mark ho, nhk world, singapore. >> and that's going to wrap up our bulletin for today. i'm patchari raksawong in bang cox. >>> u.s. defense secretary says the united states will station f-35 stealth jets in five years. >> we are also enhancing our presence and capabilities in the region. that includes laying the groundwork for the first overseas deployment of the f-35 joint strike fighter in 2017. >> the f-35 is equipped with stealth capabilities to obscure it from radar. the plan is to check china's military growth. the united states also deploy the f-35 in okinawa. the defense ministry will the defense ministry will the defense ministry will adopted f-35s as the next mainstream fighter jet. >>> the u.s. congress will approve funding from the pacific to guam. this is part of realignment of u.s. forces in japan. the house and senate armed services committees held a conference on the national defense authorization act for fiscal 2013. the committees approved a budget of $26 million for the marine's transfer. the bill is likely to be enacted later this week through votes

. >> someone more influential denmarthan mark david ho is gushing this morning.e directions are in there. look earth is baked and. it is a simple, slick design. apple is getting a little bit of a smack down. the thing they did not like it was the ipad version is just an iphone version. you cannot download apps like you can with doable. >> the event we will see a working version of it in the new feature? >> i'm going to go on record and say by tom-tom. >> solar city is a loser today. >> you and i will have to disagree it opened at $9 and a quarter. it is >> it is up to about 11 right now. >> basically the install solar panels. it is a part plumber that is publicly traded. they had $103 million of revenue for the first nine months this year. they lost $78 million. this is a company that - yes i like solar but oil is becoming the no. 1 producer in the world. >> another winner is yahoo. they have certainly been in the news a lot lately. >> i think mercy meyer, i wish they had more female ceos. they are changing their board, it is not definitive. out goes david kenney

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ho, let's go. >> reporter: a day for giving and giving thanks for what we have every day. john yang, nbc news, chicago. >>> it was a very royal christmas where the queen marked the holiday in royal fashion but these are a few differences. >> reporter: queen elizabeth began her 60th christmas on the throne as she has every other at a morning church service with prince philip and other royals in tow. afterwards she greeted several hundreds who waited hours to see the royals at christmas but there were missing places at the christmas lunch table. prince harry out fighting in afghanistan and william and kate spent their day with their siblings in kate's hometown. a shocking breach of protocol? hardly. >> they want to do their own thing. the queen is kind of a xxi century queen and alouss laws t. >> reporter: so 21st century, she did it in 3d. it is queen elizabeth that led the phone age to social network ing and facebook and she's even a doodle on google. >> by the time she made her first televised christmas speech 55 years ago, she was a mark. >> for those it's possible to see me today, it's another example of the speed of which things are changing all around u

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ho! [ male announcer ] lease a 2013 glk350 for $399 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. stuart: i want to go to markon the fiscal cliff. let's pretend that i am the jury pool. go ahead, pollute me. give me your case. >> i have a congressman who voted to represent me and my district, he is responsible for voting our views, that is his job. president obama is the only man in this fiscal cliff fight that voted to represent all of america. it is the president's responsibility to represent all of america and do the best he can with compromise. that is not my congressman's job. the congress men and women up there are supposed to be voting for their district, voting for their people, what we put them in to vote. of this president cannot afford a compromise he should be dumped it at the feet of the congress. they only have to vote their district. it is the president's responsibility to represent all of americans and can't do it we have the wrong president. stuart: that is a thinly veiled push for republicans to have some backbone and not cave. >> mike congressman better represent me and my district. that is

mark the x. >> santa, go pack your sleigh. >> thank you for last year's gift. >> i hope i get my wish. sincerely zane green. >> jillian craiger. >> come and see santa. oh, hoht? this is a special p.s. >> help all children to get lovely presents, too. >> normally in the morning on christmas you always see crumbs all over the chair. >> you can eat as much as you want. >> applesauce. >> chocolate chips. >> sometimes my dad steals the cookies. >> give every reindeer two carrots and give a carrot to the elf. an eighth of a carrot will do. >> seeing everybody so happy. >> me and my brother sometimes go crazy on christmas day. >> i can't be too excited on christmas, because there might be a big bag of coal in there. >> merry christmas! >> merry christmas! >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas and happy new year! >> all right. so we all have young kids, and they are counting down. luke said yesterday it's taking too long. when will it get there? >> mine wants a magic wand, and when he gets it he says he'll make christmas come faster. >> my daughter is worried it's not snowing, and therefore we cannot have christmas without snow. maria says we

ho ♪ green giant . >>> today is 32 years since john lenon was shot and killed in new york city. he was shot in front of his home. markn was convicted of his murder and was sentenced to 20 years to life. he remains in jail and has been denied parole. >> the second winner who bought the 587 million-dollar jackpot ticket has come forward. >> the winner put the ticket in his vehicle and put it on his sun visor and left it there. the next mondaying he woke up he had received news that there was indeed a winner in arizona. >> you can bet he ran out to his car to get that ticket. that worker at that the gas station was not actually the winner so we don't know why he was so happy. the lottery plans to repleas the winner's name on monday. >>> it's not 192 million but still a foretew. a woman turned in a one million dollar winning strap erratickest. she bout father and then won the free ticket on the 4th and had the -- 5th way was worth the million dollar jackpot. the woman bought them in the outer richmond neighborhood. >> scratches them, gets the free one, get that one and wins a million. >> go to rosemary to look at weather