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. >>> plus republicans continue to attack the president with commercials about solyndra. we'll take a look coming up. >>> this is los angeles down in long beach. demonstrators trying to occupy the port again today. it's part of the all day push to occupy west coast ports. [ female announcer ] what would you call an ordinary breakfast pastry that's been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design? a toaster strudel. pillsbury toaster strudel. so delicious...so fun. pillsbury holiday star cookies start with pillsbury cookie dough easy. then add my own favorite frosting and sprinkles. just three ingredients to sweet memories. holiday ideas made easy. >>> welcome back, everybody. we give you a live look at the golden gate bridge. christina loren telling us, yes, it's cold out. there she'll keep you posted coming up. the time is 5:21. >>> this morning former dictator is back in his home country for the first time in decades. he covered his face as he was wheeled into the panama prison where he will serve two 20

both the taxpayer money was lost in the loans to solyndra. and then the department of energy, when it decided to pay back private investors first. they can attack the president on both of the issues. >> former solyndra employees will get career help at a workshop in san jose this morning. san jose's office of economic development is offering services to laid off solyndra workers on park more avenue. services include occupational training, networking and specialized recruitment. solyndra built a state of the art facility in fremont and took half a million dollars before laying off the workers and shutting down mons ago. as we have seen a rough start to the day outside. christina loren is telling us we're going to get better. >> we have showers coming down now. this will be the case for your mid-morning hours as well. and as we head through noon and beyond, really seeing the activity winding down. we have an area of low pressure centralized just offshore. as we head throughout the next couple of hours it's going to continue to push south. as it

republicans find another way to use failed bay area solar company solyndra against +e @ @ @ @ @ @  >>> let's take you back live to where i appears a handful of occupy protesters -- -- where it appears a handful of occupy protesters have returned near the west oakland bart station you see protesters and police. these are occupy folks blocking the intersection shun that is the starting point of their marches to the port today at the west oakland bart. city officials expect a news conference at the office of emergency services sometime after noon so please stay with abc7 news and get the latest on abc7news.com. >>> a lawyer for jerry sandusky says there are no plea talks underway. the former pennsylvania state assistant football coach is charged with more than 50 counts of child sexual abuse involving 10 boys he met through his children's charity. there are reports the key witness in the prosecution case may have changed his story for the grand jury. assistant coach mike mcqueary told the grand jury he saw sandusky raping a 10 year polled boy in a school shower in 2002. now a local pape

for former solyndra employees.efully they're going to get some of the help they need to find new jobs. that's the latest, back to you guys. >> okay, matt bigler, live for us, thanks very much. >>> time now is 6:41. well, we have all heard about cyber monday. but it is a big day for shoppers. we will tell you why, and what could be a big boost for our mi. >> mi -- our economy. >> the market opened just about 10 minutes ago. and the early numbers. not so good. a bummer monday so far. down 117 points. jason brooks will be along, live, in just a moment. we will chat with him about today's numbers. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the market a >>> happy monday to you, bay area. waking up to some wet conditions as you're stepping outside today. scattered showers throughout the bay area. and as we take a look at high def doppler, you can see some of the areas that are being hit right now. in fact, we will zoom in to hayward, union city area and you can see some of the light to moderate showers. a little bit of yellow showing up there

solyndra. forget solyndra. a poster child for success flaming out.ding green companies with tax dollarsanother name, everybody. coming up largest solar maker feeling the heat . america's with record high electric bills . at this hour we are awaiting comments from president obama on the senate passage of a one trillion dollar spending bill. it passed this morning on a working saturday and they passed a pay roll tax cut extension that covers the next two months. it heads over to the house for a vote. and violence exploding on the streets of egypt today. nine people have been kill would. they want to ruling military council to step down and hand over power to civilians. secretary of defense leon panetta sitting down in libya. the new libya prime minister, panetta said they are confident they are achieving a unified libya. much more on these and top stories and a interview with ann coulter. that is more coming up. stay with us. first half billion solyndra debacle and first solar. latest green energy country that is having trouble. they are warning that s

republicans find another way to use failed bay area solar company solyndra against president obama. ♪aking your way in the world today ♪ ♪ takes everything you've got ♪ wouldn't you like to get away? ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ ♪ you wanna be where you can see ♪ ♪ our troubles are all the same ♪ ♪ you want to go where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> let's take you back live to where i appears a handful of occupy protesters -- -- where it appears a handful of occupy protesters have returned near the west oakland bart station you see protesters and police. these are occupy folks blocking the intersection shun that is the starting point of their marches to the port today at the west oakland bart. city officials expect a news conference at the office of emergency services sometime after noon so please stay with abc7 news and get the latest on abc7news.com. >>> a lawyer for jerry sandusky says there are no plea talks underway. the former pennsylvania state assistant football coach is charged

