hey there, everyone. i'm errol barnett. a big welcome watching in the u.s. and all around the world. i'll be with you for the next two hours. >> i'm asking everyone and this is across the spectrum to put aside protests, put aside demonstrations. >> new york city's mayor calls for unity after the murder of two police officers and new questions now about the final hours of their accused killer. also, cybermystery. north korea struggles to get its internet service back up and running after a massive outage. also coming up for you financial meltdown. a kremlin ally warns of tough times ahead for the russian economy and russians in general.

♪ how do i feel about the end of the day ♪ ♪ are you sad >> remembering the unmistakable voice of singer joe cocker dead at the age of 70. we want to begin this hour in new york city. the area at this moment is on high alert. police are looking out for possible copycat attacks after a man ambushed and killed two police officers over the weekend. they're also increasing security around the new year's eve ball's drop that is due to threats. that's going to happen here very soon. the city's mayor met with the offic officers' families saying they are in tremendous pain. and that meeting comes as critics blame him for inciting violence against police by supporting recent protests. right now the mayor here. it's a must.

>> the attack, anyone with the ability to stop them must step forward. >> they'll greatly be missed. officer ramos' funeral will be this sunday. officer liu's family is waiting for relatives to arrive from china before making his arrangements. the wife -- his wife of two months thanked the community for their support. >> this is a difficult time for both of our families but we will stand together and get through this together. thank you. > it's difficult to watch that. now the u.s. attorney general praised the officer's sal lohr calling the attack an assassination. police identified the gunman as

ismaaiyl brinsley. his sister said he didn't shoot the police for revenge but was mentally ill. the nypd is trying to piece together every mood he made that today. our martin savidge has more on that angle. >> reporter: surveillance video showed ismaaiyl brinsley at a mall in brooklyn saturday. about three hours from now, he'll shoot and kill two new york police officers. authorities are still trying to piece together those final hours. >> if anyone has seen this individual. >> reporter: this cell phone videotape shot from a balcony captures the moments right after the shooting and the frantic efforts to try to save the offic officers. about a block away brinsley takes his own life as police close in. hours later authorities announce officers wenjian liu and rafael ramos died. murdered for the uniform they wore. based on social media posts they

believe he was bent on revenge angry over police killings of african-american men in new york and missouri. >> two of new york's finest were shot and killed with no warning, no provocation. they were quite simply assassinated. >> reporter: investigators say a review of brinsley's cell phone contained video they believe he shot in manhattan earlier this month at a protest over the deaths of eric garner and michael brown. his string of violence began early saturday morning 200 miles away. police say he gained entrance to his ex-girlfriend's door and threatened to shoot himself. he shoots and wounds her before fleeing and taking her cell phone with him. baltimore police begin tracking him via her cell phone. while on the move he posts to instagram i'm putting wings on

pigs today. baltimore police arrirealize ar in new york and they believe his plan is already set. >> i've seen with my own eyes new yorkers point out a bag left unattended but this is another thing we have to do now. >> reporter: at about the same time brinsley throws the cell phone away and police lose track of him. the next time he's seen around 2:45 p.m. around the intersection of myrtle and tomkins where he strikes up a conversation with people on the street ending it with watch what i'm going to do. moments later he shoots four rounds through the passenger window of the police car hitting both officers in the head. as word of the shooting spread new york police officers rush to the hospital where the men were taken, so did new york mayor bill de blasio and in a hallway this moment capture officers turning their backs to the mayor. many of them believing his

sympathies for what they call anti-police demonstrations helped waif the way for their fellow officer. >> there's blood on many hands tonight. those that incited violence on the street that tried to tear down what new york city police officers did every day. >> martin savidge, cnn, brooklyn. >> meantime, there continue to be controversial police killings. a former police officer in milwaukee, wisconsin, will not face charges in the shooting death of a mentally ill black man. done tray hamilton died in april after being shot more than a dozen times during a confrontation with the officer. a district attorney concluded that the officer acted in self-defense. monday's announcement sparked angry protests there in milwaukee. the u.s. justice department says it will review the case.

