aspercreme. >>> lance armstrong's stunning confessions.ood >>> lance armstrong sat down with oprah and bombshell after bombshell came out. he admitted he cheated, he lied, he ducked. the rumors he spent years to nine, the world trip. blood doping was his cocktail for cycling competition, blood transfusions and testosterone and on he went. didn't think it was possible. he admits using banned substances in the tour de france and says he was afraid of getting caught. listen to what he told oprah when he he asked if he thought when he was doing was wrong. >> was a big deal to you, did it feel wrong. >> at the time, now. >> did not feel wrong. >> no. scary. did you feel bad about it. >> no. even scarier. >> did you feel in any way that you were cheating? >> no. the scariest. >>> he had to look at the word she to see what it meant and he said it didn't apply to him. joining me as a sports columnist from "usa today." christine, extending interviewed. a full hats off to oprah winfrey, you can't really be to the devastating power of this segment. w

[ male announcer ] break the grip of back or arthritis pain with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> two states voted to legalize marijuana and same-serbs marriage is now legal in nine states and the district of columbia. president obama tipped the scales of the stunning announcement that he now supports same-sex marriage. >> president obama's support for gay marriage, how much is personal, how much is political? is this a game changer? you must be pretty happy that president obama reacted so quickly. >> i am. i feel so empowered. >> i mean, a big day for every, you know, every gay american. a big day for every american in many ways. whatever the reaction you had to it. how did you feel when you heard the news? >> it is a little bittersweet. i'm in north carolina and as a north carolinian, i was really disappointed with the way the amendment initiative vote went yesterday here in north carolina. but it's very promising to hear president obama finally come up and speak out on something tha

aspercreme. >> good morning, washington, d.c. foggy around white house there.ly, the fog will lift and it will be a beautiful day. glad you're with us here on cnn saturday morning. let's talk sports, shall we? >> yes. >> certainly the story of junior seau, very sad story, of course. you may recall he committed suicide last may. his family agreed to have his brain tested. long-time football player, 43 years old. it turns out that he has what's called cte, which is something that, you know, caused him a lot of pain over the years and alzheimer's-like symptoms, depression, forgetfulness, aggression. all kind of things like that. it all comes down to getting hit in the head. >> it came to his job. he gets hit in the head as a player on this team so many time s. over his career, the blows to the head have, indeed, cause this had brain disease, played pro football for 20 years before his suicide. his family donated his brain to science. hopefully, we'll learn more about this disease and how it relates to blows to the head. >> yeah. and he's not the only one. >> yeah.

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with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> two monumental shifts in american culture in 2012, two states voting to legalize marijuana and same-sex marriage is legal in nine states and the district of columbia. president obama tipped the scales with the stunning announcement he now supports same-sex marriage. >> how much of it is personal, how much is political? is this a game changer? just yesterday clay aiken said he wished president obama would, quote, hurry up. you must be pretty happy that he reacted so quickly. >> i am. i feel so empowered. >> i mean, a big day, you know, every gay american, a big day for every american in america, whatever reaction you had to it. how did you feel when you heard the news? >> you know, it is a little bittersweet. i'm in north carolina and as a north carolinian, i was really disappointed with the way the amendment initiative vote went yesterday here in north carolina. but it's -- it's very promising to hear president obama finally come up and spe

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> social media playing a major role in a teen rape case in ohio because so much was posted about it. two 16-year-old high school football players have been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl last summer. and much of the event being documented and made public via facebook, instagram and twitter by some of the high school students who apparently were there. i want to bring in alexandria godard, crime blogger. you shed light on this story. put it into perspective for us. you're from steubenville. >> yes, i used to live there several years ago. >> and so you decided -- you basically decided to come out and write about this because you felt that with everything that was known that it wasn't being investigated properly. walk us through that. >> not necessarily that it wasn't being investigated properly because i don't have knowledge of that. i'm not law enforcement. but there were things online that the local media was not presenting o

aspercreme. >> adele has done it again.he second year in a row her album "21" was the top selling album. >> and the "new york times" is reporting that lance armstrong is weighing a public confession. the paper quoting several people with direct knowledge of the people. he wants to persuade anti-doping officials to undo his lifetime cycling ban so he can compete again. sanjay? >>> we have been counting down the top ten ridiculists of 2012. tonight, it's number one. that's up next. >>> well, it's that time. we've been counting down the top ten ridiculists of the year based on your votes. tonight, we're up to number one. it features a little known holiday, a repentant anderson cooper, and an invitation for anderson we thought we would never hear. take a look at your choice for the best ridiculist of 2012. >> tyke now for the ridiculist. i'm adding myself again for losing it on air again. on last night's ridiculist. we added anyone who missed out on dyngas day, a little known holiday, sounds like a lot of fun. for the record, i

