barnum & bailey circus. >> so get ready.circus. "teen kids news" starts right now. >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm siena. here's this week's top story. social networking -- speak to any kid, and they'll tell you it's as much a part of their daily routine as eating dinner. speak to anyone from law enforcement, and they'll tell you that it can be an invitation for trouble. the internet is a two-way window. it allows us to research school projects and keep up with our friends. but social-networking sites also let outsiders into our lives -- outsiders who may try to kidnap, hurt, and even kill kids. and those dangers are very real. there are 665,000 known sex offenders in the u.s. that's more than the entire population of boston. and if that's not scary enough, listen to this. the fbi says 77% of all 14 year olds have been contacted by an internet predator. >> i was on a chat room, and somebody was on my friend's account, and when they talked to me, they claimed that they didn't recognize me, and when i asked wh

she's one of the clowns in the circus and i think it is important we were curious what c.n.n. with think and since i didn't get a chance to put them in the room with cosmetology that we did they got the statement that they put out in. spawn's they said quote c.n.n. contributors are commentators who express a wide range of viewpoints on an office yet c.n.n. that often provokes strong agreement or disagreement their viewpoints on are their own so it seems to me c.n.n. here defending their paved and again you see you read between the lines it's not about analysis it's about creating this you know point counterpoint circus so it can generate eyeballs on the network generate clicks on the web site to come back so they can go back and you know bandy this about you know it's a crisis or a scandal only in the you know how they can stretch it out to get ratings it terms of going underneath i've seen very little real analysis and when it is it use usually by current and past military personnel who would get to a man or woman say this is not what the united states marine corps is about w

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.ircus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> and welcome back. we are live here at the bash on broadway. welcome to nashville, tennessee where it's just about to be new year's in less than 30 minutes. we're going to ring it in nashville, southern style. we've got the music note up above me. you're going to see fireworks, glitter, confetti. and, of course, we're music city. so just behind me, the rocking, in some iteration, these guys behind me lynrd skynrd. we have an extra special surprise that we are pulling off just for you on this new year's. standing by live in a packed and sold out arena. zach brown standing by. >> happy new year. how are you all doing? in atlanta, georgia, . i lost her, hang on. ♪ closing the door before the wint

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> south korea's students spend way more time in the classroom than americans. that might explain why they've been outperforming us lately by leaps and bounds. but there's another country where students spend less time in class than the south koreans, and their performance is also off the charts. finland. ♪ >> on the surface, finland is the education world's ultimate slacker. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> children don't start school here until they're 7 years old. they have far less homework than many countries. and they log fewer hours in the classroom than most developed countries, even the united states. but don't be fooled. finnish students score first in the world in science and seco

press, circus -- presscot circus.evening, the newly formed parks alliance. the parks department cannot do it alone. the alliance has really become our best friend. i want to recognize their board chair. our executive director matt o'grady will come up to say a few words. >> thank you so much. the parks alliance is the new kid on the block. a brand-new organization, and yet, a very familiar organization, because we come from the san francisco parks trust and from the neighborhood council. these two organizations got together and realize they can do so much more by combining forces to make this park system the best open space system in the world for san francisco. i wanted to give you a couple of samples of some of the great partnerships we have built to make these parks so fabulous and gray in san francisco. the first partnership is with none other than the parks and recreation department. it is called the gear up program, where we have been tried to buy resources for our part centers citywide. that program has raised,

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner. [circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> welcome back. keeping them honest, it's 48 hours worth of disturbing new develops in the cruise sh disaster. it's disturbing the details are because it's looking like the 11 people who died there and the 21 people who were missing might still be alive if the captain and the crew had reacted differently, had reacted better than the risky course steered the boat into a rock. the rock still lodged in the hull. it's hard to imagine downplaying the seriousness of the situation. but according to the coast guard log, 14 minutes past 10:00 p.m. local time, more than half an hour after impact, no one on board had even called the italian coast guard. people onshore had called the coast guard after w

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.ircus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> let's get you up to speed on your headlines. a tennessee man is accused of gunning down his estranged wife and mother-in-law inside a north georgia hospital. according to our affiliate, wjbc, james benson was asked to leave the hospital after getting in an argument. he went to hiss car and returned to the hospital and opened fire. benson drove to the police department and turned himself in immediately after that shooting. >>> a connecticut paramedic is charged with raping a patient in the back of an ambulance while on the way to a hospital. the woman says 49-year-old mark powell assaulted herr while she was unconscious had strapped to a stretcher. the 24-year-old woman had fallen and fell unc

