but mattes continues to report on suleiman. and after his third story, mattes says he gets a frightening phone call. >> in the middle of the night, i'm going to come get you. you're an insect. you better retract. >> mattes says threatening late-night calls to his personal cell phone become regular and frequent. >> all of the threats were directed at my reporting. all of the threats were directed at shutting me down. >> the now notorious mauling starts while mattes is interviewing this man, b.k. phillips, for a fourth story about a pair of previous run-ins with suleiman. >> this is our house. >> phillips lives next door to one of suleiman's buildings and he says, first, they have a neighborly squabble. and on a second occasion, as phillips walks through his neighborhood back to his home on a sunday afternoon, he says suleiman crosses the line. >> suleiman shows up out of nowhere, screeched up in his car, kicked open his car door, ran out and literally was posturing like i'm going to kick your butt, i'm going to beat your ass and

>> then matt reveals the final surprise. stacked with her family and friends, all seated in the back so ginny wouldn't notice them in the dark theater. >> and he turned me around and my family and friends are all up in the stands and it was just an unreal moment and, like i said, i just thinking back on it, i can't even believe that it happened. >> ginny says yes and the mission is accomplished flawlessly. matt and michael post the video on the internet, complete with ginny's reactions. >> the only reason we posted online is because there were some people that were supposed to be in the theater that day that weren't able to come and everybody was like, we have to see it. >> they saw it all right. so did more than 20 million others. matt and ginny become overnight youtube sensations scoring rave reviews from countless viewers. >> i think it's good for people to see a true love story. >> the best e-mails that i've received is from people that have been married for years and say, you know, i was really in a slump with my marria

from e balm's world. >> it is matt dreidel here for matt monday with some matt madness. into the clips and roll that ebaum's world and break into the footage. >> nope, nope, nope. >> it doesn't look real. >> not at all. too shaky. the guy looks like he is floating across the street. his feet are touching the ground. >> i thought it was awesome. >> you can actually see the edit. >>> second video. >> what is that? >> molten aluminum. >> it is going to show you the shape of the ant hill. >> he made an alum down there holding a fish and attaching the fish to the hook, i don't know how else you would take that. i am going to say real. >> i say real. i say fake. >> i say fake. >> i think he went fishing that day, had the fish when he cam home, still liv saw if it could fit through the grate and it did. so they placed it down in the gutter. actually, i don't know. i don't know. >> you just talked yourself out of fake is what you did. >> i can't figure it out. i think it is fake. i think it was split down there. >> we are split 3/3. >> it goes to the viewers. >> viewers for the

today is matt. we're joined by matt and want to report that the 2013 park alliance party was a great success we had 5 hundred people that showed their support by attending and it was held at the golden gate park and i want to thank all the commissioners who showed up. i want to give a big shout it out to the park alliance for doing the aesthetics it was quite wonderful and a fun event and most significantly the proceeds are going to benefit our parks in san francisco. and matt can come up the parks and alliance got $50,000 to the renovation this year is - the park alliances is 2rib thai thousand dollars to the department to fund a variety of the small projects that happen throughout the year and 5 thousand dollars for camp for the summer for sdbltd folks. i want to thank matt and their entire staff. matt if the president to say something please do >> nevertheless to say we're delighted with the financial impacts it will have and your especially delighted to see the parks and alliance to help open th

i've never understood -- expand it, matt. and give them more choices.er in the show -- i want to correct you on one thing. earlier on this show, we talked about the federal employee health care plan which has thousands of options in it. if you're talking to me about free markets and free economics, which is what i believe in, to me, what's missing here, whether it's the risk pool for those who are sick -- cobra or just ordinary people who want an insurance plan, what's missing here is competition, real competition. i don't mean four or five plans that are virtually the same and the only difference is financing. i'm talking about real consumer-driven competition, matt miller, that will bring down costs and will allow people to get what they need, not what they're forced to swallow. >> yes. how about freedom, larry. freedom. >> it is a freedom issue. i'm sorry we don't have more time. >> the freedom to go bankrupt from serious illness. >> the freedom to make your own choices instead of the government. >> i think it's -- i think a good risk pool -- i'll te

