[music playing] her name was carol jeanne meyer, though she was carol lubahn when all this happened back in march 1981, the night of the slamming doors, the harsh words, the car roaring away. and it's an old story, anyway. pretty girl gets pregnant at 15, marries the guy. pretty soon, she's a 20-something with two kids and a hankering to live, really live, for a change. and this particular pretty girl? terri meyer samuelson: she was fun. she was outgoing. she had a lot of friends. keith morrison: she had these two sisters. terri was the younger one, gail the older. gail meyer: we were very close and made each other laugh all the time. craig melvin: but carol lubahn wasn't laughing at the end of march '81. for one thing, she wanted to be somebody, her own somebody. terri meyer samuelson: i know that carol wanted to complete school and further her career. and that's when she went back to study architecture. keith morrison: sure, her husband was a nice kid. and she loved him once with all the intensity of first love. the handsome high school football player who'd hang around on her front po

first president you voted for, carol. carol: loved that story.im and his moral compass is certainly something that in this division we are seeing and money and politics that seem to get in the way it, is just something to think about in this current environment. vonnie: that was barbara perry, university of virginia's miller center presidential oral history program, cochair thank you for helping us honor the life of president jimmy carter. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: you're watching a edition of "bloomberg markets," the final day, almost final day. you've got me vonnie quinn , alongside carol massar. we will turn our attention to commodities. even with the light volume today, huge moves in commodities today. the front month contract is up 15%. other contracts are up 5%. really up across the curve, the most since the contract starting trading in 2012. this is the weather is colder. mike mcglone is here. is this just about the weather? seems like the most massive move. we had been moving higher anyway. mike: the proper question, this time of year,

carol: all right. think about for 2025, where i feel like a lot of things are going to come at us. an incredible deep dive by you guys and i highly recommend everybody check it out. happy new year. be well. michael mackenzie who keeps a watch on the rates market and certainly the treasury trade. we are going to stay with the treasury. you kicked off the story that caught our attention yesterday, the u.s. treasury department hacked by chinese state sponsor through a third party software provider. it is how the world works and yet you expect it to be safe and secure. cuity incident. firm. your thoughts when you heard the story. wendy: there are a few reoccurring themes we have certainly talked about before. vulnerability in a third-party technology that enabled the attackers to bypass security measures and access treasury workstations and documents. and the theme of while no one has claimed credit for this attack, a high-profile chinese state-sponsored cyber activity for these are recurring themes and ce

music: carol of the bells.rol of the bells, or shchedryk, in ukraine, was composed by mykola leontovych. this is where he worked as a music teacher in pokrovsk, a plaque now the only reminder. the hasych family fled pokrovsk this summer. they're now shocked at the scale of devastation. mum yulia says it makes her want to cry. but she isn't letting her daughters forget home or the signature song of their city. translation: when i played it at home, it seemed happy. - it reminded me of winter and christmas. now it's more of a sad song to me, because it reminds me of home, and i really want to go back. but for one ukrainian military band, it's also become a song to inspire resistance. they're even taking it to the trenches, with weapons as improvised instruments. translation: we'll visit any brigade on the front line - and perform ukrainian songs on any weapon. it lifts the spirits, those beats and rhythms cheer up the guys and inspire them to fight. shchedryk shows that ukraine is a civilised nation now at war, f

carol and i got together for a "sunday sitdown." ♪ good morning ♪ >>> it's such a thrill, carol. >> thankndmother and i would save our pennies and go to the movies. that was my outlet, my fantasy, watching mickey rooney and judy garland up there singing. i was so naive that good things would happen, because they always happened in the movies. so i never doubted that i wasn't going to somehow succeed. >> success came first on broadway and then famously on television. >> i just couldn't resist -- >> where "the carol burnett show" ran for 11 seasons. to an average audience of 30 million viewers. >> any other questions? >> including a special one -- her grandmother -- who got a tug of the ear at the end of every episode. >>> today at 91, burnett still commands the small screen, most recently with her emmy nominated performance in the splashy new apple tv+ series "palm royale." burnett plays norma, the matriarch of glamorous palm beach society in 1969. >> shake me another martini and let's play doctor. >> there's just one catch -- >> in the first three episodes, poor norma is in a coma, but it

those people carol service is designed as a celebré help us hose people carol service is designed asugh the darkest times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. time for a look at the weather, here's thomasz. yes, it is important because the weather warnings from the met office from a scale of red to yellow represent different things. so the red represents notjust impact but how bad the conditions are going to be. it also reflects the likelihood, so the red warning high—impact, highly likely. this is for wales and also areas around the bristol channel stop the red warning, which is quite

