schmidt's received overwhelming support to succeed him. his chops the ship sail and tight end times. student protests in bomb attacks by the left wing militant group the red army faction. then came schmidt's biggest challenge the hijacking of tons of sites one eight one. his risky decision to storm began

schmidt's received overwhelming support to succeed him. his chops the ship sail and tight end times. student protests in bomb attacks by the left wing militant group the red army faction. then came schmidt's biggest challenge the hijacking of tons of sites one eight one. his risky decision to storm began croft paid off and all the passengers were rescued i'm off to his two towns is constant. schmidt enjoyed a second career as a publisher of the gem and we keep it tight. the ninety five year old still makes ranking of appearances to his will to balance his mind is as vigorous as ever. he remains one of the greats political star is his fault that day here in berlin. it is beginning to feel a lot like christmas around the world many christian worsh celebrate a holiday in two thousand will also make the pilgrimage to bath and then the holy land which the bible says was the birthplace of christ. and on the lining of the christianity is all is as fully as churches which is currently undergoing restoration. this is my champion chang's new workpla

eric schmidt gave bloomberg his predictions. >> i am eric schmidt. biggest change for consumers is going to be that everyone will have a smartphone and the fact that so many people are connected to a supercomputer means a whole new generation of applications around entertainment, education, those kinds of things. the trend has been that mobile is winning and it has now won. people are moving to this new architecture very fast. the ability to find people, talk specifically to them, judge them, rank what they are doing, it changes every business globally. the biggest disruption that we do not know what will happen is in the genetics area. the ability to have personal genetics records and the ability to gather all of the gene sequencing. at google, the biggest mistake i made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon. not a mistake that we will make again. we were busy working on many other things, but we should have been in that area and i take responsibility for that. google benefits from transitions from traditional industries

better toead who predict than google posses eric schmidt.e will hear what he thinks will shape the coming year in tech on "bloomberg west." ♪ >> the new york times reports the president is working his way through breaking bad, the amc hit. he is also making his way through homeland and madmen and remains a fan of espn sports center and abc posses modern family. google is in the headlines this year. devices like google glass is gaining mainstream attention. eric schmidt gave bloomberg his predations. take a listen. class i am the executive chairman of google. the biggest change for consumers is everyone will have a art phone and the fact so many to ae are connected supercomputer means a whole new application, around entertainment, education, social life, and those things. the trend has been mobile is winning. it is now one. more tablets than computers are sold. people are moving to the new architecture very fast. the biggest of structural we are machineut is intelligence. to find people and talk it changesy to them. every business globally. t

the correct answer is "about schmidt." >> yes. jack nicholson, we love him. he has found his calling to be a poster child on how to be really cool as you get older. like "the bucket list," it's all about living your best life after 50. he gets it. >> back across to kath. >> celebrating her birthday today here from indiana. indianapolis, i think she said. what is the current average age of retirement in america? 57, 59, 61 or 63? >> 61. >> i think that's right. >> 61. >> yeah, good job. ten years ago, it was 59. it really is climbing steadily up, according to aarp. a lot of americans are pushing retiring further and further away. >> sure. >> that's one of the big reasons why aarp dropped retire from its name officially a few years ago. there's a big trend happening in america. people are retiring from their first jobs and going into their second and sometimes third, like i did. >> excellent. back across to kath. >> you're from birmingham, right? >> yes, ma'am. >> which of these musical acts has never signaled their intention to retire with a "farewell" tour? >

in washington, i am emily schmidt. >> coming up san jose police say a quick acting security guard helped them arrest a driver accused of ramming into a police car and running away. >>> also a controversial new decision today from the obama administration. we will tell you about the legislation that allows a national bird to be killed. we will be right back. >>> welcome back to the ktvu news at noon and a missing teenager was found this morning in southern california and airlifted to safety by a los angeles sheriff's department helicopter. 19-year-old boric him got lost yesterday and had fall in down a ravine while hiking in the san gabriel mountains near pasadena. according to police kim was suicidal over a recent break up, she was alert however her condition is unknown. >>> a san jose police officer is recovering after his squad car was rear ended this morning. the guy who hit him tried to run but thanks to a near by hotel security guard he is now in custody. janine de la vega tells us how it all unfolded. >> reporter: this san jose police car is out of commission now after being smashe

