i am here to support tim eicher. i have known tim for over 20 years. we worked together in oracle, a technology background. i am one of his partners in two of the bars that we own together in the castro. in terms of that, working with tim at the bars, one of the things i would emphasize he spoke to is his ability to work together with a lot of different views. in terms of problem-solving not just talking about the problem, but coming to the solution, one of the areas that he has taken to is the parking lot that exists across the street from one of our forests. it is not monitored and often a source of ne'er-do-wells that come to be blamed on our patrons. we have used our security to manage it but working with supervisor wiener and other business groups, tim has been critical in moving forward and getting that area monitored by patrol special police force as well as working toward getting a gate installed to have it closed at one in which has prevented and reduced the number of neighbor complains in the area. it is this type of action that tim brings to

i am speaking in support of tim eicher. tim has worked with the neighbors. you heard allen and dennis talk about his average to neighbors for issues about the parking lot and noise. he has done this on his own. tim has been willing to help the neighbors and work with the neighbors to the point of the other nights coming over to a random meeting of neighbors that were talking about issues in the neighborhood. tim showed up and said, what can i do? i find him accessible and have worked with him on the board of evna and find him helpful and it would be a great choice for the commission. supervisor campos: thank you -- supervisor kim: thank you. >> i am the board president of the apa families services and active in a number of organizations. i strongly support steven lee. i have known him for 30 years as an intrapreneur with it can do attitude. he works well with many groups and very generous to nonprofit organizations. the events held in his club are well-managed and enjoyable. i must appreciate -- most appreciate him on a personal level for providing young peo

tim. tim, i love you. >> i love you too. >> all right. just take it down a notch. >> yes, lord. whatever you command. >> not a command, just a request. >> i was going to say, pat robinson responded to that sketch. we need more religious faith in our society. we're losing our moral compass in our nation. this man has been placed in a unique position and i applaud him. god bless him. whether you're religious or not actually doesn't really matter. the message that he is communicating is so positive, isn't it? if you're a young person watching football right now, tebow magic isn't going to do you any harm, is it? >> it's really not. all his lessons, as tony talked about, hard work, faith and for him it's faith in god but also faith in his teammates. faith in what hard work's going to bring. everything tim does. and the deflecting of praise. his parents taught him at an early age proverbs 27:2. let another person praise you. >> let's take a break and talk more about his upbringing. that's been central probably to the character he is. i also want to learn from both of you, if i can, h

>> reporter: tim tebow is on a roll, a holy roll, you might say. the quarterback for the denver broncos is the talk of the sports world right now. leading his team to victory after improbable victory, four straight seemingly miraculous wins. at the heart of everything he does, all his effort and all his success is one simple thing, his christian faith. >> first and foremost, i'd like to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> reporter: tebow says that in every interview after every game. >> first and foremost, just have to thank my lord and savior jesus christ. >> reporter: on the field, tebow openly prays and gives thanks, taking one knee in a pose that's become a verb to tebow. something is happening here. the power of prayer, the hand of god? for millions of fans, something is happening here. for others, not so much. >> i hate tim tebow. >> reporter: last year, comedian john oliver of "the daily show" summed up the content many more secular americans and plenty religious fans too have for tebow on a rant caught on tape and posted online. >> if

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tim pawlenty dropped out. the one that will emerge, the one that will survive is the one that is immune. the one that can't be hit with negatives. >> sean: newt? >> newt or romney certainly and see who he decides the roach spray the best. that is what they are going through. >> sean: i thought immediately on abc was that the $10,000 bet offer to perry shows how out of touch that mitt romney. is i thought it was ridiculous. >> i disagreed with that. i thought romney did well. >> i did, too. >> i predict a tightening of the polls. >> sean: i thought newt did well, too. >> but it was not newt's best performance. i thought romney was terrific. i think it is clear that the democratic establishment wants to run against newt over romney because newt is more conservative. i think he will tap in fashion and get more people involved and ene energized. they say romney is pro-choice and for health reform and therefore is a tougher sell with independents. in the last poll, independents by two to one think that romney would

tim, i'll start with you. compare andrew luck now to guys who are in the nfl. >> i'd say matt ryan is a pretty good low bar for him. i think he's going to be at least as good as matt ryan. pretty good quarterback. but that's the low bar. i think drew brees would be the next step. i think he could be as good as drew brees easily. and then peyton manning is maybe the top of that and then tom brady. i'd put those four guys. it's the leadership all of those guys have, he's got it. the arm strength are different va variables there. i think between brees and manning, that's where he's going to slot in. i think those four guys are in the terms of the brains and the physical attributes i saw him in there, i think he's very, very similar to all four of those guys. >> and when i look at last year's number one pick, newton, i don't think andrew luck is as physically talented as kam noon. but i think where everybody sees that luck is above cam nuden is because he comes from this offense and he knows what he's doing. he kn

