. >> ron: think of that game last against pittsburgh. everyone was down against the ravens' offense. they got a chance to take the defense off the hook right now. their defense allowed text tons go 99 yards. now the offense, four-minute offense. they can win the game for the ravens. >> jon: there will be another blitz. that's all houston is doing. >> mike: second and six. time-out here. take a time-out here. at 2:58 reserve time this side of the two-minute warning. ravens a couple of first downs from winning this game. ♪ ♪ [ crowd groans ] ♪ [ crowd cheering ] [ male announcer ] at&t, the nation's fastest mobile broadband network. period. complete with sodium, [ crowd cheering ] potassium, calcium, magnesium. four electrolytes lost in sweat. ♪ powerade ion4. the complete sports drink. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] print from any mobile device so your ideas can be there even when you're not. introducing the new web-connected printers with eprint from hp. >> mike: on the right, gary kubiak from the texans their season essentially comes down to

buzz around who could be running for president president obama sarah palin maybe even a congressman ron paul for the past few years we've seen an evolution in the republican doctor turned congressman he used to be shunned by the media and the laughing stock of establishment politicians thanks for his alternative views on issues like monetary reform and u.s. policy of brought but now he is front and center in the media spotlight his message resonated more than ever with the tea party movement because saucy has had the opportunity to interview the congressman several times over the past two years and she gives us this inside look at his transformation into the political spotlight. might have been starting. we. were people from all walks of life rich poor young and old who were fed up with both parties and politics as usual they were among the first to call for taking the country back still many folks turned away while the media simply made fun if you pull up articles on you consistently you'll see on occasion but consistently there are a lot of people describe you as a flake i'm impressed

ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and that was important and i think if you are looking for a ron and antoine the best thing to do is probably if you don't know your

ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and that was important and i think if you are looking for a ron and antoine the best thing to do is probably if you don't know your officers on the street and their personalities to call our captain and ask him or her if they know of someone you can work with. that's really important. and a lot of the stuff we do we also they wrote a grant for mayor's office of community justice. we actually, i worked with them we got a grant to educate

ron and antoine are on the pta. so, we invite them to every good event and a lot of times we see them in bad situations also. we always invite them. we opened our doors to them and that was important and i think if you are looking for a ron and antoine the best thing to do is probably if you don't know your officers on the street and their personalities to call our captain and ask him or her if they know of someone you can work with. that's really important. and a lot of the stuff we do we also they wrote a grant for mayor's office of community justice. we actually, i worked with them we got a grant to educate the community of what we need to do to help them in their work. there are things you can do with the mrapolice officers if you st from scratch and think creatively. the next thing is with the da. we have a strong partnership with the da and the liaison with the da. there is a da liaison in every station. you need to get to know that community liaison from the da's office. they are an attorney at the da's offic

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ron? >> all right. >>> president obama just arrived back to the white house, moments ago, after his whirlwind trip to afghanistan. his surprise visit to bagram air base was meant to rally u.s. troops there and build support here at home for the war. and martha raddatz is in afghanistan. martha? >> reporter: good morning, ron. the president's visit came at a critical time here in afghanistan. a progress report is due out in the next few weeks to see if the strategy here is working. >> is everybody ready for the main event? >> it was a rousing welcome by general david petraeus, the commander of u.s. forces here. >> president barack obama. >> reporter: thousands of u.s. military personnel had been gathered at bagram airfield, for the president's unannounced visit. >> on behalf of me. on behalf of michelle. on behalf of malia and sasha. on behalf of more than 300 million americans, we are here to say thank you. >> reporter: the president awarded purple hearts to five soldiers. and met with the