matt miller has visions of bitcoin. are here, theards careful where you show them off. >> good morning, this is "bloomberg surveillance," live from new york. monday, december 23. i am scarlet fu. tom keene is all. we have matt miller. did you bring any bitcoin gift certificates? >> that was going to be a surprise. >> we anticipated it. christmasbitcoin cards. china's benchmark money market rate climbed overnight for a seven day as banks struggle to meet cash demand. japan unveiled a record budget for next fiscal year. that will go along with some serious debt that that country is being stifled under. economic data in the u.s., 8:30 fed and personal income as well as personal spending data. we will give you those numbers. 9:55 a.m., university of michigan's consumer confidence numbers. facebook starts its first day of trading in the s&p 500. that is something you have heard about and prepare for last week. it becomes official now, you will see it in the listings. it is the 100th anniversary of the federal reserve. after

when we come back, matt miller's day two of the coin. -- day two of bitcoin. ♪ >> it is day two on matt2 days of bitcoin yesterday he bought one bitcoin for $800 and today he is shopping. you have a christmas present for me right? >> i got a couple of things today. i have learned so much over the past couple of days about how bitcoin works, how much fun it actually is to use. there are, obviously, limitations. earth of all, not a lot of merchant's except bitcoin directly, yet. sort of holding land? >> there are different companies that help you, me, the consumer, the merchant. people are watching the transactions. yft,e is a company called g which has a lot of merchants where it has gift cards, like nike, footlocker, a lot of clothing stores. what i do is i go to gyft and i buy a dollar denominated value. i today i bought game -- today i bought one for gamestop so i can get ran theft auto v. that middle ground makes everybody feel better. >> there was a company and today we spoke with going base. they help the bigger companies do bitcoin transactions. if i want to buy a lamborghini or t

matt shapiro of mws capital joins us now to talk about the january effect.ing matt. > >good morning angie. > >the january effect happens as people put their bonus money into the stock market. do you suspect that will happen this year? > >always. january seasonally strong. as january goes, so goes the year. we're coming off a blockbuster year so we'll have to see what happens.there's gonna be a lot of money put into the market. people that really missed the boat last year and finally they're gonna have their annual reviews. they're deciding they've got to do something. > >we are already hearing that traders on wall street and wealth managers on wall street will have big bonuses this year. so do you have your stock selected and are you ready for the rally? > >i'm still playing it as i always do. long term and you know just the inertial momentum of the economy is gonna do well. that will have actually a strong regional effect in new york and that area as traders and those big bonuses go to work in that area of the economy. but it's part of a broader thing that

but none of this is for matt. he is a military man and marijuana would be a career-ender. >> i grew up in wisconsin, a well-loving family. i was educated that that's a drug. you don't do that. and i never did. >> but decades ago, marijuana was a medication prescribed by doctors and dispense bid pharmacies. >> this is harry j. -- >> but that all changed in 1930. >> henry anslinger, for him public enemy number one. you guessed it. marijuana. >> this guy, saw how he could increase the budget of his department by having this mission going after marijuana. >> saying there's this drug that the mexican migrant works are smoking and it is loco weed and it is crazy and it will make them rape your women. >> he got the message out through news reports. and then came this -- >> curing the insane. >> refer madness, portraying it as unproductive, crazed. >> people are still afraid of what pot can do to them. >> in many ways, defining our attitudes for 70 years. >> yeah. >> marijuana became illegal in 1937. by 1970, it was a sch

