and i want to thank them for constantly keeping me and many of you on the sf alert program and texting us and making sure we were assured that the critical departments were working together just in case and it's always about just in case. right herald? the red cross knows this more than anyone and it's about being prepared and again i want to give great kudos to all the public safety divisions of the city from the police and fire to the paramedics working behind the scenes and people out on the streets from dwp and to building inspection and you have to inspect some of the structures that go up whether it's putting on a bmx bike or skate board and allowing a hill of dirt to become controversy in front of city hall. i didn't know that. to our public works area that make sure that we are doing everything right on the streets and accounting for both pedestrian and the various traffic modes that we have. it's all being under the bright umbrella of dm and that's why we are here to today to make sure people continue this as the world series hasn't ended yet but let's say we are doing other plan

and i want to thank them for constantly keeping me and many of you on the sf alert program and texting us and making sure we were assured that the critical departments were working together just in case and it's always about just in case. right herald? the red cross knows this more than

i checked it and it was southwest texting us that we'll be an hour and a half late. >> reporter: the delays are leading to traffic backups here at the airport. the duty manager here is asking people to wait in the cell phone lots rather than circle the airport and cause more congestion. live at sfo, christien kafton, ktvu channel 2news. >> and we have a link to the most up-to-date information on travel delays. it's under our hot topics on our home page. >>> some pg&e customers in the bay area are in the dark right now because of storm-related outages. latest numbers show almost 500 customers without power in nine bay area counties. according to the utility's website, the largest outage is in san rafael, where damage to an underground cable cut power to 113 customers after 5:00 this morning. pg&e hopes to have power restored there within the hour. >>> we started off the day with heavy rain and thunderstorms early this morning, then a bit of a break in the action. once again, into the afternoon hours, still heavy downpours, still reports of thunderstorms and even hail out there. as you

it was southwest texting us we were going to be an hour and a half late. >> at one point delays caused traffic backups at the airport. travelers were asked to wait in the cell phone lots rather than circle the airport. >>> in kansas city, missouri, stranded motorists found ways to pass the time when a winter weather created unsafe driving conditions. here you can see two guys throwing a football around next to standstill traffic. heavy snow blanketed the city leaving the roadway icy as well. some streets were blocked off entirely. >> mark tamayo is here now with the radar. you can see still good sections of rain right now. >> we've been watching it over the past few hours. we've noticed an increase in the rainfall rates. as we zoom in, moderate to heavy rainfall. increasing. moving the maps closer to san jose. increasing rainfall rates. just to the south and east of downtown. heavier downpours. the maps to the north, reports  of thunderstorms in san francisco over the past hour. the main action heading out across the bay right now inventoried -- centered on the bay bridge. here's a cl

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>> since we're pretty familiar in the community, several people in the community started texting us about, oh, 9:00 that morning, and you know, of course, there are no secrets in a small town so everybody was pretty much calling around saying hey, he won, and mark put it on his facebook which i was totally amazed that he did that. so everybody pretty much knew. >> it's a lovely story. dearborn in missouri is a small place. as you say, everybody knows each other. cindy and mark have three grown-up sons, jason, cody and jared and a 6-year-old adopted daughter, jaden, from china. it really is a wonderful pre-holiday story, isn't it? >> yes. it is. it's just a blessing. they couldn't have had a better couple to get it because they will definitely take care of the family but they are also really involved in the community. we're really happy for them. >> do you know how they are going to spend the money, sandra? have they given any indication to you? >> all they said today was that they were definitely going to take care of their family and their grandchildren and set up college funds for them,

we have a freshman at the high school who has been texting us. he's in lockdown in the silence lab at the moment. but -- >> so your child, the freshman in high school, has been able to text you that there is a lockdown at that school? because we have heard that the whole district is in lockdown. that would square with what we are being told. >> that's correct. they do practice this. we have been here since 2005 and the schools are very forward thinking and very proactive. and sadly in this type of situation. so the kids know what to expect and what to do. we do currently have a freshman in lockdown. >> and that freshman, is that a son or daughter? >> it's our son. >> and has your son been able to text you any other kinds of information that he may be hearing within the school itself, not the elementary school but the high school? >> i think that they are all using precautions and the teachers have got the situation under control. he knows. >> can you tell me a little bit about newtown, the size and proximity to what other people in the united stat

the koran, islam's revealed text, tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limit and always who ask. god says, when my servants question you about me, tell them that i am near. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me. chapter 2 verse 186, the koran -- in the koran, god also says, give glad tidings to those who endure with patience, who when afflicted with calamity say, we belong to god and to him we shall return. such are the people on whom there are blessings and mercy from god. chapter 2, verse 155 to 157. so let us all, of every faith, of every background, pray for god's comfort at this time of heartbreaking tragedy. barely, with every difficult, there is ease. barely, with every difficulty, there is ease, chapter 94, verse 5 through 6. amen. >> a prayer for the first responders. let us pray. holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for a

