here's some christmas from maynard. i'll have a blue christmas without you. just thinkin' about you. decorations of red on a green christmas tree, won't be the same dear if you're not here with me. and when those blue snowflakes start fallin' that's when those blue memories start callin'. you'll be doin' all right with your christmas of white blue, blue, blue christmas. >> ah... merry christmas, merry christmas. >> great job. >> that was awesome. >> thanks, maynard. >> thank you very much. >> very nice. >> that was a lot of fun. >> you did a very good job, maynard, thank you so much. >> great seeing you. >> thank you, terry. >> happy holidays. happy holidays. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas. >> there we go. catch a very terry christmas and terry fader now through christmas eve, that's a couple days from now, a day from now as a matter of fact. show time 7:30 p.m... for tickets and more information, head to the website on your screen and maynard has left the building. >> yes... more to come on the blend in just a few minutes.

cnbc's david faber spoke exclusively with ceo marissa mayer and board member maynard webb, and asked about their strategy to change the company. >> we still feel that the forward spin we originally proposed is likely to be tax-efficient, but that said, we did overall see indications, certainly in the market, around uncertainty as to the tax treatment and the duration of time it might take in order to get to resolution. and so, given that, we feel it's prudent at this time to look at alternatives like the reverse spin, but this is really a board-level question, so i can also hand that to maynard. >> well, i'll ask it as well, if you don't mind. mr. webb, to the extent it is a board-level question what took you so long, then in coming to that conclusion? why spend nine months and had your investor base so focused on this potential spin only to say, wait a second, now we suddenly realize these things might trade at a discount? what changed? >> first of all, the investor perception and the overhang became much clearer as we went closer to actually effecting the spin. also, we have been d

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. >> reporter:ç reverendç joshua maynard leads the state's 50,000 christians.d times are here." reverend maynard says they're here because of one thing. >>ç homosexuality.ç sodomy. it is evil to this country. it is evil to our culture. it is evil to what believe and that is christianity. it is evil to what we inherited from our fathers. it is evil against anything that we hold so dear. preach against them. stand against them. if you want to go by them, the wrath of god will fall upon you. >> reporter: in the west, his sermon has become the outlier. in nigeria, it's redç meat. >> and i think that is one of the reasons why soadom and gomorrah, had to be wiped out because of homosexualism. >> pope francis said, "who am i to judge a gay man?" why do you think you should judge? >> reporter: the problem is a!at's exactly what'sç happene. last january, nigeria made same-sex marriage and advocating for gay rights crimes. since then, nobody's been sentenced, but police, state-sponsored vigilantes, even public mobs are accused of exploiting the law to abuse and expo

we've got you covered in austinville, maynard, cascade and all of eastern iowa for lynn's family, the big stress is paying four hundred dollars a month in medical and drug costs for aidan. for other families it's higher deductibles, that keep adding up. that's why we've got to crack down on price gouging, cap out-of-pocket costs, and fast track approval of less expensive generic drugs. because we've got to get health care costs under control for lynn's family and for yours. officers whhresponded tt the mass shooting in san bernardino, california reacting tonight to the tragic incident. 14 people were killed in the shooting -- and 21 more injured. many of the officers who ssoke say they thought they would never experience anything like corporal scott snyder/fontana police department "my body went numb. it was overwhelming and surreal. the fact the corporal mike had said drill. at that point we just wanted to stop a ay threat towarr human there were a total of 300 law enforcement officers who played a rolf in the mass shooting. dash cam video catches a police chase leading multiple cras

malden, 43 malden, 43. 39 in framingham and maynard. worcester at 38 degree. shrewsbury at 38 degrees. town send, 37. nashua, new hampshire, 39 degrees and keene new hampshire at 37. so the warm-up does not happen until likely after 8:00 this morning. so i expect temperatures to drop even a couple more degrees. 7 a.m. average 38 degrees. even into the burbs in boston, 30s on tap. cool start with sun and a couple of scattered clouds. sunny at noontime with 43 degrees. 44 at 3 p.m. still going with a couple of clouds especially southeastern massachusetts later this afternoon and 7 p.m., 34. in come the clouds and following the clouds, in come the showers. the breakdown on the timeline of the rain coming up next. now julie back with a check of the roads. >>> shiri, start with the map and green is always a good sign at this time. overall volume is light. route 1 is good and 93 south. tolls into brighton.

maynard, 35. and pepperell at 30 degrees. and 20s from amherst to windham and 20s from amherst to windham, new hampshire. a chill to the north and west of boston. 7 a.m. we have sun coming up at 7:10 this morning. about 33 degrees here. at noontime, 50 degrees. clouds are rolling in. they are really increasing quite quickly this morning, and by 3 p.m., we are going into the middle 50s for highs today. it is definitely going to be mild, but it is really not going to be all that bright, and by 7:00 this evening, back down to 49 degrees. up, i have the timeline of when the next round of rain comes in the next round of rain comes in. >>> now julie over to you for a check of the roads. >> julie: things looking good right now. start on the pike. you are flying eastbound and westbound from framingham into the weston area and the alston the weston area and the alston-brighton area. zakim bridge and leverett connector are wide open. 24 minutes on the pike from 495 to mass avenue. 8 minutes on the expressway from the braintree split to

