. >> kind of like the orange men of syracuse university, simon. >> reporter: kind of like that. little bit of different color but orange indeed. >> and i bring that up because it is your last day here at cbs5 and we want to wish you the best. you're going on to greener pastures to be a professor at syracuse university to teach journalism and we will miss you very much. >> reporter: thank you very much, dana. the orange i think is a little bit like that. these are the colors. thank you very much and thanks to everybody. it has been a great privilege to be here in the bay area and to do live shots like this one. great way to go out. >> been an honor working with you. all right. stay in touch. >> reporter: okay. see you. >> simon perez. >>> the joke was he picked his own story and of that the one he wanted for his last day in this weather out by the golden gate bridge. >> cry me a river with simon leaving who will i get to flirt with now, huh? >> allen. >> there is allen. >> patty might not like that but go ahead. >>> we are on top of the roof of our cbs5 compound here in san franc

guest: basically from syracuse to rochester. a beautiful part of the country.ur next phone call is from syracuse. randy on the republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning, representative buerkle, how are you? i live in your congressional district, i voted you. you have convinced me with every vote you have taken that i voted correctly. as a friend of mine said recently, you have reinforced our belief in the american form of government. at a recent town hall meeting, you were talking about the deficit. you said that you were not quite there yet. i wonder what your thoughts are and if you are there yet. guest: the debt ceiling will be an informed discussion. as the american people know, we are about to reach the debt ceiling. so the question becomes, do we raise it? unless we get significant statutory reform, unless we make some real changes so that we do not get into this situation again, i am reluctant to raise it. it sends the wrong message. it is like giving an awful hall like a bottle of whiskey and then saying, we will deal with your drinking problem to

is headed by katherine coleman and which will be a joint space center restoral orchestra playing syracuse you can you future this is my idea that i give to you and i think that alexander won through in your performance that my dear friends think you ought to thank you both of you for taking part in our telecast i wish all the best to you dmitri and to you all xander on the occasion of the holiday season thank you just a reminder that my guest today alexander ivanchuk. and hero of the soviet union and. come the let's see if they come on down expedition twenty seventh today i assets and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have yourselves got much more of someone in mind if you think i should do next time to drop me a line of how do i know i have time to see dr murray and let's keep the spotlight interactive movie back with more frequent comments on what's going on in and outside pressure until then stay on r.t. and take a. clue. it. in india multis available in the grand central shirts in mumbai the taj mahal in wrotham i'm buying polish president combining to shoot a favor

a lot of the just takes the rice i guess you just tell us about this how it starts how they get syracuse where this light goes all around the world just this time of year for last believe about ten years it's came a tradition of the addition from russian orthodox churches coming on their holy saturday to jerusalem i think in the service where they getting these holy fire and then as you said the plane bringing to the different regions not only to moscow but all over russia this piece of this holy fire and then before the easter service the giving it to the believers as we see it on the picture and a significant happens in there many of the capitals around the world medical service is going on around the world as well yes exactly it started from the east and then hour by hour it's going along. to the west. that cathedral crosses a cathedral is a beautiful cathedral will go into its background how it was indeed rebuilt which is kind of what you see on the screen when you're looking at those beautiful shots of it's not quite what it appears to be is it is not quite as old as it seems to be

secretary steinberg, thank you for being here and good luck to you in the brutal syracuse winters. i would like to commend the state department and secretary clinton for her leadership in the passage of hr-1973. monday i was pleased to hear the president define the goals for the operation and reiterate to the american people there will be no u.s. troops on the ground. the situation intervened with the international community was one to stabilize a region on the brink. i look forward to hearing from you today, mr. secretary, and speak to your thoughts about what pressure is going to be necessary to assist the opposition in the quest to remove gadhafi from power, and short of that, short of that, when will we know that this engagement can and should end? i yield back. >> thank you, thank you. sorry, ted. mrs. elmers of north carolina. >> thank you, madam chairman and thank you mr. deputy secretary for being with us today. of course, this is just such an important hearing. you know, i join with my colleagues and all of the concerns. i look forward very much to your input so that we ca

