science center, thayer, sever, and emerson hall as they evacuated buildings now.it has been an hour and 20 minutes, do you think they have anything, can you say? >> the fire marshall is the ex-period of time. he is one that i usually turn to in these situations. he is an old hand at all of this. i'm waiting to hear what he has to say. bill: joe, thank you. joe dwinell, "boston herald", appreciate your input. bomb-sniffing dogs as joe says are on scene. we'll see whether or not they get a hit or not. molly line is standing by. we'll talk too her momentarily. joe, thanks. martha: continuing coverage of the unfolding situation. bomb scare at harvard university in cambridge, massachusetts. we'll be back with more me a lot of time. after reading all the reviews i know i'm making the right choice. online or on the phone, we help you hire right the first time. with honest reviews on over 720 local services. keeping up with these two is more than a full time job, and i don't have time for unreliable companies. angie's list definitely saves me time and money. for over 18 y

also evacuated is thayer hall.ng is absolutely huge, chemistry, physics, it's a little off the main campus. these other ones are in the famous quad that you hear emerson hall is the other building that they are talking about. we understand that final exams have been canceled and as far as i know, only those four buildings have been evacuated. again, police have done that with an abundance of caution because, of course, they want to protect everyone in case there is something there. but for now, they are just investigating those four buildings have been evacuated. absolutely no explosives have been found. we'll keep you posted. >>> we wanted to put this twitter picture up for you. i'm seeing this for the first time along with you. so bear with me here. they are talking about the harvard police department. a patrol car is sitting outside of the science center after the bomb scare forced the evacuation of the building. cambridge police are also involved. they are going through that building, i assume, one by one. some

the science center, thayer hall, emerson hall and sever hall after unconfirmed reports of explosives in those buildings. now, what's unusual about this time of year as probably has been reported is that it's finals period, and so it's sort of an atypical time. additionally of those four buildings, three often have finals in them, thayer hall being the one to not fall in that classification because it is a freshman dorm. >> so you got, what, a tweet? how did you find out what was going on? >> so the way that i personally found out, and i'm sure many of the harvard students found out, is that harvard sent out a couple of notifications regarding what's going on. there was one as recently as 9:58, i believe, or if not that, shortly thereafter, from the school basically detailing exactly what was going on. and keeping the university informed. so 23 minutes ago at 10:02 we got an e-mail basically saying that there were unconfirmed reports and that out of an abundance of caution, the buildings have been evacuated while the report is being investigated. >> were you anywhere near any of these

we've got the science center, thayer, sever and emerson. there are about 21,000 students combined between the undergraduate and classes for those seeking higher forms of education and then the urban area that it sits in. last month we just had yale university in new haven, connecticut, placed on a campus lockdown for most of the day after an anonymous caller warned officials that his roommate was heading there planning to shoot people. as clint van zandt, former fbi profiler, was pointing out, there was recently in the paper there, the "boston globe," they just revealed their investigation, the five-month investigation into the tsarnaev brothers and the background of these men and that maybe that has some sort of catalyst approach to this that maybe someone in the area was reading about that. as we look at behavioral science, it will be fascinating when we figure out how the police can trace back where these first reports came in. >> it will be interesting to see if they can do that. were these cell phone reports? were they reports that cam

>> the word is already out thayer. people started talking about this because they're still pushing the notion that the president is in the white house illegitimately. that's, that was behind the scenes. now -- >> ted cruz was born in canada to an american mother just like the president was. even though he was born in honolulu. that's part of the united states, something a lot of these people don't know. >> the moment we should start to take the folks in this clown show really seriously is when you have serious people within the house, more serious people in the senate. >> i've never heard anybody being serious about something unserious. >> you don't see any other republican in the senate, you don't see john mccain or lindsey graham talking about impeachment do you? >> you hear coburn and imhoff. >> they're playing to the patch back home. >> they can rile up the base. they know the end result they want, which is impeachment, but they have a dozen different reasons, is it "fast & furious," benghazi. >> irs. >> there was

thayer relaunching the health care web site.actually had 1 million visitors and that didn't crash so it's pretty good. now health kah law itself gets tested no. longer ant the web site. i think republicans understand that. republicans also are not talking about repeal. i think they feel that they're going to let this law collapse of its own weight, they're going to highlight obama care horror stories, keep on focusing on vulnerable democrat incumbents particularly in the senate who went out and repeated the president's promises about how if you had a plan you liked you could keep it period. but now we have to see if a lot of things fall into place for the white house are. they going to get 7 million people, the right mix of 7 million people, enough young people to sign up by march 31st, and can they turn around public opinion on this law? it's now more negative than it's ever been, like about 56 to 40% noi negative. they have to have a lot of things go right for them. >> yesterday we talked about the data going into the insuranc

josh thayer profiting from murder. what a sick justice system we have.herman first of all it's one nation god. he was found not guilty and is a free american. you don't like it don't buy it. get over yourselves. >> pam: nasa approved a series of urgent spacewalks today to fix a broken cooling line on the international space station. two american astronauts will be performing the repairs. they will be replacing a pump that has a bad valve >> pam: the fix is expected to take as many as three trips to complete. the first walk is scheduled to start saturday. station that was scheduled to launch this week has been delayed until january. the pope also got an unexpected birthday gift on tuesday, named person of the year by the advocate, a u.s. lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities. the magazine cited the pope's "who am i to judge" comment about gays. francis was also time magazine last week. >> pam: coming up. popular searches on their site. what were keywords did people look up the most plus -- drama at the judd -- celebrity family household. why ashle

