it's december 16th, time for great viral videos "right this minute." a woman hops on an escalator. what happens when she takes a tumble and can't stop. >> she would have been there all day. nana gets a gift that needs unwrapping. >> she's taking her sweet old time. >> why what's inside needs out fast. slippery conditions makes slow going. the bold moves of an e great on ice. we have christian, oli, charity, nick, and gayle bringing the best on the web, including a husband making a video. why it's putting money in his wife's pocket. >> clean breeze. >> even though he's broken the rules, he's now in the clear.

>> every time i step on an escalator i think about this very thing. this woman in china steps on the escalator. she loses her balance. and starts tumbling from there. and she never quite catches herself. instead, she tumbles and tumbles until a person cleaning walks up and hits the emergency switch. >> she would have been there all day. like she was in the tumble dry, constantly going. >> that had to have hurt. >> not clear what exactly happened, but it all went downhill after she lost her balance. the woman in this next video, she's doing it wrong. she looks like she's on a stair climber. >> that's the thing, you're misunderstanding, she's doing that training pre-christmas. she's thinking about the big christmas meal. if i'm going to do my shopping, might as well spend 20 minutes on this. >> yeah, i'm with you, oli. i think this is intentional.

she's getting a workout in while she shops. >> you can think what you want to think, but you clearly see that the other escalator is going up and going down and she's walking up it. so she's not going anywhere fast. >> gift surprises are the absolute best. this grandmother in arizona is getting a very early christmas gift. it's on her front porch, and it's pretty sizable. >> i love how she wants to analyze it instead of opening it. >> she's just taking her sweet old time. >> you have to open it now. >> urgent gift. she continues opening it up. >> surprise! >> that's actually her granddaughter. she was supposed to be in germany with her fiance's family for the christmas break. >> they broke up? >> they did not break up.

in fact, she decided she was just going to take some time to spend time with grandma. >> so they are breaking up. >> surprise her. no! these are actually friends of one of our producers. person recording is her long-time friend. >> tell them to turn the phone sideways. this is a birthday gift in the next video. this 13-year-old girl is celebrating a big day. now a teenager. she's getting a little gift. it's headphones. she doesn't seem particularly excited or ecstatic, right? >> in reality, the gift they could not wait to give her is in the other room. this was just a decoy. before they even finish opening the box, mom says, honey, come on, we have something for you over here. now, her excitement level goes from zero to 60 in a split second. she's excited about a kitchenaid

mixer, a food mixer. >> i can feel her excitement. what's she going to bake? >> cool thing is, she can make her own birthday cake. >> are you crying? this requires just five minutes for you to see three dash cams, roads out there are scary. >> this video you can tell this mom is prepared. look at her stroller. it's got skis on it. that was my favorite part of the video. she makes her way off with the baby, just in time, as well, because not long after that, that is way too far. in fact, that is fully out of control. starts skidding his way around, heading towards -- bang, right there. stays on its wheels before leaving the shot. i do not know what happens next. >> let's hope mom and baby are

out of the way. >> you watch the video, a minute before the truck turns up, so i'm hoping that mom was well out of the way by that time. >> our next video we head to singapore. >> known as the garden city because all through the city, huge trees are out there. very, very cool. except when -- >> bang. two huge trees come down. >> didn't land right on top of the car. >> it doesn't appear there were any sort of injuries or anything like that. it's going to take a while before it can get out of the tree. >> hopefully that car can back out and leave. >> our next video we head to the states, riding in a tesla model s. >> oh! stupid! stupid! stupid person. >> that person obviously decided they wanted to take exit 26-w. the guy that posted this video credits the warning system that this tesla comes with to actually preventing an accident.

you'll hear the audio warning. >> i got your advertising right here. you don't need to spend a dime. >> you see all the police lights. an emergency situation on the a3 in sur ree. this is a busy roadway, but they had to call in a specialist for this operation. >> he's already talking smack to these guys. >> my friend, simon cowell, has been called in because of that with him. so simon carefully and most dangerously risks life and limb to crawl through the bushes to capture the swan. simon carefully picks this juvenile swan up and carries it away. >> thank you very much. these nice people, look, thank you very much. >> what's really cool is what wildlife aid does. he takes it back to the center,