matt keller, abc 7 news. >>> matt, thank you. an oakland family was able to escape their early morning house fire but their two dogs did not survive. the fire raced through their home just before 3:00. the sound of the fire and the smell of heavy smoke woke up the couple. firefighters believe it was started by the stove, which the family was using to keep warm. two nearby homes were also damaged. >>> developing news here. co-workers are talking to us about the well-liked emergency medical technician killed in a fiery accident in livermore. he is being called dedicated and compassionate. alan wong is live at the ambulance company where he worked. alan? >> reporter: yeah, eric, every day the emts at royal ambulance come back here and debrief just so they can unload the trauma that they have experienced each day. well, yesterday they had a serious debriefing session after they found out they had one of their partners was killed in one of those many accidents they respond to. let me show you some cell phone video of that fiery crash

vassel collides with the totems' lead scorer. >> he was the one that got tripped up by matt vassel.at they called a kneeing penalty. that's where i supposedly stuck my knee out to stop a guy that was going by. >> the totems erupt in anger. >> the totems coaching staff is irate right now. >> rather than go into the penalty box, matt is told to hit the showers. >> there was only a minute, minute and a half left in the game, so there was no reason for me to stay in the box if i wasn't even going to be playing the rest of the game. >> matt vassel's skating off to the dressing room. >> i was trying to get shots because it was dead puck and finally they skate vassel off and i told her camera one to follow him off the bench. >> before leaving the ice, matt and the totems player exchange words. >> eric english comes over to say something. those two have to be separated. >> that's when i'm trying to point up to the scoreboard letting him know that they're done and you know, good luck next year and you know, you guys go home and you guys suck and that type of stuff. >> he's still talking. oh,

we're back with monica and matt and david. david, let's begin with you.lennials, we're talking a sizable number calling for a recall. 47% of millennials in the harvard survey called for the recall as opposed to 46 who oppose it. this is strong stuff from the millennials. these are supposed to be his peeps. >> when you look at your future and don't see upward mobility as part of your picture, whether you put in time in technical school in college on your master's. if you see no future, you don't want to stay home forever and be the kid who is a baender while your parents or you paid $80,000 for an education. that's the reality the millennials face, lou. i said this in the break. no matter what people want to call obama or his policies or what's going on, it's the results and the current results we're dealing with. if you don't see upward mobility, you can't have the apartment you want, date the boy or girl you want or build something for your own future if you want a family. that's reality for millennials. >> politically these numbers are interesting. they

matt worked hard to follow the state law.andidate obama, and then president obama and his justice department saying if you follow state law, you will not be prosecuted by the federal government. those statements that matt relied on ended up to be false. >> thank you, everybody! thank you! >> it was in 2008 when then candidate barack obama denounced the bush administration raids on medical cannabis. >> a campaigning barack obama calling dea raids on medical marijuana shops a waste of taxpayer money. >> what i'm not going to be doing is using justice department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue. >> are you prepared to take the oath, senator? >> i am. >> upon taking office, the obama administration made his campaign statements official policy, with the justice department releasing the ogden memo. this suggested that the government would no longer focus resources on individuals whose actions were in clear and unambiguous complete with state laws. basically, if you were using or growing marijuana for medical

matt dowd is with us. a different pope hasn't it? >> the symbolic actions that he is done in conjunction with what he said. he has totally flipped the view of the vatican. in very few months from symbolic action. >> the move from benedicta to francis has been abrupt. -- how he wears conducts himself. there is much more power in his words. that is why they come across more forcefully. >> he seems like a celebrity pope. wherever he goes, people may pay more attention to him. he is looking to transform the church. >> his style is very appealing. he has a very challenging message. people are listening. he does not seem to be alienating people. it is really remarkable. >> you make the distinction of personal charity. what do you mean by that? >> what is the role and how do we help the poor? in the 18th century or 19th century, new york was the heart of the matter. >> in the city, there were a lot of poor. he calls us to pay attention to the poor of this generation. he is calling on the economic systems to pay a

