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feedback time from twitter, myspace and facebook. it fascinating and frustrating that action needs to be taken against iran even though many of its people don't agree. shmangy says don, thank you for your great coverage of iran. is there a clip? we will replay it 10:00 eastern. where is ed henry? he is in hawaii. i'm mad at him. the jerk. just kidding. we love ed henry. we will see you at 10:00 eastern. g

. >>> living in a time of people reconnecting on face book and myspace and that sort of thing, but actuallyoming together physically for something that was really a special memory. >> they're adults now, but 20 years ago they were third graders who made a pledge with their teacher. how they took a break from their new year's plans for a special reunion. >>> welcome to hln on this saturday, january 2nd, 2010, the first weekend of the new year. hope you're having a great one. >>> washington police are investigating an incident between two nba players who reportedly drew guns on one another in a locker room standoff. joe carter is here with this bizarre story. hi, joe. >> good morning, susan. >>> the new york post is reporting that two washington wizards players, gilbert arenas and javaris crittenton, both drew guns on each other in an argument in the team locker room on christmas eve. the argument started when arenas refused to pay up on a gambling debt owed to crittenton. it's unclear whether any other wizard player saw the confrontation. an nba spokesperson told cnn washington police are in

twitter, myspace. what we see in this room here -- about 80% to 85% of you are using social media networks. social media networking is internet-based. without the internet you cannot have a facebook, you cannot tweet. you have read the vehicle to begin with. in talking about media -- you have to have the vehicle to begin with. in talking about media, i want to talk about the internet, because the internet is the one tool that can make us all potential bidders in the media by using the type of -- potential leaders and the need it by using the type of media wisely. the internet is unique. it is unique because it allows for a dialogue. we were just talking about cnn. if you ever watch rick sanchez, he is sort of a pioneer with his tweeting. now it has gotten old, everybody does it. but he would read the news and people were riding in to him and -- writing in to him and addressing hundred traditionally we just consume the media, we sit on our couches and possibly digest the information. but because of the

hundreds of millions of dollars. >> what's myspace?> exactly, just a couple of years ago, losing people dramatically. i think the key is they need to adapt to the new technology and adapt to things that are changing. and i think that the companies think that the way to do that is by giving people the platform to create their own content and their own unique ways of using something. so with the iphone, the iphone would become obsolete or at least become identical to every other phone if they did not have applications. nowadays, that he wants the number one reason why people are picking iphones regardless of carriers and such, because it just has a bigger application data base. and so these companies need to make sure that they allow people to interact with their content and their products in unique ways. at the same time, they also all face the problem of monetizing. and so i think that facebook will be really interesting example of this, where they have a huge user base, they're dramatically growing, they have a lot of potential, but a

you can join us on twitter, on facebook, myspace, and ireport.com. just log right on. >>> we've been telling you about all the people who are stuck on the tarmac and stuck in terminal c in newark international airport at the top of the hour. we spoke to cnn senior business correspondent ali velshi on the plane. ali has been tweeting and has also been e-mailing me saying that they are being told that they're going to send buses to drive them to terminal a. unclear as to what happens with their luggage and how soon they're going to send those buses. there are hundreds of people tonight stuck at newark international airport, and the planes are backing up. either way, a security breach at that airport is translating to a miserable marathon of waiting for passengers. and you heard again from ali and alina at the top of the show. they got caught up in that chaos. now we want to go live to the terminal and alison hawns from cnn affiliate wpix in new york. alison, thanks for joining us. what with you tell us? >> reporter: don, major headaches for these passe

so i try to have my hands in everything that's moving, you know, from youtube to myspace to twitter toknow, whatever is popping. i'm trying to get involved with it and make sure that my name and my brand is on it. and i make it personal so it's not somebody doing it for me. it's me doing it in actuality. >> have you been in businesses that have failed? tell me about failure. is this important for the overall growth process in business? >> oh, yes. i've been a part of a lot of businesses that have failed. and i believe that failure creates the best business in the world because it trains you and it gets you prepared for failure and teaches you how to better prepare yourself for the next. the businesses that i failed at, they don't make me feel bad. they just make me want to go back to the drawing board, try again and come up with something that's different and more creative. >> where did snoop dogg come from? where does the name originate? >> well, when i was a kid in the '70s, my mom used to put the tv on a particular show called "charlie brown." and it was a character on there named s