now, a rather big story we're following. internet service appears to be back up and running in north korea after an outage that lasted more than nine hours. now, this destruction comes just a few days after the u.s. said it would respond to the cyberattack on sony pictures which it blames on north korea. global affairs correspondent elise labott reports. >> reporter: kim jong-un mobbed by adorning north korean workers, the image of a confident and beloved leader lashing out at the u.s. whom he says is responsible for the film portraying his assassination. while denying involvement in the sony hacking north korea warned it was sharpening bayonets to did damage thousands of times greater threatening counteraction against the white house, pentagon and whole u.s. mainland. >> the government has a history of denying responsibility. if they want to act they can admit kulpa pablt and compensate

sony for the damages they caused. >> reporter: today in new york as the u.n. security count still took up north korea's bleak human rights record the u.s. ambassador said pyongyang is now threatening the rights of the rest of the performed. >> it is exactly the kind of behavior we've come to expect from a government that took merciless countermeasures over a hollywood comedy and has no calcalm s about holding thousands in gulags. >> i think it was an act of cybervandalism that was very costly, very expensive. we take it very seriously. >> president does not understand when you destroy economies, when you are able to impose censorship on the world and especially the united states of america, it's more than vandalism. >> reporter: administration

officials say the white house is considering sanctions against north korean officials, banks and companies and wants china to rein in north korea's ability to launch further attacks. today, beijing condemned the attack but said there is no proof north korea was behind it. >> really tough financial sanctions are going to have an effect on china too. not just north korea because a lot of these institutions are in china. and the danger there is that it might trigger some sort of trade war with china. some economic retaliation. >> reporter: elise labott, cnn, the state department. now, just next door south korea is testing its ability to respond to a potential cyberattack on its nuclear plants after the power companies computers were recently hacked. wooefl we'll bring in kyung lah tracking this from the south korean capital, i guess that nuclear story plus what's happening in north korea, a busy

peninsula but what south korea is doing and why it feels that its nuclear facilities could be at risk. >> reporter: because very plainly, errol, the blueprints were posted on hacking websites. blueprints from a theft inside the agency that runs a nuclear power plant. it came to light last week and it's continuing to gain steam as there's been now fallout among the government wondering how this even happened. this bears all the trademarks of what happened to sony and what happened in the banks here in south korea last year. someone able to figure out how to get past the fire wall getting inside essentially being able to roam free and grabbing private secret information of employees and then posted. it is similar. there is a lot of concern that it's the same sort of people at play here and the target continues to get bigger. we're not talking about a

private entity anymore. we're talking about a government agency that runs more than two dozen nuclear power plants in this country so that's why there's a concern. that's why this country is raising the alarms and that's why they say that the international community needs to be paying attention because south korea, what happens here largely considered the practice round of what will eventually happen on a global stage. errol. >> right, and the consequence, of course, much bigger. we've previously been speaking about a movie that makes fun of kim jong-un not being released here we're talking about reel nuclear safety. considering there have been so many very manies this this past week with the threat, the perceived threat from north korea and its cyberabilities, how is this being perceived where you are in south korea where they live? these are, of course, their neighbors but their families and relatives. how is it being received where you are? >> reporter: well h. did a country -- the two countries are still technically the war.

the war ended with armistice so generations have grown up having this threat over their heads. the fact that this is coming to light that sony has been hacked, it's sort of been a bit ho hum in south korea. there hasn't been the outrage that the u.s. is experiencing because it isn't as new as it is to the united states. so it hasn't necessarily been the biggest story but as this nuclear story is starting to sink in and there's more political fallout, that's really what's starting to pick up steam here in south korea. >> yeah, kyung lah joining us from seoul, south korea past 4:00 in the afternoon there, thanks very much. the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says life in north korea is a living nightmare. samantha powers spoke monday as they took up pyongyang's human rights record. on friday the general assembly urged the council to refer north korea to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity.

