than half a million hits on youtube. charlie sheen back on the small screen. the military s don t ask don t tell policy s been repeal ed, so why is a sailor facing discharge? hot on the web today and you ve got a baby in a bin. a flight attendant stuck a 17 month old in the overhead bin and got fired for it. you think? the attendant joined in a game of peek a boo and took it to extremes. the bibby unlatched the bib. the airline s now offering the mom three free flights. lady gaga has a beef with breast milk ice cream. she s not happy the london shop selling the streets is calling it baby gaga. she is threatening legal action. the shop owner shoots back, this
over her financial situation barges into the lobby, pulls out a gun, puts it to her head. the station s general manager says the gun wasn t loaded thankfully, the station went off the air for about an hour and the building was evacuated and locked down. scary situation, but luckily no one was taken hostage or injured. jon: president obama ends the military s don t ask don t tell policy with a stroke of his pen this morning. it raises an interesting question: can rotc programs now return to some of the liberal campuses where they had long been banned? some ivy league and other universities have locked rotc programs from their campuses since the vietnam war, even though that war ended decades ago, the ban continued among many of those schools and they used don t ask don t tell as the reason why. so does the repeal of that measure mean that rotc could return to some of those elite schools? joining us now, editor of the weekly standard, bill
give me a high five for that. that s a great name. and alex, on that repeal, the military s don t ask don t tell policy, it s been 17 years that the supporters of the repeal have waited for this day. if it doesn t pass the senate today and mind you, it is expected to it would be a still longer wait, months if perhaps not years because of the new balance of power in congress starting january. alex. we know the president will certainly head to hawaii to join his family before then, but i guess it remains to be seen what day he can take off. okay. the city of bell, california, is on the brink of going broke. eight city officials were charged with misappropriating millions of dollars collecting as much as $1.5 million in salary for part-time positions. now the l.a. times reports that the city may drastically need to close its services, including closing its police department and partnering with the l.a. county sheriff. in southern california, residents of an apartment
hello to you. i m veronica de la cruz. the house has voted to repeal the military s don t ask don t tell policy. the debate now shifts to the senate where democrats are trying to squeeze in a vote before the new year. meanwhile, nuclear arms treaty with russia survived a senate test vote with strong support winning the backing of eight republicans. a federal grand jury has indicted faruk abdul abdulmutallab on additional charges related to his attempt to blow up an airliner last christmas. and was sentenced to life in priso prison. at least five deaths are being blamed on icy roads as frigid temperatures grip the southeastern states. and new york jets perhaps suspended coach indefinitely after was discovered that he ordered players to form a wall along the sidelines allowing him
backyard forum, meeting with about three dozen people at this northeast seattle home, just this morning. they is in the backyard. the president spoke about the challenges women face specifically in this recession and took some questions about his small business loans and health care overhaul. next it was illegal under court order for just about a week, now the military s don t ask don t tell policy is back in place. a three-judge panel in the 9th circuit court of appeals in san francisco gave the obama administration the delay it wanted. this blocks temporarily last week s ruling that stopped the enforcement of don t askon t tell. the reason, the white house says it does want to repeal the policy in congress not in the courts. next, first time unemployment claims fell last week, hovering around 450,000, about 23,000 less than the previous week. but jobless claims have remained in this range pretty much since last november.