he was taken ithat issue was resolved rather quickly. jim: just a sign of how careful everybody is being. as the holidays role in metro will be pushing for safety on our streets. they will be conducting a two day sobriety checkpoint on the east side of the valley starting tomo night. it starts at 7:00 and runs until it is part of the zero tolerance for impaired driving. marie: nevada's high school graduation rate remains among the worst of the nation. 70%. only new mexico and the district of columbia are worse. the rate for african americans is particularly low.jim: the unlv class is taking that next step. students walk across the stage. the unlv president continued the tradition of highlighting the outsmarie: easing concerns about jim: what the experts say you can do in light of the threats nearly every day. >> we definitely have some problems out on the ro we want to update you on this. marie: the los angeles school district that's quite quite a jim: ok, we're here. here's dad. mom. the twins. aunt alice... you didn't tell me aunt alic

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what's point of having health insurance that's been forced on them by their federal government ithat they can't afford? and others are just foregoing seeing their doctors altogether. a recent gallup poll found that in 2014, 1-3 americans say that they have put off getting medical treatment that they or their family members need because with these numbers, it's just too expensive. so they're just not going to the doctor. again, what's the point? health insurance but you can't go see your doctor because it's too expensive. that number, by the way, 1-3, is among the highest number in the gallup poll's 14-year history of posing this question. and as the costs rises -- as the costs rise, the numbers will continue to rise. so not surprisingly, given all these numbers, given that number number, a recent poll found that despite six years of being under obamacare, where the united states, our citizens were supposed to finally be comfortable with it, to understand it, to have it wor working, still 52% of americans have an unfavorable view of it. only 44% favorable. and for alaskans, this is on

different about this, this threat ithat it's on-going, people sort of can't know when or where or how it's going to happen. it's this thing that never ends. and it's ubiquitous. it's everywhere. (jlp 9 30 35) how does that affect their lives?(js 9 30 43) they t td to avoid different aspects of their lives. they fly less, they ride on public transportation less. they go into public settings less. there's been research that's shown they have a tendency to engage people from different cultural backgrounds less. they even consume media less, ironically. (jlp 9 34 33) what have you learned over the last 10 years of studying this that might surprise people? ? (js 9 34 47) how potent fear can be in terms of altering people's lives. and the impact that it can have in different aspects of life, whether it's making ether it's supporting different policies that are important socially. or even down to how people live their everyday lives. (jlp 10 04 27) is there a danger to society of people inementally time because of terroriri?(js 10 04 35) yeah, i think it sort of changes the structure of our

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. >> it was so fun that they -- so i wasn't in ithat much, damon had said, then i got to do a whole episode last week. >> jimmy: right, yes, last week's episode was all you. >> she got to tell her whole story and that was so fun. was like a little movie. >> jimmy: what do you feel lake you can say? i don't like to say anything because people get mad at me when i ruin anything about what happened on thatepisode, about anything specific on it. >> oh, boy. >> jimmy: i'll get mad at you if you ruin it for them. >> we got to see before the departure and after the departure which was quite nice to see. didn't even know exaxaly what had happened to her and who she was. and we sort of figured it out as we go. it was reallyun to get to she's so complicated and so not like me. so it's really fun to be able to play her. >> jimmy: you say fun. it doesn't seem like the show -- it's very intense, it doesn't seem like it would be fun to be there. is it at allllfun? >> i think it's so fun, yeah. i mean, we all -- i mean, it's just so great to be able to stretch yourself and be given -- it was i felt like d

