pete an eye on united internet. keep an eye on the property market in the united kingdom.g had the news on stamp duty overhaul, berkley group up almost 4%. 55% uptick in profit. their first half looks strong. they say there is a returning to normal market in the u.k. with good underlying demand. please, keep things consistent. they are worried about uncertainty after the elections. to seest want consistency, particularly when it comes to property tax. beatty, british builder, the biggest british builder. once again, just batting their hand away from any approaches. they say, look, it is worth more than one billion pounds even though that is what we valued it at ourselves. they are going back to their mathematics. they think it could be that much higher. maybe on approach from john lang. shares up 1.3%. >> thanks very much, caroline. let's get some top stories for you. german factory orders rose more than forecast in october. a full 2% more than analyst estimates. small signs that europe's largest economy is continuing to recover from that missed year. the bundesbank cut it

. >>> residents of unexpected city can enjoy some of the fat of the internet in the world. united states internet now offers lightning fast 10gigi bytes in minneapolis with starting price $399 a month. right now the service is only offered in minnesota but the company has plans to expand in 2015 and google will introduce fiber network sometime in the next few years. >> i want to spend $400 a month on the internet honey. how does that conversation go? >> better keep you warm. >> the pg&e bill better go down to zero. >> we lived there and i can imagine $400 for gas or $400 to play on the internet while you are stuck inside for six months. either way, money will spent. >> the winds on live doppler 7 hd show they are up to 6 miles per hour. as we head to tuesday into wednesday, two cold fronts very dry but arctic fronts will bring winds for 24 hours from noon tomorrow to noon on wednesday, sustained at 20 to 30 miles per hour and gusts up to 2355 miles per hour, and wherever you see yellow which is all of our neighbors. no one is exempt. here is the golden gate bridge it is hazy but n

would north korea have turned off the own internet so their people couldn't see what's going on inside of the united. >> the internet going dark in north korea has to be a big inconvenience for the four people in north korea who have internet access. i dope think it was that. just as like ily that the north koreans did the themselves as preventive measure, following up on the white house statement on the. so right now it's all just speculation. the idea that perhaps the chinese might have been assisting us. there are no greater perpetrators of state sponsored cyber crimes, cyber espionage, than the chinese. they pour vast amounts of resources into it. they're poking and testing our infrastructure every day in major way. so asking the chinese for support, for help in this regard, is kind of like asking the fox to guard the henhouse. >> quickly before i come back to john here on set. i want to get your thoughts on something that was kind of coming together this weekend. the president calling what happened to sony pictures cyber vandalism versus cyber terrorism. senator john mccain and others are sayin

global internet experts describe the outage as a country wide blackout. they're blaming the united states for the ongoing internet problems. the u.s. hasn't confirmed or denying anything to do with this. but the president did promise to respond to north korea's cyberattack on sony studios. >>> talk about a pricey potty is what it says here. i didn't write this. the city of san diego is paying more than half a million dollars for two toilets. the public facilities are called portland loos. the oregon creation didn't meet california building safety standards. plus the downtown spot where they were to be placed didn't have any utility connections adding to the final cost of $560,000. >>> somehow somewhere there is a segue into sports. henry, i'll let you do it. >> if there is one, you can do it. >> $560,000 i'm going to have to visit that place sometime. >> and there's two of them. only 200 and something each. >> bring a friend. you can both enjoy at the same time. >>> we have a lot to talk about when we come back. first, the ice. the sharks have to wait a few extra days for their chr

in a statement the top governing body accuses the united states of shutting down the internet. they believe it was in retaliation. north korea condemned president obama over the film the interview, saying the president ipp cited the see at rick -- theatrical release >>> millions of sony playstation players are frustrated. it is offline after an attack. and the disruptions begin on christmas day hit microsoft xbox live. it was a platform to stream the film "the interview." a group calling itself lizard squad claimed responsibility for the incidents >>> a prisoner wap is underway -- swap is underway between ukraine. this morning ukrainian president petro porashenko met with hundreds of troops changed. it is part of a plan to end the pro-russian uprising in eastern ukraine. the move coming as a key round of peace talks were called off on friday. al jazeera's ema-haywood has more. >> a mother and son are reunited. the soldier, one of many released in ukraine in a prisoner swap. a possible step forward in easing the host iltize engulfing part of ukraine for month. and taking place a

