. >>> more excitement from dick clark's new year rocking eve coming up live at times square at 11:30ight right after "action news". >>> still to come on "action news" the reason that your 401k could be rocking this year. >>> plus from the finest to the mess brave, cops take on the role of fire fighters to rescue a family from the burning home tonight. >>> witnesses record moments surrounding a he can deadly police shooting in our area we will show you, cecily. >>> i'm tracking a bit are cold start to 2015 but it will be dry however it will in the stay that way over the weekend. i'll explain in the accu weather forecast. >>> plus an infection warning from the place touch museum and ducis rodgers with temple taking reigning national chapel presidents to overtime when "action news" continues but first some new years resolution from his folks all around our area. >> i said in the year i will live healthier and to get in shape. so far, so good. >> i hope to get more healthy and i'm giving up sugar. i will be hell on wheels for two weeks but i'm doing it this year. >> i have lot of resolut

dick clark's new year's rocking eve will coming up here. >> a new year here means a whole new life for a 9-year-old d.c. boy. jason survived what doctors first thought was a fatal wound. but tonight he is finally out of the hospital and spending new year's eve at home. tom joins us now with the big plans for this inspiring young boy. >> he really is inspiring. it is a miracle that he made it to see 2015, and he is doing very well considering. just about three months ago he was living in mayfair manageses just off 295 here when he was hit by a straight bullet that someone fired. for the last three months, he has been spending all of his time on this property here, the medicalstar hospital property. but today he was finally able to leave here. >> i will be somewhere sitting with him hip to hip. >> that is how she planned to ring in the new year. jay deny had more plans but he wanted to go to bed this year. >> before i go to sleep, i am going to drink apple cider, and then go to sleep by myself. laughed after the >> as you can probably tell. behind the sweet smitty, jaden is one tough kid

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i want to bring in dick clark, a abc news contributor.ng for these attacks in recent weeks. you see this as much more sophisticated than the attack in sydney attack in ottawa. >> this is clearly a cell george an al qaeda cell sleeper cell. we don't know how big it is. one of the reasons the french want to take these people alive is to question them and find out who else is involved in this cell. we actually have a situation here where al queda is trying to compete with isis trying to stage an event so it can get some attention back. and that will translate into contributions, financial. >> mike:s contributions, and translate into recruits. >> if you say they were part of the same cell. what french officials have to be concerned that there are other members of the cell who will also now be inspired triggered for some kind of action? >> that's right. the question is how big is this sell and are there more cells, and why, as good as the french are, why hadn't they discovered this cell before it was activated. >> that is the question as the a

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>> fourteen years ago right after 9/11 we had dick clark in the white house, which shifted over from the counterterrorism portfolio to the cyber portfolio. we knew this was a problem. we have not made the progress we should have in this administration is awol on this as well. i mean, this is disgraceful that they were able to go in hack these, pull the families' names out, do the stuff that they've done. we need to look -- and actually dick clark wrote a book recently called "cyber war" where he talks about the fact we need to defend the spinal cord of our internet system in the united states and it just hasn't been done. >> steve, let me ask you. i mean, if they can hack into centcom, what does that mean for our electric grid? what does that mean for the way business is run in this country? it would seem to me if they can breakthrough that they can pretty much break into everything maybe shut us down. is that a danger we have to start thinking about? >> we need to have better security, sean. that was clear on sony. it's clear on a number of things. breaking into centcom's twitter an

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. >> it was the dick clark rock and role party minus dick clark and rock and roll.t never gets old. it's like penalty arriving on marine one it never gets boring. it's fantastic. >> do we have pictures of you out there. >> if we must. >> look at that. there you are. look at that hat! >> look at that! >> you heard of the saying when in rome, do as the romans do. when in times square, do as the time squares people do. >> i've heard of a cover girl. >> he's a cover man. >> where did you get the hat? >> they hand them out. around 11:00 everybody puts them on. they reckon 200 million americans saw that ball come down a billion will witness it around the world. i've checked with the nypd, no significant incidents. >> always braves it out there and back this morning too. >> i know. >> thank you. >> still ahead a case of fire and ice. >> a small town left nearly frozen solid after battling an intense blaze in freezing temperatures. >> it was supposed to be a joyful celebration but a stray rocket in afghanistan did he ever states a family gathered for a wedding. we are live

dick clark has more from the uae. >> highest water consumption rates in the world and yet water supplyhere is on a knife edge. take gulf states of qatar for example where they say there's only enough emergency supply to last two days. you wouldn't think water was in short supply given the amount that's used to make things grow where nothing should. here's the primary source, the arabian gulf. environmentally destructive desalination plants. despite the fact this is about as close as you can get to the desalination plants speaks volumes for how crucial these installations are to this region. without them there would be no drinking water. the taps would just run dry. and life in the gulf just could not exist in the way that it does. in this parched arid land you don't expect this, the business selling more than 4 million cut flowers. the bore hole supplies the water. the problem is the ancient aquifer it comes from is nearly depleted thanks to over-extraction across the country. >> population is expected at a high rate for the upcoming years. especially with the major events that we will

