ceiling, then it simply cannot be raised. many observers believe that the republicans are just engaging in political theater here that soon or later they will come to the table at the debt ceiling will be raised on a bipartisan basis, but still great concern to the biden administration. and people in the us as a whole, even discussing the concept of failing to raise a debt ceiling and putting the country into effective bankruptcy or that huge infrastructure mike, for the president, is trying to get through with the opposition from his own party house that progressing well that gets even more complex adrian, you ve got to massive bills. you ve got to a infrastructure bill, which has already been passed by the senate. ah, but the house is arguing about whether it will to pass that bill without passing another social spin in bill, which is more than 3 trillion dollars. now the hold up here is that they are some democrats who do not want one bill passed without the other. they do
he opted out of that debate. again, today, saying he made the right decision to skip the debate.just days before the caucus. at a rally in new hampshire today. he said he wanted to focus the attention on a group he deeply cares about: veterans. i took a chance and its something you have to do and we did something and i don t even know the end result but we went up and the end result is i did the right thing and i did the right thing because i did something great for veterans and when you think of it these politicians are on that debate most don t know what they re doing, they are talking, talking, talking and we re raising money for incredible people especially when you heard jon last night so there was something really nice about it. it could not have been better, it was a ten, you know as they say when something works out, it was a ten. stephanie: trump s rally did not pull in nearly as many viewers as the gop presidential debate, however. the front- runner had told rep
december 7th as a take a look outside from our mount tam cam. will begin this morning with news out of japan were strong earthquake jolted the northeastern part of the country. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the pacific ocean around 5:18 p.m. local time. that is around midnight here in san francisco. the u. s g s says the are quick stroke about 200 mi. off the coast of japan. the epicenter was about 6 mi. beneath the seabed. buildings in tokyo s way for several minutes. there were reports of at least two people injured. pish japan s real logical at sea has with it is not rewarded for the country s northeastern coast. according to the sun on the information center. a destructive pacific wise and non is not expected. the quick off the coast of north is in japan is the same region but was hit by the masses are quick as a nominee in march to about 11. for the after known mostly sunny conditions slightly warmer highs in yesterday s. partly cloudy and cool into the even
will take a look at those numbers in just a few minutes. we re starting out the morning with a partly cloudy conditions. it will be a bit warmer today than what we saw yesterday. will take a look at the visibility and give you this coming up. we are pushing closer to the peak of their morning commute and we are still seeing pretty light conditions. the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up once again. no accidents to report is to slow traffic. if you should have on an extra seven minutes. the rest of the bay area rose look good. it is still pretty smooth and easy and no incidents to report coming out of the north bay. overnight a strong earthquake jolted the northeastern part of the country this morning. a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the pacific ocean are around 518 local time. that is around midnight here in san francisco. the usgs says the earthquake struck about 200 mi. off the coast of japan. the epicenter was about 6 mi. beneath the seabed. and here is video
crops in madagascar and a new plan to kill them. u.s. president barack obama ordered a review of the national security agency intelligence operations acknowledging more constraints are needed and he is being criticized over the nsa tapped angela merkel s phone and snooped on other european allies and we have more. reporter: the practice of listening in on the phone calls of the leaders of allied countries could be about to end. in an interview president barack obama says that national security operations generally have one purpose, to make sure the american people are safe. but i m initiating now a review to make sure what they are able to do doesn t necessarily mean it s what they should be doing. this is prompted by reports in germany that president obama was briefed on the surveillance of chancellor merkel s known in 2010. administration officials say it s not true and a white house review only discovered the surveillance of world leaders in the summer and say the bugg