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you're the best. >> we'll pick it up from here. i'm harris in for sheperd. first at 3:00 p.m. eastern, state police right now are scheduled to release their full report on the school shooting massacre in newtown, connecticut. we'll go through it and let you know whether it can tell us anymore about what happened before and during that terrible day at sandy hook emptily. we begin in oakland, california, where relatives of a 13-year-old girl on life support say they want doctors to perform new procedures on her. however, the hospital is refusing. jahi mcmath went in to get her tonsils removed two weeks ago and there were complications. now sever doctors have declared her brain dead. she is on life support in a
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children's hospital. officials say there's nothing more they can do. they need to take her off life support. but the family is still holding out hope. and a lawyer says now her relatives have found a nursing home that will take her. to do that, doctors at the current hospital have to first insert feeding and breathing tubes, and now this coming from the hospital. a spokesman a short time ago, quote: children's hospital oakland does not believe that performing surgical procedures on the body of a deceased person is an appropriate medical practice, end quote. claudia cowan with the news. the hospital says it is following the law. >> reporter: that's right. a judge's order that was given last week to keep jahi alive through the holidays and to maintain what they called the status quo. in other words, the hospital was to take no extraordinary measures to save the girl's life, and that court order does expire this monday at 5:00 p.m. hospitals a mr.ors say while they are sympathetic to jahi and
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her family they a pose keeping the girl alive because in their view and the judge's view, she is already dead. in a statement issued last night, the hospital said in his ruling, the judge did not authorize or order any surgical procedures or transfer to another facility. again, if jahi is not moved by 5:00 p.m. on monday, doctors will take her off life support. the family says if the hospital won't help they'll bring in an outside doctor to perform the procedure so she could be transported safely. whether that it will be allowed to happen is unclear. >> what the family is saying at this point. what more do you know? >> reporter: jahi's family is standing strong and say they've already seen signs of improvement. her blood pressure is stable. at times she breathes on her own and she has moved her shoulders. they take strong issue with those who suggest it's time to let the little girl go. >> what about those who say this
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has gone far enough? the time has come to let jahi go? >> what people are those? >> we've heard from viewers, from the hospital. >> have them have their kids change places and see if they feel the same adjourn. >> reporter: they say say'll go to court again if need be. a spokesman says the family is spreading false information and false hope. we'll follow the story. >> thank you. actually, let's get more on this now with dan shore, a former prosecutor and eevangeline gomez, a defense attorney. every day we learn more from the family and the hospital and barbs thrown at the family. where are we right now? does this hospital have the right to refuse to help the family move the child? >> under california law, she is dead. irreversible brain death, which is what she is suffering from,
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you had two experts that said she has irreversible brain death. >> at least two. >> and a third one, an independent expert, that was chosing by the judge who had the same report. she is dead under california law so the hospital is not required to perform a medical procedure. >> can they stop the family from moving her? can they come with their own doctor. >> gentlemen the debate has changed. the court ruled the hospital does not have to continue life support. but now they have another place that will continue life support, and the issue is, can they perform the procedures that are necessary to transfer her to this other place? it's hard to imagine there won't be some accommodation considering another place is willing to continue life support and the family wants it. >> according to reports, the attorneys for the hospital has come out and said they're not going to interfere if the family wants to move jahi. >> but they have to bring in a separate doctor because the hospital won't allow its doors to do the bringing and feeding toupe -- tube procedure.
