>> alex wagner may not like it but i am also choosing wendy davis for this. >> i like wendy davis. >>ou have against wendy davis? that's what i don't understand. her filibuster made her a national star. it wasn't about her, it was about blocking a truly awful agreejeous bill that is going to -- that is already hurting women in texas. so people rallied around her across the country. hundreds of thousands of youtube views watching the streaming video of a filibuster on the floor. it's just incredible. >> it was great. jonathan? >> i'm changing my mind. i'm changing my mind. >> this is like the supreme court and you just heard one of the other justices make a case and you're swayed by an argument? >> he changes his mind more than i change my jackets. >> i'm not swayed by an argument. i was going to say wendy davis -- >> just to be different. >> it's about theater and theater is about make believe and who is all about make believe? senator ted cruz. and you talk about someone who did a real filibuster, he did a faux filibuster on the floor of the senate, yammering on about whatever it was

i'm wendy gillette. about the only way to describe the nation's weather heading into this christmas holiday is bizarre. the crazy weather mix included freakishly warm temperatures in the northeast, a winter storm in the midwest, and deadly flooding down south. at least nine deaths are blameded on the weather that's hit at one of the busiest travel times of the year. at least five people were killed by flooding in kentucky where high winds also took a toll. there was also flooding in neighboring indiana and as far east as vermont. in the midwest, winter's first official storm brought heavy snow. snow and ice knocked down power lines in oklahoma, which caused numerous house fires. >> we just go from one house fire to the next to the car wrecks. do what you can to protect yourself. we've already had one incident of a house without a smoke detector. >> the storm also knocked out power to nearly half a million homes and businesses from michigan to new england. >> when they get one line repaired, now another b

and also wendy liebman. >> a lot of news.with a visit the prime minister -- a visit to the japanese war memorial. abe became the first japanese prime minister to visit the shrine in years. some see it as a sign of japanese imperialism. the visit, he says, was not intended to hurt the feelings of the chinese of the korean people. tear gasthailand fired and rubber bullets at antigovernment protesters -- police in thailand fired tear gas. there are preparations for national elections scheduled for february. protesters want to keep the country's political -- or i should say they want the rules rewritten to make sure the family of the prime minister is not able to keep control. the orange crop in florida falling to a 23 year low. the big reason? a disease spread by an asian insect that causes the fruit to shrink and drop from the trees. number ofthe fewest boxes since 1990's. >> another agricultural product in trouble, but it is not bugs -- unless you figure washington falls in that category. farmers make $64 billion a year on it,

the problem and solutions, former new york city schools chancellor joel klein, teach for america's wendy kopf, sal kan, one of the most innovative educators of the world and tom friedman of "the new york times." then, to understand the protests that have roiled ukraine over the past weeks you have to go back a bit, to 1654. >>> and an execution in the her mitt kingdom, why did north korea's cokim jong-un have his n uncle killed and what does it mean for the world? >>> finally, how well do you know your world? you'll be surprised at what you don't know. but first, here's my take. in the midst of the extraordinary specticle of nelson mandela's funeral in a stadium with some 90,000 mourners, including more than 90 heads of government, a small gesture caught the world's attention, barack obama moved to greet dilma rousef of brazil. on his way he shook hands with the person on her right, the man was raul castro, president of cuba. remember, the united states does not have diplomatic relations with cuba, and has a tight trade embargo in place against the island nation, so many wondered whether

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and also on google plus, wendy alexandar, a working mother of three, who along with her kids has been homeless. welcome everyone to the stream. so donna, when you think about homelessness it is those very visible examples that come to mind. the reality is we have more homeless families than ever before, what is going on? >> well, exactly as you mentioned earlier. the face of homelessness in america is changing. what we once thought of the single adult, that face is transformed into the face of a school kid. that is the new face of homelessness, and unfortunately it is also rah face that those numbers are getting better. there are more and more of them. >> richard to what do you attribute this rise in homeless families? >> well, i think we recognize that what drives homelessness is the lack of affordable housing. as i think the people who commented earlier said. and i think that as we have seen, incomes start to come down, and the price of housing going up. we are just seeing a growth of the families that experience homelessness. >> you are working with a full time job, you had three k