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.ef. aspercreme. >>> help is on the way for people who lost so much during super storm sandy. president obama signed into law a $9.7 billion sandy relief package. it was the first legislative package of the new congress. lawmakers will consider a $51 billion relief bill on january 15th. some people were outraged that house speaker boehner cancelled a vote tuesday on the entire aid package. sandy devastated parts of the northeast more than two months ago. >>> earlier i spoke with our political regulars. both are cnn contributors. a senior writer for espn, anna is a republican strategist. we talked about the fiscal cliff and the strategizing that newt gingrich did this morning on meet the press. he said the process has become a complete diversion from what's really important. >> we're going to spend 60 days or 90 days totally fixated on the media on the next big crisis. and the crisis will go down to the white house, and it will be secret meetings, and we'll produce 2400 pages that no one

aspercreme. >>> an historic night in america. fiscal cliff has been averted by a vote in the house of representatives of 257-167. that's it for us. "piers morgan tonight" is next.

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with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> we've already seen some bad medicine, counting down our 25 shocking medical mistakes. dosage disasters came in at number 20. at number 19, toxic transplants. joshua hightower needs a new kidney. he's on a list waiting his turn for the life-saving organ. a potential donor dies. joshua gets one of the man's kidneys and then suddenly, instead of getting better, he gets sicker. >> he was throwing up, headaches, had the shakes real bad. sleeping a lot. >> within months joshua is dead, at age 18. a doctor tells his mother he died of rabies. >> and i said, what do you mean rabies? like some foreign branch of rabies? or some kind that is, you know, uncommon or rare? and i said or the kind that you have vaccinate your dog every year for? and he said, jennifer, the kind you vaccinate your dog every year for. >> and just how does this teenager get rabies, a virus that's spread by animals? that new kidney he gets is infected with rabies before it even

. >> no. [ male announcer ] break the grip of back or arthritis pain with odor free aspercreme.l medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> the world lost some beloved entertainers this year, from larry hagman and andy griffith to davy jones of the monkees and adam yauch of the beastie boys, but two stand out, dick clark, the eternal teenager, and the tragic loss of whitney houston. >>> i can tell you're angry about what's happened here. the blame game has begun. a lot of people want to blame bobby brown, a lot of people want to blame the music business, some people want to blame everyone. what do you think? >> well, it's all of the above and a whole lot more, but it boils down to you. you know, i was introduced to certain people and to certain opportunities to -- to use recreational drugs, and it boils down to whether i want to do it or not. and she was a strong-willed, strong-minded girl, and i can't say that it's all anybody's fault -- >> would she have gone down that route, do you think, without bobby brown in her life? >> well, w

aspercreme. >>> from my perspective at least, he has provided this country an extraordinary service, we are safer because of the work that dave petraeus has done. >> before the scandal, before the headlines general david petraeus was on a mission to remake america's military but all that fell apart when he broke his own rule about publicity, never become your own front page headline. joining us now a man who knows a lot about general petraeus, fred kaplan. author of the important book "the insurgents." thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> you add ad post script about the paula broadwell affair. were you surprised as we all were when we first heard about day fair. how stunned were you. >> i was pretty surprised. as you know, wolf, i never met an unassuming four star general. dave petraeus was more assuming than many. this was a guy who when he was commander in iraq he just did things on his own. when he was occupying mosul and no command anywhere in iraq he opened up the boarder to syria, he set up economic enterprises, he held elections, all of this on his

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with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> vice president biden's proposals for reducing gun violence are expected to focus on video games and other subjects that should get people talking. the last ban didn't work anyway. when i talked about it with elcy granderson and el navarro, i asked lz his thoughts? >> it's interesting, there are three different conversations in my opinion, that's happening in regard to guns. the first conversation is about mass shootings, and what are we going to do about that, the second conversation is about the shootings that happen every other day in our streets, particularly in chicago. and then the conversation about the culture of guns, and that's where the movie violence and the video games come in from. i'm curious to see what vice president biden is going to unveil, those are three different conversations, you can't clean this all up with one fell swoop. >> i want to ask you about the strategy here, the president, he goes for an assault weapons ban

