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On our screen on the hidef Doppler Radar this morning. You have some yellows and oranges and even some reds out there and some muchneeded rain falling outside. In fact, almost an inch of rain now in some parts of the north bay. Almost half inch into San Francisco. And look at this. We have some significant rainfall now pouring in parts of the bay area and more to come. Most of the heavy rainfall will come through early this morning but you can see that into San Francisco now. Intense rainfall. That line of showers stronger towards san jose. The portola valley, along the coastline into Half Moo...

And south bay. Expecting that heavy rainfall to taper off as we head into the latter part of the morning. There is plenty of rain now in towards san jose. Some heavy downpours showing up there. Also in along the peninsula, half moon bay, san mateo, redwood city, as you make your way toward the east bay we are also seeing some strong storms developing there. With that in mind, be very, very careful outside this morning as we have some heavy downpours early on. Temperatures out the door mainly in the 40s this morning. I think as we head toward the afternoon, most of the rain will have ended just...

Closer to a deal to escape going over the fiscal cliff. Good to see you this morning. Welcome again to the program. And we welcome your calls at 186655press. In other big news, the Supreme Court has decided to hear two cases on Marriage Equality but why even bother to hold a hearing . Hey, theres no doubt about it. Under the constitution, it is wrong to discriminate against anybody for any reason. So, of course, gays and lesbians have every right under the constitution to marry each other. There is no doubt about it. Well talk more about that today and a whole lot of other issues but first, we...

An idea whose time has come looks at the political battles involved in passing the Civil Rights Act, 50 years ago this summer and regarded as one of the most significant legislative achievements of the moment. Todd burnham spent years at the white house as Diplomatic Correspondent Dan Los Angeles bureau chief, now National Editor of vanity fair. And david ship hells waking from the dream tracks the history of the Movement Since the death of dr. King. David chappell is professor of modern American History, taught in arkansas, russia and upstate new york. Washington d. C. And policy work, in add...

So she was very resentfull and said this is ridiculous and i have to pay them a fortune and it was outf of the money they were being paid. How did abigail handle the sons alcohol problem . She didnt talk about it. Two things you didnt talk about and one was alcoholism. Her brother died from alcoholism and when her son was ill all they said was he was a problem. It was clear he was dying. She dealt better than john. John said i will have nothing to do with him. But i found a wonderful letter from john to their youngest son after charles had died saying my loosing the presidency is nothing. I wo...