at which point i administered a drive with my taser to his stun. >> acosta's stun gun delivers 50,000 of electricity to his body, but the powerful jolt does not subdue him. >> when i tased him, he dislodged his leg from the door frame. he kicked me in the face, which time i backed and reengaged him and did another drive send. >> put it end. >> that swift kick fractures acosta's nose. though the second zap doesn't quiet him, he removes his leg from the door and officers take off for county jail. but he doesn't stay still for long. >> he's banging his head numerous times. worried about him injuring himself, damaging the patrol car. he'd be calm for a moment then escalate. be calm and then he'll escalate again. just screaming. he didn't do anything wrong. >> i didn't do anything. >> calling for his mom. >> i want my mom! >> crying. fits of rage. back to screaming again. >> ah! >> kicking the back partition. then he'll be calm again. it was a very emotional ride for him. >> i swear to god, do not touch me. you do not [ bleep ] touch any. >> after a bizarre 15-minute car ride, he finally s

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thanks very much, jim acosta.n with all the problems plaguing obama care, if they are eventually solved, there is still some research out there suggesting that having health insurance alone won't make americans healthier and in fact, in some cases, could do the opposite. let's bring in our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, who wrote a very provocative article on our website today, cnn.com. sanjay, you say the real question with obama care is will it make us healthier and you're a little skeptical. explain what's going on. >> well, first, i think that should be the goal overarching this. if you look back on this period in our history 100 years from now and people say did the actions at this time make america a healthier place. i don't think there's evidence of that. now, i will preface by saying i think insurance is a very important thing. it's a good thing and i think access to that insurance which has been driving a lot of what we have been talking about is obviously very important. but there's not a

in 2006, sergeant major jesse acosta from southern california was hit in the face with a mortar round in iraq. a 34-year vet, he lost both eyes, had his jawbone shattered and suffered a variety of other injuries. while healing, he was given massive amounts of drugs and became addicted. it took him four years to get clean. he now sits on the board of the independents fund which is raising money for wheelchairs for other badly wounded vets. >> sergeant major jesse acosta, when did you know you wanted to be in the military? >> my father was a world war ii vet and i would hear his stories. i decided very young i would join the military and did right after high school. >> where were you based? >> my first home station was ft. lewis, washington. >> when 9/11 happened, did that affect you? >> at that point in time, i was stationed in los angeles and that's when all the deployment started. we were stationed known also as camp anaconda. >> at what point did you face enee enemy fire. >> it was nonstop every day. since we landed, the c-130 would not stop and the chief saying we were under attack

. >>> hello, everybody i'm jim acosta in washington. another revelation about the extent of secret surveillance programs carried out by the nsa. this time it involves the agency targeting computers including laptops purchased online. first, it was the collection of massive amounts of phone and internet data that caused uproar. then there were reports of the nsa infiltrating virtual video games like world of war craft. now "der spiegel" reports the nsa has started infill straighting computers to install spy aware. brian todd, this seems almost unbelievable impossible to believe. yet, it may be happening >> it could be happening according to "der spiegel" magazine, essentially it's an elite group of hackers most of them in their 20s or early 30s. farce an the techniques they use, a lot of different techniques from remote hacking to physical techniques installing spy aware physically on a targeted computer. they essentially profile a target's computer by a hacking. that can track cookies that pop up on that computer. they can track -- even

to bring in two people to talk about this, george washington law professor jonathan turley and jim acosta at the white house. jim, i want to start off with you. you've got them talking about the economy, the problems that they're having with obama care w -- website. does it strike you as ironic you are people who collect information, they use it, they all sell it for profit, haven't always been good at protecting their privacy, now complaining about the government spying. tell us what this meeting is really about. >> well, you know, i think what you're seeing this morning here at the white house, suzanne, is these tech executives are reflecting a lot of the feelings that americans are having right now and reflecting the feelings of the federal judge who issued the scathing ruling about the phone records being collected over at the national security agency. these executives, these companies wrote a letter to the president last week complaining about some of this saying the balance of security has solicited too far to the state and this undermines people's freedoms and there has to be a cha

