you can start a yahoo group and add one e mail at a time. i would be happy to share with you on how we started our yahoo group. we didn't start with 600 people we started with 5. our yahoo group has grown by 200 people in the last year primarily because we made it easy for people to sign up and we have been promoting the neighborhood association we have flyers up. we are doing a lot of value added activities for the neighborhood including parties. what cheryl said about finding daniel holmesy. do you know daniel holmesy? >> i know other people that are my husband is on the treasure island advisary committee. treasure island's an area the city is investing in. i think you can leverage resources. >> if i can briefly answer becky's question. this is for everybody. number one, stay positive. >> number 2, listen to your constituency that's important and i think the key to the whole thing is find somebody in if it's department of public works or any organization sfpuc whom ever and get a liaison and invite them to the meeting. don't just have a co

. >> reporter: it came just as yahoo announced up to 150 layoffs. this afternoon some employees told me they had not heard about the cuts and a spokeswoman said about 1% of employees are affected and they say yahoo is struggling to keep up with google. >> they have a good news program, information program. they are struggling with what it is they want to do. >> reporter: asked for google, industry analysts say this could be a bellwether if other companies follow suit. >> yahoo always released its quarterly earnings report and they expect to start growing later this year. they earned $312 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, but revenue dropped 12%. >>> on wall street the markets tanked ending the day flat. nasdaq also rallied to bring a one-point game and you can find more info night -- more financial news by clicking the business tab at her home page, ktvu.com. >>> a vigil it's underway right now at the patterson home of juliani cardenas. four vehicles were located in the waters of the canal bringing the total to nine vehicles. none of the -- was

in december, yahoo announced it was laying off 600 people. the news comes on the same day yahoo said sales fell 4% last quarter. on wall street, stocks staged a late day comeback. investors shook off a sharp drop in home prices and disappointing earnings from dupont and johnson & johnson. the dow is just 23 points away from 12,000. the nasdaq is up 2. verizon will offer an unlimited data plan for iphone users for a limited time only. customers who sign up during a specific window will have unlimited data on their iphones for the life of their verizon contract. the company would not say how long the temporary unlimited offer will last. after that initial period it will move to a metered system similar to what at&t uses. that plan charges customers for the amount of data they consume. and that's your moneywatch. for more business headlines, stay with cbsmoneywatch.com. at the new york stock exchange, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> a status update from mark zuckerberg yesterday said he was ready to give up his facebook riches for social good. but

and their side of the coin yahoo announced it's laying off about 150 workers. this cut back comes just six weeks after the company let 600 workers go. and will start an continuing effort to boost earnings. this appears to be working as the 4th quartser earnings more than doubled in 2010. but sales slid 4% aichl sign yahoo is still struggling to cash in on the advertising boon. >> the state of the union address is not expected to include new policy proposal ootz white house release aid photo of the president putting finishes touches on the address this afternoon. >> the theme is how we win the future. the president will outline five key carries x and including a 5% cut in spend whigt house calls this a robust agenda, and a message both democrats and republicans can support. >> and we want to vest in education, we want to invest in infrastructure. >> i'm hopeful the word investment isn't more stimulus spending and a bigger government here in washington. >> this will be the president's first address to a dividing congress chls republicans control the house, democr

we have the news letter and yahoo groups and website and wiky site. we fliers for all our meetings at our cafes and merchants. you can read about the events in the neighborhood. there is word of mouth that's the best way i think. talking to people is the best way to build communality. we do organize a lot of activities in our neighborhood. the reason why we are successful in organizing all the activities is we have a large shared leadership organization. all of us our volunteers and 11 board members we have over 60 volunteers in our neighborhood distributing on a parent's group or safety team. they are helping with marketing and pr. they are helping us with reaching out and setting up meetings with the mayor. we also set up meetings with the mayor and our city representatives. so, through those organization and volunteers and the committees we get a lot of community building everybody knows somebody else the classic network model. we do have meetings general meetings for the neighborhood and those are we communicate those meetings through the news let

