landing a close second with $39.3 million was denzel washington and ryan williams' action thriller "safed that was "journey to the mysterious island" and the family action drama brought in almost $28 million. also george lucas's 3-d premiere of "star wars episode 1" the phantom menace made about $23 million. it was the first nonholiday weekend that four movies opened with more than $20 million apiece. a cold one to take in a movie. not much else to do. >> that's right. >>> coming up on news 4 this afternoon the power of social media brings together a good old fashioned pillow fight. >>> plus, speaking of, when will the bone-chilling weather head out of >>> this feels more like it. >> yes. we can go outside without shivering and feeling like bitterly cold. the warmest the weekend was is the 43 high on saturday. >> yesterday. >> today the high up around 50 degrees. this week we're talking about two small events, one of which is going to be tomorrow. i know. it's valentine's day. so if you haven't gotten that gift yet you make a cup of hot cocoa. walk them outside and go look, i got you som

ryan williams received his b.a. and m.a. with distinction in philosophy from -- and moved east africa to work for the conference in kenya to develop and implement the program for the national -- relocating to romp. he received his baccalaureate and sacred theology summa cum laude. he is now a doctoral candidate in a teaching fellow at the school of philosophy at the catholic university of america. i would like to introduce and pass the word to ryan to continue further the discussion. >> tonight as you know we are having a panel discussion on the hhs mandate in i just want to introduce a three panelists, experts in the topic. the first is richard. as you know he works at the united states conference of catholic vicious. he is associate director of the secretary of pro-life activity where he is worked for over 30 years. month his duties he prepares policy statements educational material in and congressional testimonies on abortion and euthanasia conscience rights and health care embryo research and other medical moral issues f

ryan williams before passing the microphone to him. he received his b.a. and m.a. with distinction of philosophy from boston college. he then moved to east africa to work for can yet to develop and implement a program for the national sangree and he received a baccalaureate promise of a commodity from and is now a doctoral candidate and a fellow in the school of philosophy at the catholic university of america. so i'd like to introduce -- i would like to pass the word over to ryan to continue for the ring the discussion. thank you. >> thank you very much, mary. to might as you know we are having a panel discussion on the hhs mandate and i just want to introduce three panelists, experts in the topic. the first is mitscher defeat to mr. richard doerflinger. as you know he works of the conference of catholic bishops and is the isasi director of the secretary of the co life activity where he's worked for over 30 years. among his duties he is prepared policy statements, educational materials and congressional testimony on abortion, euthanas

ryan williams for moderating. and i'd like to thank the usccb and all of you for coming and joining at the catholic information center here in downtown d.c. to join us for the discussion contesting the mandate again for more information about the center or to donate the programs like these, visit our web site, we cidc.org and join me for thinking our panelists. [applause] students from catholic university, georgetown and american university former maryland lt. governor townsend waiting on the contraception issue. this book about their support for bup federal health care policy that would require church affiliated employers to cover birth control. the news conference hosted by the group catholic students for women's health is 45 minutes. >> thank you very much for coming to catholic students for health. my name is mcginn smith and i representing catholics for choice. so we are going to have a great list of speakers for you for local catholic universities as well as other local non-catholic universities followed by

and settle all of this and help us see i'll wait will work -great- see our way forward, we have ryan williams as moderator. he received a b.a. and m.a. and moved to kenya to implement the classic program for the national cemetery. he is now a doctoral candidate and a teaching fellow in the school of philosophy at the catholic university of america. ryan will continue and further the discussion. >> we are having a panel discussion on the hhs mandate. i would like to introduce our panel. richard doerflinger works at the united states conference of catholic bishops. he is the secretary of pro-life activity, where he has worked for 37 years. he deals with the embryo research and other medical moral research. m.a. from the university of chicago. mr. james capretta is a fellow at the at 6 and public policy center. -- ethics at the public policy center. he studied and provided commentary on a wide range of public policy and economic issues. kyle duncan is general counsel for the becket fund for religious liberty. -- beckett fund. he taught constitutional law and serve in the texas attorney general p

