. >> we are talking about a liberal hawaii. a liberal hawaii. >> we care about our elders. we care about those who need help. >> bill: conservative people care about their elders too. >> we have a very strong culture in hawaii. all i'm saying is when you characterize us in hawaii, be aware that you are talking about a culture of people who have managed to live together and work together. also realize that john kennedy said we are what america should be like. >> bill: okay. >> because we have that special state. i'm glad you like coming here. and i hope that you continue to come here. >> bill: in their hearts hawaiian people are the best. in their hearts. all right? your social system is chaotic. and do me one favor because i think you are a very good woman. never again condemn anybody unless you see the total report. because, what i did was not offensive to asians. i was talking into a context that you didn't see because you took it off a far left web site that is dishonest. and that doesn't do you any good. >> no. no you are offensive to asians. you are. by making that sta

hawaii was one of the 50 states? >> no. that's a misconception. [ buzzer ] >> what do you do for a living? >> i'm on unemployment. >> are you the only iewper with a leather recliner? >> no, i'm not. >> hawaii has a liberal and extremely dangerous attitude towards sexual conduct. can you rape a child and only spend two years in prison. a minor can get an abortion without their parent's consent. and prostitution is allowed to flourish. only one pimp was arrested last year. the prostitution situation, why is it allowed? >> the attitude here is hey, you don't bother me, i don't bother you. >> i don't see any arrests, i don't see any police out there. >> i actually think about that all the time. the police station is right across from where the prostitutes hang out. >> it doesn't make any sense. >> the united states and there is a police station right there, bam. >>. so child sex laws are prty

how did she get to hawaii? >> guest: she got to hawaii because her father, put in a furniture salesman in mercer island, or in seattle, washington, he got a job selling furniture in honolulu. and he was always looking for the next thing. principally moved west. from california to california. to seattle and then from seattle to hawaii. and so she came along with the family. she was only 17 and she graduate from high school, and actual public school in seattle post might only child. >> guest: and she was the only child. her name was stanley in. his name was stanley. i can tell you the story about some other time. in any case, so she is there. barack obama has been there since 1959. also an undergraduate, even though he was much older. and they both happen to sign up for a beginning russian class. this was right after sputnik and schools all over the country are starting to teach russian which was considered the most important thing public schools to do to prepare the u.s. for the cold war and the race with the ru

we had the state of hawaii was also able to process over 300 patients through their patient tracking system. so the hospitals were able to use the patients, actually the medical staff from their area hospitals to provide the number of patients that went to each hospital and that provided each hospital's own casualty scenario. again you see some of these pictures here, the military preparing these civilian patients for transfer. we even went as far as evacuating patients to maui the busses down there are the state of hawaii's bus evacuation system which are also used in evacuation. so this convenient tue, this vignette of hadr disaster exercise for hawaii also allowed us the opportunity for testing technology for that information sharing and interoperatability. apm was an online collaboration where we were able to share information and learn how to communicate with each other. one of the things that we realized is we have a problem with interchange of information where we actually are able to share that. and that was one opportunity that we were able to do that. quick net also partici

one of the things that hawaii has never been able to do is to be able to practice together in one live exercise. they have all of their processes, how they're going to respond in a local disaster situation, but they have never been able to really put that to use. and being able to partner with us during the rimpac exercise offered them the opportunity to do that. we also had a lot of civil military interaction by us providing a lot of capability for them to be able to exercise their disaster plan as well. you see some patients here in the moulage. they were able to moulage and fake wounds and put triage information on over 125 casualty actor patients. and we were able to triage them tlau that 50-bed hospital system in hawaii and then they were evacuated to area hospitals for the state of hawaii, one of their capability gaps in the -- during their disaster situations is going to be the routes of evacuation and with the military's response providing the helicopters in an air evacuation, we were able to go ahead and test that response system. we were able to send patients to 13 area hospi

