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>> this family has shown us so much in these last days and has given us so much hope even amidst the pain. [ playing "taps" ] >> i'm sure i speak for the whole nation when i say to you that our hearts ache for you. >> we know who rafael ramos was. he was a father, a son, a brother and a husband. he was a new yorker. he was a new york city police officer. and he was, he is, a hero. >> hello, i'm martin savidge in for fredricka whitfield.

this was a look at the sights and the sounds from the funeral service for fallen police officer rafael ramos. 25,000 police officers were there from across the country. several people spoke at the service including vice president joe biden. new york city police commissioner bill bratton and mayor bill de blasio. as the mayor was speaking, some of the officers outside the church turned their backs. it was reminiscent of an incident last week. officers turned their backs on the mayor after he came to the hospital after the shooting. they are expressing how he handled the protests in the city. miguel marquez just spoke to a union representative for the police officers, and it was a pretty interesting conversation, miguel. >> we spoke to the union representative who was at the center of the controversy here. shortly after those police officers turned their backs on the mayor at the hospital, a man named patrick lynch, patty

lynch, as he's called here, he's a 31-year member of the new york police department. he also happens to be the president of the pba, the patrolman's benevolent association. they represent the beat level cop. he's one of the tm thousands of police that attended this funeral today. made a point of coming over to talk to us. >> it was overwhelming the show of support from not only the good citizens of new york and the residents here of glendale, but from across the country and especially the 25,000 fellow police officers of all ranks, of all departments that came out and showed respects and bowed their head in respect for this hero's family today. although our uniforms may be different colors, our shields different shapes, the dedication and sorrow felt today was overwhelming for this hero's family. we have one more hero to shoulder, police officer liu. and we ask for that same

respect. and we ask for those same departments to come out to a street like this again and bow their head in respect as we shoulder another fallen police officer. >> this was unbelievably impressive show. >> i have 31 years on the job. i've never seen such a show of support as we saw here today. we're eternally grateful. >> you know how tough things are and i know your words earlier in the week kicked off quite a bit here. a lot of police officers, hundreds if not thousands of them, turned their back as the mayor spoke. do you think that's okay? >> the feeling is real. today is about mourning. tomorrow is about debate. >> what would you tell those police officers? >> we have to understand the betrayal that they feel, but today we also come to bow our head in mourning and tomorrow we'll debate. >> how does the city get going? >> now, perhaps this is the beginning of a conversation between patrick lynch, the other heads of the other unions here that represent other sections of the nypd and the mayor's office.

the mayor gave a very solemn and simple message today that we are all one new york, that he put himself in the position of nypd officers. he went to great lengths to explain in his eulogy that what was done against these two officers was done against the city of new york. martin? >> miguel marquez, thank you very much. so just who was rafael ramos? cnn's randi kaye takes a look at the life of this fallen hero. >> reporter: officer ramos worked as a school security officer before joining the nypd. and reportedly loved the mets. he was married with two children. on facebook his 13-year-old son wrote, he was there for me every day of my life. he was the best father i could ask for. it's horrible that someone gets shot dead just for being a police officer. i will always love you, and i will never forget you. rest in peace, dad.

>> he was god because the heart he has is uncompared to other people's heart. >> reporter: he says that god was a priority in ramos' life. the 40-year-old officer in recent years grew more passionate about his church. on his facebook page, a quote reads, if your way isn't working, try god's way. the same page said officer ramos had been married since 1993 and once studied at a seminary. before his death, ramos was studying to become a chaplain. in fact, later that saturday afternoon, the day he was killed, he was scheduled to graduate from a chaplain program. the pastor at his church told us ramos had an infectious smile and loved his wife marisa and his two boys, justin and jaden. >> i would like to thank all those who shared their support for our beloved family member rafael ramos, who will always be loved and missed by many.

