and said, nick saban, your car is waiting for you. of course, everyone ran around like crazy looking for him. >>> and imagine this, american football in the olympics. talk about a sport where you could just hand the united states the gold medal. this is a possibility because the international olympic committee has recognized football as an international sport. it's still pretty far off from happening, if it is added it would likely be seven on seven format where it's quarterbacks and receivers. >>> mike thissen is current lly

so when he asked him, why is nick sending you money?they're not going to say the true reason why i'm -- they're not going to tell on themselves. so the obvious reason is to say, yeah, he owed it to us for whatever reason it was. so ralph not believing what i had to say but believing them wrote me up for it instead. >> the thing about with mr. compton, this ain't the first time he's tried to pull something, not only here but at other facilities. tried to get protective custody. it's one of them things where he got caught up this time. i've got other information from other sources stating he likes to get in debt and can't pay his debt. so that's a behavioral thing. so what you do is discipline the behavior. that's what we're doing. he's still going to protective custody. we have to do something to protect him. he's going home here shortly. it might be moved a little bit further back because of the conduct report. but that's not my decision. that's the hp's decision. at this point compton's case is closed. >> later with the video camera we

nick also works hard in school. his adoption recruiter says nick is terrific in most everything he tries. >> he is very athletic. he loves all sports. he does extremely well in school. >> the team was impressed with nick's tenacity, and there were high fives all around. and besides football, what does he have in mind for his future. >> a politician, when i grow up. i've always had my mind set on it. i've always wanted to do something that can help change the world pretty much. >> reporter: on the football field nick proved to have good moves. coach kelly challenged him to play hard but reminded him it's more important to work hard in school. >> that's an easy challenge for me. i have honor rolls in my classes. i've never missed an honor roll. i'm always at school every day. i've never missed a di of school in my life. >> reporter: what kinds of grays are you making? >> a's and b's? >> social workers say nick could really benefit from this family. >> nec spent a lot of his life not getting the proper attention that h

did i finish i'll let nick feel, how do you feel about the war, nick? was it worth -- did america, was it worth america going to your country to help your people create a free societiesome. >> i really happy the war end, because i vietnamese-born. every day saw many people die. i'd travel the children, the bomb kill hundreds of thousands of people in village. i, that's when i took a picture of napalm i said will the war be over. in 1975 -- [inaudible] and he helped me become refugee now. this man helped me get my visa travel from japan to hong kong. thank you. happy with the visa. >> and you asked me that we don't have the time. we would not be the time. i started collecting books on -- in vietnam there weren't many books in english available in the '60s. today there's 30,000 titles available on amazon in english about vietnam. and almost every one of those titles comes up with a theory or another about the war. now, i live in orange county these days near little saigon where there's many what we call viet-q, they came out at the fall of saigon and esta

nick carr existed and had this program that he was doing to try and stop this traffic. and so we are and have been, since i have been on the board, which has now been three years working with nick to get something done and we have got a plan. thank you, please consider it. >> thank you. next speaker, please. dennis hyde, followed by amy quirk, who is our last speaker. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon, mr. chair, madame vice-chair and members of the board, director reiskin. i hope you had a chance of the letter i wrote that was dated november 18, 2013. there is a lot of technical detail that i can't possibly address in the gong time here. but i want to say one thing, the proposed speed humps are on 8th and 9th avenue, at least the ones that affect me and that is not forest hill and that is not golden gate heights. if they have problems with speed in their neighborhood, then i don't know why they are putting the speed humps in my neighborhood. going beyond that, my basic concern here is that in this nice pdf that they gave you, they talked about considering alternativ