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> for a moment, as the new congress gavelled in, everybody got a whiff of bipartisanship. >> i present the people's gavel to the speaker of the house john boehner. >> but now as the long winter of the political discontent, raising the debt ceiling, preventing sequestration, and funding the federal government for 2013 and passing gun regulations or not, and tackling immigration, and to-do list for congress looks more like the new year's resolutions that you won't get around to. >> republicans in congress brought this house to a new low last night. >> the senate proceeded like a bull in a china closet. >> they are like salespeople who tell the customers to have the $30,000 car, but only pay $18,000 for it. >> now, a number of politicians, current and former, have joined forces to create a partisan-free environment, and called "no labels" they are pledged to a simple obligation, stop fight ing and start fixing. will the compromise and chances for su

aspercreme. >>> welcome back to "early start" everyone.llary clinton spending new year's eve in a new york city hospital. mrs. clinton is being treated for a blood clot in her head. so we asked our chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta about her condition. >> we do have some of these details now about what precisely happened to secretary of state clinton, and the specific blood clot. the blood clot that we're talking about now was unclear where it was located previously. but we now know it's in one of the blood vessels around the brain. it is not, again, on the brain. pushing on the brain in any way. but it is a blood vessel that actually drains blood away from the brain. it's called a cerebral vein. we know that in secretary clinton's case it is on the right side of her head somewhere in this area. it's called the right transverse side. let me show you the left side just for sake of demonstration here. if i remove the hemisphere of the brain here, you can actually see where the veins are, you see that blue area right there, that is

aspercreme. >>> late word that venezuelan president hugo chavez is battling a severe lung infection andhas respiratory insuffici t insufficient. he hasn't been seen publicly since he had cancer surgery in cuba more than three weeks ago. he's scheduled to take the oath of office for a new six-year term in just a few days. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton has been out of the hospital for just about 24 hours now. she's continuing to recover at home from a blood clot in her head. the state department says she is looking forward to getting back to the office and plans to return next week. >>> and a terrifying ordeal on a partially frozen lake in arizona. two teens clung to a dead tree for roughly two hours waiting for rescuers to reach them. the ice started to crack after they ventured on to it. they were reportedly treated for mild hypothermia, a very close call. >>> new jobless numbers will be out tomorrow morning, financial an lers alysts are expecting li change in the unemployment picture. indeed many expect at best very slow improvement all year long. some career counselors are ur

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with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.ief. aspercreme. >>> this past week, a photographer was killed chasing a car that he thought justin bieber was driving. it happened on an l.a. freeway. police say the man pulled over and walked across the street to snap photos. but as he walked back to his car, he was hit and killed by oncoming traffic. dennis, you led a push a few years back to regulate what paparazzi can and cannot do. after this tragedy, justin bieber said we need better laws to protect celebrities and also paparazzi. do you think this might spark that to happen? >> well, i would hope so. we look back at 1997, princess diana, that tragic death. we started in los angeles back in 2008 trying to come up with some new regulations. karen bass at the time was the speaker of the california state assembly, authored legislation on a civil matter. the next year, 2010, we went up to something very significant to take aggressive action. it's about enforcement. it's about enforcement by the local law enforcement but clearly ther

aspercreme. >>> time now get the latest on some other stories we're following. isha is back a 360 news bulletin. >>> the united nations says the death toll in syria has now passed 60,000, even higher than anyone had thought. at least 74 people were killed today in a government air strike on a fuel station outside damascus. that's according to opposition activists. the united nations said deaths have increased from 1,000 per month in the summer of 2011 to more than 5,000 per month since july. >>> the fbi performed 2.8 million background checks on people wanting to buy guns in december. a record month that capped a record year. >> avis budget group has agreed to buy the popular urban car sharing service zipcar for $500 million. it plans to use its fleet of rental cars to beef up zipcar on weekends when demand is high. >> and welcome back hanna storm in her first public appearance since a gas grill exploded in her face. she suffered first and second-degree burns and lost her eyelashes, eyebrows and much of her hair. it's good to see her back. >> she looks terrific.

