. >> now, this is fluffy. this is the mama cat of all the cats. >> stray cats have a calming effect on inmates but they create a nuisance for officers. >> i've been trying to catch fluffy for six months. i haven't caught her yet. well, i caught her and somebody turned her loose. she got smart. she won't go back in the trap. >> it's personal between him and her, you know what i'm saying? it's wit, animal wit against human man wit. >> microwave signals course through the fences of holman that when crossed notify officers of a possible breach. >> three different sections of the fence have microwaves in them and the cats will walk through that microwave. i staff member has to go around and check and see why it went off. see if they can figure it out. it takes up a lot of man hours, a lot of time to check. i picked this place for the cat. if you notice, there's a couple biscuits thrown out, a chicken bone. there's a hole in that second floor window where the inmates are feeding the cat. so i know that the cat will

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the cats became his nemesis, particularly fluffy. >> there's fluffy.nk you're going to have a little trouble with that one. it's personal between him and her, you know what i'm saying? so it's wit, animal wit against human man wit. >> i have been trying to catch fluffy for six months. i haven't caught her yet. >> the inmates love the cats and the cats trust the inmates. and it was just a neat story to see the officers trying to get the cats and the inmates trying to protect the cats. and it just proved to be a really cool story. >> fluffy's having another kitten. >> fluffy seemed to be perpetually breeding more and more kittens. >> she's going to get him up and run with him. she's good to go with him. she's gone. >> there's no telling where she's carried him to. >> can you get her? >> uh-uh. >> he's got her now. that what's what i'm talking about. it's over with now. >> sergeant english liked the cats. he wasn't going to hurt the animals. he was trying to find them homes but the cats were posing a problem at the prison. they were getting stuck in the f

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>> poncho is cold and wanted to be on the fluffy pillows curled up in a warm ball. >> nick starts pushing off the bed. >> the dog is standing his ground. even though he is a little guy, he is standing his ground. >> he gets a little snap of the finger and told to go to his bed. >> how can you not love that? >> it's winter it's snowy so it's snowball hill climbing. huge hill. pete is on his snowball about to attack this hill and take it like a champ. first thing he has to do is get around this hair pin. he gets a bit more grip. he's off on the hill. for two seconds. look at him go flipping. >> he got pulled back on it. soon as he hit that hill he pulled back. >> it flips hit over. >> spectacular crash. he made it all but 1% of the way up the hill. he escaped with bumps and bruises. nothing more. >> helpful 2-year-old. >> here you go. >> what could be worse an rat in the pastry counter? >> nothing. >> how about three rats? that's how many rats this person caught nibbling on the goodies in that pastry counter at a diner in a bus station in russia. these rats are bold. they don't care the lig

. >> i fluffy the cat. >> not really -- >> but fluffy very croak al. >> yes. >> i think it is the tv, gets him upset. first thing, you have to have a plan for taking care of pets, sometimes you get the new pet, oh, wait, we're going visiting. what do we do with the dog? >> we really want people to crate train their dogs, especially puppies, very important these pups are crate trained. they have been living in crates when sleeping at nights in their foster homes. that's number one. >> and they want to come in your bed. >> yes, helpful for potty training, things like. that so crate training big. we want to exercise them, too, before we put them in the crate. going to a party, yes, take them for a run, puppies don't walk that well on leashes, but run them around the house. >> play with a toy. >> right. >> george loves. >> this little camera shy now. >> look, little christmas light. the cutest thing you ever saw. hello buddy. and if you're going away for long time, thinking about adding a pet, make sure there is a pet sitter or boarding plan in place. >> right. >> so you have to have a k

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we could get a fluffy inch of snow out of this. here is lake tahoe and some of the lake-effect snow i was telling you about there. pretty interesting features there coming off the lake. as far as winter storm goes possibility of snow in vegas, totals lowered a little bit. right now thinking maybe an inch tomorrow. that's a big deal on new year's evccaw. areas in idaho, the coldest so far this winter. so not guaranteed we'll get a lot of snow in vegas, but still a possibility of a little bit. >> you know how they roll in vegas. is that confetti? is it snow? >> a lot of coarse air. >> ripping it up for the new year's. thank you very much. >>> directly ahead, we'll have more on breaking details on the sad news surrounding airasia flight 8501 as indonesia's officials have found debris and bodies of passengers who were on board the airbus. we'll be right back. and the winner of this year's superstar... (coughs) coughing can really be disruptive. with a record breaking fifty million votes, your superstar is... that's why there's delsym.