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carolers. >> thank you, mr. speaker, can i associate myself with the remarks of the prime minister and wish everyone a very happy christmas this year? >> hear, hear. >> for many of my constituents and indeed across the country, especially those in temporary accommodation, it won't be a happy christmas. on the tory's watch, temporary homes more than doubled and what is the government doing to support those living in temporary accommodations particularly this season? >> she's right about the appalling inheritance which included record numbers sleeping rough. almost 160,000 children living in temporary accommodation. we are delivering nearly one billion pounds to tackle homelessness including increasing funding in baldwin including housing support and with mental health and employment. but we're also committed to tackling the root causes and why we're building 1.5 million new homes and abolishing section 21, no fault eviction, something they said they were going to and repeatedly failed to do. >> in 2022, the prime

carolers, take it away. ♪ misfortune seemed his lot. me askpset the questions --t me ask thesk t judges. that's good enough for me, right? one more song, kennedy. let's takee mo it away. ♪ angels we have heard on hiwe high... ♪ >> that's fantastic! hand in the right key. >> angelic music. >> tom: kennedy, here's your bonudys points. can you do the chorus on the mouth trumpet? ♪ ♪ [laughs] >> do i get points if i harmonize? >> tom : sure. [laughs] >> tom: kennedy and todd! [singing] [cheering and applause] >> tom: thank you.appl dickensian carolers, another round of applause. [cheering and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> tom: welcome back to the great christma: s showdown. this next round is called the north been 17. did thd it? -- north "poll" -- this is thewd final word on christmas. your job is to guess what our super scientific survey says. green team, you are up first. the question is this, "the nutcracker", a treasuredasur tradition or a ballet bore? remember, it's not what you think, is what america thinks. >> i l

carolers, take it away.you tell a single sole what i'm about to say ♪ [cheering and applause] >> all right, settle down men's warehouse. >> okay now that was very good, you could all three points on that one. kennedy, listen up here because green team, you have another shot at one. carolers, take it away. on the 11th day of christmas, my true love gave to me. ♪ ♪ >> everybody knows this song. don't help them, audience. ♪ 11 swans a swimming ♪ >> are they write? start with 12. ♪ partridge in a pear tree ♪ >> she's going from the beginning. >> lords a leaping! >> it is not lords a leaping. let me give you a hand. nobody gets the points. carolers, take it away. ♪ misfortune seemed his lot, he got into a drifted bank. >> and then he got upset. >> that was close. was not close enough? let me ask the judges. good enough for me. one more song, kennedy. let's take it away. ♪ angels we have heard on high... ♪ [singing] >> that's fantastic. and in the right key. >> angelica. >> kennedy, here's your bonus points. and y

i'm joined now by carol lam, carol, thank you so much for being here.k, is what president biden did today, in pardoning his son hunter unusual, given what hunter biden pleaded guilty to? >> well, i think it's unusual, if you look at the history of what has happened, with respect to pardons, in terms of the timing, the closeness of the relationship here. although it's not unprecedented. there have been pardons of family members in the past. but what i think is happening here, to some extent, is is that president biden must be influenced to some extent, to the fact that the incoming department of justice and under president-elect trump is going to be likely staffed in the upper positions by people who were on the defense team for donald trump. so this has become highly politicized and highly personal. and basically, by not pardoning his son is leaving a lot of unknowns out there. because of the sentencings that were occur in this month of hunter biden, that's not going to end all the prosecution of hunter biden, in the sense that both sides can appeal sen

