ice at twenty fourteen could offer the best chance of finally ending the short track medal drought foreman says have been good so far this year with russia's vladimir gregorio managing to briefly set up an unofficial world record during a preseason competition in calgary. every single team member has a straight to succeed it so i am personally hoping to qualify for the five hundred and one thousand meter races plus there is plenty to be confident about where breaking world records so it will be simply depend on how good the ice is and our overall fitness levels now russia has an ace up its sleeve recruiting three time gold medal winner and five time overall world champion victor from south korea after he fell out with the south korean skating association although on fail to qualify for the twenty ten vancouver games he's since been training in russia after obtaining russian citizenship in order to compete in what's likely to be his last olympic foray at the sochi games. because i don't have any specific goals for sorts here other than we did a gold medal and that's the only goal for any of

ice at twenty fourteen could offer the best chance of finally ending the short track medal drought foreman says have been good so far this year with russia's vladimir gregorio managing to briefly set up an unofficial world record during a pre-season competition in calgary. every single team member has succeeded and personally hoping to qualify for the five hundred and one thousand meter races plus there is plenty to be confident about where breaking world records so it will be simply depend on how good the ice is and our overall fitness levels now russia has an ace up its sleeve recruiting three time gold medal winner and five time overall world champion victor from south korea after he fell out with the south korean skating association although on fail to qualify for the twenty ten vancouver games he's since been training in russia after obtaining russian citizenship in order to compete in what's likely to be his last olympic foray at the sochi games. because i don't have any specific goals for sorts here other than we do in a gold medal that's the only goal for any pics but in the run up

ice at twenty fourteen could offer the best chance of finally ending the short track medal drought foreman says have been good so far this year with russia's vladimir gregorio managing to briefly set up an unofficial world record during a preseason competition in calgary. every single team member has a spray chanst to succeed it so i am personally hoping to qualify for the five hundred and one thousand meter races plus there is plenty to be confident about where breaking world records so it will be simply depend on how good the ice is and our overall fitness levels now russia has an ace up its sleeve recruiting three time gold medal winner and five time overall world champion victor from south korea after he fell out with the south korean skating association although on fail to qualify for the twenty ten vancouver games he's since been training in russia after obtaining russian citizenship in order to compete in what is likely to be his last olympic foray at the sochi games. because i don't have any specific goals for sorts here other than we going to gold medal that's the only goal for an

at sochi twenty fourteen could offer the best chance of finally ending the short track medal drought foreman says have been good so far this year with russia's vladimir gregorio managing to briefly set up an unofficial world record during a preseason competition in calgary. every single team member has a spray chanst to succeed it so i am personally hoping to qualify for the five hundred and one thousand meter races plus there is plenty to be confident about where breaking world records so it will be simply depend on how good the ice is and our overall fitness levels now russia has an ace up its sleeve recruiting three time gold medal winner and five time overall world champion victor from south korea after he fell out with the south korean skating association although on fail to qualify for the twenty ten vancouver games he's since been training in russia after obtaining russian citizenship in order to compete in what's likely to be his last olympic foray at the sochi games. because i don't have any specific goals for sorts here other than we going to gold medal that's the only goal for any

searching for 2 people whose gun battle caught a grandmother in the cross fire. 47-year-old ramona foreman walk with her sister last night in front of a store on international boulevard at 92 avenue two men began shooting at one another from across the street. one of the bullet hit and killed her. >> people shooting. we didn't know who they were. but we definitely know it wasn't meant for my mama. >> everybody told us it was may machlt i ran straight through yellow tape. >>reporter: ramona was the mother of 2. grandmother of 4. police hope witnesses and surveillance cameras will lead them to the shooters. this is oakland 124th homicide this year. >>> well still to come tonight on 7 news at 11:00. end of the world. not so much. but we are going to show you some of the people who are making a mint off that mayan prophecy. >> sweatshirt for gang symbol. sf pd protect some eighth graders. >> tracking the storm on live doppler more rain moves into the bay area. forecast when we continue and later on "nightline". >> coming up next on special edition of "nightline". day in the life of the america

