. he drew a cartoon that sparked protests world-wide and last night escaped and attempt on his life. what police are saying about a controversial artists who work earned him death threats across the globe. president obama points the finger at an attempted airline bomber on u.s. soil, who he says gave this man his marching orders and what the u.s. is doing about it. what did this man do to create a security scare at this snarpt how he has some passengers seeing red. >> you're watching hln, i'm holly firfer. police in denmark say man with ties to al qaeda tried to kill a

cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet mohammed. authorities arrested the somali man at the home of kurt westergaard last night after he broke inside. police say westergaard was able to flee to a safe room along with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officer officers shot the suspect after he alleged threatened to kill them with an axe. he's charged 1/42 counts with t murder. westergaard drew a cartoon of mohammed with a turban shaped like a bomb and drew protests from muslims world-wide. president obama is blaming an affiliate of al qaeda for an attempted terror attack for a flight to detroit on christmas day. on his weekly radio address,the president said the group train ed umar farouk abdulmutallab. he is accused of trying to bring

down an airplane landing in detroit with an explosive device that failed to detonate. >> the investigation into the christmas day incident continues. we're learning more about the suspect. we know that he traveled to yemyes, ma' ma'am -- yemen. it appears he joined an facility of al qaeda, this group in the arabian peninsula trained him and equipped him with explosives and trained him for attack for america. this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years they bombed yemeni facilities and restaurants and hotels, restaurants and embassies, including our embassy in 2008 killing one american. as president, i made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government, strengthening and equipping their facilities to streng strengthen against al qaeda terrorists. minority leader mitch mcconnell delivered and up bebe

outlook for the new year, says despite serious challenges he has no doubt american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, a prolonged recession, double digit unemployment, these are difficult days for our nation. in this new year, we're grateful for the courageous men and women who keep a lonely watch for the cause of liberty. we're also painfully aware how many americans are out of work this christmas. these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is it ability to overcome even the most daunting difficulties. >> from terror concerns to health care, to economic meltdown, 2009 was full of challenges for the u.s. government. on this first weekend of 2010, we want to hear from you. if you could suggest a new year's resolution for the u.s. government, what would it be?

how about you weigh in on my facebook page? go to facebook.com and search holly firfer or you can e-mail us. head to cnn do.com/hln. we may air some of the responses on the air today. fox and timewarner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. fox had threatened tos for timewarner cable and another cable provider to drop the fox broadcast signal from 14 of its stations and half a dozen of its cable channels. a contract between the companies expired thursday and signals were extended as talks continue. the companies are not releasing details of that agreement. timewarner cable is no longer time of timewarner incorporated, hln's parent company, that was sold in 2009. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve in responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy. markell peters was in a church

in suburban, atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and may have hit him in the head and think someone may have gone outside to celebrate new year's. his mother is asking for the gunman to come forward and admit what he did. >> i want to say something to the person who did this to my son. please come forward and say something. we need justice. >> natalie says markell was her only child. that accident happened just 20 minutes into the new year. two modesto county firefighter are in the hospital after a roof collapsed them. they were working to ventilate it when the roof caved in. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to fill much sooner than we would regularly see at most house fires. the company officer of the truck company reported to me he had never seen a roof fell in such short amount of time.

>> luckily, there were no other injuries in the fire and it appears to have started accidentally when the home's occupant dropped a candle while trying to refill a gas powered generator. a new year's day fire killed a woman and her three children. a 32-year-old man also died when the mobile home in palm springs, california burned early yesterday morning. crews initially found bodies of two adults j then the kids. 11-year-old girl, 7-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl. it's still not clear just how that fire started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-year-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in a basement bathroom in a rural home in the northern part of the state. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's house and called for help. they think the fire may have started in an unintended fireplace.

two nba players are under investigation for an alleged locker room confrontation that allegedly got way out of hand. the "new york post" reports two washington wizard players, gilbert arena and javarris crittenton drew guns on one another during an argument last week. it began when arenas refused to pay a gambling debt to crittenton. it's not clear if any other players saw the alleged confrontation but the post says the officials didn't notify the police about the accident until they started investigating. >> there's a lot of rumors around that will take time. there's an investigate under way and i can't comment on it. >> the team says they take this incident and the on-going investigation very seriously. iraq says it's filing a lawsuit against five u.s. security guards. thursday, a federal judge

throu through out manslaughter charges against five employees of black water accused of killing citizens in 2007 in a shooting in baghdad. the government said they improp improper -- the judge said they improperly compelled the guards to make statements against their interest and the government calls it an act of murder and asking the u.s. justice department to appeal the dismissal. the u.s. commander in iraq that says iraqis are looking for justice. >> it's a lesson in the rule of law. we're a country of rule of law, iraq is a country abiding by the rule of law. that's what protects its citizen in the long run having a system with a rule of law to make your determination and i think this is the case. >> the black water employees we're guarding a state department employee when the incident began. after the incident, black water changed its name to xe.

a suicide bomb at a volleyball game killed at least 93 people. it happened yesterday in northwest pakistan at the border with afghanistan. the explosion injured more than 30 people and mr. still in the hospital. most of the victims were just teenagers watching the game. a local police says the explosion was so strong it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threat thing area since the military pushed them out two months ago. >> i'm reynolds wolf for hln, hope you're enjoying your first saturday of the new year and many people doing so with cold temperatures. in the plain, 26 degrees, and 33 direct examination in fargo. and in minneapolis, we will be warming up to 2 degrees fahrenheit. 31 in washington d.c., 30s for boston, new york and atlanta, 38

degrees. on the other side of that frontal boundary it warms up significantly, 42 in dallas a-- dallas and 42 in denver. they could see up to a foot of snowfall in parts of upstate maine. if you're driving on parts of i-95, heavy snowfall combined with strong wind gusts could give you very limited visibility. scattered snow showers possible for the great lakes and the same for the pacific northwest an parts of coastal rains and cascades, heavy snowfall and light snowfall a possibility into the sierras. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. anxious moments at seattle's airport, a man says he has a gun, locks himself in a bathroom and refuses to come out. what he wanted from authorities.

conservative talk show host, rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released from the hospital in hawaii. he went in monday for chest pains. tests show he didn't have a heart attack and more importantly, he does not have heart disease. as evidence he was feeling better, limbaugh couldn't resist taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy. i got nothing special, no special treatment. >> at his news conference, limbaugh also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember in 2003 he admitted he was addicted to pain kellers and went to rehab. authorities in new york city want to know why police apparently ignored an illegal parked van in time square for days before someone called authorities. the van had blacked out windows and ni license plate.

police evacuated time square wednesday and called in a bomb squad to check out the bomb. it may of been ignored because it had a card from a non-profit group in the windshield but such cards are never construed as parking permits. they don't know how or why the placard was put in the windshield. police are checking into man who barricaded himself inside a bathroom. he had a gun and wanted to fly somewhere but didn't have a ticket. the man finally surrendered after two hours. turns out, he wasn't armed. while negotiators were trying to convince him to come out of the bathroom, airport officials did reroute passengers to other checkpoints. >> i'm scared. i will keep my distance and let the cops do their thing. they're good at it. >> i don't see why anybody would want to act cray zain airport

nowadays. >> the airport was not locatedner any gates and only one door and the man had no access to any other location. a per glitch caused a scare for a slight bound for chicago. it checked passenger is in manly when computers went down yesterday. the computers came back online after the flight was already in the air and when screeners noticed someone's name on the flight matched a name on the tsa's restricted passenger list and forced the plain to return to st. louis. the flight was eventually allowed to take off again after screeners determined the person on the plane was not the same person on the ts a-list. the faa says it is taking a closer look at american airlines because the carrier had three landings go wrong last month. the first incident happened september 13th, a plan landing in charlotte went off the runway and another plane overshot a runway in jamaica and injured

passengers and you can see in this video and two days later, another plane hit a wing tip while landing in austin, texas. american airlines spokesman said they are cooperating with the investigation he said was routine in landing incidents. it takes ink to make a tattoo and for police to take a fingerprint. you will not believe what a couple did with one that got them the other. .

