little they know about what they imagine they can design. they can't. that is our show. that is our show. hello. i'm eric shutdown. welcome to brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. >> i'm arthel neville. chuck hagel making a surprise visit to afghanistan announcing the change in the troop's drawdown. why the pentagon is keeping an extra 1,000 troops there. a major development in the sony picture cyber attack. this as the f.b.i. is looking into those chilling new e-mails that threaten employees and their families. and u.s. naval engineer in trouble with the feds allegedly trying to sell secret documents detailing how to sink its newest

generation of aircraft carriers. first new details at this hour on the american hostage held by al-qaeda terrorists in yemen. he was as we've been reporting, killed today during that brave rescue attempt by a u.s. special forces. 32-year-old photo journalist luke somers, kidnapped in september in yemen's capital last year. the group planned to kill him today. u.s. special forces were sadly unable to save him. now the very latest in washington. >> reporter: as soon as president obama believed luke somers was in imminent danger sometime mid-morning yesterday, he signed off on a mission to rescue him. the commander in chief said this morning, quote, as soon as there was reliable intelligence and operational plan, i authorized rescue attempt yesterday. i also authorized the rescue of any other hostages held in the same location as luke. so at 5:00 p.m. eastern last

night, a team of 40 american commandos landed in yes, ma'am be about six miles away from a compound where somers and another hostage were being held and started walking and remained undetected until they were 100 yards out and that's when according to the "wall street journal," it may have been a barking dog that gave up the american positions. officials tell us that when the americans were spotted, the hostages were shot almost immediately. there was a fire fight that followed, killing at least five al-qaeda fighters. after about half an hour, somers and a south african hostage whose release was apparently going to be tomorrow, according to an aide group, were loaded into one of the aircraft where they were treated by surgeons during a flight to the nearby uss macon island. but both died soon after. none of the american rescuers were injured and the secretary of defense says this and a separate unsuccessful attempt to save somers in november show that the pentagon will always

try to bring americans in trouble home. >> this is further evidence of america's continued commitment to always find its american hostages no matter where they are and make every effort to get those hostages returned to the united states. >> reporter: we're told the yemeni government had a heads up about this raid going down and they cooperated but they did not actually participate in the rescue attempt. eric? >> you lived in london, he had dual american citizenship, certainly his family is in our prayers. u.s. naval engineer is facing espionage charges. he allegedly gave top secret documents to an undercover f.b.i. agent posing as an egyptian intelligence officer

about the new uss gerald ford carrier on how to sink it with a missile. if convicted on all charges, he faces up to 40 years behind bars. canada's prime minister says his country will not expand its air strikes against isis in syria. he said canada is focused instead on its current mission in iraq recently joining the u.s.-led bombing campaign in fallujah last month. also adds can did has a training mission in northern iraq and aimed at teaching and arming iraqi kurdish fighters in their battle against isis. there are growing questions today over a decision by rolling stone magazine to retract a much publicized article about an alleged gang rape at a party at the university of virginia. it was featured in the magazine's november issue and covers the story of a woman only

identified as jackie. now more with the story. >> reporter: rolling stone hasn't quite retracted the story that rocked the university of virginia campus. but as the magazine said it's sorry for this sensational tale this is falling apart, i have to ask, how did this ever get published in the first place? why did so many national news outlets run with allegations with no one was identified and the rolling stone never contacted the seven men accused of sexually assaulting this woman named jackie. >> a major american university tonight has a lot to answer for now that claims of a particularly shocking sexual assault have been made public. >> an extraordinary move on one of america's most prestigious campuses, the university of virginia, shutting down all fraternities as it investigates sexual assault claims. >> reporter: after the "washington post" blew several holes in the accuser's accounts, they said there were discrepancy