how did she get to hawaii? >> guest: because her father who'd been a furniture salesman in mercer island or seattle washington, this was right next to seattle, he got a job selling furniture in honolulu and he was always looking for the next thing to be moved from kansas to california several times went from seattle to hawaii said she came and was only 17 when she graduated from high school, excellent public school in seattle. but she was the only child. her name was stanley iain. i can tell you the story on that if you want some other time but in the case, she's there as a freshman. barack obama had been there since 1959 also an undergraduate of whom he was much older and they both signed up for russian after sputnik and schools all over were starting to teach russians. was the most important things the public's could do to prepare for the cold war so they both ended up in a russian plus and that's where the net. >> how long did they know each other before they got married? >> guest: the new each other for fiv

the rest was being paid for by the taxpayers of hawaii. and we had been there for about two years to see whether the of half a billion dollars was actually helping special education children. and we had gone through 500 files, and we had discovered almost no help. lot of services were being provided, lots of money was being diverted in inappropriate ways. the commissioner of education for the state of hawaii had given a $250,000 grant to someone on the big island to run a special education program. her last job was rules la dancer -- hula dancer. that seemed a little bit odd at face value, and it turned out, not surprisingly, she was having a sexual relationship with the commissioner. people giving $30, $40, $50,000 grants for horseback riding, and i wouldn't have written the book if i thought that was an isolated candidate case. but i had been in the field of social policy for 40 years, and i kept seeing this happen again and again and again, and i said, you know, maybe it's time to tell the story that social programs that people argue ab

some woman was in hawaii and the father said they were there together. who are you going to believe? >> eric: a little different tact along the same vein. there is this catfishing we'll get in to. a good chance he was victim of catfishing, internet hoax. but at some point he had to know it was a hoax because he started to perpetuate the lies that could haven't happened. she could haven't be on her death bed or pronounced dead and the father couldn't have seen them together. it's likely you are right that notre dame has had a tough couple of years in football, they are coming back. he is in the middle of this. he is a hero. he is a hero and playing for the national championship title and he is runner-up or going to be potentially the heisman trophy winner. once he realized it was a hoax, i think he played it. he had to run with it because he didn't want to blow the chances for heisman and/or get draftedrafted in the n.f.l. >> kimberly: dana you have this look. >> dana: i blame the p.r. people in a way. not the ones that necessarily work at notre dame. acr

hawaii thousands of miles from the mainland, southwest arkansas. both without knowing their father's spirit will clinton sisco before he was born. barack obama's never lived with the family. both with alcoholism is part of the internal family secret. but having to resolve a lot of contradictions they did in completely different ways. bill clinton's way this point forward, we can up every morning, forgetting himself, forgetting the world, reinventing himself, not dealing with the problems of his own life, but pushing past them. he became the ultimate survivor and surely unlike any politician in being able to move past them succeed again and get in trouble again. so that ability got him to the white house that got them in trouble because he hadn't result a lot of things. survival skills got them out of trouble. he's leaving the white house and now is the most popular guy in the world. i hate to say it, but watch out. something will happen to them, but then he'll figure his way past that. same circumstances in many ways with the important exception is

he was spouting off against hawaii. the congresswoman issued this statement leave it to bill o'reilly to thoughtlessly insult 1.3 million people with unsweeping misstatement. >> stephen: 1.3 million asians. you know that number is accurate because they are good at math. relax congresswoman or as ed schultz calls you. >> calen spain honbush-ie. >> stephen: who cares. you say tomato, i say chop seuy. let's not get distract from the icial iew racial insensitivity. everybody just calm down. papa bear said they are hard-working. it's not racism if it's a compliment. if these asians can't stand the heat they should stay out of the kitchen where the lat teen yeses are. okay. very high tolerance for heat. gotta admire that. that is not stereotyping. black people come from africa where it's hot but it did not give them a tolerance for heat. it made them extremely fat. ♪ here? okay. right there. [ laughter ] thank you. well, folks, i have been informed by my network's lawyer that even when complimenting, i should not racially g