united nations , just days after u.s. president barack obama vowed to retaliate over north korea's cyber attack against sony. we are also learning that there has been a severe internet outage in north korea. the united states declining to confirm it had anything to do with it. let's get to sports for you. starting off with a tough day for chelsea and england. >> they are playing as we speak facing stoke and it started out perfectly for the blues with a goal in the second minute by john kerry. a header for john kerry -- terry , his first goal in the premier league this season. the blues still leading the league, but only thanks to a better goal difference than manchester city. they will be looking to extend that lead. good news for the blues, with the return of their number one goalie. stoke has seen the barcelona midfielder in the starting 11. we will take a quick look at the standings as we wait for tonight's result. chelsea and manchester city top the league with 39 points in each. followed by manchester united in third, with 32 points. arsenal and tottenham have 27 points in each, but the gunners are ahead on goal difference. burnley, hull, and lester -- leichest

. >> sreenivasan: north korea ridicules president obama and accuses the united states of causing internet shortages in that country. we'll hear how the administration is trying to protect against future cyber attacks. and in our signature segment a family of sharecroppers flee poverty and racism. an unlikely success story revealed during a chance encounter on an airplane. >> my grandparents, my dad, my cousins, my uncles, all walked on this land. >> sreenivasan: next on pbs newshour weekend. >> pbs newshour weekend is made possible by: corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we are your retirement company. additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. it's been a week now since two new york city police officers were murdered by a man who apparently was seeking reveng

it is blaming the united states for its ongoing internet problems. the president did promise a response to the cyberattack on sony by north korea. >>> another big budget film from hollywood that's been banned for so-called historical inaccuracies. >> close as brothers. >> exodus gods and kings has been blasted by egypt's censorship board. they have pointed out chronological errors including the parting of the red sea. they claimed it was an earthquake, not a miracle by moses, that caused the split. >>> first, here's lester holt with a look at what's coming up next. >>> we'll take you to the funeral of one of the slain officers at 10:00. also how far down with gas prices drop? we'll show you where it is below $2 a gallon. we'll take you to colorado where ski resorts are embracing the legalization of pot with high-end pot boutiques. >>> our next story is about how a simple act of kindness ended up benefitting an entire school. that act of kindness being nice to a girl eating lunch by herself. garvin thomas shows us what wonderful things happened next i

internet until 2010. as for taking that system down-- >> when i heard the north koreans blame the united states i thought that was plausible. >> reporter: the white house is not commenting. all that's public right now about the cyber war is the war of words. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> axelrod: another apparently unrelated hacking incident is targeting some of sony's video game customers. the company's playstation network is experiencing disruptions for the third straight day. microsoft's x-box live is also reporting some troubles. a hacker group has claimed responsibility. large brawls broke out in several shopping malls across the country last night. police say this one near pittsburgh started after a flash mob was organized on social media. more than 1,000 teenagers descended on the mall. meanwhile, on chicago's navy pier, a pregnant woman was hospitalized and five people were arrested after a large fight involving about 30 people. there were also skirmishes in sacramento and memphis. the incidents do not appear to be related. a top leader of the somali terror group al-shabaab has surrende

the internet is completely down. the unitedsing at least to comment on whether the it is, has some involvement in this internet outage, but in the wake of the sony hacking scandal and president obama saying that the u.s. would somehow i don't know retaliate is the right word, but somehow figure out how to react proportionately, perhaps this is part of it. we do not know, but the report is there is a massive bear net outage -- internet outage in north korea. total recall, that might be a better name for general motors' move after news it is working on contingency plans in case the japanese airbag takata, in case that recall increases. gm responsible for more than 50% of car recalls alone, and this year has been the highest on record. joining us now to break down the numbers is our own jeff flock. we've got two issues here, the problematic takata airbags and the problems that general motors suffered totally independently. >> and gm doesn't want to get burned again, liz, by the takata problems, that's why they're taking these meas