's in what happened. one of those discrepancies, a friend of jackie's told the "washington post" that she had been forced to perform oral sex on several men, but that they did not as rolling stone claims, see her in a bloody dress or debate whether she would pay a social price if they took it to the hospital. such details raising the question, what really happened, whether jackie embellished the account and why rolling stone would approve this piece based on a single source. >> here is another question for you. why did the rest of the media run with the story as well? >> an excellent question. we live in a world where everything goes viral in ten seconds, very few organization rereport what somebody else says. obviously it was a blockbuster story at a well-known university and at the same time, it took a blogger, a single blogger, to raise questions about it that got some other organizations like slate, like the "washington post" to take a more careful look. but i don't think -- i think maybe there was some people who thought well, this is not just a

dramatic story and the university of virginia certainly reacted dramatically, that became part of the news, but a story about sexual assault that maybe some people felt this would help the cause, raise the awareness and so forth. one regret i have here is that if this turns out to be even partially bogus that, it could underline claims by other women that have been sexually assaulted that there could be an extra residue of mistrust. >> you're right. it is serious allegation not to be taken lightly on either side of that coin, if you will. again, thanks for clarifying at the top of the story that rolling stone has not retracted the story. it has at this point, given an apology. and thanks for that. thank you very much. and coming up a little later in this program, we're going to take a look at the potential legal fallout for rolling stone following this apology. now to that disturbing cyber attack at sony pictures. hackers now targeting employees and their families.

leave some wondering if it's potentially the north koreans behind it targeting the movie studio for its comedy with seth rogen. employees of the film studio received threatening e-mail, claiming to be from the group. they carried out last week's attack that broke into the company's computer network. that leaked several movies online, including the comedy due out at christmas about the fictional attempt to go interview the young dictator and "fury" and the" annie" film. now the latest. >> reporter: the f.b.i. says it's aware and investigating the threatening e-mails sent to symptom employees at sony pictures. a line in the e-mail says it was sent by the guardians of peace. the same group that claimed responsibility for attacking sony's computer system last week. in that attack, some sony employees had their personal information, including social security numbers, posted on line. according to variety, the e-mail

sent to those employees says, quote, what we have done so far is only a small part of our further plan. please sign your name to object below if you don't want to suffer damage. if you don't, not only you, but your family will be in danger. some computer experts suspect north korea may be trying to attack sony because of an upcoming sony movie, a comedy that depicts an assassination attempt on north korean leader kim jong-un. but that's just one possibility. >> there are parts of this attack and patterns that look like things north korea may have done in the past. that's one possible source. the other thing is to look at hacking groups and sony has had issues with hacking groups before, taking things offline, casting threats toward senior executives. so we have to look at those groups as well. >> reporter: he says it also could be a disgruntled employee inside or outside of the company

who is launching these attacks. eric? >> thank you. arthel? a new study revealing just how bad the drought in california really is. scientists saying it could be the worst drought in 1200 years. will carr has more from our l.a. bureau and this is not good news. give us the details. >> reporter: good evening. while this study proves even with rain earlier this week in southern california, that the majority of the state is still being stricken by this historic drought. 99% of california is in at least a moderate drought. more than half the state is in the worst form, that's the dark red right there in the center of the state, as bad as it can get. the study published used the growth and tree rings to determine that this is the worst drought california has seen in 1200 years. experts say this is an uphill battle largely because the state is trying to make up for three years of little to no consistent

rainfall. they believe it will take a couple of years of average or above average rainfall to fill reservoirs which right now are only at 30%. the drought has also had a major impact on the state's agricultural industry. california central valley produces over half the nation's fruits, vegetables and nuts. farmers tell us they've been doing everything they can to survive, but say a fourth year of drought will be devastating. a study earlier this year by uc-davis predicted california will lose $2.2 billion this year alone, along with 17,000 jobs, unemployment numbers have spiked in farming communities across california. that's ohm within the state. think about this, across the nation, food prices have been going up. they continue to go up. every time you go to the grocery store action it gets a little bit pricier. >> indeed a domino effect. let's hope for some rain. thank you so much. police in washington, d.c. and the nation are patrolling those continued protests that are reaction to the controversial grand jury

decision here in new york and the eric garner case. with a few hours ago, demonstrators staged another die-in. this one occurring at union station in washington, d.c., right near the capitol. protesters have been marching every night since that grand jury decision came out on wednesday. they've been blocking traffic in busy areas and closing some routes. saying good-bye to marion berry happening in d.c thousands gathering at the washington convention center today to remember the iconic former dc mayor. he served as mayor for 16 years and despite personal troubles, he remained popular among many in washington. some even calling him mayor for life. today's funeral capping three days of memorial events honoring barry. election date in your home state of louisiana. so could the gop pick up its 54th senate seat tonight? we're counting down to the last few hours before the polls close.

race between mary landrieu and challenger bill cassidy. we'll have a live report and analysis next. plus, brewing reaction after the brutal shooting of a u.s. photo journalist killed during a rescue attempt in yemen. an update in the case against a michigan man who is accused of stabbing an amtrak conductor and three of his fellow train passengers on that train. >> i was like, oh, my god, he's punching the guy. then i saw him bring his fist back up and i noticed there was something in his fist here's some news you may find surprising.

