. >> governor crist tee took flack for going before the huge blizzards hit the state.he state because he promised his children he would take them where? hawaii, the bahamas, disney world, justin bieber concert. >> we both live in new jersey. >> you can play the game. >> roll the tape. >> i have made a promise to my children that at the end of my first year as governor that i was going to take them to disney world the week between christmas and new years. my first and most important responsibility in my view is as a husband and a father. >> governor crist tee bailed out of the storm to go down to disney world. >> i would have done the same thing. >> here is question number 5. horrifying showing a man attempting to break a dubious record. he was trying to break the record for putting what into his belly? >> you got to be kidding me. >> quarters, jellybeans, mashed potatoes, paper clips? >> what was the man trying to put in his belly button. roll the tape on this one. >> i am going to be beating the record for how many quarters fit in his belly button. there are 20 here.

not only is she a favorite of "saturday night live" writers and fans, cristing wiig is now a proven holiday the comedy she co-wrote and starred in, "bridesmaids," is up for two golden globes. so, here's out chris connelly for our series, "it was a good year for." >> reporter: few can look so demure and yet be so down and dirty funny as kristen wiig. >> well you are going to be a slut in high school. >> at least i'm popular. >> oh, okay. i know what popular means. >> reporter: this year, she got to strut those skills on the big screen. her talents brought her to this set in venice, california, last year. at last, the 37-year-old wiig is getting the chance to be the prime mover on a film. you are the star an the co-writer. you can go over there any time -- >> i do that every day. i'll just walk through the background of a shot. just to waste time. >> reporter: her time is now. now in her seventh season on "snl," she's offered up a lot of great characters. from gilly -- >> sorry. >> reporter: to the overbearing penelope. >> happy thanksgiving, everybody. >> happy thanksgiving. happy fourth of

this is most crist -- critical to was. >> mar recession comes to around 0 miles three or four times per week. i see them every morning riding on their little scooter's all- around mall. i feel great. >> michele says she comes here only six or seven times per year. >> i know this is a nice. so normally i do not worry too much. when i got here this morning, i went to old navy, and i felt safe. i did not worry too much. >> in the mall and on the tower is the message -- is sees something, do something, encouraging shoppers and employees to call it 24-hour hot line to report suspicious activity. one other thing going on here, they are setting up a safety committee to try and handle security issues. live from hanover, barry simms, wbal-tv 11 news. >> 1 harford county family is assessing tremendous damage after a huge buyer. take a look at this dramatic video. the two-alarm fire happened around 6:30 p.m. last night and damage estimates are near or over $1 million. rob roblin has the details. >> this homeowners says he and his wife went out shopping. when they came back from his home was comple

military uses music as a weapon much more deliberately and affectively crist's has flown to london he wants to meet a man who was arrested does an alleged terrorist in pakistan in two thousand and two. we're going to go meet mosen beg now who was actually educating me who was held at guantanamo so this is the first time that i'm really going to need someone who might actually have been exposed to music being used as part of interrogations and what better way to learn about a pension when first. on the night of thirty first in china two thousand and two there was a knock on my door i open the door a group of people into my house one put a gun straight to my head pushed me into the forecourt of my of my house they tied my hands behind my back shackled my legs and put a hood over my head and carried me to the back of the vehicle in front of my wife and kids. monson baker is a prisoner such as it was in two thousand and one he moved to pakistan with his family he says he went there to build a school for girls. but u.s. authorities have accused more of having worked for al qaeda and the ta

said he was shocked crist mats day when he got a call telling him -- christmas day when he got a call telling him his son had been shot. 23-year-old quintin perry jr. was on his way home from the store. around 11:00 in the morning police found perry in the road at this intersection. he was suffering from several gunshot wounds. he was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. >> he was a laid back person. he'd do whatever he can. he loved to help everybody. reporter: donovan perry is quinn in it jr.'s younger brother. he was -- quintin jr.'s younger brother. he was with him the night of the shooting. >> the last thing i said to him before he left, i love you brother. be safe. reporter: tonight the perry family is making apply for witnesses to come forward and help bring quintin's killer to justice. >> it's a terrible thing when you lose a child. reporter: wisdom martin, fox 5 news. >>> also in maryland police are looking for three men suspected of molding up at least three prince george's county business -- holding up at least three prince george's county businesses. t

