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Folks who have an oepiate disorder, they will often tell you and you will see they started with early tobacco, early alcohol and early marijuana use. But mr. Botticelli, thats a logical fallacy, thats true but that begs the question that millions of americans, 4 50 million, have used marijuana and didnt go on to other drugs. We have to desegregate the addictive personality from the recreational occasional user. I mean nothing norm tif by this. I said in my opening statement, im a child of the 60...

Trying to boost Union Membership . Its the latter. Its about trying to boost Union Membership. Look, right after world war ii, we had 5 Million Union workers on strike. It crippled our countrys economy. Along came an act which lowered the power of the unions. It led to one of the biggest economic booms our country has seen. Since then, youve seen about 40 Union Membership in private enterprise go down in the hh single digits. Thats almost exactly whats happing, opposite, whats happeng public uni...

Rage or is it really about trying to boost Union Membership . Its the latter. Its about trying to boost Union Membership. Look, right after world war ii, we had 5 Million Union workers on strike. It crippled our countrys economy. Along came an act which lowered the power of the unions. It led to one of the biggest economic booms our country has seen. Since then, youve seen about 40 Union Membership in private enterprise go down in the high single digits. Thats almost exactly whats happeng, oppos...

Him to curtail the nsa surveillance activities. Greenwald after glenn alleges in his new book that the nsa is hacking into networking equipment or overseas customers. He writes if the allegations are true, it will undermine confidence in the industry. We last him about this when he joins us for a live interview this wednesday. The new decision requiring Search Engines to remove certain links is already having an impact. An increased number of inquiries from citizens asking how to get information...

Low 40s and the mid60s by noon and low 70s by 4 00 while you are trickortreating around 63 degrees and at the coast the day planner is 43 degrees with spots in the upper 30s. Clear and lowtomid 30s with the coolest spot trickortreating and 56. Bart trains are rolling but we have a sigalert in petaluma at highway 116. We did have an early accident this morning knocking down a pg e pole with highway 115 shut down. Traffic is diverted off at stage gulch. It looks like it will be there for quite som...

Staying warm, were going to see things cooling down later on next week. Well talk about the seven day forecast in a few minutes. Developing overnight a car loses control and slams into two homes in antioch. Witnesses say the car was speeding when it crashed into the corner of the first house. Check out the damage there. A part of the wall is no longer there. The car then flipped, struck the second home and landed upside down on its front yard. The woman inside that home slept through the entire ...

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] in a few minutes we will be taking out to be woods in virginia, about 150 years to the civil war and the confederate soldiers. Civil war reenactors are out there, bringing to life the winter of 1864. Well also hear from the director of archaeology at James Madison montpelier. We will be looking for your call and tweets. You can join the conversation at twitter ata cspanhistory. Tonigh...

They react differently. The signature suspension span here with the to you yir, the model survived speeds up to 150 miles per hour. Real thing here is expected to move only a maximum of six inches in any given direction. Skyway expected only to vibrate and then, beyond that, the oakland touched down is so low to the ground. Theyre not worried about wind,. High water is a problem at eastern end of the bridge with a possible deal youth expected tonight, contractors are getting ready. Theyre expect...

Encouraging boat owners to check on mooring lines. The changing weather brought jim erskin down to the docks, leaves falling, and jeff brooks says these storms from hawaii mean its a good time to clean out the gutter autos pineapple express. Ive learned in the pacht. You dont want to consider them lightly. Out in front of the face is one of 15 crews hired to cut branch as way from power lines. Pg e is expecting this storm to cause outages. The utility is stockpiling trance formers in their yards...

Well, im delighted by my honorable friend managed to slip the point in at the end. I wont urge any i will friends to make their way to support the reelection and the campaign. But the point, the point that he makes is very important, which is we need to look through every aspect of how we welcome people to our country, and make sure why we must to be fair, we must not be a soft touch. So i am making sure we look at our health service, we look at housing, we look at benefits. With that illegally,...