searching for 2 people whose gun battle caught a grandmother in the cross fire. 47-year-old ramona foreman walk with her sister last night in front of a store on international boulevard at 92 avenue two men began shooting at one another from across the street. one of the bullet hit and killed her. >> people shooting. we didn't know who they were. but we definitely know it wasn't meant for my mama. >> everybody told us it was may machlt i ran straight through the yellow tape. >>reporter: ramona was the mother of 2. grandmother of 4. police hope witnesses and surveillance cameras will lead them to the shooters. this is oakland 124th homicide this year. >>> well still to come tonight on 7 news at 11:00. end of the world. not so much. but we are going to show you some of the people who are making a mint off that mayan prophecy. >> sweatshirt for gang symbol. sf pd protect some eighth graders. >> tracking the storm on live doppler more rain moves into the bay area. forecast when we continue and later on "nightline". >> coming up next on special edition of "nightline". day in the life of the ame

searching for 2 people whose gun battle caught a grandmother in the cross fire. 47-year-old ramona foreman walk with her sister last night in front of a store on international boulevard at 92 avenue two men began shooting at one another from across the street. one of the bullet hit and killed her. >> people shooting. we didn't know who they were. but we definitely know it wasn't meant for my mama. >> everybody told us it was may machlt i ran straight through the yellow tape. >>reporter: ramona was the mother of 2. grandmother of 4. police hope witnesses and surveillance cameras will lead them to the shooters. this is oakland 124th homicide this year. >>> well still to come tonight on 7 news at 11:00. end of the world. not so much. but we are going to show you some of the people who are making a mint off that mayan prophecy. >> sweatshirt for gang symbol. sf pd protect some eighth graders. >> tracking the storm on live doppler more rain moves into the bay area. forecast when we continue and later on "nightline". >> coming up next on special edition of "nightline". day in the life of the ame

you don't know i'm tom foreman welcome to the big picture. welcome back to the big picture i'm tom hartman coming up in this half hour while corporate executives are wining and dining their clients was steak dinners and expensive wines thousands of halmos americans are struggling to find the food they need to survive how could eliminate corporate wining and dining write offs help put an end to homelessness in the united states and internets daily take way back when of a company was facing hard times its c.e.o. would give up his or her salary for the good of the employees in the business those days are long gone c.e.o.'s continue to pad their wallets as the rank and file workers carry all the birds. in the us the rest of the news we hear a lot of simpson bowles you know those two guys who make forty thousand bucks a whack as a speaking fee run around the country and as republicans and down. try to find some way to avert a disaster that they created and then in the name to the fiscal cliff and that's just how simpson and bowles would like it al

else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know i'm tom foreman it was a big. thanks for staying with us here on r t eleven minutes past the hour now in moscow the lower house of parliament passed a bill banning u.s. citizens from adopting russian orphans legislation is seen by some as a response to washington's so-called magnitsky list which president putin describes as an anti russian law but the measure follows a series of child abuse cases as well with american foster families some even resulting in the death of the child artie's guy takes a look. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in the vampire was designed to provide mechanisms for overside russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children schoolgirls here assume many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of childre

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or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom foreman it was a big picture. absolutely to. borrow a. little bit. of . the law gold white gold colors are my. primary. coming up. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max keyser time now to go to new york and speak with jonathan feldman an associate professor at the department of economic history at stockholm university in sweden and a principal governor of the global teachin jonathan feldman welcome to the kaiser report. glad to be here max thank you all right first jonathan feldman what is the global teach in ok the global teaching was an attempt to network about twenty locations in seven continents to come up with a comprehensive program for economic change part of the background of this is the work of people like the late barry commoner who recognize that not only did we have a huge economic crisis we had an environmental crisis and an energy supply crisis so all these crises crises are related to each other some might even go so far as to say we have a democratic crisis in an intellect

though sawyer never realize his dream of becoming the foreman, it was all politics, there, he said. he had achieved a lofty position. he was a fire bell ringer in the tower elevated. [inaudible] is part of a volunteer fire company company that he helped organize a year earlier. every steep hill and twisting road ahead since the building was erected and before that he was living here when james williams, the self-righteous muckraking editor of the bulletin was gunned down out front. james casey, a former fireman with a criminal past in the streets of new york. he was laid out on the counter. his huge head lolled to one side of the lot. as he lay dying, his headlong over the stained table. when he died, the vigilance committee said the city aflame. he held strong opinions. he vigorously opposed a number of his patrons, especially the prominent lawyers and judges who are not too adhering to the law and order. many were heated arguments almost a danger point. local author polly jacobson wrote of it. when i first started working in san francisco in february of 1850, sawyer continued, i w

