santa claus is a woman. i always suspected something like that...u can be here on christmas? i can't think of any other place i'd rather be. have you talked to alex? oh, yeah, a couple times. he's having a good time but he can't wait to get back. yeah. how about your brother? i got a long letter from him. i'm going to talk to him on christmas day. this christmas is shaping up better than i thought. ( quiet conversation ) ♪ silent night... all: ♪ holy night ♪ all is calm, all is bright ♪ round yon virgin mother and child ♪ ♪ holy infant so tender and mild ♪ ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace. ♪ woman: yeah! merry christmas! man: merry christmas. put the trays in here. ( sighs ): it was a lot of work, but, boy, what an experience. amazing group of people, huh? in these hard times, it could be any one of us. i haven't felt this much christmas spirit since i was a kid. would you like something to drink? sure. how about some champagne? champagne? yeah, well, christmas comes only once a year. all right. o.k. get your glass ready... here,

i'm sure there are many children out there who want santa claus to come year round, but that doesn't happen. so these companies, they should be grateful that the federal government gave them this student for the last two years, but look, they haven't fallen off a cliff and haven't dried up. look back to where we were in december where they said they're going to spend and we're at 4% higher than the year before. and if you look at the bloomberg consumer comfort index, half the of americans are saying their personal finance they're looking at it highly positive which is a year high. and this is not something to be freaking out about right now. >> and from china, he loans us 40 cents on every single dollar largest stimulus in history. santa claus is real apparently. >> if you're concerned about it, can you imagine when the sequester hits? that's, that's the tragedy. >> oh, give me a break. >> that's fear mongering, that's nothing else, please. >> and to jehmu's point further. >> brenda: go ahead. >> we should be grateful we're not raising the payroll tax to make up for the lost tens of

. ♪ going to win the super bowl ♪ >> santa claus on bourbon street.say the forty-niners. >> ♪ [jazz music playing] ♪ >> santa claus says that he hopes ray lewis is not on is not the list -- his naughty list this christmas. ravens fans outnumbered the 49ers fans by about 4 to 1 in the french quarter. >> ravens fans willing to travel for our team. >> that is impressive. those are some good numbers from that study. >> abc 7 walks you through the the ravens road to new orleans with a special at 8:00 tonight. still ahead a scare in the skies. a pilot francs just short after takeoff and forces the point make an emergency landing. it's 34 degrees 6:08. we are looking at frederick rd and looking at it germantown. we >> welcome back. 6:11. in germantown, you can see where the snow is accumulating on the road. this is frederick rd. and senate avenue. click on big snowflakes are. >> a few places starting to come down. a few of us are in that little hole. george in gaithersburg says it is starting to come down really heavy at this time. let's show you doppler rad

on christmas, it's not santa claus, it's sinterklaas.eave out your shoes for him to fill with nuts and dried fruit, or, if you've been naughty, you're kidnapped by his moorish elfin sidekick black peter. [laughter] ho, ho, ho. [laughter] and i have the same rigorous standards for saint valentine's day. i focus on what the day's really about: not the chocolates, or the beautiful flowers, or the fancy jewelry-- although i love getting all of that. [laughter] no, the true meaning of valentine's day is all about the l-word: lupercalia!--the mid-february roman fertility feast that st.valentine's day is based on. [laughter] as i'm sure you know, lupercalia is named for lupa, the she-wolf who suckled rome's twin founders romulus and remus. [laughter] folks, i say that's what's wrong with kids today: not enough wolf-teat. [cheers and applause] [laughter] so to the guys watching the show, a little hint, after the show tonight, i want you to celebrate a traditional valentine's day -- by guzzling a couple of skins full of wine, sacrificing a goat t

happy holidays everyone, welcome to the great city of san francisco, that dress, donna will make santa clausrybody again to city hall, and to view our wonderful, wonderful tree of hope. it is something that i enjoy every year that it has been here and i tell you when it was announced that this was the tallest, largest tree of hope in the united states, if not in the world, i also wanted to say my very first thought was san francisco has always the biggest hearts in the world, thanks to all of you. thank you, donna, for your wonderful mc work here every year. and your beautiful presence. jeff carter, thank you very much, congratulations and thank you on behalf of everyone in the city, we are so proud of your work. karin that i have known for 30 years, thank you for you and all of the volunteers from the rainbow fund to put this together to place all of these 10,000 ornaments on the tree to give us the kind of attention that we would like not just because we have a great tree or city hall, but because we do always want to show our hearts first, especially during these holiday season. i know th

you're back here and you say, "santa claus has come to town." you get up, you walk over, you grab a rock, you say, "watch this. i'll tell you how high we are." you take the rock and you drop it, all right? you drop the rock but you're a little bit further stream now, right?