nice, fluffy snow. very good way to start christmas. right after opening presents we came here right away, ready to come down these hills. >> right now there are no chain requirements for sierra highways, but be sure to check conditions before you head out to the mountains. >>> down in los angeles county, strong winds tore through the area this morning leaving thousands of people without power for their christmas morning at the peak more than 1,100 customers were without power. just 1,300 were left in the dark by this afternoon. wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour also prompted chp to issue warnings to drivers. there have been no reports of damage or injuries so far. >>> a good time of year for a personalized forecast. to get one download our nbc bay area app. you'll find realtime doppler radar, get a seven-day forecast for your neighborhood. >>> the hunt is on for an inmate escaped monterey county jail. a statewide alert issued for 23-year-old freddy swanson. officials say he escaped a medium security rehab area of the jail by climbing

you think of snow as being fluffy and white and soft but really in an avalanche, it isn't. it becomes very hard very tough to dig yourself out. and very difficult to breathe. >> looks like he's got something. >> reporter: i was lucky to be rescued by ski patrol. my hero! hello! dotson says he's lucky he didn't need a rescue. this time. >> it was definitely an experience that dropped your jaw. >> reporter: clay to be clayton sandell, abc news denver. >> definitely jaw dropping. >>> when we come back that very different kind of avalanche. imagine being buried under a massive wall of salt. >>> and look at this. this is what happened when a robbery literally goes up in flames. it's coming up next. what if one stalk of broccoli could protect you from cancer? what if one push up could prevent heart disease? one. wishful thinking, right? but there is one step you can take to help prevent another serious disease- pneumococcal pneumonia. one dose of the prevnar 13 ® vaccine can help protect you ... from pneumococcal pneumonia, an illness that can cause coughing, chest pain difficult

from there, fluffy icing.he kids, they don't give you icing, it is more like glue, beat the daylights out of it, get it fluffy. that's the key. use a lot of it, you're good to go. >> 90 seconds we have. give us a countdown. judge us at the end. >> i have a lovely ribbon. you ready? three, two, one. ice. >> wow, you didn't waste time. >> squeeze that icing out. a lot of pressure. >> what are your favorite candies? >> anything red and green. >> anything with a nice holiday look to it. don't be afraid to use a lot of pressure to squeeze that icing out. >> i have pictures. >> she tweeted at me, e-mailed me at 3:00 in the morning. >> supposed to be getting fancy? i am putting on things my kids would like. playing the kid card. >> mine looks like a kid did it. >> if you keep eating the ingredients, you never get the ribbon. >> 30 seconds. >> do i have any clear cut winners here? >> i'm doing good. i think i'm doing good here. i have collar schemes. >> okay. ten seconds. no pressure. >> alternating, as many as you ca

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i think it should be plight and fluffy.it is not liked by everyone they have no business putting -- >> when i saw "anymore foe maniac" i was offended. you were too. >> absolutely. >> but you didn't march with me. did you know they canceled steve corell's movie? >> what was the term you used? a a sovereign nation? did you say the leader of a sovereign state? >> i don't know exactly what i said. >> i want to disagree with it. when they refer to saddam's iraq and much more when they refer to kim jong-un's north korea, i can't take it seriously. it is like john gotti or some pig, some thug rounded up a bunch of people and said we are going to torture them in this warehouse and the warehouse is a sovereign nation and i am the president of the sovereign nation. if the u.n. which is the most lily livered milk toast coward organization in the history of the world, they put out that very strong report against human rights abuses. they can't careless about human rights abuses. they put that out. i would say if we can find any excuse

the cure for cancer, biotechs, even janet yellen talked about biotechs, that they may be too fluffy at year for biotechnology. the indexes have gone up, and many of those biostocks, but people are chasing companies that don't really have earnings. that's the hardest part. gerri: i've heard this story before. i've heard it ends badly. >> and we've seen them crash, absolutely. gerri: so radius health, osteoporosis sis treatment. book value of 23 million -- >> but there are no earnings. gerri: big zero. >> yeah. negative. so people are buying hope. gerri: tough year for commodities, in particular iced coffee? >> no, no, iced coffee did very well, but most of that was made in the first three months of the year. we took that trade using the exchange-traded fund. the commodity indexes are down over 20%. commodities have been deflating. so every once in a while you'll get a pop -- gerri: iced coffee? >> no, ice exchange which trades the futures contract for -- gerri: i was completely confused by that because i had never heard of a commodity. okay. i think the big takeaway was if you did well

