u.s. homeland security department even recruited science fiction writers to help think up the next great inventions. i will tell you the secret of where you live the media were doing about a flying car because she could drive a real one so she says she wants to skip that i mean getting. started well as a matter of fact nick. what other sorry for inventions can you mention big ones that really today haven't yet but will come to a real life have you invented something of the kind that is good that you feel will . unfortunately or fortunately or not i was more into the social side. of looking into possible or social models for the future generations have invented anything better than communism. or well. ideals i think i think more alike you're talking. on the very traditional culture we are slowly but steadily getting back to our roots the more the society which is destroying basically their traditional model of human behavior is quickly leading the society to never double inevitable and because if you open for example you'll put a career in front of family in front of being a father or mother or your

drones, unmanned aircraft, are used by the department of homeland security to watch over u.s. ports and international borders. the fbi and about a dozen police and sheriff's departments also have them but critics say that the drones are an invasion of privacy. >>> coming up, they jumped into action to save the life of a baby born on the streets of san francisco. >> those two police officers are being hailed as heroes. they share their emotional stories coming up. >> and a breakthrough in the "fiscal cliff" face-off. which side seems to be giving in as they work toward a compromise. >> not a big storm but a soggy start to the day. things are going to start to clear out. we could be in for a cold night. we'll talk about that coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, may avoid the dreaded "fisc cliff." president obama and house speaker >>> well, the nation's capital, there's a soon of hope that we may not step off the "fiscal cliff." president obama and house speaker john boehner have been discussing a new deal this morning. they met for about 45 minutes. boehner offered a new plan in which ta

unmanned aircraft are used by the department of homeland security to watch over u.s. ports and international borders. the fbi and a dozen police and sheriff's departments also have them. critics contend that the drones are an invasion of privacy. >>> we have to have our gas price story for the morning and this time it's encouraging news. gas prices continue to fall. aaa says the statewide average price for a gallon of regular is $3.57 down 24 cents from mid- november. the highest price in the bay area is san francisco at $3.62 but that's down 30 cents from a month ago. oakland at $3.51 and the average in san jose is also $3.51. >>> pleasant surprise for people parking in san francisco. never easy. the city's newer sf park meters charged less on average than the old models. the 7,000 newer devices set rates based on demand. and since their installation last year, average hourly rates have dropped by 14 cents. 17% of those meters offer hourly rates of $1 or less. i didn't even -- i didn't even know that's possible in san francisco anymore. >> shockingly contrary to prece

security of the u.s. refugee admissions program for responsibility and state department shares of the department of homelandsecurity. specifically the state department's population refugees and migration to settlement support center is the next preliminary overseas prescreening per u.s. admissions, collected pertinent biographic information necessary for numerous counselor law enforcement and intelligence reviews. the state department is responsible for checking a refugee applicants against the consular lookout and support system known as class, which comprises security information from the fbi's terrorist screening center and dhs as well as certain intelligence agencies. certain refugee applications are by the state department for security by surrey opinion. this check requests or law-enforcement and intelligence agencies share with the state department and the information they have been refugee applicants with hospital terrorism linkages. our partner at dhs and immigration services as well as dhs office of intelligence analysis will discuss their testimony the additional security and other counterterroris

. >> the homeland security department instructed agents not to arrest the 18-year-old until after election day. we know you were reelected in november, but according to a u.s involved in the case, in this ap report, homeland security department was instructed not to arrest him until after election day. do you know about a delay and arrest? >> absolutely not. i didn't know about the young man's status until this monday. actually before i came on to the program. my staff knew about it on monday. i didn't know until before your program. >> obviously this ties into it because if you are fighting for immigration reform and there was an illegal immigrant working in your office unbenounced to you or not, that does factor into your credibility and the conversation as well. go ahead. >> let's get clear. when you are saying working, he is an unpaid college intern. he is not a staff paid person. we have a bunch of college interns and give them an experience in the office and they answer phones and do some mail. most of the time attend lectures and different entities that we bring through the office. number two, no way we could know about his status. we ask about the

unmanned aircraft are used by the department of homeland security to watch over u.s. international borders. the fbi and about a dozen police and sheriff's departments also have them. critics say the drones are an invasion of privacy. >>> a pleasant surprise for people parking in san francisco. in fact, it maybe unprecedented! the city's newer sfpark meters charge less on average than the old models. the 7,000 newer devices set rates based on demand and since their installation last year, average hourly rates have dropped by 14 cents. 17% of those meters offer hourly rates of a dollar or less. >>> 5:51. ecuador on high alert after several volcano eruptions. >> and the duchess dazzles. kate middleton makes her first public appearance since leaving the hospital. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> weak storm sliding through the bay area, a stronger line in the north bay through american canyon toward vallejo. more on your weather coming up. >> and we have lots of brake lights in sunnyvale north 101 at mathilda. two right lanes shut down for an injury accident. expect delays as you wo