marty erat feeds 22-year-old nate schmidt, that's his first nhl goal ever. another look.the puck up. that one is a keeper for the kid. 4-1 caps lead it. but there's more. the third period. mikaele ga brof ski leads it -- the caps win 5-2. what's the biggest difference tonight when it comes to scoring pucks? >> i think we were getting a little too fancy. we're looking for that perfect tap-in, back door play. we talked before the game, just get pucks to the net and crash and get some rebounds and try to get a greasy ones. it worked. >> we've been behind a lot lately. it was good to have the lead and go through it the rest of the game and play good defensively. >> it's a product of we all worked hard to get the puck and we got rewarded tonight for it. face-offs are so important. i haven't thought it was one of our strengths this year. it was good to see a good game. >> good to see nate schmidt score his first career nhl goal. no time to rest for the capitals. they're on the ice tomorrow against the rangers. >>> moving on to college basketball. virginia head coach tony bennet

my name is brenda schmidt. receipt of this letter, i will have already lost my battle to ovarian cancer. >> reporter: the letter was dated august 3, 2011. brenda passed away less than for months after she wrote it. but she had given this note to a friend with instructions on when to mail it. >> i told her once my loving husband david had moved on in his life and had met someone, to share his life with again, to mail this letter to all of you at the station. >> reporter: david recently met and fell in love with jayne abraham. he proposed to her this september. brenda had three wishes for the family she left behind. their four sons as well as the new family david was starting. >> i was hoping that one small act you could all do for me could change and help their lives forever and they know i am with them always. >> reporter: first, a weekend of pampering for david's new partner. >> make cher smile -- make her smile and know her efforts are truly appreciated from pep. perseverance will prevail. thank you. i love y

as we move through this for the third election cycle in a row. >> crystal ball, steve schmidt.nk you for joining me to night. >> thank you, lawrence. >> you bet. >> coming up at nelson mandela's memorial, president obama did a perfectly reasonable thing, other presidents have done in the situation. did something that presidents and politicians have done many times through the years. shook hands with some one whose policies he does not like. and of course, republicans went crazy. that's next. i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well-fitting dentures let in food particles. super poligrip is zinc free. with just a few dabs, it's clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. a lot of things going on in my life and the last thing i want to be thinking about is my dentures. [ charlie ] try zinc free super poligrip. where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure t

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derek schmidt, marissa mayer, and other execs sit down with barack obama to discuss surveillance and what wrong with healthcare.gov. facebook is rolling out video ads in some newsfeeds as part of an effort to convince advertisers that the social network can be more effective than television. and uber faces some angry customers after prices surge during a snowstorm. some of the biggest names in technology were at the white house today, telling president obama about their views on hot button issues full among those in attendance, apple ceo tim cook, yahoo! ceo marissa mayer, sheryl sandberg, reed hastings and dick costolo. they sent a letter to the white house and congress, urging them to reform surveillance practices. and a day after a judge says that the nsa collection of phone records is probably unconstitutional. phil mattingly joins us from washington. i am dying to know what happened at this meeting. what happened? >> it was almost all about surveillance. about two hours long. these executives met with the president. the key points were what came out in a joint statement last wee

rho bebto schmidt. a lot has been made -- mrs.ooks rather solemn while her husband is snapping the selfie. is that what you saw? >> she was, you know, talking with cameron, and with the danish prime minister. they were all together in a group and they were talking. michelle obama just minutes before this happened was having a long conversation with cameron, but they were talking with cameron all in a group. so, yeah, the fact that she's kind of looking furious in the picture, i think she just wasn't involved with that moment, but i don't think it says more than anything -- >> but she wasn't furious based on what you saw. she was in a good mood, the camera just caught her and give a misleading impression? >> absolutely. i really think, you know, what people are making out of her reaction is just misleading, absolutely. but listen, i don't know whether she was serious, mad, jealous or whatever, that's a question that you guys maybe should ask her. i cannot say. >> right, of course. sudden wrote an entry on the afp's behind the news

you have to be erik schmidt to do this. the most junior person in the brown mayor female can enter up and say i would like to hear what she is saying. that is a power move and something that will get everyone's great respect. the thesis of sub five is if we understand the stereotypes and call them out we can change them. >> and the book you talk about the situation in education and you point out that what has now become clear is we have a crisis of men and not women in the educational system. roughly speaking and these are broad generalizations, female performance in math and science on a broad basis is roughly equal that of men. it's higher than verbal and math skills for women and again there are always exceptions. 59% of women are now completing college. what has happened. when these women graduate from college so we are producing extraordinary talented women to introduce the workplace what happens to them? are the men holding them down or are they being discriminated against? are they failing to act? how would you descr

