offenders serving harsh sentences commuted by president obama is reynolds wintersmith, a cousin of deval patrick. >>> russian president vladimir putin made pardons including to an oil tycoon who is a potential rival. >>> time for a look at your money. mcdonald's is facing one wingding of a problem. the fast food giant has ten million pounds of mighty wings to unload because the limited time offer of the product was a flop. by most accounts cost was a problem. >>> facebook's mark zuckerburg will sell over 41 million shares of facebook stock worth around $2.3 billion to pay federal and state taxes. according to the new york post he will be the highest paid ceo in the country. >>> according to cnbc warren buffe buffettt earned about the $1.5 million an hour in 2013. >>> speaking of lucky ducks, these five pampered birds will be retiring from the famed peabody hotel. this group will be retiring to the jack daniels distillery. >>> kobe sidelined again. did he return too soon? >>> getting close, the christmas season upon us, the special time of the year where the man with a big white beard mak

winter smith is the first cousin of massachusetts governor deval patrick. each of these cases the judge had lamented the fact they couldn't be more lenient that the sentencing guidelines meant they had to put these people away for so long. >> the mandatory sentence is controversial and changed quite substantially. >>> we are find you out what led to the fire of major general michael carey removed as head of the air force in october and in an inspector general's report showed he was caught drinking and carousing during a trip to russia last summer. he was there for a nuclear security training exercise. >>> the u.s. is sending troops into south sudan as the new african countries teeters on civil war this morning. violence erupted there after an parent coup on sunday. so far, 500 people have been killed and the fighting is spreading. the fighting has intensified this hour. >>> president obama and the first family are heading west, way west for their christmas vacation, going to hawaii as they have in past years. the first family is expecting to stay in the sam

one is massachusetts governor and president obama supporter delawa deval patrick's cousin. he's never met the man and had nothing to do with his application. the white house would not confirm whether the president knew the man was related to patrick. >>> dozens of people are injured after the ceiling in a theater of london's famed west end collapsed. it was just after 8:00 p.m. local time. theater goers reported hearing a cracking sound and the unthinkable. >> loud bang, i didn't think it was an explosion. the veal creeling came down. a lot of dust and all that stuff landed on five or six rows sblp we thought it was sound effects of the theater. then we just looked up and the whole ceiling was slow motion kind of came down. >> those in the audience said it became dark, dusty and people were lying on the floor after a section of the balcony and lighting grid came down. no word of what caused this failure in the theater. 88 patients were treated. somehow nobody was killed. >>> the blowup over air force of an indian diplomat shows no sign of slowing down. she was arrested for

one of them is a cousin of deval patrick. the president is pushing to have prison sentences corrected for nonviolent criminals. each of the eight offenders had served over 15 years in prison. >>> russian president vladimir putin also made pardons including an oil tycoon who is a potential rival. and putin also letting the members of an all-women punk rock band be released just before the holidays. >>> let's move you to business now. we turn to cnbc's seema mody. good morning to you, seema. >> facebook founder mark zuckerberg is cashing in on some stock. he's selling over 41 million shares of the social network work about $2.3 billion. facebook has said most of the net proceeds will go to uncle sam. over a two-year period, he may end up paying between 2 to $3 billion in federal and state taxes, but he's donating about $1 billion worth of facebook stock to charity. >>> and mcdonald's mighty wings didn't prove to be so mighty. the fast-food chain has more than 10 million pounds of frozen wings in storage they need to get rid of

cat's cradle of the tracks ran through and elsewhere where the yards and more tracks that ran on to deval and surrounded the other. she was famous for his railroad stations and the idea being that everyone entered by train mainly. he asked senator macmillan about moving it even before the plan was made in moving the railroad. he pronounced it impossible. he wasn't one that used that word but he said it never happened. but he couldn't get it out and he tried many ways to approach getting what he wanted. finally, he called upon the president of the pennsylvania railroad whose sister he knew well from the world fair. he used his prestige with congress. the eyesores will be removed from the mall and tunnels would be built under the capitol to phill the station would be filled down health north of the capitol. he made his design a current curtain of classical architecture past with though buildings of the roman empire. the white marble a cold blue white and finally found the perfect vermont. however it was shot down, he was told, in memory of their son who died at an early age to get no amount

they come down on gold how they have been go to have been significantly lay even to the point that deval you didn't even make that much of an impact on the gold price of gold spike say when ben mentioned it would be different ways of refining and forming gold smuggling i think a lot of people enjoy facts and. specs. so the smuggling business is quite a factor now as we have a situation in various countries that are trying to and india in particular right they're trying to clamp down a precious metals so smuggling is becoming and contraband in the black market in gold is happening the the way that you're financing this project in the way that you're going to bring it to market for this get real project will be on a crowdfunding platform called start joint yeah well start joint touch and start joint which is not yet. open i think it's an coming thing pretty free registration better in the next two weeks it will be up and running and not only is it crowd funding but it will also have a big component so people can use bitcoins to crowd fund your show which is then you going to distribute it

