marlie hall at the new york stock exchange. thank you, marlie. >>> overseas now, the military-lead government. a muslim terror organization. the decision follows a suicide bomb attack on tuesday that killed 16 people. ousted president mohamed morsi is a member of that group. >>> and president obama spent part of his christmas thanking troops. the president and the first lady took a break from their hawaii vacation to visit a marine base. hundreds of troops from various military branches heard from mr. obama after eating christmas dinner. >> and coming up on the "morning news," the dangerous flu season. we will tell you why it is not too late to get your flu vaccine this year. this is the "cbs morning news." vaccine this year. this is the "cbs morning news." >> we really wanted to take a relaxing trip to florida, you know? just to unwind. >> but we can only afford one trip this year, and his high school reunion is coming up in seattle. >> everyone's going. then we heard about hotwire and realized we could actually afford to take

marlie hall at the new york stock exchange. thank you very much, marlie. >>> well, ups and fedex are playing catchup this morning. the shippers are still digging out of a holiday backlog created when they missed delivery deadlines. as manuel bojorquez reports they're dealing with disappoint and angry customers. >> reporter: ups workers spent the day racing to catch up. the company had delivered 132 million packages in the week leading up to christmas, a pace of 300 per second. but it wasn't fast enough to clear an avalanche of holiday orders, including a package for jeff cormier in dallas. >> i don't know what more to say about how frustrating it was. >> reporter: it was an iphone case with his daughter's picture. his grandmother flew back home without it. >> that's what i miss the most. you miss the aha moment. >> reporter: you want her to reopen it in front of you. >> yeah. you can't recapture it, that wow factor. that's gone. >> reporter: a short holiday season and icy backlogs became insurmountable as last-minute shoppers p

marlie hall is at the crash site. marlie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. federal investigators continue to pore over this crash site this morning trying to determine what led to that deadly train derailment. investigators are trying to determine what caused a commuter train to jump the tracks, killing four and injuring more than 60. the investigation appears to center around how fast the train was moving as it reached a curve in the bronx just north of manhattan. >> we have not spoken to the conductor. we anticipate interviewing the train crews in the next day or two. >> reporter: a law enforcement source tells cbs news the train's engineer william rockefeller jr. tried to apply the brakes but they weren't working. the ntsb will uncover data reporters which will tell the speed the train was traveling. >> they'll know the speed at which the train was traveling. they'll also know if the engineer attempted to apply the brakes or not. they'll also know whether the brakes were working. >> reporter: some passengers thought they were going to plunge into the wate

marlie hall here in new york. thank you, marlie. >>> well, meteorologist megan glaros of our chicago station wbbm has been following this storm. >> areas that were hit by heavy snow overnight now transitioning to a wintry mix, which is sometimes more difficult on the morning commute than snow. now, we see places like d.c., philadelphia, even new york contending with rain, snow, and ice, the combination of which will make for very rough travel anywhere from d.c. all the way up to new york city. boston looks like it will start as snow but eventually during the day today will transition over to that wintry mix. talking about a very difficult monday morning commute here for much of the east coast. ice will continue all the way back from east virginia to west virginia. places along the coast could be milder. tells could drop to below 4 for minneapolis, 9 for chicago, 12 for kansas city, 14 for fargo. even california beginning with a deep freeze this morning and will likely do so for another couple of days. megan glaros

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good morning, marlie. >> good morning, anne-marie. retailers aren't ready to call the holiday shopping season over just yet. retailers from amazon to old navy are launching aftersales. they're hoping to lure people back into the stores to make up for the sales slump this season. some brick and mortar stores open up at 5:00 a.m. while some etailers kicked off. >>> the shanghai composite lost more than 1%. tokyo's nikkei added 1%. hong kong's hang seng is closed for the holiday. the markets here reopen this morning after traders took christmas off and called it quits early on tuesday. an unexpectedly large increase in orders for manufactured goods pushed stocks higher. on christmas eve the dow ended the shortened day up nearly 63 points. the nasdaq finished 6.50 ahead. >>> the numbers of debit and credit card numbers from target could be more damaging than they thought. the hackers also got away with the pins needed to withdraw cash from victims' bank accounts. targets said no unencrypted pins were compromised. >>> mcdonald's shut down

