the official program is to catch, and release animals far from the city. dozens of animals have been rereleased this way. results have been mixed as the people in charge readily admit. >> we simply have too many bears. they used to be haunted freely. that was not good. we have strict e.u. rules and can only killed 300 per year at most. since we joined the e.u., injuries and property damage have soared. >> we are showing how much bureaucracy is needed to shoot a bear. the paperwork is daunting. by the time authorization is granted, the problem bear might have moved on, we've resulting in an uninvolved one being shot. we returned to a mauling victim. his neighbor takes him to see another man that was almost killed by a bear last summer. he was harvesting his wheat when a bear attacked him. >> and look what it did to me. it ripped up my scalp and mangled my ear. >> it is terrible. i understand that there should be protected. it is disgraceful when a bear's life is worth more than a human's live. >> they both played dead during their attacks, which may have sa

the national christmas tree lighting. it's where doug is. hey, doug. >> hey guys, a lot of people are starting to exit the program. the official program just ended with the president and his family up there with all the guests and performers on stage earlier all singing christmas songs. really kind of a -- like i said, a cool event. a cool thing to be a part of down here. along the ellipse, in front of the white house. the tree has been lit. a little bit earlier today, i was toward loudoun county, went to a school to talk about the weather. i want to say hi to my friends there. hello guys. we talked all about the weather. of course they were talking about the group that was going to be here today. we heard them earlier. that, of course, was big time rush along with many of the other groups out here, randy atkins and many others, too. a fantastic day out here. hello to all the kids we talked to earlier today. as far as the weather is concerned, a beautiful night. absolutely beautiful night considering we were in the 20s last year for the windchill. right now, we are at 48 degrees. not too bad. a little cold but not bad. winds o

this what you're about to see was the official program from that 1940 game played 71 years ago today ld griffith stadium here in d.c. >> cool. >> that's amazing. >> maybe that's a good tactic, though, the coaches now can call the skins cry babies and they'll get all fired up and go out and decimate other teams. >> that's why you never say that about another team. 1940. >> what did you say? >> nice artistic work. >>> it looks like a rat almost, a big rat. >> it's a bear. >>> tucker. >> that's cool trivia, tony. there you go. sunshine, cool today with winds, it's going to feel like 30s all day. coat weather here to stay. cold tonight. army/navy game on saturday, a redskins game on sunday. >> big weekend. one of our smart elik staff members brought this up and said you can hang this ornament on the tree since i broke the other one. >> that's not even funny. >> never mind. i'll do it tomorrow. please continue to send them in. >> i'm sorry. >>> hi, we're the world famous radio city rockettes. we're here to celebrate the holidays on "the wendy williams show." how you doin'? >> it's time for

the european central bank's documents and it is this it's essentially a bond buying program that was formally established on may fourteenth two thousand and ten by the european central bank the official purpose of the program is to address the malfunctioning of securities markets and restore an appropriate monetary policy transmission mechanism ok what does that mean because that one actually sounds like gibberish and we do some very generous oriented definitions here ok let me break it down basically malfunctioning of securities markets is just another way of saying really bad bond auctions and starting with greece and having moved all the way to italy we've seen that investors are no longer willing to buy the bonds of a highly indebted member states without receiving higher yields in return now this is driven up borrowing costs and what is it done it's forced the e.c.b. to step in and buy bonds in much the way as the federal reserve has done with q.e. one and q.e. two and order to keep these countries from defaulting here you can see it i want to show you how it how it looks on. this graph because day to day you can see the e.c.b. is buying of bonds for the s. and p. with that at t

