. >> steve: no kidding. something else that's going on today is the fact that charlie rangel is probably going to be censured by the house of representatives. there is a story out there that you were going to be called by the ethics committee and people thought oh, he's going to speak on behalf -- good things about charlie rangel. not so much. >> not one way or the other. charlie came up to my office and to many other offices of many people, lots of other people, and he's building some kind of a civic center in a school. he said, could i have $5 million for the civic center? you know what i said? i said no. i use good judgment. it's called judgment. somebody said why did you say no? i said because i have better places to put my money. he wanted that. i didn't see that -- i guess he wrote on congressional stationary to me and others on congressional stationary asking for money for some kind of a center, the rangel center. >> steve: did it feel like a shake down? >> no, it didn't. it really didn't. i feel badl

hello. >> hi, steve. yes, there's a bail hearing for julian assange in just a couple of hours time and, of course he is facing possible rape charges in sweden. there's a possibility he'll be extradited to sweden. his lawyers want to get him free in the meantime. they're saying he's not a flight risk and he'd be willing to have an electronic tag in all of that. that's what's going to be decided today. in terms of julian assange, the wikileaks founder, steve, breaking his silence, he reportedly spoke to his mother from prison today and he said, and i'm going to quote here. my convictions are unfaltering. i remain true to the ideals i've expressed, the circumstances shall not shake them. if anything, this process has increased my determination that they are true and correct. and he went on to say, we know that visa, mastercard, pay pal and others are instruments of u.s. foreign policy. it's not something we knew before and, of course, in the last week, we've seen his hacktivist supporters, fellow computer wh

steve? >> steve: yeah. >> i like it. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you much. congratulations. everyone -- everyone appreciates it, really. let's give our winner another round of applause for emily right here. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ laughter ] emily. emily. little wiseguy. hey, you guys today is friday. that usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. i check my inbox, return some e-mails and of course, send out thank-you notes. [ cheers and applause ] i'm running a bit behind today, so i thought if you guys wouldn't mind, i'd just like to write out my weeklthank-you notes right now. is that cool? [ cheers and applause ] roots, can i getome thank-you note-writing music? thanks. ♪ [ laughter ] what is going on? [ laughter ] thank you, "time" magazine, for awarding your 2010 pson of the year to what appears to be some sort of albino avatar creare. [ laughter and applause ] thank you, online retails during t holiday season, for offering free shipping, and thank you tsa agents for offering free handling. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] appreciate

. >> steve: exactly. >> jimmy: just filthy? >> steve: filthy. awful. like - swear words that you'd only see -- like, you would imagine -- >> jimmy: like at a john valby concert? [ light laughter ] >> steve: okay, kids, ask your mom. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: this is -- this is from @cdevs. she says "you show up with plain m&m's when the holiday mix is available? like i want a brown m&m right now. #hohohellno!" [ light laughter ] people are testy these days. you gotta get the holiday mix. that's some good stuff. >> steve: you got to. >> jimmy: this is from @armenianhillbilly. [ laughter ] >> steve: come on. give it up for that armenian. >> jimmy: pretty good yeah. he says "i saw daddy kissing santa claus. #hohohellno!" [ laughter ] >> steve: prop 8. >> jimmy: this is from @marnes4444. she says "letting me know you can't afford to give gifts this year via e-mail with a signature line 'sent from my ipad,' #hohohellno!" [ laughter ] "i'm broke. i just found this ipad -- on the ground." this is from @luckymisses. she says "got your family christmas newsletter.