marlie hall is in new york with the latest. marlie, good morning. >> anne-marie, questions about rockefeller's role in the derailment have grown once it became known the train jumped the tracks going at an excessive speed. his attorney characterized rockefeller's state as highway hypnosis, while union officials said rockefeller basically anoth nodded off at the controls. >> he had one of those where, whoa, you drive your car and, you know, you stare at the same thing for so long, you know, he zoned and he caught himself, but he caught himself too late. >> rockefeller met with federal investigators yesterday afternoon. they won't comment on ro rockefell rockefeller's level of alertness. his lawyers say he's cooperating fully. the seven-car commuter train jumped the track sunday as it hit a curve nearly three times the speed limit. so far investigators have found no mechanical reason for the crash. >> there's no indication that the brake systems were not functioning properly. >> alcohol tests on the train crew were negative. the

marlie hall at the new york stock exchange. >>> in sports, the last thursday night game of the season played in chilly denver. the broncos and peyton manning taking on san diego. chargers' receiver keenan allen finishes with just two catches but he makes both of them count. he hurdles into the end zone over a tackler on his first catch, and them on his second, he scores again. the chargers win, 27-20. >>> when we return, drunk driving defense. a teenager who killed four people in a dwi case offers a controversial explanation for his behavior. controversial explanation for his behavior. la vie est belle. la vie est belle, the new eau de parfum, lancôme. now at macy's, your fragrance destination. with grands mini pot pies. only four ingredients. and a few easy steps. weeknight dinner in a flash. and my family devours them. pillsbury grands biscuits. make dinner pop. pillsbury grands biscuits. ghirardelli squares chocolate... ♪ a little rendezvous savor our luscious filling combined with our slow melting chocolate. ♪ that little r

we'll get an update from moneywatch reporter marlie hall. ,, ,,,, correspondent marlie hall i for moneywatch reporter jas brooks this morning investors are hoping recent gains will continue as the markets reop ng a break for chr >>> last week of trading for wall street in 2013. marlie hall is in for jason brooks this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. investors are hoping recent gains will continue as the markets re-open today after taking a break for christmas. now, the markets opened less than 15 minutes ago. looking up at the board, the dow is up 49. and the nasdaq is also up by 8. mcdonald's shut down its internal employee web page because it reportedly warned workers to avoid eating their own food. cnbc reported one page of the employee resource website reportedly displays a graphic showing a burger, fries and soda with a caption that reads, unhealthy choice. the page recommended to mcdonald's employees a salad and water as a healthier alternative. millions of people will take to the roads today as they head home from their holiday destinations. aaa estimates nearly 95 mi

reporter marlie hall explains speed may have been a factor. >> reporter: workers used cranes to upright train cars that toppled during the deadly crash. investigators from the national transportation safety board are looking for clues that might explain what caused the commuter train to jump the tracks. they are also analyzing the train's data recorders to determine if the engineer may have been going too fast as he rounded a bend. >> a curve like this has a speed limit and the speed limit was 30 miles an hour. at that speed, there should be no problem navigating the curve. >> reporter: the train's engineer william rockefeller, jr., has not yet spoken to investigators. a law enforcement source told cbs news, rockefeller informed first responders the brakes were not working properly. until the tracks are cleared and repaired, about 26,000 commuters are using shuttle buses and subways to get to work. 58-year-old james lovell is one of four passengers who lost his life sunday. the audio technician was heading to manhattan to prepare for th lighting of the rockefeller center christmas tree.

cbs reporter marlie hall explains why federal investigators believe the train was going too fast when it derailed. >> reporter: newly released video gives a close-up look at toppled train cars and the mangled tracks left behind in the wake of sunday's deadly derailment. investigators say the metro- north commuter train was traveling at nearly three times the speed limit when it came around a bend in the bronx, new york. >> the train was traveling at approximately 82 miles per hour as it went into a 30-mile-an- hour curve. >> we have five cars left the track. >> reporter: the seven-car train jumped the tracks, killing four passengers and injuring dozens of others. a law enforcement source says the train's engineer, william rockefeller, jr., told first responders he tried to hit the brakes before the train derailed but they weren't working. investigators say information from the train's data recorders reveals the brakes were fully applied five seconds before the train came to a complete stop. the ntsb is trying to determine whether the wreck was the result of human error or mechanical f

