criminalized but then later seen as heroes this happened with dead ellsberg the sap that was karen silkwood that happened to a great many other patriotic whistleblowers in our history and what is happening now we mentioned a little earlier that the obama administration has been the most aggressive in prosecuting whistleblowers why are we seeing this this crackdown more so today.

live in san francisco -- walter petila of sap fran. live in san francisco, back to you. >>> this afternoon, the contra costa county sheriff's office released this photo of 45-year- old steven clark from oakly. his car was found in northern san diego county at a rest stop along interstate 5. clark kidnapped and raped a woman he met saturday. the texas department of public safety list clark as a high risk sex offender. >>> sap jose police say they arrested the leaders of a gang of taggers. responsible for much of the graffiti scene on freeways and the bridges in the south bay. robert hopbda tells us how they got caught. >> -- robert honda tells us how they got caught. >> reporter: bridges, overpasses and freeway signs, graffiti. they ask "have you seen us?" it is on youtube. >> it makes the city look dirtier than it is. >> reporter: today, the police announced the arrest of four leaders of the crew. investigators say their crew is responsible for half of the recent graffiti vandalism to the city and $50,000. >> they like the thrill of ru

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. >>> we want to get the sound, you are talking about a crash in sap matthew thieu county.e have one coming in eastbound over to brisbane. it is that wind did i road coming up from the cal palace and this is a car that went down 200 feet down the embankment and they had to bring somebody up. now the person they removed from the car, conscious and breathing, daily city fire department is on the scene but all of east bay is blocked so the best way is to stay on 280 and if you want to get to the brisbane area use 280 south, don't use 381, it is kind of an insider's route. this is a look at 880 north and southbound, that traffic is moving well in both directions. getting to highway 17, that traffic in the south bay is off to a nice start. >> all right, gets get to the grim rainfall totals, so far this is the second dryest december in 160 years of data. there has been two times where not a drop of rain fell in san francisco and that occurred twice, 1876 and 1999. we get over a half inch of rain and december had 12 and it is just a blocking pattern for a dry year and when that se

this helps sap get the software into the cloud. the $3.2 billion company.cientists will announce they've discovered more new planets. the telescope looks for earth-like planets in the solar system. other solar systems, turning tout be one of the most successful projects ever. back to you. >> thank you very much. let's check the forecast one last time with christina loren. good morning to you. 59 degrees by the water. bundle up tonight. temperatures the downright cold. frost advisory in place in the morning. east bay will be very cold. elsewhere, downright chilly. we'll have lows for you tomorrow morning here at this time. let's check your drive with mike inouye. >> as promised i'm going to show our friends the south bay commute. northbound is slow from capitol express way towards the san jose international airport. still no word on injuries. clearly must not have been that serious. here's the backup on the routes for the north or from the east. the east shore freeway. highway 24 and 580 all jammed up because of the early jer slowdown that cleared from the b

. >>> software company sap says they will spend billions of dollars to acquire bay area based successrs. they are paying $4 billion for the company. they make a cloud-based human resource application. the deal is just the latest move in escalating rivalry between sap and oracle. >>> a bay area tradition with a politician. the reason these boats are decked out for the holidays. [ woman ] hmm...game day party idea pillsbury crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels just unroll, add ingredients, roll and bake. and the crowd goes wild. crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. game day ideas made easy. in 15 minutes, [ female announcer ] you call that bread? you can serve some warmth with your bread. and some flavor with your bread. and some layers with your bread. if you're serving bread honey, then serve it. grands! dinner ideas made easy. >>> the lighted yacht parade floated down the oakland estuary tonight to benefit the oakland firefighters random acts of charity. >>> and workers got together to help end hunger in their community. 350 employees from applied materials packed more than 5,000 food boxes

and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and for people to advocate. and the project has a structural rating of 2 out of 100. >> you can see the rusting reinforcing in the concrete when you look at the edges now. the deck has steel reinforcing that's corroded and lost 2/3's of its strength. >> this was accelerated in 1989 when the earthquake hit and cal came in and strengthened but can't bring to standards. to fix this road will cost more than to replace. and for the last 18 years, we have been working on a design to replace the road way, but to do in a way that makes it appropriate to be in a national park and not army post. >> i would say it's one of the most ugly structure, and it's a barrier between the mar sh and presidio. and this is a place and i brought my dogs and gr

among other gainers success factor sujed 51% on sale to germany's sap. met life rose after forecasting 2012 earning forecast. gannett rose. netflix rose. incyte dropped. former hewlett-packard chairmanwoman dunn lost her battle with cancer at age 58. finally, amanda knox recently cleared in italy for murdering her roommate has hired a lawyer to land a book deal, the same lawyer that handled book deals for the last three presidents, tony blair and sarah palin. >>> the chargers suddenly awake. the bruins keep winning. the finalist for college football's biggest trophy. professional hockey is a tough sport but this is ridiculous. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> we have all the cold air in the middle of the country, wet weather in the east. the two are going to meet up for possibly some snow. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." you disgust me. 3q prove it. enough's enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding, guaranteed. d-con. get out. >>> good morning. if you're just waking up this

