own sun. the ability to navigate among these stars is invaluable to astronomers, but even to a casual observer it's pretty mind-blowing. this is al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler. >> sony hacks - the movie studio backs down, and a second film is cancel. why the white house calls it a national security issue cuba accord - one day after the historic agreement, the reaction on the ground in miami and havana. >> west virginia - the pollution left hundreds of thousands without water. now top chemical executives are facing criminal charges, and

freeze frame. 25 movies added to the national registry of film. the new classic preserved for all time. . >> we begin with details on the sony pictures cyber attack. the white house is considering a proportional response, but are not saying wh they think north korea was behind the breach. today, three movie theatres planning to show "team america" cancelled their subscription. films using the film to replace "the interview", which sony pulled yesterday. new reeges si will not go forward with steve carrel's north korea-based film "pyongyang", we go to jamie mcintyre in washington.

>> the u.s. has not fingered north korea as the culprit. there was a number of high-level meetings, an indication of how serious it is. sony cancelled the holiday release of the seth rogan movie "the interview", at four large chains in the united states so they wouldn't show it, because of a threat from hackers referring to the september 11th attacks. the cyber attack has been the subject of daily meetings. >> this is something that is treated as a serious national security matter. there is evidence to indicate that we have seen destructive activity with malicious intent. >> the fbi and the justice department are leading the investigation and reports quote u.s. officials as pointing and accusing fingers at north korea, incensed by the movie's depiction of the assassination

of its leader. the u.s. is considering how to respond. homeland security secretary jeh johnson said the attack is being taken seriously. it involved not only an attack on the company and personnel, about the the freedoms we enjoy, of artists and entertainers to produce movies, and american citizens to see movies. the u.s. government is actively considering a range of options that will take in response to the attack. >> incoming senator john mccain calling the response by u.s.: . >> the white house cautioned whoever was behind the attack may have been seeking to inflame the relations by going the u.s.

into a reaction. >> when they carry out actions like this, oftentimes, not always, but often, they are seeking to provoke a response from the united states of america. >> the white house says any response would be proportional, ruling out military action. >> if north korea is the target options are limited. some want to impose additional penalties, wall them off from the international banking system, and the u.s. is capable of engaging in cyber attacks as it did when it disarmed centrifuges. >> why someone in north korea may not be behind the cyber attacks to iraq, and what could be a blow to i.s.i.l.'s leadership in that country. the pentagon said three of the

military leaders have been killed in recent air strikes. vic is at the white house. >> coalition air strikes began. 1400 has been launched. they are taking the toll. several top leaders have been killed in the past few weeks alone. military initials are ahead of the military operations. a top deputy. he is the leader of i.s.i.l. within syria and iraq. in i.s.i.l., governor, mosul, the major city taken over by i.s.i.l. forces earlier this year. officials say the command and communication structure between syria and iraq, across the territory. the wide swath. has been degraded as a result. a top military commander,

general james terry gave reporters something of a surprise. to be trained by americans, only now, arriving there general terry gave a longer timeline. here is general terry. >> i think we have made significant progress and halting that offensive that i brought about, the ability to expand in terms of terrain and geography out there. what we must do is inside of iraq build the capabilities. you are at least talking the minimum of three years. >> a minimum of three years. that's the first we heard a definitive estimate of how long it could take, and that's longer. that is within iraq, to say nothing of american programme to train and treat the moderate programme in syria, those

troops, syrian registers won't be fielded, just 5,000, until almost a year from now. >> thank you. in northern nigeria, reports of a mass kidnapping and murder. local officials suspect boko haram. more than 30 people were reported killed, 185 kidnapped. the incident happened in a small town, the town is not far from where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped. >> the announcement of dealings between cuba and america has had mixed reactions. cubans earn an everything of $20 a month. there's hopes in relation to the financial opportunities ahead. >> with these new relations cuba is hoping for prosperity. it's great news. the economy will grow, relations