as marlie hall reports, the weather is more than just brutal. it's dangerous. >>> reporter: people are scraping ice off their cars as freezing rain falls across parts of texas. a layer of slush and ice is making the roads dangerous. it's all part of a wintry blast that's hitting much of the u.s. bringing frigid temperatures, ice and snow. >> i think the stuff is pretty froze up, a little icy. >> reporter: snow, ice and sleet combined to cause traffic trouble across the state of oklahoma. utility companies are scrambling to avoid power outages. >> an ice storm is absolutely our worst situation. >> reporter: the national weather service issued a winter storm warning for the louisville area for friday. >> hurry up, get all your trucks ready but then we have to wait to see when is the rain going to change over to snow and sleet. >> reporter: many stores across the mid-south are sold out of sat, generators and ice scrapers. >> supply was low in all those stores around. so i'm happy i was able to find some things to be prepared. >> reporter: these con

marlie hall for cbs news. >> it is unusual to have a wildfire in california in december. it's also unusual to have the driest calendar year on record and that's partly to blame. >>> the oakland preacher to gained worldwide attention with his doomsday predictions has died. harold camping died at the age of 92 on sunday at his home. his family radio network started in san francisco in the '50s and spread nationwide. he made headlines with his failed predictions of the end of the world in 1994 and 2001. >>> today a man accused of killing two cats by throwing them into san francisco bay was arraigned. eric patterson allegedly grabbed a woman's belongings at pier 25 including a cat carrier which ended up in the water. he is charged with two felony counts of animal cruelty. >>> the nra filed a lawsuit against sunnyvale in response to its new gun control ordinance. the nra says the new measure tramples on the second amendment. the city requires gun owners to quickly report firearm theft and to lock their guns at home. it also bans possession of magazines that hold more than 10 r

marlie hall for cbs news. >>> mighty cold in my car this morning, i'll tell you that. >> yeah? >> oh, my, 26 degrees outside. >> which is a big deal. you see other parts of the country though, i mean, colorado -- >> what are we complaining about? >> they have like a high of 9 in denver today. >> exactly. >> very, very cold temperatures around the country and cold here, too. that's all part of the same system although we get those temperatures moderating a little bit because we're closer to the coastline. still no getting around it, it is cold outside today. that arctic air again settling in overhead. i think this is likely to be the coldest morning though so far. yeah, these temperatures very chilly in spots. it is briefly dropped down to 19 degrees in napa at the airport there this morning. now they are up to 23 very balmy now. 26 degrees in santa rosa. 31 still freezing in san jose. even 38 degrees in san francisco. all right. we start out with very cold temperatures early on. by the afternoon plenty of sunshine. but chilly temperatures again. a little colder than yesterday.

cbsmoneywatch reporter marlie hall with more on the investigation. >>> reporter: investigators worked through the night at the scene of a seven-car commuter train derailment that killed four and injured more than 60. >> that car you see in your screen now, that was tipped over on its side yesterday partially. it's uprighted. >> reporter: speed may be a factor. a law enforcement force tells cbs news the train's engineer, william rockefeller, jr., told rescuers he tried to apply the brakes but they weren't working. the ntsb recovered data recorders which should tell the story. >> they will know the speed that the train was traveling. they will also know if the engineer was attempting to apply the brakes or not. they will also know if the brakes were working. >> reporter: the train came to a stop just feet from where the hudson and harlem rivers meet. some passengers say they thought they were going to plunge into the water. >> i thought i'm going to die. >> reporter: this passenger says people were tossed around like rag dolls. >> i can see some people flying from my left side to the ri

at the new york stock exchange, i'm marlie hall. >> not surprising, beyonce is always selling. >> mrs. jay-z. which personality is she on this one? whatever she is, it works. >> it does. >>> i got to get to work. we have a lot of things to talk about today. good morning, everybody. as you are heading out you need a jacket. we do have temperatures near freezing in santa rosa. at this time, look outside, wow! we are only going to get to see this for the next week? and then the lights get turned off at the embarcadero. so enjoy it. official sun-up this morning 7:24. with it again 30 santa rosa, 30s throughout the tri-valley, 30s in oakland after a record high yesterday of 67 degrees. it's in the 50s in san francisco. today the 20th winter "spare the air" of the season and the fifth day in a row with unhealthy level of pollution close to the surface. need a good breeze, not going to see it today. those northwest winds about 5 miles per hour late day. numbers coming down just ever so gently, 60s at the coast, mid-60s central bay to just shy of 70 degrees throughout walnut creek and in conc

marlie hall for cbs news. >> according to its website, skydive arizona is the largest drop zone in the world for skydivers of all skill levels. >>> other bay area headlines, a woman claims a 15-year-old girl attack her in the bather center parking lot in san leandro. the victim says the teenager stole her purse and took off in a car. a witness saw it and called police. >>> a bicyclist is the 40th person killed in traffic in san jose this year. an suv hit the bike rider near the corner of vista park drive and branham lane just before 7:00 last night. he died at the hospital. the driver is cooperating. >>> a popular cable tv host bill beckwith was killed in a motorcycle crash in san francisco. beckwith cohosts curb appeal on hgtv. a car hit and killed him monday night as he road through the lower haight near oak and styner streets. it wasn't clear who was at fault. police say the driver of the car is cooperating. beckwith was 38. >>> new this morning a site with the web address similar to the california health exchange is linked to state republicans. this is what covering healthcare ca.c