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. >>> idina menzel offering no apologies for her performance on abc's dick clark's new year's rockingay store was performing let it go when some say she botched a high note at the end of the song. men sell responded by tweeting out interview she gave last year and said this. there are 3 million notes in a two and a half hour musical. it took me a long time to realize if i'm hitting 75 percent of them that i'm succeeding. good for you. >>> professor at robert wood johnson university hospital has created an entire class based on the show about nothing. medical students are learning about psychiatric disorders from seinfeld. students have to watch two episodes a week and then gather to discuss the psychopathology demonstrated on each one. the professor diagnosis jerry seinfeld as obsessive compulsive. george costanza as being ego centric and kramer as exits side: scizoid. >> singer taylor swift went above and beyond the call of a pop superstar by sending personalized gifts to hand selected fans. swift, her people stud deter fans' social media profile to see if they wanted. if they were p

i'm the chairman of the dick clark company. got a standing ovation, no censorship, no self-censorship. we want to protect free speech. we want to allow. that the government and everybody has to protect. that still on your own you realize today, crazy people live in the world. they can reach you in all kind of crazy ways the if say something that offend their religion or might offend their leader, suddenly, your salman rushdie and they will unyou down. people are more thoughtful even though they want to talk about. david: people are kind of brave now, remember when george clooney was trying to get folks to come out, he could not find one individual to sign a letter, that just stated we'll not subject ourselves to self-censorship? >> he power of fear, f, e, a, r, which is false evidence appearing real, but power of that fear is no engrained in us we have a a fight or flight. people will first have flight. fight is hard. tough stand in the ring to take shots. there are enough people that believe if we don't do that it will erode a

ryan seacrest and jenny mccarthy anchored dick clark's new year's rockin eve.lady antebellum. but stealing the show early in the evening was idina menzel. ♪ i'm free ♪ ♪ let it go let it go ♪ >> and elton john also performed at the barclays center in brooklyn. taylor swift rang in the new year in style right in the thick of it all in times square. >> what was she wearing? >> not a lot. >> poor thing. ryan seacrest gave her a tuxedo at one point. taylor swift has an extra reason to shine. >> she managed to unseat "frozen" as 2014's top selling album. the soundtrack from our parent company disney eventually let it go you might say, to swift's album "1989" which has already sold 3.6 million copies. that's only since october. >> that's compared to 3.5 million copies of "frozen" the soundtrack. no other album has sold even 2 million copies this past year. did you download taylor swift? >> if i have downloaded it, i can't say that i have. i -- i can't admit it. >> you did.course. >> who could let that go. it's fantastic. >>> next up, a very sensitive subject for anot

. >> dick clark's rockin' new year's eve? ryan seacrest.ood's legend. he scored big at the box office in 2014 with "gone girl." it's up for four golden globes this month. the two-time oscar winner stopped by the studio in september. >> i read the book. i saw the movie. love them both. david fincher is in the hall way. one of the reasons he was cast is because of your grin. what was it because the grin comes at a very creepy time in the movie. how did your smile do? >> i was never sure which smile he meant. he was obsessed with this idea that the relationship between how the media shows us and what's going on with us and that this nice guy who's sort of a people pleaser that we think is nice is accused of murdering his wife and he's standing in front of the missing poster and he goes, smile, he kind of smiles and then i realize i shouldn't be smiling and that that image is used to kind of condemn him. >> i think you said you don't feel personally connected to nick dunn. definitely i was looking at a version of myself i didn't recognize throu

i have read the memoirs of george tenant, dick clark donald rumsfeld, and it is clear to me that she is incompetent. that she should not be placed on any kind of national security team. having her a heartbeat away from the presidency would give me a heart attack. she is responsible for ignoring repeated memos from dick clark george tenant, and others, including vladimir putin. obama bin laden was going to attack. she ignore them repeatedly. i looked into her scholarships. her dissertation was roundly criticized by scholars. she is not on the level of people like richard haas or the president. i am trying to warn bush. she had a negative influence on his brother, george bush. she dominated him, in my opinion . she excluded him from being able to connect from other members of his team who were relegated by condoleezza rice. host: time for a few other callers. note, the president left just a couple of hours ago for his trip to india. a story in the "wall street journal." the president will end that trip a day early and head to saudi arabia to pay his respects to king abdullah who died t