. >> lakewood police detective matt vandiver investigated the case. >> the bartender attempts to get with the cash register and it gets knocked to the ground. >> suddenly the tussle takes a more dangerous turn. >> that's when i saw the knife. she's trying to slit my throat from behind, telling me she's going to kill me or i'm going to die. >> the blade just misses t.j.'s neck but slices his left ear. the woman slashes at t.j. again, this time stabbing him in the abdomen. >> i knew i had been punctured. when your life is threatened and you're in that fight mode, you kind of don't think about it. you just think, i'm fighting for my life right now. >> with no other employees left in the bar, t.j.'s best chance for help is a hidden panic button under the counter. he purposefully maneuvers his attackers toward the center of the bar and is able to reach the silent alarm to alert police. >> when our dispatcher sees a panic alarm, our officers respond immediately to the scene. >> the phone immediately started ringing off the hook, so i knew the police were on the way. it was very reassuring.

so, i want to welcome matt. i also want to call out kelly knight who is a vice president of the parks alliance board who has joined us today. i don't know if there are any other park board members here. thank you for being here. matt come on up and say a few words. >> thank you, phil. (applause) >> bear with me a second. if you're sitting, stand up. everybody do a quick 360. turn around very quickly and just look at the view from this park. just walk around and look at this view. we live in the most beautiful city in the world. today this city becomes just a little bit more beautiful. thanks to the incredible hard work that has made this new renovation a reality. the parks alliance is the independent partner to the entire city for everything having to do with parks, recreation, and open space. we have more than 100 different community groups called park partners all across the city. each of them working in their own way to make our park system a little better, a little more beautiful, a little more usable. today

matt axelson and danny dietz were awarded it posthumously.or sacrificing his life to make that telephone call, lieutenant mike murphy was given that medal of honor. his parents accepted it. it was the first time the award for honor was awarded in afghanistan. ahmed shaw was killed in a separate operation in 2008. after retiring, vice admiral joe mcguire runs the special operations warrior foundation which provides support for veterans and their families. marcus latrell created and raises money for a similar group, the lone survivor foundation. latrell has also visited families of his fallen s.e.a.l. brothers. >> you travel around the country to do that? >> yes, sir. >> what was that like? >> that sucked. think about it like this. if you had a son out on that mountain with me, if one guy had to live, who were you praying for? your son or me? every time they look at me, i'm the one who made it out and delivered the news of how hard their son fought. but i'm also the one who lived and their son died. why? why did you live and why did my son die?

i called up a guy. >> he bought more than one. >> i just bought one format. -- for matt. >> matt's guy his guy who sold them a bitcoin. now matt is selling one for $800. >> i feel crazy giving away this many 20's for one bitcoin. i can buy gasoline with this. my truck hold about $800 worth of gas. here i have a wallet. they have an app for my iphone. max has a bitcoin on his phone. you see a picture of my qr code. >> what are you doing? you are syncing them? >> i am going to scan his own. >> all right. you're going to scan his phone. >> is it not working? >> great. it is like a bill gates demo. it almost infamously will always fail. >> this is one of the issues. it has been so hard for me to figure this out. >> show us what is on the screen. what shows up? >> i can say this is the address i put him in. i can put him in as matt miller. now, it sends it. >> the interest is the rising value of bitcoin. this is worth whatever you're willing to pay for it. >> now i have got it. that just happened. you just bought a bitcoin. >> i can tweet it. i can show on facebook that i just got one. i be

matt said the best advise is to check with the airline. many canceled nights are commuter or colleague that will flights but american is by far the hardest hit with 557 canceled flights this morning. united is next with 84 cancellations. followed by southwest with 13 and tell that has seven cancellations. >> if you are staying home the coiled with create problems from black ice on the freeway to frozen pipes, repair crews are busy. our reporter is in lafayette with that part of the story. amy? >> it has been freezing this morning. that means some people have been very busy and others have seen their business come to a standstill. everyone is having to be careful. >> on our way to cover the story of black ice we hit a patch ourselves. watch as our van loses traction loses traction. c.h.p. put out an alert for ice on highway 24 in both directions. you have to watch where you step, too, with some slick spot in pleasant hill. people are bundled up, shivering and shaying their heads. >> the length of time we had the cold weather was unbelievabl

