the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. walberg. mr. walberg: please join together in the pledge. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: the chair will entertain one-minute speeches at a later time today. pursuant to section 5-a of house resolution 5, the chair now recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. goodlatte, for the reading of the constitution. mr. goodlatte: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, this morning for only the second time in the history of the house of representatives, we will read allowed the full text of the constitution of the united states. we hope this reading will inspire many more americans to read the constitution. we also hope that this reading will help demonstrate to the american people t

the vice president: the senate will come to order. the chaplain will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal god, we thank you that we are more than conquerors because you love us. we praise you that today your conquering spirit has brought our beloved senator mark kirk back to work in these hallowed halls. we're grateful that nothing can separate us from your love, neither death nor life, nor heights nor depth, nor any created things. give our senators today, spiritual, intellectual, and physical revitalization, infusing them with your peace and power. bless the lawmakers who will take the oath today. fill them with your spirit so that their lives will honor you. we pray in your merciful name. amen. the vice president: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the vice president: the chair lays before the senate one certificate of appointment to fill an unexpired

the will greet the commander of the task force. he will escort him down the steps to take what is called the pact in review. -- path in review, which is the presidential escort unit, 380 service members. followed by each of the service honor guards and the u.s. army band as well as a marine corps band. they will go past the president's location on the steps of the east front of the capital. once they complete the review, they fall into the motorcade and start the parade route. along the parade route, we have approximately 2300 military personnel participating. there are approximately 10,000 and the way the parade is organized, there are five divisions in this parade. each division is led by a service component. so division one will be led by the army. division two, by the marines. division three by the navy. division four by the air force. and division five by a mixture of the coast guard and merchant marines. and essentially, it's comprised of military bands. service elements that represent the active reserve and national guard co

the spots in the upper 0s.ost cases. you can see a northeast breeze in fairfield. this is the case today. win could pick up into the afternoon especially along the coastline and afternoon breeze if this is your destination. 33 in napa valley. and 29 in santa rosa. and novato. upper 30s to low 40s. 47 in san francisco. we head to the east bay, walnut creek you are freezing at 32. want to point out mount diablo, 3,000 feet or so. we have the inversion in place. that shows it there exactly what i am talking about. cold air draining into the valley this morning. it has settled in and hang around for the next hour or so before it turns around. surf advisory for the entire coastline, all the way from dillon beach to monterey. this is for all the beaches into the afternoon. peaking today, largest breaks reaching 15 to perhaps 20 feet. dewpoint want to scare you there. 55 in napa valley for the afternoon. 63 in berkeley. mid-60s in san francisco. and santa clara valley, another beautiful day. 66 for you. 67 in gill roy

the forks in the mountains the cream's in the plains the multinational corporations that divide the pa amongst themselves and phones of small miners who pick up the crumbs each one plays his role each one knows his place. and. those who refused to participate in the gold rush are few and far between. were in the deep south of columbia in the territory of the naso indians they have long opposed the mighty liberations and its devastating effects on the environment when the nasi saw the first gold seekers start to arrive they began by asking these new intruders to leave they finally lost patience. one morning the indians besieged the miners camp yet. you call that generating work have you seen all this damage you can create employment by destroying the environment like this all this cyanide you think it's good for the earth so i went up with. the protectors of mother earth on one side the gold seekers on the other a clash is inevitable. and set fire to it but it all. bring in more machines you'll say. in order to disperse the indians the excavator guards pull out their guns. luckily no on

is that wanted to lower the height of the building and wanted the building set back further from the street and the rather was not really the major concern and so based on those discussions, we came one a revised section which basically lowers the building in height of 3 feet again, the l o is with the planning code will allow and in salmon color is what really were at the last presentation, we dropped overall height too 3 feet and the height of the building now is 37 feet in terms of what the planning commission allows is 40 feet and we added a bay in the back and this bay is not here and it's not permitted and it's drafting a drafting error and it's we did a matching pop out and you can see because of the gray, most of the building beis below grade at the back end with three stories in the back and front and i'm going to show what you the revised elevation looks like and this is the victorian style building and this is the windows to make it taller and give it a more vertical aspect and if i can show you the rather, that will conclude my presentation to you and if you have any ques

the maquilas and the sweat shops of the caribbean basin, the have always had an enormous impact on thedard of living in these countries, as well as the push that forces people to look somehow or other to survive by coming to the united states. >> eduardo lopez, you have remarkable footage that has never been seen before in this country throughout. in a moment, we're going to el salvador to talk about what drove a lot of the migration here. where did you get it? >> many, many sources. there's a lot of footage that has never been seen, that hasn't been seen in decades. again, this is a testament to the team that created this. our editor, catherine shields, is amazing. and so is our co-director, peter getzels. i have to say about the dominican republic, i'd like to make a point that one of the main reasons we made this film is to be personified by junot diaz, who is contributing as one of our great american writers. his whole life was changed dramatically by our invasion of the dominican republic in 1965 with 23,000 marines. something that most americans know nothing about because all of