his earmarks, come on, steve. everybody is into this game and if you're going to make an absolute rule, which i totally support, if you want whatever it is in your jurisdiction, your kentucky jurisdiction, make a bill, kentucky mitch mcconnell junior high school bill, you know. so everybody knows. don't sneak them in. >> gretchen: i agree with you. isn't that a first? might be. harry reid -- >> you don't know how it pains me to disagree with you. him, i don't care. >> gretchen: harry reid said this about the earmarks. he says that it would be constitutional to spend our money. >> we have a constitutional duty to do congressionally directed spending and i don't want to give up that responsibility. i can't understand why someone more conservative members here want to give up their power. i don't understand that. >> it sounds lame. but what he's really saying is there is a separation of powers and if the legislature doesn't designate where the money is spent and the executive -- in the executive branch will. that's r

steve? >> steve: thank you. the first lady asked her husband's side as the president signed into law a $4.5 billion childhood nutrition bill that is supposed to give children healthier lessons. she says it's as serious as our national security. >> who tell us that when more than one in four young people are unqualified for military service because of their weight, they tell us that childhood obesity isn't just a public health issue. they tell us that it is not just an economic threat. it is a national security threat as well. >> dana: our next guest says the new law is a bust. nixon, missouri school superintendent joins us to explain why. thank you for joining us this morning. >> glad to be with you. i find it interesting, though, if it's truly a national security matter, why we're not being funded much like the national security is funded, 'cause this is an unfunded mandate, and it's going to cost us millions of dollars, something we can't keep up with. that's for certain. >> steve: sure. and i was reading one

gretch and steve? >> a solar lighting project, a million bucks for the edward kennedy senate institute, $800,000 for audubon studies. >> these are just -- >> serious sly? >> these are some of the eight billion ways that they have filled the spending bill with pork. what happened to lawmakers promising to cut spending? the president of citizens against government waste joins us from washington. good morning to you, tom. >> good morning to you, steve. >> tom, let's talk about some of the earmarks, some of the pork that these guys have put in here, there is something that is so mind boggling and we're going to start with that. it's close to half a billion dollars. $450 million for the joint strike fighter engine which is the second engine that this company has built, g.e. and it's an engine that the pentagon or rather that the white house doesn't even want. >> you're right. it's the pentagon and the white house. everybody up and down the ranks at the pentagon. the only general that wants this is general e

steve paulson will be here to tell us if the rain is going to stay. those stories and more -- coming up. . >>> good afternoon. top october -- topping our news. rain has been falling all over the bay area. it's been dampening the heads and the spirits but everybody seemed prepared for some type of umbrella. and in oakland, umbrellas were everywhere. the rape has been coming down steadily. and we turn to steve paulson in our weather center. how much rain has fallen? >> for some it's not too bad, especially for the north bay. but for the peninsula, there's been hardly any rain. paul low alto, .40. i will come out wider and show you. put this into motion and it's a steady bream. nothing too heavy. it's been calm in the north. there was .50 to 1. east bay. a lot of steady rain. same for parts of the south bay but nothing too heavy, at least not yet. but some of the cloud cover and rain will continue. watch how this keeps going and going and going. there's plenty of clouds and occasional light rain. -- door row, 1.0 a -- kazadero, .1.0. tori, we're getting

at 506 here is steve. >> thank you. for some today it will be a rainy day for others off and on scattered light rain. south bay you will be cloudy infilled. this system again there in lies the forecast challenge. will this drop south far enough? the north bay could stack up pretty well as far as rain goes. you can see our system. again it's moving ever so slowly. we are looking for rain. there are pretty good projections from sfo, concord north. south of that not too much. we'll paint clouds and rain in for everybody. cloudy with rain upper 50s or very low 60s. i put the north bay not just the north bay. they get the bulk of it. 40s and 50s. upper 40s and low 50s. they won't go very high today the high temperatures. the snow will go up as well. 40s and 50s from redding to eureka to southern california. big low finally moving. as it does it's drawing in moisture. it might do this for two days. from the north bay north there could be heavy duty totals. south of that there may not be too much. 50s and 60s on your temps tod

he gave steve free reign to his entire life. steve talked about the case history, his case materials, he also give him free reign in his personal correspondence. every letter that justice brennan ever wrote to another justice, to a lawyer, to any member of his family. there's a letter that he found in one of his drawers, a desk drawer, he kept the most cherished possession. he kept the wedding ring of his first wife in that drawer after she passed away, and he kept the last letter he got from his browr charlie, the brother he was closest too who was killed in world war ii, and he got that letter just days before the military informed the family that his brother had died, and that letter was in his drawer, and steve got a copy of that. it's extrord their such a private person opened his life to the reporter. he knew the consequence of doing so, so it's really a fascinating contrast between some of the decisions he made and who he was as a person. let me just say a couple things, a couple myths that i think we try to counter. they

