gabe gutierrez, nbc news, aspen, colorado. >>> still ahead, a son's surprise christmas present proves that home is where the heart is. >>> with 2015 just days away, preparations are in full swing in new york's times square. today workers installed 288 newly designed waterford crystals on to the ball that will drop on new year's eve. they join the other 2,400 crystals already in place. more than a million spectators are expected to gather in midtown manhattan for the new year's eve celebration. >>> if you're unsure of what to do with all the empty gift boxes lying around after christmas, this next item may offer some inspiration. one mother in washington state has constructed everything from chairs to tables to lamps all from cardboard boxes. and they're not just for show, they're actually functional. the chairs are strong enough to support full-size adults, gives a whole new meaning to thinking outside the box. >>> this next video may have you rethinking what you gave your parents for christmas. a successful tech entrepreneur presented his mom and dad with a simple handwritten note th

this when it's in the best interests of aspen and the environment. there are many facilities and i understand koch generation is legal and the grid has to accept it. is that correct? does the grid have to accept ogeneration? >> i believe they do. if i can address your point, first of all, there are many opportunities to use existing diversions to generate hydro electricity which is of course part of the solution to climate change. and so my organization, american rivers, has worked very closely with the hydro power industry and with some people that would not normally be our allies on some legislation that passed congress this past year to actually encourage that kind of development because we see that as a good alternative to taking a wild and free flowing stream and building a new facility on it and damaging the stream in that way. as far as i think it's the capital creek project goes, i know there's been a lot of controversy here about it. american rivers was engaged in that issue through our staff based here in colorado to make sure that the proc

this when it's in the best interests of aspen and the environment. but there are many facilities and i understand koch generation is legal and the grid has to accept it. is that correct? does the grid have to accept ogeneration? >> i believe they do. if i can address your point, first of all, there are many opportunities to use existing diversions to generate hydro electricity which is of course part of the solution to climate change. and so my organization, american rivers, has worked very closely with the hydro power industry and with some people that would not normally be our allies on some legislation that passed congress this past year to actually encourage that kind of development because we see that as a good alternative to taking a wild and free flowing stream and building a new facility on it and damaging the stream in that way. as far as i think it's the capital creek project goes, i know there's been a lot of controversy here about it. american rivers was engaged in that issue through our staff based here in colorado to make sure that the

and she has received a plethora of awards including right here in aspen from the aspen institute the henry crown fellowship. marilyn pam she has a variety of credentials really applied to this conversation today is she was the c.e.o. of aveda. she was president of reebok apparel and retail group and vice president of nike. and she was awarded the reebok human rights award from 2004 and 2008 and she also as you learned the other day she was advisor to the bhutanese government from their transition from royalty to parliamentary system. eric snow is the founder and c.e.o. of medibrand. he pioneered the usda organic stamp soda, ice tea energy drink markets in this country. he also received the socially responsible business award from the natural products industry in 2007. and he's also the husband of marcy. so with that we'll start. i -- i've got to get mic'ed here. a as we -- you know, this is huge conversation, population and consumption. i'd like to start and what happened in the last -- or what was -- the discussion was in the last conversation about forests and impacts on forests ex

from aspen, colorado, this is 45 minutes. >> good morning. i hope you're ready for some climate science, and i know you're awake because those were two great presentations and we're happy to follow that. it's good that you're awake because i'm going to put you to work. instead of just listening and instead of me asking questions of the panelists at the end of their presentations i want you to do the asking. i want you to be thinking of questions during their presentation. so please write those down and be ready to engage in conversation at the end of the presentation. so, my name's cindy schmidt and i'm with the united nations foundation. those are two institutions that are funding my project which i would like to plug because i think it could be a good resource for all of you. it's called climate voices, the website is cly nate voices.or dwnch and this is a network of scientists across the country in all 50 states that are going to their local communities and are willing to talk to any group within those local communities about climate scien