but you point out that it is just easier to be santa claus. >> well, it is.ut significant is the fact that marriage equality did pass in several states. marijuana legalization, washington state and colorado. these are significant. john: spending. a talking about sequestration like it's a catastrophe. >> an absolute tidy cat. just a miniscule cut relative to what does need to occur. if we don't balance the federal budget we are going to find ourselves without a country. we are not immune from default. that is where we're headed. john: questions? >> hi. conner bergeron from brazil has cooled. my question is how can convert or get the libertarian movement message out to the high-school community? none of my friends even know about it. john: i'm trying. my video is going to high-school spivvy 12 million kids watch them every year. some of you saw that. >> i was taken aback. i was invited to speak in high school in ohio. it was packed. i walked in. it was a standing ovation. the point being that high-school kids are very aware also. this is -- the only thing i can

. >> ♪ >> nothing like santa claus on bourbon street. 49ers.to be a close game. >> ♪ [jazz music playing] >> we found out the dunites ago there was a lot of purple -- or i should say gold. 49ers fans. last night it was not even close. overwhelmingly, many more ravens fans. much more black and purple here on bourbon street. that's what we like to see it. reporting live on bourbon street, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> john kicks in down there. >> i think so. watch abc 7 tonight at 8:00 for our special on the ravens road to new orleans. leon harris, britt mchenry, and tim brant. don't miss it. it's 34 degrees. >> still ahead, and added challenged for 49ers quarterback colin kaepernick. what my mom doesn't drink starbucks coffee because she thinks it's too dark, and so i brought her some blonde roast. she loves it now. "my son made me this coffee," "you should try it it's delicious." ♪ ♪ some times the big plan doesn't work.. and the perfect life turns out to be not so perfect. so you start fresh. new city. new job. new bank. there's a lot to figur

but you point out that it is just easier to be santa claus. >> well, it is.ut significant is the fact that marriage equality did pass in several states. marijuana legalization, washington state and colorado. these are significant. john: spending. a talking about sequestration like it's a catastrophe. >> an absolute tidy cat. just a miniscule cut relative to what does need to occur. if we don't balance the federal budget we are going toind ourselves without a country. we are not immune from default. that is where we're headed. john: questions? >> hi. conner bergeron from brazil has cooled. my question is how can convert or get the libertarian movement message out to the high-school community? none of my friends even know about it. john: i'm trying. my video is going to high-school spivvy 12 million kids watch them every year. some of you saw that. >> i was taken aback. i s invited to speak in high school in ohio. it was packed. i walked in. it was a standing ovation. the point being that high-school kids are very aware also. this is -- the only thing i can say

you can be santa claus and not discourage. we both want to be santa claus. we haven't even thought the jurisdictional problem in congress in terms of who wants to be a member of congress or the elected officials who can give away the most. >> i've been trying to explain bruce's point for the last 30 years. he can think of a better way to do it. i'd like to. >> one of the things we've been thinking about doing goes back to my quixotic quest or whatever, that there is a taxpayer receipt on the whitehouse.gov website, but we've been thinking about building a robust taxpayer receipt that taxpayers could go through and see here are some of the giveaways to god. this amount of your income was not taxed. if you added that two overall income countries which are overall rate is. a reality check on what's happening in the internal revenue code and making them are real to individual taxpayers at that point in time. it seems like maybe we can change the debate a little bit, people will no longer be willing to accept some of the statements coming out at face value, they

[laughter] and you're sitting there and you say, "santa claus has come to town, honey. i can be telling you how much air impact there must be." and this person says, "hey, i like having you "for a neighbor. you can calculate that?" and you can say, "in my head." that's the kind of neighbor you want to sit next to, huh, especially when it's a long flight. that's something between the ears, honey. you can reason things out. by the way, see if you're sitting next to such a person right now. 18 tons of thrust, huh? constant velocity. hey, when the dude said, "constant velocity," that's a little tipoff to a physics type because what does constant velocity say about the acceleration? constant velocity. see? check that neighbor now, come on. so what's the question? the question, what's the air drag against the airplane? what's the combined force of air resistance? all of those molecules splattering against darn thing, huh? 1,000 kilometers per hour, man, they're hitting. it must be a big friction to go through, huh? how much would it be? okay, can i have a show of hands of how