we wanted to win last night.we wanted to be i ithat playoff picture, but we played really well and really tough and i am proud of the guys for playing like that. its the next best deal, if you cant be in the playoff its the next best thing and we are happy to be where we are at." it's the rose bowl. it doesn't get any better than that. we are also playing a high-level opponent right now. it's going to be another great competitive game and we are just excited for the opportunity." i know the guys are excited to go and play in a bowl game like this and i still think this one hurts, still stings but at the same time,e,e have to look forward and go play a good team in the rose bow" the rose bowl will kick off at 4:00 on new years day on espn. for the first time ever, three 5-7 teams are going bowling.....one of those teams is nebraska. it was announced sunday afternoon that the huskers are with ucla in the foster farms bowl the game will be played at levi's stadium....the home of the 49ers.....on december 26th at 8:15 this bowl trip is nebraska's seventh trip to california. finishing with col

there was a kosher chinese restaurant. [ light laughter ] >> seth: i ithat genghis khan? >> that's genghis kahn, yeah. >> seth: yeah. i've been there before, yeah. i guess there aren't a lot of kosher chinese restaurants. [ laughter ] >> i know. how many could there be? there's one and it was -- i have a lot of recordings from that particular venue. there was a big oversized -- i think used it to be a strip club. there are still stripper poles but like, no strippers. [ light laughter ] >> seth: that's really sad. [ laughter ] like, what happened to the strippers? you don't want to ask. >> there's a guy in the back. follow me. >> seth: you also talk about writing your first hit song and how it sort of came out of sitting down with a songwriter and being very frustrated with the kind of songs he wanted to write for you. >> there were a few of these moments that had happened. i think "love song" kind of came out of a culmination of a few years of feeling a lot of things about the way people felt about my music. people were very forthright with how much they didn't like what

. >>> what ithat? i hope it't'not -- >> it's something bright. [ inaudible ] a lot further than that. >> yeah. what is that? that was the question a lot of people were asking last night all over the southwestern uniteded states. this fireball lit up the sky from california to arizona. the u.s. strategic command says it was debris from a russian rocket that launched on monday. people captured the unusual event and posted their videos on social media. it's unknown where the debris landed, if any actually reached the ground. >>> zach hodskininis probably the most celebrated walk-on player in college basketball history. and despite being born without a left hand, hodskins is a member of the university of florida's team. last night, the second-year player scored his first points as a collegiate. scores in the final minute of jacksosoille. thth is how you want to do it. >>> a couple of nhl players were not in the holiday spirit all last night. good thing the announceras. >> ho, ho, ho! this could be somethin

be if ithat it could is a fixed amount. thisis the mission of stable initiative. both the terms of rulemaking and spending. we will propose what we have proposed. ramps forlock medicaid. block ramps for the money which is what you are getting. block ramps for department transportation money. for the fixed cost federal government in terms of money coming down. the limited the rules. you could do what everybody will have the chance to do which is to answer the following questions. how was could we do it? that is where the fun of life comes. if you have the ability to ask answer questions, and you have the ability to start a new, think of how much innovation could take place. what we need to do. government in washington operates as though it is 1975. >> the time we have left, i know we want to go to a few more issues. i just want to ask one more. issue with recent events, national security and foreign policy have taken center stage. you view as isis being the most central threat. multiple layers to this that we need to consider. gov. jeb: there are clearly more layer

night, ithat tuesday thought this wasn't a bad demonstration of serious people. they only had 90 seconds to talk. coherent giving worldviews. that is healthy for a political party. staff had this article. think the merits of marco rubio and ted cruz as candidates. i think it's an intelligent case. if trump were to win the nomination, he would be the weakest. nomination, ithe will be such an earthquake in american politics it's assumed to assume that everything goes back to normal. maybe they would stay mobilized for the general election. there would be a lot of democrats who would decide they would want to vote for donald trump. i think trump is a wildcard. if people think they can say with assurance, it's foolish to say he could never be president. i think it's unlikely. i think others will have better chances for obvious reasons. i do think a matchup with rubio and ted cruz are probably the top two. hillary clinton would be very interesting. the democrats have always had good candidates. now suddenly democrats -- republicans look that way. that's a ticket of pe

