weekends i pay yao ming to go one on one against ming the merciless. ming on ming! and i'm never going to be lonely again because my house is filled with cousins i've never heard of who need money. of course they're family, i want them get back on their feet after their release. (laughter) and the drugs, oh, primo uruguayian electric pop rock. (laughter) of course, all those drugs make me paranoid that those friends who keep showing up don't really care about me, just about my squirrel pool. (laughter) so i'll start gambling, playing the ponies. and not just upcoming races but also past races. oh, god, i can't believe i lost $320 20-million on the 1982 belmont stakes! curse you, crystal sins! (laughter) now the money's drying up, people don't come around anymore. my wife and my kids don't recognize me because i paid cosmetic surgeons to make me look like an olson twin. (laughter) (cheers and applause) so my family walks out on me. but that's okay, i got that new girlfriend, cinnamon. and she loves me for me, money. (laughter) and she leaves me for ming the merciless

and how do you say, i love the yu ming school?! [ non-english language ] >> reporter: yu ming, which means nurturing the future, was the brainchild of nine parents that all wanted their kids to be bilingual. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: the children speak english only 10% of each day. the rest of their studies all chinese. >> it's amazing. you see these kids, you know, half of whom have no mandarin exposure at all and then by now it's only three months into school and they are already speaking mandarin, they are reading some perhaps, they are trying to write characters, it's really incredible. >> reporter: yu ming teachers k through second but plans to go through k through 8 over the next six years. there is a waiting list to get in to be settled with a spring lottery. some visiting parents were impressed. >> i think that it's great to know two languages. think we're at a disadvantage as americans who primarily only speak one language. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: this is one of yu ming's seven teachers. >> amazin

and how do you say i love the yu ming school? [ non-english language ] >> reporter: it means nurturing the future. it was the brainchild of nine parents that all wanted their kids to be bilingual. [ non-english language ] >> reporter: the children speak english only 10% of each day. the rest of their studies all chinese. >> it's amazing. you see these kids, you know, half of whom have no mandarin exposure and by now three months into school and they are already speaking mandarin, they are reading some perhaps, trying to write characters. it's incredible. >> reporter: yu ming features k- 2 but plans to go k-8 over the next six years. a waiting list will be settled with a spring lottery. some visiting parents were impressed. >> i think that it's great to know two languages. i think we're at a disadvantage as americans who primarily speak only one languages. >> reporter: this is one of the 7 teachers. >> amazing, yes. when they come, maybe they don't have mandarin background but now they can make up a story in mandarin like amazing

we have celebrity chef ming tsai. and he's with us in the kitchen today. thanks for joining us. >> nice to see you, man. >> any good party has to have good food. >> absolutely. and has to start with a good cocktail. >> any party i'm going to. >> exactly. this is pineapple syrup. pour a little bit into the champagne flutes. has a great little flavor. and you're just going to top that off. the idea with this book is to teach people how to cook because a lot of people don't know how to cook, right? >> this okay? >> that's perfect. >> in your kitchen, those that are really scared, call it cooking for dummies, right? you -- this book will walk you through it. this is in the book, using pineapple syrup. >> happy holidays. happy holidays. >> you show up to a party, you bring an eggplant caviar, roast an eggplant pureed and this is whole wheat pita chips. salt and curry powder toasted in the oven. you put it in the bowl to host, you're done. >> very simple, impressive. and when you put the word caviar -- >> yeah, they think you banked it. so please try that and if

the yu ming school is k through second grade but they are going to expand through 8th. it's a terrific place. it was this week's "cool school." captions by: caption colorado comments@captioncolorado.com ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> brooke: we have to promise each other, no matter how bad we feel or how tempted we are, katie cannot know that we kissed. >> bill: she's not gonna hear it from me. >> taylor: (sighs) >> brooke: we have to forget that it even happened. >> bill: that, i won't be able to do. >> katie: it's dangerous to leave me alone. >> taylor: (sighs) why is that? >> katie: since you've been gone, i've bought out a baby store. >> taylor: making up