. >> here's some christmas from maynard. music i'll have a blue christmas without you i'll be so blue just thinking about you decorations of red on a green christmas tree it won't be the same dear if you're not here with me and when those blue snowflakes start fallin' memories start callin' you'll be doin' all right with your christmas of white but i'll have a blue, blue, blue christmas >> ah, merry christmas, merry christmas. >> human nature recently came in to celebrate their show at the venetian. even though the run is over, enjoy some more tunes as we celebrate christmas eve here on the morning blend. ...of a white christmas just like the one i used to know and children listen in the snow and i'm dreamin' of a white christmas with every christmas card i write may your day, may your day,chstmases be white ndr a white christmas just like the ones where the treetops glisten now, i'm dreamin' of a white christmas with every christmas card and may all your christmases be white may your days, may your days, may your days be me

i of maynard. and one of the points that professor dyson made that it is important the opposed racial moment in america is on the arrival of american slaves. looked at the history of african people it took no time at all for africans into enslaved people to adopt this style, of the customs with the right of man for white america a media leave after slavery they attempted to become pros racial go back and look at the photos. frederick douglass even adopted the hairstyle of white america and attempted to run for office. to buy into the whole idea to put florida very american in a static. it was fully bought into by african-americans to go to school of the white americans to get the same education who never thought of the separatist ideal that was the country itself the response to a reconstruction the former slaves that all they did not exact revenge but to buy into the social norms down to the way we do our hair. the first black millionaire to help african-american women adopt the hairstyle. the res

sinking their way south ward into maynard. lynne and boston will be seeing showers within the next 20 minutes or so. there's drizzle out there right now. you're going to see steadier way through. there's a cold front off here to the west. through this evening. so we have another batch of showers this evening. it won't be nearly as widespread as what we saw this morning. following it, here comes the cold air winter back in at us. right now look at the readings. 30's and 40's out there. 50's as look to the south. falmouth has bumped up to 59 degrees already. that warm air is trying to move its way inland. that's why i say today we're going to flirt with record highs once again. but it is gray over the city. rain drops on our camera lens and 45 degrees. the dew point matches it. the winds are calm. ingredients for fog to form. how warm will it get this afternoon? oh, if you're in lowell it's only about 54 degrees. i say only because look at the temperatures as you head to the south. oxford 58 degrees and we're also seeing reading

race and diversity in his thrice weekly online column journalism that runs on the web site of the maynard institute, the sponsoring organization started in the wake of the mid-'60s riots and aimed at trying to correct the lack of stories relating to race and diversity. we met prince at the museum, a washington, d.c.-based institution that's home to example of media committed to fairness and balance in their coverage of race and diversity. richard prince, thank you for joining us. >> so glad to be here. >> reporter: your column carries a lot of articles about journalist who themselves are complaining about fairness in media. what's your take on the criticisms of media and their issues? >> i don't think there is any more criticism in the media than there is ever been. it's just that we get to hear it now and see it instantaneously. >> you're a little younger than i am, but i remember the presidential commission that reported in the mid '60s on the riots and it blamed the media for not having mus enoughr any people at all in the neighborhoods where people were simmering over lack of jobs, po

the unsna was created by john maynard keynes and richard stone, both of them -- one american, one british -- who called the paper "the national income and how to pay for the wars." that is the system on which the united nations systems of national accounts is based. the first thing you can do and everybody can do this is to pressure your government, in this case cannot united states, but every national government to factor women and women's work and all that unpaid labor -- gardening, housework, child raising -- we produce the labor force -- factor that into the census forms because the gdp shifts 40% to 60%. where are we up to? clear up to four. never underestimate the value of individual audacity in moving systemic change, because these are systemic problems we are facing. but individual acts of audacity are not only fun and outrageous, but they make differences. my beloved friend just until about a year ago, the high commissioner for human rights, that when she was the judge president of the rwanda tribunal, entered into the annals, the concept that rape in war is a crime against human

the unsna was created by john maynard keynes and richard stone, both of them -- one american, one british- who called the paper "the national income and how to pay for the wars." that is the system on which the united nations systems of national accounts is based. the first thing you can do and everybody can do this is to pressure your government, in this case cannot united states, but every national government to factor women and women's work and all that unpaid labor -- gardening, housework, child raising -- we produce the labor force -- factor that into the census forms because the gdp shifts 40% to 60%. where are we up to? clear up to four. never underestimate the value of individual audacity in moving systemic change, because these are systemic problems we are facing. but individual acts of audacity are not only fun and outrageous, but they make differences. my beloved friend just until about a year ago, the high commissioner for human rights, that when she was the judge president of the rwanda tribunal, entered into the annals, the concept that rape in war is a crime against humanit