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s. barrage of attack speaking to the new york times, romney says gingrich is not it to be president. great in a campaign and radio. in terms of the president, we need a leader. thatere are signs gingrich's support is softening. tonight's debates may be the a game changing moment. >>> more tax troubles for a d.c. council woman. filed a lien claiming more than $32,000 in unpaid taxes. >>> a local family wants to know destroyed thousands of christmas decorations. this happened early sunday .orning surveillance cameras captured description as it happened. -- the destruction as it happens. of the decorations are irreplaceable. >> children come by here and the way their eyes glow and their makes your heart feel good. >> these home owners as he does not want to press charges. >>> more out ready to over and involving a display in fredericksburg. investigators say someone stole from a nativity scene yesterday morning. this is the second time this has in the same spot. in to thousand five, someone same stature, but returned it a few hours later. >>> 6 air force chairman are under investigation

now, i'm not a huge fan of "the new york times," but there's an article in december 2's "new york times," an editorial entitled "been down so long." and i think it's worth entering into the congressional record by its reading, the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6% in november from 9% in october in the jobs report released friday. the economy added 120,000 jobs and job combrothe was revised up-- growth was revised upward in september and october. that's better than following payrolls but the new figures would be more about the depth of distress of the job market than about real improvement in the job prospects. most of the decline in november's unemployment rate was not because jobless people found new work. rather it is because 315,000 people dropped out of the work force, a reflection of extraordinarily weak demand by employers for new workers. it is also a sign of socioeconomic decline of wasted resources and oven tapped potential, the human equivalent of boreded up main streets and shuttered factories. the job growth numbers also came with calf yots. more -- caveots. more jobs were c

. >>> from washington jeff bader n and dave sanger of the "new york times" who s been following the story closely and pakistan and other places with nuclear weapons. i begin wit chris hill. tell me what are the questions you are asking at this time about this death and this transition of power? >> >> well i must say a few monthsa biggest outer to dr try to get e north koreans back to the new clear talks. the us has taken the correct position that we need to see signser in serious. so as this transition under folds in the coming days and weeks wo won wonders whether the north score reans will be willing to make any kind of decision that suggests that they are more serious about nuclear talks so i wonder what the future of the thirdparty talks as kim the iii gets going. i don't think he has any stature he is hardly known in north korea. we have to wait to see how it unfolds. whether the military is runningment place or the people around him are running that place or whether he has a opinionch his own. lot of questions ahead. >>> tell us about the nuclearwed where they stand on the developme

s&p 500 stock index. tonight's market monitor has one word to describe this year, dividends. sam stovall is the chief investment strategist for standard & poors capital iq with us tonight from new york. happy new year. >> happy new year, tom. >> tom: not exactly a bull market, certainly not a bear market it was a market where shareholders got paid to wait s that the best description? >> absolutely. not a bull, not a bear but a blah market and the investors who focused on quality as well as dividend yields were the ones who were rewarded. >> yeah, and you can see that when you take a look at the top three stock sectors in the s&p 500, utilities, consumer staples, health care. kind of defensive but also sectors that traditionally pay their shareholders. what went into that kind of stock performance this year? >> i think basically the reason why you had the three best performing sectors post total returns above 13% each and not be cyclical sectors in nature is because they were substitutes for bonds. investors were looking for nice payouts, dividend yields, some sort of a return that was better than money markets and also that with not present them with the potential of a bubble as som

. >> he began in career in britain, moving to new york in the 1980's. his death was announced by "vanity fair" where he worked as a contributing editor. the magazine said there will never be a man like he and he was as violent they knew him and those who knew them. one said he could throw words into the sky and they fell down in a marvelous pattern. helen fox, "bbc news." >> we go from one end of life to the other. one of the smallest premature sbeabs about to be sent home by doctors. when she was born in august, melinda was so tiny she could fit into the palm of the doctor's hand and weighed just over a quarter of one kilo. >> she was 270 grams. so half a point. >> melinda i have a was born prematurely at 24 minutes. >> her mother fed her through light plastic. since august she's been cacooned and the second smallest baby to survive in the world. >> it's a huge, big miracle. she's been through a lot. and she has made it. a lot of people thought she was not going to make it. they tried to 24 weeks. if she wasn't, they wouldn't bother trying. >> she was

