the u.s. used chemical agents including napalm and phosphorus in world war ii and in korea, they flushed out enemy bunkers, but began using herbicides in vietnam to clear out around basis as a defensive measure. they were always careful to call it a chemical agent. in response to united states actions in vietnam, and its failure to ratify the protocol, the u.n. refined its definition to include any chemical agent used during warfare that may be toxic to man, animal, or plants. this is where we get the idea of ecocide. the u.n. debated the parameters of the geneva article. scientists in the united states and elsewhere began organizing themselves and other sympathetic people to their view of the use of chemical agents in war as ecocide. so, it is the destruction, the murder of ecosystems, which they rightly claim have larger human impacts. arthur galston, who was a plant biologist at yale, coined the term. basically said if you are separating an organism from the way they interact with the natural wo

the commander told us, scott, once u.s. forces see for themselves what they're up against, they'll realize they need things like armored vehicles and heavy weapons, notion guns and ammunition. he also said, depending on how things go, maybe america will send even more forces. >> pelley: charlie d'agata with a report from america's new battlefield in syria. charlie, thank you. now the u.s. has also sent hundreds of troops to west linked to isis are terrorizing villages in a campaign of murder and kidnapping. the americans are there to support cameroon's army, and debora patta went along. >> reporter: cameroon's elite counter-terrorism soldiers gear up for the day's patrol to the nigerian border. balaclavas provide scant relief against the choking dust. they're searching for boko haram, the extremist group that has aligned itself with isis and killed more than 20,000 in the past six years. border up toes like ed colodny have suffered a string of attacks by suicide bombers recently. boko haram fighters frequently hide weapons

u.s. military that is setting up its first drone base in africa. learning how to use their own drones for surveillance. the u.s. base won't be fully operational until next month. captain victor guzman-- >> the united states forces is providing intelligence, surveillance, and rereconnaissance assets to the cameroon forces to take the lead, fight the local threat, and not only is it local, but it's grown to a global threat. >> reporter: the u.s. will have as many as 300 troops on the ground in cameroon by the time it's fully operational. they're also training the soldiers to prevent suicide attacks. it's critically important, scott, just 12 hours after we left kolofata, it was hit by a suicide bomber killing nine people. >> pelley: debora patta reporting from the heart of africa. debora, thank you. an attempt to save coral reefs creates an underwater wasteland. when the cbs evening news with the pain and swelling of my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis... ordinary objects often seemed... intimidating. doing something simple... meant enduring a lot of pain. if ra i

with the u.s. usn edge, this man says islamaphobia is at its highest since 9/11. >> while the sentiment may have existed after 9/11. now it is almost acceptable. >> reporter: the group rated the candidates on issues such as the syrian refugee crisis, isil, and national security. as a republican american muslim, how do you feel about what you heard today from this debate? >> honesty the national security focus is probably the biggest thing on muslim's minds, but isis and this whole movement in the middle east is most frightening to muslims. >> reporter: but a major topic of discussion was donald trump. >> our country is out of control, people are pouring across the southern border. >> reporter: similar proposing a temporary ban on muslims frommer tenning the u.s., he has faced a fire storm of criticism, but his poll numbers have surged. >> when he says these types of things and his popularity goes up, that's more concerning to me. >> reporter: as the race for the white house begins to heat up, she hope

nato countries including the u.s. use this particular airport. we've learned this morning at least 18 people have been killed including civilians. attackers and security forces are still fighting and security at the airport has been increased as a result. middle eastern leaders are meeting to discuss the conflict in afghanistan. >>> now to the investigation into the san bernardino shooters. this week lawmakers will attend a classified briefing on how the couple became radicalized. let's get to tracie potts on capitol hill with more on how long the suspects planned this deadly attack. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. it looks like authorities are finding out it may have been as long as a year that they were doing target practice at a local range and maybe three years in the planning, at least the fbi and others are getting some information that one of the suspects had discussed this type of attack as early as three years ago. so they're looking into how long they had been radicalized. all this may come out fp briefing tomorrow afternoon with t