the wind chill is reading 13 degrees. last year it was higher at 20 degrees. under the program officials distribute information on shelters and respond to calls regarding people at risk for extreme cold exposure. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with john collins. >> some clouds have drifted in this evening. they are thin. as you can see here, the bill and is quite visible tonight. this is a live picture of the moon. it is a full moon. we also have an eclipse coming up. is not in effect right now. by around daybreak, a slight shadow will appear on the part of the moon. the mood will be setting at that point. it will be low in the western sky. at the same time, the sun will be rising. the shadow that will appear will be rather obscure. it will not be a clear-cut shadow. man not be visible and it just depends on how many clubs we have any of the sky is bright. a partial lunar eclipse. the eclipse will occur before that. around 7:00 a.m., 6:45. you might want to give it a shot. it will be more of a complete lunar eclipse up in the mountains. here on the east coast we only see a slight sh

county officials are looking inform bring the bike share program to residents. ng to "the washington post." county officials have applied for a $1 million grant from the state's transportation department. if the grant goes through, 29 stations would open in bethesda, silver spring, takoma park, and other parts of the country. capital bike share is already set to open next year in rockville and shady grove. >>> even as the christmas music begins to fade, many here in washington are still reflecting on the true meaning of christmas. more than 1,000 people packed the national shrine of the immaculate conception for the christmas mass. afterwards, volunteers served about 1,000 or lonely residents looking for a holiday meal. for some it was the start of a new tradition. >> we're trying to reach out and help families have a happy christmas and a good holiday. >> just giving back to people who really need it. >> you can see the smiles on their face, and it makes you feel really good inside. a little bit of your time to make their memories go a long way. >> putting faith

the implementation of the programs. however, cms is not positioned to do this. as a result, it was unknown whether the program had provided any financial benefits. cms officialstold us that it was too early to determine whether the program had provided benefits since it had not met its goals for the widespread use. to help ensure that the development and implementation of idr are successful in helping cms meet the goals of the >> and integrity initiatives and possibly save tens of billions of dollars, we made several recommendations to cms. among our recommendations was that the agency finalize plans and schedules for incorporating additional data into idr, finalists plans and schedules for training all program integrity analysts intended to use 1pi and to track outcome based performance measures to gauge progress for meeting program goals. in commenting on the draft of our report, cnn's agreed with our recommendations. the agency's timely implementation of these recommendations could lead to reduced fraud and waste and overall savings in medicare and medicaid program. this concludes my oral statement. i look forward to addressing your questions. >> thank you

the russian capital you're watching our t.v. joshie welcome to the program egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country since the pharoahs follows a two day delay in publishing the outcome and the results still failed to paint a full picture where the vast majority of candidates now set to go into a runoff. sums up the latest from the polls. as we've heard from the electoral commission is that voter turnout stood at sixty two percent this means that some many egyptians turned out to cost their ballots and while this figure is high it is still to all be expected seventy percent voter turnout that was earlier predicted not each vote the ballots were for individual candidates and one was for political process as far as the individual candidates go here no candidate had an out white majority which means that many of them will have a runoff next week when it came time for the head of the electoral commission to announce how the political parties have done he simply said to quote him they had run out of gas and he called a press conference. and at this stage though we

asking about holder's resignation over is that in the first couple of weeks after this program was discovered at least at the headquarter level the officialsidn't have all of the facts nor would you expect them to. this program was run entirely out of the phoenix office. it was not done with the knowledge at least of very much officials in washington. you don't expect to these kind of sting operations to be done with much communication back in washington. in fact, thousands of investigations are going on simultaneously. you can hardly expect the attorney general for the head of the division to know all of the details about it. grassley demands a response at the end of january of 2011. not all the information is, correct. give ten as covert program they don't have all of the details and all of a sudden grassley and the republicans are calling for eric holder's h head. to me that sounds like politics and does not sound like a serious charge of attempting to misrepresent issues, matters to congress. this sounds like mostly politics to me. remember, eric holder was the guy that stopped this when the bush administration had this going aggressiv