>> i was not aware of the concern about the change at the front the e-mail i that received the dated december 6th and to the appellate and it's passed up and i can put it on the overhead and go through it. >>> could you just speak --. >> overhead that would be nice. and so it's represented and overall it doesn't have reduction three-4 feet to 17 inform and is this was achieved by floor to ceiling heights and pressing the building further into the ground. i don't know if that was previously required or not but sounds like it's new. b increase front set back at the top fourth floor, set back from face to front base is now 16 feet and it was 12 feet 6-inch and is is to 3-foot increase more than what is required for front floor set backs achieved by eliminating a personal property office study in the front floor and c redesign has been revised to be more compatible with prevailing neighborhood code and this was achieved by increasing the height of the bay windows and giving the building more vertical emphasize and finally d. facade appearance has significantly improved and achieved by ba

one of the causes of action that the superior court -- the trial court agreed with the city was, in theecond amended complaint, they sought a court order, compellin_j@/ the city to issuea demolition permit. we argued that in san francisco, demolition permits, like all permits, are discretionary and a court cannot compel the city or the commission or the department of -- inspection to exercise its discretion in any way. the project sponsor and the property owner also filed a petition for a writ of mandate in the california court of appeal in november of 2011, contending that the trial court was wrong, and that the court should have compelled the city to issue the demolition permit. that petition for writ of mandate was denied by the mandate was denied by the california court of appeal43 according to the california court of appeal's website, they will be issuing a -- which will send the city's case back to the trial court. i'm happy to entertain any@%( [d questions about the court decision. >> president fong: commissioner antonini. >> commissioner antonini: one thing i didn't understand c

there was no appeal of the pud to the board. the appellants, the same group sued the city in 2005. the superior court upheld in 2006 and the board of appeals did the same in 2007. there was a tree removal permit issued and this board up leld that permit in 2007 and this city and the board was sued and the superior court denyd that writ and up held the permit. they have been diligent with the map and puc and relocation agreement with the arts commission and restore the statute at the site and install a traffic signal with mta and sidewalk ordinance that the board of supervisors approved lasted year and a second tree removal permit. in august of september of 2012 my client submitting grading and permit applications and now currently under review. site work is scheduled to begun this spring. the approval of the conditional use permit is unusual. let me quote it verbatim "if there is lapse for three or more years and null and void and reverse to permit permitted in the district" and lapse and issued between three years or any particular action within the three years and. conform we're

the increasing of taxes and the sequester, the across-the-board tax cuts that would affect both the pentagon and domestic programs. joining me now with an update, a re-set, if you will, chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel. mike? >> bret, good evening, once again. it has been an interesting day up here on capitol hill after that wide bipartisan vote in the united states senate we instantly heard grumblings this morning from house republicans who said they wanted to take time to read the bill. after they read the bill they did not like what they saw. they said where are the spending cuts. raise taxes $41 for are every dollar or so that we are going to save money. that didn't add up for them and so house republican leadership spent a whole lot of time today, two different meetings behind closed doors with the rank and file allowing the rank and file to vent about the deal and talk about a way toward. they talked about the possibility of doing an amendment eceptionly to try -- essentially to try to tack on spending cuts on to the existing bill and then send it back to the united state

the five best and the five worst from the u.s. and european markets, we had ten stocks in both directions and neutralized adidas. so even though we might get a minor correction in the oil stock market in january or february here, we could still -- this kind of strategy would still perform well over these couple of months. that's a more short-term technical play than we would play. >> and what about technical terms of -- yeah, there still is demand for yield. is that still going to be a driver for stocks? so people are going to play cyclical? are they going to look for the dividend play? >> i think as i said, financing costs are coming down in the peripheral european bonds. and that makes a big difference because the financing costs are coming down. they're getting closer to the nominal gdp growth in these countries which has been a big issue for the last couple of years where this threat has been negative. and when you have financing costs below the normal gdp growth, you have an unsustainable long-term debt situation. so if we ca

and the director of the fbi. just like the analysts and special agents who are working these issues, we aim to stay on top of the threat picture and to help devise tactics and strategies and tools for getting ahead of it. today its standard -- it is standard procedure for agents conducting counterterrorism investigations to consult throughout the process with attorneys and prosecutors in the national security division. that is to ensure that all potential avenues for destruction of a threat, intelligence gathering, investigation and prosecution are all preserved. if you asked me to break down how much intelligence versus how much law enforcement work we do, i would be hard pressed to give you an answer. we are almost always pursuing multiple tracks at the same time. we no longer have to across organizational lines to bring tools and talent to bear against a particular threat or problem. for instance, our office lawyers in the office of intelligence work day in and day out with the intelligence community to secure