>> nick: yeah, sorry. uh, step on your foot or anything? >> avery: were you trying to? >> nick: well, i guess if i'd actually known it was you, maybe i would have stomped on your toes a little bit. >> avery: i'm fine. what about you? and i don't mean crashing into each other. i mean, how are you, really? >> nick: how am i really really? >> avery: well, the last time i saw you was at the club when nikki told everyone -- >> nick: yeah, uh, let'

nick ut. they were vietnamese. how they were accepted within the vietnamese communities. because of their determination and eagerness they were accepted but american troops also. but how did you feel with being with the military? >> be it tom opened they were welcomed to the media. they just think they want to you take a picture. but i took a lot of pictures and i never had trouble with the soldiers. they were happy. >> julie's comment today really resonated with me. you go with the units and if they like you and you enjoy being around them. it was said at the time that the press sam the military were fighting each other to say we will never have them back but then with one great distrust of the media the white house level was not happy to see the pictures that nick ut was taking or the analysis of what i was writing professor off fly where they and happy? not because they were inaccurate. in fact, achieve said you can do anything you like as long as it is the truth. if you take one mistake th

nick is 8, so the california law does not apply to him. but that brings another question.d these laws get traction, should these laws apply to adults. >> 18 is a fine number. i have to be honest, nick, i want you to be held accountable for those jokes for a certain amount of time. maybe in some amount of time that's when i would reconsider all right, do you still stand by this? is this still a valid representation of who you are. you're saying it's not now, but i think ramifications for jokes like that need to exist. also, i like a right to be forgotten that actually doctor forgetting which requires time. it requires a show that there has been some kind of change. something is different. we don't forget people who continually offend. >> would you advocate different standards for eraser for call thes than kids? >> i would. >> our community has been tweeting about this all day. we have charean, teaching them what to post online is much smatter, safer and better than a delete button. it receives that their private and personal events should not always be shared online. sadly

nick peyton following this.s is always so trouble when you go start seeing kidnappings. >> certainly, show the al qaeda-led group islamic states in iraq andsyria. we don't know who abducted them. yesterday, we heard an etional plea from relatives of javier espino espinoza. and ricardo villanova. they weroth abducted 11 weeks ago. the wife gave an emotional plea saying, look, we've reached an impasse with the captors. she basically appealed to them to release h husband. >> javier have traveled a ndred times and the brother with the syrians and they feel the misery of the crisis. we believe the city and people need our work and that we must live up to o responsibility. but you, as syrians, also have a responsibility to help all those who have defended you. javier and ricardo are not your enemy. press set them free. >> the key point they made there, two men who put themselves at great risk, devoted much of their life to bring to get outside rld the radical group -- >> all right. our thanks to nick paton walsh there

nick schifrin joins us with more. hello, nick? >> yeah, hey, stephanie. right now the u.s.sraeli relationship is severely strained. today in jerusalem, a chummy secretary of state gave an unambiguous message. >> the bond between the u.s. and israel is unbreakable, and we might have a difference of a tack nick call measure, but we do not have a difference about the fundamental strategies that we both seek. >> reporter: he is used the word israeli security ten times in seven minutes. he was trying to reassure israel after the disagreement over iran's nuclear deal. kerry emphasized that the u.s. and israel share a long-term goal, dismantle iran's nuclear capacity. >> we will consult continuously with our israeli friends to bring about an agreement that with withstand's everybody's test. >> reporter: and now kerry wants to switch the topic. proposing a new plan that pushes israeli border security. but analysts say because the u.s. ignored israel over iran, kerry has lost ground. >> i find it hard to believe that netenyahu is going to budge one centimeter. >> reporter: kerry wil

nick received personalized cell therapy in may. for a month john and lisa watched over their son. >> do you remember that moment where she said, hey, this appears to be working. >> they came back and said we don't see it in the cells. i thought, this is definitely working. we're headed down the right path. >> reporter: exactly how it works is complicated but nick is good at explaining it. >> they took out t cells out of my body and engineered them to track down the cancer cells and kill them off? >> did they get him? >> i hope so. i'm feeling good now. i think they did pretty well. >> watch as this gray cancer killing cell on the left attacks the green cancer cell which gets smaller and eventually dies. doctors tried this in 59 patients, 25 are now cancer-free. >> our hopes are eventually he will be cured. he can put aside this and start moving forward. >> i just want him to be able to enjoy a normal kid's life. >> his biggest thing right now is he's looking forward to getting his learner's permit. >> soon, instead of playing with