they are fluffy, fat creatures. at comic-con they are all dressed up.these are people in furry outfits. is it a turn on they get from these? >> there is something and someone from everyone. while this may not be my cup of tee, i have other dating websites. i'm sure these people have their own. >> i think you hit it. this is people who are too fat for comic-con and this is their way of saying i am not fat. i am a mammoth. i am not fat. i am a wildabeast. >> look at those fat asses hanging out of the costumes and chlorine everywhere. my theory is -- obviously this was a terroristic kind of gas. there was a nerd who didn't realize how bad it was. they were try to get everybody outside. this was in the midwest. they are in the fur. they say what a shame we are coped up inside with our fur. >> they wanted to get every hot. >> yes, they were outside. >> they should have seen if a lot of rooms were robbed. >> i don't think they were as shallow as that. >> they wanted to get the furry creatures. >> they wanted to see who was about the fur life. who could take t

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isis posts recipes to the wives of fighters advising them on the best method for fluffy pancakes, buthese photos show otherwise say activists. children line up for hand outs at an emergency kitchen. chronic food shortages and hyper inflation. hospitals are empty of supplies with few doctors. air strikes targeted power stations so electricity is sporadic, at most four hours a day. activists inside spoke to condition on condition of anonymity. >> isis, there are different dealing with the civilians. they have their own -- they take the best schools, best houses, best cars. isis does not give their people anything. >> then the public executions in what was paradise square. anyone considered an enemy of isis is killed here. their bodies put on display. isis promised to make it a model of the islamic state. activists inside say it is anything but. >> isis publishing the figures of propaganda to make it a paradise. it is a paradise for isis but hell for the people. >> if the residents survive the day at night they live in fire of coalition air strikes. isis does not seem to be losing its gr

but we have a lot of costumers out here with big, fluffy costumes that will keep people warm. freezing our butts off. >> or freezing their tails off as the case may be in a lot of them. hoarse the best part. many of these evacuees were self-ed next door into a real dog show. so you had fake animals watching the real animals, even though it's called the furfest, you should be assured there is no real fur at all on these costumes, all phoney, but they can cost thousands of dollars and come from all over the world for the midwest furfest. >> got to love the midwest. the search is on after a thief is caught swiping a packaging. now police are hoping you might recognize the suspect. >>> another edition of mean tweets. i'll give you a sample. especially nasty one i received the other day. you're so fake, you should change your name to the fake story. well, more mean tweets to come. and how twitter is taking action to stop all the harassment. mean tweets when we come back. you total your brand new car. nobody's hurt,but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company s

researchers say more than 1,000 caregivers, sampled used fluffy thick bedding despite recommendationsgainst it. now, doctors say babies should sleep alone on their backs on affirm surface, to cut the risk of suffocation. >> new breast cancer vaccine shows promising results in its clinical trials. doctors in st. louis say the vaccine use as patient's immune system to attack tumors and safe for those with metastatic breast cancer. small number of side effect were reported thus far. researchers say the trials are still in the early faces, but good to report. so good to report. >> coming up in the ex next half hour every "eyewitness news", update on breaking news, how a love triangle led to possible firebombing. justin? >> and the search to find missing student shane montgomery now enters fifth day. coming up live the extra efforts now coming in to help find him. >> also, this morning, many of the images we've seen from various ferguson protests have been ugly. and then there is this: the hug that went viral. now we're hearing from the police office here held that crying boy in his arms.

>> one, that your little fluffy doesn't have a soul, and you will re-enter quite an argument. pope was calming the troubleded heart of a little boy that his dog had just died. >> it opened up a huge door. now all these articles are being written, and christian authority tarns are coming to the forefront and saying, yeah, he did open the door. >> for years my church has hosted an annual blessing of the animals. >> mine too. >> i have always taken my little puggle, rory. i have always taken her. listen, i happen for believe as a christian that all good things are in heaven, all things that bring us joy and hope, and happiness and peace. that's the real story. >> here we go. >> ultimately i think that's a great message and an inspirational one. >> it fits into the character of pope francis because he has opened the door on a lot of other topics and been much more inclusive, and now he is adding pets. >> at least it opens up the discussion as well. it's a great conversation to have. if you don't agree with him, at least it opens up that dialogue. >> people are more dogmatic. >> do

