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here. we've got a little while before the heaviest snow starts, but they are going to be using these tons and tons of salt. and snow quickly added up. the snow is really coming down here. you hardly see the building of boston, and it's just before 3:00. only about an inch or so on the ground. very good packing, fun-playing snow, but only for so long. the entire city of boston shut down early. even starbucks was closed. but that didn't stop some of the hearty few and their pets from getting outside. looks like he's enjoying the snow. >> absolutely. yeah. he's a little bit cooped up all day so he needs to get some exercise. >> reporter: before the big snow. >> exactly. >> reporter: looking forward to it? >> absolutely. got no car. got no reason to complain. i just heard we might get a foot or two. so it sounds like the blizzard of '78 which i grew up hearing my parents talk about. it may be our turn now for a similar storm. >> reporter: at the airports, more than 4,700 flights cancelled through sunday. in boston, logan airport was a ghost town. jetblue tweeted out this picture of their last thr

us more about this. peter, there's tons of new things every year to provide. come on over here with us. some of the new things this year that people can find here at the baltimore convention center. >> well, really excited this year. we have a lot of new things, we have over 50 vehicles you can actually ride and drive. cadillac, chevrolet, buick, gmc, dodge chrysler and jeep. and you can come down and actually drive any of the vehicles around the streets of baltimore. we also have what's called camp jeep. you can drive a jeep over top of a mountain and we have an electric vehicle where you can drive inside the convention center. a lot of great stuff this year going on. >> reporter: what about for families? because we know a lot of moms and dads are coming out here. there's lots of cool new things for families. >> we have a lot of things to look at. it's a great place to shop for a car. we have a lot of things for kids. sunday is kids day. kids 12 and under get in for free. friday from 6:00 to 8:00 we have terrence cody from the world champion baltimore ravens is going to be here to sign

tons of other people who are illegal immigrants. >> all right. what should we call people who are here illegally? >> illegal immigrants. they want us to call them undocumented immigrants, but that's crazy. there are tons of illegal immigrants who are here with documents, fake social security numbers, perhaps expired student visas, expired visitor visas. they have documents and they may be expired to or fake, so it's t accurate to call them undocumented. >> is illegal alien, that's offensive also? >> everything's offensive to democrats, eric. everything offends them. everything they disagree with, they'll find a way to say that it's racist. >> michelle, you're no not out f status. you're in status. you have high status. >> yes. well, look. i think it's also offensive to people who came here legally to be like. >> that's a great point. >> we're all the same. >> people who waited in line and filled out the paperwork, do they have a problem with illegals, calling people here illegally illegals? >> what you're doing by saying that is that all of us are the same exact people. when really, these people, we have to go through a long proces

thank you both for joining us here at the shop and i have a ton of questions and i hope some will come in as well. first one is one you may have heard before but it's the first time here and that is that we now know that obama's speechwriter has decided to come come -- become a screenwriter so a screenwriter can you do, obama's speech writer for a change? >> i don't think i would make a good speechwriter. there are requirements to that job like patients and willing to be severely edited and writing on deadline so i would not be -- >> you up with some wonderful words into lincoln. >> i did my best but as i said before i think we have a president who is really capable of writing very beautiful speeches all on his own and a couple of really wonderful book so it's nice to have a real writer back in the white house. >> just another screenwriter coming out though. cd maybe when he stunned being president he will become a screenwriter. >> i am available to be either a presidential speechwriter or a screenwriter. >> tell us about your relationship with steven spielberg and how a film and he wa

here. and they expect another 60,000 tons to be delivered tomorrow morning, before the storm. what i expect is to be using these tomorrow at this time, because -- they're ski goggles, i'll need them, with all the wind and snow. >> a blizzard that fierce. thank you, ginger. and now, sam champion is here, so, sam, what about the conditions, if you're going to need goggles for this blizzard? >> reporter: absolutely. it is blizzard. the worst word we can pull out. brutal, blinding snow. we have warnings out for seven states here. basically stretches from new york all the way through boston and into portland. if you look at all the states, 43 million people in the path of that storm. and with this, we're talking about, well, to get a blizzard, you have to 35-mile-an-hour winds and that blowing snow for at least three hours. we're going to have winds much worse than that. >> worse than 35 miles per hour? >> reporter: yeah. there are hurricane force wind warnings just offshore from long island off the coast of cape cod. so, we're going have 50, 60, 70-mile-an-hour winds in this storm. it's going to be just terri

