it's monday, december 21st, right now on "first look" danger on the vegas strip. car mows down pedestrians, one killed and police believe it was intentional. epic fail, steve harvey announces the wrong winner at the miss universe. >> okay, folks, there's -- i have to apologize. clinton says trump is isis' best recruiter. trump says hillary's a liar and bush calls the front-runner a jerk. plus jimmy carter a's incredible revelation about the death of a grandson. the police manhunt continues for the affluenza teen who

killed four drunk driving and the force awakens over half a billion dollars at the box office. "first look" starts right now. good morning, i'm dara brown. breaking news out of las vegas. one person is dead and 26 others injured some critically after a woman driving a 1996 oldsmobile jumped the curb on a famed vegas strip. the driver plowed into a group of people before driving back on the road and proceeded to drive back onto the sidewalk and into another group. one witness said the car looked like a bowling ball and the victims pins. police say it was intentional. >> based on the evidence and information from our fatal investigators at this point we are treating this as an intentional act. she is in the detention center right now. she's speaking to detectives. they're drawing hadder blood and she will be, i expect her to be charged within the next few hours. >> the driver fled the scene,

drove to a hotel and abandoned the car in a parking space. 3-year-old was in the car sean reportedly not injured. police say this was not an act of terrorism. parts of las vegas boulevard will remain closed overnight in both directions. all public schools in nashua, hasment new hampshire are closed today after an e-mail threat was sent to the district. the superintendent says they received a detailed threat of violence to harm students and staff and that the threat is specific to monday. new hampshire governor maggie hassan says officials are closely monitoring the situation, schools are expected to reopen on tuesday. the threat comes less than a week after los angeles closed the entire public school system after receiving threatening e-mails. belgium authorities have detained a person related to the paris terror attack. the belgian federal prosecutor says the unidentified person was taken in for questioning following the search of a house in brussels. meanwhile, french newspaper lapractice pa risian reports the

alleged leader of the attacks hid in the bushes next to a highway for four days after the attacks. abaaoud was killed a week after the attacks in a raid on an apartment in st. denis. last night miss universe host steve harvey announced the wrong winner. >> colombia! okay, folks, uh, there's, i have to apologize. the first runner-up is colombia. i will take responsibility for this. it was my mistake. it was on the card. >> they had to switch the crown, pageant officials apologizes and

steve harvey apologizes in a tweet that misspelled both countries and it is now deleted. with the first primary voters six weeks away from having their say the two front-runners appear to be pulling away from the pack. donald trump and hillary clinton pulling their sights on each other. clinton saying trump is dangerous for the country and clump responding by calling clinton a liar. halle jackson has the latest from the campaign trail. >> reporter: on defense, about a data breach by his own campaign, bernie sanders taking a different tone today. >> information came into our campaign about the clinton campaign. >> magically came there or you had a staffer that got it? >> yes, that's what -- >> you believe it accidentally came in, okay. >> his lawyerly language coming a day after more direct words at the democratic debate. >> not only do i apologize to secretary clinton, i want to apologize to my supporters. >> hillary clinton accepting that apology and issuing one of

her own after returning late from a commercial break. >> sorry. >> her performance largely looking past the rivals on stage with her to ones who might be next year, republicans, like donald trump. >> we also need to make sure that the really discriminatory messages that trump is sending around the world don't fall on receptive ears. he is becoming isis' best recruiter. >> trump firing back. >> she lies like crazy about everything whether it's trips where she was being gunned down in a helicopter or an airplane, she's a liar and everybody knows that. >> but trump's taking heat, too, for embracing praise from russian president vladimir putin and defending him against accusations he's ordered journalists killed. >> it's never been proven that he's killed anybody, so you know, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, at least in our country. >> reporter: trump off the campaign trail, but others are making a preholiday push, like

chris christie, on a bus tour in new hampshire. is it cramped quarters? >> no. >> reporter: signing a photo for the pilot who flew president obama and him over new jersey after superstorm sandy. you thought this was the day the republicans lost 2012. >> what the american people should have learned about me and if they make me president i'll always put their interests ahead of politics. if you need any proof of that, that picture is the proof. >> reporter: chris christie hoping for a surge here. >> sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. >> reporter: and already surging past another establishment competitor jeb bush. >> six months ago people thought you were the front-runner. your campaign is not -- >> i hated that. >> you hated being a front-runner? >> i feel better back here. >> jeb did some self-described therapy at a campaign event in new hampshire this weekend where he proceeded to rail against trump calling him a jerk. this morning, new developments in the manhunt for the so-called affluenza teenager who killed four people driving