a long way to come for the rich and powerful, but you'll run into billionaire george soros; eric schmidt, the guy who runs google; nobel prize winners; captains of industry; kings; and even a queen. >> lot of the work is done just sitting in the cafeteria in the congress hall and just seeing people pass by and discussing things. >> the queen hangs out in the cafeteria? >> i enjoy hanging out in the cafeteria. i'm gonna do it this afternoon, actually. it's fun. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. in this episode, we'll look at the yin and yang of international investment. first, a 2008 report on an american company in serious trouble in colombia, a country that was just beginning to emerge from the throes of civil war and narcoterrorism. chiquita brands international, of cincinnati, ohio, made millions growing bananas there, only to emerge with its reputation splattered in blood after acknowledging that it had paid nearly $2 million in protection money to a murderous paramilitary group that has killed or massacred thousands of people. when we first reported this story, it b

my name is brenda schmidt. when you are in receipt of this letter, i will have already lost my battle to ovarian cancer. >> reporter: the letter was dated august 3, 2011. brenda passed away less than two months after she wrote it. but brenda had given this note to a friend with instructions on when to mail it. >> i told her once my loving husband david had moved on in his life and had met someone to share his life with again, to mail this letter to all of you at the station. >> reporter: david recently met and fell in love with jane abraham. he proposed to her this september. brenda had three wishes for the family she left behind. their four sons as well as the new family david was starting. >> i was hoping that one small act you could all do for me could change and help their lives forever and they know i am with them always. >> reporter: first, a weekend of pampering for david's new partner. >> make her smile and know her efforts are truly appreciated from me. perseverance will prevail. thank you. i love you,

>> we'll see. >> steve schmidt, the guy can't even take the question seriously.ublicans in the house would vote on anything involving health care from their side, an idea from their side. >> it's interesting, one of the founders of the democratic leadership council out with a book today that charts bill clinton's rise to power. when you look at bill clinton coming to power after three disastrous elections where the democratic party was viewed as unelectable by a lot of the country, it was fueled by ideas, by platform, by a vision of where to lead to reinvent the party. and you see the great deficit in those remarks by the speaker that the congressional wing of the republican party has in the eyes of the american people, absolutely bereft of ideas. i'm not a fan of the affordable care act, but my party has no solutions to deal with what's a real issue. no working person in this country, for example, should lose their house, go bankrupt, because their kid breaks their leg or their spouse gets leukemia, so republicans, who were once the party of ideas, during the re

after his two terms as chancellor, and enjoyed helmut schmidt.e still makes regular public appearances. he's wheelchair-bound. his mind is as vigorous as ever. he remains one of the great political authorities of the day. >> here in berlin, it is beginning to feel like a lot like xmas. and around the world, many christian workers are getting ready to celebrate the holiday. they're traveling to the holy land which the bible says was the birthplace of cries. they will be lined up to see christianity's oldest and holiest of churches which is currently undergoing restoration. >> this is the new workplace. the roof of the church of nativity in bethlehem. they are testing be beings that have supported the church for centries. the elements have taken a heavy toll. >> we are trying to replace only the parts which will not withstand the load anymore. we want to leave the structure as close as we can to the way it was before. we use wood that we found in italy, the same age as they would here and with the same characteristics. >> the family has been involv

now, the group includes apple ceo tim cook, google's eric schmidt and yahoo!'s marissa meyer. >>> toys "r" us plans to keep stores open 24/7. shoppers can also buy items online and pick them up in stores within an hour. >>> and the national retail federation says nearly half of holiday shoppers plan to wrap up their list online. about 32 million people haven't even started shopping. 10% will wait until christmas eve. richard? >> i'm part of the 50%. i admit it. thank you, seema. >>> just ahead, paul mccartney is in our sports coverage including the man who put the foot into monday night football next. >>> in a desperate bid to find out how much intel snowden took, nsa officials recently floated the idea of offering edward snowden amnesty. i'd take the deal, ed. just come back with all the intel and all is forgiven. i tell you what. to make you feel safe, we'll meet you in a special amnesty zone. >> don't take the feed. >>> in sports, "monday night football" was low scoring but certainly not boring. ravens at lions. take it to the fourth quarter. lions trailing