aspercreme. >>> look at a live picture from times square, new york city. they're getting ready, counting done to 2013 as well. we're going to have live coverage of what will happen in times square later tonight. our own anderson cooper and kathy griffin will be anchoring our coverage from times square. that starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern. getting ready for midnight. we're also going live to london. take a look at this. they're counting down. six, five, let's watch the new year coming in in the british capital. [ bells tolling ] >>> all right, they're celebrating in london. it's 2013 in london right now. look at those amazing, amazing fireworks in the british capital. they're celebrating there. they're celebrating around the world. meanwhile, we're getting ready to celebrate in the united states as well. for now, there's breaking news we're covering. the united states of america is getting ready to go over the fiscal cliff even though it's got a deal maybe close in hand. i'm wolf blitzer. i'm reporting in washington. >> lawmakers and vice president biden stru

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aspercreme. >>> we're back with our panel. minute we have left, overall, bill, do you think this was a mistake? >> i think it was an amazing first step. i think he failed in a lot of key places. he came through in a few big places. i think he's got a lot of work to do. >> big mistake. >> and betsy, your thought? >> lance can still redeem himself, if he will tell the truth, again. one more time. but he's got to meet with the united states anti-doping agency. he's got to meet with wada and he has to be 100% honest, truthful. tell them everything. because there is no way he pulled off the biggest fraud in the history of sport by himself. >> this was a big gamble for him. do you think it was a mistake? >> i think it was a mistake. these are conversations that probably should have been in private. to do it in front of millions of people without a net. that's how he's operated his whole life to take these big gambles. i don't think this worked. he does have a place to go forward from. it definitely can't get worse. >> legally, jeff?

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> the tragedy in newtown is reenergizing activists who want new restrictions on gun ownership. but gun rights activists are pointing to a different shooting to defend their point of view. a woman and her two children fled to their attic in atlanta last week as a man with a crowbar forced his way into their home. she took a loaded .38 revolver with her. she called her husband at work who called 911. the intruder forced his way into the house, broke through two more locked doors and eventually discovered the woman and her kids. her husband on the phone with the 911 operator described what happened next. >> she shot him. she's shooting him. she's shooting him. she's shooting him. >> okay. >> shoot him again. shoot him. oh, no. >> joining me now is sheriff joe chapman of walton county, georgia, outside atlanta where the incident happened. sheriff, thank you very much for joining us here tonight. this woman fired all six bullets hitting the suspec

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> the tragedy in newtown is reenergizing activists who want new restrictions on gun ownership. but gun rights activists are pointing to a different shooting to defend their point of view. a woman and her two children fled to their attic in atlanta last week as a man with a crowbar forced his way into their home. she took a loaded .38 revolver with her. she called her husband at work who called 911. the intruder forced his way into the house, broke through two more locked doors and eventually discovered the woman and her kids. her husband on the phone with the 911 operator described what happened next. >> she shot him. she's shooting him. she's shooting him. she's shooting him. >> okay. >> shoot him again. shoot him. oh, no. >> joining me now is sheriff joe chapman of walton county, georgia, outside atlanta where the incident happened. sheriff, thank you very much for joining us here tonight. this woman fired all six bullets hitting the suspec

aspercreme. >>> checking top stories now, a new report says lance armstrong is about to admit to doping during his cycling career. "usa today" reports he will admit it to oprah winfrey in an interview on monday. he has vehementally denied using performance-enhancing drugs and has even sued people who said that he did. >>> the flu epidemic continues to spread. cdc is reporting that 47 states are reporting widespread flu and two more children have died, bringing the total deaths this season up to 20. the number of reported u.s. cases has decreased, especially in the south. too soon to tell, though, if the season has actually peaked. >>> thanks so much for watching today. i'll see you back here at the top. hour. >> we have a lot to talk about. we really do. your "your bottom line" starts right now. >> thank you, randi and victor. see you at the top of the hour. >>> suddenly, and maybe only for a moment, gun advocates and gun company investors are truly worried. good morning. i'm christine romans. a year marked with obsession of budgets and elections, 2013 is shaping up a little different.