nick? >> today, that family was given a glimmer of hope because the judge ordered a trl saying there should be additional testing. i'm holding a copy of the p.r.o.signed by the judge, so fresh he wasn't had a chance to sign yet but reads in part it could result in harm to the patient and the orderer necessary until such time the petitioner can obtain medical records and an independent examination. this is what the family wanted. and a stop to disconnect the 13-year-old from the vent later the family described it as a routine tonsil mektry the hospital says it's anything but, calling it a complicated procedure with serious risks. that they sate family had been made aware of. there is a three day restraining order giving both a opportunity to select a neurosurgeon to perform a battery of tests on jahi to determine her viability. the attorney says the hospital are pleased the judge is taking steps towards closure in this case. >> we're optimistic tuesday, that the court will deliver a just out

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my name is nick carr and i'm the project manager for the dewey boulevard area traffic-calming project, a project looking at the local streets and forest hill and upper golden gate heights neighborhoods. i'm going to put up the map of proposed traffic-calming changes, developed through this project and quickly go through the community process that was involved. we're here today seeking approval of a conceptual plan for this neighborhood for traffic-calming. if approved many of the traffic-calming measures within this plan will still come back for an additional layer of legislation or detailed design work with stakeholders, who may have concerns. for instance, some of more significant measures will go to detailed design with direct input from the fire department and other stakeholders on the transportation advisory safety committee. i would like to talk a little bit about how this project was conceived. this was a community-requested project. we looked at a compilation of traffic-calming requests from residents in the neighborhood. in advance of the total and during the planning process

people like 10-year-old nick scotty, who often has a very difficult time going to any kind of a show.n you're on the spectrum, some kids flap their hands or scream. them impulses. when you go to places, i always feel like i'm on guard, i have to be like, my son has autism, i'm sorry if he does something to bother you or upset you. but i want him to be able to enjoy this as well. y. >> she says her family has walked out of performances, wasted hundreds of dollars, because of disapproving stares and comments from other audience members. >> nick wanted to see spider-man in the worst way, and that, i got to tell you is one play i was not going to go take him to. >> that's where the theater development fund stepped in. >> this is a way of insuring a warm, welcoming environment, judgment free so that families can come and relax and have a good time and not worry about how the person on the spectrum is going to behave or what other people might think. >> lisa carling is director of accessibility programs at the theater development fund. the nonprofit organization coordinates autism-friendly

nick what is it like there? >> reporter: richelle it is really relaxed.ou can see the tree right there, and that's the church nate tiffty where it is believed that yes s-- jesus was born. there is a real celebratory atmosphere here. they are all come here to celebrate this day, and the turnout has been higher than normal. that has boosted hope here for peace. there are a lot of people here praying for peace right now. the israelis and palestinians are currently negotiating, and right here in this town where jesus was believed to have been born, a lot of people are hoping that peace can come so more tour uses can come in. >> nick let's talk more about that that. are there any concerns over safety in the west bank? >> right now, absolutely not. there has been some incidence in gaza over the last 24 hours between israel, and what israel calls militants in gaza. but for the most part it has been pretty quiet. and for the first time in 600 years this church is getting a facelift. there have been a lot of storms here in the last couple of weeks, and water pours

nick diaz told you about the cancelled health care plan. nick is back to tell you next.ting in a new obama care navigator. that's tonight. all new hanitiy at 10 o'clock p.m. eastern. >>> we have time to hash it out. one of santa elveson the naughty list. naughty elf upstaged obama family in a christmas photo. and the little elf stealing the show by making faces and striking a pose with the first family. and the daily mail forced to release songs and itunes. they can lose the copyright after 50 years. recordings will be released on tuesday. but not every boatel song will be released just yet. some fans will have a hard day' that was a stupid joke. waiting four minutes for a burger is to long. one fast-food company tweeting. it came it this. you can get fast-food faster because drive throughs are using easy pass. they can speed away with a hot meal. so far it is just available at five wendy's restaurant. and now it is your turn to hash it out with us. and coming up. two months ago, he told you about his cancelled health care plan on the record. has nick diaz found a new he