the snow will be nice and fluffy for the christmas holiday. 60 degrees in los angeles. 41 in nashvilleck on the national 23r5689 -- forecast. here's what's shaking where you live. >> reporter: good morning, i'm meteorologist chris sowers, today, clouds, 38. sunday, 42. monday, rain, 45, christmas eve, rainy and warm 60. >> keep the sponsors happy. and it's true. >> i'm still stuck on dexter. >> "dexter" is a popular series that ended on showtime about a serial killer. >> you can drop a show reference like that. >> and a morbid one. it's great. >> great for the morning. >>> ron, could you change the subject, tracking developing headlines. >>> we have some news here. good morning, everyone. we begin with breaking news in the sony cyber attack. north korean denied hacking sony, calling the accusations absurd. sony officials said they did not cave in after president obama said it was a mistake by the film studio to pull the movie in theaters. >>> and procrastinators, i'm one of them, hitting the stores in record numbers. imagine that. this super saturday, the biggest shopping day of the ye

. >> reporter: people on the slopes are divided about whether this storm dumped light, fluffy sierrader or heavy, wet sierra cement. >> cement today. especially all that area, it's heavy. >> sierra powder. i don't know what they're talking about. >> reporter: cement or poweder? you make the call. i can form it into a snowball but if i crumble it up, it blows away. either way skiers and boarders say conditions so far this season are definitely better than last year. still, holly is waiting before deciding when to buy a season pass. >> for right now we're keeping fingers crossed that this weather holds up. we're going to take it a day at a time. a little gun shy, absolutely. >> reporter: nearby, sugar bowl resort plans to reopen tomorrow after being closed for a week. crews were out today snow blowing the picnic deck and grooming the runs. >> with clear skies and sunny skies coming tomorrow and sunday it's going to be a fantastic weekend. >> david beanic reporting from the slopes. we are rad for the weekend. here's the deal. tomorrow morning, first thing, me, you and ranieri off to lak

researchers say more than 1,000 caregivers sampled used fluffy thick bedding despite recommendationssay babies should sleep alone on their backs on affirm surface to reduce the risk of suffocation. >> massachusetts man looking for a missing piece from an old desk finds something else instead. but little more valuable than what was lookinger. >> bought the disc for just $40 at auction but found something inside worth a whole lot more. >> it is a governor win up thering. >> piece of furniture not hard to find at auction. >> the desk we took in, we see them every day practically. >> and these old secretary's are often hiding treasures from the past. >> this desk is notorious for hidden compartment. >> one of the more likely hiding spots for value nabs piece of furniture like these little compartment, but these were empty. >> phil's winning bid of $40 at kelly auctions at whole brook last week made him the proud new owner after piece that needed some work. >> had a broken foot. this was missing which i found no drawer. >> when he when he rat philadelphia around a bit, it was absolutely a

isis even posts recipes to the wives of fighters, advising them on the best method for fluffy pancakesthese photos show otherwise say activists inside raqqah. children line up for handouts at an emergency soup kitchen. chronic shortages and hospitals have few doctors and supplies. electricity is sporadic. at most four hours a day. >> the isis, there's different dealing with the civilians from isis. the isis, they have the vip, so they have their opwn hospitals the they take the best food, the best car, the best houses. isis take the money but do not give the people anything. >> reporter: and then there are the public executions in what was raqqah's paradise square. anyone considered an enemy of isis is killed here, their bodies put on display. isis has promised to make it a model of the islamic state. activists inside it's anything but. >> isis publishing the videos of propaganda to make raqqah a paradise. yes, it's a paradise for isis but hit's hell for the people. >> reporter: if they survive the day, at night they live this fear of coalition air strikes. isis does not seem to be los

the drizzling of prose with fluffy modifiers like nearly come to seemingly come comparatively, to some extent, so to speak and presumedly, which means they don't really mean what they are saying. similarly, many academics shudder quotes. i will give you an example of a sentence that does both. this comes from a letter of recommendation i read for michigan graduate school. a quick study has been able to educate herself in virtually any area that interests her. are we supposed to understand this is saying this young woman is a quick study? or she is a quick study, namely someone who is rumored or alleged to be a quick study but really isn't. virtually any area means there are some areas where she tried to educate herself but failed. the youth of these hedges is so reflects us, so ingrained among many scholars that at one point i met an eminent scientist and i asked her how she was here she pulled out a picture of her 4-year-old daughter and she deemed we virtually adore her. why is there so much compulsive hedging in academia and also other kinds of rational needs? to follow the inherita