. >> reporter: back in aspen.egant in a way. >> i think it is. the way people try to show off their wine collection people proud to show off their cannabis collection. >> reporter: for some ski towns the weed is not welcome, but for others the possibilities are sky high. gabe gutierrez, nbc news aspen, colorado. >>> still ahead, a son's surprise christmas present proves that home is where the heart is. ♪♪ people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although it's not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower blood pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include ra

whether you're impoverished in india or whether you live in aspen, colorado, or anywhere in the southwesteven in the u.s. because every bit of lettuce comes commercially from the u.s. and our grocery stores comes from colorado river water. winter lettuce. baby spinach in january comes from the colorado river. and lake mead, one of the largest reservoirs on the colorado river built by hoover dam, 1935, has now reached the all-time record low, 39% full. so we have this mentality that water is, you know, as long as our taps flow, no big deal. we'll just keep turning the sprinklers on and keep doing business as usual. and we're basically just eroding, detonating our reservoirs, our bank account water. what amazes me is nobody is really paying that close attention. a lot of people banging the drum but it seems to be one of these issues that goes very heavily ignored and now wherever i go whether it's locally or abroad i'm seeing the issue everywhere. water, water, water. fresh water is just vanishing. what i was going to do is show you a two-minute little video i recently did because i want to

on friday, we join scientists and activists at the american renewable energy institute in aspen, colorado, as they discuss the latest trends in energy technology, climate change, consumerism and other issues at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> what, then, are we to make of sixth great crisis before us? it's most important to note that but not a speeding asteroid rather it is us marching direction in this a most powerful way to do one thing, domesticate the planet. that's what's driving this crisis as we speak today. do withs this have to renewable energy? think the extension crisis above all else is a ourion call for changing relationship with one another and the planet earth. why is this so? why is the extinction crisis the clarion call? clear ast's loud and all clarion calls must be. problem.ainly a loud for those willing to listen, it's almost deafening. imagine with each passing there's a celestial bell ringing the heavens marking the passing of yet another miracle. clear evidence that something is amiss. over the long sweep, a billion years of multicellular life, there have been five

when it is in the best interest of aspen and the environment.es and i understand it is legal, and legal, and the grid must accept it. is that correct? >> i believe that they do. if i can address your topic first topic, first of all there are many opportunities to use existing diversions to generate hydroelectricity which, of course course, is part of the solution to climate change. my organization, american rivers, rivers, has worked closely with the hydropower industry and some people that would not normally be our allies on legislation that passed congress this past year to encourage that kind of development because we see that as a good alternative to taking a wild and free flowing stream and building a new facility on it. i think it is the castle creek project, i know there has been a lot of controversy about american rivers engaged in that issue through our staff based in colorado to make sure that the process through the federal energy regulatory commission was not circumvented, to make sure proper reviews took place. my understanding is i

tonight the american renewable energy institute summit from aspen, colorado. a look.hen are we to make of the sixth grit crisis before us? it most important to note that not a speeding asteroid. marching int is us this direction, in a most thing.l way to do one domesticate the plant, that's this crisis as we speak today. what does this have to do with energy?e well, i think the extinction is a callve all else for change in our relationship the planetother and earth. why is this so, why is the extinction crisis -- clear, as's loud and all clarion calls must be. imagine that with each passing there's a celestial bell the heavensad marking the passage of yet another miracle. and it certainly clear it evidence,lear inequivocal evidence that something is amiss. sweep aul over the long billion years multicellular life, there have been five the extinctional crisis that we are in today. not evidence that something is amiss, then i don't means.at amiss we understand the cause of the extinction crisis, it's human habitat degradation, habitat loss, habitat moddity species,n, inv