construction costs here it's important for us to look at cost savings for any other additional cost increases relate the to calaveras and other project and here we have four areas where we are focusing ton get these cost saves we have realized low bids on a few project with recent awards for example there is a project the seismic upgade of pipeline three and four where i know for a fact we have $20.000000 in save lings and we are looking at other project closed out repeatedly the springs bypass tunnel we have $4.2 million in savings there and we are looking at project where we have large remaining contingency where our relative level is low bay tunnel is there is a lot of contingency left and we should pull some of that contingency money and reallocate it to other project and finally we are under taig take a massive internal review of all of our soft cost to railed additional savings and i personally reviewed our resource allocation and identified four $.7 million in savings and we will do the same at the regional and project level. so i wanted to in closing give you an idea of what our next steps are. if you do approve todayth i knowa we will seek approval for the transfer of money fro

well, thank you both for joining us here at the shop. and i have a ton of questions and i hope some will come in as well. first one is one you may have heard before but first time here and that is that we now know that john favreau, obama's speech writer, has decided to become a screen writer. so as a screen writer, you think you can become obama's speech write center. >> i don't think i'd make a very good political speech writer. i think the requirements of the job that i -- patience and willing to be severely edited, and writing on deadline and so on. not me. >> put some wonderful words into lincoln -- >> i did my best. i think that we have a president that at the moment is really capable of writing very beautiful speeches on his open. and it's night to have a writer back in the white house. >> the spielberg -- >> done being president he'll become would screen writer. >> could happen. >> he is young. could -- >> if anyone is interested i'm available to either be a presidential speech writer or a -- >> or president. >> john quincy adams, go back into co

commit ourselves and put politics behind us we can help future generations and thank you go >> hey, guys, nona here with the weekly buzz. it's mid february and there's tons of affordable events happening throughout the city. grab your valentine and get ready to have some fun. here are my topics for the week. this thursday, february 14th, bring your special someone or just your admiration for romantic music for a night of flamingo music. and other renowned musicians combine rowman i can music of i go far with footwork and song. dinner will be served throughout the performance so make your reservation early to ensure great view. okay. maybe valentine's day isn't your thing. well, have no fear because sf is here and there's over 300 events celebrating san francisco's craft fair legacies throughout the city. one event that i'm really looking forward to is the brewery blow out at speaks easy lauger. friday, february 15, enjoy 15 rare and limited beer on tap to live music and home brewing demonstration. and for complete beer week 2013 schedule check out official page. after the festivities come burn off all those calories in the park. free outdoor swing dance

thanks to you at home for joining us this hour from washington, d.c. there is a ton going on here right now. there is a ton going on in politics in general right now, even in politics outside of washington, d.c. i want to start tonight by showing you something that just happened in alaska. one house of the state legislature there has just passed a law that threatens to arrest law enforcement officers if they try to enforce federal laws about guns in alaska. the law says that any guns or ammo possessed by alaskans are exempt from federal laws. so the state of alaska does not recognize the authority of the united states of america and will arrest that country's agents if they try to enforce that country's laws. that just passed in alaska in the republican-dominated house there, despite passionate arguments against it like this one from democratic state rep andy josephson. watch. >> mr. speaker, we decided in 1955 to submit a state constitution. we joined the team. our star is on the flag. i see it there. we didn't have to do that. we demanded it. we implored our 48 sisters, because

us more raindrops. so let's get you into the mix here. what we have happening is that area of upper low pressure. there's a ton of uplift in the upper atmosphere so as this passes over tonight, that's where we get that chance of thunderstorms. it's only going to be with us throughout early tomorrow morning and then that pushes off to the east. then here we go for this weekend. we get some sunny weather, high pressure returns, but it will stay cool as we head throughout saturday and also on sunday. otherwise for that rain timeline we'll find that next wave of energy moving in at 9:00, 10:00 tonight and tomorrow morning we are still forecasting areas of showers at 5:00, 6:00 and 7:00, and that's where it gets extremely interesting back for the east bay and the south bay because temperatures will be in the low to mid-30s. so that could mean from about 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., maybe a rain/snow mix. yes, in livermore and also in san jose. so if you hear some raindrops early tomorrow morning, you may want to go outside and take a look. you may get a few snow flurries mixing on in. we're going to start with 35 in nap

