go to college in fact the way things are going with skyrocketing tuition fees and cuts the federal pell grant programs another part enjoyed services if you plan on sending your kid to college in twenty years it's time to start playing the lottery and i don't mean join a lottery lottery for some high priced charter school i mean actually playing the lottery going to the store buying a powerball ticket and playing in playing and playing playing and. joining me now to explain exactly why you should start playing the lotto to afford college in the next few decades is marie diamond reporter and blogger at think progress very welcome thanks for having me thanks for being on so let's say a kid is born today and he wants to go to college you know eighteen years from now . how much should he or she expect to spend yeah well his parents should have started saving about a decade ago because if trends continue the way they have for the past thirty years the average student born today can expect to pay two hundred eighty eight thousand dollars at a four year private school one hundred twenty three t

gingrich slammed pell loes and san francisco. we see why the remarks could backfire on gingrich. >> i think we come from good natured ribbing ape and a lot of that is deserved. >> it is is good natured. >> some of it is and some isn't. >> in which category is this remark that newt gingrich made on "the today show" fall. >> she lives in strange understandings of reality. >> she says she's insulted but not surprised. >> conservative view of what the bay area is all about they say the bay area's reputation for wacky politics but not the voters themselves. he says the bay area may have a liberal represent tagts but a stronger republican base than most realize. she says she played host to a long line of republicans even before the race began and gingrich is expected to visit next month. >> they all do. every single candidate running for national office, as well as many candidates running for state office and other states come here because there is a lot of money in san francisco and silicone valley. >> reporter: san francisco state un

attacks in the program program eubanks is a college student with two jobs and two kids and lies on pell grants to help fund education. and congress and roll back things pell grants are a bad idea he told you banks that was the federal government's job to pay for education in the u. bank should join the military pay for education just like he'd done i guess womack and visions of military base up of just the poor in america can't afford to go to college who cares about educating kids as long as we have more tanks missiles and warships will be just fine right representative walmart. and a very very ugly rush limbaugh on yesterday's show limbaugh argued that unlike president obama mitt romney has not lived like a king is how he put it. that romney has not flown all over the world on the federal government has done romney has not yet lavish parties and concerts on the public's done. romney has not lived like a king on other people's money he is not and sees limbaugh's confused as usual romney is the one who made his wealth through corporate greed romney is the one who dodges taxes like the p

there are various pell grants, students can qualify for one of several cal grants available. it is free money they don't have to payback. >> so glad they were there when i was going to college. here is the information for you to jot down. a number to call. you can also e-mail. i also have a couple of websites that you might have. >> sure. the cal grants.org, websites students and families can go to find an actual workshop location in their area. >> we thank you so much for joining us. we are going to show you if you have any questions, you might have, we have run out of time to show you the community calendar and birthdays. there's the address for next week. remember to pick up a copy of the newspaper and support your bilingual weekly all across the area. thank you again for sharing part of your sunday with us here on comunidad del valle. we will see you again next week. so, this is delicious okay... is this where we're at now, we just eat whatever tastes good? like these sweet honey clusters... actually there's a half a day's worth of fiber in every ... why stop at cereal? b

where this were tuskegee airmen and the prisoners of war, german prisoners of war had ps opened the la pells and could go anywhere in the base. they cosimo in th could do go e officer's club and everything. they protested and some of them got dishonorably discharged and there was a court trial and there was a documentary george lucas pu put together called double victory and you see one of the airmen go 50 some odd years and finally gets recognized. because he was dishonorably discharged he couldn't vote. when they rein stated him he got the vindication that he had done the right thing back in the days. >> mike: when you looked at the film after it was completed and saw the screening of it was there one part of the film or maybe an impact of the film that you stood as an artist and said i'm he proud i was part of that. what was it about this film that just gave you a sense of accomplishment? >> when i first read the script in 1995 for the tuskegee for hbo i was 24, 25. finished with my education and knew nothing about the tuskegee airmen and i was frustrated and angry and i think now after s