. >> it is easy to go out there to be santa claus and talk about all the things you want to give away. heather: well those battery problems grounding boeing's state-of-the-art dreamliner fleet now having a ripple effect across that industry. the lithium ion batteries are blamed for a pair of fires including one that forced an ana flight to make an emergency landing in japan. now boeing's competitor airbus is dropping its plans to use a lithium ion batteries in its newest jet, the a350. investigators are still working to figure out what caused boeing's batteries to ignite in the first place. bill: house speaker john boehner taking a jab at the president for again promising to fix the nation's roads and bridges without saying where he would get the money to do so. >> trying to find a funding source to repair the nation's infrastructure is still a big goal of mine and, the president talked about infrastructure but he didn't talk about how to pay for it. you know easy to go out there to be santa claus and talk about all the things you have to give away but at some point somebody has to pa

because today the source ofosp, santa claus. >> north korean leaders released quite a video. scenes of destruction and north korean domination set to the tune of "we are the world." >> greta: all that and more in minutes. first a secret justice department memo claiming it is legal for the u.s. government to kill its own citizens abroad if an informed high level u.s. official believes they are senior al-qaeda leaders or engaged in operations aimed at killing americans. the memo leaves out a three part test. the suspect must be imminent threat. capture the target must be infeasible and the strike must be conducted according to law of war principles. congressman goudy joins us. president obama is opposed to torture and says it doesn't under constitutional reasons but thinks this is okay. >> kind of bit early ironic. you can't torture them but you can just kill them. our friends on the other side of the aisle did not like us being able to listen to phone conversations from nonamericans on foreign soil but yet you can kill americans under the fifth and 14th amendment about a senio

they get to go home with santa claus. they never vote for anything. mand the senate has a budget. that is simple in the constitution. we never should do it. illustration purposes, they have got a, pay raise in the future. no one should get a pay raise. no one should get a pay raise until we bend the debt curve downward. i come from business. this is unacceptable. you get fired if you have this problem. we can and must demand people go to a room in a transparent way. first negotiation because we did it in private. melissa: that makes a lot of sense, treasurer. i'm sorry we have to go. thanks for coming on the show. we appreciate yoor time. >> thank you. melissa: let's turn to today's market moment the bulls took their first hit of twefrt 12. weaker than expected u.s. factory orders and political concerns in europe sunk investor optimism. the dow fell back below the 14,000 mark. all s&pectors fell in the red. >>> next on "money", hugo chavez's government is scram wling for cash and it may be getting a $2 billion lifeline from, chevron? why the oil giant may beme a financial savior f

. >> it's easy to go out there and be santa claus and talk about all the things you want to give awaysome point somebody has to pay the bill. >> bret: today, the president was in georgia touting a program. he wants the government providing preschool for every 4-year-old child from lower and middle glass families. pre-k program. charles, what about this? >> i find this amazing. first, just hearing him say every first grader in america has to be prepared for a high-tech economy, that is a bit early, i think. the other part, here we are with $16 trillion in debt. trillion dollars a year in deficit. we created already with under obama, the biggest entitlement in 50 years. now he wants to create a new entitlement for preschool for every 4-year-old in the country. the worst part of this, this isn't just any new entitlement. this is an entitlement that we know the $7 billion a year that we spend on head start, doesn't make any difference after the third grade. there is a study that h.h.s. has done that shows that. it's failure and he wants to double down to make it universal. that is probabl

it used to be a summer rally and a santa claus rally. there was a rally between rosh hashanah and yom kippur. we get the short squeezes and i try to distinguish between the two every night. randy in my home state of nebraska. randy? >> caller: big boo-yah, big midwest boo-yah to you. >> what's up? >> caller: two-part question for you. what is difference between day trading and after hours trading and if a stock makes a big move upward move in after hours trading, is that an indicator to sell. >> day trading is the guy trying to get in or out? it's the inflatic at the end of the day. trading after hours means you're trading the information very thin market typically on trying to be able to outguess everybody else. i think unless you're a quick drummer of hedge fund, you should never be in after hours trading because you'll get your head cut off. brian in new york? >> caller: hey, boo-yah to you. >> way to go, boo-yah. what's up? >> caller: my question is about buying stocks on a pull back. i know you like to pull the trigger and buy in in