improve. following 56 years of resolution, it's the best that could happen to the people. >> while the u.s. is opening diplomatic relations with cuba, the trade embargo remains in delays. place. associated press reporter is in cuba and had the opportunity ta talk to the president's daughter. >> she said that the cuban assembly, which is meeting now, is studying closely the next steps that the cuban government will take with regard to economic policy and with regard to how they deal with what they expect to be a larger u.s. diplomatic presence on the island. she did say that if the u.s. thinks that by re-establishing diplomatic relations, they will

be able to impose a capitalist model on the country. she said they are dreaming. >> that's chris gillett. the dramatic shift announced by the white house is causing divisions and cuban-american families. some of that is generational. more from miami. >> the political rift may be shrinking, the emotional one is not necessarily. the latest shift has left main children of dissidents politically at odds with hair family. >> reporter: little havana is the cultural houb for cuban americans. take this family. the generations collide when it comes to talk about u.s. policy towards cuba. >> my parents are very, very

upset. they feel hurt that the cuban community, cuban american community were not consulted. >> my parents feel very betrayed by the american g.s.t. their sentiments, everything that they have gone through, and everything that has happened was not taken into consideration. >> fidel castro caused the death of many lives. it's a stap -- stab in the back from the american government. >> this couple fled as children and had no intention of going back. their daughters saw things differently. they wanted to explore the country, despite its history and politics. we met them on the 60th anniversary of the cuban revolution. the sisters and their dad returned from cuba, xavier's

first time back. >> you pay a lot to go back. it goes to the go. . >> it didn't change his perspective at all, going to cuba. i believe there's certain things about the move that can help the cuban people if we react responsibly. >> that was regina's father last year. her mother refuses to set foot in cuba. she grew up hating the castro and communism and for her it destroyed her family. >> regina said any real change will come from her generation, and her generation of peers inside cuba. >> morgan radford. elainor is cuban american and a high school teacher in miami, and talked about how the news drew dramatics rehabilitations within her family. >> this meant a lot of

discussionful cubans became rowdy, and we have so many different point of view. if there were political parties, there would be so many, trust me, this meant a lot of strain on my family. mostly because my grandmother has a lot of pain, and my mother as well. same with my father. none of them agree. it's caused a lot of friction. >> what do they say to you about this? >> okay. so my grandma has gone so far as to call me a ninist for celebrating the -- communist for celebrating the victory, for going back to cuba. i understand her. this is coming from a place of severe pain. at the end of the day i under all of that. but as a young perp that has seen what democracy means, that can express ourselves, i realise that, you know, this is a positive step in the right direction. americans are going to travel to

cuba. how dig is this. they'll travel freely, bringing their credit cards. credit - it doesn't exist in cuba. it's huge. i'm excited. >> you travelled to cuba three times in the last couple of years. what was that trip like for you? >> yes. actually, i travelled three times this year. it's been fabulous. i have not been back for 20 years. i left when i was three. it was an emotional time to reconnect with my roots, and to see, live the reality, instead of reading about it. so i have my own experiences and form my own opinion. i saw a lot of contradictions, and no one has the right story. what i hard at university and miami is not the same as what i live and hear and saw there, a lack of information, as a matter

of fact. did not depict the reality of things. >> an independent panel is recommending changes for the secret service, coming after a man scaled the white house fence in september. making it all the way into the building. the panel says the white house needs a better fence and other security features. training for agents needs to be improved and also the panel says that the new secret service director needs to come from outside the agency. the security failure led to the resignation of the former director to charleston west virginia, the scene of a chemical spill. prosecutors are bringing criminal charges against the xefs blamed for the -- executives blamed for the water contamination. >> the attorney-general called the actions grievously unacceptable saying it put a population needlessly at risk.

