compromise has been reached on the budget, another piece of legislation appears to be falling by the wayside. immigration activist protested inside of 200 house public in office today beginning with eric cantor. john boehner has not allowed immigration overhaul to come to the floor despite being passed by the senate. >> student with serious illnesses will have an extra month to sign up for health insurance under federal health the program was scheduled to end january 1 because insurance companies could no longer deny coverage. health and human services secretary says the extension was necessary because of the troubled rollout. >> while we tried to break through another day with you mom and her going above freezing, that is prompting people to stay inside. doug hill joins us now on how cold it could get tonight. widee teens will be a spread tomorrow. 31 down the river at reagan national. 25 and gaithersburg. it is getting cold in a hurry. here is what we are thinking tomorrow. , 22 in downtown washington. maybe a spot down to 10-12 degrees. sunshine tomorrow, and then we get to saturday. we w

then sort of falls by the wayside. >> absolutely right.so there in the schoolyard not playing softball or stick ball. they're playing soccer. everywhere you go drive around new york city, they're playing soccer. neil: you're right. >> the emphasis is on soccer. we talk about soccer every day. georgie does. she knows it all. neil: what always impressed me, your career. i will not blow you smoke. you're a survivor but you're a nice guy that survives. usually people that survive there is sort of evil quality to them. >> really? who you got in mind there? come on, i won't names. you done it being a nice guy. and, i think you, you have seem to love what you do. you just love what you do. you have a greatju passion for . >> well, thank you veryy much. i really do. i love television. i never thought in a million years, neil. neil: you logged more hours than anyone on tv. >> that's right. neil: that guinness book of records thing. you didn't write that. >> i didn't write that. they checked it very carefully. i was surprised. it did become that muc

when you look at it and what is falling by the wayside, it is the basic function of government that isot getting taken care of. we are not even funding the federal government. we have been repeating this pattern of stopgap spending bills. >> let me turn to the great african leader that died, nelson mandela. he meant a lot to barack obama, didn't he? >> they met just once and had limited communication. both of them are so tied and bound by history. both of them broke the race barrier. they are both nobel laureates. obama's political activism, his sense of service, it was really born from mandela. he got his start working in the anti-apartheid divestiture campaign when he was at occidental and was the first big speech he gave. president barack obama is directly tied to president nelson mandela. >> you said they only met once, when? >> it was in 2005. barack obama was a freshman senator. he was driving and he got a call that said, nelson mandela is at the hotel. do you want to meet him? they got to the four seasons and the guy thought, maybe i should grab the camera. they are going up the

when you look at it and what is falling by the wayside, it is the basic function of government that isot getting taken care of. we are not even funding the federal government. we have been repeating this pattern of stopgap spending bills. >> let me turn to the great african leader that died, nelson mandela. he meant a lot to barack obama, didn't he? >> they met just once and had limited communication. both of them are so tied and bound by history. both of them broke the race barrier. they are both nobel laureates. obama's political activism, his sense of service, it was really born from mandela. he got his start working in the anti-apartheid divestiture campaign when he was at occidental and was the first big speech he gave. president barack obama is directly tied to president nelson mandela. >> you said they only met once, when? >> it was in 2005. barack obama was a freshman senator. he was driving and he got a call that said, nelson mandela is at the hotel. do you want to meet him? they got to the four seasons and the guy thought, maybe i should grab the camera. they are going up the

we could see record highs fall by the wayside over the weekend.ost of the showers will occur during the ravens game, maybe get through the redskins game without the showers and then morning showers on monday, falling temps, colder tuesday and christmas day chilly, upper 40s but dry. >> that's okay. no white christmas, though, right? >> right. >>> jan jeffcoat is in our newsroom with a look at what's ahead on wusa9 news at 7:00. >> welcome back, d man. tonight on your only local news at 7:00 a 13-year-old on life support and her family's fight to keep her there. we are looking at the ethnics this emotionally charged debate. >> plus you know the deadlines are pushed back for the affordable care act federal exchanges, but what about locally right here? >> and the national film registry announces its new editions. we'll look at those and the virginia facility playing a key role in their preservation tonight at 7:00, looking forward to seeing you back, derek. >>> we've got a big announcement out of redskins park today. >> the team's most senior player