for his car use there are tons of paparazzi, tons of fans, he's signing autographs and taking pictures but he starts to get more annoyed. >> getting close. >> then his phone rings and you here him say i'm standing [beep] outside. >> so he's pissed. then the car finally shows up and there is this chick. i don't know who she is. >> she's fired. are you afraid you're going to lose your job? >> she's not having it. she's definitely fired today. he was admitting it, someone is getting fired over this. >> thanks a lot. take care. >> and now not at all just in time for martin luther king day a white and blasion come together in harmony. >> suck on that racists. >> who are they? >> tiger woods and elin nordegren hanging out again. >> no way. >> way. >> no way. >> way infinity. they were spotted at a youth sports event in florida this weekend and it's the first time we've seen him since -- >> he hooked up with 30 girls, dude. >> tiger shows up with the two kids and a half hour later she shows up, they are walking together. they are sitting in the grass next to each other. >> good for her for the sake of the kids they've figured out how to work it out. >> she deserves an award. how d

the for all city of the five hundred killer ton explosion and that's equivalent to more than twenty nuclear bombs for more on this. pool scott is with us here now in the studio tell us a little bit more about this a bit of a media frenzy has it very much so the story isn't it gary that pretty much had had everything the dramatic pictures that we've seeing the rarity value once in every one hundred years this sort of story happens human interest angle of course affecting all of the lives and make the news across the world and rightly so for those reasons the dramatic pictures and just the simple rarity of it once every one hundred years and dramatic headlines to go with it what makes a spacewalk a killer who knows. i think is the pictures the pictures that make it it's like a science fiction films like something from hollywood i know you're you're a big fan of science and i started as a reality well there's also been of course an internet boom because of this as you'd expect with this kind of. story can see what kind of stuff has been coming up on the internet with the still the headline something a little too much time on their hands angry

festival taking place here in northern japan, about 100 of these snow huts called komakur were built in the festival which has lasted for over 400 years. about 20 tons of snow is used to make each one of these. you can see the people inside there enjoying a good barbecue and warm saki. it's rather nice and warm. some more snowfall on tap here to keep those going, at least threout the weekend. once you see that sea effect snow come across. about 60 centimeters is in the forecast as that northwesterly wind continues to push through. good news for the skiers. down slope, though, on to the eastern side, tokyo sunny skies will be dominating. temperatures will fall off due to that cold air moving in. here in the north, you're seeing high pressure dominate. the warm air from the north is going to interact with that air from the south. another system is developing, it's spring. that's typically what we see for this time of year. high pressure here and the next low is start to go develop. that very well is going to move into japan by early next week. meanwhile, the tropics are quiet for the time being. monday into tuesday, very well seeing heavy rain and chances of flooding

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ton of the century when some of the machines and equipment used. >> reporter: the first step in the four-month process of making the vince lombardi trophy starts rice hereing. literally taking a sheet of silver and forming a football. then there are old school terms like silversmithing and chafing before the finished product is engraved, polished and ready go. >> it's made by local craftspeople who are employing crafts and skills that have really been around for, since the 1800s. >> reporter: the seven pounds of silver have a street value of about $3,500, but add in the skilled labor, tiffany brand and symbol of victory in the most watched game on the planet and the true value is a little difficult to assess i. would tell you that the trophy itself is priceless. >> reporter: after the game is over, as you might imagine, the trophy is passed around the winners for a while. then comes back to tiffany for a touchup and final engraving. sometimes a little worse for wear. >> the biggest issue, the champagne. >> reporter: it was enjoyed most after the saints won the 2010 game. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. brian williams will be here tomorrow

ton of money. use puts, i don't care if there's a premium. let's go to some tweets. here's one from bkelly019.to print money out of large positions without having to sell. why do you hate them so much? okay. here's the answer. i've got to tell you something bkelly019, i hate cutting off my upside. that's what writing a call does. you can't make more money than when you write the call. not only that, let's say something goes wrong. so you sell the stock, you're really vulnerable to a takeover then because you're short the call. never ever ever cap your upside. that's always been my rule. never sell a put. that, i think, and i've seen it in '87, i saw that put people out of business, i saw it again in 2009. put people out of business. trust me on this. i have been around for just more than three decades, trust me on this. okay. here's one from jeff. boo-yah, jim, why does your strategy in looking at hospital stocks in general? how do you approach stocks like these at earnings season? all i care about is government pay. if the government's not in a mood to be able to pay hospitals, if they're sti