i'm jim acosta.ou're in "the situation room." >>> a long-running battle between republicans in the white house is reigniting over the deadly attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya. some top gop lawmakers are challenging a new report that undercuts their claims about the attack and allegations of a cover-up by the administration. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is here. we are hearing angry push-back against this "new york times" report that really started as soon as that report came out. >> it

senior white house correspondent jim acosta is at the who us this more on this story. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, carol. you set that up perfectly. the reason why the white house is putting out mrs. obama for two reasons. if you look at the last cnn approval numbers for michelle obama, we did this about a year ago, there were around 73%. so she has very high approval numbers and she is a much more effective spokesperson than say pajama boy who is of course the image of that young man in his pajamas at the white house and barack obama twitter handle tweeted out a couple of days ago trying to encourage young people to sign up for obamacare you heard mrs. obama saying in the radio interview, saying in another interview that young americans need to sign up for health care coverage just in case they get into a car accident, just in case some sort of medical emergency happens, they don't want to be stuck with medical bills. that's what she's going to be doing and has been doing the last 24 hours, extolling the virtues of obamaobamacare, why working and why

the aforementioned jim acosta has that story for us now today. what did he say?: that's right, brooke. i think you can describe today as, if yesterday was the obama care rebranding effort getting launched, today might have been an obama branding -- rebranding effort getting launched because the president went back to his base, was trying to rib up his base with two events in washington, one at the event center for american progress, a liberal think tank in washington, talking about the economy, issues bi s like incom disparity, called for a hike in minimum wage, extending unemployment benefits, but he wrapped up an event at the white house with younger americans, a youth summit here at the white house that goes to the issues that the white house believes younger americans care about. first and foremost on the president's mind, was the affordable care act, they desperately want younger americans to sign up. you mentioned the enrollment numbers. 29,000 in the first couple days of this month, exceeding all of what was picked up in october, and about a third, by the

such short notice to allow him to be here and in fact actually just after a while mr genscher met acosta at the airport brought him here to lynn and then again she appeared on german television in a short interview in which speaking for her to cause he thanked president vladimir putin for the for his release. expecting that because of course he will say something in thanks to former four former german foreign minister hun dietrich again she now that was reiterated in a statement from the german chancellor angela merkel mrs merkel said that she welcomed. here to germany and that she thanked the she trying times dietrich genscher for the work that he did in bringing him here and the german government for the work that they've done behind the scenes to ensure that because what of course he could come here to germany so that's how it stands at the moment we'll be waiting to find out what he says on sunday about any of his real future plans shar pei many thanks indeed for bringing us up to date. from q. . and the western wilds been debating what lies behind me how hot or cold skis rene's but

jim acosta has the story. >> reporter:the pouring rain never dampened the moment as the world remembered nelson mandela. president obama led a bipartisan us delegation of political heavyweights from the clintons to the bushes o honor the late south african icon. the president dubbed the man known to south africans as madiba and as the last great century. (cheers & applause) >>"it took a man like madeira to be not just the prisoner, but the jailer as well., to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you." >> reporter:tailoring his speech for both a global and u-s audience, mr. obama called on the world to never forget mandela sought t teams. teachings. >>"for around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger, and disease, run down schools, and young people without prospects for the future. >>but the message was also personal. >>"we must ask how well have i applied his lessons in my own life? it is a question i ask myself - as a man and as a president. he makes me want to be a better man." >> reporter:with nearly 100 world leaders gathered in this stadium,

spoke to a key witness in the eucharist case on the acosta has said has not surprised him hell is calling himself and his associates political prisoners. spoke about a quarter of course he can act differently now if he ever recognizes what his security forces were doing he will automatically become responsible i'm of the third year this case could potentially be is a further investigation into those murders and assaults which the company security forces carried out their goal ski has no other choice he will continue to insist people from his security department are political prisoners and he will pretend to be pushing for a picture against release responding to holder calls he is complaining his case was politically motivated the european court of human rights ruled eight actually had nothing to do with the political activities of the accounts who were not opposition leaders or public officials and also stressed the charges were not related to political life and a healthy core political analyst from the voice of russia dmitry babich said the associates of the hotel confiscate can hardly b

