>> glenn: very good. your hotel is the general denver hotel. >> right. >> glenn: you're not a hilton. >> no. >> glenn: you're not somebody who has run a bunch of chain hotels. >> no. >> glenn: this is a really old, historic ehotel. >> it is. >> glenn: i got there probably midnight. about 15? >> 1:00. >> glenn: 1:00. [ laughter ] long day! got there at 1:00. you gave me a quick, real quick tour of the place. give me a hug. and it's just so great. you have been packed as a hotel. are we taking the whole hotel or do you have other people? >> no, just you. [ laughter ] >> glenn: i like mannequins. they have to have their own rooms. you bought it how? >> on a handshake. >> glenn: tell me the story. >> oh, dear. i was maybe driving around a bit much as the kids were older and i passed this hotel in wilmington, ohio. i thought it was gorgeous. it showed it to my husband who said whoa! that needs a lot of work, honey. but the small sign in the window, the kind you buy at the grocery store and it took me four trie

>> glenn: now we will tie santa together. >> glenn: you want to rearrange the letters? can anybody do it? [ laughter ] >>> i remember getting pajamas -- we didn't get the footie pajamas because we never bought pajamas. grandma made them for us. it was for rich kids. we went over to their head and they had feet in their pajamas. grandma was like you don't get feet. wear your socks. for a while you're like i don't get feet? grandma is going to take my feet away. but she used to be excited about stuff. every year we'd get pajamas for christmas. gra grandma would make them. whatever my pajamas looked like, grandpa always had a new shirt like it. we weren't old enough to realize i'm just getting grandpa's scrap material. as pajamas. grandpa would be dressed in his flannel shirt, during the day. and you'd be wearing it to bed. my sisters and i would get pajamas and we'd be excited about the pajamas and cookies that came from grandma every year. that was the thing that you look for. we didn't -- i remember getting sears catalog. remember getting the sears catalog as a kid? you

glenn glenn hello, america. it is a good show, you know, when we start with heavy cream. i hate these. i hate these things. each year the same thing. i want to talk to you about chris tonight. welcome to the program. each year the same thing with me i end up with a knife at christmas, opening up both ends of this. well ... this is going to be mediumy. now we take a little cream. all right. here is the deal. i want to talk to you about families. and about christmas. christmas is not about black friday or cyber monday. that is new. in fact, christmas wasn't officially celebrated here until 1873. and there is a blogger in his basement, mom, mom, i am busy and he is in i-underpants saying not 1873. whatever. in the 1870's we started really focusing on christmas. and when the country first started it was an amazing gift would have been a book. this book, actually has an inscription in it from 1878. no, 1880. a christmas book. a book that somebody could read year round, "uncle tom's cabin," frederick douglas. and "life and times of frederick douglas." this. the history and life

. >>> welcome back to the "glenn beck program." glenn is off. he'll be back tomorrow. i'm judge andrew napolitano. tonight, tax cuts and earmarks, how does that work? wikileaks founder julian assange is out of jail on bail. and will the government soon be able to regulate the internet? let's go. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, america. tonight tax cut package heads to vote in the house, or does it? wednesday, the senate passed $858 billion package. president obama now telling democrats in the house to pass this bill with no changes. now it's being held up by procedural complaints filed by the democrats in the house. the federal government is facing a shutdown if congress doesn't pass a spending bill soon. current bill contains $8 billion in earmarksn't didn't we get rid of those? with me republican congressman from texas ron paul. congressman paul, pleasure. welcome here. where do things stand now with the tax package in the house? is the government going to shut down? are the democrats even going to allow the tax bill which keeps the tax rates, the income tax rates where they are

we return to the glenn beck show. for headlines, go to foxnews.com. >> kind of a special week on the glenn beck program. we have a great, great week scheduled for you. we are going to be in wilmington o, ohio, live on wednesday. bring your family and your friends. this is the quintessential american town that i think has a lot to teach america. and i would invite to you come and do your christmas shopping there because... they have lost 7,000 jobs in a town of 12,000. and they are not giving up. they are going down swinging. this is a great, great down. we will tell you more. there is less than three weeks left in the year, which make its a great time for congress to screw you, quite honestly. i'm sorry. it's a time for bipartisan legislation that will protect you and your working family. they're working right now on a major tax increase. they are trying to protect you from it. that's what the spin is, but i always watch the other hand, what else is going on? they say it has a price tag of $855 billion. well, is that