yahoo's been struggling to compete. the company's fourth quarter earnings more than doubled but overall revenue fell more than 10% last year. >>> at google, there is a hiring spree, meantime. the search giant planning to hire more than 6,000 new workers this year. it's the company's largest expansion ever. at this point it's not clear just how many of those jobs will be based in the u.s. the mountain view-based company has 60 offices around the world. >> nice if some of those yahoo folks could get jobs at google. >>> it's time to go outside. the weather has given us a tale of two stories. unseasonably warm on one hand, on the other hand we have fog. let look outside a view of the bay bridge. some high clouds out there, but mostly sunny skies and it's already leading to a warmup. the temperatures at the beach actually cooler than some of the temperatures we are seeing inland. what's the effect? it was all because of that tule fog. hazy conditions particularly in the far reaches of the east bay hills. that's why expected

but sales slid 4% as yahoo!es to struggle to compete with google and facebook in the race for on-line advertising. >>> more than 900 be jos will be available at the event we are sponsoring. it includes verizon, valley yellow pages and state farm insurance. they need sales people, accountants, loan officers and software developers and more. the event is co-sponsored by abc7 and the job journal tomorrow from noon until 4:00 at the south san francisco convention center which is on airport boulevard. >>> the san jose police shot and killed a man this afternoon. it happened in a ravine in the san jose hills east of the airport. that's where alan wang is live for us tonight to walk us through what happened. alan? >> carolyn, as close as we are to san jose, this is a very rural part of the east hills with livestock and barbed wire fence around us. not much happens, but today police shot and killed a man. >> about noontime midday, i was feeding the animals down at my ranch. i heard what was a couple of gunshots, pops. >

microsoft hurting yahoo's profits.o carol bartz say it's not producing as much revenue as expected. the "new york post" saying yahoo cutting 150 jobs. on google doing better. kind of a theme here between these two captains. the company said yesterday 2011 would be the biggest hiring year ever with more than 6,000 people expected to be hired. i guess they're waiting on the fed, come out with their decision. we don't expect any change this afternoon. silicon valley index up slightly. toys r us announcing another trade-in program starting this friday. bring in strollers, cribs, get a 25% discount on new products. the tray-in good until february 21st. the world's biggest chip maker black-eyed peas. >> thanks a lot. more news for you right now. more than 900 jobs will be available at the hiring event we're sponsoring today. some companies include verizon wireless, valley yellow pages and state farm insurance. they need accountants, loan officers, software developments and more. the event is co-sponsored by abc 7 and the job

yahoo also announced it is laying off 150 workers. and that's in addition to 600 other employees last month. >>> verizon is now stepping back a bit from its earlier announcement that it will offer the same $30 unlimited data plan for iphones as it does for all other smart phones. now the company says it will offer the unlimited iphone data plan for "a limited time." it adds after the initial sign ups it will move to a metered system similar to the one used by at&t which charges customers based on how much data they use. >>> all right. our time now 6:23. the seemingly harmless decision made by a snow border in lake tahoe ended uptaking her life. >>> the macworld expo starts in three and a half hours. it is the second year without apple. so is the pull out effecting enthusiasm? >>> enthusiastic traffic here coming around the corner to the bay bridge. pretty good here at the macarthur maze. tell you more about traffic and weather as the morning news continues. the moment you feel run down or achy nip flu-like symptoms in the bud, with os

ahura we have another that will operate yahoo! as a call center. ad hoc this is another reason we have to preserve this. the budgetary constraints. thank you very much for all of your work on this, and getting this system updated, or at least in the process of actually improving this. we were not campaigning. and so, the supervisor was a great champion of this. we were really pushing this process along. this is a big deal for us and you can see the magnitude. all of these different projects, all of this stuff, we reach out to the large business and the big business, putting together the security plans. the projects that are under way, the big issue of opera ability, critical for the entire region, they spend a lot of time with the chief of staff and we believe that between us. it is best not to talk about those things. it is critical that we get these dollars and use them appropriately. and in the strategic work. >> the strategic communications plan, and communication strategy, everyone from every demographic is -- this is a big challenge. as peopl