schmidt here? laura stillman. theresa oberzero. >> good afternoon. >> i'm on a different matter, which is the j church stop, but i'm really appreciative of all of these folks and their points, and i won't repeat them. a very, very steep hill and if our stop were eliminated, liberty street. if you walk in one direction, you have to go up-and-down and up in the other direction you have to go down and then up a very, very steep hill. so it's the same thing. we have a lot of elderly people in our area. and people who rely on it to get to work everyday. i really prefer to take the muni to several places going anywhere downtown, but for me, if i have to carry stuff up, it's a little bit of an effort to get up that steep hill and i would just as soon use the car. there is one other thing that hasn't been mentioned that is particular to our area and that is a few years ago there was a real problem with the screeching of the jay church and it was mitigated by passing a law that they could only go 3 miles per hour. now they

you know, just trust us like president obama and eric schmidt of google who was a big obama campaign donor, who worked with the president and clearly is aligned with the president idea logically, we're supposed to just trust them and when they tell us they're protecting us, it's all good, just like james clapper was honest with the u.s. congress. >> and these people and this industry made barack obama. they are his political patrons. he used their technology and their devices to advance through politics. he is of them, they are of him, and for this president, who now this sort of moment is that the joke is on the electorate, you get this punch line moment. you saw the story and talked about it over the weekend in "the washington post" oh, yeah, we delayed and moved a bunch of stuff so that we could get re-elected and now we're re-elected, we're laying it down. obamacare is the rube rick for all of it. people see how that fits in it but it all becomes a part. when the president i'm looking out for you, i don't think americans will believe that anymore. >> you raise a good point. who w

british prime minister posed and smiled alongside >> catherine: the danish leader - helle thorning- schmidtw - some people are saying it was disrespectful. some of the photos suggest michelle obama was particularly unamused. >> catherine: some reporters are describing the danish leader as "flirty" with the president. saying mrs. obama seemed unhappy about it. the photographer who took the photos says that's not true -- and she'd been laughing moments earlier. >> catherine: photos reportedly shows mrs. obama ending the fun and 'between' her husband and the danish leader.. >> catherine: coming up at 6 - does 'selfie-gate' have any political implications for the president? we'll be talking about that. >> pam: the obama administration says the pace of the health insurance signups picked up last month. the new national total of close to 365-thousand people is less than one third the number officials had been aiming for. >> pam: >> pam: a report from the health and human services department says that more than 137- states. that number is up from fewer than 27-thousand in october. >> pam: 14 state

. >> but that was not always the theory because after reading long tail eric schmidt famously said, youean by long tail. >> so long tail, the dwrd thereñr is that in the oldÑs@6h& worldçó, there was onlyÑi a limited amount of products thatwvu&d air. >> right. >> or would make it into retail outlets. and the idea is that because of the internet theçó barriers of entry are lower,Ñi and0 a far larger assortment. so the long tail is$p wasn't room, inÑi traditionalÑió storesÑi but for which thereÑi is room in on-line channels. so all videos on youtube that don't make it on television, or all singles in the i toouns store that wouldn't have been carried by a traditional retailer in that space, that's the long tail. >> this is what eric said after saying that the long tail is absolutely the place to be, i would like to tell you that the internetÑçó is great, that the long tail is absolutely the place to be, that there is so much differentiation there is so much diversity, so many new voices, unfortunately heñr says that is notÑi the case. >> right. >> so what happened to call eric schmidt to c

for instance, i remember that in germany helmuut schmidt was quite being against this, he felt that the way to bring change was to work with the communists, brzezinskbeing breznev and others. we were criticized to some measure, by people who disagreed with us. but we had an expression that i made when i was sin was inaugurated. >> a lot of the changes we are seeing now mirror some of the things we are seeing in the american south. how did that inform any of your thinking? >> i grew.in a community called archery, about two and a half miles west of plains, georgia. and there were 50 black families there and two white families. my father's family and the family that took care of the railroad. all my play mates were black kids. all my field workers were black children. my mother was a registered nurse and she was gone a lot and i was raised by african american women. as i grew older and ran for the state senate and ran for governor, i saw the devastating impact of racial discrimination on not only my black neighbors' lives but also the white peep's lives in my -- people answer likes of in m