about 15 same sex couples in new hampshire rang in the new year exchanging wedding vows in the cold. the state law legalizing same sex marriage went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said i do outside the statehouse in concord and others planned ceremonies around the state. the law grants no new rights to gays and lesbians but elimit nates the separate status fcivi unions and joins other states in allowing gay marriage. a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter. she could face criminal charges. a judge ordered her to turn over her daughter to janet jenkins yesterday in virginia. miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a civil union in 2000. their daughter was born in 2002. when the couple broke up the following year, miller moved to

virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical christian and later given custody of the girl but late ear judge determined she denied jenkins proper visitation rights and ordered her to turn the girl over to jenkins. thousands of people who fled a volcano were allowed back home today even though the danger isn't over yet. most of the people who were evacuated lived within five miles of the mayon volcano. the activities have been decreasing over the past few days but warn the level of volcanic unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried in mudslides. more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil and include 22 people who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into an upscale resort popular with celebrities. other mudslides left hundreds of

people homeless. check this out. you're looking at the top of an suv, a father, son and friend parked on the sandbar of a river in oregon for a new year's day fishing trip. when rain started pouring, the river quickly swelled and swallowed up that suv. >> we were up to our necks in water basically already. i tried to open the door. it wouldn't open because of the pressure of the current and made a quick decision to get out of the truck and get him out of the back. >> it was down to the last couple of minutes. >> he was in pretty bad shape, he couldn't move his arms or anything. >> the men say they struggled in the water about 15 minutes as that suv sank. a man with a boat nearby came to their rescue and they credit him with saving their lives. a georgia couple is facing child cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids. authority say patty and her bit of used a homemade device to tattoo black crosses on the

hands of their children. those kids range in age from 10 to 17 years old. the homemade tattoo gun used and electric motor, wiring, ink pen and sharpened piece of guitar string as a needle. a vial of black ink was used for the coloring. their mother denies she did anything wrong. >> i didn't do anything wrong, the kids don't think we did anything wrong, this is crazy, this is blowed up so bad. >> now the sheriff says the same needle was used to tattoo all six kids. there's a mystery brewing after more than 1700 sea lions just swam away from their adopted home at pier 39. so can anyone tell us what happened to san francisco's sea lions? 

he drew a cartoon that sparked protests world-wide and last night he escaped an attempt on his life. what police are saying about an attack on a controversial artists who work earned him death threats across the globe. president obama points the finger at an airline bomber on u.s. soil, what he says they're doing about it. what did this man do to cause a secure scare at a u.s. airport and how he has some passengers seeing red. >> you're watching hln. i'm holly firfer. police say a man with ties to al qaeda tried to kill a

cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet mohammad. they arrested the man at the home of kurt westergaard last night who was able to flee to a safe room with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officer officers shot him after he threatened them with an axe. he was charged with attempted murder and denied those charges. he hasn't give an motive. but in 2005, westergaard drew a cartoon showing mohammad with a turban shaped bomb and drew protests and death threats from muslims world-wide. president obama is blaming an affiliate of al qaeda for attempted terror attack on a flight to detroit on christmas day. the president said the group of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula trained umar farouk abdulmutallab. he is accused of trying to bring

down an airplane in detroit with an explosive device that failed to detonate. >> the investigation into the christmas day incident continues. we're learning more about the suspect. we know he traveled to yemen, a country grappling with crush in poverty and appears he joined a group of al qaeda and this group in the arabian peninsula equipped him and provided him explosive explosives and targeted that plane headed for america. in years past they bombed government facilities and restaurant hotels, restaurants and embassies including our embassy in 2008 killing one american. as president i made it our ability to partner with the yemeni government and helping them to strike al qaeda terrorists. >> in his party's weekly address, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell delivered and upbeat look for the new year.

say zs spite last year's serious challenges, he has no doubt the american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, prolonged recession, double digit unploiremployment, these difficult days for our nation. we are grateful for the courageous men and women who keep a courage lonely watch for our liberty. we're also painfully aware how many americans are out of work this christmas. these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is it ability to overcome even the most daunting difficulties. from terror concerns to health care to the economic meltdown, 2009 was full of challenges for the u.s. government. and on this first weekend of 2010, we want to hear from you. if you could suggest a new year's resolution for the u.s. governme government, what would it be?

how about you weigh in on my facebook page. go to facebook.com and search holly firfer or e-mail us. we may air some of your responses on the air today. fox and timewarner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. fox had threatened to force timewarner cable and another cable provider to drop the fox signal from 14 of its stations and half a dozen of its cable channels. the contract expired thursday and signals were extended as talks continued and the company is not releasing details of that agreement. timewarner cable is no longer part of timewarner incorporated, hln's parent company sold in 2009. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy. markell peters was in a church in suburb ban atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and

hit him in the head. police say they think someone may have gone outside and shot a gun into the air to celebrate new year's. peter's mother is asking whoever shot the gun to come forward and admit what they did. >> i want to say to the person who did this to my son, please come forward and say something. we need justice. >> natalie peter says markell was her only child. that accident happened just 20 minutes into the new year. two modesto california firefighters are in the hospital after a roof collapsed on them without warning. they were cutting a hole in the roof of a burning house to ventilate it when the roof caved in last night. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to fail much sooner than we would regularly see at most house fires. the company officer of the truck company reported to me he had never seen a roof fail in such short amount of time. >> luckily, there were no other

injuries in the fire and it appears to have started accidentally, when the home's occupant dropped a can ed ped a trying to refill a gas powered generator. a 32-year-old man died when a mobile home in palm springs, california burned early yesterday morning. crews initially found bodies of two adults then the kids. an 11-year-old girl, 7-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl. it's still not clear just how that fire started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-year-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in a basement bathroom of the rural home in the northern part of the state. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's house and called for help. investigators think the fire may have started in an unintended fireplace. two nba players are under investigation for an alleged

locker room confrontation that allegedly got way out of hand. the "new york post" reports two washington wizard players, gilbert arenas and javarris critt crittenton drew guns on one another during an argument last week. according to "the post," it gee gan when arenas refused to play a gambling debt to crittenton. it's not clear whether anyone else saw the confrontation but wizard officials didn't notify the police about the incident until after the paper began making inquiries. d.c. police are now investigating. >> there's a lot of rumors going around, sorting rumors from fact will take some time. there's an investigation under way and i can't comment on it. >> the wizards also released a statement saying the team take this situation and on-going investigation very seriously. a suicide car bomb at a volleyball game killed at least 93 people. it happened yesterday in northwest pakistan near the

border with afghanistan. the explosion injured more than 30 people, many still in the hospital. an fiscal says most of the victims were teenagers just watching the game. a local police chief says the explosion was so strong, it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threatening the area since the military pushed them out two months ago. some anxious moments at seattle's airport. a man says he has a gun, locks himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out.

conservative talk show host, rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released from the hospital yesterday in hawaii. he went in monday for chest pains. doctors say tests show he didn't have a heart attack and more importantly, he does not have heart disease. as evidence he was feeling better, limbaugh couldn't resist taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one

thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy. i got nothing special, no special treatment. >> at his news conference, limbaugh also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember in 2003 he admitted he was addicted to pain killers and went to rehab. authorities in new york city want to know why police apparently ignored an illegal parked van in time square for days before someone finally called authorities. the van had blacked out windows and no license plate. police evacuated time square wednesday and called in a bomb squad to check out the van after a security guard reported it. it may of been ignored because it had an id card from a non-profit group in the windshield but such cards are never construed as parking permits. the organization says it doesn't know how or why the placard was put in the windshield.