yahoo!t have noticed nickty mckenzie here is pretty excited. >> i'm free! i can drive! yahoo! >> for nikki, this day marks a return to freedom after a frustrating ordeal at the department of motor vehicles. an ordeal that began two years ago with a speeding ticket in novato. >> i deserved it. i said thank you for stopping me. >> nickty was driving alone for a family gathering when she was stopped in the middle of the night just outside of reno. the officer said she was going 97 mph. >> it's a lot. way too fast. >> nikki paid the fine and the ticket was cleared, or so she thought. recently she found out differently. >> i lost my purse. so i went over to the dmv at 7:30 to get a duplicate driver's license. >> after her license went missing and nikki applied for a new one, she found out she was still wanted in nevada for that speeding ticket or at least that's what the computer said. nikki told the clerk there was a mistake and she produced these documents proving that citation was cleared. >>

they are right on yahoo's heels. yahoo's shares right now are down off of its earnings 3%.s 49 cents, 15.50 per share. federal reserve wraps up its first two-day policy meeting of the year. not expecting any big changes in its two-pronged attack to try to stimulate the economy through lower interest rates and through its $600 billion bond buying program. the key that wall street is looking for is what the fed says about an exit strategy getting out of that plan before the economy heats up and we start to see inflation become a bigger problem. right now the market is mixed right now. dow is lower by 9 points because of boeing's bad earnings. nasdaq and s&p each up slightly right now, elizabeth and sydnie. >> okay, jason brooks with kcbs and cbsmoneywatch.com. thank you. >>> it is 6:50. google planning to hire more than 6,000 new employees this year. it's unclear just how many jobs though will be based here in the u.s. the mountain view- based company has 60 offices around the world. >>> and turns out even the founder of facebook isn't safe from hackers. someone apparently ha

yahoo! is laying off about 1% of its 13,500 employees. it's the second round of job cuts for yahoo! since just before christmas when it laid off soyx 0 people. >>> the reason for the layoffs could be clear next week when the company releases its fourth quarter earnings. >> san jose leaders are trying to get around governor brown's plan to end redevelopment programs, trying to give two companies incentive to relocate or expand in their city. council voted to give up to $1 million to solar panel manufacturer sun power and maxim products. that can be used for equipment and fees and taxes. the council delayed the vote that would have but dollars in the city controlled fund so that the state cannot get to it. the governor had proposed a plan to disban redevelopment programs to pay for state services. >> the weather has been pretty amazing. trying to prune the roses yesterday. it's hard. >> you look at the hill, we have no growth all over. we picked up so much moisture followed by a long dry warm

. >> there is a different story at yahoo.150 workers, just six weeks after its slashed 600 jobs and part of the continuing efforts to boost earnings by lowering expenses. this appears to be working. yahoo's 4th quartser earnings more than doubled. >> and investigators are still at the scene tonight of a fatal shooting involving a police officer. it happened in the east san jose foothills, police say someone reported this suspicious man with a weapon on the property this afternoon. and a home. it's unclear at this moment why the officer shot the suspect. or what type of weapon he was, perhaps, carrying. >> and a major break through at devil's slide. after two years of construction, caltrans today completed excavation work on two tunnels they've been big diging on the bypass. that is