>> these crimes have been perpetrated in the dprk in a widespread and systemic matter directed by the highest level of government and in many cases constitute crimes against humanity. >> south korea's ambassador says this is especially difficult for him. >> >> i am saying this with a heavy heart because for south koreans, people in north korea are not just anybody's -- millions of south koreans still have our family members and relatives living in the north, even though we never hear from them, even though by now the pain of separation has become a cold fact of life, we can now watch video clips from north

korea without flinching at every scene. we cannot listen to stories of north korean defectors without sharing in their tears, without feeling as if we are there with them experiencing the tragedies. >> monday's procedural vote exempt from vetoes is the first since 2006 when the security council add the myanmar's human rights record to the agenda. now, a private memorial service was held tuesday for one of the hostages in last week's siege at a sydney cafe. 38-year-old katrina dawson shot and killed during the siege. the lawyer and mother of three was buried on monday. also on tuesday, a private funeral was held for the other victim. you see him there, 34-year-old tory johnson. he was the manager of the cafe. the 16-hour siege ended after the gunman and both hostages were killed.

now, a french police are investigating a third attack there since saturdayment coming up we'll show you what's behind the alarming rise of violence in the growing fears of terrorism in this nation. plus, the pope's scathing remarks for vatican leaders during his annual christmas address. you're going to want to hear what he had to say. stay with us.

welcome back. authorities are investigating an attack on christmas shoppers in

western france. we show you the scene and the city of nant. ten were injured when a van plowed into shoppers at an outdoor market. the driver then stabbed himself although we should report he's expected to recover. a prosecutor says so far this is not appear to be an act of terrorism. that incident monday is the third attack to take place in france since saturday. french authorities say it reflects a dangerous trend, a growing number of radicalized french muslims. senior international correspondent jim bittermann has more. >> reporter: twice over the weekend unnerving attacks which some here consider acts of terrorism. in di ona driver reportedly shouting god is great and claiming to be acting in the name of the children of palestine drove around the city center for a half hour plowing into pedestrians sending 13 to the hospital. and in a suburb of tour in the la voire valley.

he was shot dead. police say the man's brother has been under surveillance by french intelligence because of suspected links to fundamentalists fighting in syria. the french interior minister said investigators are still trying to determine the exact motivation for the two attackers but he added that authorities are also constantly searching for what he called weak signals in advance of a terrorist attack and that everyone knows the terrorist threat is real. both incidents seem the kind of thing the experts have been warning about. attacks by extremists acting alone. >> crisis of identity from these individuals, from these young people, they're looking for something. they're looking to exist to first kind of recognition and they feel that through that engagement they will find that recognition. >> reporter: in fact, statistics released just last week by the interior minister indicated just how serious the threat may be.

the number of french nationals or residents linked to terrorist organizations in iraq and syria has doubled in the past year to 1250. of those, more than 600 are either now there or on their way there. the reality of those numbers are reflected here, six young people from this single housing complex are among those who died doing battle for radical islam. a dozen people were arrested just last week suspected of helping young people travel to join the fight. and more and more family members of those who have been self-radicalized for recruited have come forward hoping to prevent for french young people from joining the jihadists. >> that was senior international correspondent jim bittermann reporting from france. now, in nigeria still no claim of responsibility for two explosions, both believed to be caused by bombs. the first blast rocked a bus station in gombe killing 20.

suspicion fell on boko haram. later an explosion hit a market in the city of bauchi causing a massive fire there. red cross workers there are reporting heavy casualties. we have to give you a warning here now. our next report on boko haram has some very disturbing images. the islamic militants released a video that shows a massacre of hostages. they're also threatening to execute all of their infidel captives from now on. here's nima elbagir. >> reporter: dozens of prone victims executed. fighters pose and parade their their midst. as civilians in northern nigeria take up arms against boko haram, this massacre and the release of the video chronicling it appear to be an escalation in boko haram's campaign of intimidation. standing in the blood of his victims a man claiming to be a boko haram commander addresses the camera. [ speaking a foreign language ]

killing, slaughtering, destruction and bombing, he says, will be our religious duty anywhere we invade. this video was uploaded on to a video sharing site and then distributed to the media. we have no way of verifying its authenticity but it is ten unrelenting minutes of a massacre as it unfolds. the commander, the reported commander says to be in a territory the boko haram took in the summer. well, we spoke to some of the residents who managed to flee there and they said that hundreds of non-muslims were taken hostage by boko haram in the town. the commander says this video is proof that those hostages have now been killed and he also says from now on, boko haram will kill any hostages they take raising fresh concerns about the hundreds of hostages including dozens of girls still in boko haram custody.