>> chopped liver over here. >> nick, what do you want?he cold heart is the wounded child. >> as we see in "saving mr. banks" her father alcoholic, mother attempted suicide. julie andrews and richard sherman have now learned her true back story. >> today i do have sympathy. but then know. >> i didn't know anything about that. >> these are actual recordings of those painstaking sessions the verman brothers sat through with the icy traverse. i his listen to those tape recordings, like poking hot forks into my ears. >> reporter: the first pl traverse experience took place the day after she had given birth. >> the phone rang. i picked it up. growing she said, this is p.l. travis. i never met ear anything. i understand you're doing mary poppins. going to be mary poppins. she said talk to me. i said, i'm exhausted right now. i just gave birth to a baby yesterday. she said, well you are far too pretty. which you have got the nose for it. >> don't slouch. >> it all worked. mary poppins has become a time ofless classic. extremely stubborn and sus p

nick received the personalized cell therapy in may. for a month, john and lisa watched over their son. do you remember that moment where they said, hey, this appears to be working? >> they came back and said, we don't see any leukemia cells, so that was the point of, you know, i think this is working. i think we're definitely headed down the right path. >> reporter: exactly how the treatment works is complicated. but nick's pretty good at explaining it, actually. >> they took out t-cells out of my body and then they engineered them to kind track down the cancer cells and kill them off. >> reporter: did they get them? >> i hope so. i'm feeling good now, so i think they did pretty well. >> reporter: watch as this gray cancer-killing cell on the left attacks the green cancer cell which gets smaller and eventually dies. doctors tried this in 59 patients, 25 are now cancer free. >> our hopes are that, you know, eventually, you know, he will be cured that, you know, he can kind of put aside this and just kind of start moving forward. >> i ju

nick and i started doing training.n palm springs doing it and ashley, an aurora shooting, she had a 6-year-old daughter killed and she was shot in the stomach while pregnant lost her baby and she's paralyzed. we're working together and went to new town to work with families there that are interested in saying we want to show people you can heal and move forward. if nick can do what he's done, we have no problems, you can deal with any problem you have by contrast. >> nick, what was the trip to new town like for you and how did you communicate with the people there about what hope they could have going forward? >> it was a very powerful event. we introduced ourself, told our story and, you know, i feel like i got a lot out of that, and i feel like the other families, they got a lot out of it, too. you know, you can feel the connection in the room when you're talking to, you know, survivors, survivors' families. it's a connection i feel is necessary to move forward. >> you're a motivator in america. this must be hard to

nick and i started doing training.re in palm springs doing it and ashley, an aurora shooting, she had a 6-year-old daughter killed and she was shot in the stomach while pregnant lost her baby and she's paralyzed. we're working together and went to new town to work with families there that are interested in saying we want to show people you can heal and move forward. if nick can do what he's done, we have no problems, you can deal with any problem you have by contrast. >> nick, what was the trip to new town like for you and how did you communicate with the people there about what hope they could have going forward? >> it was a very powerful event. we introduced ourself, told our story and, you know, i feel like i got a lot out of that, and i feel like the other families, they got a lot out of it, too. you know, you can feel the connection in the room when you're talking to, you know, survivors, survivors' families. it's a connection i feel is necessary to move forward. >> you're a motivator in america. this must be hard

that is where our nick schiff rischiffrinis.k, it will take a day to really absorb what the loss of nelson mandela is. even though he has been sick, even though he is 95 years old, it is still a loss really like no other. how are people there reacting? >> i think you heard lifelong friendomeone who spent about 25 years with mandela on robben island, say it so well. there is a void in whorve liveso lives here. how touched they were by what he did in his life. but the people here feel as if he's a home town hero. they feel they own him to a certain extent because he always said that he was proud to be from here. he always called mims him himsa country boy. lessons learned he took to robin island and this person emerged from this area a very rural, very poor area into the prominence that he had. people here saying we will never have anyone like this again and this area will never be the same without nelson mandela alive. >> so what next and i know that it will probably take a while to know what the next steps are. because what's ne

