see you tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. cnn tonight begins now. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. stories. hack attack. washington says north korea is behind the hackers who brought sony to its knees forcing the studio to canceling the christmas release of the seth rogan movie "the interview" after threatened with 9/11 attacks on theaters. this is much bigger than any movie. a victory with pyongyang without firing a shot. did they get what they wanted or will they strike again? plus, cuba libre, washington and

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see you at 11:00 p.m. cnn special to heaven and back starts right now. >>> she was living her final moments and then bree's heart stopped beating minutes at a time. mary, anita and ben say they went to heaven and then came back. stories raised fundamental questions about fear in faith. what does it feel like to die? tonight, randi kaye talked with three people who say they've left this world for another. tell their stories, their words and descriptions. their answers to the questions we'd all like to ask. >> my name is mary neil and on january 14, 1999, i died while kayaking on a south american river. i li in jackson, wyoming. i am married. i had four children. all competitive cross country skiers. i'm an orthopaedic spine person. i was busy. i mean, i finished my residency married with a full-time job and one child and then another one, another one, they kept coming. and i think i was very typical. i had very little time for my spiritual life. >> what was your spirituality? >> i took children to sunday school

see you at 11:00 p.m. cnn special report, videos gone viral starts now. >>> the following is a cnn special report. >> good evening, i'm kiera phillips. you've seen the videos countless times. images caught on tape. amazing rescues, death defieing acts, killer weather and outrajs criminals. but what are the real stories behind those pictures? what really happened before and after that camera started rolling? find out in videos gone viral. close calls, unexpected brushes with death and when they're caught on camera, these death e defying acts go viral. these two girls filming a karaoke selfie all while driving. suddenly crashed. surprisingly, they ended up with only minor injuries, but not a surprise, the viral outrage over their stupidity. this family is taking a nice leisurely drive until they're faced with a car heading the wrong way and there's nothing they can do. miraculously, the family was okay. i want to warn you, this video is going to make you cringe. a woman and her 5-year-old grandson are strolling

see you tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. cnn tonight begins now. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. to night, the latest on two big stories. hack attack. washington says north korea is behind the hackers who brought sony to its knees forcing the studio to canceling the christmas release of the seth rogan movie "the interview" after threatened with 9/11 attacks on theaters. this is much bigger than any movie. a victory with pyongyang without firing a shot. did they get what they wanted or will they strike again? plus, cuba libre, washington and havana easing relations after a 50 year. don't break out the mojitos just yet. not everybody celebrating two. people couldn't disagree go head-to-head on whether this is good or bad for america. >> what does it all mean for president obama? commander-in-chief looked like he was on the ropes after midterm elections. but with the deal in cuba, action on immigration, improving economy is barack obama turning his presidency around? we'll get to all of that. a lot to get to tonight. i want to begin with justice correspondent, pamela brown, she has

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ceo michael linton in an interview airing on cnn 8 p.m. tonight that he's been looking for digital alternatives and that no digital distributor has come forward and said they will release the movie. no major digital distributor, of course, that raises questions about whether what netflix or youtube. >> joule yarks thanks for the update. >>> not just oil rallying high today. goldman sachs ceo addressed the debt mark on the economy, it's a deal book conference last week. >> there's a lot of positives to the economy and i ticked through these things before from the energy situation to the resurgence of housing to the most important thing is having reversed all the leverage that was in the system and kind of reset the clock. >> ryan kelly does not agree, making his way over to the beakers. made a remarkable recovery up 5% from lows this week. >> and lloyd's half right. let's call it that. when you look at the financial system and his bank in particular, yes, a lot of leverage has been taken out. but let's look at what's going on in the high yi