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cbs reporter marlie hall has the list of cars that makes that safety grade. >> reporter: the insurance institute for highway safety crashed cars at 40 miles per hour to find out which ones performed best in an accident. this year, the research group went a step further and found out which cars were best at preventing a crash using warning systems or automatic braking. >> we think that as important as it is for our vehicle to protect you in a crash, if it can prevent that crash in the first place, that's even better. >> reporter: to get a top ranking, cars also have to get a good or acceptable grade in the small overlap crash test. it shows how well a car holds up when just a portion of the vehicle hits another car or object. >> a lot of the front crash protection strategy that's been built into the vehicle which is located in the middle is bypassed and so manufacturers have had to change their designs to do well in this crash scenario. >> reporter: because of the tougher standards, only 39 cars received top safety ratings this year compared to 130 last year. 22 earned the highest ranki

marlie hall has the numbers. >> reporter: it's the final day of trading for 2013 here on wall street. the dow is on track for its best year since 1996. yesterday the dow rose nearly 26 points. the nasdaq fell. ford says it will end 2013 as the top-selling brand in north america. the automaker says it sold more than 2.4 million vehicles this year and saw double-digit sales growth for all types. car companies will release their december sales figures friday. those numbers are expected to confirm ford will hold on to the top spot over toyota. google is hitting the road. the "wall street journal" reports the web giant is teaming up with audi to develop in-car entertainment and information systems. it will be based off google's android operating system. the partnership is expected to be announced next week at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. and a typical new year's resolution is getting more exercise. according to a netflix survey, nearly half of those polled said in the new year, they would be more motivated to work out if they could binge watch their favorite tv shows while e

marly hall for cbs news, plains boro, new jersey. >> that study does warn women who are allergic to nuts, continue to avoid them while pregnant. >>> on this christmas eve, coming up at 5:00 the family of that oakland girl on life support anxiously awaits a decision that could determine her future. the latest in the court battle over jahi mcmath. >> but first a bay area home that's sure to put you in the christmas spirit. we'll be right back. ♪ >>> near or record warmth anticipates on this -- anticipated on the christmas eve in the bay area. should shatter the whole record of 63 set back in 1961. >> what rear are you talking about? >> '61. finally i know. i'm the youngest in something. all right, let's take a live look outside and southbound 101 at third everything is pretty good as you're traveling along the peninsula or maybe heading down towards sfo. got to catch a flight out of town for the holidays? well, full look at your travel and work commute that's all coming up. >>> we're just doing the math weren't we? >> yeah. >> okay. we're not going to talk about it though. 4:55 now. a home

as for a *safe car-- marlie hall says: you may k with a honda. >>> all right. want to drive a fast car, try the lamborghini. as for a safe car, marlie hall says you might want to stick with a honda. >> reporter: the institute for highway safety crashed cars at 40 miles per hour to find out which ones performed best in an accident. this year the research group went a step further and found out which cars were best at preventing a crash using warning systems or automatic braking. >> we think that as important as it is for our vehicle to protect you in a crash, if it can prevent that crash in the first place, that's even better. >> reporter: to get a top cranking they had to get a good or acceptable grade in the small overlap crash test which shows how a car holds up when part of the vehicle hits an object. >> a lot of the protection strategy built into the vehicle located in the middle is bypassed and so manufacturers have had to change their designs to do well in this scenario. >> reporter: only 39 cars received top ratings compared to 130 last year. 22 earned t

all right, marlie hall cbsmoneywatch.com, have a great weekend. thank you. >>> 6:46.'s get a look at traffic with elizabeth. >> thanks, guys. we have our first official accident of the morning. this is going against the commute. but on the air we have seen no hot spots hardly any incidents at all a new accident eastbound 580 before the 980 interchange so heading through the macarthur maze and sounds like one car was involved in the accident but now there's a big rig stopping to block it. so again the slow lane is blocked there. not causing a huge delay yet. so this is what it looks like right now on the roads. highway 4 is exceptionally light now past "a" street and even into concord. 62, 60 miles per hour those are all live drive time sensors and even the drive through the altamont pass and livermore valley, folks taking the day off as well, only 14 minutes still between the altamont pass and the dublin interchange. up to the bay bridge still no metering lights. they won't be turned on this morning, so it should be a good commute into san francisco. and just a heads