nick? >> today, that family was given a glimmer of hope because the judge ordered a trl saying there should be additional testing. i'm holding a copy of the p.r.o.signed by the judge, so fresh he wasn't had a chance to sign yet but reads in part it could result in harm to the patient and the orderer necessary until such time the petitioner can obtain medical records and an independent examination. this is what the family wanted. and a stop to disconnect the 13-year-old from the vent later the family described it as a routine tonsil mektry the hospital says it's anything but, calling it a complicated procedure with serious risks. that they sate family had been made aware of. there is a three day restraining order giving both a opportunity to select a neurosurgeon to perform a battery of tests on jahi to determine her viability. the attorney says the hospital are pleased the judge is taking steps towards closure in this case. >> we're optimistic tuesday, that the court will deliver a just out

nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you, nick. dismie -- >>> to the north bay where napa county was hit with snow as the storm came through. and tonight cal trans plows are on stand by. john alston is live in calistoga. plenty of weather up there too. >> ama, drenching rains have been pummeling parts of wine country. we are in a bit of a lull in calistoga. earlier we took a steep drive to the top of mount saint huh lena where we saw a few snowflakes and a lot of showers. by 8:30 the rain washed away most of the snow that fell, elevation 4300 feet. for part of the afternoon the flakes were definitely falling, enough that cal trans called out the plows and put up signs warning drivers of slippery roads at the summit. you just four miles down the evening was peppered with downpours. it was an awful trip to get just about anywhere. the west blast is unusual. >> i can get there without turning on my heat. i went home and turned my heat on. we are miserable. >> some visitors celebrating their 15th anniversary got a taste of the city the

nick received the personalized cell therapy in may. and lisa watched over their son. >> do you remember that moment when they said this appears to be working. >> they came back and said we don't see any leukemia cells and so that was the point of -- i think this is working. i think we're definitely headed down the right path. >> exactly how the treatment works is complicated, but nick is pretty good at explaining it, actually. >> they took out t-cells out of my body and then they engineered them to track down the cancer cells and kill them off. >> did they get them? >> i hope so. upon i'm feeling good now, so i think they did pretty well. >> watch as this gray cancer-killing zealot left attacks the green cancer cell which gets smaller and eventually dies. upon. >> doctors tried this in 59 patients. 25 are now cancer-free. >> our hopes are that eventually we'll, you know, he will be cured that he can kind of put aside this and start moving forward. >> i just want him to be able to enjoy a normal kid's life. >> his biggest thing right no

. >> nick: hey, summer. how was thanksgiving?rd you and jack went to see your mom. >> summer: yeah, um... i just was hoping that she would... never mind. it didn't -- didn't work. >> nick: hey, you may have reached her. you may have given her that strength she needs to fight back. you never know. >> summer: yeah. maybe. doesn't really seem that way. >> nick: well, i'm sorry thanksgiving was so hard for you. >> summer: yeah, i flew back after and spent the rest of the holiday with the abbotts. >> nick: well, i'm glad. you know, you should be with people you care about over thanksgiving. >> summer: what about you? how was, uh -- how was the holiday with grandma and gr

nick. butterflies, they're just insects in cool clothes.f flies were at party, you would step on them. in this case they get carried around in a little bag. >> i look at them as moths with tattoos. you got to be careful. you celebrate. i was at a brisk once and one flew away with the foreskin. they got a lot of hot issues going on in san francisco. what are they stuck in a time warp? come on. it's a butterfly. i like the domestic over the wire butterflies. it's not a game. >> it's a good soup. put it on the soup. >> my theory is butterflies get away with a lot of crap beuse they're like you. they're like the hot models. >> i started out as a fuzzy caterpillar that no one wanted to bring to a wedding. >> that's true, actually. >> now, look at you. >> i know. like the band because if i were my wedding, i would be the bride who the insects come to me and in the pictures i'm awkward and trying to avoid the insects because they're insects. >> they are insects. these are not good creatures. they're flies in giant cat costumes. the kind of things

