a la barry mcguire targeting the older demographic, older than carole king. we have to accept this overreaction is part of the sea change the way the business media and market work. you can't shake it. they want to shake you out about anything you want to own or might want to buy. at times we seem unable to secure ourselves against the media's gloom machine. instead have unlimited pessimism over all outcomes. how many times have we seen this happen? the market sold off based on instability in egypt and war in cyprus, the tragic earthquake in japan and the sovereign debt crisis in europe, which i think is mercifully over. what should you do during these types of scares? what's the right way to react in this kind of crisis? these terrific, nonsystemic risks, meaning the banking system in the u.s. is not about to go under, these can make terrific buying opportunities in the right stocks if you get it in your head. how? let's figure this out "mad money" style. using the method i would employ in my hedge fund i no longer work at and am retired from. the futures th

. >> carol king was a performer before the anniversary of the newtown shootings families gathered to remember those killed by gun violence saturday marks one year since the shooting at newtown killed 26 people. among them, 20 children. >> a newlywed who admitted to pushing her husband to his death took a deal in her murder trial. graham accused of shoving her husband over a cliff at glacier national park just eight days after their wedding. under the geel first degree murder charges will be droped and she'll face life in prison. >> north korea's official news agency reports kim juning un's uncle has been executed as a traitor. announcing he had been removed from duties because of accusation of corruption, drug use and gambling the uncle had been considered the second most powerful official in the north. >> the hawaii health official verified authenticity of president obama's birth certificate died in a small plane crash. the plane went down yesterday just off the hawaiian island of molokai. she was the state health director making headlines when verified authenticity of copies of the

. ♪ [music break] >> carole king performing at the vigil against gun violence at the national cathedralhington, d.c. on thursday. saturday marks one year since the newtown massacre. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> as south africa prepares to hold a state funeral for nelson mandela, we end today's show looking back at what happened on the day of august 5, 1962 when south africa police captured mandela. on that day, mandela was arrested while traveling in disguise as a chauffeur. he would be held in joke of the next 27 years. on tuesday, president obama referenced mandela's time in jail during a speech at the memorial. >> he would indoor or brutal imprisonment that began -- and you're a brutal imprisonment that began at the time of kennedy and khrushchev and reached the final days of the prison., emerging from he was like abraham lincoln, hold the country together when it is trying to break apart. >> while obama referenced the kennedy ministration and is memorial, he made no mention of the multiple reports the cia,

we heard from singer carole king, the world children's choir sang as well.here were some politicians there, of course senator murphy and blumenthal of connecticut. but this was really about personal experiences, survivors of gun violence, people that had lost their loved ones to gun violence both in newtown and in other environments all across america. they said this is not just about newtown. this is about all those who have been lost to gun violence in this country, speaking out against that. we heard also many calls to washington, to congress, calling for change, calling for stronger federal gun laws. we heard a lot of that. you know, the point is, this is here, two days in washington before the one-year anniversary of that horrific shooting in newtown. one to send a message to capitol hill but also to not be in newtown. as you know, that community has asked for the press to stay away on that one-year anniversary so this was a way for everyone to gather, to remember and to give that community time to heal. as we walked out, people lit candles. it was beau

we're going do hear from singer carole king, from the world children's choir and the speakers i mentionedthe bells will toll for three minutes before the vigil starts to honor not just the newtown victims but all victims of gun violence. >> poppy harlow for us at the beautiful national cathedral. >> as we go to break, i just wanted to pause just for all of us to remember. my mantra? family first. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive, i saw my doctor. a blood test showed it was low testosterone, not age. we talked about axiron. the only underarm low t treatment that can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women especially those who are or who may become pregnant and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may occur. report these symptoms to your doctor. tell your doctor about all medical conditions and medications. serious side effects could include inc

[carol of the bells playing] ♪ [we three kings playing] ♪ >> wolf: christmas is celebrated in citiese world, but what takes place in the austrian city of vienna

