so brace yourselves. take a look at what happened on the northbound 101 freeway yesterday. this tree downed along the freeway in sunnyvale. no one was hurt. but two lanes were shut down, of course, for clean-up and, of course, that led to backups for miles. in these windy conditions, a small fire can spread into a

pace yourselves. eat a couple bites.ate them and then let us know how it is. >> and people can logon to your website to find out the categories and who the judges are. who sent them in. >> you can go to bestdarntamale.com. we'll have a list of all the locations that participated. after the show we will list the win,of each category as well. if you go to the website, you can see a whole list of all the tamale locations. >> we're halfway through this one. up next, live here on our stage. royalty. stay with us. >>> welcome back. to the seventh annual tamale contest. our christmas show with our judges. what are they eating? it seems like they're on their tenth one maybe? >> we're going through chicken category now. traditional home style. we might be sneaking up on the pork category now. >> we're coming to you from the san pedro market. we want to thank them for loaning us their venue. your annual ornaments, this is something that everyone ought to have. >> of course, yes. these are my ornaments. i design them. i have a comp

you saw them for yourselves. the witnesses of the state, with the exception of the sheriff of macom county, has presented them to yourselves, you gentlemen, of the court in their confidence that their testimony would not be doubted. believing that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption, the evil assumption that all negros lie, that all negros are basically immoral beings, that all negros are not to be trusted around our women. which, gentlemen, as you know in itself a lie as black as tom robinson's skin. a lie i do not need to explain to you. you know the truth and the truth is this -- that some negros lie. some negros are immoral. some negros are not to be trusted around women, black or white. but this is a truth that applies to the human race and not to any particular race of man. there is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire. one more thing, gentlemen, before i q

going we're looking forward to him and you going to those going to the spirit of confidence about yourselves and we're looking forward to going to our field now there are just hours to go before one of the greatest mixed martial artists of all time fedora give me a yankee steps into the ring one more time this time it's in japan the land where his career reached its pinnacle the russian is set to face a local up and comer so toshi ichi in a showdown on new year's eve with the build up his robert mcdaniel. being considered the better smell of the plant for a decade and them falling from the throne of mixed martial arts. to remediate and has been through it all. his career was a huge feat in two thousand and three when he won the heavyweight title he would never lose you one of the most prestigious who made promotions shine bright. he did this in japan and he sleep machine the last emperor. and here reign supreme until june twentieth down. brazil and for brazil where do some shock waves through sports when he made further step out for the first time in his life. two more the feats at the hands

be better for this being said before this year was a strange fairly calm programme already drew yourselves and sort of my new one so that's very helpful for us. and now we're going to two tough going and we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the press spirit conference about yourselves and we're looking forward to going to have a field so this is how the table looks with six big days of football to come and manchester city are still top on goal difference over manchester united tottenham are thirty seven points behind the meters with a game in hand chelsea a fourth best and liverpool sixty one place about friday's opponents newcastle while at the bottom wolves are two points clear of the drop zone that we can off in next two points ahead of both sides the battle of five points adrift of manager steve king under mounting pressure with greatest set to face the daunting task of a trip to ny just united on saturday. one gesture united done you know seventy eight games ago you know they went back to been solid and you know really hard to beat know the became a little bit more

and we're looking forward to the new going to those going to the press spirit conference about yourselves and we're looking forward to going to our field so this is how the table looks with six big days of football to come and lunch the city are still top on goal difference of the manchester united top notch our thirty seven points behind the meters for the game in hand a fourth best and liverpool sixth one place i find his opponents newcastle while at the bottom wolves are two points clear of the drop zone that weekend off in its two points ahead of bolton have not been a five points adrift with manager steve king under mounting pressure its rivals set to face the daunting task of a trip to majesty united on saturday. when chester united done you know seventy eight games ago you know they went back to been solid and you know really hard to beat know the became a little bit more expansive again so we know that the strengths that they have within the squad i think we can take a lot of confidence were when we went to anfield you know when you look at what you know kenny put on the pitch on