. >> one small step foreman, one giant leap for mankind. >> mike and i asked him, mike said had you thought about what you were going to say when you get down on the moon? >> i don't know yet. when we ran i will start think being it. never know when to take him seriously. >> armstrong and aldrin spent 1 hour on the lunar surface. it was enough time to bounce around collect moon rocks and take several famous photos. aldrin with the american flag a football on the moon probably the most iconic of all. >> just walking then he said stop, hold it. i stopped. looked at it and he took the picture. >> people have asked me what is the significance of this picture? i say i got three words, location, location, location chlgs . >> as a 10-year-old kimmed looking at this place. what's it like? >> you used the same word i did. but i prefaced desolate with magnificent because of humanity reaching outward and accomplishing something people thought were possible. >> apollo 11 made it to the moon 6 months ahead of the deadline jfk had set at the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to co

. >> one small step foreman, one giant leap for mankind. >> mike and i asked him, mike said had you thought about what you were going to say when you get down on the moon? >> i don't know yet. when we ran i will start think being it. never know when to take him seriously. >> armstrong and aldrin spent 1 hour on the lunar surface. it was enough time to bounce around collect moon rocks and take several famous photos. aldrin with the american flag a football on the moon probably the most iconic of all. >> just walking then he said stop, hold it. i stopped. looked at it and he took the picture. >> people have asked me what is the significance of this picture? i say i got three words, location, location, location chlgs . >> as a 10-year-old kimmed looking at this place. what's it like? >> you used the same word i did. but i prefaced desolate with magnificent because of humanity reaching outward and accomplishing something people thought were possible. >> apollo 11 made it to the moon 6 months ahead of the deadline jfk had set at the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to co

on behalf of all the folks at "ac 360" and cnn, i'm tom foreman wishing you all of the best and none of the worst in 2013. >> hello. this is cnn's top ten of twenty twelve. this hour we look at the stories that captured our attention. what we see as the biggest stories around the world. crime, money, weather, and even the biggest scandals. and the big reveal of the most intriguing people of the year as chosen by you. we begin with a topic that dominated our coverage for most of the year. here is candy croley with the top ten political stories. >> picking the top ten moments of an election year is like finding your favorite grain of sand on the beach. there are an impossible number of possibilities. catch phrases become boom ranges. >> if you have a business, you didn't build that. >> when cast members stole the spotlight. >> i'm an american woman who uses contraceptions. let's start there. >> you can shake it up and we start all over again. >> and a fair number of moments ranging from ridiculous to inexplicable. >> i'm not going to shut up. it's my turn. >> i think it's called romnes

he is suing the local government foreman dates. monahan a devout catholic says the law rviolates his rights. >> as we remember the victims of the connecticut school shooting we are learning more about the shooter there were claims he had a personality disorder possibly asperger's syndrome. he talked about lack of support in families with health problems. >> i would go to the massachusetts general hospital state hospitals they were in danger of themselves to others. it has become much harder to do. not something any psychiatrist ever does lightly. the dilemma for a parent is you are in these terrible relationships because of the rise of civil liberties and based on what we had in the 50s of the abuse of incarceration of the mentally ill. it becomes impossible. >> so what are families to do? let's ask psycho therapist and school counselor. >> we are talking about a possible asperger's angle here. there's no evidence -- >> i have gotten e-mails from people about that. there is no evidence that somebody with asperger's has violent beha

brown foreman and carnival, also moody's saying look it, we're giving you a credit negative warning. you're borrowing money to pay out these special dividends. melissa: crazy. >> sounds like a great idea because of tax hikes are coming on dividends. the issue, a lot of companies have insiders who own a lot of shares in the company. look at costco. the ceo there is saving about, i think billion $4 million. he will get $14 million personally in dividends, accelerated into this year in advance of the gas hike. the issue with this gentleman, he has been out there, saying americans have to pay their fair share. all about tax fairness. banging the drum about that. board members are banging the drum. charlie monger is on the board of costco saying i'm for a vat. bill gates's father is for raising estate taxes. the father sits on the board of costco. the thing is, 1% shouldn't be clamoring about tax hikes when they're getting special dividends accelerated into this year. melissa: they're gaming it. >> that's right. the other issue writing yourself a special dividend check before taxes go up.

