in one nine hundred eighty three j j rawlings asked for help from the i.m.f. which returned to ghana after eleven years of absence and has remained until today . in the following decades the economy thrived the annual average growth rate lies at five percent unemployment has declined and so has poverty which reached fifty one percent in one thousand nine hundred. twenty nine percent in two thousand and six. the good news does not stop there. it's. quite how much oil is out. mean who has a point hold. a second opportunity being given to discomfort. goes back in the night two thousand and seven that news reports show that gone it made a world class oil discovery the true scope of the size of the field wasn't exactly known on but it was clear from that moment on that gonna seem to join the ranks of africa's oil producers. dependence overall much here also depends on not trying resolves us albus it does not bring i want to talk formation of economies in spite of the huge glories of the only hot with not being able to watch pain levels so he can only transformation

jk rawlings has plans to produce a harry potter play. rawlings sold more than 450 million copies worldwide. the play is slated to display in london in the next 2 years. >>> days before christmas some retailers across the area are keeping their doors open 24 hours a day. >> i work every day. yes, i got to get out there in e late evening. >> the holiday shopping marathon underway and why their bottom line depends on it. >>> target's data breach effects millions of shoppers. one woman said it's ruining hear christmas. >>> you can get ktv is u use to go. kick the live icon and you can watch out of our newscasts live on your mobile device. >>> for some large retailers today marks the beginning of 24 hour shopping right up through christmas eve. happening now amber lee live in concord to see how shoppers are faring out there. >> reporter: we're inside sun valley mall. sears closes at midnight hoping to make it easy for shoppers. >> with fewer days between thanksgiving and christmas this year, retailers are pulling out all the stops. after week

rawl. the accusation a woman yelled before the fest began to fly -- fists begin to fly. >> we will tell you how he managed to survive for so long. the years most popular baby names, and the new trend for parents. >> jacqui jeras will be back to tell you when you might >> you're watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. >> a black friday melee. police are searching for two women who attacked a 17-year-old girl and a bit torilla secret store. one of the woman yelled you poked me in the eye, and then the punches begin to fly. could help this video lead to arrests. we'll have more on this story coming up on abc seven news at 5:00 p.m. outolice have ruled dragracing in the fire crash that killed actor paul walker. he died this weekend along with a friend who was driving him. the crash involved just their car. the explosion that happened after the impact. others say that the porsche was beating at the time. >> this is an incredible story that you have to here. a man found alive after his boat sa

chuck todd, stephanie rawlings-blake, andrea mitchell. >> welcome, stephanie rawlings-blake, mayor of time on "meet the press." mayor since 2010, serves on the national democratic committee as well. nice to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> the question is how good are things, really, and chuck, there are so many stories about how angry the president is. they want to separate the president from all the problems, but where is the accountability? does someone have to be fired before americans think we're on the right track? >> if this doesn't turn out to be the fix, if this website fix doesn't turn out to work as well as they're promising right now on various conference calls, what they're promising as far as the public is concerned, then i think you would see republican accountability and some demand for action. all of these reports and all of this weekend sort of placement of where the website is at this point, all of it seems irrelevant to me because we haven't had a real test of the system. they say it can handle up to 50,000 at one time. okay, let's see what happens. they're he

chuck todd, stephanie rawlings-blake, andrea mitchell. >> welcome, stephanie rawlings-blake, mayor ofre, first time on "meet the press." mayor since 2010, serves on the national democratic committee as well. nice to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> the question is how good are things, really, and chuck, there are so many stories about how angry the president is. they want to separate the president from all the problems, but where is the accountability? does someone have to be fired before americans think we're on the right track? >> if this doesn't turn out to be the fix, if this website fix doesn't turn out to work as well as they're promising right now on various conference calls, what they're promising as far as the public is concerned, then i think you would see republican accountability and some demand for action. all of these reports and all of this weekend sort of placement of where the website is at this point, all of it seems irrelevant to me because we haven't had a real test of the system. they say it can handle up to 50,000 at one time. okay, let's see what happens. t