. >> en diciembre la empresa yahoo señalo que recortaria un 4% de empleos. >> en noticias de iberoamercica entregan medicinas y alimentos en barrios pobres y peligrosos en mñxico , ellas estan convencidaas que las condicioens adversas fomentan la violencia. >> hoy en tijuana el gobierno arranco un polemico nueva identificación que incluye una fototografia del iris del ojo que lo hace inflasificable, en mñxico el portavoz de seguridad nacional dijoq en un país si s eprespetan los derehcos humanos en la guerra contra la droga, tambiñn hizo comentarios sobre el carteld e la familia michuacana. >> el gobierno dijo que la familai michuacana se debilota, la captura de los principales lderes ha sido clave para debilitar el grupo criminal. >> en din en un enfrentameinto murio nazario mroeno, que seguna utoridades era encagado de entrenar a las de 300 sicarios. >> en el comunciado la organización informa su disolcuion, a pesar de la supeusta disolucion el gobierno dice que seguirea conbatiendo a estas y otras organizacioens delictivas. >> segu los especialesits el pdoer de la familai michuacana log

yahoo!oticed nikki mckin zi here is pretty excited. >> i am free! i can drive! yahoo! >> this day marks a return to freedom after a frustrating ordeal at the department of motor vehicles. an ordeal that began two years ago with a speeding ticket in novato. >> i deserved it. i said to the policeman when he stopped me, thank you for stopping me. >> nikki was driving alone to a family gathering when she was stopped in the middle of the night just outside of reno. the officer said she was going 97 mph. nikki paid the fine and the ticket was cleared or so she thought. recently she found out differently. >> i lost my purse. so i went over to the dmv at 7:30 to get a duplicate driver's license. >> after her license went missing and nikki applied for a new one, she found out she was still wanted in nevada for that speeding ticket or that's what the computer said. nikki told the clerk there was a mistake and she produced these documents proving that citation was cleared. >> took it over, didn't do an

earnings doubled for the quarter to three under 12 million, yahoo's revenue actually dropped 12%. shares were down 4% in extended trading. they're now down 3%. >> state university is set to raise tuition for hundreds of graduate students and educational doctorate programs. the finance committee voted to increase fees for its doctor of education degree programs by 10%, those students would pay $10,500 per year starting fall. they are expected to approve the fee hike today in long beach. there are 700 students enrolled in programs at the 11th csu campuses. >> we will be right back as kron 4 morning news continues. this is the shot of mt. tam. a beautiful looking out over san francisco. fog end north and east bay. >> [ son ] my parents always lived in the states, until my dad transferred to istanbul. they settled in quickly, found their local deli, a few shortcuts and a neighborhood hangout. but there's one thing they miss... the seventh-inning stretch. so citi helped me use my thankyou points to give them something special. their old seats: 5 and 6, row c. [ male announcer ] use cit

well, yahoo sees some of that, as well. home prices not really helping out the market at all either. kay schiller coming out today and saying that in november, across the top 20 markets in the country, home values fell another 1% from october. the pace was a little better than the month before. in the bay area prices were down 1.2% and that was also not quite as bad as what we saw in october. overall, only 4 markets had year-over-year increases. and san francisco, the bay area, was one of those, with about a .5% increase over the year before. elizabeth and sid? i. >> thank you, and -- elizabeth and sid? i. >> thank you, sydnie. >> thank you, cbsmoneywatch.com. >>> here's a device for people who forget where they parked. a santa monica shopping lot has a find your car system. any shopper who lost a vehicle can punch the license plate number into kiosk. so you have to remember your plate number. cameras read the plate and find the match. >> it's great and helpful because, you know, we do forget where we park all the time. >>

. >> reporter: the news came after yahoo from sunnyvale announced cuts. 1% of yahoo's 13,600 employees are affected. >> there's still a decent destination site. they have a good news program, good information program going on. but i still think they are struggling with what it is they want to do. >> reporter: as for google, the aggressive hiring could be a bellwether for the economy if other companies follow suit. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> and more details now, google's news sent stocks higher today. at the close a share sold for more than $619 up more than $8. that's an increase of 1.44%. last week google reported better than expected earnings. >>> a seaside session on wall street today ended with stocks about where they started. the nasdaq managed to gain less than two points. >>> car dealers in california are hoping for another year like 2010. new car sales rose 13% from if previous year. according to the california new car dealers association, kraár kraá yaps bought 1.3 million new vehicle -- californians bought 1.3 million new vehicles last year. the highest sold car was the