but a long time friend said she was ramona foreman who cared for her mother. now, police have made no arrests. they are still trying to figure out what instigated the gunfire that left at least ten shellcationss on the sidewalk -- shell casings on the sidewalk and then after that, more gunfire. one person was injured and drove himself to the hospital. he was transferred to highland hospital. his condition is stabilized. police told us they don't believe these two shootings -- are related -- shootings are related. tara moriarty, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> 7:05. happening right now, two state department officials are testifying before a congressional panel about the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in ben gadzy, libya. these are some pictures from this morning. we've been following this at the senate foreign relations hearing. now, the public testimony comes two days after an independent review panel issued a report that blamed management failures at the state department for "grocery inadequate security" at that consulate. that led to the resignations of four s

the judge rejected the company's motion for a new trial based on the thought that the jury foreman was bias on apple. however, ceo jeff immelt says the fiscal cliff in washington has hurt demand in recent months. >>> and meredith whitney says it's time to buy bank. the independent research analyst has upgraded citigroup, bofa and discover financial as muches from hold to buy. ms. whitney told cnbc that the outcome of stress tests by the fed is one of the factors behind the move. she's not the only one to upgrade her move. rbc has hiked its price targets from $49 to $50. earlier we asked you if meredith whitney was trite to upgrade to banks or a little later. bac tops $11 and is up 98% year-to-date. and bahad tweets meredith whitney is now bullish at $11? tough talk about. what do you think, has she got it right? strayed ahead, we take a look at what the economies may look like with and without a fiscal ball for next year. we'll look ahead for 2013 when we come back. i always wait until the last minute. can i still ship a gift in time for christmas? yeah, sure you can. great. where's yo

. >> the last trade i made on in trade before it was outlawed was on channing tatum foreman of the year and woman of the year. he will be person of the year. this is the most disappointing pick since they named me. i got that copy. >> did you sign it and try to tell is on ebay? >> last year they picked a protestor. should they pick channing day tunnel -- channing tatum as the protestor? >> why are we talking about news week's man of the year. >> it was one person dumb enough to buy. joy remi, have you one -- >> remi, have you one chance to pick for yourself. >> i remember how much you told me about the movie "magic mike." it should have been channing tatum. i got it out right. >> well, you know it is probably too late. he already moved on. >> not into him. >> well i heard that, and i am so upset. bill, "time" picked you as the eyesore of the year. it is an honor to know they exist? he is still angry. >> forgetting the plate and making my talking point. i feel the protestor should have been the man of the year again. the guy protesting the fact that it wasn't channing tatum. >> well, all

tom foreman walks us through what happened yesterday morning minute by minute. >> this is what we know at this point about the timeline of the shooting reported by law enforcement officials and witnesses and the layout of the school as best we can piece it all together. 9:30 in the morning, classes had been underway for a half hour. more than 600 students and approximately 50 faculty members inside the building. in addition to that there's a meeting just convened by some of the school officials including the principal in a room somewhere right up here, about seven of them all gathered in one room. about 9:40, ten minutes later, as beck we can make it out, that's when the gunman appears to have entered the building. how? we don't know. they had a new security system right up here that might have kept him out, not sure what happened with that. police put a lot of time looking at a car parked right out here in the fire lane suggesting that if that were his car, that in fact he may have indeed come right through the front door here into the school. people throughout the building at that po

my dad's their warehouse foreman. gosh. nothing like connections. must be rather jolly, seeing doors begin to open. big, wide world, all of that. suppose. happy reading. [boys giggling] fred: stop messing about with that plug now, and no one told you to touch the cypress. you'd have had more success pulling her teeth out one by one. one can't help having a sort of spasm of fellow feeling. do you remember what it felt like, feeling as if you'd never stop growing? like alice in wonderland when she ate the cake, dreading being noticed, and fearing you aren't visible at all. can't say i do. never seen anyone so decrepit. i have to say, i've got a jolly robust nose, but a meths drinker asked me for small change the other day. it was all i could do to keep my bran flakes down. i don't think she was a drinker, and there was actually mildew on her coat. she was asking after the baby, you say? yes. sounds like someone we used to see a lot of at stepney borders. used to call her mrs. jenkins. i don't think that was her real name. not quite the full picnic, if

