. >> and dan brown's latest novel and the harry potter series and the written world. and the book of stories from the beginning of time. >> and other fun finds. >> every once in a while you test out your eyesight. and shoppers can enjoy the million lights that sparkle at night. >> everybody like the displays and the annual gingerbread competition is on display. >> it's amazing what the creators come up with. >> i used to do this with my mom but i would always eat the candy. >> and gingerbread workshops. >> and can you pick up locally made confections. >> we have brittle and cotton candy and jams and jellies and put together a nice little gift basket. >> and 12 beers on tap. >> they have set up a tap room for thirsty christmas shoppers. >> hang out and relax and have a sip and do some shopping. >> and take ta your brew along while you shop. hot cider with a figure in the peddlers village tasting room. >> all the beautiful landscaping and have a cocktail at the same time. >> and have bottles of their hand crafted spirits. all of them are made from locally grown grains a

and dan brown. tan, you've got another page turner. i can't wait for you to come. thank you, both. >>> this morning let's take a look at this morning's headlines. the flu season is prompting visitor restrictions at mississippi medical center. mississippi and louisiana have the highest flu levels in the week before thanksgiving. patient asset the hospital will be allowed two healthy visitors at the time. visitors risk spreading the flu to people who are vulnerable. >> our partners at cnet say omg, texting is 25 years old. can you believe that? the first text sate merry christmas. today about 97% of smartphone owners use texting. estimates say more than 561 billion text messages were sent worldwide in june 2014. americans send and receive five times as many texts than phone calls. >>> wow, wow. >> i was like what does that stand for. oh. it spells a word. >> i'm a little witty this morning. >>> "business insider"s say walmart and amazon are locked in a bitter war and than the risk of becoming clones. they both launched their in-home delivery program at about the same

. >> so if you happen to be a fan of dan brown "da vinci code," there's a scene where they quote from the gospel of phillip, jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth or on the lips. this is the passage that he's referring to here. when we actually see the manuscript, it's just not that clear. >> even in these gospels there's no reliable evidence of a romantic relationship between mary and jesus. but these alternative accounts do support the bible's story that jesus and mary were very close. >> the idea that the gospels would not mention a wife if there was one doesn't make any sense. most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her more than the other disciples. and that's all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a genuine tension between mary and peter. >> i think the tension that's reflected in so

we have got the new dan brown mag is not so new now but new dan brown and also darker from yelljames. new now but new dan brown and also darker from yell james. these new now but new dan brown and also darker from yelljames. these are offers we see in the charts a lot but it's the first time since bridgetjones in 2013 but it's the first time since bridget jones in 2013 that we see a fiction book selling well enough to get into the top ten. we have talked again about e—reader's causing the demise of physical books, it hit fiction hard so to see them appearing in the chart is a nice surprise. thanks very much for your time. any christmas facts? yes, one of the big high—street retailers marks & spencer ‘s have released some top search terms on the website this week for gifts people are buying, things you might find under the tree, what is on there? slippers. number two! dressing down? tell me what number one is? pyjamas? yes, everyone needs new pyjamas. how many mince pies do you think they will sell on friday? 2 million. bang on! you are good at this! lets have a quick look at the

. >> so if you happen to be a fan of dan brown and the da vinci code, there is a scene there where they quote from phillip. jesus loved mary magdalene more than the other disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth or on the lips. this is what they're referring to here. when we actually see the manuscript, it's just not that clear. >> even in these gospels there's no reliable evidence of a romantic relationship between mary and jesus. but these alternative accounts do support the bible's story that jesus and mary were very close. >> the idea that the gospels would not mention a wife if there was one doesn't make any sense. most likely, mary was a close friend of jesus and a follower, but not his wife. >> what the gospel of phillip clearly says is that there is some kind of a favored relationship between mary magdalene and jesus. that jesus does care for her more than the other disciples. and that's all it really tells us. >> but some scholars believe the nag hammadi texts do reflect a genuine tension between mary and peter. >> i think the tension that's reflected in some of the te

i'm pamela brown. my colleague, dan bash, picks things up right now. >>> hello, i'm dana bash. christmas 2017 is a wrap. and president trump says he's back to work. he's also back on twitter after giving it a break, at least for christmas day. as his first year in office winds down, the president is taking some parting shots at a few favorite targets -- fbi, obamacare, and, despite the election he won being over more than a year ago, the clinton campaign. sara murray is with the president in west palm beach. sara, he is back tweeting. i guess that means in part back to work even though we understand he's on the golf course. specifically, he's tweeting about health care.

i'm pamela brown. my colleague, dan bash, picks things up right now. >>> hello, i'm dana bash. christmas 2017 is a wrap. and president trump says he's back to work. he's also back on twitter after giving it a break, at least for christmas day. as his first year in office winds down, the president is taking some parting shots at a few favorite targets -- fbi, obamacare, and, despite the election he won being over more than a year ago, the clinton campaign. sara murray is with the president in west palm beach. sara, he is back tweeting. i guess that means in part back to work even though we understand he's on the golf course. specifically, he's tweeting about health care. what's he saying, and why d-- wy do you think he's saying it? >> obviously congress is back, they have a budget to deal with. they have to deal with what they want to do about the dreamers, they have to move forward about infrastructure. that is not what the president was tweeting about today. the president was tweeting about health care, essentially saying he's all but dismantled obamacare by doing away with th