. >> reporter: the news came after yahoo from sunnyvale announced cuts. 1% of yahoo's 13,600 employees are affected. >> there's still a decent destination site. they have a good news program, good information program going on. but i still think they are struggling with what it is they want to do. >> reporter: as for google, the aggressive hiring could be a bellwether for the economy if other companies follow suit. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> and more details now, google's news sent stocks higher today. at the close a share sold for more than $619 up more than $8. that's an increase of 1.44%. last week google reported better than expected earnings. >>> a seaside session on wall street today ended with stocks about where they started. the nasdaq managed to gain less than two points. >>> car dealers in california are hoping for another year like 2010. new car sales rose 13% from if previous year. according to the california new car dealers association, kraár kraá yaps bought 1.3 million new vehicle -- californians bought 1.3 million new vehicles last year. the highest sold car was the

yahoo! >> when we got all of this driving down, the question is, if you were spending this. we have the process, to spend money. and not everyone in that sector of the economy necessarily represented at the valley is. and we had to figure out some ways in a strategic way to organize and get all the equipment purchased. and in the money would disappear. >> go ahead. >> since everyone is saying thank you, i would like to offer my thanks for the efforts and shepherding these contracts, and this is a system where you can employ these workers. i help the most of the received that call. this was for the closure of the bridge, perhaps one year ago. this system is a very important to us. and thank you for helping us to get this contract. we did do a crosswalk, of the categories. they're working with the departments for the doubling skills and training information. this may be uploaded into this course, and we will utilize another level of efficiency, for these employees. this is a real achievement for the city. and the emergency volunteer center plans are coming through. we're tryin

. >>> just the opposite situation for yahoo where more lay offs were announced today.the company is cutting another 200 to 250 jobs. yahoo says the cuts will affect company offices worldwide and that it will continue to hire people for positions that support key priorities. >>> just released numbers that show san francisco is one of the places that will start home prices from sliding. the year to year november numbers for san francisco showed a slight increase. other mayor cities mostly -- major cities november prices hit the lowest points since the market bubble burst. >>> and after news of mediocre earnings, it was a positive day on wall street today. the dow was down a little more than three points closing at 11,977. the nasdaq was up almost two points closing at 2,719. analysts say that news from britain and news from johnson & johnson kept the market in check. >> a lot of people enjoying this nice warm weather. let's go to chief meteorologist bill martin who has news for tomorrow. >> it's been a nice day for most of us. temperatures in thsome 70s. as we go into to

relevance like yahoo. will not happen for 5-10 years. i like that they're making it sooner rather than later. >> 39 running one of the biggest companies of the world. his other known as the guy who really took on face book and did a great bank or a his-luck. he will either get a home run or strike out. it is fun to watch. ok so we are here and the republicans come to us for more than this. even as a lot more people in trouble. >> two years ago we got into the great reception. they wanted more money in be said come to us will try our way. they're high on their horse and they are telling the states to not come to us that people are going to get into the province. the call of the state is to take care of their own. he is starting to go bankrupt. that way they can go to the pensions and the people who worked for 30 years or of lading the scare tactic. i do not think that happens. i do think that renegotiation is really tough. job losses and taxes. >> stay with us, we will be back after this break. >> the base and use on the show are those of

what about the things coming out of silicon valley, working with yahoo or google that gives mentor ships. i haven't heard anything with the media and i have heard of the arts doing something with the idleness. >> what partnerships with the private sector. >> at the bay view safe haven, we have a project with pixar. that's going on through this summer as well. we also have another project with another participant in my program, will be taking a flight to the colorado film festival where he one a prize for a film he did about his brother in hunter's point. i will be running a right's of passage at joe lee. so our number, 4 one 5. 824-4098. i can give you a whole slew of activities. >> i just wanted to say, we had been in a conversation with maya and we are planning with a pilot program to develop an 8-week program where mondays would be career explorations. they are going to visit art musicians and bank of america and the career paths they have chosen and then there are discussions about attitude and hygiene. how do you present yourself so people want to engage with you. we are trying to w

