. >>> dozens of people attacked by carnivorous fish. >>> and captions on a web glitch. "early today" starts right now. it is friday, december 27th. . >> good morning good morning. it's nice to see you. tens of thousands are still in the dark and the cold and it could get worse, more snow is on the way leading some this holiday season wants heat and power. nbc's kevin tibbles has more. >> reporter: across the mid-west and northeast, crews have been scrambling to restore power to those who lost it during last weekend's massive ice storm. >> pretty much a blip through the area and going along. >> reporter: in lancing, michigan the danz inc.ers have been in the hotel room the last three nights. >> still no power. >> they spent christmas tree opening presents. >> all the other things don't matter. we were together and we still had a great christ. >> reporter: in may, 94-year-old grace burley has been in the dark since sunday. a friend came by to spend the night to make sure she is okay. temperatures in her home dropped to the 40s. >> there you go, grace. >> there is nothing

naysayers' or the big immoralism bands with human depravity or urban horror, politics and social carnivores said they would raise levels of what seemed to be a previous generations in many contemporaries the impossibility. the democratic literary art. i conclude in the introduction was brief remarks about how his book has offered as never before of the thing to understand the american origins so much mentioned of contemporary writing of the and the subversive items that have been added. have little to say. i could elaborate on on some of that today just how wide the he would range in his readings with visual as well as literary examples but called the presentation forepart of these subversive imagination cannot that you necessarily read the words of a front-page. instead of a like to offer personal reflections about the world of the american renaissance emerged. 40 years ago and a graduate seminar i wrote my first research paper. i stumbled upon an odd a volume called the mysteries and miseries of new york i was already deeply interested working in new york city but i had to do something. i

obsession with exotic and dangerous animals left his community with dozens and dozens of deadly carnivores on the loose. >> we are not talking about your normal, every day house cat. these are 300-pound bengal tigers. >> lions and tigers and bears roaming the area. >> it's complete chaos out there. we have officers going in heavily arms. >> the local sheriff department found itself at the center of a news story that sparked international outrage. >> stop shooting animals! you guys are outrageous! >> right now we're shooting to kill. >> tigers and bears and wolves and cheetahs and leopards. you name it, it's loose. >> i can still remember the day i got a call to go to a property. the call was a camel was eating a lady's tree. and when i got the call, i was somewhat skeptical it was really going to be a camel eating a tree. and when i got to location this older gentleman stopped in a pickup truck. he yelled at me. he said, deputy, are you looking for the owner of that camel? and i said yes. and he said terry thompson. and if you go there, be careful because he has lions and bears. >> terry t

findings and learnings, short clips in which he explains the differences between herbivores and carnivores, for example. dubbed "dino boy," he is starting to make a name for himself in the u.s. giant panda cub was born at the smithsonian's national zoo in washington, which released this video documenting the first three months of its life and asking the public for help in choosing its name. votes have been counted. in keeping with chinese tradition, the cub will receive its name 100 days after birth. >> beginning in the 1980's, the near

it school of carnivores fish attacked a large group of people as they swam in a river and argentina on christmas day. the state to run media there says the fishing question is a relative of the parana 370 people were hurt. --irahna. 70 peplople were hurt. including a seven year-old girl. a fish bit off part of for pinky finger. it's summer in argentina right now. and the place for the attack happened is a popular swimming spots. wildlife officials a similar attacks happen occasionally. but are not really that commentary the oven 14 right now. we're now two days after christmas.and still, some gifts haven't made it under the tree because of what's being called a "big brown fail". kron 4 news reporter jackie sissel is live now in san francisco at the u-p-s center.and jackie.a lot of unhappy people want their packages! the big reason is just sheer volume. so many more people are shopping online which means those packages have to be delivered. it's just overwhelmed the system is basically what they are saying. fedex for their part of says they have to deliver from 275 million packages of t

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you see that there, a swarm of carnivorous fish. about 70 people were injured when they were attacked. some of these actually lost parts of fingers and toes. they like lie piranha, that's because they're related to the piranha, and they have very sharp teeth. >>> during the christmas holidays, washington is like a college campus, it is really very quiet, because everyone has gone home for the holidays. there's a similarity to college even when congress is in session. some of the nation's most powerful men share living quarters, inspiring the new series "alpha house." cnn's chief correspondent dana bash takes us inside. >> reporter: paint peels off the walls, sheets covering the windows, broken blinds, a mangled chair covered up with a wood board, an ancient hole, and yes, underwear in the living room. what looks and feels like the most rundown frat campus is home to some of the most powerful men. >> welcome to omega house. >> dick durbin and chuck schumer, the second and third ranks democrats live here together. their landlord and t

we're talking about a very bizarre attack by a school of carnivorous plan airanha.n the 100-degree day. pamela, we've been talking about this all morning. you're dig information to why if their happened. >> reporter: this sound like something out of a horror movie. men, women, children were bathing in a river aptly named piranha river north of buenos airs wednesday. a school of piranhas basically attacked them. 70 people injured including seven children who apparently lost parts of their fingers or toes. in fact, some lost their entire fingers and toes in this fish attack, according to a paramedic that was on the scene there. so really, really disturbing. but these piranhas were known to be in the river. i can only assume that's why it was called piranha river. apparently because of the unusually warm weather, they were congregating on the river's surface before the attack. still, these types of attacks from carnivorous fish rare. >> they don't usually attack people. they usually attack live things. >> they usually go after carcasses of fish, that kind of thing. but