they can't stand the site of seeing this african american president in hawaii. for them to sit up there and talk about the the people back home? >> they're not too crazy about seeing him in washington. >> i think that's a ridiculous statement. i think he's working most of the time he's in hawaii. >> of course he is. >> but i hope he is taking a little built of time with his family and time off. the next few months are going to be really serious and difficult for the president. it's really easy to find ways to pay, you know, raising taxes. but finding ways to cut is going to be very difficult. the president is going to be in a position where he's not only going to have to communicate with congress and lead but commune kat with the american people and articulate how he's going to make these necessary cuts that are essential to moving forward. >> but you're making one presumption that the congress will be there. the republicans are attacking president obama for taking a vacation, but look at the 2013 congressional work schedule that was released this week. this yea

president barack obama heads back to hawaii. the house approved a measure passed by the senate that keeps the country from going over the fiscal cliff. we will have details coming up. >> the bay area is waking up to cold temperatures this morning. we will have team coverage all around the bay area this morning. >> we are at 28 degrees and san rafael. we have been around this number for the past hour. we did start out at 26 degrees. we did he go for about two degrees. a lot of people are headed back to work this morning and that will have to use their ice scrapers. the offer is one in that you talked about as an affect on tel 9:00 a.m.. >> you will need your scarf and some hot cocoa. there is no wood and burning allowed today. we are at 27 degrees in fairfield. we are same low 40's for the east shore line. redwood city is waking up to temperatures of the upper 30's. we do have winter weather advisories through 9:00 a.m.. as we head into afternoon the temperatures will be a little bit warmer that yesterday. i will break down the n

>> in hawaii we have a thing called the aloha spirit. if it was tangible, it would be a lei. >> reporter: come along to paradise. ahead on sunday morning. >> osgood: tracy smith talks with playwright edward albee. david edelstein reviews the oscar-nominated film amour. steve hartman visits a young chicken farmer with pluck and more. first the headlines for this sunday morning the 27th of january, 2013. from southern brazil comes news of a huge nightclub fire. firefighters in the town of santa maria say at least 245 people were killed inside the club. hundreds more were hurt. it is not yet clear what started the fire. it's been a weekend of bloodshed in chicago. six people were shot dead in the city yesterday. two of the killings happened just blocks from an antigun rally. among the victims was a 16-year-old boy. another gun-control rally took place in washington yesterday with thousands marching calling for stricter weapons laws. the senate is preparing to begin debating the issue this week. hackers have taken aim at the department of ju

i grew up in hawaii and talked to a bunch of friends. some know manti and here is what they told me. manti is a deeply religious young man and committed to his faith. he is not the type of guy who would orchestrate a scheme like this or be involved in it in anyway. i am told teo's father started to get suspicious about this girlfriend business because every time the family tried to set up a meeting with her, the girl would make excuses, and then she wouldn't show up. if teo is guilty of anything, maybe it is that he was extremely naive. i know some of the crit -- critics think it was a hoax concocted to generate publicity for manti and a heisman, but keep in mind the whole girlfriend fake death occurred in september. that's long before anybody imagined notre dame going undefeated or playing for the national championship. and nobody envisioned teo as a heisman contender at that point. it wasn't on the radar. so there doesn't seem to be much motive. teo is in florida you and working out in preparation for the nfl draft. it is completely un

i grew up in hawaii and talked to a bunch of friends. some know manti and here is what they told me. manti is a deeply religious young man and committed to his faith. he is not the type of guy who would orchestrate a scheme like this or be involved in it in anyway. i am told teo's father started to get suspicious about this girlfriend business because every time the family tried to set up a meeting with her, the girl would make excuses, and then she wouldn't show up. if teo is guilty of anything, maybe it is that he was extremely naive. i know some of the crit -- critics think it was a hoax concocted to generate publicity for manti and a heisman, but keep in mind the whole girlfriend fake death occurred in september. that's long before anybody imagined notre dame going undefeated or playing for the national championship. and nobody envisioned teo as a heisman contender at that point. it wasn't on the radar. so there doesn't seem to be much motive. teo is in florida you and working out in preparation for the nfl draft. it is completely un