. >> if i don't get into that class, then i'm not going to get my pell grant. i'm a single mom working a bomb job, i can't afford it. >> state workers will discuss their recommendations later this week. they could be implemented as long as this fall. >> a piece of gym equipment uses nasa technology to help users defy gravity. running on this new trail will make feel out of this world. >> it's the workhorse of the gym. the staple of cardio exercising. the next generation is the antigravity treadmill. you pull up the plastic cover and use air pressure to take some of the weight off. >> anybody from 20 to 30% less. it's like being on air. >> brad steven is in a wheelchair most of the time, unless he's getting his heart rate up. >> you are able to unweight your body, which feels like a balloon is underneath you and gives you support. >> a than thought have made it. >> similar to doing a water aerobic workout where you are getting the same type of workout. your niece, ankles, or hips. >> based on nasa teg knowledge. some of the folks say what being on the moon feels

. >> if i don't get into that class, then i'm not going to get my pell grant. i'm a single mom working a part- time job. i can't afford it. >> state lawmakers will discuss the recommendations. they will be implemented as soon as this fall. >>> a new piece of gym equipment developed here in the bay area helps users defy gravity. it's the antigravity treadmill. you pull up a plastic cover, zip it around you, and use air pressure to take some of the weight off. even people who use wheelchairs some of the time can use this treadmill. >> you are able to unweight your body, so it feels like a balloon blowing up underneath you that lifts you up and gives you support. >> the alter g is based on nasa technology. the initial purpose was to help astronauts prevent bone loss in outer space. the company that makes it is located in fremont. >>> well, it seems that google is burroing further into our personal lives every day. the internet giant is developing more detailed profiles of its users based on their searches. that information is not always accurate. elizabeth cook sh

talk about young people that are able to get pell grants and go to school. these are all wins that the obama administration made happen. i just don't hear them shouting it from the rooftops so those independent voters have something else to make a decision based upon. >> aside from being one of the more known commentators in the country. i know you to be a great youth organizer. let me show you this. in 2008, president obama in -- among voters 18 to 29 beat john mccain, 66% of that vote to 32%. will he be able to do those same precedent-setting numbers with the youth vote this time? and if not, how can he try to correct that? >> i think it's going to be challenging for those record-setting numbers to happen again just because people were so interested in making history. but i think that the system that this campaign has in place under mesina is poised to be able to engage them in a way above and beyond what happened in 2008. so i think the apparatus is in place. if they are able to get that message to those young people ithink they can energize them. but tha

everything else is speculation, standard stuff with pell launches. the speculation is, -- that apple intends to take a big bite out of 10 billion dollar textbook industry. the company is expected to announce new tools to make it easier to public interactive books and other educational content. software would allow publishers and authors to produce more digital books like textbooks and embed video graphics in them and schools can skip buying heavy, expensive text books. thousands of schools are already experimenting with pad pilot programs. at this point there is no evidence that the technology is helping students learn better. the teachers say the kids are more excited about schoolwork. 30 years ago steve jobs successfully lobbied if get apple computers in schools. according to his biographer jobs was frustrated with the lack of technology in schools now and very intent on moving forward with digital textbooks, when he died. the big announcement is 7:00 this morning. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >>> 4:36. occupy san francisco protesters and dozens of o

police say they fired high powered pell et guns at three paragliders. luckily no one with us hurt. the paragliderses say they are relieved. >> if you're flying a plg and somebody wants to shoot -- paragliders and somebody wants to shoot you, you're a sitting duck. >> prosecutors say just five months ago, am torey pleaded no contest to another pell et gun shooting >>> the san francisco man accused of several brutal rapes in the mission district is scheduled to be normally charge this had afternoon. 32-year-old frederick dozier is facing possible life in prison if he's convicted. prosecutors say he's responsible for at least three attacks along the 24th street corridor late last year. investigators say he's admitted into participating in the crimes and dna evidence connects him, according to reports, to the attacks >>> it is 7:56. we now know how many dogs a professional dog walker have can v-at one time in a africa park. the board of supervisors decided to limit the number of dogs to eight. dog walkers will be required to obtain a paid permit and receive training in park etiquette a