it is affecting bethesda aspen hill colesville silver spring. if today is your trash day, get your bins out by 7:00 a.m. you have 10 minutes 4 things you need to know. five people died in a ferry caught fire on its way from greece to italy. crews are still trying to rescue fewer than 100 people trapped on the burning ferry >> today a few for charles county sheriff's officer who died. the funeral is tomorrow. he decide in a car crash earlier this month. >>> d.c. mayor elect muriel bowser still ward 4 council member right now. she plans to meet with the police chief about recent violence including two deadly shootings in her district. >>> right now it is still unclear whether oil spots and debris found in the java sea are connected to missing airplaneirasia plane. >>> for today, looking at plenty of clouds. high temperatures will be in the mid-40s. most of us dry throughout the entire day today except for those of new southern maryland. dealing with scattered morning showers. by noon temperature of 45. 3:00 still plenty of clouds in place. cooler

and she has received a plethora of awards including right here in aspen from the aspen institute therown fellowship. marilyn pam she has a variety of credentials really applied to this conversation today is she was the c.e.o. of aveda. she was president of reebok apparel and retail group and vice president of nike. and she was awarded the reebok human rights award from 2004 and 2008 and she also as you learned the other day she was advisor to the bhutanese government from their transition from royalty to a parliamentary system. eric snow is the founder and c.e.o. of medibrand. he pioneered the usda organic stamp soda, ice tea energy drink markets in this country. he also received the socially responsible business award from the natural products industry in 2007. and he's also the husband of marcy. so with that we'll start. i -- i've got to get mic'ed here. so as we -- you know, this is a huge conversation, population and consumption. i'd like to start and what happened in the last -- or what was -- the discussion was in the last conversation about forests and impacts on forests exten

great ski country aspen and >>> hi, i'm brittney shipp. as we head into the rest of today, cloudy and cold conditions expected for us. our temperatures will range between 41 and 43 degrees. our wind speeds will stay light and winter officially starts at 6:03 this evening. your seven-day forecast shows we actually had above average for the first few days of winter. 51 on tuesday. christmas eve, mild. 60 degrees with rain expected. and wind speeds picking up. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> all right dylan, thanks. >>> the hacker who is targeted sony to stop the release of "the interview" appeared to have a message to the fbi. halle jackson is following this. good morning. >> good morning erica. virtually everyone in hollywood is watch ago as this cyber attack turns into an international incident. not only is the u.s. asking china for cooperation, north korea says if it cannot join the u.s. investigation into the hack, given what it calls slander by washington, there will be, quote consequences. >> as sony pictures wiped the interview

aspen is too old. anybody who can get all of them together is on to something.ate left to right depending on your vantage point, thomas hunger board who is the senior economic iics. that's the economic policyiness tuesday. you can tell er as the guy we would say he's disqusting. they can research the service. he hasn't yet touched c.e.o. or joint tax me. his resume is complete. so since -- since you're a certified economists. could you get this conversation any y talking a bbt at time, and what we know has been going on in these areas over the past generations or so. >> ok, well, i want to step back a little bit and we are alking about we are in equality. they will get opportunities or outcome. it's easier to measure economic outcome than it is to talk about opportunity. that's where we go get the discussion about consumption. in come a wealth of, you know, inequality. i tried in a world however you ant to measure sunlight. or 're looking and before ter the -- the and consumption inequality have been inequality. down 30, 35 years. >> the interesting thing about

from aspen, colorado this is half an hour. >> hi everybody. i'm -- actually we have decided to shift and not do a panel. we don't have enough time in 30 minutes for discussions so i'll make a little bit of a presentation. let me see if i can get this here. yep. there we go. i'm going to give a bit of a presentation on how do we -- how can we transform our food system to one that can truly nourish 9 billion people by 2050 while mitigating and adapting to climate change and restoring the world's ecosystem. and that's going to be the focus of my presentation. and then these two folks that are here with me, we have kate mcbride, who has a local farm here. she is going to speak to us a little bit about the beneficial role of live stock in providing nutrition for local communities. and we also have brook le van here from sustainable settings to talk about some of the exciting things happening here on the farms. out with a presentation and then we'll shift. we would like to discuss with you all these issues a lot more especially this role of live sto