ed rawlings, lee atwater. i think it is true, when you cut yourself off -- if i cut myself off from republicans, i couldn't sit in this air. except for eric shs i can cut off with that. >> was lincoln a nice guy? >> he was a good guy. and i covered the second lincoln inaugura inauguratal -- inaugural and it was good. and the gettysberg address is not as good as it sounds now. >> do you think the left are right when it comes to ideologies? i don't know. maybe not. maybe there is the whole spectrum of the right or the far right. but i think these guys do themself a disservice, sean penn, ben afleck, half of the country is conservative and when you talk like that you alienate others. but have an opinion. state your opinion. i would like to know where you stand on stuff. >> the interesting thing is, andrea, and a lot of the opinions, this is not an original thought for me, but it is an add less ebt kind of thinking -- adolescent kind of thinking because they weren't involved in anything except coming famous and no

his voice is compared to greats like lou rawls and marvin gaye. >> plus chef martin lever inton who got a psychology degree but followed his heart to the kitchen as a very funny chef. >> and to talk about his generation and mine the baby boomers, the biggest if not the best ever. >>> sadly we begin yet again with the investigation of a school ashooting attack. >> arapahoe high school in centennial, colorado, is not all that far from columbine high scene of a massacre in 1999. it's also not far from last year's shoot at a theater in aurora, colorado. barry petersen is with us this morning. good morning, barry. >> reporter: good morning. this is going to be the day to figure out what went on inside the school and authorities promise they will go carefully and slowly in their hunt for answers. the scene was sadly familiar. students fleeing their school with hands in the air so they could be checked by police to make sure they were not armed and were not part of the shooting. officials say student karl hello veryson pierson walked in at 12:33, openly carrying a shotgun. he was apparently hu

this is not john rawls been approved.it's an understanding of the advisability of the individual has created an image and and likeness of god. it is wrong about fundamental matters of belief and conviction. not according to the church has to be understood in relationship to a broad section of the person under good as the teleological rational being in community with the supernatural destiny. that's the short answer. it's a good question, a complicated one. >> to mark questions. >> was you say one of the gunmen and the consequences of the reformation is what we see manifested today in a world becoming a place where everything is gray. and there's no absolutes of right or wrong. in a conversation with someone a few ago. i turned to them and i said you don't believe in absoluteness. i can have a conversation with you. i said your leg just for the sake of arguing. would she say that's one of the consequences of attack name here? >> it's a great question. the short answer to this one is shorter than the one i just gave. the an

this is not john rawls digna taught us you money. it's an understanding that there is an inviolability of the individual as created in the image and likeness of god. it is wrong to coerce somebody about fundamental matters of belief and so forth. that according to the church has to be understood in relationship to it broad conception of her since understood as a t. a logical -- teleological destiny. that's the short answer. it's a good question in the confiscated one. >> one or two more questions. >> or we could just go have a glass of wine. >> would you say that one of the unintended consequences of the reformation is what we see manifested today in a world that is becoming a place where everything is gray, and there are no absolutes of right or wrong. in a conversation with someone a few months ago, i turned to them and they said you don't believe in absolutes. i said i can't have a conversation with you where i would be like, actually said it would be like a sophist. you argue just for the sake of arguing and you don't come to any

years ago, but architects say because of how technology has advanced, the way they'll do this rest rawlings, it will be longer before the next one is needed. >> good luck with the restoration. dana, thanks very much. >>> happening now, breaking news, theater disaster. huge portions of the ceiling come crashing down on a nearly packed house inside a historic london building, injuring many people in the audience. how did it happen? >> bask bought diplomacy, dennis rodman returns to north korea just days after the execution of the leader kim jong-un's uncle. rodman is speaking out. what does he plan to do inside. >>> and obama's brother, he talks about his famous half-sibling and abusive father. he loves the president, because why did she call him, and i'm quoting him now, a lousy brother? >>> welcome to our viewers around the united states and the world. you're in "the situation room." more than 700 people were watching the play when parts of the ceiling came crashing down. according to the london fire brigade. dozens of people are injured, some of them seriously. officials updated us just a