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islam's revealed text tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limit and all the available for those who ask. god says when my serve vants question you about me, tell them that i am near. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me, chapter 2, verse 186. god also says give glad tied togs those who endure with patience when aflicted with calamity say we belong to god and to him we shall return. those are the people upon are blessings from god. so let us all of every faith of every background pray for god's comfort at this time of heart breaking tragedy. with every difficult there is ees, barely, with every difficulty there is ease. amen. >> a prayer for the first responders, let us pray. >> holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for all the skills that they have been given, for the strength that they have. you equipped them, you gave them a wi

text message. then 22-year-old neil papworth used his computer to send a text message, merry christmas. it's the single most widely used application in the world. 18% of mobile phone users send -- 81% of mobile phone users send texts. >> can't wait to update your status even on the throne? you're not alone. nearly one-third of young adults connect with social media sites in the bathroom, twitter, facebook, pinterest or other networking services and it doesn't matter if you sit or stand. men and women were equally likely to log on in the nude. >> you can't just wait a couple of minutes? >> now, people can't now especially the younger folks. >> i know. the thing you is take your phone in. do you wash your phone too? >> i think we're done. >> captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,

the koran, islam's revealed text, tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limit and alwaysable for those who ask. god says when my servants question you about me, tell them that i am near. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me. chapter 2, verse 186. the koran in the koran god also says give glad tidings to those who endure with patience, with when afflicted with calamity say, we belong to god and to him we shall return. such are the people on whom there are blessings and mercy from god. chapter 2, verse 155 to 157. so let us all, of every faith, of every background, pray for god's comfort at this time of heartbreaking tragedy. rarely with every difficulty there is ease. rarely with every difficulty there is ease. chapter 94, verse 5 through 6. >> a prayer for the first responders. let us pray. holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life, to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for

texts. the maya used two kinds of signs to spell things. one is called a logograph because it represents a whole word. the other is a phonetic sign that represents a syllable. for instance, if they wanted to spell the word "jaguar," they could just use a picture of the animal. the word for "jaguar" in maya is "balam," okay ? now any maya who saw the jaguar head is going to say "balam," just like you're an english speaker, you see the jaguar, you'd say "jaguar." but there is more than one cat. so they could draw their jaguar head... and they could put a sign in front of it that tells you how to pronounce the first part of the word as "ba." this is "ba." or they could put at the end of it a sign that tells you whathe final sound was. this is a "ma". but they could also if they wanted to just eliminate the jaguar head and spell it completely with syllables, so that you would have "ba..." "la..." "ma." and you don't pronounce the last "a". keach: the glyphs recorded by bishop landa were, in fact, syllables -- 27 syllables. but hundreds of sylla

the koran, text tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limits and always available forys when my servants question you about me, tell me that i am here. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me. chapter 2, verse 186. the koran, in the koran god also says give glad tidings to those who endure the patience, who when afflicted with calamity say, we belong to god and to him we shall return. such are the people on whom there are blessings and mercy from god, chapter 2, verse 155 and 157. so let us all of every faith, of every background, pray for god's comfort at this time of unbreakable-- heart breaking tragedy. with every difficulty there is ease, barely with every difficulty there is ease. chapter 94 verse 1 through 5, 5 through 6. >> a prayer for the first responders, let us pray. holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for all the skill

the koran, text tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limits and always available for when my servants question you about me, tell me that i am here. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me. chapter 2, verse 186. the koran, in the koran god also says give glad tidings to those who endure the patience, who when afflicted with calamity say, we belong to god and to him we shall return. such are the people on whom there are blessings and mercy from god, chapter 2, verse 155 and 157. so let us all of every faith, of every background, pray for god's comfort at this time of unbreakable-- heart breaking tragedy. with every difficulty there is ease, barely with every difficulty there is ease. chapter 94 verse 1 through 5, 5 through 6. >> a prayer for the first responders, let us pray. holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for all the skills