u.s. capitals or three pentagons. the department of homeland security itself employs almost one quarter of a million people. of course, there are new branches out there. those terrorists should be captured or killed, but we have done this before and we can do it again in the future under more normal legal circumstances. it will mean that the administration will have to be more careful and perhaps have more congressional involvement for certain actions like drone strikes. it might mean it will have to charge some of the people in guantanamo and try them in military or civilian courts. but is all this bad? so have we reached a point where we might consider shifting from emergency wartime powers? well, a new report is out this week, a new global terrorism index. it goes from 2002 to 2011. it shows that terrorism went up from '02 to '07 largely because of the conflicts in afghanistan, pakistan, and iraq, but has been declining ever since. and surveying the situation by region, the report finds that the part of the world with the fewest incidents of terroris

u.s. ally however, it's frying -- >> the senate homeland security committee will release a new report criticizing the state department for the u.s. consulate attack in libya. nbc news obtained an advanced copy. in it, it found that bad security allowed militants to essentially walk into the compound. the report criticizes the state department for failing to sufficiently respond to requests for additional security. >>> good morning everyone. 6:07 is the time. right now, people are already gathering in times square and it's cold out there. like 15 to 20 degrees colder than last year. more than a million people are expected to ring in the new year there. a look at the last minute preps coming up ahead. >>> 2012 is ending on a cold night. we check weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> the major secret spilled about kim kardashianment [ female announcer ] back to school means back to busy mornings. that's why i got them pillsbury toaster strudel. warm flaky pastry with delicious sweet filling my kids will love. plus i get two boxtops for their school. toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. mom, pop it. ♪ two inches apart

u.s. senator is questioning spending at the department of homeland security. rom senator tom coburn issued a report focusing on other things a counterterrorism summit held in san diego last month. specifically he questions a feature of the summit called the zombie apocalypse. organizers say it was meant as a training exercise. >> we absolutely stand by its value. it was a great simulation of a chemical and biological mass exercise. >> according to senator coburn's report more than $3 billion has been spent on homeland security since 2003. >>> your time now 5:25. federal communications commission wanting a change in policy when using electronic devices on flights. right now the faa requires all devices be turned off during takeoffs and landings. the new york time reports the chairman wants passengers to keep using their devices at all times. he sent a letter to the federal aviation administration which says they will take a look at that policy. >>> time now 5:25. let's see if the friday morning commute is developing. tara, what do you see? >> just a little bit

u.s. government is calling in the national academy of sciences for yet another safety review of airport scanners. the department of homeland security says the nonprofit group of scientists will be charged with reviewing previous studies done on the scanners. the call comes amid continuing concerns from some members of congress, as well as some scientists, about the amount of radiation that the scanners subject travelers to. brave investors who bought junk-rated greek bonds in january of 2012 are sitting on profits. the highly-risky bond buy during an extremely volatile time for the country has earned investors 20 times more than people who purchased top-rated german debt this year. bloomberg news reports the return on the greek junk bonds is up 80%, compared to a gain of just 3.7% for german bonds. it helped that greece's credit rating was upgraded to b- in june from "selective default" when the greek soveriegn debt was restructed. making those new year's resolutions to live healthier affects your waistline and your wallet. bankrate.com has listed some of those popular resolutions and crunched the numbers. exercise regularly and yo

security since 9/11, to itself and the world. >> the u.s. military's largest building project since the pentagon in fairfax county, virginia, the national geospatial intelligence agency, taxpayer-owned. our department of homelandillion refit of a former washington, d.c., mental hospital. also, our national counterterrorism center, our joint use intelligence analysis facility, our national reconnaissance office. "the washington post" this year calculated that since 9/11, we have built enough new american national security office space to fill 22 u.s. capitals. and that's just what is set aside for top secret is set aside for top secret is set aside for top secret intelligence work. there's also the military bases: closing them in saudi arabia, opening them in afghanistan and iraq, expanding them all over