. >> reporter: people on the slopes are divided about whether the storm dumped light, fluffy sierra powderavy wet sierra cement. >> sierra cement today. all the area is heavy. >> sierra powder. i don't know what they are talking about. >> reporter: so sierra cement or powder? well, you make the call. i can kind of form it into a snowball, but if i crumble it up, it blows away. either way, skiers and boarders say conditions so far this year are definitely better than last year. still, holly is waiting before deciding whether to buy a season pass. >> we're keeping our fingers crossed the weather holds up. we're taking it a day at a time. >> a little gun shy. >> absolutely. >> reporter: nearby, sugar bowl resort plans to open tomorrow, after being closed for a week. crews were out today snow blowing the picnic deck and grooming the runs. >> with clear skies and sunny skies coming tomorrow and sunday, it's going to be a fantastic weekend. >> reporter: ktvu channel 2news. >>> a remarkable find in boston. a time capsule buried by samuel adams and paul revere. who stumbled upon it and what may be

. >> i didn't realize this, but they say an avalanche is not like this white fluffy powdery snow.difficult to ever dig yourself out of something like that. >> absolutely dangerous. we are told by the experts when there is an avalanche, move sideways as opposed to trying to go down from there. similar to when you get a riptide in the ocean. move sideways. >> good point. >>> all right. when we come back, kim kardashian. in her own words, why she does not like to smile. >> i'm going to keep frowning. >>> and ryan seacrest reveals a secret about what he does behind the wheel. that's all ahead in "the skinny." >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from our tt2wút3nú&4 bt@q&ap tt2wút3nú&4 "a@q6m4 tt2wút3nú&4 bm@q=f8 tt4wút3nú&4 " dztq =p tt4wút3nú&4 " entq p90 tt4wút3nú&4 " gzt& i>h tt4wút3nú&4 " hnt& y0$ tt4wút3nú&4 " iztq 3yé tt4wút3nú&4 " jntq !)< tt4wút3nú&4 " lzt& 9d@ ♪ skinny so skinny ♪ >>> time for "the skinny." and topping our headline this morning, a new revelation from kim kardashian. >> our last skinny of the year. as if we didn't know enough about her already,

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422 at 29 we have stuffed animals in the roadway here if you're driving in the area watch out for fluffynd furry and mr. jingle jangle e. >> looking live at philadelphia international airport, we'll see sun today, but it's brisk and cold. >> reporter: we know the names of all of matt pellman's childhood stuffed animals. 36 degrees in philadelphia. mainly cloudy skies, close to the freezing mark in allentown and trenton. 32 in reading, windchills in the 20s there's a breeze beginning to kick up. 40 is the high, brisk and chilly sunny breaks. 42 tomorrow, lighter wind. 45 degrees is the high on sunday, chilly for the eagles game at night. >> we'll go back to "g.m.a." and see you in 30. ♪ >>> look at that conga line. the ugly sweater dance troupe. that's just the warmup, guys. you know the competition is coming. all helped along by d.j. pro style mehere on this friday morning. >> we just put on the sweaters. that was it. one upping it. >> it's the epic showdown, right? >> the run way. >> all of that. >> the dance troupe. >> all of it. >>> also, the hunt right now for these men caught on cam

you think of snow as being fluffy and white and soft. but really in an avalanche, it isn't.d. very tough to dig yourself out. and very difficult to breathe. i was lucky to be rescued by ski patrol. my hero. back in washington, it turns out everyone is okay. but on a scale of one to ten, here's where dodson ranks the terror of outrunning an avalanche. >> a good nine and a half. >> reporter: for "good morning america," clayton sandell, abc news denver. >> i'm amazed people are still rolling their cameras. i'd be throwing that thing and running as fast as i can. >> i have never been good at math but i put the fear factor there at 13. >> well said. >>> another check of the weather. and ginger a lot of cold air out there. >> so much. and florida, the only place in the 60s this morning. and the only place warmer in south florida. this is mirthle beach, down to 36. and look at the chilly holiday weather through the start of the new year. 2015 is going to feel like january. louisville 40 for a high on thursday 47 on friday. look at huntsville, slightly warmer but still quite cool an

