. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >> hallelujah at the news of berlusconi's departuree office of prime minister. >>> a special military task force has taken over some of brazil's largest and most notorious slums. 3,000 police and security forces in rio backed by helicopters moved right in last night. it is a drive to root out drug gangs ahead of the 2014 world cup and the 2016 summer olympic games. >>> on to afghanistan now, the taliban claims it knows when and where vital meeting of tribal elders will be held next week. it is a meeting to discuss afghanistan's relationship with the united states. earlier i talked to cnn's nick payton walsh in kabul about how the taliban claim to have the sensitive information. >> taliban claim this say leak from inside the afghan government with detailed plans for the security for a meeting of tribal elders here from across the country caught by the afghan president hamid karzai due to start later on this week. i must point out, the afghan interior ministry says the documents are fake and this is part of a propaganda campaign. the tal

glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah gloryth is marching on ♪ ♪ [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please stand. u.s. navy retired, commander in chief. secretary of veterans affairs. [applause] [patriotic music plays] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ["hail to the chief" plays] [applause] >> please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, as we begin today's ceremony, we will present a special tribute to americans veterans. ofthe 1700's, generations our military men and women have established a legacy, it resolved, and determination that exist in our country today. ♪ following the attack on pearl harbor, america's greatest ge neration attack a step forward around the world. peace was short-lived as the world became polarized. there was communism. ♪ in korea, our veterans served in the fighting force in places like pork chop hill. after three years of intense combat, armistice was signed that is still in effect today. ♪ in vietnam, our next generation of veterans in engage the enemy wherever they found them in

glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah his truth is marching on. ♪ [applause] >> executive director of the arlington national cemetery program. captain russell bowinkle commander in chief military order of the world wars. and the hon. eric shinsecki, of veterans affairs. [applause] ♪ >> these and gentlemen, the president of united states. [hail to the chief] >> please, be seated. ladies and gentlemen, as we begin today's ceremony, we will present a special tribute to america's veterans. nc-17 hundreds, generations of our military men and women have established a legacy of resolve and determination that exists in our country today. ♪ following the attack on pearl harbor, america pause greatest generation stepped forward to chisel their place in history at normandy, midway, and around the world. it was short-lived as the world rushed into the nuclear age and became polarized between the forces of democracy and communism. ♪ >> in carioca, -- in korea our troops served after three years of intense combat, the armistice was signed that list -- that is s

he said at least 16 people were injured. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah >> a chorus of "hallelujah" why?usconi's exit as italy's prime minister. and now we know his likely replacement, italy's president just picked mario mun ti, a former european commissioner, as the successor to berlusconi. a special military task force has taken over some of brazil's largest and most notorious slums. 3,000 police and security forces in rio backed by helicopters moved in last night. it's a drive to root out drug gangs ahead of the 2014 world cup and the 2016 summer olympic games. >>> we're going to talk about severe weather in this country. heavy snow and dangerous, nearly hurricane-force winds, in colorado's mountains. yesterday, one gust was clocked at around 100 miles an hour. will it be that treacherous today? >>> hi. i'm cat, managing editor of cnn's etokcracy. this is your etokcracy minute. now there is a real art to excellent hosting. most of us think of a generous host as someone who has just all the bases covered, food, drink, plenty of places to sit. they say things like no, you're so kind to

glory glory hallelujah ♪ ♪ glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on ♪ ♪ glory glory hallelujahruth is marching on ♪ >> you're watching part one of a two-part ceremony on this veterans day at arlington national cemetery. we are awaiting president obama to make remarks shortly. president obama is going to be hitting the road for nine days after the events at arlington. the president and first lady will be traveling to san diego where they're going to board the uss carl vincent for more veterans day tributes. after that they'll head to honolulu where the u.s. is hosting the annual asia pacific economic summit or apec. while in san diego the first couple will attend the first annual veterans day carrier classic basketball game on the deck of the u.s.s. carl vincent. the university of north carolina plays michigan state in front of about 7,000 fans, most of them military service members. by the way, the carl vincent, the aircraft carrier that also buried osama bin laden at sea. >>> coming up in a few minutes i'll talk to a cnn top ten hero who is a war widow. she founded a group tha

glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah.th is marching on. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah glory, glory, hallelujah. his truth is marching on. ♪ ♪ thath a glory in his bosom transfigures you and me. as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while god is marching on. glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah. the glory, glory, hallelujah. his truth is marching on. glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah. glory, glory, hallelujah. his truth is marching on. his truth is marching on. ♪ [cheers and applause] >> president obama is in the asia-pacific region this week working on creating a trade zone and looking for international support to rein back iran's nuclear programs. the pacific rim economic summit is being hosted in hawaii. the president also announced the outline of the trans-pacific trade zone agreement. he will be in honolulu until tuesday. he will leave for australia before going on to indonesia. >> i want to make sure that we have taken every step possibl

last night, thousands cheered and some sang "hallelujah" as berlusconi resigned. ♪ hallelujah >> reportery, berlusconi was still the showman. in a television address, he defiantly promised a comeback. my resignation was a generatiou act to avoid further market problems. i will not surrender until we have modernized italy. the timing of this transition was considered critical. italy wants to show political stability before international markets open in europe and the united states on monday. lester? >> richard engel in rome. richard, thanks. we want to note the passing of a giant figure in the fight against breast cancer. evelyn lauder married into a cosmetic empire, working for the estee lauder company for more than 50 years. even naming the popular clinic brand. but she'll be most remembered for her tireless efforts for breast cancer awareness, raising hundreds of millions of dollars and helping to create the now symbolic pink ribbon. evelyn lauder passed away from ovarian cancer. she was 75 years old. >>> when "nbc nightly news" continues, important health news tonight, the damage the s

glory, glory hallelujah glory, glory hallelujah his truth is marching on glory, glory hallelujah gloryllelujah his truth is marching on ♪ [applause] [patriotic music plays] ["america" plays] >> the united states army. the army national cemetery program, captain russell, commander in chief, alter order of the world wars, the hon. eric shinseki, secretary of veterans affairs. [applause] [band plays] ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. ["hail to the chief" plays] [applause] >> please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, as we begin today's ceremony, we will present a special tribute to americans veterans. is the 1700's, generations of our military men and women have established a legacy, it resolved, and determination that exist in our country today. ♪ following the attack on pearl harbor, america's greatest attack a step forward around the world. peace was short-lived as the world became polarized. there was communism. ♪ in korea, our veterans served in the fighting force in places like pork chop hill. after three years of intense combat, armistice was signed that is st

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(cheers and applause) ♪ hallelujah...olks, in this bleak economy christmas means more than ever our best hope to fix the deficit is for tim geithner to ask santa for $14 trillion worth of scarves with gift receipts. (laughter) but instead of helping santa, bureaucrats out there are sticking their budget-cutting fives into his bowlful of jelly. jim? >> faced with drastic budget shortfalls suffolk county new york has laid off santa. david mckel has been playing the part of santa at the st. james general store since 2001. the store's is partially funded by suffolk county and due to belt tightening this year, santa's $6060 contract was canceled. (audience reacts) >> stephen: they fired santa! how is he going to break this to mrs. clause? oh, they're going to be eating a lot of venison this winter. (laughter) here's the worst part, folks... if you have kids watching get them out of the room, okay? this is the secret i'm about to give out. this guy at the suffolk county general store, he's the real santa! how do we know? becaus