nick schifrin is in jerusalem with more. nick, tell us what we know about what happened. >> you are right. police are calling it a terrorist attack. three hours ago a, a passenger saw a black back. he quickly told the driver, the driver asked, hey, is this anybody's bag? if everybody said -- after everybody said no, he pulled over and said to the passengers, you have to get off. he got off, too. he called the police and just as the bomb squad was arriving on the scene, just as they were beginning to diffuse that bomb, that's when it exploded. the only person who was wounded was that bomb squad expert. he wasn't seriously wounded. this was really a case of what could have been a much worse incident being really prevented by the two people, by the person who found that bag and by the driver getting everyone off. >> thank goodness for the people that noticed this. nick, could you put this in some perspective for us against the back drogba of what the last year has been in jerusalem? in israel, every israeli would say we have be

nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you, nick.mie>>> to the >>> to the north bay where napa county was hit with snow as the storm came through. and tonight cal trans plows are on stand by. john alston is live in calistoga. plenty of weather up there too. >> ama, haveng rains have been pummeling parts of wine country. we are in a bit of a lull in calistoga. earlier we took a steep drive to the top of mount saint huh lena where we saw a few snowflakes and a lot of showers. by 8:30 the rain washed away most of the snow that fell, elevation 4300 feet. for part of the afternoon the flakes were definitely falling, enough that cal trans called out the plows and put up signs warning drivers of slippery roads at the summit. you just four miles down the evening was peppered with downpours. it was an awful trip to get just about anywhere. the west blast is unusual. >> i can get there without turning on my heat. i went home and turned my heat on. we are miserable. >> some visitors celebrating their 15th anniversary got a taste of the city the

nick is in san lorenzo. what have we learned, nick? >> family members are still waiting to figure exactly what happened. this is something no one wanted to wake up to. i spoke with the sister of the victim. she says that she is waiting to speak to her nieces who initially called her. look at the video, the alameda county sheriffs were called to the scene after a report of shots fired and the details on the number of shots of events leasting to the shooting have not been confirmed but it was a murder-suicide. >> my niece called me and she said that my sister was dead and she said she is dead and didn't tell me anymore details until i got here. my other niece told me that they were in the house and my brother-in-law shot my sister. >> she says her sister and her brother-in-law, john, had four children and had been together for 16 years but they had been having problems recently. she said later that her sister never indicated that anything was wrong until recently. back here i can tell you that crime scene investigators are still blocking

all the ones that were going to be due within a week. >> we checked with our affiliates and found nick's not alone. in wisconsin a mystery person walked into walmart paid for 13 families who had gifts on lay away. in florida this man went straight to the lay away counter and covered the debts of 76 people. >> the dollar amounts doesn't matter. it's the act of trying to make a difference when you hear somebody in need. >> some things you should know about nick. he lives comfortably, but he's far from ostentatious. just a few gifts under his tree for his family and he wants his actions to spread. >> i would say if the story touches you, that you should take up my torch and its light will lead you off the path of cynicism and indifference and its fire would warm your heart and it's warmed mine. >> in sterling, virginia, i'm david culver, news 4. >> that is such a wonderful story, isn't it? >> doing good things just because you should do good things. >> it makes people feel good. >>> it's chilly out there this morning, tom. it's hard to get up. >> the spirit of the season is upon us and it c