that's ron's chili. >>> we'll begin with the pictures of the morning.ly just released the official engagement photos of prince william and kate middleton. it's just the latest in a long line of preparations leading up to what will probably be what will surely be the wedding of this young century. jeffrey kofman is all over the story this morning in london. jeffrey, good morning. >> reporter: oh, good morning to you, dan. it's a full time job, let me tell you. that's right. the world's most famous soon to be married couple have released their engagement photos. they were actually snapped november 25th a week after the engagement was announced but released to the world today. take a look. looking both glamorous and relaxed, prince william and kate middleton chose these two official portraits to mark their engagement. celebrated photographer mario testino took the photos. he also shot princess diana in these famous series of pictures for "vanity fair" taken five months before her death in 1997. in the two new photos princess di's wedding ring figures promi

in two weeks congressman ron paul will be chairman ron paul. chairman of the house subcommittee on domestic monetary policy which includes in its oversight the fed. incoming chairman paul intends to use his new position to push legislation that would for the first time coerce the fed to open its books to congress. indeed to chairman paul's domestic monetary policy subcommittee. >> it's the atrocious nature of the fact that the fed is a government unto itself. >> i think there is so much more to learn, and i'm very delighted le want to know more about that. >> question, in what ways does congress exercise power over the federal reserve? monica crowley. >> the fed is independent. the chairman of the fed does have to report, as you pointed out, everyquarter to the congress, but it is an autonomous institution. and rightfully so. >> the only one in the u.s. government? >> the only one in the u.s. government that doesn't have strict congressional oversight. ron paul is going to be chairing this subcommittee. bernanke is going to be testifying in fro

and we're going to start with ron claiborne on the jersey turnpike. ron, it looks like there's a lot of snow blowing in your face there. how you are doing? >> reporter: dan, it is rough out here. the visibility is getting worse, literally by the minute. we are now in practically whiteout conditions. the snow is coming down sideways, driven by powerful, powerful gusts of wind. this was a post-christmas present no one wanted. blinding snow, whipping wind, biting cold. >> if you don't have to get out, don't, because you're going to have to take a survival kit in your car with you. >> reporter: at the new york area's three major airports, more than 1,000 flights were canceled. thousands of holiday travelers weren't going anywhere, including marine corporal frankie, who was trying to get back to his base in california. what happens if you don't get back by the 28th? this is kind of beyond your control. >> bad news. bad news if i don't get back. >> reporter: calling the airlines' 800 numbers often proved futile, frustrating or infuriating. >> thanks for cal

. >> our guest tonight on " newsmakers," ron paul. we will obviously talk with the congressmen about the subcommittee chair. but i want to rescue a political question. if, in fact, this tax package happens, what, if >> it is so confusing. there are some pluses and minuses on both sides of the argument. it has split a lot of the conservatives. hi i am in favor of the tax package. i do not want cactus to go up. we do not know what will be in the final vote. i do not think this can be the litmus test to decide whether or not the new congress in the house will be considered at fault. that remains to be seen. to the newrn congrressman with questions. >> what do you hope to accomplish as chairman of this subcommittee? what does it mean to be someone who wants to and the central bank and to oversee it? >> i have a better audience with more authority to do it. i have been talking about the danger of central economic planning as long as i can remember, since the early 1970's. this gives me a better platform. i wrote a book that said and the fe

want to welcome ron back to the anchor seat. dan's on assignment. >> thank you very much. >> good to see you this sunday morning. >>> it was a busy day in washington yesterday. the tax fight heads from the senate floor to a back room bar bargaining with a new year's deadline for a new deal closing in. but there's signs that a deal could possibly be in the works. >>> bianna, do picky eaters drive you nuts? >> why are you looking at me? >> well, it might not be their fault. think about this. we'll tell you about new research that says they could have a form of eating disorder. but how do you know if your child is just stubborn? or if there's something else going on? we'll get into that coming up. >> a lot of parents want to watch that, as well. >>> also, while a lot of us are doing our christmas shopping on the internet, how about this? how about getting your christmas tree on the internet? the big debate before was whether to buy a fake or real tree. now, a lot of people are going online to click on the tree. having it shipped to