. >> aspen and ainsley jones love being identical twins and play jokes on others. >> sometimes we dress alike. >> and trade shirts. but after an ultrasound tom and michelle realized their twins were in danger. they developed twin twin transfusion supply. >> it allows the blood to go from the larger twin side. the smaller baby loses blood to the larger one and the larger one gets too high, they used to reduce the fluid in the sack around the bigger baby but with it came developmental problems now he operates in the womb to stop the lopsided blood flow. >> we identify this and use a laser to close them off, the incision is around a quarter inch. >> fortunately for michelle and tom it worked. >> they were born perfectly healthy and they came home from the hospital. >> the girls love dance and dolls and are great students. >> doctors are not sure why twin to twin transfusion develops and there is no way to prevent it, but with the new surgery survivoral rate is higher and clickations are lower. >>> david is here now with another check of the forecast. we are higher than normal. >> normal hi

transit is being improved in other city like the free chivalry system in baltimore and denver and aspen and long beach interesting funding models huge ridership gains when we proposed that this study take a look at some of the interesting concepts the staff of the sfmta immediately changed the study and said oh, it's not a permeate but a concept there ever they didn't have to look at each time so it's a $173 marketing instrument and the mta grant police station please look at other concepts and initiate a hundred thousand dollars study for the shuttle users. >> thank you km and he's the last person to turn in a speaker card. >> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the fisherman's wharf representing the merchants in the fisherman's wharf district i'm concerned about the discussion we've had a survey i want to share the results they directly result to the t line the fisherman's wharf has been xefrns difficulty getting their workers to and from work a letter i found from peer 39 with when the center opened there was a mass exodus and american people employee getting to work and ge

aspen, $3 million?> the aspen company was the communications arm of price waterhouse that reached out, 1-800 numbers, mailings, over 33 months, helping to staff local offices and phones. it is a company that is in the business of helping communicate with large numbers of eligible claimants. >> if you were to do this again -- that's probably a big if -- what would you change? >> everybody should get the same amount of money. as i say in the book, if i were advising congress, one, don't do it again. it was a unique response. but if you decide to do it again i think you would be well advised, congress, to provide, as the law does today in some other respects, a flat amount for every eligible claimant, without variation. >> name of the book is "what is life worth," our guest is kenneth fineberg. thank you. >> thank you. >> for a cop oi, call 1-8p-662-7726. for free transcripts or to learn more about q and a, visit us at q and a.org. >> q and a is 10 years old in each interview is available online at c-span.

i'm so glad we have not only a full house at the aspen institute, but that c-span is here so we'll have an audience. let me very briefly introduced dr. francis collins. director of the national institutes of health, the larger biomedical research in the world. he is renowned for his leadership as the genome project. among many awards, the national medal of science and presidential medal of freedom. welcome. dr. ronald depinho, president of the university of texas where he leads groundbreaking research. he was also the founding director of the belfry institute for applied cancer research. he has received many honors and awards and found this there will biopharmaceutical companies focused on cancer. thank you for being here today. i will post questions myself in the later open the floor to questions from you all. keep that in mind. we are going to answer the question, how close we are to curing cancer? i think we will start looking back. dr. collins, you received your medical degree six years after president nixon declared a war on cancer. tell us what the assumptions were then about curi

[applause] the author and founder of the aspen institute for the study of religion and liberty says the government should be the resource of last resort. in august he addressed the annual steamboat institute freedom conference in colorado which focuses on the free market, conservative values and morality. this is about one hour. what a great event this is and what a wonderful and warm people it's the name that we chose as our kind of icon for the aspen institute that attempts to engage religious thinkers to understand the moral foundations of things like private property and free trade and the input of the contracts and the rule of law and the like. he sent a lot of different wonderful memorable things that you probably know best of all his statement that power tends to corrupt. it's one of the most incorrect quotations in history. people usually say that it corrupts but it tends to corrupt and the enviable task once of correcting lady thatcher she looked down her nose at me and said okay. [laughter] carry along. but also liberty is the political and of man and of that is true enough. t