well the western media has been debating what lies behind the concorde acosta's release but politician paul hampel from the euro skeptic alternative for germany party believes there's no hidden agenda in president clinton's pardon the people of germany don't do know very little about myself. i mean he was known as an audit guy who had been put on trial in russia and send him to jail for the last ten years that is all you know that the people in the west end would have forgotten so quickly what had happened after the subject of the break of the soviet union the fall of the soviet union i mean it was in times of boris yeltsin they were the only guards which have taken over power and were most influential in russia until president putin came and you know be criticizing today the influence of the other guy in the ukraine for example but we welcome somebody a representative of the group who has been imprisoned in russia i think that to the first bet it is to the russian people as well that the other guys have no influence on russian policy any more it's into last ten years and will be bring

our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us now.it looks like the job market may, i repeat may finally be hitting some sort of stride. >> that's right, wolf. there's no shortage of new data showing the economy is strengthening but the white house is being careful about taking too much credit for that trend, because too many americans are not feeling it. it's more proof the u.s. economy is heating up. according to the latest jobs report, 203,000 people found work in november, and the unemployment rate dropped sharply to 7%, the lowest level in five years. add to that the fact that the economy grew at a rate of 3.6% in the third quarter, faster than initially thought, and it's no wonder the white house wants more. >> no one who works on these issues in the administration is satisfied. >> reporter: but analysts warn this warming trend is leaving too many americans out in the cold. >> if you're wealthy, you're feeling it but if you're in the middle or on the lower end of the economic spectrum, you really aren't. >> reporter: just look a

ambassador, i want to go to jim acosta. he's at the white house getting more information.you learning, jirm? >> reporter: we can tell the people watching us right now, we do expect president obama to travel to south africa for the memorial service for nelson mandela, hearing that from a source familiar with that kind of planning, and in just the last several minutes, don't really have anything more on that, about you as you heard the president saying in his brief remarks just a few moments ago, obviously nelson mandela is one of his heroes, somebody who touched president obama's life when he was a young man in occidental college many years ago, the first political act as a young man was to go to an anti-apartheid rally. that stayed with president obama all through his life. nelson mandela was sort of always with president obama, and as you heard in the white house briefing room, he said nelson mandela is no longer with us, he is with the ages. president obama tried to visit nelson mandela over the summer when the president was traveling across africa. he was not able to do

jim acosta is joining us to explain why. why, oh, why, jim? >> reporter: it's never easy, over the weekend there was a seen, senate mo majority leader harry reid called for a closure vote on sunday. the early part of this week, maybe as early as tuesday to get this deal through the senate that passed the house by a wide margin as you said, kate. >> that will not be in the senate. dick durbin said on one of the sunday talk shows yesterday they still need a handful of republican votes to push this thing over the edge. some of those gop votes started to trickle in. senator john mccain said he is going to vote for this agreement. late yesterday senator ron johnson a tea party backed republican indicated he will vote for this bill. that's an indication of where this is headed, but at the same time democrats and republicans are eager to get this to the president's desk for friday, when he is scheduled for a two-week long vacation in hawaii. one thing we should point out is republicans see this deal as pretty good politics. newt gingrich was on one o

jim acosta, thank you. let's bring in the south african ambassador to the united states, ibrahim rusul joining us right now. mr. ambassador, i want to convey once again our condolences to you and to all the people of south africa. you're making plans in addition of for what's going to happen in south africa for a major memorial service here in washington, d.c., is that right? >> it's absolutely right, wolf. i think that the idea of a washington memorial is really gaining momentum. and i've been in touch with our consulates in chicago, new york, los angeles, our honorary consuls from across the country and i've been in meetings tonight with the trade union movement, anti-apartheid movement, people from congress and the city and so forth. i think we are witnessing one of the most remarkable upwellings of love and support and admiration who want to pay tribute to nelson mandela. so we will play a part in washington, d.c. but i think that this thing is really grabbing the attention of people across the united s