they come down on gold how they have we go to have been significant you lie even to the point that deval you didn't even make that much of an impact on the gold price of gold spike say when ben mentioned that would be different ways of refining and forming gold smuggling i think a lot of people enjoy facts and. specs. so the smuggling business is quite a factor now as we have a situation in various countries that are trying to and india in particular right they're trying to clamp down on precious metals so smuggling is becoming and contraband and the black market in gold is happening the way that you're financing this project in the way that you're going to bring it to market for this get real project will be on a crowdfunding platform called start joint yeah well start joint touch and start joint which is not yet. open i think it's an coming thing pre-registration better in the next two weeks it will be up and running and not only is it crowd funding but it will also have a big component so people can use bitcoins to crowd fund your show which are then you going to distribute it over th

as i reported, the massachusetts governor deval patrick, one of the eight commuted today is a cousin of the massachusetts governor. does that raise flags? is that okay as far as your analysis is concerned? >> oh, sure. he was one of eight, and obviously one who suffered a massive discrimination, you know, talk about massachusetts, we've legalized marijuana now. nobody notices the difference. you know, crime is going down in the united states, in fact, all over the world, in fact inmate prison population is not going down proportionate to the reduction in crime. crime is costing us a fortune in terms of imprisonment. we're not getting bang for our buck, we're not getting justice, and i think it's a good beginning by the president. there's a lot more to go. i think he should be pardoning and commuting more people. the pardon power is one of the most important powers given a president by the framers of our constitution. it was intended to be used broadly to bring about justice, and bring about equal treatment. it hasn't been used. we've seen some. commutation -- i hope that jonathan pol

one is the first cousin of massachusetts governor deval patrick. reynolds allen winter smith jr. life sentence for possession and intent to distribute cocaine. the white house says his family ties did not impact that decision. >>> two men are found guilty of murdering a british soldier on the streets of london. one of the attackers last may was caught on video carrying a meat cleaver in his bloody hands, it was soldiers killing muslims overseas. the victim was hacked to death near his military barracks. >>> the attorney for the indian diplomat arrested in new york and strip searched on charges of visa fraud in violation of her housekeeper is now speaking out. the attorney says the allegations are baseless and accuses u.s. authorities of mishandling the arrest. >>> and a british tabloid apparently hacked kate middleton's phone while dating prince william. a prosecutor told the london court today, in one voice mail, william calls his future wife baby kins. they are following the trial of the former editors of the defunct "news of the world" newspaper who are accused of illegal phon

that one of the men whose sentence was commuted today is the first cousin of massachusetts governor devalck, a close friend of president obama. both the president and the governor's offices say that had nothing to do with it and governor patrick had nothing to do with requesting that the sentencing commuted. >>> still to come, dennis rodman in north korea. is his basketball diplomacy a distraction from real problems? and the star of duck dynasty suspended indefinitely from the show. did a & e overreach? advil congestion relief. it delivers a one-two punch at pain and sinus pressure with the power of advil and a nasal decongestant in a single pill. advil congestion relief. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >>> dennis rodma

deval patrick security from the state department is responsible. -- diplomatic security from the state department is responsible. we send folks as we need them. we don't have any specific numbers to give you. they are playing a lead and that it will continue to do as we head into the x. >> will there be more people? >> i don't know the details, we will talk about it more leading up to sochi. >> do you believe that makes the situation urgent, that you cooperate with the russians in fighting terrorism? iraq --ways talk about we always cooperate with the russians in fighting terrorism, we talked about this with the boston bombing. >> are the russians forthcoming in cooperating? on the are very focused olympic games, we are cooperating closely. you mention that there have been threats made against the games already. have any been made against americans specifically? >> not to my knowledge. i don't have all the details. >> highlights from the second season of our first lady's serious. from edith roosevelt to rosalynn carter. clips, taurus, and more. 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. i have been

deval patrick is in the poll at 1%.side i want to note, i think it is christie is on top of the pile. a lot of conventional wisdom to political junkies, he is toast. he will not get past the sandy embrace with obama. it looks like a pretty open field and may get messy for republicans. jamie: it will be so interesting starting with those midterms next year. always great to have you here. >> happy new year. jamie: happy, healthy new year to you both. gregg? gregg: bizarre security breach at a major airport. take a look at this. a man actually runs on to the tarmac and hit as plane. it is raising airport security questions at this hour. jamie: amazing video. >>> new concerns that obamacare could look a lot like medicaid with fewer doctors taking patients. we'll take a closer look next. female announcer: female announcer: it's time to make room for the new mattress models during sleep train's huge year end clearance sale. get beautyrest, posturepedic, even tempur-pedic mattress sets, at low clearance prices. save even more

you're devaling with one level with school safety couched in the gun control and gun rights debate particularlyd the schoolhouse level, we hear from parents all the time who are frustrated, school administrators who are frustrated with the limited amount of resources that have been allocated, the number of federal programs were eliminated that came up after columbine. but at the local level it also has to be a school board issue, and parents can do the best advocacy in their own backward with their own school board, superintendent, and principal. and really what we need to do we need to make sure that schools are focusing on the proven, reliable, best practices. just as a couple of examples, in this year after the sandy hook shootings, we've been in schools that had -- ones that had a crisis plan dated in 1999, and we're in the year 2013 and it wasn't documented as updated. we walked through one school one morning as children ran the hallways past nearly a dozen people, and no visitor i.d.s, people didn't say good morning, may i help you. they say good morning, but they let a stranger walk righ

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