gets his own cage, an enclosure for the night. the very next morning he puts it in the straight jacket, actually it's a swan coat, and carries it back to his car, takes it to be with other swans because he says this one was at the age parents are kicking it out and it needs to make its own way. this video is just plain funny. watch and behold the majesty, the beauty of an egret on ice to show this probably is not going to. >> it's like a woman in high heels in winter. >> yes. >> i can't argue against that. that's exactly what it's like. >> i have to say, ten points for not falling. this woman's about to take on a steamy challenge. >> she is going to eat eight t gets to slurping. and puppets are breaking

down. >> one of the things you shouldn't do while on the plane. >> on, off. on, off. >> why avoiding some of their suggestions is easier said than done. >> i just want to see the slide inflate. brought to you by -- mucinex. start the relief, ditch the misery. let's end this. yeah...just wait 'til we hit ten thousand feet. i'm gonna take mucinex sinus-max. too late, we're about to take off. these dissolve fast. they're liquid gels. and you're coming with me... wait, what?! you realize i have gold status? do i still get the miles? mucinex sinus-max liquid gels. dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. also try fast-max multi-symptom for a powerful rush this is an abc news special report. now reporting, george stephanopoulos. >> good afternoon. we're coming on the air now because president obama is about to hold what may be the final press conference of his

presidency. it has been an annual tradition. an hour of sparring with reporters before heading to hawaii with his family. this year, it comes at a time of high tension over russian interference in our presidential election. this morning, president obama vowed to retaliate for the cyber attacks the intelligence community pinned on the highest levels of the russian government. u.s. officials say vladimir putin himself may have ordered and shaped the attack. putin calls the claim nonsense. you just saw the two men face-to-face at a summit in china last september. obama confronted putin for the first time over the attack. of course, the whole issue complicated by the fact that president-elect donald trump repeatedly dismissed the findings of american intelligence. saying he does not believe that russia was behind the attack. our chief global affairs anchor is in the briefing room. martha, far from the last word on the subject. he asked for review of the evidence to be completed before he leaves office, and congress is investigating, too. >> so many investigations going on, george. a few will be if this

retaliatory action comes, when will it be? after the reviews on the hill internally, or before? the president has vowed some sort of retaliatory attack, or whether that is sanctions, we just don't know. >> don't know yet. we know president obama is going to make an opening statement, review the events of the last year, talk about the upcoming developments, having to do with health care. the health care plan that president-elect donald trump vowed to repeal and replace. the horrific situation in aleppo right now. thousands being evacuated. here comes the president. >> good afternoon. this is the most wonderful press conference of the year. i've got a list of who has been naughty and nice to call on. but let me first make a couple of quick points, and then i'll take your questions. typically, i use this year-end press conference to review how far we've come over the course of the year. today, understandably, i'm going

to talk a little bit about how far we've come over the past eight years. as i was preparing to take office, the unemployment rate was on its way to 10%. today, it is at 4.6%. the lowest in nearly a decade. we've seen the longest streak of job growth on record and wages have grown faster over the past few years than any time in the past 40. when i came into office, 44 million people were uninsured. today, we've covered more than 20 million of them. for the first time in our history, more than 90% of americans are insured. in fact, yesterday was the biggest day ever for health care.gov. more than 670,000 americans signed up to get covered and more are signing up by the day. we've cut our dependence on foreign oil by more than half, doubled production of renewable energy, enacted the most sweeping reforms since fdr to protect consumers and prevent a crisis on wall street from

punishing main street ever again. none of these actions stifled growth, as critics predicted. instead, the stock market has nearly tripled. since i signed obamacare into law, our businesses added more than 15 million new jobs. the economy is undoubtedly more durable than it was in the days when we relied on oil from unstable nations and banks took risky bets with your money. add it all up, and last year, the poverty rate fell at the fastest rate in almost 50 years. while the median household income rate grew at the fastest rate on record. income gains were larger for households at the bottom and the middle than for those at the top. and we've done all this while cutting our deficits by nearly 2/3 and protecting vital investments that grow the middle class. foreign policy, when i came into

office, we were in the midst of two wars. now, nearly 180,000 troops are down to 15,000. bin laden, rather than being at large, has been taken off the battlefield, along with thousands of other terrorists. over the past eight years, no foreign terrorist organization successfully executed an attack on our homeland that was directed from overseas. through diplomacy, enshored iran cannot get a nuclear weapon. we opened up cuba and brought nations together for a climate agreement that could save this planet for our kids. and almost every country on earth sees america as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago.