police arrested man who barricaded himself in a family restroom at the seattle airport yesterday. officers say the man told them he had a gun and wanted to fly somewhere but didn't have a ticket. the man finally surrendered after two hours. turns out, he wasn't armed. while negotiators were trying to convince him to come out of the bathroom, airport officials did reroute passengers to other checkpoints. >> i'm scared. i will keep my distance and let the cops do their thing. they're good at it. >> i don't see why anybody would want to act crazy in the airport nowadays. it's already hard enough to travel. >> the airport was not located near any gates and only one door and the man had no access to any other location. the head of delta airlines is speaking out for the first time about that attempted attack on the northwest flight headed for detroit on christmas day. he's disappointed the suspect managed to bring explosives on

board the plane however he said delta followed all government guidelines and will keep working to keep new government security measures. the suspect is accused of trying to blow up that flight from am ter stamp to new york. american airlines are looking into three airplanes that hat incidents in one mont. one went over a runway in charlotte and another in kingston, jamaica, injuring 91 passenger, you can see the aftermath in this video and two days later, another plane hit a wing tip landing in austin, texas. they told cnn they are cooperating with the investigation they said is routine in landing incidents. it takes ink to make a tattoo and for police to take a fingerprint. you will not believe what a couple did with one that got them the other.

about 15 same sex council new hampshire rang in the new year exchanging wedding vows in the cold. the state law legalizing same

sex marriage went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said i do outside the the new hampshire statehouse in concord. others planned private ceremonies around the state. the law grants no new rights to georgia is and lesbians, but eliminates the separate status for civil unions and joins other states in allowing gay marriage. a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter. lisa miller, seen here, could face criminal charges. a vermont judge ordered her to turn over her daughter, isabella to janet jenkins yesterday in virginia. miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a civil union in 2000. their daughter was born in 2002. when the couple broke up the following year, miller moved to virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical christian. she was initially granted custody of the girl, but a judge

later determined she denied jenkins proper visitation rights and ordered miller to turn the girl over to jenkins. thousands of people who fled a volcano were allowed back home today even though the danger isn't over yet. most of the people who were evacuated lived within five miles of the mayon volcano. scientists say the volcano's activity has been decreasing over the past few days, but they warn the mountain's level of volcanic unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mudslides. officials say more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil. they include at least 22 people who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into an upscale resort popular with celebrities. other mudslides left hundreds of people homeless. check this out. you're looking at the top of an suv, a father, son and friend parked on the sandbar of a river

in oregon for a new year's day fishing trip. when rain started pouring, the river quickly swelled and swallowed up that suv. >> we were up to our necks in water basically already. i tried to open the door. it wouldn't open because of the pressure of the current and so i made a quick decision to get out of the truck and get him out of the back. >> it was down to the last couple of minutes. >> he was in pretty bad shape, he couldn't move his arms or anything. >> the men say they struggled in the water about 15 minutes as that suv sank. a man with a boat nearby came to their rescue and they credit him with saving their lives. a georgia couple is facing child cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids. authorities say patty, jo-jo marsh and her boyfriend, jacob, used a homemade device to tattoo black crosses on the hands of their children. those kids range in age from 10 to 17 years old. the homemade tattoo gun used an

electric motor, wiring, ink pen and sharpened piece of guitar string as a needle. a vial of black ink was used for the coloring. their mother denies she did anything wrong. >> i didn't do anything wrong, the kids don't think we did anything wrong, this is crazy, this is blowed up so bad. >> now the sheriff says the same needle was used to tattoo all six kids. everybody wants to save more and spend less, right? we have the guy that will help you. join hln money expert clark howard at 4:00 eastern. he will show you ways to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. the clark howard show, 4:00 p.m. eastern heig earn right here on hln. getting small businesses up and running after hurricane katrina hit in 2005 was vital to new orleans recovery. sean calebs looks how a business that opened in 1941 got some help and made "the turnaround."

. >> reporter: it's bowling ally, restaurant and a place known for its live music. it's also a beacon of light in new orleans. and proof that businesses can return and make it. >> my name is john blancher, and this is my turnaround story. >> reporter: when hurricane katrina destroyed his business, blancher did what he does best. he went back to work. >> what really helped me turn the thing around i think was a combination of both my fact, my family, friends, and goodwill from a lot of people that wanted to help me and wanted rock n bowl to not die. >> reporter: blancher's family pitched in. and so did the idea village, a nonprovihate supports local entrepreneurs -- nonprofit that supports local entrepreneurs. >> after katrina we were tasked with going through the streets in every neighborhood to find true changemakers. entrepreneurs who if we can get their business up and help them

start, not only will it create jobs and revenue but the social impact to what could mean to our community. >> reporter: blancher and rock n bowl hit the bill. >> i got a $2,500 grant that helped me buy a refrigerator and freezer. it really helped. >> reporter: the rest of the money came from insurance. $50,000 later and only six weeks after katrina, rock n bowl was back in business. six weeks after the storm? >> that first night, 700 people showed up. ♪ >> reporter: that first night john knew his business would make a turnaround. since reopening rock n bowl, revenue is up 50% according to blancher, enough to move to this new, more modern location. and while blancher's business has turned around, his hard work has taken a toll. >> let me see how you fare here. >> my goodness. and i said, this is only the second ball i've thrown here in six months. but we'll see, we'll see how i go. if i can even stay on my feet. you see? >> well, you got barack obama

tied. sean callebs, cnn.

he drew a cartoon that sparked protests worldwide and last night escaped an attempt on his life. what police are saying about an attack on a controversial artist whose work earned him death threats from across the globe. president obama points the finger in an attempted airline bomber over u.s. soil. who he says gave this man his marching orders and what the president says the u.s. is doing about it. and what did this man do to cause another security scare at a u.s. airport? how he had some passengers seeing red. you're watching hln. i'm holly firfer. police in denmark say a man with ties to al qaeda tried to

kill a cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. police were called to the home of kurt westergaard last night after he broke inside. police say westergaard was able it flee to a safe room along with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officers shot and wounded the suspect after he allegedly threatened to kill them with an axe. the man now faces two charges of attempted murder. he denied the charges at an initial hearing. police have not given a motive for last night's attack, but in 2005 westergaard drew a cartoon showing muhammad with a turban shaped like a bomb. that prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. president obama is blaming an affiliate of al qaeda for an attempted terror attack on a flight to detroit on christmas day. in his weekly radio address, the president said the group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained umar farouk abdulmutallab. abdulmutallab is accused of trying to bring down an airplane

landing in detroit with an explosive device that failed to detonate. >> the investigation into the christmas day incident continues. and we're learning more about the suspect. we know that he traveled to yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurge cease. it appears that he joined an affiliate of al qaeda and that this group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained him, equipped him with explosives, and directed him to attack that plane headed for america. this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years they've bombed yemeni government facilities and western hotels, restaurants and embassies, including our embassy in 2008, killing one american. so as president i've made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government, training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence, and working with them to strike al qaeda terrorists. in his party's weekly address, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell delivered an upbeat outlook for the year.

he says despite last year's serious challenges he has no doubt the american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, a prolonged recession, double-digital unemployment, these are difficult days for our nation. and in this new year we're grateful for the courageous men and women of our own day who keep a lonely watch to defend the cause of liberty. we're also painfully aware of how many americans were out of work this christmas. these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is its ability to overcome even the most daunting difficulties. >> how do i get involved -- >> the best thing -- on this first weekend of 2010, we're asking you to weigh in. now, if you could suggest a new year's resolution for the u.s. government, what would it be? well, brad has this to say. "find some morals --

so what do you think? what should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? you can weigh in at facebook.com and search for me or email us at cnn.com/hln. we might air some of your responses today. fox and time-warner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. fox had threatened to force time-warner cable and another cable provider to drop the fox broadcast signal from 14 of its stations and half a dozen of its

cable channels. but a contract between the companies expired thursday, signals were extended as talks continued. the companies are not releasing details of that agreement. time-warner cable is no longer a part of time-warner, inc., hln's parent company. that was sold earlier in 2009. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve is responsible for the death of a 4 yelled boy. marquel peters was in a church in suburban atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and hit him in the head. police say they think someone may have gone outside and shot a gun into the air to celebrate new year's. peters' mother is asking whomever fired that gun to come forward and admit what they did. >> i want to say to someone who did this, please come forward for my son. we need justice. peters says marquel was her only child. and that accident happened just