. ♪ this, this is christ the king ♪ >> reporter: at church, weapons put aside for prayers and carols.y also admit it's really hard to be so far away on christmas day. >> morning, sir. merry christmas. >> reporter: this sergeant, a 31 year old single mom works in military intelligence. she keeps her mind and body fit with her gym buddies. this is her first year away for christmas. >> my daughter says she wishes we had a genie lamp to rub it and i could be home. >> reporter: but she has skype. >> don't cry, baby. >> reporter: sergeant laura misses her boys too, but says she can cope. >> spending time here, i've made a second family. >> reporter: a band of brothers and sisters, sharing their christmas far from home. nbc news, kabul. >>> and one more note from afghanistan, a photo that caught our eye. it's army sergeant daniel purdue and his wife christina, about 7,000 miles away this christmas. he's in afghanistan, she is in new york, each holding up half a christmas card, then using an iphone app to combine them. on their facebook page, christina purdue wrote we may not get to be togeth

kings." ♪ >> other airports ought to take this into consideration and think about having carollers and acapellae perform because it gets people in a good mood. >> orangutan plays ukulele. ♪ >> here's something every single mom says, eat your vegetables, clean your room! >> now a video of all the things moms doesn't say. >> it's called [ bleep ] things mom doesn't say. >> never mind, maybe tomorrow. it will be better. >> i'll doubt it. here is a hundred. >> here is my cigarette. >> you've done enough. >> we wish. >> that's the one thing i always wanted my mom to tell me. >> the accents make this better. >> don't study all the time, your heads are going to hurt. >> don't you dare come home sober. >> that's great. every mom you could literally be going five miles under the speed limit and they're always telling you to slow down. >> that's my favorite. slouch a little. >> it is cold outside. you look like a dork in that hat. >> you think i'm printing the money? well, of cose i do.on mom. just call me dude. >> that's a good one. >> jumped out of the window. you wouldn't because you are such a loser.

king the first u.s. official to confirm the government's use of waterboarding to interrogate carol suspects i caught up with him shortly before he went to have served his two and a half years sentence i have never believed that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture in the hunt for whistleblowers journalists have been targeted as well u.s. authorities secretly tapped the phones of dozens of associated press journalists the partner of glenn greenwald who broke the story about in the states surveillance was detained in london while carrying materials from edward snowden to british authorities so closely cooperate with washington now accuse him of quote terry's. aaron swartz was neither a whistleblower nor a journalist when he was a champion of the free internet fighting against censorship details and advocating the online please. as much a question as possible on the government on january eleventh the twenty six year old committed suicide. prosecutors wanted to put him in jail for up to thirty five years for downloading academic articles from a subscription based researc

king. we often miss that when we just do the christmas carol thing.ut the fact of jesus is going to draw people from east and west and north and south. >> the nativity scene as we envision it today is largely a result of the devotion of st. francis, two had life-size nativity scenes with live animals. there are some elements of the way christmas is celebrated which go beyond what we find in the gospel text. >> so many re-enactments of the nativity show this drama about making it to bethlehem and how difficult it was. would he travel 90 miles with a pregnant wife? >> when i talked to my classes about that, the i always say, stop, pause, rewind. forget the christmas cards and the movies, because we need to hear what luke wants us to hear when he tells us this story. the story of the drama, the story of being pregnant on the donkey and in labor does not come from the gospels. if we read luke, she's not about to give birth as she's traveling to bethlehem. that they arrive there before she's going to give birth. >> not far from the birthplace of jesus is s