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cereal is a carnivorous species. and nice food pellets contain up to thirty percent y o fish intensive aquaculture completes the oceans. and for the moment. no one has found a solution. the future of the cultural life perhaps in these dreams you see this lab and other labs across europe are working hard to try and crack the code which could change the face of the industry making it more profitable. a more sustainable along the way research is here spend their days dissecting out including the sound of a tulip time they hope it could work as an alternative source of protein fish. all of the very nutritious. off on employment there the boys didn't come he uses the very viable future for the team. i must look into what could develop it for free or almost perfect diet for his feeds you carlos believes the us light years away from hitting the jackpot in creating the fish food. the twenty first century. one that does not include one of six the delightful moment a real prices for the stable with the football forgot to add d

he thinking the carnivore only thing you can feed him when he been. steve says he wants nothing to do with the right wing extremists. he adds that some roma even signed his petition. q what would you. i just want them to behave like normal people he says. that's not racism that would mean that the truth. the club has been hit hard by the global financial crisis the industrial city is suffering falling wages and high unemployment the frustration is adding to the anti roma sentiment. one hundred thousand people live in the city. one tenth of them roma. amy there's some roma who are ok says this man it's the night with no problem with them when they became france's companions of effects to add to this the sun i hate the roma says this woman. in the heavens the tsunamis hit. much of this woman also has strong feelings of violence is not a solution but we should throw the ones that don't work out of our country. one dr niro are czech citizens so the idea of deporting them is absurd. the pair to visit two on his sister. and andrea finish school and work par

brought here as pets and why anyone would want to have one of these widgets to be 20 feet long and is carnivorous, i just don't know. the people brought a lot of them here and at some point, they ran out of crack. and it's like, okay, so they let the pythons go for escape and they turned out to really like south florida and, like the people from new york. it is like to hear it come in their comfortable here. and they reproduce like crazy. they use no form of protection. and they have no natural enemies all. nothing can really kill them and they are now in the hundreds of thousands and so the state of florida, our state motto. you cannot spell it without duh. so they came up with this idea. [laughter] the python challenge. which again made national news for me basically invited anyone to come down from anyone who wanted to come down and kill her pythons. although we did make them pay a 25-dollar fee and that rules out your lightweights. and you have to take a short online course and i hope the website is still up. and you can ask anybody who has ever made a living killing dangerous game. a short o

carnivorous fish are not uncommon, a heat wave is responsible for the piranhas gathering near the surfacef the river. olympic dreams aren't always about goad medals just getting to the games is a huge accomplishment, we will meet him next. and check this out. new pictures from the spectacular northern lights from sweden. many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. super moms trying to ball lance jobs and making the holidays perfect. then there are moth

. >> herbivore, carnivore, how much it weighs, what it killed. >> fantastic. >> roadkill. >> how manydactyls. >> this is a t-rex woman. the real deal. >> what did you think of our opening? of the show? >> i loved that opening. >> the toilet paper thing. >> adults need toilet training these days and we all got to be safe from bacteria and save the planet. in my house we have -- if it is yellow, let it mellow. >> if it is brown -- >> flush it down. >> i think that's -- that's the whole conservancy thing. >> yes. thank you for bringing that up. she's trying to save washington square park. >> okay. so is that what you teach your children? >> to save the park? you're very involved that way. >> yeah. i try to be as green as possible. turning off lights everywhere. >> how many squares of toilet paper? >> okay, i'm not -- i don't got a big rump, so, like, three is enough. >> three? >> yeah. three is hardly enough. >> you fold it in half. you go -- >> okay. >> spin the bottle. >> newspaper. >> oh. >> here is the question. it is for john. ready? >> toilet paper? what is that? >> boxers, briefs

obsession with exotic and dangerous animals left his community with dozens and dozens of deadly carnivores

aggressive carnivores may seem like the bad guys in the animal kingdom. >> you would not survive an attack take an animal up just like it's a marshmallow up in the tree like that. today, 6 supreme hunters. look at that female over there. she's going up...

. >> a bizarre attack in argentina. 70 people hurt when they were swarmed by a school of carnivorous fish. seven children were among the victims. an 11-year-old boy bitten on the ankle, others lost parts of fingers or toes. officials say thousands were in the river when a school of piranhas attacked. authorities call the attack a rare and exceptional event. >> a chinese ice breaker ship is on the way to antarctica to rescue a russian ship stuck in the ice carrying 74 people on a research expedition including scientists, tourists, and crew. whipping winds pushed sea ice around the ship and froze. the leader on board says the ice ship is getting close. it's going to be tough. >> just over my left shoulder you can hopefully see gray sky. the open waters are reflecting on the clouds above it. that's the likely move the ves sl going to take to get to us. >> experts say the ship is not in danger of sinking and the people have enough supplies. i'm curious about the tourists on board. different strokes for different folks. >> a piece of history lost for more than three decades. >> pictures o