nima elbagir, cnn, london. >> we'll have more for you on cnn. the critical comments made by the pope toward vatican officials during his annual christmas speech. stay with us for that. ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac... ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac... ♪ ♪ look here, daddy, i'm never coming back... ♪ discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. lease this 2015 standard collection ats for around $329 a month. hurry in. offer ends soon.

pope francis launched a blistering critique of vatican officials urging them to improve their ways which he likened to, quote, a sick body. the pope made the remarks

scathing remarks really monday during his annual christmas address as leaders of the catholic church looked on. francis told them their lust for power had turned them into mere bureaucrats. listen to this. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: the disease of turning bosses into gods, it is the disease of those who court their superiors hoping to conquer their benevolence, careerism and honor people not god. they are people who live their service thinking solely of what they must receive and not about what they must have to give. petty, unhappy people unspined only by their fatal egoism. >> you wonder what the reaction in all he laid out 15 spiritual ailments he says exists in the current administration and urged leaders to make changes as christmas approaches. cnn's senior vatican analyst john allen weighed in on the pope's tough words.

>> i think fundamentally there would be some in the vatican who would say, look, we know these problems you just ticked off are there. we know there is careerism. we know there are some arrogant types. we know there are some people who are drunk in their own magnificence and so on but the question would be, is that all that's there? i mean, is there anything positive? you have to say about your own team and bear in mind the problem that francis faces is that, you know, he is an outsider who was elected on a reform mandate and wants to make clear he intends to shake up the place. on the other hand eventually he'll need some of these people to implement whatever reform he wants to pursue. . >> he ended on a more positive

note wishing them a happy christmas. still to come a look at the troubled past of the man who shot and killed two police officers. including an assault on his pregnant ex-girlfriend. plus, a british filmmaker is using movie magic to show londoners what the night sky would look like if they turned off the city lights. stay with us to see this. ♪

make the best entertainment part of your holidays. catch all the hottest handpicked titles on the winter watchlist, only with xfinity from comcast. welcome back to cnn, everyone. i appreciate you staying with me. i'm errol barnett. here are some updates on our biggest stories. australian prime minister tony abbott says security officials intercepted an increased level of terrorist chatter since last

week's siege in a sydney cafe and wants his people to remain alert through the holidays. meantime, services were held tuesday for the two victims shot and killed. internet service is still spotty in north korea. the website at the state run news agency is down and some analysts say this outage may be an attack. they will create a new cyberoperation. the company says critical data. new york mayor bill de blasio wants demonstrators to

stop theirboro tests. there have been weeks of protests over police tactics. de blasio's critics say he calls the death of the officers by supporting the protests. >> reporter: ismaaiyl brinsley was full of failure. broken relationships and run-ins with police. career criminal, a troubled individual and clearly deeply emotionally troubled past. >> after bouncing from address to dress as a teen he leaves a new jersey high school in tenth grade and drifts according to "the new york times." traces of his troubles over the years are found in police reports that spread from georgia to ohio. in the last ten years, brinsley is arrested at least 19 times. in a 2013 police incident report he assaults his five months'

pregnant ex-girlfriend and put his hand on the victim's forehead and hit the victim on the head with his head. in another report he opens fire on a woman's car. he later flees only to be arrested and charged with the crime. the list of police reports goes on and on. petty crimes to terroristic threats. his behavior over the years nothing short of erratic. he confirms to a judge he had once been a patient at a mental hospital. >> tried to commit suicide about a year ago. we got that from family members. seen here in this video just before the shooting. police say he used a plastic bag to carry a gun. beyond that few other details. 0 minutes outside of atlanta, brinsley's last known address. an acquaintance who didn't want to go on camera describes him as a mellow guy soft-spoken. a far different description of

the man who posted this in one of his final messages on instagram "i'm putting wings on pigs today," he wrote. "they take one of ours. let's take two of theirs." >> what we're seeing basically on instagram he put out 119 images on his instagram account. a lot of these things are self-despair but also anti-government. >> reporter: brinsley's attack has been called revenge on police for the high-profile deaths of unarmed civilians but new york's mayor said the killings weren't just an attack on the police but an anak on us all. ismaaiyl brinsley's family is speaking out since the killings. his sister says he was not seeking revenge. she says he was just mentally ill and desperately needed help. >> this has nothing to do with police retaliation. this was a troubled emotionally troubled kid. he needed help. he didn't get it. i feel so bad for the family.