and they marched in women's shoes, down the main street in syracuse, new york, again, walk a mile in their shoes. raising awareness, raising the consciousness of domestic violence and sexual abuse. these issues that face our society today. the international campaign has probably 55 countries and involves a general public education focused on preventing domestic violence. many of my fellow member this is past week have been wearing white ribbons to demonstrate our commitment to putting the spotlight on domestic violence. wearing the white ribbon speaks to our personal pledge to never commit, condone, or remain silent about violence against women and children. the white ribbons were sponsored by vera house. vera house was formed in 1977 in syracuse, new york, by sister mary vera because she recognized the need for emergency shelters for women. she developed, she expanded her services and now today vera house has merged with the rape crisis center and they serve the needs of so many women, men, and children who have been abused. again, the whole white ribbon campaign is to raise public

guest: basically from syracuse to rochester. a beautiful part of the country. host: our next phone call is from syracuse. randy on the republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning, representative buerkle, how are you? i live in your congressional district, i voted you. you have convinced me with every vote you have taken that i voted correctly. as a friend of mine said recently, you have reinforced our belief in the american form of government. at a recent town hall meeting, you were talking about the deficit. you said that you were not quite there yet. i wonder what your thoughts are and if you are there yet. guest: the debt ceiling will be an informed discussion. as the american people know, we are about to reach the debt ceiling. so the question becomes, do we raise it? unless we get significant statutory reform, unless we make some real changes so that we do not get into this situation again, i am reluctant to raise it. it sends the wrong message. it is like giving an awful hall like a bottle of whiskey and then saying, we will deal with your drinking pr

that includes areas around new york city, pittsburgh, syracuse. but the weather is dry now and the is unis out in new york city and parts of the northeast. however, there could be another severe weather outbreak coming up by wednesday. we'll be tracking that for you. jenna, back to you. >> janice, thanks. we're going to switch gears and head to politics as president obama gears up for the next budget battle with republicans. he gets an earful from two possible white house candidates. donald trump and sarah palin. david gregory is moderator of "meet the press" and joins us this morning. we haven't had a gop candidate to talk about yet and now we seem to have a couple of names floating out there. i guess the flashiest at this point would be donald trump. he was the headline speaker at a tea party event in boca, where he's talked recently that he's going to make an announcement about whether he'll run or not in june. in the meantime, he's racking up a lot of support. a recent poll shows donald trump as the favorite among other republican potential ca

cuter, this adorable baby giraffe who was born saturday at the cincinnati zoo or from the zoo in syracuseis penguin chick. the proud parents, keepers, and public are all atwitter. what do you think, dan? >> i think i'm going to have to go for the penguin. >> the penguin. >> you win. >> i win? >> time now for the weather and scott padgett. from our miami affiliate wplg. >> i want to start out of new mexico where we have video of fires going on. smoke is billowing up. that will be the threat through the southwest and through portions of oklahoma city stretching all the way up to the tennessee river valley. winds gusting between 30 and 50 miles per hour. and then on top of that, dealing with the potential of severe weather all the way through portions stretching from iowa, stretching all the way down through portions of mo movement kansas city under a moderate risk of severe storms, with that in mind, the potential of large >> and this weather report has been brought to you by edward jones. dan? >>> thank you, scott. before taking the stage in detroit last night, charlie sheen went on twitte