>> our thanks to cnn's randi kaye with a look back there. plans for the funeral of officer ramos' partner wenjian liu are still being arjd. officer liu was 32 and he'd been on the force for seven years. he leaves behind a wife along with other family and friends. his wife attended a news conference yesterday and learned that a 9/11 charity will pay off their mortgage. rudy giuliani was on hand for that announcement. we'll have more on the coverage of the funeral of rafael ramos coming up in just a bit. ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac ♪ ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac ♪

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the obama administration is stepping up its effort to close the guantanamo bay detention center. as many as five detainees could be released in the next few days. cnn's michelle kosinski joins us now from honolulu where the president is spending the holidays. michelle, this has been a longstanding goal of obama's. how is he planning to accomplish it before he leaves office? >> well, it's not a definite

that it is going to be closed. the president has made it very clear just last week in an interview with candy crowley. he said he would like to do everything he can to close it, but there is opposition, not only from leadership within the pentagon but also from congress because the question becomes what do you do with some of these people there? especially the higher level ones. not that they've necessarily been charged with a crime even after being held there for more than ten years, but there's controversy about bringing them back to the u.s. and trying them, controversy about possibly setting up a military tribunal for them. so the problems continue. what president obama has been trying to do is steadily release the noncontroversial ones. we saw four released just a week ago back to afghanistan, people who again have not been charged with a crime. and were considered pretty low level not dangerous, not very controversial. so he's going to keep releasing other groups of these prisoners. you mentioned five possibly

within the next couple of weeks. that could go up to dozens over the next several months. might not get down to zero in a year's time which is what the president originally wanted. it's been more than a year now. but that's his plan, to get to the point where it might finally be closed, martin. >> on another subject, i want to ask you about north korea and how that government has slammed the u.s. for releasing the movie "the interview." they released a statement saying obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest. any reaction from the president? >> no, not at this point. you look at these statements, several of them now that have come out from north ye over the past couple of days, depending how you want to call them, bizarre or inflammatory. just kind of ramping up this rhetoric that they put out. well, initially the u.s. was responding. i mean, first we saw the president's national security team say, well, if north korea's

offering help on this hacking, they ought to apologize for it. then north korea put out another statement saying the u.s. ought to apologize. so it was almost becoming this back and forth. so finally the white house said, you know what? we're not going to respond to everything north korea says and get into a back and forth that way. so on this latest statement, and in fact, the last two or three that we've seen, the white house has been quiet. >> all right, michelle kosinski in honolulu, thank you very much for joining us. >> we'll have more on our coverage of the rafael ramos funeral coming up, but first, our look into the future. today, powering our world with feet. here's richard quest. >> reporter: coal, it fired the steam engines of the industrial revolution and fossil fuels have powered and transformed our world ever since. until the 1970s energy crisis

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thousands attended the funeral for officer raphafael rs today. among them police commissioner bill bratton. he told the crowd that ramos was assassinated because he represented all new york police officers. >> every time i attend a police officer's funeral -- and i've attended way too many -- i always pray that it will be the last, but i know it won't. as i watch the casket carry past all those salutes, i wish it weren't real. but it is. and as i look into the faces of loved ones left behind whose worst fear has been suddenly realized, i silently hope, never

again. but here we are we're here because your dad was assassinated. it's a different word than "murdered," which is awful enough. it speaks of the prominence of the person killed. it makes the crime intentional and symbolic. your dad was assassinated because he represented something, and that's true, he did. he represented the men and women of the new york city police department. he was the embodiment of our motto, faithful unto death. he represented the blue thread that holds our city together when disorder might pull it apart. he represented the public safety that is the foundation of all our democracy. he represented the best of our values, as anyone can see by looking at you and at your

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the funeral for officer ramos took place in queens at the church he and his family attended. joining me now is melinda katz who serves as president of the queens borough. she also attended the funeral today. thank you very much for joining us. >> good afternoon, thank you for having me. >> how has this incident affected your borough?

>> it's been an extraordinary few weeks. since the death of the two officers, really the murder of the two officers, it was amazing to see how the city came together, especially the borough of queens. we are a very diverse borough, there are a lot of interests, but the one thing the whole city really felt was the morning of these murders of these two police officers. and what struck me this morning at the funeral, especially with vice president biden and the governor and the mayor speaking, was that it was a tribute not only to the nypd and the job that they do every single day of protecting us, but it also reminded us that officer ramos was a father and a husband and a son. his mother was at the funeral. it was extraordinary. and it was a great thing to see the city just come together. the seas of blue that were out there to pay tribute to the job that the man did, but also to the man himself. >> you've been a public servant for nearly 20 years now