community colleges get retrained and certified we need to be expanding social networking losing facebook, myspace, black planet, start advertising. >> reach out, reach out. >> exactly. >> donna people still have their job but forced to scale back, working less hours, making less. tell me there's going to be more. >> the good news in 2009 people were getting furloughs, pay cuts pay freezes. picture's better for 2010. people will be getting pay raises, still pretty skimpy but for the best performing workers the average pay increase will be 4.8%. >> that's a lot. >> it is compared to 2.7% for the average worker. you need to make sure you're standing out on the job. it's not enough to do your job and stick your nose to the grindstone. you have to actively participate in meetings do high-profile assignments, staffs are slim these days. so what you want to do is make sure you're volunteering for more responsibility, the opportunities are usually there. >> jeff, ryan says they have to be optimistic. how do you do that in this market? all of the news seems to be negative. how do you keep your spirits up?

. >> people reconnecting on facebook, myspace. but actually coming together physically for something that was really a special memory. >> mr. lewis says seeing their faces, hearing their stories, and knowing that he made a difference is what teaching is all about. >> you looking to take your adventures to a new level? how about a half a mile into the sky? it's the world's tallest building. it opens today with 160 floors. the building stretches 2,684 feet into the sky. it takes about two minutes, traveling at the 25 miles per hour and some of the fastest elevators in the world. the tower's exterior glass is enough to cover 17 soccer fields. enough concrete was used to stretch halfway across the u.s. that is a big building. i wonder how long it would take by stairs. >> i don't want to find out. 6:40. 23 degrees. coming up, a look at the morning headlines. >> dealing with icy conditions on the roads and wind warnings. we'll update you coming up. >> and the wind chill factor still in the low teens. we're not go fog see too much improv

myspace was founded in 2003. facebook started in 2004. and twitter began tweeting in 2006. telephones began to look and act like computers. they weren't just for making calls anymore. >> it's really become a window for us into the world and anything that's not directly in front of you, there's a good thing you can get tat through a smart phone. >> reporter: not only were new phones versatile, we could take them anywhere. only 28% of all americans had cell phones in 2000. by 2009, that percentage had climbed to 85%. and public phones? disappearing. >> ever use it? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: why not? >> i have a cell phone. >> reporter: cell phones became so popular, some even gave up our land lines. >> one-third of americans now, according to the most recent survey, either have only cell phone, or have a home phone they scratch their heads about, why am i still using it? >> reporter: even in homes that still had land line, the phone books that used to sit next to them were getting hard to find. after all, when we need add phone number, many of us were much more likely to g

i know they did facebook and did some myspace as well.'m not sure exactly how they organized it. >> all came together. one of the quotes from one of the students was the fact that everybody looked pretty much the same, just like a bigger version with beards and gel in their hair. >> i like that. wonderful reunion. >> how about this other story? i think this is cool. i don't know -- >> it is very cool. if you remember, you know, science and technology news a couple of weeks ago, four, five weeks ago, we brought you a story on cnn about how water was found on the moon. now they found another discovery here. yeah. where maybe a colony could possibly survive. >> can you imagine actually living on the moon? that's what some people are talking about. they are talking about this hole and researchers discovered this protected lewinor, calling it this lava tube. >> yeah. >> not quite sure how we would live on the moon. >> well, they are saying it would protect this emwithin the tube from some of the extreme conditions on the moon. the temperatures

twitter, myspace, facebook, ireport.com. you can always get us there. we appreciate your comments. >>> we're going to talk about air travel as we know it. it's about to change. we're following new developments from the white house tonight as the tsa outlines stricter security measures for international flights in the wake of the failed christmas day airline bombing. starting at midnight all travelers flying into the u.s. from abroad will be subject to stricter random screenings. if you're flying from a terrorism-prone country every single passenger can expect a tough security check. a statement released just a few hours ago reads, quote, tsa is mandating that every individual flying into the u.s. from anywhere in the world traveling from or through nations that are state sponsors of terrorism or other countries of interest will be required to go through enhanced screenings. those countries identified by the state department of sponsors of terrorism are cuba, sudan, syria and iran. the other countries of interest the tsa alludes to include pakistan, yeme