coming up after the break do you remember when glenn beck held a rally on the national mall he called it restoring honor but considering that this was taking place on the anniversary of dr martin luther king's i have a dream speech many out there that to differ so was back really leading a new fight for civil rights or just distorting the message and the memory of one of this country's most prominent civil rights leaders stay tuned to see what our guests have to say. hello again this is all see a quick check of the headline. form of oil tycoon and russia's most famous prison and the help of a cold skier has been sentenced to fourteen games both times and the money though in training this new time is to run alongside the time has already setting forward on talks about what are called skinheads and what a business partner of the time negative will not be cheap for releasing twenty seventy. three minutes charged with plotting a terror attack on the danish newspaper behind controversial cartoons of the prophet muhammad five days ago at the latest in a series of arrests across europe that

don't do the wrong thing. >> thanks, glenn. it is a trap and we shouldn't do it and adds hundreds of billions of the debt and not one dime is paid for. not one dime. >> back in a moment. [applause] [applause] >> on the glenn beck program i will be in wilmington, ohio. 12,500 and 7500 people lost their job when dhl left town. that has not broken their spirit. it has done the opposite. we'll celebrate america's first christmas in wilmington. people in wilmington, i have gotten a lot of e-mail and people making signs in their yard welcome to wilmington and opening their doors to us and they are waiting for you. in today's local newspaper a reader wrote in the local paper he hope that is people will learn more about wilmington. i hope our determined unity, referring to me chose wilmington as a model. i also hope and pray that his visiten that is unit yet show chases to other communities what cooperation across political ideologies can do for a community hit by a economic crisis. i don't care if they are republican or democrat. what

the obama administration now that american citizens are you know are involved in the war on terror glenn thanks so much for joining us . my pleasure thank you yesterday i want. d.c. showed the country once again just how disconnected they are from the american people in a rare show of bipartisan might the democratic house overwhelmingly approved fifty nine billion dollars in funding for the war in afghanistan all of this fall a majority of the american people disagree with that war and it's pretty damn obvious to the naked eye that we're losing that war and that there is no chance of winning that war but here's what made the news that one hundred and fourteen brave representatives voted against the bill most of whom only voted against it because certain social spending provisions got cut out of this the last time the house voted for war funding thirty two democrats voted against the bill that was last year this time around three times as many one hundred into democrats voted to defund the war but you're right it was a tough battle because a lot of the president's fellow democrats in the

our favorite crybaby over at fox news is spouting out more ridiculous comments on air two days ago glenn beck got fired up about comments made by howard dean where he bashed fox news saying that they repeatedly just make stuff up and beck didn't like the way mr dean called out fox news at all so he decided to respond on air. here do you really believe that i could or anybody here at fox news could just make things up and remain on the air. i'm going to go ahead and say yes of course you do it is a well known fact that the you make stuff up pretty much every single moment here on the air whether it's on your radio show on television if you need proof how about just the other day when barack actually have the guts to claim that fox news has the liberals hosting some of their shows. the liberals. have owned the network many you know not just get it either there are some. programs i mean yes you think. isn't that funny every so sure that there are liberals hosting fox news i could name it now just a few days before that back to gave a twisted explanation about net neutrality saying that it's

when we come back, who will get the annual prize, wikileaks guy, sarah palin, glenn beck? and look for incredible voicemail messages. chris: welcome back to our annual awards. the nominee for the hutes pa award, the head of wikileaks said his organization has a duty to get the truth out to the world. our resident sarah palin who's often nervey but set a lot of nerves on edge with this one -- >> how is that healthy change stuff working out for you? chris: wow. or was it fox tv's glenn beck who had the nerve to hold his rally at the lincoln memorial on the very an rersry of martin luther king's 1963 "i have a dream" speech? or was it the army colonel who refused an order to deploy to afghanistan because he wanted to see the commander in chief's birth certificate. howard? >> i don't think it's any of those things. i think it's all of the republicans in congress who were for earmarks until a couple weeks ago, and then they decided we hate earmarks and we are totally against them. we wish the democrats would allow them to go through but we're against them now. >> in the end the

