tonight, first a conversation with best-selling author eula biss whose thome on emmunity was name one of the best nonfiction books of the year by "the new york times" book review and "entertainment weekly." "on immunity" looks at the irrational fear surrounding immunization. we'll pivot to a conversation with musician extraordinary billy chiles whose tribute has been nominated for three grammys. the "map of the treasure" features artists such as allison fleming, allison krause, yo yo yoma. we will close with a performance. we're glad you've joined us. those conversations and a performance by billy chiles coming up right now. >> the california endowment, health happens in neighborhoods. learn more. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >>> it is a cultural conundrum in this country despite hard science that irrefutably supports vaccines as the only way to eradicate life threatening illnesses like whooping cough and polio. many parents are embracing unfounded fears over medical facts. best-selling author eula biss, her book on immunity has been

. >> well it certainly wasn't the best night for a tree lighting, but you know what, thome be worse.st they got the tree it will tonight. tomorrow evening looks like the heaviest of the rain with the storm that's currently impacting our area let's check in with our weather watchers start off with william he's in levittown. 39 degrees with rain. that is pretty miserable and he says it's a good night to stay indoors. i would agree with that william. we'll head down to delaware. 41 degrees, john reporting rain there as well. luckily temperatures are far enough above freezing this is just rain. let's go up to the top corner here and check in with alan matthews he reports 34 degrees in berneville with some rain and he says cold and wet outside, yuk, i am not a duck. you are not alan and only the ducks would want to be outside in weather like this and it's just going to get worse as we head into the day tomorrow. hey, if you love the weather and you'd like to be part of our newscast like these great folks join us become an "eyewitness weather" pat cher sign up now at cbsphilly.com/watchers

from near poe thome up to poolesville to near da mass cans cuss, a little bit of light sleet there. temperatures above freezing so even where the wintry mix is, it is melting on road now here is the timing the rest of the day. a little bit of rain now through 10:00 this morning. another area moving in in green. all moving through around 5:00 through 8:00 p.m. across northern virginia, the district and maryland. continues to track away and by 10:0 11:00 tonight it's mostly over with. watch out, there might be just a little bit of slushiness on some of those roads in far mourn maryland. we're going to hold stead i in the upper thursday. then rebounding as the weather roller coaster continu. we might get rain friday night and again saturday. your drive time forecast and how is the drive time on the roads now, melissa? >>> not so hot if you're heading southbound. blocked from 123 to spout run. try to get over to the parkway off old dough mminion. opene same thing if you're on 1. perhaps some of the folks who cross the river will cross earlie. 14th street bridge slow as is 270 southbound

becoming a suicide bomber for them is the beginning of a new life, unless we hit thome for life, by saying they're not martyrs but they're murderers. we're not going to force them to stand back and say, hold on, it's a message that i embrace. and that's where i think impairing main stream normal muse li muslims to hit the campuses. that's not where the u.s. government for that matter, my government is focused on. >> i think your perspective is so very valuable. i hope people will read your book and i hope they understand that you're speaking truth, in a way that very few people are. it's refreshing to have you here, please come back. >> my latest book is called god, guns, grits and gravy, if you order before december 10, you get a leather gift box, a commemorative gift card and even some family recipes. you can wrap those up and put them under the tree. you do have to order before december 10. >> obama care advisor said americans are too stupid to recognize the -- congressional committee to explain himself next week. is jonathan gruber smart enough to dig himself out of the hole that he du

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what if the real culprit was closer thome? that's what sam glines thinks. you conducted your own investigation and you determined it was an inside job involving sony employees. so who do you say did this, and what facts and evidence do you have that brings you to this conclusion? >> hi don. so when we look at this we look at motive, right? and what's important to note based on our investigation is that the date that we have nailed in terms of when data was moved off of sony and was -- was far earlier than the timeline that has been revealed so far. our date points to october 21st. when we look at the over 100 terabytes of data that was moved off, which is an incredible amount of data. there was quite a bit of information, hr-related information that was included in that release of files. what we saw was that there were a few suspects we had been looking at that were not included in that release of information, and these suspects have -- at least one had ties to critical knowledge of sony systems. ip addresses, credentials, et cetera and also had motive for

. >>> you may have them under your tree but we have thome live. christmas morning on "gma."ater on, join the celebration on abc. >>> good morning, i'm eric thomas. in san francisco, a holiday tradition got under way this morning. lefty o'doul's is hosting its annual toy drive for the 14th year in a row. several kids got up early to sing christmas carols. police officers and firefighters will deliver gifts to needy children throughout the day. they will be accepting gifts all the way until 11:00 this evening. >>> let's get an update on the christmas eve commute. >> it's pretty light. if you have any last-minute shopping to do, you won't have anything to worry about. the golden gate bridge, still very cloudy out there. we do have one crash, however, in san ramon. southbound side of 680 at crow canyon, watch out for that, possibly one lane blocked but green conditions at top speeds. >>> when we come back we'll have a lo start a revolution a revolution in coffee quality with the finest nespresso coffee blends. a revolution in technology with unique centrifusion. a revolution in

winner, rookie played along some of the team's biggest names, such a scott roland, remember him, jim thomethe worlds series in 2008. the year before in 2007, he was a national league mvp. so check out the shout out he gave during the 2008 world series parade through center city. >> there we go fox 29 want to go get it right, you know, celebrating number three, as you can see, 8 million people out here. >> fox 29 shout out. got to love. that will fans real sad to see him go. they say just won't be the same team without jimmy on the field. >> memories, watching back on the game, you know, one of the star players. it will be sad to see him go. >> he is such a talent. that i think it is a shame to let him go. it is a mistake. >> so at this point officially, parade not official. still -- trade not officialment sore cents tell our howard eskin the phillies will get two minor league pitchers in this deal. j-roll had a no trade clause. so woe have to approve it, as well. he likely will. here's what other fans are saying on twitter. julia tweeted: bittersweet on the rollins trade. need trading favo

we knew they were possible but the extent of thome was a shock. -- of them was a sherble. >> and when they start monitoring data traffic between google servers, and they are clearly monitoring traffic for people in the u.s. which is his i understand is not their mission. >> so the response of the tech industry is clear. massive new encription initiatives, lawyers for the companies being much tougher in court about turning over data. the response from the u.s. government a little clear, a little more muddied at this point. if you were to give your industry a grade for how it has responded, and for how the u.s. government has responded? >> i am proud of my industries' response. there is a set of things we do. it is not just the 2048 bitten crippings. when e-mail systems talk toe each other. good-mail is all fully increpted all the way from your hand held into the system and out. what happens when the e-mail goes from server a to server b? there is a protocol which will maintain the encription as it goes from g-mail, to hot mail, yahoo, et cetera. it is active to protect the interests. i

justice, you know, the first thing you should do is prevent people from getting to work or getting thome same looting liquor stores does or bringing down a dollar store. that's justice. explain what's justice. if you have a political point, you're upset about eric garner, i understand that for sure. why is preventing me from getting home to see my children making things better? >> or if a woman is having a baby or somebody is having a heart attack having a hard time getting to the hospital. >> al sharpton blocked the lanes. maybe the president will learn about this new scandal this morning as he wakes up and reads the morning paper. what he does in the morning to get his news is he watches espn all morning. that's how he starts off this morning. according to a new radio interview, take a listen to the president. >> listen, i spend most of my time watching espn in the morning. i get so much politics i don't, you know, want to be inundated with a bunch of chatter about politics during the day. >> also don't want to be inundated with my daily intelligence security briefings, you know, to ma