ryan was born on the eve of st. patrick's day on march 16, 1912 in nevada, a mining town. her father, william ryan, called her his st. patrick's babe in the morn, so she was called pat within hours of her birth. the ryans moved to southern california for a better life and settled on a small truck farm in arteeshia -- artesia. a young person of tremendous courage and determination, mrs. nixon had her heart set on higher education and work continually to secure the necessary funds. she drove an elderly couple to the east coast and worked as an x-ray technician in new york. returning, she graduated magna cum laude. she held part-time jobs on campus and was a department store salesclerk and a hollywood extra, appearing in several motion pictures, including the 1935 film "becky sharp." mrs. nixon taught at at a high school in the late 1930's where she met her husband who had returned to his hometown to practice law after graduating from duke law school. approximate richa ryan and richard nixon were married in 1940, and was true of so many couples their age, she worked here at home while her husban

williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> and finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. actor ryan reynolds sits down with matt lauer to talk about his upcoming spy thriller "safe house." and country singer dierks bentley performs live with songs from his new album "home." >>> and now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it was quite a welcome home tonight for a marine from san jose. lance corporate ryanoseph he was clearly surprised as you can see there. before saying hello to his family and friends, he thanked firefighters. joseph has been away for 11 months now. he's on leave for two weeks before he has to return to duty. >>> and a few scattered showers out there. these are light in nature but they're moving right down the coast. as they move in our direction there's a chance for a few scattered sprinkles. tonight we have snow in the mountains. there's a winter advisory there. scattered showers offshore. look at the mountain, they are getting some snow. they could see almost a foot of snow at higher elevations. then about the time of your morning commute. basically dry out there as we go into the afternoon clearing. so your wednesday looks like a pretty nice day. that was our chance of showers. don't be surprised if you see a sprinkle, especially in the north bay. maybe some drizzle for your morning commute. other than that. looks like it's pretty dry. when i come back, we're going

williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> it was quite a welcome home tonight for a marine from san jose. lance corporate ryanoseph he was clearly surprised as you can see there. before saying hello to his family and friends, he thanked firefighters. joseph has been away for 11 months now. he's on leave for two weeks before he has to return to duty. >>> and a few scattered showers out there. these are light in nature but they're moving right down the coast. as they move in our direction there's a chance for a few scattered sprinkles. tonight we have snow in the mountains. there's a winter advisory there. scattered showers offshore. look at the mountain, they are getting some snow. they could see almost a foot of snow at higher elevations. then about the time of your morning commute. basically dry out there as we go into the afternoon clearing. so your wednesday looks like a pretty nice day. that was our chance of showers. don't be surprised if you see a sprinkle, especially in the north bay. maybe some drizzle for your morning commute. other than that. looks like it's pretty dry. when i come back, we're going

ryan says washington is lying to people. he's here live. john bolton over the drum beat for war with iran. juan williamsg numbers and karl rove in studio. see you live in ten minutes on "america's newsroom" ♪ [ male announcer ] for our town. [ dog barks ] for our country. ♪ for our future. ♪ this isn't just the car we wanted to build. it's the car america had to build. ♪ the extended range electric chevy volt. from the heart of detroit to the health of the country, chevy runs deep. >> steve: welcome back. she's gone from fighting for freedom in iraq and afghanistan and now she's fighting for a job on capitol hill. colonel martha mcsally, the first woman to fly fighter jets in combat for the u.s. air force now running to fill gabrielle giffords' vacated congressional seat and the colonel joins us from tucson. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> steve: it's an honor to have the first american woman to fly in combat. congratulations and thank you. >> thank you, sir. >> steve: why do you want -- you've had such a great career. why do you want to go to congress? >> well, i'm a public servant at heart, s

williams which is available on the fox news web site. good morning to you, kyle. >> good morning. ok, so there we see him refusing this award from paul ryan, i think he views paul ryan has an ideological foe and this was al levy's moment to stick it to paul ryan and so when i saw this video, i thought to myself, you know, it takes a special type of person to be this -- to be a jerk in public like this. and i thought there's got to be more to this. and so i started looking and i just found example after example where al levy talks about organizing students for political purposes, turning students into change agents, all of those sorts of things. and so this is a perfect example of where an activist teacher is using his position and influencing his students with a personal political agenda that needs to frankly be rooted out of our schools. >> you know, and we talk about the trouble with schools all the time, kyle and the last thing we want in front of our kids is a teacher with a political agenda. we don't want him teaching from the left. we don't want him teaching them from the right. we want them to give the kids the facts. but as you've