live in new york, wendy gillette. >> wendy gillette in new york. thank you. >>> the country has lost one of its great warriors. tributes are pouring in this morning for retired general norman schwarzkopf. the general died yesterday in tampa after a battle with pneumonia. schwarzkopf commanded "operation desert storm" that drove iraqi forces from kuwait. in retirement, he championed causes. norman schwarzkopf was 78. >>> now, to former president george h.w. bush's condition. his chief of staff says he will be in the hospital for a while. the 41st president is recovering from a terrible case of bronchitis with a series of complications. she says that mr. bush is getting excellent medical treatment in houston. and she would ask that people put the heart back into the closet. interesting. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton is planning to return to work next week. she has not been seen in public for two weeks. she's been recuperating at home since suffering a concussion. it happened when she hit her head during a fainting spell that was brought on b

live in sandy hook, connecticut, wendy gillette, back to you. >> wendy gillette, in newtown. thanks so much. >>> and schools elsewhere will be closed today, mostly for security purposes. thousands in michigan got an early start to their holiday break. classes were canceled because of threats of violence. a school district near dallas is off today because officials decided they needed time away due to the events of last week. >>> in other news this morning, the famously globe-trotting hillary clinton may have taken her last trip as secretary of state, due to her recovery from a concussion. a spokesman says clinton has canceled travel through the middle of next month. by that time, the new secretary of state, presumably at this point senator john kerry, may have in fact be confirmed. >>> and coming up after the break, that breaking financial news. stock markets falling this morning. what does it mean for markets here in the u.s.? >>> then, another impact of washington's gridlock. could we soon be paying $8 for a gallon of milk? details, coming up. >>> and imagine living next to

wendy gillette is live in connecticut. >> reporter: it is such an emotional day for everyone who livesaround here. when those bells tolled we saw a couple dozen or so people who went to stand by a makeshift memorial around the corner from here as they looked at bears, balloons, some wept as they reflected on a week that has been so difficult and caused so much pain. bells tolled in newtown, connecticut and across the nation. 26 rings in all, one for each of the 26 victims killed inside sandy hook elementary. the moment of silence was held 9:30 this morning when the gunman began his rampage in the school one week ago killing six adults and 20 children. the remembrance of the victims extended to the white house. president obama honored the moment of silence behind closed doors. he sent out a tweet beforehand that says: 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults, together we will carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. earlier today, the president released a video responding to an online petition signed by more than 400,000 asking for an immediate introduction of gun co

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wendy gillette is live in connecticut. >> reporter: it is such an emotional day for everyone who livesaround here. when those bells tolled we saw a couple dozen or so people who went to stand by a makeshift memorial around the corner from here as they looked at bears, balloons, some wept as they reflected on a week that has been so difficult and caused so much pain. bells tolled in newtown, connecticut and across the nation. 26 rings in all, one for each of the 26 victims killed inside sandy hook elementary. the moment of silence was held 9:30 this morning when the gunman began his rampage in the school one week ago killing six adults and 20 children. the remembrance of the victims extended to the white house. president obama honored the moment of silence behind closed doors. he sent out a tweet beforehand that says: 20 beautiful children and six remarkable adults, together we will carry on and make our country worthy of their memory. earlier today, the president released a video responding to an online petition signed by more than 400,000 asking for an immediate introduction of gun co

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live in new york, wendy gillette, abc news. muhammad and brandi, back to you. >> thanks, wendy. >>> here's a look ahead at the nation's weather. winter watches and warnings are in effect for almost half of the country. the northeast could see a rain/snow mix for the even commute before it turns all winter rain. wet from san francisco all the way to seattle. >> it is extremely cold in the middle of the nation. dallas is 38 degrees instead of the usual 55. minneapolis doesn't even get out of the teens. in the meantime, honolulu and miami, you're in the 80s. but there could be rain in both of those cities. chicago, detroit and indianapolis are in the 30s. >>> to our other top story this morning. president obama is cutting his vacation short and heading back to the white house. >> he's hoping to make a last-ditch compromise with lawmakers to try to avoid that fiscal cliff. reena ninan is traveling with the president. she joins us from honolulu, hawaii. reena, has there been any movement to reach a compromise here? >> reporter: it d