usual, in that transition zone where we get a small amount of the snow and sleet, sleet is a little ice pell lets. if you hear that ticking on your windshield, that's what is going on. as warmer air comes in aloft, it starts to melt that snow and sleet. it falls as liquid and if the ground is still below freezing, we're going to have it sticking to everything. tonight as you like at sentinel radar, something must be going on here. it's gathering moisture, but nothing is hitting the ground. air is extremely dry. when we scan our live radar, we aren't getting returns. a little later, i think we'll start to see that from southwest to northeast. here's what the setup is. it's an area of high pressure that is driving a will the of cold air down into our region at the surface and it gets blocked by the mountain. it stays there in a wedge or sort of a cold air damming effect. now we have moisture and high pressure coming up. it has moisture that comes into the cold air and then it freezes at the surface. it will start initially snow and sleet and then we see that change over tomorrow morning. so we

. >> if i i don't get into that class i'm not going to get my pell grant which means i'll have to pay for everything myself. i'm a single mom working a part- time job. i can't afford it. >> state lawmakers will discuss it this week and it could be implemented this fall. >>> pg&e has unveiled new technology that could prevent future pipeline disasters. the car-mound device will try to identify pipeline leaks by detecting natural gas in the ads. santa clara basedpy carrow has already installed the technology on two cars. they claim the new technology is more accurate and 1,000 times more sensitive than current devices on the market. pg&e is the first company in the world to use the specialized gear. >>> and we're now hearing 911 calls reporting that massive freeway pile-up in florida. you can actually hear a crash happen during the call. here it is. >> oh, my god! [ crash ] oh, [ bleep ]! oh, my god, what is going on! >> okay, we are getting help out there, okay? >> oh, my goodness. >> how many vehicles have been involved that you have seen so far? >> we cannot see, ma'am. we cannot see

watching our cash for college campaign which begins january 1st through march 2nd deadline, which is the pell grant deadline specifically students and families should be aware of. during this period of time we work specifically with seniors. our focus on the statewide level is with low income, first generation students. and to make sure that they understand the process for applying for the financial aid. whether it's state, federal aid, and scholarship awards as well throughout this period. >> it is intimidating to fill out those financial aid forms. sounds like they actually guide you through the process. do you have different seminars throughout the area? >> yes. we're growing each year. last year we were able to organize about 18 workshops throughout san jose with all of our high school and college higher ed partners here in the san jose area. this year we have about 25 workshops that we'll be offering from down south -- as far down south as san benido as far as san jose. >> we'll give you a website and a couple phone numbers for you to call in case you want to know where these workshops a

nationally occupy the dream is calling for a moratorium on foreclosures and an increase in funding for the pell grants and we've highlighted many times on the show the ways in which the financial crisis has hit the african community african-american community the hardest unemployment and african-american community in the united states is it fifteen point eight percent while white employment hovers about seven point five percent in comparison and those are just the official numbers not the u.s. not the u. six figures now according to the center for responsible lending african-american and latino borrowers are almost twice as likely to have been impacted by the crisis than whites but even with the force of which the financial crisis has hit the black community the occupy movement has admitted we had problems courting that so occupy the dream is hoping to change that throwing the weight of african-american churches behind a movement that they believe fights for the economic justice the martin luther king jr stood for when he was alive. or seeing a new round of government scrutiny and warnings surr

how dare we cut pell grants. how dare we take the poor students in our nation and say to them that they are going to be cut more than that. we give aig and other people low interest loans but our students still pay six and 7% on loans? but do you know what? it is okay. we don't say anything so my brother, you take that energy. i love your energy. take it to the streets. >> that we have been taking it to the streets and there have been protests. we live in a nation that seems to be manipulated by a mass media. >> i knew it was going to come back to the media. [laughter] thank you so much. unfortunately we are running out of time but once you lay blame on the mass media than we then we are all sacked. thank you. >> people are activated and people are protesting and that is why myself i have joined the freedom party. the freedom party has been involved in massive protest to change the way education is being destroyed. >> thank you so much. thank you very much. i appreciate your efforts. we are told that we are at th

