so this mark right here is sort of the low point of this whole driveway? that's right. again, the gradeight as that sidewalk right there, and this is how much drop we have at this point right here. this is like 14 or 15 inches from the sidewalk out front. and that's what we need to carry the water all the way around this driveway. okay, so once this is all graded off, where do we go from there? we're ready for base coat. kevin, this is some of the equipment they're going to need to put down the base coat. this is a paver. the asphalt will get dumped into that hopper and then spread out the back. we're going to have a roller and a big truck full of asphalt. sure beats shovels and rakes. roger: now, this is our base coat. it has a 3/4-inch stone and liquid asphalt in it, and you can see how hot it its. what's happening now is they're going to feed that into the paver. he's going to go around and lay it down at just the right thickness for us. kevin, the first thing he does is take the wing out to the width that he wants so that he can make one pass and cover this side of the driveway. aft

the sunol grade. >>darya: it sounds like will is driving and cannot really here as. we will keep you posted once he gets to the sunol grade. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. >>mark: a new this morning, overnight, after nearly nine years, the united states officially ended its military campaign in a rock with the lowering of the u.s. flag in this ceremony in baghdad. nearly 4500 americans were killed and 40,000 wounded in the past nine years. leon said that attended and think troops for their sacrifice. >> your effort to make this state a reality is nothing short of miraculous. this was one of the most complex logistical undertakings in the u.s. military history. 50,000 u.s. troops have withdrawn seamlessly. millions of pieces of equipment that had to be transferred while maintaining the security of our forces in the the security of the iraqi people. >>mark: 4000 troops will remain in a rock but it will be leading by the end of the month. here is a live look from the fallen soldiers memorial in lafayette next to highway 24. you can see the crosses marking the u.s. soldiers that have been killed in iraq an

the highest marks for safety. the insurance substitute for highway safety gave 115 vehicles the top crash test rating. every major car maker had at least one vehicle with the top grade. one reason for the marks this year, manufacturers redesigned the roofs of their cars to make vehicles more able to withstand rollover crashes. and if you still haven't finished your holiday shopping for the kids. you might be in luck. toys "r" us saying all stores will stay open for 112 straight hours next week. the retailer also planning to offer up some special sales, deep discounts and free gift cards so watch for those. that's it at cnbc. back to you, laura. >> i get the employees are sleeping in cots. >>> this morning california is holding onto a record it's not so proud of. the state is still second in the nation when it comes to foreclosure ls. in fact, foreclosures hit a 10-month high in november with 1 in every 211 properties filing. nationwide foreclosures were down 14% from a year ago. across the country, one in every 579 homes has a foreclosure filing. >>> it's 5:20 now. coming up, san francisco snubbed in restaurant rankings. >> i can't believe it. why chefs in the city

the top grade. one reason for the top marks this year, manufacturers redesign roofs to make cars able to withstand roleovlver crash. >>> all of the stores for toys "r" us will stay open every hour next week. they will not close until 10:00 p.m. on christmas eve. the retailer is planning to offer special sales during some of the days. hopefully that should give us plenty of time, barbara, to do what we have to do. >> that's for people like us. >> exactly, just for us. >> maybe this weekend we'll get started? >> it will have to be, because we're running out of time. >>> and today's wednesday child, we meet two kids with big dreams that recently got the chance to meet some washington greats. there are brothers hoping to have a loving family real soon. >> washington redskins wide receiver anthony armstrong got up early to show the boys around the facility in virginia. they tossed the ball around a little bit, and the toys told their host a little about themselves. >> what do you want to grow up to be? >> a football player. >> what about you? >> policeman. >> a policeman? >> and a lawyer and what else? >> and

of these market will tighten further despite russia being the world's biggest oil producer urals grade is not considered a global buy inch mark for the markets that it builds from the information agency plants explains. well they've been some concerns over security of russian supplies and also for the grade to become a benchmark it has to have a very liquid we would see this market they have already been a couple of attempts to make your rules futures market illiquid and the stablish the small kid but so far these attempts have failed haven't for about the russian grades can become a global benchmark in the future but it's not ready yet let's have a look at the markets now oil is down a sob but it's too near zero two weeks high after the us federal reserve and five other central banks cup the cost of emergency funding for european banks equity markets in europe are mixed this hour investors are eyeing mixed results from spanish and french bond auctions a downbeat survey out of range of the region's manufacturing sector because forty is up half a percent or so helped by banking stocks has b.c. holding is getting one point six