p.m. it's absolutely fascinating. >> poppy harlow, we'll be watching. catch the premier right here on cnn at 9:00 p.m.ne know 13." look at this video of sue being created. that's fascinating stuff. follow me on twitter @jaketapper and also @thelead. i turn you over to the one, mr. wolf blitzer. he's right next door in "the situation room." wolf? >>> john brennan defending the cia after a blistering report. did the cia mislead congress about its interrogation techniques. >>> body for sale. ooi isis is trying to sell the body of james foley for $1 million. how officials say they are trying to carry out a depraved plan. >>> capital protests. and a show of support for the families of michael brown and eric garner. what impact are the ongoing protests having? >>> defectors revealing the horrors that

p.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> top of the hour i'm ana cabrera.hanks for staying with us as we have cnn's special breaking news coverage for the search of flight 8501. luggage and bodies spotted in the java sea just 6 miles from the plane's last known location. now, below the surface, a dark shadow that could be the plane. this discovery confirming the worst fears of the families. in fact the wife of the captain speaking to cnn indonesia in the heartbreaking moments just after finding out the wreckage had been found. >> i must be strong and tough, and i'm here for my children and their future.

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p.m. here on cnn. let's talk about the breaking news with democratic congressman adam schiff of california, key member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. >> not only are you a key member of the house intelligence committee, your district in los angeles represents a big chunk of hollywood, these studios, these people who work there. so you have unique perspective on this story from all sides. do you agree with the decision by sony to pull the release of this film? >> i'm very concerned about the precedent of not releasing the imif. i hope that sony can find a way to do that. i hope some of these companies that would distribute it through on demand will step forward and do this because otherwise, it not only impacts this film but you have to imagine that when studios think about now the next film that may parody some other dictator or parody the same dictator, they're going to think, do we want to risk going through what sony did? the best

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watch the cnn special report "double agent, inside al qaeda for the cia" tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. >>> the thanksgiving holiday ending in a travel nightmare for hundreds of people across the country. actually, thousands of them. some 130 flights delayed just this morning. that's on top of the more than 4,000 that were behind schedule yesterday. it led to scenes like this one at chicago's midway airport. this is more than a nightmare. a reporter said the security screening line actually stretched for 1.2 miles. ouch. weary passengers can't blame mother nature for that one, even as forecasters call for temperatures up to 40 degrees below average in some parts of the country. meteorologist indra petersons is here now to tell us that part of the story. those long tsa lines at midway was because there was a shortage of tsa agents to check people going through security. >> we saw many placesed that same problem no matter where you were. it's thanksgiving. yes, it was rough and denver had delays thanks to low cloud ceilings and some people are still stuck out there. maybe t

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p.m. eastern. cnn. he is working the story. check him out. 10:00 p.m.astern. >>> just ahead, kim jong-un's next move. will he retaliate now that sony is releasing the film "the interview" on christmas day. and dozens of other weapons smuggled on to commercial airliners. some of them were loaded. authorities just revealed the scope of this crime. . >>> president obama is praising sony pictures for allowing some screenings of the film, "the interview." they were hit by a major cyber attack that has been blamed on north korea. the question, will kim jong-un's regime follow through on threats against the united states following attacks if the movie is released? let's go to pamela brown. she got the very latest on what's going on. >> this is really a stunning development. the white house releasing a statement today saying that president obama applauds the decision. sony says it has been trying to find ways to distribute "the interview" all lake and now it has found that with independent theaters. a shocking turn of events in the growing sony saga. tonight, s

cnn in sydney. anna. what do we know? >> well, cnbc, it's 10:00 p.m. here in sydney. what we can tell you is that five hostages have managed to escape and as you inferred, it would appear they did, indeed, get away because that gunman is so agitated as reported by one of the local reporters who could see him visibly upset. we are about a block from where this is aun all unfolding. we understand the lights within this cafe have been turned you a. we don't know if that is a police operation or the gunman, but let's recap on what's happened today. sydney under siege, anb unidentified gunman holding at least a dozen hostages inside this cafe in sydney, australia.

