>> stephen: you're right, the newsroom's charlie skinner. now, if you'll excuse me, there's something i have to do. we end our this part of the show with a correction. in our report tonight, a man named poncho denews claimed he was a "60 minutes" intern and we believed him because he had an i.d. lanyard. (laughter) following the report, the "washington post", the "new york times," and the "tv guide" all reported that he was actually the actor sam waterston star of -- "the plastic dome of norma jean." (cheers and applause) look it up. look it up. we checked with our sources at imdb and it turns out we made a mistake. we should not have used him in our report and for that we're very sorry. the most important thing to everyone here at the "the colbert report" is the truth, and the truth is, it's somebody else's fault. (laughter) we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) ??] (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody! thanks so much, folks. you know as a veteran political journalist i have covered every big contest in the l

assemblywoman nancy skinner (clapping) >> good afternoon distinguished guests officials, elected and others and my constituents. it is a wonderful day and i'll i'm so thrilled to be here. i want to thank mayor brown and, of course, other senators that - and the other officials who figure out so hard to make that a beautiful world-class structure that rivals the golden gate bridge. as a san franciscan native i can say that. i feel like i've come full circle as my father and grandfather we deserve the whole bay as he does the world-class bridge. now we're standing in my colleagues district who is from district 18 and allow me to introduce my other colleagues - apologizes assembly members himself mark levine the tenth district and assemblyman from the 22 district and from the 19 and assembly member from the 25th (clapping) >> now mayor brown made a very i think prospective statement when he talked about the bay area wanted a bridge that expresses the daring the human innut and symbols the splendor of oakland and the ante bay. as the other speakers who stood before you this is what we're

think my colleagues have pretty much covered it so i don't have any other questions i share the skinners that have been raised and i welcome the dialog around the issues and i'm happy to support a renewal of charter. let's have a roll call for the invitation >> (calling names) that's unanimous. congratulations (clapping.) okay. we will move on to item i board member proposals there are none. item j request to speak no one is signed up. item k advisory committee reports. so we're going to hear from the indian education advisory committee. yes. do you want to say something as you are exiting keep our voices down we're going to continue on to our meeting. >> you're welcome to stay for the indian advisory report. they have some interesting information they can share with you. >> proceed when you're ready ladies and gentlemen - ladies and gentlemenladies and gentlemen - as you commissioners, i want to let you know there's a power point with this presentation. >> good evening board. 50i78 ranch he will i'm the parents advisory chair. i want to introduce you to everyone that's here kevin chavez

it's my pleasure to introduce assemblywoman nancy skinner (clapping) >> good afternoon distinguished guests officials, elected and others and my constituents. it is a wonderful day and i'll i'm so thrilled to be here. i want to thank mayor brown and, of course, other senators that - and the other officials who figure out so hard to make that a beautiful world-class structure that rivals the golden gate bridge. as a san franciscan native i can say that.

the earlier start meant shorter time at the skinner table. jennifer glass has the story. >> the christmas shopping season is shorter this year because thanksgiving falls so late in november. so some shoppers and retailers are happy to get an early stamp for several years retail erts have been intruding on the thanksgiving holiday. it was a first for big-named like j.c. penney coles and macy's. >> shoppers are pouring in as the shopping season begins. across the shopping the shopping started before the turkey was in the oven. some kmarts opened at 6am. bargain electronics was the best buy. >> what are you shopping for? >> i don't know. nothing in particular. >> moose munch and cashews. >> not everyone was convinced the early start was a good thing. >> it should be a time with friends and family. i know it's a competition in other markets or other stores are open, so they have to compete as well. it's business. >> i mean, it feels odd. it doesn't feel like thanksgiving. >> i think i would rather ret the employees have the night off. given that

police arrested skinner at a nearby ymca after linking him to all three assaults. >>> sky seven shows where a hit and run driver collided with three other vehicles near hillsborough. it started when a toyota fore runner hit two vehicles stopped along the shoulder of southbound 280. saying the driver then ran from the scene and has not been found. five people including two small children went to the hospital. they're all expected to be okay. >>> this is just terrible. someone stole 19 lap tops from computers in a san jose school. they took some cash. the students raised to buy a class pet. the school faculty member discovered the theft tuesday lap tops taken from a storage room inside of the bird avenue campus a jar with $30 cash was also taken. officials think it happened over the weekend. there were no obvious signs of a break in according to police. >> president obama offered a fix to keep millions of americans from having their health insurance cancelled by the end of the year. mr. obama says insurance companies will be allowed to keep customers on existing plans for another year,