in other words, by so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we started. it is a situation that i'm proud to leave for my successor. and it is thanks to the american people, to the hard work that you've put in, the sacrifices you made for your families and your communities, the businesses that you started or invested in, the way you looked out for one another. i could not be prouder to be your president. of course, this progress doesn't mean we're not mindful of how much more there is to do. in this season in particular, we're reminded that there are people who are still hungry. people who are still homeless. people who still have trouble paying the bills or finding work after being laid off. there are communities that are still mourning those who have been stolen from us by senseless gun violence, and parents who still are wondering how to protect their kids. and after i leave office, i

intend to continue to work with organizations and citizens doing good across the country on these and other pressing issues to build on the progress that we've made. around the world, as well, there are hot spots where disputes have been intractable, conflicts have flared up and innocent people are suffering as a result. nowhere is this more terribly true than in the city of aleppo. for years, we've worked to stop the civil war in syria and alleviate human suffering. it has been one of the hardest issues that i faced as president. the world, as we speak, is united in horror at the savage assault by the syrian regime and its russian and iranian allies on the city of aleppo. we have seen a deliberate strategy of surrounding, besieging and starving innocent civilians. we've seen relentless targeting of humanitarian workers and personnel.

entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble and dust. there are continuing reports of civilians being executed. these are all horrific violations of international law. responsibility for this brutality lies in one place alone. with the assad regime and its allies, russia and iran. and this blood and these atrocities are on their hands. we all know what needs to happen. there needs to be an impartial international observer force in aleppo that can help coordinate an orderly evacuation through safe corridors. there has to be full access for humanitarian aid, even as the united states continues to be the world's largest donor of humanitarian aid to the syrian people. and beyond that, there needs to be a broader cease-fire that can serve as the basis for a political rather than a military solution. that's what the united states is going to continue to push for. both with our partners and through multi-lateral institutions like the u.n.

regretfully but unsurprisingly, russia has repeatedly blocked the security counsel from taking action on these issues, so we are going to keep pressing to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid to those who are in desperate need, and ensure accountability, including continuing to monitor potential use of chemical weapons in syria. and we're going to work in the u.n. general assembly, as well, both on accountability and to advance a political settlement. because it should be clear that although you may achieve tactical victories, over the long term, the assad regime cannot slaughter its way to legitimacy. that's why we'll continue to press for a transition to a more representative government, and that's why the world must not avert our eyes to the terrible events that are unfolding. the syrian regime and its russian and iranian allies are

trying to on fi skate the truth. the world will not forget and the world will not be fooled. so even in a season where the incredible blessings we know as americans are all around us, even as we enjoy family and friends and are reminded of how lucky we are, we should also be reminded that to be an american involves bearing burdens and meeting obligations to others. american values and american ideals are what will lead the way to a safer and more prosperous 2017. both here and abroad. and by the way, if you embody those values and ideals like our brave men and women in uniform and their families. so i just want to close by wishing all of them a very merry christmas and a happy new year.

with that, i will take some questions, and i'm going to start with josh letterman of ap. >> thank you, mr. president. there is a perception that you're letting president putin get away with interfering in the u.s. election, and that a response that nobody knows about just doesn't cut it. are you prepared to call out president putin by name for ordering the attacking, and do you agree with what hillary clinton says, that the hacking was partially responsible for her loss? and is your administration's open quarreling with trump and his team on this issue tarnishing the smooth transition of power you have promised? >> first of all, with respect to the transition, i think they would be the first to acknowledge that we have done everything we can to make sure that they are successful, as i promised. that will continue. and it has just been a few days since i last talked to the president-elect about a whole

range of transition issues. that cooperation is going to continue. there hasn't been a lot of squabbling. what we've simply said is the facts. which are that based on uniform intelligence assessments, the russians were responsible for hacking the dnc, that as a consequence, it is important for us to review all elements of that and make sure that we are preventing that kind of interference through cyber attacks in the future. that should be a bipartisan issue. that shouldn't be a partisan issue. and my hope is that the president-elect is going to similarly be concerned with making sure that we don't have potential foreign influence in our election process. i don't think any american wants

that. and that shouldn't be a source of an argument. i think that part of the challenge is that it gets caught up in the carry over from election season. i think it is very important for us to distinguish between the politics of the election and the need for us as a country, both from a national security perspective, but also in terms of the integrity of our election system and our democracy, to make sure that we don't create a political football here. now, with respect to how this thing unfolded last year, let's just go through the facts pretty quickly. at the beginning of the summer, we're alert to the possibility that the dnc has been hacked.