. >> thank you, steve. after seven seasons with the cleveland cavs, lebron james packed his bags and headed to the miami heat. the decision hurt the city and his fans. tonight, he makes his long awaited return to cleveland. >> going to be very emotional for myself. i got a lot of great memories in that city so many times, some ups and downs, and you know, a lot of things that i've done in my life i give a lot of thanks to that city. lot of thanks to those fans. >> the feeling is not mutual for those cleveland fans. they're expected to greet him with boos instead of hugs. but our next guest is welcoming lebron. he is the bishop for the in touch christian center and joins us right now. what is your suggestion for the very hurt people of cleveland? >> welcome back. we won't attack. keep the peace. >> they're angry. >> going to have a good time tonight. >> but they're angry. >> huh? >> aren't the people of cleveland angry their hometown boy picked up and left. >> yes, but we're not going to concentrate on those

by jeff no bitch in new york he's an entrepreneur in a freelance journalist also in new york we have steve rendall he's senior analyst at fairness and accuracy in reporting and in phoenix we go to dan gilmore he's director of the knight center for digital media entrepreneurship and arizona state university and another member of our cross talk team you know on the hunger steve you've been on the show before so thanks for coming back i'm calling this program the age of disbelief and the current business model at least for people to make money in mainstream media i say is the following the business model is. fear sells sex sells even lies sell there is no interest in the condition of democracy there's no interest in the condition of society and of course last but not least there's very little interest in doing real journalism anymore do you agree or do you disagree with my assessment there. i think i probably mostly disagree i think that we've always had a culture of lying as i have stone as i have stone the great american journalist once said all governments lie i think what we're seeing wit

. >> steve: we don't make anything. >> we don't make anything. we do health care, but that's not like making health care. that's taking care of our sick and people. but we don't make anything. when i order curtain walls for buildings and order furniture, not that i want to do business with china, i've done business with china and i don't like it. these are sharp people that are looking to do damage to this country. they could solve north korea in one phone call if they wanted to. more importantly, they're taking all our jobs. so when you see jobless numbers up, i watched the economist, how can the economy boom when they're taking all our jobs? they make all of our products. we are rebuilding china and our country is going to hell. >> steve: that's the number that came out just about -- >> that's a big number. much higher than they thought. >> steve: they're watching us in the white house. what should they be doing? >> in my opinion, you have to bring jobs back to the united states. you mentioned iowa before.

you probably knows steve has been released, and he is in the chamber. if he could come to the podium. he was returned home on november 23 after spending more than two months in a detention center in arizona, and he is really on the verge of being deported to peru, where he has no friends or family and very little knowledge, but upon his return, he said to the san francisco chronicle, it all led of to me being an activist, so it could be passed for all the people in the same situation. he said, as long as i am able to use my voice and help myself, i am going to help people in the same situation. he is a tremendous leader and jump into the campaign. that is why i have so much respect for steve, a and his release became possible because of support from students and faculty and the voice of a united community coming together, not just for a chinese guy like steve but for all undocumented immigrants that should have dignity and human rights. it was also because of mobilizing from our communities. steve has been actively advocating for the dream act, which is