the u.s. secure communities program, immigration officials asked local jails to fingerprint and hold individuals for possible deportation. the goal is to identify illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes. but opponents including former sheriff michael hennessey says the program results in undocumented immigrants who are not accused of serious crimes being deported. >>> contra costa county says it has made an arrest in a shooting last night. deputies responded to san miguel drive about seven -- 7:15 last night. there they found jeffrey patterson dead. police arrested shannon mitchell alexander sr. at the scene. the two men knew each other says the sheriff's department. >>> a teacher at diablo view middle school was charged today with 20 sex crimes for allegedly having sex with an underaged girl. andrew catrell's bail was increased from $175,000 to $1.1 million. walnut creek police arrested the teacher on campus last friday and he confessed to accusations involving a former student. >>> a man says his one man sperm bank has helped many people conceive. but the fda is now telling him to

the implementation of the programs. however, cms is not positioned to do this. as a result, it was unknown whether the program had provided any financial benefits. cms officialstold us that it was too early to determine whether the program had provided benefits since it had not met its goals for the widespread use. to help ensure that the development and implementation of idr are successful in helping cms meet the goals of the >> and integrity initiatives and possibly save tens of billions of dollars, we made several recommendations to cms. among our recommendations was that the agency finalize plans and schedules for incorporating additional data into idr, finalists plans and schedules for training all program integrity analysts intended to use 1pi and to track outcome based performance measures to gauge progress for meeting program goals. in commenting on the draft of our report, cnn's agreed with our recommendations. the agency's timely implementation of these recommendations could lead to reduced fraud and waste and overall savings in medicare and medicaid program. this concludes my oral statement. i look forward to addressing your questions. >> thank you

the whole bit. all while driving. that's dangerous. >> already popular capital bike share program could soon be heading to montgomery county. according to "the washington post." county officialsking to bring the bike sharing program to their residents. county officials applied for a $1 million grant from the state's transportation department. and if the grant goes through 29 stations would open in bethesda, silver spring, takoma park, other parts of the county. capital bike share sets to open next year in rockville and shady grove. >>> d.c. is calling on an outside firm to investigate cheating on standardized tests in its classrooms. a spokesman for the superintendent told "the washington post" that the firm reviewed questionable scores from 2011. they will look for i regularities including large numbers of answers erased and changed from wrong to right. in may, city officials invalidated scores from three classrooms due to cheating and back in march "usa today" reported that more than 100 d.c. schools had unusually high rates of erasures. >>> baltimore county has the dubious distinction of having the miest school suspension rates in the state of maryland. according to "the b

the course of events, i met many chinese government officials all over china. in the past two weeks, i got five different comments from different people about this program here. government officials expressing their appreciation for the fact that we would be willing to do this as a sign of how we might be as a business partner this china. and to me, that's very surprising. we do have one chinese tenant, who is an affiliate of the government. china medical city. i don't know if they're here today. what i've learned is that a lot of people outside of the bay area are watching what we're doing with a rot of interest, -- lot of interest, because how to create the starting point for companies other than just say go find money on your own. has been difficult. particularly in life science where is a lot of infrastructures needed to be effective. so with that, thank you very much. we get the one week of the year where the weather is fantastic, or the one month, so enjoy it. it's not like this all the time. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, tom. now i'd like to introduce eric cher. eric has r.n.d. for solaria. solaria has been with us a little over two year

the country convicted rapists murderers and paedophiles use it to escape just punishment for change from. watching aren't we going to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country quote since the faroes announcement follows a two day delay in publishing the outcome and no clear winner is likely was the vast majority of candidates now set to go into a runoff but as artie's polis leader reports even these figures may be put into question. well we're going for the military council representatives will be announced today saturday but this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those even some results were first exposed to be given on the winds gate we also know hearing from the commission that the voter turnout they gave that stood at sixty two percent which suggested that more than eight million people turned out that that figure is under the view off to some questions were raised about irregularities and the way that epicenter of sixty two was actually reached so we might actually hear later today that the voter turnout is significantly lower w