20 minutes into the new year. two modesto, california, firefighters are in the hospital after a roof collapsed on them without warning. they were cutting a hole in the roof of a burning house to ventilate it when the roof caved in last night. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to fail much sooner than we would regularly see in most house fires. the company officer of the truck company reported to me that he had never seen a roof fail in such a short amount of time. >> luckily there were no other injuries in the fire. and it appears to have started accidentally when the home's occupant dropped a candle while trying to refill a gas-powered generator. a new year's day fire killed a woman and her three children. a 32-year-old man also died when the mobile home in california burned early this morning. crews initially found the bodies of the two adults, then they found the bodies of the kids. an 11-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 6-year-old

girl. it's still not clear just how that fire started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-year-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in the basement bathroom of the rural home in the northern part of the state. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's house and called for help. investigators think the fire may have started in an unintended fireplace -- in an unattended fireplace. two nba players are under investigation for an alleged lockerroom confrontation that allegedly got way out of hand. the "new york post" reports two washington wizard players, gilbert arenas and javaris crittendon, drew guns on one another during an argument last week. according to the "post" it began when arenas refused to pay a gambling debt to crittenton. the coach says wizards officials

didn't even notify the league about the incident until after the paper began making inquiries. d.c. police are investigating. >> there's a lot of rumors going around. sorting rumors from fact is going to take some time. there is an investigation underway and i can't comment on it. >> the wizards released a statement saying the team takes this situation and the ongoing investigation very seriously. iraq says it's filing a lawsuit against five u.s. security guards. on thursday a federal judge threw out manslaughter charges against five employees of blackwater. they were accused of killing 17 iraqi citizens in 2007 in a massive shoot-out in baghdad. the judge said the government improperly compelled the guards to make statements about the incident, which violated their fifth amendment rights. an official for the iraqi government calls the incident an act of murder. iraq is asking the u.s. justice department to appeal the dismissal. the u.s. commander in iraq says the iraqis are looking for justice. >> it's a lesson in the rule of

law. you know, we're a country of rule of law, iraq's a country that's abiding by the rule of law. and that's what protects itself citizens in the long run is having a system where you use the rule of law in were to make your determinations. and i think this is the case. >> the blackwater employees were guarding a state department convoy when the shooting began. the company says its contractors were under attack. now after the incident, blackwater changed its name to x.e. i'm reynolds wolf for hln, and i hope you're enjoying your january 2, saturday, first saturday of the new year. and many people across the nation are doing so with very cold temperatures. look at some of the temperatures we're seeing out of the northern plains. 26 degrees in winnipeg, our neighbors to the north. fargo, 33 degrees below zero. minneapolis, 12 below. as we get through the afternoon and places like minneapolis, we will be warming up to 2. 2 degrees fahrenheit. chicago, warmer but not much, only 12. 31 in washington, d.c.. 30s for boston, new york, back

to atlanta, 38 degrees. the other side of the frontal boundary warms significantly in tampa and miami. 52 over in dallas and 42 in denver. the big weather story we'll be dealing with is really going to take place weatherwise in terms of precipitation in new england. they could see up to a foot of snowfall in parts of upstate maine. so if you're driving along parts of i-95, the heavy snowfall colobined with the strong wind gusts could give you limited visibilities. keep that in mind. scattered snow showers for the great lakes. snow possible in the central plains and the rockies. same story in the pacific northwest. looks like the parts of the coastal range, then back into the cascades, heavy snowfall possibility. light snow possible into the sierra-nevada. that is a look at the forecast across the nation. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. some anxious moments at seattle's airport. a man who says he has a gun locks himself in a bathroom and refuses to come out.

rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released yesterday from a hospital in hawaii. limbaugh went in wednesday because he was having chest pains. doctors say tests showed he didn't have a heart attack and, more importantly, he does not have heart disease. as evidence he was feeling better, limbaugh couldn't resist taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy, and i got nothing special. i got no special treatment. >> at his news conference, limbaugh also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember that in 2003 he admitted he was addicted to painkillers and went to rehab. authorities in new york city want to know why police apparently ignored an illegally parked zan in times square for -- parked van in times square for days before someone finally called authorities. the van had blacked out windows and no license plate. police evacuated times square

wednesday and called in the bomb squad to check out the van after a security guard reported it. police say the van may have been ignored because it had an i.d. card from a nonprofit law enforcement group in the windshield. but the group and other law enforcement groups say such cards are never supposed to be construed as parking permits. the organization says it doesn't know how or why the placard was put in the windshield. police arrested a man who barricaded himself in a family restroom at the seattle airport yesterday. officers say the man told them he had a gun and wanted to fly somewhere, but didn't have a ticket. the man finally surrendered after two hours. turns out he wasn't armed. while negotiators were trying to convince him to come out of the bathroom, airport officials did re-route passengers through other checkpoints. >> i'm scared. i'm just going to keep my distance and let the cops do their thing. they're good at it. >> i don't see why anybody would want to act crazy in the airport nowadays. i mean, it's already hard enough to travel. >> the restroom was not located

near any gates, and there was only one door so the man had no access to any other location. a computer glitch caused a scare aboard a flight bound for chicago. the carrier gojet checked passagers in manually when their computers went down yesterday. the computers came back on line after the flight was already in the air. and that's when screeners noticed that someone's name on the flight matched a name on the tsa's restricted passenger list and forced the plane to return to st. louis. the flight was eventually allowed to take off again after screeners determined the person on the plane was not the same person on the tsa list. the head of delta airlines is speaking out for the first time about that attempted attack on a northwest flight headed for detroit on christmas day. ceo, richard anderson, said he's disappointed that suspect managed to bring explosives on a plane. however, he says delta followed all government security guidelines. he added delta will keep working to implement new government security measures.

the suspect is accused of trying to blow up that flight from amsterdam to detroit. the faa says it's taking a closer look at american airlines because their carrier had three landings go wrong last month. now the first incident happened on december 13. a plane landing in charlotte went off the left side of the runway. over a week later, another american flight overran a runway in kingston, jamaica, injuring 91 passengers. and you can see the aftermath in this video. and then two days later, an american airlines plane hit a wingtip while landing in austin, texas. an american spokesperson told cnn the airline is cooperating with the investigation, which he said is routine in landing incidents. it takes ink to make a tattoo. and for the police to take a fingerprint. but you're not going to believe what a couple did with one that got them the other.

about 15 same-sex couples in new hampshire rang in the new year exchanging wedding vows in the cold. the state's new law legalizing same-sex marriage went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said "i do" while standing outside the new hampshire state house in concord. others planned private ceremonies around the state. the law grants no new rights to good days and lesbians but eliminate the separate status for civil unions. new hampshire joins massachusetts, vermont, connecticut, and iowa in allowing gay marriage.

a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter. lisa miller, seen here, could face criminal charges. a vermont judge ordered her to turn over her daughter, isabella, to janet jenkins jed in virginia. but miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a vermont civil union if n 2000. their daughter was born in 2002. when the couple broke up the following year, miller moved to virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical christian. she was eventually granted cust, but a judge later determined she denied jenkins' proper visitation rights and ordered miller to turn the girl over to jenkins. thousands of people who fled a volcano were allowed back home today even though the danger isn't over yet. most of the people who were evacuated lived within five miles of the mayon volcano. scientists say the activity has

been decreasing over the past few days but warn the mountains of volcanic unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mudslides. officials say that more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil. they include at least 22 people who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into an upscale resort, popular with celebrities. other mudslides left hundreds of people homeless. a georgia couple is facing child cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids. authorities say patty "jo jo" marsh and her boyfriend, jacob edward bartels using a homemade device to tattoo black crosses on the hand of their children, ranging in age from 10 to 17 years old. the homemade tattoo gun used an electric motor, wiring, an ink pen, and a sharpened piece of a guitar string as a needle. a vial of black ink was used for the coloring. their mother denies she did anything wrong.