solyndra, of course, built that state-of-the-art facility in oakmont and took federal funds before shut iting down complete last summer. >>> powerful political pact set to attack president obama and his relationship with solyndra. this week, the political action committee crossroads gps will release an ad similar to this one, that attacks the president's involvement with that failed company. it says it will spend at least $500,000 on this effort. >>> popular park in the south bay will not be shutting down after all this summer. henry coe state park was one of 70 state parks slated for closing because of budget cuts. a group of preservationists, including private citizens, raised the money to keep it open and operating for three years. it's the largest state park in california with more than 87,000 acres. >> this is a crucial week for california. we'll get the state's financial forecast. depending on the results, governor jerry brown may pull the trigger on more budget cuts. he will announce his team's forecast for the fiscal year on thursday. if revenues fall from $1 to $2 billion short

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solyndra's $528 million loan and the loan afterwards shows what is wrong with government. they want to wipe out clean energy to keep americans dependant on forel fuel -- fossil fuel. >>> now president obama and newer al -- all faleh hassan almaleki have decided to discuss energy commerce and education. >>> there could be backlash after they pulled all of their advertising from a muslim reality show. it followed several families living in michigan but an evangelical group said the show was propaganda and now they are demanding they apologize and reinstate the ads otherwise he is threatening to boycott lowe's. >>> they are likely to be the biggest in the 40 year history. that is twice the number it serves and biggest reason is increased shipping. >>> animal shelters are finding a special deal to help finds a home for pets. they say for every animal that leaves three more come in. right now there are 240 animals up for adoption and most have been brought here because their owners can no longer afford to keep them. >> obviously keeping a job in this economy is important so it

. >> a development agency is offering services to help former solyndra employees. and now, employees can get some help. >> we're inviting them into the system to access reemployment assistant services we have available. >> not only helps open up possible opportunities but it keeps spirits up. that is what we need this time of the year. >> solyndra, which manufactured solar panels closed doors in september. and in spite of the $535 million government loan, the company laid off 1100 workers. >> and falout from penn state is reaching california tonight. state lawmakers moving forward to force any organization to do more to protect children. >> while they're good laws, lawmakers say they're good enough when it comes to kid sports the charges sounded alarm on how coaches can, and sometime do, take advantage of the power. this is not hard to find similar cases just two weeks ago a jury convicted coach melvin fleming of using six high school basketball players in sexual videos and photos. one victims' mother says the abuse changed their lives forever. >> we make sure this

"solyndra." poster child for what is going to be a big discussion in our country, which is should the government or should it not be involved in picking winners and losers in the marketplace? crony capitalism, is it a problem? >> dana: what is your story of the year? >> bob: darrell issa is one of those people. my story is demise of the republican party. great party. two party country. a great party that has been halftimeed by -- >> kimberly: billionaires. >> bob: that, too. extremist right wingers calling themselves tea people. no different than the john burcher were in the '50s. what has happened now -- seriously. the republican party moved so far to the right, i hate to say this. i think you will see this as the year marking the beginning of the end of the republican party as we know it. >> greg: only conservative candidates win, bob. sorry. >> eric: 2010 and -- >> bob: a low turn-out. >> eric: the house and the senate will be republican. >> bob: take your word on that. >> eric: it's going to

solyndra is one example of that. bill: do you think we're at the bottom of solyndra yet?t even close. just this week we have received a few more documents from the federal government telling us there were meetings, meetings where they were believing secretary chu about a meeting he would have with the pet of the united states a couple months before the bankruptcy. so the administration knew they had an enormous problem and didn't shoot straight with the american people even after they squandered half a billion dollar taxpayer money. bill: secretary chu is department of energy secretary. you talked to him a few weeks ago during the hearing on the hill. are you saying someone is lying? >> we can't tell for sure. we still have documents we've subpoenaed. we know this month. we have not been able to find a single person in this administration who stood up to take accountability for a half a billion dollars taxpayer money gone awry. they knew when they made the original loan and put taxpayers behind investors in terms of recovery, when they restructured the loan when solyndra