melissa: thank you so much for ming on. we appciate it. >> it is always pleasure. melissa: up next you think phe fiscal cliffis giving you a headache? we'll tell you why taking the plunge is giving a lot of doctors full-on uers. > plus california's plan to be the green energy leader could take businesses an consumers out at the ees. a bipartisan report warns governor jerry browno step in. the head of it is here to explain wh i feel like h is not going to. we'll se "piles of money"oming up. jerry brown is not going to step in. ♪ . ♪ . messa: well it is definitely appropriate it say concerns overthe scal clififf have hit a fever pitch but believe it or not doctors could be facing the worst of it. they could be hit by a 29% in medicare reimbsements on january 1st. that is only part of the problem. another part how this turns aroundnd hits you and your wallet. joining me to dissect the impacts dr. marc sgel fr the fox new medical a-team. great to have you back on the show. >> good to be back with you. melissa: let's get right to it. i love the numbers. let's break

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we had our usually resolutions that we have been reviewing, ming lee providered a state update, which basically said we won't know anything until january what the governor update, federal budget update and the impact of sequestration was another piece that we spoke about. you know, still kind of up in the air. and then the budget development calendar for '13-14 he reviewed and some of the key areas that we'll need discussion on the timeline of the budget. we wanted to thank the board members in the "things that you want to talk about," during our budget process and we'll be incorporating those topics in our discussions. as you know, there is a lot of different things that are happening on a variety of different budgets that will impact us deeply over the next two years. so we want to continue to have these conversations earlier rather than later. so i just wanted to appreciate the staff that helped to support this committee, because there is a lot of moving parts. and so in the next coming months, we will be really focused on the changes particularly around prop 30, and some of the pr

cbs reporter curtis ming on the energy rebates that never should have been paid out. >> reporter: ron boat man installed solar panels. and last year he went one step further we are a small wind turbine. >> the rebates for the wind generator were really substantial. >> he expected to get more than 7600 in rebates from the california energy commission to offset the 24 grand he paid for his system. but after applying for the state rebate ron learned his wind turbine no longer qualifies. >> they dangled this big carrot out there in front of you. you go through the hoop to go green and everything else. and once you reach to the carrot they pulled it away now. >> they were asleep at the wheel. >> the rebate list never should have qualified. >> the turbines had not been well tested. >> the state paid californians more than 500,000 in rebates for turbines that didn't create as much energy as the manufacture claimed to the state. in some cases the state energy commission found it was seven and a halftimes greater than theoretically possible. >> they had a hummer that would get 150-miles to the

ming up ononday on "n.b.r." wll bmoniringhoseiscal cliff negotiations, and we'll have news and analysis. we'll also a look back at the year in stocks, and s&p's sam stovall joins us to pre-view what's next for the markets in the year ahead. it could be one of the biggest trends in business next year: companies setting aside time for their employees to play. ruben ramirez explains. >> reporter: it may be hard to remember those hot summer days on the playground. the freedom to let your mind wander. how times have changed. as companies slashed jobs during the great recession worker productivity surged, today, many people are doing the job multiple people once did. >> i think our culture has gone in some direction where we feel like if we took a break we'd be considered irrelevant in the workplace and they don't need me. >> reporter: cary umhau's firm spacious is trying to re- introduce the idea of play to the workplace. tech companies have embraced play for years. at google employees get one day a week to work on t

debris goes ming across the road. the plane slammed into the ground short of the runway. five crewmembers were killed. there were no passengers on board. >>> well, another deadly crash closer to home. a tour bus slid off of an icy interstate in oregon this morning killing nine people. it happened in the eastern part of the state near the city of pendelton. the bus crashed through a guardrail and went down an embankment a few hundred feet. rescue workers used ropes to reach survivors. >>> three people were killed when this home made plane crashed near san diego county. it went down inside of the sycamore canyon. it was headed from san diego to phoenix. the cause of the crash is under investigation. >>> well, as we get prepared to say good-bye to 2012 we are bidding a fond farewell to a parking perk in san francisco. why drivers will need a pocket full of change even on sundays. >> beginning next sunday, the free ride or should i say free parking is over. >> i don't see why they need to do it now. they are giving you monday and friday and saturdayed and now sunday -- saturd