>> i'm santa claus! everyone can sit on me! >> oh, yay! >> who wants to be first? >> me!>> so next time you're in the mall, a food court, or a lecture hall, stay on your toes. because where music can come from, nobody knows. >> to me, i'm always looking for what's the next idea? what is the thing that no one would ever expect to happen in a public place. ♪ >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup: raw." >> at any prison there are essentially two sets of rules. there are the rules of the administration. the other set of rules are the inmates' rules themselves, the convict code. >> they got their rules, we got ours. >> the convict code is you don't get in other people's business, you don't let nobody know your business, you don't tell on nobody. >> you stick with your own race. you don't talk to other people. >> you might stare at a person, he might consider that as a sign of disrespect. >> any inmate wi

he's got a bag of stuff in one hand, like, you know, santa claus running out of there. goodies in one hand that he had collected and a computer terminal in the other. >> pelley: the plan had been to be on the ground for 30 minutes, but now they were a few minutes late. it was after 1:30 a.m. >> owen: now, things are starting to pick up outside. people have obviously woken up at this point. they're... they're coming over to investigate what's going on. >> pelley: they were the neighbors, and they had a lot of questions for the seals standing guard outside the wall. >> owen: so that's where things could get real dynamic for that team outside. everybody wants to know what was going on inside. that team had way more responsibility than just about anybody else because they were dealing with all the what-ifs outside. >> pelley: what if the police showed up or the military? >> owen: we were running out of time. we've got to get going. there's neighbors approaching. the interpreter that was out here said, "hey, there's a police operation going on here, go back to your homes," a

. >> santa claus have you ever seen a hat like a mind? >> j. r. stone hat like mine...with pageantry. j r is doing a great job. >> pam: see you at 8:00 p.m.. you can't move the tv there. yuh-huh. we have a wireless receiver. listen. back in my day, there was no u-verse wireless receiver that let you move the tv away from the tv outlet. we can move it to the kitchen, the patio, the closet and almost anywhere. why would you want a tv in the closet? [ both laugh ] ♪ [ fancy voice ] brilliant idea, darling. ♪

. >> nowhere on bourbon street would you find santa claus partying. >>brian: that's an interesting hat. i will not be bringing it back. the real nfl experience live from new orleans. that's where we are. "fox & friends" starts now. [music] >>brian: that is the tulane marching band. they were there. we have the tulane cheerleaders as well. it's early for them. to the right we've got the louisiana national guard. they have been a busy group over the past ten years between katrina and the b.p. disaster. of course we have some of the finest football players in louisiana. they are all under 8 years old. they are in the locker room putting on their eye black. over there the new orleans saints cheerleaders all part of the fun this morning over at the nfl experience. >>steve: that is awesome. brian, did you have to call every one of those people with a wakeup call? i don't think we've had that many people live on "fox & friends" at 6:00 a.m. eastern, 5:00 a.m. your time. >>brian: steve, i did and it took awhile. some needed a return call because they didn't g

from one of the high powered telescopes that nasa has and chartering it through radar like the santa claus coming through christmas. and that's it right there. 17,000 miles away travelling at 17,000 miles per hour. that's about 25 times the speed of sound. and it in space lingo is considered a near miss closest encounter ever with a spice object this size. half the size of a football field with tons of dynamite well enough to wipe out a major city and nasa promises that won't happen. >> we're confident our analysis is precise and no risk, like to reassure everyone, this is a wonderful mother nature science experiment for us to witness. >> reporter: wonderful if it doesn't hit us. we're not going to see it from north america, but high powered satellites in australia and in indonesia, so, at 2:24, megyn, if we're still here we'll he show you we hope very cool pictures of this thing flying by the earth if it doesn't hit the fox satellite. only 5,000 miles away from the satellite ring around and by the way, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago was seven miles wide. >

. >> everybody loves santa claus. that is why we have a problem and the debt, right?rtha: thank you, steve. >> see you, martha. martha: we'll see you soon. bill: ho, ho, ho. 21 past the hour. you did not probably see his name in the credits, this pakistani doctor that played a critical role in the oscar movie "zero dark thirty.". he is in jail being tortured. what some in hollywood are saying about his case? martha: it was a deadly fiery crash on the las vegas strip. police say they think they know who did this. >> like somebody took my heart, just smashed it out of my chest. >> i guarantee our lives will be forever changed by this tragedy. of all promotions. there's nothing like our grilled lobster and lobster tacos. the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering bster entrees. ke our delicus lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and bster tacos. it's back, but not for long. [ woman ]