p.m. here on cnn. don't miss it. >> here's a question. do the comments from charles barkley ring true within the black community? we'll debate it next at this hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . you don't need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we're exxonmobil... and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isn't as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. >> first of all we as black people, we've got a lot of crooks. we can't just wait until something like this happens. we have to look ourselves in the mirror. there's a reason they racially profile us at times. sometimes it's wrong, but sometimes it's right. >> that was nba legend charles barkley, as if he needed introduction, speaking to brooke baldwin about the situation in ferguson, missouri and beyond. making some comments some people see as controversial about how police deal with suspects. >> and about how african-americans discuss race. >> how we all do. >> joining us, joe hicks vice president of community a

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p.m. eastern here on cnn. >> thanks. >> thank you. >>> coming up, police in mississippi say they have foundg jessica chambers killer. that's the teenager found horribly burned on a rural road near her car able to talk to investigators before she ultimately died. the key could be her cell phone. those details are next. here's some news you may find surprising. we're for an open internet for all. we're for creating more innovation and competition. we're for net neutrality protection. now, here's some news you may find even more surprising. we're comcast. the only isp legally bound by full net neutrality rules. >>> how about good news on this friday? these are live pictures from our los angeles affiliate kabc. here's good news. we were talking about this water rescue watching this boat trying to find a second individual. they located the first who was a-ok. looking for the second person. good news is they found that person. no word exactly where that individual was found but again both of those people found and doing just fine this friday afternoon. >>> let's talk about this. the key to everyt

p.m. eastern here on cnn. at the top of the hour thanks for being here. i'm ana cabrera in for brooke. we're a couple of hours away from daybreak in indonesia when search crews will be back in the sky and the sea looking for any trace of airasia flight 8501. instead of shrinking the search area is now growing from seven zones to 11 between islands of borneo java and sumatra with more nations including the united states now joining the search effort. it has been almost 44 hours, almost two full days since the airbus a320 bound for singapore simply vanished from radar. with fierce thunderstorms plaguing this area at that time we know the pilot radioed in and he asked permission to climb in elevation. but his request was denied. instead he was told to go left and then nothing. no distress signal. no may day call. but a leaked screen grab said to be from indonesian air traffic control appears to show the plane was climbing but losing speed and now some are suggesting this could have caused a stall. >> what we've been able to obtain from some pilots is radar print out of the aircraft and wh

. >> you're going to have an extraordinary hour later tonight at 10:00 p.m. on cnn, don.e us a preview. >> it's going to be very emotional. we're going to have four of the rescue workers who tried to save these two officers. when my producer spoke to them, they said if we could still be working on those officers right now, we would be working on them. if you read the accounts, they kept saying i was looking into the officer's eyes and i kept saying come on, officer ramos, stay with me, stay with me. it's very emotional. that these volunteer rescue workers had to go in, some of whom had come off of a call, an unsuccessful cardiac arrest call and then have to go out to save other people. i think everyone understands you can criticize police and not be anti-police. but i've been in new york city off and on since 1991. i've never seen anyone brazen enough to punch a police officer in the face while cameras are rolling. but for people to be out on the street now, openly punching police officers, people should be out protesting, they have every right. but we need to check ourse

cnn special report, "videos gone viral" 8:00 p.m. n. >>> breaking news for you, let me go straight to dana bash on capitol hill. . dana, you just talk too old someone very important today, dianne feinstein. what did she have to say? >> she is obviously at the center of a firestorm and controversy that is going to play out through the day. that is her committee, the intelligence committee at her leadership is going to release the so-called torture report and so i i caught up with her as she was leaving her office to go to the senate floor to give an important speech. here's what she said. senator can you just tell us how do you respond to those who worry that releasing this will put american lives at terrific? >> well, i'll respond that in my remark remarks there is no good time and i think the greatness of this country that we can examine mistakes and remedy them. and that is really the hallmark of a great and just society so anything can happen at any time without a report there's no question about that. and there will be a very good