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. so all you notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> hurricane sandy victims may be in the eye of another storm but this one is all hot air. it is a political storm. today the house passed the first part of a sandy disaster relief package, $9.7 billion but it was supposed to be $60 billion. so some republicans howled after speakerer john boehner scrapped a vote on that. new jersey governor said this is why americans hate congress. the house is going to consider the rest of everything, the rest of the $51 billion later on this month. in the meantime eral lewis joins us from new york. i want to quote for our audience something you wrote in that piece. i would love it if you could lay out for me what that war really looks like when it comes to people and exactly what they are saying to each other. >> there are those who come to congress and it really reflects what you were talking about, some come to congress and say this is my position. i will stand on it and die on it. you can vote me out of o

aspercreme. . >> transocean. you have heard that name. maker of the oil drilling equipment on the ill-fated deep water horizon rig agreed to pay $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines for their role in the 2010 bp oil spill in the gulf of mexico. david matingly joins me now. this is millions less than the company set aside. why this figure and is this settlement an admission of fault? >> it is clearly an admission and that is what is so significant with the settlement with the government. the justice department putting out a statement saying this is a transocean saying they were negligent in their role in the disaster that happened in the gulf 2 1/2 years ago. what it is also saying is this company is agreeing to criminal and civil penalties. at this point the justice department now done with transocean after transocean agreeing to admit to guilt and to pay that $1.4 billion settlement. that was criminal costs and some of that money will be going to the gulf states to help pay for repairs and for continued management of some of those bi

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with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor.ou notice is relief. aspercreme. >>> it took until the wee hours of the monthing but the senate passed the fiscal cliff deal by 89-8. now it's up to the house to seal the deal. want to bring in jessica yellin at the white house. the vice president meeting with the house democrats, very instrumental when he was working with the minority leader, mitch mcconnell. what's his relationship with the democrats on the house side? >> reporter: well, he's sort of uncle joe, if you'll -- if you will. he's the guy who sort of shoots from the hip, says it like it is, that's his reputation. and who can take incoming fire. if there's sort of decorum around the president where people are uncomfortable by speaking to honestly in front of him and the president has to be more careful about what he says, it's a different dynamic when joe goes up to the hill. so you could expect this to be a quite frank exchange where people who are angry will let him know it and there are progressives who think, as always,

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. relief. aspercreme. >>> we've been picking aapart the fiscal cliff deal so you know what's in it. one of the big winners in this deal is the renewable energy industry. it's actually got a one-year tax credit extension. we're going to explain what all this is about is with van jones, he's the former green jobs adviser to president obama. van, good to see you here. one of the things you've been pushing and highlighting here is this wind power industry. >> yeah up. >> how does it benefit from this fiscal cliff deal? >> well, first of all, it's just good to talk about some good news. i mean, i'm here in washington, d.c. people are depressed. it's like coming to a funeral. nothing is good in america. >> really? it's that bad? >> it's bad. listen, we did do some good things, and one of them is we got a bipartisan deal to keep our wind industry alive. there are 70,000 americans that woke up and went to work in the wind industry and they get to keep going on work. >> talk about the jobs. what

with odor free aspercreme. powerful medicine relieves pain fast, with no odor. relief. aspercreme. >>> losing weight and getting in shape, how do you keep the commitment to a healthier lifestyle after the novelty wears off? joining me from l.a. jerry anderson. i know you have some guns there. you have a seven-day solution. >> i'm trying. oh, definitely have a search-day solution to your new year's resolution which is fantastic. a lot of people start their programs, and they don't know where they're going and abandon them in 20 days. we have the seven day solution for you. let's jump in. >> what are we doing monday? >> no meat on monday for breakfast, lunch or dinner. you save 300 to 500 calories if you do that monday. go meatless monday. it's fantastic. it will get you into a healthy mindset. sets up for tuts. what about tuesday? >> toning tuesday. tone up on tuesday and get some weights and do some curls and shoulder presses and right at home. don't even leave the house. grab your weights and work out. tone up on tuesday and take a shower and go to work. >> it

aspercreme. >>> two breaking news stories we're covering for you today. first, let's talk about this one first, in new york city. pier 11 near wall street. ferry ferrying people from new jersey down to wall street on the east river blams into the dock. there's a gaping hole in the boat. 50 people injured. one of them critically. many of them had neck injuries. some of them had head injuries. wabc, our affiliate in new york, their chopper pilot describes the scene. >> well, i haven't gotten any more official information, i'm just going with what i'm watching here at the scene. you can take that injury count now up to around 20. that's how many patients we count, again, on the ground, you can see on those stretchers and in wheelchairs. one other note in the rear of the boat, we just saw them, are they coming out with another injury right there? yes. injured people are still coming off of the boat. there's one and another just coming out the door. we saw at the front entrance of the boat firefighters and ems workers entering with empty stretchers. so i would