. >> you want to say hallelujah! >> the grades were not particularly good, mind you.didn't even graduate from college. he was so anxious to get out and preach full time. >> i was on the board of regents. >> the board of regents from the university but you had no degree from the university. >> that's right. >> it was 1981 when he started his own little church in jenks, oklahoma. >> we packed that house out, that little room out, in a month. jammed. had traffic jams within six months. >> proceeded into your life and be born again. >> not long before he was preaching in tulsa. his church growing so fast, he couldn't help but know how good he was. >> you had to get the people happy. you had to sweat and shout and spit and get emotional. a zeal to tear devils apart. you got to deliver. and, in my tradition, it wasn't just a good sermon, you had to get them jumping and screaming and clapping and saying amen and crying. but, if you don't perform at that pulpit, you're a dead man. >> how good are you at that? >> i'm good. i'm one of the best of them. >> he bought land in a tu

at least we're not majority shareholders anymore, hallelujah for that. >> but, that sounds like, soundsike the blueprint for a stalinist country. the government is going to prop up manufacturing. none of those things have worked out. >> i don't think that's true, the government propped up manufacturing in world war ii and worked incredibly well and we're-- >> the three quarters of the world was destroyed for our manufacturing to sell to after world war ii. and i get to the bint-- they worked incredibly well. >> i don't know the answer to the question of their business model. i mean, we're in this. and charlie, charlie, we're in it to keep people employed. >> i don't know either. want to point out to everybody, we do intend to get out of this investment. no one intends for the u.s. investment to hold it forever. >> yeah, but adam-- >> and people on the upper-- i plan to get off this ship, didn't work out. >> 27 billion dollar unfunded pension liability right now and bigger as the taxpayers have to-- >> ben stein i'm worried, every time you're in a west coast location, in vegas, anything

in rome, earlier today, "hallelujah" one woman said. finally we got rid of him, agreed this man. for years berlusconi, a media tycoon worth $9 billion, seemed untouchable. he's been in court 2,500 times by his own count, accused of attempting to bribe a judge, corruption and abuse of power. there was ruby, the dancer he allegedly had sex with when she was only 17. berlusconi laughed it off, and ruby became a celebrity. many italians shrugged off the scandal. but they could not tolerate when international creditors lost faith in italy's economy and its leaders. so today italy passed its own tough austerity measures with more to come. and berlusconi was forced out. protestors are now in front of berlusconi's home, trying to make sure he does not get any sleep tonight. the new prime minister here is widely expected to be mario monti, a respected economist and university professor, somebody most people consider serious, even understated. >> richard engle in rome tonight. richard, thanks >>> in a surprise symbolic move, the arab league voted today to suspend syria, warning the regime

. ♪ hallelujah >> toast with mary, cheetos with jesus. >> wouldn't it be great if we made a sandwichd meg. when you toast your grilled cheese sandwich in it you get jesus' face along with the sun rays. >> it's like a religious experience when you have a cheese sandwich. >> they're taking pledges to reach their goal to get their company up and running and if you pledge $5,000, they'll make you a little grill with anything you want on it. >> kim jong-il, ricky bobby, president obama. >> a gold fish. >> there was a "glee" episode last year. >> grilled jesus, please let us win the football game. >> they mde a huge deal on "glee" thinking o idea is huge. we ha r with us. ia tbehere, did your grilled jesus idea come before the "glee" grilled jesus idea. >> we started registering for our trademark and patent in 2010. the "glee" episode happened in october and it was ser ren dip tus. >> explain what all of the pledging is about. >> our factory has minimum order requirements, so we're trying to raise $25,000 to get our first order made. >> do people feel weird about eating jesus's face? >> i

. ♪ hallelujah ♪ by and by ♪ oh, fly away, old glory >> i would just like to say that ya'll need to really an example to your own life because his life is here. let that to be testimony to the rest of you in his memory that we conduct ourselves as we should and we conduct ourselves as moral people and we perpetuate that throughout this whole community and let him not die in vain. >> amen. >> earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and dust to dust. ♪ no longer bound ♪ no more chains holding me >> while one man is buried, another man gets a second chance. >> hey, warden. >> how you doing? >> are you happy today? >> i'm the happiest man in prison today. >> all right, ricky, you've spent your last night in angola. i'm fixing to send you out. >> right now? >> right now. right now. what do you think about all this? >> oh, man, it's great. i've been waiting for this a long -- >> 24 years. >> long time, warden. >> how does it feel to be innocent in here? >> you can't think about it, ward. when you know you're innocent, if you think about it, it messes with you a little bit. >> ricky johnson was cleared o