>> i don't think we did anything wrong. the kids don't think we did anything wrong. this is crazy. this has blowed up so bad. >> now the sheriff says the same needle was used to tattoo all six kids. everybody wants to save more and spend less, right? we've got the guy who's going to help you -- there's a mystery brewing after more than 1,700 sea lions just swam away from their adopted home at pier 39. so can anyone tell us what happened to san francisco's sea lions?

president obama points the finger in an attempted airline bomber over u.s. soil. who he says gave this man his marching orders and what the president says the u.s. is doing about it. an artist who drew a cartoon that sparked protests worldwide barely escapes an attempt to his life. what police are saying about an attack on the man whose work earned him death threats from across the globe. and rush limbaugh says he's convinced the u.s. health care system is working just fine. how he's gotten a very up close and personal look at it. you're watching hln, i'm holly firfer, president obama is blaming an affiliate of al qaeda for an attempted terror attack on a flight christmas day.

in his weekly address the president said the group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained umar farouk abdulmutallab. now abdulmutallab is accused of trying to bring down an airplane landing in detroit with an explosive device that failed to detonate. >> the investigation into the christmas day incident continues. and we're learning more about the suspect. we know that he traveled to yemen, a country grappling with crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies. it appears that he joined an affiliate of al qaeda and that this group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained him, equipped him with those explosives, and directed him to attack that plane headed for america. this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years, they've bombed yemeni government facilities and western hotels. restaurants and embassies including our embassy in 2008, killing one american. so as president i've made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government. training and equipping their security forces, sharing intelligence, and working with them to strike al qaeda terrorists.

in his party's weekly address, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell delivered an upbeat outlook for the new year. mcconnell says that despite last year's serious challenges, he has no doubt the american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, a prolonged recession, double-digital unemployment, these are difficult days for our nation. and in this new year, we're grateful for the courageous men and women of our own day who keep a lonely watch to defend the cause of liberty. we're also painfully aware of how many americans were out of work this christmas. but these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is its ability to overcome even the most daunting difficulties. how do i get involved -- >> the best -- on this first weekend of 2010, we're asking you to weigh in. now, if you could suggest a new

year's resolution for the u.s. government, what would it be? well, brad has this to say. what do you think? what should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? police in denmark say a man with ties to al qaeda tried to

kill a cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. authorities arrested the somali man at the home of kurt westergaard last night after he broke inside. police say westergaard was able to flee to a safe room along with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officers shot and wounded the suspect after he allegedly threatened them with an axe. the man faces two charges of attempted murder. he denied those charges at an initial hearing. now police have not given a motive for last night's attack, but back in 2005, westergaard drew a cartoon showing muhammad with a turban shaped like a bomb. it prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy. marquel peters was in a church in suburban atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and hit him in the head. police say they think someone may have gone outside and shot a gun into the air to celebrate new year's.

peters' mother is asking whomever fire department that gun to come forward and admit what they did. >> i want to say to some people who did this to my son, please come forward and say something. we need justice. >> nathalee peters says marquel was her only child. that accident happened just 20 minutes into the new year. two modesto, california, firefighters are in the hospital after a roof collapsed on them without warning. they were cutting a hole in the roof of a burning house to ventilate it when the roof caved in last night. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to philch sooner than we would regularly see in most house fires. the company officer of the truck company reported to me that he had never seen a roof fail in such a short amount of time. >> luckily there were no other injuries in the fire. and it appears to have started accidentally when the home's

occupant dropped a candle while trying to refill a gas-powered generator. a new year's day fire killed a woman and her three children. a 32-year-old man also died when a mobile home in palm springs, california, burned early yesterday morning. crews initially found the bodies of the two adults. then they found the bodies of the kids. an 11-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 6-year-old girl. it's still not clear just how that fire started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-year-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in the basement bathroom of the rural home in the northern part of the state. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's house and called for help. investigators think the fire may have started in an unattended fireplace. iraq says it's filing a lawsuit against five u.s. security guards. on thursday, a federal judge threw out manslaughter charges

against five employees of blackwater. they were accused of killing 17 iraqi citizens in 2007 in a massive shoot-out in baghdad. the judge said the government improperly compelled the guards to make statements about the incident which violated their fifth amendment rights. an official for the iraqi government calls the incident an act of murder. iraq is asking the u.s. justice department to appeal the dismissal. the u.s. commander in iraq says the iraqis are looking for justice. >> it's a lesson in the rule of law. you know, we're a country of rule of law, iraq's a country that's abiding by the rule of law. and that's what protects its citizens in the long run is having a system where you use the rule of law in order to make your determinations. i think this is the case. >> the blackwater employees were guarding a state department convoy when the shooting began. the company says its contractors were in attack. after the incident, blackwater changed its name to x.e. a suicide car bomb at a

volleyball game killed at least 93 people. it happened yesterday in northwest pakistan near the border with afghanistan. the explosion injured more than 30 people, many of them still in the hospital. an official says most of the victims were teenagers who were just watching the game. a local police chief says the explosion was so strong it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threatening the area since the military pushed them out two months ago. some anxious moments at seattle's airport. a man who says he has a gun locks himself in a bathroom and refuses to come out. what he wanted from authorities.

rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released yesterday from a hospital in hawaii. limbaugh went in wednesday because he was having chest pains. doctors say tests showed he didn't have a heart attack and more importantly he does not have heart disease. as evidence, he was feeling better, limbaugh couldn't resist

taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy. and i got nothing special. i got no special treatment. >> at his news conference, limbaugh also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember that in 2003 he admitted he was addicted to painkillers and went to rehab. police arrested a man who barricaded himself in a family restroom at the seattle airport yesterday. officers say the man told them he had a gun and wanted to fly somewhere but didn't have a ticket. the man finally surrendered after about two hours. turns out he wasn't armed. while negotiators were trying to convince him to come out of the bathroom, airport officials did re-route passengers through other checkpoints. >> i'm scared, i'm just going to keep my distance and let the cops do their thing. they're good at it. >> i don't see why anybody would want to act crazy in the airport

nowadays. it's already hard enough to travel. >> now the restroom was not located near any gates, and there was only one door so the man had no access to any other location. a computer glitch caused a scare aboard a flight bound for chicago. the carrier, gojet, checked passagers in manually when computers went down yesterday. the computers came back on line after the flight was already in the air. and that's when screeners noticed that someone's name on the flight matched a name on the tsa's restricted passenger list and forced the plane to return to st. louis. the flight was eventually allowed to take off again after screeners determined the person on the plane was not the same person on the tsa list. the head of delta airlines is speaking out for the fifth time about that attempted attack on a northwest flight headed for detroit on christmas day. ceo richard anderson said he's disappointed that suspect managed to bring explosives on a plane. however, he says delta followed all government security guidelines. he added delta will keep working

to implement new government security measures. the suspect is accused of trying to blow up that flight from amsterdam to detroit. the faa says it's taking a closer look at american airlines because their carrier had three landings go wrong last month. now the first incident happened on december 13 when a plane landing in charlotte went off the left side of the runway. over a week later, another american flight overran a runway in kingston, jamaica, injuring 91 passengers. and you can see the aftermath in this video. and then two days later, an american airlines plane hit a wingtip while landing in austin, texas. an american spokesperson told cnn the airline is cooperating with the investigation which he said is routine in landing incidents. has too much new year's cheer caught up with you? well, let's go beyond the surface to find out if there really is a way to get rid of that hangover. no one likes having a

hangover. hangovers make you feel miserable in all sorts of ways. and because of that, there are all kinds of cures suggested for hangovers. i've heard of people mixing raw eggs, using vegemite, artichokes, bananas, aspirin, the hair of the dog or drinking more. and some combinations of all kind of things together. but none of these have been proven to work. alcohol is broken down into toxins, and those particular toxins are the things that it's broken down into are a big part of what make us feel bad. if you do have a hangover, there are things you can take to help with some of the symptoms. if you have a headache, something like aspirin may help you with the headache. unfortunately, though, none of these things have been shown to cure the whole thing. so avoiding alcohol is your best bet.