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>> there's not only the legal battle but there's the public opinion battle and a lot of people are supporting the family and saying, if they have another mails that is willing to conduct life support and continue it and the family wants to move her, why can't the hospital do something? you might see this develop over the next few days. life support is supposed to continue until monday at 5:00 p.m. >> what are the family's options after that point? the law says the hospital sees her as brain dead and can turn off the life support. wouldn't the nursing facility say the same thing eventually? >> this is not the hospital's policy. this is california state law. >> how does the nursing home get around that? >> i don't know how they get around it. also to keep her on the ventilator, if under california state law she is declared dead, she is considered dead, what insurance provider is going to provide her with coverage for the ventilator? >> two different issue. one is whether the hospital has to continue life support and the other is whether a facility can if they want to. the family is saying their
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health insurances will cover this so that's their option they're presenting to the hospital. help us transfer her to a place that will continue life support and our insurance will cover that. >> you know, it's interesting. you talk about the p.r. side of this. public opinion does get into cases like this. but at the end of the day, does anybody have the power to step in and bring two sides together and solve this? >> well, one function of a judge is to try to sometimes work out an agreement between parties, and the judge ruled for the hospital before, but if the family goes forward with another legal action to try to get the procedure done to move her to the other hospital, the hospital may oppose that but maybe jacques can work out some agreement where the procedure can be done and then she can be moved. >> harris, the bottom line in this case is the family is having a very difficult time grieving and dealing with her loss. and that makes perfect sense. they're not ready to let her go. so you're hoping the hospital and the family can reach an agreement whereby there's a
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mutual decision when they will be ready to left her go. >> at the end of the day, if there is any sort of recourse for the family with the hospital, because the tops electricity my -- tons tonsillectomy went wrong. also the hospital do you want the child to stay there or want the child to move on if the family is going persist. >> talking about civil liability, you can expect a civil suit later on because she did go in for tonsil removal operation and now she is brain dead. we don't know whose fault that was. whether it was unforeseen circumstances or whether the hospital did something wrong and we won't know that for a long time. >> also, one last thought is, this is something they could add to their lawsuit, in that the hospital did not in any way help us while we were grieving so pain and suffering. good argument. >> help the family find some close sure, now the whole nation is watching and that's pressure on the situation, too that the family has to navigate as well.
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thank you very much for coming in during the holidays. >> thank you. >> a major decision today on the government's collection of our personal data. a federal judge in new york has ruled that the nsa's phone tracking program is legal, and he dismissed the lawsuit from the american civil liberties union. the judge said there's no evidence that the government used any of the information it's collected for any other reason than investigating potential terror attacks. doug has more on this. he is traving with the president and has been with the president while he is on vacation. doug is not in honolulu. this could set up a showdown in supreme court. >> almost bound to be destined for the supreme court. we have contrary rulings here, both occurring this month. no way to properly interpret this national security agency surveillance program without some court of supreme court resolution to it. the district judge pauley in his ruling today, 54 pages, said basically that he admits the
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nasa is vacuuming up all kinds of metta data about telephone calls made to and from the united states, but said after the september 11 attacks we learn that al qaeda is using technology, and he says the bulky metadata program represents the government's counterpunch, connecting fragmented and fleeting communication to reconstruct and ealmost nate al qaeda's terror network. the justice department said they are pleased with the day's ruling and the chairman of the house homeland subexciteey said it preserves a vital weapon for the united states in the war against international terrorism. hope the opinion will lessen the can adulation for edward snowden. i just spoke to peter king on the telephone just a little while ago. he said he has no doubt that this thing is destined for the supreme court. >> this is breaking news a couple of hours ago, and as this
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information was coming in, one question that popped up. why does it matter what the federal judge in new york says about the nsa? can't the nsa just operate the way it wants regardless of the ruling. >> it cannot act the way it wants. it has to abide by the fourth amendment which is against unlawful searches and seizures. the other judge's decision said i cannot imagine a more increment senate and arbitrary invasion than the systemic high-tech collection of data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of clearing and analyzing it without prior judicial aapproval. the plaintiff said this at the time of the ruling. >> the breach of constitutional rights is so gross here. never in the american history have we seen a police state
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implemented by our government, where everything we say, every we send by e-mail, anything we look at on social media, is observed, surveyed, and used as a way to keep the american people down to coerce us. >> reporter: went on to say that any judge following the law would have made the same decision as the decision on december 16th. how wrong he proved to be. harris, back to you. >> thank you very much. >> people in a shop in antarctica can see their rescuers approaching. it's really cold. when you're trapped on the ice, facing life-choking temperatures, howling winds, thousands of miles from civilization, anything can happen. up ahead, developments in the rescue effort at the bottom of the world. [ female announcer ] tide pods three-in-one detergent.