. >>> coming up, tim tebow is headlines for something field. football also coming up, and alert for parents after a man goes after two young boys. but first, the scandal at penn state. why sandusky did not fight back in court. >>> in major decision in the penn state. a twist, cherries and as attorneys waived the caboshed jerry sandusky's attorneys waived the parliament jerry's and as the's attorneys waived the preliminary hearing. they called the move a tactical decision. they claim that the media has been one-sided. attorneys for his victims disagree. >> i think he decided at the because he realized going to gowere with this. has been living in a fantasy world. >> he robbed them of their innocence. destroyed their lives. this is one more aspect of has done.he >> both sides say there are no work at a plea deal. >>> also, in the other sex abuse scandal, two men who accused the syracuse assistant coach have lawsuit.ivil >> i want to help children who ,ave the courage to tell adults family, and the police if sexually abused. syracuse anduing the h

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tim. >> caller: -- tim curley and r schultz, this in the sandusky case. >>> and a cold shutdown achieved at the daiichi power plant in fukushima. that means temperatures in the damaged reactors consistently remained below the boiling point. >>> novelist peterson grant add new trial after spending time in jail for the 2003 murder of his wife kathleen. a judge set him free saying jurors were misled about blood-stained evidence by a state investigator. >>> in a few hours barry bonds will learn his sentence for obstructing just kniss a federal investigation of sports doping. baseball's home run king faces 15 months in prison but could get probation, and home confinement. >>> that's the news you need to know to start your day. "american morning" is back after this. >>> welcome back to "american morning." we are less than three weeks away from the iowa caucuses, and as newt gingrich and mitt romney battle it out we're seeing more of the candidates' wives. most notely, mitt romney's wife of 42 years as his campaign looks to play the marriage card. cnn's joe johns has that part of the story. >>

on a personal note, let me say this about tim massinelli. i consider him a friend. when i was a 27-year-old freshman representative, i was determined to learn the rules, and tim was my teacher. you know the old saying that there is no such thing as a dumb question. well, i put that to the test a few times, but he was a mentor, a counselor, a father figure, and he just took care of me. truthfully, he made himself available to anybody who needed anything. i suspect that same commitment that he has to others and to the institution that he loves makes him the best deacon our lady of the holy souls catholic church has ever had. he has helped me in many, many ways over the years, but i think the biggest favor he ever did for me was when he told me that his son randy would be a good hire in the attorney general's office. now, we hired a lot of good people in that office, but everybody agrees that randy massinelli was the best hire i ever made, and he is still the best hire i ever made. the qualities that make randy so valuable to others were ingrained in him by tim massine

i'm like tim tebow. the only thing that would have made that better, the answer, if he ended the segment by tebowing. >> we're going to get a shot of that if people don't know. go check out tebowing.com. buzzer beater for you now. 20 seconds left. talking about gary bucce. he was backing newt gingrich. now he's backing off that endorsement. yes, the actor, maybe a crushing blow to the gingrich campaign. here's one person's late night opinion of it all. >> speaking of the campaign, yesterday gary busey withdrew, this is big political news, by the way. this was worth standing in the rain for. yesterday gary busey withdrew his endorsement of newt gingrich. yeah, mr. busey has gone back to his prior position of endorsing a jar of rais so ns. >> we love him, don't we? south carolina governor set to endorse mitt romney. maria, start with you. who's the better endorsement to have and why? >> well, i think clearly nicky, but for this question i don't know what's more offensive to nicky for being compared to gary

i also want to emphasize tim's background and technology. one of the challenges that the entertainment commission has working with some of the commissioners, when of the one of the challenges is a route technology. -- a rounround technologies . that is one thing that we worked on last year. although these receipts are never geographic in nature, i don't know that we have never had a commissioner from the castro. i might be wrong about that. i think that given that the castro is one of the major nightlife entertainment zones in the city, having a venue operators from the castro would be appropriate. i'll be supporting tim eicher. >> it looks like we all have different favorites. i do want to thank again of the applicants for being here today, it was really sad to see that amie wasn't here today. i think it is really important to have women voices around nightlife entertainment as well. there are multiple perspectives that we would like to see on the commission. i am also a dance hall fan, i appreciate the things that you had to say. and the w