>> reporter: people in charleston west virginia had never seen anything like it. their tap water fouled by an industry that fuelled their any. >> now we'll never use the tap water here again, ever. >> months later, indictments against the executives in charge. >> we have to make crystal clear that those who commit violations like this are held accountable. >> this week six employees with freedom industries were charged with violating the federal clean water act. for a leek in january, that sent a chemical used to kill goal into a creek and into the water supply of a city of 400,000 people. >> can't cook, clean dishes, mop the floors because you can't get your hands in there. >> the company is accused of failing to inspect a corroding a

tang. and it was said: other work, complying with environmental laws, was ignored. >> we are committed to protecting government health through the investigation of violations, which this was. >> the charged executives plan to plead not guilty, calling the charges baseless. at the center, former president gary southern, a constant figure during the disaster. at the time many in the community accused him of being dismissive. >> a line he's repeating. >> it's a long two days, i don't have a comment. >> reporter: did you lie under oath to protect yourself?

>> no. >> reporter: he faced the most charms. arrested and accused of lying. his attorney said: in charleston it took weeks for many to trust the water. something most will never again take for granted. >> you don't think about where your water comes from. >> gary southern could face 68 years in prison. his former company reached a plea deal. part of that is that the government will not seek money for the victims because the company is bankrupt. >> all right. thank you. michael shank is a professor at george mason university, working on environmental policy on capitol hill. he's in the studio. what got the executives into trouble? >> well, they allowed essentially a chemical. m.c.h.m. - is it hazardous, toxic - they allowed 10,000

gallons worth of that to get into the drinking water of 300,000 residents from west virginia, and the okay river. that's what they are in trouble for. >> this is a bit unusual compared to other accidents. >> yes. >> did they intend to put it into the water? >> it was in a world war ii, and it had looks and the federal government was not doing oversights. there are acts, the clean water act or toxic substances. unfortunately, those agencies had been underfunded and chemicals had not been updated. perm is not there to track whether there'd been leaks. whether or not the jury or the judge decides that they are guilty, is there a message that the government is sending here, the justice department? >> hopefully. attorney-general holder said it's a grievous violation. it will be up to aj holder and

others to hold the executives accountable. hopefully this indictment will lead to prosecution. the past precedent is not there. >> what do indictments do? >> it rallies public sentiment so the nation knows about this, that our drinking water is vulnerable. we have to do more to protect it. the nation nose. it's up to the criminal justice system. >> in states like west virginia and kentucky, the regulations may not be as strong. and for clean water. will that change as a result. >> bobby kennedy wrote an op-ed. hopefully that will change. until it does, i and others look at cleaner, greener energy. it doesn't risk these kind of

spills going spoord. >> what happens to other tanks. what risk does it pose to the people of west virginia and others. >> a study looking at the cost to the economy, over half a trillion in terms of cost. there are many costs, fracking imposes the same risk. what is not regulated needs to be, and that requires founding and personnel. >> usually the government goes off the companies in a civil way, legally a civil way, not a criminal way. what is different about this? >> the nation knows about the 300,000 that didn't have water. who had to makeshift a tower or move to another town. this was a national story. they'll be more frequent with

climate change, and with the accountability and monitoring and oversight, taxpayers are tired of footing what happens, what happens to freedom industries, they declare bankruptcy. they are tired it of. >> thank you. >> an emotional day for victims of the boston marathon bombing. the suspected bomber was in court. lawyers discussed logistics for his trial, which is scheduled to start january 5th. he's accused of detonating two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the boston marathon, killing three, ippouring more -- injuring more than 350. prosecutors in kansas announced they are seeking the death penalty in the case of fraser glen cross, accused of attacks on jewish centers in april, killing three, including a young

boy later, why the federal government wants to team up with a former inmate of rikers island. >> saving the movie, saving private ryan for future generations.

