the example i would throw out as rockford, illinois. a year ago the mayor approached etsy, which is an online platform for crafts and trades. rockford had high in employment, but a history of manufacturing. the mayor said, how can we think of interesting ways to repurpose these skills that our community already has? they created a program alongside etsy to teach members of the community how to use skills they already have, to essentially become etsy sellers. that's not something you would think about off the bat. i would just throw that out there. >> the question was? >> in your opinion, what is the single most powerful thing the government can do to encourage innovation at the start up level? >> i'm not sure they can do much. probably a little bit around the idea of bandwidth to me. especially anytime you look at companies like ours or other technology companies, cheap internet access is probably the best thing they could do. >> not much? >> not really. silicon valley and has shown as there is no shortage of great ideas or great people

a romantic stroll to warm things up for doris and cliff west of rockford, illinois.elebrating their 62nd anniversary. they walk every day, no matter the weather. and lastly, this tweet from a viewer in oahu. he didn't send me a message, but didn't need to. the image said it all. we were entirely envious when we got that this afternoon. but bundle up this week with those windchills coming. "good morning america" first thing in the morning. robin and george are back. and diane sawyer right back here tomorrow night. have a good evening. good night. >> win as lose, niner fans were out in force. we'll join the 49ers faithful. for those who made the trek to green bay, we'll find out how cold it got today. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> it is good! san francisco moves on as they win here at lambeau field. >> despite frigid conditions in green bay the niners are still alive after a last, second boot to win 23-20. good evening and thank you for joining us, i'm ama daetz. there's celebration underway in san francisco. cornell bernard is live from a park, one of the many spot

an example of light throughout his rockford, illinois. about a year ago the mayor approached at sigell this online platform that is kind of like a marketplace serbs for graphs. basically rockford had very high unemployment since but also a history of manufacturing, how could we think the interesting ways said brig prevent -- represent the skills of a community already has. they created a program to basically teach members of the community of to build the business to market the skills they already had and this is a become sellers. they have done extremely well. that is an incredibly unusual partnership, not something you let the governor of the bat xbox >> what is your opinion -- encourage innovation at the start of level. >> and not sure that they can do much. a little bit around the idea the bandwidth to me. especially, you know, in a timely look at companies like ours or other technology companies, big internet access is probably a cheap internet access is probably the best thing they could do stuff. chess. >> silicon valley has shown u

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democratic is a candidate in rockford, illinois.tell us about your officeholding or you're running. -- ir: i am not president am not presently a candidate. i recently ran for local office as alderman. i found the experience very enlightening and informative, and i will continue to run for office. i question for your guest is, did she find in her survey any differences when it comes to economic or culture? i am a woman of color, and i did find because i live in a heavily majority districts that there was a kickback against that. did she find any of that displayed in her findings? guest: we did not find any systematic differences in that way, but we are interested in finding if anyone is interested in running office am a and -- in running for office. while there is a lot of research that verifies the trends that you identify, those are not the questions we were interested in asking. host: john boehner recently said that the gop needs to be more "sensitive" to women. guest: yes, and then several republicans came out and explained that

host: diana is a democratic candidate in rockford, illinois.tell us about your officeholding or you're running. caller: i am not presently a candidate. i recently ran for local office as alderman. i found the experience very enlightening and informative, and i will continue to run for office. i question for your guest is, did she find in her survey any differences when it comes to economic or culture? i am a woman of color, and i did find because i live in a heavily majority districts that there was a kickback against that. did she find any of that displayed in her findings? guest: we did not find any systematic differences in that way, but we are interested in finding if anyone is interested in running office am a and -- in running for office. while there is a lot of research that verifies the trends that you identify, those are not the questions we were interested in asking. host: john boehner recently said that the gop needs to be more "sensitive" to women. guest: yes, and then several republicans came out and explained that the way to creat

the example i would throw out as rockford, illinois. a year ago the mayor approached betsy -- etsy, which is an online platform for's and high inrockford had employment, but a history of manufacturing. the mayor said, how can we think of interesting ways to repurpose these skills that are community already has? they created a program alongside to teach members of the community how to use skills they already have, to essentially become etsy sellers. that's not something you would think about off the bat. i would just throw that out there. >> the question was? what is thepinion, single most powerful thing the government can do to encourage an ovation at the start up level? >> i'm not sure they can do much. probably a little bit around the idea of bandwidth to me. especially anytime you look at companies like ours or other companies, cheap internet access is probably the best thing they could do. not much? >> not really. silicon valley and has shown as there is no shortage of great ideas or great people to create those ideas. so, two thing