that they will be buying ge properties used by nbc universal at "30 rock" and englewood cliffs where cnbc's headquarters are. they are spending a ton of money. hereeam. $2 billion share buyback spread across 2013. the stock is moving right now markedly higher in the after-market session. david: are you watching apple? this is what happens in when you buy back your stock. >>> is the housing recovery for real? last week former reagan budget director david stockman is was here. he says we're at the start for a housing bubble. here is the reason he gave, look. >> that is speculative money. it is not owner occupied buyers moving in for the long haul. david: that's why he says we're in the midst of a bubble. liz: no, on the total opposite vied, yesterday i had an opportunity to speak with gary cohn, president and chief operating officer of goldman sachs. he said about housing this. >> i think housing's back. the good news about housing we can't outsource it. we need to build it here in the united states and that's a great asset for our economy. liz: a great asset. what is really happening? who is pieing propertis? is this recovery sustainable? we have

us into the weekend. not so good news in pleasant ton to livermore, and a light shower right there with the snow level down to 2,500. right herepossibility of a few flurries headed through the higher elevations and from mission boulevard as you descend into fremont and head here the great mall parkway is wet right now all the way down to north capital avenue stretching all the way back to sunnyvale this morning. we do have a little bit more in the way of radar runs around morgan hill headed up toward the southern section of san jose right now. that is where the best chance is and it is sliding to the south. by 9:00 we will be out of the showers. so, for the morning, the showers are down to the south, and 34 in the north bay with clearing and 44 for the rest of us. afternoon, mostly sunny, and cool and dry and low-to-mid 50's and this evening you need a coat, clear and cooler and 4 to around 50 in san francisco. sue? >> we go back to fremont where the accident with two cars off the road and we have emergency crews on the scene blocking the right lane south 680 before scott creek road in the fremont area. new accident southbound

us. we certainly appreciate because guess who is standing by over here? ravens fans. >> i know, tons of them. >> come on in. loud and proud. >> it doesn't feel like christmas day. does this feel like christmas morning? >> yes, it does. >> christmas parade. >> you are staying in mississippi. this is a big deal. they're staying in mississippi. they have a flight out of pensacola tomorrow. thfs a huge commitment. obviously coming to a super bowl, once in a lifetime. >> absolutely. we wouldn't miss it. thank you ray lewis. >> thank you. >> could we get a big ♪? >> very fired up. very animated. >> good to see. >> you know you can show your purple pride. but you know you can drink it? >> we know that. up next some ravens inspired cocktails. affered after tonight join an esteemed list of performers. a sneak peak of beyonce's highly anticipated show. plus the one thing that she is promising. >> i'm glad you reminded people. i think they would have forgotten to drink today. that was very nice of you. snow showers showing on the radar. keeping it on >> good morning. we're giving you a live loo

iran and turkey, which we saw here on "money," by the way, and a top former cry official joins us to explain the new step to choke off iran' cash. are you kidding me? a ten-ton meteor explodes over the earth. what we had the eyes on the other asteroid, i knew something like this would happen. nasa facing cut, and for once, i wonder if we should be spending. when they say it's not, it's always about "money." ♪ all right, starting off tonight with the plan to push off the sequester and save us all, senate democrats announced the new alternative to a $110 billion bill to replace the spending cuts until january 2 of 20 # 14, and there's already a lot of criticism, surprise, surprise, but as it stands, we are just 14 days away from when the deep across the board cuts are set to take effect. with me, now, is today's austin power panel. we have gretchen, better market ceo, dennis, and rich, "forbes" contributor. what do you think the democrats planned? >> look, it's the beginning, a negotiating appointment, dead on arrival, will never happen, but elements of it are interesting. melissa: like what? what do yolike? >> i like the scaled down cuts to defense. i like th

us what you have on your show this weekend. >> p the sequester. we take a meat cleaver to some things. gerri: the sequester is something we haven't covered a ton here, but boy does it serve it. thank you for coming on, really appreciate your time. now we want to know what you think. should the government he buying the homes of sandy becomes? log onto gerriwillis.com, we will share the results at the end of tonight's show. staten island isn't the only area where federal spending is running amok. telling congress the fed intends to keep the easy money policy flowing until the job architects up. warning against across-the-board spending cuts friday. joining me now, chairman of the house of service finances ready, which we will hear testimony from bernanke tomorrow. welcome back to the show, great to see you again. the federal reserve has a balance sheet of $3 trillion, is that a good idea? >> no. if it ever was a good idea, it is not a good idea now. we have reached the limits of what monetary policy can do and all this extra money they are trying to throw into the system creates an incredible inflationary risk. there is very little benefit beuse all