. >> more people text then use the phone. the technology behind it may not be ready for some time. david mcnally has more. >> the text to 911? >> what is the address? >> texts are the future. >> we're going to see the texting. >> they go fast without clogging communications. >> people have an additional means to get in contact. i would be concerned about doing it while you drive. >> it could maybe this greatly text. >> that might be good for people who are in a hazardous situation. >> a teacher locked with kids in a closet could signal help. >> we could get a dozen of those year. >> there is a downside. the infrastructure is nowhere near ready. if you text in an emergency -- qyou must add the city. what if the texter does not know where he is? >> i have a gps phone. >> it is two miles from here. >> dispatchers can not easily give life-saving directions. time would be lost. setting up a phone call. >> it is about delivering that service in a timely manner. >> it looks very complicated. >> a long time stable in the wedding scene will no longer host. >> it has to do with the opposition

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. >> reporter: text 95248 and use code 2653, pbf and you help alamo elementary. how?by voting in a clorox grant program that gives money to schools. >> the program launched four years ago and gives school program in financial need the opportunity to earn up to $50,000. >> reporter: there are seven grants, four go to the schools gathering the most votes. which brings us back to miss garrett's incar began -- kindergarten class. vote. i'm michael finney, 7 on your side. >>> voters have officially made barack obama president of the united states. electoral college vote there's is. state capitals across the country casted the final votes of the campaign yesterday as required by the constitution. president obama 332 votes more than the 270 needed to win there was controversy when a few in arizona tried to raise debunked claims about the president having a fake birth certificate. >>> a group opposed to capital punishment says four states carried out more than 75% of executions in the u.s. this year. the death penalty information center said texas led the nation with 15 execu

the four that we have, is that they turn to using the bible, the jewish bible, the only one there is when they're writing, which is an ancient, ancient text, and they use it for factual information about the biography of jesus. it would be a little bit like you deciding to write a biography of jfk and using king leelear for factual biographical information for jfk. >> what were they trying to do? apparently they were not reporters on the scene. they were not doing a reportial account, they were not giving you a who, what, when, where, why, correct? >> correct. >> they were doing this type of once-removed biography. >> well, it's not like they're sloppy researchers. >> how many general rations elapsed? >> between matthew and lucas, for argued and defensible reasons scholars think that matthew and luke were probably written just before the turn of the first century. >> i thought it was closer to 47 years. >> after what? >> after his death. >> well, he died around -- no, mark is the earliest one and mark seems to have been written around the destruction of the temple. >> i guess what she's saying is a lot of this is hand me down, verbal acco

islam's revealed text tells us that god's mercy and compassion are without limit and all the availableor those who ask. god says when my servants question you about me, tell them that i am near. i answer the prayer of every person who calls on me, chapter 2, verse 186. in the koran, god also says give glad tied togs those who endure with patience when afflicted with calamity say we belong to god and to him we shall return. those are the people upon are blessings from god. chapter 2, verse 155-157. so let us all of every faith of every background pray for god's comfort at this time of heart breaking tragedy. with every difficult there is ees, barely, with every difficulty there is ease. -- verily, with every difficulty there is ease. amen. >> a prayer for the first responders, let us pray. >> holy god, many of these men and women you called into service when they were just children. they wanted to be police officers and firefighters and care for those that were in need, lord. you gave them gifts for their life to serve. you asked them to pay a high price for all the skills that they hav

at their theories that she had died or was replaced, but this text clearly shows us those scenarios did not happen at all. >> and nefertiti lived more than 3000 years ago. this exhibition reconstruct that life and is on display until the end of april in berlin. >> have you gone to see that bus? >> i have seen her three times, and she is absolutely stunning. to go if you have the chance. >> ok, you heard it here first. thanks for watching. >> do not forget, you can find more on our website at dw.de. we will see you soon. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

you can text us your happy new year's messages.the letter u and text, that is all one word, leave a space then type a brief message and send it to 36288. again, you text space, your message to 36288 and watch for your message tonight with megyn and bill. jon: sounds like fun. are you sick of hearing phrases like kick the can down the road and fiscal cliff. straight ahead the words some people want banished from the english language. new prilosec otc wildberry is the same frequent heartburn treatment as plosec otc. now with a fancy coating that gives you a burst of wildberry flavor. now why make a flavored heartburn pill? because this is america. and we don't just make things you want, we make things you didn't even know you wanted. like a spoon fork. spray cheese. and jeans made out of sweatpants. so grab yourself some new prilosec otc wildberry. [ male announcer one pill each morning. 2hours. zero heartburn. satisfaion guaranteed or your money back. jon: we are 32 minutes away from hearing from the president. there might not be a