new york and boston. temperatures in the 80's across florida. there could be some rain and higher elevation snow in new mexico, parts of texas, and arizona. chile and dry in denver. 68 in l.a. tomorrow. 45 around here on saturday. christmas day, a good football weather. some sprinkles or snow flurries in the forecast snow flurries more likely than anything else. dryout monday and tuesday. the next chance for rain will come late wednesday and into thursday. >> a lot of people are shopping online. >> of course. >> but there are some bad news -- there is some bad news for some online shoppers. some orders from best buy will not be arriving on time. >> and howard county police are searching for this woman to night. >> is graduation day for the students at the maryland food bank. >> the baltimore city police is making it a little brighter for some today. the distributed 350 holiday baskets to local families in need. they were filled with everything from donated canned goods to children's toys to fresh bread. >> this is the fifth and largest class to d

funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vt., and honolulu. s foiodad onunnkti. and union bank. ♪ >> union bank has put its global expertise to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> and now, bbc world news america. >> this is bbc world news america reporting from washington. honoring the fallen, the fighting in iraq is over. the troops are coming home, and president obama and prime minister in a real maliki stand side by side. >> the war is ended. >> syria hold local elections, but in a country where more than 5000 have reportedly been killed. taking scullin by storm after arriving from china. today was the time for the and a pair of sweet and sunshine to meet the press. -- the panda pair swee and sunshine to meet the press. welcome. the troops are coming home, but america is not abandoning the middle east. that was president obama's message today as he stood by prime minister maliki today. after nine long controversial years, on december 31, the last american troops will leave the country. but can the u.s. be influentia

. >>> from washington jeff bader n and dave sanger of the "new york times" who s been following the story closely and pakistan and other places with nuclear weapons. i begin wit chris hill. tell me what are the questions you are asking at this time about this death and this transition of power? >> >> well i must say a few monthsa biggest outer to dr try to get e north koreans back to the new clear talks. the us has taken the correct position that we need to see signser in serious. so as this transition under folds in the coming days and weeks wo won wonders whether the north score reans will be willing to make any kind of decision that suggests that they are more serious about nuclear talks so i wonder what the future of the thirdparty talks as kim the iii gets going. i don't think he has any stature he is hardly known in north korea. we have to wait to see how it unfolds. whether the military is runningment place or the people around him are running that place or whether he has a opinionch his own. lot of questions ahead. >>> tell us about the nuclearwed where they stand on the developme

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s it's used in ohio florida new york a whole bunch of other states they found that in fact this optical scan system was not counting ballots it was actually dropping votes and there would be no way to know this unless you actually bothered to count those paper ballots by hand something that i've been calling for i believe you have now four years to count those ballots by hand at the precinct in front of the public video cameras all the parties and everywhere everybody else before moving those paper ballots anywhere that we need to have abs because once again we found that these machines simply do not work which is why when they tried them in holland they said get these things out here so they can get it all over europe that everybody's saying we don't want him it's not that we've got brad friedman brad great work you're doing brad thanks so much for being with us tonight. thanks and i have a scoop tomorrow at brad blog dot com showing that even republicans don't believe that photo id will keep so-called voter fraud from happening at the polling place check that out tomorrow it's great i

record average high next year higher prices did lift energy shares as well as the dow and s&p yesterday. at the new yorksiness report. >>> cash strapped san jose district has unveiled plans to add four state-of-the-art sports facilities without taxpayer money. the alem rock district will be working with a san francisco business to help raise 18 million dollars to build the facilities. the company will reach out to local corporations and individuals to invest in the projects for which they will get a tax credit. >> you look at athletic -- child -- we are approaching companies that are involved in technology and health care in sports. >>> the district says it has future projects in the works and will use this model again. >>> if you are driving on i-80 in san francisco, you might notice something different. for the first time in 12 years instead of the purple neon lit yahoo sign, you get this. an old sign as you approach the bay bridge. the yahoo sign was peeled off yesterday as the internet search company focuses on new ways to market itself. clear channel is offering it for $65,000 a month. don nelson,

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s among the locations, japan and the unicef headquarters, new york. they plan to time the event to coincide with the first anniversary of the disaster, march 11th, 2012. rachel ferguson is up next with weather. >>> since the march 11th accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, people in northeastern japan and elsewhere have grown increasingly pore worried about radiation. no a radiation sector that speaks has been developed, aimed at helping people who are visually impaired. >> hello. [ speaking in foreign language ]. >> if you push a button on the 12x5 meter, the woman's voice announce the airborne radiation per hour pap prototype of the speaking device was shown friday. jointly developed by an association for the visuality impaired at a local company. >> translator: the machine will be handy for the visually impaired. we hope people will find it useful. >> while visually impaired curbs were evacuated from a town, they were worried about radioactive contamination. >> translator: we already feel safer with this device. >>> japan's health