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'. >> wendy and i went to this school with grades 1 through 5. dow ho do you do? do you have the kids stand on their head in the morning? do you have them hold their breath? what we discovered was, the big secret, we found it, there is no secret. they just execute across a system the best practices that we all know are the things that are differentiating in education. they are giving teachers an enormous amount of time to work on their own professional development and to collaborate and learn from one other. teachers there teach about 70% of the time and work on their own skills about 30% of the time. they work intensively with parents. we talked to a reading teach who said she talked to the parents about three times a week with every student, either directly or through e-mail. they tutor students and help them with their home work. and they have a culture of learning where kids are expected to come to school ready to learn. what you have when you have a systematic solution like this is you make the weakest teachers much better across a wide system and you're able

good morning, wendy. >> good morning, anne-marie.s were mixed ahead of the christmas break last week. tokyo's nikkei added a frangs. hong kong's hang seng added half a per cement. investors continued to digest the fed rule reserve's plan to wind down the bond buying program. the dow climb 11 points and the nasdaq was down 11. >>> the senate vote on janet yellen as the next chair of the federal reserve is being tabled until next year. while a test vote for yelin's nomination is set for later today the former vote won't happen until january 6th. if confirmed, yellen would be the first to leave the central bank. her term ended january 31st. >>> the city council has voted to ban a electronic cigarettes and indoor public venues. it's expected to take hold in a few months and comes 12 years after traditional smokers were forced outside to light up. >>> the world's largest tv makers are putting a new twist on the big screen. they're adding curves. samsung and lg are prepared to introduce bigger screens next month which carry four times the

both wendy and mark are good friends. former texas prosecutor wendy murphy.er. >> it's actually katie kessner. >> thank you. founder of take back the night and rape survivor jessica brown. your reaction to attorney tim jansen's interview. wendy, how did you see it? >> look, did he not tell the truth consistently at all. and i think it was pretty shocking, frankly, to hear him misstate such important evidence. let me say one simple thing. i've been doing this work for decades. when someone reports that a serious crime happened and there is no motive to lie, which apparently everybody agrees is true here -- there's no motive for the victim to lie -- and she reports it right away and the perpetrator takes the fifth, i would say already we've got a big thumb on the scale in favor of the victim. what we also have here, as you pointed out -- you also pointed out very emphatically, as well you should, when it's a big football school or division i or ivy league school, you have to be extra deferential to the victim. why? it happens more at those schools and dispropor

wendy, let me start with you. >> no, i think the important thing to understand is we're in a villagemall group of kids, what you're going to do is raise a generation of criminals who will eventually hurt your children maybe in adult life, and we're in aville and, some are high achieving, some low achieving, some come from homes that need more support than other homes but we have to have a village mentality to help all the children. they're kids. >> they are. they're kids. and if you can change the path, clearly that's what schools and society wants. the three of you, wendy walsh, kenneth trump, robert runcie, we appreciate it. >> with the click of the cameras, an iconic photograph for the ages. coming up, we'll meet the photographer behind the lens and find out how this moment changed his life. ♪ [ female announcer ] to bake. or not to bake. that is a silly question. bake the world a better place with nestle toll house. as your life changes, fidelity is there for your personal economy, helping you readjust along the way, refocus as careers change and kids head off to college, and rev

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wendy gillette at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, wendy. >>> as early as today president obama is expected to nominate montana senator max baucus to be the next u.s. ambassador to china. the relationship between china and the u.s. has been strained recently. baucus, a democrat, chairs the powerful senate finance committee which oversees taxes and trade. he's been a vocal critic of china's trade policies. >> and a u.s. attorney is defending the treatment of an indian diplomat who was arrested and strip searched. devyani khobragade was arrested in new york last tuesday. she was charged with paying her nanny less than minimum wage and visa fraud to get the nanny into the u.s. she was strip searched, something the u.s. attorney says is standard procedure. her arrest and search has sparked outrage in india which retaliated by removing the safety concrete barriers in front of the u.s. embassy there. the u.s. attorney says khobragade was treated better than other defendants. >>> coming up on the "morning news," crime fighting