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it began with us tracking a text message about an individual with a handgun on campus. at this point our campus police responded immediately. text messages were issued to students which is our fastest way of communicating with our student body. we also as you know send out an emergency voiceover message to the various classrooms and offices in the field for a lockdown. after the campus police began to identify and isolate an area which is primary the technology and science area at the point the rest of the campus was evacuated. so everyone is gone except for those two buildings. sjpd responded immediately as well and have set up a station in front of the science and technology building. a a room by room search is now underway. >> do you know about how many people, students, teachers, are in that tech and science area right now as these officers go room to room? do we know about how many people are in this lockdown? >> i can't comment on that. i don't have good figures and i wouldn't want to provide you with misinformation. >> is there specific information on why you thi

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texts. his latest is called "antifragile." nassim nicholas taleb joins us tonight from washington. professor, good to have you back on this program. >> thank you for inviting me. tavis: i want to get into the book. let me start with the news of the day. everybody in washington is talking about the fiscal cliff. the so-called fiscal cliff. they're not talking to each other at the moment. that is what the conversation is going to get to, how do we avoid going over the so-called fiscal cliff? you suggested that the fiscal cliff might be good. i got a chance to go through your book. i understand, i think, why you might feel that way. the book argues that we need disorder to develop. we need disorder in our world to develop. we will come back to the book in a moment. based upon the motion -- that notion, why might the fiscal cliff be a good thing? >> we have been stuck for four years in a state of complacency. nobody wants to do anything about the accumulating problems. everybody knows about the problems. i think the civilization is masking deeper problems. if you let markets give you i

right now you can't text and drive but starting january 1st, you can legally sent and receive text if you use a hands free device and you can do that by using a blue tooth. another law that does into effect, it involves party lines and they will be held responsible to tell all teenagers that drinking is illegal. a person who is 25 years old must be on board to make sure they don't drink and that was in response to young adults drinking on party buses. the most recent involved a young woman who was killed on highway 17 when she fell out of a party bus where there was drinking involved. >> you can't rent a car under 25, why should you be allowed to be partying in a bus under 25. however we feel about the age, 21 is the age and there should be somebody older than that to kind of keep an eye on things. >> that will be a point news of certain cars which is ab25. and that allows, cars with clean air stickers to allow clean occupancy toll lanes if there is just one person in the car. they will have road signs, much that is see and they will be called super alert and will let drivers know if there is

people concerned about distracted driving because the law will allow drivers to send text messages as long as they use technology fully voice operated and hands free. supporters say it's better than having drivers type while driving but that hand-free texting draws attention away from the road. >> among other laws that will go into affect on new year's day, carbon monoxide detectors must be installed in condos and apartments and smoke detectors and two laws, businesses and schools demanding that they share their social media information and breast feeding will be added to prevent discrimination and housing and school officials and coaches must report suspected child sexual abuse and self-driving cars will be allowed on california roads. and expect to see them driving next to you on the highway. >>> one of the bay area's largest countes is sending large shopping bags to pasture as the new year begins on tuesday and applies to alameda counties and all of the cities. they will note longer be able to give customers one-time use plastic bags. instead, pay a dime for each recyclable paper bag used and simil

text messages for two years. and we'll show who will be using the texts if the bill is approved. good morning to you.rly start." i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm christine romans. it's tuesday, december 4th. it's 31 minutes past the hour. >>> we begin with breaking news in iran. reporting it has captured a u.s. drone. you're looking at video from state tv in tehran. it shows two iranian revolutionary guard commanders examining what appears to be an intact scan eagle drone. but a u.s. defense official tells barbara starr the u.s. navy has fully accounted for all unmanned air vehicles operating in the middle east region. we'll have much more on this developing story throughout the morning. >>> call it the fiscal cliff follies, because with 28 days remaining before massive tax hikes and spending cuts kick in, democrats and republicans are ridiculing each other's ideas. it's a recipe for recession. the gop offering up its first plan which calls for $2.2 trillion in deficit savings over the next decade, including $800 billion in tax reforms, 600 million in medicare reforms and spending cuts. but the president