the form that he used to buy his guns to gillette failed to fault gun he enforces. office address twice. wrongly calling the atf building an apartment and using the strip mall for a second address rather than his residential address as required. we have reason to believe that the addresses that he gave wrong addresses and this was -- that could be a fraudulent violation of law. a felony violation of law. >> gillette was himself gun trafficking, given that his weapon was found at the same crime scene on the same day in the same city along with a weapon from his chief suspect three years after its purchased and a thousand miles away. gillette could not -- did not return our calls, shepard, but he did tell another media outlet that he sold that gun on the internet. back to you. >> shepard: william la jeunesse in los angeles. well now to the escalating darn knowledge in syria. the new commander of rebel forces there says he is, quote: very afraid. that if cornered the government will use deadly chemical weapons on its own people. really he should know. this vicious civi

wendy gillette joins us live from new york city. >> reporter: good morning. the national weather service has received reports of 34 tornadoes in four states, now this powerful system is moving east. this is just one of more than 30 reported tornadoes that touched down on christmas day. leaving heavy damage. this one roared through alabama -- mobile, alabama tearing down parts of the church and downtown businesses. another twister hit mississippi, blowing insulation into trees and%khç peeling back walls of homes. there were some injuries reported, no deaths. >> judging from some of the damage we witnessed today it is a miracle that no one was hurt any worse than they were. >> reporter: further east in the state in stone county, theresa and her boyfriend took shelter in their truck. >> started jerking us and spinning us. >> reporter: the same fast-moving storms brought braise -conditions to parts of the country's mid section, causing 21 vehicle pile-up in oklahoma city, the system is heading east bringing treacherous conditions on the day after christmas, often

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joins tom brady and peyton manning as the only quarterbacks to throw 4 touchdown passes in a game at gillette stadium. >>> let's look at janikowski, named the afc special teams player of the week. 5 field goals at the raiders final home game. steve bath, 2 from 50-plus. the second time janikowski has been honored. >>> david shaw has a new contract. it's a long-term deal that extends well beyond the two years he had remaining on his existing contract. he's 22-4 since taking over for harbaugh two years ago. he's gotten the cardinals to their first rose bowl in 12 years. >>> the no. 1 ranked women's basketball team nearly got beat tonight in south carolina. less than 5 minutes to go, it's 40-39, stanford, when alicia welsh hits the 3. 42-40 south carolina. next possession, fouled, hits the free throw, stanford up 2. less than a minute tied at 45, no more. the layup, stanford wins, hangs on 53-49. they improve to 10-0. >>> pablo sandoval was a judge in the ms. universe pageant in las vegas tonight. 89 women took the stage. no video of pablo at the competition, but we're going to show you a little

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nbc's wendy gillette is live in times square with the growing excitement. good morning, wendy. >> reporter: good morning, erika. as you can see, it's very quiet here in times square. the traffic is still flowing. we're at 48th street and 7th avenue standing next to one of the many barricades here in times square that will be used to control the crowds that start showing up in a couple of hours. this year, will crowds will see something different. the crystal ball will have 288 new panels. they'll be adorned with doves befitting of the theme this year, let there be peace. there will be one engraved in the name of dick clark. of course the late host died in april. he hosted his new year's eve show here in times square since 1974. a part of him will be here in times square when the ball drops. a lot of the things, though, that they will see are of course the same. the 2,000 pounds of confetti. this is something i learned this year. all of that confetti is dropped by hand from buildings on to the revelers at midnight. i was there last year. it was incredible ju

wendy gillette is live in times square with more on those preparations. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, good morning, veronica. as you can see, it's still quiet in times square. the traffic is still flowing. we're at 48th street and 7th avenue. as you can see, there are barricades set up here and all over times square to help control the crowds when they start showing up in just a couple of hours. [ cheers ] >> reporter: more than 2,000 pounds of confetti are in place. >> beautiful! >> that looks fantastic. >> reporter: ready to be thrown by hand from buildings in times square at midnight. >> i've seen it on tv, and it looks like so much fun with the concerts and the excitement in the air with so many people. >> it's magic. everybody in the world wants to come to new york for new year's. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands will usher in the new year here from all over the world. >> australia. >> canada. >> england. >> reporter: they'll see the famous waterford crystal ball drop down a 141-foot-tall flag pole high above times square lighting up the 2013 sign. >> three,