katie couric took a picture with santa in aspen, colorado, last night. i guess he was flying over.nt obama tweeted this picture of the first family meeting a group of young elves. the president wrote, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet. that's a good message today. a lot of people who aren't spending it with family, so just stop by, say hello, tell them merry christmas. all right. i'm betty nguyen. this is "first look" on msnbc. hope you're having a very merry christmas. ♪ i love my meta health bars. because when nutritious tastes this delicious, i don't miss the other stuff. new meta health bars help promote heart health. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line. ♪ >>> a cruise liner is sinking. >> my job is to rock 'n roll, not to rescue. >> almost 600 lives hang on in the balance, and the captain is nowhere to be found. >> i was saying may day, may day, we're sinking. and he would say what rank are you? i said, i'm not actually a rank. i'm a guitarist. >> five kids plunge into frigid waters. >> you don't do your job the best you were tr

katie couric took a picture with santa in aspen, colorado, last night. i guess he was flying over.resident obama tweeted this picture of the first family meeting a group of young elves. the president wrote, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet. that's a good message today. a lot of people who aren't spending it with family, so just stop by, say hello, tell them merry christmas. all right. i'm betty nguyen. this is "first look" on msnbc. hope you're having a very merry christmas. did you get chips for the party? nope. (ding) cheese plate? cheese plate. no, i made something better. you used the oven? boom. pillsbury crescents. make the holidays pop. into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards. >>> good morning on this christmas. right now on "first look," a big storm continues to push across the country, making it a rough go for last minute holiday travelers. >>> a new ebola scare. we're learning scientists inside the cdc may have been exposed to the lethal virus. how did it happen. >>> christmas in the holy

the american renewable energy summit was held in aspen colorado earlier this year. up next here on c-span, two keynote speeches from the conference. we'll hear from lester brown author of more than 50 books including "the great transition: shifting from fossil fuels to renewable energy." and mike phillips, of the turner endangered species fund. on animal and plant species that are going extinct. [applause] >> thank you chip. thank you for organizing our day and thanks for the invitation to come back again. my topic, as i recall, is the great transition. the great transition is a shift from coal and oil to solar and wind. and most of us know about a little solar energy and a little wind farm there. but things are happening very fast now. i think we're going to see about a half century of change compressed into the next decade. and we're going to see a complete restructuring after the world energy economy. a decade from now, the principal sources of energy in the world will be solar and wind, not coal and oil. so it's coming and it's coming very fast. just to give som

we could see as much as one to two feet of snow to the east of salt lake city and to the west of aspen. then as we go into monday we're going to see this turn into a rain and wind storm for the east coast. heavy storms expected down along the gulf coast states, and it moves through the carolinas on tuesday. wednesday morning, heavy rain from boston, new york, washington, d.c. along with gusty winds making a mess of i-95 and causing delays at the airports. then on christmas day it starts to pull away, but we will still see heavy rain in new england in the morning. we're also looking at leftover wind gusts and could see flooding rains. finally on christmas day, carl, it will begin to pull away and we will start to see some improvements. >> that is good to know ahead of a busy week, dylan, thanks so much. >>> when "nightly news" continues on this saturday, a disturbing new trend, guns that are untraceable and finding their way into the wrong hands. >>> and later, teachers giving some of their students the kind of christmas they'd never know. >>> we're back with a new trend that has federa

and katie couric with santa in aspen, colorado, last night.ted this picture of the first family meeting a group of young elves. the president wrote, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet. >> what did you tweet? >> i haven't tweeted anything. it has been a quiet day for me in the christmas eve spirit. what about you? >> no, i didn't tweet either. we're terrible. >> yeah, we'll get on it today. i'm ayman mohyeldin. this is "early today." we hope it is your first stop of the day here on nbc news. is a really big deal.u with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. attack the flu virus at its source with prescription tamiflu. and call your doctor right away. tamiflu is fda approved to treat the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursing, have serious health conditions, or take other medicines

on friday, we join scientists and activists at the american renewable energy institute in aspen, colorado, as they discuss the latest trends in energy technology, climate change, consumerism and other issues at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> what, then, are we to make of sixth great crisis before us? it's most important to note that but not a speeding asteroid rather it is us marching direction in this a most powerful way to do one thing, domesticate the planet. that's what's driving this crisis as we speak today. do withs this have to renewable energy?