right now chinese pop star who come to the bay area like ya ming. he cannot come to san francisco. he must go to oakland or san jose. i would like san francisco to have the same opportunity that the other cities do have the type of music and culturally that make the city so great. it is the best place we can celebrate the diversity of san francisco. please support this project. thank you. >> thank you. henry and after henry ja hol. >> evening commissioners. i am the president of the san francisco council district merchant associations. we have a golden opportunity to have the warriors move back to san francisco. for years the pier have been deteriorating and not able to rehabilitate them. i look forward to seeing the warriors return to san francisco. not only will the piers be belltated and we will have an awesome arena and not only be for playing basketball but also for the performing arts. there have been a lot of talk about the traffic and what effect it's going to have in the neighborhood. i can tell you a couple of things about people driving and so forth. i have a daughter wh

we had our usually resolutions that we have been reviewing, ming lee providered a state update, which basically said we won't know anything until january what the governor update, federal budget update and the impact of sequestration was another piece that we spoke about. you know, still kind of up in the air. and then the budget development calendar for '13-14 he reviewed and some of the key areas that we'll need discussion on the timeline of the budget.

we'll answer that question in a moment but first here is a profile of our distingui born women ming ton, delaware, 59 years of age, wife carol and three children. republican. roman catholic. gettysburg college ba. georgetown university, m.d. and georgetown university medical school, associate professor, ten years. george washington university, clinical professor of neurology, ten years. 14 books, including most recently mysteries of the mind. richard martin restak. >> dr. restak, you have had quite an extraordinary career. first of all, you taught at georgetown. >> yes. >> then you abandoned the jesuits or did they dump you? then you moved over to g.w. >> yes. >> do you still teach inta at georgetown? >> i'm in the faculty but spend most of my time at g.w. >> okay. i have that number, by the way, and england and wales, out of every millionth person born alive in 1880, only 223 could expect to be alive 100 years later. 1880. so that's 112 years from now. 110, about that. for those born in 1990, out of one million people, 8,710 can one million people, 8,710 can infants born in 2025 can ex

wang ming showed me in his museum. one of his prized possessions an old solar panel that jimmy carter put up in 1979. ronald reagan took them down for manlier forms of energy. that's a perfect demonstration that it's not engineering that we lack but political will. >> thank you for your leadership and example and hopefully all of us will heed that example. >> thank you gavin very much. >> as bill said the earth is loaded with plenty of good energy. we just need to change our behaviors. philanthropist wendy schmidt is trying to help us identify exactly what that means. plan

an increase of serious me ming cockell disease. >> gay men who have met men online they are requesting that those men receive vaccine in new york city. >> reporter: while there is no outbreak of meningitis in san francisco, public health officials want people to be aware because there's so much travel between the two cities. >> if gay men are planning to travel to new york over the next several weeks and think they may have partners from new york city, they should be aware of this and talk to their provides about potentially getting a vaccine before they travel. >> reporter: meningococcal disease is a severe bacterial infection spread by contact of secretions of someone from the nose or mouth with the disease, with kissing, sexual or intermatt contact, coughing on sneezing. intimate contact. it's recommended for middle and high school students and students in dorms. >> anybody at risk particularly homosexuals. >> reporter: travel agent knows how easy it is for infections to get around. >> frankly, i'm considering getting it myself even though i don't have any plans to go to new york. i

a one meter high tsunami hits the ming a sgi pre miyagi prefecture as a 7.3 earthquake strikes. job growth in the u.s. is expected to have slowed significantly in november. and bundesbank sharply lowers germany growth outlook for next year, down to a mere 0.4%. very good morning to you. slim gains yesterday for u.s. markets. right now we're called marginally higher. pretty flat opening actually. dow seven points below fair value. the nasdaq mini currently some four points below fair value and the s&p 500 also about 1.4 points below fair value, as well. so a cautious start. ftse yesterday up nine. right now flat. xetra dax currently just down four points, but it's at levels we haven't seen since january 15, 2008. and up nearly 28% this year. cac 40 up four point, ibex down half of 1%. despite sharply lower growth forecasts from both the ecb and the bundesbank again this morning. what it has done of course is help push down yields on bunds. you can see here this morning we're slightly higher on the session, but 1.30%. spanish yields a little bit higher, 5.54. berlusconi's party lo