peyton manning is the only other quarterback in league history to throw four touchdown passes at gillette>>> david shaw took over the stanford head coaching job for jim harbaugh two years ago. today he signs a long-term deal with the school. now, terms of the extension were not announced. but shaw hinted he's here to stay. >> it goes for a while. this is good. put it this way, i wanna be coaching here until my kids graduate from here, and i have a two-year-old. >>> and no. 4, chandler, he had three alley- oop dunks tonight get the nets. >>> when you pass to a teammate, make sure he's looking. >>> college in minnesota, the latest group of papers to put up a viral trick-shot video, that was not editing. the king of the european league. lookie there. he scored 100 goals in three years. that is why ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, our next newscast is tomorr morning at 4-30.

a felony violation of law. >> reporter: now, gillett did not return our calls, but he did tell anotheria outlet that he sold the gun on the internet, and somehow it landed in mexico. some are not buying that. grassley wants to know if he himself was trafficking guns or doing so with department approval because unlike just letting guns go with the bad guys being smugglinged to mexico, jenna, did the atf do it itself and try to hide it? that is the question investigators are look at today. jenna: wow. that's a big question. a lot of bizarre twists and turns there. william, we'll stay on it. thank you so much. jon: right now authorities in the new york are investigating a massive pile-up involving dozens of cars that left one person did. harris is on it, she's in the newsroom for us. >> reporter: we're starting to hear from some of the people who survived this thing. now we're told by police it involved 35 vehicles. take a listen. >> it was just like a movie, and it -- chain reaction. of it was just so fast. no one could react to it. >> reporter: you saw that woman had her little one in h

struggling that plant was again on friday dropped there from gillette ends with one of russia's most gifted new generation of players. netting twice and adding one more goal to be beside the shoot out when. time to have a look at skill to get going cup holders are still top of the league with ups on their ovechkin having scored sixteen goals so far for this one against. east probably the most beautiful. meanwhile to score still on the road to their full capacity performance so kids giving up his magic on the ice. but you're davies a man against the bars but the visitors managed to go on from behind to draw this race to win it q one with a win that suit losing control. and we close with hockey special wants to go tenders and there is help saves all the way. from work but i know our team. from the ice let's look at the best of the rest from the world of sport. thanks. on monday linsanity was back at madison square garden after jeremy lin made a winning return to new york the twenty four year old posted twenty two points as they used to rockets beat his former club the knicks one hundre

william gillette has the report on the holiday weather. >>reporter: it was not the merriest start to christmas day in oklahoma. more than 20 vehicles mangled in a massive pileup that shut down interstate 40 west near oklahoma city. at least 10 people were taken to local homents. authorities say freezing rain made for treacherous travel. the same dangerous system spawned two possible tornadoes in texas, one person died when a tree fell on his car. all of these storms moving east/northeast and will continue to push eastward and take the severity with them. so big picture today for tornadoes, really, the propensity for quite a serious tornado outbreak, damaging winds, 60 to 80 miles per hour with straight line winds and even some hail. in some areas there could also be significant snowfall. so forget the eggnog and cookies. across much of the country, this year's holiday supplies include shovels, ice melts and severe weather radios. in springfield, missouri, it's a working christmas for the department of public works. crews say they're ready

they included foxborough, massachusetts, where workers at gillette stadium were getting ready for today'same. parts of maine got even more snow, with up to 18 inches reported. >>> so what is in store for the nation for new year's eve and beyond in the weather department? for that we turn to weather channel meteorologist kim cunningham. good evening. >> yes, good evening, kate. we are watching another storm come out of the rockies this time, a snow track further north. the snow from goodland, kansas, tonight through midnight, new year's day you kansas city you st. louis, missouri. you are going to pick up another one to three inches. what about the ball drop, midnight for the northeast? last year, pretty mild. new york city, it was 46 degrees at midnight. it will be colder this year, 36 degrees at midnight, washington, d.c. at 40 degrees, pittsburgh, 31. there is. >> snow in the forecast in any of these cities for the ball drop. here in chicago, talking 19 degrees, very cold in minneapolis at 1 degree. so, overall, a cool trend for the northeast, midwest and more snowfall. back to you, kat