. >> dan and i are very weary of that game. >> we're weary of you talking about it. >> and your brown suit. >> well, just for that -- >> let's talk about some basketball, dan. this is a story you can really get into. >> yeah, it is. this is a scary story. anxious moments at a college basketball game yesterday. a player collapsed right in front of his coach. >> his mom was right there in the stands watching the whole thing. adrienne has the story. >> reporter: scary first half, for the fans, that team, and coaches who were right there as the player falls on the the bench at pnc arena. it was a heart-stopping moment on the court and it wasn't the game. >> south carolina state player went down in front of the bench. >> reporter: the auditorium full of excited college basketball fans. >> and freeman the rebound. >> reporter: goes silent as coaches and teammates jump in to give south carolina guard tyvoris solomon cpr. >> we had a scary moment today. >> reporter: solomon, a junior, collapsed. his heart stopping just as he came off the court during the matchup with north carolina state. pla

. >> dan and i are very weary of that game. >> we're weary of you talking about it. >> and your brown suit. >> well, just for that -- >> well. >> let's talk about some basketball, dan. this is a story you can really get into. >> yeah, it is. this is a scary story. anxious moments at a college basketball game yesterday. a player collapsed right in front of his coach. >> his mom was right there in the stands watching the whole thing. adrienne has the story. >> reporter: scary first half, for the fans, that team, and coaches who were right there as the player falls on the bench at pnc arena. it was a heart-stopping moment on the court and it wasn't the game. >> south carolina state player went down in front of the bench. >> reporter: the auditorium full of excited college basketball fans. >> and freeman the rebound. >> reporter: goes silent as coaches and teammates jump in to give south carolina guard tyvoris solomon cpr. >> we had a scary moment today. >> reporter: solomon, a junior, collapsed. his heart stopping just as he came off the court during the matchup with north carolina state

. >>> "a charlie brown christmas," cma country christmas. >> "jimmy kimmel live," celebrity guests for aids/hiv programs. >> i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze, for spencer and larry and entire team, have a good night. hello, i'm vincent, this is livingston, i've got a huge house and no friends. join me every saturday for creature features where we show spooky movies, have interesting guests and livingston cooks up something delicious. don't you? i try, sir. popcorn. i like popcorn. (crunching) ohh. (blues music playing on tv) oh, this family spends too much time watching tv and not enough time talking. honey, you're talking right now. mike. besides, this is educational. oh, come on. how is that educational? i'm teaching eve here how not to be a gator-huntin' hillbilly. ohh. well, boyd's down. ooh.

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, democrat of ohio and senator dan alaska -- dan sullivan, republican of alaska. listen to what the two of them had to say. [video clip] tax system in place and when i hear my colleagues disingenuously say the democrats, because they don't like our tax plan, that means they are for the taxes the way it is. we'll like that in states like ine -- we don't like that states like mine and eastern oregon, where companies shut orn production in lima springfield and moved to beijing and get a tax break for doing that. we want to close that loophole that this bill explodes that loophole. if a plant shuts down and barbara town or shuts down in , the company under this bill would pay a rate of 20% on the profits. if it shuts down and moves to asia, he can build a new factory get a tax reduction for the cost of moving and pay u.s. tax rate of zero. why wouldn't they move? >> the issue on economic growth, we are talking about growth, growth, growth. i have not, in three years -- three years -- heard my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say that economic growth of 1.5% f

california governor jerry brown surveyed damage in the county and dan springer is there with the latest, dan, what are you seeing? >> arthel, one thing about california, they know how to fight fires, they've had a lot of practice and between them and the federal government they have thrown massive resources at these six fires and thanks to lighter winds today and much of yesterday, they are getting the upper hand on some of them. there are 8700 personnel here, most of them firefighters, some of them from surrounding states like oregon and nevada, the california national guard has been activated, of course, military police from several bases and, of course, the aircraft, they are key, marine and navy helicopters with a couple of c-130's and 747's that dropped fire deterrent. >> took a shot at republicans. >> tens and tens of billions of dollars. i hope the folks in washington realize that as they are spending money or helping other spend it by giving them tax breaks, we need to invest in our fire fighting capacity, we need to invest in our whole infrastructure and unfortunately the polit