. ♪ ♪ singing glory hallelujah ♪ father lifted me >> the first meeting i ever went to was in octoberautiful. black and white together. the songs that we sang and the things that we did. >> you saw every walk of life, every color in the rainbow, dressed in every color in the rainbow. just dancing it up to good gospel. black gospel music. ♪ singing glory hallelujah father lifted me ♪ >> just broke down all those barriers. >> people came because they either wanted to make a dramatic change in their lives or a dramatic change in the world, make the world better. >> i'm a vietnam vet. i had a lot of anger left over from vietnam. i wanted to change the country. i wanted to be part of the solution. when i walked into peoples temple i literally felt like i was home. i had known those people forever. that's how i felt. i didn't know anything about the temple. i didn't know anything about jones. i didn't know anything about the politics. i just knew that those people reflected me. they were my brothers and sisters. it was the most alive place that i had ever been in. >> i had $20 to my name, a

and i preach sex, boys and girls, hallelujah. when i say [ muted ] you know what i'm talking about? don't you? every one of you know. except for maybe some of the little children. our kids are so smart they even know what that means. we don't think there is anything evil about it. we don't think there is anything wrong. >> the circumstances of ricky's passing are very tragic and uncharacteristic of ricky as a person. ricky would want this memorial, his memorial, to be a celebration of life, not a celebration of death. >> donna grew up in the cult and was a close friend of rick's. his mother, judy, joined in the early days of the sect. >> i actually joined in 1970 and, of course, i was 20, very vulnerable, didn't know what i was doing, you know? i had always went since i was a kid -- wanted to do something for jesus. so you kind of got drawn into the fact that it looked like they were doing something. because there were numbers coming at you. and actually i joined -- when i joined there were 200 people and within three years there were 10,000 people. >> the children of god were found

>>gerri: well, hallelujah, bank of america got rid of the $5 a month debit card fee. all other national banks got rid of it and bank of america did, too, hurray for consumers. >>shepard: so what will they charge you now, a too-big-to-fail all powerful, running the world, and it is not as if they will not find another place to charge. don't tell me because i will not believe you. gear i -- >>gerri: how do you think bank fees work? they go up. we expect more fees coming soon and we will watch it but it will be backdoor stuff that is hard to spot. >>shepard: i imagine, that is how i would do it. i can report only on what the history books tell us. >>gerri: and that is clear. >>shepard: gerri willis part of the best team in business, we watch the "willis report" each day at 5:00 each eastern, 4:00 central on the fox business network, the fastest growing business network on television. and, now, politics. the presidential candidate herman cain when you thought it could not get more interesting talking about sexual harassment allegations in the past, he said they are settle

. >> hallelujah. >> and the results. will these men get the outcomes they've been dreaming of?eturns. is this a chevy volt? [ stu ] yeah. it's electric. i don't think so. it's got a gas tank right here. electric tank, right over here. an electric tank? really, stu? is that what you pour the electricity in? it's actually both, guys. i can plug in and go 35 miles gas free, or i can fill up and go a whole lot farther. is that my burger? oh. i just got bun. i didn't even bite any burger. sun life financialrating should be famous.d bad, we're working on it. so you're seriously proposing we change our name to sun life valley. do we still get to go skiing? sooner or later, you'll know our name. sun life financial. after your dishcloth? bounty extra soft can help. in this lab test bounty extra soft leaves this surface three times cleaner than a dishcloth. super clean. super soft. bounty extra soft. in the pink pack. when you're a sports photographer, things can get out of control pretty quickly. so i like control in the rest of my life... especially my finances. that's why i have slate