. >> new, the homeland security has a new report criticizing the state department for the response to the u.snsulate attack in libya. senator collins and lieberman released the report moments ago. the committee found militants essentially walked in because of faulty security. the report criticizes the state department for failing to sufficiently respond to requests for additional security. >> president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton are the most admired man and woman in the country according to a gallup poll. clinton topped the list for the 11th year in a row. obama is the most admired man for the fifth year in a row. >> president obama, oprah winfrey and condoleezza rice were right behind. also pilly graham and a george w. bush. >> can't go wrong with those names. >> that's a good list. >> what are we looking at going forward into the new year. >> cold, snowy. >> we are starting with temperatures going down. talking about the overnight and afternoon highs. it will be cold by midweek. so enjoy today. today will be, i think, the mildest day out of the work week. in no way will it

u.s. official familiar with the case who is telling the a.p. that ice snuffed out the guy, went to the department of homeland security and said this is going to beprofile thing because is he going to be intern for senator. this official claims that homeland security told ice don't make the as until after the election. ice and homeland security are denying that categorically on the record. they claim no politics were involved in this. and they just made the arrest. menendez. >> bill: what does he say. >> menendez said i was shocked. i just found this out. his office is saying look we couldn't have known he was illegal immigrant because how would we have checked that? >> bill: when you are intern are you supposed to check the resumes and stuff and figure out where he comes from? >> it's the federal government or like i know he was unpaid intern. >> write a check on him. write a little check and see where that is office on capitol hill right now. >> bill: keep your eye on this marine, right? >> his parents are going to be on "america live" too. >> bill: we are going to hold the president, secretary of state, and the president of mexico accountable

over and over you have the fbi, the department of homeland security basically conducting themselves in a form of police state is of in the u.sagainst the people of the united states. >> what about the historical precedents here, the history of the fbi's involvement in monitoring, surveiling, and sometimes disrupting peaceful dissident activity in the united states? >> exactly. this is just part and parcel of a long history of the fbi. this is not the first incident. it is not going to be the last. it is not the worst, to be honest. we all know that. the fbi has a long history, mass surveillance of targeting people based on political ideology, efforts to disrupt the movements for social justice, efforts to shut down black liberation movement, the anti-war movement from the 1960's, 1970's. in the 1970's, there were great revelations of these abuses of the security agencies. there were church committee hearings, supposedly protections put in place. but we can see decade after decade, with each social justice movement, the fbi conducts itself in the same roll over and over again, which is to act really as the secret police of th

senate homeland security committee released a report today blasting the state department for failures leading to the deadly september 11 attack on the u.sion in libya. this come on the heels of a scathing report by independent state department accountability review board. chief intelligence correspondent has the story. >> senate report falls to president obama for inconsistent statement whether the benghazi assault was a terrorist attack given intelligence showed in hour that the al-qaeda affiliate was responsible on september 11. as evidence, the report cites mr. obama's interview with "60 minutes," where he tells a cbs correspondent it's too early to know how this came about, what group was involved but it was an attack on americans. the committee ranking member says the statements are part of a broader, troubling pattern. >> the administration repeatedly has refused to name the threat we face. >> senators joe lieberman and collins rank the senate investigators are denied a te tailed timeline on the c.i.a. talking points. specifically how the talking points were ma saneled with terms like al-qaeda dropped. the report says administrati

u.s. official familiar with the case who is telling the ap that ice snuffed out the guy, went to the department of homeland securityis going to be a high profile thing because he's an intern for a senator. this official claims homeland security told ice don't make the arrest until after the election october.his is early ice and homeland security are denyingal that on the record. they claim no politics were involved, and they just made the arrest. mees then did h then did hemenei was shocked. his office said we wouldn't have known he was an illegal immigrant. how would we have checked that. >> bill: aren't you supposed to check theuf resumes and figure t where he came from? >> i it's the federal governmen. i know he was an intern. maybe ask him. >> bill: run a little check on him. you're a senator. you run a check and see where he is. >> that's the status of our offices on capitol hill right now. >> bill: megyn kelly, everyone. keep your eye on this marine. >> his parents are on america live tomorrow with me. >> bill: you have them, too? we're going to hold the president ande the secretary of state and the president

u.s. illegally to stay here. the "deferred action for childhood arrivals" program began four months ago. today, the department of homeland security announced that more than 100,000 young people have been granted a temporary reprieve from deportation. 368,000 have applied, less than one-third of the nearly 1.3 million people estimated to be eligible nationwide. we turn again to ray suarez for a look at how the program is working in california, the state that leads the country in applications. >> sorry, i just, like, practiced this speech today. >> suarez: to hear sinyoung park in a class at ucla, you'd assume she, like most of her classmates, is a california kid. and she has been, but only since she was 11, when her parents brought her here from south korea on a tourist visa. >> the thing is i feel like this is where my home is. i remember very little of it, but most of it is just through pictures that i have of my childhood, and like most of my remembered memories are just here. my values and, like, customs are now american. so just, you know, the idea of getting kicked out to korea and never come back to u.s. is... i just cant e