senior white house correspondent jim acosta was on that call. what else did we learn? it is good news for this white house. good news for this program. but they're not out of the woods yet. that is the headline here. let's put the numbers up on screen. these are the numbers, the new enrollment numbers the administration put out in the last hour or so. basically what they're saying is that 2.1 million people have now signed up for insurance through obamacare. either through the federal or state insurance exchanges. 2.1 million on the federal exchange -- excuse me, 1.1 million on the federal exchange and 1 million through the state exchanges. in addition to that, martin, they're talking about 3.9 million people who have signed up for medicaid through the expansion of medicaid through the affordable care act and about 3 million other young adults have been allowed to stay on their parents' insurance plans as a result of the affordable care act. so they're putting out those numbers as an obamacare muscle flex at the end of the year. now, having said all of that, what we sh

jim acosta, reporting live at the white house. >>> worst approval ratings yet. just 43% of americans approve the way that the president is handling his job, according to a new washington post/abc news poll. today's meeting at the white house comes one day after the federal judge says the nsa's controversial and secret program of collecting americans phone records is unconstitutional. gathering of phone numbers, dates and times without any content was one of the first pieces of information leaked by edward snowden. aclu thinks this ruling vindicates him. >> this is what happens when important legal issues are decided in open courts where both sides get to make legal arguments rather than in secret courts where the government alone gets to present arguments to a court. this is, i think, a good day for edward snowden. >> as for edward snowden, he has something else in mind, too. that would be brazil. nsa leaker wrote an open letter to the brazilian people, telling them he would be tolg help brazilian's government investigate u.s. spieg on its soil but would only do

cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta is at the who us this morning. hi, jim. >> reporter: good morning, carol. i think at the very least it's on rick ledgett's table, that official you just quoted there in the "60 minutes '"story, said it's worth having a conversation about in terms of granting edward snowden amnesty for the documents, classified information he leaked to the news media. i did talk to a senior administration official earlier this morning who emphasized that is that official's opinion, it is not the opinion of the administration or of this white house and i want to throw up on screen, carol, a quote that was given to us by the national security spokeswoman, kaitlin hayden, with respect to that interview last night on "60 minutes" about edward snowden. "there's been no change in u.s. policy on this issue. mr. snowden is charged with a felony and he should return home to face those charges, where he will be afforded all due process," and carol, that is consistent with everything we have heard from white house press secretary jay carney an

for that let's bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta with more. good morning. >> good morning. you said titans of the tech industry. we're talking about the people at the very top of the companies. let's put them up on screen to show you the executives meeting with the president later this morning, they include tim cook, sheryl sandburg, eric schmidt and marissa mayer. they'll be talking about surveillance issues, obviously these companies are concerned. their consumers and customers have been raising concerns that they're having about the surveillance issues over at the nsa. also, kate, they'll be talking about healthcare.gov. there will be executives from a smaller tech firm that are sort of in the business of starting up websites, the president wants to hear from them as well, kate. >> i want to switch gears a bit just to ask you about the latest on healthcare.gov. we're hearing that the website's manager is delaying his departure from that post. he's supposed to be moving over to take over for gene sperling. why the delay? >> we're hearing tha

jim acosta is following developments at the white house. up, who is going as part of this delegation? >> you know, this is very interesting, kate. let's put this up on screen in terms of who is leading the u.s. delegation. it does send a message from this white house to vladimir putin and russia. the u.s. delegation will be led by former homeland security secretary janet napolitano and billie jean king, the tennis legend and kacaitlin cahow. she's an olympic hockey player. she is also openly gay. >> what are you hearing from behind the scenes at the white house, jim? was this done purposely to send a message to russian president vladimir putin? >> i think there's no question about it. keep in mind, this one quote which i think stands out from a spokeswoman here at the white house. the u.s. delegation to the olympic games represents the diversity that the united states has and the delegation is distinguished not only by government service but civic activism and sport. when they mention civic activism, that's clearly a message that's being se

