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tom, what do we know? >> the cruise line is right, wolf. take a look at this.om where people post pictures of it. this is the damage. you see christmas decorations knocked about. all sorts of damage. 30 people hurt here. royal caribbean is giving a full refund to all of the folks here. wolf, this has been kind of a rough year for the cruise ship industry. you may recall earlier this month, there was this amazing video from down near antarctica as this ship that's much smaller than the other one, had about 88 americans on board, pitched in gigantic seas, kicked up by winds out there. they were about 55 miles an hour, ten miles below hurricane force. they briefly lost engine power, they lost communications, had to go limping back to port. then you may recall back in november, we had this amazing story from down off the coast of baja. remember, the carnival splendor down there became essentially adrift at sea because they had fire in the engine room. they couldn't have power to the ship. they had to have help from the navy as they flew out food and tried to help e

tom. >>> happening now, all eyes on a korean peninsula. there is worry that military exercises this weekend could spiral into an all-out war. wolfthere on exclusive assignment. >>> and violating unmanned air space. a drone crashes in a texas yard and who does it belong to? >>> and retail surveillance cameras may be recording more than just your picture. how businesses are using them to learn everything that they can about you. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer joins us live from north korea this hour. i'm suzanne malveaux, and you i'm suzanne malveaux, and you are in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >r >>> it p >>> it is at wolf blitzer describes as a tinderbox. he is on exclusive assignment accompanying governor bill richardson who is trying to diffuse tensions on the korean peninsula, that could blow into a war this weekend. on the same island where a similar drill last month prompted north korea to shell the island is where they plan military exercises. and the north is vowing a similar response this weekend. one top pentagon official is openly warning th

wolf and i have been working on this issue for deck based. even -- decades. even before tiananmen square, we met with our former colleague, now gone from us, tom lantos, to meet with the dalai lama in 1987, i think it was. a couple years later we saw what happened in tiananmen square and at that time as advocates for human rights throughout the world we were advocating for human rights in china as well. for a long time we had that debate. was joined then by our colleague, david wu, and others in this important statement. it said, if we are advocating for human rights throughout the world which this congress has done over and over again, we lose all moral authority to talk about human rights to the rest of the world if we do not talk about human rights in china. despite the commercial interests we have in china, despite a number of other issues that have been called to our attention. and so the news is that the nobel committee had awarded the nobel peace prize to liu xiaobo came as good news to those of us who had been calling attention to this issue for a very long time. congressman smith was instrumental in nominating liu xiaobo for the nobel prize. he has b