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s. i was surprised with "the new york times" was running about is bob strauss going to be our first president and he would always say he is foolish enough to run the rumors but not to pay attention to them. senator think that he was the first jewish president of the fellowship. >> almost. that is the young people's union. are you from texas? i can't tell. [laughter] when bob growing up in texas and a small town about three or 4,000 people in texas he was born and in 1999 and there were only to the jewish people in this town and that is because his cousins were also living there. [laughter] that means they were totally integrated into the guilaume to the club if they were very restrictive people a and whammo got his fbi file because speed him as an fbi agent in world war ii, it turned out no one forgot you were jewish and they were interviewing the townspeople so it was relevant but it wasn't relevant to bob as he was growing up. she didn't see anti-semitism and and as i said in the book he thought the cutest girls were at the baptist young people's union so that's where he was and he wanted t

s. >>> we do have some better news on new york avenue at lapel and entering maryland on of 50 eastboundlworth ave. -- new york avenue eastbound. route 197 is closed at laurel- bowie rd. northbound 95 in the main lanes getting heavy from newington to springfield. out-build or southbound 495 near 66 blocking the left lane coming from tysons. -->>> add a lounge in northwest washington there was a ploy to drive -- a toy drive put together by pamela brown. the familiar faces. alison starling was there along with mostnatasha barrett. philip stewart was there as well as me. i was glad to be there. >> i love that big bear. a lot of kids will be happy at children's hospital. glad to make a difference. thanks for coming. >>> 55 degrees right now. >> a humiliating loss against philadelphia. the capitals managed only find -- managed only one goal. >>> how to get a break on groceries. [ male announcer ] this...is the network -- a living, breathing intelligence that's hping people rethink how they live. ♪ ♪ in here, video games are not confined to screens. ♪ ♪ excuse me, hi. my grandfather lived in t

subzero readings covered most of the northern plains down into the rockies, and some 30's as close as a state new yorkarts of southwestern ohio around cincinnati. the colder air is creeping slowly and our direction. the boundary is about to make it into baltimore. tomorrow morning our wins it will shift to the northwest, bringing some of that cold air in. a new area of low pressure will ride up the coast as the cold air is coming in. we will start the day tomorrow with periods of rain, falling into the 40's in the afternoon. tomorrow morning it begins to drop into the upper 30's. parts of baltimore, harvard, carroll county and up into frederick county the storm will be rolling up the coast quick and by dawn on thursday it will be gone. anytime from midnight tomorrow night into the early morning hours of thursday, a quick hit of wet snow could move through the region, and then skies should clear. it will be breezy in chilly for thursday, partly cloudy and below normal temperatures going into friday and saturday. tomorrow, temperatures godown. -- temperatures go down. it is going to move through pretty

. >>> nate silver of the "new york times"'s 5348 blog is out there with his forecast for the iowa caucuses. statistical models based on state polling saying newt gingrich is just under a 50/50 chance to win iowa, coming in at 49.6. 50/50 for newt. next according to silver is ron paul with with a 28% chance of winning in iowa. mitt romney has a much smaller chance of victory, silver says, just under 10%. i guess he better not try for it anyway. rick perry is at 5% and bachmann at 4%. newt has a big lead, still 50/50 and according to silver statistically the race is wide open. you can win it or lose it but be betting right now on newt, at least according to nate silver. we'll be right back. wit brighter, whiter smile. with crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. it penetrates below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a $500 dentist treatment. the secret's in the strip. crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. >>> you're being judged now on your performance. >> no, no, no. i'm being judged against the ideal, and, you know, joe biden has a good expression. he says don't ju