and the notion that somehow the u.s. us was in the position to pull the strings on a country that is the largest in the arab world, i think is mistaken. what is true, is that at the point at which the choice becomes mowing down millions of people or tries to find some transition, we believed, and i would still argue that it was more sensible for us to find a peaceful transition to the egyptian situation. with republican to libya, libya is sort of an alternative version of syria in some ways. because by the time the international coalition interceded in syria, chaos had already broken out. you already had the makings of a civil war. you had a dictator who was threatening, and was in a position to carry out the wholesale slaughter of large numbers of people, and we worked under u.n. mandate with a coalition of folks in order to try to avert a big humanitarian catastrophe that would not have been good for us. those who now argue in retrospect we should have left gadhafi in there, seem to forget that he had already lost control

intelligence to law enforcement in our country that says isis followers may be entering the u.s. using fake but authentic looking passports printed by the terror group isis itself. an intelligence report obtained by abc news says isis is believed to have obtained a passport printing machine and it took over a syrian city last summer that is home to a passport office. >>> also new at 11:00 a show of unity, a gathering to show refugees from the middle east that to most new yorkers they are indeed welcome here. hundreds taking part in this show of support in columbus circle for refugees from syria and iraq. the demonstrators say they correct the wave of islamophobia that has swept part of the nation. >>> a dangerous fall. workers rushed to the hospital after a scaffold collapse. we're hearing from a an eyewitness who tells us what happened right before the >>> plus a close call on it's the holidays. and of course, everyone wants to get online at once. to watch things. buy things. but slow internet makes it hard. that's why it's time to get fios. it has the fastest internet and wifi availa

and are there others, are they based in the u.s., outside of the u.s. us don't have the answers. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> because last night -- we executed a search warrant on that apartment, and last night we turned that back over to the residents. once the residents are back in it, we no longer control it. we leave -- any time we execute a lawful search warren, we have to leave for the residents a list that lists all of the items seized during that search warrant. >> reporter: all of the ammunition that they had on them, do you believe they were planning a second attack somewhere? >> i don't want to speculate. it is certainly a possibility that we are looking from. >> reporter: were they acting identifily just with the idea that they were working for isis. >> we do not know that, but we are looking carefully into that. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> do i believe travel was part of this? we don't know. he traveled overseas in 2013. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]? >> remember, folks we're in day 3. so we'll get there. we're not there yet. remember all of

the u.s. used intercept stations stretching from seattle to the fill peeps to listen in on japan's every move. >> the u.s. navy have japan wired for sound, listening 24 hours a day to ever message sent by the japanese fleet. >> oliver: on corrigador, 24-year-old radioman duane whit lock was one of 71 sailors intercepting and trying to break the japanese naval code. >> when i first started intercementing they were using a character code, nine characters and a period and the japanese stopped using that code completely and started using the five digit code which the navy, we named it 25. >> oliver:, but to maintain security yamamoto changed the code. >> even with the number of people that we had, there was no way that that could have been broken in time to read anything prior to pearl harbor. >> oliver: war stories investigates tracked down forest byyard who remembered that august of 41 was a strange time in japan. >> he had a been living in tokyo for two years as part of a special u.s. navy program.

the u.s. used radio intercept stations stretching from seattle to the fill peeps to listen in on japan's every move. >> the u.s. navy have japan wired for sound, listening 24 hours a day to ever message sent by the japanese fleet. >> oliver: on corrigador, 24-year-old radioman duane whit lock was one of 71 sailors intercepting and trying to break the japanese naval code. >> when i first started intercementing they were using a character code, nine characters and a period and the japanese stopped using that code completely and started using the five digit code which the navy, we named it 25. >> oliver:, but to maintain security yamamoto changed the code. >> even with the number of people that we had, there was no way that that could have been broken in time to read anything prior to pearl harbor. >> oliver: war stories investigates tracked down forest byyard who remembered that august of 41 was a strange time in japan. >> he had a been living in tokyo for two years as part of a special u.s. navy pro