about 15 same-sex couples in new hampshire rang in the new year, exchanging wedding vows in the cold. the state's new law legalizing same-sex marriage went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said "i do" while standing out the new hampshire state house in concord. others plan private ceremonies around the state. the law grants new no rights to gays and lesbians but eliminates the separate status for civil unions. new hampshire joins massachusetts, vermont, connecticut, and iowa in allowing gay marriage. a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter. lisa miller, seen here, could face criminal charges. a vermont judge ordered her to turn over her daughter, isabella, to janet jenkins yesterday in virginia. but miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a vermont civil union in 2000. their daughter was born in 2002. now when the couple broke up, the following year, miller moved

to virginia, renounced homosexuality, and became an evangelical christian. she was initially granted custody of the girl, but a judge later determined she denied jenkins proper visitation rights and ordered miller to turn the girl over to jenkins. thousands of people who fled a volcano weral huhhed back home today even -- were allowed back home today even though the danger isn't over yet. most of the people evacuated live within five miles of the mayon volcano. scientists say the volcano's activity has been decreasing over the past few days, but they warn the mountain's level of volcanic unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mudslides. officials say that more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil. they include at least 22 people who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into an upscale resort, popular with celebrities. other mudslides left hundreds of people homeless.

okay, check this out. you're looking at the top of an suv. a father, a son, and their friend parked on a sandbar on the willamette refer in oregon for a new year's day fishing trip. when rain started pouring, the river quickly swelled and swallowed up the suv. >> we were up to our necks in water basically already. i tried to open the door, and it wouldn't open because of the pressure of the current. and so i just made a quick decision to get out of the truck and to get him out of the back. >> i was down to the last couple minutes, too. >> he was in pretty bad shape. he couldn't move his arms or anything. >> now the men say they struggled in the water for about 15 minutes as that suv sank. a man with a boat nearby came to their rescue, and they credit him with saving their lives. a georgia couple is facing child cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids. authorities say patty "jo jo" marsh and her boyfriend, jacob edward bartels used a homemade

device to tattoo black crosses on the hands of their children. the children range in age from 10 to 17 years old. the homemade tattoo gun used an electric motor, wiring, an ink pen, and electric motor, wiring, ink pen and guitar string. their mother denies she did anything wrong. >> i didn't do anything wrong. the kids don't. this is crazy. this is blowed up so bad. >> now, the sheriff says the same needle was used to tattoo all six kids. the problem of distracted driving is getting a lot of attention. clark howard looks at a way to eliminate cell phone distractions. >> state after state has added these restrictions that require that you go hands-free when using a cell phone. you have to have some kind of blue tooth thing or wire so that the phone is not in your hands. but so far, the research has

shown that there's no safety advantage to hands-free. the real problem is how distracted, how much we go swoo a zone when we're on the cell phone. well, if this is something you know, and you're worried about maybe you're going to cause an accident, who knows what, because you get distracted, but you can't seem to stop yourself from getting on that call or answering one. well, there's a website called zoomsafer.com. you essentially voluntarily put your cell phone into jail while you're driving. it automatically senses in your phone that you're moving and shuts down to keep you safe. i'm clark howard. for more ways to keep your wallet safe, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> very clever. and for a lot more advice, don't miss clark's show at 4:00 this afternoon. right here on hln.

a group of former students made good on a promise they made 20 years ago. >> to me, they look exactly the same, just with beards and gel in their hair. >> everybody's pretty much acting like we did. 

last night, he escaped an attempt on his life. what police are saying about an attack on a controversial artist. president obama points the finger in an attempted airline bombing over u.s. soil. who he says gave this man his marching orders and what the president says the u.s. is doing about it. and what did this man do to cause another security scare? how he had some passengers seeing red. you're watching hln. police in denmark say a man with ties to al-qaeda tried to kill a cartoonist who drew a

controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. police arrested him last night after he broke inside it. police say westerguard was able to flee to a safe room. officers shot and wounded the suspect after he threatened to kill them. the man faces two charges of attempted mur. he denied the charges at a hearing. police have not given a motive for the attack, but in 2005, westerguard drew a cartoon that prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. president obama is blaming an affiliate of al-qaeda for an attempted terror attack on a flight to detroit on christmas day. in his weekly radio address, the president said the group, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trained the man. he was accused of trying to

bring down an airplane landing in detroit. >> the investigation into the incident continues and we're learning more about the suspect. we know he traveled to yemen, a country grappling with poverty and insurgencies. it appears he joined an affiliate of al-qaeda and they trained him, equipped him with the explosives and directed him to attack that plan. this is not the first time that group has targeted us. they've bombed yemen facilities and our embassy in 2008, killing one american. i've made it a priority to strengthen our ties with the yemen government, sharing intelligence and working with them to strike al-qaeda terrorists. >> in his party's weekly address, mitch mcconnell delivered an upbeat outlook for the new year and says that

despite last year's challenges, he has no doubt the american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, a prolonged recession, double digit unemployment. these are difficult days for our nation and in this new year, we're grateful for the courageous men and women who keep a lone watch to defend liberty. we're also painfully aware of how many americans are out of work this christmas. but these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is its ability to overcome the most daunting difficulties. on this first weekend of 2010, we're asking you to weigh in. so, if you could suggest a new year's resolution for the u.s. government, what would it be? karen posted this --

edward sed -- and robert wrote stop it. just stop it. he could be talking about so many things, so i'm going to leave that up to you. what should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? you can weigh in on my facebook page. go to facebook.com and seshlg for me or e-mail us and you just might see your response on the air today. fox and time warner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. now, fox had threatened to force time warner and another provider to drop the signal from 14 of its stations and half a dozen of its cable channels.

but a contract between the companies expired thushz. signals were extended. the companies are not releasing details of the agreement. time warner is no longer a part of hln's parent company. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy. he was in a church in atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and hit him in the head. police thinks someone may have gone outside and shot a gun into the air. >> i want to say something -- to my son, please come forward and say something. >> she says he was her only child and the accident happened just 20 minutes into the new year. two california firefighters are in the hospital after a roof

collapsed on them without warning. they were cutting a whole in the roof of a burning house to ventilate it when it caved in last night. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to fail much sooner than we would regularly see in most house fires. company officer, the truck company reported to me that he had never seen a roof fail in such a short amount of time. >> luckily, there were no other injuries in the fire and it appears to have started accidentally when the home's occupant dropped a candle while refilling a gas-powered generator. a new year's day fire killed a woman and her three children. a 32-year-old man also died when the mobile home in california burned yesterday morning. crews initially found the bodies of the two adults, then of the kids. an 11-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy and 6-year-old girl. it's not clear how that fire

started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-month-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in the basement bathroom of the home. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's hos and called for help. investigators think the fire may have started in an unintended fireplace. two nba players are under investigation for an alleged locker room confrontation that got out of hand. two washington wizard players drew guns on one another during an argument last week. now, according to the post, it began when one refused to pay a gambling debt to the other. it's not clear if other players saw the confrontation, but the post says officials didn't notify the league after the

incident. police are now investigating. >> there are a lot of rumors going around. sorting rumors from fact is going to take a lot of time. >> the wizards also released a statement saying the team takes this situation and ongoing investigation very seriously. iraq says it's filing a lawsuit against five u.s. security guards. on thursday, a federal judge threw out manslaughter charges against five employees of black water. they were accused of killing 17 iraqi citizens in 2007. the judge said the government improperly propel led the guard to make statements about the incident. an official for the iraqi government calls the incident an act of murder. iraq is asking the u.s. justice department to appeal the dismissal. is u.s. commander in iraq says the iraqis are looking for justice. >> it's a western in the rule of law. we're a country of rule of law.