what would the world and economy run by ron paul look like? would that play out to real people in accessing credit and functioning in an economy like now? >> you would have recently stabled prices. that's not the goal. you want free market pricing. if you had a stable dollar, you want interest rates to be determined by the marketplace. it's impossible to have boom, bust cycles. weather might still have an influence on commodity. but you don't have a whole economy. we had a housing bubble. they didn't just affect housing, but banking and so many other things. stocks as well. you wouldn't have this unless you had this artificial manipulation of credit. the greatest economy sin that's committed is ruinning the markety signal. if you got rid of price like wage and price control like in the 1970's, that fails. >> you mentioned bubbles before the fed was created in 1913. we had bubbles for searchs in not only the u.s. economies but others around the world. won't you have bubbles and won't they be as troublesome in >> it was never immune from local b

i am ron swisher. it is always a privilege to host mosaic on these sundays. my colleague and co-host and producer dr. hugh burrows will be with us next month. i have been the president at one time of the board of trustees, at pacific school of religion and just now a member of the trustees and i was for the search committee for the new president, and we discovered we had a great president. welcome reese. >> thank you ron. >> great to have you >> appreciate the invitation. >> the audience probably doesn't know a little bit about your background but you have a great deal of background in seminary education as well as the school of religion of course tell us about your background. >> well, i started in ministry united church of christ, san fernando valley southern california and was there 18 years. during that time it was an innovative congregation and so we developed a large homeless shelter with of course with other partners and we did that, and then i began teaching at a state university three quarters time. i was doing all three projects and my wife finally

hey, ron. >> good morning. good morning to you, dan. good morning, everyone. president obama took a christmas day break from his vacation in hawaii to spend part of the day with some marines at their base in hawaii. the president and the first lady, michelle obama, dropped by the base mess hall during dinner yesterday. this is the third year that the obamas have visited the marine base during christmas. >>> and, meanwhile, tens of thousands of u.s. troops spent another christmas in afghanistan. the top american commander there, general david petraeus, visited american forces in this, the tenth year of the afghan war. many of the troops stationed throughout that country were able to enjoy a brief respite from the war. more from abc's mike boettcher. >> reporter: the war could wait for one day, christmas day. >> there you go. >> thanks. >> merry christmas. >> reporter: soldiers from the 101st airborne's task force destiny, so far from home in southern afghanistan, relished a reminder of home, a lavish christmas buffet. >> i would say that this is my family away

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>> ron -- my dad is coming out and ron's whole family is coming for 11 days.re you -- 11 days is a long time. will they stay with you in the house? >> yeah, like seven of them will. >> jimmy: is it big enough to accommodate? >> we're going to be seeing a lot of each other. >> jimmy: you are. and it's his family that's coming? >> my dad will come. and they're from iowa, you know, so, they don't travel, like, as much as we do. ron said the other day it's sort of like they pack their trunks on the queen mary. like, they're staying, you know? >> jimmy: they're staying for awhile. you seem delighted. well, hopefully -- >> i love them, i do. >> jimmy: hopefully they won't watch this show before they arrive. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. exactly. >> jimmy: well, tell ron i said hello and have a great holiday. go see "the company men," it opens in select cities tomorrow. rosemarie dewitt, everybody. we'll be right back with crystal castles. [ female announcer ] your hands are only as clean as the towel used to dry them. so why use the same hand towel over and over instead of a

what ron paul said is right. bond prices are starting to go down, yields are spiking.they don't get the deficit under control, doesn't mean they shouldn't cut taxes but we'll have a massive problem in the bond market. >> steve moore, where do you come down in the divide amongst republicans? on the ron paul side we have to vote for this package that the president negotiated because it keeps the bush tax era rates in place? or are you on the jim demint/michele bachmann side that is i won't vote for anything without a spending cut because it raises the estate tax? how do you see it? >> this process is one of the most reprehensible processes i've seen passing a budget and tax bill in 27 years i've been this washington. >> indeed. >> americans should be appalled by this. remember, people are forgetting, at least people in washington are forgetting. we had an election 45 days ago. what people voted against was exactly what this lame duck congress is doing. what did they say in the election? stop spending and stop the bail-out. they act like the election didn't happen. they h