google's eric schmidt and cheryl sandberg, to name a few. there will be several more.erestingly, this meeting was originally scheduled to discuss healthcare.gov. however, those plans changed on monday after a federal judge ruled that the nsa's practice of collecting americans' personal information is unconstitutional. u.s. district judge, richard leon, stated, "i cannot imagine a more indiscriminate and arbitrary invasion than the systemic and high-tech celestial and retention of personal data." however, the nsa director said they do the surveillance to protect americans. >> the purpose of these programs and the reason we use secrecy is not to hide it from the american people. not to hide it from you. but to hide it from those who walk among you who are trying to kill you. >> now judge leon also questioned the very effectiveness of the program. terry, the judge noted the government, quote, does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the bulk data collection actually prevented any kind of attack. so if the surveillance efforts are even working, that is in quest

featuring president obama, british prime minister david cameron, and danish prime minister helen schmidt. i guess it was designed to be seen in just moments. our special correspondent charlayne gault is here, a veteran journalist that has been here for close to two decades. you had the distinguished task of covering this live. you kept saying it was a perfect african celebration. folks who tuned in all full-on celebration going on behind the speakers. what do you think it was that we witnessed here today? >> well, they mourn by celebrating because they believe the body has departed, but it has become an ancestor. so they go to the grave to talk to them, many of them are still attuned to that. it's a celebration of a life and a transition. and that's in the nature of how south africans approach the transition. >> and after all the talk and all the worry, it should be said this country pulled this off today. and that's important. it's been great having you charlayne hunter-gault. >> it's been great being here. >>> now to breaking news back home. there has been a deal announced on capitol h

here he is posing with prime minister's david cameron of the united kingdom and helle horning-schmidtf denmark at the memorial service for nelson mandela. and the photos seemed to fit right in with the spirit of the day. from soweto, here is mark phillips. >> reporter: the day was miserable, the people weren't. >> i came to cry and i think it's time to say thank you and let him go. >> reporter: gugu mbongwa is part of the soweto gospel choir whose trip to the service was fueled by song. the choir opened the main service, the voices of the once segregated township where mandela had lived and where so much of the liberation struggle was fought. this may have been a grand official state event, but for those who see nelson mandela as their liberator, such an important affair couldn't be left just to politicians. they danced their way into the national soccer stadium. and they sang and danced their way into many other venues around the country. they could have stayed at home-- warm and dry. but that wasn't the point. >> it's better for you to be around and for us to be together. >> reporte

. >> big ceos like eric schmidt hopes that outflow of people come here would like to start a company here and they cannot. they go back where they do have a great lifestyle if they want to go back to india or china or singapore and start a business. that is a problem for us. >> i am with you. i absolutely believe in the u.s. economy and, you know, capitalism. i think the big argument is how do we, you know, the republicans aren't going to say tax people more and let's redistribute it. how do you get those jobs? the president talks all the time. we have to create more jobs. republicans are on the senate floor and house floor saying we ought to concentrate on jobs. that is as far as it ever gets. >> how do you create those jobs? that's the question. also, how do people get by who have jobs, but don't earn enough to live comfortably? those are the right say get out of the way. those on the left say build a bigger safety net. it will only get louder and bigger as we head into the election year. >>> this man doesn't work in a plush silicon valley office. he works at home. he was what the

here to chat with us is meals on wheels executive director ashley mccum ber and michelle schmidt whoill grace the jazz center stage for a big benefit. welcome. >> thank you. >> you need help year d

in a rare interview, eric schmidt gives us his predictions for the new year. >> i'm eric schmidt, executiveirman of google. everyone is going to have a smart phone, and the fact that so many are connected to what is essentially a supercomputer means a whole new generation of applications. the trend has been that mobile was winning. it has now one. won.as now the arrival ofut big data and machine intelligence. find people and talk specifically to them, to rank what they are doing, to decide what to do with products, changes every business globally. the biggest construction that we don't know what is going to happen is probably in the genetics area. the ability to have personal genetics records and to start gathering gene sequencing will yield discoveries in cancer treatment and diagnostics over the next year that are unfathomably important. the biggest mistake i made it google was not anticipating a rise of the social networking phenomenon. in our defense, we were busy working on many other things, but we should have been in that area, and i take responsibility for that. google is very much

eric schmidt talks about the tech he is convinced will be making history in 2014. ♪ >> 2013 was a biggoogle. google glass was all the rage. in a rare interview, eric schmidt gives us his predictions for the new year. >> i am the executive chairman of google. the biggest change for consumers is everyone will have a smart phone. the fact that so many people are connected to a supercomputer means a whole new generation of applications around education, social life, those kinds of things. the trend has been that mobile was winning. it has now won. moving to this new architecture of very fast. biggest disruptor is machine intelligence, the ability to find people that talk specifically to them, that rank them. it changes every business globally. the biggest disruption we do not know what will happen is probably in the genetics area. the ability to have personal genetic records and to start gathering all the gene place wouldnto yield discoveries in cancer treatment and diagnostics. unfathomably important. at google, the biggest mistake i made was not anticipating the rise of the social netwo