wendy gillette at the new york stock exchange. thank you very much, wendy. >>> still to come, an act of kindness by actor paul walker. >>> and in sports, an nfl mvp sends an unexpected rsvp. try zyrtec-d®. powerful relief of nasal congestion and other allergy symptoms -- all in one pill. zyrtec-d®. at the pharmacy counter. maint. testing mdpc-03 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test !!! abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdef maint. testing mdpc-03 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv 7890 maint. testing mdpc-03 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test !!! abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdef maint. testing mdpc-03 f1 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 67890 cbs caption test !!! abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 12345 ab >>> here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. new york, some sun today with a high of 53. miami will be sunny. chicago, expect clouds today. sunshine in

wendy is auntie wendy, auntie laura, and jen is our baby sister. [laughter] but, you know, god has actually kept us together. we have so many supporters, so many very dear friends of troy's that are here. i don't want to, you know, miss any names, but we have gloria canello, rosanne harvey. i just want to thank all of y'all that are here. we are here tonight on one occasion, and that's to celebrate the life and the legacy of troy. some of troy's last words were to his friends and supporters to continue to fight to end the death penalty, and that's what we're going to do. my sister martina was the voice of troy, and she always told people that she was her brother's keeper, and she was that, her brother's keeper. when troy was executed, the day that he was executed, he gave each and every family member and each and every person that came and visited him on death row that day, he gave all of us a charge. he told us, he said don't cry, don't hold your head down. you don't have anything to be ashamed of. he said he wanted to thank us for standing by him

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good morning, wendy. >> good morning, anne-marie.d drug administration is cracking down on antibiotics used to make livestock bigger. the agency announced new guidelines wednesday to phase out the drugs over the next three years. doctors are worried that people who eat meat are susceptible to so-called super bugs. >> it's really focusing on those antibiotics that are important in human medicine and reducing the likelihood that these causing bacteria become resistant to these anti-buy ott ilks and therefore are no longer effective in treating people. >> reporter: the program is voluntary, but the fda says two big drugmakers have agreed to follow the guidelines. nikkei fell off 4% hitting a one-week low. hong kong's hang seng dropped half a percent. a bad day on wall street. they're afraid the budget deal could cause the fed to scale back its stimulus package. the markets suffered their biggest loss in five weeks. the dow plummeted 129 points. the nasdaq fell 56 points. >>> the s.e.c. begin fcc begin on whether to lift the ban using ce

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i'm wendy rieger. we're going to start with allegations against a chief of staff. >> he is now on unpaid leave connected to a child important investigation. >> news 4's chris gordon is live. >> reporter: good evening. police urammed down his door an then he spent the rest of the day watching police go through the rest of his belongings. the police removing the senate aide from his home this afternoon. he was in handcuffs as he was taken into custody by police. loaded into an unmarked police car and taken away. they rammed open his front door and started collecting evidence. >> this morning just a little bit before 7:00 i heard pounding on the door and somebody saying "police open up"! . i was like what is going on? i opened up the window and looked out and it was surrounded with unmarked cop car ls. >> reporter: the u.s. postal inspection service says all documents are currently under seal. the team of investigation tors removed more than half a dozen bags and seized ryan loskarn's home compute

and this happens. >> oh, wendy. >> those new shoes. >> oh, wendy. >> the local tv equivalent of being a war correspondent. but believe it or not that was not the most embarrassing thing wendy endured. normally people can't wait to get on the news. that was not the case on black friday. >> a lot of shoppers are here. let's see who we can talk to. sir? come back. come back here, sir. i can't believe he kept walking away. how are you? merry christmas. i see. come on. come with me. hi you guys. come over here. no, no, no. come over here. rats. excuse me, sir. this is unbelievable. all morning long we have been talking to tons of people. maybe this gentleman will talk to us. wait a minute, ma'am, wait. wait. wait. excuse me. can i talk to you really quick. you're the greatest shopper i have ever seen. when did you start? >> i don't speak english. >> she'll find somebody. we need to take a break. when we come back, we're going to have a look at the new kardashian christmas card. it's beautiful. and we will ask people out on the street if they had a fight with their family and some of them d