marlie hall, thank you. >>> happy new year. holiday i think liz actually found a kind of a slow spot out there, right? >> we did. we found one in castro valley. i'll take you to that accident there in a minute. first, we're talking mass transit and everything is on time and on a regular schedule except for golden gate ferries, they are operating on a holiday schedule this morning. so check their website for the latest information. bart has 51 trains and they are all on time. bart is also running until 3:00 this morning for the new year's holiday. westbound 580 approaching castro valley boulevard, this is that accident that frank just mentioned. still there, kcbs sky one actually flew over a few minutes ago spotting the lane still blocked but it looks like just some minor delays right now approaching the scene just behind it and tow crews are out there now. so they should be clearing that here pretty shortly. here's a live look at the bay bridge. still no metering lights. they have not had to turn on those "meet the press" in a

i'm marlie hall for cbs news, new york. >>> here's something you wouldn't expect mcdonald's to tell theirployees, they said don't eat fast food but that's the advice posted on the employee website. it says most fast food is high in fat and sodium which could of course lead to obesity. the employee site promotes a diet of raw vegetables and even says things like pass on pickles, less salt. last month the mc resource site came under fire for suggesting fire a au pairs and nannies. >>> we have roberta gonzales in doing double duty this morning. getting in the holiday spirit. >> i think that's only because i do commute around the bay area quite often. driving around in mobile weather, know the freeways quite well. i think. so we'll have that traffic report coming up but first things first let's head out. one thing you have to be very mindful of this day is it is illegal to burn today. no yuletide log on the fireplace today. it is the 18th "spare the air" day of the winter season. you think you would want a fire, it's cold outside. 31 santa rosa. freezing in fairfield. meanwhile it's in fact 4

marlie hall of cbsmoneywatch.com joins us now. morning. >> reporter: good morning, mark and michelle. it's already being called a record year for the stock market. but as the new year approaches, traders are wondering what 2014 will bring. yesterday was a light but strong trading day. the dow climbed 122 points and the nasdaq was up nearly 12. looks like online shopping is more popular than ever. the research firm com score says there was a 10% increase in online sales. overall sales online and in person picked up 3.5% this year with most of the spending coming in the final days before christmas. but there's still time for more shopping. a crush of consumers headed back to the stores yesterday to return unwanted items or to do more shopping. according to the website, retailmenot, nearly 80% of people planned to take advantage of post-christmas discounts. and the christmas season's new movies drew crowds of people to theaters on wednesday to make it the second highest grossing christmas day on record in the u.s. according to estima

marlie hall with the way the operator's union leader describes it. >> he zoned out. he had one of those where, whoa, like, you know, you drive your car and, you know, you stare at the same thing for so long and, you know, he -- he zoned and, uhm, he caught himself but he caught himself too late. >>> reporter: rockefeller met with federal investigators yesterday afternoon. they won't comment on rockefeller's level of alertness. his lawyer says he is cooperating fully. the seven-car commuter train jumped the tracks sunday as it hit a curve traveling nearly three times the speed limit. >> there is no indication that the brakes were not functioning properly. >> reporter: alcohol tests were negative. the results of the drug tests are not available yet. federal investigators say rockefeller had switched from a night shift to a day shift two weeks before the crash. he reported to work on time at 5:04 a.m. >> there is every indication he would have had time to get full restorative sleep. >> reporter: his union says rockefeller had never been disciplined for job performance.

marlie hall for cbs news. >>> believe it or not, we might get a little snow ourselves. >> i know. on those peaks there, right, lawrence? >> hopefully we don't get temperatures like that. it's cold enough outside right now again back into the deep freeze in the bay area. i think we are going to see some crop damage now three successive days of these temperatures dropping off in the 20s. 21 degrees right now in fairfield. 22 in the napa valley. and 23 in santa rosa. 30s inside the bay. another very cold start to the morning. freeze warnings up until 9:00 this morning. but then we are going to start to see some changes increasing clouds toward the middle of the day. and then showers developing this afternoon. with that cold air trapped here yeah we could see a little snow over mountain peaks. temperatures slowly warming up toward this next week but for now just a slow-moving cold arctic air mass and now with this low developing on the back side that's going to move in to bring rain today and the snow later on tonight. computer models picking up on it clouds increasing toward the midd

