. >> bill starns, the son of sherman moore's victim, remembers the night of the murder as if it werecalled me and told me there was some activity at the home. and that i might better get up there. >> as she reached for the telephone, as she reached for the telephone, and my first impression was that she was calling for the police and i immediately panicked. i grabbed the telephone cord and my first instinct was really to put the telephone cord around her neck and choke her but i don't. i put my hands around her neck and i choke her. i can't control myself. i ended up strangling her and stomping her with my fists and feet. >> he beat her to death with his hands and feet. >> until i know it, i hear a wheezing sound and i said, lord, i killed her. she's not breathing. so i rushed up out of the house, grabbed the pocketbook, i get the pocketbook and i leave. >> i could not find the car keys or her purse. >> i go to the bank and i go through the drive-thru in my own car. i go through the drive-thru window and write a check out for something like $150. >> sherman ray moore was at the bank

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the two starnes won't and a promotional material and theory runners and told you don't have to rent ifon't want to. is a diminution of free-speech. judge napolitano: i agree with you entirely. i wish these things didn't happen. i which the federal government could protect the right to free speech. this is a satire, this is the essence of an american way of mocking people in power. we can produce movies about the president of the united states and anybody, but apparently this hacking which we all thought was a little humorous at first when the e-mails him out, derisive e-mails about the celebrities, candid e-mails, this has accelerated into a very serious, potentially international incident that involved the state department, department of homeland security and in new york, new york city police department and the intimidation of a major, bring it to its knees, a major corporation. stuart: does that corporation have a choice? if they went ahead and ran the movie and there was an incident and somebody gets hurt that person sues, they knew the danger and did it anyway. judge napolitano: i

todd starnes. >> you did pretty well last time around. >> this is little more difficult.self to save 500 bucks. we had historian on the show. i wouldn't have known that. >> here is the next one, 1659, what state passed a law providing a fine for anyone that celebrated christmas? massachusetts, pennsylvania or virginia? >> sound like this one. >> and the correct answer, anna gets, i'm sorry, a, massachusetts. people's republic of cambridge. no surprise. in a charlie brown christmas, charlie brown tells lucy he has pant ophobia what is that? fear of heavy breathing, the fear of pant or fear of everything? and the correct answer is c, the fear of everything. you got -- >> i got two right. >> one of my favorite movies. who got electrocuteed in national lampoon christmas vacation. it was b, the cat. funny movie. here we go, name the three reindeer whose names begin with d. is it dasher, donor, dancer. dasher, dancer and ditzen or dancer, donor and dory. the correct answer is a. this is too early. >> donor or donder. >> is donor. >> i was watching miracle on 34th street. i thou

>> we want to thank our producer, carrie burns for that piece, research, and amanda starns, you are editoren an awesome year. >> great job. >> thank you, guys. >> and thank you to all our viewers. >> and let us be spontaneous most of the time. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" -- >> that was spontaneous! >>> good morning. i'm christine maddela. let's see what mother nature has in store with first alert meteorologist bill henley. >> good morning, christine. we've got lots of clouds and the temperatures, they're starting to climb a little bit, but the wind is blowing out of the northwest. as you can see with this live view from center city. those northwesterly winds doing two things. they're blowing the clouds into the area. they're going to stay put for much of the morning. and they're keeping a lid on the temperatures. it's 38 degrees in philadelphia now. 39 in northeast philadelphia. and with the wind blowing, it feels like it's in the upper 20s and low 30s. so, really, it doesn't feel any warmer than it did earlier in the day. so, the forecast is calling for a breezy and cold an

>> we want to thank our producer, carrie burns for that piece, research, and amanda starns, you are editorome year. >> great job. >> thank you, guys. >> and thank you to all our viewers. >> and let us be spontaneous most of the time. >> we're back in a moment. this is "today" -- >> that was spontaneous! >>> you're watching today in the bay. >> good morning, everyone, 9:56, i'm scott mcgrew. happening right now, san jose police have told a neighborhood to shelter in place while they search for a suspect in an early morning shooting. officers are prepared to go door to door to look for the shooter west of willow glen. students at blackford elementary, valley christian, and del mar high schools are being told to stay in their classrooms. police shot someone around 5:00 this morning. victim taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. this is an active scene right now and we'll certainly bring you all details as we get them. >>> meanwhile, completely unrelated, a driver crashed into the side of blackford elementary school after experiencing a medical emergency. police say it has no

which -- where exactly does the sandwich -- >> by the fox news contributor todd starnes. all right.people were so outraged by the fact that a chaplain in the military could be punished for talking about religion. >> he had the audacity to share hi own experience with depression and house his faith helped him. what is a chaplain supposed to do expert to share -- whether they have faith or no faith. >> pretty fired up. >> absolutely. >> i write in this book that examines this culture war. and people are really concerned that the military has turned into a sore engineering petrie dish. we need to move on to number four, which is public schools. a big story has the marginalization of christianity. one of our stories involves a farm school in north carolina. 24er7 teaching islam and during any english class. >> but don't let a santa claus or christmas tree be on the scene. >> and the liberals all have the problem with the plump chicken breast number two, a bid to drop pastors' sermons, and a toorge took his great-grandmother to the senior prom. >>> he says, all right, this is what i'm go