also had its the eternal sunshine of the military mind as the pentagon approves a study for the pell designed to make soldiers forget the horrors of war we asked the question is ignorance really bliss. r t is the state run english speaking russian channel it's kind of like al-jazeera. russia today has an extremely confrontational stance when it comes to us. just lindsey lowe and. the preaching about these women that people are suggesting she's. you know she says she's a stock. let's talk now about a reality of our time that's most likely been a reality for decades if not centuries but it's one that's starting finally to not be ignored talking about post-traumatic stress disorder and robs it was simply because it couldn't be ignored any longer i'll give you some numbers twenty percent of the soldiers who have been deployed in the past six years have p.t.s.d. that is more than three hundred thousand people in two thousand and the number of diagnosed cases in the military jumped fifty percent as just diagnosed cases and the lifetime prevalence of p.t.s.d. in combat veterans is ten to th

. >> pell tela graph hill has a drop of about 200 feet. police describe him as a white male. >> law enforcement used a speciallylee equipped van to nab four men accused of possessing pornographic images of children as young as five years old. the mobile unit contains a lab that allows them to go to a suspect home and search computers and hard drives. the sweep began in two homes with arrests of the then. >> my investigators have gone online and actually found suspects trading child porn and down loaded child porn from them, giving us evidence we needed to search their home. >> investigators say people who trade child porn typically use programs to illegally down load music and movie autos east palo alto is considering a lawsuit if it doesn't like the direction of facebook's expansion plans. the social media company took over the over sun micro systems building and has plans to accommodate nearly 10,000 people. and why there is so much talk of going court over this. >> facebook lays the ground work, traffic comes up again and again, but not

i'm al pell. as winter returned in many parts of farm country the thought of getting back in the field seems distant on many operations, even so we have a lot to share with you including stops in colorado, tennessee and wisconsin. all that's ahead but first let's get started the headlines. >> reporter: thank you. and hello. it may be hard to believe for anyone at the store lately but food prices fell throughout 2011. the index from the united nations shows prices peaked in february of last year. although some retreated the whole year average was the highest in more than two decades. compare to a year prices right now are down about 11%. the top is because of lower commodity prices around the world combined slowing demand and a strong dollar. >>> bad news for the texas citrus industry. state agriculture officials say a case of citr us greening has been confirmed in the southern tip of the state. it's a disease that can devastate a crop. it's carried by a bug called citrus fillet. it's a 140 million

what mitt romney has been saying the past week, you believe he wants to get care of medicare entirely, pell grants and everything. what we do as a country to grow the economy and improve the middle class, to help those up, it's going to be at the center of the debate in those states that you just ticked off. >> i would want to push brother dave on this. if the journalists do their job, if issue of poor and working people can be at the center. they are continuely questioned. i appreciate the kind of work you do in allows for those voices to be heard. it's journalist who is are failing on the job of not asking these kind of questions to our politicians. >> dr. west -- be. >> i think -- >> we know republicans have plan top get the economy going. i want you to take a look at the graph showing tax change frs the 1%. mitt romney is a bleeding heart socialist compared to newt gingrich. you know he'sç a historian, no an economyists. perhaps he will revise that now that he is taking on the 1%. >> i wouldn't hold my breath. . it's not the candidates. it's the social forces behind them. it's the big

. >> they are important the conservative social issues particularly at pell law which is a conservative dutch town. when they are looking for candidates they are looking for votes. thub go they are going to be a good steward. we visited all ricks meats. they said the candidates had their best year in the past decade. they know people who were laid off. they feel their pain. chief butcher told me he knows what people are going to be looking for on tuesday. >> i think they are looking for somebody that is a good leader. someone willing to blaze a path. >> how all of this will play out in november. this is a crucial swing state. over the last couple of elections it has gone back and forth. >> just in some of the latest polling in the last 48-hours people are willing more than 40 percent to change their minds. you wonder what it would take to persuade their votes. good to see you tonight. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. eastern. coming up in a little bit an america's election head quarter special. a preview of tuesday's caulk tuss live from iowa with bret baier and megan kelly. don't