u.s. households use cell phones according to the u.s.stick that show more the cord onutting land lines. only 8% of households have just land lines. 42% have both. you can get more on these and other breaking news 24 hour news cycle for day back on bloomberg.com. david: comedy markets are closing in new york. let's take a look at today's movers. weigh ony continue to crude prices. looking at the opec meeting investors are expecting the defensive market share rather than support prices. rose to a three week high. demand client for u.s. exports over supply and waiting chinese demand metal producers are battling to stay afloat. we entered the million-dollar question, are we at the bottom for commodities? >> i think the markets are still searching for the bottom. it is going to be the driver. supplies good to take some time to work out. china is going to take some time before we see what happens with the chinese economy. it is a soft landing or something more disruptive? we have a market making event over the next 30 days and that will see wh

the center for global development says christmas lights in the u.s. use more than 6 billion killowatt hours of electricity. researchers say that is enough to run 14 million refrigerators and more power than the total amount used in a year. countries like el salvadore, cambodia and ethiopia. they count for 0.2% of america's electricity usage. >>> oracle arena will be rocking this afternoon. it's the most anticipated game so far of the nba region. the warriors will take on the cleveland cavaliers in the rematch of the nba finals. the two teams last played each other in mid june. the warriors took game six in cleveland and won their first championship in 40 years. we all remember how that story ended happily. the kick-off today is at 2:00 p.m. and every fan in attendance will receive a christmas white-out tee shirt. >>> well, 49ers coaches are giving a christmas present to their players. the team will have more time today to spend with their families. normally, the 49ers travel on a friday for a sunday game that is at least one time zone away. but the team w

u.s. wins the 2015 women's world cup! >> reporter: from the soccer field to center stage. women inspired us all. the u.s. women's national soccer team showed us all that teamwork and determination can lead to greatness. >> u.s. women's soccer team kicked some a. this was the year of the woman. >> i think that was a nice example of what society can be as a whole if we started maximizing the potential in each other and stopped being divisive and keeping each other a. >> viola davis, "how to get away with murder." >> reporter: with her win, viola davis was the first african-american woman to take home the emmy in the drama category. for her lead role in "how to get away with murder." >> we won because i did my job. >> when you're a kid sitting there watching tv, whether you're black or brown or of any color, and you see someone who looks just like you, then you believe all things are possible. >> the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. talent really does win out in the end. >> reporter: off the stage and field there were so many heroes among us. the families of the charl

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to be trend growth, and the u.s. used to be 3% or above right now i think it is 2%. there is a lot of new news to consider here. we talked about divergence being a widely telegraphed the man -- theme. what does the face of divergence look like in 2016? it will depend upon factors, but: look in a way we are not anticipating that how will it look in a way we are not ?nticipatin ada eased in the first part of the new year. many other eased as well. the ecb is still easy, they may have to ease more next year. is movingf the pane japan aggressively. des areh bla diverging, and then we will get to where other central banks will stop using, and start typing. coming back together. get back toentually their old records of $.82. scarlet: eventually. you are staying with us, because coming up we're talking about inflation. we discuss what the current rates and what the fed may not be factoring in. ♪ scarlet: i am scarlet fu. what'd you miss? let's get to first word news. ramy: the u.s. says that islamic operatives with close ties attacksarents terror has been killed. use army s

now first up the water bottle, by some estimates here in the u.s. we use 50 billion of these every year and myth number one is that this is going to be recycled. >> correct, actually it's probably not going to be recycled. a lot of water bottles that we think are headed for recycling facilities end up in landfills and those landfills can have some really negative impacts on the surrounding communities. >> it's actually quite shocking that a material that is designed to be used over and over again actually only gets used once and what we've done is take a water bottle just like this and follow its journey after its been blue binned to see exactly what happens. >> the world is addicted to plastic. it was sold to us as the product of the future... >> plastic... plastic... plastic. >> this educational video from the 1940s celebrates the convenience of plastic. >> here they are in our homes, augmenting our comforts... >> back then it was a symbol of the modern times to come. 6-decades later, the reality is, the earth is choking on it. according to the united states environmental protection a