iraq's abiding by the rule of law. that's what protects its citizens is having a system where you use the rule of law. >> the employees were guarding a state department convoy when the shooting began. after the incident, blackwater changed its name. a suicide car bomb at a volleyball game killed at least 93 people in northwest pakistan near the border with afghanistan. it injured more than 30 people. an official says most of the victims were teenagers who were just watching the game. a local police chief says it was so strong, it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threatening the area since the military pushed them out two months ago. i'm reynolds wolf. i hope you're enjoying your

january 2nd, first saturday of the new year. some of the temperatures we're seeing in the northern plains, 26 degrees. 12 below, but as we get to the afternoon in places like minneapolis, we will be warming up to 2 degrees fahrenheit. chicago, a little warmer, but not much. 30s for boston and new york. back to atlanta, 38 degrees. the other side of that boundary, it warms up. 52 in dallas and 42 in denver. the big weather story today is going to take place in new england, where they could see up to a foot of snowfall in parts of upstate maine. if you're driving on parts of i-95, could give you some limited visibility, so keep that in mind. scattered snow showers possible for the great lakes. same story in the pacific northwest. looks like a parts of the

coastal range, heavy snowfall a possibility. light snow possible. that is a look at your forecast across the nation. some anxious moments at seattle's airport. a man who says he has a gun locks himself in a bathroom. what he wanted from authorities.

rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released from a hospital in hawaii. limbaugh went in wednesday because he was having chest pains. doctors say he didn't have a heart attack and more importantly, he does not have heart disease. as evidence he was feeling better, he couldn't resist taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based upon what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy and i've got nothing special. no special treatment. >> in his news conference, he also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember that in 2003, he admitted he was addicted to them and went to rehab. authorities in new york city want to know why police ignored

an illegally parked van in times square for days before someone called authority. it had blacked out windows and no license plate. police evacuated times square wednesday and called in a bomb squad after it was reported. police say it may have been reported because it had an i.d. card from a law enforcement group in the windshield. the organization says it doesn't know how or why it was put in the windshield. police arrested a man who barricaded himself in a family restroom at the seattle airport yesterday. officers say the man told them he had a gun and wanted to fly some where, but didn't have a ticket. turns out he wasn't armed. while negotiators were convincing him to come out,

officials did reroute passengers through other check points. >> scared. i'm just going keep my distance. >> i don't see why anyone would want to act crazy in an airport. >> there was only one door, so the man had no access to other locations. a computer glitch caused a problem for a flight headed for chicago. the computers came back online after the flight was in the air and that's when screeners noticed that someone's name on the flight matched a name on the tsa's restricted passengers list. forced the plane to return. it was allowed to take off again after screeners determined the person was not the same one. if faa says it's taking a closer look at american airlines because their carrier had three landings go wrong last month. the first incident happened on

december 13th when a plane went off the left side of the runway. a week later, a plane overran the run way in jamaica, ininjurying passengers. two days later, a plane hit a wing tip while landing in oousen, texas. well, it takes ink to make a tattoo and for the police to make a fingerprint, but you're not going to believe what a couple did with one that got them the other.

about 15 same-sex couples in new hampshire rang in the new year exchanging wedding vows in the cold. the new law legalizing same-sex marriage went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said i do while standing outside the state house. others planned private ceremonies around the state. it eliminates the separate status for civil unions. th a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her 7-year-old daughter. lisa miller could face criminal charges. a judge ordered her to turn over her daughter to janet jenkins yesterday in virginia, but

miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a civil union in 2000. when the couple broke up, miller moved to virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical christian. a judge later determined she denied proper visitation rights and was ordered to turn the girl over. thousands of people who fled volcano were allowed to return home today even though the danger isn't over yet. scientists say the vocal know's activity has been decreasing, but warn the mountain's level of volcanic unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mud slides. officials say that more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil. they include at least 22 people

who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into a popular resort. check this out. you're looking at the top of an suv. a father, a son and their friend parked on a sand bar on a river in oregon for a fishing trip. when rain started pouring, the river swelled and swallowed up the suv. >> i tried to open the door and it wouldn't open because of the pressure of the current, so i made a quick decision to get out. >> it was down to the last couple of minutes. >> he was in bad shape. couldn't move his arms or anything. >> the men say they struggled in the water for about 15 minutes. a man with a boat came to their rescue they credit him for saving their lives. a georgia couple is facing

child cruelty charges for ta tooling their kids. authorities say the couple used a homemade device to tattoo black crosseds on the hands of their children. now, the homemade gun used an electric motor, wiring, a pen and a sharpened piece of guitar string as the needle. a vile of black ink was used for the coloring. the mother denies she did anything wrong. >> i don't think we did anything wrong. the kids don't think we it anything wrong. this is crazy. this has blowed up so bad. >> now the sheriff says the same needle was used to tattoo all six kids. everybody wants to save more and spend less, right? we've got the guy who's going to help you. join hln money expert clark howard at 4:00 eastern. he's going to show you ways to save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. "the clark howard show" at 4:00 p.m.

there's a mystery brewing after more than 1700 sea lions swam away from their adopted home at pier 39. can anyone tell us what happened to san francisco's sea lions?

president obama points the finger in an attempted airline bombing. who he says gave this man his marching orders and what the president says the u.s. is doing about it. an artist who drew a cartoon that sparked protest barely escaped an attempt on his life. and rush limbaugh says he's convinced the u.s. health care system the working just fine. how he's gotten a very upcloet and personal look at it. president obama is blaming an affiliate of al-qaeda for an

attempted terror attack. the president said the group trained the suspect. the suspect the accused of trying to bring down an airplane landing in detroit. >> the investigation into the incident continues and we're learning more about the suspect. we know he traveled to yemen, a country grappling with poverty. it appears he joined an affiliate of al-qaeda. and that this group trained him, equipped him with explosives an directed him to attack that plane headed to america. this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years, they've bombed yemen facilities, including our embassy in 2008 rk killing one american. i've made it a priority to strengthen our relationship with

if yemen government. >> in his party's weekly address, mitch mcconnell says that despite last year's challenges, he has no doubt the american people will see better days. >> two long and difficult wars, a prolonged recession, these are difficult days. and in this new year, we're grateful for the men and women of our own day who keep a lonely watch to defend the cause of liberty. we're also painfully aware of how many americans are out of work this christmas. but these challenges don't define us as a people. what's always defined america is its ability to overcome even the most daunting difficulties. well, on this first weekend of 2010, we're asking you to weigh in. if you could suggest a new

year's resolution for the u.s. government, what would it be? chad sent us an e-mail from mobile, alabama and says -- and k has this to say -- so what do you think? what should the u.s. government resolve to do in 2010? weigh in on my facebook page or go ahead and e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. your response could be shown on the air today. police in denmark say a man with ties to al-qaeda tried to