marlie hall for cbs news, the bronx, new york. >> that train carried about 150 passengers and was about half full when it derailed. >>> well, the next time a mountain lion wanders into your neighborhood, wildlife officers will have to be a little friendlier to it. a new state law now requires fishing and game officers to use nonlethal methods to deal with the animas as long as the lion poses no immediate threat to those around him. >> until now, it was safer just to kill the lions than to worry about, well, if i hadn't stopped that lion, maybe someday he might have hurt somebody. >> last december fish & game shot and killed two orphan cougar cubs that had taken refuge under a backyard deck by the fences. at the time that was the policy. the new law gives officers a little more flexibility now to tranquilize capture and relocate those little cubs. >>> california couple has vanished under mysterious circumstances. the man and woman of sacramento went out fishing on the delta thanksgiving afternoon. hours later the boat was found still running in circles but there was no sign of the two. t

marlie hall for cbs news. >> a wildfire this late in the year is unusual. but this particular year not surprising because we're experiencing the driest calendar year on record. >>> in other headlines around the bay, san francisco's midmarket area just went high- tech. the city flipped the switch on free wi-fi along market street yesterday. it stretches all the way from the embarcadero to castro street. you can access it under the name san francisco free wi-fi. >>> the fbi is hoping this fake beard will help nab the guy tied to five bank robberies in northern california. he is known as the bad beard bandied. his most recent robberies were earlier this month in dublin and sunnyvale. the suspect didn't use a weapon during any of the heists but investigators consider him armed and dangerous. >>> east bay shoppers are warned to watch out for parking lot predators. a pair of women claiming to be mother and daughter targeted several drivers at this el cerrito safeway parking lot. a driver pulls into the lot, one of the women pounds on the back of the car, pretendi

marly hall has more detail this is this morning's health watch. >> reporter: researchers at washington a way to directly target tumors in blood vessels. the new method allows them to stop tumor growth without damaging healthy tissue. unlike most therapies, the goal is not to destroy the cancer's blood supply. instead blood vessels are hijacked so that they no longer nurture tumor growth. the new therapy has the potential to be applied to other types of cancer. stanford university scientists have found a possible link between men with high testosterone levels and poor immune response. the study found those men benefit less from the flu vaccine than women or men with low testosterone. that may be because testosterone has antiinflammatory properties that are believed to dampen the body's immune response. a joan known to influence mother baby bonding may also play a role in your ability to remember faces. researchers found the oxytocin receptor gene influences facial recognition. about a third of the population has only the genetic variant with a negative impact on that ability which may e

>> i would say earnings for the foreseeable future will be pry pair marly liven driven by the core businessen you know enjoy 45% of the market is in transition. it's not just the company's in transition, right? the company is in transition with an industry that's in transition. but having said that, you know, i think that the real -- sometimes the thing that people miss about our business is that our business is a huge cash generating business. >> that's why the accelerated buyback, the dividend. >> right. >> to me, these are cushions. you take a shot -- this isn't zynga. it's a social gaming play with a cash cow. am i looking at it wrong? >> i actually think you're looking at it exactly right. i think, you know, when you look at our on version to cash, we convert 26% of our revenue to cash. we've been very responsible in returning that cash to shareholde shareholderses. i think $1 billion in the last 4 years we've returned to shareholders. shared outstanding down to is15 >> i've seen the numbers. it's a very big chunk taken out of the market. >> it's a big chunk taking out of the market. a

a jazz group was in council to perform bob marly's one love and original christmas song and major bob ford and others were there -- >> she's getting too close there. >> yeah, i would stay far away from that. it came hours after ford apologized for calling members of the council corrupt. and five hours later he apologized for that dance. >> i have nothing to say. >> it's going on and on and on. >> i have nothing to add. >> thank you natalie, appreciate it. mr. roker, how about a check of the weather. >> it's like a christmas party there. an office party. guess what, if you were driving in the northeast, black ice was a wbig problem. this is in brooklyn near bayside. 30 cars involved. what a mess. parts of the long island expressway last night in new york were also shutdown. this happened all the way up into the northeast. black ice, just exactly what is it? right around this time of the year, it's a big problem. you have wet roadways with temperatures close to 32 degrees. so that's right near freezing so these roads get an invisible ice barrier, especially bridges and overpasses. you h