and maybe people along the wayside is what technology can also help avoid train collisions like this one in california in two thousand and eight that killed twenty one people most exciting control his or her use of some us drains away and in twenty fifteen all the veterans service that crushed a deal this weekend but what works well on planes doesn't necessarily work so well on planes some pics but it's a warning that isn't a total reliance on technology and addiction to the summation which sometimes can have catastrophic results and from school for seven crashed in the atlantic ocean in june two thousand owing to the old two hundred and twenty eight passengers and crew investigation question on the training and an inability to react when he also pointed to see cages to emergency summit but it's a pot odds to become too dependent on technology the train to relied too heavily on the computerized systems we've been on a par with not been true for the benefit of the older guys have bitten off on a play that had anything but from computer activity on that they don't understand what to do

. >> pam: went unto you here which tradition is going by the wayside at this year's super bowl. + y 16 treated as a sex offender. but first some bay area officers and firefighters restoring the faith after some critics still christmas. 6 years old. (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: uc in this surveillance video there there is a positive and to this. >> reporter: gives intended for two families were stolen by a car burglar. he is seen here lurking on around the car on the serbs valence of video. a thousand dollar worth of gifts were stolen. and two of the cars were broken into parent police believe this guy is the same guy captured on surveillance at a vallejo target using gift card spiri >> tragedy to think that these presents a word and tended for family who had other issues going on and the oakland children's hospital. it's really sad such a tragic but we are helpful to help out >> reporter: coming up at 11 we will talk to the nurse whose car pills gives were sitting and print and what she had to say about the outpouring of support >

militant egalitarian method that the internet started out as and unfortunately we're going to go by the wayside it's really important that we cement that notion quick let's talk about another thing that they say they use really big on bradley manning chelsea manning rather you were also part of the i am chelsea manning video a few months back why is this case so important to you. well it's important to me and and i certainly i mean it's a tricky thing to talk about because there is i mean what do i know i'm a musician i live in l.a. so if i worked for the n.s.a. or had worked for the n.s.a. i might have a different perspective but it seems like sometimes governments including our own our interest. did in restricting information because it is actually sensitive and to disseminate it would be compromising but other times people almost restrict governments restrict information either because it's embarrassing or it's just a kneejerk reaction you know this feeling like like it's their job to restrict access to information and that's why i thought the bradley chelsea manning case was so important be

paris has gone a bit by the wayside. quick to rollbeen up the red carpet for the investors and startups. they are trying to grab back the initiative. if a poor reputation. they have high-end changing tax laws, difficult labor laws across the board, and they for bid dailymotion to be bought out by yahoo!. too many startups go to london. it is easier. they are trying to change that around. yet more plenty -- money pumped in. the government is putting its money where its mouth is. million euros are going into this. i will be talking about this with our guests. i will be talking to someone with birch box. i will be saying what she thinks the sentiment is like here. after you. -- back to you. >> speaking of tech companies, nokia is said to be nearing a deal with india tax authority. it is ready to pay off to microsoft. we have the details from hong kong. >> a very good morning to you. we are watching what is happening from the delhi high court. they are ready to rule on its key assets today. the company is close to settling a

yourself and if they are just things that we are going to talk about, they are going to go by the wayside>> what are the best resolutions that are achievable and good for people and should people shoot higher name high? should they be something ask women what is the best way to go about it? >> each person has to decide for herself what is really a priority. and as we were talking before we went on. so many people that i know and that i have known once upon love. like falling in love with the lottery. i will say to them, okay, what is your plan? what are you going to do this year in order to be able to meet mr. or mrs. right? are you going to go to book signings and museums or will you put yourself out there. and if you put yourself out there, you're going to increase the probability of hopefully falling in love. but there has to be a plan and not just a plan of talk. >> it seems that most people have a plan of talk. and you really -- if you really have the motivation come he would have done it on june the third whatever you reached that. and it's arbitrary. >> you're absolutely right. and

