let's get an answer from miss griswold. >> guest: okay. great point. the larger thing to understand, again, we're talking about sudan, africa's largest country, this is how all of the sudan's wars relate. whether it's darfur, south, east, even the northerners, the newbeians. the central small political, very powerful regime fights against it's own peripheries whether they are against any terms they maybe. in the south traditionally, they have used islam. sudan waged the bloodiest world between christians and muslims alike. you are right, darfur is muslim/muslim. these are the kind of nuances which are essential to understand to try to decode some of this. christian/muslim all the time. no, it's not the. it's the fault lines within that are truly the most important to watch. >> host: we haven't talked about ethiopia. >> guest: ethiopia, okay. i didn't go to ethiopia until very late in the reporting. and before i went the prophet muhammad was preaching to his own people in mecca, they kicked him out. they didn't want to hear the message of one single god

. >> reporter: the griswolds pursued the perfect pine in "christmas vacation." >> isn't it beautiful, audrey? >> she'll see it, later, honey. her eyes are still frozen. >> reporter: in "a christmas story," ralphie's folks had trouble finding a fir, too. >> this isn't one where the needles fall off, is it? >> no. >> reporter: but for the real-life murphy family. >> here's our christmas tree. >> reporter: it just got a little more convenient. >> ready to open it. >> reporter: this delivery doesn't go under the tree. it is the tree. >> the box came. it's a little, narrow box. and i thought this tree can't be a beautiful tree that lays out. but it was. >> reporter: online tree sales are taking root. this year, target and amazon.com, are among the major retailers that are teaming up with tree farmers selling real christmas trees over the internet. >> people are telling others on facebook and youtube. and we're getting even more customers that way. >> reporter: nigel manley runs a tree farm in new hampshire. online sales jumped 15% this year. >> to have it delivered to your

after a year, that were matched with griswold and he's trained to interrupt some of becca's behaviorsst dogs would run to the hills when she's having a flashback and she can be loud and screams and scratches. he is next to her and when we can't get near her because she's screaming or upset or kicking or biting because she's afraid someone's going to hurt her, he can and us. >> reporter: without his harness, griswold is pretty much an ordinary dog, but put this harness on and he's an extraordinary dog. he knows it's time to get to work. >> he's considered durable medical equipment, and that is what he is, but he's so much more to us, of course. >> reporter: becca is now 10 years old and still says only a few words but her episodes of terror that used to happen daily are now rare. her parents say that gris made her less fearful. >> when wego to a restaurant, she still takes her shoes off under the table and she'll put her feet on him. and it's almost like a grounding kind of thing. >> reporter: they say gris is an extension of becca, they go together. beth parker, fox 5 news, arlington.

after about a year the hemingways were matched with griswold. he's trained to interrupt some of becca's behaviors. >> most dogs would run for the hills when she's having a flashback. she can be very loud. >> she screams. >> she can scratch. >> he is right next to her and even when we can't get near her because she's screaming or upset or kicking or biting because she's afraid somebody is going to hurt her, he can and does. >> reporter: griswold is pretty much an ordinary dog without his harness, but put on the harness and he's an extraordinary dog. he knows it's time to get to work. >> he's considered durable medical equipment and that's what he is, but he's so much more to us, of course. >> reporter: becca is ow

from the griswold case, this is one of the -- >> mr. olson, i am not trying to express the view on gay marriage or any marriage at this point. i'm trying to find out how far we have to go if we are to except your view of this case. certainly, if we start out from the assumption that everybody is entitled to marry anyone else regardless of sex, sexual orientation, if we have to reach that issue, we would. as you well know, and as you have argued, we are advised not to reach a constitutional question unless we have to. i was not planning on reaching -- preaching that question this early in the discussion, but it seemed to come in relation to how we deal with the crawford case. for that reason, that was why i was asking whether in order to distinguish crawford you are saying that, if necessary, to take the position that you can only -- the only thing you cannot take away as a state is a right under the 14th amendment. >> it seems to me there are two questions. how far you have to go in the significance of crawford? you do not have to go an