next.ñ÷ >> glenn: stuart chase wrote "the road we are traveling" in 1940s. he outlined what was coming in america. he was a fan with it. he didn't have a problem with this. listen to what he said was coming in america before we moved from a republic to what he said was "x," i believe, global empire. he said we'll finance all these things and abandon the gold standard and start deficit spending techniques. we would control our natural resources, our energy, our transportation. then we would control agricultural production. i contend to you that is exactly what this food safety bill is. control of labor organizations. yeah, or do they control us? the enlistment of young men and women put in youth corps, devoted to health, discipline and community service. heavy taxation with a special emphasis on estates and income of the rich. he said it wouldn't a lot of takeover of properties and industry in the socialistic sense. the formula is control without ownership. interesting to recall the same formula was used in the management of great corporations in depriving st

oh how did we ever survive without glenn beck's chalkboard and his such a creative take on today's big stories aren't we so happy the rather than focusing on what the diplomatic cables that wiki leaks released contained or how the government is trying to subvert the law to take wiki leaks down back us focusing on the details of something that no one will ever really know except for those involved and he's playing with pictures on a chalkboard thank you glenn always good to see that you're on the top of your game . now still to come tonight we bailed them out with billions of taxpayer dollars but now wall street has returned to living artie's marina and i reports that. we use a special old french and accessory quidnunc. they are ready for replace. taken off warm air became their nominee. should and those people referred to in their previous life. want to soak in a free flight. two years ago when the financial markets melted u.s. lawmakers came to their rescue with billions of dollars the collapse cost eight point five million people their jobs and taxpayers were left on the hook for sev

now back to glenn b. >>> hello, america. we are in pittsburgh, pennsylvania where tonight in just a couple of hours, 8:00 o'clock eastern time, i'm going to be on this stage with 3,000 people here and we are going to do a live town hall meeting. i'm going to explain some things in greater detail, not only what's coming a little bit of history, but also what we can do to change it. what we can do politically to change it and what we as individuals can do to change it. we are having a conversation in the break and -- let me start with scott. scott was saying that the answer is self reliance. >> absolutely. a lot of people tell me we have -- we have our own business, my wife and i and we have 35 employees. we make sure that we pay ourselves last. but we're making sure that our business is open and we're taking care of ourselves. we're not waiting for other people to give us hand outs. we support ourselves. a lot of people say that's selfish. but it's not selfish because we have 35 employees. we take care of them and their famil

but we will with dick morris and glenn beck. both have interesting takes on the matter. >> bill: do you believe in the world we have a muslim problem? >> i think we have a terrorist problem. >> bill: okay. body language breaks down whoopi goldberg's recent appearance on the factor and my reaction to it. >> you understand my point. >> bill: no, i don't. i believe there is a muslim problem in the world. >> i think there is a radicalization of news presentation. damaging and irresponsible fox news. >> bill: also, dennis miller has some strong words for jimmy carter who continues to bash fox news. >> bill: caution, you are about it enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. ♪ >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. happy hanukkah to all our jewish viewers. we hope you have a good time. interpol after the wikileaks guy. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. authorities all over the world searching for julian assange. man who posted state department documents on his web site wiki

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senator glenn. what can i do for you? he said chuck, i am with my wife annie. we got some of the grandchildren here. we are in the van driving around town on the way to the white house and they tell me i can't come to the award ceremony. i said i don't know how that ever happen. just -- fine. we will take care of you. and i understood the importance of senator glenn not only as a an individual but to the president's legislative program. quite frankly he was a vote. so i said come right down. i will meet you at the front door of the white house. then i went in and saw the person who told them know and i said this is a problem. i told him to come down. you can't do that. tell him to go back. just turnaround. there is no room for him. does it find the person the will have senator glenn's standing here in five minutes. the president will come by and he will say why don't you come on in and you are going to be the one who says to the president he can't go in. find room for him, whatever. that is a little bit of the sensitivity. there are other support offices in the

he's glenn hubbard, dean at columbia university's graduate school of business and former chairman of the council of economic advisers under president george w. bush. >> it looks like we have a tax deal for the short run. what we should hope for in 2011? that thinking about the long run is back in style. there is hope: after repeated stimulus packages to revive the economy, more serious discussion is emerging in washington about long-term structural challenges facing our nation. stagnating wages for too many americans, rising health care costs, and large federal deficits and debt that threaten our financial future-- these problems did not start with the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009, and they will not fix themselves as the economy recovers. the recent proposal from the fiscal commission to reduce deficits and debt offers a chance to restart long-run growth. by putting government programs on a sustainable footing and lowering future tax burdens, such a proposal helps the economy today as well. and tax reform that can help the economy shift away from more consumption today to more sa