i want to know what you want and steve goes like this. your honor, we can't hear you. if you wouldn't mind, speaking up. the judge calms him to come before him and steve crawls over everybody's legs and gets before the judge and he takes over the courtroom. he says your honor. we're all here. we're missing work. we have left our children in the care of others. this is a public hearing and we would like to hear so if you wouldn't mind please speak up. everyone starts to cheer. that's right. this is a public hearing. i want to hear. people are clapping and the judge is pounding on the gavel. the judge says all right. all right. there is a lot of interest here. we're going to take 15-minute break and we're going to come back and i'll figure out what to do. 15 minutes later, by the way in the break everybody is coming up to steve and they are like, you know, shaking his hand and begging him to represent them. so, so, so she comes back and puts up on a microphone and for the rest of the day everybody could hear but i went back to that court the next day and steve was gone a

steve and i are good friends. every time we hang out, we are always laughing and he is just one of the most fun loving people i have ever met. that is why it really hurts me that something so horrible as happening to him. he has been detained in arizona for over 50 days where he is being treated like a criminal. he will have nobody with him and he has no family there. he is no less of an american that i am. we listened to the same music, so what separates him and die? -- and i? we want to make ourselves and the something that our parents have worked so hard for and raised us to be. i would like to urge you all to please help us pass item r and bring steve back home to where he belongs in america. >> my name is peter and i graduated from high school, abraham lincoln high school. i am currently at city college in san francisco. when i first met him, we became really good friends and he is really genuine. i was shocked because a guy like steve, for him to be arrested, a guy like him is very kind and helpful. he is st

>> steve -- you know steve. he's very intelligent. probably one of the sharpest men i've ever been around. and steve took about five minutes to hear my story of -- because he asked me, what do you do and all this stuff. and he says, oh, i know how to do this. he says, we can't screw up your family life. >> larry: so -- >> first thing out of his mouth was not money. he says, we can't screw up your family life. he says the first thing we have to do is get you a plane. and i'm like, okay, you've got my attention now. and so that plane is like a car. we're two hours difference in time line, so we leave tulsa at 4:00, get in vegas at 4:00. so you leave a soccer game at, you know, 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon, get to vegas at 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon. >> larry: that night. >> yeah. >> larry: what do you do saturday? >> what's that? >> larry: work friday night. >> work friday night. >> larry: what do you do saturday? >> if the girls have something going on, we leave friday night to wherever they're going. opening weekend in vegas, they

thanks, steve. well, coming up we're going to go back live to the south bay for new information on an officer-involved shooting. ktvu's kraig debro just spoke with a witness and we'll have more on what he had to say. >>> also monday is supposed to be his first day as lieutenant governor, but he'll not be reporting for duty. we'll tell you why. >>> and i'll show you why the federal government is now requiring nutrition labels on meat. coming up as the morning news continues. >>> we have an update on the developing news in san jose. police there are investigating an officer-involved shooting. ktvu's kraig debro is live now with new details. or -- there we go. hi, kraig. >> reporter: good morning, claudine. i came about this information walking around the streets of downtown san jose. i ran into some workers at the hilton hotel who heard and saw the police cars driving by. and that led me here to west reed street. now behind me this is where it all happened. according to witnesses i've spoken to an off

steve and i have been telling you. we'll tell you where it is and how you can avoid driving in it. >>> good investment in roads throughout the bureau of indian affairs and the indian reservation road program. we've offered new loans to reach reservations with broad band. and as part of our plan to revive the economy, we've also put billions of dollars into pressing needs like renovating schools. we're devoting resources to job training especially for young people in indian country who too often felt like they don't have a chance to succeed. and we're working with you to increase the size of triable homelands in order to help you develop your economies. i also want to note that i support legislation to make clear in the wake of a recent supreme court decision that secretary of interior can take land in the trust for all federally recognized tribes. [ applause ] >> that's something i discussed yesterday with triable leaders. we're also breaking down bureaucratic barriers that have prevented triable nations from developin