. >>> and police say michael skinner was arrested last saturday night. investigators say he groped a woman on telegraph heavy. about 25 minutes later they say he grabbed another woman and through her to the ground on bank croft near oxford then attacked a 3rd woman about 20 minutes after that. the santa clara sheriff's office released this sketch today resembling the suspect at diaanza college. the man who may be known as johnny assaulted a 19-year-old student last week in cupertino. the victim told investigators she believes he is a student but says he wasn't someone she knew well. >>> happening now a group of five bay area nurses is headed to the philippines after last week's typhoon. maria gutierrez is one of them. we a call the up with her as she packed up to leave part of registered response network. they plan to meet with filipino healthcare workers in manila and head to the disaster zone. the death toll is 2,300. it had risen to more than 4,400. dozens of family ares areies are setting up shelters on in stadium seats and on the court. submit 600,0

. >> more for let's bring in dean baker and curtis skinner and he is the directo director of the c security program. we saw the american dream seems to be cut off from a major segment of the population. it's not the inner city poverty we are used to seeing but we are seeing it outside of the major urban areas and suburbs. >> chester , pennsylvania i went to school near there. and it's an area that has long been victimized. >> the ongoing store of the economic downturn. we are far from being recoughed from it. w recovered from it. the economy is better at the trough in 2009 and 2010. we have populations that have been hard hit for loc long peris of time but that has been impacted by the economic downturn whichs don which doesny sign of going away if any time soon. if you luke a look at the numbee are at the same playing we were in the recession in the 90s and the 80s. >> it's considerably worse. when we look at child poverty. the child poverty rates are high. thethe child poverty rate was dn to 16% in 2000. it's a historically high rate. it's the same for people and we are at 15% rate. that

back and look at the process not just the bank set up your science speculations occasionally for skinner it was would have to mean rotten bank she for that could not and so it was not done for the benefit of the irish people thought they were in billion euro they had nothing to back this just as tacit in jail yet they were shouting and these are soaring irish i was looking at the tower trust through the river here and we badly need something like that and i don't know just enough to short people into because although many will decide it's simple yet energia these days if it was in china he would have been beheaded erratic because he's a naturally i would mean the area but that's just another charge of legal precedence that unfortunately china seems to be more up to speed other stuff but now you're having success well what we're witnessing i managed to get this group together i mean you know in a way i suppose it's a microcosm of what we've been trying to do because we've gotten every branch of the of political toss united behind us one thing because for three sets of the very beginning h

let's bring in dean baker, the co-director of the center for economic and policy research, and curtis skinners the director of family and economic university program at columbia commufrty. dean, as we saw the american dream seems cut off from a major segment of the population, it's not just inner city poverty, but we are seeing this in cities suburbs. >> chester pennsylvania, i went to school there. they have been hit by that for a long time. it's an area long victimized. part of the story is remnants - the ongoing story of the economic downturn. we are far from recovered from it. we saw the hit in 2008. the economy was better than in 2009/2010. we still have high unemployment, wages have gone nowhere, so we have populations that are hard-hit for long periods of time. it's been amplified by the knolent of the economic downturn which doesn't show a sign of having gone away. >> is it worse now than in the past. if you look at the numbers from a pure percentage standpoint. it seems we are at the same numbers as we were when we hit the recession in the early "90s and the '80s. >> in terms of chil

berkeley democrat nancy skinner sponsored assembly bill 933 called taste california act. >> this is nothat is using california products and california based, but, they're hiring californians. these are california jobs. >> he says tasting is essential to marketing unique beverages he and others create. >> when people come and taste it and they see how we make it. it makes a big difference. just makes it more personal. >> reporter: starting january 1st distillers can charge for tastings but can't sell bottle prod ducts at the facilities. >> maybe it wasn't everything hoped for but still a huge success i'm here to celebrate progress made. >> just this light fruity aroma. >> reporter: distillers and supporters hope it doesn't take another 80 years to make more changes to the decades-old law. in alameda, laura anthony abc7 news. >> seven score and ten years ago abraham lincoln delivered the gettysburg address. >> marking the 150th anniversary of the speech, it was about two minutes long. >> made during the dedication of the soldier's national cemetery, calling on people of the north to redou