. >> british people and guns are just -- they don't mings. they don't mix. the way they speak. >> i love pierce morgan. he introduced me to my co author. >> i guess that makes it okay. >> they are a huge inspiration. >> thank you, pierce. you are an inspiration. >> but that was wrong, clearly. there was not a fact mentioned there. the guy was trying to make a fact. >> you didn't take a sentence out of it. >> imogen, would you object now that you are in america to push britain into the sea. >> you already have. it is called a special relationship. >> did if you think england and guns don't mix, maybe you haven't met my friend, mr. james bond, and to a lesser extent, m. >> i have to roll because we are running out of time. i would be okay with pierce morgan if he renounced. he walks around with large men and guns. unlike anyone in the country he is protected. jay every journalist who is venting about guns is sitting in a building that is protected by armed guns. >> we are protected by guards right now. last word to you, sherrod. >> i bring my own guns. i don't

things have mings messed up for it. >> a new trip today in the magria this suggestion pepgss against the coaches and front office members most honorably sean peyton was uphill. the san francisco's giant fans have a lot to celebrate. they hosted the party they've been hupting for 12 years now during the hol days or the 250 kid or familys from local. >> ever like to see guys go but whatever they have to do is for the better of the team. i'm here as a san francisco giant as long as i wear that uniform i'm here to do what they ask. whether a pitcher is picked every six days or nights i have to be willing and ready. if they ask me to pitch whatever inning i'm ready to rock. >> giants basking in a little season glow and they should be. >> and he's read deto rock.

ming up, another example of waste, fraud and abuse. government airports, many of which spend the week practically empty, taxpayers footing the bill as usual and ex-consumer reports making a list and checking it twice just like somebody else we know. find out who they think is naughty and nice this year. excuse me, sir i'm gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just click away with our free mobile app. gerri: where's the rnmeasting ♪ ing i: where is the government wasting your hard-earneder doll? taxpayer dollars this time? coast airports. taxpay your taxpayer dollarsubsidi subsidizing world airports that ral ai have little to no traffic. my next guest says theseuest say airports

lou: ming it clear they wanted to keep it at the assistant secretary level. >> we also don't know why it was that the events in that situation on 9/11 have not been made clearn a very transparent way. only secretary clinton can talk about this and administration policy in the small footprint, which really was undercut by the folks on the ground. also, whatere the real decisions that she made and the president made in response to that attack. one final note. admiral mullen said that the system worked, but they couldn't get there in time. in fact, almost four hours, the ambassador was missing that evening, and they were looking at a potential hostage situation, and they did not at. lou: catherine herridge, thank you very much. chief intelligence correspondent for fox news. much more on what appears to be the benghazi whitewash coming up here next. >> president obama today made the fiscalliff negotiation personal. a not so nice. to paraphrase the president, it is all about him. is there hope for a deal, or should we brace for the fall? the "a-team" is net. the tragedy in newtown, coectic

wang ming showed me in his museum. one of his prized possessions an old solar panel that jimmy carter put up in 1979. ronald reagan took them down for manlier forms of energy. that's a perfect demonstration that it's not engineering that we lack but political will. >> thank you for your leadership and example, and hopefully all of us will heed that example. >> thank you gavin very much. >> as bill said the earth is loaded with plenty of good energy. we just need to change our behaviors. philanthropist wendy schmidt is trying to help us >> she gets the comedians laughing... >> that's hilarious! >> ...and the thinkers thinking. >> okay, so there's wiggle-room in the ten commandments is what you're telling me. >> she's joy behar. ... and current will let me say anything. >> only on current tv. larry. i was surprised to hear there was no life insurance. funerals are so expensive. i hope larry can afford it. i know. that's why i'm glad i got a policy through the colonial penn program. do you think they have coverage for me.

things have mings messed up for it. >> a new trip today in the magria this suggestion pepgss against the coaches and front office members most honorably sean peyton was uphill. the san francisco's giant fans have a lot to celebrate. they hosted the party they've been hupting for 12 years now during the hol days or the 250 kid or familys from local. >> ever like to see guys go but whatever they have to do is for the better of the team. i'm here as a san francisco giant as long as i wear that uniform i'm here to do what they ask. whether a pitcher is picked every six days or nights i have to be willing and ready. if they ask me to pitch whatever inning i'm ready to rock. >> giants basking in a little season glow and they should be. >> and he's read deto rock. >>> we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> the morning news begins at 4:30 they'll have the latest on that mall shooting outside a mall at portland and the gunman responsible. at bank of america, we're continuing to lend and invest in the people, businesses, and organizations that call the bay area home. whether it's helping