carolers. >> good.g wenceslaus looked out on the feast of stephen when the snow lay round about. >> there we go. what's the next line? >> you're looking at me. yeah. brian. you okay? this is. this is so incredibly obscure compared to one of the easiest. >> i mean, everyone here knows the line. >> everyone here knows the next line. >> i'm going to give you a hint. kennedy. this was a tough song. i'm going to give you a hint. okay. good. king wenceslas looked out on the feast of stephen. when the snow lay round about. it's about the snow. yeah. what kind of snow was round about? it was yellow. >> it know this is so easy. >> yellow, yellow. >> you don't know what it is. >> i do know it. you do know the next line of the song. >> sing it. jimmy, this is thriller. thriller night. you're fighting for you. >> sorry. okay, sorry, i sorry. >> the answer is the snow was deep and crisp and even you knew it, right? >> what are you guys know this red team? >> all right, you can redeem yourselves. listen up. carolers,

her invitation to the carol service — a recognition of her courage.g people together and i think particularly at this time of year, for many families it's a difficult time, so to be here surrounded by so much kindness, which is what the service was about, was truly special. the royalfamily has much to reflect on this christmas after a turbulent 2024. this carol service was a celebration of those people around us who help us through the darkest of times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. with me is our reporter meghan 0wen — what's the latest on the fallout from this storm? as we've been discussing, that red weather warning was in place, put in place by the met office from 3am to 11am in the uk. now that that's lifted, the areas that are most affected which have that red warning which have that red warning which include wales and south—west england and now still on amber. that's because there is still being affected by the storm, in fact, south and with mid wales can expect periods of heavy rain throughout the day and there is also a flooding

those people carol service is designed as a celebré help us hose people carol service is designed as celebré help us through >ple carol service is designed as a celebré help us through the darkest us who help us through the darkest times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. time for a look at the weather, here's thomasz. yes, it is important because the weather warnings from the met office from a scale of red to yellow represent different things. so the red represents notjust impact but how bad the conditions are going to be. it also reflects the likelihood, so the red warning high—impact, highly likely. this is for wales and also areas around the bristol channel stop the red warning, which is quite channel stop the red warning, which is quit we saw the flooding last time. where we saw the flooding last time. that 80 to 90 millimetres could fall in a short space of time. on the weather map this is what storm darragh looks like. the centre of the storm where you see the circle of low pressure is the calm. the strong winds blow around the centre. it is like a hollow doughnut. t

her invitation to the carol service — a recognition of her courage.d i think particularly at this time of year, for many families it's a difficult time, so to be here surrounded by so much kindness, which is what the service was about, was truly special. the royalfamily has much to reflect on this christmas after a turbulent 202a. this carol service was a celebration of those people around us who help us through the darkest of times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. let's get an update on our top story... with me is our reporter meghan 0wen — what's the latest on the fallout from this storm? very sadly in the last image separates there is the first fatality of the storm, and man was killed as a tree fell onto his van in high wind so so far one fatality butjust his van in high wind so so far one fatality but just a reminder of how dangerous that storm was and is still at the moment. but in terms of other updates, we know that part of wales are now experiencing flooding, due to that heavy rain, the met office isjust issuing a further yellow w

music: carol of the bells.n ukraine, was composed by mykola leontovych. this is where he worked as a music teacher in pokrovsk. a plaque now the only reminder. the hasych family fled pokrovsk this summer. they are now shocked at the scale of devastation. mum yulia says it makes her want to cry. but she isn't letting her daughters forget home or the signature song of their city. piano plays carol of the bells. translation: when i played it at home, it seemed happy. - it reminded me of winter and christmas. now it's more of a sad song to me because it reminds me of home and i really want to go back. but for one ukrainian military band, it's also become a song to inspire resistance. they are even taking it to the trenches, with weapons as improvised instruments. translation: we'll visit any brigade on the front line - and perform ukrainian songs on any weapon. it lifts the spirits, those beats and rhythms cheer up the guys and inspire them to fight. shchedryk shows that ukraine is a civilised nation, now at war, f