carol." >> there's a story. [ laughter ] >> a christmas song. >> chestnuts roasting -- >> by nat king colewritten by mel torme or a blazing hot summer day. >> really. >> yes. he said he wrote the christmas song, chestnuts roasting on an open fire on a hot summer day thinking cool thoughts and it became a huge hit for nat king cole in 1946. >> thanks for the history lesson. >> anytime. [ laughter ] >>> your doctor might prescribe taking it easy as a way to prevent a stroke. just take it easy details from adriana diaz on the healthwatch. >> reporter: anxiety may lead to higher risk of stroke of a new study in the journal. american heart association looked at pages with anxiety disorders. the symptoms include worry, stress, nervousness or tenseness. people with the most symptoms had a 33% higher risk for stroke. doctors implant hundreds of thousands of hip replacements each year. but a new study says the regulation process for the implants needs improvement. researchers in the uk found that nearly 8% of the devices were implanted without adequate evidence they will work properly. the study in

john king, many thanks to you. >> you're welcome, carol. >> i'm sorry?analyst, formerly with the fbi. am i right, lou? >> actually, i'm from the police department. >> you get this report that comes in about possible explosives in a building in four buildings on harvard's campus. this is a large area. tell us the protocol. >> there's going to be a boiler plate response. there's going to be emergency services, fire, haz-mat, fbi joint task force, certainly the massachusetts state police, you're going to have a complete response of this as if it is legitimate until they are able to determine that, in fact, it is not. >> often times these things are not legitimate though, right? >> yeah. that's correct. to be very honest with you, carol, this could be a byproduct of somebody attempting to disrupt the testing at the end of a semester, for example. that is one thing that will be considered. but to go in and treat this as if this is the real deal until they are comfortable that this isn't, that they are playing with lives at this point. >> yeah, unfortunately e

carols with me and amy poehler. >> oh my gosh. >> here we go. >> joy to the world the lord has come. let earth reserve her kingells on making -- making >> do you want to sing christmas carols with me and amy poehler. there she is. do you know her? >> no. >> she was on saturday night live. >> you don't know me? you know me. >> you know me. >> oh, amy. >> come over here and sing with us. >> if you know billy, that's the very sanitized version of that clip. i encourage you to go online and watch the whole thing. >> how many of those do you not know all the lyrics to. >> or you know one chorus. >> if you are ambushed on the street you might not be able to come up with it. >> making spirits bright. >> i'm still think toing of the songs. here comes the storm. take a look. guess who is right in the path? our friends in st. louis. and as you can see they're going to start off with sunshine but then rain, cloudy showers. might be some icy mix in there as well. as you can see, it's coming in. sunshine along the eastern seaboard. we're also looking at snow. another clipper comes across around the great lakes reinforcing

king is in washington. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> well, hillary may not have made up her mind get fired up. that is what is quite interesting. she does have the luxury of time and even though she says she hasn't made up her mind, one of the reasons she has that luxury is not only because of her popularity, not only because she has been down this track before, but because there is a campaign in waiting for her. there are super pacs, staffers, people already raising money should she run. her decision is whether to stop them not to start a campaign. other democrats beginning to test the waters to see can she be beat? in 2007 she was inevitable and then along came senator barack obama now president president barack obama. listen here. remember what obama did in 2008? he used her vote in support of the iraq war to get to her left in the democratic primary. the former montana governor, a liberal, very pop list he likes to say, listen to him in iowa last night. >> george bush got a bunch of democrats to vote to go to that war. i was just shaking my head in montana. i'm asking you to

king's gift. what makes it very different? >> it is very organic, and very old classic carols and hymns.e it. musically, it is the best project of my career, i can say it because i didn't produce it and create it. but very talented producers did. i am just fortunate to be the guy singing on it. >> oh star of night ♪ star with royal beauty bright ♪ >> we wanted to ask you too, about your christmas traditions. what have you done as a child, your traditions that you will carry on? >> i talked about when i was a kid, and my grand daddy always went in the woods. he never bought a christmas tree, which is one of the things i loved about him. he would go find this small tree and cut it. my mother had five sisters and brothers, and kids, and you couldn't really see the tree. but it was that bringing together of the family like that, that i have continued on. >> so you still go out and get a small tree or -- >> i don't do that -- >> we get one you can see. >> one about that size? >> well, not far from that. >> the shepherds keep their flocks of lamb. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ to whom god sang ♪ which put the sheph