been asked to leave the hotel for unknown reasons, but we have a lot of costumers out here with big fluffy costumes that will keep people warm, so we're not worried. >> the chlorine powder seemed to have been released intentionally. >> it's weird to most of them keep the outfits on. >> a absolute for america's finest performers, five of them at white house sunday to receive cindy center ors, tom hanks and lily tomlin, al green and sting, and patricia mcpride. >> clear that the group with me on stage understands what president ken deunderstood, that our art is a reflection of us not just as a people but as a nation. >> after the white house meeting, the on res went to the ken decentered for a gala and the performances will be broadcast later this month. >> president obama's ebola czar is making plans to leave the job. he will step down marsh one, after becoming the ebola coordinator in october. the white house officials say look, everyone agreed it would only be a short term position. in fact, he plans to rejoin two private sector firms including the company that owns zip car. >> british of

but my approach is, and it's going to sound so fluffy and pie in the sky, but hear me out. it's really about the stories that we tell. the stories that we tell about civic engagement. the story that eric just told about what happened in seattle was incredibly compelling because it involved people that had not previously been civically engaged in a traditional sense or certainly not politically engaged, i think, is probably more accurate. and we see not only what the engagement looked like, but the outcome as a result of it. i don't hear those stories often. i hear them from people like eric, i hear them from the communities that i work with, but in the national narrative around the direction of this country we don't hear the stories about what civic engagement looks like today and how it's working. let me give you an example, ferguson. and is we don't have to get into a discussion, certainly, today about all the details and nuances of what's happening in florida -- >> please. >> we won't. but so many of my friends right now today have traveled to ferguson. they're in fergus

but my approach is and it's going to sound so fluffy but hear me out.t the storys that we tell. the storys that we tell about civic engagement, the story that he said involving seattle. it has not pressured to be engaged. we're certainly not politically engaged. and we see not only what the engagement looked like but the outcome out of the result. >> i don't hear those stories often. i hear them from eric. from the communities that i work with. of this country we don't hear the stories of what civic engagement works today and how it's working. let me give you an example, ferguson. we have all the details an nuances of what's being indicted. so many of my friends have traveled to ferguson? >> they're in ferguson more something called ferguson october. and police -- but you were using this as a little cat moment an opportunity to help edge gamente with and figuring out where do we go from here. >> if we can begin talking about these moments not in just a nar reway. t as and has these beautiful opportunities to say you have a voice. and you do have power e

. >> my feet began to sweat as these fluffy bunnies with the two sad eyes stared sadly at me. >> whatwe do with those unwanted gifts? >> 42% of americans regifted last year but that doesn't mean you should regift your ugly sweaters. >> joining us with the right way to regift is jacqueline whitmore, author of "poised for success." welcome. so happy to have you here. there is a right and a wrong way to regift? >> yes, indeed. it's perfectly acceptable to regift these days so keep a stockpile of gifts in case you need them. of course we probably got a lot of gifts yesterday that we want to regift, so keep them in a closet, label them who gave it to you and when they gave it to you and then you have to make sure this is something that's worth giving away. if you don't want it maybe somebody else wants it but maybe they don't. >> maybe they don't. absolutely, that tacky sweater or that old fruit cake, dump it or donate it. >> i like the fact that you say make sure you label it so i don't make the mistake of giving it to the person who gave it to me. >> you also need to erase the evidence.

. >> we have a lot of costumes out here with big fluffies could ste costumes. >> we've been in a huddlelankets. >> we just told mika what the convention was about. >> costumes kept everybody warm was the good news. >> where you going? hey. come back. >> police still -- >> come back. >> could you check on mika, see if she's okay? she's over there somewhere. still ahead, we have the "morning joe" economic roundtable including which companies fortune magazine is suggesting we invest in next year. we'll be right back with more "morning joe." here's a question for you: when electricity is generated with natural gas instead of today's most used source, how much are co2 emissions reduced? up to 30%? 45%? 60%? the answer is... up to 60% less. and that's a big reason why the u.s. is a world leader in reducing co2 emissions. take the energy quiz -- round 2. energy lives here. into one you'll never forget. earn triple points when you book with the expedia app. expedia plus rewards. as you walk away,ar. crunch! a garbage truck backs into it. so,you call your insurance company, looking for a little