i made him himself. >> oh, sure. the police happy to get involved when a white person goes missing. >> reporter: the guys who shot the bus video tell cnn they didn't build the snowman. they shot shot it thinking it would be a funny thing to post online. now they're feeling guilt stricken, not abt frosty's demise but the bus driver losing his job. so guilty they started a save the bus driver facebook page saying it's a good deed he did. using his big bus to break up the snowman. look what can happen when windshield meets frosty. now, that's defrosting. >> destroyed my windshield. >> reporter: for some reason some guys love decapitating frosty. >> hello, little feller. ♪ >> reporter: he's been put on rl tracks. he's been axed. he's been torched.

sort of makes getting hit by a bus seem like a mercy killing. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> worried about people that don't have anything better to do than torture a snowman. >> or an ax. heard from the bus driver zblet. >> no. >> maybe he knows what happens, you break your windshield. this is an obstacle that just can't stay there any longer. i don't have time to call dispatch. clear the road and then -- >> maybe you can represent him as he tries to get the job back as he tries to get the job back at the labor board. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> i'm working for the prosecution. >> there you go. we got get out of here or we'll be prosecuted. see you back here tomorrow. >> cnn newsroom with don lemon starts right now. >> thank you. not prosecuted but i appreciate you letting me take over. 9:00 on the east coast. 6:00 a.m. in the west. i'm don lemon. kyra phillips is off today.

here's the story that is have us talking this morning. throughout the morning, greek riot police have struggled to hold back violent protesters from the parliament building. union workers are railing against wage cuts and changes in labor laus. the cutbacks mandated by the bailout from the financial crisis. there could be a breakthrough in the fight against aids. researchers in germany say they have made -- they have cured a man of hiv infection. cnn's medical team is taking a closer look and tell you about it. talk about a gamble. this man just pulled off a million dollar heist on the las vegas strip and police say he may have hit another casino last week but the story doesn't end there. we begin this morning with a bizarre and terrifying meltdown in a school board meeting in florida and cameras captured it all and some of these pictures we want to warn now are very disturbing. after calmly sitting through the early part of a meeting, an angry set seven stepped up for

comment. he spray painted a red "v" on the chamber's wall and ordered most of the people from the gun at gun point. 56-year-old clay duke is a former convict. who's apparently upset over taxes and the recent firing of his wife. that's when the school superintendent tried to reason with him. >> will you let them go? i mean, but you're obviously upset at me. so why are they here? just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt and i have a feeling what you want is the cops to kill you because you're mad. you said you are going to die. >> all right. but the efforts to calm the gunman may have enraged him instead and what happened next, again, contains some disturbing video. kiran chetry has the story for you. >> he made up his mind and you could tell, he was going to die. my concern was how many people was he going to take with him?

>> reporter: cameras were rolling, recording every chilling moment. 56-year-old clay duke, first, spray painting a "v" on the wall and then pulling out a handgun on bay county school board members. >> you may leave. you may leave. the women can leave. six men stay. everyone else leaves. >> reporter: then, in a bizarre moment, ginger littleton tries to stop duke, hitting him with her purse. >> no. >> reporter: at that point, school superintendent knew things were about to get worse. >> he came up over towards the backside of it and started saying somebody's going to die in here. you know? that i'm upset. i'm mad. you fired my wife. my wife lost her job. my family -- he was just rambling. we didn't know what he was talking about. >> reporter: he tried to reason with duke, not knowing the gunman was about to snap. >> listen. just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feeling that what

you want is the cops coming in to kill you because you're mad because you said you're going to die. >> i'm going to kill you. >> why? this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't. please don't. please. >> i'm going to kill you. don't you understand? i'm -- >> oh. unbelievable. again, that was cnn's kiran chetry and after the security aurves wounded clay duke, the gunman killed himself. we'll hear more from the school superintendent and the woman who tried to disarm the gunman hitting him with her purse. another day, another likely step forward in extending the bush era tax cuts to all americans. today, the senate is expected to pass a controversial bill and pass it to the house. where it faces more opposition and possible changes, as well. so let's get the latest from cnn's congressional correspondent brianna keilar on

capitol hill. remind us of the big sticking points here. >> reporter: the big sticking point and continues to be in the house with liberal democrats, don, has to do with the estate tax. this is something that was zeroed out under the bush era tax cuts and was supposed to be reinstated at a pretty high rate or back to its original rate and under this deal worked out between president obama and senate republicans, it would basically -- you know, put up a graphic to kind of just explain to people what the estate tax is. this is something to hear republicans refer to as the death tax. this is if there's an inheritance that you would pay a tax on that inheritance and under this plan, the exemption would go up to $5 million so as long as the inheritance is $5 million or less, you are not paying any taxes above that. the tax rate would be at 35%. you have republicans saying, this is protecting small businesses that get passed down within the family. but you have democrats saying, no, no, no.

this is an inheritance -- this is saves a lot of people getting an inheritance. who? the rich. it is a giveaway and liberal democrats saying they want to change this, don, but as you know there's a key vote on monday in the senate that passed overwhelmingly. 83 votes in favor of it in the senate with those parameters that i just described and you have a lot of folks, senate republicans, saying, house democrats, if you change this, this whole deal will unravel and the thing we passed overwhelmingly on monday, you know, we're not going to pass it with any of your changes to the estate tax, don. >> reporter: getting down to the wire here. could this get pushed back into next week? >> reporter: i mean, i think anything's possible. right now, of course, the final dead loon the end of the year when the bush era tax cuts expire. that is when the unemployment benefits are set to go up but i did just talk to a house democratic source that said that the senate as we know, don, voting today. it is possible the house takes it up tonight. more likely tomorrow.

the question is, do they do it with the changes? and here's another scenario that could play out. the house could pass with the changes to be completely a no-no to folks in the senate and sending back the original bill you didn't like and something that the house just has to swallow. other thing that's important to note is house democratic source told me it's unclear if there's support for changing the e skate tax and trying to work that out and not a consensus with house democrats and still in chaos at this point. >> brianna keilar on capitol hill, thank you very much. there are deepening divisions in the debate over the military's policy banning gays from serving openly. general james amos is stirring new anger with his comments on repealing the ban. he tells the stars and stripes it's a distraction that could jeopardize the lives of marines. he's been a leading critic of the repeal but the stark, new comment has the white house brisling. a senior administration official blasts the comment as, quote,

beyond the pale. we have an update on the wikileaks scandal and how some military leaders dealing with it. the u.s. air force denying the personal access to websites with the secret and sometimes embarrassing documents. 25 blocked sides include "the new york times" and news agencies in london and germany. wikileaks is a whistle-blowing website released documents from the wars in iraq and afghanistan and more recently private communications among u.s. diplomats. all right. two words of advice for a big chunk of the country. bundle up. stay warm. trooet chattering from the north to the deep south and could be another bitterly cold day for people out there. cars and sidewalks in ohio, look at that. vanishing beneath the snow. the overnight temperatures there barely hitting the double digits. near the u.s.-canada border, ontario, about 300 people safe after rescuers plucked them from the cars. many of them stuck for a full day after blinding snow piled up so high that even opening the

car door was all but impossible. down south in florida, bitter cold keeps threatening the citrus crops but so far farmers say their fruits are holding up for the most part. and right now, we are keeping an eye on tennessee and kentucky. they're bracing for the possibility of freezing rain, the kind to coat roads and weigh down power lines. rob marciano, of course, bundled up in louisville. so rob, give us the story there. >> reporter: well, don, this area has had its fair share of ice storms. a couple of them every year just because of where they're located but this is pretty early for that to happen. dry right now and still a coating of snow on the ground from the last surge of cold air and snow that came through. what you can see behind me, sun coming up, just over the clark memorial bridge there, you have got some mid level stratus clouds, little layer of cloud