. >> i wonder if they'll give george kaiser's money from solyndra. >> i have no idea about solyndra,hink it's interesting how they drop these stories around christmas that we won't notice. congress passed four bills. i think we have a list here. the pretzel m&m is our national bird. what else did they do? they outlawed weather in vermont. it's unbelievable! scotch tape is considered a vegetable in public school. this is an outrage! and eric holder was fired and replaced with a lint brush. >> those are great laws. >> speaking of eric holder, the attorney general of the united states, on friday night, the night before -- >> you said was. >> in three months i can do dana's predictions. then we can bring it up. voter id laws across the country are being increasingly passed. not without court. the voters rights act passed, important gains, but there's states that have voter id law. some are pending approval by the justice department. that's the rule under the law. but on friday night, without enough explanation to me, the attorney general said that south carolina is going to be sued, take

. >>> this morning solyndra employees getting career help at a workshop in san jose. the office of economic development offering services to laid off workers. solyndra, of course, built a state of the art facility in fremont and took a half billion dollars in front they are take avg heavy toll on businesses. families and single people. according to the commonwealth fund from 2003 to 2010. that went from 50% to almost $14,000 annually. family income went up just 4%. for single people, premiums went up 46% to about $4800 while their incomes remained flat. >>> it is 4:39. yes, it is that time of year. temperatures get cold. we get some moisture out. there meteorologist christina loren is here to explain all. >> kind of a cold, cloudy day today. temperatures only maxing out in the 50s across the board. overall we're looking to a much cooler week this week. take a look at what's happening. an area of low pressure is just about on top of the bay area. throughout the morning hours we'll see the most active time period. so it looks like we'll see showers for a few hours. the

tomorrow solyndra's remaining asesare expected to be sold at an auction. next month the third auction is scheduled. it is expected to feature the manufacturing assets, pending final order from the bankrupt court. >>> because of today's protests hundreds of people did not work that port of oakland. the question is, what does that mean for the port's future. i am tom vacar, that story ahead. back here the fog will come back, it will be cold, i will have the tuesday morning temperature forecast for your neighborhood. cçrrú alright, so we have $10. you could get two things for $4 and one for $2. or five things for $2. or one for $6 and two for $2. [ male announcer ] with denny's 2-4-6-8 value menu, we're open to all new ways to save you money. [ imitates explosion ] [ male announcer ] dnyny's. . unlike other stores, we don't make you come back to save! get up to $20 off with no exclusions. we make christmas affordable. you make it yours. jcpenney. no exclusions. with jcpcash get 10...15 or... $20 off. storewide. unlike other stores, we don't make you come back

think of solyndra. >> this more egregious than solyndra.h volt. $250,000 each if you add up the subsidies on the local level, state levels, national levels. people get paid to buy one of those things, a quarter of a million dollar $each. >> neil: who has been buying them. and the white house bought 400 of them. where do they keep them? >> i don't know and the same --. >> and a week ago, the chief of audi say the only are elitist, only a handful. >> that's a little rich and the audi, head of audi. >> that was a little rich. >> and they're going to buy them-- >> what do you make of it. >> this was the worst business decision i saw in the last six months. >> it wasn't a business decision. >> exactly. and. >> when you have government taking over companies, this is what happens. if you want to know why, you know, the wall street does what some of the stuff it does, it's directed by government. you have five banks and they have the assets and you don't have five banks that hold 60% of the assets that follow the whim-- >> adam what do you make of

. >>> federal grand jury looking into the solyndra bankruptcy. the manufacturer closed in august without repaying a 535 million dollar loan guaranteed by the federal government. that plant was raided by the fbi. documents by the bankruptcy lawyers repeatedly referred to a grand jury subpoena. solyndra's failure has been the subject of several inqueries as to whether there was political influence involved. president obama and energy secretary said the loan was granted on its merit. >>> if you are looking for a tech job, bay area tech companies plan to increase hiring next year. increasing workforce by 12 -- by 5% in 2012. 2% say they will have lay-offs. 6% are unshirt. >>> official -- officials planning to shutdown westbound traffic across the bay bridge in february in the weather cooperates the closure would last two to three days so crews can reconfigure the road, taking traffic on a new detour. the work requires dry pavement any rain could postpone or leten the closure the project is part of a complicated reshuffle to allow both decks of the ne

when you look at solyndra and fast and furious, the two leading scandals of the obama administration,t i observed are two things. there is some measure of incompetency, misjudgment that has been made in the governmental bureaucracy. average partisans are trying to apportion some kind of blame to obama himself in a way to political tarnishes the image. from my perspective, both of them started within the bush years, but the solyndra loan guarantee program began in 2007 in the bush years. and fast and furious, that began, again, in the bush years. this is not to blame him, but suggested as far more nuanced than what went on there and it than what went on there and it is not just a matter, like i

