The obamas are spending christmas in hawaii. We will begin on the issue of the u. S. Allegation to the sochi Olympic Games and get your comments. It is sunday morning, december 22. Welcome to washington journal. Our phone lines are open. The numbers are on your screen. Host this is the question. Using the olympics to address social issues. You can also send us a tweet. Here is how we posted it on our twitter page should the president use the olympics to address social issues . Here is the story on the sunday morning from usa today. The headline is that the president has made a decision by naming a veil of the delegation and sent a message to russia. They are delivering a strong message of opposition. The delegation will include an openly gay athlete, billy jean king. It will not include the president , first lady, or Vice President. They have all headed previous delegations. Time sincethe first 2000 that a president has not been a member of the delegation. Ins is slated for february so
Tech trouble. Weve seen attacks recently, some bad blood between some of the citizenry and the workers in the bay area. Were going to talk a little bit jerry brown also. Theres been a lot of talk about jerry brown, possibly another run for president. I cant believe it. You can. Well hear from our political insiders, coming up in a few minutes. Lets take a check on our Weather Forecast first this morning. A live look at San Francisco. The beautiful bay bridge. A little bit of patchy fog, but overall, pretty clear around the bay and inland as well. Temperatures right now in the upper 30s to the mid40s. Were going to see things warming up throughout the day, once that fog burns up. Its going to be very similar to what we saw yesterday weatherwise. Continued mild temperatures, dry through christmas and beyond. First, heres brian with the news headlines. More fallout from the card hacking that hit target stores. Jpmorgan chase is limiting the use of debit cards for customers. Debit withdraw
Agree with what the businessowners are saying. Nbc bay areas Damian Trujillo joins us. How serious are the threats to leave downtown from the businessowners . Reporter things seem to be turning around. Now, the good news is the efforts of these merchants, the city and police, are actually working. Things are turning around. While some crime still exists, these merchants say its not the same as it was six months ago. There was a time not long ago when downtown san jose almost lost this as part of its landscape. What was happening outside the App Developers headquarters on south 2nd street had them thinking about making a change. There were some dangerous crimes. There was a gang almost that was involved. Reporter in fact, because of the violence, pingers ceo threatened to pull his business and his 60 employees out of the downtown area. We thought about not renewing the lease. I think a lot of people said, do we want to be here . And if its not going to change, then i dont think we can r
Accident. But legal expert steven clark says a court could still hold uber responsible. Ubers entire Business Model is set up to try to avoid liability in situations just like this. So what theyre going to do here is the court is going to have to decide whether this Business Model shields uber cab from liability, but just calling your drivers independent contractors isnt going to be enough. Reporter meantime, the executive director of walk sf sa the bigger responsibility lies instead with city leaders to build safer streets. This particular intersection here at polk and ellis should be receiving improvements, and it will take city leadership to prioritize these sorts of projects like this one here at polk and ellis that could have prevented a needless death. Reporter this intersection is on your list of problem intersections . Oh, yes, polk street and ellis street are highinjury corridors. And if we fix our citys highinjury corridors, those are 60 of where the traffic collisions with p
If you had president obamas cell phone number, what would you do . I would actually thank him. Surfed every day and partied every night and just on repeat. Now, 16 years after winning olympic gold, hes grown up. Whats a Big Party Night for you guys now . Yeah, exactly. Its amazing how the definition of a Party Changes as you get married and have kids. Here is raj mathai. We have the opportunity to go behind the scenes with some of the most dynamic people in the country. Bonds, boitano and michael bower. With bonds, theres no such thing as orange and black, instead, gray. The exclusive interview with the giants legend. Awesome. I feel like, alive. Alive and well for perhaps the first time in his adult life. A man who thrilled the country for so many years is also the man whos still villainized by so many. Looking back on it now and all the negative stuff that happened, do you feel like you were unfairly target the in all this . A little bit, yeah. Sure. I mean definitely. It doesnt take