cover working in from the south to the north and the leading edge of the storm and the moisture from the gulf of mexico that is already causing some problems to the south in places like mississippi and alabama. as a matter of fact, here's the tower camera. live shot of birmingham, alabama, where temperatures are right at the freezing mark. and the cloud cover is rolling in and in spots you have got some freezing rain. thanks for the live shot wvtm. here's the other temperatures around the region where it's trying to warm up but when you get moisture down from the gulf of mexico riding up over the cold air you have issues. it's plenty warm in jackson and new orleans. memphis and nashville, places that are going to see issues. we have seen problems in sven nor, shelby and tuscaloosa, alabama, already. here's the radar. tupelo, mississippi, highway 70 in shelby and fayette county, mississippi, we have seen a glazing of the roadways there and traffic accidents so this is

going to begin to fill in this through central central kentucky and tennessee today. changing over to freezing rain tonight and then an icing situation on our hands tomorrow morning. how much? in many ways about a quarter of inch of ice on the roadways. maybe more than that on trees. tree limbs. could take down some power lines. tomorrow morning, not only an icy commute but likely seeing power outages across parts of the ohio and tennessee valleys. winds continue to whip and the cold air continues to drive south across the eastern half of the country. no real warm-up in sight and very active weather along the west coast. winter storm warnings posted, john. we expect the snows to start here in louisville later on this afternoon and again change over to sleet and then freezing rain by this time tomorrow morning. winter hasn't even started yet officially. doesn't want to end yet either.

>> that weather map doesn't look good. sounds like the midwest instead of the south. crazy. rob, thank you very much, sir. you've got to see this next video. a helmet-wearing gunman walks into a possible las vegas casino and runs out with a fortune in chips. 1.5 million. maybe more. 11 seconds of security camera footage shows the suspect dashing through the bellagio looking back to see if anyone is on his trail and just like that he's gone. get this. investigators say the same guy may have robbed a different las vegas casino less than a week ago. casey wian is live in las vegas. what is he going to do with more than a million dollars in hot chips? can he get rid of them? >> reporter: that's a big question right now and one of the things investigators are saying about this unusual robbery. you know, there have been ten casino robberies in las vegas this year. police say it's unusual, most brazen. when's complicating this is casinos have security procedures

in place for these big denomination chips. the robber took chips from $100 to $25,000. they won't discuss what specific measures were in place in this case but some of these high-value chips have electronic devices implanted. casinos have agreements not to cash chips in this events like this so what police and casino officials are telling us is that this robber's going to have a very difficult time actually turning these chips in to cash. what they are suspecting and one of the theories is that perhaps he had an accomplice a known gambler and may have an easier time they hope, the rob erps hope, cashing these chips in but the way it unfolded is really incredible. this robber pulled up on the motorcycle to the valet parking area of the bellagio behind me. walked into the casino. pulled the gun. walked past the cage where there's cash and walked instead up to the craps table. told all of the patrons about a

dozen of them to freeze and then walked out with $1.5 million in chips and got back on the motorcycle and went on to flamingo heading out towards interstate 15 to the west and disappeared from there. one of the issues that investigators are having is the fact is about a dozen people around this craps table when the robbery took place and one police officer told me, you can imagine the relative state of sobriety at ten minutes to 4:00 in the morning and didn't give a very good description of the suspect oh than the fact of wearing a motorcycle helmet. don? >> so why wasn't anyone chasing him? >> reporter: well, what happened is he was carrying a gun and casino employees called 911 while he was -- before he had actually left the casino. i think what law enforcement officers and casino security personnel will tell you is if they were chasing him with

weapons drawn, imagine how many people at risk inside the casino. i mean, you've seen movies with gun fights in casinos but they don't want that to happen in real life. so that's why they let him go and let the police handle it. >> casey wian in las vegas, thank you very much. we now know "time" magazine's pick for person of the year. yesterday, "time's" readers felt julian assange deserved that title. who did the magazine choose? go right to the source and ask man from "time" magazine next. [ male announcer ] open up a cadillac during our season's best sales event and receive the gift of asphalt. experience the exhilarating cadillac cts with a direct injection v6. it's the one gift you can open up all year long. see your cadillac dealer for this attractive offer. backed by the peace of mind that only comes from cadillac premium care maintenance. the season's best sales event. from cadillac.

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♪ oh, i'm not sure if it's a white christmas but could be an icy one. that was louisville, kentucky. a live picture there. here it is the game changer. that news maker who had such a sway over the global conversation they deserve to be called person of the year. "time" magazine makes that pick and for 2010 it goes to facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. so joining me islev grossman. good morning. lev, out of nearly 7 billion people on the planet, why mark zuckerberg? >> well, if you look at the breadth of what he's done, more

than half a billion people worldwide are on facebook. look at that and look at the depth of it. the way that people run their lives through facebook, the level on which -- in their personal relationships facebook touches their lives, that's why zuckerberg is person of the year this year. >> he's changed people's lives this year more than any politician, more than a president, more than a world leader? >> that's our belief. i mean, if you look at just the size of facebook, it is somewhere between 550 and 600 million people. if facebook were a country, it could be almost twice an large as the united states. we think that the phenomenal is major and it's big enough to justify that choice. >> yeah. one in ten people on the planet. can we talk quickly -- getting back to mark zuckerberg but the runners-up and the nominees. tea party. julian say saassange.

why him? even hitler was "time" magazine's person of the year at one time. >> well, it's important to realize that person of the year is not an honor or a prize. this is our best attempt to figure out who changed the world the most this world, changes people's lives the most for better or for worse. >> how much did viewers weigh in and listeners -- excuse me, readers to "time" magazine weigh in on the choice or strictly from the editors? >> it is ultimately an editorial choice. there is as i understand it a poll on time.com asking people's opinion but that's an opinion poll and ultimately it is an editorial choice. >> when you think about facebook, i would imagine it was a targeted strategy by mark zuckerberg but i don't think that he even thought it would be this successful and this much

influence. have you a chance to speak to him and interview him about the success and about him winning "time" magazine's person of the year? >> i spent a good amount of time with zuckerberg at this point and one of the thing this is's remarkable about him and there are a lot of him is that i think he's amazed and humbled that facebook has gotten as big as it has but this was part of the vision from very early on. this is a guy who takes a very long view and a very big picture view and he, you know, he had an idea. he had a vision of a world in which people were connected electronically in this way from very, very early on. >> have you had a chance to speak to him since naming him? >> he's known about the choice for a little bit. i spent a few days at facebook talking to him and hanging out with him. >> so he knew that he was going to win before even though you didn't announce it? not just one of the people who

might win? >> yeah. that's not how we run it. the person who knows knows for a few weeks beforehand. >> all right. thank you very much, lev grossman, senior writer with "time" magazine. we appreciate it. we want to tell you that the president is going to speak to some ceos, having a meeting there expected to address the public and the folks at that meeting to talk about the economy, mostly. you might expect the president to talk about the tax deal because that is coming up today and the lame duck congress is voting on that and weighing in on that. the president will speak very shortly here on cnn and then coming the podium and talks and we'll bring it to you live.