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>> a rescue ship is now in sight for dozen of people stuck off the coast of antarctica and we have pictures. passengers first embarked last month. the trip of a lifetime, but the crew sent out a distress call christmas morning after getting stuck in the ice. it's thick, feet deep. it's not the ideal spot to be stranded, blizzard-like conditions including winds up to 40 miles-per-hour but everybody reportedly is okay, and the group's leader says the passengers are making the most of what he calls an unscheduled
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stop. aren't they chipper. they're continuing to do their studies by taking extra measurements of the area. jonathan, we're hearing the rescue operation is running into difficulty. >> if the predicament was not bad enough. we j word from the australian maritime safety organization, that the rescue operation has run into some serious difficulties and the ship you can see here in this video is going to remain stuck in that position for some time to come. the chinese icebreaker, the snow dragon, got, as you said, within sight of the ship earlier today but the ice was so fix we're now told the icebreaker, the rescue ship, has had to turn back itself. so what happens left? a french ship has left the
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french base durville, 100 miles away. it's got now within 15 miles but it, too is now in a holding pattern. another rescue ship, an australian icebreaker, which is apparently even stronger than the two already on scene, is now on the way, but we're told that it will not arrive until sunday. so those 74 people onboard are in for a long and tough wait. >> as you and i scooted in here, we had a lighter spirit about this and then all of a sudden this development. while you were talking i was checking with our crew. current temperatures, 32 degrees. 16 degrees wind chill, and that means the winds are whipping, so the options are low. not going to fly a helicopter in there. stream de-icing situations at that level. >> the one piece of good news is the blizzard that affected them in the first place has now passed. this morning they woke up in what were relatively calm conditions, and take a look at
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this. they're all on the deck of the ship. they're pointing out there the icebreaker, the snow dragon and the group of penguins that came to say hi. so everything looked good, as the prefer turney who has been treating individual -- tweeting video, said on camera they were looking happy. listen to this. >> just over my right shoulder is the chinese icebreaker, the snow dragon. it is making steady progress at two knots. it should be alongside in the next two or three hours. there's a lot of relief among the team and a lot of happy faces. >> should be alongside them in the next two or three hours, he said that ten hours ago. and as i said that icebreaker has now had to turn back. the authorities, tell us that they are now looking at all options, including how they can possibly evacuate that ship if they need to.
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>> as soon as those winds subside -- they have to get the temperature up. that's average for them because it's summer. if they could just get warmer and the winds die down, maybe get u.s.a. coast guard situation there. just help. >> the is is not involved in this operation at all at this point. the australian icebreaker is the next ship to come in. that will arrive -- be in about 24 hours. it's already saturday there they said it will arrive sunday their time. meantime they have to look at all of these options, and you talked about the difficulties of getting a chopper in there. this is not easy in any way. one good piece of news, they have enough food to keep going for a while. >> did just volunteer our entire united states military? >> you've did. imsure they below be delighted. >> i'll take the e-mail. one major airline really messed up and accidentally sold expensive ticket as heavily discounted prices. we have seen this happen before and customers getting very angry
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when they couldn't use the cheap seats. what happens when you buy a ticket that is really so good, too good to be true? stay tuned.