. >> tape and a skap pell, and he's able to create that kind of detail, that kind of shadowing, those kinds of facial features? that's amazing. >> it takes a genius to be able to pull something like this off. >> this isn't something he invented. he said that his friends work on cars, and he would see them laying stuff out on plexiglass and drawing these lines, because they design cars. he thought, wait a minute, i should try that with art. so he did. i think when you're really creative person, everything can be a canvas. >>> beth, i know you love to dance. and i know your favorite move is the call. >> that's how i dance at the club. >> you might need a lesson or two, judged by this. >> what are you saying? >> here's a free one. ♪ ♪ >> i can do this, steven. i taught this guy how to do that. >> you did? >> i did, yeah. i didn't ever hold the two wine bottles. >> so you are skilled in the dance that is part convulsions, part dub step and part "lord of the dance"? because i think that's what this video is. it definitely looks like he's having a medical problem. >> my favorite is the

trading is just getting underway on wall we are hearing of a big issue coming up for google and al pell. we'll have more with the -- report from the new york stock exchange. >>> hillary clinton opens up about her political future. what she is saying about her remaining time as part of the obama administration. >>> bizarre ending to a multi-million dollar lotto drawing. why officials say even though someone has come forward with a winning ticket that winner won't be getting a dime. >> reporter: president obama is in michigan talking about higher education. i'm katie marzullo live in the newsroom with how he plans to make good on a promise he made in that speech. úúúúúúúúúúú@@úúúú >>> check out the total sunshine across the state today low to mid 60s through the central valley, 53 eureka. 66 big sur. temperatures in the 40s to near 50 around tahoe this weekend. here the proper graphic, sorry about that. making snow at night yosemite in the 50s southern california sunshine near 80 in l.a. this weekend. >>> 6:43. this morning southern california based toyo tire recalling 69,0

. >> if i don't get into the class i'm not going to get my pell grant which means i have to pay for everything myself and i'm a single mom working a part-time job. i can't afford it. >> reporter: it could have been a lot worse. some new students can't even get into a community college. vice chancellor of educational programs at the l.a. community college district. >> this year alone in los angeles we denied 9,000 first- time students spots at community colleges in our district. >> reporter: devastating budget cuts are forcing community colleges to rethink who gets first pick of the everdwindling classes. >> we have to ration our classes. >> reporter: she is on a state task force that's coming up with recommendations that could turn the traditional admissions process upside-down. she says first priority should be given to students who have an educational plan, passing classes and have a clear goal they're working toward. that means career students who wander through various majors or lifetime learners who have already achieved college degrees may have to go to the back of the line. these recomm

there could be a sleet, pell let, or isolated snow flake out to our north and west and that's the only place we are finding light moisture at this hour. it's possible that spotty stuff could come through overnight and during the morning. as we look at this composite radar, which is multiple radars, it's raining and raining hard over d.c. i assure you, it's not. we are starting to see some moisture aloft. not getting down to the surface yet, but the air is getting moistened up and that will lead to some scattered and lighter showers tomorrow. this is the heavy stuff. we've had a number of reports of severe weather. in particular, this has been able to drop 3 to 6 inches of rain. especially across texas. notice how it is moving over the same area. so they are concerned in louisiana tonight about a lot of flooding. this rain is moving in our direction, but tomorrow we get the showery part of it. that will begin maybe as early as the morning. but it looks like the bulk of anything holds off until the evening and into friday and the first part of friday as a matter of fact. as we look at ou

. >> they are important the conservative social issues particularly at pell law which is a conservative dutch town. when they are looking for candidates they are looking for votes. thub go they are going to be a good steward. we visited all ricks meats. they said the candidates had their best year in the past decade. they know people who were laid off. they feel their pain. chief butcher told me he knows what people are going to be looking for on tuesday. >> i think they are looking for somebody that is a good leader. someone willing to blaze a path. >> how all of this will play out in november. this is a crucial swing state. over the last couple of elections it has gone back and forth. >> just in some of the latest polling in the last 48-hours people are willing more than 40 percent to change their minds. you wonder what it would take to persuade their votes. good to see you tonight. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. eastern. coming up in a little bit an america's election head quarter special. a preview of tuesday's caulk tuss live from iowa with bret baier and megan kelly. don't

