it took us until january 2 to do it and we do not know how much revenue will be coming in this year ore next 10 years. it is understandable that the president needs a little bit more time on the budget. as the budget committee, our challenge is to try to come up with a blueprint for our country's decisions on spending and taxes. while we talk about numbers, ultimately it should be a reflection of where the american people are in terms of their values and their priorities. i hope we share this you, as we approach the budget our number one priority has to be expanding economic growth, making sure we promote job creation, making sure we strengthen the middle- class. and a plan that meets the commitments we made to people throughout the country, including our seniors. that is the overriding goal. reducing deficits, especially over the long term, have to be an important part of that. it has to be seen in the context of the overriding goal. i hope, as we have these discussions over how we reduce our deficit, the timing, pace, and target of that, we look at through the lens of job creation an

just at the outset, let me say with respect to the budget, i think all of us know we struggled until january 2 to pass throtion avoid the fiscal cliff. the result of that legislation was to make sure that we did not see a sharp increase in taxes on middle income americans, but we asked higher income individuals to begin to contribute to reducing the debt over the long term. as c.b.o. has said that that action did help strengthen the economy if we'd gone over the fiscal cliff we'd be in a world of hurt but it did take us until january 2 to do it and we didn't know how much revenue would be coming in either this year or in the next 10 years so it's understandable that the president needs a little more time on the budget. look, as the budget committee, our challenge is to try to come up with a blueprint or our -- for our country's decisions on spending and taxes. and while we talk a lot about numbers, ultimately it should be a reflection of where the american people are in terms of their values and their priorities. and i believe, and i hope we share this view, that as we approach this budget,

until january the second. usually rings in the new year with his passengers. i'm the conductor father for us asked me to give this to you even though you're on the train so remembers you. everyone is happy to celebrate new year on the train. celebrating at home means t.v. salads and so forth people have these same things every year people want to celebrate new year on the train because i don't know what do they say it's cool it's different. has also become tired of t.v. and festive salads so she decided to go with the very last moment. hasn't paid for this new year's train ride to st petersburg. that it's been years i had nowhere to go and no one to celebrate new year with all my friends are far from moscow and my family doesn't celebrate new year so i ended up alone i went to red square but there was nothing special there just a bunch of tourists and so i decided simply to catch a train but it is you know there's always something interesting on the train groups of friends get on so there's never a dull moment so i was sent down in the vestibule between the two doors there was four minutes b

until january the second. usually rings in the new year with his passengers. i'm the conductor father for us asked me to give this to you even though you're on the train so remembers you. everyone is happy to celebrate new year on the train. celebrating at home means t.v. salads and so forth people have these same things every year people want to celebrate new year on the train because i don't know what do they say it's cool it's different. sunny oceans culver has also become tired of t.v. and festive salads so she decided to go with the very last moment but sonya hasn't paid for this new year's train ride to st petersburg. that it's been yet i had nowhere to go and no one to celebrate new year with all my friends are far from moscow and my family doesn't celebrate new year so i ended up alone i went to red square but there was nothing special there just a bunch of tourists and so i decided simply to catch a train because you know there's always something interesting on a train during a come groups if friends get on so there's never a dull moment so i was sent down in the vestibule between t

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unity is in the news don i was there in january and in addition to the tourist business has been dramatically cut hotels empty until you have factories that used to supply components to european companies shot unemployment is rising the government's response has been so will collapse because you never really terribly attractive. for people to unemployment on the rise as you're saying when you were there recently you could feel some sort of political tension or certainly a shift among among the public as well but from what i understand there was supposed to be a cabinet reshuffle ing on the way though it's already been stalled twice how do you see it you're playing out germany you think the islamists can still hold on to power will you see their problem is that with the election first elections after the revolution will hold only got forty two percent of the vote now the biggest sin well they're not an absolute majority and they're in a sense under pressure of trying to build coalitions but also trying to keep on board the people make up the islamic movement because there are some who are more radical liberals there's a lot of tension over the

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until completion. >> this motion is accepted. >> he retroactive agreement with the parking and transportation department to allow appropriation to be terminating on january 31st and. >> this resolution is approved. now we have car share use and making the requisite finding >> i thank you mr. president. before us today is legislation that will encourage more car sharing availability throughout the city. this will correct planning code processions that are currently indulge dedicated car sharing spots. the failure undermines car sharing in san francisco and this legislation does recommend that. the legislation has the unanimous support of the mta and that agency requested certainly plans and i did take care of that. we've never be transit without car sharing. from time to time they will need access to a car. for each car spots unfortunately, many of the location where we currently have car sharing pods are sdoip. many gas station parking lot are being developed. we have a slow process in terms of increasing the numbers of car spots. car companies are challenged with finding available spots. the planning codes actually e rekdz obstacles in car sharing. currently car share spots are treated the same as car sharing spots so i