>> between ithaca and syracuse. >> jimmy: yeah, very good. upstate.is friday? >> yes. >> jimmy: do you have any plans, are you going to watch? are you going to the wedding? who knows. you'll be gone that weekend. >> i opted out. yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, you'll be gone. >> i'm gone. >> jimmy: -- are you going to watch the wedding. >> it depends on whether you're on or not. was that good? i don't know. probably, i'll watch some of it. >> jimmy: i don't think i'll be at the wedding, but you'll watch some of it. it's on at like 4:00 in the morning. >> no, then i'm not going to watch it. >> jimmy: you're not going to watch the wedding at all. no, you don't care? >> no, i really don't care. >> jimmy: so, what do you think you'll be doing friday night at 4:00 in the morning. >> sleeping, i hope. >> jimmy: sleeping. very, very good. okay, very good. roots, we have our pal kathy here. you might know her from the film "gone." >> "gone." >> jimmy: she's over at the tribeca film festival. she's from cortland, new york. and, this friday night, instead of watchi

out through some inquiries was a kind of new technology called a thermal seal tape company out of syracuse new york and also on an undershirt zero tooby six. they said that most of their machines sold out in california mostly in los angeles, so that led them to this laundry in los angeles and they found out that yes, indeed, the gentleman by the name of eric gault had been taking his laundry there once a week for several months before the assassination. so now they are looking for a guy named john willard but they're also looking for the guy named harvey lowmeyer, and now they are looking for a guy named eric galt, 02b6. it had an address, this is where he was staying shortly before the assassination. the town of that through the mail he had been writing letters from this address and this was the letter that he wrote to a group called the friends of rhodesia he was trying to emigrate to rhodesia most likely because they didn't have an extradition treaty with the united states will. they also found this guy had eric galt was into dancing. he took dancing lessons. he was particularly interes

secretary steinberg, thank you for being here and good luck to you in the brutal syracuse winters. i would like to commend the state department and secretary clinton for her leadership in the passage of hr-1973. monday i was pleased to hear the president define the goals for the operation and reiterate to the american people there will be no u.s. troops on the ground. the situation intervened with the international community was one to stabilize a region on the brink. i look forward to hearing from you today, mr. secretary, and speak to your thoughts about what pressure is going to be necessary to assist the opposition in the quest to remove gadhafi from power, and short of that, short of that, when will we know that this engagement can and should end? i yield back. >> thank you, thank you. sorry, ted. mrs. elmers of north carolina. >> thank you, madamchairman and thank you mr. deputy secretary for being with us today. of course, this is just such an important hearing. you know, i join with my colleagues and all of the concerns. i look forward very much to your input so at we can u

host: next up, a calller from syracuse on the line for democrats.ler: i am not very worried about the deficit, except for the gap between public opinion and public policy that your guest has exposed. it is obviously very anti- democratic. we hear the same garbage from democrats and republicans about how we have to cut spending. it is nonsense. i am a real person. i am are ready a victim of what has been happening. i am 65. just gone on medicaid, and now i cannot afford my medicine. i lived in syracuse and it is very cold, and i keep my house at 60 degrees in the daytime and 60 degrees at night. i cannot afford that next year, because the historic compromise has stolen my heating assistance. i live on a little over $700 per month, or i try to. they did not count food in the cost of living. food has gone up maybe 20% in the last year so i eat 20% less. guest: think you for sharing that. -- thank you for sharing that. that is the exact problem. we're seeing that story in the data and replicated a person after person after person. that is why lots of pe

remember taking the great senator bill bradley tie basketball game about 20 years okay, georgetown syracuse and a georgetown kid made a dumb shot with 3 seconds left and i said why "in god's name" did he do that. and bradley said because he's a 19-year-old kid and sometimes we shouldn't lose that. >> that is the beauty of the college game. these are still kids. they are still learning as they go. and sheldon mack after that pittsburgh game when he committed that foul that easily could have cost butler the game just looked up and he was able to say it because they ended up winning, i just committed the dumbest foul in the history of butler university. and he lived to tell about it. >> he sure came back. the other game, huskies and wildcats, what do we look for. >> walker, everything in this game starts with kendall walker. >> the uconn player. >> which believe the best player in the country. had an unbelievable year and especially an unbelievable postseason. if he can get in the lane the way he has done against every team connecticut has played in the last month, then connecticut becomes ver