glenn, good to have you on the program. we'll see you soon. >> my pleasure. >>> coming up, the impact on the rest of us. i spoke to the united kingdom's finance minister, the chancellor about the irish bailout about economies around the world. my prime minister as well with the prime minister of spain. that country the next domino to fall, and what is the impact? as we take a break, take a look at how the stock market ended the week. ♪ [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. when we all become doers. when our mittens double as work gloves. and we turn every room into a project. but this year, let's trim the budget. get some help from mar

glenn heart -- glenn hackbarth, steven lieberman, and debra ness, leader of the consumer coalition campaign for better care. first, my two cents with david, the paper is available to you and available online and i will start with the issue of who becomes an accountable health care organizations. the law allows many to form and hospitals seem to be leading the charge. they are actively engaged in connecting to other providers, acquiring physicians, practices, or hiring physicians hopefully to work with the broad set of providers engaged in in the delivery of care to better coordinate. more needed is a reduction of hospital years. hospitals working with ever providers can and have achieved that goal. and hand, they can share in the savings. what they actually do is an open question. it raises some concerns about whether instead hospitals can use this as an opportunity to enhance their domination of local markets and use their market power to protect existing patterns of care rather than promote change. if, alternatively, physicians take the lead, they can gain rather than lose revenue in the

glenn hubbard. and he had some interesting takes on what should happen with tax policy going forward. tell me about it. >> sure. so glenn hubbard was the first chairman of the council of economic advisers. he helped write the tax cuts. he said, you know, i wouldn't support a permanent extension at this point. i said why not? they're yours. you should like them. he said, you can't decide what your taxes are going to look like until you decide how big government should be. he said if we're going to have a government like the one barack obama and the democrats prefer, we can't have the bush tax cuts. they don't raise enough money. if we were going to have one like george w. bush had, we also can't have the tax cuts. >> did he say that? the size that bush had with the medicare prescription drug benefit. for instance. set the costs of the wars aside for a minute. he wasn't around for a lot of that stuff. >> and so in this debate on this, you know, obviously the republican talking point is, hey, this isn'

have some pollution rules and that's it. >> greta: that wasn't glenn beck's car, was it? >> it might have been, you have to watch to see. >> greta: it would have been fun. make sure you check out top ten promises gone wrong right here in the sean hannity spot. >> next the best of the rest. will president obama ever vacation in bush country? >> do you want to see what might be the world's oldest dog. the lighthouse on lake erie ♪ [ man ] i thought o family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some people just know how to build things well. give you and your loved ones an expertly engineered mercedes-benz... ho ho ho! [ male announcer ] ...at the winter event going on now. and stay conn

glenn heart -- glenn hackbarth, steven lieberman, and debra ness, leader of the consumer coalition campaign for better care. first, my two cents with david, the paper is available to you and available online and i will start with the issue of who becomes an accountable health care organizations. the law allows many to form and hospitals seem to be leading the charge. they are actively engaged in connecting to other providers, acquiring physicians, practices, or hiring physicians hopefully to work with the broad set of providers engaged in in the delivery of care to better coordinate. more needed is a reduction of hospital years. hospitals working with ever providers can and have achieved that goal. and hand, they can share in the savings. what they actually do is an open question. it raises some concerns about whether instead hospitals can use this as an opportunity to enhance their domination of local markets and use their market power to protect existing patterns of care rather than promote change. if, alternatively, physicians take the lead, they can gain rather than lose revenue in the

>> glenn: from new york, good >> glenn: from new york, good night, america. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >>> welcome to "red eye." it is like where's waldo if by waldo you mean my leather bull whip. andy, what's coming up on tonight's show, old sport? >> our top story, president obama signs a new tax bill including an extension of the so-called tax cuts for the rich. he will join us live from the oval office straight ahead. and north korea threatens to strike south korea if soko has drills on the island. we will ask if yo co is from noko. and a strong statement against honour killings and calls for julian assange to stand trial. no, just kidding. they are pissed at hooters or something. >> thank you, andy. >> i don't have to take this anymore. i quit. >> don't worry. he will be back. >> i apologize for nothing! >> all right. let's welcome our guest. >>> i am here with immogen lloyd webber. she is so cute that care bears wear the immogen lloyd webber pyjamas. and the founder andment of the penn financial group, he knows the dollar like i know t