livermore pushing close to 2 and oakland got 2 inches of rain with more significant rain ming flash flood watch up through sunday evening. small streams may overflow the bank and here's a timing of the next storm. 9:00 p.m. it's north of santa rosa saturday night. at 11:00 p.m. it's still in the northern part of our viewing area as far as the heaviest part of the storm. heavy rain and wind coming through. 5:00 a.m. in the north bay sunday. it continues at 7:00 a.m. across the heart of the bay area. and really at 9:00 a.m. it's shifting south and east and we see sunny break sunday afternoon but when said and done rainfall total significant and more concerns to talk about. tell but those in a few minutes. >> sandy see you then. >> as expected the north bay saw the heaviest rain today. 7 news reporter laura has the story from petaluma. >> all the soil holding the water. >>reporter: leland says he has been down this road before. or at least his parking lot has. now submerge the in up to 2 and a half feet of water. >> the first place petaluma the only place that's left in petaluma. there's bee

ming up a leader who says the mayans are right. dooms day is likely and it is coming. he is reporting live from his bunker to tell us. and only us. >>> why i had a big beef with the big guy, santa. that's right, santa. now i know why this one is stressinme red. ♪ [ engine revs ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] the mercedes-benz winter event is back, with the perfect vehicle that's just right for you, no matter which list you're on. [ santa ] ho, ho, ho, ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 c250 for $349 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. >> leaders need a tax cut, middle tax cut. senate have anything against it they should pay fair share of tes. neil: you're not santa. you're not, because i know santa. santa is a friend of mine and my santa wouldn't use his position to sell a cheap political point but that's just what this crackpot cringe gel was doing in washington today. targeting republicans for blocking needed spending and i guess, just being cold, heartless souls. leaving aside reality where the real santa's paying for all the gifts that congress doles out. m

details on that breakthrough ming u next. >>> an urban success story. irving, texas, makes it rain while other cities are going broke the mayor is here to share what they are doing right. she also has some advice for the federal government. clearly they need it. i can't wait for this. "piles of money" and good sense coming up. ♪ . melissa: a now for multibillion-dollar bet on natural gas, the south african company is putting lot of money where their mouth , spending up to $14 billion to build the very first gas to liquids plant ever in the u.s. company execs believe nat-gas will be the dominant fuel source in the next 50 years. while oil becomes scarcer, more expensive. to break it down the publisher of energy magazine. rick, great to see you again. thanks for coming back to the show. >> thank you very much. melissa: what do you make of this? we heard a lot of about liquifying natural gas and even using that for transportation so what make this is difrent? >> well the difference is, this is a low-sulfur fuel. it is a lot cleaner. so it is, the product

it's not getting better, and again, we have the incompetence in washington ming things rse. tom: but the numbers, you look at the numbers and you see those numbers, they are inching up a little bit. we are getting a little bit of growth. we have a little better ventilation. we have a little bit of a decline in the unemployment rate. all these numbers are kind of scratching in the right direction. that is why people -- and they're so anxious for it, so hungry for it that they are upraising any tiny movement. why is it happening? >>ecau they are dumping the cheap money into the system. who would have believed we would have interest rates as zer. who. as i said. it. tom: and, bernanke says we are not looking at any change on that intel may be 2015. last year 2014. the year before -- he just he's pushing it down the road. >> exactly. you can't make this up. we would have never believed for words killed american in my estimation. they killed capitalism. too big to fail. that was the beginning. tom: moral hazard is gone. >> is gone. tom: and i'm worried about the fact that there i

the people who were standing there like let mings let le lemd watching in horror, why didn't the men show a little tes test t testosterone. >> sean: you hear stories of people crying out for help. >> you remember the last epidemiepisodeof sign felt whene stopped because they didn't intervene in a crime. i would have had these people locked up. some of you are saying you're a des potic dictator. no. when people stand around and do nothing and don't help a person in distress, you're your brother's keeper. you ought to be locked up. think about it for 72 hours while you have [bleep] sandwiches and unsweetened cool aid in a jail cell. >> sean: it would be 2:00 in the morning. i get on the subway, go home, and there he is patrolling. you had to do radio at 5 a.m. >> that would like pump me up. i mean, the adrenaline, and then the microphone, that was almost like their van i nirvana. >> sean: how big is the biggest rat you've seen in the subway? >> a good