u.s. attorney in and congressman from arkansas who served as an undersecretary of the department of homeland security. notably, lapierre didn't mention it president obama's new gun-control task force or dianne feinstein trying to review the assault weapons ban a decade ago. what he saw was phase one that was launched by an organization that boasts 4 million members and an annual budget of $300 million. megyn: thank you, james. the nra argued today that many responsible people with guns to prevent a the tragedy. here's more of what they said. >> the only way to stop the monster from killing our kids is to be personally involved and invested plan of absolute protection. the only thing that stops the bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. would you rather have a 911 call, bring it gone from a mile away or from the minute away? megyn: critics are saying that this is more than good guys and bad guys. next hour, we will be joined by the author of the book "more guns, less crime" and a member of the group less guns. freedom may come any time for this marine locked up in a mexican prison. he has served

homeland affairs when he was working with senator lieberman who tchared committee. currently skeven assistant director at u.s. immigration and custom enforcement ice at the department of homeland security. he spent 14 years on the committee homeland security and government affairs and was chief of the counsel from 2007 to 2010. he worked on implementing and recommendations of the 9/11 commission act. dan is the executive director of the ibm center for business for government. he oversees practice to benefit government. he led consulting services for ibm strategy. he serves as the chire of the privacy board and vice chair of the spri advisory executive committee and is a cio with the partnership with pub libbling serve. he led a staff in the bush administration in i.. the policy including e gove, private security and budgeting. >> tom davis is director of federal government affairs for deloit. in 1994 tom was elected to the house. he's also drawn on his past experience as general counsel of prc ink and has built procurement in i.. the issues. the services act and the information act rm all under his leadership in 2002. and finally karen evans is the national director for cyber challenge

homeland security and government affairs released the bipartisan report today. that report levels a major portion of the blame on the state department for failing to respond to repeated requests from u.saff in benghazi for more security, but the committee also found fault with the intelligence community, the defense department, the white house and congress. >> the terrorists essentially walked into the com pound, virtually unimpeded and set it ablaze due to extremely poor security. >> looking back, i would say we should have closed this facility. >> the report also notes that the administration also gave inconsistent -- the intelligence community drined to provide unclassified talking points for public consumption. >>> now to a developing story involves secretary of state hillary clinton. we just learned doctors expect her to make a full recovery from a blood clot near her brain. secretary clinton is in a new york hospital tonight. we have more on her treatment and her prognosis. >> reporter: her doctors at new york presbyterian hospital say hillary clinton's blood close is located between the brain and skull, did not result in a stroke or neurological damage, and they expect her to m

board because his partner, a black labrador, was tied to funding from the department of homeland security. in another case, the u.s. special office of special council said he violated the hatch act if he ran for county coroner because some of the patients he transported received medicaid. enforcing -- in enforcing the hatch act, the special counsel office routinely advises deputy sheriffs they're ineligible to run for sheriff and the number of local law enforcement hatch act cases has dramatically increase with the influx of federal dollars to local police departments as a result of the attacks on september 11, 2001. the best candidate for local law enforcement and other positions are often disqualified for participating in a local election. the concerns is especially acute in rural areas where the pool of candidates for elective office is limited by the population. congressman latta has led the way in championing hatch act reform for state and local this was. the national this was association -- sheriffs association said it severely limits the number of qualified candidates for sheriffs. o.s.c. is required to int

a scathing new report blaming the state department for failing to respond to security threats at the u.s. consulate in libya. now the report by the senate homelandcommittee says that the consulate became increasingly unstable in the months leading up to the terror attack. retired four-star general jack keane is a former vice chief of staff of the army and a fox news military analyst. thank you so much for joining us. >> glad to be here, heather. heather: i want to begin with something undersecretary for management patrick kennedy noted for a briefing on the committee. benghazi was flashing red around the time of the attack. that is what this report is called, flashing red. despite the increasing threat in the region and the apparent vulnerability of the compound no one seemingly recommended closing the facility or even shutting it down temporarily and this report says that was quote a grievous mistake. do you agree? >> yeah, absolutely. we could have written this report given what we knew about it since the attack. the fact of the matter is senator lieberman's and senator snowe's committee were highly critical of the department of state, dod and