kill a cartoonist who drew a controversial sketch of the prophet muhammad. police arrested the man at a home last night after he broke inside. police say the man was able to flee to a safe room along with his 5-year-old granddaughter. officers shot and wounded the suspect. the man faces two charges of attempted murder. he denied those charges at an initial hearing. police have not given a motive for the attack, but in 2005, westerguard drew a cartoon that prompted protests and death threats from muslims worldwide. fox and time warner cable reached a broadcasting deal just in time for millions of people to watch the sugar bowl. now, fox had threatened to force time warner and another provider to drop the fox broadcast signal from 14 of its stations and half a dozen of its cable challenges, but a contract between the

companies expired thursday. signals were extended. the companies are not releasing details of the agreement. time warner is no longer a part of time warner incorporated. that was sold earlier in 2009. police in georgia say someone shooting a gun to celebrate new year's eve is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy. he was in a church in suh burr ban atlanta when a bullet came through the roof and hit him in the hit. police think someone may have gone outside and shot a gun to celebrate. the mother is asking who ever did this to come forward. >> i want to say who ever did this to my son, please come forward and say something. >> she says he was her only child and that accident happened just 20 minutes into the new year. two california firefighters are in the hospital after a roof

collapsed on them without warning. they were cutting a hole in the roof of a burning house to ventilate it when it caved in last night. >> the intensity of the fire in the garage caused the roof to fail much sooner than we would regularly see in most house fires. the company officer reported to me that he had never seen a roof fail in such a short amount of time. >> there were no other injuries and it appears to have started accidentally when the occupant dropped a candle while attempting to refill a generator. a new year's day fire killed a woman and her three children. a 32-year-old man also died when the mobile home burned yesterday morning. crews initially found the bodies of the two adults, then of the kids. it's still not clear how that

fire started. a fire in missouri killed five people including a 4-month-old girl and two 11-year-old boys. two adults were also killed. they were found huddled in a basement bathroom of the home in the northern part of the state. two people were able to escape. one ran to a neighbor's house and called for help. investigators think the fire may have started in an unintended fireplace. two nba players are under investigation for an alleged locker room confrontation that got out of hand. the "new york post" reported that wizard players drew guns on one another during an argument last week. now, according to the "post," it ban when one refused to pay a gambling debt to the other. it's not clear if other players saw the confrontation, but the post says officials didn't notify the league about the

incident until after the paper began making inquiries. >> there are a lot of rumors going around, sorting rumors from fact is going to take time. >> the wizards also released a statement saying the team takes this situation and the ongoing investigation very seriously. a suicide car bomb at a volleyball game killed at least 93 people. it happened yesterday in northwest pakistan near the border with afghanistan. the explosion injured more than 30 people, many of them still in the hospital. an official says most of the victims were teenagers who were just watching the game. a local police chief says the explosion was so strong, it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threatening the area since the military pushed them out two months ago. some anxious moments at seattle's airport. a man who says he has a gun locks himself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. what he wanted from authorities.

rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released yesterday from the hospital in hawaii. limbaugh went in wednesday because he was having chest pains. doctors say test showed he didn't have a heart attack and more importantly, does not have heart disease. limbaugh couldn't resist taking a political jab at the hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine. just dandy. and i've got nothing special. i got in special treatment -- >> he also said he wasn't taking painkillers. in 2003, he admitted he was addicted to them and went to rehab. authorities in new york city want to know why police ignored

an illegally parked van before someone called authorities. it had blacked out windows and no license plate. police evacuated times square wednesday and called in a bomb squad to check out the van after a security guard reported it. police say it may have been ignored because it had an i.d. card in the windshield. but the group says such cards are never to be construed as parking permits. the organization says it doesn't know how it was put in the windshield. police arrested a man who barricaded himself in a family restroom in a seattle airport yesterday. officers say the man told them he had a gun and wanted to fly some where but didn't have a ticket. while negotiators were convincing him to come out, officials did reroute passengers through other check points. >> scared. just going to keep my dance and

let the cops do their thing. >> i don't see why anyone would want to act crazy in an airport. >> there was only one door, so the man had nowak success to other locations. a computer glitch caused a scare for an airline. the computers came back online after the flight was in the air. that's when screeners noticed that someone's name on the flikt matched a name on the restricted passengers list. it returned to st. louis and was eventually allowed to take off again. the head of delta is speaking out for the first time about the attempted attack on a northwest flight on christmas day. richard anderson says he's disappointed the suspect managed to bring explosives on the

plane, however, he says delta followed all security guidelines. he added delta will keep working to implement new security messages. the faa is taking a closer look at american airlines because their carrier had three landings go wrong last month. the first happened on december 13th when a plane landing in charlotte went off the left side of the runway. a week later, another flight overran a runway in jamaica, injurying 91 passengers. two days later, a plane hit a wing tip while landing in austin, texas. a spokesperson told cnn the airline is cooperate raing with investigation. it takes ink to make a tattoo and for the police to take a fingerprint, but you're not going to believe what a couple did with one that got them the other.

about 15 same-sex couples rang in the new year exchanging vous in the cold. the law went into effect new year's day at midnight. couples said i do outside the state house in concord. others planned private ceremonies around the state. the law grants no new rights, but eliminates the separate status for civil unions.

a woman in dispute with her former partner defied a court order to give up custody of her daughter. lisa miller could face criminal charges. a vermont judge ordered her to turn over her daughter to janet jenkins yesterday in virginia, but miller didn't show up. miller and jenkins were joined in a vermont civil union in 2000. their daughter was born in 2002. when the couple broke up the following year, miller moved to virginia, renounced homosexuality and became an evangelical christian. she was granted custody of the dwirl, but the judge determined she denied proper visitation rights and ordered miller to turn the girl over to jenkins. thousands of people who fled a volcano were allowed back home today even though the danger isn't over yet. most of the people who were evacuated lived within five miles of the volcano.

scientists say its activity has been decreasing over the past few days, but warn the mountain's level of unrest is still high. rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mud slides. officials say more than 50 people have been killed after heavy rains hit brazil. they include at least 22 who died when part of a mountain collapsed and slammed into an upscale resort popular with celebrities. check this out. you're looking at the top of an suv. a father, son and their friend parked on a sand bar on a river in oregon for a new year's day fishing trip. when rain started pouring, the river swelled and swal loued up the suv. >> we were up to our necks in water already. i tried to open the door and it wouldn't open so i just made a quick decision to get out and

get him out of the back. >> i was down to the last couple of minutes. >> he was in pretty bad shape. didn't move his arms or anything. >> the men say they struggled in the water for about 15 minutes. a man with a boat came to their rescue and they credit him for saving their lives. a georgia couple is facing child cruelty charges for tattooing their six kids. authorities say the couple used a homemade device to tattoo black crosses on the hands of their children. they range in age from 10 to 17 years old. the gun used an electric motor, wiring, an ink pen and sharpened piece of a guitar string as the needle. their mother denies she did anything wrong. >> i don't believe i did anything wrong. the kids don't. this is crazy. this is blowed up so bad.

>> the sheriff says the same needle was used on all six kids. the problem of distracted driving is getting a lot of attention. clark howard looks at a way to eliminate cell phone distractions. >> state after state has added these restrictions that require you go hands-free when using a cell phone. so you have to have a blue tooth or wire so that the phone is not in your hands. but so far, the research has shown that there's no safety advantage to hands-free. the real problem is how distracted, how much we go into a zone when we're on a cell phone. well, if this is something you know, and you're worried about maybe you're going to cause an accident, who knows what because you get distracted by the cell phone, but you can't seem to stop yourself from getting on that call or answering one, well, there's a website called zoom safer.com.

you voluntarily put your cell phone into jail when you're driving. it senses that you're moving and shuts down to keep you safe. i'm clark howard. for more ways to keep your walt safe, go to cnn.com. >> don't miss clark's show at 4:00 this afternoon. right here on hln. a group of former students made good on a promise they made 20 years ago. >> to me, they look exactly the same, just with beards and gel in their hair. >> and everybody's pretty much acting like we did. >> see their emotional reunion with the teacher that they say left a lasting impression on their lives.