the other. it serves 800 schools from preschool to 9th grade. >>> the national guard is celebrating today. markedthe occasion by presenting a certificate. mcdonnell is commander in chief for more than 10,000 members of the virginia army national guard. the air national guard and the virginia defense boards. the national guard was founded back in 1636 in the state of massachusetts. hundreds of soldiers got a sweet holiday surprise thanks to virginia's first lady and volunteers. marine mcdonald and the office's wives club delivered homemade cookies. they are for singles only. the cookie give away is part of the serving our service members families initiative. >>> santa made an early visit to children in fairfax county today, but he had no sleigh or reign deer. santa rode in on a harley. he driverred to children at the fairfax hospitals. child life center and the cancer center. toys going to local charities, including the ronald mcdonald house. >> items once belonging to actress, elizabeth taylor hit the auction block today. pieces from her stunning jewelry collection. including earrings rings worn

notably, toyota posted the most names on that list, but every major carmaker had at least one vehicle that got a top grade. one of the reason for the top marksyear, manufacturers redesign the roofs of their vehicles to make them more able to with stand rollover crashes. if you haven't finished your holiday shopping for the kids, you might be in luck. toys are us is announcing all of its stores will stay open for 112 straight hours next week. toys are us stores won't close until 10:00 p.m. christmas eve so look for some of those promotions during some of those days. eun, back over to you. >> jackie, thank you. >>> well, there appears to be a side effect to this year's busy holiday shopping season. and that is buyer's remorse. shoppers waited in long lines to scoop up bargain deals and toys and clothes and tvs. but that spending spree turned into a bit of a holiday hangover, apparently. shoppers are start to go return irresistible discounted items that surpassed their budgets. the national retail federation says for every dollar stores brought in, they will have to give back near 10 cents in returns. >>> tis the season for holiday decorations.

the nation. state schools have also got high marks. but now the bar has been raised when it comes to grading principals and teachers based on how well students perform in the classroom. >> from the outset it was always the intention to build a model that would maximize the effectiveness of teachers within the classroom. >> a group called the educators effectiveness council made up of teachers, unions, and state lawmakers, have heard reports from nine school districts, which have already given the evaluation system a sort of test run. >> it looks different. teachers will have to learn the new model. we will begin by deleting -- piloting that within the school system. >> baltimore county, charles and kent counties, prince george's and st. mary's counties are also on board. >> we are struggling and will be looking to you and others to give us guidance about how to potentially move those conversations forward. >> school officials agree that what they have so far in writing is very much a work in progress. >> this is early stage private work. each of the school districts is involved at present. they're more focused on what measures to use than sp

mystery to the world what now for north korea with its leader kim jong il gone this massive military grade was held in two thousand and eight to mark north korea's sixtieth anniversary . wasn't there to greet the crowd with what suggested he suffered a stroke in two thousand and three reports claimed kim jong il died of diabetes and had been replaced in public by stand ins hired previously as a security measure he never spoke to the media had a profound fear of flying and ate with special chopsticks which could detect poison rumors have surrounded the so-called supreme leader throughout his life beginning with. according to one source he was born in the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty one during his father's exile. official biography claims his birth was heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow. our people take pride in the fact that they are blessed with great leaders from generation to generation. the leader of the democrat. atic peoples republic of korea since one nine hundred ninety four he succeeded his father kim il sung keeping korea close to the world kim jong il was also named supreme commander of the

the first speaker view that the high marks he has said that they could help students get in to college and change the whole face of the military. >> a kid who has a horrible grade point average and no matter thousand much he is studying, by giving him an amazing store, i am giving them a new chance at life. >> that show will be right here on news 17. >>> more on the merger between mobile and continental may be to blame. >> when you feet on the plane, the best hope is the pilot's training. it is as good as it could be. >> if you have asked the crews today, you might not get what you are locking for. >> it is where you practice it and sitting around in you are homes doing this. >> but to fly some of of the world's easiest routes, this is a new training practice for the unprepared. >> it is a lot of learning and retraining and that will rewire a row hues program. there is concern that too much is relyd on simulators. >> nothing like doing this over and other and it will be part of your routine. >> there were so many things, the new techniques, forgetting to put down the landing year for one. -- the procedures i have seen s have changed big time. >> they said that

the best grade. >> michele bachmann, which you gave her an a minus, but she's not going to -- it's safe to say at this point, it would require a miracle for her to get the nomination. mark ask you, do you share the same sentiments as michael? >> well, first i want to disagree with your premise about michele bachmann or anybody else. i think it's important we review our history. if you look back to december 2007, the front-runner over ten points was rudy guiliani and he was considered by most people in the media the presumptive nominee. things changed radically. i expect to see it change lieu the primary process, so i wouldn't presume bachmann is out of the race at this point. >> i hear your point there. fair to say on rudy guiliani. why are you hesitant to endorse or are you ready to endorse someone? >> first of all, to be clear, tea party patriots, which is the largest grassroots tea party organization in the nation, does not endorse candidates. we don't think it's good for citizen-run groups to endorse candidates. we believe they'll make decisions themselves. that is small government at its finest, so we don't endorse anybody. i think michael is correct, though, on th