. >> steve: how much was it? >> jimmy: 1 million -- [ laughter ] and finally, the rockefeller center christmas tree arrived in new york city today, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] that's right! the tree's here. i don't know about you. i'll just be happy to see something get lit in new york, other than charlie sheen, so it's gonna be really exciting. [ laughter ] you guys, we have a great show. give it up for the roots! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: whoa! [ cheers and applause ] that is def leppard guitarist phil collen right there, sitting in with the roots. [ cheers and applause ] phil, thank you for being here, buddy, and hanging out with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> jimmy: we have a great, fantastic finish to the week tonight. my pal, the always hilarious, tracy morgan is here tonight! [ cheers and applause ] so good. that's hot. one of the all-time great talk show hosts, my man dick cavett is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] he's got this new book out called "talk show." look at this.

----como steve li, ella es chino - peruana y vive aqui en la bahia. ---se reunieron en la basilica de la mission dolores en san francisco...para pedir literamente la intervencion divina y que los legisladores aprueben la ley de los sueÑos...---en la plegaria estuvieron presentes lideres religiosos de diferentes denominaciones...---la tragedia que viven muchos jovenes inmigrantes esta representada en dos muchachos nacidos en peru...de raices chinas pero que no son familiares... el estudiante de enfermeria steve li... y la recien graduada de la high school lowell.... elizabeth lee... ambos enfrentan un proceso de deportacion a un pais que los vio nacer...pero del cual no conocen casi nada...---steve...llego a estados unidos cuando tenia once aÑos...mientras que elizabeth cuando tenia nueve... esta ultima ya fue admitida en la universidad de berkeley... pero sus sueÑos podrian verse truncados ya que su deportacion junto a su familia esta prevista para enero proximo...---si los legisladores aprueban la ley de los sueÑos... elizabeth y steve al igual q

>> steve: i think they do. i think they tape each other doing hits of salvia. [ laughter ] that's what i think. >> jimmy: that's what -- oh -- that's not what miley was -- i don't know. >> steve: that's what friends do for friends. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: -- some lyrics that weren't in the song. >> steve: no, they cut 'em out. ♪ three bong hits four bong hits ♪ ♪ knowing you will have a real bad trip ♪ ♪ for sure that's what friends are for ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: right. >> jimmy: check this out. a group of chinese housewives were busted for trying to smuggle ipads and cell phones into china. oh, man, that is so "real house wives of beijing county." [ laughter ] this is a cool story. a couple in toronto had their facebook friends vote on the name of their newborn daughter. so, congratulations to the couple and their baby girl, "like." [ laughter ] "like." and finally, a town in germany is making prostitutes pay a pleasure tax for every day they work. wow, they are always getting screwed b

>> steve: yes. you can tell a lot from the quotes about what kind of a year it was. >> gretchen: number three, if you touch my junk, i'm going to have you arrested. that was john tyner and that was when he gave that choice line to the transportation security administration worker who was about to touch his. >> brian: and now number one, co-winner, bpco executive, tony hayward who said, i'd like my life back, while the gulf was choking. >> steve: and once upon a time, christine odom was on bill maher's show and she dabbled in witchcraft and then in october came out with an ad where she said, i am not a witch. i'm just like you. >> gretchen: that was number one. >> brian: there was a lot of whacky quotes, all worthy and it was fun looking back. >> gretchen: the one that -- a couple of us thought should be the number one was nancy pelosi where she said something to the effect about the health care bill that was 2300 pages that we need to pass it so we can find out what's in it. >> brian: sadly, that's

steve brown has that story from iowa. >> how are you? >> potential presidential candidates like sarah palin popping up in iowa 14 months before the first in the nation white house contest here is not exactly new, but iowa republicans insist. >> it's been a dramatic change on the landscape here in iowa, especially when you consider this was the state that launched barak obama just over two years ago. >> for starters, republican will be back as governor, making him the most sought after endorsement for gop white house wannabe is. >> i don't intend to endorse early at all. i will encourage candidates to come here. i'm not ruling out the possibility of endorsing somebody at some point down the road. >> he is also shaping the caucus by subtraction and already hired for his administration four caucus veterans with maybe 100 or more positions to fill quickly. that gop potential talent drain may make it more difficult for candidates to hire iowans with caucus know how for the already difficult task of rounding up iowa caucus goers. consider this