>> ron mott in atlanta. ron, thanks for that. >>> so who will have a white christmas and where might the travel headaches be for the rest of the weekend? for that, we turn to the weather channel's samantha moore. >> about half of the nation will have a white christmas. the last few days, that low is going to be moving across the south, transitions to rain to sleet to snow across the atlanta area, in through charlotte and raleigh-durham, as we head into our saturday and then sunday. then that low makes its way up the coast. we could see real travel woes here. boston, new york and d.c. on sunday. and into monday, we're expecting to see possible delays as a result of the wintry weather in all of our big northeast coast cities. that's just going to be the time that the folks are packing up their suitcases and leaving family visits to get back to work. possibly next week. so we'll be expecting major travel delays then. so we'll stay on top of it. >> the timing is not ideal. samantha, thank you. >>> thousands of l

ron reagan?ow charlie, you've got to feel kind of sorry for him but he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar and just dancing as fast as he can to try to put a good spin on it but if we're going to reward that kind of lying we ought to mention john ensign's parrots as honorable mention claiming that they gave $90,000 to his mistress out of goodness of their hearts not to keep them quiet you understand. >> i like the way that you do this, ron. soap you switch to a republican. you don't. let's go to mayor brown. mayor brown, speaker brown. i know, charlie is very lovable and very likable but his spin on this thing is world class, that's all that i can say. your thoughts. >> well i think that he genuinely believes it. he still believes it today. if you notice that when he was finally convicted, when he was finally sensored, he said i'm very pleased with what you've done. i believe i'm innocent. he did not in any way apologize. so he believes it. and frankly, when it comes line you have to separ

joining me now, senator ron wyden. senator, how are you going to vote tomorrow?rry, first of all, yesterday was the premier business event in our home state, the oregon business summit. i was one of the founders. so that was why i wasn't able to get back. i was still in the air. i will tell you with respect to tomorrow, while it's not an easy decision, i intend to vote no. this legislation tomorrow clearly has short-term stimulative benefits. i support protecting the middle class and small business, i support the unemployment extension, i support the earned income tax break, but as you know from working in the senate, so often the senate takes steps in the short term that become the enemy of the long term. and my concern is with this legislation, we will be having exactly the same debate in the lame duck session of 2012. i'm looking at my watch, larry. it's 10:30. it's the night of december 14th. at some point in the united states senate, you have got to break the culture of procrastination. i think that time is now. >> all right. i'm booking you right now for th

ron is take -- things have taken a fatal turn with that house fire. this is a really beautiful story. it's a great effort. take it away. >> reporter: we're live. we're in mt. washington falls road near peppy's. it's called the pop-up store and the brainchild of am bemplet this is styling to fight hung are. tell us how this started. >> it started a few years ago when my mom and myself started with vintage jewelry and started making it. that's how everything started when it came to the inventory. twee came with the pop-up shop we wanted to have an hear where we could show our friends and family the jewelry that we had. so we want lad low scags initially for -- wanted a location for that reason. at the same time i'm reallyd in nonprofit and being able to help people. that's really my mission and something i enjoy doing with volunteering with different organizations and abundant life and i wanted to bring that over into baltimore after graduating from school. the one thing i realized was hung are. there's some people in baltimore where i went to school th

these issues i think is crucial when now we have a not so typical member of congress that of course ron paul who not only is it has always been critical of the federal reserve he wrote a book called and of the fed and yesterday he was officially appointed now to chair the came to the i'm already i want to carry policy how much can we actually expect him to be able to achieve i mean he's he said that he's going to hold hearings that ben bernanke you know is going to have to come up to capitol hill but when we actually get to push anything on it does small degree i mean first let's be realistic would understand that we have a president the white house is a democrat we have a treasury secretary who used to be president of new york fed who will protect the fed at all costs so one can be sure that any standalone bill that makes any substantial changes to the fed will be vetoed so in the next two years it really is a matter of you have here injured leg groundwork i think if nothing if you do nothing but educate the public and educate congress on the fed you will get some pressure they are pus

