alarm seems to be receding let's get the views now a former british army intelligence officer chris hunter joins us live to discuss what's happened over the last hour a bit further. chris good evening. by there you are good to good to have you on the look we were just discussing there the police response i mean when you when you look at it it was very rapid incomprehensive wasn't. it was yes of course you know the police and our security services we look at potential targets all the time we look at certain face of the year we look at the likelihood of certain events being targeted and certainly what we saw here was black friday as your correspondent mentioned you know one of the busiest shopping areas in europe on this particular day of course it's a high profile targets and we know that there was the islamist extremists in particular who were looking to targets crowded areas messed up various so it was certainly viable but it was really good to see the police response was instance it was in my was in my view certainly measured a proportional and there were four key priorities preservation

insisted the activists failed to access the cooling pools for british army intelligence officer chris hunter though believes that greenpeace still succeed in highlighting concerns. given the number of power plants in france and across europe of course there has to be a review of security and certainly they've got to be multiple layers of security whether that's what they call physical security the electronic surveillance the you know fences and mortars that actually when there's any sort of insurgent this incident in particular tells us quite a lot about the level of security you know getting over one fence is a possibility but i think they managed to get quite close to the area where the spent fuel rods are stored and that is quite a concern there are you know. a number of power stations across france that have nuclear power plants those facilities were built long before there were threats from al qaida and isis they were built to protect against every day threats security definitely has to be tightened given the number of these facilities and you know that the number of vast threats for al

capital frankfurt very did you bump into any excited bargain hunters yeah well good morning chris oh well shops will be opening in about forty five minutes here in frankfurt and i'm here on that side of the busiest shopping street here in frankfurt and yeah if we look at a little round i don't see any of those big lines yet so let's see if this is going to change when shops are opening at ten o'clock but of course i checked my email this morning i can admit i can be shopping victim as well i had about fifteen different emails from companies advertising their black friday sales today so yeah it's a big day for shoppers also here in germany and how much hope are retailers putting in this year's holiday shopping season. well we just heard in your report added an additional one point one billion euros i expected in sales today and yes experts are saying that even though this is sort of a hive coming from the united say that they are seeing a change after shopping behavior also here in europe traditionally shopping for the christmas season usually started in the beginning two weeks off th

chris and melissa hogan. their young zest son suffers from hunter syndrome. ball player turn financial expert, best selling author. not to be out done melissa former lawyer, strategy consultant and president of project alive an organization geared to help cure hunter syndrome through research and advocacy they hosted the rare voice awards here in d.c. last night. they join us live to talk about their journey and the continuing fight for a cure. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. thank you. >> i guess that's the inspiration knowing that at least a cure exists. it's just get to go that point, right? >> it really is. it's so exciting. i mean when you start to think about this, we actually have an opportunity to cure a disease. labor that ever comes around. what we're trying to do is make people aware of it so they can rally around it and truly understand the magnitude of what's possible. i mean, what disease in your lifetime. we'd love to cure cancer. love to cure all these and this disease can be cured through gene therapy that's our hope, and clinic

as news4's chris gordon learned, it may look like shuffle board, but looks can be deceiving. >> reporter: hunterther caleb share a dream, olympic gold. 21-year-old hunter gets his chance next week at the olympic trials in omaha, nebraska. >> to make team usa and have that come to fruition and to be representative of curling from er extremely important to me. >> reporter: 20-year-old caleb will compete in the junior national curling championships. some day he hopes to join his brother, trying to make team usa. >> in curling, i saw an opportunity where it was an achievable goal for me to make the olympics. and so as soon as i saw that goal was achievable, i never looked back. >> reporter: the clawsons started curling when they were little kids. they say curling is a sport for every age. it combines the skills of shuffle board, the strategy of chess, and a broom. >> it helps make shots be more precise. >> reporter: the brothers invited me to try curling. it looks easy. it's not. i didn't make it. next i asked them to hand me a broom to sweep. those are words my wife has never heard from me. caleb i

as news4 chris gordon learned it may look like shuffleboard but looks can be deceiving. >>> they share a dream, olympic gold. 21-year-old hunterhis chance next week at the olympic trials in omaha nebraska. >> to make team u.s. and represent curling from the club here in maryland would be extremely important to me. >> reporter: 20-year-old caleb will compete in the juniors. one day he hopes to join his brother. >> it was achievable goal for me to make the olympics in curling. so as soon as i saw that goal was achievable, i never looked back. >> reporter: the claw sons started curling when little kids. they say it is a sport for every age. it combines the skills of shuffleboard, strategy of chess, and a broom. >> and helps us make shots and more precise. >> reporter: the brothers invited me to try curling. it looks easy. it's not. next i asked them to hand me a broom to sweep. those are words my wife has never heard from me. caleb is throwing the rock. it's coming toward me. my job will be to sweep it. and that makes the rock go straighter and farther toward the target, which is called the house. so we are entering. let's get it

hunters and we know how much they personally like to do trophy hunting. it sometimes can look a little like the entire white house is being run for the benefit of the trump family, chris>> well, that's exactly right. there's not a lot of americans clambering to do trophy hunting for elephants and lions, except for donald jr. and eric. and clearly, he did this for his sons. there was a widespread backlash, including by the chairman, the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and he finally backtracked on this which was a sensible thing. that may be the only good piece of news that happened this week. >> josh, i couldn't believe they backtracked. my question is on the tax bill, do the politics of this which look terrible right now in the polling of the distribution, do they matter ultimately? >> i think the politics are going to matter in the election. the polling shows that the poll is unpopular, and when you ask, do you think they'll get a tax cut from it. a small fraction believes they will personally benefit. you can look in other countries, it was a tax reform that did in margaret thatcher in the uk. people notice these things when they affect t

hunters and we know how much they personally like to do trophy hunting. it sometimes can look a little like the entire white house is being run for the benefit of the trump family, chrisght. there's not a lot of americans clambering to do trophy hunting for elephants and lions, except for donald jr. and eric. and clearly, he did this for his sons. there was a widespread backlash, including by the chairman, the republican chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and he finally backtracked on this which was a sensible thing. that may be the only good piece of news that happened this week. >> josh, i couldn't believe they backtracked. my question is on the tax bill, do the politics of this which look terrible right now in the polling of the distribution, do they matter ultimately? >> i think the politics are going to matter a lot in the election. the polling shows that the poll is unpopular, and when you ask, do you think they'll get a tax cut from it. a small fraction believes they will personally benefit from this bill. and i think that's toxic. you can look in other countries, it was a tax reform that did in margaret thatcher in the uk. people notice these thin