let's begin with jim acosta at the white house this morning. jim? >> reporter: this report is at this review panel appointed by the president has made recommendings, some of them mr. obama may not accept. the recommendations issued by a group of national security experts appointed by the president could lead to the most sweeping changes ever proposed for the nsa. >> we felt it was important to allow people to see the full report, to draw their own conclusions. >> reporter: aimed squarely at the nsa's domestic and foreign surveillance activities revealed by the former contractor edward snowden, the report doesn't hold back, saying the government should not be permitted to collect and store mass, undigested nonpublic personal information about u.s. persons. obvious nod to the firestorm over u.s. spying on german chancellor angela merkel among other heads of state. and in a challenge to the culture of the nsa and its director general keith alexander, the group urges the appointment of civilians, not military leaders, to run the agency. the white house

sources tell cnn's jim acosta, several said they flew to washington to voice their concern on government hurting their bottom line abroad to the tune of $35 billion in lost business. several were frustrated with the white house's focus on the troubled healthcare.gov website. sources said the president said one thing he is not considering is a pardon for edward snowden. i spoke to a senior official who said the white house knows it has a trust gap. here at home with the american public but also overseas. that that gap has consequences. cost to american businesses, cost to american credibility. the president will look at these recommendations, choose which ones he is going to accept and i'm will, he is likely to make a speech in january to the american public on a new transparency for nsa surveillance. >> that's the policy. now let's get to the politics. the president is trying to calm the outrage over the nsa spying programs. do you think it will work? >> we'll see what he ends up doing. we won't know until january. the president is rightly focused on striking this very difficult balance.

>> according to sources i've spoken to and that have spoken to jim acosta, senior white house correspondente of the subjects that everyone really wanted to talk about was the nsa. and that was really why they flew across the country, not necessarily to talk about healthcare.gov although they were willing to talk about that. they wanted to talk about nsa because this is an issue as you mentioned before that is affecting the bottom line for these companies, which are international corporations that rely upon businesses and others thinking that their information whether it's on google or twitter or wherever, will be kept confidential and the u.s. government won't be able to access it. this could hurt them. at one point, one of the executives who was there, mark pincus, the founder of zinga, they do the game apps for the iphone, he suggested president obama go so far as to pardon edward snowden, the nsa leaker, the person that some people call a traitor, others call a whistleblower. president obama said he could not do that. some of the other things we heard from participants in the meeting inc

let's begin with jim acosta at the white house this morning. jim?is report is at this review panel

let's talk to jim acosta with more on the president's message about affording education, the disparityrrupt, et cetera, et cetera. >> sure. hi, guys. a couple of things were going on there. the president's message, let's talk about that for a few moments. he was talking about income disparity, income inequality and he laid out some markers for things he would like to see the congress pass, some things that by the way the congress is not likely to pass because it's so deeply divided right now. they've been at war with the white house at least on the house republican side. he's called for a hike in the minimum wage and says emergency unemployment benefits should be extended at the end of the year. house republicans have been cool to that idea. so there was a political element obviously to this speech today. he's also trying to reconnect with his base. i mean, keep in mind this base has been dispirited somewhat in recent weeks because of the botched rollout of healthcare.gov. so i think there's also some of that, as well. on that front, we should point out in the last hour, a source famil

and 23-year-old jesus acosta, a gang member from east l.a., is being released after serving four monthsou when you come back. >> all right. >> i'll still be there. >> you never know. that's why you've got to be careful. it's kind of good to know that you'll come right back if you're not on your toes out there. it's easy to get in trouble. you come right back. >> will they be back? young jesus has been in prison once before. and for anthony, this was his fourth time behind bars. ♪ one day you'll find me on the main street ♪ ♪ i'll be the one who's looking square ♪ ♪ oh yeah >> if the goal of prison is to deter, punish, and rehabilitate criminals, maybe folsom is doing something right. in the past ten years, folsom inmates have provided about 1.5 million hours of community service. at that rate in a single year, the labor saves community agencies over $2.5 million. the true test is whether these inmates can continue using the skills they learned inside folsom to help their community once they are released. for msnbc investigates, i'm john seigenthaler. >>> due to mature subject matter, vi