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a promise delta airlines says if you bought your ticket on the cheap, you can keep it. delta is honoring the superlow fairs that popped up online yesterday during what they called a technical glitch on their web site. listen to these deals. a round-trip flight between cincinnati and minneapolis, $25. a flight from cincinnati to salt lake city, $48. delta has corrected the problem. now those tickets cost more than $400 apiece, and those weren't the lowest prices. one customer snatched a round-trip flight from boston
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toly for less than seven bucks before taxes. trace gallagher is live. how long did the glitch last? >> delta says it lasted two hours, from 10:00 yesterday morning until noon. the thing is delta has absolutely no idea exactly how many of those low-cost tickets they sold so they don't know the financial impact but they're going to make good on all of them. the web was just abuzz with low, price chatter. look at some of the posts. this person said, some of these fairs are bookable, lax to miami, 36.85 in business class. another one says, just booked newark to san francisco, $69. and the last one i managed to book montreal to phoenix, phoenix to montreal, on expedia for $100 there and $50 back, tallahassee to los angeles, $27 each way. and check this out. los angeles to hawai'i, $200 first class, normally
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$3,500, and this guy was flying from minneapolis to hawai'i for a wedding. listen to him. >> one of my nephews is getting married. we come from large family and the air fare was $67 for coach. unbelievable. i cooperate -- couldn't believe my eyes. >> you said he has a big, large family. he tried to get them in to the tickets, he wasn't fast enough. couldn't get any other tickets. >> oh, man, the system cut him off? >> right. >> okay. so, now -- what do we do to take advantage office these airline glitches? >> apparently they happen every so on. in fact united airlines had four of these in just the past 18 months. take a look at this. fair compare.com says a couple of tips. sign up for air fare alerts. check out flier.com. they usually the first ones to fine out. and you have to act fast because
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the glitches are often fixed very quickly and sometimes the airlines do not make good on the tickets so you got to check. >> we've seen that. what is that, like a glitch alert? i like that. trace, thank you. >> sure. >> it looks like iran found a loophole. this is what israel and others had been warning about. iran finding a way to keep moving forward with its nuclear program. stay close. ick with innovation. stick with power. stick with technology. get the new flexcare platinum from philips sonicare and save now. philips sonicare.
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in-laws and then drove to the hospital and killed his former boss. the suspect later shot himself in the head and died, and they say his current wife turned up dead at their home. two russian astronauts ventured outside the international space station to install cameras today as part of a project to stream high definition video over the internet. the third space walk in a week. much more from the news deck in four seconds.
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iran is moving forward with its nuclear program in a big way according to the official in charge of the whole operation. this is according to state tv, iran's nuclear chief seen here says his country is developing new centrifuges to enrich uranium. last month iran cut a deal promising not to start operating new sentry fumings for six months but there's a loophole. the deal did not stop them from developing centrifuges.
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they just can't operate them. the u.s. and its allies have accused iran of trying to build a nuclear weapon, but officials in iran of course key -- denying it, saying it is only for peaceful purposes. ed henry in the white house. what are republicans saying after today's news? >> they're furious about this they think that iran is doing exactly what they feared, which is reneging on the interim deem that secretary of state john kerry cut to ease some sanctions against iran in exchange for them giving up their nuclear program, basically, and i just got off the phone with a democrat, close to president, bob menendez, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, he tell mets this shows the true intentions of iran. they want to move toward building nuclear weapons. that's the opposite of the spirit of the talks, diplomatic talks. he is warning that this could be
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a big problem. that squares with what republican, mark kirk, cosponsor of a bill that would have tough new sanctionses against iran, is saying today. kirk telling fox earlier today, quote, the american people are rightfully distrustful of iran's true nuclear intention and today's news demonstrates why congress needs to pass a nuclear weapon free iran act to protect of protect us from iranian detection. if we want a world without iranian nuclear weapons we need to send the message bad faith will be met with tough sanctions. what they're saying is they have legislation that now has 47 cosponsors, in both parties, who basically want to give diplomacy a chance here but in case iran does pull out of these talks, and that they're showing signs of that today, perhaps -- they would have a tough new round of u.s. sanctions against iran ready, approved by congress, in order to get tough with iran, and so that's going to be a big