you know, we give our condolences to the family. >> we are grieving and we're very sorry for what happened for the innocent cops that were there. >> the truth is whatever motivated brinsley, his actions have increased tensions between new york's police department and the mayor and one former new york police commissioner's hitting at a wider impact on public safety. brian todd has more. >> reporter: two fallen officers, a city convulsing with tension and now a sense that the strain between police across the country and the public they protect is growing. police are angry that recent demonstrations turned into personal attacks against them. >> we can certainly blame them and i think that to the extent that this deranged individual acted on saturday there is little doubt he thought there would be a wave of sympathy from within a community based on what he's been hearing from the agitators. >> reporter: in the days before the police officers' murders

police in new york had been assaulted during protests. on the brooklyn bridge. and at the staten island ferry. as the tensions escalated police increasingly pointed blame at new york mayor bill de blasio, accusing him of being less than supportive and giving protesters too much leeway. the police union in new york circulated a form letter which officers could sign saying they didn't want to de blasio coming to their funerals if they died in the line of duty. police turned their backs on the mayor saturday when he appeared at the hospital after the officers' death and this angry outburst from the police union chief is there that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. de blasio's office calls that overheated and irresponsible. now an ominous concern from former new york police commissioner that out of concern for their own safety, police across the country won't take the extra steps they usually take to protect the public. >> somebody gets a call that

there's a domestic dispute in an apartment, they pull up and they report it as unsubstantiated. >> without even going in? they won't even going in. >> i'm not suggesting that would happen. i'm suggesting it's possible. >> reporter: howard says he remembers back in the '70s and '80s in new york when during a time of more violence towards police officers the police were referred to as blue flower pots because they often sat in their cars not doing much. neither safir nor jim pasco believe that we're headed back to a period like that but safir worries how police will act in heated situations if they continue to feel unappreciated.

a foreign bribery case. alstom was recorded for falsifying records to mask the bribes. it is the highest ever for foreign bribery in the u.s. now, how are you enjoying your cheap gas and fuel prices? you can continue to do so. do not expect oil prices to rise any time in the near future. saudi arabia telling cnn it will never cut oil production, opec's decision thought to cut production last month sent shock waves through the oil markets. prices are now hovering -- you see how low it's become $60 per barrel and opec ministers say they're prepared for oil to go as low as $40 before they'll consider cutting production. now, russia's former finance minister is warning of a full-scale economic crisis in his country. the central bake is bailing out

trust bank, the first victim of a collapse in currency. alexi kudrin is forecasting a slide in living standards. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: i can say we are entering a real economic crisis. next year we will feel all the effects of it. imports to russia will decrease by 40% and imports will be under the greatest risk. for the first time since 2000 under putin's and medvedev's rule the household income will decrease. >> did you catch bruce willis there in the bank's commercial? kudrin blame's the ruble's plummet in ukraine, falling oil prices have helped batter the russian economy and does not appear to be changing any time soon. as the falling oil prices and plunging currency bring more uncertainty teach day, many

russians hope that the new year brings them better fortunes. still, president vladimir putin remains defiant. here's richard quest with a look back. >> reporter: an estimated $50 billion, the most expensive games ever. >> if you look at the year, the way it began, it seemed that vladimir putin was riding high. oil was at well over $100 a barrel. he had planned the sochi olympics. it seemed like a grand success. >> reporter: soon after sochi it was all downhill for russia's relationship with the west. as revolutionary ukraine descended into chaos. kiev became a battlefield. pro-russian president viktor yanukovych fled the capital and office.