. >> i'm tim williams. the temperatures are in the 40s

we will find out from tim in a moment. sharon is watching traffic and it is tim in for vacationing marty bass in the first warning weather center. >> we are looking at some of the coldest mornings we have had over the last -- well in recent memory really. 27 in oakland, 39 is the warm spot down at the river, 37 on the shore and northeast maryland, high pressure in control of the forecast bringing in very dry but seasonably cold air, just that the seasonably cold air is something we have not dealt with in a while. we are not seeing 70s soon. >>> starting off around freezing, going up to a high of around 50 degrees with sunshine, dry air and a light breeze. we will have your complete updated first warning forecast coming up in just a few moments don. >> thank you, what is happen in on 70 and the other roads? here is sharon gibala at wjz traffic control. >> hi, don, not much. but we will take it their morning after a difficult commute yesterday morning. no issues to report the moment. speeds in fact still upper 50s with 11 mi

tim in the outback with a look at that five-day forecast. tim? >> well, it's incredibly mild out here. but the five days, we'll see a little fluctuation in the temperature. bob talked about it tomorrow. 44 on both days, with a good bit of sunshine. average is 45. so we're right on target. look for temperatures to go up on monday. next chance of rain on tuesday. 46, temperatures again leveling out. now for your energy saver tip of the day. if you're gitting appliances, new -- getting appliances, new appliances for the holiday, look for energy star products. they meet strict efficiency guidelines celt by the united states environmental agency and. for more information gto wjz.com. scroll down the right-hand side of the page and click. >>> investigators are looking at possible mechanical problems as they try to find the cause of a freak elevator accident. suzanne hart stepped inside the elevator when it suddenly shot up, crushing her above. they say it is possible a sensor failed, allowing the elevator to move, even though hart was not fully inside.

megabus talking about tim tebow. >>> -- everybody talking about tim tebow. >>> >>> straight ahead at 6:00 stopping a government shutdown. congress reaches a compromise, but is it a done deal? >> the war in iraq is over for america. we will see what the u.s. troop withdrawal means for life in baghdad and beyond. "good morning washington" continues right now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side.

tim is in the weather center. >> good afternoon, everybody. we will set the stage and we will give you the answer and marty will have that answer. the first thing to look at is how marty is treesd. on the radar, some showers are moving our way, just showers and sprinkles around and moving on over the area. because the temperatures are so mild this afternoon, we are not feeling much with the snow showers we had yesterday. the 2e78s around 50 and 45 in elkins, the colder temperatures to the west. not ruling out that you could see some light rain or know showers, just keeping it in the equation. most of that is not making it to the ground. the answer to what it will be for the weekend and all the activities? marty? >> good afternoon. we have two activities here. here is the first. the new year's eve music -- baltimore, maryland, a his mix of clouds and sun, the temperatures in the 50s. the broken sky, very nice for this time of the year. 36 at midnight, that is six off the normal day time high for the 31st of december. event number two. here is a

tim tebow led the denver broncoses out of obscurity and in the nfl. and many athletes give credit to higher power. many are asking if god ising for his team. >> he had his doubt are in high school. and winning national championships in college he had doubters. they say he doesn't have the mechanics to be a successful nfl quarterback and now he's winning in the pros he has a doubter. and considered his heart and faith. >> since he tock over as starting quarterback. the team turned its season around and winning sevenout of the eight games and winning in dramatic fashion and california coming back after starting poorly. what is it? >> he might have explained it last summer. >> i am not going to be perfect. i am going to mess up every day. that is what grace and faith is all about. getting back up when you get knocked down and continue that journey of faith and continuing to try to improve and get better. >> tim's credits are not limited to those who put down his game. he is awn kniling down to pray in the games and that habe moxed by opponents and tebowi

tim versus tom. this is a good game, also. there's so much good stuff. >> you get excited on sunday night, don't you? >> i'm a little pumped. what can i say? >>> tonight a man is dead after a record 15th police shoot inning prince georges county this year. that man accused of pointing a gun at an officer. his family is telling a very different story. this centers on a deadly confrontation late last night in the 7500 block of greenleaf road. darcy spencer is live in the newsroom with more. darcy. >> he had just left police headquarters. he was on duty in an unmarked vehicle when he came across rodney edwards on the ground. police say as the officer approached to help, edwards pointed a gun at him and that's when the officer fired his weapon. 35-year-old rodney edwards shot and killed by a prince georges county police officer saturday night. family members say edwards was sitting here on a curb in front