let's go to rockford, illinois, independent line. hello. caller: i just wanted to really thank president obama for being so compassionate and so sincere in the way he's talking to people. it's from the heart. the republicans attempted to overturn obamacare 40 times, and ach time they voted like that, their salaries were -- 40 times the vote, and all that waste of time comes to almost $90 million in salaries. because it costs almost $2 million every time they vote. it was insane. and yet they don't want to see a blue collar working class. have been retired t. and here i am 10 years later at age -- maybe longer than that. i can't do math. so i'm 58 and we just start add small business, and it is frightening. it is frightening. i'm 100% disabled and i'm helping my wife with the small business and it is frightening. and it's just a small venture. people think that workers like myself, retired from federal government, oh, fine. they have it great. they don't realize how high our health care costs are. 20 years in the postal service, i get a reti

margaret from rockford, illinois. independent caller. go ahead. what are your thoughts this intelligenceat leaders up on capitol hill had to say yesterday about a possible connection between russia and edward snowden? i'll echo my gut reaction is that -- caller: my gut reaction is that, i am not sure i believe it. it does not sound like. the only perspective -- conclusion i have come to on the american that media is failing the american people. they are doing such a poor job that edward snowden had to do it for them. host: what do you mean? media, theyamerican don't report the truth about anything really. .hey give us a slanted view they don't ever get to the bottom of what is really going on. and the american people are kept in the dark about most real issues today. that is how i feel. and i just feel snowden ended up doing the job the media should have done. as far as the surveillance, i am a law-abiding citizen. there is no reason to survey me. -- surveil they know who the troublemakers are. i don't know why they think they need to surveil all

democratic is a candidate in rockford, illinois.tell us about your officeholding or you're running. -- ir: i am not president am not presently a candidate. i recently ran for local office as alderman. i found the experience very enlightening and informative, and i will continue to run for office. i question for your guest is, did she find in her survey any differences when it comes to economic or culture? i am a woman of color, and i did find because i live in a heavily majority districts that there was a kickback against that. did she find any of that displayed in her findings? guest: we did not find any systematic differences in that way, but we are interested in finding if anyone is interested in running office am a and -- in running for office. while there is a lot of research that verifies the trends that you identify, those are not the questions we were interested in asking. host: john boehner recently said that the gop needs to be more "sensitive" to women. guest: yes, and then several republicans came out and explained that

chick-fil-a fans braved the bone-chilling temperatures to win free meals for a year. 12 degrees in rockfordmily of five. it's a good way to save money and take the kids to lunch. >> oh, my gosh. 100 people won free chick-fil-a meals for the next year. they are actually getting one free meal a week for 52 weeks. you did that, you deserve it. have at it. >>> this next story has gone viral. i need you to see this. look at the television. a baby, still in diapers riding a skateboard. look. >> loving every minute of it. >> he is legit riding this thing. >> he is doing better than i would. jumping over curbs. he is from australia. comes from a family of skateboarding enthusiasts. >> according to the boy's family, he has been on wheels since he was 6 months old. >> you don't even stand up straight for a long time at 6 months old. >> he figured out a way to do it. thank you so much for sharing your time with us this morning. we will be back at the top of the hour. >>> coming up on "your money" super bowl weekend is here. big money being shelled out for big parties. >> as christine romans explains,

was a woman named kim in rockford, illinois. she was watching an ad with her son that showed the devastating effect of smoking on a north carolina woman named terry. kim said the commercial scared her and that her son turned to her and said mom, you have just got to quit smoking. kim called the illinois tobacco quit line run by the american lung association, and was connected to the nicotine replacement match program. c.d.c.'s antismoking campaign is one of the many tobacco control and prevention measures that saving lives and shows that we must continue investing in effective tobacco control measures. this is a tough habit to break. one of my best friends in politics happens to be the president of the united states who used to be a smoker. he's not now, thank goodness, and his family's thankful, we're all thankful that he isn't, but he still takes a little nicotine gum to crew from time to time to deal with that craving that is there. it's tough, but if people work at it and work hard, they can get it done. this week, we commem