then russia annexed crimea and outraged president obama announced sweeping sanctions -- >> this is not our preferred outcome. these sanctions would not only have a significant impact on the russian economy but could also be disruptive to the global economy. >> reporter: to this day. president putin refuses to break with the pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine. and successive rounds of western sanctions totally tens of billions of dollars have taken their toll on the russian economy. >> the most important thing about sanctions is that right now they're preventing russia from renegotiating its $600 billion in debt. that's a big deal because as the ruble starts to lose value that becomes more and more oppressive as inflation rises. >> reporter: the crisis in ukraine took an even more grave turn when malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot out of the sky near the russian border.

ukraine says it was a russian missile which brought the plane downment russia and the pro-russian separatists in control of the area denied responsibility. >> that was perhaps the point of greatest arrogance that you saw in russia where putin didn't even bother to try to remain. >> reporter: the situation was bad and then came the oil shock. since june, the price of crude has fallen more than 40%. it's still over the one-two punch to a russian economy that was reeling from sanctions. >> 75% of its exports depend on oil and gas. you have a petro autocrat so when oil prices things tend to

collapse. >> reporter: as oil dropped the ruble fell in tandem and guess separate round of central bank interest rate hikes failed to strengthen the currency. it rit record lows. so far they're standing by putin. the issue, of course, is for how long? >> they have been looking more and more like a submerging market while putin's popularity has only increased and clearly as we close 2014, the disparity between those two trends is an absolute chasm. >> reporter: the russian president said the pain would be temporary. >> translator: this situation could continue. approximately no one can say exactly for two years. the situation can improve sooner even for us the second quarter

of next year. >> reporter: putin says the russian economy needs to diversify. that will take time. russia needs a rebound in oil in 2015. richard quest, cnn, new york. >> all right. if you're about to travel listen up. we are watching a developing storm that could threaten holiday krfl plans for millions of people over the next two days. stay with us to find out where it's going to hit. also, the striking view of london's night sky when the lights go out in the city. we'll show you the message behind this blackout.

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snow, rain and severe weather heading to parts of the united states right now at this moment so, of course, we've got to call upon ivan cabrera our meteorologist to tell us where it's going to hit. how bad it's going to be and if it's going to ruin anyone's christmas. >> oh, my goodness, i hope it doesn't ruin your christmas. >> some people have the weather ruin their lives. >> some delays but it's not going to be a blockbuster storm but getting going. look behind me. the radar is lit up. we have snow to the north. we have rain to the south. this is a big broad upper low here. the actual storm that is going to spawn severe weather is getting going through texas and will continue to be with us over the next few days. today is tuesday. tomorrow, wednesday into christmas eve and then by christmas day itself we're done

so 48-hour event and already getting going as the storm begins to push off towards the east. we are going to be in the warm sector here and have a nice push of subtle winds so for the eastern seaboard this time around we will not have to worry about snow. it will be a wet go of it here over the next 48 hours but we are going to have snow limited but it is going to be falling across the midwest from 3 to 6 inches. that especially through the day on wednesday as the storm begins to pull in some cool air. some cool air from the north as it pushes to the east. concern about the southeastern u.s. if you're traveling through atlanta i think you'll have airport delays because of the potential of severe weather. isolated tornadoes can't be ruled out east of houston, birmingham and even atlanta will have strong thunderstorms as well so we'll have to watch that closely. look at the forecast rain here. 3 to 5 inches of rainfall, flash flooding a potential because it's coming in quickly. this in the next 48 hours, good swath of very heavy rainfall. let's break it down for you.

airport by airport as we head into tuesday. these are the hubs we have to deal with here. chicago, dallas, atlanta and charlotte because the strong winds and heavy rain as we transition into wednesday, only area concerned about snow would be chicago, especially chicago and points to the west with some snowfall. even minneapolis could be seeing some of that but philly, new york and boston, it's going to be a rain reevent for you and windy, delays, christmas eve and leave you with this map here that just posted on the big twitter board. if you're dealing of a white christmas, well, all of us here in the south will not be getting that this year round. it'll be wet here but up to the north there you see the probabilities so we talk about a little bit of snowfall. i don't know, errol, if you like the snow on christmas, if you like -- >> i like the cool snowman you have on the graphics. bouncing from side to side having a good time. >> here he's going to melt. >> even for our viewers who don't travel to the u.s. could