myspace we have nearly 10,000 friends.probably have close to 135, 140 nra gun-related videos posted up there. and twitter, which is one of the newer phenomenons we're getting involved in, we probably have 2,000 followers but we're really taking advantage of trying to get involved in these social networking sites because we understand the impact they are now having on the way people communicate with one another. we also to bypass what is to be kind the so-called mainstream media not getting both sides of the story when it comes to an nra issue or a gun issue, we have an nra news radio program that's broadcast online and also on satellite radio where we have news stories and guests and interviews to talk directly to the american people who want to access this on gun-related issues to bypass the filter on a sometimes a very hostile media. any issue under the sun dealing with gun control whether it's a state issue or a federal issue we have fact sheets and other educational items. it's white papers that explains why the nra ta

changed back, just in the past five years, social media, social networking, youtube, twitter, facebook, myspace the notion of creating communities around ideas and content has come back. but the other thing we did when we do everything online as we ascend that we would subscribe to it just like you did anything else. but as soon as we did it, at wired magazine, time magazines, other places, we created the banner ads and suddenly people from madison avenue are making a four block walk to us on sixth avenue was satchels of tax money to dump on our desk and say we want to be part of this new thing. so we decided to make it advertising only supported and not charge people, not have subscriptions we thought just by getting a lot of traffic would be about to succeed with an advertising only model. one of henry luce is other great odd was that if you're creating a publication fully for advertisers coming or not only doing something that's morally a point, it's also economically self-defeating. you have to behold more to your users, to your readers into your advertisers. and we got away from that what

with myspace, you did not know who the people were. between. it was all subjective. with facebook, they but there'll information. if they had to verify they were a college student. then people "friend" them. it the person had a random photograph or nickname, and they were not going to "friend" them because they did not know them. the founder facebook says he thinks people are valuing privacy in lot less than they did before. that is why facebook is sharing more of your information. there are things that you cannot hide now. i'm not going to predict facebook will not be here in 10- years, but they need to be careful with the pact they follow. -- path they follow. something new comes along to take their space. -book had facebook take their space. they capitalized on their weakness. i think it'll be interesting to see what comes up. i think that will have the biggest impact. >> thank you to the political management o. thank you to each when the panelists for coming. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national caption

. >> so you'll put this on twitter, facebook, myspace, the works? >> right. everywhere.log, e-mail, everywhere we possibly can. >> what does your gut tell you about what happened to susan? >> i know that she was -- whatever happened was against her will. she would never have leftler family. it's very scary. it's very hch-something that we're constantly worried about and afraid about and we're just trying to hold out hope that she's still alive. >> the story that her husband tells about taking the two boys out so late at night and leaving her home, does that sound strange to you? have you spoken to josh since he was named a person of interest? >> i have spoken to him several times and, yes, his story is very, very strange. i think that everybody agrees that it's a very strange story and nobody can understand it. >> do you think police are doing enough as far as focussing on him? >> i think the police are doing a really good job and they're not telling us anything, which is really hard to sit here every day and wait and hope for news and not hear anything, but i have faith

with myspace, you did not know who the people were.ot know if they were 99-years old or if they were whatever age they put in between. it was all subjective. with facebook, they but there'll information. if they had to verify they were a college student. then people "friend" them. it the person had a random photograph or nickname, and they were not going to "friend" them because they did not know them. the founder facebook says he thinks people are valuing privacy in lot less than they did before. that is why facebook is sharing more of your information. there are things that you cannot hide now. i'm not going to predict facebook will not be here in 10- years, but they need to be careful with the pact they follow. -- path they follow. something new comes along to take their space. -book had facebook take their space. they capitalized on their weakness. i think it'll be interesting to see what comes up. i think that will have the biggest impact. >> thank you to the political management o. thank you to each when the panelists for coming.