making it more than time warner, the bay, yahoo.ney, more applications, and more away top employes with a publicly traded companies. along with the last without being a publicly traded company? that could be putting pressure on the ito go private, however, it could also enable them to stay private. or to go public. carla, facebook as of flying under the radar as a public company and does not have to report earnings. once it hits 500 investors even if that is private company it will have to. it will have to report financial information. >> the nasdaq was up 39 points. some good news for jobs, dollars in the general. it is creating 6000 new jobs the discount retailer is opening 600 new stores. in addition to the 35 states for dollar general already incorporates. connecticut, nevada, new hampshire. an investigation to the internal documents of bank of america. after wikileaks founder, julian assange found that this information with a team of 20 top people are rushing to try to figure out what information could become public. also for m

yahoo also announced it's cutting another 150 jobs. that's on top of the 600 it eliminated last month. >>> the dow has dipped below 12,000, up five. >>> the annual macworld expo starts today with all the latest gadgets. we have more on whether those apple and mac fans can expect. >> reporter: this really is an exercise in survival in showing what people scan do. it was once written off as dead because apple pulled out but macworld as found a light of its own. buys this afternoon it will be built for the visitors and vendors. the phenomenal success has created hundreds of companies that create tens of thousands of products, new software for personal devices. >> it's the things you wouldn't normally see in a traditional apple store. they see 90% of the companies aren't on apple shelves, so you see things you wouldn't otherwise see in a very convenient location. >> reporter: of course, it is smaller than this was. it's surprising to notice how many there were. the conferences will happen today. the exhibit will actually open tomorrow for

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like google earth, yahoo maps. microsoft. those are examples of on line mapping systems that can be used to find businesses or get driving directions or check on traffic conditions. all digital maps. >> gis is used in the city of san francisco to better support what departments do. >> you imagine all the various elements of a city including parcels and the critical infrastructure where the storm drains are. the city access like the traffic lights and fire hydrants. anything you is represent in a geo graphic space with be stored for retrieval and analysis. >> the department of public works they maintain what goes on in the right-of-way, looking to dig up the streets to put in a pipe. with the permit. with mapping you click on the map, click on the street and up will come up the nchgz that will help them make a decision. currently available is sf parcel the assessor's application. you can go to the assessor's website and bring up a map of san francisco you can search by address and get information about any place in san francis

yahoo cutting more than a hundred workers according to the "new york post."ing more than 6,000 new employees. firing nearly 2,000 managers. but hiring up to 10,000 weekend sales people. at the new york stock exchange, i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >> it's 5:55 now. caltrain reporting major progress in the devil slide project. crews completed the excavation work. they've been digging the bypass, digging nearly two and a half years. now they have to line the tunnels, pave the road and install lights. the bypass is expected to be open to traffic early next year. >> an east bay fire department is releasing a new i-phone app they believe will save lives. the app designed for the san ramon valley fire department is designed to give citizens trained in cpr a heads up if someone needs their help. an alert will be transmitted to people trained in cpr who are nearby. using the gps, the alert will direct the citizen responder to the victim and trans minute the location of the nearest defibrillator. >> the new application offers an unprecedented level