you accomplish things, if we doing things, all of thosegress things become farther and fall to the wayside's just that when everyone has to be so pure in everything that they are doing, they like to victimize themselves because it helps confirm their purity. i've been picked on as an example. >> you are a big supporter of the president? >> yes. i think that he is a very smart guy. >> he is smart enough to understand and i've had a problem with him, but i generally support what he has done in a big way. but i think transparency is important. and i think we live in a time when there is so much technological opportunity we really need transparency all these people can do smart things neil: you are mr. internet star, you have your fortune and now there are signs of abuses. okay, so how do you see this? >> i don't see it as a big deal. i get audited almost every day. all of my foundations get audited pretty much everyday. most of my businesses get audited. >> will he have democratic and republican administrations alike? >> the business still has to compete. i start to do things. with the nsa, i

in the simpler days of yes, ma'am, pardon me have fall bin the wayside. >> take a look at parental guidancen with his grandfather's name. >> instead of calling me grandpa, why don't you call me artie. >> can i call you fartie? >> that was kind of cute. >> i didn't know which one they were going to use. i think that is kind of cute. >> here to help us navigate social etiquette in hard times, is the author of "if i have to tell you one more time." >> hi, ladies. >> the problem that we're talking about all the time. we're not having face-to-face directions. we're not existing in irl, in real life. we're constantly here. we're interacting this way and it's really impacting how polite we are often how kind we are. >> does that change the rules when it comes to in restaurants, out with your kids with all the devices? >> it's changed the way we operate. this is the first time that kids have grown up on devices. what that means they're spending so much time on texting and social media, they don't have much time practicing in real life so they're not getting much training. >> it's critical to having

there's always a team effort going into a successful operation that goes by the wayside because it's more character. >> while you were at the c.i.a. you were a deep-cover officer. how much of what you write in this novel is true to what a c.i.a. covert operator might do. novelistic? >> well, i took out all the waiting and all the rabbit holes that you go down, and come up with nothing, because you can't keep a reader very long if you put that in, there's a lot of waiting for your assets, whether you are in a restaurant or a park. what is genuine is the trade craft. how you communicate clandestinely, how you move in and out of the country. and the location are places where i have been, worked, travelled to. i tried - and her interactions at headquarters - i tried to make that as realistic as possible and still make it entertaining. >> the books started with the main character meeting with an informant. the whole cloak and dagger things, in this world of happen? >> believe it or not, yes. despite technology, what matters is a human interaction. i'm biassed but human intelligence is wha

both crew members, passengers and maybe people along the wayside as well. >> reporter: like in spain when this train threw off the rails. the operator took the turn at nearly twice the speed allowed. 79 people were killed. in massachusetts, this transit train collided with another after the operator fell asleep. the ntsb said ptc technology would have prevented the accident. in california, 25 people were killed when this commuter train ran through a signal and collided with a freight train, again, investigators said ptc would have made the difference. >> that on board ptc computer will take control of the train and prevent the accidents from occurring. >> reporter: the ntsb agrees, positive train control is on the most wanted list of safety improvements. amtrak is using it on some routes, so is metro link in california and bnsf, a freight line. congress wants it nationwide mandating ptc on many lines by the end of 2015, including metro north, the line involved in this weekend's deadly derailment. >> metro north tells nbc news it is working aggressively to meet the deadline to install

although we are warming up, we will see the "spare the air" fall by the wayside and upper 50's to low through tuesday and monday and tuesday there could be record highs in a few areas at 70. >> we have traffic. leaving san francisco and headed to, say, sfo we have slow downs away from 80 at 5 miles per 5 mr hour. a car may have hit a bicyclist but that may not be the case. that is good news. we have clear conditions at 280 and at top speeds. in san jose we have slowing up to the san jose airport along 87 at 101 we have an accident blocking one lane and 101 is looking heavy by the airport. and good news here, the crash is pushed to the shoulder and we have quite the backup southbound 680 all planes are open and traffic is slow but we will take you 20 to 25 minutes in the southbound direction away from dublin. >> you could be extra generous this holiday season with an additional $7,000 in cash which is how much you could win by helping abc fight hunger. when you click "give where you live" we donate a dollar to the feeding america's food bank for are and you could win $7,000, so imagine