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hey, john. >> good evening to you. mary landrieu is hoping she's not three hours away from getting the worst news of her political career. but going into today's runoff election, the polls show that she has a lot of ground to make up if she hopes to i. despite from coming from behind, she wasn't about to give up. she's battling until the very end after logging some 1200 miles driving around the state in a rented suv during the week. she voted this morning and immediately started pounding the pavement looking to get other folks out to the polls. if she loses tonight, it certainly won't be for lack of trying. >> i'm proud of the work that i've done and we'll see. i think our voters are still very energized. congressman cassidy stopped campaigning. he's taking it for granted that he's going to win. i've watched that happen before and it hasn't turned out very well for those individuals. >> reporter: what she was referring to was her opponent, bill cassidy, off the trail today to learn the new medical coding system at the hospital

where he continues to teach medicine. cassidy told us he doesn't think the campaigning on voting day does much anyway. >> i'm not sure there is anything the candidate can do the final day. the people know the issues. senator landrieu voted with obama 97% of the time. i can go down the list. people know the issues. i'm comfortable the people made their choice. >> reporter: if landrieu hopes to win what she needs is a surge of african-american voters out to the polls today and early indications are that she is not getting it. republican operatives told me their count of african-americans today, slightly less than 20% of all registered black voters. that is down from 47% who showed up on the so-called jungle primary day on november 4. arthel? >> john roberts, thank you. if it does turn out that senator landrieu is not reelected, it would significant nigh an historic political shift in the south from a solid

democratic control a generation ago to a republican stronghold today. take a look what the "new york times" says. it calls it the demise of the southern democrat, saying, quote, in the region stretching from the high plains of texas to the atlantic coast of the carolinas, the republicans will control not only every senate seat, but every governor's mansion and every state legislative body. mrs. landrieu's defeat would signify an end to the era of the southern democrats. so what happened? for a fair and balanced debate, let's go to tammy bruce and and david mercer, former national finance director for the democratic national committee. tammy, let me start with you. what happened to the so-called dixie democrats? how did they become an endangered species? >> i don't think it's just the southern democrats. i think that it's democrats everywhere. consider maryland and illinois, what happened with those deep blue states going red. also this last time around. but for landrieu, this is very, very dramatic because her father was the mayor of new orleans.

her brother is the nature there now. it's really a dynasty in that area. but what this is really the demise of also is the franklin roosevelt new deal coalition, which was also based on the economy. it was big city machines. it was labor unions. it was minorities and for the south southern whites. those were groups that were really sectioned off because of the depression from any real economic benefit. and when even then in the late 30s when that started to fail economically, when they realized that the liberal economic agenda was not helping them, it began to fray. then we had world war ii. we now have this here where it's the same dynamic. there is an understanding that the economic dynamic that the liberals offer failed those members of that coalition and it is beginning to fall apart. and this is going to have an impact on democrats and already has nationwide. and it's going to be a very big change for the democratic party in 2016. i think is it. and the democrats are going to have to figure out how to handle it. >> as tammy said, is that it for

the democratic party? >> no, it isn't. if you look at 2016, when republicans will have to defend 24 senate seats much like we did this year, and also with democrats only having ten seats up for reelection, eight of those states republicans will be defending will be in the south. so we'll see if this holds. look, the republicans have tried twice the last two cycles to get this senate majority. they finally got it now on the third try. good for them. but this is not over and we're not creeding any part of the country going into 2016 and we will be fighting on behalf of middle class working americans to make sure that their wages are going up, that we see the kind of gdp growth that we have this quarter, 3.9%. that we're creating 300 plus thousand jobs a year -- >> david -- >> bush administration was only creating 20,000 average a months. >> you just ticked off issues.