syrian rebels are ming closer and closer to damascus. the airport outside of damascus remains to be closed. there are some flights going in and out of there. the international community is no longer flying in and out. we are hearing more and more records of fighting near damascus getting closer to the presidential palace. all this appears to be mounting pressure on the assad regime. anybody predicting the assad regime will fall anytime soon, it's a theory that has been floated for several years and it hasn't come to be. he has managed to hold on to power this long. but there are shifts in the ground movement in syria right now that are leading to conclusions that this war could be coming to an tend for president assad. megyn: the president has been briefed on the worst case scenario on what ground operation would be necessary. the pentagon estimates it will take 25,000 troops to seize syria's chemical weapons stockpile. just ahead, general jack keane will join us live to discuss the implications of sending u.s. missiles to the board and

join ming me today from america university and journalist mark steiner who is host of the mark steiner show on pbs, and founder of the center for emerging media, and also from huffpo live, an msnbc contributor and editor, and thegrio.com, and a woman who gave me a holiday and vacation, joy reid, and nice to have you all here. and thank you so much for coming back, joy. i wanted to start with you this morning, what are they holding out for? at this point, three days before we are are heading over the cliff? >> right. >> what are they holding out for? >> well, basically the republicans at this point in the negotiation want three things. they want cuts to entitlement programs because they want to turn around the democrats and say they cut the entitlements. and they want to cut food stamps and cut school lunch programs, and thirdly, they want to p protect the wealthiest estates from any changes of the estate tax because they will have to give something on the rates, and they want to push the threathold of the rate increase as high as they could and go back to the $400,000 that they were of

join ming me from washington is senator olympia snowe. are you hearing -- what might you be hearing between the president and spirit? >> i think it is optimistic in the sense that at least they have met once again because i think that that is going to be crucial and central to any resolution, to the fiscal cliff crisis. and the more they meet and more that they have these lines of communications opened on a daily basis and their staffs are meeting, the more likely we'll see a conclusion to this issue. but it is regrettable that it is this late in the day, given the uncertainty and the apprehension that it continues to create among the american people, and, of course, both within the markets here and abroad. but i think it is hopeful that they have begun to meet and have some discussions because i think we can breathe a sigh of relief that the lines of communication are open. >> are you breathing that sigh of relief? >> i am from the standpoint they're talking. it remains to be seen. but i can't imagine in the final analysis that they're n

leahy: it is ming that you are not going to -- it is my understanding that you are not going to seek action on it now, it is simply to file it? mr. coats: that is my intention. mr. leahy: thank you. mr. coats: the senator from vermont is correct. i don't intend to take any action on this now. i know there are events planned for tonight. we are in the middle of a mourning for our colleague as well. but i systemly wanted to explain for the record -- but i simply wanted to explain for the record what it is we're attempting to do here. all of us are sensitive to the pain and the damage incurred by those in the northeast due to the catastrophic -- clearly catastrophic record-proportion hurricane that hit that sector of our country just weeks ago. and clearly that is something that falls in the category of an emergency, it goes beyond the ability of state and local jurisdictions to address with their own resources. they will participate in the recovery -- and they have. it's remarkable in this country virtually no state, no senator can stand and sumly say, well, we haven't been touched and

i got to tell you, john, it made ming an ray couple of times when you came up and told me things about my district, that you were right. that i hadn't realized it. like, oh, jeez. got me again. i can't tell you how many times i've worked with him to try to improve transportation policy for my district, but in turn for the commonwealth. and in turn for the country. and i just wanted to come up tonight to thank both of you for your service on behalf of the general public. but also as a personal matter. both of you have been guiding lights for me. i have learned a lot from both of you. different approaches, similar philosophies, different personalities, different attitudes and i'm a little different than both of you on some things, but i'm alike on some things as well. i will tell you that as a life-long resident of massachusetts, i'm proud that you served us, i'm proud that i had the opportunity to work with you, before congress, in congress, and i will tell that you i'm proud to call you both a colleague and a friend. thank you very much. mr. markey: i thank the gentleman for his commen