glenn beck identified a group in the san fransisco area called the tides foundation and called them the most dangerous element in america today out with george's money to undermind this country and bring the country down. about a couple months later, the police stopped a guy weaving in and out of traffic and had three guns in his car on the way to san fransisco to wipe out the leadership of the tides foundation baa glenn beck identified them as evil. toxic talk can lead to toxic actions. it's not good when that happens. as a solution, look, i'm not about to censor anybody. people have a right to make a fool of themselves as much as they want. god knows i do regularly. i do think there should be balance in the air waves, on the air waves and that every market in the country people who don't necessarily agree with rush limbaugh or glenn beck should have a station they agree or disagree with. i would like to see the fcc to just enforcing the current law which is that if you have a license to operate the public airways, you have to operate in the public interest. what a novel concept. [laug

he became a political adviser to president kennedy and the national figures hubert humphrey, john glenn, and al gore. he ran dozens of campaigns for statewide and local measures. he was also a political consultant to my grandfather. joe was the co-founder of the institute of politics and government at the university of southern california. he is survived by his wife, his son, his daughter, his stepson, and a number of grandchildren. he will be best. i also have an in memoriam. he was a beloved husband and father. he was an icon in the california construction industry and he helped build one of the largest licensed construction companies in this day. he was so passionate about the construction business, he went to work every day at the age of 87. he loved working in the construction business. you could find them after leaving the office. he was born to his italian immigrant parents and graduated in 1943. he enlisted in the navy for the duration of world war two. he had a lifelong love of the indicted states, our military. he went on to play football for usf. in 1957, he met the love of h

vern glenn coming up with sports. and ring in the new year's with kron 4, tune in 11:30 for new year's live. the only local new year's even year's eve show and the bay area's favorite way to celebrate. . >>> mike singletary could motivate them, just couldn't coach them. 49ers in such a state after their loss sunday. fired last night, 18-22 in 41 games, never got the taste after an 0-5 start. 5-9 before the loss. back and 4th with the quarterbacks. got to move on. >> it's not about hiring the flashiest name, it's about making sure they are working together. >> jim says you can't put all the blame on mike singletary. >> mike singletary is a friend. madison square garden is a good man -- mike singletary is a good man. okay? everybody in the locker room, we all -- we all own some of it. >> he taught us a lot about life, as well as football and guys -- you know, at the end of the gay, i am sure they appreciate that. >> performance cost mike singletary -- will it do the same for the raiders. raiders 7-8. eliminated from the

joining us are two friends of the family, jennifer palmieri and glenn bergenfield. we thank you very much joining us this morning and please accept our condolences. jennifer, let me start with you. elizabeth from everything we read was clearly in charge in these last weeks and days of her life. what did she want most and what did she want others to get and understand? >> uh-huh. well, she really wanted to not just -- she wanted to leave behind a message to not just her family and friends and we were grateful to be able to have time with her the past few days but for the people that she had met along the way that read her books and that's why she wanted to most the message she did on the facebook page which was to, you know, even at the end of her life to reassure people that she still felt that living a life that was filled with hope and really believing in resilience gave meaning to her life and she said to me, as you know, i know that it doesn't mean you have more days, it doesn't. if you're fighting cancer. but it does mean that the days you have are going to be

. >> i will see you next week in tampa, florida when i join glenn beck and bill o'reilly as part of our bold fresh tour. pill bill "saturday night live" mocking president obama by using beck and me. >> it was a terrifying experience. i don't think i will ever get over it, really. >> bill: you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor bins -- begins right now. >> bill: hi, i'm bill o'reilly thanks for watching us tonight. who is looking out for your ? the subject of this evening talking points memo. stripping away all the bs, which is what we do here. it is clear the american economy needs you to spend more. american consumer drives the economy, the more confident folks are the more money in their pockets, the more they will spend. don't have to be a ph.d to figure that out. president obama tried to spend tax dollars, trillions it has not worked and the president's image has been badly battered. now these going the private route. business will not pay more to the feds neither will rich people. the hope is business will expand and rich people will spend more that happened under pres

glenn heart -- glenn hackbarth, steven lieberman, and debra ness, leader of the consumer coalition campaign for better care. first, my two cents with david, the paper is available to you and available online and i will start with the issue of who becomes an accountable health care organizations. the law allows many to form and hospitals seem to be leading the charge. they are actively engaged in connecting to other providers, acquiring physicians, practices, or hiring physicians hopefully to work with the broad set of providers engaged in in the delivery of care to better coordinate. more needed is a reduction of hospital years. hospitals working with ever providers can and have achieved that goal. and hand, they can share in the savings. what they actually do is an open question. it raises some concerns about whether instead hospitals can use this as an opportunity to enhance their domination of local markets and use their market power to protect existing patterns of care rather than promote change. if, alternatively, physicians take the lead, they can gain rather than lose revenue in the