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tonight a new study is linking mental disorder and air pollution. harvard found that pregnant mothers exposed to high levels of smog were twice as likely to have babies that developed autism later in life. the research examined 2,000 women over a 12 year span. a month of storms put a department in california's drought. it didn't wipe it out. they are the lowest in six months. a long way to go. rebecca stevenson is here with that. >> we have the state of california, in a level of drought. 100% of the state. the exceptional drought, which is the highest level has been

shrinking. the area with the rain fall, and in san francisco, is already over eight inches above normal. which is a great start. looks like it's not having that big of an effect. in san francisco. >> they have gone down to stream drought. they are in northern california. the northern california on the sierra leone, this is where they have the snow pack and rely on 30 to 50% of that going into the water supply. >> i see the red is bad. the good news is we have a whether pattern we have atmospheric rivers, and bring in the successive amount of rainfall. and 40% of the rivers put an end

to the drought in central california up to the north. we are seeing the northern california drought end by rivers. when they don't show up, we have an impact of 85% of precipitation that comes from them. >> more to come? >> we are seeing another developing for this weekend. so we are tracking how many inches of rain will fall on saturday, sunday. >> could be good news. >> definitely. >> next, why some tech experts are not convinced north korea is behind the sony hack. plus, police officers in new orleans have been wearing body cameras for months. doesn't mean that they are always rolling.

this is al jazeera america, i'll john seigenthaler. coming up, most republicans are outraged over the president's decision to normalize relations with cuba. especially marco rubio. the federal government steps in at rikers gaol to deal with

reports of excessive violence. and a grow number of police are using body cameras. a look at the impact they are having in new orleans. tonight the white house considering how to respond against the hack against sony pictures. the breach was followed by an online threat against movie theatres that led soapy not to -- sony not to release a movie making fun of north korea. no one has accused north korea of being behind the attack, privately it's pointed to the administrative of kim jong un. >> this is treated as a security matter of the there's evidence that we have seen constructive activity initiated by a

sophisticated attack. >> not everyone is convinced north korea is behind the attack. >> it's not clear why everyone is convinced that north korea is responsible. the evidence is thin. it may be that the white house has access to information they don't want to share. it's not clear. we have two publicly available pieces of information. one of the computers used in this. we know this by remotely accessing files, was set to be used in korea, the primary language of that computer. one attack came through bolivian servers, that has been in the past associated with north korea. this would be thin evidence. here is what we know about north korea's hacker subculture. there's not a public culture of

hacking. unlike russia and the united states, china, the internet is not available to the north korean public. they don't get to grow the subculture nationally here and in other countries. instead there's a bureau 121, an elite unit, 1,500 hackers. it did an exhaustive report in august about cyber warfare. bureau 121 is aimed at hacking attacks. asymmetrical warfare. here is where it departs from what we have seen. >> it sees military-style attacks. there's no disseminating of it publicly. it requires almost a sense of humour that has not been displayed in the past. there's to discernible

anniversary, nothing around politics. in terms of broad cultural sense of north korea and how it plated and the bare bones evidence, we are not seeing the evidence that you would want to see. >> that's jake ward. >> parramatta pictures is not allowing its film. team america to be screened. some movie scenes manned to run the 2004 movie in place of "the interview." "team america" also mocks north korea. peter is a media marketing as a resultant and i asked his thoughts on the sony hacking scandal. >> for them to cancel a $44 million movie 5 days, a week before launch is unheard of. they are scared. >> so did north korea do it? >> you have a 50/50 shot.

it's true that north korea recruit the smartest kids from school working for the government, creating viruses and hacking. when we think of hack, we think of a guy in a base typing code. there's reports that the credentials, log-in for a senior vp. i feel that someone got this him at a bar, woman, talking to him. at one point he had too much to drink. writing down the logging info. it's a theory. >> we are not secure when it comes to the password. >> you don't wall it macking. >> it's way in. yes, but it's not the hacking, it's a guy being stupid. >> that's the way it happens in many case. >> we did it in the '80s.