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you're a carnivore. you're a jungle cat. well, it's a dangerous place here on the savannah. mom. hi. oh, hi, darling. how are you? good, mom. i... what are you doing here? david and i are running off together. ha-ha. ha-ha. we're estate planning. i was advising bonds. ah. uh, mom, could you come by my office... (phone ringing) um, h-hold on. (whispers): i'll be right back. can you talk? we have a problem. not yet. hold on. okay, what's the problem? we don't have the office space. what do you mean? we put down earnest money. i know. and the bank loan was supposed to come through to make up the difference, but the bank wanted to talk to our current employers. will and diane? yeah. and we couldn't let them talk to them. uh, mom, i'll be right out. no, i'll just wait here. go ahead. how did that happen? i don't know. (sighs) john made some assumptions. but now we need $140,000, or we're out the earnest money. the $60,00 we already put down? yeah. it sucks. mom. it's better by the door. so now we need to get the full amount. cary... i don't have $140,000. cary: do you have any wa

obsession with exotic and dangerous animals left his community with dozens and dozens of deadly carnivores

are you familiar with this program called carnivore? guest: it's the same as the total information awareness, i think it is, yes. as the world has gotten more digital, the nsa has look for more ways to look for warning and be able to pursue individual terror threats, and digital technology allows a government to go in ways that the stasi could not imagine. it's interesting that you brought the stasi up. in october, it was a vivid phone call between chancellor angela merkel and president obama, right after the revelations that the in essay had been monitoring angela merkel's personal cell phone since 2002, long before she was chancellor of germany. she herself had grown up in east germany before the wall fell, and said this reminded her of growing up under the stasi. i'm not quite sure how the president responded to that, but it is certainly something the president did not want to hear. certainly somebody elected on the kind of platform the barack obama was elected on would not want to hear that. that is what makes me think he probably i

place, and then post one of vents and how do we distinguish between what was perry boredom, and carnivores and insects and etc. we then also can start to distinguish the types and classes of weapon, was a sharp force weapon, a blunt force weapon or a projectile type of weapon. and how quickly wasn't coming in. and so again, these elastic properties, the faster a weapon comes in, it allows it to recover enough isn't it fails just like it would with glass. so these are fairly predictable. but the the problem comes in when we are looking at extrinsic properties of the bone and are we looking at around sphere, such as the head, or a flat phone, such as ahead. those have different biomechanical properties in the physics to change. the underlying structure, the age of the individual. it is going to fracture in a way very different than say a toddler that has lots of collagen in their bones and the effects of the individual and the bone density and the health, of course, it alters that underlying bone structure. and covering and protections, even the amount of hair on the head has been shown to i

more than trauma and what was same wrote in, carnivores, insects, plant roots?hen also can start to distinguish the types of classes of weapons. was it a sharp force within, a blunt force within or projectile type of weapon? and how quickly was it coming in? so again, these of elastic and plastic properties of the bone, the faster it with incomes and come it doesn't allow the bone to recover in that the last x. days -- elastic phase. so, these areas are fairly predictable about the fracture. the problem comes in when we are looking at intrinsic and extrinsic properties of bones. are we looking at a round sphere such as the head or long tubes such as the long bones or flat such as the hip. those have different biomechanical properties and the physics will change. the underlining structure. the age of the individual. someone who is frail and using bone density is going to fracture in a way very different than say a toddler that has lots of collagen and their bones. the sex of the individual bone density and health of course alters that underlining does structure.

i'm a carnivore. you have to. your body can only process so much per hour. i feed it a lot of paper. i just keep giving it fast-burning food consistency lieu the day. >> small bits of it throughout the day? >> exactly. so my body is trained to not hold anything. that in conjunction with cardio, the right diet, the right workout. the first six weeks that i use to get camera ready to take my shirt off, those are the workouts n it looks like a great book not only for people who want rock hard abs, but also who want to know a little bit about how things work out in life when you are -- >> it's all mental. it's really an inside job. it's a mental thing, training to get in that kind of shape. >> if you have some time, i'd like to fight you later. is that possible? >> let's do it. >> come on of the stand up. let's go. let's tease out and i'll do it in the break. i'll hop on facebook and give you the results. it will be tough. >> one guy's wife talks to her cats as if they were housewives. >> he wants to fight joe. is that normal or nuts? waffle bars... fancy robes.

are you familiar with this program called carnivore?t's the same total information awareness, i think it is, yes. as the world has gotten more digital, the nsa has look for more ways to look for warning and be able to pursue individual terror threats, and digital technology allows a government stasiin ways that the could not imagine. it's interesting that you brought the stasi up. in october, it was a vivid phone call between chancellor angela obama,and president right after the revelations that the in essay had been monitoring angela merkel's personal cell phone since 2002, long before she was chancellor of germany. she herself had grown up in east germany before the wall fell, and said this reminded her of growing up under the stasi. i'm not quite sure how the president responded to that, but it is certainly something the president did not want to hear. certainly somebody elected on the kind of platform the barack obama was elected on would not want to hear that. that is what makes me think he probably is pretty serious about wanting