after you take that first hit, it goes by the wayside. >> reporter: brown shook the nerves and finished with 12 rushing touchdowns and passing for 11 more. his parents watch every game, worried about that knee. >> my mom is a wreck from what i have heard. sometimes my dad walks away because my mom is a nervous wreck, whether i get hit or if i'm okay. been to every game. they are a huge support staff. i love them to death. >> reporter: they are headed to play their first bowl game, brown watched robert griffin iii struggle coming off the same injury. do you feel his pain and understand what he's going through? >> i do, to some extent. it's a completely different position and team. you know, it's unfortunate that it's coming down to, you know, everyone is blaming the knee. it's a tough injury to come back. he has tremendous respect for rg iii quick return and understands how mentally challenging playing with a rehabbed knee can be. as for maryland, they will find out which bowl game they will play in. good sporting news in this town. >> feels good, he's getting it done. thanks. >>> who is

they were streaming netflix, listening to pandora, but everything else went by the wayside. they weren't a lot of practical. >> brett, what about you? >> i want to speak quickly to what scott said about the smart tvs. the other problem is people are using things that give them good content. they're using netflix and pandora was those are two entertainment things. i'm not a fan of major league baseball, so i'm not going to use the mlb plug-in, but i may watch amazon programming on the streaming app. i think we dismiss a lot of technology for its not being very practical, but it's really just a conduit to provide entertainment or content, and when it's not used properly, it's going to die by the wayside. like beta, there was no content on beta, which is why vhs won. >> i go back to three quarter, so that's a whole other discussion. shows how old i am. >> interesting you brought that up, because that was another big loser this year, physical media. streaming, you can get it all digitally now. i wouldn't want to be in the business. i know music has been right sizing itself, but

i put it by the wayside. i was serious about this. later when we kept getting complaints from members of congress, not from haley barbour or jack abramoff, i called the n.s.a., the national security agency. they came to my office and we privately met. i said tell me what's the bottom line of this security aspect? they went ahead and they looked at this and we went to a skip room which was in the capital. that's a private room nothing bounces in and nothing bounces out. i won't reveal the information today because of the security, they say it's okay to do these if we do them this way. the israel-based company or the l.g.c. american company. you do it this waying then we're okay. what we did with the contract, it went two j. eagan, the ca orc cao. we had providers of sprint, horizon or at&t. they would sign off, do you want l.g.c. or want fox com. we had that input. the majority said they wanted fox com. there was one little twist in this though. at one point in time, the word was used and this is how i met with fox com, the word jew wa

their smaller capitalization and smaller company rivals will fall by the wayside under this new health care system. that will soon be logical to everyone. and it's seeing if the people in the white house had some business savvy, they, too, would've seen this coming. they didn't see it any more than they saw the website issues. so to sum up, the smell test does get vindicated backhandedly by a transition that historically occurred in the cycle. the investing that has come before this moment is from people who recognize that bad news has historically led to good news and they've been driven by individual stock performance as well as pattern recognition. the asset class hunters and corporate buybacks have been convenient props to the whole process, which is why this move's so explosive. the rally that shouldn't be happening is, indeed, prevailing. i feel badly for people who want to wait for the smell to improve. they might be confused by politics in the media, politically driven need to have a balanced debate between bulls and bears. wow, the bulls and the bears are going at it again. bu

payments to farmers who don't even farm, in crop insurance payments, chances at reform are going by the wayside now and it could result, incidentally in a doubling in the price of milk just next month. nothing needs to be said about some of these major items. they have been stuck for a month. notably, immigration and any sort of gun control, john. >> mike at the whitehouse, thank you very much. a lot needs to be done. congress may be bragging about a budget deal, but as mike mentioned, lawmakers are still sitting on a pile of other unfinished business. there are still 1777 pending bills in the senate. the house as 3659 pieces of legislation waiting to be addressed. those bills would not be included under the fred recall budget unless lawmakers approve them separately. some affects millions of americans as randall pinkston is about to explain. randall? >> reporter: john, as we just heard about some of the farm bill, let's start there. there are -- there is a possibility really of two angels. there is the deal about farming costs and food stamp, ag culture secretary, tom vilsack warning a delay i