. >>> and in hawaii at the pga sony open, a tee shot on the par three 17th hole. his ball lands on top of another ball. that's a shot you don't see every day. >>> and now for another look at the weather. here's nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. >> it's nice to be here. we are going to see a really nice weekend across the east coast. elsewhere, it is going to cool off quite a bit. we've got 13 degrees in billings, montana, where the snow continues to fall. that whole area stretching down

i grew up in hawaii and talked to a bunch of friends. some know manti and here is what they told me. manti is a deeply religious young man and committed to his faith. he is not the type of guy who would orchestrate a scheme like this or be involved in it in anyway. i am told teo's father started to get suspicious about this girlfriend business because every time the family tried to set up a meeting with her, the girl would make excuses, and then she wouldn't show up. if teo is guilty of anything, maybe it is that he was extremely naive. i know some of the crit -- critics think it was a hoax concocted to generate publicity for manti and a heisman, but keep in mind the whole girlfriend fake death occurred in september. that's long before anybody imagined notre dame going undefeated or playing for the and nobody envisioned teo as a heisman contender at that point. it wasn't on the radar. so there doesn't seem to be much motive. teo is in florida you and working out in preparation for the nfl draft. it is completely unclear how all of this w

where he's going to enjoy the gulf, hawaii ice cream and body surfing. >> where should he go uzbekistan for his vacation? >> two months from now the democrats in the house and democrats in the senate are going to be talking about higher corporate taxes or higher tax on close the rich in order to pay for not having sequestration, you haven't heard it yet because the president wants to get to hawaii and finish off his hometown vacation. look, everybody thought here in washington it's a gruesome battle the last few weeks over the fiscal cliff. get ready because as soon as the president comes back from hawaii we get the debt ceiling. >> we'll negotiate over many things, i will not have another debate with this congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up through the laws that they passed. >> when the president said today that round two will be the debt ceiling, he's right. >> wanting no fight over the debt ceiling? are you kidding me? what the president was saying was i'm the not going to play chicken with the debt limit. >> the president also wanted

some of them honoring hawaii. there will be a hawaii state float. there will be be an illinois state float. obviously the state where president barack obama was born. and illinois, the birth state of the first lady. and their home state. a pennsylvania state float, the birthplace of vice president joe biden. and also a delaware state float. the home state of vice president joe biden and dr. jill biden. so honoring very significant moments in our history. there will be a martin luther king jr. float. honoring this very day and many other floats. >> they're going right by the department of treasury, jeffrey toobin, right now. the department of treasury being literally right next door to the white house. >> i'm looking behind us at the reviewing stand. some of the family members are taking their place. i saw marianne robinson, michelle obama's mother, h brother, now seated. waiting for the president and the first lady. jim mesina, the campaign manager for barack obama, was whipping up the crowd, pumping his fist. when you win the election, this is what

course also honoring -- >> by the way, after the punahou high school marching band, we will see the hawaii home state float. >> and what did i tell you, where we going to see a volcano. there is a volcano. >> you see it already? >> it's behind us. >> there it is, the aloha state. >> on the side of that float is a quote from the late senator i inaway who recently passed away. i was observing that yesterday when i looked at these floats on the other side of the capital. it is there on the float. i would like to convey to the mainland some small sense of our spirit of aloha. >> this is the isiserettes drum corps from des moines, iowa. they trained at sidwell friends, that's where sasha and malia -- they were allowed to stay there. they came in from des moines. let's just listen in a little bit. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> following the isiserettes, the regiment. ♪ >> this is from ohio, the miami university marching band, from oxford, ohio. before that is the platoon, 3rd u. infantry regiment. this is the miami university marching band. has been an integral part of the spirit and pride of miami universit