but look at this swath. we got a swath. let's look at that. there it is. look at all that red. what is going on? >> you'll see the opposite in 2016. >> tammy, do you think it will flip? >> look, the republican also have to deliver. they've got a terrific opportunity to explain, especially one of the speeches i did at colleges is why the ideal benefits is because this has got to be about entrepreneurship and end of regulations, getting the boot off of the neck of small business owners, allowing people to make money. it's minorities who start up the most small businesses in this country. this is the bailey wick of the republicans and they've got an opportunity to show it. the democrats, look, they've been in charge for six years now with the epitome of the liberal agenda and it has destroyed wages. it has destroyed the future for people's families. >> it's created jobs, tammy. >> jobs? >> seven dollars an hour, part-time jobs. >> maybe on what bush was doing when he was president.

>> that's not going to help. >> i'm making a point. >> it's not the jobs. >> let me interrupt for a second. david, what's interesting, this is the "new york times" saying this, that the democratic party in the south has become, quote, more secular, basically far too left. do you think that's the case, that the democratic party left some of our southern citizens, is that what happened under president obama? >> no, i do not think that's the case. and again, if you look at comparing what we're going to have to compare 2016, the african-american community, women, the youth vote, they don't turn out, or don't turn out at the levels that they do in a presidential election that we're going to see in 2016 with the senate also elections then. and you don't have that kind of turnout in 2014 and the map favored republicans that relates to red states and if you want southern states. >> ed --

>> win on the fundamentals, but those fundamentals and dynamics are going to change in 2016. you'll see that constituency turn out and hopefully republicans won't alienate them if they want to see any more gains. >> tammy, the last word? >> one last thing is that hillary will not be able to rely on the barak obama coalition which was a little bit of the fdr coalition. that's going to be gone. and i don't see her being able to appeal to southerners or to african-americans in this country who both have been abandoned by the liberal agenda. >> you and ridges say that obama wouldn't be the first black president and he became president twice. >> i don't know. >> we do know this, clinton who ruled arkansas, basically now republican. tammy and david, thank you so much. >> thanks. that was interesting. i was about to pull out some popcorn. this is a really sad story to tell you about now. coming up, over 100 passengers trapped on an amtrak train as a suspect goes on a terrifying

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he will return to the private sector. the u.s. military saying it plans to leave behind more than 1,000 additional troops in afghanistan in 2015 than it had originally intended to. secretary of defense chuck hagel making the announcement during a surprise visit to afghanistan earlier today and john huddy has more. >> reporter: hundreds of u.s. troops that planned to return home for the new year will remain in afghanistan. outgoing secretary of defense chuck hagel made a surprise visit to afghanistan today where he made for some, a bit of a surprise announcement. the u.s. military's plans to pull troops out of the country have been put on hold. the reason? delays with u.s. allies signing security pacts to send more than 2,000 troops to join nato forces helping train and assist afghan security force. >> this will mean a delayed withdrawal of up to 1,000 u.s.

troops so that up to 10,800 troops, rather than 9,800, could remain in afghanistan through the end of this year and for the first few months next year. >> reporter: he added that u.s. commanders have left the building with the date. secretary hagel joined afghan president in kabul where there has been a surge of taliban attacks the past two weeks. >> we face threats that you're aware of. we're changing environments. but one thing needs to be clearly understood, our gains are reversible and we are determined to make sure that our people live in safety and security. >> reporter: secretary hagel added that the u.s. is committed to preventing al-qaeda from using afghanistan as a safe haven and, quote, we will take appropriate measures against taliban members to directly

threaten u.s. and coalition forces in afghanistan or provide direct support to al-qaeda. that said, u.s. military officials say that plan still remains to scale back to 5500 troops in afghanistan in 2016 and to pull the remaining forces out in 2017. arthel? >> john, that was john huddy reporting. thanks a lot. turning to our top story action the tragedy of american photo journalist luke somers was murdered today. he was killed by al-qaeda terrorists in yemen during that brave rescue attempt by u.s. special forces. he was kidnapped in september of last year in yemen's capitol. authorities say the terror group had planned to execute him this morning. that apparently prompting this rescue attempt. the u.s. special forces, the navy seal team six were unable to save him. what does this mean? our guest is here.