then transitions into a snowstorm for salt lake city, aspen, two feet of snow is possible. monday night, here is severe storms on the gulf coast ahead of this cold front, rain elsewhere. this is a warmer storm. we're not going to see widespread white christmas here, but we're looking for heavy rain to start moving in. by christmas eve, heavy rain up and down the east coast. strong storms from the carolinas to new england. we will see a wintry mix through the western great lakes transitioning over into snow. by christmas morning, all of this pulls away. it will still be windy. it is heavy rain and wind that will cause a lot of delays up and down the east coast, especially christmas eve. it is going to be a little messy, but not looking at a major snowstorm, but it is rain and wind. craig? >> thank you. >>> president obama and his family arrived in hawaii a few hours ago for the start of their two and a half week vacation. but it was all business for the president friday in a wide ranging news conference, he slammed sony pictures for cancelling release of the movie "the inter

two and half years ago our next guest and keynote speaker was giving a talk on leadership at the aspen with a big idea. having just returned from commanding troops in iraq and afghanistan, he noted that for the first time in history less than 1% of americans are serving in our military during war leading to the complacent assumption that serving the country was someone else's job. he went on to call for large scale national service so that every young american could have the shared experience of serving their nation either in the military are as a civilian. this commitment to service goes out of its own service to country, and remarkable record of achievement. he has been praised for creating a revolution in warfare diffused intelligence and operations. a four star general, he is the former commander of u.s. and international forces in afghanistan and iraq. he's also the former leader of the joint special operations command, jsoc, which oversees the military's most sensitive forces. his leadership of the jsoc, which he completely transformed, is credited with well-known actions that ma

located about 30 minutes outside of aspen on 15 acres in case you are looking. 19 minutes after the topthe hour. a strong message amid all of the unrest. >> in 2014 if your life is messed uppi look in the mirror d see what you are doing. >> there can only be one north korea's message for moms to be. >> hundreds come together for an emotional vigil for missing pennsylvania college student shane montgomery. lighting scanncandles and prayir the 21-year-old last seen leaving a bar on thanksgiving morning. there's no evidence of foul play but they are not ruling anything out. a 31,000 dollar reward is being offered for any information. >> michael brown's stepfather is now apologizing for this outbur outburst. >> lewis head released a statement saying, quote, my emotions admittedly got the best of me. i was angry and full of raw emotion as so many others were and i screamed out words that i shouldn't have. police are looking into whether he should be charged with inciting a riot. >> one man's powerful uncensored message going viral. he posted this message in august but it appears to be resina

from aspen, colorado, this is 45 minutes. >> good morning. hope you're ready for some climate science, and i know because those were two great presentations, and we're happy to follow that. you're awake,that because i'm going to put you to work. instead of just listening and instead of me asking questions of the panelists, at the end of want yousentations, i to do the asking. i want you to be thinking of questions during their presentations. so please write those down and be ready to engage in end of then at the presentations. so my name is cindy schmidt. i'm with the university corporation for atmospheric research. the united nations foundation. and those are two institutions that are funding my project, would like to plug, because i think it could be a good resource for all of you. voices.led climate it's -- the website is climatevoices.org. network of scientists across the country, in all 50 to theirhat are going local communities and are willing to talk to any group those local communities about climate science, about thosee change, in co