heavy rains strong winds, flood waters still pounding syracuse. some roadway is inundated. computers the bus commuters forced to leave their vehicles behind. -- commuters forced to leave their vehicles behind. this same system of violent storms that officials say is responsible for killing 11 people in arkansas is moving east. will people in the cells are playicells are bracinm weather. if >> reporter: the reality sinks in when you see water rushing into businesses. president grat they can. >> my dad is born and raised here. we've never seen it this bad. >> water released by near-by a dam is causing flooding downstream. it is our broken through its protective levies in several spots. hundreds of residents warned to get out. >> and experience, i've never left before. it makes me nervous. >> reporter: same storm system that killed least 10 people in arkansas. in many other places flooding is that now the biggest threat. tennessee, and people are fleeing to higher ground. while visiting the illinois emergency operating center the governor called in the national guard to help p

>> reporter: david k.johnston is a pulitzer prize winning reporter who teaches tax regulation at syracuse university law school. >> if you're a single person making $500 a week, your total federal tax burden is significantly higher than someone who makes a million dollars a day. >> reporter: no. >> yes. you'll pay almost 22% of your income in income and payroll taxes or you did in the year 2007. that year the 400 highest income tax payers made $345 million on average only paid by the same measure about 17 cents out of each dollar. >> reporter: the reason johnston says? individual and corporate tax breaks. all stemming from the same source. >> political favors. one company that's been in the news, general electric. last year they spent $39 million lobbying washington. that's $73,000 per member of congress in the senate. >> you know, the main loophole on the individual code are actually middle class benefit. >> reporter: chris edwards studies tax policy at the indicate owe institute a libertarian think tank in washington. he says while it's easy to blame the rich, the reality is the bulk of

. >> reporter: scott nicholson is a professor at syracuse university and an avid board gamer. >> if you from the last two years that board games and a segment of the toy industry have continued to grow. now the size of the market is much smaller but because they're an investment, if you have this game and in ten years i can still play this game, we can play board games from 100 years ago. you know, we would have a hard time playing the video game that was made 15 years ago if you went to your typical house, you know, you couldn't even hook this thing up to the tv. >> reporter: he points out that board games have been around for thousands of years. >> one of my favorite games is go, which was a chinese board game that's been around for a very long time but there's even games that trace back to egypt. >> reporter: most of the classic board games today date from the early 20thson... century. >> candy land was designed as a game during the time of polio to keep kids inside so they wouldn't go out and spread polio or catch it from other kids. early versions of candy land show the kids throwi

he attended colgate university in hamilton, new york but on the syracuse studying in london and on hism christmas. that day, obviously, is etched in our family's memory forever. >> forever. >> how did you hear? >> how did we hear? >> actually, i was on the way in my car down in washington, d.c. because i just had been transferred there. i heard it on the radio that there was a bombing of the plane. i didn't know exactly what plane j.p. was on or did they say it at this point in time. i tried to find my wife. she was on the way to the airport to pick him up. i asked her what j.p.'s flight number was and she gave me the flight number and that was the flight number of the plane that had been bombed. so i had to tell her what happened. >> oh, i just can't even imagine. >> i was on my way to pick him up. >> oh, my goodness. sort of justice came many, many years later. now you hear that moussa koussa who was a member of gadhafi's intelligence team, is now in the uk. he has defected. what goes through your mind? >> we were at the trial every day, kathleen and i, and we saw all of the evidence

host: next call comes from syracuse, new york. caller: you were singing my tune to a large degree. .ne thing it's really irking me the republicans are very out front about what their problem is with the efforts to come back to the taxpayer to fix problems that were caused by overspending, and the democrats seem unwilling to engage in that particular discussion, and i do not see how things can move forward without an acknowledgement that we have a fundamental disagreement. one side of the country thinks it is ok to go and take money from the taxpayer, because we have come up with the reason to spend it or have already spent it. the other side says the constitution is clear, regardless of the fact it overstepped the boundaries over and over, the constitution is very clear that the government has the right to raise revenue when they have things that they must spend on, and those things are pretty much enumerated and have been expanded on way past any place they should have recently been. the democrats will not address that. guest: i