how about hawaii? yeah, hawaii sounds great. so they went to the university of hawaii and contacted with president of the university of hawaii, said we want to start this pilot program to grow coca leaf on u.s. soil. we've worked out all the legalities even though it's technically not legal, this is a matter of, you know, scientific research. the president of the university of hawaii said, well, that's great, but, you know, we can't keep it secret, we can't take the coca-cola name off the project. we're, you know, a public university, and so, um, unless it was a matter of national security or something. and so the federal bureau of narcotics was, yeah, it's a matter of national security. [laughter] so they're like, oh, okay, sure. it's a secret now. so, basically, this project went on. it started in 1964, and it went on until 1984. they were growing coca at the university of hawaii. the funny part about this and why i bring this up is what ended up happening was the coca didn't actually grow very well. in fact, most of it died.

you decided not to go to hawaii? bad choice. talk about the fine print of all of this. >>reporter: it is chilly in washington, dc, and folks around the country could feel colder about the deal as they look at fine print. the president got a campaign-style video out there today with the president selling this not just as a victory for him but for the american people. for him in the sense that he pushed for higher taxes in the campaign and won that and got what he wanted but in the fine print you talk to the tax policy center, a nonpartisan group that the president cite add lot in the campaign, they say the middle class and poor families will be hit harder than you think with 77 percent of house holes seeing the federal taxes go up in 2013 because of the payroll tax cut was not extended. households making $40,000 to $50,000, taxes go up $579 and $up to $75,000, taxes go up $822. on one hand, middle-class families got a reprieve from the deal because they could have had their taxes go up more if the bush rates were not extended. people in washington, dc, are not talking ab

hawaii between 36 and 42. a cool -- highs between 36 and 42. cool dropped the west of the week. >> 395 smooth trip right now. 14th street bridge, happy about that. no problems. annandale, tyson, the entire beltway, maryland, new carrollton 270 -- so far no back ups as we push past 109. heading towards east point. georgia avenue, these cameras look good. colesville road. that too looks good. back to you. >> 4:57. >> much more to come. learn by the duchess of cambridge mike and the kim

. >>> the body of a san francisco man in hawaii search is underway and the challenges they are facing. >> reporter: high waves have made it difficult for the police department to revive the bodies of these two men, both from san francisco. they are believed to have drowned while on vacation. >> the water was so rough there was no way we could make his way back to land. >> reporter: instead of a rescue, it was a recovery mission to retrieve the bodies of two men who were a group of five friends vacationing in hawaii. they decided to hike out to a remote area, and a road wave swept baker out to see and griffith jumped in, but no one survived. officials were able to refreeftrieve griffith's body but they are searching for baker still. >> they had a jet ski and the waters were too choppy. today i am told the conditions are about the same, very rough surf again, but they are hoping with the helicopter they will be able to spot something. >> reporter: authorities have closed all the north shore beaches and we are told the friend are still in hawaii. >>> president obama was sworn in for his

a fiscal cliff bill is set to be flown to the president in hawaii. we will get a live report from honolulu. what happens next? nbc's team calls it triple jeopardy. three big dates to keep an eye on at "news nation." . >> shock new estimates of the true death toll in syria. in the 22 months since the conflict began, at least 60,000 men, women, and children have been killed. the un figure is far higher than estimates fighting the regime of the president and today activists report an air strike killed another 30 people. the agency said about a half million syrians threat the conflict. stocks are up after the fiscal cliff was a voited. how long will the rally last? justin bieber responds after the papparazzo was killed after taking picture of his car. details around the "news nation." speck out our tumbler page you will find behind the scenes pictures including the teen's new years resolutions. jackie is joining us live now. we love the good feeling, but how long do you think it's going to last? >> hi and happy new year. we definitely got a rally on our