. >> one small step foreman, one giant leap for mankind. >> mike and i asked him, mike said had you thought about what you were going to say when you get down on the moon? >> i don't know yet. when we ran i will start think being it. never know when to take him seriously. >> armstrong and aldrin spent 1 hour on the lunar surface. it was enough time to bounce around collect moon rocks and take several famous photos. aldrin with the american flag a football on the moon probably the most iconic of all. >> just walking then he said stop, hold it. i stopped. looked at it and he took the picture. >> people have asked me what is the significance of this picture? i say i got three words, location, location, location chlgs . >> as a 10-year-old kimmed looking at this place. what's it like? >> you used the same word i did. but i prefaced desolate with magnificent because of humanity reaching outward and accomplishing something people thought were possible. >> apollo 11 made it to the moon 6 months ahead of the deadline jfk had set at the beginning of the decade. it was left to another president to co

governor, this is my foreman, cassidy. - good evening. found mountain lion tracks over at cottonwood springs. - fresh trail? - about an hour old. - now, there you are, sir. didn't i promise you some good hunting? we've got a big cat. - i want to go too. clunk! - no, lila. reece, you wouldn't let her go. well, it's just that she's such a little girl. - we'll start before daybreak. not this time, little bit. in a year or two, maybe. i brought mrs. kilgore here out from the east. she still hasn't quite been able to get used to it. you see, back east, you wouldn't be wearing pants. you'd learn to curtsy and to embroider, and you'd no more think of letting the sun touch your face than you'd handle the business end of a branding iron. - i'm gonna brand a calf this roundup. - you are, huh? i've got a big outfit here, governor. you've only seen a corner of it. and this is the youngster who someday is gonna be able to run it. i'm raising her to be equal to the job. - did you have to humiliate me before the governor? - go to bed. - i know how bitte

should be revised that the jury used incorrect standards to determine the amount and they believe the foreman had a conflict of interest. experts have been following the case and believe it is far from over. >> once a party lose a jury verdict it is a very tough hill to climb. there is another bite of the apple, no pun intended. >> the judge will issue orders by installment and because she has a trial this month it may not happen till that is over. live in san jose, ann rubin, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> there is word tonight facebook is trying to buy atlas solutions from microsoft. if facebook makes the deal it could allow them to put ads on third party website. the move is a challenge to google's double click service. >>> a san francisco bakery grew a crowd at a new restaurant this morning. people lined up early outside the bakery in the shopping center. they gave the first 100 people in line vouchers for a free loaf every day for a year. they also gave the food bank free bread for a year and a free loaf to anyone who brought donations for the food book. >>> let's check in with bill here. >> w

." >> welcome, i'm tom foreman, and this was a year for living dangerously. whether flirting with the fiscal cliff or skydiving from the edge of space or just buying a power ball ticket, risk taking was back en vogue. as we head into the new year, we're going to look back at all of the risky business that brought us here in the economy, in entertainment, in sports, in pop culture, in technology, and in the biggest, baddest game of all. give it to the twin pillars of politics, the relentless candidates, barack obama and mitt romney, for waging the best and worst presidential campaign of the year. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> best because it was a time for riveting battle for control of the nation. worst because it often became a war of cheap shots, questionable facts, and everything else that just exhausts voters. >> i don't think there's anything else that immediately so completely sucked up all of the energy or oxygen in the air. >> worst republican roulette, the party primary that seemed to have a new up and coming favorite every ten