nick goepp nick goepper >> 25,000 soldiers are on the move in south sudan. the former vice president sent them to retake the critical city of bor. hope is timing. the country's president -- dimming. the country's president and african leaders hoped for a cease fire. they find themselves on the middle of a civil war and crisis. mohammed adow is at a camp. >> these are the people, two weeks after seeking protection at the main u.n. peacekeepers base in juba, they are not confident to return to their homes. the exciting exposed ethnic divisions in south sudan as neighbour against neighbour. this man watched as his brother was shot. >> my brother was killed, not by soldiers, but civilians. he died because he belonged to an ethnic group. >> with thousands living here, the area is overcrowded. the shortage of basic services, such as clean water. help is beginning to arrive. here officials of the world food program distribute food and household items to the displaced. >> it's been a challenging task for the world food program and its partners, in terms of distribut

nick smith, abc7 news. >> thank you, nick. dismie -- >>> to the north bay where napa county was hit with snow as the storm came through. and tonight cal trans plows are on stand by. john alston is live in calistoga. plenty of weather up there too. >> ama, drenching rains have been pummeling parts of wine country. we are in a bit of a lull in calistoga. earlier we took a steep drive to the top of mount saint huh lena where we saw a few snowflakes and a lot of showers. by 8:30 the rain washed away most of the snow that fell, elevation 4300 feet. for part of the afternoon the flakes were definitely falling, enough that cal trans called out the plows and put up signs warning drivers of slippery roads at the summit. you just four miles down the evening was peppered with downpours. it was an awful trip to get just about anywhere. the west blast is unusual. >> i can get there without turning on my heat. i went home and turned my heat on. we are miserable. >> some visitors celebrating their 15th anniversary got a taste of the city the

natasha has been in the chamber and nick. i'm very appreciative of the commitment they have both shown and i hope you in the spirit of recognition of her respect for you will show your respect for natasha as i ask her to address us. cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, mr. speaker. that is quithe an introduction and some of you were here over the last couple of years and you know that this is my one occasion at the box every year. [laughter] >> which i enjoy very much deed, the quality of the speeches, all of us, we have been talking. the quality of the speeches have been absolutely phenomenal across the board. i mean some of you quite honestly. you stand at the dispatch box, you are a lot better than many ministers that we know. [laughter] but also in honor of the u.k. parliament, i should in advance of coming here tonight go on twitter. i have reluctantly joined the 21st century and i have been a one-woman twitter storm and the response to what you said and called retweeted? [laughter] > i learned what a hashtag is.

nick. nick was greek. the last time i checked greeks weren't black. it is much ado about nothing. i never met a racist at fox or cnn in my life and god knows that megan kelly doesn't have a racist bone in her body. people need to lighten up. maybe they need to have a beer or something -- >> i don't disagree with you. smo no one is calling her racist and none of my guests are calling her racist. the controversy was about saying that santa claus is white. jesus is white. no one is calling megan kelly a racist. >> for 87 years, macy's has had a thanksgiving day parade. they end it every year with a white guy. i used to work in spanish ha harlem. we had black santa claus. people just need to lighten up. >> i think he has a point. and what i said before is the traditional depiction of santa claus, the popular depiction of santa claus is a white guy. >> and he is fictional. and for all the children who might be watching, it is past your bedtime. you deserve to know that traditionally he is an obese alcoholic elf with questionable labor practices and animal cruelty. >> oh, my gosh. amy.

al jazeera's nick shiftrin is in bethlehem.ou are looking pretty festive in that red scarf tell us about these renovations. >> merry christmas to you richelle, and merry christmas to everyone. yes, i tried to be festive. not only are the renovations underway, but the festivities here are underway. earlier today huge numbers of people, probably a few thousand lined this square waiting for the local archbishop, and he entered one of the most famous churches in the world, and for the first time he saw it being upgraded. so this is the renovation, i see. >> yes, this is the renovation as you see. >> reporter: you see a construction site. >> it's just really need to be renovated, especially the roof. >> this is water. >> reporter: all water damage. >> yes. yes. >> reporter: this man is overseeing the church's first facelift since the middle ages. part of this church is 1500 years old. >> we were all worried about the situation of the church when it starts raining, water comes down throughout the walls and the mosaics, and the -- all