. >> but this proposal puts off the budget cuts just until next january. won't that put usnow? why can't we get an actual solution instead of that dreaded -- and the phrase i'm tired of hearing of -- kicking the can down the road? >> we should be able to get a long-term deal. it's not rocket science. we have about the right argument target in terms of our deficit reduction. we're about halfway there. we've done about $1.7 trillion in cuts, about $600 billion or $700 billion in revenue increases. the second half is proving very difficult. i think part of the problem is this internal divide in the house, we don't really have a negotiating partner because they're not of one mind. but the president is doing what he does best, which is go out above the heads of the congress, out to the american people, calling for some reasonable resolution that represents fairness and shared sacrifice. it's what the american people voted for. and unfortunately i think we're going to have to have this sequester go into effect so the republicans can manage their own members and expectations befor

us shocking. but it's the truth. we have gone almost 0 for january and february until tonight. we have some showers out there.e have more than just the green light rain. the yellow, we color code this to show you where the intense precipitation is and we are going to zoom in because we have downtown san francisco right at the golden gate almost that new span of the bay bridge richmond emmyville, oakland, concord, vallejo, novato, petaluma, you name the town close to the ocean and it's going to get rained on at least over the next hour to hour and a half steady rain at times for that late evening commute and this is great news for ski resorts and skiers as well because for the first time we're talking about a winter weather alert. winter weather advisory in effect for the sierra. not that much new snow, up to 5" through friday. they are going to get two feet of new snow in boston and new england. video from the area where right now, things are calm but they are getting prepared. there are about 500 extra power line workers that are going to the spot new england right around boston. they are looking at 50-mile-

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 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 the fact that we're timely maybe starting to talk about cutting farm subsidies. i think at the end of the day there's no chance that we're going to see more tax increases, but i'd like to see them get to maybe some loopholes. melissa: i don't know. griffinnen, i feel like there's more taxes coming. it seems like everybody in washington loves taxes right now. they are talking about closing the loophole for the oil industry to the tune of $

until january to work out a deal that would avoid the fiscal cliff. new york governor andrew cuomo proposes one of the most ambitious home buyback programs ever attempted. $400 million would be used to purch homes destroyed by superstorm sandy along the state's coastline. the governor would then preserve that land so that nothing could be re-built, thereby re-shaping how the coastline would be used. the purchase program will require federal approval. prepare for a price spike at the salad bar. the cost of lettuce and other vegetables may rise following a cold snap that hit california and arizona farms. cold temps hurt crops and caused the price of iceberg lettuce to rise 36% to $1.20 a pound. california is the top exporter of lettuce in the country. foxconn, famous for producing apple products and for its alleged mistreatment of workers, is widening its unions at its factories in china. the company is following recommendations of a panel hired by apple to improve working conditions. employees will now be allowed to vote for union reps, and top union officials will be elected by secret ballot without management's involvement. foxconn has been heavily scrutinized following reports

uses options on this stock. what is the best strategy? > > the best strategy is wait until it dips to around $35 and then get long. i'm going to get long for the longer-term part of january, 2014 position. icahn has much deeper pockets ackman. his net worth is about 20 times as much, so he can literally bury the guy if he wants. > > if you can ignore the noise and just look at the charts, we have seen a major recovery from the bottom- > > charts... > > -and it has gone straight down on all these rumors and innuendoes. so, i think it looks bullish, and i like the may 26 call, a carl icahn play here. a 26 call for may. the break-even is $1 higher. and if it breaks above $38 once again we could get a quick run-up to the $48 level. > round two: the data shows that americans like to work. but are we too productive? > > too productive? > yeah, you heard me. > > 2/3 of the united states population is overweight or obese, so i don't think we're too productive- > > what does that have to do with productivity? > > compared to china, i think apple is going to show us how unproductive we are when they are moving all their- > > i have to interject. if wages had kept up with productiv

us. this is what america has said, it's political and petty. while it's true he wasn't officially nominated or presented until january 6th or 7th, th fact his nameted out there since november. it's not as if the republicans didn't tell us ahead of time they that were going to do this. they told us before the official process began. >> let me remind everybody about john bolton. the democrats -- they blocked him forever to be the ambassador to the u.n. solely because they didn't like this personality. and ultimately, george w. bush needs to use his resources to put him there. >> wait a minute, there were reports that john bolton had sexually harassed people working under him. this is a bit deeper. >> there were reports -- let me just tell you something, if having reports were a disqualification for public service -- >> well, it's a legitimate -- it's an absolutely legitimate concern for the senate to ask about. this is nothing but petty politics. >> the statements are iraq and israel, those are not necessary? >> well, those are questions that have asked and answered. issues here, what else do republicans want other than to poke barack obama in the