>> in the name of the legitimate government of the commander president who was reelected by the venezuelan people, the leader of this model land, the government open is the decision of the supreme court of justice. their work and their voice is sacred. >> venezuela has postponed today's presidential inauguration as hugo chÁvez remains hospitalized in cuba. the venezuelan supreme court says chÁvez is still president, but the opposition is calling for a caretaker government and elections. we host a debate. a victory in the campaign against stop and frisk. >> going to the store in coming from the store, they're going to stop you. >> they stop about 90% of the people coming in. >> i don't mind the police being here, but not the harassment. >> new york police are not allowed to routinely stop pedestrians outside private residential buildings in the bronx. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least five people have been killed in u.s. drone strike in pakistan earlier today. the strike hit a home in north waziris

on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the efforts to secure the remaining captives, and itn's lindsey hilsum looks at the intensifying conflict in neighboring mali. >> malian soldiers say they have to chance of con froningt the jihadies and the people i have been seeing today are just terrified >> brown: then we have two takes on monday's presidential inauguration. first, a look at the massive preparations underway for the grand ceremony. >> he'll walk down the hall, and then he'll go outside, and when he opens those doors, he'll see hundreds of thousands of people cheering at him. it will be a sight that is awesome. >> suarez: and inaugural poet richard blanco discusses what it means to be a part of such a momentous occasion. >> brown: we have more on the fallout after lance armstrong's admission that he used performance-enhancing drugs to build his championship career. >> suarez: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support

of the details of everyday life, the coming and going of his children, the progress of the garden, the colors of the flowers. his own political ambition was never completely extinguished, however. in 1847 he was chosen to make a concluding speech at their rivers and the convention in chicago organized to fight for internal improvements for the rivers and harbors. it was an extraordinary affair said to be the largest convention in the united states prior to the civil war. among the thousands present or former and future governors, senators, cabinet officers come and the newly elected congressman from illinois, abraham lincoln. so powerful was the final speech they made at that convention which called for compromise on the slavery issue so that the material progress as a nation to continue, but it was like and buy a liter historian to the famous cross speech delivered by william jennings bryan in 1896. the basis of the same speech he became a leading prospect for the high political office. new york's political boss beg him to re-enter public life, but the firmly declined. once upon a tim

should be in the overseas. >> the budget request, $117 billion for the account of the conduct in the war in afghanistan, obviously that is dependent on the u.s. troop level in iraq and afghanistan. we are bringing el in the announced policy beer -- we are bringing it down in july, but the size has yet to be determined. on your assumption, what troop level are you assuming? >> the funding levels reflect that policy. in afghanistan the policy is that we would began to withdraw troops. that would have to be walked through by the national security team. >> last question? -- last question, would you expect war supplementals? >> we know that they would be needed for the coming fiscal year. we obviously do not know what the appropriations will be for 12. i cannot give you a guarantee, without knowing what would be appropriated. we have estimated to the best of our ability what the cost will be. >> thank you, mr. chair. thank you for being here today. we have three challenges facing us the need to be addressed simultaneously. reducing the deficit at the same time that we need to grow the eco

at the the shooting, the victim got into a car and truck drive away the gun to an accident.are looking for the two suspects. >> and in san francisco, a man was shot in the city's western addition. >> the shooting happened on ellis st. around six last night. >> when officers arrived, they found 19 year-old victim suffering from gunshot wound to lead. it remains in the hospital but not life-threatening injuries no suspects were identified. >> if your web browser has a little slow, you may have missed out on your tent for tickets to the severance is go 49ers playoff game on saturday. >> tickets were sold on line beginning at 10 yesterday morning and were sold out in less than three minutes for the team's divisional round matchup with the green bay packers. >> fans hoping to still get tickets are encouraged to go to end at l ticket exchange or stuck hub for additional ticket. >> tickets for this game range from $195 to $10,000. >> game time is saturday at 5:00 p.m.. >> will be back with Ñó >> we're back at 4:39. >> there is a lot of sniffling, sneezing and coughing going on acro