matt is facing a criminal prosecution as a result, and matt with a mba and a wife and two young childreng up to 40 years in federal prison. >> the case of matt davies more than any other case in the country demonstrates the conflict between state law and federal law with regard to medical marijuana. matt davies is facing charges for manufacture of marijuana even though the people of california voted overwhelmingly to permit medical marijuana use. matt worked hard to follow the state law and read the statements by candidate obama and now president obama and the justice department saying that if you follow the state law, you will not be prosecuted by the federal government, and those statements that matt relied on happened to be false. >> thank you, everybody. thank you. >> it was in 2008 when then candidate barack obama called for dea raids a waste of taxpayer money. >> what i am not going to be doing is to use justice department resources to circumvent this issue. >> are you prepared for the oath? >> i am, sir. >> he made the campaign statements official policy with the justice departmen

about how private companies and foreign governments are responding to concerns about nsa spying are mattledge, national security reporter for the "huffington post," chris for the american civil liberties union, and soesh your associate dean of international business and finance. he is the author of "the slow pace of fast change." >> chris what do these latest reach, the capacity of the nsa that we didn't know before? >> the nsa has an enormous appetite to collect information. they have been able to compel u.s. technology companies tohand over information about individual users, but then they have also vacuumed up vast amounts of data, and taken advantage of the fact that tech companies have not secured the connections between the customer and the tech company or the tech company servers at their facilities. so that has allowed the nsa to do dragnet searches, for people who say things in instant messages or have online activities, those are the most problematic, because they are the ones that are analyzing people's traffic not based orn them being a target but based on them being a target

matt axelson-- "axe," for short- - was from cupertino, california., he was a petty officer and a sniper. lieutenant mike murphy was the team leader. they were part of a larger mission called "operation red wings." their job was to locate this man, whom the four seals had only seen in grainy photographs. he was an elusive militia leader aligned with the taliban named ahmad shah. who was ahmad shah? >> luttrell: he had a group that he ran called the mountain tigers. he was creating all kinds of havoc out there in that particular region that he was in, killing marines, army-- i mean, you name it. >> cooper: luttrell was based at bagram air base outside kabul, and says his team had no idea exactly how many fighters ahmad shah had with him. >> luttrell: so i remember telling the guys, you know, "grab some extra rounds, we might need them." >> cooper: it was pitch black when marcus luttrell, danny dietz, matt axelson, and the team leader, mike murphy, were dropped by chopper a couple miles from where ahmad shah was believed to be located. luttrell says the

matt? >> thank you, leyla gulen, a search for a navy veteran seen a week and a half ago check out of a san francisco hospital will begin this morning. our reporter, amy hollyfield, is in san francisco with more. good morning, amy. >>> matt, this is where they will meet on market street to start the sent it is going to be thorough search. friends and family say that they have not heard from derek sell in a week. he came to visit a friend over the holiday and he was not acting like himself so friends checked him into the hospital. he was there for two days and released and hasn't been seen since. loved ones say it is time to start searching. they worried about him. >> we will just split the city up interest a number of zones and the goal is to take search teams and assign them to the zones in the city. >> i will not leave san francisco until i have turned this place upside down looking for him. >> they have put flyers out that describe him as being 6' tall, 200 pounds with blue eyes and a sca