the ron athey incident was a very highly inflammatory incident. ron athey was an h.i.v.-positive man who was carving with a scalpel little teeny nicks in the back of a man who was not h.i.v. positive. he would blot them with paper towels, and then he'd put the paper towels-- and the patterns were made with the blood of the man-- it was pretty far-out stuff-- hung on paper clips and strung out on a paper line that went-- i mean on a line that went out a few feet over the apron of the stage. i didn't see the performance. this is what i was told. the walker arts center had been given a grant of over $100,000 for 100 performing arts events that the museum put on in that year in that season. so the amount of money the n.e.a. had given to this performance, if you parceled it out, was about $150. but we were really excoriated for that one. now, ron athey himself had never applied to the n.e.a. directly. the panel had never had to consider him. so this was blown way out of proportion. the poor walker arts center said, "listen, this is in the bill of fare. "it's very, very far ou

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ron alan up near buffalo, new york tonight. thanks. >>> if you go east further across the atlantic, winter has hit hard. things are at a standstill tonight in parts of great britain. in some places you can't move by road, rail or air and we wanted to show you how their evening news was covering the near total paralysis. >> vehicles abandoned and people forced to sleep in cars and trains through a long and freezing night. it's a whiteout. this stark, still scene signals the extent which britain is grinding to a standstill. >> i'm going to go back home. ring the boss and say, day off. >> reporter: the snow closed the railway stations, too. trains were stranded where they stopped. when it left the platform, this one was billed as the gatwick express. >> there's nothing going out and coming in except for more of this snow. >> i've been here for 27 hours. they provided cardboard blankets, which is not much of a help. >> would be a good night to own a pub or be in one, we imagine. the situation in the uk tonight. >>> when our broadca

rick reilly described ron's commentary this way, he said ron santo loves those cubs like the pooh bear loves honey. he cheers to much it sounds like his play-by-play partner is from murphy's bar. ron santo's seventh inning stretch of "take me out to the ballgame" carried on, would make anyone smile maybe even a white sox fan. i might add one other thing they used to joke about. i was fortunate to be invited to go up to the broadcast booth at wrigley field. what a treat for a baseball fan. to be up there with ron santo and pat hughes and to do an inning, if there is any psychic reward with this job, it's that. i would study up on all the stats and all the ball players' names and think what was coming and be all loaded up and here's ron santo, at this point it's instinctive and he's getting ready for the next commercial and all these things are going on and they're kidding himg constantly. there was one ongoing joke that i never knew the origin of and it wasn't until they started writing articles about his life that it finally came out. it seems that there was an incident that occurred o

ron claiborne reports on this day at her home in north carolina for us tonight. ron? >> reporter: good evening, diane. i am down the road from the estate of the edwards. in the end, she died of liver failure. family and friends say that she was in no pain, even in these final hours. she passed away at 10:15 this morning. but there was no public announcement because the family wanted to wait until the youngest children, age 10 and 12, returned home from school. in her final days, elizabeth edwards was surrounded by family and friends in her chapel hill, north carolina, home. including john edwards, who she separated from earlier this year. her friends saying he is still family. late today, her family released a statement, "today, we have lost the comfort of elizabeth's presence, but she remains the heart of this family. we love her and will never know anyone more inspiring or full of life." just yesterday, news that her doctors had stopped treatment for her cancer, that she had valiantly battled for six years. elizabeth edwards was the anchor of her husband's rising po

