Playing out across the front pages today. We should note that defense secretary chuck hagel was also with Martin Dempsey at the briefing at the white house and he was asked what kind of threat isis poses to the United States and heres what he said. Isil is as sophisticated and wellfunded as any group that we have seen. They are beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology and the sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously wellfunded. This is beyond anything that we have seen, so we must prepare for everything. The only way you do that is you take a cold steal your heart look at it. Host defense secretary chuck hagel not the only one talking about the isis threat yesterday. Here in washington, d. C. At the Heritage Foundation just off of capitol hill Texas Governor rick perry addressed the threat of isis as well and called on the u. S. To expand its military operations against joh isis and heres what he said. President obama is going to hear w
Areas with marin, san leandro and daly city. Some pretty decent amounts in marin and that is where we could have the highest totals when this is all over. You can see it is a spotty but action just traces and in san jose from this system but the weather about onethird of 1 in. And higher towards marin county. Notice towards the north bay near windsor, there is that yellow showing moderate rainfall but for the most part it is right on its side. The batch of heavy rain fall with sausalito, richmond and alameda. As i mentioned, a it has been pretty dry in the south bay. The Santa Cruz Mountains but not as much for the santa clara valley. This system for tonight and another weather system for tomorrow. We could receive at least 1 in. With higher near the rain Sonoma County and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Timing it out, coming up. The rainfall in the bay area means snowfall in the mountains this is video from squaw valley ski resort opened six days earlier than usual. Hundreds of people took
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Car, your taxes, the whole thing. The next big headline for market baby jobs friday. Where is the job creation coming from in this economy. Ad space is just about gone, apparently, for this years super bowl. You will not believe some of the money that companies are throwing around this year. Welcome, everybody. We have to start with the markets. At the top of the hour, we go to the New York Stock Exchange. Nicole we are seeing the markets with thing this morning. We have seen all the major averages over a 2 gain. A stellar day on wall street with the Dow Jones Industrials of 245 points. I just checked a moment ago. All 30 name remained in the green. Hewlettpackard really got beat up last year. It is a top performer today. Bank of america out which was up over 100 last year moved to a 52 week high. Gains across the board. Connell thank you. We will talk about the fiscal cliff deal in a few minutes. What does it really mean for you. What is in this thing for, peter barnes will be on it a
Health initiatives, and they were very effective. One last thing, weve had lots of discussions of how we get additional va doctors into the system and what can we do as far as i guess the medical what is it . The medical so that they can get, i guess, forgiveness on their loans when they work for the va or whether in florida, for example, a lot of our interns go out of the state because we dont have the whats the word . They go out of the state residency. And so we dont have those slots. What can we do . Theres two things youre asking about. One is for people who have large med school debt and the average is pushing upwards of a couple hundred thousand now if you dont have help somewhere along the line is can we do debt forgiveness. We have some limited authority. Its insufficient. Particularly where we want to place physicians in underserved areas which is the real challenge, its less of a challenge people want to stay around where they did their residency so in urban areas with bill