. >>> there are signs of federal criminal investigation into fremont-based solyndra are intensifying. the role of the grand jury was revealed in documents. the grand jury also subpoenaed r.w. beck, the company hired to under take ab individual engineering report and market study about solyndra's technology. they made tubular solar panels filed for bankruptcy after receiving $535 million in a federal loan guarantee back in 2009. >>> the national pipeline safety bill inspired by last year's deadly san bruno explosion is one signature away from becoming law. the senate passed the safety bill late last night and sent it to the president's desk. the explosion which killed eight people and leveled a neighborhood motivated politicians to ensure the safety of the aging infrastructure. the bill doubles the maximum fine and adds penalties for obstructing safety investigations. but the bill does not require automatic shutoff valves. >>> san francisco's water policy under attack tonight by a central valley congress moon. he's calling for a federal investigation into what he considers water wastin

. >>> federal grand jury is now looking into the solyndra abruptly.hey closed in august without repaying a 535 million dollar loan guaranteed by the government. the plant was raided by the fbi. documents filed by solyndra's lawyers repeatedly refer to a grand jury subpoena. solyndra's failure has been the subject of several inquiries into whether there was political influence involved. president obama and energy secretary chu have said the loan was granted on its merits. >>> if you are looking for a tech job, good news, bay area tech companies plan to increase hiring next year local tech companies are expected to increase their workforce by 5% in 2012 which could bring in 28,000 new jobs. 58% of tech companies plan to hire more workers. 34% expect to keep staffing levels the same only 2% say they will have lay-offs. 6% just aren't sure. the study was didn't by a sunnyvale-based economic development agency. >>> this morning the holiday spirit is alive and well in the south bay. san jose man lost his wallet with more than $1300. he was riding his bike t

former solyndra employees have another source to tap into to help them fan a new job. federally funded workforce development agencies like this one in san jose are holding special solyndra enrollment events the funds come from the workforce investment act. >> it will help me to polish up some of my skills. possibly take additional classes in business or some of the other areas i'm interested in. >> we'll provide them an opportunity to upgrade skills, adjust skills to broaden their employment opportunities. it will all happen at no cost to them. >> 1100 workers were fired by solyndra in september after the fremont-based company filed for bankruptcy. >>> in washington the house approved a pipeline safety measure inspired in part by the san bruno explosion last year increasing fines for utilities violating regulations all new pipelines fitted with automatic or remote gas shut off valves, the san bruno fire burned for 90 minutes before the gas could be shut off manually. the bill does not require new valves on existing pipeline. congresswoman spear says she will keep pushi

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after solyndra, so stupid.etting kicked in the fanny, it giving more money to fannie mae fannie. wouldn't dare try to rescue a rescue that didn't rest or bail out another bail out that never worked out. but alas, no. my take away from john today goldman sucks sometimes. watching this spenders, all the time. and the rest of the taxpayers, on the hook. every time.

>> what happened to solyndra was a unique case.h the chinese producing more and subsidizing more and with americans in the business of doing more, the price of the traditional cells dropped so much that it became an uneconomical thing i personally prefer tax credits for people who produce it because then if you and i have a different technology we are on equal footing. >> in your book you say the key to getting the economy started is to get the banks to start lending money how are you going to do that? you can't force the banks to lend money. >> no. first i say there is two big pots of money that don't run up the deficit. banks and corporate treasuries. i recommended in this book that we essentially let corporations repatriot more tax if they hire more people with it. if they pay the capital gains rate they can do whatever they want to and we should take that money and seat an infrastructure bank and take private capital. most other countries let private investors and from all over the world invest in infrastructure and just use th

>> what happened to solyndra was a unique case. with the chinese producing more and subsidizing more and with americans in the business of doing more, the price of the traditional cells dropped so much that it became an uneconomical thing i personally prefer tax credits for people who produce it because then if you and i have a different technology we are on equal footing. >> in your book you say the key to getting the economy started is to get the banks to start lending money how are you going to do that? you can't force the banks to lend money. >> no. first i say there is two big pots of money that don't run up the deficit. banks and corporate treasuries. i recommended in this book that we essentially let corporations repatriot more tax if they hire more people with it. if they pay the capital gains rate they can do whatever they want to and we should take that money and seat an infrastructure bank and take private capital. most other countries let private investors and from all over the world invest in infrastructure and just us