idaho man is luckily gillette alive after falling into a hunting.k before doctors him.ed story.redible it all started with a hunting trip, and that was the last jones remembers. ,> i remember the knuewer canoe about 20he was it.nutes and it after roscoe -- russell has it from fish and wildlife pulled him ashore -- it was like a er.e from cpr in progress, someone on the gurnee keeping the heart and the moving, to keep really the brain.oing to the he and his team of doctors to first warm his heart because this severe low temperature caused his organs to down and the body temperature dropped down to a fatal 82 degrees. they said they are very luckily been ablekily to have revive him. >> it is hard to explain. of the miracle on the snake river. michael jones says of course to thanklot of people andbringing him back, actually one of the first es 4 after he was revived cream. he wanted ice-cream. >> the warmest heart. -- they have to warn his heart. incredible story. no icy rivers around here. u know, the potomac as getting cold. blow 40's for the water temperatures. not want to spend in the

wendy gillette, abc news, new york. >>> mike jing us with a look at the -- mike joining us with a lookt the forecast, more rain on the way? >>> in due time we'll get light rain not this morning high clouds to the east from sutro tower in san francisco where dry now live doppler 7 hd spinning tracking the showers, the rain i should say as it is developing over the ocean water right now let's see how far that is, 41 miles from santa rosa, 51 from san francisco, under the returns, very dry air, sprinkles at best lieu the 30s, just updated these the entire peninsula, upper 30s only 40s left, half moon bay 41, oakland 42, san francisco 44. everybody else mid to upper 30s. 33 gilroy. 40 salinas. cool start today, light rain by the afternoon. showers possible tonight by tomorrow afternoon that push of dry air starts to come in and it leaves us dry sunday through tuesday. high pressure to our east, west, system trying to slide down and find the weak spot, along the coast what makes this forecast tricky if that low moves 50 miles closer to the coast that means rain is going to be heavier at the

but federal form to buy the guns, gillette used the atf office address twice and mislabeled it as annt. on another occasion he used a strip mall. according to the law that he enforced, buyers are required to use the residential address. >> we did attempt to reach them via an attorney. >> they will seek a death penalty on a predawn raid in march. no date has been set yet. >>> syrian troops are fighting rebels as the united nations looks for $1 billion to support the rising number of the syrian refugee. this appears to show a sniper targeting residents of southern syrian town as they try to rescue injuried person from the street there. a little later, we will examine the life of a controversial figure in washington. robert borg. next up, the series, "cost of spending" continues with a look at what lawmakers mean when they talk about cutting spending. et actually explains a lot. new jammin jerk chicken soup has tasty pieces of chicken with rice and beans. hmmm. for giant hunger! thanks mom! see ya! whoaa...oops! mom? i'm ok. grandma? hi sweetie! she operates the head. [ male announcer ]

in times square wendy gillette, nbc news. >> happy new year! people on the other side of the world are celebrating the new year. the world's first major city, auckland, new zealand, brought in 2013 this morning. fireworks lit up the sky around 6:00 in the morning. sydney, australia brought it in at 8:00 a.m. revellers set up camp on the shores of the harbor. more than a million people saw the show at the sydney harbor bridge. it started with a ringing of a pel in tokyo, japan, at 10:00 this morning. closer to home, thousands of people are expected to bring in the new year at the celebration in al kpand rhee i can't. tony has a preview. >> reporter: i can tell you it's the time of year when people celebrate. they throw parties, make resolutions and promises for the upcoming year. in old town alexandria it will happen into the evening. it will be pretty packed. it was a quiet morning but the sign in this bookstore displays a subtle clue about the festivities. over 21 local spots including live music and children's activities. for the finale, a re