i'm tracking where the storm is ming next. >> clayton: gun debate taking a nasty turn. a newspaper published the names and addresses of gun owners for all to see. is it fair or legal? "fox & friends" hour three starts right now. >> gretchen: good morning, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson joined by clayton morris and rick reichmuth from the weekend "fox & friends" team today. glad to have both of you here today. >> clayton: nice to be here. we hope you had a wonderful christmas and maybe you're out shopping this morning and you're dealing with getting out in the weather. is it going to be bad, rick? >> rick: it is. the eastern part of the country and western part, there is new storm out west again. it seems to be the coasts that are really getting it. although yet across parts of the southern plains. it's a rough day. it's been rough. maybe another three days that we'll be dealing with storms, unfortunately. >> clayton: more on that in just a moment. >> gretchen: let's say aloha and mahalo, hello again, washington. a change of plans for president obama. he's cutting his va

you were tell ming me about some before we began. two people that live the life of christ every day, they happen to be brothers and benedictine monks, father peter conley and be a dot glare conley who runs the abbott in still river, massachusetts. they are christians. they work every day for christ. they work every day to help the disadvantaged. the poor, the depressed, the people that need the love and grace of jesus christ. so they prove to be christmas heros each and every day. i know you have a christmas hero as well. >> rick: it's interesting hearing you say that. mine is another priest, father wassen. when i was in my 20s, i spent a year volunteer not guilty an orphanage in mexico. what people could think was a very sad and somber place, i remember always on christmas that christmas eve spent there with 7 to 800 kids in an incredible celebration and peace. the fact that this one man who started this orphan age with 16 kids turned that and gives so much comfort to kids around the world. i always think about that on christmas. >>

drovely to will ming. here are your temps waking up. looking good. above average. cool across the northern plains. gte ready because it's abouting to gold tomorrow. very cold air starts to prove in. see some ask the terror attack shower was from time to time. nice break for a lot of people. well above your average. many scattered shares making it buy naacp towards l.s.u. ends mississippi. the snow you see across the dakotas will be moving in tonight and tomorrow. you will be waking up to snowy conditions tomorrow. by the time it's done tomorrow. some spots are going to see 6 to 12 inches of snow across mostly minnesota. blizzard like conditions are very windy across the dakotas with 3 to 6 inches of snow accumulating and that's 45 you see there in scottsbluff. tomorrow your highs are going to be into the maybe the upper teens. much colder air moving in. out across the west. see plenty of sunshine in the southwest. temps a little bit cooler. phoenix at 74 and snow across the central rockies so great news for those ski areas and ainsley you might say you don't want s

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. >> i am referring -- refraining ming a bit. >> in the public good model, the government funded most of it. the individuals should fund it. having worked at the flagship public, 73% of the operating budget came from the state. this past year it was 7%. we have to find other ways to generate revenue. we can argue that what level. >> that has available effect on students by lowering enrollment. >> i would throw out another model. setting loan minute -- loan limits based on the earning potential makes sense. i agree with what he is saying, but a lot of students change their minds. you could be pre-med then decide to be a journalism major in your second. i started in engineering. i think there has to be some method by which we are limiting loans, but this is not a novel idea. if i were king, which i am not, i would put all of the grant programs and loan programs in one place. it would be in come based repayment. there are all kinds of problems that would need to be worked out. i happened to be in london when they did this model. students were amazingly concerned about the potential outco

accept the spirit in which the gentleman suggests that we should have more discussions to get the ball ming forward. just the white house doesn't seem to be willing to do so. instead we see the president going on a television interview saying he's primarily rejecting our position instead of really trying to get to the specifics of the problem which is reducing wasteful spending. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. i want to say two things. i want to clarify that $800 billion clearly is in your proposal. when i said the presiden agrees with that $800 billion, he agrees to get to at least $800 billion. he wants more. i agree with president we need more. when the gentleman says the problem is wasteful spending, i disagree with the gentleman very substantially on that the problem is not wasteful spending. the problem is spending. whetr it's not wasteful or not, if it's good spending, we feed to pay for it. now where the gentleman and i -- we agreed to pay for it. now where the gentleman and i disagree, when they saidhey'd reduce spending by $2 trillion therks didn't reduce spending