politics is quiet -- >> hallelujah! >> it's saner, it's less crazy. more honest. >> go ahead. >> wow. >> and what would -- give us some of the anecdotal examples that might be offered up by one of these gentleman to offer the proportionality of the improvement that we now benefit from. >> well, the first casualties in the war of 1812, which is when madison was president, were americans who were killed in a riot in baltimore, soon after war was declared. because baltimore and maryland were divided city and state, politically, and madison's enemies, that was the federalist party, they had a newspaper in baltimore, bitterly, bitterly, bitterly anti-war. a mob tore the building down. so then the publishers in the newspaper decide, we're going to rent a second building, but we're going to arm ourselves next time. >> like we do here at msnbc. >> well, do you have a cannon? they actually had a cannon. when the mob broke in that building, they fired and killed someone. then the mob increases like ten times. they're taken to the jail to protect them. that's th

hallelujah. >> thanksgiving is 4500 calories, right? touching story. he was batman's boy wonder and now this former actor is doing wonders to save homeless pets. the touching story. natalie, i know you just got a new dog for your family. >> yes. >> this is really going to be moving for those animal lovers. >> thanks. wonderful. zahra. she is doing great. >> she stole the chicken off the counter? >> we had rotisserie chicken and i put it on the counter and turned around to put the coat on my son and all of a sudden in the back corner, turned around and she's got the rotisserie chicken and she is eating it. >> at least somebody ate well in the household. >> exactly. needless to say my chicken noodle soup is a disaster. you got a check of the weather for us? >> you used a different chicken didn't you? >> yes, yes. i had to run to the store and get another. >> let's tell you what's happening as far as your forecast is concerned. for tomorrow we've got heavy rain along the mid-atlantic coast. also down in southern california showers, pacific

. ♪ hallelujah >> reporter: the new prime minister emergeded from the hotel that berlusconi wouldn'te seen dead in. he's still trying to form a government that he hopes can last for 18 months. the new man in place did manage to shift three billion euro of government debt on the market today. the new lousy euro zone record 1% up on just last month. in spain where anti-banking protestors have been on the streets, the price of spanish government debt entered the danger zone going above 6%. it's not clear whether greece's parliament will back the new burrus he wills-approved prime minister. he leads the support of the main opposition right wing party. the leader is tonight refusing to sign an e.u.-imf pledge and is itching for an early general election. the german chancellor angela merkel implied euro zone countries would have to take a lot more austerity measures. she said to survive the euro needed member states to move to economic union matching tax-and-spend policies. "europe is in one of its toughest, perhaps the toughest hour, since the second world war," she said. "the euro fails,

and congratulations -- >> reporter: hallelujah, brother dylan. god bless you. >> and then let's get out to these pro wrestlers. luke russert, ladies and gentlemen. check him out -- well, he's pretty much everywhere. >>> the markets are reacting to the latest washington gridlock that luke was so eloquently describing to us. the s&p 500, one of our major financial indices, hitting its lowest level since december. the dow lost 2% today. remember, the markets went nuts back in august, when the super committee was created, but then the dow dropped nearly 7% over an eight-day slide. anyway, the financial markets expressing appropriately an enhanced degree, of not only skepticism, but pessimism about immediate economic prospects by virtue of the day's news. as you can see, peter morici is with us, along with gene baker, the cough h director for the center for economic and policy research. and professor morici, there has to be a ton of upside here, if when things are this screwed up, there has to be a tremendous a lot of upside for growth in political im

hallelujah.o, we've got them both, helen britain, hendersonville, north carolina, good country, loves to eat fried food. me too. i love fried. an atlanta braves fan supreme. how about that. now we have virginia roland of marion, virginia. named after the state. 106 years old. the secret to longevity, clean living, like us here at the nbc work house. hard worker. it is a work house anymore. and we have meta knaust and esther barber. they are identical twins. centreville and lee summit, missouri, respectively. they love each other, love to work hard and obviously are twins. emma, my grandmother's name, emma otis of poulsbo, washington. 110 years old. is a proud 85-year-old member of the girl scouts. how about that. attributes her longevity to being a good ole swedish girl. how about that. and david stroman of washington, d.c., that's our hometown here, 100 years old today and an avid golfer and loves to root to -- hail to the -- >>> tony and anna durner, linden, new jersey, 75 years married. they b