today jeff rossen is here with more on this.'t sound good. >> no, it's not, affects a lot of us, of course. staying in hotels. when you lock your hotel door, you assume you're safe and your stuff is safe. think again. thieves have invented a simple device that can actually unlock doors in potentially millions of hotel rooms at some of the most popular chains. the hotel industry has known about this problem for months. so why haven't they fixed it? >> this man is about to break into a hotel room. no kicking in the door, no fancy tools. instead, he's using this cheap homemade gadget to pop those electronic locks. and in just seconds he's in. we booked hotel rooms in new jersey where he did it again and again at this hyatt place. >> the only difference is i'm putting this underneath, door's open. >> we're in. >> yep. >> at this ramada and double tree hilton. >> another hotel. >> another chain. >> same result. >> this security flaw so alarming even hotel managers are stunned. >> that's absolutely insane. >> the man breaking into roo

>> a friend of mine who i greatly respect, rossen, nir, and his last name, rosen, freelance journalistnow, most respected in the field. he somehow gets along with both sides. i don't know how. but he was imbedded with the opposition and in my view has done the best reporting of the nature of the opposition. the actual level of influence among the opposition and yet he also got to be imbedded with the syrian government troops. so if there's one person i would recommend to read, certainly from a journalist point of view, someone who has been on the ground and seeing this, and who is in my view very objective it would be ner rossen. >> where is he published. >> he is a free lancer right now. he used to be with a number mexicos. do a google with his statement he'll come up. >> need more than just what is in the debates. >> thank you very much. yes? >> good afternoon. my -- actually it's not so much a question as it is a proclaimation that there seems to be a lot of peacemakers who have made very deep steps in the peace process at the beginning, and they held out for so very long, it seemed

i'm jeff rossen and this episode of "maximum drama" goes undercover inside the world of sex trafficking in america. as you're about to see, it is a punishing world where the young women and girls say they live invisible lives. yet the industry can easily be found in any american city. natalie morales has been reporting on this story for years. go with her now to chicago. rising from the shores of lake michigan, the skyline of chicago sparkles and soar ls. but beyond the glittering facade of glass and steel, lies a city at the crossroads of america's underground sex trade. >> relax, okay sweetie? >> okay. >> don't be nervous or anything okay? >> tonight police find this young woman selling sex in a hotel room more than 600 miles away from her home in arkansas. local authorities say it's an all too common occurrence in the windy city. >> it doesn't happen here in our own backyard. in cook county chicago, it's a transportation hub. it's a convention hub. and it's right for this type of crime. illinois state attorney anita alvarez heads up the cook county human trafficking force. a joint ef

studies show security measures can make students feel less safe, according to school psychologist eric rossen. >> the ques are given that there is a risk of danger. >> desiree used to be an nray supporter, and now she's not so sure, but her daughter likes the fact that newtown decided to station an officer at her school. >> when i told her there would be a police officer when she goes back on january 2, she said, "well, that makes me feel safe." >> reporter: the nray's proposal to put an armed officer in every school across the flags would take one of every seven police officers on the streets on school days, according to an analysis put out today by the reuters news atlantic city. >> axelrod: the nray president will be bob bob schieffer's guest. alone with kay bailey hutchison and democratic senator mark warner of virginia. they'll discuss the future of gun control. moving now to the the weather and a deadly cold snap sweeping across eastern europe. freezing temperatures there have claimed more than 200 lives. ukraine has been hardest hit. it has been snowing there for weeks. at least 80 peo

she was first exposed on a rossen report segment. >>> some police officers are recovering after a shootinge a new jersey police stay. the man arrested on domestic violence charges, started a struggle inside the gloucester township police station. the gunman grabbed a gun. one had to be rushed into surgery, the other two suffered minor injuries. police shot and killed the suspect. >>> the military today is looking into what caused one of its most advanced fighter jets to crash during a training mission outside fresno. an f-16 fighter jet like the one seen here went down yet, flying about 12,000 feet when it experienced some sort of inflight emergency. the pilot was able to eject from the plane and reach the ground safely. the jet was part of the california national guard. >>> a beach in australia has been shut down after a surfer lost part of his hand. it hat this morning, a large bull shark bit the 29-year-old man on his leg and right hand. he lost two fingers. he was carted off to the hospital. despite the ordeal, he's said to be in stable condition. witnesses said he used a surfboard to

she spoke off camera earlier this month with our own jeff rossen. the uncle of 6-year-old shooting victim noah posner found a post online requesting donations to a personal paypal account. a complaint filed against alba claims she used text messages and phone calls. >>> out with the old and in with the new. the first thing that's got to go are some annoying words from this year. according to their annual survey on the subject, the poll finds that twitterverse is fifth most annoying word of 2012. other cringe worthy mentions are a bit more classic. just saying, you know, like, all taking the top spots f. for the fourth year running, whatever. we're guessing they'll be back next year. they are truly annoying. >>> finally, if you're heading back to the stores to return unwanted gifts, maybe you should take this guy with you. this tiny poodle may not have presents to return, but he sure seems to enjoy going along for the trip. a little bit kind of like "gangnam style." i think he's got that horsey dance going. now you just need the music and it would wo

this is pastor rossen. >> how are you doing?> good to meet you ronnie. >> you too. >> are you ready for the big day? >> let's do it. >> are you sure? >> yeah. >> okay. we are gathered together here today in the presence of god in the face of this company to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony. >> they're talking on the phone doing their vows over the phone. it was kind of bizarre. >> what's up? >> this is driving me nuts. >> ronnie, will you have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after god's ordinance in the holy state of matrimony, to honor and keep her in sickness and in health so long as you both shall live? >> yes. >> jodie, will you have this man for thy wedded husband to live together after god's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony so long as you both shall live? >> yes, i will. >> do you have rings you wish to exchange? >> yeah. somebody's got to walk it to him. >> he'll take the ring. >> let's see it. >> ronnie and jodie have promised to be faithful and true to each other. i pronou

i'm jeff rossen. would you ever admit to a horrible crime you didn't commit? before you say no, consider this. the innocence project recently looked at more than 300 cases where convictions were overturned by dna evidence. they found 25% had contained a false confession or statement. that, of course, means plenty of people confess to killings they didn't do. in this hour on "maximum drama" we take you beyond speculation for a rare look inside the interrogation room as detectives deploy a variety of tactics to obtain a confession from a man they suspect of killing his own child. is it interrogation 101 or unjust manipulation? you be the judge as we present scenes of a crime. >> where you from? >> from the south. >> georgia? >> yeah. from the south. >> we knew that there was an injury to a child, and we didn't know how it occurred. and we know there was six other children. and we didn't want anything to happen to them either. so child protective decided that they were going to take them children. >> part of our role was to standby while they removed the six chil

she spoke off camera earlier this month with our own jeff rossen. the uncle of 6-year-old noah posner said he found a scammer online posing as the boy's aunt requesting donations to a personal paypal account. a federal criminal complaint filed alleges she used facebook, phone calls, and text messages to solicit money claiming she was paying for the child's funeral fund. >>> and now let's head to wall street. cnbc's mandy drury is at the new york stock exchange. good morning. >> good morning, natalie. we had a rally in asian stocks overnight with the japanese nikkei now up nearly 23% for the year. good if you've got a diversified portfol portfolio. obviously, fiscal cliff watching is front and center. that's key for the markets here. and did you like your holiday gift? well, about $63 billion worth of holiday goodies are going to be taken back to the store, but either exchanged or refunded according to the national retail federation. back to you. >> hopefully people still go out and buy. all right. thanks so much, mandy drury. >>> and soul singer has