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Schools closed live on the ground with the very latest power lunch starts right now thanks, mel. Welcome back im Brian Sullivan dow hitting session highs up 110 points s p 500 trying to make a fourday losing streak, industrials, energy and tech leading Consumer Staples and utilities lagging. Individual companies to watch include lululemon. Shares soaring beating estimates, boosting outlook. Dollar general a nice bump topping expectations and check this ut. Ge up 2 unfortunately, because the stru...

This last friday, authorities arrested everitt jameson. He had chosen pier 39 to the fbi and department of Homeland Security have no indication to indicate a specific credible threat associated with the San Francisco new years eve fireworks show. Reporter the department of Emergency Management has created that text alert number. Abc7 news. Thanks very much. A longstanding tribute to fallen officers took place today for a chp rookie who died when a driver slammed into list cruiser in hay ward. Th...

Individual donors, and thats dramatically down. Nonprofits wonder if people dont have more to give after donate to go Natural Disaster like hurricanes, and the fires in california. We also dont know if the new tax law is causing people to pause and rethink their strategies at the end of the year. Reporter its possible the new tax law is prompting people to prepay their property taxes, due in april, and now theyre cashstrapped. In 2018, the standard deduction married couples filing jointly can ta...

Drop in donations. It could get worse in the new year. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im dion lim. Im dan ashley. The big change for 2018, the tax reform law, will take effect. It doubles the standard deduction, which means less incentive to itemize your taxes. That could lead to fewer people donating. Already the Second Harvest food bank is in danger of not reaching its goal for next year. Reporter a free meal means so much to those struggling to survive in the bay area. The ceo of Sec...

Upper 50s by noontime. Low 60s 4 00. Mostly sunny skies. Sue, anything going on . We do have road closures due to road work. Lets take a quick check at the bay bridge toll plaza. Just a couple cars stacked up paying cash on the right and left cash lanes. Otherwise were looking good as we get started on this thursday morning. Holiday light well call it with freeway closure due to road work on highway 13 between highway 24 and broadway terrace. Right now just a little bit of slow traffic as you me...

What happens if regular investors actually begin to buy individual stocks again . Its something we need to consider as the averages hit still one more alltime high records. Down gaining 66 points, s p advancing. 45 , nasdaq climbing. 64 . Another ton of statistics showing an almost inexorible decline in the interest in the stock market as a whole. There are entire outfits that exist to scare you out of picking stocks, telling you that its a fools game because of the dreaded singlestock risk. The...

Is this ok . Francine its fancy. Its perfect. Tom we have eight things to talk about at the start of the show. You mentioned the e. U. In your opening. Were oblivious to this. This turkey my deprant discussion, im sorry, for all of europe, its the only topic this weekend. Francine it is, because it goes really to the heart of what europe is. As soon as that gets into question, the eurozone can close. Tom well, there we go. We got so much to talk about today, jobs take. Francine lets get to the b...

Do you still write your songs down with paper and pencil . Yes, i do. I have always carried a little recording device of some sort. They used to be pretty big, but now they are quite small, and i always carry a pen and paper, and i am ready if something occurs to me. You mentioned merle travis. What other musicians . Ry cooder is my favorite guitar player, but there are many others to choose from. There was an album that was a formative for me. Paradise and lunch. There was a guy coming up calle...

Political analyst juan williams. Washington juren live every day at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. The senate runches for legislative business on thursday and the house has a proform asession scheduled that day. The first would extend provisions of the fisa act. The other is a pack abbling for areas affected by hurricane sandy. You can follow live coverage of the senate on cspan2. And house members are on stand by as negotiations continue over the socalled fiscal cliff. Now a conversation on holly...

But that has always been part of the bargaining. You get these urban lawmakers to vote for the farm bill in part because of all the benefits that come to their poorer constituents. This really would be no way to get a farm bill done at all if you did not have these lawmakers from more populated more densely Populated Areas on board because of the food stamps. As we close out here, it is worth observing what senator stabenow said. Farm policy is not arcane. Thank you for being here this week to a...