>> someone else could be behind it. >> it is possible. >> someone with a vendetta. someone there. >> north korea, of course, denied it but call it a wonderful deed. they love the attention they get. we talk about north korea now than when dennis rodman visited. >> is it possible they haven't been able to figure out how it was done, who did it. >> it is. >> our latest sources guess that anything we want to guess. it's not necessarily true or false. we'll glefr know how it happens -- never know how it happens. >> what is the impact on sony. >> financially, it will hurt them. they release the film, and one lone wolf decided to make a statement. they are history for the rest of the year. they have six more films.

ripples are spreading fast. you are not seeing a cap come to sony's defense because we all have emails like this. >> will we never see "the interview", it's available op line. >> i have seen the scenes that north korea protests. >> why not release it on paper view. >> mitt romney came out and said in a tweet that sony should release the film and ask for a $5 contribution to ebola. that's a good idea. >> they are afraid, not just theatres, of what. >> i think the theatre access is minimal the sony incident is having a ripple effect. new reegs si scrapped plans for a steve carrel film entitled "pyongyang", also based on north korea the leading critical of the

president's cuban policy was vocal. marco rubio called it dangerous. a split in the g.o.p. is emerging. here is david in miami. >> we are in the heart of little havana, the basis of the anti-castro regime. this man has been out front calling the president outrageous, and spoke about his thought on the policy. >> the implications of the decision extend beyond cuba, it has a chilling effect on democracy and those in the region. those fighting for it. >> to put this in contents. back in 2008 when president obama was president, all these things were on the table. allen gross languished in gaol

for five years. it was only recently when he was released that all of this came roaring back. again, we are engaged in presidential politics, that is what joakim nordstrom is known for. the interesting thing is the division within the republican party. you have marco rubio, different elements of the republican party. adhering to the line. and there's the rand pauls of the world saying the policy has not worked. normalizing relations is a good idea. it will be interesting to see how the new policy with cuba plays out. >> thank you. >> federal prosecutors sued the city of new york, accusing officials of taking too long to reform the rikers island gaol complexity. a justice department report says there's a culture of violence against young inmates. randall pinkston has more. >> after a 2-year investigation of the gaol.

the justice department is forming a lawsuit. this comes a day after new york city mayor bill de blasio visited the island to announce the end of solidary confinement for 16 and 17-year-old inmates. that was one of 73 recommendations issued last august. the justice department says the pace is too slow and the lawsuit intended to speed up the response to what the fed called a deep seated violence and the violation of constitutional rites. >> it serves as a detention facility, one of the largest, with separate facilities as adult. after reviewing two years of reports, medical records and complaints, the department of justice describes rikers as a dangerous place for adolescents. force used desproportionate to the risk posed by the inmate.

the report find that force is used to punish young inmates in violation of department of corrections policy, with beat iption occurring outside the view of security cameras. failure to vent inmate fights, placing ado less ants at risk of harm. the rate of injuries was called staggering. in one, the department of health reported 754 injuries. the federal government wants a court-enforced dk ree to ensure that reforms take pleas. there are problems with adults too. the focus on mistreatment of adolescent does not exxon rate the treatment of adults. >> thank you the death of a 17-year-old black teen brought the fbi to a

caroline atown. lennon lacy was discovered hanging from a swing set. the call was suicide. federal officers are investigating as to whether it could be a lunching. joie chen has the story. >> reporter: this is not much different to a lot of other small southern towns. integrated, yes. with a sharp divide between black and white. and bearing an undercurrent of suspicion between the black community and the all white police force. a distrust which made the investigation or lack of it into the death of lennon lacy difficult for his family to believe. >> my son didn't deserve to be taken from me in this way. >> his mother addressed a support rally. >> there are things not explained to me and the community. we deserved that.