. >> reporter: records show that gillette purchased his weapons at a phoenix gun store on the federalbuy the forms he used his office address twice and mislabeled the atf building an apartment. on another occasion he uses a strip mall as an address, contrary to the law which says buyers are required to use their residential address. we attempted to reach gillette through the atf and his attorney, he did not return his calls -rblg, but he did tell another media outlet, the gun in question he sold it on the internet. investigators are following up on that story today. bill: thank you. william la jeunesse on that story in los angeles. martha: we are waiting for a house vote on speaker john boehner's plan, known as plan b to avert the fiscal cliff. speaker boehner will bring that to the floor today. we'll speak to congresswoman marsha blackburn, we'll find out will she vote for it, coming up. bill: good question. he is back the dancing traffic cop and all of his best moves. check him out. go, guy. ♪ jingle bell, jenning he wil jingle bell rock. ♪ ♪ bill: here we go on fox news alert. we a

he threw for four touchdown passes at gillette stadium in new england. alex smith won the award on october 29th after beating the cardinals in arizona. a week later he lost his job to colin kaepernick. >>> the 49ers are gearing up for the showdown against seattle sunday night. much has been made over the years about harbaugh's rivalry with the seahawks coach pete carroll that dates back to their days at stanford and usc. >> certain characteristics... [ inaudible ] >> i don't remember getting any cards from him. [ laughter ] >> at the holidays. [ inaudible ] 855 battery... >> he needs his own prime time show. carroll's hallmark card was lost in the mail but for us it showed up here at 855 battery. >>> harbaugh's mailbox is probably always full of cards from david shaw who took over the stanford program from harbaugh a couple of years ago. today shaw signed a long-term deal with stanford. he guided the cardinals to back- to-back bcs games and will play in the rose bowl on new year's eve. terms of the extension weren't announced but shaw hinted he is here t

at gillette stadium in massachusetts, it took serious manpower and heavy-duty machinery to prep for this afternoon's patriots game. >> we're working until the snow stops, probably around 5:00 in the morning. >> reporter: and the big dig, that winter shoveling ritual, is under way for millions this morning. anderson, indiana, got hit with as much as six inches. and there is a silver lining in all of this ice. for plowers in westchester county, all the snow translates to cold, hard cash. >> lots of money. make lots of money. that's all. >> reporter: clearing acre after acre into the night, they had their work cut out for them. >> i've seen worse, but it's slippery. it's very slippery out. >> reporter: and whether it was 1 or 12 inches of new snow, the cold behind is sure to make any melting freeze hard. >> it's just normal procedure for the wintertime here. so you got to have some ice melt so people don't fall down the stairs. >> reporter: now let's go to killingworth, connecticut, just one of the places that had a foot. we sent our john schriffen there. >> reporter: ginger, good morning.

crews are clearing tons of snow in the gillette stadium now preparing for the patriots/dolphins gamehis afternoon. >>> keep it here as the clock ticks to the fiscal cliff. we are live on capitol hill and at the white house. plus we'll be back with a full hour at 2:00 p.m. eastern here in the cnn newsroom. we'll see you then. >>> it was one of the most important diplomatic missions in history. also one of the most clandestine and risky. four decades ago henry kissinger, then president nixon's national security adviser, secretly flew to china beginning a string of meetings that would eventually open that isolated eastern nation to the western world. that opening checked soviet expansionism and in a sense was the beginning of the end of the cold war. >> this was the week that changed the world. >> it was also the beginning of china's entry into the world economy, which has resulted in that country becoming the world's second largest economy. >> red china's battle plan. >> but back then the idea of a rapprochement with china would have been rejected as pure fantasy. china was a communist

wendy gillette is there live. wendy, how is it looking? >> reporter: good morning, richard.you can see, it's still very quiet here in times square. at 48th street. standing next o one of the many barricades set up to control the crowds that show up in a couple of hours. what they'll see this year, the confetti drop in times square. 2,000 pounds of confetti. a whole lot of it. something i learned this year, didn't know this, after covering the event for a few years. that the confetti is hand-dropped from buildings all throughout times square. it's really magnificent. when it gets going, they made sure it was air ready over the weekend. tested it out. it's all good to go. something that's new this year, 288 new crystal panels on the famous waterford crystal ball that drops down. also a special panel dedicated to the late dick clark this year. a part of him will be here in times square this year. talking about the weather. last year, glorious. it was in the 50s. just absolutely beautiful. no such luck this year, unfortunately. i've only been out here a couple of hours and i alr