tons of flowers and a bunch of busy people here. i want to introduce you to one of them, rachel, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >>be so busy. >> it is our busiest day of the year. busiest week of the year. but we are loving it. we are having a great time. >> you have been up since when? >> since 2:30 every day this week. >> welcome to my world. >> it's a whole different world this time of day. but it's cool. a whole different world here at the flower market. >> you guys have a couple of shops in found. >> yup. first year that we have our second store downtown. >> that's very exciting. you guys are going to be doing how many deliveries today? >> we had to max out at 200 deliveries. >> is that right? 200 deliveries. so you're going from dusk to dawn. we have a bunch of drivers going to different parts of the city and that we are going to have a line out the door all day in both stores. >> you have to be excited. delivering flowers on a day like today you know you're making somebody's day. isn't that neat? >> it is. at last a lot of love out there going around and we all love boeing part of it. >> well, good luck to

tons. joining us live now to talk more about this astroid is donte loretta with nasa. we appreciate you getting up had morning. >> not a problem. pleasure to be here. >> tell us why nasa is so positive that it's going to miss us. >> this is a very exciting historical event. this astroid was detected almost a year ago. we've been calculating its orbit precisely ever since. we have a very good estimation of the close approach distance. about 17,000 miles away from the surface of the earth. >>> i've heard reports that the expectation will that it will pass between the earth and satellites, for example. people are worried will i lose my cable as a result of it hitting in space. is that a possibility sm. >> the good news is, there's nothing to worry about. we know this is going to be a safe eye vent. the astroid will not hit the earth or the space station. it will not hit critical assets. you don't have to worry about losing your tv. >> a new variable. need to ask you about this meteor shower over russia overnight. was that predicted or was connected at all to the astroid coming through? >> the meteorite that struck in russia was not connected to da-14

here. pitbull will show us around his town, mr. 305, mr. miami. >>> different start to the day in cities like chicago, kansas city, tulsa, where drivers are dealing with a ton of snow this morning. we'll have more on that, coming up. and an impending possible nor'easter for our friends in new england. >> we'll keep an eye on that. >>> scary scene caught on tape at a ski resort in new mexico, a tonager falling from 45 feet from a ski lift. thankfully, he survived. how he's doing this morning. >> wow! >> lots to get to this morning. >>> we want to start with the breaking news of the oscar pistorius case. decision on bail is expected at any moment. in south africa for us this morning. michelle, good morning to you. >> hi, savannah. this really is going to happen today. pistorius' family looks extremely nervous. tears in their eyes, stress all over their faces and in their words. pistorius, though, looked much more relaxed, far less emotional than we've seen. at the beginning of today, his attorney grabbed his clasped hand and said we're going to be all right. do you hear me? he quietly responded, thank you. oscar pistorius entered the court with a calm demeano

the historic studio 6b here in 30 rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] you can feel how much history is in this place. i mean, over the years, the studio has been used for tonsshows -- everything from "the texaco star theater" to the news, but we recently found out that our studio used to be home to a video dating service from the 1980s called "cupid's arrow." well, we found one of the old tapes, and since tomorrow's valentine's day, i thought it'd be fun to take a look at some of these. watch. ♪ >> jimmy: what's up? i'm chiz dippler, aka the dip. >> hi, i'm kelly gurbcock, and i'm looking for a girl who's as sweet as my sister is. >> steve: i'm pouch brustin. i mean, brustin pouch. >> hello, there. my name is barry sparrow, and i'm an actor. >> jimmy: hey ladies, i'm jaxx. i'm the lead singer and tambourine player for spiteful cobra. [ light laughter ] a lot of people say we sound like poison and van halen, but, if you ask me, they sound like us. >> hi, this is mark peanus, and i play the flute. [ laughter ] >> right off the bat, let's just get this clear. i don't need you. that's first of all. [ light laughter ] second of all, you owe me money. [ laughter

here on the show last year. but now a word again, can he reinforce there's a real turn in china? knows because he makes coal mining equipment, chinese use a ton of coal for electricity, given the weakness of copper, the other measure of china's health, we need to hear that in the words of cramer non-fave chairman mao there is no backsliding. next week you need to focus on ben bernanke's tightrope walking senate testimony tuesday morning and the torrent of retail earnings. but make no mistake, bernanke's testimony will define the week, as i will explain when i'm on "meet the press" this sunday morning. joey in florida. joey. >> caller: boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah, sunshine. what's up? >> caller: hey, what is your take on the massive drop in verifone? they reported an early miss on earnings and have an average purchase price of $19.25. >> we have not liked verifone i don't know, how many -- maybe since like the show started. so i'm not going to deviate now that it's had still one more disappointment. ixnay on verifone-nay to be very formal about it. nassar in maryland. >> caller: how are you doing? >> how about you, partner? >> caller: about six m

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