so-called knockout game and black-on-black crime dominated headlines this year, one story fell by the waysiderge of white crime across the country. whites attacking other whites. we took a hard look at the issues plaguing the white community in a very important conversation, next. >>> cable news this holiday season has been peppered with debate over santa's race, which sounds like a joke and probably should be a joke, but alas, it is, in fact, news analysis on fox. and while the reaction to the fear on the right of a black santa was largely dominated by ridicule, sometimes the best takedown of an inherently racist conversation is through satire. that is exactly what we did over the summer with the help of gawker's core jefferson to address the disturbing culture of violence in the white community. >> holy [ bleep ]! >> yeah! >> those shocking images are from huntington beach, california, where at the conclusion of the u.s. open of surfing on sunday, a white mob began rioting. the angry crowd vandalized property, broke the windows of businesses, looted some stores and brawled with each other o

granted, an extension of unemployment insurance is going to fall off the wayside for about 1.3 million americans come january 1. they have to deal with that at some point. but right now for the greater good, it's about making this work. and you have to remember when it comes to making it work, they're also -- and this is a whole other thing over here that they're trying to work together so they don't bring a lot of attention to the piece they're trying to make work, the affordable website which is hands on with that. >> april ryan, alexander burns, didn't to see both of you. thanks. >> thanks, chris. >>> the two most prominent faces of the budget deal, congressman paul ryan and senator patty murray join david greg ory on sunday on "meet the press." >>> meanwhile revelations that the american who disappeared seven years ago in iran was actually on a cia spy mission. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is with us now. pete, i understand a lawyer for the family of robert levinson is now confirming this to nbc news. >> well, in fact a lot of people have confirmed the substance of

. >> stupid notions of central planning, nationalization and protectionist trade will fall by the waysidenow what are you saying here? that the baby boomers are basically free market type people and that they have convinced the world a these things that obstruct free markets and obstruct prosperity will go away, or what? what are you saying there? >> i wish i were saying that the baby boom is free market, but we were all steeped in econ 101. so i don't think we know anything about free markets, really. but what we do know about is individualism, the sanctity of the individual, the fun of the individual. to some degree, the responsibility. we're a very, very individualistic generation. and all that central planning stuff, all the socialist ideals or fascist ideals for that matter, they don't stand up to the kind of individualism that the baby boom represents. >> right. >> we may not mean to destroy them, but we will. >> one last one, and it's got to be quick. >> yeah. >> one last one. barack obama is a baby boomer. your thought, p.o. o'rourke? >> he is such a statistical outlier. he is tec

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you're sort of swept to the wayside saying, no, no, no, this is the way it's always been done here andg person in the office who might want their boss to take a new look at something, what do you suggest? >> this feels very personal luke. >> not at all. i speak for the generation. >> well, there's a character called sitting bull. what that means is that you have to sometimes observe who you're working for and figure out what works for them and what doesn't. and you have to wait. you have to find their strengths. you have to find their weaknesses. and then you apply a strategy. certain bosses want to be agreed with, no doubt. but what you can say, i can understand what you're saying. however, what about this. too often young people literally feel so entitled and think their ideas are so great will say, we have to do this. >> you hear that? >> that's the other side of this argument. >> you want to know what? they don't have the experience. they're not sitting where the boss is and understanding all the things that they're the thi that they're having to delegate, as well as deal with. so

a lot of this -- not all of it, a lot of it will fall by the wayside because people won't qualify any longer for the safety net programs. businesses will benefit, too. the biggest problem with businesses, especially small businesses have right now is lack of consumer demand. if you put money back in the pocket of low-income workers, that will be a boon to small businesses, and it will be a boon to your businesses on main street because that's where they will tend to shop. many of these low-income workers don't drive out to the suburbs. a lot of them don't go online and buy at amazon.com, but they will go to their neighborhood stores, and that's where they spend their money. in a poll earlier this year, two-thirds of small business owners said they support raising the minimum wage because they know it will help increase consumption and reduce pressure on taxpayer-funded public benefit programs. now we always hear the claim that if you raise the minimum wage, it will cost jobs. that's just not true. the most sophisticateed empirical economic research conducted over the last two decades