ron paul tweeted this one out today. wikileaks, in a free society we're supposed to know the truth.n a society when the truth becomes treason, we're in big trouble. the overwhelming majority have said julian assange should be charged for espionage or treason. >> erick, go right ahead. >> i've always said ron paul's a nut, and i standby that. >> being a native texan, it's hard for me to realize that ron paul is also a texan. >> i believe he actually starred in a cartoon a while back as marvin the martian. >> here's the whole deal for ron paul, the members of the house on an intelligence committee, they learn about things that are secret and we don't know about. so what is he saying? they should talk about those things? come on, congressman. >> the policy debate aside, let me tell you something from experience, ron paul has a lot of people out there who watch, tweet, follow, e-mail, and for saying what you guys just said, the inbox is going to get -- >> i'll change my phone number. >> and see, if you e-mail me, i will e-mail you back. go right ahead. >> it's called a healthy discussio

you, too, ron.d luck with the book, but i know it's going to be a major, major explosive bit of publication. a hell of a book already. i'm loving it. i'm stunned by it, but anybody who doesn't read it is crazy. thank you. we'll be getting you on to talk about it when it comes out officially. >>> up next, the tea party has its own on congressional republicans warning the tax cut deal violates tea party principles. is the relationship between republicans and the tea party already on the rocks? will this marriage last? let's get the founder of the tea party nation here to tell us how he'll hold republicans accountable. affect wheat output in the u.s., the shipping industry in norway, and the rubber industry in south america? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex global economy. it's just one reason over 75% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment objectives, risks, fee

. >>> and congressman ron paul joins me. to get a key post to oversee the federal reserve and i will ask him why he wants to eliminate the world's central bank. [ male announcer ] at&t introduces a new windows phone with an irresistible full key... oh, too much? now get an lg quantum™ for $199.99, and get one free. only from at&t. rethink possible. and get one free. if you live for performance, upgrade to castrol edge advanced synthetic oil. with eight times better wear protection than mobil 1. castrol edge. it's more than just oil. >>> president obama meets with a group of ceos tomorrow to talk about the economy. press secretary robert gibbs was asked about it at today's briefing and he specifically reminded us not what to call it. >> ion the ceo summit tomorrow - >> let me say this about the 83rd time, when three or more people get into the room, summits generally happen in iceland and involve trench coats and nice hats, but this is a working group of -- i know. three people have a beer in the rose garden and there is all

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ron allen is there. >> reporter: practice before a game is usually closed. but this morning, the university of connecticut wanted everyone to have a good look at its women's basketball team winning their 88th straight game on sunday tying record sent by ucla's men's team and their coach back in the 1970s. tonight uconn goes for 89, led by maya moore whose mother put a basketball in her hands when she was just 3 years old. >> it's been the hardest thing i've ever done in my life but it's been so rewarding. >> reporter: the last time they lost was in april of 2008. and during that winning streak, they've dominated. beating their opponents by an average of about 33 points a game. they're champions. their president is a fan. >> back-to-back national championship ball. >> reporter: but they are still a team fighting for respect. >> if we were breaking a woman's record everybody would say, aren't they nice and give them one line on the bottom of espn and send them back. send them where they belong, in the kitchen. >> reporter: "new york times" sports writer has he

incidentally the a ron army has suffered 25%, which is not strange. they have never been engaged in battle. they did not fight. they joined the taliban. and they are going to keep in their own camps and allow the united states army and the millions to keep fighting. so, if you look pakistan has given up a very grave sacrificed in the last 18 months. as far as counter-terrorism is concerned, what we have done in the military basis, certainly the terrorist, but as far as counter-terrorism within the heartland of pakistan we are at zero. we have done nothing. people have been caught here and there, but really we have done nothing because there is no counter-terrorism force and pakistan. our situation politically, shuja nawaz talked about it. the coalition government. the existence is ingenuous because they are being blackmailed by minority partners , two minority partners, if not one. the julif and mgm. as far as the government is concerned certainly i agree that richard holbrooke lost because he was more pakistan centric. he certainly did a lot for paki