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issue when congress comes back in january. >> what this president's position on how to handle iran even after this deal? >> well, today we have new information from the state department. the spokesman telling us in the last few moments, as everyone reacts to the news, saying that the negotiators took a break over the holidays but now perhaps some new emtuesday because -- impetus because of what happened inmonday morning e working on details how to move forward that the secretary of state cut a few weeks ago. that showses there's some urgency in the administration. the president in his news conference, today at the white house, frankly pushed back on lawmakers who want these new sanctions, saying, give diplomacy a chance. >> i'm keeping all options on the table but if i can do it diplomatically, that's how we should do and it i think that would be the preference of
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everybody on capitol hill. it's the preference of the american people. >> the american people are showing they're skeptical of iran and skeptical whether the president has been tough enough on them. we asked directly the president's approach on iran. 68% now saying not tough enough. 12% saying about right. 5% saying the president has been too off tough on iran. the other column is our polling in september of 2009 before these more recent sanctions against iran. so the public hasn't moved. the public is skeptical of iran's true intentions here with nuclear weapons and also skeptical whether the president is being tough enough on them. >> i got to tell you, this is a case of you have to sign a deal with iran to find out what is in it? ed henry, thank you very much. let's bring in john bussey, the assistant managing editor of the "wall street journal." i do not mean to be flip. the president is a
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constitutional attorney. did the white house misthe language about the centrifuges in this or was this part of the plan? >> i think you're dealing with iran, which has the intent of developing nuclear weapon. the administration knows that. it's trying to find a way to negotiate them to at least a pause. so that perhaps they can get a longer-term agreement with iran. that would allow them to repate trait some of the money frozen overseas, been damaging the economy in iran, in exchange for some longer term agreement. so what do we hear today? we heard iran kind of playing both sides of the fence. saying to conservatives in their own country, who are against this deal with the european union and the united states, oh, we're going to develop a new generation of centrifuges. we're not going to implement them but we're going to develop them. that's good news for the conservatives. at the same time what we heard was that iran says we want to have more one-on-one negotiations with the united states, in addition to the multilateral negotiations. so they're kind of playing both
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sides of this. >> why would they want to have more conferences with the us? >> i think they're looking for a way to keep their economy alive because the sanctions are working, and the united states knows that. and the french know that and the germans know that and the u.n. security council knows that. the question here is how much can you push iran to at least pause in the development of its nuclear program long enough to try to get some more permanent deal. >> john, is that the right question? or should the question, as israel pressed, how much can iran push everybody else? i mean, that's what this looks like now. they went in and looked at this agreement and used the word development over turning it on and now they have got 'everybody's attention and they're pushing everybody around. >> i don't think that's quite right itch don't think they're pushing people around. they haven't finalized the agreement yet. it's only meant to kind of create a longer deal.
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there may not be a longer-term deal. the u.s. may decide -- >> not worth it. >> yeah. we allowed some of the modify to -- money to get back to iran that's been frozen. way more, the pressure is still on the country. >> before i let you go. these latest developments that ed henry talking about with the capitol hill working to get the writing in place so we can roll the sanctions back in. >> that's the administration's well aware of the pressure from capitol hill, and the rightful skepticism of capitol hill about iran and has always said, look, if the deal begins to unravel, we're just going to reimplement the tough sanctions we already have and i think that you'd probably see that ratcheted up by capitol hill. >> thank you for taking on every question and handling breaking news. appreciate it. government officials in south sudan have agreed now to end the violence that has forced
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more than 100,000 people to leave their homes in recent days, while bringing the young nation dangerously close to civil warm -- civil war. it's not clear if anybody is on board with the plan for a cease fire and we're waiting to find out whether the fighting has actually stopped. hundreds of u.s. citizens have left the country, and in less than a week, four u.s. service members were hurt when gunfire erupted. their planes got hit as they were trying to swoop in and take americans, evacuate them. our diplomatic mission over the weekend. this started after what the president of south sudan called a failed attempt at a coup. he said his former vice-president, who whom he fired this year, was behind the movement today at a summit government leaders vowed to put down their weapons, but the former vice-president who called the current president a dictator, was not at these talks. a watchdog agency ranked south sudan as the fifth most corrupt nation on the planet. at it also the world's youngest
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nation having split from sudan. >> it's been quite a year of really wicked weather. twisters, ice storms, much more. ahead, janice dean will have a way that whether changed lives and the destination people are racing to get to from all the snow and ice and freezing cold? actually about to surpass new york in population. we'll take you there next.
