but i grew up in a family in southern california, whittier, california where my mother was an a teacherhat richard nixon's hometown. >> it sure is. i was going thigh school through water gait and stuff, that was verynteresting. and i, and my mother was an art teacher and i was surround by the arts. and i drew all the time and we have fantastic art departments departments in my junior high andigh school. and when i was a freshman in high school i read i book on how walt disney made animated films. and it dawned on me, wait a minute, people actually make cartoons for a living? that's what i want to do. and i was so blessed to be in this family because my mom always thought the arts was a noble profession. and so i went to, after graduating high school i went to, in the very first year of the character animation program at the california institute of the arts. and it was this amazing program that taught the disney style of animation where they brought all these great disney animators and artists out of retirement to be our teachers. we didn't really think about it at the time, but we were

this is northwest, 16th street at whittier street, please use caution in the area. also traveling in virginia at this time, several accidents. 66 eastbound as you approach the beltway, your left center lane is blocked by the accident there. if you're traveling across the 14th street bridge, you're jammed. the good news is had a disabled tractor-trailer blocking the right side of the roadway. it's out of the roadway, but the delays continue. also on 395, seeing an accident. this one is northbound at duke street, taking up the right side of the roadway. looks like only two lanes to the left will get you by the accident. use caution when traveling in the area. might be a better day to take the rails. no reported delays. joe and eun, back to you. >> thanks very much, danella. >>> 6:13. 59 degrees. ahead all of the republican presidential hopefuls are attending a d.c. event today except one. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to our city streets... ♪ ...to skies around the world... ♪ ...northrop grumman's security solutions are invisibly at work, pro

the american imprisonment of allows whittier's properly was a way of reducing the counteracting the enormous increase in street violence, violent crimes of all types that have overtaken the united states in the 1980's. of homicide rate or the rate of rape, the rid of assault. so as a clumsy countermeasure there was an increase incarceration. in part it was as possible for the part that the violent crime rates have plunged back to earth since the 1990's. not entirely because of the number of other causes, most justices of crime and to be at least part of the current decline to the increase in imprisonment. it is really in allied air. true for every western democracy but the united states. it's true of homicide, when the steering gears and worse. is true of imprisonment or uigur a disproportionately large were some of our population in prison compared to other western democracies. >> i was wondering if you could share with us a bit about the methods used to arrive at these numbers the talk proselyte. they do independent testing with statistics, like this type of cause, like to this fact becaus

last night in whittier police got a call someone had hijacked a stretch hummer limousine.ke was pouring out of the limo during the chase but then things get even stranger. the limo turns into a neighborhood and the carjacker bales out naked. he continues on running with his hands up for a short distance before a police dog subdues him. that suspect was taken to the hospital for treatment. >>> in australia this morning, thousands of gallons of fuel go up in flames. surveillance video at a gas station shows the fire surrounding a tanker truck which was delivering fuel at the time. fortunately -- rather, unfortunately, the driver suffered major injuries. he was taken to the hospital and is in critical condition. there were reports of lightning in the area, but the cause of the fire is still under investigation. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." still to come, the raiders will try to keep their playoff hopes alive against -- well, who are they playing today, rob? hepackers.rs. yeah, it's a tough matchup. details next. ♪...my true love gave to me... six geese a-laying.

nelson rose has written several books and hundreds of columns, a distinguished senior professor at whittieraw school in california. professor rose, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for inviting me. >> no new laws have been passed, no old ones repealed. so how did the landmark change come about? >> well, there was one law. the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act was rammed through congress a couple years ago, actually by conservative republicans designed to outlaw internet gambling, and it may have accidentally legalized it, because it's got an exception for gambling that is 100% within a single state. if it's legal in a state. the department of justice had always said the wire act makes all forms of gambling illegal, and even if the wire just happens to go into another state and come back, it is illegal. and on friday they issued a kind of christmas present to the legal internet gambling community saying, no, no, we don't care if the wire crosses into another state, as long as it is all the better or the operator in one state and we only care about sports betting anyway. >> the