you know hawaii wouldn't be a bad place to be. >> not bad to take the annual family trip to hawaii. >> i think we should take the show on the road. >> temperatures falling back into the 20s. we are 30 30 now in town at reagan national. there is your satellite-radar. a lot of rain showers to the south this morning. south down into the carolinas, down towards georgia. you can see that we're on the far northern edge of it. we've got some cloud cover out there at the moment. but just like yesterday, we should see the clouds clear up here during the morning hours and have a decent amount of sunshine. mostly sunny this afternoon and we should be dry. temperature at reagan national. 30degrees. check out columbus, seven. >> what? >> yeah, boston, eight. it is cold. we have some real arctic air across new england here. >> we can't complain. >> yeah, right. 30 is not bad when you look at eight and seven. we'll have high temperatures about 40 degrees. we are trending a little below average to start the new year. >> all right. we can't complain after seeing those single digits in the other areas.

and hawaii because of the fiscal cliff battle. you heard senator graham talking about chuck hagel, what appears to be the nominee for defense secretary. congress has two months to fix the debt ceiling before the u.s. may have to default on its bills. so the president comes back from a nice vacation in hawaii, he comes back to big issues that they have to tackle. sequestration, the debt ceiling, spenning. he is enjoying his last few minutes here on the plane, taxiing and he will head back to the white house with his family. >> jamie: molly, thank you. >> can washington come up with a plan to raise the debt limit without burying the count country in more debt? we have a former spokesperson for former governor jeb bush. happy new year. justin, the president says there won't be any negotiating t. needs to be raised -- period. what do you think? >> i think it's remarkable. it's as if the election meant that president obama has been elected king. the republicans compromised on a very important principle. they didn't want to raise taxes.

i'm not often nen hawaii so you don't have to auto pen me. >> okay. thank you. >>> after the fiscal cliff, a bigger cliff. the debt ceiling fight. >> for god's sake, i wouldn't wait until the last minute. we've had enough of this bring brinkmanship, moving from crisis to crisis. >> erskine bowles headed the panel that tried to head off this entire crisis. >>> congress went to the 111th hour and way beyond to keep the country from going over the fiscal cliff. that tax agreement was signed into law today but more cliffs lie ahead, including the very dangerous problem of raising the u.s. debt ceiling. erskine bowles is joining us right now. he's the co-founder of the organization called fix the debt, which is obviously something very important. former white house chief of staff under president bill clinton and the co-sponsor of the simpson/bowles commission designed to deal with debt relief and deficit reduction. erskine bowles, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. glad to be with you. >> first of all, had you been a member of the house or the s

you can see a >>> divers in hawaii came to the aid of a dolphin in need off the coast of kona, hawaii. you can see a bottle-nosed dolphin approach a diver who notices the fin is entangled in fishing line. the diver cuts the line and frees the animal. >>> a bay area surfer is walking away with a lesson after getting caught in waves at ocean beach. daniel rosen was surfing with a friend. to avoid being pulled out to sea by rip currents he climbed seal rock and his friend made it to shore around called for help. it was too dangerous for fire crews to get close to the rock. rosen had to jump back in and paddle towards them. rescuers did help him paddle past the break and then onto a waiting boat. thank goodness. amazing video. >>> 6:15. let's get a check of the roads with elizabeth, a backup at the bay bridge. >> it's a big backup. if you're used to reaching the pay gates, we've got this. it's already stacked up through the macarthur maze. the problem was in our 5:00 hour, a stall and then what sounds like a minor fender bender, both simultaneous, on the incline section of the upper deck.

