reid think that this shutdown is the west thing best thing that ever happened to them, politically. we in this house muchtd end this shutdown. must end this shutdown. reporter: republicans wanted it to be part of the deal. reporter: director national intelligence told lawmakers that includes about 70% of his civilian work force. this is extremely damaging. and it will increase, though, as this shutdown drags on. reporter: director clapper says employees not receiving a paycheck are prime targets for foreign governments, wanting to gain state secrets. on capitol hill, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. the republican national committee says it will pay to keep the world world war ii memorial open for the next 30 days. as we have been telling you, the government shutdown is having a widespread impact across maryland. it includes the service academy and sports fans. complete coverage continues with vic, live in the newsroom. reporter: as of right now
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: the legal status of some 11 million undocumented immigrants remains front and center in our political debate read debate. both parties know they must pass immigration reform to engage latino voters in recent elections. dr. alvaro huerta is the author of a recently of a recent manifesto. chis a professor at usc s cano studies. i want to start with this list in my hand. as i said mama most everybody knows that the senate passed a bipartisan measure in june of last year. it is the house, no surprise, where this immigration reform legislation has been stalled. days ago, republicans really their own set of principles and frames this conversation about how we might get some legislation, maybe in small pieces, to advance the notion of immigration reform. what thesealk about six republican principles are an hear from you as to whether or not it sounds like a humanistic paradigm. number one on the
to burn for at least 24 hours. today s highs very similar to yesterday if not just a couple of degrees cooler. high 60s inland. outside number 70 degrees. unseasonably mild weather will continue through the new year. here s elizabeth with traffic. so far things are looking good just your overnight roadwork and now that we re past the 5:00 hump a lot of this should be clearing out of the roadway. yesterday at this time we had no incidents. we are hoping for a friday repeat. if you are riding bart they are back to a regular schedule this morning and in fact all trains are so far on time. here s a live look at the bay bridge toll plaza. we know that s where a lot of people are heading this morning into san francisco. they never turned on the metering lights yesterday. they probably won t later this morning either. we ll watch it. outside we go and here s a live look at milpitas commute westbound 237 no problems leaving milpitas all the way towards sunnyvale on those westbound
get it saying it s not too late. usually a curse of midwin ter, this year the flu struck more than a month early. 24 states are experiencing high influenza-like illness. hospitals, including this one in pennsylvania, have elected tents to treat the sick. all of a sudden like out of nowhere we started seeing 50 60 cases of flu a day. dr. mark rosenberg is in charge of the emergency room at st. joseph s in patterson, new jersey. the flu kicks you in the butt. it makes you weak. any other medical problem on top of that is going to be exacerbated because you have the flu. in severe cases anti-viral drugs can lessen symptoms. the cdc says the best prevention is the flu vaccine. nearly 130 million doses of it have been distributed. we hope it means they ll get milder flu. there s some evidence to that. so if you get vaccinated but still come down with the flu, it may be that you get a milder version of the flu. the cdc says the flu vaccine is effective in 62% of the cas
it some time. the capt. does say eight people were inside- possibly squatters. there was a lot of the building that we could not search. three people we saw got out that many. others many this man saw the smoke and immediately grabbed his camera and started filming this. .. it was so intense that you could feel it from hundreds of feet away. > > at one point it was so intense that it created its own willem storm. > > some very scary moments there. i checked with the captain and both fire fighters are expected to be ok. still no word on what caused the fire. that san jose fires comes a day after a 6 alarm fire broke out in berkeley. firefighters are still on scene 24 hours after the blaze. three different addresses were burned to the ground. the fire started in 18-hundred 2nd street and spread to 18-02 and 18-10. kron 4 s alecia reid is at the scene where business owners are left to figure out where to go from here. three adresses were affected, but there are a number of busin