have an effect. >> absolutely. usually does. if you're trying to get into new york in the next couple of days likely have delays will. >> patience always good to take with you. ivan, good to see you, thanks. when big city life knocks you down, sometimes you just need to look up at the stars. that's the inspiration behind the british film called "blackout city" which shows what the night sky would liook like f it wasn't competing with london's lights. >> i think people have lost their connection with the night sky. going into the cities and being surrounded by the glow on a clear night when you look up, you hardly see anything. i grew up in a small rural village with no street lights and so the stars have always been a part of my childhood and my dad used to show me the bright con at the liegss like orion and the big dipper and to me the stars were always there. the stars you see in these are

what you would be seeing if london wasn't in blackout. the first graph of the stars you can see much more with the camera than with the naked eye. a lot more detail. a lot more structure and a lot more color and create these images that are almost unworldly but funny enough they are all world. it's a composite process so the city shots taken during the day and processed to look like night. the nighttime shots were taken from around locations in the south of the uk and to maintain that the stars were astronomically correct for the latitude of london and "blackout" was created to inspire people to leave the city to get away from the city lights, go and see the stars and go and see the milky way. enjoy it. look up. >> beautiful stuff there.

all right, coming up you could say he was a star right here on earth. next on cnn, we remember joe co cocker. 623 ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac ♪ ♪ ♪ look here daddy, i'm never coming back ♪ ♪ discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. lease this 2015 standard collection srx for around $359 a month. hurry in. offer ends soon.

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season for the winners of the el el gordo lottery. >> the annual christmas drawing was worth nearly $3 billion. the winning numbers, 1, 3, 4, 3 and 7. here's al goodman with some of the lucky winners. >> reporter: this 23-year-old says he came to spain eight years ago as an undocumented immigrant. now he's got working paper answer much more. nearly $150,000 from the big christmas lottery. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> very well, very well he says. i feel just great. he's an assistant chef at this restaurant along with other immigrants from latin america, eastern europe and africa and some spaniards too. the owners bought lottery tickets and sold them to everyone at work and then part of the first prize landed here. >> well, i'm very, very happy

but i'm also very happy for them. just imagine if the boss gets the money and they don't. this way everyone gets the money. >> the restaurant owners say many of their workers have won 120,000 euros in one day with this lottery which is 100 times their monthly wage. he says no one has quit yet. and he doesn't seem worried. a father of five he says his winnings will go to the family and his business. most people who played weren't lucky like these people at a cafe across from the opera house where the lottery drawing known as el gordo or the fat one was held. this bartender is from romania and had a stake in eight lottery tickets with her co-workers and had big plans to win. "i would buy an old house" she says and i would start having children, two but the numbers didn't work out for them. nearly $3 billion in price money but not for her and not for many others in this cafe either.

the joy spread far enough to reach this restaurant and many other places. holiday cheer in a nation still pulling out of a long economic crisis. al goodman, cnn, madrid. >> and finally this hour. the music world is remembering the distinctive voice of joe cocker. ♪ what would you do if i sang out a tune would you stand up and walk out on me ♪ >> his sound is just unmistakable, isn't it? the british born crooner hit the big time in 1969 at woodstock with his rendition of the beatles "with a little help from my friends." cocker continued to perform for four decades in which he had several hits and an unmistakable stage presence. he hit number one and got a grammy for "up where we belong" but he told npr his favorite

song recorded was "you are so beautiful." ♪ you are so beautiful to me >> joe cocker died from lung cancer at his home in colorado. he was 70 years old and will certainly be missed by many around the world. i'm errol barnett. please do stay with us on cnn. i'll be back after the break with rosemary church for more of the day's biggest stories. you're with cnn. ♪ lend me your ears and i'll sing you a song ♪ ♪ i will try not to sing out of key ♪ ♪ i want to get by with a little help from my friends ♪ ♪ i keep talking to my friends

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two new york city police officers ambushed and murdered. we've learned new details about those officers and the man accused of gunning them down. australia's prime minister has a warning for the public. stay alert. hear what he's saying about new terrorist chatter in the days since the cafe siege in sydney. after being blamed for the hacking of sony pictures, north korea may now be the latest victim of a cyberattack. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and, of course, all around the world, i'm rosemary ch.