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner. plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> a great scientist, leader and new royal all have something this common. they're celebrating birthdays. our international editor joins us now. britain's stephen hawking celebrating a milestone birthday and brilliant. >> they're saying he's probably the most brilliant physicist since einstein and he's celebrating his birthday. he has als, a motor neuron disorder and if you look at him here, pictures before you, he talks through twitching his cheeks. through a computerized voice system and for somebody who spent his entire life studying the cosmos and looking at black holes and space and time travel, the only thing he wanted to do was go to space, so when he was 65 years old, he had that opportunity to exp

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.us music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... will be giving away passafree copies of the alcoholism & addiction cure. to get yours, go to ssagesmalibubook.com. >>> no doubt dan rather has covered the biggest news stories of our time for more than four decades. today he is on the job in new hampshire covering the republican presidential primary for hd net. i asked him for his impressions about the gop race just two days before the first republican primary. >> in terms of the substance of the race, we really haven't had much genuine substance discussed, although we've had debate after debate. such subjects as really what to do about our shaky and volatile economy, what to do about the war in afghanistan. what to do about the problems of race in

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> i'm one drink away from the worst day of my life. >> what should i do. >> i'm not the only one in the circle that's had the same thought, right? >> i'm not doing nothing. no way. >> i can probably get us some buy money no problem. >> it's not going away, chris. >> that's from your new film "contraband." you play this reformed smuggler who gets sucked back in. his relative has got sucked into this murky world and so your character goes back in to that murky world to try and save him. >> yeah. which my character actually loves the world, it's a thrill, but he has a wife and two children and his father's doing life in prison for smuggling and so -- you know, his brother-in-law is not the sharpe

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> back with senator rick santorum. we left with a cliffhanger there where you were mulling over the nuances of -- with all the evidence we now have, would you have gone to war in iraq? >> no question that knowing what we know, i think uh i did the right thing. i'm not rethinking and i want to make it clear. i'm not rethinking my vote on iraq. i stand by that vote. i think it was the right thing to do at the time. >> knowing what we know now -- >> because of iraq. >> you agree with pulling troops out of iraq. >> well, no. you have to finish the mission to success. >> do you think the mission was finished? >> the mission was partially finished. >> if you become president in november would you pu

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner. [circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >> reporter: i went into syria for six days into the heart of the revolution and the uprising in the city of homs. at the beginning of my trip, i had this clear show of the strength of the syrian army. a convoy of 45 tanks being transported by trucks towards the city. >> the journalists traveled the few kilometers to the neighborhood of one of the first areas to be liberated by the free syrian army. >> reporter: when i first went into bab amr, i saw two bodies laying on the streets. the activists told me that the soldiers kidnapped the two guys, tortured them, killed them and threw them out on the street. currently, this was the way of fighting. people would not be able to be close to them to

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner. [circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... ♪ [female narrator] even if you're not planning on getting pregnant now, you should know that foods rich in folic acid like white bread and leafy greens can help prevent some birth defects before you even know you're pregnant. >>> now a story about military cuts in the u.s. today president obama announced a sweeping change to the way this country fights. the focus is not on fighting large ground battles, it's all about sea and air might including drones to watch china and iran. the move means nearly half a trillion in cuts for the pentagon budget, thousands of fewer troops. with it a warning of getting more for less. >> so our military will be leaner, but the world must know the united states

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.ign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> welcome back to "ac 360." getting close to cnn after dark hours, although we're continuing with the "ac 360" font at least. i'm here with gloria, david gergen and john avolon joining us from romney headquarters. let's talk about where the race goes now in terms of mitt romney. >> i think mitt romney learned as one of his folks said, you know, he's got to start playing offense, not defense. and i think what you're going to see, particularly given those numbers that erin just showed about housing in florida, they're going to play up newt gingrich as a lobbyist for freddie mac and they're going to say, you know what? he's really somebody who has worked in washington, lived in washington, governed in washington. he'

