than their expectation or that is, you know, here is what they get on unemployment and here is what they get at work and the difference between the two is not big enough, we need to think about that. you talk about the omnibus spending bill, is that a victory for the tea party? was it the tea party that brought the earmark issue to the floor? guest: it is, but be careful. here is the tea party movement, the people would make up the groups, we loose sight of here is the tea party sentiment, a lot of people would never attended a tea party group meeting who, however, are part of this change in the 2010 elections. 59 percent of independents voted for republicans and 38 percent voted for democrats and many of those people never participated in a tea party group. before we go, i know you are in the bad boy job replacing clayton and i was using these first, man, i was using these first and not only that, but you are not paying the royalty to
surrounding the issues and now to the headlines. we have a lot. a nato service member was killed in insurgent attack in afghanistan. this is a kay after the forces killed a senior taliban area in an airstrike in the northern part of the country. the latest troop fatality brings the total death toll this year in afghanistan to 670. the c.i.a. has pulled the chief spy from pakistan after his cover was blown and his life was threatened. his name was mentioned in a lawsuit filed in new york over pakistan after the pakistan top intelligence service leaked the spy s name on purpose to force him out of the country. and the u.s. is keeping a close eye on an american man for suspicion of kidnapping a 15-year-old boy in haiti after the father climbed the boy was taken from hospital where he was volunteering and it is unclear
as you wake up across a lot of the country, 16 degrees across the northern tier and the winter storm warnings and 8 to 15 of snow across central california area and this will hit the mountains and completely snow and snow and snow for days and days and days and it will be a big storm. this is the moisture i am talking about and it is a long stream this, and pulling on in and bringing rain and mountain snow and the rains will head in the lower elevations and we will talk about flooding, river flooding, and maybe the threat for language slides landslide s around the burn area and california will be socked by this for five days. so, much more on that coming up. a white christmas for them out west. new reports of al qaeda threatening attacks during christmas and police in the u.s. are on extra alert. how serious is the danger? and the american student
associated with fear, the amyg amygdala and we still do not know a lot about the function of the brain especially when you treat parents with post traumatic tres disorder maybe this is an area of the brain that scientists need to concentrate so as a case study interesting and perhaps will lead to other things to find a way to deal with post traumatic stress disorder and fear and maybe we can learn a lot from it alisyn: and 75 percent of kids eight through 12 admit to drinking the equivalent of three cans of soda a day in terms of caffeine. i am not flipping out over there because in most countries, caffeine, you talk about 15 milligrams of calf mean and three can caffeine and three cans of soda, in most countries kids 12 and ten drink coffee in the morning before school, and,
however, the problem with this particular issue in the united states is that the caffeine is being obtained by soft drinks. and they are, of course, they have a lot of sugar, a lot of things the kids do not need and they take them at time in late evening or late afternoon so they will have problems sleeping, so, caffeine by itself is not dangerous perhaps but it is, sort of the vehicle they are getting the caffeine through and kids in the u.s. of course are drinking too much soda. that is the bad thing. but harmless. coffee in the alcohol, what else you have in there? alisyn: you seem to be a fan of both. stay tuned.