today two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation, they were quite simply assassinated. >> two of new york's finest gunned down in broad daylight in the wake of recent police-involved deaths in the u.s. and the talk of sony's fallout. also ahead, health concerns for boxing's greatest, mohammed ali in the hospital. welcome to our viewers around the world. the new york police department is in mourning after two officers were shot and killed in what officials say was

an assassination. a news conference was held to explain what happened. here it is. >> today, two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning. no provocation. they were quite simply assassinated. targeted for the uniform and for the responsibility they embraced to keep the people of this city safe. at approximately 2:47 today, police officers were assigned to a crv in the confines of the precinct, while sitting in a marked car, murdered in the

bedfo bedford stieff sants area. they were posted at this department as part of a crime reduction policy for the housing developments in that area. officer ramos was in the driver's seat. and officer liu was in the passenger seat. the suspect is ismaaiyl brinsley took a shooting stance, fired the weapon several times through the front passenger window, striking both officers in the head. officer liu and officer ramos never had the opportunity to draw their weapons. they may never actually having seen their assailant.

other officers immediately pursued brinsly southbound. brinsly then turned westbound on myrtle avenue and fled into the myrtle avenue and willoughby street, the g train subway station. he proceeded down the stairs, onto the westbound subway platform. while on the platform, brinsly shot himself in the head, took his own life. a silver, semi-automatic firearm was recovered near the suspect's body. officers liu and ramos were transported here to woodhull hospital. despite every effort to save their lives. both officers tragically succumbed to their injuries. >> what a horrible senseless loss. police are looking into social

media posts ismaaiyl brinsley wrote beforehand. he says my past is stalking me and my present is haunting me. instagram post said he's putting wings on pigs today. another said this may be my final post, and it was attached to this picture of a gun. of course officials have been speaking out about the shooting, condemning it as deplorable violence, which it is. new york city mayor de blasio met with the families and said that the murders tear at the foundation of society.

>> our city is in mourning. our hearts are heavy. we lost two good men who devoted their lives to protecting all of us. officer ramos, officer liu died in the line of duty. protecting the city they loved. >> and president obama said this, i ask people to reject violence and words that harm and turn to words that heal. prayer, patient dialog and sympathy for the friends and family of the fallen. meantime, members of new york's police department are blasting the city's mayor. officers turned their backs on him when he arrived at the hospital to pay his respects. one of new york's former governors, and the police union, also are blasting de blasio. and u.s. attorney general holder saying they put the officers'

lives at risk. they're referring to holder's and de blasio's support for peaceful protesters after the deaths of two young black men who died in confrontations with officers this year. and another story we continue to follow, more fallout for sony after a devastating cyber attack. former employees have filed several class action lawsuits over the massive security breach, saying the company should have seen it coming. they cite attacks on the video game division and warnings from north korea. they say employment files and medical information was leaked to the public. sony did not respond to cnn's request for a comment. the u.s. government says north korea is behind the cyber attack. messages within the attack had threatened more action if sony released that comedy film we've

all heard now, a plot to assassinate north korea's leader. that's what the film is b the studio has stopped the movie's release. now the u.s. government wants china's help in dealing with pyongyang's cyber attack. will ripley has more on that and joins us live from tokyo. more interesting that china is in the mix of this, will. >> reporter: yeah, when i visited a cyber lacquer, they had a map around the world where a lot of cyberattacks were originating from. and one of the locations was china. number two, the united states and number three, brazil. there has long been concern about cyberattacks launching from china and technically when it comes to north korea. china and north korea have perhaps one of the strongest relationships that china has with any country. they trade with north korea.

some it north kornorth koreans travel into china. most average north koreans never heard of the internet, certainly never had free access to it. simple reason being that north korea wants its people to remain isolated and don't want them though see things on the internet to give them a glimpse outside. the cyber unit to the bureau 121, these technical minds hand picked from pyongyang university are going to places like china, setting up shop in hotels where there's access to broadband internet, and that's where law enforcement officials believe they're launching these attacks from. so according to one senior obama administration official, the u.s. has reached out to china and asked for that country's assistance in investigating this and hopefully putting a stop to it if they can. >> isn't it fascinating and so

terribly sad that they're so isolated from the world that their citizens don't know about the internet, but anyway, yes, you've been there. so you've seen that isolation, the creepy isolation. but north korea again, says it wants a joint investigation on this. how likely is that to happen, will? >> reporter: very unlikely. the u.s. and north korea don't have an official diplomatic relationship. any country that has ever tried to do a deal with north korea, they've tried to have a joint investigation over the kidnapping of japanese citizens, every time they think they've come to an agreement or a promise, there's been a broken promise or missed deadline. so far, their investigations have come up empty after the north koreans promised to deliver.