tim polenti is kind of a generic republican. and the romney people figured if he got ahead of steam in iowa, that you'll be pretty effective in new hampshire. he's working class. he can hang out in a bar much more convincingly than romney can. he was the one person they thought might really last. that quickly, mitt romney moved quickly to get him to endorse him. he had the polentis out for dinner in new hampshire. >> there is this feeling about gingrich that there's no way that the republican party is going to nominate newt gingrich. and here he is on the top of the polls. what does it say about the race? and what's the theory of gingrich's comeback? >> he has a very specific theory. and part of the magic -- we did an interview with newt gingrich just two weeks ago. and we were able to put it in the book. he says that the campaigns are running on a 20-year-old model. the model where you can be leaner, not in his physique, but in his campaign, you can emphasize social media, you can build an army with electronics, that that's act

tim tebow is an evangelical christian. the author of the article has personally apologized. >>> i cannot get over how mild it was today. >> spring fever, and we have not had winter yet. >> i am sure it will be here soon. >> not tomorrow. outside now it is another beautiful night. there is our capitol christmas tree. outside, our temperature now a balmy 62 degrees. one degree down but from the high. the cold there has yet to arrive. we are not that far from the record in 1971. high temperatures all over here. down in fredericksburg, it was close to 68 degrees. hagerstown and callbacks 59 degrees -- hagerstown and colfax, 59 degrees. this is the cold front coming our way. by tomorrow, you'll notice the colder air. along the trailing front this is an area of rain down around mississippi. there is birmingham, alabama. that will be coming through us as we get to tomorrow night. here we are in washington. there you can see that overall pattern changed. that will mean there will be an area of low pressure coming to ourselves. ove

. >> i'm tim williams. the temperatures are in the 40s going into this early new year's eve morning. it is a little bit cloudy out there and the clouds are helping to insulate it from, you know, temperatures getting too cold or dropping too rapidly. it is calm, quiet and still morning. but mild as well. we're looking at temperatures right now as we look over a calm city for now, of course, give it about, oh, 18 hours and things might change a little bit. the cloud cover is out there, that is helping us to stay, with, air that is pretty mild considering that we got to 52 degrees yesterday. we are at 41 now. we have not dropped during the overnight hours. so, that means we're starting off today with the temperatures and going up from there. the temperatures going up to just around 57 degrees today. with a little bit of luck we might get to to 60 and here it is new year's eve, temperatures near 60 degrees. and the first warning weather is coming up. >> thank you, tim. >>> here is what people are talking about

well, he's being called god's quarterback, the denver bronco's tim tebow. he is also being mocked steadily for his strong expressions of christian faith, by some in the media, some fans and even other players. if tebow was not christian would he be the subject of such criticism? would we even be having this discussion? it's a double standard that has sparked a nation-wide debate. bernie goldberg is a fox news analyst and he joins me now. you can follow him on twitter at bernard goldberg. thank you for being here. it's an interesting question. we've seen so much mocking of tim tebow, i thank my lord and savior jesus. a lot are saying, yeah i get it, his reference to jesus christ. some are weighing now wait a minute, is this right? where do you come down? >> it's fascinating that tim tebow is probably the most polarizing figure in the entire world of sports, not because he once killed defenseless dogs, not because he drove drunk and killed somebody crossing the street, not because he beat up his girlfriend, or used illegal drugs, or shot himself in the leg in

tom or tim? who you rooting for this weekend? >>> okay, a very high-profile endorsement for mitt romney today. south carolina governor nikki haley made the announcement on fox news this morning. >> what i want is someone who is not part of the chaos that is washington. and what i wanted was someone who knew what it was like to turn broken companies around. someone who had proven results by improving a failed olympics that ended up being a great success story. and someone that knows what it's like to make a decision and lead not just make a vote. >> now, it's not a huge surprise that she chose to support romney. haley has endorsed romney before and he's endorsed her. but here's why it could be a little bit bigger of a deal. number one, she is the republican governor of south carolina. south carolina will be the first state in the south to hold a primary next month. after iowa and new hampshire. romney, of course, could use a bit of a boost there. the latest cnn poll shows newt leading by a big margin, 43% to 20% for romney. all ri