>> the night before his first game as a varsity linebacker, lennon lacy went out for a late-night walk. early the next morning someone made a grisly discovery. in a nearby trailer park. the 911 reporting a suicide. to his family the facts didn't add up. his mother insists lennon lacy was not depressed. >> his demeanour would have changed, his parliamentary, his attitude, his eating habits, his routine would have been off. i would have known something was wrong. >> reporter: an independent report found no suicide note and other details didn't make sense. the report says lennon lacy was found with someone else's 10.5

shoes on his size 12 feet. the belt around his neck was not his, and no one could explain how the 5 foot 9 inch teen could tie a noose and hang himself from a swing set 7.5 feet high in clear few of trailer homs. >> i asked them time and time again to prove how he would have done this if he had nothing to stand on. i couldn't see how he could have done it. >> reporter: in some ways suicide would we easier for the family to accept. >> right now, it's a lynching because of a public display of where he was found. >> there was another reason for his mother's suspicion. before his death, lennon had been seeing an older white woman, which clawedia lacy thought could ben trouble. the lobing -- could be trouble.

local police ruled the death a suicide. [ chanting ] >> reporter: no one accused the press of wrongdoing, but in an echo of protests at ferguson, and after the death of eric garner at staten island, hundreds marched to show that lennon lacy's life mattered. >> we know it was a hanging much the question is was it self-inflicted, was it a staged hanging or was it a hanging or lynching homicide? >> those questions might be answered after the fbi announced it would reinterim the local police departments preliminary investigation. >> there's a lot of question i would like aped. why weren't they. because of my race, social status. i want them apped. it could be a lot easier to have closure and grieve. >> joie chen reporting.

snow in an attempt to repair its relationship with the community, the police department of new orleans strapped body cameras on the officers. jonathan martin has more. >> reporter: more than six months after the police department equipped the patrol with body cameras, there are questions as to how much they are used. >> we are concerned they are not recording all encounters. >> susan runs the ingelent police monitor, and they review complaints against new orleans police. >> people say police officers say things to them before the cameras roll or after they turp them off. there are still things we are hearing about that the system is not complete. >> they are supposed to rebuild trust between the community and a department under an oversight. after several of high-profile

cases of police brutality and corruption. >> so we know what our officers are doing, allegations that citizens are making and how accurate they are. >> officers are required to activate the cameras, that is not always the case. >> when an officer stoppeded a 26-year-old, no cameras were rolling. this is the tormy. -- attorney. had he not been shot and she took him to gaol and everything fine, is there anything in place to check what happened? >> that was not an isolated case, a report found of 145 abuse of force complaints in the first five months of this year, one in three were recorded on dash or body cameras. >> we know that officers are taking them off, putting them on when they want to. >> in many cases officers forget to turn them on or the cameras

were not working. since the shooting incident, officers are required to verify the camera is working. >> when we go through an officer's activity, on everything they use it or didn't. >> under new rules officers will be subject to additional training and face discipline for not turning on the cameras. >> in her client's case, had they been enrolled, there would be little doubt about whether the use of force was justified. >> coming up tomorrow - police and a computer programmer working together to make body camera footage available on pt internet. >> alberto gonzalez criticized the report on torture, he was the attorney-generaling doctor the bush administration. here he is with tony harris. >> the question is waterboarding, it may be cruel,

but is it torture? >> what is your view about it? >> the view of the administration that if it is conducted in a way consistent with one given by the department of justice that it may not violate the stature, it may be cruel, inhumane. >> i'm acting for your view. i gate what you - what is your view of waterboarding. >> my view is it can be cruel, inhumane and degrading. if it's done in a way that is consistent with the department of justice, it does not breach the legal standard of torture. >> alberto gonzalez was disappointed by the report because he says it's partisan and does not believe it is true. two neighbouring states suing colorado over legalized colorado. alaska and colorado filed a lawsuit, saying that colorado

created a gap in the drug control system hurting nebraska and oklahoma's effort to fight crime. pot is legal at the federal level. our picture of the day next plus... >> this piece of gum is a 3-s course dipper. >> willie wonga heads to washington and other films after this.