i remember specifically meeting a young woman in a library in pyongyang, a study house where they have access supposedly to books from all over the world. this young woman was sitting at a computer and asked her if she'd ever heard of social media, like facebook. she was 32 years old and shook her head and said no. all they have access to is a strictly controlled internet and websites if you can call them that, that are controlled by the government and only allows them to see what the government wants them to see. >> will, thank you as always, will ripley in tokyo. north korea wants that joint investigation with the u.s. as he said, probably not going to happen, but pyongyang is warning of serious consequences if it doesn't get a joint investigation, and if the u.s. retaliates. for more on that story, we report from seoul. >> reporter: just hours after

president obama lands in hawaii for the christmas holiday, the regime lashes out via its state-run television. all of its usual bluster, the regime slams the u.s. government's investigation of the sony hack as childish. that north korea is being framed, saying it can prove its innocence without using any torture methods like the american cia, those digs come in response to president obama, that the evidence points to pyongyang. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally and will respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. >> reporter: north korea directly rebuked the president, saying it is the one that should respond after insults to its supreme leader but adds it will not conduct terror against innocent moviegoers, rather target the originators of the

insults. >> you two are going to be alone in a room with kim. and the cia would love it if you would cake him out. >> reporter: it got sony's bankroller and ally to respond. china. an editorial calls the movie's vicious mocking of kim senseless cultural arrogance and that china was once a punching bag for hollywood, but now as the chinese sit as a gold mine for movies, they go after north korea. they curiously suggest that the two countries work together in a mutual investigation to find the real culprits. north korea saying if america refuses, there will be serious consequences. cnn, seoul. former heavyweight boxing champ mohammed ali is in the hospital, being treated for pneumonia. his representative says he suffers from parkinson's

disease, is in stable condition and has a good prognosis. he made a name for himself, declaring himself the greatest, and that name has stuck. and he always backed it up with his fists and quick wit. and he is a fighter. a short hospital stay is expected. well, new developments in an australian tragedy. a mother there appeared before a magistrate from her hospital bed. also, which political system raul castro says will not be going anywhere ask cuba and the u.s. work toward warmer relations. has active naturals® oat with five vital nutrients. [ aniston ] because beautiful skin goes with everything. aveeno®. naturally beautiful results™.

police in australia have now charged a 37 year old mother with eight counts of murder after eight children were found dead in her home. seven of the victims were her own children. the woman appeared before a magistrate while in her hospital bed. she'd been found stabbed at the scene. police say they contacted the fathers of all the children. so far, the mother is the one who's been charged. raul castro confirmed saturday he'll attend the summit of the americas in panama in april. it could be the first time he meets with u.s. president obama. the two countries agreed last week to normalize relations. castro spoke in havana on

saturday praising president obama for the policy shift but also saying cuba will remain a communist state. >> translator: the cuban people would like to say thanks to this fair decision by the u.s. president barack obama. with this, an obstacle has been removed to a better relations with the united states. the whole world has reascted ina positive manner upon the announcement last wednesday. >> many cubans hope warmer relations will lead to new business opportunities. cuban hotels and restaurants could see a surge in customers, but not everyone would welcome the onslaught of american culture. here's cnn's rosa flores in havana with more about that. >> reporter: everybody loves cuba, says this man.

an independent contractor renting this cab from the cuban government for about $10 in u.s. per day. he's not allowed to drive tourists. most of his time is spent donating services to the state, which means driving less fortunate cubans for free. on a good day, he takes home about $10 in u.s. money in profit. he hopes if americans flock to havana, more cabbies like him will be paid to drive tourists to pay to get around. it would be important for that to happen in order for him to make a better living. he's not the only person here expecting to see the american dream come into focus. he says americans tend to appreciate finer art at higher prices.

