you sleep on the offi couch and do not know anybody else. >> we do have a scholar just on the panel - psychologist on the panel. how would you characterize that? >> increasing medication perhaps. it is a classic trope to measure congress by how much it passes and the size of the bills. by that measure, the obama legislation is the most successful in history because it can sink a ship if you put all the pages on it. if you are the opposition and believe the administration is running the country in the wrong way, for example, imposing obamare when youou see it is going to be a train wreck -- that is a success of the congress. that i is not a failure. >> there are people who voted for regulation of the financial industry who then went a about trying to not enforce the law they just voted for. i think the root of much of this is money. we do not seem to have a way to limit the amounts of money, who gives the money, how it is routed through congress, through various power centers, through outside groups who are increasingly not disclosed. that weecome such a web have billions of dollars th

art came back to the main post offi office. >> there are living entities that either can be considered santa claus or are santa claus. >> reporter: thousands of christmas dpifts are on their way to children in need. what new yorkers call the christmas miracle will surely happen again this year. nhk world, new york. >> the smiles on their faces. a storm is looming over western europe causing havoc. our meteorologist robert speta has been following this situation. robert. >> yeah, gene will people traveling across western europe today, it is going to be a slow go or no-go for many of you who plan flying. we have a monster of a storm northwest of british isles. can you see cloud cover from the southwestern peninsula through spain. that's a big storm producing gusty winds out there. i want to show you wind reports over the past 12 hours, steppeding from greenland to ice land, east into austria, 90 kilometer winds, a far reaching storm. it truly is. it's going to impact many people out there. if you do have travel plans be careful if you are getting out and about. if you don't have travel p

. >>> up next on abc 7 news at 9:00, "the hobbit" tops the box offi >>> coming up at 11:00, the latest as an oakland family tries to cope after a little girl goes to the hospital for a routine surgery -- and is now brain dead. their next move in the search for answers. >>> also at 11:00, you see santa everywhere this time of year. find out why some families go out of their way to see one santa in particular. tonight on abc 7 news at 11:00. >>> no surprise at the box office this weekend. "the hobbit: desolation of smaug" came in in first place but it made less than the first "hobbit" movie last year. warner brothers believes people snowed in back east were unable to go to the theater. "frozen" came in second at $22 million. tyler perry's "madea christmas" came in third. "hunger games" and "thor" round out the top five. the box office for this year remains slightly ahead of last year's record totals of $10.8 billion. >>> that will do it for abc 7 news at 9:00. thank you so much for joining us. our next news cast is at 11:00 over on abc 7. you can always get our latest updates on abc7.com

these are just selfie ways to imply that i'm too cool for offies, but nobody gets out here alive.t be part of twitter or facebook or instagram without making some kind of decision of what you would like the world to think you want to be known as. is that even grammatical? if these companies cannot keep me and everyone else selfie-ing all the time every day, they have no reason to exist. when i'm done with this video, i'm definitely going to put it on facebook and see what my friends, and. i don't think the rise of the selfie has anything to do with decline in humility. it is just a business strategy, and it is working. >> from selfies to the "bwest by te," where we focus on one number that tells us a whole lot. rick thomas take it away -- rick, taken away. yte today is 100, which represents the number of years aston martin has been in existence. >> you are a serial entrepreneur who knows everything that happens in social media. how did you become an investor in this? and you are not alone in the tech community. >> several people in silicon valley got involved. a guy down at yahoo!

oils acrylics, resins all offis is for sale and throughout much of the weekend it will sell.while they are in town, they are buying real esta estate. >> as soon as you walk into the apartment there are two pieces by -- >> the booming market, art is also helping to sell properties. this two bed room condo on ocean drive includes $1 million of fine art. we think art is important in today's real estate world. in miami we are one of the top three cities. developers are prioritizing permanent art into their designs. 1,000 museum place still in developme development. realtors say today's biers demand it. >> if you look at the industry as a whole it has evolved. they want the best art and the best finishes. >> famed designer is building an art center district here in miami with six buildings and a five star hotel. the whole thing is art in and of itself. this piece here is getting all of the crowd that is walking around to stand by. it is like a piece of sculpture here and it sells for $975,000 by artist and this is going for $185,000 and a lot of it and agencies are learning more a

police offi. with a look at the most important stories in your world in 90 seconds. >> there has been a crowd gathered here ever since the news broke that south africa's legendary beloved hero nelson mandela has passed away. >> i've been working for nelson mandela my whole life, 18. he made that incredible speech. the fight against poverty is not the task of charity. it's an act of justice and that poverty like apartheid is manmade. >> the mystery for biologists that why the whales wound up in water that off this shore is only 2 feet deep. a large group of 24 whales could not be located which could be good news if they went back to sea. >> stocks soared on news of increased hiring and lower unemployment. gains were across the board with the dow crossing 16,000 to close up 199 points. the nasdaq gained 29. >> three, two, one. [ cheering and applause ] >> a north texas tollway authority has about 80 trucks spreading sand on more than 800 miles of highway. power is knocked out for millions of people