sorry about that. now back live to washington. president obama's speaking. >> putting the house of representatives in the position to send me this critical economic package so i can sign it into law. i am absolutely convinced that this tax cut plan while not perfect will help gw our economy and create jobs in the private sector. it will help lift up middle class families who will no longer need to worry about a new years day tax hike. it will offer emergency relief to help tide folks over until they find another job. and it includes tax cuts to make college more affordable, help parents provide for their children and help businesses, large and small, expand and hire. i know there are different aspects of this plan to which members of congress on both sides of the aisle object. that's the nature of compromise. but we worked hard to negotiate an agreement that's a win for middle class families and a win for our economy.

we can't afford to let it fall victim to either delay or defeat. so i urge members of congress to pass these tax cuts as swiftly as possible. getting that done is an essential ingredient in spurring economic growth over the short run and spurring economic growth is what i'll talk about later this morning when i meet with some of america's top business leaders. that includes jim mcnerney of boeing heading up the export counsel and several members of my economic recovery advisory board. as one of many discussions we'll be having in the months ahead to find new ways to spur hiring, put americans

support from business and labor because it's good for the economy. this morning, i hope to elicit ideas that will help us not only climb out of recession, but seize the promise of this moment. ideas about tax reform, ideas about a balanced approach to

regulation that will promote rather than undermine growth. ideas that will help encourage businesses to invest in america and american jobs at a time when they're holding nearly $2 trillion on their books. i want to discuss our shared mission of building a strong economy for the long run. we know some of what we need to do to outcome pete other countries in the 21st century. we need to offer our children the best education in the world. we need to spur innovation and new industries like clean energy for the jobs of tomorrow. we need to upgrade america's crumbling infrastructure, its roads and bridges, update high-speed rail and high-speed internet to connect every community and we need to redouble or commitment to fiscal discipline and address our long-term deficit challenges. we know the path that will lead to economic success. the only question is whether we will take it. whether we have the political will to do the work. i'm committed to taking that

path. i know america's business leaders are, as well. i look forward to talking to them this morning and working with them in the months and years to come to make sure that we're adopting the best ideas for growing our economy and making the 21st century another great american century. thank you very much, everybody. >> president obama in the eisenhower executive office there this morning talking about the tax cut deal, really, at the beginning of his speech and remarks he said he urged congress to pass that tax cut bill saying this was a win for the middle class and the economy and as you know there's a critical vote today on that tax cut bill. president again urging congress to pass it and talking about the meeting today with business leaders and what they plan to do to get the economy back on track. he said, upgrade the infrastructure and commit -- recommit to fiscal discipline. again, we'll be following that and folks in washington on capitol hill following the tax cut vote.

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you heard the president live moments ago urging congress to pass a tax cut deal. there's a critical vote in the senate today. it is expected to pass the senate but it may have some trouble in the house. again, the president speaking about the economy and following it from washington. when it comes to the economy, the federal reserve is front and center. after all, a main goal to boost economic growth and yesterday policymakers said what their plan is. stephanie elam is watching in this from the new york stock exchange in new york. good morning, stephanie. >> hey, don. yeah, the feds say they're basically keeping the course and keep buying hundreds of billions of dollars of treasury bonds and hope that the low rates push people to spend and today we're reminded by the economy of the top concern. look at yahoo! cutting 600 jobs or 4% of the workforce. in the midst of a turnaround

under the new ceo a month after google gave a 10% pay raise. the differences there in the valley. as for stocks, they're under pressure today because of concerns about europe yees debt problem. take a look at the market numbers. just flat basically off three points there. nasdaq off 3. 2624. we are in the red. finally, don, before i go, gm's highly publicized next generation car is out. first chevy vault sold for $225,000. extremely high considering the sticker price is just $45,000. but, but, but let me tell you. the volt auctioned off to benefit detroit public schools and education secretary arne duncan called the worst urban school district in the country. doing a little good in selling the car. >> green is good in all of that but $250,000 for a car?

holy cow. that's a lot. >> i know. hopefully helps out the schools. >> it will. good cause. stephanie elam, thank you. we'll check back with you throughout the day. it is a little after 10:30 on the east coast. a critical vote for today on the tax cut deal impacts every one of us. the deal brokered by president obama and the republicans was debated well into the night last night. it is expected to pass the senate but then on to the house where opposition is stronger and more vocal. at least 27 refugees on board this wooden boat died. they died after it smacked into the cliffs off australia's kris mat island. most victims believed to be women and children, asylum seekers from iran and iraq. a hiv patient may have been cured. researchers say the infection was wiped out. that was in 2007. and the man is still hiv free

today. one aids doctor here in the u.s. says it's a possible cure but it comes at a bit of a price. a horrifying confrontation at a school board meeting in florida streamed live online and captured on tape. we want to warn you, the video is graphic and disturbing. clay duke spray painting the wall with this symbol and then turns a gun in the right hand, look at that, turns around and excuses everyone in the room except six school board members. while eventually facing down the school board superintendent and firing two point-blank shots. incredibly no one was hit. >> just listen to me for a minute. i don't want anybody to get hurt. i've gt a feeling what you want is the tcops to come in and kil you because you're mad and want to die. this isn't worth it. this is a problem. please don't. please don't. please.

>> i'm going to kill you. don't you understand? i'm going to -- >> oh. hard to watch that. i can't really watch that. the shots off cam from ra if a security guard and duke fatally shot himself. two of the key figures in the showdown relive the ordeal and spoke to john roberts this morning. it is hard to watch that video. it's unbelievable. >> you can imagine how terrified the people in the room were. when he spray paints that "v" i guess for vendetta and pulls out a gun, you can see takes people almost ten seconds to realize what's going on and then i can't believe how calm the school board members were talking to him. the chairman of the school board, the superintendent there, just trying to talk him down trying to say, look at. you don't want to do. what's this all about? maybe let everybody go and take

your anger out on me because i'm the one who signed whatever piece of paper it was because duke claiming that his wife had been fired by the school board. i sat down with bill and with ginger littleton who was the female school board member that tries to knock the gun out of his hand. about what it was like to be there in that terrifying situation. here's what they told me. >> it was surreal. we've used that word together. i started using it last night and ginger was using it this morning. it was just like we're at a board meeting and talking about technology and head lice and then we know that this guy's got a gun in our face and so, you know, there's nothing you can do to prepare or think that's coming. >> you talked with him very calmly and very reasonably. we want to play a little bit of that in a second but all through that, was it going through your mind that oh my god, we could all die here? >> he had already told us that

he was going to die. he was prepared to die. and we were going to die, as well. and so, we knew -- i mean, you could tell by the look in his eyes that there was going to be some killing going on and so he'd made up his mind then. i mean, right there where you're showing shooting at me, i knew he was ready to pull the trigger. >> wow. you can imagine. and he told me, don, he said when he leveled the gun at me, i knew if he shot and killed me, i was going to go to a better place. don't necessarily think he was at peace with the idea of dying right then and there but he knew that if this was to be his last day of earth he would go to a place to be comfortable at the very least. >> what i found interesting is a woman at the school board meeting. i think asked to leave earlier. he kept a couple members of the board there. she was told to leave and then came back and tried to subdue him with her purse? >> yeah.