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.us music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting, do the work and find the "outfront" five. >>> first tonight that better than expected unemployment report in the u.s. 200,000 jobs added. unemployment rate down to 8.5% in december. we went through the data and the job growth for men and women in the fourth quarter, equal. but the unemployment rate for blacks, exactly where it was in december, 2010. 15.8%. >>> number two, omar farouk abdulmutallab was in court. he explained that his standby lawyer ignored him and failed to share legal documents with him. in court documents obtained by "outfront," his standby attorney wrote that he supplied all do

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner. [circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> we've certainly seen a lot of rising stars and fading stars in this, the 2012 republican presidential race. and there could be even more surprises in these, the final 48 hours before the caucuses. let's bring back erin and gloria. they're tracking these numbers, these poll numbers. it's been amazing over these many months, erin. >> it really has. we're going to take a look at national, wolf. then we're going to zoom in on iowa as we were joking about. and here we go. everything is working. this is amazing. we call this the squiggly lines. that's really what it's looked like. look back in june. we're going to take everyone from june all the way to where we are now. you see mitt romney was i

so american politics is hostage to a lot of crazy stuff, not least of which is the comic, tragic circusthe republican primary, that we're seeing unfold. but it's also hostage to a set of old obsolete, and terrible ideas. and what few americans realize is that over the last 30 years, there's been a scientific revolution in the way that we understand the social systems that we inhabit. social systems like our democracy and our economy. and with we know now with scientific precision, that, for instance, the economy isn't a closed linear system, sort of like a machine, but rather it's an open complex adaptive system, like an ecosystem. and here's the point. when you understand something like the economy, as it truly is, as an ecosystem, you come to very different conclusions about what's important and how you might arrange the pieces in order for it to work best. let me just give you one example. so if you have this sort of 19th century mechanistic view of how the economy works, it is possible to believe that if you pour money into rich people on the form of tax breaks and loopholes, that j

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> back with my special guest, alec baldwin. alec, oscars coming up. who do you fancy? >> well, i think that the only thing i could say about that is i have some personal favorites. i have people that were nominated that i was excited about and some that i was, like anybody, i was, you know, maybe perplexed by, if you will. i do know that to climb that mountain, as you know, observing this business, to climb that mountain and to complete that cycle, where you get the script and the movie gets made and you shoot it and it comes out well and the distribution works and the marketing works and people buy some tickets and sometimes they buy a lot of tickets and then you get that buzz and then the vo

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.rcus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> the last few years have been brutal for american workers. look at this. the job losses began in 2008. they really accelerated in the first months of barack obama's presidency. since then, it's been a weary, slow, painful climb out of a deep hole. we are not back up, quite frankly. we have many more jobs to recover before we can recover. economists say unemployment will stay in the 8% range this year. it leaves us with two job markets. the newly unemployed have a better chance of getting a job. there's another job market where the long term unemployed are shut out here. sherry is a republican strategist and keith is a democratic strategist. thanks for joining us. keith, if you get 8.5% unemploy

rumor has it dan also training for circus d'soleil. >> i believe it. >> doesn't have enough things goingn in his life. that is your sports report. >> that's awesome. >> incredibly talented is a. >> noychlt i can't wait to see you in the new circus d'soleil. >> i'll start sceching. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> thanks for joining us [ female announcer ] they've been off limits to dieters since time began. not anymore. fiber one is bringing brownies back. at 90 calories, the only thing between you and chocolaty brownies... ♪ ...is a nicely designed package. ♪ you can have brownies again. fiber one 90 calorie brownies. in the granola bar aisle. caramel...pretzel 90 calorie bar. ♪

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.circus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> we're back with ""sgmd" x it's hard to believe it's been two years since an earth quake rocked haiti. the recovery process has been slow. we are seeing positive changes. roughly 500,000 people remain in tent cities. it's down from 1.5 million. 1.1 million children have a daily midday meal. there's so much that still needs to be done. the streets are filled with enough debris to fill five football stadiums. much of the housing people are in now is only semipermanent. we are dedicated to this. we want to make sure your donations are used to rebuild and help the people of haiti. >>> the health care overhaul that mitt romney started in massachusetts got more attention than anything he did as gov