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joining me, the aforementioned matt iglesias.e pitch about how flying actually isn't terrible. everyone complains. they need to get over it. what is the case? >> i mean, flying is not only safe, but it's much safer than it's ever been before. and it's also quite a bit cheaper than it was if you go back 20 or 30 years in the past, to what people consider to be the good old days of flying. so if you look at things like, well, you'd have to pay extra to get some more leg room, you'd still be getting with those premiere seats a cheaper flight than you would have had a generation ago. and you think it's an impressive thing that the industry has done. it's not to say there's no problems with it, but we've seen steady, continuous improvement in the safety of the service, in the price of the service. and it's a really convenient way to get around, as louis c.k. was saying. it's kind of amazing. >> i'm going to bracket for a second, the kind of carbon emission, of the amount we fly, that we'll have to deal with in some sort of comprehensi

matt? >> thank you, leyla, it is 5:10. embarrass advise forces mcdonald's to pull the plug on the employee website. >> tablets were on a lot of christmas lists this year and some doctors are saying limit your kid' tablet time. >> for get high-tech, the tweet that >>> covering cupertino, concord, wine country and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >> good morning, here is a look from our roof camera on the broadcast center, you can see the christmas lights are up and time to think about taking them down, and we will see another warm day ahead. mcdonald's pulls the plug on website after telling workers not to eat fast food. now the bloomberg business report. >> good morning, also talk about the waste that goes generated from recent weeks and what has happened, the epa says the garbage people throw away over the garbage, 25 percent more than usual and it is likely to grow as shipping becomes more popular as the "wall street journal" says not just paper but boxes account for the extra crash b

matt? >> of course, this happens on a monday. check it out. still, a big mess. passengers can still check in at terminal a but getting on the plane is an adventure. a hot water line ruptured at 2:30 trying the fire alarm and sprinklers. the upper legal of terminal a is flooded and the water looks to the baggage and check in air. the fire alarm was turned off before 4:30 and passengers are checking in with no idea what happens next. >> bummer to see this when you arrive at your airport to leave on monday morning. >> yes, it will probably change things. maybe. or maybe not. >> hoping for the best. >> always. disneyland trip so you cannot go wrong. >> the american, delta, hawaii, jetblue, united, usa air, virgin all are in the terminal. the first flights leave at 6:30 and the passengers check in and what you see now are the shut buses arriving. they will get on the buses to terminal b for the night. in word on what kind of delays the passengers can expect this morning but it is smart to arrive

and matt, i want to start with you.ws, as well as this ruling today, which clearly rejects some of the arguments being made by the justice department. >> yeah. i think the ruling today is certainly a setback for the government. but i don't think it's the kind of ruling that anyone over there is going to have a heart attack just yet about. if you just put it in some context, if you look at the affordable care act, it was struck down three times by different district court judges. it's not uncommon when you're at the beginning of litigation which is what i think we're at here. and there's a long road forward. i think eventually the supreme court will weigh in on this. >> you know, matt, let me go in on there. it is uncommon in this area. as you know, a lot of challenges to surveillance previously have been dismissed, because the courts have said to people suing, hey, you can't even prove you were spied on. that was different today. >> sure. and that's right. they do have standing. the judge found that. and i think that is

. >>> move over matt and savannah. a few familiar faces return to "the today show." >>> well, it was throw back monday this morning on the today show. they join matt lauer. >> that brings you back. >> it was the first time they anchored together in 25 years. it didn't stop there. it was also matt's birthday. meredith viera called in to wish him a happy birthday. that would have been fun to watch. >> it would have been. >> we're about to pass into a new year. >> i know. >>> well, we're going to start with some hazy conditions as we head into tomorrow. you'll need that jacket. i'm promising a better forecast as we head into the new year. >> we'll take it. thanks for joining us. "nightly news" is next. a second deadly bombing in two days. tonight, fears of more terrorism in russia just weeks before american athletes head to the sochi olympics. >>> up in the air. the government's new plan to test drones at sites around the country. how they may soon be coming to the skies near you. >>> the cold facts. a new blast of arctic