the school board member. look at this. bam. and tries to knock the gun out of his hand. she realizes right this in a heart beat that it hasn't happened. she didn't knock the gun to the ground and she screams this scream. listen here. >> ginger, no. ginger. >> and that scream you can only imagine is a scream a person would scream -- the scream there, don, the scream you can only imagine a person screams if they knew that they were about to die. i asked her what went through her mind right at that second. >> that's pretty much what was going through my mind. i was concerned about my guys. they were lined up like ducks in a row. he was already basically standing on the same level with them. i knew something bad was going to happen. that was my only option was to see if i could at least hurt him

or somehow or other detain until somebody got there to help us because my guys had three-ring binders and pencils for protection and that was all. >> wow. you can imagine she thought right then and there he was going to pull the gun on her. it was leveled at her head and he didn't. everybody felt like it was by the grace of god they escaped. and the superintendent said -- you clutched your chest. did you think you had been shot? he says as he went down, as he was hitting the ground, he said, my god, if i eve been shot, it doesn't hurt near as much as i thought it was going to. >> hmm. wow. john, and nothing to say there. unbelievable. i thought the people had gotten shot seeing the video because it was at such close range and one wonders was he trying to miss and nervous and missed those guys? >> yeah. bill told me he said he was

literally ten feet away from him and the gun was leveled right at him and somehow he missed. he told me he said he felt it was the hand of god in the middle of the bullet. whether it was that or whether it was that duke didn't have a proper aim on it, wasn't familiar are the gun. he fires a shot into the ground accidentally. or whether he didn't intend to kill anyone except himself. we'll probably never know. >> john roberts, thank you. we are waiting, supposed to hold a press conference the superintendent. john roberts this morning in new york. we're back in a moment. ♪

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former president back in the news a lot lately. bill clinton. now heading to haiti today. our ed henry's at the white house with that story and others on the political ticker right now. hi, ed. >> reporter: good morning, don. you are right. former president bill clinton seems to be everywhere. he was upstairs on friday and now going to haiti. obviously, very serious story. they have got that serious difficulties with cholera. he is visiting a cholera treatment center down there later today and then he's going to be meeting with the prime minister of haiti, meeting with

other health officials and having a news conference about 2:00 p.m. eastern time. we'll get some comments from him. obviously, he is a u.n. special representative to haiti. he's been there in the wake of the earthquake about a year ago, but also, now the cholera situation and this comes just a couple of days after sarah palin, former republican governor of alaska, down there and bill clinton has a more formal role both with the u.n. special rep and then also the foundation also doing a lot of work down there and hearing from him in just a couple of hours. secondly, you're going to be hearing a lot about the fact that president obama's meeting today with business leaders and made a statement 0 reporters on the way going to meeting at blair house and the president basically told reporters that he thinks it's imperative that congress pass this tax cut deal, they can't wait. that any delay recovery and mad clear that he basically wants to

tell them time to spur the economic growth in jobs. they're sitting on about $2 trillion of cash and wants them to spend it, don. >> ed, i guess the 2012 election campaign, we have been talking about it already, not that far away. >> reporter: no. you know, never too early to start planning. >> like christmas and present buying. >> reporter: on the list. sam fist checking the list of who's sending to new hampshire to cover the primary and preparations in securing the fact that cnn partnering with wmur, local affiliate there, always in the middle of the debates with the new hampshire union leader and then basically holding the first debate in new hampshire early next year. that's going to basically be, you know, the first one, first republican debate in the first nation in the primary. it is obviously a big deal. something that will be coming in a few months and something to keep a close eye on. you can never start planning too

early. >> yeah. midterms just 45 days ago and here we go. >> yeah. already looking ahead to 212. there's more details on the political ticker right now. you are going to see the debate in june 7th so it's coming up pretty quickly. >> thank you very much, ed henry n. an hour, another political update for you. you can go to cnnpolitics.com. controversy, though, to tell you about over the 2022 world cup in qatar and now a firestorm over flip anti-gay comments of the president of fifa. there are calls for his resignation now. but first, flash back to this day in december 15th, 1939. "gone with the wind" had the world premier right here in atlanta. >> red! red! red! if you go, where shall i go? what shall i do? >> frankly, my dear, i don't give a damn.

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have sex. we're live in london with more. pedro, this was supposed to be light hearted, but some people are finding offense in those words. >> reporter: no doubt about that. the problem is you can think certain things, but if you're a powerful man, you can't say them. it can be seen as a bad joke and that's exactly what's going on. fifa president was in south africa recently, and he was asked actually by one of our cnn colleagues what advice he would give to homosexuals and gays that would like to travel to the world cup in 2022 to a country that bans hoe mow sex all behavior. this is what he had to say. >> i would say then that they should refrain from any sexual activities. >> reporter: now, obviously he did go on to say, as well, that

he hopes by 2022 there will be some kind of change in the law or that people will be more open minded there, but no doubt this is a comment that gay activists around the world have taken to heart and they have threatened to boycott this this compete competition. and they also said he should resign after the latest gaffe. >> is this going to mean anything to the tournament? >> reporter: well, the issue is that they were picked not only for the stance they have on gay practices, on homosexual behavior, but also on human rights issues. every is hoping that they will change their laws in the next 12 years they have until the world cup kicks off, but we also have to see one thing. this is the latest in a series of gaffes by a man that apparently has the wrong sense of humor. recently he was asked how should women soccer be made more

popular. he said, well, they should wear shorter shorts. he was also asked to comment on the in-iffidelity of a soccer player. he said, oh, you know whark infidelity is a cultural thing. in a latin country, he'd be applauded for that. so this is man who is not in tune with reality, not in un with being politically correct even if here in europe people are less worried about being pc over there in the states and i know because i lived there for long time, but he can't can out and say it even if he's thinking it. >> pedro, think you very much. we're following lots of developments, so let's check in first with jacqui jeras. >> ice is the concern it this hour. freezing rain is coating roads and bridges in northern mississippi and alabama. and causing all kinds of accidents. find out where the worst of the storm is going and who could be losing power. that's coming up in extreme

weather. >> reporter: i'm on capitol hill. we're about two weeks away from tax rates going up and unemployment benefits expiring for millions of americans. and while we're going see a vote, possibly a successful one in the senate today, in the house democrats are still divided on what to do on these tax cuts. i'll have that store coming up. >> a man's hiv goes away when he's given someone else's immune system. sounds incredible, but it actually happened and we'll be talking about that at the top of the hour. penny coleman is a mother, wife, and apastronaut. and in just a few hours she'll be blasting off to the space station. we had unprecedented access for a year and coming up next year, we'll tell you all about her.

want to do it that way? >> that does make sense. bad boys. are they talking about us or this kid? >> i think in case it has to be this story out of florida. >> you can imagine a boss or someone, you did something wrong -- >> here we're talking about there's a high school game in

florida and this young kid, mason holland. here's what happens. you're seeing the end of it here. you're seeing the shoving. he's going to pick up the referee and throw him to the floor. so obviously he is suspended from school. you do something like that, you get thrown out of school. and he's a senior, so his basketball career is over. we don't know what happens. but hoorere's the thing. there was probably a better moment of owe officiating to be had here. this started with a play under the basket, an inbounds play. it looked like the revferee missed the push but caught the shove. he pushed the kid who shoved him first, but you can't respond this way. and the coach, his coach, says he'll never play here again. i've been coaching for four years and i've never experienced anything like that. i'm still in shock. so his basketball career at that high school is over and we don't

know -- he's a really good player, too. >> one decision can change the course of everything. >> yes. and so now he's got real ramifications because of this. police were involved and doesn't look like there's going to be any charges connected with this. >> did he apologize? >> i don't know that for sure and i don't want to state it, but that would be smart if he hasn't. >> absolutely. you came into the newsroom fired up this morning. how much cups of coffee did you have or was it just the game? >> first of all, i want to take you to upland, indiana and then i'll get you to the play that really had me charged. it this is a terrific story. an annual event here at taylor university. again, the lead up to this is really telling. what happened is this is the friday night game, the home game before finals week. okay? this is an evan gelly cal private college in indiana. this will is called the silent night game. so what happens is the friday