wendy jill lit is at the new york stock exchange with this and more. good morning, wendy. >>> good morning, anne-marie. the glass ceiling at gm has been reached. mary barra is the first woman geo. she helped roll out the pickup, silverado and the impala. she'll replace current ceo dan ackerson. >> i've worked at general motors for 33 years. i've always known it's great company. the men and women are so dedicated and i believe we have truly the best team on the feel. it's an honor to lead this team. >> barra will take over the company on january 15th. >>> asian stocks were sent low your. tokyo's nikkei lost half a percent. hong kong's hang seng dropped more than 1%. >>> and you know who they are. that's charlie rose, norah ringing the close bell at the new york stock exchange tuesday. the co-hosts are celebrating "cbs this morning's" 500th show and its upcoming second anniversary. >>> investors are looking to cash in on some of this year's big gains. the dow splits tuesday dropping 52 points finishing below 15,000. the nasdaq dropped 8 points. >> pizza

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. >> katy tur is outside of a wendy's in brooklyn. katy, what are you hearing from people who worked there and what is the response from people that are walking by that know this might happen. are they inspired by this? do they think it's noes bring attention? >> reporter: it depends on who you talk to. a lot of people that walk by say good for them, go for it and try to get more money. others say this is a union-backed protest and they're not asking for anything, and they're just being influenced by the unions. the protests here will start about half an hour and there are 50 to a hundred of them down here. they're asking for $7.25 to $15 an hour and $7.25 is the current minimum wage and do you think most of these fast food workers are teenagers and young people you wouldn't quite be correct. most of them are over the age of 28 and two-thirds of them are women. they say they're working two jobs in a lot of cases and they can't afford the bare necessities and can't afford to feed their families and they're capped out at 35 hours a week

wendy? >>> well, you may have heard by now that our beloved mack mcgary passed away at the age of 87. we came here to the "it's academic set." it's smaller than what we are used to. everything without him looks smaller. he was so big and legendary of broadcasting. like mack, it was classic. >> good evening and welcome to "it's academic." >> he was the mack daddy ruling it's academic for 50 years. >> i remember when i was 18. >> john glenn, raymond, hillary clinton. the questions were tough and the answers could be funny among his favorites -- >> who defeated napoleon at waterloo? >> he got his start eons ago. the first announcement, the start of the korean war. broadcasting was different those days. >> we didn't sign on until 3:00 in the afternoon. this was the early 50s. i remember when the "today" show started in 1952. we would do the "today" show from 7:00 to 9:00, then sign off. siesta time. then come on with kate smith at 3:00 in the afternoon. >> like any classic, he was enduring. his

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good morning, wendy. >> good morning, anne-marie. congress may be ready with a deal on the federal budget. house and senate negotiators are reportedly putting finishing touches on what would be the first successful budget agreement in two years. the "washington post" says the plan would not reduce the nation's $17 trillion debt, close tax loopholes, or change health care and retirement programs. the deal is expected to be completed later this week. >>> asian markets got a list from strong export numbers in china and a sliding yen. tokyo's nikkei added more than 2% for its best one-day gain in three months. hong kong's hang seng gained a quarter percent. >>> the stock market could get a jolt this week as more ompanies are expected to announce lower than expected quarterly earnings. the dow finished 198 points higher on friday driven by four months of consecutive job gains. gains. the nasdaq gained more than 29 points. >>> fed officials expect continued improvement in the nation's economy in the next year. the feds have repeatedly crit

wendy gillette has a look at our money watch ts morning. (on cam) it's going to be a happy new year for more thaa >>> a new minimum wage for 2 million workers. wendy gillette reports. >> reporter: it's going to be a happy new year for more than a million workers making minimum wage. they will get a pay raise in 13 states, most about 15 cents an hour but in new jersey it goes up a dollars to $8.25. washington state will have the highest minimum wage at $9.32. asian stocks were up this morning. japan's nikkei ended at its highest level in more than six years. on wall street another short week because of new year's. the dow ended down on friday, dropping 1 point. the nasdaq fell 10. the u.s. is exporting more cars and trucks than ever before. the detroit news says the number of u.s.-built vehicles shipped to other countries could hit 2 million this year. that's up from 1.8 million in 2012. almost half the exports go to mexico and canada. and if you dream of finding a treasure in your attic, listen to this discovery. the antiques road show says