: the report today from north korea's state-run news agency directly blames the united states for the country'sou internet outage saying, "the u.s., with its big physical size, like little kids playing hide and seek without any shame, starting disturbing the internet operation of the country's major media." the report targets president obama, who last week specifically accused north korea of being behind the cyber attack on sony pictures. north korea's national defense commission claims the president forced sony to release "the interview," which depicts the fictional assassination of kim jong-un. a government spokesman went a step further saying, "obama always goes reckless in words and deeds like a monkey in a tropical forest." >> it's like the terrible twos for them, the name calling. >> reporter: steven laff is a cyber-security expert. while he says north korea may be diplomatically immature. >> they absolutely have the capability to do damage, and when a child has a gun, you really try to talk to them in a different way. >> reporter: laff says north korea's has been engaged in0 cyberwarfare for 30 yea

make the bans open atives -- began to the internet, and by the red cross, the united nations to come as observers. will facilitate enormously far more profound political change from the u. s.. they don't -- it will have just the other impact. it may close this window of opportunity. i do not think it will shut it, but may make it a bit more narrow. >> thank you. i want to thank all of you for us this morning -- for your great contributions and questions. to thank ted, peter, carlos -- thank you for joining us from miami. happy holidays everybody. we will see you next year. >> here's a look at some of the programs you will find on christmas day. at iday festivities start 10:00 am. just after 12:30 pm, celebrity actors talk about the causes. at 8 pm, a debate on the founding fathers. am steven , 10:00 pinker. 12:30 pm, jill lepore. on c-span3, 8:00 am, fall the berlin wall. first ladies' fashion. later in the day, tom brokaw. journal" is next. a look at today's news and your calls. the director of the national museum of african american joins us on "q&a." at 8:00 pm, discussion on the

internet is what the chinese government considers crucial to maintain power. and many other governments including france spain, south korea, russia and the united states also appliesgulations or internet monitoring. internet freedom across the globe continues to face major challenges. >>> in the philippines, flash floods and landslides triggered by tropical storms have killed at least 29 people. the tropical storm dumped heavy rains on monday destroying bridges and highways. thousands of residents were forced to take shelter at evacuation centers. >>> a senior korean air executive who resigned after a row over a bag of nuts is waiting to see if she will be charged with breaching air safety and workplace regulations. >> reporter: it's becoming a familiar and unwelcome or reel for this woman. a reaction to her blistering of nuts wrongly served in a cap bin. she shouted at the chief, ordered the plane back to new york and had the man thrown off. she stands accused of breaking workplace laws. though extraordinary level of interest in this case stems not just from the fact that it all started over an agreement over a battle of nuts but also hierarchy in this society. s

unlike russia and the united states, china, the internet is not available to the north korean public. they don't get to grow the subculture nationally here and in other countries. instead there's a bureau 121, an elite unit, 1,500 hackers. it did an exhaustive report in august about cyber warfare. bureau 121 is aimed at hacking attacks. asymmetrical warfare. here is where it departs from what we have seen. >> it sees military-style attacks. there's no disseminating of it publicly. it requires almost a sense of humour that has not been displayed in the past. there's to discernible anniversary, nothing around politics. in terms of broad cultural sense of north korea and how it plated and the bare bones evidence, we are not seeing the evidence that you would want to see. >> that's jake ward. >> parramatta pictures is not allowing its film. team america to be screened. some movie scenes manned to run the 2004 movie in place of "the interview." "team america" also mocks north korea. peter is a media marketing as a resultant and i asked his thoughts on the sony hacking scandal. >> for them

internet problems in north korea? >> reporter: well they blame the united states for the instability of their internet. you heard senator graham that china is somehow involved. there is a connection that north korea relies on china for internet. that is the case. we have seen how unstable it is. these attacks are pretty sophisticated sophisticated. two hacker groups have taken the responsibility. the dprk continues to blame the united states. >> will ripley thank you. >>> investigators searching for the missing jetliner and 162 people on board. an "early start" on your money is next. it smoking with chantix. people who know me they say 'i never thought you would quit.' but chantix helped me do it. along with support chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you have any of these stop chantix and call your doctor right away

internet is all through china, i suppose we could put pressure on china to cut them off. and there was an interesting editorial today in the wall street journal that suggested that the unitedshould buy the rights to the interview and should put it on dvd's and usb ports and drop it over north korea and let people watch it and put it out on the internet, the united states government and not sony and let people watch it in that sense and exposure might be the worst thing you could do to the secretive regime. kim jong-un would call it an act of war. you would have to wond fer they have vhs or machines. put the movie out. there was an e-mail to sony from the hackers saying they are pleased that it was not released. >> as far as sony putting it out, i have sources in the entertainment industry that told me sony has been in contact with a variety of the on line streaming companies and none of them want going to do with it, because they are afraid of cyber warfare against them, the same way sony was. there is not a lot of people in hollywood standing up. george clooney tried to put out a petition asking all studio heads and creative people to sign a petition to stand together aga