i will send it back to steve. steve. >>> yes, sal. >> it will be raining all weekend? >> off and on. you can see the enhancement. when you see the enhancement right off the coast, that is development taking place. colder tops, more heavy rain. it depends on where this takes aim. if you're in eureka you may not get much. there is projection it will slide south and north maybe even ten days. next week could be just as interesting as this week. today we start off cloudy. some fog and rain and snow. you can see the careen turning to white up there in the sierra. even on five you get north of there you f you have to travel you could get pretty low snow levels. it's us last night it was the peninsula that picked up a little bit of rain. now the lighter bans are coming through. the heavier amounts are coming offshore. the rain will pick up later on. the big low is taking it north of the hawaiian islands and directing it right at us. santa cruz less than a quarter of an inch. hayward and dublin .12. san francisco and san jose .09. this will beth first of many, many rain totals

thank you, steve. >> we have a lot of fog. and not only that going to be an issue today but as we go into the weekend it could be some very thick fog. it will be slow to burn off. by the coast though it's going to be gorgeous. sunny and warm. but today we're dealing with rain. most of that rain is about south over to oakland, concord, antioch north. this is not as strong as yesterday's system but it will continue to drape over us but it is inching northward. more rain for north bay. lesser amounts south. some of the totals yesterday not too shabby. sfo at .82. our observer john dublin-napa half inch. and san jose only .15. only 70% of normal for the year. you're behind yet the north bay is way above on the seasonal averages. foggy, cloudy, light rain moving north. a lot of clouds today. very mild. upper 50s, low 60s. this is almost a tropical feel because the cloud cover is coming up almost from the hawaiian islands. 52 antioch forecast to start. high of 58. a lot of clouds and fog. 53 to 57. 57 san jo

steve, thank you. time now 5:08. the debate over same sex marriage here in california is now in the hands of a federal appeals court in san francisco. the panel heard arguments on proposition 8 for two and a half hours yesterday. it was all broadcast live on c span. the judges have to decide whether prop 8 supporters have legal standing to defend the ban. the governor and attorney general refuse to defend it. the panel of judges must also decide whether to uphold the ruling by a lower court if found proposition 8 was unconstitutional. >> discrimination hurts everyone. and discrimination against gays and lesbians hurts everyone in this country. >> the constitutional question is not whether people are harmed but whether people made a rational decision. >> well, the ruling is expected to come later in writing. the losing side is expected to appeal first to the full ninth circuit then all the way to the u.s. supreme court. >>> judge michael hawkins is seen as the moderate on the three judge panel and is perhaps the key t

anything, headlines, issues, everything. >> steve: it's great. >> jimmy: "pros and cons." >> steve: "pros and cons." >> jimmy: tonight's "pros and cons" topic is being a mall santa. [ boing ] [ laughter ] a lot of parents -- a lot of parents are taking their kids to see santa at the mall right now. it's a big part of christmas. so let's take a look at the pros and cons of being a mall santa. here we go. pro -- you get to wear a cool red suit. con -- it still smells like the dude who wore it last year. [ laughter ] yeah, that's not good. that's not good. pro -- being a mall santa is a big responsibility. con -- this time last year, you were a vice president at citibank. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] pro -- you'll get hired if you work hard. con -- you'll get fired if you work "hard." [ laughter ] what does that mean? >> steve: i don't know. is that what the sound effect was for? [ boing ] [ laughter ] you're fired. >> jimmy: pro -- the warm feeling of kids snuggled on your lap. con -- the warm feeling of kids peeing down your leg. [ laughter ] that's what christmas is all about,