night before finals week, the kids pack the arena and they are silent. absolutely silent. until the home team scores its 10th point and is this the reaction you get. you can cue it up again? just listen to it for a second. and goes on and on and on. >> you said it's a private school? >> yeah. it's a private evan gelly cal college in upland, indiana. and then what happens is -- there's pressure on the players of the home team to get to that 10th point because it doesn't feel like a real game until it gets to the 109 poith point. and at the end of the game, they sing silent night. -- can i sho this play? the raptors. take a look at the slam dunk of

the year. we don't have it. all right. well, you'll see it in the 11:00 edition of cnn. >> at the top of the hour. next hour as a matter of fact. >> thank you, sir. all right. want to tell that you we have breaking news right now on cnn. krb has confirmed that a border agent was shot and killed last night after encounters several suspects. we're told at least four suspects are now in custody, another is still on the run. and as soon as we get more information on this story about the border agent, we will bring to you. and, again, a border agent killed last night. we have other stories we're working on for you right now. it's a little past the top of the hour. greek riot police have struggled to hold by protesters from the

parliament building. cut backs were mandated by greece's bailout from its financial crisis. there could be a break through in the fight against aids. researchers say they may have cured a man of hiv. we'll tell you about that story just moments away. and this man just pulled off a million dollar heist at the. i two words of advice. you'll say i don't need to you tell me that, i know. i'm just going to say it. stay warm. teeth are chattering from the north to the deep south and it could be another bitterly cold day for a lot of people out there. a big threat today of course will be ice. tennessee and kentucky bracing for the possibility of breezing rain. the kind that can coat roads and weigh down power lines. this is a different system, though, than the one that left

much of the country buried under a mountain of snow. ohio, new york, indiana, minnesota, all blanketed. so when can we expect a warm-up or a little bit of relief? we have a team of meteorologists tracking it for you. first let's get to jacqui jeras. yesterday morning went to work out, came back, was like what is all this water doing running down the side of my house. busted pipe. >> oh, yeah. that will happen. good thing that didn't happen on the roadway because then everything freezes off. that's happened quite a bit, as well. the ps do remain below freezing across parts of deep south and what we're concerned about is that we've got moisture starting to move in other than the top of that cold air. and it's causing some freezing rain. so freezing rain is liquid rain

that comes down, but it freezes on in-an matt objects like the roadway, like your car and windows. and that's what's been happening here across northern parts of mississippi as well as in alabama. we have reports around montgomery as well as heading in to western huntsville, a lot of accidents around tupelo from this freeze ing rain. this is just the beginning of what's going to be a major ice storm we think, that warm air will ride over the cold air and it's going to deposit heavy ice accumulations. we think maybe even after 4:00 today. so late this afternoon through the day testimony. and the big focus is across parts of kentucky and into west virginia. we could see as much of a third of an inch of rain. all it takes is about a tenth of an inch of rain to make things slick. so the cold air continues to

stay in place. we will see a little bit of a warm-up in the next couple days. we'll get rid of some of these record cold temperatures that we've been seeing in florida and speaking of which, take a look at this from one of our i-reporters here showing us a frozen fount tip. 30 degrees there yesterday morning. he says it's okay, though. he just bup tellbundled up. >> thank you very much. hey, we'll check in with rob because it's not just bitter cold in the mid south, it is freezing really. there's a threat of freezing rain andle alin also parts of o country. so, rob, is it not good new in store for the folks there? >> reporter: no, they're going to get snow, sleet and --

>> having trouble with rob reporting on the weather. we'll get back as soon as we get that fisted. we'll update in you just a put. let's move on now and talk politics. another day, another likely step forward in extending the bush era tax cuts to all americans. today the senate is expected to pass a controversial bill, but that won't be the end of the political tug of war. the bill then heads to the house where it faces more opposition and possible changes. last hour, the president weighed in. listen. >> today the senate is poised to pass tax cuts and unemployment insurance. putting the house of representatives in position to send me in critical economic package so i can sign it into law. i'm absolutely convinced that this tax cut plan, while not perfect, will help grow our economy and create jobs in the private sector. it will help lift up middle

class families who will no longer need to worry about a new year's day tax hike. >> let's get the latest from capitol hill. brianna keilar. tell us about the sticking points. >> reporter: will is still discord and it has to come with that estate tax and how this tax compromise deals with that. we have a graphic just to kind of explain what this is. republicans you'll hear call it the death tax. it's a tax on an inheritance. and this is something that had been zeroed out under the bush era tax cuts and was set to go back to the rate that it had been. and what happened under this compromise is it kind of -- it got lessened so that if you were to have an inheritance up to $5 million, anything under that, you're not going to pay taxes on. anything above that, you'll be paying taxes at a rate of 35%. democrats said in the house a lot of liberal democrats say, no, no, no, we're extending tax cuts for wealthy americans and

we're also doing this this? this is a total giveaway to the rich. we're in the okay with this, we want to make the exemption low, we want to tax it at a higher rate. and then you had p republicans saying, no, because and you have lot of small businesses that might be passed on, they're going to be taxed heavily and then it's going to make it difficult as those businesses are passed on to have a lucrative business that would be able to create jobs. so right now you're looking at some liberal house democrats who want to change this language, but there's also some moderate house democrats who say we don't want to change this and there's a lack of agreement right now on exactly how they're going on go forward. but, yes, the senate is voting today and there's still this big question mark in the house. >> all right, appreciate it, brianna. oceans 11. well, it is not, but a bandit in a motorcycle helmet robbed the bellagio hotel and casino. we can't get enough of this

surveillance. you see him hopping on his motorcycle. police are still searching for him. and they say the same guy may have robbed another vegas casino less than a week ago. now we go to florida and the terrifying showdown in a school board meeting. an angry citizen spray paints a red v on the chamber's wall. he pulls out a gun and ordered the six men on the board to stay in the room. the former convict says he's upset over taxes and his wife's recent firing. as he waves around his gun, the school spring ten department tries to reason with him. >> will you let them go?ten dep tries to reason with him. >> will you let them go? you're obviously upset at me, so why are they hear? >> just listen to me. i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feeling that what you want is the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad.

because you said you're going die. >> so then the dude snaps. he opens fire on the superintendent and he misses. a security officer bursts in and then the men trade fire. as clay duke lays wounded, he puts the pistol to his head and he kills himself. earlier on cnn's american morning, the superintendent calls the ordeal surreal. >> he had already told us that he was going to die. he was prepared to die and we were going to die, as well. and so we knew -- i mean, you could tell by the look in his eyes that there was going to be some killing going on. and so he made up his mind. >> so today board members are praising the security officer as a hero. mike jones is a retired police officer and was unhurt. we want to tell you that the school district spring ten dent has scheduled a news reference for the bottom of the hour. just about 20 minutes. we'll bring you the very latest information released from that news conference.