john skinner said all 30 teams plan to screen every fan in all ball parks although some aspects of the screening will be left up to the individual teams. >>> defending champion st. louis cardinals and david frieze to the los angeles angels in exchange peter bo rgous. the angels also received reliever fernando salas while the cardinals pick up randal grichuk. more moves will be orchestrated before we get to spring traini training. >> hot stove. >> that's what they call it, well-rounded anchor. >> when we come back rebecca stevenson will have the weather forecast, including an ice storm hitting the south. >> reporter: coming up on "real money," the hubs for hiring and jobs open right now. plus trouble at toys r us, there is a lot riding on this season and that's only part of the story. all that on "real money." >> and now, a techknow minute... >> meteorologist: heading towards the halladay this weekend, and we've got weather to talk about. we have areas of freezing rain, freezing drizzle, some icy spots. we're seeing most of our light snow not a lot accumulations, tracking through colora

berkeley democrat skinner sponsored assembly bill 9 33. now called the taste california act. >> this is not an industry that is using california products and is california based but they are hiring californians. these are california jobs. >>reporter: she owns 6 month old south spirits in richmond. he says tasting is essential to marketing the unique adult benches he and others create. >> when people come and taste it and they see how we make the it, it makes a big difference. makes it more personal. >>reporter: starting january 1st they can charge for tasting but the law stops there. they still can't sell the bottle product at the facility. >> maybe it wasn't everything that was hoped for but it was still a huge success so here to celebrate success and progress made. >> initial thing with the pair is the late generally fruit aroma. >>reporter: distiller and supporters hope it doesn't take another 80 years to make more changes to the decade old law. in alameda, laura anthony abc 7 news. >> well get ready. california vehicle license fee may

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but when mirabeau lamar and angles for skinner what they saw was a wilderness that they couldn't live in unless they implemented a major transformation of the landscape. that took several generations, but initially that meant building billions that were used to live in, laying out streets, building roads that we could travel on safely and in creating farms so we would have a. and what's interesting in reading a lot of the letters and diaries of these people from that era, the angles, is that they recognized what a beautiful, pristine wilderness, as they put it, this was while at the same time they wrote about the inevitable passing of the wilderness, that they would have to essentially destroy what they were coming on so they could make it a hospitable place for them to live in. it was a very dangerous place for a number of years. that was one of the big reasons in houston opposed putting the seat of government that it was because of the fear of it in the attack and attack from mexico. there were numerous incursions by the indians, mostly the comanche right into the heart of austin. t

governor jerry brown recently signed a bill by assemblywoman nancy skinner allowing distillers to charge for tasting for the first time. the law takes effect january 1st. >> the same way you go to a winery and pay 10 bucks and taste five, six wines, we want to do the same thing for distillers. >> reporter: distillers say it's a good first step, they're disappointed the state won't allow them to directly sell bottled booze to the public like wineries. >> california arguably being the most liberal state in the union is actually on par with states like mississippi and alaska in terms of distilled spirits law. >> reporter: for now, customers will be able to pay a small fee to taste. >> we don't want people violating the law with the products but want to get them in front of people. that's what it's all about. >> reporter: joe rosato jr., nbc bay area news. >>> time to check on the rain making its way to the bay area, how long it's going to stick around. >> a team of meteorologists. rob mayeda in san jose with the science behind the storm. we begin with jeff ranieri. >> the storm system is ad

on behalf of the government and under skinner you are compelled to do it and stowngt fourth amendment concern. the fourth amendment issues are quite significant that have to be addressed. then there's also an an elephant in the room which we haven't addressed yet which is yesterday morning headline. which is the nsa collecting information on industry as well. private information. i think there is a healthy level of mistrust between industry and the government and the idea that information sharing could somehow take place in a siloed universe where nothing wrong would be done without exposing them to liability or hurting them in some way occurs. i think it ignores the considerable concern that was certainly yahoo!, googling with and others are expressing right now information sharing with the government. i was talking to one of the people responsible for these. and i said, what is the legal thing you do? and he said we try to do it under title 10. if a problem we go it under title 50. we don't have a problem carrying out offensive operations nap said, there's no such thing as cyber det

entity to collect information and deferred it to the government on behalf of the government, under skinner that becomes an agent of the government. you're subject to fourth amendment concerns. fourth amendment issues actually are significant. then there is an elephant in the room which was yesterday's morning headlines. the nsa is collecting information on industry as well, private information. i think there is a healthy level of mistrust between industry and the government, and the idea information sharing could somehow take place in a siloed universe where nothing wrong would ever be done with that information. exposing the companies to liability or exposing them in some way would occur. i think this ignores the considerable concern that certainly yahoo, google and others are expressing right now about information sharing with the government. >> the one thing i'd add to that is i don't think we have a problem in offensive operations. we carried out offensive operations. what is wrong with these snowden people? why haven't they published it yet? we have carried out offensive operations. s