u.s. coast guard is dead after a suspicious boat rammed his inflatable boat during a pursuit off the coast of southern california. the department of homeland securityug operation. he and another coast guard member were thrown off at impact. the coast guard says the suspicious vessel was intercepted and two people have been detained. >>> ford is issuing recalls for two of its newest and biggest selling models. the 2013 escape crossover and 2013 fusion se dad. the problem is the ecoboost engines can overheat and catch on fire. ford says escape and fusion owners will get a loaner car from their dealership until the problem is fixed. the recall will affect almost 90,000 vehicles. ing. >>> the pope is on twitter. finally. the pope is on twitter. he's going to start december 12th. he already tweeted once. he's going to begin tweeting using the handle @pontiffex. the pope will be composing the tweets himself. vatican launched a twitter news feed 17 months ago. kicked it off with the first and i think only tweet so far from pope benedict. that is changing on december 12th. >>> time for end point this morning. why don't you, barbara, start us off. what do y

u.s. navy marines. actually it's used by the marines. cnn national security contributor fran townsend joins me now from new york. fran is a member of both the cia and department of homelandternal advisory boards. good morning, fran. >> good morning, carol. >> when you look at the pictures on iranian state tv, is this an american drone or not in your eyes? >> well, it's clearly an american-made drone, right? as you mentioned, it's made by the boeing company, an american company that does in the aerospace defense sector, but, of course, the united states is not the only country that uses these drones. for example, the united arab emirates right across the persian gulf also uses scan eagles. it's not clear when the iranian it's captured this. american officials say they have accounted for all of their unmanned airlinal vehice -- aer vehicles in the middle east. it's unclear when the iranians seized this scan eagle, who it belongs to, and by the way as the pictures we have just shown demonstrate, this is a carefully orchestrated propaganda effort on the part of the iranian regime. >> "the wall street journal" recently reported that the u.s. is using drones to spy on iran's n

agency partners, the department of justice and homeland security to help form partners develop their law enforcement and secure their borders. our anti-terrorism assistance program is the u.s. government's premier counter-terrorism capacity building program for criminal justice agencies. from bomb detection and crime scene investigation to border aviation, eta built capacity in a wide spectrum of counter- terrorism skills offering courses, seminars and consultations. in the last fiscal year, the train more than 9800 participants from 50 partnering nations. this is a whole government of fact, working with the department of justice, we deploy a resident legal advisers to u.s. embassies to develop law enforcement sector capacity specifically to deal with terrorism. the rla's will provide a more basic mentoring skills and bring prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies up to a point where they can pursue more complex types of cases, including those involving terrorist crimes. we have these advisers in a growing number of countries. these are two of our capacity building efforts and there are others. the partnership was helped build a capacity of 10 countries across the region w

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u.s. army general spider marks. also joining us cnn national security contributor fran townsend, a member of the external advisory committees to the cia and department of homeland, let me start with you. what are the military options at this stage right now? realistically, what could the use, nato, the international community militarily do if there is an indication that the syrian military's about to use chemical weapons against its own people. >> wolf, that's the key point. in advance of its use what can the u.s. do? and it's clearly having a very robust, very broad intelligence collection apparatus that takes into account all means of collection, technical as well as human intelligence. there are known sites where the chemical weapons are stockpiled, where the production sites are. then there has to be an act to marry those up with the distribution or delivery means. >> a missile. >> a missile, artillery shell, put into a bomb then uploaded under the wings of an aircraft. all those are indicators of what might occur. intelligence has to be very, very robust in order to go after that. then, if it is such that we see that happening in a tactical sense, in other

department of homeland security. how do we get intelligence product? what can we learn that can be shared with our critical infrastructure in the u.s.?hat is an tee up for you, mr. mccaul. he cochaired the most prominent cyber study he did with t. it had a bill that passed the house but not senate. >> i want to thank my colleague for his great leadership. i looked forward to having a drink with you after this. the report is the most downloaded. many of those kids are coming from china and iran. and russia -- many of those kids are coming from china and iran and russia. this is fascinating. on september 12, 2001, we had a conference scheduled on terrorism and cybersecurity. richard clark was going to be the speaker. we canceled that. since then, the cyber threat has increased exponentially. i from the cybersecurity caucus in the congress to educate members on this threat. there is a lot of education to do when you talk about legislation. it can be tricky. they had a glazed over with in their eyes. that was six years ago. members of congress are starting to understand the threat that mike played out. we need to do something about it. j