aspercreme. >>> this story is for me and probably everybody watching.f you packed on a couple of extra pounds over the holidays, excuse me, you might not have to worry so much about it. according to a new study, being a little overweight might help you live longer. elizabeth cohen is our senior medical correspondent. i'm going to live to be 150 then. >> oh, please. you're one of the most fit people i know. >> it sounds counterintuitive. help us understand this. we can ditch our diet. >> we have been preached at all these years, get down to a normal weight, you don't want to be overweight, it puts you at a higher risk for heart attacks, et cetera. this study is very interesting. we should take it with a grain of salt. what it found is that for some people -- or this is the conclusion you could make, for some people you can be technically overweight by the bmi chart, but maybe your blood pressure is fine, your cholesterol is fine, you don't have diabetes, so you may be just as healthy or perhaps more healthy than someone who, say, is 5 or 10 pounds lighte

aspercreme. >>> we're looking at live p pictures here.te is taking place for the house speaker. john boehner's name on the republican side has come up and is widely expected to maintain that position. nancy pelosi, of course, would be in the minority position being one of the democrats and leader of the democratic party for the house there. but, again, you see the count is taking place. we expect to have those results in about 30 minutes or is so. we're told, and we're going to bring that live. we saw the 113th congress on the senate side, new members sworn in. we have 13 new senators today sworn in, and 84 new representatives in the house. 113th congress starts their first official day today. house speaker john boehner has scheduled two votes in the next couple of weeks on $60 billion in aid for victims of superstorm sandy after his fellow republicans including chris christie and new york representative peter king. they slammed him for canceling a vote on the money earlier this week. tomorrow the house is set to vote on $9 billion for fe

aspercreme. >>> new details on hillary clinton's health scare. the secretary of state is being treated with blood thinners to help dissolve a blood clot discovered in her head. the clot is located in the vein between the brain and the skull, and it is just behind her right ear. the doctors at new york presbyterian hospital say they're confident she will make a full recovery. her daughter chelsea echoed that positive outlook in a tweet saying, quote, thank you to all for sending good thoughts my mom's way. grateful to her doctors and that she will make a full recovery. dr. sanjay gupta has more on the possible dangers mrs. clinton faces. sanjay? >> we have new details about what happened to secretary of state hillary clinton. specifically where this blood clot is located. you remember before we knew she had a blood clot, she was getting blood thinning medication and we can surmise from that the blood clot itself wasn't located on top of the brain because if it was, actually pushing on the brain, blood thinning medication would worsen that, make th

aspercreme. >>> hi. we're in hong kong and it's almost midnight.ng in 2013 with the fireworks display and it's spectacular! the first time they've launched fireworks from both land and sea so you can see how many people are out here enjoying it from the boats and the harbor to the crowds that are lining the harbor here. we've got about 400,000 people lining both sides of the harbor. so wishing you all a happy, healthy new year. back to you, anderson. >> thanks very much. amazing pictures there in hong kong. >> guess what i have? >> what do you have? >> this is one of those moments -- don't touch my to e to try to make it better. he did say don't read any texts on the air. this is one i want to read or can you read it. it's up to you. >> which one is it? >> you want to cold read it? you sent me this text and i did not read a word. put on the rachel maddow glasses and let's go. this is a text from anderson on my phone. >> i did not send you this. >> woke up from a bizarre dream in which orsan wells was locked into negotiations on an island xanadu. as

aspercreme. >>> the manti te'o hoax is already one for the record books.s like a bad lifetime movie. >> reporter: just be glad it isn't your life. within hours of the new manti te'o story broke te'oing was the new tebowing. that is proposing to an imaginary girlfriend. the media's preoccupation with the mantei taio story. two georgians claim they discovered the body of bigfoot and displayed it in a freezer, that turned out to be a costume stuffed with roadkill. remember "paul is dead." of course, paul mccartney is still dead, but that doesn't stop us from getting turned on by listening to revolution nine backwards and hear "turn me on dead man." taco bell announced it was buying the liberty bell and renaming it taco liberty bell. and talking about telling ging a whopper, there was the april fool's hoax involving the