matt. >> letter. thanks, lisa. next, breaking news.ir dispute over a contract provision. and an exclusive one-on-one interview with the mother of the jahi mcmath, >> good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm in for state march. bart and it's unions reached a tentative agreement on their contract dispute. i have a copy on my ipad. the agreement was reached early this morning. you see the signatures from both sides. there are several signatures on this document. it is dated 12-21-13. something you won't see is the issue that started the latest debit. right here you can see this is the aden dump for the section 9.1 for the family leave act. the section used to have something saying that workers

we have matt townsend, bloomberg news.cott shober, berkeley electronic segments and dan kamisky, white ops co-founder and chief scientist. one of my first questions is, was this data that was stored locally or on the cloud? by that, is the information sort of up in the atmosphere or was it actually on target servers on the ground? >> so there are very strong rules against taking this sort of data, the mag strip data and putting it in a central location at, say, harget headquarters. we have a thing called p.c.i. that says it's absolutely not a thing you do. >> it would be at target headquarters or in the cloud? you can't allow it to be in the cloud? >> if you look at it from the perspective, the stores of target are its cloud. they have all these machines out there all over the country. the question is, do they send this data back up to target? probably not. which means that any attacker who got this information most likely broke into all of the target stores, all of the cash registers systematically nationwide. >> it was i

matt? >> this fire starts with a huge explosion and now you can see the plume of smoke coming off the metal management plant here at the end of the seaport boulevard in redwood city and air quality is obviously a big issue for people in this area as officials are meeting to determine if they will call for a "shelter in place." the first 9-1-1 calls came in before 1:00 o'clock am with reports of an explosion. firefighters arrived and found a huge pile of appliances on file 75' by 100' and 25' high. county offices of emergency services of meeting right new to determine what to do as far as the air quality issues and they have not decided if a "shelter in place" is called for but we expect an announcement soon. the redwood city fire marshal says there are chemicals that are harmful like all fires but do not have specific on the byproducts going out in that smoke. another issue is the people trying to get to work with big office buildings at the end of the boulevard and police are blocking it o

kristen and matt? >> thank you, australia is celebrating 2014 with a spectacular show from the opera house in sydney lighting up the harbor with lights and tons of exploding fireworks, drawing more than a million people. it is one of the most extravagant. in new zealand, new year's celebrations got underway three hours ago. when the clock struck midnight thousands celebrated with lots of cheering and music. >> in the bay area, we are many hours away from the new year but preparations are underway for the big celebration in san francisco. amy hollyfield is at the embarcadero. >> crews will put the barriers in place to gather the people at the water front to watch our show. you do not have to wait until midnight to celebrate eve east can you do something in the day like the san francisco asian art museum. you can join in the japanese bell ringing ceremony at 11:30. people will ring it 108 times. tonight there are plenty of fancy expensive parties. we did find a good deal at tommy's joint where champagne

what does that mean for us, matt? >> forecasters say we will see the worst air here in the santa clara valley as we are going to be setting a record today for the most "spare the air" days in a row. this is the fifth consecutive "spare the air" day here in the bay area and that means it is illegal to burn wood in the fireplace or stove unless it is your only heat source in the home. stadiums using wood to cook are exempt and the bay area quality management district says that one out of seven bay area residents have a breathing ill ness. >> i woke up choking twice this morning and the first thing i did was grab my inhaler. >> you can smell it and i can family it in my chest. >> inspectors patrol hotspots in the bay area. air quality officials get a lost complaints offed would burning in west marin and other places of course, first time violators get $100 ticket. you can avoid that by checking before you burn and you can sign up for e-mail air -- alerts so you know if it a "spare the air" day but could be one more "spar