move forward with possible changes on how we program the park, and i think it is important we move forward to a gauge in that discussion. i believe the official discussion about how sharp park will be programmed has not been clear that perhaps the golf course itself is not something that is sustainable for the city to continue to do. [applause] that was clapping for my approval, but we want to minimize the amount of cli apping that is going on. i do appreciate the applause, but let's just minimize that completely. we will cut it out completely. >> there will be costs if we close the golf course. we will have to do an environmental impact report at some point. let's say that it gets more than eight votes and you do not have to worry about a mayor veto. let's say there is an exception. let's say all of these hurdles are cleared. eventually you will have to do an environmental impact report. if your aim is to close the golf course, why not start the process ahead of time? by passing this, you are throwing a bone to folks to get them excited. you are not doing anything to achieve the end you want any quicker. if anything, you are delaying the pro

the beltway right through virginia as well. if transportation officials in montgomery get their way, there could be a bike share program in maryland. capital bike share is already a reality in the district as well as arlington county. according to "washington post," the county transportation officials have applied for a $1 million grant. the money would be used to operate the program in southern montgomery county with 29 stations and locations including bethesda, chevy chase, silver spring, the medical center area, friendship heights, chevy chase and takoma park. they expect the state grants to be announced early next year. a $1.3 million grant the county got in june is intended to establish bike sharing in rockville and shady grove. >> every time i look at that, i think why didn't i think of that? >> such a great idea. >> fun music. felt like we were getting ready to dance. time for the first your money segment. jessica doyle will join us live in the next hour. wall street closed today! because of the holiday. did gain some ground last week on some hopeful signs of the u.s. economy and the job market. dow climbed 124 points on fr

recruits in cities plagued by dangerous drug cartels now the state department is looking to expand that program to 32 states in mexico in october officials met with chicago police superintendent garry mccarthy to encourage him to renew chicagos participation in the program >>a democratic proposal that would weaken state pension reform legislation has won approval from a house panel and could go before the full house today legislation passed less than two weeks ago would stop the process of basing public pensions on bigger union salaries it would also cake to well-paid teachers union lobbyists out of the pension system there were able to join after substitute teaching for just one day the new proposal makes an exception for current union officials on leave from their regular jobs to get more lucrative pensions and allow the two lobbyists to stay in the pension system >>the illinois legislature is back in springfield today for a special session to keep jobs in illinois lawmakers are breaking up a tax relief bill that failed in a new effort to get the entire package approved the first bill would offer about $100 million to the cme group ...

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meanwhile, the air force is in the process of implementing its own version of the program. >> woodruff: psychotherapist bryant welch and officialsm the army will answer your questions about the comprehensive soldier fitness program online. submit your questions to our website at newshour.pbs.org. >> ifill: now, the obama justice department weighs in on the debate over new voting laws. we begin with some background. millions of potential voters may not be able to cast votes in 2012, after a dozen states put new restrictions in place this year. six states passed laws that limit early voting. and eight states will now require voters to present state- issued photo identification cards in order to cast a ballot. previously, only indiana and georgia had strict photo i.d. requirements. the obama justice department is now objecting to the new laws. attorney general eric holder spoke last night in austin, texas at the presidential library of lyndon b. johnson who signed the voting rights act in 1965. >> we need election systems that are free from fraud, discrimination, and partisan influence and that are more, not less, accessible to the

officials canceled the vote. wjz is live. adam may explains what this means for the future of the program. adam? >> reporter: city officials say they are moving forward. but organizer says they need more time to get support. >> reporter: just weeks ago, protestors expressed outrage over plans to close rec centers. part of the mayor's plan calls for turning over a handful to priority operators. that also triggered community backlash. >> you can't keep cutting the children short. >> reporter: now, city officials delay a contract vote on that privatization plan. >> we want to make sure that this is done right, with the amount of community support and community engagement, make sure that it's accepted. >> reporter: some people say rec centers are being eliminated. what's your response? >> my response is that we are expanding. >> reporter: city officials say the public doesn't fully understand the plan, while the number of rec centers will drop from 55 to 30, the city will also build four brand-new, large regional rec centers. they'll have jim gymnasiums, kitchens and computer labs. >> when this plan