this vacation will not last very long. >> kristen welker with a whole lot of day left in hawaii. i expect you have plans as well. good luck, kristen. >> thanks, craig. >> out with the old and in with the new. we're not just talking about out with the old and in with the new. we're not just talking about the fights on the horizon that will include a few familiar faces and washington post ed o'keefe, good afternoon to you, gentlemen. >> gentlemen. >> ed, the end of 2012, all about the fiscal cliff. right now we're talking about the debt ceiling discussion ahead. how tough of a fight is president obama going to be coming home will to? >> oh, a very tough one because republicans now determined more than ever to get spending cuts as part of the fiscal deal on the fiscal cliff. the president said he's not negotiating over it and the new congress began making it very clear that spending cuts will be what they focus on like a laser in the coming months as negotiations continue. mitch mcconnell look at the incoming class of house republicans as well who voted, many of them against the bil

out of those 15 days he actually got to spend nine in hawaii. he had to spend six days here in d.c. working on the fiscal cliff negotiations. now, while he was in hawaii he got five rounds of golf, five different partners, about 30 hours on the golf course and four dinners out, to go back and forth the president had to spend 40 hours on air force one and only one member of the family actually traveled the entire time and that is bo, the dog, who actually made the trip back and forth with the president. well traveled dog. >> very well traveled dog racking up his frequent flier miles. >> we got a picture of him with the lei on -- that was a remarkable production. david kerley, thank you for your reporting from washington. these potential confirmation fights are just the tip of the iceberg for president obama. he's already getting ready for big battles over spending cuts, immigration and after newtown gun control. let's bring in george stephanopoulos, host of weekday "gma" and "this week." is chuck hagel likely to get the nod and if he does -- >> the president hasn't made a final decis

. >> i award this game ball to lennay and i'd like man tie manti to take this ball back to hawaii. >> reporter: notre dame kept the truth under wraps despite the fact that the media was still telling the story. >> from the outset, we established a parameter that this was manti's story to tell. we wanted to know what would be told and at the at the appropriate time when it would be tell but it was his to tell. >> reporter: one of the reporters that broke the hoax story doesn't think te'o's story adds up. >> te'o's story that he's completely innocent in this doesn't shake through with us. >> reporter: what is not clear, why didn't te ever mention that he had never met lennay and how they first met at a football game and if it wasn't true why didn't he correct it and how could he be so in love with someone he had never met. >> as manti tells the story, you'll see the same thing that i saw, that it does fully line up. >> reporter: well, we'll see if it fully lines up. >> sorry. we've got a delay going. i apologize. but in interviews manti said several times that he met this girl in person

president obama crew up in hawaii. -- grew up in hawaii. it makes him an honorary asian- american. he is the first asian-american president as well. tonight's events would not be possible without our community partners. a group that helped make all this happened, i am going to read them all. the asian business alliance, asian law alliance, the asian pacific american leadership institute, chinese-american cultural association, chinese american political association, citizens for better community, culture to culture, why in the chamber of commerce of northern care of -- kawai and chamber of commerce of northern california, northern california chinese athletic association, national association of american professionals, national federation of independent business, national federation of filipino americans, the filipino chamber of commerce, around of applause for all of our community partners, please. that was a lot. [applause] >> i am so glad he had to do that. our next speaker is u.s. congressmen. he is representing the 15th congressional district of california in the u.s. house of r

that's what he likes to do in hawaii, and that's what he did during part one of his hawaii vacation. we expect him to do that as well. it's a chance for the president to relax with the family and head back to washington. we don't know when but expect at the end of the week since the first daughters head back to school on monday. >> we expect him to be back here as well on the same time. get a little rest if you can if you get a break here. >>> if you were to describe president obama's biggest challenge for the first term, it might be gridlock. with the new congress sworn in tomorrow, are the freshmen going to help push his agenda forward? n surprises him. morning starts in high spirits, but there's a growing pain in his lower back. as lines grow longer, his pain continues to linger. but after a long day of helping others, he gets some helpful advice. just two aleve have the strength to keep back pain away all day. today, jason chose aleve. just two pills for all day pain relief. try aleve d for strong, all day long sinus and headache relief. >>> out with the old and in with the new t