here's what he told cnn's jim acosta. >> jim, i, first of all, there's not an insurance policy called i think it's important to your viewers that they understand they're purchasing private insurance. >> still, the president didn't shy away from the term today when he was defending the law. >> that seems to be the only alternative that obama care's critics have is, let's just go back to the status quo because they sure haven't presented an alternative. >> so what's in a name? let's bring in our panel, editor of the "weekly standard," bill kristol, former arkansas senator and chairwoman of the it's my business coalition, blanche linco lincoln, and washington bureau che chief for "usa today" susan page. former president bill clinton is slapping down reports a few weeks ago he was trying to give hillary clinton, his wife who may be running for president some day, some cover when he suggested president obama should honor his promise, if you like your health plan, you should keep your health plan. here's what he said to cnn espanol today. >> many believe you did it to distance yourself, for

joining us senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, we just learned a key microsoft executive has been tapped by the president to come in and help with the obamacare website. >> that's right. wolf, starting with the change, the big change at health care.cov, kurt delbene who is an executive, a top executive over the an microsoft, he's going to be taking over the job of really leading the effort to make sure healthcare.gov is running smoothly. the white house has said it's running better than it was october 1st but they still have additional features to roll out over time, spanish language feature, also that small business feature. they want to roll out those efforts at healthcare.gov and delbene takes over for jeffrey zients who has been in the fire for the last couple months working out kinks with the website. it has been a rather coordinated move by this white housen an microsoft. it's interesting to note, wolf, that microsoft and the white house and the department of health and human services, they were ready to go when this an

up a democratic crowd today that called for lifting up the poor and raising the minimum wage, jim acostatoday. >> just as the president is trying to fiction the obama care brand, he is working on the obama brand. it is not just obama care. >>> president obama was on a mission to fire up his base. >> he laid out a decidedly progressive second term agenda. calling for a raise in the money mum wage from $7.25 to $10 an hour. he casted republicans as a scrouge if they stand in the way. >> it will happen if congress does not act before they leave on their holiday vacation. >> sources leaked out new enrollment numbers, some $29,000 signing up in the first two days in december. republicans argue that's not fast enough to enroll the millions of americans who have seen their policies cancel. >> what will these patients and families do when they show up at the hospital or need to reorder a life saving prescription on new year's day and the obama care plan is not yet available. this coverage gap is real. >> this is a big deal to quote joe biden. >> the president also appealed to another key part of

right now, we have jim acosta with us. you came with the president, obviously. >> that's right. >> what did you see in terms of security in the process of getting here, what was it like. >> lots of security, chris. there's no better way to get to a stadium than a presidential motorcade. when the president arrived in johannesburg and tried to make the trip into the middle of the city, there was a lot of traffic. he even got stuck in traffic at one point. there were people taking pictures of his motorcade, tweeting out the pictures of the president stuck in traffic, heading into johannesburg. senior officials told us about this speech, nelson mandela means a lot to this president. the president had not really been working on his remark for what he's going to be saying today until after it was confirmed that nelson mandela had passed away. he's been working on this over the weekend and on air force one. doing that, while he had secretary of state hillary clinton and former president george w. bush and former first lady barbar

i'm jim acosta. you're in "the situation room." >>> a long-running battle between republicans in the white house is reigniting over the deadly attack on the u.s. diplomatic mission in benghazi, libya. some top gop lawmakers are challenging a new report that undercuts their claims about the attack and allegations of a cover-up by the administration. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is here. we are hearing angry push-back against this "new york times" report that really started as soon as that report came out. >> it did. you know, it's the same repeat of the same debate that's been going on for more than a year over al qaeda and that anti-muslim video. top republican lawmakers insist al qaeda was behind the benghazi attack. >> there was aspiration to conduct an attack by al qaeda and their affiliates in libya. we know that. >> al qaeda is not decimated and there was a group there that was involved that is linked to al qaeda. >> reporter: but the "new york times" investigation shoots dow