how about a big round of applause for yourselves. [applause] good to see all of you. pow wow on sunday, independence high school. we better see you there, singing and dancing. a whole lot of fun. indian tacos. be ready. i am looking for mark. is the mayor close by? once again, all of you native americans, go ahead and raise your hand. you have all been drafted. [laughter] i have not seen this many native americans in one place since we were out at ifh, picking up our settlement checks. you did not get yours? [laughter] president obama said they are in the mail. all right. we're going to go right into this next introduction of our dancers. are our dancers ready? get ready for our dancers. just one minute. let's go over to our napsters. how about an intertribal? make them dance. you are listening to one of our intertribals. depending on which the tribe, which area of the indian country you are from, a lot of these songs, we were not able to sing these songs publicly. we were not able to dance. when that happens, when we cannot speak our language, sing our song or dance

consider yourselves warned evil jaywalkers. andy? >> it is just never good anymore. >> i don't know why you had to hit so close to home, andy. >> never good anymore. >> speaking of homes, stop having your cats pea on me. >> are meds making us dead? do they give out peabodys for this? >> i think so. >> it allegedly surpassed auto accidents as the leading cause of accidental deaths. according to the national center for health statistics, yes, that national center for health statistics, they died from what they called poisoning in 2008 versus 38,000 who died in traffic accidents. and nine out of ten of those came from prescription drug overdoses with the most being things like vie co -- vicodin, oxycontin 1k3* per cassette. >> this is just the tip of the iceberg of the prescription drug abuse problem. the take home here is this should be a wake up call. whatever. for more on the benefits of pill popping let's go to tripsy the owl. what do you have for us? >> somebody is on ecstasy. so, kimberly, have we become a nation of pill popping n

santa con, if you're curious and you want to brace yourselves and maybe stay home, it happens this saturday. >> the elves joining in, too. >> yeah, they've got to get their drink on, too. >> a comeback for adults. >> yes, lisa frank, a designing women's wear. but the question is will you wear it. ? >> barly bonds playing hardball in court. why he thinks the judge should let him off easy. >> you want to join the discussion? check us out on facebook. go ahead and search nbc bay area. >> and a live look outside from san bruno mountain towards san francisco this morning. y.d stath trtdaeo wgsming up, it's 11:21 right now. 2 california should be proud. we were the first to ban smoking on airplanes. the first to have smoke-free bars and restaurants. all while saving over $86 billion in health care costs... and over a million lives. we've done a good job. but even if you were born today, you'd still grow up in a world where tobacco kills more people... than aids, drugs, alcohol, murder and car crashes... combined. we have a lot more work to do. 2>>> in hardball, slugger is asking a federal judge f

. >>> still ahead on "news4 midday" -- ♪ have yourselves a marry little christmas ♪ >> he talks about early struggles, and plus steve hayes takes us to a cardiokickboxing class, and why it could be your perfect workout. first, here is what is hot on [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum... we can empower more people to innovate... putting momentum behind our economy. and we can reduce the deficit... with more than thirty billion dollars paid by america's wireless companies. it's simple -- more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone. ♪ takes everything you've got ♪ wouldn't you like to get away? ♪ ♪ ♪ sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ ♪ you want to be where you can see ♪ ♪ our troubles are all the same ♪ ♪ you want to go where everybody knows your name ♪ ♪ >>> our fit expert, steve hayes, has been trying out different fit classes all over the area, and this week he participated in a kickboxing class. he joins us to tell us