educated at syracuse, where he has a law degree. he is here to talk about trends in cybersecurity. you mentioned credit cards and the advance persistent threat not go for the average person, for myself, the average person out there, what should they be concerned about? guest: the biggest thing folks should be worried about that is related to both of those are the types of attacks that are becoming more personal. in the past, you might get e- mail that might be from some strange e-mail address and and they oppose in at. all of you -- and they have typos in it. all of the usual indications that it is not a valid e-mail. as the attacks are becoming more sophisticated, they are not watching blanket at tax anymore, where they are launching thousands. they may just launched 100 where they are targeting specific individual to get specific information, and then they further the attack. is not to get information and run off with it, it is to get access -- to part of a network or to other information they want to get at. they become more significant when you have breaches where the people wh

the community oriented policing services deputy assistant attorney general and her bachelor's at syracuse university masters and ohio state and the law degree in northeastern university school law. it's always good to have you. go ahead, please. >> it's a pleasure, senator leahy. distinguished members of this committee, thank you so much for inviting me here today and i am pleased to talk about what we do to fulfil our obligations to the victims of crime. the department of justice program has a broad mission but it includes providing resources to support the key services for the crime victims. my own personal commitment was well beyond the justice of office programs that i was a former united states attorney in columbia and a local prosecutor in massachusetts. so i have been working with victims pretty much my entire career, and i am very proud to have served as the deputy director of the national center for victims of crime at the national nonprofit here in washington. as you know this is the national crime victims' rights week and just last week the attorney general had a special ceremo

is sponsoring a pilot program in syracuse new york and harts ford connecticut. it's a simple plan. reporter: meet police sergeant, joel cardone, the texting terminator. he's the guy you don't want to meet. >> there she is. >> reporter: when you're driving distracted. >> she is texting. look at her. right there. >> reporter: johnny law caught you. what were you doing? >> i was texting while driving. >> reporter: and if you still think using a cell phone while driving is no big deal watch what happens when we take distracted drivers to this virginia tech test track. did i break one? and that was just the beginning. >> how did you do? >> i did lousy because you think you can do it. only 2% of us can. and, you know, it's just one of those thing, robin. you just have to learn not to do it. >> i know. and i appreciate you honesty. hart of the reason i love you so much. and i love your kids. don't do it when you have the kids in the car. >> they yell at me about it. daddy, what's in your hands? now, i get it. here's the good news tonight. >> okay. >> parents are going to learn about a new

i am a graduate student at syracuse university and the president of voices for planned parenthood and on campus advocacy organization. i am so thrilled to be here today with all levier as eight -- with all of you. this is a dream come true. thank you very much. i am incredibly honored to be introducing our next speaker who is one of the top leaders in the democratic caucus. senator chopped schumer -- chuck schumer. i am also honored to represent one of the 84,000. i stand with petition signers. i have a list of names over here today to give to the senator schumer. [cheers] these are just a few of the more than 800,000 signatures we have gotten from supporters of from every state showing the amazing support for planned parenthood across the country. [shares] without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce my senator, senator chuck schumer. >> thank you. i stand with my colleagues here from two of the greatest advocates and senators that we have in the u.s. senate. barbara boxer and patty. the dangerous ideological cuts to planned parenthood that passed are never going to pass the s