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department of agriculture administers the food stamp program officially called the supplemental nutrition. purchases with the food stamp electronic card are strictly limited to food according to lou jacobson with politifact. >> the food stamp card will not let you buy anything. it looks like a credit card, called an ebt card. it's something which if you take it to the cash register it will tell you what you can purchase and can't purchase. >> reporter: that means you can't use it for a plane ticket to hawaii or anything else. they rate that pants on fire. what about the claim there are millionaires living on food stamps? to qualify, your net income as an individual must be no more than $11,000. for a family of four, the income cutoff is about $22,000. but that's income. what about assets? what if you had a million dollars in the bank and had no income? only 13 states use assets a a test for food stamp eligibility. that means it's technically possible for someone with assets of more than a million dollars with very low income qualifying for food stamps. >> i feel pretty good about that. >>

the unmanned u.s. plane was shot down in eastern iran and seized by their forces. they say it violated iranian airspace. they are in dispute over their nuclear program. u.s. officials have not confirmed the report. the attack comes dr. 25 arrived back home after being kicked out of britain. officials there expelled the diplomat after students in tehran attacked british compounds. the german foreign ministers says the iranian foreign minister has expressed regret about the storming of the british embassy. at home, a celebration for local service members. maryland and the national guard were honored. do sheldon dutes is live in the studio on today's recognition ceremony. >> this is celebrating the guard accomplishments this year. this is also a time to reflect. ♪ it has been a busy year for the maryland national guard. enlisted members took a moment to celebrate their accomplishments. they were honored during a bit celebration in little river. >> wetherbee evaluation, inspection, deployment, you have always exceeded the standard. you have always excelled. you have always met the needs of our citizens and supported the state and federal emissions at the same time. tod

the black caucus. there's a program where cabinet officials will go out and talk about the president's record including solis doing an event today and there is a grass-roots efforts to go out to various places where people gathered and talk about the president's record. >> has he lost black support along the way? >> it might be down a little bit. the president's had people who voted for him and people are less excited about him than they were. it wants everyone who got excited in 2008 to get excited again for 2012. have a good week. >>> representatives for more than 100 countries are meeting in germany today to discuss the future of afghanistan after most foreign forces will leave the country in 2014. the united states and organizers said it will go ahead with promises of continued aid to afghanistan. >>> there will be golf carts used in select parking garages around the metro system. >>> head of basketball fans -- you can get your hands on tickets for the first game for thewashington. the regular season begins on christmas day. >>> authorities want to know why an escalator at fedex field suddenly stop

the federal government is awarding the state more than $52 million for early childhood education programs. officials say they'll use the money to study and rate the quality of programs around the state. the goal? to find the best program and make them even more effective over time. early childhood education programs are designed to get kids ready for kindergarten. good programs help kids succeed academically as well as socially. >>> i wonder if i had the same weather experience a lot of people did today. frost on the ground early this morning. middle of the day, oh, my gosh, when did the day turn beautiful? >> you needed to listen closer yesterday to my forecast. i told you exactly that, garvin. a real nice rebound as we headed throughout today. we're going to see the same throughout saturday and sunday. i'll forgive you for that one. we had our christmas party here last night. 61 in fremont. 63 in livermore. 64 in concord. 71 in santa rosa. 61 in san francisco. and 60 down into santa cruz. speaking of christmas, even though it is going to be cold tonight and into tomorrow morning, we're going to fi

