to come from the president. he has to take responsibility. he's about to gut the issue. we have to deal with the fiscal issues. >> dave: the fiscal issue is still there. christy, the president slammed republicans on meet the press when it comes to the fiscal cliff handling, is that the right way to start the negotiation with two days left before the fiscal cliff or shouldn't he sit down and hammer out a deal with the senate republicans and house republicans. do you think a deal gets done? >> i do think a deal will get done. i think it might january 1st. i think we will briefly go over the fiscal cliff. the president worked on the issue months and months. the entire "crisis" is an issue of congress' own making . he was taping the meet the press on saturday. house republicans were cozy and doing nothing on the fiscal cliff. john bone bone took himself out of the negotiations and abdica

. >> the rhine is used to pay debt. but that was then thinking about other revolutions at the same time to be so love how do you think about revolution, but anyway, kind of climbing this landscape as that cockpit of revolution. some of two minds about that because first there is the idea that, while minority is looking at a year. i mean, there are plaques all-around. and you can find people who are thinking about it, short. the general understanding, massachusetts based were run by virginians. >> one of virginia and fun massachusetts. saratoga. of course battles and -- off the coast of georgia and panels in canada, and in the -- battle some western europe's, but the majority of battles are fought here. the interesting, the really interesting thing to me is that most of the battles fought here, the big battles are lost, losses the really incredible achievements, logistical achievements are evacuation's. and those -- said that is proline number one reason that we don't celebrate this area in full force. >> the other x lou

san francisco has a lining entrepreneurial economy -- this rhining entrepreneur economy, the report says, but they say it is near colleges and universities. behind san francisco are seattle and vancouver. >>> 7:23. we want to check in with sal. see what's happening on the roads. sal? >> yeah. boston has harvard. >> right. >> let's take a look at what we have. it's cambridge, technically. but you know what i mean. southbound 880, we have slow traffic. we also have slow traffic on the bridges. but not so much on the san mateo bridge as we did yesterday. we want to talk about contra costa county because highway 4 has improved from antioch to pittsburg but slow in bay point. 24 is not that bad. it's crowded, though. and thin 80 westbound in western contra costa county slow in richmond as you drive down to berkeley. if you are driving in san jose, we have slow traffic here coming up from downtown. it's very slow driving up to the 17 interchange and beyond that into cupertino. >>> let's go to steve. very good morning. changes are already beginning to come up. spooky fog in the city at turk. lo

maccabees that weeks on the rhine and time in immigration detention and what the malo where he is accusedering the country illegally. he claims was started by belize authorities after he decided to talk about corruption in that country. >> the remains of international singer jenni rivera has returned home to california. the society of the hearse carrying the singer's body a scored by police of your home in los angeles area. the diva of band music died sunday when the plane she was on crash in mexico. six others traveling with the singer were also killed in the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> barry bonds will be back in court. a federal appeals court will hear bonds appeal of his obstruction of justice conviction early next year. the career home run leader was convicted last april for giving an evasive, rambling reply before a grand jury when he was asked whether he received drugs. hit inbounds lawyers are the answer was accurate and not meant to obstruct justice. more arguments are scheduled for february 13th in san francisco. >> walgreen's has been ordered to pay $16.37 mil

investigation as to hsbc has focused on the transfer billions of dollars on behalf of nations such as the rhinehe transfer money from mexican drug cartels. the british bank said in a statement tuesday that the settlement involves a deferred prosecution agreement and with the u.s. department of justice. and just crossing wires the justice burton says hsbc intentionally allow prohibited transactions with i ride, libya, sudan and burma. >> what as roll out its own library of retro filters for its android and iphone apps. this comes as a social me as i said it lost the ability to display images from the facebook owns a gram. twitter of birds at the ability to include images and tweets a year-and-a-half ago. if you have arabizing abated twitter app is available now on the google place store. it is coming sounds apples app store. facebook uses are apparently too busy about a proposed policy changes on the web site. 300 million boys than needed to override those changes for results to be binding. however not even 1 million members participated proposed changes include doing away with the voting system

thinks about the president's personal commitment to this, we all know the president is a reader of rhineablish justice in a sinful world. to establish justice in a sinful world. to what extent do you think the president is willing to spend capital on this to pursue that provision? >> we will see. i think it's easier to do something like this in a second term and he is more likely to spend capital on this because it is -- you can see this hit him differently. it hit him as a parent first almost more so than anything else. the sad fact about this story is how and i think we all did it in our own newsrooms. there is a routine to this. there will be this and this and why the heck is there a routine? that's what's wrong here. i think you felt the white house get that for the first time and the president gave a speech that i thought did a great job at combining both mourning and galvanizing. it's a speech no president wants to have to give. president bush had to do it after 9/11 and we saw president obama do it. >> does he shake history here? does this become his signature? we will wait and se

if you're going to select congressman ryan, run on the rhine and budget.uest: they wanted to get it in before then but there was the massacre at the sikh temple. what thenow exactly study on why they did not wait, but i think romney saw a lot of himself in ryan. serious, cares about policy and ideas. i think he saw him as someone who could be a respectable running mate to help him politically what you could really help him. romney thought he was going to be president. in his mind, ryan was someone to keep those guys in the building behind you in line especially in the house. i think romney saw a lot of promise in him from the governing standpoint. he is known in the political world for his budget, yet when he picked him, he never fully embraced the ryan budget and had his own ideas. instantly, you are having an odd bit of tension there. why would pick someone from wisconsin, who came from a swing district in wisconsin and then never really try to campaign in wisconsin? i believe was the same weekend he picked ryan and he never went back until the last week

in the short term, it seems that having to double rhine and innovative and old legacy system can't be afforded. how do we overcome the cost pressure of making them accessible? i am interested in comments about the impact and the realities of cost of making things more accessible and open. >> i am fascinated by the trends we have in front of us. the modernization act which, added to that and facilitated improvements. we have pressures that dovetail nicely with modernization. and when you look at the dramatic increase of investment in the last couple of years, they are largely associated with legacy approaches to creating a future funding stream, or a silo within the bureaucracy. this is a great paradox, right? the limited funds to invest, people are not supporting investing in shared services which would may be cut the cost across the government, but there is no incentive for anyone investment. >> you will have the last word. >> the example of rationalization and the benefits it provides, in that example, this multinational and global company, they started no different from any other o