we just saw steven gillette, who is the great hope on the internet online side who came in from starbucks, he just left and went to another company. he was just hired. so that tells you how bad holiday is. and i think potentially schultz's private equity partners take a walk on holiday numbers. and then this just gets worst for best buy. >> potentially no deal on the holiday numbers. stacy and jan, thank you very much for joining us. we're going to call you back in 12 months' time and hold your feet to the fire on these predictions. that's okay, brian. our feet are going to be on the fire. >> jan's tradition. we'll have to call him back up on monday. on deck, which markets do i think will be the best performer in the world next year? it is not here in america. i will lay that out as part of our three big predictions for next year. >>> and if we wait for the white house meeting to begin at the top of the hour, the markets are selling off. the dow is down 102 points as we speak. it is below 13,000. we're all having such a great year in the gulf, we've decided to put aside our rivalry. 'caus

. >> wants gillette is out of washington and the gop- controlled house will support on a bill.ooked like it will pass the house but it is dead and the senate. president obama said he will veto it. heavy snow falling in the midwest, of blizzard conditions at o'hare and we have potential delays at sfo. it is expected to make its way across the united states. chilly weather in the bay area air at last left san rafael was 28 degrees. we are getting ready for the rain. >> we have a lot of elements to talk about. it is freezing and vallejo. 32 out the door. as a cold start to the morning and livermore valervalley in the upper 20s. there was no frost advisory or freeze warning today. once we get temperatures we will see mid to upper 50s later this afternoon. increase cloud cover and satellite and radar is tracking a storm into the bay area. later on tonight we have a chance of showers for the north bay and then shipped south. it is a slow-moving system. saturday morning it looks like 4 in. of rain for the north bay. when there is rain in the bay area it translates to snow in the sierr

sunday nature at gillette stadium, foxborough, massachusetts, it is the patriots, new england's onlyg 26 white flares. wes welker's helmet. newtown is 60 miles north of new york city. this is the story you are talking about. it involves the giants. they wore the letters shes. the most personal tribute, involved victor cruz. the favorite player of one of the murdered children. 6-year-old jack pinto. cruz has been in contact with the pinto family and he spoke following the game along with his head coach. let's listen. >> seem like a strong family. i spoke to -- spoke to the older brother and, you know, he was distraught as well. i told them to stay strong and i will do whatever i can to honor him. >> we felt terribly about it. i'm sure the whole nation does. it is not just us. but being close to home, it did -- the players were greatly upset about it. and -- many of the players have rung children. they can empathize parents of the young children killed. >> jack pinto's funeral is this afternoon. and according to victor cruz, the family is considering burying the child in cruz's jersey.

the blanket hit gillette stadium, where the patriots will take on the dolphins later today.hat about the rest of the country? we go to the fox weather center with our forecast. >> reporter: hi, shannon. good to see you. we are looking at relatively quiet weather today. if you are traveling, just in time for new year's eve, in the southeast and even out west nareas we have been seeing a lot of active weather. the snow is winding down in eastern maine and also right off the lakes. so we are looking at a couple of inches of accumulation possible. the big conserve is the wind, from boston to philadelphia. but we are talking about gusts, easily over 40 miles per hour. so keep that in mind if you are flying. it could be a bumpy ride. otherwise the winds do make it feel a lot cooler. we are looking at windchill temperatures, 6 in burlington and the teens across portions of upstate new york. >> all right. thank you very much. as we wait to see whether senate leaders make a fiscal deal. how would it fair in the house? up next, a fair and balanced dibait with dennis kucinich and phil.

i'm curious could as gillette get going beyond -- as you look at going beyond, it speaks very much to that. >> you are absolutely right. lincoln expanded executive power more than anybody ever envisioned. he did so exclusively under the war powers of the constitution. the emancipation proclamation was explicitly [indiscernible] in the war powers. i have offended someone. lincoln said when he suspended habeas corpus, he did so when congress was out of session. when -- as soon as congress permission. saought all power to jefferson who had the audacity to invent -- embed a doctrine of natural rights. all of my political sentiments, all of my political sentiment derived from the declaration. there is no sense in which woodrow wilson, although he did expand executive powers in peacetime, there is no sense in which he is in lincoln's position. >> thank you. >> thank you for your excellent lecture. towards the end of your lecture comet you mentioned that in the 20th century, secular and political faiths have killed more people than religious faiths. i can only assume you were talking about s