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more than one million unemployed americans are set to loose their jobless benefit officers the weekend and -- benefits over the weekend and that could set the stage for a political argument. a program is set to expire tomorrow. the feds launched the program during the recession. democrats are pushing to extend the measure when congress reconvenes but the critics say the worst of the recession is over and it's -- time to end the
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program. >> what happens to the unemployment rates if these benefits expire. >> it likely falls, not because a million people will good to work. economists saying thousands losing benefits would stop looking for work. the government calls that dropping out of the labor force, if 23% of the current 1.3 million people receiving unemployment insurance drop out, the unemployment rate will promptly fall to 6.8% from 7% currently. other economists predict a steeper drop when the government calculates the unemployment rate it only figures those actively searching for work. if they're not looking they're not part of the unemployment rate and it goes down. >> what are we hearing about what congress might do. >> it will be difficult. the white house let -- reiterated support for a bill to continue the benefits for three months. democrats want a one-year extension. pelosi pel -- nancy pelosi says
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neglecting to extend this vital live loin to workerser immoral and an pick -- abdication of our obligation. job -- john boehner says he needs to hear a plan from the white house to cover the costs, and other republicans say there's no need to extend emergency benefits while the unemployment rate is falling. the law allows up to 73 weeks of unemployment benefits. when it expires tomorrow the maximum falls to 26 weeks. all the benefits depend on the state. harris? >> thank you. as snow, ice, and freezing temperatures hilt the northern part of the nation that's holiday season, the number of tourists traveling to south florida has reached an all-time high. the word from state tourism officials. it seems to make sense. when you look at the pictures, which would you choose? only so much skiing you can do and you can't ski on the left side of your screen. that was the ice storm that left
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more than hundred thousand customers without electricity. on the right side, people enjoying the weather in florida today. phil keating is live. hough is it going? >> things have gone south. the rain clouds are coming in. one of the younger tourises. rain clouds have been coming in but look at the people still down here on the beach. when you spend hundreds of dollars for air travel and then hotels, you're going to make the most of your beach vacation during holiday week, and of cures, with 700-miles of beaches in florida, every weekem is pretty good as far as tourism, but the week between christmas and new year's is one of the biggest weeks of the year, and the tourism officials project this holiday week this year right now will be the most crowded, busiest tourist week in south florida history. also going down the beach you can see there are people playing in the sand, having fun in the sand. the bottom line is, they're
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escaping the frigid and cold temperatures of the north. getting down here, and for marketing officials it's a secret form lamp lock -- formula, location, location, location. >> from the northeast, it's a couple-hour airplane flight and takes some of you viewers a couple of hours to drive to places in the northeast. so, would you rather be, in the cold or the miami heat here? go heat. >> and clearly a lot of people choosing the heat. this is going to be record-setting for the tourism industry. hotels are sold out. restaurants are enjoying it. it's a real big economic boom for the state of florida which gets 90 billion a year annually in tourist dollars. >> right enough it's tropical because i can see people taking cover from the rain and you're getting no sympathy from people back here. on a serious note in 2010, the bp oil spill hurt the tourism industry for the gulf coast beaches. how are they recovering?
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>> reporter: well, they're actually doing quite well. 2010 was without a doubt a very terrible year for tourism along the gulf coast, from the florida panhandle, to bmw, -- alabama, mississippi, and officials say they've seen increases in tourists. nothing that spells florida better during the wintertime is wind chills of zero degreeses or temperatures of 30 degrees up north. everybody isen joying the economy -- is enjoying the economy provides a lot of jobs and everyone is hoping for a happy holiday, and if you don't have your hotel room yet, good luck, because hotels are sold out for new year's day. >> thank you very much. state police just released a huge batch of information from the investigation into the deadly shooting rampage at sandy
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hook elementary in connecticut. thousandses of peoples. we have people reading through it. we'll have a live report when we come back.