our julia boorstin catching up with this generation's dick clark on all his ventures.t helped transform sony into an electronics powerhouse. and now the walkman -- what do you mean coming back? i still use it. the walkman is making a comeback. >>> now you can lose inches off your waistline. effortlessly. thanks to the new super walkman from sony. >> oh how the times have changed. sony making a splash with its new walkman. aside from the iconic brand name, the new zx-2 boasts on board storage and a touch screen display. it also improves on the original walkman by connecting to the internet and not being the size of a book. but the real focus will be on high end audio. supporting all of this latest audio files, big difference between b the original walkman and the new walkman. also the price tag. the original one about $200. this new one just about $1200. >> wow. >> 1200 bucks. get an iphone or something. >> you are the ryan seacrest of business. >> we're all trying. >> ryan seacrest can't stop working. "american idol," "new year's rocking eve." the "today" show a clothi

. >> dick clark productions. >> they were at a table meeting. >> rehearsals. >> no rehearsals for us. year he didn't talk to me. >> an elvis tribute art ist, pamela? >> that's right. i delivered on what i promised you earlier. a very special guest earlier. we have victor trevino here. an elvis tribute artist. flew in from chicago here in to memphis to speak with us. first of all, tell us, how did you end up in this role? what inspired you to become an elvis tribute artist? >> i always loved musical theatre and classic americaa. particularly older music. so i was doing acting and trying to do different things in my early 20s. i was waiting tables at one time and a lady said, have you ever thought about doing the role of elvis? at first i thought well, elvis is really cool. but i never thought about -- >> is it the hair? >> i had super curly hair, but it wasn't that. >> she kind of planted a seed. then that weekend they had a an elvis competition. >> so it wasn't because you're someone who has an elvis shrine in your house and you walk around -- >> no. i have so much respect for elvis,

breakout british band rixton performing "me and my broken heart" fresh off their performance on dick clark'scoming up of we are looking forward to that. it's nice to be out here in the snow right? >> yes. >> absolutely. >> i was going to say ginger was right about the weather forecast. >> we had to come out and say thank you for braving the cold. >> thanks everybody. >> before you write us we didn't know we were coming outside so we know our shoes are not appropriate. >> inside two-time oscar winner jessica lange is live this morning talking about her big role in "american horror story" freak show. she is so magnificent and it's won two emmys for >>> if you are just joining us "american horror story." >>> molly sims is at our twitter mirror -- work it girl. -- her special beauty fashion and wellness secrets so we can all supermodel our lives. right, aamy? >> get that messy glamorous movie star hair the secret could be not shampooing. >> and not being out in the snow. >> abc's linzie janis has more. >> reporter: jennifer lawrence jessica biel kate hudson all fans of the undone look. hair that

. >> dick clark productions. >> rehearsals. >> no rehearsals.here with an elvis tribute artist. victor trevino jr. pamela brown. pamela? >> reporter: that's right, anderson. delivered on what i promised you all earlier. very special guest here. after all, in memphis, home of the blues, victor trevino. elvis artist, tribute artist. flew in from chicago. to memphis. tell us how did you end up in the role, what inspired you? >> well i always loved musical theater, classic americana, particularly older music. so, i was doing acting and trying to do different things in my early 20s. so i was waiting tables at one time. a lady said, have you ever thought about doing the role of elvis. i thought elvis is really cool. >> the hair? >> i have super, super curly. it wasn't that. she, she, kind of mranplanted t seed. at a hard rock cafe in dallas, they had an elvis, competition. >> it wasn't because you are someone who has an elvis shrine in your house? >> no. >> i have so much respect for elvis. an american icon. i'm victor, when i'm off stage. >> all righ

dick cheney and george bush? i really don't think i can add anything to what colonel wilkerson and richard clarke have said.hink if you look at the report, it provides very persuasive evidence that torture was used to produce false evidence to justify the invasion of iraq. that is buried in footnotes in the report but it is there. it is very, very clear. that is a shocking and humiliating fact for the united states, in a fact that should have consequences. >> over the weekend, nine pakistanis were killed as far as we know and yet another drone strike, perhaps the first of 2015 the we don't absolutely know this. talk about drones in the art of stealth warfare. >> i think the use of drones are it is her significant. it points to the way we have redirected our entire attitude toward waging war today. we prefer covert war. we give the cia a greater a greater role in waging this war. the ca has become opposite of what it was intended to be. it is focused very heavily on operations, and many of them's just -- sustain like this drone war, which is a 10 year war. this cia gets to exercise that control by saying eve