welcome, welcome. as we just noted, we are here to talk about constitutions and the rule of law. with a particular focus on a few got a rule of law, how do you keep it? how do you nurture it? how do you make it stick? and we got three extraordinarily distinguished panelists to lead these conversations. each of them is directly involved in the workings of constitutional democracy studying it, thinking about it, writing about it, teaching about it, and in judge gregory s case, actually directly involved in its workings. let me introduce this triumvirate. roger gregory is the chief judge of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit. and judge gregory has served on that court for 20 years, almost 20 years, and is now the chief judge. he has the distinction of having been nominated for the court by both president clinton and president george w. bush, and he was confirmed by the senate 93-1. [laughter] judge gregory is the first african-american to serve on the fourth circuit
downtown is three square miles out of 138 square miles in the city of philadelphia. so, again, i ll let them talk about other cities but this idea that somehow there is it s, you know, impossible to move around the city is just not correct. reporter: the head of the u.s. secret service also responded to those who feel that the multi day closing of streets highways and the ben franklin bridge is overkill. you have to have structure. iif you don t have structure, you have mayhem and you have to have routes available so if there is an incident we can certainly get the holy father out of the city. reporter: so, the gentlemen saying you have to have a plan. that includes an exit strategy and the pope going to so many places during his visit here it s going to have to be a big plan. you re looking at a live picture of that enclosure that s coming together on eakins oval part of almost a lamper village that is being built down here along the oval as well. live above the park
our other big story is the december jobs report. the u.s. economy created 240,000 jobs in december according to a survey of bloomberg economists. that would mark the biggest gain in 15 years. oil is extending its rally today. prices are up for the third day in a row. for the 10th time in 3.5 years the house will take up the keystone pipeline today. the result will likely be the same. it is going to pass. the republican-controlled senate is probably going to pass a similar measure later. the gop say the keystone pipeline will improve the nation s energy standing. the president wants to make the first two years of community college tuition free. he wants to unveil a plan that would cost the tens of billions of dollars. for now, republicans in congress are skeptical. the city of boston wants to add to their legendary sports history. boston will bid for the 2024 summer olympics. boston beat out los angeles, san francisco, and washington. the international olympic committee wi
i m mad. reporter: the vandals hit this restaurant, shattering 25 windows. the manager got a call from the alarm company during his christmas dinner. they said, hey, we have multiple window breakage alarms going off. they told me how many and i thought maybe it s a system error. it can t be that many broken windows at once. reporter: those broken windows, now boarded, the store opening delayed as the cleanup stretched into this afternoon. they keep us pretty busy. not that i enjoy this kind of work, going after the protests. reporter: today, many are just shaking their heads. i mean, why? it s wanton destruction. why would you do it? reporter: so we re unaware of any arrests made last night, but the plan is to get the lights working again on the bottom of the tree and hen keep it up through the new year. noelle walker, live in oakland, thank you. demonstrators returned to san francisco s union square today, reading the names of black men who have been killed
defense next season because patrick willis announced his rather time. bore lend said he came to the decision after speaking with family. researchers and doctors and teammates and he has been diagnosed with two concussions in the past. at age 24 the retirement is taking many by surprise but this is something he had been thing about for a while. this is not new. he was well aware of the concussion issue and the research that has been coming out and, in fact he mentioned as far back as last year during train he began to have concerns after a particular play and he went so far as to send a letter to his folks prior to a pre-season game last year telling them he didn t expect the nfl career to be very long. san francisco 49ers general manager released a statement wishing bore lap well. part of it reads while unexpected we certainly respect chris decision. chris is a determined young man that overcame long odds in the journey to the missile and we are confident he will use th