drunk and received probation after his lawyers claimed his family's affluence spoiled him and was a factor. >> the u.s. marshal service believes someone must be helping fugitive ethan couch elude capture. if it is his mother tanya couch it got harder for her to hide swle. the tarrant county official listed her as a missing person which means she'll show up on national police databases. >> he's getting help. we have to find out how he's doing that. >> would it be his mother? >> i think it's a safe assumption. we have not yet located the mother. but yes. >> reporter: authorities think couch may have fled because of this video that appears to show couch with friends playing beer pong. if there was alcohol, that could be a violation of his probation, but it's unclear as the video does not show couch drinking. >> when somebody takes off who has a probation sentence, you

have to wonder whether there's some concern about a violation that might put them back in jail. >> as the former u.s. attorney you've seen that happen? >> we've seen many times where somebody got a generous term of probation, blew it by committing a crime and getting put in prison for the whole time. >> reporter: ever since couch's controversial affluenza defense an unexpected ten-year probation there have been complaints of special treatment for the wealthy. lieus amcconnell among nine people injured in the drunk driving accident that killed four, lucas' father. >> i think accountability for him and would come in the form of swift and certain and severe punishment. >> reporter: judge jean boyd sentenced ethan couch and also set the conditions of his probation. we attempted to ask her about the developments but she was unavailable at home and didn't answer her phone. the u.s. marshal says even if ethan couch has fled the country he's not beyond their reach. >> it really doesn't matter if he flees the country.

we're going to find him and make every effort to get that person back. >> that was kerry sanders reporting. "star wars: the force awakens" opened to record shattering numbers, $238 million in ticket sales in the u.s., when adding in foreign ticket sales the total for this weekend's earnings jumps to over $500 million, beats "jurassic world" which earned $208 million earlier this year. r2d2 paid i visit to the white house to commemorate the highly anticipated opening. let's get down to business with cnbc's landon dowdy. good morning to you, landon. >> good monday morning to you. gas prices continue to fall, industry data shows the national average dropping four cents to $2.06 a gallon, the lowest level for regular unleaded in more than six years as oil prices know dive. crude dropped 17% this month alone. if you get a drone for christmas, you're going to have to tell uncle sam the faa is

launching a website today to register unmanned aerial devices for all shapes and sizes. new rules cover drones weighing a half pound to 55 pounds so the agency can track down devices that crash or fly into restricted air space. more shopping to do after christmas, survey by american express finds two-thirds of people plan to hit stores december 26th, more than on black friday and cyber monday. most say it's to take advantage of post holiday sales or to redeem gift cards. majority say it's okay to regift something. dara, back to you. >> landon, thanks so much. now to sports, tempers flared, bodies were flying, words were spoken along with helmet to helmet hits between odell beckham jr. and josh norman. the nfl may have something to say about this later as the two went after it all afternoon. the giants down four touchdowns managing to tie things up and give the undefeated panthers a scare but carolina with a game

ending field goal final score 38-35. next, to football night in america, the arizona cardinals pounded the philadelphia eagles 40-17, the cards locked up the first 12-win season in team history along with the nfc west title. and washington took sole possession of first place in the nfc east, as kirk cousins threw for four touchdowns and a 35-25 win over buffalo. kansas city chiefs won their eighth straight with an easy 34-14 trouncing over baltimore. cincinnati clinched a playoff spot as a.j. mccarron got his first career start for the bengals who defeated san francisco 24-14. the chargers were winners in what may have been their last game in san diego, with the 30-14 win over miami. the team may be moving to los angeles. fifa's ethics committee blanned sepp blatter for eight

years from all soccer activities. the committee ruled he broke ethics, conflicts of interest, breach of loyalty and offering gifts. blatter's one-time protege and front-runner to replace him as president was also banned for eight years, both are expected to appeal. an incredibly personal moment shared publicly by former president jimmy carter. plus devastating mud slides in china as the search for dozens continues. you're watching "first look."