the internet of the united states which is the biggest has a little under one billion unique ip addresses. i had a discussion with a news organization from japan this morning -- 167 million ip addresses represent the internet of japan. it is 1000 -- a little over 100 million for south korea. this is a microscopic network. this internet did not play a big role in society in north korea. very few people have access to it. a handful of websites, mostly government websites. it has nearly nobody out of the many people in north korea, almost nobody has access to it. >> let me ask you this. what would it take to launch this kind of attack on the country of north korea? >> just to be clear, i don't have direct evidence to confirm that this was a cyber attack. i cannot rule out the possibility that this was an extraordinarily poorly timed router malfunction. however, in the context of what this occurred in, you have to consider the possibility. pursuing that possibility, this denial attack that was directed at north korea, that type of attack on the spectrum of sophistication is actually pretty lo

internet. like the united states is more powerful than that. >> i would rather seize all their assets. if we can shut off their internet, seize all their assets in various banks. >> that will come if we have to. >> that's one of the options i've read they're looking at. you get together with countries where they're flowing currency and you block some assets. we're watching it. when it makes news, we'll report on it. there's a new report on the i.r.s. targeting scandal. we haven't talked about this in awhile. g.o.p. probe found a culture of bias there. emails. what it could mean for the agency that claims to be a neutral tax collector. and officials in five southern states reportedly coordinating to hold their own primaries on the very same day. what it could mean for republican white house hopefuls and whether a dixie strategy could backfire on the g.o.p. i have a cold with terrible chest congestion. i better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn't treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. [brea

united states and cuba. the 65-year-old was sentenced in 2011 to 15 years in prison for bringing telecommunications devices to key what to set up internet access as a subcontractor for the united states agencies for international development. the cuban government accused him of being a spy. >> president obama spoke with castro about the policy changes and the release of gross capping a year of high-level talks between the united states and cuba. >> reporting on the situation if cuba continues now on the abc news app and facebook and updates on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. >> police are investigating after a homeowner shot an intruder at 4:30 this morning at a home. police say the homeowner opened fire after a man ignored the man positive get off his property and managed to get inside the property. he admitted to police he drunk all night and was trying to get in what he thought was his home and is charged with trespassing, vandalism not believed life threatening. >> thank you have been car fires a couple of blocks from each other. at 17th and liberty streets and police say that the first happened just after 4:00 this morning, and four other

breaking news that north korea's internet is down. the united states says north korea hacked sony pictures because of the controversial comedy, well, controversial to north korea, "the interview." this movie follows in satire form a plot to assassinate north korean leader kim jong-un. on saturday night live they tackled this one reprising his role of dr. evil and austin powers. >> it is so that a athletic toik see you fight over a silly comedy. it is like watching two bald men fight over a comb. who cares? come original sony, you thought it was a joke to have frames franco assassinate kim jong-un? the man single handedly almost killed the oscars. >> all right. we laugh at that. but in this special report, you will see why this is not a joke for north korea. kyung lah is "outfront." >> reporter: welcome to prime time programming on north korea's only television station. a cartoon explaining how to bomb the enemy. to traditional dance praising the supreme leader. this is entertainment a la north korean regime. the rare interlude about his godlike

why in the world are we putting up with all of this talk about turning over the internet to other countries to the united nations for crying out loud? >> that should never happen, without a doubt, i'm upset that the united nations oversees domain registrations. this goes on, and now we want to give out this stuff to other people to run when we're the ones who created it, that doesn't make sense to me. when you want to see things happen, like you said, this administration and this government, hasn't been stepping up with benghazi and other things. we'd like to see them step up here. i don't think this is the response most people would like to see. we're not going to hurt the people, most likely in north korea, most people citizens don't have access to the internet. they're not allowed access. if we take them down, we're taking the government down. economic sanctions, i'd like to see. lou: bruce, your thoughts? >> you know, the point is that with -- this is not the first time that we have seen a terrorist attack against this country that host nation supported. and the fact that the sands casino was almost