and i immediately order law enforcement, as well as our intelligence teams, to find out everything about it, investigate it thoroughly, to brief the potential victims of this hacking, to brief on a bipartisan basis, the leaders of both the house and the senate and the relevant intelligence committees. and once we had clarity and certainty around what, in fact, had happened, we publicly announced that, in fact, russia has hacked into the dnc. and at that time, we did not attribute motives or any interpretations of why they had done so. we didn't discuss what the effects of it might be.

we simply let people know, the public know, just as we had let members of congress know, that this had happened. and as a consequence, all of you wrote a lot of stories about both what had happened and then you interpreted why that might have happened and what effect it was going to have on the election outcomes. we did not. and the reason we did not was because in this hyper-partisan atmosphere, at a time when my primary concern was making sure that the integrity of the election process was not in any way damaged, at a time when anything that was said by me or anybody in the white house would immediately be seen through a partisan lens. i wanted everybody to understand we were playing this straight.

we weren't trying to advantage one side or another. what we were trying to do is let people know that this had taken place. and so if you started seeing effects on the election, if you were trying to measure why this was happening and how you should consume the information that was being leaked, you might want to take this into account. and that's exactly how we should have handled it. imagine if we'd done the opposite. it would have become immediately one more political scrum. and part of the goal here was to make sure that we did not do the work of the leakers for them by raising more and more questions about the election right before the election was taking place. at a time, by the way, when the president-elect himself was raising questions about the integrity of the election. and, finally, i think it is worth pointing out that the information was already out.

it was in the hands of wikileaks. so that was going to come out, no matter what. what i was concerned about, in particular, was making sure that that wasn't compounded by potential hacking that could hamper vote counting, affect the actual election process itself. and so in early september, when i saw president putin in china, i felt that the most effective way to ensure that that didn't happen was to talk to him directly. and tell him to cut it out. there were going to be serious consequences if he didn't. and, in fact, we did not see further tampering of the election process. but the leaks through wikileaks had already occurred. so when i look back, in terms of how we handled it, i think we handled it the way it should have been handled. we allowed law enforcement and

the intelligence community to do its job without political influence. we briefed all relevant parties involved, in terms of what was taking place. when we had a consensus around what had happened, we announced it, not through the white house, not through me, but rather through the intelligence communities that had carried out these investigations. and then we allowed you and the american public to make an assessment as to how to weigh that going into the election. and the truth is, there was nobody here who didn't have some sense of what kind of effect it might have. i'm finding it a little curious that everybody is suddenly acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging hillary clinton. because you guys wrote about it every day. every single leak, about every

little juicy tidbit of political gossip. including john podesta's risotto recipe. this was an obsession that dominated the news coverage. so i do think it is worth us reflecting how it is that a presidential election of such importance, of such moment, with so many big issues at stake, and such a contrast between the candidates, came to be dominated by these leaks. what is it about our political system that made us vulnerable to these kinds of potential manipulations, which i said publicly before, were not sophisticated. this was not some elaborate

espionage scheme. they hacked into some democrat ic e-mails that included routine stuff. some of it uncomfortable or embarrassing. i suspect if any of us got our e-mails hacked into, there are some things we wouldn't want suddenly appearing on the front page of a newspaper or telecast, even if there wasn't anything controversial about it. and then it took off. and that concerns me. it should concern all of us. the fact is, everybody had the information. we handled it the way we should have. now, moving forward, there are a

couple issues this raises. number one is the constant challenge we are beginning to have with cyber security throughout our economy and society. we are a digitized culture, and there is hacking going on every single day. there is not a company, there is not a major organization, there's not a financial institution, there's not a branch of our government where somebody is not going to be fishing for something or trying to penetrate or put in a virus or malware. and this is why for the last eight years, i've been obsessed with, how do we continually upgrade our cyber security systems? and this particular concern around russian hacking is part of a broader set of concerns about how do we deal with cyber issues being used in ways that can affect our infrastructure,

affect the instability of our financial systems, and affect the integrity of our institutions, like our election process. i just received a couple weeks back, it wasn't widely reported on, a report from our cyber security commission that outlines a whole range of strategies to do a better job on this. but it is difficult because it is not all housed, you know -- the target of cyber attacks is not one entity, but it is widely dispersed and a lot of us is private, like the dnc. it is not a branch of government. we can't tell people what to do. what we can do is inform them, get best practices. what we can also do is to, on a bilateral basis, warn other countries against these kinds of at