others set to reap the benefits, construction companies giving havana's battered buildings much-needed face-lifts while hotels a restaurants take care of extra visitors. not everybody wins if americans start flooding plazas like this one. so who's to lose? possibly tourists from canada and you know weurope who have b visiting cuba freely already a long time. >> maybe the price goes up and more so more service and business come in. >> we don't want to see too many mcdonald's and starbucks come in. we would like it to be like it is. >> reporter: it's a historic time in havana he says, while there are sure to be winners and losers if the u.s. embargo is lifted, he hopes the road leads cuba to a better tomorrow. rosa flores, cnn, havana. >> yeah, something about

american fast food in cuba just doesn't seem right. maybe that won't happen. well, this thawing of relations between the u.s. and cuba may help address certain issues such as bringing america's most wanted fugitives back to the u.s. jason carroll reports from the u.s. >> can learn a lot from people -- >> reporter: she is somewhat of a cause celeb in cuba, called upon to speak about human rights and equality. she didn't always go by her current name. >> the fbi most wanted list. >> reporter: her given name is joanne chessamar. she became the most wanted woman from the u.s. in connection with the shooting of a new jersey

trooper in 1973. >> reporter: back in 1973, she was a member of the black panther party. in 1987, while a fugitive in cuba, she talked about the night she and her companions were stopped while driving on the new jersey turnpike. >> we ate, got back into the car. and shortly after, we were stopped by the police. >> reporter: she claims things turned violent almost without warning. >> he had a gun in my face, and i put my hands out like this. in a matter of seconds, i was shot. >> reporter: when the shooting had ended, state trooper werner forrester were dead, she and another man charged with his murder. what happened out here took place decades ago. but one thing is very clear to

troopers. according to the fbi, forester was shot at point blank range with his own gun. a jury found her guilty of murder. she was supposed to serve a life sentence, but three years later, she was broken out of prison. and after hiding out for years, finally surfaced in cuba. she was granted asylum by fidel castro. since then, they have fought for her extradition. christine todd whitman had this message. >> you are holding up the ability of the cuban population to enjoy a better relationship with the united states by your presence in cuba. >> reporter: now a historic shift in u.s./cuba relations. could it translate into an extradition agreement, one that would finely force chesimard back to the oust. >> what they want always is to

get into a swap situation, and for u.s. officials that's a very difficult road to go down. >> reporter: over four decades since the shooting, troopers here in new jersey are still waiting for justice. cnn, new york. we have this just in to cnn. pakistani security forces have detained more than 100 people in connection with that massacre that left 148 people dead this past week. the peshawar police chief says officials have also recovered guns and ammunition. security officials are carrying out door to door checks, taking those without peshawar identification into custody. taliban militants attacked a school tuesday in the city, killing mostly students. next here, kurdish peshmerga forces claim victory against

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. kurdish peshmerga fighters claim to control 80% of sinjar. fighters are going from house to house to check for any booby traps they may have left behind. one journalist said it is unclear right now why isis

retreated. >> the coalition air strikes are very, very important. second, what secondly is important is the moral of the peshmerga. they fight with old weapons. they have kalashnikovs, tanks that are 40 years old, but with the morale is very, very high. isis invaded their ground. isis raped their women. isis beheaded their relatives. so they want to throw isis out of kurdistan. and this is what they're doing right now. why did isis flee? to be honest, i don't now. nobody expected that isis would just leave sinjar. obviously we're very, very surprised about the plan of the peshmerga, about the quickness of the peshmerga breaking the siege of sinjar mountain. >> so it's a mystery why they retreated, but the truth is they

did. they say the yazidis can return to their homes, but many homes are in rubble because of the fighting. well, the u.s. has released four more detainees from guantanamo center. they were sent back to afghanistan. that leaves 132 still at guantanamo. president obama has been working, as you know, to shut down the prison which has been housing terror suspects after 9/11. the four freed men were suspected of belonging to the taliban or similar groups. we're going to turn to the weather now. your chances for a white christmas not looking too whiteout there. >> depends on where our viewers are. we're changing seasons at the moment, taking place on december 21 at 6:03. officially the northern

hemisphere, we turn into the winter solstice, even though we've had plenty of snow and coal there. the southern hemisphere officially becomes summer. and that's also the longest day of daylight hours. so beautiful time of the year to be in places like cape town, south africa. you can see new england into maine, vermont, new hampshire, into minnesota and michigan rockies, sierras are all seeing snowpack. so the likelihood of a white christmas is pretty good for those locations. but with temperatures above freezing for much of the united states, we'll see some of that melt rather quickly. now this is the christmas forecast. the east coast of the united states where we're monitoring a storm system that's going to bring us the possibility of rain. it will be on the warm side of this storm for much of the major