representing many different neighborhoods. so where do you see the relationship between the nypd and the citizens of new york? >> i think there's a lot of healing to do. the good thing about it is that we're discussing it. the good thing about it is that the conversation is an open conversation. i think every single day there's men and women in uniform that are protecting our streets. the one thing that the speakers noted this morning, that the same police officers may not agree with some of the protesters were out there defending their right to protest, were out there protecting the streets and making sure that the right to protest continued. and that says a lot about the city of new york. we have a heart, we have a soul. and when we are challenged by difficult times, horrible times, we come together. and we work as a team. and we like to show the rest of the nation that we can come together and we do, with all the different languages that we speak in our city and it's interesting the commissioner

noted that over 64 languages are spoken by the nypd officers that protect our streets every day. and we make it work. not only do we make it work, we celebrate it every day. and nothing was clearer than this morning. i had the opportunity to speak to mrs. ramos last night at the wake. and i noted to her her two unbelievable boys. i mean, they're men in the way they're acting but they are really boys. they're welcoming everyone at this wake for their father. a man who was clearly such a great part of their life. i have a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old. and you can't help but think of your own children when you look at that. and the future that these children have ahead of them and how difficult it's going o be. >> yeah. i know that very well. melinda katz, the president of the borough of queens. thank you for your insights today. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll have more of the coverage of the funeral of police officer rafael ramos in just a minute.

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at today's funeral for nypd funeral rafael ramos, andrew cuomo paid tribute to a force known as new york's finest. >> to the nypd family, which lost two brothers, i say you are a force of true professionals who protect our people with the highest level of skill and dedication. as the vice president said, you are new york's finest and you are probably the finest nationwide. the nypd has done an especially extraordinary job these past few weeks. i watched on television the scenes of people hurling physical objects and verbal insults at the nypd, and i frankly was amazed at the discipline and professionalism that the nypd demonstrated. the nypd protected the right of freedom of speech even though

they themselves were the target of false and abusive chants and tire aades by some. what a beautiful testament to their professionalism. to the nypd,. and we want every nypd officer to know that they were not alone. when the nypd stood in formation every new yorker stood with them. and every new yorker stands with you today. >> more than 25,000 police officers attended the funeral of

slain nypd officer rafael ramos. it was a sea of blue as they said good-bye to a husband, father of two who thought of policing as a ministry. congressman charles rangel joins me now. congressman, thank you very much for being with us today. >> thank you, martin, you're doing a good job for all of us. >> thank you, sir. you were raised in new york and you know that city, you know that area and you attended the funeral today. so what were you thinking as you watched this service? >> i guess like most family feels when they lose somebody. why did it take a tragic thing like this for new yorkers to come together to realize how important and how much we appreciate our new york city police department. i never felt more proud as a new yorker. and every speaker made it appear as though they were talking

through us to the family saying things that we all wanted to say. i think this is going to make us stronger and realize the obligations that we have to each other to communicate with each other, but, you know, it always happens when a tragic event happens, you wish you had said, i loved you more, you wish you had paid more attention. but fortunately, we have an opportunity to make up for that. we've lost two heroes and their loss remind us of the obligation that we have to respect those that each and every morning or afternoon or night go out there and put their lives on the line and their families just hope and pray they return home. >> we saw some of the officers who turned their back towards the church where inside mayor de blasio was speaking. some might say that took attention away from the funeral and from the death of officer ramos and his partner. your thoughts? >> well, it was poor judgment,

and today was such a beautiful homecoming that for those people that had bad taste or put a bad face on a terrible situation, i for one got a spirit out of that service that we should be more considerate of each other and not be pointing fingers at each other and try to improve our behavior and our communication and appreciate what we've got so that it's going to be hard for me to respond to any question that would be a creditique of something that has been wrong. we lost two heroes. now is not the time to be pointipoint ing fingers but coming together to see what we can do to work better together. because one thing is clear, while we lost two heroes, every speaker made it clear that we, too, have a short period of time

on this earth to do the right thing. and it was a sad thing, but the way the new york city police were lauded by people from all over the country just made us proud to be new yorkers and to have the new york city police department. >> right. i was in new york. i got the witness that personally. we know that there is a divide, of course, between the mayor and his police force. but how would you view the relationship between the police and new yorkers? >> well, you know, we -- it's like any family. you don't say everybody is having a problem. in every family there's always an uncle that says the wrong thing and everyone tolerates him. and there comes a time you have to say either you got to be a part of the family or you're not going to be a part of the family. what we do have to do, however, is not just to point out to