from aspen, colorado, this is 45 minutes. >> good morning. hope you're ready for some climate science, and i know because those were two great presentations, and we're happy to follow that. you're awake,that because i'm going to put you to work. instead of just listening and instead of me asking questions of the panelists, at the end of want yousentations, i to do the asking. i want you to be thinking of questions during their presentations. so please write those down and be ready to engage in end of then at the presentations. so my name is cindy schmidt. i'm with the university corporation for atmospheric research. the united nations foundation. and those are two institutions that are funding my project, would like to plug, because i think it could be a good resource for all of you. voices.led climate it's -- the website is climatevoices.org. network of scientists across the country, in all 50 to theirhat are going local communities and are willing to talk to any group those local communities about climate science, about thosee change, in co

aspen institute ceo author of the innovators. walter isaacson is here. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> what a day. especially with what happened in russia overnight. the dow has flipped positive. session low is down 99 and a third points. currently up 80. oil trying to make a run out of it. >> and a little more stability today. and i think that is the important thing we're seeing. i want to show you sectors that have been horribly over sold in the last month or so. so any of the metal stocks have been dramatically over sold. they are bouncing today. the energy stocks in general likes the xle, that is the etf out there has been dramatically over sold. also a group that's been dramatically over sold, we don't talk about europe much. but here is your efa. and this is what's been going on in europe recently. that's been down dramatically. 6% this month. 10% year to date. that is bouncing a little bit at well. so the weak sectors are showing more stability and even a bounce today. that is what's helping the overall market. as for the russian stock mar

according to reports the plan was for the couple, along with their twins, to spend christmas together in aspenickly got squashed when mariah asked nick not to come. >> but why the change of heart? sources tell e! news it is based on a few things and mariah is upset with cannon. the couple announced their separation in august after six years of marriage. mariah said if he came by she was going to sing "all i want for christmas" live. >>> while we are at it, check out how christmas was for some other notable celebrities. >> britney spears in the christmas jammies spirit with two sons and boyfriend charlie eversol. looking festive in what we can imagine is colorful plaid. hard to tell in black and white filter. >> lucy hale and family in sweater uniforms. >> paris hilton posted the shot of her and the rest of her fam enjoying a nice dinner together. >> and shirtless. >> shirtless? >> shirtless mario lopez and family, looking more enthusiastic outside for their christmas day together. >> hey. >> the only one who doesn't have a shirt on. >> exactly. >> 41, looks like that. yeah, i will do that. cel

. >> this got an award at the aspen food and wine festival. >> won the grand jury prize. >> now you didn'that. that bit was cut. how did that happen? >> they did the dress rehearsal, said they cut it for time. could be they wanted to avoid controversy. daryl wilson. "saturday night live" put it on the wbz, didn't make the show. >> that was the only funny line. >> not arguing with maccallum. tip of the day, making your christmas better. nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes it's not likely to go away... ...on its own. so let's do something about it. premarin vaginal cream can help it provides estrogens to help rebuild vaginal tissue and make intercourse more comfortable. premarin vaginal cream treats vaginal changes due to menopause and moderate-to-severe painful intercourse caused by these changes. don't use it if you've had unusual bleeding, breast or uterine cancer, blood clots, liver problems, stroke or heart attack, are allergic to any of its ingredients or think you're pregnant. side effects may include headache, pelvic pain, breast pain,

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in aspen, for example, marijuana shops are just steps from high end boutiques like gucci, prada, and ralph lauren. officials say it's a way to target tourists but in another popular spot breckenridge they're taking a very different approach. the town has voted to kick the dispensaries off main street. as pot shops move miles away away from the foot traffic and that's angered some of the pot shop owners. >> you don't have to like it. you don't have to use it. you don't have to sell it. but marijuana is part of this culture right now and you do have to accept it. >> studies show 90% of marijuana sales are to out of state visitors. >>> the final preparations are under way in new york city for new year's eve. next, a look at the ball. you know that famous ball that's the center of the whole big celebration. you headed to new york? >> i've almsways wanted to go but i am not going this year. >> you working? >> i am working. but we are going to see a very cold new year's eve, so you want to plan ahead for that. take a look at that beautiful sunrise over cape may. a few showers in our area.