this is so heart breaking and tragic because we're told the seals went through the forest, five or six miles after they were dropped far away at 1:00 o'clock in the morning. they got very close, 100 yards away where somers was being held when maybe a dog started barking for some reason. the terrorists were alerted and apparently one of the terrorists shot them and they were not able to be rescued and they retreated on the owe spree and flown to a naval ship. this must indicate we've got to do what we possibly can do to try to save these hostages. >> absolutely. we commend the president to so quickly act upon this. we knew that they threatened on thursday to kill luke somers by saturday. this was our last chance to go ahead and save him. it was obviously very tragic in the sense that we were not able to save him. but it was not a failed mission in that we flexed our muscles because they were flexing theirs. it was a very challenging mission. as they get closer, obviously

they're alerting the terrorists and there is only a few points of entry and their time frame to go in and get the hostages becomes smaller and smaller. so unfortunately, we're not able to save him, but again, why do these terrorist take american hostages when they know we won't pay the ransom? because the main reason for taking hostages is to a, get the money. and b, to flex their muscles to show their might, to show especially to america that al-qaeda is not on hiatus, they're not taking a break, and they're going to be he >> you mentioned paying ransom. european countries do that apparently. some of them deny. should we change our policy? it's always been from the reagan administration, we should not negotiate with terrorists. >> we do not negotiate with terrorists and that's absolutely true 'cause imagine if we did. this is a powerful not negotiating with them, putting them -- i think what we're alerted to in this case is there is only a failure and awareness

or acknowledgment. our president worked and moved very quickly on trying to get a mission into save luke somers. but at the same time, our focus is on isis. isis is 30,000 to 50,000, yes. they're glued on. it doesn't get more brutal than isis. but this doesn't mean we take our eyes off these other groups. al-qaeda has been active. after we got osama bin laden, we kind of basically took our eye off of the ball there. and we have americans abroad and we know their ideology is not only to strike at americans here at home with lone wolf attacks and other types of more organized attacks like 9-11, but also abroad where we have american citizens. >> how do we -- what we're look at here on the video, this radical islamic terrorist philosophy that attracts these young men. how do we do that, especially when you have brave, wonderful young men like luke or peter kasich who were there for charity reasons, to help the people, to help innocent

civilians who were besieged by the islamic terrorists. instead they get their head chopped off or shot. >> we don't want the message to anyone who does aid work, whether they're teachers or aid workers to not go or live comfortably. but we have to train, educate, raise awareness, both here at home and to those who go abroad and risk their lives as to what the real threats are and how they should live their lives and when there is a heightened alert, they should be aware of it first. >> the threat of islamic radical terrorism is the challenge of our time. >> absolutely. >> thank you for joining us. >> of course. terrifying moments last night on an amtrak track in michigan when a suspect goes on a rampage, stabbing four people, including the conductor. >> passengers and other conductors on the train noticed this individual, thought his behavior was starting to get odd. they radioed to amtrak in chicago, i believe, who called our dispatch center to ask officers could stand by when the

train arrived. when the officers got here, the assaults were taking place. >> all of a sudden, i heard somebody screaming and yelling, just loud noises and i noticed that there was something in his fist resembling a knife blade. >> police now identifying the suspect as 44-year-old michael relines. he's charged with four counts of attempted murder. all of the victims are listed in stable condition. and an amtrak spokeswoman saying the company arranged alternate transportation for all 172 passengers. the trouble is building for rolling stone magazine forced to apologize for that story about the alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. will an apology be enough? coming up, we'll take a look at the potential legal fallout.

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city in arizona. officials will vote on whether to refuse to hire smokers. they say it would put a major pinch in the pocket books of those already working there. if approved, the controversial two-part policy would take effect next july. that would prevent the county from hiring smokers and also impose a 30% health insurance surcharge on employees who too smoke or use other tobacco products. they say it's discriminatory. supporters say it will save millions of dollars in health care costs. possible legal fallout now for a rolling stone story over a controversial article about an alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. the magazine apologizing for the article after saying it found, quote, discrepancies in the story of a woman identified in the piece as jackie who claims she was raped by a group of seven men at a fraternity party in 2012. joining me are heather hanson, defense attorney.