at the time which was the battle of the bulge. nine days later on december 16th, hitler would launch the battle of the bulge. the bulge, there was a perfect view on top of hill 400. the germans knew that high ground had to be held at all costs in order to proceed. the rangers wanted also because they had very good artillery positions and that morning, on december 7th, they were ordered to clear the rest of burkstein. as they moved out they were in sellars filled with water that was waist deep and they were told that they had to take hill 400. it is an incredible story. as they move through burkstein they moved through a cemetery that was the graves were actually overturn because they had been shelled so many times by allied and german artillery. they moved through that and were being hit by artillery and german artillery and they moved toward the sunken road, the sunken road was overlooking, in front of them, a large open field the size of a football field. looming in front of them was hill 400. somehow they had to get across the

the poor air quality could be in the east bay be the north bay and the central coast. also, the central bay. do not burn, please. >> we have smooth conditions to the bay bridge toll plaza, no metering. it is smooth. from 880 and 580 and from 80 eastbound direction it is clear with in problems. just road work eastbound dumbarton bridge until 6:00 this morning. kristen and eric? >> thank you, sue at 5:03. sue will be able to use the online review site yelp to find out more than whether the food is good, you will find out if it is hazardous to your health. our reporter has more on the problem to be announced by the mayor today. >> good morning, eric. there are 3,500 restaurants in san francisco, believe it or not, and many like sparky here in castro on church street is a favorite but finding a restaurant can be a challenge, a good restaurant. many log on to sites like yelp to make it easier and you can tell how clean and safe a restaurant is. yelp is partnering with san francisco's health department to provide inspection information for the public. it is all in the name o

>> the way the contract is written, that it was a price for the installation of the 125 and the change order to add the 72 for a total count of 207. each shaft, each foot of the drilled shaft is what we calculated on. the original design length was 241' and that was what the bid was based on with a total estimated drill amount. so what we need to do now is wait until they are 100% done, the last shaft is drilled and from a quality perspective, approved, accepted. and then we'll say we add up the total feet drilled of each one and do the multiplication. because there are three different types of shaft with three different prices per foot. yes, the average cost of a shaft is well over $200,000 at the 241' estimate. and more importantly it saves us time. as you recall the buttress work was controlling a lot of the project and this helps us tremendously there as well. any other questions? >> seeing none, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> that concludes my report. >> thank you. we'll move on to item no. 6, which is public comment? >> i have not received any indication that a member of t

the higher the dark of the color, the higher the drought in these regions. this added detrimental effect, obviously, on the crops grown in the area. the most important crop -- the 10 major producing states, we saw a 77% of the acreage, a 78% of production within this region. there is obviously a significant impact in the area. we had area southwest where vegetables and fruits are produced that were in pretty good shape as far as weather conditions. host: chuck abbott, what impact has this had on u.s. exports? guest: it has reduced exports of major commodities, the major commodities being wheat and soybeans. the united states is still the world's largest packer control exporter could -- agricultural exporter. brazil will for the first time be the largest exporter of soybeans. they have long said they would catch up with the united states and find our on soybeans -- finally are on soybeans. host: the drought situation, its impact on food prices and energy prices. our two guests will be here and our phone lines are divided regionally. let's go back to some of t

the train came through and the boys said, let's throw the pork on the train. it came out of the senate as exactly why the country is now sick. this was not emergency spending that the house should have done. >> tell that to governor christie and the republican members of the house from those four states who said they needed that bill. >> they don't care how much extra the rest of the country spends as long as they get what they want. i understand. that's local politics in a crisis. the house should have passed a purely stripped down reform bill that met everything for sandy and nothing for the pork. now the country would have understood clearly doing that. and i think the house is not moving at the speed it needs to. but i also want to say one other thing, david. republicans ought to quit worrying about president obama. the president's going to be president. the house ought to worry about being the house. senator republicans ought to worry about being senate republicans. let the president deal with reality from their side. the house has no obligation to pass a

the younger the person the more unusual the transit, the more bizarre the animal companions. that is currently what we are witnessing at this point. >> how would you say these stories, people making these journeys, figure out what the world is or was as if they were making them. i'm interested in how the definition of the globe or the world changed through historical progression of circumnavigation and how that ends up as far as the concept of global that we have today. >> i am not so interested in global because that is very well study. everyone understands. global is social. it looks at human relations that exist for different activities around the globe. planetary is physical or natural and that is really what i am interested in tracing, how ideas about not just the planet in the abstract but how each individual human body or a human technology can measure it and determine something in relation to that. there was accumulating a form of knowledge through each of the three periods it find. it is well understood by commanders of the early maritime circumnavigations were going

