chris jansing, nbc news, trenton, michigan. >> told you that was a great story.ecause we know how charitable and generous so many of you are, if you would like to join in the work of little dresses for africa or would just like to learn more about the organization, find it on our website, nightly.msnbc.com. for now, that's our broadcast for a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. and as we take another look at the tree out back, all lit up for the holidays, i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night from new york. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a big what humbug as home owners fight to keep thieves are stealing their christmas decorations. >> a grinch with a grudge. a south bay neighborhood is banding together tonight to help catch a thief who

now when i came to trenton, i was new to the school yard. so, i walked out on to the school yard like any new kid and made my observations. there were a bunch of elected officials, bureaucrats, laying on the ground, bleeding, cowering and crying. there was one person standing up. that's the bully. that is the bully in the school yard. and you have a chance as governor of new jersey. every governor for the last 30 years has walked out on to the same school yard, and you have a choice. you go up and you try to sidele up next to the bully and try to make friend with him. you try to tell him i disagree with a couple of things, but not that much. you try to get them not to dislike you too much so they don't punch you. that is the path that has been chosen by many of our governors of both parties over that period of time. other you walk-on to the school yard, and you say you punch them, i punch you. [applause] you come in, and you say, "you protect lousy teachers, i'm going to tell the public about it." you come in, and you say, "you are getting 4

now when i came to trenton, i was new to the schoolyard. so, i walked out on to the schoolyard like any new kid and made my observations. there were a bunch of elected officials bureaucrats, laying on the ground bleeding, cowhering, crying. there was one person standing up. that was the bully. that's the bully in the schoolyard. every governor for the last 30 years has walked on to the same schoolyard. you got a choice. you go up and you try to sidle up to the bully and make friends with them. you try to get them not to dislike you too much so they don't punch you. that's the path chosen by many of our governors, of both parties over that period of time. or you walk out on the schoolyard, and say, you punch them, i punch you. you come in. you come in and say, you protect lousy teachers, i'm going to tell the public about it. you come in and you say, you're getting four and five -- four and 25% salary increases in a world like this. and they demand free health benefits from the day a teacher is hired for her or him and their family until the

we grew up in the city of trenton. he served as a republican on the board.o help the city of trenton, even though we talked about different ways, we came together for the good of our community. as a result, we have the trenton devils, a aa hockey franchise. we worked together. it takes courage. i can remember going to the suburban areas in our town and people would tell him, because he became a county executive and i became a mayor, they said they were for building a baseball stadium, but not in trenton. we would never get out of there alive. here is a republican whose own party was telling them this and he had the courage and conviction to see what it would mean for the economy and businesses. he said, "it is not not in trenton." that is what it is all about. common sense solutions. i understand people are mad. people have lost their jobs and their pensions, they are losing their homes, they need college tuition for their children. people are taking it vantage in very partisan ways. it is time for you and i to sit at the table. if you do not have a seat at

the roles royce trenton 900 engine on the airbus 380 blew apart in midair last month. australian investigators say a misaligned oil pipe caused that failure. they recommended all three airlines that fly the 380 to conduct more checks. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" a strong showing by asian stocks this morning. ashley morrison is here in new york with much more on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning to you, betty. asian markets followed the dow's lead, japan's nikkei leaping nearly 2%, while hong kong's hang seng added nearly 1%. today, wall street gets the latest on homes sales and weekly jobless claims. wednesday, stocks started december off with a big bang. the dow shot up almost 250 points, its biggest one-day gain in three months, while the nasdaq added 51. >>> a string of positive reports suggests the economic recovery is gaining steam. private companies added 93,000 jobs in november, the biggest monthly gain in three years. most of the hiring came from small businesses. the auto industry's recovery is also gaining traction, major automakers including ford,

now, when i came to trenton, i was new to the schoolyard, so i walked on to the schoolyard like any new kid and made my observations. there was a bunch of elected officials, bureaucrats laying on the ground bleeding, cowarding, crying. there was one person standing up. that's the bully. that's the bully in the schoolyard. you have a choice as governor of new jersey, every governor for the last 30 years walked on to that same schoolyard, and you got a choice. you go up and you try to saddle up next to the bully, try too make friends. with him. you try to get them not to dislike you too much so they don't punch you. that's the path chosen by our governors of both parties over that period of time, or you walk on to the schoolyard and you say, you punch them, i punch you. [applause] you come in -- [applause] you come in and say you protect lousy teachers, i'll tell the public about it. you come in and you say, you're getting 4-5% salary increases a year in a 0% inflation world, i'm telling people about it. in new jersey, the teacher unions demand free health benefits from the day a teacher

party and then i would go again for another year and a half, so i was, like, hustling, i started from trentonent to maryland, then i went to virginia, i was going further and further south and further and further away from that dream, and as -- you know, i was being more successful, rap at that time wasn't in the place that it is now as far as artists becoming business men or getting paid. what happened, most times, is we would pull up in mercedes and lexuses and all these big cars and these rappers would pull up in a turtletop, maybe 12 of them in there -- >> charlie: you were looking at the mercedes and the turtletop and say "i'll hustle more"? >> yeah, prolonged it for a long time because it was -- it was like -- you know, these guys -- it was sad, in a way -- these guys were working so hard and they're missing their families and they're away from their families and they're working hard and they're performing on stage and at the end of the day some other person is being -- is getting rich from all of their talent, so we didn't really look at rap as an escape until, like, the mid 1990's whe