killed by mistake to genuinely dangerous militants killed on purpose because the government's official position on the cia drone programexist. we do know, however, that when a drone blows up a home with children in it it makes headlines in local papers. we know it does not engender goodwill. we know that none of us here at home are forced to think much about what it would be like to be the father or the mother of a child killed from above. this year on september 30th the cia led a drone operation against anwar al awlaki in yemen. he was a cleric and suspected leader of al qaeda who had been convicted of no crimes. he was suspected of being involved with terrorism. he'd never been convicted of it. he was an american citizen. he was born in america. and he was killed by an american drone strike. so far as we know it was the first time ever that u.s. forces planned to kill and did kill an american citizen. two weeks later another strike in yemen against another suspected terrorist killed awlaki's teenage son. the boy was 16 years old. he was in yemen searching for his father.ç relatives say he and some friends were about

a new spy satellite and concerns over the north korean missile program, with launches coming from their space center. officials say that the satellite can take photos of -- photos from space at night and during bad weather. this is the first visit between security forces and protesters in bahrain. a report last night of police using excessive force against protesters. making a packed lunch every day for their children to take to school is a chore facing merit -- many parents, usually mothers, round the world. but in japan is not just about health. it has to look good as well. the ancient japanese schools -- skills of food preparation have been brought to the lunch box. >> id is lunchtime here at this kindergarten in -- >> it is lunchtime here at this kindergarten in japan. the children are eager to see what was made for them. in this country, a dry sand which wrapped in tinfoil just will not do. the drive lunch has been elevated to -- dry lunch has been elevated to an art form. here, this looks like hello kitty. right next to her, her friend, it looks like a piano. this man is an acknowledged master of making

. >> with 300 to 450 women receiving mental health treatment in the jail every day, officials must rely on group therapy programsow to deal with their problems when they leave jail. >> explain that to me. >> to stay off drugs if you're young and you're basically trying to be somebody in life, leave those drugs alone because if you are on drugs, you can't cope. >> it sounds like all of you guys here are really seeing the impact of how drugs have influenced where you are today. >> we have no coping skills. >> yeah, right. >> that's why i, in order to start over i turned myself in so i can end it all. i'm ready to quit, get away from it all. it gets old. >> inmate dina marie benz says jail provided the opportunity to come clean of the 15 years of drug addiction that threatened her and her three children. >> my 17-year-old understands. she gets mad at me, you know. my 5-year-old, he just wants to be with me. but that's why i'm here. i talked to him yesterday and was just like do you know where mommy is? he says, yeah, in jail. that's the first time i talked to him in months. but he knows when i get out that i'll be

the male panda and they are on loan from china until 2015, but zoo officials were having difficulty acquiring new funding for the breeding programtoday, a $4.50 million gift was announced to help keep the panda program going strong. the maryland food bank is getting $10,000 to help combat hunger. at&t made it a nation this morning and the food network and wholefoods number are teaming up in the no kid hungry campaign to end childhood hunger. all the nations will go to the whole food in arteries to benefit the maryland food bank. >> nine months after he was brutally beaten while attending a dodgers game for wearing a giants jersey can barely speak and may be permanently disabled. >> we will talk to the doctor about this and whether or not the incident should be a wake-up call for smaports. >> someone in the seven-day forecast, but first a look outside. partly to mostly cloudy skies. 49 att class coming up tonight, the fight over payroll tax cuts continue. my top house republicans oppose the measure already approved by the senate and what it to mean for you starting january 1st. a mother takes the stand in a landmark case against

what they started to do is because the official afghan recognized -- reconciliation program has established provincial offices they want to make sure there is a provincial civil society group in every province that does some of the watchdog functions that are so critical. i really do think it is about bringing those things locally. i want to say because it is important when we talk about declining resources someone is used to working in afghanistan because there was little money. a lot of these are not terribly expensive. they do require people to feel they can safely engage in this activity. i think the political emphasis on civil society is going to be as important as the funding going forward. >> a woman by the camera. behind you. straight behind you. >> thanks very much. the friend committee on national legislation. not afghanistan or development expert but what we do know is violent conflict undermines development and can throw aside the best laid plans and from the experience in afghanistan we know the military is not very good at development even when it is part of a strategy where t

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