. >> according to "the new york times" bestseller list, hardcover, nonfiction, here are 2011's bestsellers. laura hillenbrand, "unbroken," is number one. 50 weeks on "the new york times" best season geller list. eric larson, "in the garden of beasts," one week at number week. tina fey with "bossy pants" came in third for the year, 25 weeks on the bestseller list. david mccull hour, "the greater journey," 17 weeks on the best season geller list, and number five, "sale team six: memoirs of an elite navy seal sniper." what was laura hillenbrand's book about, sarah weinman? >> she talked about a man named louis who had been an athlete and then ended up in world war ii and, i believe, he was a prisoner of war. and he at least as of a few months ago was still alive and was, you know, well into his 90s. and, of course, laura hillenbrand is a fascinating story because she has chronic fatigue syndrome and off cannot leave -- often cannot leave the house. so she was conducting a lot of her research from her house and through, you know, prodigious telephone calls and outsourcing of people helping her

new york, who made new york in many ways. he and smith remained very, very affectionate well into the 1930's after smith was out of political life. and he insists that there be a zoo in central park so that al smith can come and visit the animals. thatliving up town at point. there are poignant stories about smith at the end of his life, he literally had a key to the zoo and he would sometimes go down there in the middle of the night and hang out at the central park zoo. in many ways it's a tribute to al smith and his love of animals. >> honorary night superintendent was al smith at the zoo. >> we've had a very, very patient audience here and in just a minute we're going to start taking questions from you as well. but we have a very patient tony from pleasantville, new york, who has been holding. you're on c-span and "the contenders." >> thank you for this series and c-span. i've been watching for over 20 years and i think if more people would watch c-span we would have better presidential candidates. but you beat me to the punch. i wanted to ask you about belle moskowitz. i wonder if they could expand on belle moskowitz's role

even up to new york and boston, temperatures in the 50's. the snow starts to sneak back in on the colder side and then the french should go south of us. in much colder day on friday. temperatures will be chilly. a little bit of snow expected up in the mountains as the system pushes and call director. 55-60 mark. winds at 10. mostly cloudy skies. a 50-50 shot that you get wet weather tomorrow. on the day, the wind will be out of the stop at 29. that is pulling all of that era into the atlantic. rain tomorrow in a much colder on friday. didst should stay cold enough for the ski resorts to generate man-made snow. it will turn colder. eastern shore, rain tomorrow and a son on friday. the rain may linger an extra day at the coast, but temperatures will stay mile. the 74 cast, we drop about -- seven day forecast, we drop about 5 degrees. we will talk about more rain monday night into tuesday. >> a tougher challenge than maryland expected tonight. see if the terrapins can avoid an upset. >> tonights estimated jackpot is $77 million. for $1 more you

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. >>> nate silver of the "new york times"'s 5348 blog is out there with his forecast for the iowa caucuses. statistical models bed on state polling saying newt gingrich is just under a 50/50 chance to win iowa, coming in at 49.6. 50/50 for newt. next according to silver is ron paul with with a 28% chance of winning in iowa. mitt romney has a much smaller chance of victory, silver says, just under 10%. i guess he better not try for it anyway. rick perry is at 5% and bachmann at 4%. newt has a big lead, still 50/50 and according to silver statistically the race is wide open. you can win it or lose it but be betting right now on newt, at least according to nate silver. we'll be right back. [ male anno] you are a business pro. lord of the carry-on. sovereign of the security line. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above. and still pay the mid-size price. i deserve this. [ male announcer ] you do, business pro. you do. go national. go like a pro. tdd# 1-800-345-25

s big apple resident laurie hardness asked people in new york about what they expect from a potential candidate. important elections will be held in many countries in two thousand and twelve what's it going to take to be a good leader in today's world this week let's talk about that what do you think is the most important quality for a world leader to have right now just empathy for what's going on right now just the inability to be able to be flexible just with the american people and the people the world and a lot of patience i equate intelligence with humor. i mean say oh yeah a quick mind do you think that sense of humor would be appealing in a world leader think it's an international way of speaking you know everybody gets it and everybody likes it circumstances or controlling all the countries so somebody step up and take the reins you know would you follow someone that was strong like that even if you didn't necessarily believe yes yes they're true leader no we're honest with people is having the ability to lead people more important than having the intelligence or the right ki

two,s: road shows, volume it has the recorded at the peak in new york city. there is stuff at the top and bottom, recorded in japan. your assessment of the appreciation or the lack thereof of this american art form around the world -- >> you know, tavis, and i hope your audience knows, jazz's world music. -- jazz is world music. everybody from mongolia to m anchuria to manhattan. the whole world understands and appreciates jazz. we didn't have to make it like they heard and say, it's classic. we love that. becauseen a bit longer of social and political reasons. to come into jazz the way other people did. they liked jazz right away. it's here now, the whole world like jazz. there is no denying that. this is world music, america's classical music. i am not saying that is because of me, i am just a part of it. people all over the world understand that this is -- it is the thing m, man. tavis: you are the chief ambassador of it. >> ok. [laughter] tavis: which leads me to ask, how it felt for you when you heard the news that you were being honored this year as one