twitter, myspace, so many search engines that some young kids, older kids, elderly people -- i know i my bills and everything on line. how do i know that is going to be safe? guest: i think we mentioned at china's largest search engine is baidu -- yes, i think the caller is asking really is did the best denies attempt target any other companies and our other on-line sites like twitter, facebook safe to use, and is who will say to use. i think the answer to that is we know in this hacking attempt, yes, there were at least 20, possibly 30 other companies that were targeted. the reason why we know this is when google found out they were being hacked, they hacked back and they want got to a server in taiwan that had the information from google, lockheed martin, american think tank and law firm and other companies. this incident, yes, it is widespread. more broadly, there is a consistent and evolving problem on the net on infiltration. it is not that easy to secure these systems. host: reading a report that exposed shawm -- some problems with internet explorer in this attack. guest: what t

twitter, myspace, there's so many search engines that so many kids, young kids, older kids, elderly people that we all go want to. i pay my bills everything overline. like, how do i know that's going to be safe? >> host: i think he mentioned that china's largest engine is another company, baidu. >> guest: jess. i think what the caller is asking us relate to the chinese hacking. to the espionage targets and the other companies and our other online sites like twitter is safe to use, facebook safety is, and his google safe to use? and i think the answer to that is that we know in this hacking attempts, yes there were at least 20 on the possibly up to 30 other companies that were targeted. the reason we know this is that when google found out they were being hacked, they hacked back. and they got onto server in taiwan that had information on it that i've been axel traded, not only from google but from dow chemical, joachim martin, from the american think tank, from the american law firm and from other companies. so this incident, yeses fairly widespread. more broadly, there is a consistency an

not because i promise you are going to vote and you are going to get on facebook or something else, myspace wartell 100 other people immediately and even if 10% of them do what you just did telling millions of people it really starts to grow and i think they did that really will making young people feel like this was a candidate for them, somebody in his forties, young families, great story biography, a true american story in terms of who would have thought we would have an african-american president in our lifetimes, let alone now, and so there is a connective tissue there and it does have to with ideology young women particularly young unmarried women tend to look at the government more as a help than a hindrance in many ways. it's looked upon as filling in the blanks whereas if you live in a single income household or with other female friends until you start making more money -- it's proven to unmarried women or young or women tend to be more space. younger women tend to be more republican, so i think it accounts for a lot of that. let me also say it's nothing new. younger women and unm

that knows the internet, that can, you know, very quickly react with blogs, you know, facebook and myspace the other kinds of things that common cause is trying to work her way into, but it's not exactly what we are known for. so we needed a partner that was known for that. the other thing is that he can play the back of. he has no problem of going out and attacking members that that's not common causes motorcar boat is to attack the system, to attack the way it's done. but every once in a while, you have a member of congress that is so brilliantly exemplifies what you think is wrong, that it needs to be said in that way. and that is something that change congress can do and actually likes to do. so that's our core coalition. and i think there is a handout that's going around. the core coalition, that's the letterhead. that's who we are. when you have a coalition, you also need other little kind of coalitions around it that also do work, that aren't in the decision-making body of the coalition. and in our work, we went for the odd bit of. we went for the core of people that people are goin

you're really not because, i promise, you are going to vote and get on facebook or something else, myspace and tell 100 other people immediately what you just said. even if 10% of them do what you just did, times a million people, it really starts to grow. . . >> let me also say it's nothing new. younger women and unmarried women voted in droves for clinton both times, voted for al gore. so it has lots to do with ideology. i voted for john kerry. so it does have to do with ideology. that is their right. in our freedom loving democracy. so it has to do with ideology as the. but you're onto something important that it's my entire point about not just looking to women through a linear box, if you're an aspiring doctor werner and you are of a certain age, then why are we just talking to you about taxes and regulation? why are we insulting you about same-sex marriage or abortion? or that you don't make money as he can't do the math. you don't understand who mr. feith is yet. yes, people do. i think technology is a big part of the. or whatever else you want to say about president bush or senator