the commander told us, scott, once u.s. forces see for themselves what they're up against, they'll realize they need things like armored hicles and heavy weapons, in addition to guns and a aunition. he also said, depending on how things go, maybe america will send even more forces. >> charlie d'agata with a report from america's new battlefield in syria. charlie, thank you. >>> now the u.s. has also sent hundreds of troops to west africa, where islamic militantnt linked to o is are terrorizing villages in a campaign o omurder and kidnapping. the americans are there to support cameroon's army, and debora patta went along. >> reporter: cameroon's elite counterterrorism soldiers gear up for the day's patrol to the nigerian border. balaclavas provide scant relieie againsthe choking dust. they're searching for boko haram, the extremist group that has aligned itself with isis and killed more than 20,000 in the past six years. border towns like kolofata have suffered a string of attacks by suicide bombers recently. boko haram figh

us. why is the u.s. a little bit reluctant to saying job done?reporter: well, peter what they are looking at is trying to make certain that the iraqi military is going to be capable, not just of pushing isil out of key areas, but also capable of actually preventing isil from returning to those locations, and making it possible for the local government to reestablish control. of course one of the things that the iraqi military is tending to is trying to clear the city of bombs and other explosives that could prove deadly to the citizens of -- of ramadi. but this is a significant step ahead for the iraqi military because, remember, back in may when the city fell, there had been a lot of criticism that the iraqi military simply didn't have the stomach for the fight, so this is vindication, as it were, for the iraqi military that the government and military leaders have proven that they are willing to actually go in and do the hard work of reclaiming their territory from isil. >> when we talk about that feeling there in washington that the iraqi mili

. >> the u.s. >> us. >> me. >> the united states. >> the world, all of the above. >> fill in the blank, donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? >> your mom. >> donald trump is the worst thing that ever happened to? some say it -- >> starts with an "i"? >> isis? >> do you agree? >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> jimmy: there you go. america agrees. meanwhile, there's a senator from arizona, jeff flake, released what they call the waste book reports, an annual list of projects that this senator deems as a waste of taxpayer money. most of the projects on the list are science experiments that sound dumb if you don't bother to learn why they're being conducted. a lot of them do sound crazy. the government this year funded a study of monkeys on treadmills, wine classes for minors, a shrimp fight club in which 68 panamanian mantis other to see who would emerge victorious, sounds awesome, a tv show i'd watch. in maryland $20 thousand was spent to celebrate the pin yacht that. [ cheers and applause ] how do you celebrate a pinata? by not clubbing one to death in the titles in th

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using it immediately. research shows that the average runway model is starving.. literally.. steps to force those models to maintain a healthy weight. will the u.s. follow suit? stay with us.. france just passed a new law forcing doctors to approve the weight of runway models -- the goal is to make sure they're not excessively thin. and now, there's a call for american lawmakers to pass similar rules.. abc's reena ninan has more. they are the epitome of under fire from critics who say that most models are dangerously thin, sot - katherine record - 17055 the modeling industry definitely encourages women - often explicitly so to maintain extremely thin frames. in a new editorial - public health experts and eating disorder professionals say the industry body standard is hazardous and encouraging problems like eating disorders and body dysmorphia. they write?"runway models are, by definition and professional necessity, starving to death." they are urging the u-s to regulate and set a standard meet. just last week, france passed such a law requiring models to have a doctor's note proving that they are healthy. sot katherine record / harvard school of