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out. she kicked him in the face and she was wearing a stiletto. usher laughed it off. he's fine. we tried calling usher this morning. probably asleep right now. usher, come on and talk about that. are you all right? an interesting moment. let's talk about more showbiz news. hulk hogan is reportedly now up available, ladies. a.j. hammer joins us from new york. man, oh, man, the hulk is-will- >> i can hear the hearts just snapping in half. >> so sad. >> hulk hogan reportedly got hitched yesterday. reportedly cops had to be called into break up a scuffle in the ceremony. they were exchanging vows and cops had to be called in to

break up a fight between a hogan employee and a paparazzi photographer rying to shoot the ceremony tmz saying no one was arrested because no one wanted to press charges. r radar online saying a complaint was filed alleging assault and battery. there always seems to be some kind of excitement with hulk hogan. but we wish the newlyweds well. >> let's talk about this, because is there a name for this next couple who are on the outs? we have like -- you know the couples. >> you mean lie jolie and pit.

i don't know, it seems to be some kind of sickness in hollywood. we're talking about sexiest man alive and the babe of the year. they announced yesterday they're calling it quits on their two year marriage. the couple started dating back in 2007, this they got married in canada back in '08. and according to a lot of published report, they have been living apart for several months. they say after long and carefully consideration on both our part, we've decided to end our marriage. we entered into our relationship with love and it's with love and kindnesses we leave it. while privacy isn't expected, it's certainly appreciated. i actually like these guys a lot. i'm sorry to hear this news. joe hanson 26, she's fame for us roles in movies like lost in translation. she did woody allen's match

point. baby of the year as i mentioned just last month, the same month her hubby, ryan, was named "people" magazine's sexiest man alive. so, again, sad to see another couple and as i said, a very photogenic couple, down the tubes. >> lost in translation, she was really good and very funny on snl. >> they're both pretty terrific actors. >> because of their career, they were spending more time apart than together. so that happens. all right. a.j. hammer, thank you, sir. you always have the low down on all things entertainment. if you want information information, a.j.s that this evening on "showbiz tonight" 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. eastern. there could be a big breakthrough in the fight against aids. researchers in germany say they may have cured a man of h will iv infection. cnn's medical team taking a closer look next.

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a very interesting medical story. doctors in germany claim they may have found a cure for hiv, a remarkable discovery. but the treatment may not be applicable to the millions worldwide who have this virus. elizabeth cohen joins us now. so what exactly did they do here? >> this is so fascinating that even about if this isn't the cure for hiv, which it's not, it's still a mazing what these doctors in germany did. they took a patient who had hiv and also just by chance also had cancer. and he needed to have a stem cell transplant. they blasted his immune system, radiation and chemo, so they took the immune system from a donor and gave it to him. basically he adopted the immune

system and in guy is now cancer free and hiv free. >> so why doesn't it work for everyone? >> you'd everyone would be getting this right now. and here's the reason. let's go back for a second to this donor. this wasn't just any donor. this donor is one of the very, very, very few people out there who is resistant to hiv. he has some kind of a gene that makes him resistant to hiv. could you try to give to him and you couldn't do it. so he got a very special immune system and they sought this donor out for this guy. so in order for this to work for everyone, you'd have to find one of these very, very few people and that person would have to genetically match the person who has hiv. and the chances of doing that are teeny tiny and any kind of transplant, even one that's as well planned out as this one, can kill you. >> but there is hope. they've learned something from this that can help. >> they certainly have. what happened here was

incredible. and the principal behind it that you take a unique immune system and give to somebody with hiv, maybe they can try to make a drug out of this, maybe this will work as a vaccine. a whole bunch of possibilities. so this is proof of a principal, but it's not something that doctors will do for every hiv patient because it could kill them. >> fingers crossed, though. but let's talk about the risks. serious risks here. >> serious risks. because transplants even when they're well thought out can kill people or give them horrible debilitating symptoms. so transplants are extremely tricky and, again, this will only help someone with hiv if it's one of those very, very few people who are hiv resistant. the dope nnor has to be unique. this patient was extremely lucky. >> it would be amazing to be around one day and you and i reporting on a vaccine or some cure for this and cancer, as well. >> wouldn't that be incredible?

>> thank you very much. interesting. a massive storm per row issues a ferocious and destructive reveals a treasure buried by the sands of time.

ancient discoveries are not all that up common, but this one caught our attention. a ferocious storm reveals a statue that dates back 2,000

years. paula hancocks is in jerusalem with this. >> reporter: this is absolutely incredible. this all happened over the weekend and there was an absolutely devastating storm in israel and really across the whole of the mediterranean coast. winds of up to 100 kilometers per hour, ten meter waves crashing that mediterranean coast and just north, there were roman ruins on the beach that were ruined even more because of the storm. part of the cliff was actually worn away, it collapsed into the sea and that was when this statue was revealed. now, it's thought to be dated about a to being roman times, up to 2,000 years old, and it's a statue of a woman dressed in a toga and with sandals on on. unfortunately the head and arms are missing, but the israeli an

ti authorities say it's still in pretty good shape and it's been buried for sent l. secenturies. it was discovered eby accident. someone was walking along the beach and said that statue wasn't there before and they called it in and came to take it away. >> paula, thank you very much. we want to take you now to the panhandle in florida where we told you about that schoolboard meeting where the man opened fire. here's the have in-ten department of that district holding a press conference. >> there are a lot of heros out there right now. mike jones being the number one in my heart. and we just lift him up right now. he saved our lives, no doubt in my mind that if he hadn't did what he did when he it did, many of us would not be here today. and ginger, and i want to tell you something, she's like one of us even though she's a female

and she's tough and loves us and cares about us, and what she did was try to help us because she knew we couldn't help ours. so anybody that says anything to the contrary, you get in that situation and you tell me how you deal with it, but ginger, you're my 1-b hero for the day. and the panama city police department, how quick they dealt with this and got heerks we can't praise them enough. but i'm going on open it up for questions now. >> and if you have any question, we understand that a majority of those questions will be for miss littleton or the superintendent. so just feel free. [ inaudible ] >> i don't think anything was going through my mind except these guys were sitting ducks. and i couldn't couldn't leave them without trying to diffuse the situation or just buy some

time until mike jones, bless his heart, could get there to help us out. >> next, anyone? >> this is a question for anybody who wants to answer, but when did it hit you. [ inaudible ] >> i think all of us are probably dealing with the situation in a different way. it's still surreal oig. everything's still moving in slow motion at least in my head and probably for a lot of the board members. when you're put in that type of a situation to where you have a gun faced directly at you, nobody's ever -- if you haven't been through that situation, you can't understand, there's no way to explain or to describe the feeling that you feel when that happens. but i will tell you, i've seen the room and there is nothing short of a miracle that our superintendent is alive and well with us today. nothing short of a miracle that god protected him and stood in front of that bull head and pushed it another way. i'm here to tell you if you're not a believer in miracles,

watch that tape again. >> that will make and you believer real quick. [ inaudible ] >> it's going to be hard to sleep. a lot of us are struggling on just getting through last night. i know i didn't sleep at all. i got an e-mail from the superintendent about 3:00 in the morning. i know he didn't sleep much. all of us were in the same poet. we're still trying to get back to life as normal, but i don't think that -- everybody that saw the live stream or anybody that was in the building that was in that room, this is something that changes you for life. it's not something that's easy forgotten or not something that's a news headline today and in the trash bin tomorrow. for us it's real and it's going to be something that we carry with us. >> how soon do you think you'll be discussing possible new security measures? >> what time is it? >> i'm going to let the superintendent answer that. >> we had a meeting today with -- well, it started last night, but we had a meeting