metropolitans. and so that's going to impact quite heavily on travel conditions across this region. hopefully we can bring up some of this footage where santa made a pretty interesting visit. this would be under water, that s is. in the florida keys. he's actually delivering presents to all the good mermaids and ferb under the sea. this is actually a good tradition for the region, because the, there's actually an opportunity for fund-raising for people who actually take photos with the wet santa claus after he gets out of the water. >> santa is just so versatile and multi talented. >> amazing how he can be in so many places at once. >> absolutely. thanks, derek. well, the comedy about the assassination of north korea's leader won't be available in

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welcome back. i'm natalie allen. here are the latest stories we're following this hour. u.s. officials condemn the killing of two new york city police officers. they were gunned down while sitting inside their patrol car. the shooter killed himself and was found inside a nearby subway station. officers are looking at his social media posts for a motive.

they call this an attack on everything new yorkers hold dear. >> although we are still investigating the details, this was an assassination. these officers were shot execution style, particularly despicable act, which goes at the very heart of our society and our democracy when a police officer is murdered, it tears at the foundation of our society. police in australia have charged a 37 year old mother with murder after eight children were found in her home. seven were her own. the woman appeared before a magistrate while in her hospital bed. she had been found stabbed at the scene. former heavyweight boxing champ mow hamid ali is in hospital being treated for pneumonia. he calls himself the greatest and has kind of live td up to

that. he suffers from parkinson disease, but he is in stable condition with a good prognosis. former employees have filed lawsuits against sony studio saying the company should have been prepared for the cyber attack that leaked personal information to the public. they cite two former attacks on sony and a warning from north korea. a defector from north korea says he wants people to see the movie. he's been sending balloons with anti-north korean propaganda for years. the plan to float the film into the country is being funded by the human rights foundation in new york. the movie has not gete yet been released in any format as of yet. the full impact of the sony incident is still playing out politically, legally and inside

hollywood. there are fears it may have a lasting chill on the film industry. >> gentlemen, are you entering into the most dangerous country on earth. >> reporter: sony's move to pull the movie from theater has touched off loathing in show business. george clooney, son of a news anchor is one of the most outspoken. his publicist confirms he wrote an active petition that he wants powerbroker to sign. he says we know that to give in to these criminals now will open the door for any group that would threaten freedom of expression and privacy and personal freedom. >> this whole thing is scary, man. e-mails, and your private stuff. i don't know. the whole town's scared. everybody's got to be scared.

>> reporter: but in one decisive moment, sony banned "the interview", from theaters. >> i am so disappointed. i wanted to see the movie. i think this is the wrong thing to do. i hear in the film, meryl streep is great as kim jong-un. i say okay, if they're not going to show the "interview"s that's it. no more north korean movies for me. >> reporter: it's predicted a slow down on sensitive movies. >> it could be perceived as anti-north korean or chinese, eye r iran, people are saying is off limits. >> reporter: seth rogen, a triple threat, actor, writer, producer. they have delivered the young male audience and big profits.

pineapple express cost little to make and wracked in more than $100 million. but they couldn't save this one. the bill boards being ripped down at sunset and vine, dead center of angry, nervous hollywood. cnn, los angeles. in other news, police in central france are sorting through a chaotic attack after a man entered a police station in a suburban stabbed three police officers. he was shouting god is great in arabic before a different officer shot and killed him. the attacker was known as a common criminal, a french citizen, born in barundi. they are checking whether islamic extreme i am playism is.

rahm emanuel's son was assaulted. chicago police would not confirm the identity of the victim but said i was attacked by two unknown male offenders near his home. mr. emanuel asked the media to respect their privacy. a gay rights person fights for their rights and a home for other gay men. officials in lie beberia ar afraid of ebola when they vote.