officials at canadian forces based trenton saying they're lowered from choppers to rescue people.pressed by pictures of snow and stranding. it happens. >> of course. >> these are something else. >> it happens on i-90 to the southwest of buffalo. it happens to the northeast of cleveland. when people think it's okay and all of a sudden this one streamer as we call it -- and it literally looks like a rain event that doesn't move on a raid parp but it's snow and coming off the great lakes. it is so much snow that it looks like rain. now, there's not much moisture in snow, right. so it takes an unprecedented amount of snow to impress a radar image to make it look like it's really raining there. when you see those things -- it happens when rain or cold air comes down the lakes, down the lakes, down the lakes or over the lakes depending on -- we call it fetch. how long the lake is. the more snow you get here compared if the wind is going that way right there. i'll take it to google. that's where the snow event happened. toledo, detroit, windsor on up i-94, i-69. major cross country -- >>

trenton, new jersey. david, republican. good morning. caller: how are you? in 2009 when quite a few hundred thousand people every month were losing their jobs, it was in our paper some mons ago, obama met in 1.2 billion -- issued a 1.2 billion pieces, including 800,000 unskilled, and mostly of course these are third world immigrants and that is just legal, not to mention illegal. which is insane when you have a great recession or a depression. we did not allow millions to come in from germany or mexico during the great depression when people were standing in the bread lines pretty you halt migration when you have 25 million unemployed or underemployed, but we will not do it because we are addicted to immigration that happens in perpetuity for ever -- forever. i have been on unemployment for three months. i already have a part-time job. allowed to make an extra close to 100 on the books. i do everything by the book. gaining back about what i was making. but i went from $25 an hour to $9.50 an hour, because of illegal immigration, which took my trade. my broth

one is joining us in 20 -- one that is joining us in trenton, new jersey. will the state of things to change in the next few years? caller: i am a pessimist. i do not think we have made enough changes for them to change. we did not take the senate. they do not really have to go along and obama has the veto pen. i'm not sure where we are going. host: thanks for your call. some of the headlines on this friday morning -- you can read those stories online at thehill.com. curtis is joining us from pensacola, florida. caller: i have a request that c- span have a new year resolution and could getting off the right wing protocol on stuff. and you are overdoing it with the right wing. i do not feel like there are going to be any changes. the only way there will be changes is term limits in the house and senate. until that happens, there will never be changed. at least, looking to my request. host: what specifically is of setting you. caller: first of all, how many times this past year did you say democrats only. host: not that often, i do not think. caller: exactly,

i see this in new jersey under the auspices of the bishops of the diocese of mccutchin, bishop of trenton, bishop o'connell, dedicated people such as francis doland and joyce campbell, mary ann, and on the national scene, reverend schneider, the president, providing a fine example of how service and care and compassion that are motivated by faith and religious teachings are delivered in a nonsectarian way available to people of all faiths. . these people let their good works speak. communities that are marred by disasters such as hurricanes, fires, floods find catholic charities there as one of the greatest providers of financial and technical assistance and training and most of all compassion and care. i ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing 100 years of good works of catholic charities u.s.a. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from -- the gentleman from texas reserves his time. the gentleman from california. mr. issa: thank you, mr. speaker. time is short. i believe this will be unanimously passed. whether it's father joe carroll in san diego or countless

this is something that has been ongoing for the police department in trying to find a trenton what'sld's is concerned, the the open in an hour in time for lunch hour. >> when it comes to a company like mcdonald's you figure they have all sorts of procedures to the web video? are they looking at the way the changing doing it? speaking at this time no one wants to come out and talk to us, i went up there i knocked they shy away and walked away. just being someone who goes in, you can see there's security cameras you know that our lease and that will assist the investigation. they were cooperating i tried to stop some of the employees they were tight-lipped as well. there were a year for a long time with the police department. since the robbery was reported. they had them, question them, they allow the reformation and the employees. >> thank you, market. >> new details that of any act of man confessed to taking a woman to death behind his truck. 51-year- old lucio rivera-avila, knew the victim and confessed to the crime after being questioned.the victim was identified as 47-year-old she

take a look, here's harold zagnip, trenton, new jersey, 100 years old, lives with his lovely wife of years old today. hosts a party every saturday night for her friends. josephine richardson, josephine's from florence, mississippi. 100 years old. grows vegetables and gives them to friends. that's it. that's all from washington at this time. >> willard, thank you. >>> well, this morning on today's real estate, what you can get for $400,000 or less from traditional homes to modern open floor plans and a lot of sweeping views in between, we've got some great homes from coast to coast. barba barba barbara corken is our real estate contributor. let's take a look. let's start with a beautiful three-bedroom home in minneapolis, minnesota, priced at $350,000. >> and minneapolis is outperforming the nation in the job market. they added $28,000 jobs in the last year alone. this is a simple brown 19s to colonial. i think it should be painted white to look a little bit better. but you're paying half of the house and half for the family location, and the top-rated schools. and just a few blocks a

the transport safety bureau says that lufthansa and singapore airlines that use the same trenton 900assange for questioning and denies the accusations made by two swedish women who work for him. assange has sparked international outrage by posting secret documents about america's diplomatic relations and the wars in afghanistan and çiraq. >>> the house is expected to vote in favor of censure for new york congressman charles rangel. earlier this month the house ethices committee suggested that censure as punishment for his violation. it is the ultimate punishment for wrong doing under house rules. the 40-year veteran congressman made a last ditch attempt to sway the decision e-mailing 20,000 supporters requesting they contact their congressman to vote against censure. >>> a man at the center of the investigation into the slaying of hollywood publicist ronnie chaisson has died of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. detectives in los angeles say he shot himself on wednesday as they tried to question him about chaisson's murder. he was 64, and he was killed as she drove home after attending