today with all the employees in the nelson billion and that was a concern of theirs, too. and i even had some e-mails last night with concerns about that. and it's just -- you know, here's the thing. if you could have seen that gentleman's eyes, it this was going to happen. you saw him. this was going to happen. we could have had this place like fort knox and he would have shot uses as we come out of the building. he was going to do this. there was nothing we could have done to stop him. it was a tragedy. we're very thankful and blessed to be alive. but we don't want to -- i don't want to make light of it, but we don't want to have to overreacts. we don't want to have tsa checking people when they go in. that's not what this country is about. you're still safer in our buildings than you are driving your vehicle in town. and quhwhile it's scary and a tragedy, this gentleman had issues. i feel for his family, but we're going to discuss and look at what we might need to change,

but we're not going to start arming every school and putting up barbed wire. this guy was going to do this no matter what security we had. >> several of you went in and looked at the room. it's been described as a mess. [ inaudible ] >> i don't know if the rest of you have been in there, but there are bullet holes all over the place. and this is why mike jones is a hero. the door he came in, there's five shots right in the hole with little numbers by them all. but the scary thing, i saw that before i left there yesterday when it happened. what i didn't see were the shots that were behind the board counter. and if you will watch the video, when mike jones comes in, he's still shooting and getting ready to reach over and start shooting again, and there are bullet

holes all along the edge where the board members are at. and mike shoots him twice before he finally turns around and mike -- i'm telling you, mike saved our lives. now, it doesn't get anymore real than that. you don't have to believe that or whatever, but we were in there and i'm telling you, that gentleman was not going to stop shooting. he only turned around after being hit twice by mike and mike and him got into the shooting barrage and that's what saved our lives. because he was getting -- he had more ammunition and he was going to keep going. >> where was mike when the shots first started? >> i think he was in his office or he was in the building somewhere. when he started spray painting, i think dr. haley went to go get mike because the guy started spray painting. i thought -- and i'm not making light of this, but i thought, man, he really hates technology because we had just vote order a thing about technology and we were getting ready to do a

technology presentation and i thought, man, he doesn't want us to spend -- i didn't know what the v stood for. and then when he turned around with the gurn, it was totally different then. sthchlt i [ inaudible ] >> he's good. they were going to keep him overnight forgoing to be releas today. [ inaudible ] >> i feel helpless. when he about pulled the gun out and told everybody to get out except for all the men school board members, he had the gun and we felt helpless. and he did a tremendous job talking to the gentleman because it seemed like he was upset and

he talked to him, tried to talk to him, tried to reason with him, tried to get him to put the gun down. we was back there just helpless thinking how can we get the gun out of this man's hand before he shoots somebody or kills somebody. that's what we was positioning. it went through our minds, notice, a lot of things go through your minds when a person holds a gun. first time anybody's ever held a gun on me and a lot of things went through my mind, but he tried to reason with the guy and i'll tell you something else he did, too. he was trying to protect everybody in this building. he was trying to get them out of the room. and when they tried to come back in, tell them to go back out. he even tried to negotiate with the guy said let the board members go. if you got something with me, just let me stay in here. so, you know, just a very touching time. >> this this was our h. i think

our second official board meeting. when i first got elected, i got a letter from one of the officials up in tallahassee saying i hope you enjoy your new opportunity on the school board, i'm sure it will be very exciting. i don't think he had this in mind. i didn't appreciate how close some of the bullets came to me until probably just then as the first time i'd been in the room since then. if you look he video, his last two shots he fired he was almost leaning over right where i was sitting. one hit my board book and my papers on my desk. i was laying down and it was probably inches from where i was laying. one hit the pole right next to me which again was inches from where i was. i didn't appreciate it until i just went in there and saw it. and that being said, last night i have a 5-year-old and a 4-year-old, and we're not telling them much about what happened, but when i got home last night, i kept it together pretty well until i got home last night and they met me at the door and gave me a big hug and that put things in perspective. just how fragile life is and

how, you know, hug your wife and your husband and love on those kids because you neff know literally when that might be the last time you get to do that. so i held it together really well until they met me at the door when i came home last night and to me that put it in perspective needless to say. >> has there been any determination on what he was talking about and his wife? >> i think you've requested shall information on it and they're looking that up right now. they're going to get that to you. and i know that the police -- i think the police have some information, too, on it. they've been working on that. but i didn't know her, didn't know him. i didn't know what he was talking about. >> thanyone in the office have y recollection of any sort of the contact? >> someone recognized him, but it was just like they knew who he was. they did not have any -- it was not a working thing.

i think they knew a relative of his, but nobody had seen him anywhere in this building before or has any recollection of anything that he was talking about. >> yesterday was a difficult time for all of us. i'm not a pan zi, but i will it tell you, i was very afraid. i was scared to death. i did my talking in behalf of my life and my friends. when we tried, bill and i tried, our best to talk with him, the first thing i said to him was, hey, what is your problem? ky help you? is there -- what's your difficulty? and he looked at us and he kind of mumbled several times and i said if there's a problem with your wife and your job, i will do anything i can do to help you with your wife and the job. hey, all this time, folks, we were trying -- we were looking for time. we knew we had mr. jones, but you know mr. jones was not always -- is not always in this

building. he's out in schools. you'll notice that -- i'll continue to give accolades to him. mr. jones is anywhere we have problems. just last week, we had the bus accident up on 388. he was there. he is always there when we have a problem. so we didn't know if he was here or not. and then i got in it to the thing, you know, i'm a pretty good guy. i get emotional about it, but, hey, i got a great wife, i've been married 40 years. and i've got two great kids. and i said i'm not ready to die. and i said let us please let's talk to you. we just want it ta to talk to y. and when he returned around -- and my board member friends will tell you, when turned around from his drawing, when he turned

around, when he brandished the gun, we knew we were all in difficulty. not only did the gun which was a 9 millmillimeter, but it became bazooka. it was a heck of a day. we don't want to ever have this happen in our district every again. it was very negative. and i hope that we learned something from it and i think it's our society, you know. we have people who do this from time to time and it's a very difficult time for us, but we appreciate the media that you've supported us throughout and we do thank you. >> miss littleton, last night you told us that it hasn't hit you yet. has it hit you? when and why? >> i think it's still sinking in. seeing the actual bullet holes in chairs behind where the board

members were sitting, there was still some blood on the floor when i went in. that makes it pretty real. they were cleaning up some of the blood out here on the walkway. so by the end of the day, i think it will be very, very real, but i will say again sun is beautiful and it looks great today. [ inaudible ] >> oh, yes, this is the purse. shall i do my vanna? >> we're going on put some bricks in here. >> i wish i'd had some bricks. [ inaudible ] >> i have three wonderful daughters and they said, mom, are you stupid somewhat were you thinking. >> and i actually didn't have an answer for that. i don't know if i was just stupid and i don't know what i was thinking. we're just so thankful that it turned out like it did.