ron? >> okay. yunji de nies reporting from los angeles. thanks for that. >>> now, here's a quick look at the rest of the nation's weather. expect heavy snow in the rockies. rain in the southeast. it remains cold in most of the north. 14 degrees in minneapolis. but it's warmed up to 72 degrees in orlando, florida. 57 in houston. and newton, massachusetts, 34 today. bianna golodryga and dan harris, back to you. >> thank you. >> there is nothing like getting a personalized weather report. >> he throws out the weather in newton, massachusetts, my hometown. i appreciate that. >> this could be a regular feature of the show. >> all right. keep it here. >>> meantime, coming up on "gma," a critical day. will an italian court allow amanda knox's appeal to move forward? she's back in court today. and we'll have the answer. >>> and will a desert island discovery finally solve the mystery of what happened to the famed aviator, amelia earhart? did she live as a castaway on a south pacific island? ♪ ♪ crayons and play-doh ♪ the latest dvd's ♪ lip gloss,

here's nbc's ron mott. >> reporter: more and more families are passing on a holiday stay-cation this year, instead splurging on an old fashioned vacation, despite higher travel costs such as gas and hotels. >> organizing to go. >> reporter: this weekend, kamal, lisa and 6-year-old sedera are off on their first cruise to the caribbean, a trip that's been in the budget a long time. >> we started paying for it in march. so it's been on the plan, on the financial plan, for the whole year. >> reporter: aaa expects 92.3 million americans to trek at least 50 miles from home during the christmas and new year's holidays, up more than 3% from a year ago. most of them on the road. >> the year-end holiday travel period is following a trend that we've seen throughout 2010. we've projected increases for all five of the major travel holidays, and i think that is a sign of some good news for the travel industry. >> reporter: but it's not all good news for travelers. >> about $100 to fill up an individual van. >> reporter: the price at the pump is up roughly 40 cents nationwide on average from '09. a

ron was talking about in the last session we had someone we could not get rid of. they arrested him they found out he had 80 priors or something like that. >> yes. >> 33 arrests on that same block in the last 10 years. we used the stay away order. he came back and they arrest happened him right away and we haven't seen him since much this is someone in the neighborhood for years causing chaos. they really do work we are pushing that forward. we've talked to the da about it on extending the stay away order perimeters. the da when we met with her said it was really working with the judges. something to really think about and it's very powerful. the next person that was supposed to be here was our city attorney's office. he couldn't stay for the second session. regina and i from mirkarimi's was will talk about a couple of our experiences and regina will give you the particulars about that. the city attorney office what we use them for is we had property owners and one property owner that owned a lot of buildings in our neighborhood and a lot of unsafe conscience unsaf

. >>> i'm ron matz at the maryland spca.ow you can help loverboy and other homeless pets in the baltimore area, with a floral bouquet. the story coming up right here on wjz. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it's 5:29. 28 degrees and clear. what a beautiful sunset right now. good evening. thank you for staying with eyewitness news. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. painfully cold across maryland. frigid temperatures are keeping people bundled up and avoiding going outside altogether. just about everything turning out to ice and snow out there. this is the scene in woodlawn today, where a pond froze over. wjz is live with first warning weather coverage. bob turk is tracking snow. but we begin with suzanne collins. hi, suzanne. >> hello, kai. some of the local emergency rooms are seeing cases of frostbite and hypothermia. and there are other inconveniences. we're seeing more broken-down cars and more frozen pipe. >> they have absolutely no water. and the rest of the house, they do. >> reporter: this is an emerg