according to harvard's twitter page, thayer and emerson halls have been reopened by science center ander hall remained closed. officials received an email threat this morning that explosives were planted in four buildings on campus. students were evacuated from those locations at around 9:00 a.m. we'll of course keep you posted on any new developments. >>> new details emerging about the phony sign language interpreter at nelson mandela's memorial last week a relative of the man telling the associated press that his cousin was among a group that burned two men to death in 2003 for stealing a television. he reportedly never stood trial because he was deemed mentally unfit. remember he was just an arm's length away from the president. those are the headlines. back to adam and lori. adam: lauren green. thank you very much. there a new poll that finds shop remembers feeling pretty grinchy this holiday season that means possibly more discounts. liz macdonald with the bottom line. >> pretty grinchy. this poll result from princeton research, bank rate monitor condition reflects the same mood w

that was sent and went on to say "shrapnel bombs placed in science center, sever hall, emerson hall, thayer go off soon." he was given his miranda rights and said i used very specific language. i used shrapnel because i wanted to elevate it to be something very serious and i listed all of these different places and i said, guess correctly because i wanted it to take time and he also said that at 8:30 in the morning is when he sent that e-mail. he went to where his exam was supposed to take place at 9:00 and then suddenly they said fire alarm, evacuation, and then i knew my plan had worked. >> what is he facing for this? >> five years in prison and it goes beyond that. but this is a federal law based on the atomic energy legislation from 1954, federal hoaxes, and the two elements to the crime are, you must intend to perpetrate a hoax and it also must be reasonably accepted as true. >> yikes. there's a confession. that does not spell well certainly for his immediate future and long-term future. that's the kind of thing that stays with you for a long time. jean casarez, thank you for that. app

warning them to evacuate thayer hall, seaver hall, emerson hall and the science center.been evacuated out of an abundance of caution. all of this is unconfirmed. authorities on campus aric ta g i -- are taking it very seriously. >>> up next, angus king. >>> first, white house soup of the day. navy bean. we'll be right back. ♪ [ female announcer ] just about anywhere you use sugar, you can use splenda® no calorie sweetener. splenda® lets you experience the joy of sugar without all the calories. think sugar, say splenda™ of their type 2 diabetes with non-insulin victoza®. for a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar, but it didn't get me to my goal. so i asked my doctor about victoza®. he said victoza® is different than pills. victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. it's taken once-a-day, any time, and comes in a pen. and the needle is thin. victoza® is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. victoza® is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. it is n

shrapnel bombs placed in the science center, sever hall, emerson hall, thayer hall, 2/4. guess correctly. be quick for they will go off soon. this went to the president of the crimson record and two random people. he said that he went to the hall where his exam was to be at 9:00. they tell everyone to evacuate after the fire alarm had gone off. he knew his plot worked. here's what didn't work. he got a temporary e-mail address, a temporary ip address, sent this out, thinking he's going to be anonymous but the police department saw that he dug a harvard wireless network had been used by a tune to the access a temporary e-mail and ip address. that's how they traced him, went to his apartment, he was read his rights, miranda rights and he said i did it and i did it alone. >> it sounds like it took some planning. they believe the motive was to avoid a final exam? >> that's what they're saying in the affidavit. now he is facing federal charges, prison time, maximum five years. his initial appearance in court will be today. we'll be read his rights, a very constitutionally base

according to the officials, the science center, emerson hall, thayer hall and sever hall are being searchedmb teams. students were evacuated shortly after 9:00 a.m. there are no reports of explosions and we'll keep you updated on nye new developments. >>> news about the phony sign language inner interpreter at the nelson mandela funeral last week. he was among a group of men that burned a man for stealing a television. he reportedly never stood trial because he was deemed unfit. he was an arm's length away from the president. those are the he had lines back to you, dagen and connell. connell: what apstory. lauren greens, thanks. dagen: keeps getting more and more bizarre. a new survey is out and shows americans are not so much in the giving spirit this holiday season. and that is bad news for the retailers. could mean more discounts ahead. connell: that is the bottom line from. liz: and emac joins us from the newsroom. liz? >> yeah. this study, this poll came out today. it was from princeton survey research associates and get this. it is finding that four in 10 shoppers now say they plan to

the science center, thayer, sever and emerson halls. the police department and cambridge police are on the same. >>james: 16 year-old clifton chapman has been identified as the person killed and a saturday night shooting near alemany boulevard and san francisco. another man in his late teens or early 20s is in critical condition. police say they are looking into the possibility that this was a robbery gone wrong. police said they are looking police say it's unclear if chapman and the other shooting victim were together or even each other. no suspects have been arrested. the area is known for game deck city employees have surveillance cameras monetary the area. so it's possible that the shooting was caught on video. today the u.s. chemical safety board will present a draft report of finding stem from last year's fire at the chevron refinery in ♪ regulated in california making the in california making the rules similar to at kaiser permanente we've reduced serious heart attacks by 62%, which makes days with grandpa jack 100% more possible

chief macro strategist gary thayer who talks about the fact most households have lowered the debt burdene haven't seen since the early 1980s, 1990s, which preceded big economic recovery. aren't we poised perhaps for that and perhaps that would spur stocks higher? >> when i look forward, i think we'll see 2% gdp this year. nothing to write home about. next year only probably 2.4%. if i had to guess into 2015 it may only still be 2.5%. i think we're in this long period and we have been in a long period of modest growth with modest inflation. clearly market can do well in there we've had valuations on our side but i think this next year we're not going to see anything like what we've seen this year and probably next couple of years. i think this cyclical bull market has two or three years to go. modest returns. lori: a lot of money is dying to be invested in all sorts of tools, all sorts of types of investors, individual investors and institutions what have you. where will i go if not so much into stocks? >> i hate to say it. i think a lot of money on sidelines today will never make it back