earlier this year india's supreme court reinstated a ban on gay sex in a move the homosexual sector dislikes. we spoke with a man about the struggles in his country. >> reporter: sex between men, long seen as taboo in conservative india now once begin a crime. 377 now being enforced. are people scared to come out and look for sex? >> yeah. >> reporter: these volunteers

and the activists they work for are worried gay sex is being driven underground. >> we do work for hiv prevention. >> reporter: meet a gay rights activist whose work is inspired by his personal experience. what was your childhood like? >> well, childhood is -- >> reporter: the life of a prince? >> exactly. >> reporter: he was born into the ruling family of the former kingdom. when the time came, he married a woman his family chose for him. >> we are custodians of the rich cultural heritage which has been passed onto us by the relatives. it was a must to get married. >> reporter: he says the marriage was never consummated. he is gay. the couple soon separated. he came out in 2006. the only indian royal to publicly do so. when he came out of the closet,

many people who had loved and respected the prince for years burnt effigies of him. >> my own family came out disowning me and disinheriting my from the property. >> reporter: he says he's reconciling with his family, but he doesn't regret his decision. >> i thought that my coming out would make a difference. i have opening the pandora's box for discussions. and i think unless until we have a debate or discussion like this we cannot expect change. >> reporter: he's taking his message around the country and around the world, even appearing on oprah. india, he says, must drop its ban on gay sex, otherwise the discrimination will never end. >> this is pink cottage. you know it's liked by gay men a lot. >> reporter: his new project, a

home for gay men. it's particularly important for gay men, in india, isn't it, where there's no social acceptance. >> yeah. a lot of them have decided to live a single life. you're all alone. >> reporter: this retirement home is one place he hopes gay men will not feel alone. >> i would like to see gay india free from discrimination. we are treated like any other human beings and living, we live with respect and dignity. >> reporter: that's his dream for india, a dream he won't stop fighting for. cnn, india. ban ki-moon has pledged support for the countries hardest hit by ebola as he launched a tour saturday. he was in liberia and is also set to visit sierra leone and guinea. the u.n. has faced criticism for

its alleged slow response to the ebola outbreak. he says he's cautiously optimistic the outbreak can be defeat defeated. ebola fears caused low voter turnout in liberia. officials took voters' temperatures before letting them enter polling stations. results could be announced sometime today. >> reporte well, from ebola to isis militants to ferguson, missouri, 2014 has been a year of defineabdefin defineable moments. >> reporter: one story that created shock waves right around the world is that of oscar pistorias. son tensed to five years in prison for killing his

girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. you covered this story 2008? i think? you started covering this. and i want to start, you were the only person who got to speak to him about what it would be like in prison. what was that conversation like? >> i asked him, i said you do realize that you're going to have to go to prison. and he had accepted this. this was after the verdict. and i think it was a sense, perhaps i'm not going to put words in his mouth, but i think there was a sense thrat he wantd to pay for this. he's christian so he looks through that prism. >> people kill their girlfriends every day. there's a couple huge trials that everyone goes nuts on. >> at the heart of this story, i i didn't realize maybe south africans and americans had this

in common until your reporting. gun violence. i didn't realize just how much of a problem we share between south africans and americans. >> this was a commoner garden homicide. unlawful killing. there was nothing extraordinary about the facts. >> except who it was. >> except who it was. and milady. >> the judge. >> this was a woman you wouldn't like to meet and have an argument with in a restaurant. >> put you in your place. >> and i will say to your place, not to disagree -- >> disagree. >> i think the element of reeva steenkamp on the cusp of being -- i think she was stepping into the public spotlight. she was a model.

i think all of that was captivating to a domestic and international audience. and i will say at points i think we were in danger of forgetting the victim and making this solely about oscar. >> for mother compelling stories from the past year, including the kidnapping of more than 200 nigerian girls which sparked a worldwide social media campaign, also apple ceo's unveiling of apple pay. watch the defining moments at 8:00 here on cnn. santa's little helpers are under pressure to deliver christmas presents on time. we'll take you inside the hub of ups.

all right. time is running out, christmas shoppers. just a few days to go to get

those gifts under the tree, wherever they're headed. we visit one of the largest courier companies to see just how they plan to get your packages there on time. >> reporter: each item that flows through is a logistical challenge. after failing to deliver thousands of gifts on time last year, the stakes are high for the world's largest package company. >> we've added more flights in the system to ensure we move those packages, we go from 140 jets to 180 jets. >> reporter: is the package to get delivered at all costs. >> we're going to service the customer, and if we have to fly multiple planes, that's what we're going to do. >> reporter: so it sounds like, from what you've described, i should never get a package late. >> that's totally not true. there are certain situations