the best grade. >> michele bachmann, which you gave her an a minus, but she's not going to -- it's safe to say at this point, it would require a miracle for her to get the nomination. mark you share the same sentiments as michael? >> well, first i want to disagree with your premise about michele bachmann or anybody else. i think it's important we review our history. if you look back to december 2007, the front-runner over ten points was rudy guiliani and he was considered by most people in the media the presumptive nominee. things changed radically. i expect to see it change lieu the primary process, so i wouldn't presume bachmann is out of the race at this point. >> i hear your point there. fair to say on rudy guiliani. why are you hesitant to endorse or are you ready to endorse someone? >> first of all, to be clear, tea party patriots, which is the largest grassroots tea party organization in the nation, does not endorse candidates. we don't think it's good for citizen-run groups to endorse candidates. we believe they'll make decisions themselves. that is small government at its finest, so we don't endorse anybody. i think michael is correct, though, on these two cand

the competition is open to students grade 5 through 12. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our next guest is rose gottemoeller. this week marked the one-year anniversary of the start treaty and we will talk about how the u.s. and russia are ferrying over the missile question and branched out into other hot spots including north korea and iran. a quick primer on what the start treaty did. guest: yes today was the one- year anniversary of the new start treaty -- yesterday. we had senate democrats and republicans joined together. it entered into force and it will take our strategic nuclear forces down to 1450 deployed warheads on each side. there were 12,000 nuclear warheads on each side originally. this will be the lowest number of deployed nuclear warheads since the 1950's. it is a big reduction and a big step forward. it is building a mutual understanding of what is going on inside our nuclear arsenal. host: are both countries on schedule in implementation? guest: absolutely. the russians are up to 17 inspections. we each have the right to do 18 inspections. the treaty year begins in february. the russians have one left. host:

the keyboard. mark duncan says he loves music and reading. >> he reads and writes? >> he can read and do math very well. he reads books on a tenth grade level. >> oh. >> when he reads, he can spell very well, too. once he read as book, he can usually write down a sentence, rewrite the sentence of what he understood. >> he studied the keyboard and all the buttons and began to play a five note tune figuring out ways to enhance the sound, drums, bells. >> he's just nonverbal. he's in a special ed program. it takes him slower to comp hepd things or communicate back to you. eventually, he does well. >> it's believed he could learn to communicate better with mechanical help. >> we are looking into a communication board to allow him to communicate verbally. >> on behalf of best buy -- >> they had gifts for him to take back to his group home, things they hope would inspire him to keep up his interest in electronics. >> he does a lot of random thing that is would blow you away. you wouldn't know that he could do it or understands it. once you get a chance to know justin, he's astonishing. >> barbara harrison, news 4 for wednesdays child. >> st

grades still a big factor but for the first time admissions officers will read every application instead of relying on computers. >>> by now you may be wondering where is zuckerberg spending his -- where is facebook founder mark zuckerberg spending his holidays? he has been in vietnam. state-run media says mr. zuckerberg spent christmas eve at high long bay a popular tourist spot and christmas day in the north machine town. sapa and rode a buffalo. he must be posting. not many of us can say that. the communist country forbids citizens from using facebook but younger crowds find ways to bypass the restrictions. >> riding a buffalo. >> let's go to vietnam for christmas. >> it's beautiful. >> pretty country. >>> 6:20. it's smelling like roses in southern california. we have a sneak peek at the premise for the big rose parade coming up. >> a cupcake a terror threat? why the tsa targeted a baked good. we'll tell you. season... bad behavior at shopping centers. one of the latest was >>> it is an ugly scene repeated too many times this holiday season. bad behavior at shopping centers and one of the latest was at the largest mall here in the country. a brawl was yesterday at the mall of america. that's in bloomington

the lecturing style to grading. when someone gives you back a paper, it has a great job! mcafee and and and arras at all marked up? re your grammatical mistakes corrected? is there a sense that the professors engaged in the process with you or are they just going through the motions? c-span: how old are your kids? >> guest: 214. c-span: do you think by the time they are old enough to go to college you will think it's a good idea to go to college? based on the fact right now one school in the country is $60,000 a year tuition. >> guest: i think if you pick and choose very wisely it is possible to get a decent college education but you have to be really careful and it begins with obviously choosing the college. i can can't tell you the number of people, they go to visit colleges with their high school juniors in the middle of the summer. why? what are you doing there in the middle of summer? you are just were just looking at the scenery? at you just look at the view book they sent you? go, sit in the classroom and don't just sit in on the classrooms that they take. you can visit the upper-level constitutional law cen