carol from ray nance and friends. ♪ joy to the world the lord is come ♪ ♪ let earth receive her king let every heart ♪ ♪ prepare himhristmas eve and then christmas morning san francisco police and firefighters distribute the toys to the city's forgotten children. if you can help, it's in san francisco. >>> here's mike with the christmas forecast. >> nice to hear that good news looking a this. the grinch stole the clean air. in fact, we could have a spare the air through friday. temperatures near record highs again today. about, say, six to ninerees warmer than average with mid to upper 60s today and tomorrow. >> unfortunately, we don't have anyone with a holiday spirit here at this accident. westbound side of 80 at powell street. profanities are yelled because of this accident. over to the should we are a kelly: twas the night before christmas when all through the house -- michael: not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. kelly: a mouse! [screaming] cocoa er: get your hot up arm blanket as we cozy for "live." from "the secret life of walter mitty," ben stiller is here. plus our studio becomes a winter wonderl

king jr. gave his "i have a dream" speech, bill dylan was there leading thousands in songs. dust off your old man's records and listen to tunes like "chimes of freedom," "hattie carol" and let this headline sink in, the french are charging, dylan in inciting hate. it all stems from a year-old interview dylan gave to "rolling stone" in which he likens croatians to nazis, kind of, sort on. here's the quote. quote, if you have a slave master or klan in your blood, blacks can sense that. that stuff lingers to this day, like jews can sense nazi blood and the serbs can sense croatian blood. let's get more on this. i'll start with you, it was the representative of the croatian community in france that first cried foul, and the french government followed through. what does incitement of hatred even mean? >> well, this is crazy, but i want to make the point that it's not 100% crazy. you know, we have a tradition in this country of the first amendment. we're virtually absolute freedom of speech. after world war ii, france and a lot of other very civil visized countries said, we're not going to allow hate speech anymore. we are going to outlaw it, and in canada you can't deny

then carol you'll watch this play out like every other issue, you have a lot of tea party primary challengers against established republicans. the tea party doesn't like this dale. >> john king thanks for your insight this morning. we appreciate it. >>> on to another bit of breaking news on the asiana air crash. the pilots relied too heavily on the plane's automaticed systems moments before the plane hit a seawall and skidded across the runway at san francisco's airport. >> reporter: we're looking at live pictures. the investigative hearing just got under way and we know asiana flight 214 came in too low and too slow at san francisco's airport. the ntsb not ready at this point to officially say why. but we're now getting new information from the ntsb, new this morning that will really make you say wow. we just learned based on newly released information three key points. ntsb investigators are concerned about pilots over reliance on automation, specifically when it comes to the plane's auto throttle. the auto throttle allows the pilot to pre-set how much power to send to the engine and in turn that sets the plane's speed. just think of cruise control in a vehicle. now the nt

carol the royal family was reunited for the kristening, prince george taking things regaly in a long traditional gown t. royal couple, william kick started their life as a family. even when prince charles becomes kingnd kate will stay here. a place where william can be a king in training. taking on more senior royal duties, also free to be himself. [ music playing ] >> reporter: prince harry celebrated last year with british troops in afghanistan, earned his apache wings and managed to squeeze in a trip to washington, charming michelle obama and veteran's families. a quick salute to the navy in australia and a frenzy of fans, the british socialite upon him, his biggest challenge this year, a trek to the south pole with wounded veterans, which had grandma shuddering. >> of course not. >> reporter: a triumph for charity and a personal achieve. to set the tone for the next royal year. >> they're not just ribbon cutters, these people want to roll their sleeves up and do things in a different way. >> reporter: lots more charity work is coming up and baby george's first overseas trip is on the cards. could it be harry who plays the church, for "today" abc news, london. >> could it be? >> another royal we