and mark judge is a freelance journalist and film maker. i want to welcome both of you. heather, if you would stand by, i want to start with you, mark, because i understand that you were the person who said wait. this is not right and you tried to get other publications and media outlets to pick up on your story. walk me through this. when did you first smell a rat? >> well, it was the most frustrating week of my 25-year journalism career because i smelled a rat by the third paragraph of the story. i subscribe to rolling stone. the day the story came out. by the time i got to the fourth or fifth paragraph, i said wait. three hours of a rape by seven people? three hours is a long time. that was the first thing that was a give away. and i immediately wrote something up about it in op ed, an opinion piece about why the story was false. and for the next three days, tried to get it placed in various web sites and publications and nobody would run it. so i got to sit there for a week

and watch the story unfold and finally resorted to facebook on november 28. i finally got on facebook and said, look, i can't get anyone to take this story. >> why do you think you had such trouble for anyone to at least take a look at to possibly either debunk what you were saying or vet what you were saying? >> can i be honest? >> please, always. >> i think we have a lot of young inexperienced editors and quote, unquote, journalists who have not been properly trained, who don't have good, what norman mailer called bs detectors, who are very busy putting up lists and pictures of kim kardashian's backside and not giving due diligence to actually researching and writing and looking carefully at what comes across their desk. and they're opening themselves up for ruined reputations and libel and missed scoops. this could have been the scoop of a lifetime and it sat on my computer for four days. >> okay.

you stand by for me, mark. heather, i want you to talk about the potential criminal charges and walk us through the legal steps at play. >> president-elect obama wouldn't be criminal charges, but certainly there could be civil charges against the rolling stone and the author herself. i understand that she was a freelance author. but rolling stone would be responsible not only for her as an agent, but also because they should have done more. it would be reasonable to do more to check on this story. when they came out with their statement, they said we trusted her. i think mark would probably agree that that is not a reasonable standard for a publication to simply trust a source without checking on it. based on that, the fraternity as a whole, the fraternity itself would certainly have a claim for libel against rolling stone for monetary damages they suffered as a result of this reputation damage. >> stand by for me, heather. what i want to share with the audience now, there is an apology we've been telling you about from rolling stone managing editor, will dana

saying, quote, we're trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. we are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by this story. is this enough, heather? >> no. the law in virginia is that even if you put out a retraction, it's not enough to undo the damage that's already been done. the idea that they're being sensitive and it's why we can't have different standards for sexual assault cases than we do for anything else, whether it be in the courtroom or in journalism. the standard has to be the same, to protect victims as well as those accused. so there is definitely a claim here. the only question is going to be whether the fraternity wants the investigation. if there is any suspect in their path, rolling stone would have to go after that to try to prove that at least part of their allegations were true. that may stop the fraternity

from filing suit. >> okay. mark, i'm short on time. let me touch on something you said, 20 seconds to react. you said in your frank answer that you believe there is a culture of hiring young people, which is not to say all young people lack the ability to do the job. but do you say there is a problem inside of the journalism world of hiring young people who are inexperienced, both professionally and in personal lives. therefore, they lack the bs meter, as you called it. do you think this incident will maybe stop that and let them hire more people such as yourself who are experienced and pay the money that it costs to get to you work there? >> i really hope so. remember, 1971, rolling stone won a national magazine award for their coverage of altima and the citation read for challenging the shared assumptions of your readers. we have to do that, whether liberal or conservative, no matters who objection is getting goered. they just have to be severanced

and trained. >> okay. mark judge, i thank you, and heather, i thank you both and we'll see you next time. >> thank you. >> thanks. fascinating and very important segment. thank you. december means families will be gathered to celebrate the holidays. you don't want to miss family time if you're stuck in the kitchen all afternoon. coming up, "consumer reports" will be here to show us some of the best products to save you time in the kitchen. ♪ ♪

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a cerammic peeler. >> is that better than a knife? >> super sharp and take the male off. and we don't love cerammic in a knife but this is versatile. and it is a great option there. >> and it is a garlic press. >> they have a great brand here. we love their stuff. >> they have great gizzmonths. and solid and this press is nice. it has the rubber bad that helps to maximize the yield and easier to clean. it is torture if the garlic gets stuck. >> put the onion in the freezer

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