but that has gone by the wayside and those have been used to try to restrain the cost of the pell grant program. you mention this kind of in passing on page three. >> sure, first of all, the institutions are affected by ending what has been called the second tower and particularly black colleges in particular. the situation is that a number of students are coming in underprepared academically 45% and 45% at least one academic course. they are having to learn a postsecondary level, which is why we should have a college career ready for all students in because they were on track, they were not on track to graduate on time. what happened is that is that they were catching up. so that when they began their second year, they were actually going to be checking your students instead of a second-year student who has only 14 credits and is really a first year student or a student that has 12 credits. the second is having an access impact, particularly at community colleges and they are hurting as a result of this reduction, not to mention us who was affected. >> thank you. i want to thank all of

that is a leftover issue from 2013 that seems to have fallen by the wayside. there have been a number of executive actions. we may yet see more of those. several of the items of the recommendations that came out have been implemented at this point. in terms of progress and legislative progress, that is a question. the background checks, there is a constant focus on certain key votes to see whether it is safe to switch. certain people were seen as swing votes. pusher in fact there is a to bring it back to the floor and whether those votes could be brought over. that may be a tough sell in an election year. vivian tweet from shepardson. host: gary from cleveland, ohio on the republican line. understand there is a provision in obamacare, they are setting aside $15 billion of the taxpayers money for insurance companies, if they do not make a profit. llarshe second year -- do set aside for the insurance companies. a gigantic bailout. would this be a big misstep as far as the democrats are concerned? guest: one of the keys for the administration in containing indust

the data as to how va would monitor this and make sure the cases and claims are being set to the waysidewhile other things are occurring, but it is something worth considering i think. >> thank you. in fact it is the policy of the va that when it has enough evidence to pay partially, it pays. the problem is that the workers don't get anywhere credit and therefore, they are not encouraged to do it and we find many, many cases. it is not a matter of va policy, which says when you have enough evidence, pay them at this level and then when we get more, we will update. they want to take the time to do it because they are measured by how many cases they do, which goes back to my point of the work measurement system in sherman's point that if you give somebody some income and maybe he will go away if the thought and there will anymore to do. so they really want to get rid of the case at that point. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman for having this important hearing. information that the va has provided a recently suggested simply breaking up the workload into what th

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bond went by the wayside in 2013. equities was really place to go.ommodities if you look at thatside. at the same time you do have to worry when we get first quarter numbers and or fourth quarter, excuse me, that companies will tell us, look, there were issues in the economy. this is impacting business. you're worried there will be a massive selloff in january. >> we're certainly due for one. it would not be a natural, would probably be quite healthy if we get a bit of a reset on equity prices so we could restore better valuations in the marketplace but i think you're right. i think what we'll want to hear that companies are more optimistic about how things look in 2014. so far preannouncements come out by companies who are letting investors over the wall in terms of what things might look like have been mostly biased to the negative. so you know, the multiple expansion really a driver for equity prices this year is unlikely to be repeated in our view in 2014. therefore it is going to really require much better earnings growth to support valuations a

the data as to how va would monitor this and make sure the cases and claims are being set to the waysidewhile other things are occurring, but it is something worth considering i think. >> thank you. in fact it is the policy of the va that when it has enough evidence to pay partially, it pays. the problem is that the workers don't get anywhere credit and therefore, they are not encouraged to do it and we find many, many cases. it is not a matter of va policy, which says when you have enough evidence, pay them at this level and then when we get more, we will update. they want to take the time to do it because they are measured by how many cases they do, which goes back to my point of the work measurement system in sherman's point that if you give somebody some income and maybe he will go away if the thought and there will anymore to do. so they really want to get rid of the case at that point. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman for having this important hearing. information that the va has provided a recently suggested simply breaking up the workload into what th