that are even beyond ups's control. weather plays a big role. >> snow intensity is light. >> reporter: to mitigate the risks of weather ups has an internal meteorology team. >> when are these storms going to impact the airport. >> reporter: are you guys ever wrong? >> oh, yes. occasionally we're wrong and we hear about it. that's one thing. we get feedback right away from our customers. we look at the situation and see what clues did we miss. >> reporter: during the 2013 holiday seen, ups got a great deal of feedback from customers who didn't receive their packages on time. weather was a factor but so was an unexpected surge from retailers like amazon. >> we had a lot of weather in

the system, a lot of late-arriving volume to us. i wouldn't say it was a perfect storm, but based on when ups has package available to them to move it, we're going to move it. >> it was a perfect storm last year. many of you may recall, a lot of those packages didn't get there on time. speaking of perfect storms, let's take you to our meteorologist, derek van dam. he's looking to see if there are any storms that could delay the packages. >> don't blame -- >> no, but ups has a meteorologist whose job it is to make sure that no matter the weather. >> i understand, but if that package didn't arrive at their home it's because they sent it too late. we're all guilty of that. >> oh, come on. >> i am tracking some storms that could perhaps impact package delivery time across europe. we'll start there first and then we'll get over to the u.s. talk about a big storm across the pacific northwest. this is a very repeat weather

pattern across most of europe. but it's a rain maker for berlin. much of germany, even parts of france into the netherlands as well. there's a significant amount of wind attributed with this series of low pressures moving through, nothing too significant but enough to cause travel delays. here's what we're expecting through the day. amsterdam through copenhagen. now speaking of christmas weather, temperatures are going to be above that freezing threshold, that being zero degrees celsius. and that means it's going do be pretty much impossible to get a white christmas for places like paris, madrid and rome. you'll have to head to russia or

scandinavia. this is for christmas eve, look at this pink line. this is what is called the zero degree line or the freezing line. so anything to the west of this line will fall in the form of snow. so look at detroit, grand rapids michigan and chicago. but anything to the east of that pink line, it's just going to be too warm for that all-important white snow covering. looks like this will mainly be a rainmaker. new york, washington, boston. hey, look at this. we've got an impressive storm impacting the western half of the united states. it almost looks like a nozzle, spraying the west coast of the u.s. in fact, we consider this or we call this in the meteorological world, the atmospheric river. we're tracking moisture in the form of very heavy rain.

and speaking of a white christmas this storm brings snowfall to the cascades as well as much of the northern rockies. that's all the time we have here at the world weather center. we'll send it back to natalie. >> thank you. you know how we've been seeing this lately? all of those weird and funky things that unfortunately many of our pets eat? well, here's jeanne moos to show you some more revealing x-rays. >> reporter: you never know where their nose has been, what they're guilty of eating, until you see the x-ray and learn what hooked them. from marley the pooch who grabbed a shish kebob skewer loaded with meat, to the chihuahua who somehow swallowed nine needles, we present the winners. maybe you've already seen a

great dane gulp down 43 1/2 socks. the vet had to slice open his stomach. >> removing sock after sock. >> reporter: try finding a matching pair. maybe this goes with this. or was it this? for some reason, first prize went to a frog who had the munchies and ate 30 ornamental stones in his cage. then there was the light bulb, the golden retriever managed to swallow and pass in tact. i'd like to see coty swallow this in tact. mitchell swallowed a toy alien. they had to operate. all the pets you see here recovered from their meals, take stella the pug. she downed 104 pennies and a

quarter, $1.29. this terrier won an honorable mention. attached to this was his owner's bra. the cup runneth over no longer. he's been banned from the laundry room. even a lizard received honorable mention for swallowing a tiny banana from barbie's dream house. then wolf, wolfing down rubber duckies. turns out there was a flock of five in there that the vet had to remove. ♪ rubber ducky, you're the one ♪ you make bath time lots of fun ♪ >> reporter: or if not fun, at least filling. ♪ rubber ducky, i'm awfully fond of you ♪ >> reporter: gene ejeanne moos, new york. in our next hour of coverage, the u.s. asking china for help in dialing with cyberattacks like the sony pictures problem.

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two new york police officer shot and killed in broad daylight inside their patrol car. we're learning more about what prompted that attack. the u.s. asked china for help with the crippling cyberattack on sony while north korea denies it had anything to do with it. also ahead, a bumpy road of late has uber trying to get back on the right track. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. our top