the other vacancy is a result of the term expiration of glenn davis in district 9. he is here today to speak to his interest in reappointment. commissioner campos: thank you. mr. davis? good morning. >> i am here to seek reappointment to the citizens advisory committee. i would very much like to continue to work providing constructive and critical analysis to the numerous projects involving prop k money. thank you for your consideration and i would humbly ask for you to move the appointment to the full board. commissioner campos: great. thank you, mr. davis. is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, i would ask that we reappoint mr. davis. he and my office have been working closely since his last appointment, and i can tell you, he has put in a lot of time and energy into this position. i have found is in sight to be very useful and i hope that he is reappointed. we have a motion by commissioner david chiu, seconded by vice chair carmen chu. without objection. thank you. >> item 5. rec

reappoint glenn davis to the citizens advisory committee. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion? public comments? >> ♪ he is the friend of a friend that will make it ok ♪ supervisor mirkarimi: very fitting. seeing no more public comments, it is closed. roll call. >> [roll call vote] the item passes. supervisor mirkarimi: next item, please. >> item #9. appoint jonathan z. goldberg and thea selby to the geary corridor bus rapid transit citizens advisory committee. supervisor mirkarimi: any discussion? seeing no one, public comment? seeing no one, public comment is closed. can we take that in the same house call pamroll cal -- house call? roll call, please. >> [roll call vote] the item passes. supervisor mirkarimi: congratulations on the appointment, mr. goldberg and ms. shelby. next item, please. >> item #10. appropriate $2,955,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, for environmental analysis and preliminary engineering for the van ness avenue bus rapid transit (brt) project, subject to the attached cash flow distribution schedule, and amend the brt/transit preferential streets/

@ñçm@; >> glenn: from new york, good >> glenn: from new york, good night, america. captioned by closed captioning services, inc >> bret: after a long fight, the president signs the tax rate compromise bill. the senate goes back to the drawing board for government funding. exclusive interview with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell on what is left, start, the dream act and "don't ask, don't tell." live from the studio in washington, this is "fox report." good evening, i'm bret baier. after moving at a snail's pace for much of the lame duck session, lawmakers on capitol hill picked up steam. since we signed off thursday night, the house passed the tax rate bill. and the president has now signed it. senate republicans forced democrats to withdraw the trillion-dollar spending plan. conservatives want to keep victory on guantanamo bay prisoners. we begin with chief washington correspondent jim angle on the effort to keep the government running. >> with the massive spending bill going down in flames, democratic majority leader harry reid and republican leader mitch mc

the anti-glenn beck rally? >> it is not the anti-glenn beck rally. we're using the rally format to do the same thing we do with our shows. the message will be a very similar-type idea. it's just using the rally through a satirical format. like the book is like our show in book form. we're also going to develop our show in capsule form in powder form. maybe a drink form the astronauts can use up in the space shuttle. it's not -- you know, everybody should just wait and see what it is. make their own decisions. >> larry: many news organizations prohibit employees from taking part in political events. >> i don't blame them. >> larry: npr sent out a memo reminding the staffers it would be against the rules for them to attend the rally. >> and i have -- >> larry: what do you make of that? >> as a countermeasure against npr, to fight back, i have prohibited my employees from describing events in esoteric terms. yeah. you won't come to my rally? well, we will no longer be quirky and use sound effects to describe public events. >> larry: what do you make --

. >> reporter: here in glenn way a light rain is falling. this is located in east palo alto. as cars come around the bay they have to take it slow because the roads are wet and slippery. a lot of water has started to accumulate alongside the roads, you can see the water has also flowed in to the parking lot here at charles market. there are only two cars parked in this parking lot because the water has filled the rest of the parking lot. here in san carlos business owners aren't taking chances. they believe this area is prone to flooding, that is why they have placed sandbags near a drain on industrial road near this stopsign. they have put more near this drain on east sand carlos avenue. what the sandbags will do will prevent debris from getting stuck into the drain itself that debris does get stuck it'll create water onto the roads. the business owners are hoping doesn't happen because the storms are expected to be powerful and strong. in san carlos. >> a very snowy and slow moving scene. this is in the sierra, it's what it looked like earlier tonight along i-80 and traffic

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