nbc's ron mott has their story. >> reporter: if absence makes the heart grow fonder, 85-year-old saul dreier and his 82-year-old cousin lucy weinberg have a lot of pent-up love to share. >> 65 years. 65 years. >> a holocaust survivor, saul thought everyone in his large family was killed during that traumatic time except for a great-grandfather who died before world war ii, but in the '60s he learned cousin lucy made it out alive with him and spent more than four decades looking for her. >> amother? survivor with me. an embrace long in the making. >> we were in a family of 35 people, and everybody perished. only i survived. when i hear that she survived, at least we got two people. >> we are always together. >> reporter: in april saul found out lucy was living in canada. >> it's a miracle. >> reporter: thanks to the red cross which has helped connect survivors like saul with lost loved ones for 20 years. >> it was amazing that we were able to get them together, able to get them down here in south florida to spend the first night of hanukkah together after more than 60 years. it's incre

cubs player and radio announcer, ron santo, passed away from complications of bladder ca >>> long time radio announcer ron santo passed away from complications of bladder cancer at the age of 70 years old. >>> how about a little friday night lights. open division championship palo alto taking on valley christian. first quarter kristoff bono throws a strike to maurice williams. the first of two touchdowns for that tandem. palo alto winning 21-14 improving to 13-0. the giants have officially resigned pat burrell to a one-year deal worth $1 million. hitting 18 homers with the giants during the regular season and there are rumors he may be bryant wilson's neighbor the machine. >> i have never met the machine. i keep hissing him. every time he comes around i have been in the bathroom or been outside taking a phone call. i tell you, i just can't speak on that. >> the women's soccer team is back in the college hopes for a third year in the row still searching for their first ever national title. the cardinal's final four undefeated and number 1 team in the country after a scoreless first half

. >>> i'm ron matz. and baltimore football fans are getting ready. it's monday night football. and the ravens play here on wjz. the story when eyewitness news continues. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it's 5:30. 27 degrees and partly cloudy. good evening. thank you for staying with eyewitness news. here are some of the stories people are talking about tonight. two dead, 10 hospitalized. all after a carbon monoxide leak in pikesville that was deadly. tonight, alex demetrick reports, why police and fire investigators are trying to figure out what caused the leak. >> reporter: french s.w.a.t. teams grabbed shields to take down a teenager who used swords to take young kids hostage. the 17-year-old burst into a preschool in eastern france just after it opened. >> not clear who owns the house that was involved in the deadly carbon monoxide leak. meanwhile, relatives are trying to raise money to send the body home. >>> a virginia girl found thousands of miles from home. and tonight, police are trying to piece together what happened leading up to her kidnapping. denise is in the newsroom with mo

ron paul. >> questions to consider. do the american people deserve to know the truth regarding the ongoing war in iraq, afghanistan, pakistan and yemen? number 2, could a larger question be, how can an army private gain access to so much secret information? number 3, why is the hostility mostly directed at assange, the publisher, and not our government's failure to protect classified information? number 4, are we getting our money's worth from the $80 billion per year we spend on intelligence gathering? number 5, which has resulted in the greatest number of deaths, lying us into war or wikileaks revelations or the release of the pentagon papers? >> ron paul there comparing assange to daniel elseberg and the pentagon papers. in other news congressman paul will chair the subcommittee that oversees the federal reserve, the same ron paul who wrote "end the fed." >>> rioters why britain attacked a limo carrying prince charles and his wife. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: there are new security concerns after rioters go

here's ron claiborne. ♪ joy to the world >> reporter: they're the voices of the boston area.faces of boston. >> and our diverse singers walk onto a stage and sing, boston sees what it can be become. >> reporter: this is a different kind of children's choir, where the goal is as much racial harmony as it is musical harmony. where they're as concerned about social change as they are about changes in key. the boston children's chorus exists today because of this man, 77-year-old hubie jones, a professor, social worker and social activist. >> to use a musical organization like this for social healing, community building, as well as authentic social integration. >> reporter: he started the course in 2003, believing that a racially mixed children's group could help heal scars that the city still bears from the ugly, sometimes violent fight of school desegregation in the 1970s. 30 years later, schools and neighborhoods are still divided. many come to the boston children's chorus having never met children from a different ethnic group. >> i just wanted to make music change people's l