fromt's get some details matt shay. can you tell us about different areas of retail, who is doing well and who has challenges? >> we started off the season to blackng back friday. there were promotions on electronics items. picked up through the weekend. as we make the push to the end of the year, we will see what happens. apparel and toys do well. jewelry and gift cards are the sleeper big number, every year one of the biggest categories is gift cards. >> i noticed your eyebrows go up when matt mentioned jewelry. i'm wondering if you could give us some details about the winners. >> jewelry was the big winner for the season. it was the only category that stood out as far as sales. electronics were flat year-over- year. while there has been a huge push for electronics and game consoles, electronics dropped over 15% in the price index. that is a big problem. but overall sales -- why is the actual cost of the item or the actual price, rather, i should say, why is that falling? is it the commission? >> and xbox is an xbox o

what is going on, matt? >> it is quite amazing do see fire on the road. check it out. it is on the corner right here with pg&e cruise working on finding where the leak is to cap it off. i was told by pg&e that it was a gas line break that turned interest a gas leak. check out this video from sky 7, firefighters got the call before 8:30 this morning reporting there was an underground fire if this area and this is what they found. the flames shooting up with six homes evacuated and all other residents were told to shelter if place. roads were blocked off in the neighborhood. a resident was frightened. this has the potential to be a big disaster. >> asking what was going on and he said, it was a gas leak. i was like, my god, a gas leak, and all i could think of was san bruno. my 93-year-old mom is in the house and i am getting her out. >> everyone will think san bruno but right new we have everything under criminal. >> firefighters say the incident is completely different. that was a transition line with 400 pounds p.s.i. and this is a distribution line bringing gas to ho

matt miller reports.ues the scene brothers were ellwood tells his brother jake that a new ride was in the power plant? >> cop shocks. forward 30 years and every cop car out there is still pushing a v-8 engine until now. board puts out 66% new power than the blues mobile by bolting on a couple of turbochargers and it is only a v6. 5.66 seconds. it is not all about speed and efficiency. remember, criminals shoot at these cars. the interceptor uses body armor -- table of stopping a full metal jacket. the company has software that uses a rearview camera that alerts the car to bad guys creeping up behind. it will automatically roll up the windows, lock the car, and sound the alarm. of course, most officers would rather not get jumped or shot at. the tracker sticks to the car and leads police straight to the fugitive. no high-speed chase necessary. ,hile police forces upgrade outlaws on the land better think of a new way to get a leg up. >> on thursday, tune in for matt miller's toward motor president and ceo.

all right, now here is matt. >>> savannah, thanks very much.images will you remember the most? keith jenkins is the director of photography for "national geographic." keith, happy holidays. good to see you. >> same to you. >> some of these photos we are going to take a look at, as gentlemen just mentioned, some are very sad, some very poignant. some will make us laugh. start with perhaps the most photographed young man in the world today and that will be the new royal baby. >> the new royal baby. this is probably my favorite photograph of all of them. why? because they are an awkward couple. and it shows in this picture. it is a picture that really talks about their relationship, as much as it does about -- about their relationship to the roya but what i also really like about it, i call this my "downton abbey" moment, i know you're a big fan. >> yeah. there are so many people who wanted to see the baby, who were around the baby, around them and just a really wonderful moment. >> it was a wonderful moment. the installation of pope francis, anot

matt miller. >> and then?it sends it. >> this notion of all of the coins, it isbit worth what you're willing to pay for it. >> now i haven't -- have it. >> you just want a bit coin? >> i can tweak it to my good show on facebook that i got wanted and i can ask for tips. >> how come you do not start off doing it this way? it this way.do on thursday, there is a meeting where everyone goes to send them back and forth to each other. the thing is, there are not that many meetings like that. guy inrying to meet a yonkers to pick one up. tcoin, ande your bi you have your $800. >> i do. [laughter] i was trying to buy it with my bloomberg amex which i did not want to pay for with it paid for it myself, but these methods do not work yet because the concern is -- coin, itransfers me a bit can try to reverse my paypal payment, and then i have his bitcoin and my money back. it is having a little bit of a teething problem getting off the ground. >> several companies are bitcoinngly accepting as a form of payment. thank you s