tom foreman, cnn, baltimore. >>> as bombs drop over syria, we'll tell you what aleppo's residents are doing to try and get back to normal. try running four.ning a restaurant is hard, fortunately we've got ink. it gives us 5x the rewards on our internet, phone charges and cable, plus at office supply stores. rewards we put right back into our business. this is the only thing we've ever wanted to do and ink helps us do it. make your mark with ink from chase. >>> this is what syrians wake up to every morning waiting for the violence to end soon. but it is getting worse, actually, every day. today, the syrian air strikes hit rebel targets near damascus airport, and bombs rain down on other rebel held areas in the city. for the last two days, syrians have also been cut off from the outside world with almost no internet or telephone. the next step for the rebels is the friends of syria meeting in morocco. secretary of state hillary clinton will be there and might announ announce if the u.s. will be a representative of syrians. as damascus is pounded by president bashar al assad's forces, th

. >> reporter: alan foreman with the thoroughbred horseman's association says it should give horse men and breeders a bright future and great purses to compete for. the new financial arrangement will allow them to make improvement to their aging facilities, knowing that they will get a run on their money. the agreement ends years of debate between the two groups over how to save the state's struggling racing industry. >> there is no more conflict. there is no more animosity. we can get down to the business of running the racetrack and do the best for racing. >> reporter: local fans thrilled to hear their horseracing home is safe for the next 10 years. >> these people were -- i think i'm glad they got it. i wish they'd double it. >> reporter: racing for 2013 is set to begin here in laurel right at january 1st. racing will begin at pimleco april 4th. derek valcourt, wjz eyewitness news. >>> the 138th running of the preakness stakes is saturday the 18th. >>> still to come on wjz eyewitness news. >> giving back. that's what this ravens player is all about. i'm rochelle richie. i will tell

and my dad was a ranch foreman on a cattle ranch. didn't make a ton of money, and yet somehow he provided for my mother, my college education, insurance. i don't know how he did it. but i looked across the street at another very middle class family. i looked across the street diagonally, and one of the richest families in chandler lived there, and the lot next to them was their pool and their poolhouse. who's a guest at their pool every single week? me. who plays monopoly with their kids? me. you don't see that much anymore. the superzips, as murray calls them, are highly i insulated and rarely get middle america at all in terms of entertainment, culturally, it's just a terrible split. and that is something we have to repair. >> [inaudible] >> matt flynn, charles koch foundation. when you say that it's something we need to repair, what would you prescribe to be a fix for that? isn't that undermining the idea of spontaneous order? >> no. i think that all order has certain constraints that it acts within. you know, water's formed when

without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman for over 20 years. >> he was a santa claus, right? >> yes. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety. >> yeah, growing up, his nickname was safety man. my dad was in my house with me all the time, and my mom was, too. and this idea that my house was somehow, you know, halfway built or any of those kinds of things, it's just absurd. it is absurd. the person that came up with the ashes story was me, you know, i was worried that when i went to bed and saw the box next to the mud room -- sorry, in the mud room next to the door, i thought, oh, i should put that outside, and then i thought, no, it's okay. i vividly remember this. of course i do. so i went to bed, and when i got up i came out to the front to the top of the porch, i looked around and i saw my parents' bedroom windows, and i looked and there was no flame there, and i looked back, and the way my house was built i could go all the way around, and i saw 8-foot white parks coming out the direction of the meter, and the soun

without doing a proper investigation, i mean, my father was the director of safety and security for brown foreman over 20 years. >> he was an in store santa claus, wasn't me? >> yes. in his retirement. in his retirement. >> he was very keen on safety and that. you were very aware. >> yes, yes. as a kid growing up, i mean, his nickname is safety man. my dad was in my house with my all the time. and my mom was, too. and, you know, this idea that my house was somehow, you know, halfway built or any of those kinds of things, it is just absurd. it is absurd. and so, the person that came up with the ashes story was me. you know? i was bereaved that when i went to bed and saw the box next to the mud room, or i'm sorry in the mud room next to the door i thought, oh, i should put that outside. and then i thought, no, it's okay. i vividly remember this. of course i do. and so, i went to bed. when i got up, i came out the front on to the front top of the porch. i looked around. and i saw my parent's bedroom windows and i looked up. there was no flame there. and i looked back and the way that my house was bu