the short but also the medium- and the long-term. cuban-americans living in this country, for example, will also start traveling even more so. cubans coming here will be able to travel, stay, work and then go back. i think this is an economic benefit to cubans, to the cuban population living in both countries. it has a political benefit to the government to show itself as being responsive to very longstanding demand that an unpopular policy change. >> suarez: before when it was very difficult to get off the island if you did leave, you stayed away for good. could this be opening up a new kind of life for a lot of cubans who are mobile that instead of leaving once and for all, they'll go back and forth sojourning? >> i think this is a way of addressing what has been discussed as brain drain which is to acknowledge that in a global economy and where-conditions are so difficult in cuba with cuban professionals having skills, if you will, to sell abroad, even not super duper professionals but people with some kind of skill set to be able

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: senate 3662, an act to designate the facility of the united states postal service located at 6 nichols street in westminster, massachusetts, as the lieutenant ryan patrick jones post office building. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. issa, and the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. issa: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. issa: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. issa: mr. speaker, on this last or second of last day of this congress, the senate has sent us a naming. although my committee has stopped doing naming, accept in the case of medal of

the liquid is in the eye of the beholder. it really started out with a focus on mortgage-backed securities. we know that in the united states mortgage-backed securities is what got us in trouble. greek debt was treated as risk free and it turned out to not be the case. the new rules to expand that. they go to things like corporate debt and corporate equity, so there's a tradeoff that many things would not be liquid when push comes to shove. on the other hand when you have narrow assets when they get in trouble, you have something as a shock that would not be systemic and threaten the entire system. at the end of the day the only thing that is truly a liquid is cash. it is worth keeping in mind the vast majority of u.s. banks and european banks would already be compliant with these rules. i would go as far as to say bear stearns would be compliant. >> banking still seems risky. what about taking a chance on the lottery? they dished out $260,000 to each winner, but the austerity measures mean they will pay 20% income tax. >> i

the initial collapse in the 990s and then the gradual recovery the decade after. so we end up with the russia that we see today after this long psych, and the -- cycle. it's a biography. it's a multiple biography of a number of people, but in particular of the clan that emerged in the 1990 from the city of st. petersburg. and came to moscow with putin in the year 2000. and you could sum up the last 20 years of russian history by saying that this is the revenge of st. petersburg over moscow as the clans from st. petersburg take over and are very largely without much exaggeration are in command. this is very much a st. petersburg crowd. is so a history of the emergence of that crowd, and this is the latest chapter in the 300-year rivalry between the two capitals, so it's a tale of two cities. it's a murder mystery, but i can't give you the names of the -- [laughter] the guilty ones in every case. but you can draw your own conclusions. there are some marvelous unsolved mysteries that may be unraveled someday. most never will. it used to be said in russia in the 1990s

the 49ers will take on the fog of of the atlanta. >> the game sunday at noon. >> watching the weatheradvisory in effect for the interior valleys and the north bay. >> in fact us look at more on the cold weather kron fours jackie sissel who joins us live from san raphael. >> good morning marc. the thermometer does not indicated but it is starting to warm up a little bit. we are still below freezing in downtown san raphael. which we have been dead all morning long. we're down to 29 degrees. a freeze warning is in effect a 9:00 a.m.. >> it has started to heat up since the sun has come out. a jacket, ahooded shirt and is cars are needed. >> we will have a sunny day but it will take a while. >> we have warmer air coming this way but right now temperatures are slowly improving. the bottle o3navato t 32. >> santa rosa 27. san mateo 31. sunnyvale at 33. san jose 36 and hayward at 35. >> is in downtown san francisco 38 degrees a chilly start in the city. 39 in oakland. 36 in hayward. redwood city also mid '30's half moon bay of 41. you can see in vallejo fairfield they have all got of the '20s

that is how the germans treated the polls, the check, the dutch.he is worried -- something resonated in may as well, where will the occupation continue? >> and avi dichter's point talking about killing the hamas leader that is going for a cease-fire. >> this happens in america as well in that clip he said the americans have drone attacks in afghanistan, killed seven people and a wedding which nobody knows if the suspect person was killed as well. in the war of the 21st century, it is a war we need intelligence to get to a needle in a haystack, that means in the form of the terrorist that you're looking for him. intelligence people want to get into that specific person at a certain date and time and place. this is a very difficult war to maintain. america is doing it now. you just heard in your news they're going to do drones over north africa and civilians. i think you have to think strategically where you want to lead with this conflict. >> we will continue this discussion with dror moreh, is really filmmaker, director of the oscar documented docu

