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Too bad today. Oakland, berkeley, all dealing with some drizzle. Were in the upper 50s right now, the marine layer a little deeper this morning. Were seeing extensive cloud cover and thats going to carry us until the afternoon. Were talking about temperatures near or below seasonal, so by 3 00 this afternoon, were talking about a mix of sun and clouds. Low 70s inside the bay and mid80s for the inland spots. Still looking for the possibility of a few sprinkles early next week. Im going to track t...

The committee on Homeland Security will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in recess at any point. Good morning. Free and Fair Elections are the bedrock of our democracy. As we learned just over 18 months ago, democracy is not something we can take for granted. We must defend it fiercely and protect the institutions that uphold it. So i commend chairman thompson a for allowing this hearing. When i was first eligible to vote in two 1006 election offic...

Welcome to teen kids news. Im mwanzaa. And im livia. Heres this weeks top story. Their slogan is do a good turn daily, and theyve been doing that for more than 100 years. Lauren reports that girl scouts are celebrating the beginning of a new century of girl power. When you think of girl scouts, what do you think of . Cookies. Cookies. Thin mints. I think of, like, little girls and i think of cookies. Well, how about robots . Or writing letters of appreciation to those serving in our military . O...

Good morning welcome to the weekend and welcome to Sharyl Attkisson filling in for rebecca. Great to see you. Thanks. Were very excited to have some special guests this morning in our studio, members of a championship Junior High Chess Team whose story is told in a new documentary called brooklyn castle. Lets get to your open story. The death of actor larry hagman. His most famous role was that of j. R. Ewing. It was one of the most successful in history. Manuel bojorquez is at the South Fork Ra...

Of books in any big library, and you got a lot of competition. The first thing you want to do, if youre an author, is to at least have somebody pick up the book. And so when i was thinking of a title issue thousand what i can title this book that would get somebody to take a peek, read the first paragraph. And i thought, well, nigger. Nigger is a strange career of a trouble selfword. And i thought that would just think hard about words, think hard about examples, get the readers attention. Thats...

Almost nine years later she has a book and im still on the show. 100 chicken recipes with 50 vegetarian and you know i said i have to and what ive learned is chicken is the most fertile versatile ingredient you can use in the kitchen. You can do anything to it. You can bake it, rustic, barbecue it, just amazing. Lorraine wallace are these are recipes . All of my recipes and they been tried and tested and its what i love to do. I am the tester. I have not cooked any of them but i had eaten everyo...

The ability to resuscitator rehabilitate i always give the president the benefit of the doubt. The president deserves his team. General David Petraeus is a good choice. Got remember something about the army or the service. The Foreign Service like many of you, the war is not general David Petraeuss war, it is the president s war and the military, all the people who work in the government follow the policy of the elected civilian government. They can give their opinions and they need to end milit...

Thank you so much for that introduction. It is wonderful to be here at such a Great American institution at the rotary club, and speaking about a Great American tradition. President ial Inauguration Day, and doing so here at a Great American then you. So lets begin. Its dawn on Inauguration Day in washington, d. C. To be a huge amount of people gather on the washington mall. In 2009 was all the way from the capitol all the way to the Lincoln Memorial. We just lost our picture. There we go. And t...

I didnt know what to do about it. All of us in this country are starting to see people coming out and talking about the experience of this phenomenon that so many of us have experienced in one way or another and had i have no words for it, other than adolescence. Other than going out. Finally, people were starting to stand back and say that this is not actually a normal part of growing up. This is not a normal rite of passage. I think there was a moment where there is a possibility for change. T...

The producer of the wildly acclaimed and really important new documentary, bully. And the coeditor of the book by the same title. Both of which about our nations dirty little secret about bullying in schools across america. Both of the movie and the book put a human face face on what its about, what impact skids on both sides and on the sidelines and their families. So, thank you so much, cynthia, for being here today. Why dont we start with you telling us a little bit about yourself. How did yo...