cnn's tom foreman takes us there that. >> reporter: military analysts believe that syria may have one of the most expentensive chemic weapon stockpiles in the world. spread throughout the country. this, they say, the result of an aggressive development program started in the 1980s, aided by the russians and the iranians and cause for concern before. not only because the government there might use it, but also, because maybe these weapons could fall in to the hands of terrorists so precisely what are we talking about? first of all, mustard gas. this is an old chemical weapon. it was used in world war i. it doesn't act very quickly but it's extremely painful. it burns the skin, can burn the eyes and when inhaled it burns the lungs. it can be fatal but more often it's simply rendering an opponent unable to fight anymore and can create chronic health problems like respiratory illness and blindness for the remainder of life. beyond that, sarin gas is a concern out there. it attacks the nervous system and can cause uncontrolled trembling, and then convulsions and then unconsciousness and de

i'm tom foreman. despite joblessness, low wages and everything bad about the economy. holiday sales right now are looking pretty good. the national retail sales federation predicts when all is said and done, they'll be up about 5% this year. so why are some retailers so worried? because there is a rapidly growing giant out there, gobbling up customers like nothing before. so much so, that this may be one of the last christmases you'll ever see with shopping quite like this. >> reporter: america's holiday mall mania is as traditional as tinsel, consumers spending more than a half trillion dollars this year will fuel more than a half million seasonal jobs, but the real frenzy is at home, amazon.com. >> what is amazon up to? >> the ambition it seems is to take over the systems of comp assumption. >> barnie jobson a reporter for the financial times has just written a book about amazon's extraordinary rise. >> amazon's sales have been growing about 20% to 30% a year and this is phenomenal when you consider the rest of the retail sector is growing at best 5% a year. there is

cnn's tom foreman takes us there that. >> reporter: military analysts believe that syria may have one of the most expentensive chemic weapon stockpiles in the world. spread throughout the country. this, they say, the result of an aggressive development program started in the 1980s, aided by the russians and the iranians and cause for concern before. not only because th government there might use it, but also, because maybe these weapons could fall in to the hands of terrorists so precisely what are we talking about? first of all, mustard gas. this is an old chemical weapon. it was used in world war i. it doesn't act very quickly but it's extremely painful. it burns the skin, can burn the eyes and when inhaled it burns the lungs. it can be fatal but more often it's simply rendering an opponent unable to fight anymore and can create chronic health problems like respiratory illness and blindness for the remainder of life. beyond that, sarin gas is a concern out there. it attacks the nervous system and can cause uncontrolled trembling, and then convulsions and then unconsciousness and dea

on behalf of all the folks at "a.c. 360" and cnn, i'm tom foreman wishing you all the best and none of the worst in 2013. >>> tonight, with pastor warren talks religion, reason and what america needs now. >> the good news lnt good much. what you need is the better life. >> from the election and economy to same sex marriage and more. the issues that really matter. >> why we have to change the constitution? it's a flawed document. it was made my men. >> what does god mean to you? this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening and happy holidays. welcome to this special "piers morgan" tonight. joining me, one of the most influential leaders in the world. it's rick warren. tonight we're going to talk about faith, family, politics, sins, the questions of church and state and much, much more. pastor warren is the author of "a purpose driven life." welcome. >> good to be with you. >> what is the purpose of christmas. >> well, you know, the angels in the story of the first christmas said three things. and those three statements say the three purposes of christmas. they are celebration, salvation

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tom foreman went looking for answers in new york. >> amid the bustle of broadway, against the bad economy and the crushing competition at the strand the show goes on. it started more than 80 years ago. this independent bookstore has beaten the odds surviving the great depression, world war ii and fred bass, who was a baby when his dad started the strand says the store is enduring these tough times, too. >> we have good books and good prices. lately we've been selling a lot of new books at discount, but it's mostly used books or bargain books that we sell, or out of print books. >> the strand's eclectic approach allows it to appeal to a broad array of clients hunting the trivial and treasured on the shelves like this rare copy of ulysses. >> how much are we selling this one for? >> 20 bucks. >> the strand success is about more than inventory. employees top to bottom must possess a deep knowledge of books and embrace the idea they're maintaining a business but also a community. >> there's just a comfort here where people feel willing to open up and just have 30-minute conversations with you