they told the score clerk that the phones were crist mats presents but the next day at & t sent text messages to their children asking how they liked their new phones. when the nbc station contacted the company the company apologized and says that they will no longer send out the surveys in the weeks leading up to christmas. >>> the best of the best had their hands full with waves that rolled into -- this is the coast of hawaii today. these are 18 to 20-foot monsters. they showed up at the banzai pipeline. they arrived just in time for start of something called the billabong pipeline masters tournament. and we assume that not all of them ended up in the hospital. those are big, bad waves. >> i imagine it is fun to ride one but not to feel one on my head. >> you have to go through a couple of the falls -- >> come back up again. that's right. >>> we are going to have cold weather this weekend. >> will the be the coldest this season. it hasn't too cold this season but will the be on the cool side for a couple days. out there right now we are dealing with mid to high level clouds in the

christianity has survived over the centuries and these days it is a best selling book that has many cristrs dg>úú >> under the domes, a russian orthodox church dedicated to a woman would name has been loved and vilified for centuries, mary magdalene. her name is at the center of debate pore -- more than ever. >> the heart of the da vinci code is that they knew that jesus was married to mary but because of the pressure of the church they communicated if codes because no one could come out and actually say this was the case. >> a pastor is author of "da vinci code deexception." i believe the book is a direct assault against the christian faith. and the reason is because it attacks the two doctrines most important to being christian: the reliability of the new testament and the holiness of jesus christ and as a result, people are reading it and believing it. >> a way that brown hooks the readers and mixing historical fact pointing out that the catholic church including the pope in 593 smeared mary mag magdalene labeling her a prostitute. >> brown in his book says, she was not a prostitute bu

the united states going to be on the ballot the united states house of representatives what about crist i mean a lot of people i've spent a lot of time covering the occupy movement and a lot of the people that i've spoke to say they want to that they like that idea but it's very difficult for them to imagine such a thing because they really feel like the political system as it is now is just too corrupt and the idea of taking part in it doesn't really resonate well with them. well absolutely it's a lot of hard work so if you're like camping and there's some tarp in a park somewhere maybe you can put energy knocking on doors for a candidate and that's a lot of work are passing out literature and then again in the united states unfortunately there's a lot of ballot access barriers petition requirements are poor out of the elections a single member district and that's what we're working with fair we promote proportional representation more people most people don't know that we can have proportional representation in the united states if there's an american version. of proportional voting a

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crist >> kristen zellar was a junior at iwu when trisha disappeared. >> we were advised to stay in our dorms if you were a girl. >> a week after trisha's disappearance, they needed to go to the marsh grocery store. >> you thought it would be safe and you would be fine? >> exactly. not far at all. i can see the campus. what's going to happen? >> it was getting dark by the time they left the shopping center walking the same route tricia would likely have taken. >> we were maybe halfway up the road when heather turned to me and said, did you happen to notice that brown van? and i said, no. >> then the van passed again, slowly. >> we still were not alarmed. he came by again. >> a third time? >> a third time, yup. really slow this time. looking at us. the hair on the back of our necks started to stand up. >> the van pulled up right up be beside them. >> how close, show me. >> he was, i mean, his wheels were right on the side of the curb. this was me. this was heather and he leaned over and started to say something and at that point we were both like -- run, just run. >> the girls called sec

two of the bodies, the two found on crist miss day, one is identify and the other has not yet. burned badly in the back of a trunk and the other two were found a few days before inside of another vehicle. that was towed away from the scene. what we know from what the police said is they are all linked. at least three of the four promoted escort services in the detroit area. >> do they have strong leads? >> they are working leads. you have to think about this. when you put the information on the internet on the websites, you leave your phone numbers, for instance a little while ago, i went through the back page.com into the adult services. there were a number of phone numbers listed. i called a lot of them and women answered. one said she just heard about the murders and she would be taking her profile down. he wants those folks to exercise caution. what you have to remember is that we know they are all linked to one site, maybe two at this point. everybody is leaving behind a digital footprint. at this point investigator are working strong leads and we had know more in the comi

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he is facing crist simple with an out of touch 1 percenter.asked about this picture with money spilling out of their pockets. take a look at what romney said in response. >> we were successful in raising the first fund. about $37 million. i know there is going to be every effort to put free enterprise on trial. to attack free enterprise and those who believe profit is good. >> profit is good. does that remind you of a film at a fame our character? greed is good? >> for does remind me of that. no one is going to attack free enterprise. this president has been fighting the past jobs bill. he wants to create more free enterprise and more jobs for people. mitt romney has two problems on this. he talks about his private business and as something that should qualify him to be president. he wasn't making cars. like his father was, he was a venture capitalist and bought up companies and broke them down into parts and sold them off. he didn't challenge chris wallace on the information. four of the ten major companies that they invested in went bankrupt