they are demanding a new moratorium on foreclosures and more federal funding for pell grants which were cut in the recent budget those are to help kids in college. efforts led by prominent members of the african-american clergy. [ unintelligible ] >>> meantime, police say an occupy oakland anti-police march saturday night was largely peaceful. police had been concerned after several facebook posts called for protesters to set bonfires and vandalize police cars. police showed up en masse but say only two arrests were made. >>> talking about martin luther king day activities. today rain will hold off, but it will be windy and cold. >> that's right if you are taking part, jacket and layers are advised, right mike? >> especially if you are out early. good morning, 24 hour temperature change, everybody cooler than yesterday, except for san jose one degree warmer same with redwood city and novato four fairfield 19° cooler than this time yesterday hayward nine, half moon bay five oakland four san francisco seven livermore six concord two, two to three degrees cooler santa cruz and -- santa ro

the implications are pell grants. forget about it. >> also the taxes. the issue when you look at the posture of the president and his opponents, for somebody in my posture, i almost view it as my job to continue to bark at the heels along the issue of investment and unemployment, no one is going to do it. the question is are we seeing outside of the presidential palaces more of a narrative in this country that's going to bark at all the candidates? >> there's more of a narrative. if you read a piece by steve case, he's on the president's jobs council. the whole piece is about what you're talking about. the fact is that in the white house and in the democratic party, there was a lot of talk about this. the republican party is behind the times. they have only one tool in their tool box. tax cuts for the wealthy. that's it. if you look up and down, their growth agenda doesn't actually involve investing in the country other than tax cuts. >> the reason why we don't have the investment. taxes are a tool of an investment. they are right that's a good tool. >>

america, for the importance of supporting those policies that help middle class families, whether it's pell grants so kids can go to college, or whether it's supporting efforts that will help with job creation. >> one of the real successes in the obama administration was the support for the auto industry. we have over 20,000 jobs that are based on the auto industry. it's big industry here, a lot of jobs and a big industry around the country, we need to talk about those differences and one there's a republican nominee, i think that will happen. >> you brought up the division issue, you bring that up because you haven't -- he needs you to start doing it? >> i think when people really examine what the vision is of whoever the republican nominee is, versus the vision that president obama has for our future, they describe two very different americas. and americas where are you going to support policies that help the 1% at the top? or are you going to support the 99%. i think that's the difference. >> what do you say to the argument that democrats are playing class warfare. >> it's not class warf

is concerned about the poor because two-thirds of the cuts come from low-income programs, medicaid, pell grants, food stamps, low-income housing. that's $2.9 trillion in cuts from the people he is saying today he's concerned about. >> right. and he's been -- clearly his campaign has been aware of this vulnerability for a long time because he's been talking that way rhetorically for months now. trying to position himself preemptively as the champion of the middle class. you know, kind of putting it on the table. they're going to say i'm protecting the wealthy but i'm talking about all these middle class things. when you look at the actual proposals, everything you just mentioned there, i'm remembering a debate inç december when he mixed it up with newt gingrich over the capital gains tax. gingrich wanted to get rid of it and romney wanted to targ tet more for the middle class. the average save frgs the middle class would be minuscule. so you're not really talking about much. but there's this conscious innocence the part of his campaign that he has the image problem. and you better at le

liquid pell is offering a new coating for phones that's 1,000 times thinner than human hair. don't put it on your face after you pull it out of toilet. that's the other note here. 11 types of phones can be treated including the iphone. they offer the nanocoating for $59 and promises that that coating will out last your phone. >> i dropped mine in a lake and it didn't work. >> not water professor yet. >>> there is a man giving away his tickets not super bowl. the nashville man's ex- girlfriend drove him to do it. he was planning to go to the big game in indy on sunday. but then he was diagnosed with bladder cancer and she dumped him! she still wants to go to the game but she won't go on his tickets. no way. he is holding a contest on his twitter account to give away the tickets. >>> and the "l.a. times" reports costco is now selling packages that include super bowl tickets on its website. >> wow. >> hankering for indiana? >> and a giant thing of cheese puffs, go to costco. >> go home with some sear yoes and cheerios and super bowl tickets. >>> ferris bueller apparently is taki