>>reporter: yahoo did dampen the outlook announcing the lay off of 150 people or 1% of the work force. that is on top of 600 layoffs in december. still ceo carol bart in conference call insisted yahoo is hiring. >> we will exit the year with more people and still have flat cost. so we ask for no hiring. higher and prioritize way but watching the cost. >>reporter: recruiting firm just surveyed 4000 ceo. 8% in california say they plan to increase hiring between now and april. the aggressive hiring plan by big firms such as google will trigger smaller companies to hire. katrina is the area vice president. >> we are already starting to see the trickle down effect. biggest demand that we have seen is within professional service. small to mid size professional service organizes that are already starting to feel growth based off the larger company increase in hiring. >> seeing an increase and losing in the public sector could put pressure on the unemployment rate allowing the figure to drop as both silicon valley and washington would lichblingt this is abc 7 money scope. >> while we talk job

and the problems that were caused by the concentration of students preparing ad hoc yahoo! basically, of the students and these activities, of students home reexport -- of students. basically, of the students and these activities. they have to provide housing for a significant portion of these students that they have built. and they cannot take over all of these apartments. we will have nothing left for the people who are now in the academy of art. -- not in the academy of art. the second thing that they need to be told about is you have to concentrate on academics, in areas that make sense, such as transit so there is not some shuttle bus going everywhere. you have to make things work as a campus. the idea as the city being the campus, this is what we have heard repeatedly. usf as a place and we know where this is. san francisco state has an area. and they have to the below campuses. -- two hong -- two campuses. we know where these are at. this is the only institution that has the ability of the planning department to have the filing of the institutional master plan. and j

just last month yahoo laid off 600 employees. the fourth quarter earnings doubled but overall revenue was down 10% last year. in the meantime gag -- google is hiring. the company says they will add 6,000 new workers this year and that is their biggest expansion ever. >> another change sure to raise the ire of facebook users when they click on like on a store or brand it may automatically be transmitted to their friend's pages as sponsored stories. and it's a feature that the user cannot decline. meanwhile facebook founder mark zuckerburg might want to change his own privacy settings. somebody hacked his fan page and left the message "if facebook needs money instead of going to banks why doesn't it let users invest in facebook in a social way." that post has been removed. >> the saviour of a city or target of a scandal? >> i am not stupid. i am the mayor of the city. i can listen to a lot of different opinions and decide my own mind. >> the controversy erupting around oakland's new mayor. >> mixed signals over teacher salaries and

meanwhile, rival yahoo! announced more layoffs before earnings after the bell.es fell after hours on weaker than expected forecasts. >>> finally, you may have heard about the illinois car salesman fired for wearing a green bay packers tie at work. good news for you, he says he's had several job offers, including one from his former employer, probably regretting that. >>> the orange men sour, the boilermakers bubble and the gators gobble. plus, nick young performs magic against the nuggets. your early morning sports headlines are just ahead. >>> the latest winter storm is moving towards the east coast. west coast, you look beautiful once again. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the much improved los angeles clippers are making some noise this year. but last night, they were drown out by the dallas mavericks. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. for three quarters, it looked like the clippers were going to pu

. -- got to -- yahoo. no. 2 is cnn. they are not being filtered in a lot of cases. on the other hand, the stuff on the long tail, political blogs, typically are performing a supplemental role. they are continuing to build a large sites. it is a power curve. at the short end of the curve there are big sigh -- big sites. >> let's get sandy, we have a big line of audience members. >> talking with a number of people about looking at a cub talented that out for it the children that live in this state are going to be in poverty this year. 43% of women have babies now as single mothers. that is an historic shift. something is happening in gender relations. i saw a brilliant review on sunday, the text without context. the idea of physical reality is under assault as we move to a faster, edgier, noisier and more opinionated media landscape. what if all of the ethnic media, legacy media, decided to take back data that children in poverty had grown from 18% to 35%, doing it from the standpoint most relevant to their audience. you might begin to get an impact on sacramento, on

ahura we have another that will operate yahoo! as a call center. ad hoc this is another reason we have to preserve this. the budgetary constraints. thank you very much for all of your work on this, and getting this system updated, or at least in the process of actually improving this. we were not campaigning. and so, the supervisor was a great champion of this. we were really pushing this process along. this is a big deal for us and you can see the magnitude. all of these different projects, all of this stuff, we reach out to the large business and the big business, putting

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