. >> reporter: president obama has met with ji twice since he took offi office. in an effort to contain the iranian and north korean nuclear programs, the u.s. has gained some limited cooperation by beijing, but by most accounts china over the last five years has only grown boulder in its human rights abuses, international property theft, territorial aggression and warfare. >> so you think that china is in some cases, and correct me if i'm wrong with the word, is somehow looking for a fight here? >> i think they are taking actions that will inevitably lead to that. i don't think he wants a war because he would rather prevail without fighting but he's doing things that are inevitably pushing the region to that. >> reporter: china scholars are divided over whether he has consolidated control over the party. those who believe that he hasn't yet managed to do so attribute china's bell cause tee to win over the hard liners in his own ranks. >>> back here at home, listening in to the beginning of what would become one of the worst school shootings in the nation's histo

. >> translator: i'm asking all offy french to go home, and independence you have done nothing for us now you manipulate us, sometimes with us, sometimes against us, which side are you on? >> reporter: this has all caused more fear for the impoverished people and they are doing nothing to calm down the anti-french sediment, andrew simmons at bongi. >>> ways of ending this conflict are be getting mixed messages from those in power? >> most certainly, david. it was only a few days ago that the interim president set out calls for reconciliation, into the community there will be justice for the killers of both sides and a few days later we have a special advisor from the interim government shrugging that within a week there could be partitioning of the country and muslims to the north, northeast and christians to the south, unless the international community brings peace to this country. now, whether that was some sort of shock tactic to try to get more sympathy for this administration is unclear. but there is certainly a situation right now whereby the people of the central african repub

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the government's going to remain open for next two years but there's still a lot offi issuesn the tablee feuding, ashleigh, will continue. >> we'll see if they crunch the way the democrats hope they crunch. i also want to go to some other numbers that are crunching not the way obama would want to prefer. the washington post has a new poll out. who do you trust to do a better job on the economy? and here is a look at some of the answers. 41% say obama. 45% say the republicans instead. and you can see how those numbers have shifted from one year ago. this is not lost on the white house, although many would say they're just polls and polls can fluctuate. >> you know, it's surprising to a certain degree because if you take a look at the economy today as opposed to a year ago, it's probably stronger. if you take a look at all sofrts indicators, including unemployment. it's down at its lowest level in five years since the great recession of 2008. the dow jones, the stock market. it was 7,000. the dow jones when the president took office. it's around 16,000 right now. economic growth is what,

liz: sergio mark keown knee offy yet. fiat owns 61% of the shares of chrysler. other end, 41.9%. >> 41. liz: 58% versus 41%. the uaw seems like it has a contentious relationship with him. am i missing that? i think to myself why? let me play devil's advocate. >> yeah. liz: he reopened some plants in michigan. the jeep cherokee is doing well. what is the problem here? >> i don't want to say contentious. fiat obviously wants to buy those shares at what they would perceive a reasonable price. the ua-w has an obligation to its pensioneers and so forth to get a fair market price. it seems to me there's a gap but i don't know but maybe the fact they pulled back on the ipo this year was that they're getting closer. just my opinion. i don't know but it could be that they're getting closer to a negotiated price. if not, i think the union will probably push for an ipo to get a fair market valuation. but youyou know, chrysler's doing great. liz: chrysler is doing great. who would have thought anybody could say that five years ago when there were so many troubles. >> we did

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he collaborated on the ought buy all offy of nelson mandela.ways on life, love and courage. thanks for joining us. the president will be heading over to south africa to pay his respects and america ago respects to nelson mandela. what should we be paying attention to? >> wolf, i think every world leader, including president obama wants to borrow a little bit from the halo of nelson mandela. but in the case of president obama, knicksed-race president, a man whose fare was from the continent of south africa, i think he's looking to touch base with some of his roots and also be a part of this grand increase in human freedom that nelson mandela helped usher in and which he has talked about. even last night he used that great line from martin luther king about the world bending towards justice. and i think -- nelson mandela helped the world bend in that direction. >> you were showing viewers a lot of video and pictures of you and nelson mandela. you spent an amazing amount of time with this great man. and you know, in recent years since the revoluti

. >> we're going to have cookies and offy set out. >> laced with anything? >> absolutely not. come out and hand out cookies and coffee. >> no one is expecting a marijuana mardi gras. >> it's still illegal to drive impaired, to take it out of state, to resell it to anybody, to give it to anyone under 21, or consume it publicly. >> we haven't seen a negative impact from ten years of medical marijuana and we don't expect to. >> state-wide, about $300 million of medical marijuana was sold in 2013. the industry expects the sales to more than double next year. >> and this year, think about it, 2013, think of just the stories that unfolded throughout the course of this past 12 months. you had natural disasters, manmade tragedy. i was out on the road a lot and covered a number of them. i will never forget my interview with a limo driver who watched his car turn into an inforno. i talked to a boston marathoner who ran toward the blast on boylston street, and in oklahoma, i lost a father who lost a lot of things in the tornado but not his perspective. >> what is the one image, ricky, th