you can sit at the sap table. -- at the staff table. before they begin, i want to congratulate all of you for an amazing event that you put on. our youth commission can do both the school district and the mayor's office for support to bring together as many of our immigrant youths to gather and talk about many of the challenges that have. they will tell you what they have done. we have had the opportunity to be there for you in the morning. the kids are really engaged and value the time that you gave to them and information that you provided. happy, do you want to go ahead and start? >> yes. honorable commissioners, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you. i am a senior. i am the youth fellowship leader for the use summit. i want to give a big thank-you to you for supporting the youth summit. president mendoza, with your help, we were able to hold a meeting including 99 students from seven public high schools, including mission, ifa, third marshall, washington, linkedin to their first-ever youth summit on friday, october

. >> investigators are looking into the cause of a fire that bawrnd victorian house near sap france general -- san francisco general hospital. nobody was injured but the victorian at utah and 25th 25th street was severely damaged. >> on to politics where the new g.o.p. front runner, newt gingrich, was the main target during last night's debate in iowa but he came prepared to defend himself, and he did. he also went on the attack. here's more. >> there have been so many ups and downs i'm getting whiplash. >> indeed. another republican debate, another surprise. the new front runner, newt gingrich, expected to be on the defensive, goes after mitt romney. >> the only reason you didn't become a career politician is you lost to teddy kennedy in 1994. >> a night when the new front runner solidified his position and the old front runner, romney, made what could be the biggest misstep. rick perry was chiding romney for his role of bringing health care to massachusetts. >> are you referred to individual mandates. >> perry seemed to misquote romney. romney gave the replay they may come to haunt him. >

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they are sapping our wealth. i'm a big medicare guy. i am a big social security guy.those things. that is where bob and i are more alike than anyone else on the panel. >> bob: for sure. >> we can only do that if we are a wealthy country. >> dana: i agree with that. >> we are having the poor country because we have the worst deal-makers in history of the world making deals for us and we lose money, tens of trillions of dollars. >> greg: this is gutfeld. had a great time last night. thanks for everything. >> sounds good. i don't know what we did, but it sounds good. >> greg: i don't remember any of it either, frankly. it was that wild. do you feel you have settled the questions of the origins of president obama's birth certificate? >> look, simple. barbara walters, i was on her show but she cut the hell out of my answer and let the last three words and people don't know what it meant. honored to be on but she cut the answer. asked me the same thing. >> his mother to the best of everyone's knowledge was never in that hospital. the document may have been tampered with acc

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boy, you don't put on the sap of the new york giants defensively and come away oh, my goodness, who is this guy? he didn't even like football. he used to watch and say god, those guys are crazy out there. i'd never play that game. and they brought him out. he didn't know the rules. he didn't know anything about the game. finally the coach game him the very simple instructions. he said go get the quarterback. he said okay, i can do that. and now he's a millionaire because of it. probably earning trips to hawaii in the future, too. big stop for the giants here. we're approaching the 02-minute warning. and austin has beaten the coverage. fourth down. the giants get the ball back. they only have one time-out and they have a lon of time left. >> cris: romo xmoezed edxposed him on the blitz. absolutely wide open. no way in the world can tony romo miss that throw. it is unbelievable. >> michelle: here is mcbride. not a good pick from one of the better hunters in the league. and the giants are going to get the ball at their own 40 yard line. that's a 35-yard bloop. >> cris: wow. >> michelle: t

once it's pressed, the sugar cane sap is made into jaggery, an unrefined sugar.ere, too, he has suggestions for improvements. >> "this tells us there is incomplete combustion. like there is black smoke coming and this tells us there is more carbon monoxide content." >> for pandey, this production process represents just one small example of india's enormous energy consumption -- which not only harms the environment, but is also becoming a burden on the economy. the cities in particular are increasingly experiencing electricity blackouts. whether coal, gas or diesel, the demand for energy is simply too great, and it's growing daily, says anant shukla, an energy expert from the german association for international cooperation, the g-i-z. he's just come from a meeting in gurgaon, a business center just outside delhi. >> "if i see that there is no power and we have to depend on the alternate sources, like diesel generators so that scares me coming to gurgaon." >> that's why, at delhi's largest hospital, work is underway in the basement. the international climate init

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same for fairfield, san jose at 31 and sap fran not as cold but chilly in the lower 40s. pressure has been in command of our weather producing a dry december. remember the first week we had dry conditions, second week, dry, a couple light showers on the 11th, 12th and also the 15th. but the past weekend has been dry. maybe a few changes into next week. but for this weekend, holiday weekend, no rain clouds. morning frost out there. bundle up for the morning hours and fair skies, the temperatures on track with the afternoon readings. it is back up into the upper 50s to 60s. here we go for your saturday. clear and cold. the freeze warning in place. plenty of sunshine, though in the afternoon hours, temperatures most areas for the afternoon coming up a few degrees from today's highs. that will translate into a few more low 60s towards santa rose a oakland, 59, san jose, 61 and morgan hill both in the lower 60s right around 62. these temperatures will check in at three clock tomorrow afternoon. here is a look ahead with your holiday weekend view. look at what happies for chris