is the actual reason behind the. most happy mali is a direct result of the arming of of rebels and gadhafi in gadhafi libya. as well as the fall of gadhafi get out he was a key player in negotiating peace deals the last peace deal in northern mali. was negotiated in two thousand and eight of my desk so he was the linchpin of a lot of the security system in north africa plus the arming of the class the looting and get out of his own. weaponry by the rebel forces that's was created this instability again this is not completely just this is not unforeseen consequences maybe stupid the imperialist but they're not completely blind to the results of their actions. you are a democrat john kerry is set to replace hillary clinton as america's next secretary of state first he's got questions from the senate in his confirmation hearing that's taking place as we speak stay with us for the details on that we'll get some live reaction from the states on this is well plus. not once but twice i'll give you the story of a one year ol

the opposition are adamant the constitution was ramrodded through by the government dominated by the muslim brotherhood. they insist the constitution favors the muslim brotherhood and the religion on which is based. the opposition will have an opportunity in another election happening within a matter of months. the demonstrators are making it clear they are not satisfied with the way the country is transforming. they are not convinced the government is acting in their interests. at the same time, they cannot deny there has been an ongoing democratic process in which the bulk of the people who have voted have voted for the government in power. those opposed will have an opportunity and if you most about the polls again and try and get the government they want in power. >> thank you so much for updating us on the protest. let's bring in a few more pictures and sights and sounds from tahrir square. that is the nerve center of the revolution that overthrew the former dictator. it is different now. egyptian society has had quite a few democratic protests. some are protests in the new gove

the speed and the curve is significant. when you multiply the number of people that go through the curve, by the time lost because of that track wear, you're talking about very significant losses and people capital to the city. and, you know, taking away from people spending time with their families and other important things. so, cheryl bringtionctionv man and i have a chance to walk the tracks with you during the project. you stayed up late, even gave me a ride home which i appreciated. and you know, we saw the hard work from your crew and the people working in nonrevenue hours to do this. and, so, i'll say on the, you know, curve replacement, kudos and thank you for getting it done. on the atcs wire, you know, when mr. haley first came into this and we kept having these disturbed blocks and disturbed blocks and we actually had a hearing on this, and it came out that it was this wire getting pinched by sander hoses and so forth and so on. i remember, john, i asked you, i said can we wrap this thing in cryptonite? the mark

the people in the city. love to hear a few words from you. >> well, i want to thank the director, mr. rifkin, for the recommendation. and i want to thank the board for this award. i am truly honored and i want to thank mr. harris for the nomination. so, thank you very much. >> thank you. (applause) >> congratulations. and next, moving on to the transit division, we have two teams of employees that we're going to recognize from our maintenance of way section. these are the folks who maintain the entire system aside from the vehicles, everything that the vehicles run and rely on, the buildings, the tracks, all of that. i want to ask mr. haley to come up with mr. young lalague. young is a track maintenance supervisor and terry manages the entire maintenance of way division and is here on behalf of the signal crew. both of these gentlemen have been with the agency for 13 years. and we're really recognizing them for two specific projects, one of which director heinicke is well familiar with, the eureka curve trac

it collapsed the roof of the building and took the majority of the casualties.ings stand now the police are saying 81 people have been killed in the attack and at least 171 injured. >> suarez: pakistan has been such a tense place for so long. how much does the sectarian divide contribute to the overall violence and death? >> there's been a serious sectarian problem in pakistan for several decades now but it has -- there's been a marked increase in those attacks over the last couple years. the hazara community in quetta who are a minority that are distinguished by their physical features as well as everything else has suffered the brunt of attacks over the last year in that particular city but there also have been horrific attacks on shiite minority in karachi, in the mountains in the north in several cities across the country and it's seen as a sign of the crumbling authority of the state and some of these places and also in the rise in the strength and the boldness of some of these extremist groups who feel that they can operate with immunity in these cities wi

to the city in the top of the car.he was really to me when i set out to write a book about him, he was very to me the embodiment of american politics. and he reflected providence, which is one of america's oldest cities, to me really embodies the american political story. he grew up in 10 of a privileged background, he's an italian-american. he grew up in a silverlake neighborhood of providence, an old italian on click, and he went to moses brown, kind of a lofty private school on the east side near brown university. he became a lawyer. he became a prosecutor, prosecuted mobsters. he became a republican in a democratic irish city, and then he ran for mayor in the 1970s, 1974. and he basically upset the providence democratic machine, and he became this italian-american republican mayor in the '70s, and he attracted the attention of the white house at the time, gerald ford was president. and gerry ford was very taken with him and he saw him as a way to kind of embodied what the republicans were trying to capture, if thos