the commander told us, scott, once u.s. forces see for themselves what they're up against, they'll realize they need things like armored vehicles and heavy weapons, in addition to guns and ammunition. he also said, depending on how things go, maybe america will send even more forces. >> charlie d'agata with a report from america's new battlefield in syria. charlie, thank you. >>> now the u.s. has also sent hundreds of troops to west africa, whe islamic militants linked to isis are terrorizing villages in a campaign of murder and kidnapping. the americans are there to support cameroon's army, and debora patta went along. counterterrorism soldiers gear up for the day's patrol to the nigerian border. balaclavas provide scant relief against the e oking dust. they're searching for boko haram, the extremist group that has aligned itself with isis and killed more than 20,000 in the sast six years. border towns like e lofata have suffered a string of attacks by suicide bombers recently. boko haram fighters frequently hide weapons a

and according to the "wall street journal", the u.s. used the information basically to send coded messages to the israeli government to back off. they site an incident with secretary of state john kerry basically announced that the u.s. was concerned that when netenyahu addressed that joint meeting of congress, that he might inadvertently release classified information, and they didn't want to see that happen. well, as it turns out, netenyahu didn't make any eye -- you know, make any revelations that could have jeopardized the talks. so there is the position according to some u.s. officials who spoke to the "wall street journal" that this was necessary work, and that they are basically not apologizing for it. >> rozland, thanks very much. >>> the french foreign minister has condemned last week's violence in corsica. jonah hull has more. >> reporter: the french interior minister was here on the mediterranean island in the capitol to see for himself the aftermath of damage caused when on christmas eva fire was deliberately lit here in this hou

u.s. could use the business. the percent of americans attending classical music events dropped from 98% to 29% in 2008. a small increase in ticket sales enough to undo the damage. >> symphony orchestras have to take a look at what the audience demands. >> reporter: katherine cahill is the ceo of the mann center in philadelphia and she says zelda and pokemon concerts have brought in up to 6,000 fans and double that at the classical performance. >> if you want to hear symphony orchestra, it may not be bach. it may be video games. >> it's story telling to the music. >> reporter: amy anderson is the music director and conductor of the zelda show. >> how is it different? stylistically, it's different but, humanly, it's the same thing. >> reporter: opening up the symphony orchestra to a new generation of fans like 19-year-old caleb pryor. did you ever think that you would be at a symphony hearing video game music? >> no, i didn't. and whenever i got the opportunity to do this, i was super excited and i'm absolutely lov

nato countries including the u.s. use that airport. we learned this morning at least 18 people have been killed, including civilians. the attackers and security forces are still fighting right now. and security at the airport has been increased. this all comes as middle eastern leaders are meeting to discuss the conflict in afghanistan. back to you. >>> 5:37 now. let's take another live look outside. the fog sitting over the district. it's really rolling in. will the fog be an issue by the time the kids leave for the bus stop? chuck will let us know in the next weather and traffic on the 1s. >>> and we have a warning to anyone who has recently used an atm in fairfax county. where police found a skimming device. >> and how this holiday, ford america's best-selling brand is giving you more. the ford holiday sales event... with 0% financing for 60 months on 2015 f-150 and focus and 2016 fusion and escape. plus 1,000 dollars holiday bonus cash on 2015 focus and 2016 fusion and escape. it's the best gift ever. now during the ford holiday sa

we can bomb syria back into the stonage, but if one isil fighter is willing to fly over to the u.s. usow himself up in a shopping center, there is very little that bombing can do about that. so i think we should be realistic about what britain's role can achieve, and it is one small piece of what needs to be a very brood, detailed, deep strategy. >> all right. thank you both for joining us on this news hour. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> an al jazeera cameraman has been shot in the head in syria. he is in stable condition in a makeshift hospital. he was wounded while filming by fighter jets on the outskirts of homs. >>> there have been reports that houthi rebels have taken more areas. >> reporter: the city of ta'izz has been besieged for weeks. houthi fighters backed by loyalists of former president are trying to maintain control. [ explosion ] [ shouting ] >> reporter: their enemies are soldiers loyal to former -- president hadi. some neighborhoods are controlled by the houthis, others by government forces, sa there's fighting everywhere. >> translator: i ha