might as well stay in hawaii. what do you say? hello, hello hello and welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv and on your local progressive talk radio station this thursday morning january 3rd. good to see you today. welcome, welcome welcome. we've got lots and lots to talk about today. secretary of state hillary clinton out of the hospital. number one. number two outrage and uproar, protest over john boehner's decision to delay funding for the victims of hurricane sandy. governor cuomo governor christie are pissed. they should be. they've let it be known and john boehner has caved in a little bit. still won't do it in this session of congress when the help is needed. the new congress sworn in today. 113th congress. their first priority is going to be yet another battle. this time, not over the fiscal cliff but over the debt ceiling and it is probably going to be uglier than the last one. we'll try to cover all of that in the next couple of hours we've got together here today and take your calls at 1-866-55-press. loo

this is the president's second trip to hawaii this holiday season. he was here for christmas and then rushed back to washington for that battle over the fiscal cliff. now he's back here for three more days of vacation. the president praised the fiscal cliff deal in a video to his supporters yesterday and last night he signed authorization papers for the deal here in hawaii. but the actual bill was signed back in washington with an auto pen. he's spending most of his time here with family and friends on his oceanfront compound which is guards, of course, buy secret service agents. yesterday he found time for six hours on the golf course and if history is any guide, he'll be doing plenty more of that before he returns to washington later this weekend. >> all right, chip, thank you. >>> republicans and congress have taken a beating this week between the fiscal cliff drama and a decision to put off the vote on superstorm sandy relief. let's talk about with frank luntz of cbs and politico. good morning. >> it's been a tough week. i was with a number of me

in hawaii we don't say goodbye. we say until we meet again. although i'm retiring, i see this as the start of a new chapter and new season. and i am blessed to have made friendships and partnerships that will last forever. god bless hawaii, god bless the united states of america with the spirit of aloha. 2010 until the last day that i served in this great chamber which is a month shy of three years serving, i still say and believe aside for my marriage to my my wife gail of 26 years in the birth of my two children a lot and arianna, serving in that greatest deliberative body for the commonwealth of massachusetts and the people seat has been the greatest honor i've ever had in my life so i want to thank the people of massachusetts for that opportunity. to think that someone like me whose parents were married and divorced for times each and lived in seven houses by this time he was 18 and was subjected to various forms of abuse when he was growing up still has the honor took serve in one of the greatest delivered of bodies in the world is someth

there is the president, who has landed in hawaii now. he left his vacation, came back while they were going through all this deal making and then, as we said, left immediately after it passed the house last night and he made some comments. we saw him at the podium there. and i think it's also worth pointing out that it wasn't just the republicans who were unhappy with this. there were plenty of democrats, particularly liberal democrats, who voted against this bill. i want to play something that washington's adam smith said this morning. >> i'm concerned that revenue has been sort of taken off the table at this point. 90% of the bush tax cuts are now locked in permanently so any effort to deal with the very large debt and deficit that we have going down the road here, revenue is pretty much off the table and we didn't get much. so those are my concerns. >> nobody felt like they got a great deal here, lynn. but moving forward does one side or the other have the upper hand? >> well, i think this goes in stages and since we have the looming

not going to be hawaii weather. our high is only going to be about 40 or so. but we should see more sunshine than we've seen in the last couple of days. so getting better. and the good part is we'll be nice and dry later today, not expecting any rain and/or snow anytime soon. the pattern nice and dry. >> good. >> let's get to satellite and radar, take a look at what's happening. here we go, cloud cover continues across the region. one or two sprinkles south and east of town down towards ocean city early. you can see that slipping out to sea. and if you look carefully, we're starting to get some breaks in the clouds. and after some morning cloudiness, we should gradually turn mostly sunny by afternoon. it is going to be on the chilly side. right now the temperature at reagan national 36 degrees, as we switch maps, magically, there we go, 36 at reagan national. look how cold it is to our north. new york city 22. binghamton 10. 15 in columbus. there's a lot of very cold air just north and west, and that will continue to work in here over the next couple days. in