sources tell cnn's jim acosta that several executives flew to washington to voice concerns over governmentline abroad to the tune of $35 billion in lost business. several were frustrated with the white house's focus on the troubled healthcare.gov site. at that meeting sources say the president said one thing he is not considered is a pardon for nsa leaker edward snowden. i spoke to a senior administration official today. he said the administration acknowledging that they have a trust gap here, wolf. that's not just with american citizens, but with foreign citizens and that trust gap has costs, and costs in american credibility, but also even for american businesses, the tech leaders in the white house yesterday talking about billions of lost business. the president is planning a speech to the public, likely in january, i'm told, to explain some of these new constraints, just to give the program more transparency. >> and which of these recommendations he accepts, and which he doesn't necessarily accept. he has to review these, i guess when he's on vacation in hawaii. rand paul was here in "

>> acosta of textbooks definitely has increased over the last number of years and goes up every year. most institutions that i am familiar with have a variety of ways that students can get those books. we implemented a program they kiev rent the textbooks so we always have the buyback provision to bring them back at the end of the semester. they can read to them. they have the opportunity to purchase a textbook as a nod to college provider right now what we have not been able to solve is the community college students who want to buy books electronically ian to provide them money up front so they can get those textbooks electronically. in providing money up front when students took the money then did not show up for class. so to balance that issue is the ongoing problem for us. >> geithner yield myself five minutes. dr. robin said, taxpayers deserve to know if there hardart money is spent appropriately by the government. you talk about the lack of the data points to show hall pell grant students are very id college. we have talked a lot but into the of coming reauthorization. them on

jim acosta is traveling with the president. he joins us now on the phone. good morning, jim. >> reporter: good morning, carol. that's right. i want to caution our viewers that we are in the presidential motorcade as we speak. so, sometimes the secret service in their protection of the president can wreak havoc on our cell devices. i don't want to lose you but it was a stirring rendition to nelson mandela. part history lesson and part celebration of the life of the man known to south africans as madiba. carol, you ran through really great highlights of the speech when the president talked about nelson mandela being not just a prisoner, but also the president who forgave his jailers. he also tried to make it a message that was tailored not just to a global audience but a domestic one as well. you heard the president talking about children suffering from hunger and disease, run-down schools. those are issues that people can relate to not just in places like detroit and other inner cities in the united states but in countries around the world. it was a message

. >>> jim acosta, thank you so much. great to be with you on the last monday of this year. and we begin with some of the biggest stories in a flash. we call it rapid fire. roll it. here's what's happening right now, waiting for a helicopter rescue in icy antarctica. ice breakers have been trying to reach the 74 people trapped on a research ship. earlier today, an australian ship had to turn back and abandon its effort, much more on the ongoing rescue effort in a couple minutes. >>> also today, football fans, referred to as black monday. six, count them, six nfl coaches have been fired today, and folks, check the clock with me. it's just 2:00 eastern time. how many more could fall and who could be next? we're talking with our very own rachel nichols about that coming up. >>> also today, the future of dre drones in america getting clearer. the government today announcing six sites across the country where drones will be tested. texas a&m and virginia tech. we're told two dozen states came up with proposals fr studying how to fit drones into our american air space. >>> and jus

. >> that was jim acosta reporting. was one tiny glimmer of hope for bipartisanship on the economy, when john boehner agreed to reconsider the unemployment benefits. >>> a special playground is being built near the water's edge in bridgeport, connecticut. they are building it in honor of josephine, one of the children killed last december in the shooting at sandy hook elementary. >> the theme for the playground, pink and purple because those are her favorite colors. she loved the beach and the water. that's why we're here. >> the project is building 26 playgrounds in connecticut, new york and new jersey. each playground will honor one of the children killed in the s connecticut. >>> coming up on kron 4 news weekend, there's a new holiday light show debuting in the bay area. we will take you there after the break. >>> beautiful, beautiful view at the east bay this morning. it looks chilly though. we will have the forecast in just a bit. [ laughter ] he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not. ♪ he loves m