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love hard work in a of these years and of sap the disappointment of the last olympics so it would mean absolutely everything for me to you know bring everything together and get gold medal you know the team who have been around me in sheffield and supported me for a number of years it be great to come home and you know with that madeline really thank them and start. russia hit fourteen goals without reply against the latvians the under twenty's world championships going on in calgary at the moment russian skipper give gainey his nets off the start of form with a hat trick and six assists six assists. in a row them for the russians after victories over switzerland answer back here in our league group a and are assured of a place in the last eight. now one of benton twenty eleven the world of hockey will never forget is the tragic disaster that killed the entire locomotive yaroslav all taking the club currently rebuilding and intend to compete in the next season we wish them every success and this the year draws to an end we would like to see. a final tribute. and that is all the sport f

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i realize i'm a sap, but come on. >>> tax cut gridlock. while senators bicker, millions of americans face money lost from their paycheck. >>> speaking out -- ginger white opens up about her alleged affair with herman cain in an msnbc exclusive. >>> and cheating death -- amateur video captures a horrific crash at a stunt show in brazil. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm lynn berry, those stories and more straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> and we begin this morning with double vision. late last night, the senate rejected dueling partisan plans on a payroll tax break that could have a big impact in the nation's fragile economy. all because lawmakers on both sides have differing ideas of how to pay for it. nbc's tracie potts joins with us more. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning, democrats want to tax millionaires, republicans want to cut the pay of federal workers. neither of those plans passed the senate last night. the democratic plan came nine votes short of what it needed to move forward. only 20 senators voted for

. >> a lot of sap in here. >> reporter: so, with saws in hand, family after family trekked out north of boston in search of the right one. 8-year-old shawn buckner and his parents janie and john are convinced they found theirs. >> that's a pretty tree, huh? >> reporter: they wouldn't trade the outing for the convenience of buying on the web. >> timber! >> who could say what that magic element is? i wanted my son to grab the other end of the saw when we were cutting this tree. you can't do that online. >> the online experience is never going to hold a candle to the real-live activity of coming out and cutting your own tree. >> this one can go here. >> reporter: whether found online or spotted down a line of green, these holiday tree huggers can agree on one thing -- at least it's not fake. ron mott, nbc news, beverly, massachusetts. >> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" then right back here tomorrow evening. and there's our christmas tree. tomorrow evening. and there's our christmas tree. have

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with individuals so with entire states if you become dependent on subsidies from somewhere else that saps your enterprise you start perfectly rationally early ranging your affairs around qualifying for the grounds instead of creating wealth and this is the tragedy of the recipient countries the best and brightest people in those countries the entrepreneurs the people who could have done so much making things inventing things selling things creating businesses in their home states because nothing can compete with the advantages of being on the e.u. payroll they all start gravitating towards either directly the brussels bureaucracy or in directly becoming contractors or consultants dependent on loans we in the contributor countries grumble about it but the real pain is felt in the recipient countries and one of the recently approved budget. as for the acquisition of new buildings for the european parliament for example do you think the spending is justified and necessary i mean you know how crazy at a time like this when everybody i mean you know in every member state people are looking at

they want to drag on so it saps mitt romney's strength and drains his coffers. >> schieffer: but barack obama has his work cut out for him, whoever the nominee is. >> he absolutely does. one of the dangers you hear from some democrats is they want this to be a long, bloody struggle so the nominee is ultimately damaged. but one of the things that newt gingrich may be able to do is talk about the president and his failures in an articulate way that a lot of people can watch. he's essentially a long string of attacks on the president. and the president's approval rating in our latest poll is at 44%; 33% on the economy. that's his lowest number ever. people think the country is going in the wrong direction. that number 44 on approval usually the strategists say that the president's approval rating has to be at about 50 to get re-elected. so, he's got a lot of work to do there. >> these numbers are like a ball and chain for the president. i think they acknowledge that. the larger contours of this race are very difficult for president obama because two thirds of americans don't think he's don

. >> the sapped will always -- the sand is easy to come by. >> i wouldn't suggest a litter box. >> we have an instant container here. that little pot is not fancy. >> now you have taken your summer container and made it fresh. >> how cool. >> you might have one of these around the house. >> nothing fancy. >> they are all over the place. very available. >> we are going to put them on for fun right now. these go out into your yard. >> inside there. a lot of times, if you don't have holly, you can go to a craft store. you can get something there to give you a little color. >> a few little pine cones. we're cheating now. >> you can also take the pine cones and a limb doled cold spray on it and paint them. and then like a natural ornament of sorts. >> we kind of put these in here like this. string some lights in there if you want. >> great idea. >> your house will look beautiful this year. next week we will be back with more on your "sunday gardener." thank you for joining us, carrie. we'll see you next sunday. >> if you have a question send it to p "sunday gardener" at 3800 hooper avenue,

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