your colleague, crist matthews is great on this.se irscary clowns, rev. they're very scary, and they're for real, but i think in the end, if we think about what this country has never done. i don't care if we have differences on abortion or immigration, we've never elected anybody who was crazy, right? these guys are crazy to me. when you all are doing television, when we're watching at home, you no el what we're thinking? these guys are crazy. i think you have to be crazy if you say it's wrong to have taxes on the poor, not 09 rich. you've got to be crazy if you were a guy who's the actual leader of the republican party now, and -- you didn't show this part, by the way, that he's trying to keep our children from becoming pimps and prostitutes. we got millions of hit on my facebook page. it's offensive and it's crazy. do you think any of these guys can give the president a hashed time? >> i'm not worried about it. i'm not saying in a sense of being overconfident, but i believe this country will never elect anybody that's that crazy.

glee -- a gleeful crist plus. their christmas program is -- christmas.ogram is airing tomorrow night. reporter: glee helps take on a song that helped change charitable fundraiser forever putting their own spin on the 1984 classic do they know its christmas. >> i was probably 4 or 5 when it came out, but i remember it being a really special thing. reporter: back then producer bob geldoff gathered a who's who stingers including sting and bono. the single sold more than a million copies in its first week and raised millions for familiar in relief in ethiopia. >> it's much more than just a song. it's a good job. reporter: in hollywood adam housley, fox news. >> the news keeps coming. brian bolter now with the news edge at 11:00. >>> the news edge beginning in maryland tonight, a military service member facing serious charges. police say he carjacked and kidnapped a taxi driver all to go on a shopping spree at target. fox 5's bob barnard following this one now. >> it's a bizarre story, doesn't seem to

this is something that jeb bush and charlie crist ten years ago said you know what?se formerly incarcerated people. >> they paid their debt to society, they ought to be able to vote. >> exactly. and for the last ten years they could. and then this new republican governor comes in, scott, and he says, well, look what happened, right? the democrats took florida. we got a black man in the white house, and he puts it back in place. you know, we went to him and he went to his secretary of state and said why are you doing this, why are you doing this? they said because we think it's very important. we know what the impact will be. >> do we have any good numbers regarding what it will mean? >> in florida that one law, 500,000 people, half of them black, many more brown. the rest basically working class white folks. across the country this year, 5 million people at least have had their votes blocked. it seems incredibly partisan. and it also seems with blatant disregard for the impact that it will have on black people and brown people disproportionately. these laws like that

. >> greta: tonight, governor charlie crist calls the -- chris christie calls the president a bystander in the oval office and says he's unpresidential. donald trump goes on the record in a few minutes. but first, speaker. house, newt gingrich joins us from new hampshire. good evening, sir. >> good to be with you you. >> greta:: mr. speaker, i suppose the big news first is that on a radio today, in iowa, you challenged governor mitt romney to a debate, any time, any place. i take it that is in anticipation of the caucus on january 3. but why? >> the governor suggested when i indicated that i thought his false and misleading ads ought to be taken down and that his excuses that is staff and his donors were yen his control were silly. he said, if i can't take the heat, i could get out of the kitchen, quoting harry truman. i am pretty happy taking the heat. join me in the kitchen, with a debate, one on one and no time keeper and no moderator. one of his ads got four pinocchios from the fact checker at the washington post. it's very hard to get four pinocchios in a 30-second ad. it means vir

or even that marco rubio would beat out carlie crist down in florida.s so shocking about all of these upsets was that in each case an insurgent, more radical candidate was able to defeat a more establishment-connected and almost certainly more electable front-runner. and they were able to do it in a republican party that has a long history of giving great deference to its establishment figures. in fact, if you look just at presidential nominating battles, the history of the republican party over the last two decades is the history of establishment candidates coming out on top. in 1988 was george h.w. bush, the sitting vice president. in 1992 it was bush 41 again running as the incumbent president. in 1996 it was bob dole, who no one had much enthusiasm for but he was certainly the establishment guy. he was the next in line. in 2000 it was george w. bush, probably the most establishment guy possible. after all, this was the son of the previous republican president. 2004 it was the incumbent george w. bush. and in 2008 it was john mccain,ç the next guy in

crist matthews just loves him.few of the most memorable moments from this show. >> i'm not that big on obama, but i think it's become morally and intellectually possible to vote for the republicans, and if you'd like, i'll say why. >> go, sir. >> i think it has to be said, and john mccain is a lot older than in january, and it shows. he he majors it urgent to consider the question, who has his picked for his caretaker which makes it quad grouply more disgraceful, he's picked someone who is not by any stretch of the imagination qualified. >> my sense is even eight days out he's failed to close the people with, can all the opportunity. >> oh, sure. >> a change, a turning over, a change in the guard, whatever they want to call it. there is still this hesitancy to say, yeah, bush, what's that about? >> well, because he's managed lucky to be governor of texas. >> because? >> well, because he's unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent fantastically uncult further, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite pro