those people that don't communicate and don't respect new yorkers, we have to point out those people that are around them that are silent when this is happening. you and i know that we tolerate listening to people doing the wrong thing and it's the people who are silent when we see these things happen. so right now, we're burying our heroes. that doesn't mean that the family's not going to have a reunion and at this time i hope it's going to be at a much higher level. but people who can admit in their own families they have some people they're not proud of, they've got a problem themselves. >> that's a remarkable way to sort of equate all of this. what do you think needs to happen next between the mayor and the police department as a person who knows so much, what advice would you give? >> well, they have to get over it. you know, there's certain people that represent the unions and times of re-election and

contract negotiations sometimes they are not as responsible as people would want them to be. i can't think of anything that the mayor could say or could do that i would not want a mayor of my great city to be doing. but when people have made up their mind that they're looking for a fight and not reconciliation, then we just have to pause and let them talk themselves out of it. but with the coverage that cnn has given to this and the fact that policemen, their family and friends are watching this very sacred day, i don't thing we're going to see too much of the hostility against the mayor or against community leaders as some of the people who felt pain and responded in a way that right now they shouldn't be too proud of. right now all of us should set aside where we've been and

concentrate on where we're going. this is a great city, god has blessed us and being a great city and i've been around long enough, i've been through riots and storms and floods and blackouts and noo9/11. and one thing always happens, new york comes back stronger than before and that's going to happen now. >> so true. congressman charles rangel. thank you very much for your dedication, thank you for talking to us today. >> mm-hmm. >> we'll have more on the funeral of rafael ramos in just a moment. vo: this year, santa left his sleigh at home and booked his trip around the world on expedia. because now the points you earn traveling for the holidays can be donated to help the kids at

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in the weather center. >> we've got snow, oklahoma is picking up significant snowfall. bone-chilling cold air. readings in the teens the and the 20s. that's the outside temperature, but here's what it feels like. in minneapolis, 14 degrees. that's the wind chill factor. fargo feels like it's seven degrees outside. the wind is blowing between 20 and 35 miles per hour. we've got a big dip in the jet stream with these back-to-back storm systems coming through. and an alberta clipper or a clipper system will move across the midwest and into the great lakes really plunging those temperatures pretty far to the south where it's been recently mild. temperatures in the southeast in the 60s way above normal for this time of year. now already in oklahoma a little bit of snow. lawton, six inches being reported there, earlier odessa and midland, 24 hours ago in el paso a little bit of snow well. interior sections of the u.s. from the dakotas all the way down to the panhandle of texas.

20 to 30 degrees below where it should be for this time of year. but a good swath of the united states are expect to see temperatures well below normal. here's the setup. area of low pressure with the frontal system connecting the great lakes all the way down towards texas, right along that boundary. that's where most of the wet weather is located. some thunderstorms, some trees down and here comes that little clipper system. little puts it mildly. batches of cold air will dive well to the south. there you see the snow lined up in oklahoma and missouri. also the u.p. of michigan picking up some snowfall. most of the snow we've seen has been between 3 and 6 inches while 3 to 5 inches of rain right along the gulf coast. marty, back to you. >> karen maginnis, thank you very much. $100 in the hands of a homeless man. a secret camera recorded how he spent the money. >> reporter: when youtube star josh paler lin came up with the

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even personally insulted president obama. >> reporter: we knew pyongyang would be furious about the release of "the interview" movie. sure enough they haven't disappointed. we have a statement from the all powerful national defense commission. the fact that it's come from such a powerful institution within north korea shows how seriously the regime is taking this issue. now, they're not just blaming sony pictures for releasing the movie. they're also blaming personally the u.s. president barack obama. let's read a little bit of a statement. and it says, u.s. president obama is the chief culprit who forced the sony pictures entertainment to indiscrimina indiscriminately release the movie and took the lead in appeasing and blackmailing cinema houses and theater. they have personal insults for barack obama saying he's reckless in words and deeds like a monk ne a tropical forest. that's not the first time they've insulted the u.s. president personally. they've insulted many leaders