daddy, i have a christmas present for you from dan rather. >> good to see you. >>> coming up next hour another great journalist and author tina brown will have her book with new tales of the trump campaign and more. we will talk about that coming up in the next hour. straight ahead the many tangled questions on trump's tweets. his lawyer claims he wrote the flynn firing tweet. how much does that matter? ( ♪ ) as a person who loves the finer things, this holiday season, i've asked for a luxurious new buick suv. ( ♪ ) fingers crossed. ( ♪ ) ring in the holidays with buick. get up to 20% below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. that's almost $7,400 on this buick enclave leather. experience the new buick this holiday season for remaining 2017s. experience the new buick alright, i brought in high protein to help get us moving. ...and help you feel more strength and energy in just two weeks! i'll take that. -yeeeeeah! ensure high protein. with 16 grams of protein and 4 grams of sugar. ensure. always be you. you only earn double withmiles when you buy stuffds, from that airline. is th

dan and di i'm an imaginary friend of a kid just like you.ada! you probably have lots of questions. but look, we'll get through this together. >>> governor brown tonight honored the 11th class of inductees into california's hall of fame at the california museum in sacramento. >> yeah. the nine honorees including director steven spielberg and former oakland raiders quarterback jim plunkett received a spirit of california medal. >> a public exhibit opening tomorrow will highlight their lives and their accomplishments. congratulations. >> very special. >>> all right. all eyes on steph curry tonight. >> that's right. larry is here with that. >> i would pencil in steph curry as a future california hall of famer. >> for sure. >> steph got an mri on his injured ankle during the day. and then tonight in a boot with a cane. so when will steph be >>> good evening. steph curry could be back in a couple of weekends, which the warriors would love to see given how ugly his ankle injury looked last night. the mri came back today. no structural damage. steph rolled his right ankle late in the fourt

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. >>> primetime lineup, 8:00, "a charlie brown christmas," followed by magical world of disney. kickoff at resort. all kinds of stars and abc7 news at 11:00. >> jim"jimmy kimmel live,". >> look for breaking news on twitter @abc7newsbayarea. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm kristen sze, for spencer christian and larry beil, entire team, good night. >> see you at 11:00. "last man standing" is recorded in front of a live studio audience. mike: yeah! [ cheers and applause ] doesn't get any better than this. you, me, the crowd, and the broncos. and justin. i said, "the crowd." yeah, thank you for including me, sir. ah, don't thank me. thank the seven people who couldn't make it.

[applause] and counsel dan webb with matthew carter. [applause] calling to order the marshall we will welcome the bench for tonight. the supreme court will be chief judge merrick garland. judgethomas griffin's and cut time the brown jackson. [applause] they will be here in a minute. please enjoy the trial. [gavel] >> all rise. oh yeah a, oea, oh yeah a. the supreme court is now in session. please be seated. [applause] >> thank you mr. chief justice and may it please the court. olivia or not to be leave olivia. that is the question. my client tell in love with one person. she was tricked into marrying another. when she realized that she had been married to a stranger she sought annulment. thatower courts denied her relief. it is only available when one behavior has been duped. there is ample evidence that sebastian's deceptive behavior induced olivia to marry him. first sets eyes on olivia, she called him her dear's is reo. people do go by different names. for instance when she is kicking it with her homey's, justice by theer ginsburg go

i'm ben brown. six people have been killed and a seventh is critically injured after a multi—vehicle crash in birmingham, west midlands ambulance service have said. plans to automatically enrol hundreds of thousands of young people in workplace pensions for the first time, to help them save for retirement. i think especially in london, moved jobs quite frequently, tend not to stay in one place too long, so pensions have always been lower down the list in things i've been conscious of. a new leader of south africa's ruling anc party is expected to be announced today — after years of scandal and corruption. england's ashes hopes are fading — captainjoe root one of the men out

kron 4's dan kerman has more. soti am currently the acting mayor and will assume that responsibilitysan francisco native london breed becomes san francisco's first african american woman to take charge of the citysot amos brown/ naacp sf president 10-20she's proven she can break the glass ceiling, that she can hold her own with men and this is what we need more ofnaacp san francisco president and 3rd baptist church pastor amos brown says breed is a member of his church and learned leadership skills through the naacp youth council. like ed lee, breed grew up in public housing, but says that did not serve as a roadblock to her success sotshe aspired for the stars, the heights she did not settle with mediocritybreed got her bacherlors degree from uc davis and her masters from the university of san francisco and brown thinks she has the qualities of a great leadersotshe has always had the capacity to relate to her elders and learn and grow and that's a great achievement.as board president breed often stood along side

plus we wait for the signing ceremony, dan is with us. he is a powerful guy. he's the deputy editor. don't look so smug. [laughter] >> have been in this tax fight a long time. >> brown one of the tax deal is what they are about to sign. i think brown to will be the states, high tax states, they've got to cut taxes. >> i would say so especially since the governors of those states, governor cuomo in new york, jerry brown in california are screaming body murder that this tax bill is shafting them. why? they are under the threat of their wealthiest residents leaving the state. that would be the people who pay 50% of the taxes in those states. >> by the way, on the left-hand side that is the shafting tax bill. they shoved it into position. now, do you think these states , do you think they're actually lower taxes? surely not. >> they don't want to lower taxes. over the past 25 - 40 years they have gradually jacked up taxes on the people. they've increased income taxes on the wealthiest, but property taxes as well. they've squeezed almost every turnup that exists in