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.us music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> we are back for an exciting announcement this morning. the participants for the 2012 fit challenge. viewers joined me in training for this triathlon, they're going to get the royal treatment. we'll have every person with the bikes, gym membership, we'll take everyone on training trips around the country, and hook them up with a triathlon trainer in their own area. the goal is the triathlon in september. several hundred people submitted entries through ireport, and this is who we chose. >> my name is nancy, and i am sending you this video on a really chilly november night here in acton, minnesota. >> reporter: nancy is recently separated from her husband after 26 years of marriage. although she's

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.e on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... ♪ ♪ history in the making, part two right now ♪ ♪ i'm begging you not to go >> that was "crazy in love," which you sang with a certain gentleman, mr. jay-z. i sat opposite your husband at a dinner and i didn't know what to expect. you know, you hear sort of ferocious rap star coming to town, everyone batons down the hatches. in walks this guy immaculately dressed, i mean immaculate, incredibly charming, friendly, easy to talk to, funny, very, very funny. we will two, three hours just talking about life in the universe, a little bit about you and stuff and i was really impressed with him. i don't say that just to make you feel good. i actually was genuinely struck by -- he's not just a successful singer or a good businessman, h

[honks horn] [circus music plays] here you go, pete. thanks, betty. we're out of toner.rcus music plays] sign it. come on. sign it. [honks horn] ...homes around the country. every single day, saving homes. we will talk it over... announcer: if you're facing foreclosure, make sure you're talking to the right people. speak with hud-approved housing counselors free of charge at... >>> every new year we promise ourselves we're going to eat better, drink less, maybe even exercise more. sound familiar? just a few weeks later, most of us are back to our old ways. almost three quarters of us. this year, things will be a bit different. i challenge you with this and want you to start with the food you put into your body. with us here, creator of the venice nutrition program, and author of "body confidence." you see it there. people should read this book, by the way. thanks for joining us. >> thank for having me. >> this is new year's resolution time. a lot of people have made them and by the end of this month, a lot of people will have already broken them. one of the most common,

your reaction to this kind of nonstop nitpicking you know playing detail by detail basically the circus that has been playing out on t.v. well what's your reaction. well it's funny every four year election cycle we have two years of it we're it's just constant dog and pony show in the corporate press coverage in the primaries so two years of every election cycle you just have this incessant coverage of campaign dog and pony show and so the total destruction from real issues and you know occupy wall street is federalized crackdowns now it almost seems passe because it's just constant one hundred percent primary coverage and we are seeing this kind of coverage early on in the race is it too early to say on absolutely. one hundred percent and we saw i mean. when we don't run an excellent article about how the iowa caucus was almost like it was a sham it was like a media ritual they were just reinforcing these rituals. and before elections when really i mean if in the grand scheme of things we know there is vote in software that can reveal lotion and flip the vote so i mean all of these thi

rumor has it dan also training for circus d'soleil. >> i believe it. >> doesn't have enough things goingis life. that is your sports report. >> that's awesome. >> incredibly talented is a. >> noychlt i can't wait to see you in the new circus d'soleil. >> i'll start sceching. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> good night for charity. that's our report. >> thanks for joining us 225 feet deep. that would be terrible for the divers. especially during those recovery efforts. >> yeah. not easy for that. no. >> it's terrible. >>> well, now to this morning's big political headline and mitt romney's lead in the polls. our new abc news poll just released shows romney supported by 35% of republican-leaning voters, far ahead of newt gingrich and ron paul, and 57% have confidence that romney will beat president obama in november. and you cannot say that about gingrich or paul. >>> well, as the front-runner romney came under heavy attack last night during the republican debate. newt gingrich, rick perry, they led that assault of romney's role at bain capital. and perry, he challenged the

decision so now i hold no allegiance to either party to me they are just one big circus just trading clowns all doing the same thing and the only individual who stands out from the crowd with been consistent in doing what he is saying he was going to do since he has been in washington ness ron paul there i can count on i don't agree with everything that you say is ok if we all agree with what everyone see it this would be one world but ron paul you can count on him to stick with what is constitutionally sound you can stick you can count on him to stick with conservative principles and you can count on him to not being a go along get along politician and that's all we have been getting for the last twenty years that have been voting now ron paul as doing a much better than the mainstream ever would have imagined and now he's taken being serious at finally being taken seriously. do you think that he could actually win this that would be able to pull this off absolutely i believe he is going to win are you listening if huckabee. ron paul would i mean iowa i'm all for it and i believe he