i also, russian to says on the list constant get to tell us, move about the killing of the ego carol of a well carry law. sonya is probably the cd and tried to remember anyone who was most senior than him, among the russian offices that died during this russian aggression against the graeme. he was lift, tenant general, uh 53 years of age. i basically grew through the oldest stages of minutes or career and he was quite an important person in terms of his position as head of the nuclear, biological and chemical protection of defense forces. oh rochelle. he is definitely part of the leadership of the defense ministry minister leadership of the general style. and he became quite famous or rather infamous. if you look from the graham, uh, you know, through the training lens full constantly cuz usually you grain in his public briefings of using chemical weapons of endangering of the situation. for example, a new or nuclear power plant in the ukrainian held a part of the russian course of life. so he was also a media figure and he's a liquidation by the granny is. of course, an old dextrou

carole. carole hines debut novel, someday everything will all make sense was a finalist for the nelson prize for a first novel and an american fiction award. her second novel, the vixen. amber holloway, was published in june 2020. for her fiction has appeared in journals including fence, denver quarterly, haden's fairy revue, cimarron review, literary review, and many, many others. her story pappy, jack, was selected by judge patrick ryan as the recipient of the lamar york prize for fiction. her short stories and novellas have been nominated for a pushcart prize and been finalists for the david meyerson fiction prize, the mary mccarthy prize. the new letters short story award at the disquiet literary prize, among others. and carol, well, are you going to read from the amber? the vixen? i. can you hear me? okay. i'm going to read from the very beginning. this is written as a jailhouse confession for the first person. narrator ophelia finds herself in prison after having committed a crime, whic

i love caroling. the caroling is a way to prepare the heart for christmas.ple think because i've got a voice for television, that i'd have a great singing voice and i don't. no one wants to hear me sing. i'll just say that first thing. is this your ploy to try to get me to sing? because it's working. deck the halls with boughs of holly. fa la la la la. back in the old days, caroling was also called wassail. and like the song, here we come forward selling. it's the original panhandling. it's people knocking on doors like, hey, i know you guys are rich. can you give us any wine, whatever bottom rack swill you can get your hands on? you know, they say we wish you a merry christmas. now bring us some figgy pudding. they're demanding figgy pudding, whatever that is. whatever. charles dickens. figgy pudding. what is that? who has that? they used to be everywhere. you'd find them at, at, at shops and grocery stores. of course, in your neighborhood, from door to door. i mean, at first, when you're a kid and you see carolers come, you're like, oh, this is nice. and t

her invitation to the carol service — a recognition of her courage. i think particularly at this time of year, for many families it's a difficult time, so to be here surrounded by so much kindness, which is what the service was about, was truly special. the royalfamily has much to reflect on this christmas after a turbulent 202a. this carol service was a celebration of those people around us who help us through the darkest of times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. let's return to our main story, storm darragh. with me is our reporter emily brown. the reporter emily brown. conditions and the disruption the conditions and the disruption has been horrendous. reminders of the latest going on. , ., ., , reminders of the latest going on. ., ., , on. tens of thousands of homes are about _ on. tens of thousands of homes are about power _ on. tens of thousands of homes are about power according - on. tens of thousands of homes are about power according to i are about power according to the national grid and early at the national grid and early at t

magoo's christmas carol. the muppets did a christmas carol every day in every way. >> scrooge is getting worse. >> you wish to be anonymous? i wish to be left alone. >> i would say that alastair sim is my favorite scrooge. and that version of a christmas carol is the greatest of all time. >> jacob marley in the story, scrooge is late business partner jacob marley appears to him on christmas eve. what do you want with me? he had died seven years ago, the same night. so of course, he's a horrible corpse. >> i wear the chain. i forged in life. >> each of these links represents a bad deed. and he turns to scrooge and he said, you already have chains around you. and then marley says, do you have a second chance? >> i have come for your sake. ebenezer. >> he's visited by three time traveling ghosts. who take him on this journey, where he looks at his life and he starts the process of the reckoning. >> one master passion engulfs you. money. >> when he chooses his career over his true love. that was a fork in the roa