eddo i'm meteorologist rebecca stevenson. we've been watching rain fall in

the west. and another series of systems comes through as it comes to the week ahead. as we look at california's report, you can see a significant change has happened. the highest amount of drought is exceptional. and that area has shrunk. still, 100% of the state of california has shrunk. looking at the major cities from san francisco south wards, we are all ahead for the month of december. with the water years starting anew on october 1st. these are amounts that we hope to maintain to break the drought as we get towards the outlook in february 2015. currently across the states we are monitoring a lot of weather. specifically the big storm coming in for the west. that is coming in on saturday and sunday. it will be an atmosphere

included. looking at the statistics of what they bridge, note 40% of droughts in northern california are ended by atmospheric rivers. more details in what is going on in your weather coming up. al jazeera america news continues.

>> consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the growing controversy. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> we should be able to hit him from grenade range. >> maybe i should go up the middlism >> the way you run, i don't know. >> maybe i should go left. >> maybe you should shut up. >> that's tom hanks laying down the law. one of 25 films added to the international film registry. the list is kept of culturally motional pictures.

david is the editor of movie city news. let's start with saving private ryan. why did it make the list. >> it's a steven spielberg films, it's one of those movies. it's tom hanks and matt damon, but the first hour, when they take the beach. it's never been anything since. it's a singular piece of film that we have not seen anything like it. >> "the big lebowski). a cult classic. it's where people quote every line in the movie. it's a beloved movie. it's a crazy piece of philosophy. we have a paul henderson movie, which is similar in tone.

though a bit more serious. it's just a beloved goofy silly movie, and everyone does the invitations whether it will be such a movie. >> let's play a clip of the next film on the list. let's look at this one. >> movie reel: dr hill, there's a plot. that sounds crazy, you are probably thinking this poor girl flipped. but i have not flipped. all the same, there are plots against people, aren't there? >> "rosemary's baby" - i can't figure that out. >> it's funny to see william castle's name on that. this is one of roman polanski's first films and one of the

greatest horror films. not a lot of horror or images, but shot in a european way. >> the exorcist is on the list. similarly, an incredibly beautifully shot movie. i understand the exorcist. all right. roll the next film. >> movie reel: toledo, what is happening to your face. >> cool it dad, let me finish >> your face is turning blue. you're turning violet, violet. >> i told you i haven't got it quite right ... willie wonga classic, give me your opinion. >> i don't know if you saw that movie. many of us did. i don't know which one you identified with. i was more of a mike tv. >> i'm not sure i identify with anyone in that fip. >> the ooopa-lumpa's make it

legendary. gene wilder plays the villain in the movie and is effective. he's scary, scared a lot of kids. it's a great moral tale, a weird movie, a period movie, so strange, but unforgettable once you have seen it. >> several films on the list are not famous. why are they there? >> it is the library looking to preserve american film history. a third are movies you haven't seen, whether they are short timms, documentaries or films with a step in the directions that was unique. it's the history of cinema, little over 100 years now. and they did a great job of keeping the cinema in play. including movies that are obscure. it would be good for all of us to see everything on the list.

>> ferris buehler is on the list. if a film is chosen for this honour, what does it mean? >> well, unlike some other things, like afi lists, and things like that. it's not a dvd scam. it's part of americana, and in my generation, i turn 50. we grew up on ferris buehler. matthew broderick gave an indelible performance. everyone nose cameron from his wiki face and the cars going backwards. it's an unforgettable movie and part of the history. >> part of our history. officially part of the history. >> i'm betting you have the sports car. >> no, i don't. wish i did. >> now to our picture of the day, santa claus traded in the

slay for a zip line in brazil. here from rooem. looks like he's having fun, not sure. i'm not sure. he might rather be in the sleigh. that's the broadcast. thank you for watching. i'm john seigenthaler. see you back here tomorrow, tonight "america tonight" is coming up next. let the journalists live.

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