around the world, in particular the south korean president. but once again they're holding him personally responsible for the fact that "the interview" was allowed to be distributed. once question pyongyang says it had nothing to do with the hacking of sony picture. this was claimed by a group called guardians of peace. they're saying to washington, show us the proof. show us the evidence that you have that makes you believe that north korea was involved. now, the fbi has said that they believe north korea was involved because of the malware used in the attack was similar to other alleged cyber attacks that they believe north korea was involved in. pyongyang also saying they've had internet troubles of their own over the past five days. it's not clear whether or not they have been hacked, but they believe that washington is behind that. we're not hearing any comment from washington at this point. and, of course, all this controversy, all this news, the fact this is in the headlines is pr gold for this movie. we are seeing hundreds of thousands of downloads around

the world, especially here inside korea, where most people probably wouldn't have even gone to see the movie as it didn't have a distributor before all this controversy started. but certainly this is helping sales somewhat. the question now, though, is is that it? has it run its course, this controversy? the movie is out and north korea has reacted. or will we see more cyber attacks in the future? paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. >> thank you very much. i'm joined by ben feinstein a security expert for dell security works, a dell subsidiary based here in atlanta. first, with welcome. then your reaction to this new take that north korea had nothing to do with the hack? >> well, i'm not personally or professionally in a position to speculate exactly on the attribution, but you're right there's a lot of controversy in the security community about the attribution that's been put out there. internet response and digital forensics attribution is one of

the most difficult things that we do. there's obviously evidence that the united states government does not want to release due to protecting their own sources and methods, you know, what has been released does have some connections to prior attacks that have been allegedly attributed to north korea, so there's some overlap there, but there's valid concerns being raised in the community and the skeptical feedback that's out there. >> i want to talk to you about the other hack that's now occurred and this is the one that's impacting sony gaming networks that would be x-box and the play station programs. i'm wondering this seemed to coincide with christmas day. the day that everybody gets that new game, maybe the gaming system and, boom, they can't go online and play. getting online is important for many of the new modern games. so what happened? >> you're right. many of the games today require the ability to phone home back to either x-box's network or sony's playstation network in order to function at all. a lot of disappointed kids and adults on christmas morning.

if you are going to pick a time to release an attack and impact these network, christmas day is about the highest visibility day you could pick. i would speculate this is the day that was chosen because it would offer the most pr value. >> was this merely an interruption of service or do we know if some damage or something was taken from these players? >> what we've heard at this time is there was no actual damage or hacking, per se, it was what we know as a denial of service attack. what we call a denial of service attack, rather. where these networks were flooded with bogus internet traffic that basically they're unable to cope in and impacted their ability to serve their customers. >> as the expert here, what should a gamer do to protect themselves? >> as a gamer, i've seen recommendations of, if you're a parent, set up the system several days in advance, let all the games download their updates and update themselves so that potentially there's less bandwidth that needs to be used during christmas day itself.

but unfortunately in this case there wasn't a whole lot that individual gamers can do other than track the status online of the impact of the networks and try again later. >> and you expect more of this? >> absolutely. at dell secure works we've been examining denial of service attacks many times for years and years and years and there's a variety of motivations behind pem. there's hacktavism, sometimes it's geo political. other times it's in the cyber criminal underground you can hire someone to launch a denial of service attack on the victim of your choice. >> we're talking about companies here. but i'm wondering is there a role for the government? can the government do something? >> due to the architecture of the internet today, the government is somewhat limited in their ability to mitigate denial of service attacks. the internet is a highly distributed system that, you know, for better or worse, the governments of the world don't have direct control over the global internet. really it's up to individual

organizations to plan and prepare for resisting denial of service attacks, looking at ways they can reduce their attack surface and in the way they can profile to their consupers in an attack. >> i hope government and private industry can come up with an answer. ben feinstein, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, martin. >> thank you for joining me. i'm martin savidge on what's been a somber day for nypd and the country. they said good-bye to a fallen police officer rafael ramos. our news coverage continues now with poppy harlow. hi, everyone. thanks for joining me. i'm poppy harlow. tens of thousands of police officers flooded the streets of new york city today for one purpose, to honor a fallen

brother. nypd officer rafael ramos, the 40-year-old father of two was gunned down in his patrol car one week ago today. he was along with his partner and officer wenjian liu. and today the family was given the flag that lay across his casket. the man suspected of killing ramos and his partner was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound right after the shootings. he's believed to be vowing revenge for the death of eric garner and michael brown. but today it was not about that. it was about all brotherhood and