the group includes tim cook, eric schmidt and marissa mayer. >>> plans to keep all stores open 24/7 from 6:00 a.m. saturday morning until 9:00 p.m. christmas eve. shoppers can buy items online and pick up in stores within an hour. terry, back over to you. >> so if you get the motivation at 3:00 in the morning, you can go right down and get that toy. >> there you go. >> you never know. a lot of people like to shop til they drop. >> uncle terry, the triplets are waiting. here's your chance. >> i'm buying for the triplets? >> of course. >> i better get shopping. >> all right. want to check the forecast now. meteorologist christina lorenz. >> what about today in the day divas. don't you forget about us. >> that's right. >> and we don't like no coal in our stocking, either. temperatures looking good. we like cubic zirconia. 74 degrees in santa cruz yesterday. these were new records. it was a really warm day for december. just nine days away from christmas yesterday. and to come in with numbers like this, very unusual. today not quite as nice. temperature wise. nonetheless, en seasonally mild.

website tomorrow, marisa mayer of\cheryl sanberg of facebook and google executive chairman, eric schmidt. >> americans have one more week to sign up for a new health insurance plan for those online exchanges. one more week, that is, if you want coverage to start january 1st and new numbers from federal and state authorities now point to a big surge in new members as we approached that deadline. bertha coombs has more. >>> from day one of open enrollment, the exchange has seen strong interest in affordable care act plans with more than 45,000 enrollments in the first two months and in the first two weeks of december, enroll ams in the new york state of health has more than doubled with more than 3300 people a day signing up for coverage and that's well ahead of projecti s projections. covered california has been signing up residents at a pace of 7100 a day, reporting more than 156,000 planned elections through the first week of december. that's 46% high are than the total for october and november. kentucky, the only southern state operating its own exchange saw its plan section number jum

for a photo with british prime minister david camm ron and day is in prime minister hellie thornton schmidtng up on "cbs this morning," a closer look at mary barra and how waiter mace be replaced by machines at your favorite restaurant. >>> and norah sit downs with award-winning clair a dense on her hit series "homeland." that's this "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner is mrs. linda m. macdonald >>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, december 11. i'm michelle griego. >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. nearly 4:30. it could be me, but i think it's getting a little warmer out there. >> just a bit. >> could you feel it? >> not asle cold, yeah, but we still have some chilly valleys. freeze warning up in the interior valleys down to the 20s but remember yesterday we were down to the low 20s? some improvement this morning. 30s and 40s around the bay. maybe 60s. that would be nice. >> black ice causing some spinouts. we already have a traffic alert this one in sa

self y featuring president obama, british prime minister cameron, and danish prime minister helle schmidt. i guess it was designed to be seen in just moments. our special correspondent helene gault is here, a veteran journalist that has been there for two decades, you had the distinguished job of covering it live. you kept saying it was an african celebration, what was it do you think we witnessed here today? well, that is in the culture of south africans, they mourn by celebrating because they believe that the body has departed, but it has become ancestor, and so they go to the grave to talk to them, many of them are still in tune to that culturally, so they hope to get wisdom from that. so it is a celebration of life and transition. and that is in the nature of how south africans approach the transition. >> and after all the talk and all the worry, it should be said this country pulled this off today. and that is important. it has been great having you here. >> thank you. >>> now to breaking news back home. there has been a deal announced on capitol hill in washington that will avoid an

the group includes apple ceo tim cook, and googles eric schmidt. the president wants to get their input on fixing the healthcare.gov web site along with ways to grow the economy and create jobs. >>> a huge winter storm back east could affect your travel plans today. this morning the storm is moving into new york city after battering cities in pennsylvania and several other states. the snow and ice has forced the cancellation of dozens of flights up and down the east coast and travelers flying in and out of bay area airports are urged to contact their airline before heading off to the airport this morning. >>> the window of a storeroom in castro valley had to be boarded up after a driver lost control and slammed into it. it happened at mearl's hallmark store last night. the store clerk said she could hear the car lose control before it hit the store. the driver was treated on the scene for minor injuries. >>> the fbi is asking for help to identify a bank robber being called the bad beard bandit. this man has hit at least five banks in northern calif