Thank you very much. You know when ryan was giving the introduction i was getting nervous at the end he was going to say one of these days he is going to find something he is good at. It is an honor to be here. Thanks for braving the weather. He talked about the music part of me. I was in los angeles last night and i wanted the bring them with me. You would have loved them and then i would have had to play with them and you would not have loved that. I am headed back there tonight and tomorrow i am there with more meetings from an organization that provides Musical Instruments to children. And then i will go from los angeles to new york and Funeral Services are held monday. I lost my iphone in the course of this. It is a horrible thing. I got it back. I called the nsa and they knew exactly where it was. And they put all of my emails back in. It was very nice of them. I cannot begin my comments to you without saying a heart felt word of deep thanks to ryan prebus that showed courage tha
Have builtin backdoors that could have a longerterm impact on us than what ever diplomatic outflows are. I think the Edward Snowden affair illustrates something very important about presidencies. You dont control the world. You dont control events. In this case, president obama found in the first year of his second term and maybe the entire four years of his second term, have been hijacked by a very young, contract employee of booz allen who decided to spill the beans on american espionage activities around the world. There is not much the president can do to pull it back. Its all out there and more is coming out all the time. He can try to present his point of view of who Edward Snowden is, that he is a thief, maybe a traitor, maybe a defector, but Edward Snowden can push back. He will be on tv again tomorrow. Its an illustration of the fundamental points you made at the beginning about the limits of power not just of the United States but of the american presidency in general. We may
Metamorphosis on al qaeda. We have been come as a result of the arab awakening and what has gone on in the arab world, that al qaeda cutting rebirth. It can exactly at the moment that the Obama Administrations hollis he against policy against al qaeda created its greatest success, the death of bin laden. I agree with everything about the president of of afghanistan. The administration is unable to make the case to the american people, which is the reason we need 10,000 american troops in afghanistan is to continue to drone war in pakistan. That is the Vital National security interests of the United States. We do not want to see al qaeda rebuild like we saw al qaeda rebuild in ai iraq. The drones are not the answer to al qaeda, that they are surely a very good weapon to have in your hand when you deal with al qaeda. My concern is if the United States gives up that weapon in afghanistan by having no bases for operation after 2014, we will see al qaeda rebuild and regenerate as fast as we
He was never discovered to be that great of an anything. But he stands before you today because i was that 11yearold kid who got the guitar and wanted so badly to be the fifth beatle. I believe you what happened in 1963 . I was eight at the time i first saw them. Not something to america more than music. They brought hope. It may sound sacrilegious to say the beatles brought hope, but remember how we were trying to get over the assassination of a president and National Psyche that had been deeply bruised. Excitement, they brought hope our country desperately needed and their music was pretty good. Today, we are in a time when we really need more than we have ever needed america before, a sense of hope and optimism. A lot of people are discouraged in America Today and you can understand why. 92 million americans dont even have jobs. They are not in the job market anymore. Theyve given up will stop if anyone has says the Unemployment Rate has dropped to 6. 7 only because another 100,000
We begin with a big crash that shut down a major freeway this morning. Well have a live report from the scene scene more when the freeway is expected to reopen. We have new information on the breaking news story were following for you in marin city. A 17yearold boy is shot to death. We just talked to his family. Well tell you what theyre saying about what happened. You probably dont need a weather man to know its cold out there. But what about the weekend . Plus just hours from now boeings dream liner will begin its service from san jose. But we have breaking news about the safety of that jet. All ahead on ktvu channel 2 morning news. Good morning. Welcome to friday its january 11th im dave clark. And im pam cook. Thank you for joining us this morning. Steve paulson is here. Definitely cold. Freeze warning all day . Its cold enough. No doubt about it. Another day we could get up pop up showers again. Little system coming into the northern part of the state. You can see that. Again it f