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state police in connecticut just released thousands of page office documents from their investigation into the massacre at sandy hook elementary. this is obviously a very sensitive story, and as we report on this, we're going to try to avoid running any graphic or disturbing material out of respect for the families and the victth, prosecutors released a summary of their investigation. today police are releasing their official file on the case, including knew pictures, video, and 9-1-1 calls. this all comes over a year since adam lanza forced his way into
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the school, shot and killed children and staffers as the police closed in on him. clearly the work of a disturbed young man, and even with all the payments of documents, all the images, research, there's no indication we're ever going to really get answers about why adam lanza grabbed his guns gund started shooting innocent children. laura ingall is live. >> this final report is thousands of pages long and contains a much more in-depth look into the investigation and the life of killer adam lanza. there are many attachments included in the report, including photos from the crime scene, both sandy hook elementary and lanza's home where he shot and killed his mother in her bed. understandably not all of the photos will be released. here's one photo we can show you from the report of adam lanza's computer hard drive, which he apparently smashed with a weight
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before he headed to the school. investigators have been trying to get information from that. and we also have one from adam lanza's i.d. from the newtown technology team. we'll be showing that to you -- there it is on the screen. that was found in his room. the report is heavily redacted, o. edited, a bunch of blacked-out portion office -- portions of minor witnesses, identity of confidential informants and witnesses, names and address of students enrolled in a public school, and a letter accompanying this report we just received here in the new room, bradford, commission of the state department of emergency services and public protection, explained they have disheavy edits say he hopes the release of the reports will provide helpful information that can be put to use to prevent such tragedies in the future. and the summary that was put out
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last month by the state attorney was based on these never before seen documents which detailed the timeline of the crime, the crime scene evidence and recovery, and contained pages of information on lanza's education, personality, mental health and habits and a description of his apparent obsession with masts mass murders, including the columbine mass shooting. we have a lot of producers going through this as well, trying to bring you the very latest on that, and there was one piece also that was new and interesting to us about the mother, nancy. the she went out of town on tuesday, and went outlet shopping on the 12th, bought things, and then on thursday, the day before the shooting, she met with somebody. that name was redacted. apparent live in that meeting they spoke about her life and her son with what she described as disabilities, and in 2005, lanza was diagnosed with asperger's disorder, autism-like
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condition. this report, thousands of pages long, with a lot of attachments. we're going through them and will bring you the latest as we get it here in the news room. >> thank you very much. this one is tough. a father and his 15-year-old son were trying out their christmas presents, diving equipment, when investigating -- investigators say they died in an area fame muse for underwater caves, off the coast of florida. neither the father nor the son was an experienced cave diver, and there were signs nearby which read the caves can be very dangerous. our fox station reports several people have tied in these caves over the years. an investigation is underway. we'll be right back. y)p)
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what you have in your home. they recommend people break down the boxes and take them to a recycling center. >> on this day in 1932, one of new york's landmarks, radio city music hall, opened its doors. thousands turned out for opening night. radio city served as a movie theater and a site for popular stage shows. the christmas spectacular became a fan favorite, with the rockettes. raid -- it has had a $70 million makeover in 1999. let's take a live look. this is right across the street from fox headquarters. we he can see this out our windows. radio city, an estimated 300 million people have come to see the show. the curtains first went up 81 yours ago today. i kind of wanted to be a
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rockette if the news thing hadn't worked out. what do you think? die have the legs for it? i'll see you right back here hee 7:00 p.m. this weekend with the fox report. >> brace for impact. the obamacare hits are coming whether you signed up or not. welcome. i'm in for neil cavuto. this is "your world." forget the ball dropping, get ready for you jaw to drop as taxes and fees prepare to kick in at the start of the new year. in fact it's now showing up as a separate line on some insurance bills. taxes totaling close to $280 a year on one bill, including a $2 fee to help identify wasteful spending, premium tax, a 3.5% user fee to sell insurance on the