in an effort to make patients more comfortable and getting them unand at home sooner, using smaller incisions, using possible. just two days after hip replacement francis hub board is going home today. is he anxious to get back to his favorite activities, cross country skiing, marathon skating and biking up to 6000 miles a year. >> i've been in bed, it's been a big deal. >> patients are doing really great after just two days in >> the faster i could go towards natural life, you know, natural activities, the better. that still is the goal. >> now what can you do at home before you have surgery to improve your outcome? exercise regularly, lose weight if you are overweight, and avoid taking too many narcotic pain pills. i'm dr. mallika marshall wbz news. >>> still ahead this morning, update on the lunch lady fired for giving away a free meal. >>> the reason chipotle is keeping its doors closed. >>> and the big announcement ron earth downey junior has been -- robert downey junior has been waiting to hear for 20 years. praised as one of america's best mayors who governed as a pragmatist. bernie sa

the potential for a couple sprinkles for the april and islands, hour by hour forecast the rain dries unand moves out overnight tonight into saturday morning. we still have high pressure in control, meaning we'll be dry, saturday evening. then things start to change, we have a winter system moving into northern parts of new england, we get the rain from this system on sunday. while our friends to the north and ski country will actually get measurable snow and it inches of snow potentially for the crown of maine. the big system moving in for late -- well later in your seven day forecast, monday night into tuesday with temperatures in the 30s, first wintery mix changing to snow and then snow changing back to rain. this is going to be tricky with the exact timing and location of this system, stay tuned, the whole weather team will be tracking this throughout the latest. >> thank you. will be getting rid of your christmas trees, but what do you do with the 78-foot norway spruce on display at rock he fell letter center, that tree will be milled into lumber and donated to be used in habitat for h

it is the largest regional center of this type in california and unand of the largest flan profit in the state. >> mitch blacher live for us. thank you. >>> dip into our live coverage from nbc station out in los angeles covering this all afternoon. listen in here. >> -- has not been neutralized. it a very active situation here. people have been escorted. but there are many more inside the building who will be let out by law enforcement as they go room to room to carefully let these people leave. >> and you know, there were reports of the shooter at least one shooter, possibly the shooter, in tactical gear. the lieutenant said that information, you know, hasn't been released. they haven't released that information. a lot of social media involvement about in all of this. again, that's what we need to filter and vet before we can firm anything up for you. again, getting reports. it difficult because there is a lot of information to get to and we want to get it right. >> megan reyes. >> leaving san bernadino, actually heading to pasadena. reports of a s.w.a.t. situation related to this i

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he was not buckled unand repeatedly asked officers to be taken to the hospital. >>> the army sergeant held captive by the taliban will sergeant bowe bergdahl was released last year in exchange for five taliban detainees. he spent five years in captivity. now bergdahl could face a life sentence if he is convicted. if he is of desertion, he faces five years in prison. >>> mayor de blasio says the municipal id cards will continue to be free next year. now the museum of modern art and the guggenheim aring offering a card as well. partnerships with city museums and theaters have made the cards appealing to many residents. >>> this was mayor de blasio's first day back on the job since undergoing surgery last week for a double hernia. de blasio says he's in a bit of pain but is working through it. >>> happening tomorrow, the debate of 2015. nine candidates on the main stage at the venetian in las vegas. by chance, that's not far from front runner donald trump's trump hotel. he's now exchanging barbs with challenger ted cruz. >>> several blocks of hollywood boulevard shut down for the premier

. >> 6:30 in the morning we woke our children unand said we've got to leave, get out. >> the family moved fast grabbing what they could. >> he said we have to get out of the house, we could hear the lapping of the water under the floor. to the dry land where other families were. but soon it would disappear. >> steven looked at me and said we have to go now. our back door neighbor woke up, they were on shady lane, she sent me a picture and she said: if you are coming, come now. at that point we have a 6 foot fence that was just installed and it was probably a foot below the top of the 6 foot fence. >> they came up with a plan. he would swim the girls across the street through their flooded lot, over the fence and drop one girl at a time to the neighbor. >> he took my 3-year-old first and when he put her on his shoulders and when he crossed it was at his chest, so he's a average sized man, and then when he came back, that's the first scared to me and he was -- he looked at my 6-year-old and he said: allison, you're going to have to swim. >> steven sent off with allison, liza couldn't watch.