the press retreated in effect that the carol dial hotel. and that was when many of the story is with basically if not the date line. the carol, the way certainly mentioned that a lot of the we was saying was from the caravel. the u. s. military officially joined the war in 1964 and hundreds of reporters, camera crews and photographers descended on psych on the hotels quickly filled up the passage 8 in building the hotel continental, the majestic and of course, the cat, ravel. it became a desirable location for journalists, particularly the american networks. cbs an, a, b, c. not only did they have the correspondence, like dan rob, molly, save the and others out on the field covering the actual. but they had an administrative stuff that occupied, you know, the sweets on the, the corners of the building lodge sweets and also it was made dozens of rooms, they'd rent a permanent place for locals. these price hotels was something of a spectacle. as a boy, one vancho lived in a small traditional house behind the carnival. from where he watched th

now, the. >> reindeer love, dear. >> i love caroling. >> the caroling is a way to prepare the heart foras. >> people think because i've got a voice for television, that i'd have a great singing voice. i don't. >> no one wants to hear me sing. i'll just say that first thing. >> is this your ploy to try to get me to sing? because it's working. deck the halls with boughs of holly. fa la la la la. up on the housetop. >> click, click, click. >> back in the old days, caroling was also called wassailing. like the song here we come a-wassailing. >> it's the original panhandling. it's people knocking on doors like, hey, i know you guys are rich. can you give us any wine? whatever bottom rack swill you can get your hands on? >> do you know, they say in. we wish you a merry christmas. now bring us some figgy pudding. they're demanding figgy pudding, whatever that is. >> what am i? charles dickens, figgy pudding. what is that? who has that? >> they used to be everywhere. you'd find them at at at shops. at grocery stores, of course. in your neighborhood. from door to door. >> i mean, at first when y

all of whom have been invited to the carol service at the abbey.l perspective. this carol service is designed as a celebration of those people around us who help us through the darkest times. daniela relph, bbc news, westminster abbey. the former beatles star has been honoured by britain's royal mint with a new collection of coins celebrating his career. the special £5 coins feature king charles on one side and a design containing references to support your record—breaking route career on the other. the 82—year—old who was involved in the design process described it as a huge honour, though legal tender, the coins will be in debt collectors and won't end her general circulation. do stay with us here on the world today on bbc news. hello there. storm darragh is going to bring damage and disruption widely across the uk this weekend. there is this red wind warning issued by the met office. these are really quite rare. it means a danger to life. the winds are going to be gusting 90 miles an hour through this part of wales, and for a while through the b

manager about what's happened to carol.t at home and was sent to a care home to recover. it was there that she met the man who took her power of attorney. her home was sold, most of her possessions were disposed of. she's now in the process of revoking that of attorney. it feels as though now i've... i'm back. she laughs. i'm back where i want to be, you know? yeah. but it's, it's been hell. she's on the brink of leaving the care home and starting a new life on the south coast. and although you're starting your new life with none of your possessions, ——it will be nice... yeah, it will be nicejust to get out and just to be able to do what i want. the man who approached carol is ron hiller. he is a partner in a law firm but not a solicitor. he holds scores of powers of attorney for other people, too, including maisie. she has got a lot of character, has maisie, but we'll it was an nhs social worker who brought ron hiller into maisie's life, telling her he was a solicitor and would sort out her finances following the death of

also with me is carole roth. dennis, good to see you.ining the conversation. >> thanks for having me on. maria: all right. carole, want to kick things off with you with the wall street journal writing about president trump's transition team, looking for pathways to dramatically shrink, consolidate the government. this cuts could include eliminating the fdic, the cftc. i've been reporting about the plans to consider for paul atkins, the incoming securities and exchange commission chairman perhaps if he would get behind an idea to merge the securities and exchange commission with the cftc. put the cftc within the s.e.c., advisors have also asked fdic nominees in the office of the comptroller of the currency if deposit insurance could be absorbed into the treasury department. they're talking about putting the fdic under treasury, perhaps putting the cftc under the s.e.c., your reaxe to the consolidation and the ideas of merging government agencies as a way to save money. >> well, certainly i think some could be thrown out all together. you