deputy associate attorney general, earned her bachelor's at syracuse university, master's at ohio state, her law degree at northeastern university school of law. mr. leery, good to have you here? >> it's a pleasure, senator leahy. chairman leahy and distinguished members of this committee, thank you so much for inviting me here today. i'm leapleased to talk about wh we do in order to fulfill our obligations to victims of crime. the department of justice's office of justice program has a broad mission, but it includes providing resources and leadership to support key services for crime victims. my own personal commitment goes well beyond the office of justice programs as the senator just said. i was a former united states attorney in the district of columbia and a local prosecutor in massachusetts. i've been working with victims pretty much my entire career. i'm very proud to have served as the director of the national center for victims of crime, national non-profit here in washington. as you know, this is national crime victims rights week. just last week, the attorney general at a spe

what i'm talking about he, but anyway, i d wish you the best of luck, and it is a betterment for syracuse university, and we will miss you. presidenobama's response to the crisis in libya may provoke questions that are not fully answerable at this time, but i believe it was the right policy, because the alternative acquiescence in the face of mass murder was intenable, and i believe it was done in the right way, namely with the cooperation of the international community. president obama's policy has unquestionably saved many lives and probably tens of thousands of them, and it has weakened a brutal dictator and egregious t. it will also cause other dictatorial regimes to think twice before they use unbridled violence against peaceful protesters. we have been focusing on protection and doing so in a way that spreads the burden among our allies in some arab countries. the president has stated clearly that the united states military goals are limited in line with the relevant u.n. security council resolution together with our allies and america's military mission has been one, to implement a

host: next call comes from syracuse, new york. you were singing my tune to a large degree. .ne thing it's really irking me the republicans are very out front about what their problem is with the efforts to come back to the taxpayer to fix problems that were caused by overspending, and the democrats seem unwilling to engage in that particular discussion, and i do not see how things can move forward without an acknowledgement that we have a fundamental disagreement. one side of the country thinks it is ok to go and take money from the taxpayer, because we have come up with the reason to spend it or have already spent it. the other side says the constitution is clear, regardless of the fact it overstepped the boundaries over and over, the constitution is very clear that the government has the right to raise revenue when they have things that they must spend on, and those things are pretty much enumerated and have been expanded on way past any place they should have recently been. the democrats will not address that. guest: i would ar

i am a graduate student at syracuse university and the prident of voices for planned parenthood and on campus advocacy organization. i am so thrilled to be here today with all levier as eight -- with all of you. thiss a dream come true. thank u very much. i am incredibly honored to be introducing our next speaker who is one of the top leaders in the democratic caucus. senator chopped schumer -- chuck schumer. i am also honored to represent one of the 84,000. i stand with petition signers. i have a list of names over here todayo give to the senator schumer. [cheers] these are just a few of the more than 800,000 signatures we have gotten from supporters of from every state showing the amazing support for planned parenthood across the country. [shares] without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce my senator, senator chuck schumer. >> thank you. i stand with my colleagues here from two of the greatest advocates and senators that we have in the u.s. senate. barbara boxer and patty. the dangerous ideological cuts planned parenthood that passed are never going to pass the senate. [chee

educated at syracuse, where he has a law degree. he is here to talk about trends in cybersecurity. mentioned credit cards and the advance persistent threat not go for the average person, for myself, the average person out there, what should they be concerned about? guest: the biggest thing folks should be worried about that is related to both of those are the types of attacks that are becoming more personal. in the past, you might get e- mail that might be from some strange e-mail address and and they oppose in at. all of you -- and they have typos in it. all of the usual indications that it is not a valid e-mail. as the attacks are becoming more sophisticated, they are not watching blanket at tax anymore, where they are launching thousands. they may just launched 100 where they are targeting specific individual to get specific information, and then they further the attack. is not to get information and run off with it, it is to get access -- to part of a network or to other information they want to get at. they become more significant when you have breaches where the people who ca