>> i've got a good friend who sent me an e-mail this morning, she's a lawyer in new york. and she said i don't know about it that ginger woman, but i want her in my foxhole. and that's exactly how i feel about it. i was so glad. i've representinged the school board 31 years and i guess i've been to 1,000 school board meetings. and there's so many times when you have real contentious issues. i mean, just terrible things that you have to deal with. and people get very upset. you're talking about their jobs and children. we just went through a morning's worth of expulsions that are private, but you get parents that get extremely upset request board members and it's a real -- it's scary. and what is so frightening about this event, well, it's frightening because i've seen where the bullet holes were, but what's frightening about this event is it was just an ordinary school board meeting. there was nothing controversial, no reason for somebody to come

and be all upset. i mean, we went through the wonderful meeting of all those kids being honored for all of their academic achievements, thank goodness they were all gone. and then just almost a fun kind of meeting toward the end talking about head lies of all things and scratching your head and then suddenly out of nowhere comes this individual.ces of al things and scratching your head and then suddenly out of nowhere comes this individual.es of all things and scratching your head and then suddenly out of nowhere comes this individual. of all things and scratching your head and then suddenly out of nowhere comes this individual. that's the frightening thing. when you got you got a problem, you can have security there and prepare for it. but this was out of the clear blue and i think it's going to change all of us. no question about that. thank y'all. >> if it there's no more questions, i'd like to kind of in closing say that i would put the character and the demeanor of this board and what hamm e whaped in this situation up against any training that radio could have been done. i know there will be a lot of arm chair quarterbacks that will question things that were done and use of force and managed

force and everything. but unlesses you're in this situation, unless you're in the middle of something like this, you don't know how you'll react. and this superintendent and mr. register and talking the man down and dock their best to try to alleviate the situation, mike jones and miss littleton and doing what they could to protect this board, i can't tell you how proud i am to be chairman of this group of people, this team that's working for the county. and there will be a lot of question, a lot of things coming up, and a lot of issues that we'll have to deal with and there will be a time for it that but for right now, we're just happy and blessed to all be alive today and we just thank god for that. and we appreciate you coming out. thank you. >> all right. let me tell you something. those people will have a very merry christmas and they are fully aware of the meaning of the season. they're all of a live and all okay after what happened yesterday.

and before we give you some context to this story to tell you why we're showing video of a man waving a gun around, let me just say that it was a serious press conference, but there was some levity there, as well. gi ginger littleton showed off her purse and said i have three daughters and my daughters said mom, are you just stupid? what were you thinking? and one of the gentleman said i'm not a pansy, but i was very afraid. and another gentleman said it's going to be hard to sleep. someone else said you feel helpless. now let me update you on the story and tell but what happened. will this was yesterday. they're holding a school board meeting in the bay county school district in panama city. it was a terrifying showdown in that meeting and video is very disturbing. give you a little context. so this angry citizen, this man, be rates the school officials there that you saw standing there at that podium and then he

sprayed that v then pulled out the gun that you see this. so after that, who knows why he went on this rampage. the superintendent tried to reason with him. let's listen to what he said about while this was happening. >> will you let them go? you're obviously upset at me. so why are they here? just listen to me. i don't want anybody to get hurt and i've got a feel nag what in want the cops to come in and kill you because you're mad. >> so that was it, the superintendent trying to talk him out of it. he's 56-year-old clay duke. he ordered everyone out of the room except for the men. there were six men in the room. we're being told by police that is he a former convict and he w upset over taxes and because of his wife's recent firing. in the press conference you just heard, one of the board members

said they still had no idea who the man was talking about. they don't know who the woman is. so then this clay duke is shot by mike jones who is a security officer at the school, the chief security officer, and then at the he turns the gun on also. mike jones is in the hospital. he may speak later on. but of course this man snapped. who knows why he did it. they're still trying to figure it all out. a very interesting story and within that has disturbing video, but guess what, a very happy ending. so merry christmas to those guys there in florida. we'll update you throughout the day. we're back in a moment. we asked people all over america where the best potatoes come from. the best potatoes? idaho. idaho! idaho. and how do you know you're getting idaho potatoes? well...uh... uhm... heh.. (sighs) not all potatoes come from idaho. so if you want the best, you have to do one important thing.

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where you can get up to $1,000 off now through sunday. enter connectivity can be an amazing thing, but it can mean the end of privacy especially for teens. about three out of every four teen with internet access use as social net working website, while just over half of adults. you talk to teens about divulge information in the digital space. they probably have no idea. do they have apexpectation of privacy that they shouldn't? >> they've grown up in the digital age, so they're used to having their online stuff

tracked, they know wi-fi isn't always secure. but one thing i found is that they have different expectations between what they wrote on their phoneses and what they posted online. you hear that in this report. as far as phones go and sharing your numbers with people, how many of you expect your numbers to remain private? >> phone number? oh, yeah. >> yeah. >> and have you ever gotten a text or a call from a number that you didn't recognize? >> yes. >> butthat's normally someone that's given my number to someone else. not that i'm approved it. so i guess my hand goes down. >> these suburban atlanta teenagers may want their phone numbers to be private, but i found their expectations were very different when it comes to the internet. >> do you expect what you post online to be private? >> no. >> not really. >> i know it's not. >> why not?

>> everyone sees it. the internet's -- it's the worldwide web. everyone in the world can get to it. i'm pretty care about what i put on there. >> i know nothing's really private. >> so how does that affect what you post on facebook? >> i don't say anything that i don't want anyone to hear. >> reporter: it's a caution instilled by their parents. >> how much privacy do you give him on facebook? >> very little. if they do want privacy, they can get a journal, they can write in it, keep it in their desk drawer, i will never read it. but when you're posting something that every can look at, i'm going to look at it, also. >> anything you're willing to put out there in either a written form, you know, be willing to stand up in front of the whole high school and announce this. >> i teach in a school, so we deal with a lot of these issues each day. and so i sometimes talk about situations that i've encountered at work and hoping that maybe

something would be learned from those, as well. >> and while all three students said they texted something they wish they could take back, they were far more reserved in their internet behavior largely because of their parents' involvement. >> professing ignorance of it and not monitoring it, i think you're setting yourself up for failure as a parent because i think the kids definitely need guidance. >> we hear over and over again that parents who are engaged in their students' education have tumts who get a better education. and one thing i found is their folks are involved and it was as a result of that that these students were not making some of the online mistakes we see other kids making. >> a good lesson for parents, as well. you have to be involved especially in this internet age. thank you very much. >> thank you. it may still be 2010, but we have news about the first gop debate of the 2012 primary season.

alrea already? that story coming up.

ic moo he will a steel has a new website to go with his re-election campaign. hi, peter. >> reporter: it does mean he'll run again and if you're following the rnc race like i was, i'm a total geek about it, michael steele kept everybody guessi guessing until the last minute. he came up with a new website after announcing he would run and just for fun, i went and looked up when this domain was registered so we are a drill down on when michael steele made his decision to run.

turns out december 8th was when this website was registered. so he was getting ready to run about a week before anyone else knew about it. but if you're not a dork like i am, let's move on to 2012. last night there was an important development in the 2012 presidential race. john thune, the senator from south dakota, is thinking with running for president. he responded to mitt romney's "usa today" op-ed criticizing president obama's tax deal thune supported it. thune came out and said it's easy to criticize from the sidelines and he defended his work on the deal. it really shows you in the early days these candidates jockeying to carve out a niche in the republican primary sweepstakes. and finally speaking of 2012, cnn, wmur have landed the first republican primary debate. look for that next june.

it's a big deal and here's why it matters. i think that will be a time of the year when the field of presidential candidates is really starting to shape up. you're going to have governors like haley barbour finishing their sessions, and they're going to be stepping into the field and really kind of figuring out the stakes there. so it will be the perfect time for a debate in new hampshire next summer. >> it is starting already. peter, thank you. our political geek as you said in washington. we'll have your next political update in an hour. and all the latest new, go to cnnpolitics.com. thanks for watching. and you take once-monthly boniva, check out the myboniva program. it's free to join, and it shows you lots of ways to help improve your bone strength. like bone-healthy exercises that are easy to do. boniva works with your body to help stop and reverse bone loss. and myboniva gives you calcium-rich recipes... monthly reminders... and even a month of boniva, free. so call or go to myboniva.com

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