he was reall in carols and nobody knew. he was really in love _ carols and nobody knew.ew. he was really in love with christmas, a i really in love with christmas, a really in love with christmas, a real tragedy that he died on christmas day seven years ago. but he gave the world that christmas song, and i think people forget that the proceeds from last christmas originally went to band—aid, because it came out in the same year, 1984, and it continues to go to a charity this day. so he would be encapsulating the restless spirit by getting it for the second year in a row. ~., ~' getting it for the second year in a row, �*., " ., getting it for the second year in a row. ~ ., ., , ., row. mark, thanks for guiding us all throu~h row. mark, thanks for guiding us all through what _ row. mark, thanks for guiding us all through what we've _ row. mark, thanks for guiding us all through what we've been _ row. mark, thanks for guiding us all through what we've been seeing - through what we've been seeing transpire there on radio one. thanks for being with us. king charles has been

carol in west virginia, independent. good morning to you, carol. caller: good morning. host: we are listening to you. caller: shut it down. host: shut it down. caller: yep. shut it down. if they can't come to an agreement, i mean we have seen this how many times? and as far as elon musk and everybody, they are no different than the lobbyists that's there lobbying all the time for money. they are just lobbying against spending money. i think they should do a clean one. they don't have to raise the debt ceiling. look, we are going to run at current levels. end of discussion. you either agree with it or you don't. everybody else has to live on a budget. and washington seems they want to keep raising and raising and raising the budget. and both sides is doing it. host: carol, when you say come together, who are you talking to? all the republicans come together? and pass something with 218 votes? because they control the chamber? or are you saying come together with democrats and have a bipartisan deal? caller: i have watched both parties. i have watched the democrats pass s

thank you. —— carol 0f should remember ukraine. thank you. —— carol of the bells.eloping story in kazakhstan where authorities say a passenger plane has crashed with 67 people on board. dozens of people are believed to have died. preliminary reports suggest there are 25 survivors, and 22 of them have been taken to hospital. this dramatic footage shows the plane falling towards the earth, followed by a large explosion as it hits the ground. —— more than 20 survivors. the plane, operated by azerbaijan airlines, went down near the city of aktau in the southwest of the country. these pictures show rescue workers at the crash site. it is not yet known what caused the plane to go down, but it had reportedly been diverted due to fog. the plane was flying from baku, the capital of azerbaija, to grozny in russia. we'll have all the latest details on this developing story as they come in. the war in gaza has led to heavily muted christmas celebrations in bethlehem for a second consecutive year. festivities in the historic square of the church of the nativity were reduced to

——join singing christmas carols with special guests. —— join us here. hello. attack at the magdeburg christmas market has been named. andre gleissner was nine years old. his identity was confirmed by the fire department — who said he had been a member of the children's fire brigade in the town of warle — about an hour's drive from magdeburg. there's a memorial where people have been laying flowers and lighting candles. andre was one of five people who were killed — the identities of the other four, who were all adult women, have not been made public. the man held by police following the incident, taleb al—abdulmohsen, has been charged with five counts of murder, and multiple counts of attempted murder — and remains in custody. he is a doctor, from saudi arabia, and his motive remains unclear. his social media posts appear to suggest he had been critical of islam. our correspondent anna foster reports. this is andre, nine years old, looking forward to christmas, enjoying a night out at the festive market when he was killed. a fundraising account for his devasta

i'm sorry, i'm 66 and we sang the same carols. every village has its own colinda and even different melodies. movie side in northern serve, you is also getting into the christmas spirit. many people here are mindful of the festivals, religious significance, but they don't celebrate christmas in december to the orthodox celebrate on january 7th. in the morning we wish the 1st male person to enter the house merry christmas or the body. then we light candles and look for sweets under the table. my goes, my mother gets up at 3 or 4 in the morning and big spread in people to calling in at a client in the bridge. yes, that's right. the served christmas tradition is called chesapeake. so 1st the still has to be prepared to do is we'll dive into roots and moving into shape. then comes the decisive moment. and then i'll take some steps here. we have a cooling teeth washed and wrapped in foil then 8. so now we hide it in the go. yeah. so the belief is that whoever finds the hidden coin and christmas breakfast, we'll have good luck. the on y