he was appointed by florida's governors, jeb bush and charlie crist to serve on statewide boards. both sue and checks up on the there is on the consulate of american ambassadors. chuck is a double graduate of stanford. while the can't claim him as an alumnus come he's a longtime member of the board of the university of miami university of miami's board of trustees. please welcome miami's diplomatic, dynamic duo, the ambassador cobbs. [applause] [applause] >> thank you, president shalala. ambassador reiss, professor cobb, gas, we are pleased to have all of you here. this'll then you sort of unfolded around the interest of my husband in leadership. so when we have been able to have a mainlanders come through this area, we've arranged to have the university of miami students and our guests participate. and that has been an extraordinary pleasure. this year we've had to check pot with condoleezza rice. we do have a relationship that goes back. as you know, don't you rice was the provost at stanford and is back now at the woodrow wilson institute. chuck and i spent eight years on campu

and he was appointed by florida's governors, jeb bush and charlie crist, to serve on statewide boards. both sue and chuck serve on the board of directors of the consul of american ambassadors. while we can't claim chuck, he's a longtime member and past chairman of the board of the university of miami's board of trustees. please, welcome miami's diplomatic dynamic duo, the ambassadors cobb. [applause] >> thank you, president shalala. dr. rice, ambassador cobb -- [laughter] guests, we're very pleased to have all of you here. this whole thing has sort of unfolded around the interest of my husband in leadership. so when we have been able to have outstanding leaders come through this area, we've arranged to have the university of miami students and our guests participate. and that's been, um, an extraordinary pleasure. this year we hit the jackpot. [laughter] with condoleezza rice. we do have a relationship that goes back, as you know, i think, dr. rice was a provost at stanford and is back at stanford now at the woodrow wilson institute. chuck and i spent eight years on campus at stanford

. >>> i'm crist matthews at java joe's in des moines, iowa. the republican nominees are heading into their final weekend of campaigning before tuesday's caucuses. four days to go now until the first big results of 2012. leading off tonight, romney goes for the kill. our new nbc news/marist poll has mitt romney leading the field here in iowa. it's the second poll this week to show romney on top. and one of many polls showing newt gingrich is in dead free fall. the pressure may be getting to newt, who became teary-eyed this afternoon here at java joe's. one reason romney's doing so well here is evangelical voters are split. they're torn among rick santorum, rick perry, romney, gingrich and michele bachmann. together, the religious-oriented candidates, that's santorum, perry, and bachmann, get 35% in a new poll, but apart they're giving romney a real path to victory through their division. and how many tickets are there out of iowa? how many people would come from here to other parts of the debate and the campaign? who's out of the race if they d

at the nearby church of the nativity built at the site where christians believe jesus was born, cristather at this important stop. they are among the over 1 million christian pilgrims who come to the holy land each year and represent the fastest growing sector in the tourism industry. while the number of tourists visiting in bethlehem is up compared to last year, palestinian tourism officials say it's hard to get them to spend their money here, citing what they say is stiff and unfair competition from israel. this woman is the palestinian minister of tourism. she says israel uses its control of the holy land gateways, airports, ports and land crossings to unfairly direct tourists towards spending more time at religious sites under israeli control. >> we still have 5% to 10% of the revenues, 90% is spent on the israeli side, which is an unfair distribution. i believe even for israel t is still a missed opportunity because they use us only as a bridge to develop tourism into israel. >> reporter: israeli tourism officials downplay that criticism saying increased tourism benefits both sid

. >> one thing that is crist iks characteristic about our campaign is when people join our campaign,t. it is a very good sign. i think in political terms it means we are probably peaking at the right time. >> the latest poll be from the american research group shows ron paul leading the iowa presidential caucus with 21%. romney at 20%. and gingrich with 19%. paul supporters are not likely to sway in the political breeze. they eagerly eat up his message. smaller government, and strict interpretation of the constitution. paul comes from a variety of passionate groups, youth, tea party members and homeschoolers. a group very politically active in iowa. conservative radio show host says paul has a good clans of pulling off an upset in this state. >> organizationally, he is very well organized. has a devoted following. he also has several people around the state, people that i know who have done a very good job, for lack after better word, evangelizing the ron paul governance. >> he has a folksy style that plays well, not just under iowa but also with the breakfast crowd in a new hampshir