. >>> when it comes to holiday decorations, this puts clark griswold to shame. it took 800 lights and three months to re-create what's being called the world's largest christmas tree. the design is strategically placed along a mountainside in italy where folks use solar panels for power to make the tree greener than usual. >>> for children in the czech republic, jolly old st. nick isn't quite so jolly. on st. nicholas day, children come face-to-face with a costumed st. nick and his devilish friends who question whether they've been naughty or nice. unlike santa, these characters read a list of wrongdoings out loud. and by the looks of it, the kids find the tradition less than amusing. >>> it is for a good cause. you can't go wrong with a adorable pandas, but look closely. these are costumed caretakers in china nursing a pair of baby pandas. this isn't just for the theater of it. they're trying to avoid human contact to increase the babies' survival rate when they're released back into the wild. but i've got to say, they should go into the market for halloween co

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. >> host: eliza griswold, does the middle east play out on the "10th parallel." >> guest: it does in the same global reality. in the same way the u.s. invasion of afghanistan, in the same way of burning the koran, yes, globalization brings this issue to bear. very much so. i mention the town where the pastor lived, it's called crocodile. the river runs down the middle. one side has christian neighborhoods, the other islam, christian are baghdad, the islam is called television. they asked me if they misunderstood tel aviv, i don't think so. does israel palestine play out there. in those names alone, you can see the christian community in nigeria very strongly identified with the israelis. of course, you are going to see much of that within the muslim context too. sometimes it's an excuse. osama bin laden we know came to the israel/palestine late. 1998. it wasn't an issue for him before that. in the same way, sometimes israel/palestine can be a political football for those trying to garner their local interest. >> host: blond american woman along "the 10th parallel." >> guest: it was -

from the griswold case, this is one of the -- >> mr. olson, i am not trying to express the view on gay marriage or any marriage at this point. i'm trying to find out how far we have to go if we are to except your view of this case. certainly, if we start out from the assumption that everybody is entitled to marry anyone else regardless of sex, sexual orientation, if we have to reach that issue, we would. as you well know, and as you have argued, we are advised not to reach a constitutional question unless we have to. i was not planning on reaching -- preaching that question this early in the discussion, but it seemed to come in relation to how we deal with the crawford case. for that reason, that was why i was asking whether in order to distinguish crawford you are saying that, if necessary, to take the positn that you can ly -- the only thing you cannot take away as a state is a right under the 14th amendment. >> it seems to me there are two questions. how far you have to go in the significance of crawford? you do not have to go any fu

from the griswold case, this is one of the -- >> mr. olson, i am not trying to express the view on gay marriage or any marriage at this point. i'm trying to find out how far we have to go if we are to except your view of this case. certainly, if we start out from the assumption that everybody is entitled to marry anyone else regardless of sex, sexual orientation, if we have to reach that issue, we would. as you well know, and as you have argued, we are advised not to reach a constitutional question unless we have to. i was not planning on reaching -- preaching that question this early in the discussion, but it seemed to come in relation to how we deal with the crawford case. for that reason, that was why i was asking whether in order to distinguish crawford you are saying that, if necessary, to take the position that you can only -- the only thing you cannot take away as a state is a right under the 14th amendment. >> it seems to me there are two questions. how far you have to go in the significance of crawford? you do not have to go an

from the griswold case, this is one of the -- >> mr.i am not trying to express the view on gay marriage or any marriage at this point. i'm trying to find out how far we have to go if we are to except your view of this case. certainly, if we start out from the assumption that everybody is entitled to marry anyone else regardless of sex, sexual orientation, if we have to reach that issue, we would. as you well know, and as you have argued, we are advised not to reach a constitutional question unless we have to. i was not planning on reaching -- preaching that question this early in the discussion, but it seemed to come in relation to how we deal with the crawford case. for that reason, that was why i was asking whether in order to distinguish crawford you are saying that, if necessary, to take the position that you can only -- the only thing you cannot take away as a state is a right under the 14th amendment. >> it seems to me there are two questions. how far you have to go in the significance of crawford? you do not have to go any furthe