new york,o syracuse, mark, a republican.aller: we do not have as many people working as we used to, and we need to get the big corporations to step in and be creating jobs. we would be pains or security and federal tax, and big companies that took our jobs, and supply the money from the federal government that i was pain, because i have been soaking off of the government for the last six years since i lost my job, and i am not paying taxes any more. if i were paying taxes, and had a good job, they would not be short so much money. host: mark, this is what the simpson-erskine bowles deficit commission had to say. host: is the gang of six were to take that recommendation, what are businesses and about the prospects of that? guest: there would like to see a tax rate cut, it is currently a maximum of 35% corporate tax rate. that is higher than a lot of other countries. so, that makes the u.s. corporations less competitive. so, corporations would like to see the tax rate reduced. there really is agreement, not only among a lot of

i am a graduate student at syracuse university and the president of voices for planned parenthood and on campus advocacy organization. i am so thrilled to be here today with all levier as eight -- with all of you. this is a dream come true. thank you very much. i am incredibly honored to be introducing our next speaker who is one of the top leaders in the democratic caucus. senator chopped schumer -- chuck schumer. i am also honored to represent one of the 84,000. i stand with petition signers. i have a list of names over here today to give to the senator schumer. [cheers] these are just a few of the more than 800,000 signatures we have gotten from supporters of from every state showing the amazing support for planned parenthood across the country. [shares] without further ado, it is my pleasure to introduce my senator, senator chuck schumer. >> thank you. i stand with my colleagues here from two of the greatest advocates and senators that we have in the u.s. senate. barbara boxer and patty. the dangerous ideological cuts to planned parenthood that passed are never going to pass the s

andrew and our colleagues at syracuse maxwell school and new america look at the 175 terrorist cases, charges, or convictions since 9/11, and what didn't happen with the cases is interesting. not one involved chemical, bilogical, or radiological weapons. in all these terrorist cases, there's 17 people killed in the united states by jihad terrorists attacks and more people die in their baths every year than because of attacks. again, that is something that is unpredictable in the years immediately after 9/11. that said, as bruce and i wrote and we did see 2009 as the -- it was the year with the most terrorism cases since 9/11 with 45 cases that we document. now, is that an outlier on pat tent? at the moment, we don't know. the number of cases were slightly unusually high because a lot of somalia-american cases and a lot of people who travel to somalia were recruited in the 2009 period. again, we thought we were insulated from the al-qaeda ideology because we are higher educated and have higher incomes and are different than their counterparts, but we are not entirely insulated and ther

>> yeah, in syracuse. >> well, get your minds out of the gutter. [ laughter ] >> spare me. let's see what's happening as far as your forecast. look at the temperatures. 82 in washington, d.c. richmond, 87. nashville, 73. cleveland, 59. 45 in chicago. 52 in indianapolis. west of the country, you're looking at chilly conditions through the plains. plenty of heat in texas. some areas 90s, 100 in the southwest. 30s in new england. in maine they are looking at a foot of snow before it's over. >>> good morning to you. well, we had a few light, spotty showers earlier. most of that action has pushed into the central valley and we've got a mostly dry bay area from santa rosa, just a little spotty cells. as we head throughout the afternoon, the rain will become a little more steady. mostly between the evening hours and overnight. 62 grows today. a few breaks of sunshine. you'll be able to get out for a short time. 67 in san jose today. limited sunshine and then a little more rain tomorrow morning. fairest princess of them all. michelle kosinski is in london to explain. good morning t

host: next call comes from syracuse, new york. caller: you were singing my tune to a large degree. .ne thing it's really irking me the republicans are very out front about what their problem is with the efforts to come back to the taxpayer to fix problems that were caused by overspending, and the democrats seem unwilling to engage in that particular discussion, and i do not see how things can move forward without an acknowledgement that we have a fundamental disagreement. one side of the country thinks it is ok to go and take money from the taxpayer, because we have come up with the reason to spend it or have already spent it. the other side says the constitution is clear, regardless of the fact it overstepped the boundaries over and over, the constitution is very clear that the government has the right to raise revenue when they have things that they must spend on, and those things are pretty much enumerated and have been expanded on way past any place they should have recently been. the democrats will not address that. guest: i