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cnn in the 1990s when heading up the rainbow coalition. i would say there's one major difference. jackson's show was on the weekend versus sharpton having a show every day in 6:00 p.mntator and the host 6 "inside city hall." errol, take me through your thoughts about the ethical issues here. are there ethical issues for msnbc to have sharpton anchoring every night? >> i think the answer is a definite maybe. i think for the first time it's probably gotten a little bit sticky. when you see him interviewing somebody who he's also representing in a sort of a political sense or in a civil rights sense, and, you know, then he goes to the justice department or to the white house which the civil rights organization is now petitioning for action, you have to ron der. it's like well who in all of this stuff is he really speaking to and for? and the short answer is if you like to watch him, if you like to listen to him on the radio, if you're part of his civil rights organization there's no conflict. for the rest of us it's tricky to figure out who he's speaking for. >> i mentioned on wednesday he had the first interview with garner's mom and widow. they happened to be on the

can you watch it right here, live, cnn, 1:30 p.m.resident obama was announcing big changes to the u.s. relationship with cuba. he literally made history all by himself. now, what will it do? all right. this was unthinkable for decades, could there be a visit by a castro to the white house? we're live from havana with the latest. will that be all, sir? thank you. ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. i order b14. i get b14. no surprises. buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster white knuckle thrill ride. you're promised one speed. but do you consistently get it? you do with comcast business. and often even more. it's reliable. just like kung pao fish. thank you, ping. reliably fast internet starts at $89.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. >>> now to a potentially historic and controversial development involving cuba. the white house saying it would not rule out the possibility of cuban president raul castro visiting d.c., despite cuba's history of human rights violations. pa

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p.m. eastern time right here on cnn. >>> and the ruling of tamir rice case coming as outrage continues toss the country after the recent killings of unarmed black males. and it may be intensifying. tomorrow will be the couple my nati culmination of the week of outrage to protest the lack of indictments in the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. thursday night, eric garner's daughter led a group of protesters to a sidewalk in staten island and then erica garner laid down. it was the exact spot where her dad took his last breath after gasping these words to police over and over again, "i can't breathe." >>> and ferguson, missouri, now, where michael brown was shot and killed in august, fallout from the tragedy has had a devastating effect on local businesses there. some were destroyed or badly damaged when protests turned violent. others have suffered a severe decline in revenue. to help them remain open, the state of missouri has launched a grant program called ferguson rebuild. >> this is not a government program. no state or federal dollars or grants are going towards this project.

another, former supermodel janice dickinson, is speaking out on cnn tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern.y raped her in 1982. >> i should have gone to police, but once again, i was too embarrassed and i was too disgusted and i was afraid for my career. so i moved out. how do i prove it? put me on a lie detector test. put me on a government lie detector test. because someone's going to be in big trouble for calling me a liar. bill cosby, you know the truth. bill cosby, you were there. bill cosby, put a lie detector test on bill cosby. >> bill cosby's attorney calls dickinson's accusations lies. cosby has never been charged with any crimes. jean casarez joins us with more on the resignation from the temple board of trustees. what are you learning? >> when you think of temple university, your second thought is bill cosby because he's so associated with this university. as you said, he got an undergraduate degree, he got an honorary degree. he attends their games. he raises money for them. well, we want to show everybody the statement that came out late today. first of all, the statement from

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p.m. central european time only on cnn. >>> well, sony pictures is reportedly looking into whether north koreand a massive hack of their computer system. at least five unreleased sony films have appeared online since that attack. sony is about to release a comedy that includes a cia plot to assassinate leader kim jong-un which has angered pyongyang but one expert says this sort of hacking is not pyongyang style. martin williams is the founder of north korea tech org, a blog that tracks technology in north korea and i spoke with him about sony's suspicions. >> one of the things you got to remember with north korea it is always difficult to predict what the country's thinking and doing, but i do have to say that looking at the hack and what we know about it so far it does seem quite unusual that north korea would be involved in something like this. it doesn't really seem to fit the kind of things this i've been blamed for in the past. >> okay, so if it's not north korea who would have done this and made five unreleased films available on line. >> in the past with attacks like this especially one

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