that britain would probably stay within the european union but given the mood of populism and iner ithatrge western europe, it is very unpredictable situation. the first thing we need to see is whether david cameron can negotiate a deal with the european union starting this week that will be presentable to the electric. but if he does not get it right, the referendum which could, as soon as june next year, will turn into a much more unpredictable affair. francine: how do you model these extreme events that could be donald trump becoming president or a could be cyberattacks or even attacks on oil driving up to 100? john: absolutely. there are scenarios that you put into an economic forecast for all of these different events. i am particularly intrigued by the angela merkel resignation possibility, because she has become now so identified with european economic policy that any inkling that she would leave really throws up policy going forward. the other thing is accommodating factor. if angela merkel were to step down for some reason and there uncertainty with respect to european policy, t

night, ithat tuesday thought this wasn't a bad demonstration of serious people.hey only had 90 seconds to talk. coherent giving worldviews. that is healthy for a political party. staff had this article. think the merits of marco rubio and ted cruz as candidates. i think it's an intelligent case. if trump were to win the nomination, he would be the weakest. nomination, ithe will be such an earthquake in american politics it's assumed to assume that everything goes back to normal. maybe they would stay mobilized for the general election. there would be a lot of democrats who would decide they would want to vote for donald trump. i think trump is a wildcard. if people think they can say with assurance, it's foolish to say he could never be president. i think it's unlikely. i think others will have better chances for obvious reasons. i do think a matchup with rubio and ted cruz are probably the top two. hillary clinton would be very interesting. the democrats have always had good candidates. now suddenly democrats -- republicans look that way. that's a ticket of peop

does ithat is a look at a first word news.an get these stories 24 hours a day at bloomberg.com. back to you. alix: between commodities and oil, the commodities market is a train wreck. us now from joins los angeles with more. maryland, we hear there so many stores is a stress with corporate credit rented liquidity has been the undercurrent this whole time. boilingt bring it to a point? >> yes, i think it is a force five hurricane with lots of debris flying around. you have a lot of components. you have lack of liquidity. trading debts are being excoriated by many of the big firms. you have the commodity patch. you have the oil patch and you have got the big dogs, china, who is not a whimpering puppy tried to take care of its own problems. if things cannot get worse, we already had in the first 11 months of this year $1 trillion worth of downgrades. not all oil. it is a lot of physicians. alix: it's an investment grade as well. wells fargo parted that credit cycle of the last 20 years and shows every time that you have the cred

call now >>> updating breaking news right now, police identifying the sususpects ithat massacre at a conference center in san bernardino, california that left 14 people dead. they are syed farook and tashfeen malik. 6-month-old boy. they were killed in a shoot-out with police hours after the rampage. farook was a county employee as many are identifying who apparently worked with the victims of the shooting. >> witnesses say he le the event early described as angry before he returned with assault rifle semi-automatic handguns, evenody armor. pretty remarkable just how well armed he was. the police chief saying there was some level of planning involved. there was no way this happened at the last minute. >> very well planned. awful. the mass shooting in c californi comes less than a week at the shooting at a planned parenthood in colorado springs. >> hillary clinton was discussing gun control in america even as the scene was unfolding in san bernardino. donald trump weighing in, as well. here's abc's tom llamas. >> reporter: as some were shooting and others were dying in san bernardino,

that ithat has absolutely not hd in my great state and across the nation. millions of americans were kicked off their plans and given a set of alternatives that were more expensive. they were told they could no longer see the doctors they visited and trusted for years. in north carolina alone, we had over 470,000 cancellation notices. now, when they promised that if you liked your health care you could keep it, there was a little asterisk there and the asterisk was, you can keep it if the federal government determines that a policy you're satisfied with they're satisfied with. that's how they say they kept their promise. but it was an empty promise, and they haven't kept it. we also remember the president's promises to make health care more affordable, boasting that obamacare would reduce premiums by $2,500. that hang happened either. -- that hasn't happened either. in north carolina during the first full year of the exchange rollout, premium prices increased and outpaces the increases in wainls and inflation. the average home -- the average home was spendi