and then the dad leaps from the car, managing to grab the baby out of the way with the truck coming behind. the other truck, they just slam on the brakes in time. man, so lucky that little girl was not hurt. but check it out, the 1-year- old not in a car seat. there's a lesson there. >> yes, there certainly is. >>> now to china where a giant sewer explosion rocks a neighborhood literally. surveillance camera installed on the residential buildings captured the underground blast yesterday. even with all the damage, nobody was hurt. >>> we hear a lot about bullying. here is a story of three tennessee teenagers doing what could only be described as the exact opposite. >> the three unionville community high seniors were nominated to be homecoming king, but they decided to give the crown to somebody else. the junior has william syndrome, a neurological syndrome. while it was special for scotty, it was really special for them too. >> every time we get together, we would say remember when he won homecoming king? we'll remember that and cherish that. >> it was a part of the emotion from everybody.

in the film, we talk about the school of the americas and how most of the human rights abuses and themassacres, including the killing of the nuns and the murder of archbishop romero, was really done by people trained at the school of the americas by our own country. this is a clear example of how this connection continues to exist. it's not something that just happen 150 years ago. it continues to happen. >> of course, get the latest presidential link, this remarkable story surrounding bain, how mitt romney helped found bain capital with investments from central american links -- central american elites linked to the death squads in el salvador. this is something we reported on in discussed on "democracy now!" after initially struggling to find investors, romney traveled to miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40% of bain's start up money. some investors had extensive ties to death squads responsible for a vast majority of the deaths in salvador in the 1980's. the investors include the salaverria family, whom the former u.s. ambassador to el salvador, robert white, a previously

it gets's energy going between the users of the water, the users of the resource in the producers of the water and we are pretty excited about it. we are now bringing it back to the u.s. looking at water funds in the southwest for example where we see those areas will be in the most part stressed in the coming decades. >> thanks glenn. so gale, gale, the larger question, environments ever culture worldwide, thoughts? >> you do this whole teacher thing very well. >> by the way my daughter also says my arms are connected to my mouth and unless i can fling them around my mouth doesn't work so that explains that part. >> my mother was my sixth, seventh and eighth grade math in jacobi teacher. one of the challenges and to throw a little bit of ice water into the whole discussion if you will, we see these discussions that go on and collaborative solutions that sit down and work together and embrace that city-based roche resolving some of the solutions. where's the trust factor? it's a pragmatic skepticism at times that we never seem like the boots on the ground folks, it never seems to be

the presiding officer: the clerk will report the titles of the bills.rk: s. 47, a bill to reauthorize the violence against women act of 1994. h.r. 152, an act making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2013, and so forth and for other purposes. s. 81, a bill to provide guidance and priorities for federal government obligations in the event that the debt limit is reached. s. 82, a bill to provide that any executive action infringing on the second amendment has no force or effect and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes. s. 83, a bill to provide for continuing operations of government in a fiscally responsible manner. s. 124, a bill to provide members of congress may not receive pay after october 1 of any fiscal year in which congress has not approved a concurrent resolution on the budget and passed the regular appropriations bills. h.r. 325, an act to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of united states government until may 19, 2013, and for other purposes. mr. reid: mr. president? the p

the second day of the robert c. gathering and joining us now live from the very pretty slopes there katie good to see you though the world's economy hasn't exactly been shaping shape in shipping for phos for years now and the situation hasn't been addressed where you are today day number two. i would say stillman a saying at the proceedings mori absolutely here in davos as you say it is politics that is the focus of all is the way his job it sounds like a macro on the team areas the cities mario muncie and the e.c.b. president said ok all here discussing a draft to do you suppose you are out of the long running economic crisis is the most anticipated three of the day they had to come from british prime minister david cameron of the he announced a referendum on membership of the e.u. and is does the my it's a when a new settlement for europe anybody demanded concessions from brussels. when he came face to face in the lead. interestingly if you think back tracks like he was in his upright it's nice that he was no way

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the nasdaq is the best of the bunch. the dow is up nearly 230 points. the s&p 500 also jumping.t of 52 week highs. i also wanted to take a look at hewlett-packard. hewlett-packard which was beat up last year, today it is up 5%. it was the number one loser in the dow jones industrial. sony things that affected hewlett-packard and pushed it to the downside. it is no surprise to see if bouncing back. sometimes the ones that are the most beaten back are the ones to come back the fastest. that is the latest here at the new york stock exchange. sandra: the bullish bets are on the table today. commodities are hot. take a look at your biggest gainers. silver is leading the way. this has much more of an industrial component then those gold. silver is up by even a bigger percentage. up by 2% on the day. copper prices also getting a nice boost. crude oil prices up. gains a across the board. maybe not for all the right reasons. after that deal was done last night, the u.s. dollar extremely weak in today's session. the u.s. dollar weakness, that props up the dollars and denominated commoditi