wisconsin bit time we get to tonight and tonight's midnight forecast, temperatures in the mid-40's in new yorknta, and if you are there for the ball drop to key west you will be specific tar that and areas of chicago, we could see a little bit of snow moving in late but by the celebration, you will be looking good and new orleans and 63 and maybe a shower or two and across the west, denver is chilly, and temperatures only not mid-20's but overall, a very, very nice evening for this beg celebration. so, this bill which is what everyone not world is so excited about watching the bomb control, is paid up of waterford crystal, and the director, the designer of the waterford crystals, tell us what makes this crystal special this year. >> well this year's team, of all the years we have had, 2011 has been tough so hopefully people will raise their hands and have a great feeling of friendship in 2012. >> and each year you take the crystals and make a brand new one, a brand new design for the ball so they are never the same. >> well, the ball has 2,688 triangles and we take off 288 triangles to have a

's a little unseasonable here in new york city. could get some rain a little later on. al is going to talk more about that in a couple minutes. inside the studio i'm matt lauer with ann curry, savannah guthrie, and al roker. who is going to be leading our today's panel of professionals? you. >> i will be. we have a lot to tackle including the golden globe nominations just announced this morning. a lot of great films and actors were nominated but there were a few surprises. we'll talk about that. then a young woman who claims to have used match.com to date for food. basically she acknowledged using these guys for free meals. is this par for the course when it comes to online dating? >> i think more par for the course in the economy these days. >> a sign of the times. a provocative question. is it okay to schedule sex? >> you mean among men? >> well, star jones, donny deutsch and dr. nancy will weigh in on that. >> and it's probably happened to a lot of you. your outspoken uncle maybe has a little bit too much to drink at the family get together. co-worker gives you a gif

s. this goes against the prevailing theory of people like ben bernanke or part krugman of the new york times who believe that the depression was not caused by a credit boom of the one nine hundred twenty s. but caused by policies that came in after after the crash so your thoughts i would say the following you know if you look at such a crisis and such a recession it is very clear that at the starting point of such a recession or depression the economy must have accumulated mess of mis locations or imbalances and the question for us economists is how can an economy. to get itself into such a position that it has these mess of dislocations that obviously for an extended period of time so many people made you know wrong decisions and allocated capital in correctly overextended bank balance sheets how could all of this happen and i think one of the criticism i have of the interpretations of other mainstream economists is that the always focus on this thing of lack of a good demand the focus on a symptom of the crisis but the kenneled really explain how this imbalance came about and i would argu

new york is still waiting extradition. jerry lewis turned himself into police in laurel, prince george''s county. he's suspected of murdering his girlfriend and her 20-year-old son. >>> an off duty new york firefighter is being hailed a hero tonight after he leaps into action to save two people from a burning home. mark morgan has more on this story. >> was bad. it was like an inferno. >> reporter: nancy meyers and other neighbors watched as flames engulfed this two-story house on staten island. and the destruction caused by light night's fire is evident the day after. off-duty firefighter steven carl coming home from a christmas visit to his parents saw the flames. >> when i turned around the block i saw a fire blow out of the front windows and i saw a lady in her night gown in the front screaming her babies were inside. >> reporter: the fire was much more intensive in the fire and he put a ladder up to the second floor battery. >> the ladder gave out and fell and i was hanging on the balcony and the neighbor was able to come and put the ladder up. we were just able to make it touch the bottom of

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new york city. this is in, like, the 1930's, '40s? >> my sister was the first... my eldest sister was the first student that went to america because of the japanese compensation. that money, you know. before my sister's generation, when you went to... chinese are regarded as either coolies or laundrymen. she was the first generation... you know, there is a joke, "knock, knock, there is a chinaman, no laundry tonight." "knock, knock." my sister's generation, "knock, knock, there is a chinese. are you doctor so-and-so?" so there is this joke, you know? >> hinojosa: but i want to take you to... because, you know, your life, again, it's an extraordinary drama. but part of the drama is that you leave, you and your brothers and sisters, you leave, and your mom and dad stay in china. and then china goes under the process of a revolution, and your parents are still there. your dad is still a huge star. but then the cultural revolution happens in 1966. you're already living on this side. and this is the part that's extraordinary for me. because for eight years... >> ten. >