Is no ordinary clock. People from all over the bay area are encouraged to send in a photo of themselves, holding a number, and that is made into a downtown clock, and if you look yes, that is our very own vern glenn holding up our favorite mum number. This is up on sf bay super bowl website. On tuesday, its San Francisco, wednesday, san jose, friday oakland. Prizes are worth thousands of dollars, and they include Gift Certificates, gift cards, museum passes, winery tastings and so on. Now we are launching a celebration, if you will, to officially kick off the count down to super bowl l. So well be launching another fun and creative initiatives this beak to get the region excited about super bowl l. And the committee likes to say they are redefining the super bowl. One way is with the socalled 50 fund that, means 25 of all money raised with this super bowl will go to local charities. So, yes, let the hype begin. They say this will be the biggest super bowl ever. Were live in santa clara
Morning, welcome, everybody, our starting point this morning, israel mobilizing thousands of troops for a possible fullscale ground war with hamas. Violence in the region intensifying overnight. The Palestinian Militants launched hundreds of rockets into israeli territory. Air raid sirens sounding in tel aviv. Thats the very first time thats happened since the gulf war. Israelis responded by pounding hundreds of terror sites as they call them in gaza with artillery fire. Ben wedeman reporting live now from jerusalem. We know, ben, that the israelis have called up 16,000 reservists. What exactly are they going to be doing . Well, what theyll be doing is heading down into the area around gaza. Very similar to what we saw in 2008, 2009, when they had a similar outbreak of violence between the two sides. We also know that theres a lot of heavy armor, lots of tanks being transported to the area around gaza, as well, for a possible ground incursion. But what we saw back in 20082009, was that
Come in this building. Today we know all the shots fired at the scene were from officers in pursuit of the suspect. The Capitol Police officers injured in this incident will recover. While all of this was happening, Miriam Careys 1yearold little girl was in the back of that speeding car. Nbc news justice correspondent Pete Williams has been following this story from the very beginning and joins me now. Pete, what more do we know about the background of miriam carey, what her family might be saying about the possible motivation for why she had come to d. C. . Reporter well, in terms of her background, she was a dental hygienist who had been recently fired from her job in stamford, connecticut. She did have this child just over one year old. And what her what police tell us is that her relatives and family members have told them that she had a real tough time with the pregnancy and suffered from postpartum depression and that just recently she had begun to become delusional, that she had
Roger al jazeera reporters. We will go to egypt to speak with democracy now s Sharif Abdel Kouddous as well as the treaty to protect journalists. Two thirds of the journalists killed this year were in the middle east. The deadliest country is syria. Then on the last day of 2013, we will look at 10 hopeful things that happened in 2013 to get you inspired for whats to come. We will speak with sarah van gelder, editor in chief of yes magazine. Then we will go to germany. Among them spoke was Julian Assange. Therell be no person and has not been exposed to this ideology of transparency in keepstanding of what is to the internet free. This is the last regeneration. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is capping off its worst year of violence since the height of u. S. Occupation. According to the United Nations, civilians and 950 Security Forces have been killed this year, the highest annual total since 200
Roger al jazeera reporters. We will go to egypt to speak with democracy now s Sharif Abdel Kouddous as well as the treaty to protect journalists. Two thirds of the journalists killed this year were in the middle east. The deadliest country is syria. Then on the last day of 2013, we will look at 10 hopeful things that happened in 2013 to get you inspired for whats to come. We will speak with sarah van gelder, editor in chief of yes magazine. Then we will go to germany. Among them spoke was Julian Assange. Therell be no person and has not been exposed to this ideology of transparency in keepstanding of what is to the internet free. This is the last regeneration. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Iraq is capping off its worst year of violence since the height of u. S. Occupation. According to the United Nations, civilians and 950 Security Forces have been killed this year, the highest annual total since 200