any more stones listen to me they provoked us if you're not going to listen to me then negotiate yourselves with. the way listen to me you know kind of they started this with you i saw you don't need to explain i just told the minister to stop the police because there is some of the people and of the knowledge that he's going to order them to stop but you need to stop throwing stones at him you know who threw those stones at the police station. i mean. i don't look at it as a. father what's happening in my it's an evil with good fight injustice with justice and not more injustice with these violence is not force with more violence but with peace. easier for lower those who don't understand this a looking for trouble gandalf i lead us bjoerling. units my beg of you i ask you in god's name strive for peace. defend our rights seen this will not organized and united yanacocha is going to eat us one by one be patient you're not going to win this struggle in a day in and you're fighting against the world's largest mining company. this same plaza was the setting for one of kamarck us most famous b

give yourselves a big round of applause. [applause] all i've got is some fish and a few loaves of bread. and a whole lot of folks have got to get fed. but seven seats were made in under seven days, the first man was forgiven when he missed the hague, the branch was taken by a dove to a book that was built before a flood, if a rainbow sent out a sign, if someone was told to sacrifice his own son and told to hold up before he was done, then the fish and bread that i just said is all that i've got, is all that i need for me to get fed and for me to feed a whole lot of folks in need because they set me on fire. when they look back, i was chilling. i had to fight like 10 older brothers, and because i had this dream, so they sold me out to a band of bandits and one day was commanded to stop, drop, when i got this fish that i found while fishing around, under water with the daughter of the pharaoh, the child was chosen to force the pharaoh to free his folks from a foreign land, repair everywoman, prepare every man, prepare every ch

hey guys go on make yourselves at home. merry christmas! merry christmas. don't need an invitaion.en this place on lifestyles of the rich and shameless. get the door. nice and easy. nice and easy. isn't that sweet? i'm thinking probable cause. get the girl! ok bozo! police. hold it right there. get your hands on that tree and face each other. hands in front of you, face down. show me your hands, let me see them. put your hands out there. see how easy that was? boom. still alive. now we question him. know w we can question him? because i got him in the leg. i didn't shot him full of holes or jump off a building with him. no fair, the building guy lived. whatever. the point is, no killing. no killing. right. piece of cake. i'm very happy. read the man his rights, i'll be ove. he's got a gun! oops. have you... ever... met someone you didn't kill... ? haven't killed you yet. well don't do me no favors. dont worry. i guess we can get outta here. look, i' m sorry i said that stuff back there. you saved my life thank you. i bet that hurt to say. ypu'll never know. come on lets get going.

these are the people that say, lift yourselves up. this girl says i want to lift myself up. they say, final, we'll snatch a pell grant from under you. >> and what is so frustrating about this theory that you see advanced by jim dement and other republicans is it doesn't pass even the most basic sniff test. could it possibly be the case we have this ballooning unemployment, job and poverty crisis in this country is between 2008 and 2011 americans got more lazy? they wanted to work less? they lost their drive and their ability to do work? no. clearly what has happened is there was a financial crisis that's precipitated this economic cataclysm, so to turn around and lay the blame at people's initiative, as if anyone is sort of laying around, it doesn't pass the most basic test of logic or sense. if you look at the causal mechanism, it's clearly the fact that the banks ran up this -- created this huge crisis. >> absolutely. congresswoman, when you look at the government spending bill, it also cuts assistance for heat. >> yeah. >> for the heating bill, for low-income people, whil

the problem is that people possibly such as yourselves, see these variety of figures, and really do not know what to believe, and can only be confused about it. >> item four addresses management processes. and one of the drivers for one of our recommendations was the fact that the agency has initiated a program for state of repair -- state of good repair. the ad iat is an fta-sponsored initiative that evaluate the assets and evaluate where they are in their lifetime, and they have set goals for what they would like the state of good repair to be. for example, if all of the assets were up 50%, they would be halfway through their lifetimes, even though the assets themselves burievaried in vehicles and such. what we feel fits the responsibility for state of good repair, we will talk about it in more depth later, is the recommendation for asset management teams. right now the agency is functionally organized and thai the participants in the capital projects such as resident engineers and profit controls people, project engineers, are in separate sections. we have a recommendation for an ide