it was the wise heads, the stain on the right -- the same on the right to reminded us of the need for deterrence. one such person put it this way. he said once every 25 years, and new generation discovers the horrors of the bomb and looks for a way out. but he said there is no way out. deterrance, like old age, is intolerable until one considers the alternative. that was about 25 years ago, charles krauthammer. [applause] what i want to say to charles is come home. [laughter] come home to the sad, necessary task of building a powerful containment and deterrent strategy against iran. of course of the once and iran with nuclear weapons. of course one wishes to place every obstacle in the way it had the same strategy of containing and deterring them so that eventually, we create circumstances where the young people of iran can take their country back. modernity and freedom and liberty. that is the course we are trying to move on. but there is no fantasy solution that says we cannot tolerate this and we are going to court to war instead and preemptively strike in other country in the midd

so, given the status of the motorola bay width system and the status of the other city departments' radio communications systems, we have also made two other recommendations requesting that the department of emergency management, which is the lead agency on the motorola bay web system, update the board on this system and how that works vis-a-vis the new federal policies and regulations. and to request in the department of technology, working with the department of emergency management. once they complete the studies that they're doing now on their coordinating the efforts for the rest of the city to bring those forward to the board of supervisors so that they are fully informed on what is going forward. >> thank you very much. supervisor kim? >> thanu.

on the floor of the u.s. senate starting next week. >> the 112th congress just ground to a halt, absolutely nothing done. the word record in recorded history. how did we get into this fix? >> well, starting in the '70s, it got worse and worse and worse. it used to be the filibuster was rare. very, very rare. so in lyndon johnson's tenure as majority leader which ended when he was vice president in january of '61, there was one filibuster in his six years. and harry reid's six years, almost 400. that's the contrast. it's gradual. the right to filibuster has been there since the modern senate was there. but it's the perversion of senators that are willing to filibuster anything, any single thing they bring this to bear. >> describe that perversion. >> that perversion is everything from the almost 100 judicial vacancies that you talked about to many examples of recess appointments in the executive branch. we just spent $3 billion on a presidential election and the president's appointees, most of them he makes no

on the newshour tonight, we get the latest on the decision and the reaction from the white house. >> brown: then, we hear from two of our newshour colleagues on the road: margaret warner reports from jerusalem on moves in israel to form a new coalition government. >> sreenivasan: and ray suarez updates the high-powered meetings of heads of state, business leaders, and others at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. >> brown: from mali, lindsey hilsum looks at tensions caused by government troops as they advance into islamist territory. >> sreenivasan: spencer michels has a story about trash and one city's crusade to eliminate all of it. >> reporter: san francisco boasts that it recycles 80% of all garbage, and is aiming for zero waste. but some skeptics don' believe it. >> brown: plus, mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real

the employees and throwing the heads out of the window of the newspaper office out on to the street. they were going for the highest level of horror possible. that's the terror in terrorism. american david headley was in the process of scouting locations for the danish attack, just as he had done for mumbai when he was arrested in chicago. and then yesterday david headley was finally sentenced to 35 queers in prison. he was sentenced in chicago. the only reason he didn't get life is because he turned state's evidence in what prosecutors say was a big way. only one of the actual gunman from the mumbai attack survived the attack itself. he was hanged in india last year. but as an orchestrator of the attack, david headley was tried here in the u.s. and you may recall that precisely nobody complained that it was too dangerous to try david headley here even though he was a terrorist involved in a complicated international terrorism plot. arrested here, questioned here, he turned against his former comrades and helped the u.s. catch more terrorists. he even testified against some of his fe

the upper was bj at the end of the war. that was the view he had and the leaders hated him. he was the exemplar of everything good that the democratic party has ever stood for. >> we will be back in a minute. >> this is democracy now. the war and peace report. oliver stone and peter have "the untoldok, history of the united states." >> i want to ask about president reagan. you have a chapter titled death squads for democracy. >> the caribbean is our lifeline to the outside world. two-thirds of foreign trade and petroleum pass through the panama canal and the caribbean. in the european crisis, nearly half would go through these areas by sea. >> talk to us about ronald reagan's central american policy. >> he sent it back about 20 years. he took the cold war to a new level. he almost took it to the edge of world war again. he said constantly that the soviet union was the head of the united states in every military capacity. we were always ahead. a a but we were always the underdog in our own mind. central america, in regin's mine, becomes the bulwarks of communism. -- in ronald