for all of us at "in focus" i'm tom foreman. thanks for watching. >>> the white house revealed that speaker john boehner met with the president to discuss the officials of the fiscal cliff. we're just days before the congress and the white house has to hammer out a deal or everyone's going to suffer the consequences. emily, what have you learned about today's meeting? >> allison we know that today's meeting was not on the schedule today. so that means we have to rely on the word from the white house deputy press secretary and a congressional staffer which happens to be the exact same words. they released two separate statements, both identical and this is the statement. it says this afternoon the president and speaker boehner met at the white house to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff. we're not reading out details of the constitution, but the lines of communication remain. on wednesday, you'll remember a source familiar with the conversation said they did speak by phone, at that point it was the first time in a week t

>> tom foreman, thank you so much. back to a point we were making, the nra today, ripped on the national media there, saying it turns shooters into celebrities with overblown coverage. the nra also says the media is biased against gun owners. >> rather than face their own moral failings, the media demonized lawful gun owners. amplify their cries for more laws, and fill the national media with misinformation and dishonest thinking. how many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame? from a national media machine that rewards them with wall to wall attention, and a sense of identity that they crave. >> we are the media. we cover newtown. we're still in newtown. i went there personally over the weekend. i want to talk about this. i want to bring in washington post media critic eric wimple. do you think the media contributes to these kinds of mass murders? >> i don't. i don't think the media contributes to these kinds of mass murders. i think the research on this alleged nexus between media saturation

dan cap pel is the foreman. >> half the people will get the power become on within probably hour and a half arrest sore and rest out for awhile until we fix the pole. >>reporter: that could take some time. this is the neighborhood that is used to power out annuals. they happen when strong winds whip up the hillside. elizabeth and her husband have lived here for 4 decades. >> it got so bad my husband and i a few years ago bought a camp stove because our stove is electric and we are so used to electric being out that we now are using our camp stove. >>reporter: vick lee, abc 7 news. >> we have resources on how to stay safe during the rainy season or any kind of natural disaster. you will find our advice on our web site look for it under see it on tv. >> rain in the bay area usually means snow in the sierra and some ski resort plan on being open this weekend. kirk wood ski resort showing what it loo looks like at the bottom of the slopes rate now. kirk wood north star all open tomorrow. we have some images of idol ski lift with sugar bowl. sugar bowl closed tomorrow because of high wind

tom foreman has the story on the american journey. >> reporter: in the bustling heart of kansas city, the pioneer spirit is burning brightly. entrepreneurs trading ideas, exploring concepts, and much of it revolves around a handful of houses on a few beaten up blocks where some small internet startups are drawing national attention. >> i can go local. >> reporter: mike farmer is the ceo of leap 2, a company with a highly advanced mobile search app. >> people have stopped by the office every day from boston, san francisco, or denver. it's just fascinating. >> reporter: that must feel pretty good. >> yeah, it does. >> reporter: one big reason the companies are clustering here is that google chose this neighborhood to launch its much anticipated super high-speed internet connection. 100 times faster than most internet links. google fiber allows massive video, data, and graphic files to move with astonishing speed, permitting development of whole new applications. under the plan, within the next two years, large sections of kansas city on both the kansas and missouri sides will be wired.

i'm tom foreman and this was a year for living dangerously. whether flirting with the fiscal cliff or skydiving from the edge of space or just buying a powerball ticket, risk-taking was back in vogue. and as we head into the new year, we're going to look back at all the risky business that brought us here, in the economy, in entertainment, in sports, in pop culture, in technology, and in the biggest, baddest game of all. give it to the twin pillars of politics, the relentless candidates barack obama and mitt romney, for waging the best and worst presidential campaign of the year. >> thank you, thank you, thank you! >> thank you so much! >> best, because it was at times, a riveting battle for control of the nation. worst because it often became a war of cheap shots, questionable facts, and everything else that just exhausts voters. >> i don't think there's anything else that immediately, so completely sucked up all the energy, all oxygen in the year. >> to enforce the law -- >> worst republican roulette. the party primary that seemed to have a