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when the congress did things like loan guarantees for new energy companies, like the infamous solyndra loan guarantee is actually adopted during the bush administration signed by president bush and supported at the time by almost all of the republicans on the energy committee. and it's hard sometimes to pick winners and losers. that's not what 1603 does. 1603 recognizes that a lot of people building solar and wind installations are startup companies. if you give them a 30% tax credit that you would ordinarily give someone for building this new factory, it will be worthless for them because they have no income to claim the credit against. so what 1603 does, it basically gives them the cash equivalent if they're startups. if you don't like solar and wind energy and you want to keep the oil depletion allowance or any of the tax credits for traditional energy, you can make that argument but a very significant number of the new solar and wind projects have used 1603. so my argument is, it ought to be extended because we've got thousands or more facilities in solar and wind power which are b

. >> june hads of laid off solyndra employees have another -- hundreds of laid off solyndra employ anotherce to tap into. vote agencies like this one in san jose are holding special solyndra enrollment events the funds come from the workforce investment act. >> it will help me to polish up some of my skills. possibly take some additional classes in business or some of the other areas i'm interested in. >> we'll provide them an opportunity to upgrade their skills to adjust their skills. to broaden their employment opportunities. and it will all happen at no cost to them. >> 1100 workers were fired by solyndra in september after the fremont-based company filed for bankruptcy. >>> 6:15. no rain this morning. following your tweets i'm starting to think it might be more dangerous to drive this morning. >> could be around novato where the fog is thickest where the temperature is below freezing this morning. so far frances hasn't heard of any black ice and we haven't seen much fog around san rafael but it doesn't take much just a couple of miles and you can go from clear sky to fog haze hanging a

. >>> an online auction is underway selling to the now bankrupt solar company solyndra.d power tools, more than 3500 solar panels and now solyndra which declared bankruptcy tried to find a buyer for the company to try to turn it around but no buyers turned up and now they are auctioning off their belongings. >>> among some of the items for sale for elizabeth taylor, her earrings for when she won best actress and wedding bands and gives from a friend, michael jackson. these items are estimated to be about $30 million. >>> news coming from the port of oakland... >> there is an introduction for the entirety of the west coast... >> why protesters say they have scored another victory against the so called 1%. >>> this is aimed at preventing suicides and what you may notice on your facebook wall today... >>> why critics are out in force today. >>> there are some areas where it is getting slow as far as traffic, we will let you know where. stay tuned for more updates on traffic and weather. 9ez . >>> good morning, it is already tuesday december 13thth, i am dave clark. >> and i

. >>> it starts to air this week tar getting president barack obama and the company solyndra. crossroads gps said solyndra's $528 million loan and the bang rush i -- bankruptcy that followed shows what is wrong with government. they want to wipe out investments to keep america dependant on fossil fuel. >>> is this going to affect traffic at all, sal? >> well it may affect the bart station and i'm not sure this affect the trains and we will keep an eye on that. let's look at highway 4 westbound as you come to the willow pass grade that is according to dispatchers. it is not stop and go and people are getting out on the road early and that's all i'll say and we'll see if we have that type of a day. so far so good on the bridge, and between hayward and fremont, a nice drive and you can have a nice drive on the dumbarton bridge. >>> we have a little system going by and december has been awful, this is a puff of a season and you can see it's on its way to southern california. it is giving us some very light rain. 40s to 50s here in the morning, am cloudy clouse. there is like one h

solyndra, which manufactures solar panels, received loans and guarantees before going bankrupt earlier this year. >>> meanwhile, the budget battle could hit home for northeast residents as a federal government considers home heating cuts for those that can afford it the least. several northeast states have cut back on heating aid programs to poor households and now congress is considering slashing $1 billion from the federal budget. families in new england, where the winters are long and cold and people rely heavily on costly oil heat, are expected to be especially hard hit. >>> pakistan's military says the cia has vacated an air bass in the western part of that country in the wake of last month's nato air strikes near the african border that killed at least 25 pakistani soldiers. the departure comes at pakistan's request and last night the last group withdrew from nato drone missions. the u.s. and nato have denied pakistani assertions that the raid was deliberate and have begun an investigation into the killings in a region where pakistani militants have been fighting. >>> now here's