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welcome back too "first look." the shortest daylight and longest night. winter solstice starts this evening a little after 8:00. we're watching warm conditions continue across the country, all rain across missouri, lightning strikes in the middle of the night. here we are headed into the first day of winter and as we go through the morning hours the worst of the drive up here from detroit to cincinnati where the rain will be socked in as we go throughout the morning hours and eventually some of this will be pushing off towards the north.

as far as the clouds go a dreary day in the southeast but the temperatures will continue to be very warm. there's no signs at all of anything cold and as we want a white christmas the only chance in the rockies, very little if any snow anywhere in the east so we are looking at the rainy forecast this morning in chicago, and detroit, the southeast, watch out, you'll have a lot of rain tonight into tomorrow, and eventually all that warm air will be, we're setting record highs possibility. christmas eve could be 72 degrees in new york city. >> that's unheard of. >> shorts and t-shirts. >> absolutely. not a bad way to spend christmas. >> it's different. >> it's a change. thank you so much, bill. well there's more bad news for drug executive martin shkreli. his twitter account was hacked with outrageous post over the weekend and two drug labs announced they'll suspend trials by his company. he resigned as ceo after he was arrested last thursday on seven counts of securities fraud.

he faced blistering criticism and his company bought the rights to a parasitic drug and raised the price 5,000%. in the "wall street journal" he says's believes he's being targeted because of the drug price increase. former president jimmy carter made a shocking announcement during his sunday school lesson. his 28-year-old grandson jeremy had died after his heart unexpectedly stopped. >> they took him to the hospital and we got there, i guess about 1:30 this morning, and his, after we were there for about 20 minutes, his heart stopped beating again. so they tried to give him cpr but he passed away, and. >> the cause of death has not yet been determined. at least 91 people are missing after a landslide buried 33 buildings in southern china leaving behind more than 1 million square feet of debris.

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>> even if you beat bernie aren't you worried republicans? who is their front-runner? >> i will tell you but ohm if you grab onto something to brace yourself because you're going to hit the f-inn floor. >> i'll be fine just tell me. >> you need to hold onto something. >> i need to warn you. >> just tell me. >> donald trump. i told you. >> oh, my god, we're going to be president! >> oh, that was incredible. well we want to welcome jonathan allen, coauthor of "hrc." "snl" sometimes it hits the nail on the head. >> pretty much got it. >> jonathan you know this is the season of goodwill, between presidential candidates and the insults are just flying. jeb bush calling donald trump a jerk, trump calling hillary clinton a liar, is this a new nasty name calling trend in politics? >> i think it reflects a lot the coarsening of our culture.

we're all screaming and yelling at each other on twitter and through other means these days and i think in order to break through that you've seen candidates in the political field really go beyond where you'd think they normally would have in the past. it's not completely new. we've seen name calling in politics and obviously the politicians are always trying to make their point without overdoing it. these days it's hard to overdo it. >> we do have this hillary clinton calling trump isis' best recruiter. clinton's camp says she misspoke when she said that trump was being used as the isis propaganda in the videos, but how far off is she? europe is commenting on this. is there any truth behind that, that he really could be propelling isis and be used as a recruiter? >> i think that that's kind of a stretch to say he's the best recruiter for isis. i mean, obviously i'm not involved in the recruitingerts, but there are a lot of reasons for people to be disaffected. there are a lot of people who

are disaffected for various reasons and i think that this is political talk in the united states, but i doubt it's having a big effect on what's going on in the middle east. >> trump is now feeling the pressure from ted cruz, who is apparently ahead in iowa and if donald does not win there should we expect a reaction from him that might get ugly if he doesn't win in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina? >> i think a lot of people have lost their hat predicting what's going to happen with donald trump after the next turn but i do think, look, if ted cruz wins iowa, which i think most people expect that he will, he's got a big lead in the most important poll there, "the des moines register"/bloomberg politics poll and i this i that's an expectation almost at this point. i think donald trump will have to win a state shortly thereafter, perhaps new hampshire, where he's up big, perhaps south carolina, where he's up big. it will be interesting to see if they go after each other. right now they're riding the one

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good morning everyone. it is monday, december 21st. i'm shia russell. we'll have all of that and unforgettable moment at miss universe. breaking news out of las vegas, one person was killed and at least 26 others injured, a driver plowed into pedestrians twice last night on a crowded sidewalk in what police say may have been an intentional act, this all happened on the vegas strip near the miss universe pagea pageant. police say at least six of the injured are in critical condition. for tourists nearby, what they saw was hard to believe. >> just suddenly saw like people flying in the air because the car hit them and it was like a bowling ball hitting pins and people falling. he's a physician so i told him