>> jake, i think that may be unand of the biggest changes going into the final republican debate of the year. no one is talking about jeb bush nearly as much as they have at the last debate. the last debate, it's like this is a make or break moment for him. he's largely fallen out of the conversation. he needs to create a sense of urgency tonight. he's not done a walk-through. preparing for this, i'm told. his aides say he is ready for the debate, up for it, but he's not been the best debater. it's safe to say he wants to get back into the conversation, if he wants to do that he has to have a very good showing tonight. >> with the focus on national security and counterterrorism, this is supposed to be a commander in chief moment, he's supposed to be the candidate, he needs to bring it. once again, cnn teaming up with facebook for tonight's debate. we'll keep a close eye on what you, the voters, are saying about the candidates and about debate topics in real time all of the interactive data monitored from our facebook lounge. that's where we find cnn's don lemon, there to take us inside

the president saying that from the oval office often unless there was something to back that unand we're seeing now one reason why that may be. again, as evan perez was reporting there, law enforcement, counterterror officials, still see the possibility of some possible mix of those two motives. perhaps joined with extremist motivation. it would be rare, it would be odd, but there are a lot of rare and odd things, about this case, namely that you had a husband and wife carry out this bloodshed. what we're learning is fairly alarming. >> all right, jimmy, thank you very much. let's go from that piece of the puzzle you put together. bob, let me bring you in. then this becomes about, well, how effectively can you be self-radicalized? what are we seeing, what happened here, that speaks to how well or not well these people did what they wanted to do, what do you see? >> i've got the impression so far with the facts that have come out that these people were trained. you can't self-train yourself in something like confronting the police in a gunfight. you almost have to do that in a training ca

. >> i couldn't do anything they pulled unand that was it. >> they said you fought like crazy. >> no, i didn't. all i had was a knife. >> reporter: bergdahl told the filmmaker he was walking through hostile terrrrory to a larger base about 20 miles away. there he would alert commanders to problems within his ownnit and thought going awol will force them to treat his claim seriouslsl >> what was going on was a danger to the lives of the men of that company. >> reporter: bergdahl thought he could take on taliban fighters like some real-life action hero. >> doing what i did was me saying i am. >> right. >> like, i don't know. jason bobone. i wantnt to prove to the world that i was the real thing. scared i won't be able to go home. it is very unnerving to be a prisoner. >> reporter: bergdahl now says his self-described plan was, quote, stupid. there was no hero's welcome. instead, bergdahl is called a traitor and put the lives of soldiers searching for him in danger. >> reporter: bergdahl gavav serial permission to use 25 hours of recorded phone calls between him and the prododer. bergdah

. >> reporter: film is an extraordinary exploration of unand love. >> and that love itself is not it's about souls. >> raises questions about how we articulate and define love. >> and one of the ways is i defy to you watch that and not have tears rolling down your cheeks. >> i love you, because you're the only person who has ever made sense of me. and made me possible. >> reporter: lots of folks back home will have seen this movie already. matt, i think you've already seen it. if you like eddie redmayne there's a scene in it that might be a reason to go see it, matt. i'm guessing you would have watched this scene with your hand over your eyes like that. i don't know how else to describe this. >> no, i think i know what you're referring to and you've left me nowhere to go, but i will say, yes, i will say, yes, there are some amazing scenes in the movie, and i recommend people see it because it's an extraordinary film. keir, thank you. >> i know what he's talking b.seat movie. >>> up next, we have some tricks pson, the holiday season's just like football season... you got your big games.

observation i made this past easter where our neighborhood organized and easter egg hunt, one for 2 and unand one for 3 and up. the one for kids 2 and under, you couldn't see grass. it was so full. the lawns with 3 and up was empty. so that's where the families in san francisco we want to advocate for staying. it's a shame because a quality public school has a lot to do with that. so, i only have one child now and i plan to have more in the future. my husband and i are really committed to staying in san francisco for as long as we can. if we had that public school that would be one of the major deciding factors. so definitely advocate for the school and mission bay to be the next school. >>supervisor jane kim: thank you. she mentioned the same thing and i have lots of photos. public speaker: good afternoon supervisors and commissioners. this is a long time coming. after supervisor kim was elected we invited her to our neighborhood and our first question was what about a school in mission bay. that was a number of years ago. so we are very excited to be able to mobilize in this community. real