. >>> north korea blaming the united states for shutting down its internet earlier this week, this amid the ongoing questions over the hacking of "the interview" with sony pictures, and claiming the president himself is responsible for releasing that movie called "the interview." >>> i'm leyland vittered in new york. see you at 1:00 p.m. eastern with julie banderas. now back to "forbes on fox." >>> well, it's a dubious list but it's out for the most ridiculous lawsuits of 2014. for example a woman suing showtime in new york's transit authority for falling in a subway while she was looking at a dexter ad. a sports fan suing espn for showing him sleeping at a major league baseball game, and the number one case -- this guy, who was caught toppling a huge boulder after he had filed a personal injury lawsuit that claimed he was disabled. steve, you've been crying out in the wilderness for reform nor years. may we finally get it with examples like these? >> these examples will be a huge push for it, david. as you know, the tort system has been totally perverted, shakedowns happen all the time

and that's because unlike russia, the united states, china, the internet is not available to the northn public, so they don't really get to grow the sub culture naturally the way we do here and in other countries. instead they have created a bureau 121. an elite military unit, about 3,000 to 5,000 hackers. bureau 121 is specifically aimed at hacking attacks. but here is sort of where it departs from what we have seen so far. they tend to do very military-style attacks. wipe out data in a kind of brutal way. there is no disseminating of it publicly. it requires almost a sense of humor that the north korean military has not displayed in the past. and they tend to time those attacks to certain anniversaries. there is no discernible anniversary here. so in terms of both a brood cultural sense of north korea and how it has operated in the past, and in terms of the bare bones sort of cyber security evidence, john, we're not really seeing the clear evidence that you would want to see to pin this on that country. >>> peter shankman is a technology and media and marketing consultant. welcome. w

united states. it's also available on the internet. the comedy centers on a fictional plot to assassinate north korean leader kim john kuhn. -- kim jong un. >> we would love it if you could take him out. >> it's a satire that has taken on a distinctly political hue. many see the film's release as a victory for freedom of expression. >> people are saying i'm going to watch the movie, but i don't know. but after being subjected to the worst cyberattacks ever directed at an american company, sony pictures canceled the release of the movie. the fbi points the thinker squarely at north korea. u.s. president barack obama had expressed his concern at hollywood's apparent decision to self censor. now he was all smiles on holiday in hawaii. >> merry christmas, everybody. >> with the film itself embroiled in a heavy cocktail of hacking, terrorist threats and agitation, it has become its own publicity campaign. >> money falling from the air, a christmas gift for some people in hong kong. banknotes taking from an armored car because the rear doors

the internet in the united states, the biggest, has just a addresseser a billion . i had a discussion with a news organization this morning from aboutsaying that it is 100 62 7 million ip addresses 167 represent the -- million ip addresses that represent the internet in japan. so this is a microscopic network. this internet did not play a big role in society in north korea. very few people had access to it. sites -- af how it handful of websites, mostly the government, nearly nobody out of the million people who live in north korea, almost nobody has access to this thing. me ask you this what would it take to launch this kind of attack on a country like north korea? >> just to be a clear, i don't have direct evidence to confirm that this is a cyber attack. i can't rule out the possibility that this is an extraordinarily poorly timed router disruption. you have to consider the possibility. pursuing the theory that this is a distributed denial service attack directed at north korea to take it off-line, that type of attack on the spectrum of sophistication is actually

infrastructure is so hold that you don't have the capacity to bring in the internet or to plug in the multiple electrical appliances in your unit. and most of the residents are able to access the internet through the smart phone, or even through the foot phone and most of the residents do have cellular phone and they use them to access the resident, and i hear it from the hotels and i hear it from the working class families here and the latino and arabac and others, and they have been asking for wi-fi and in fact when we welcome in the tech companies, here just down the street from the tender loin, the residents say that we want them to come and we hope that they will partner with us to bring in the wi-fi so that we can access the internet and as the supervisor mark farrell says that it is a need now and you can access the employment training programs find out about jobs and clothes and services and on the free wi-fi, wherever they can get it to be able to access, really vital information, and in order to live and to thrive here in san francisco and that is what the program is going to mean in the residents to the tender loin a

some internet experts say they would not be surprised to find out it was the united states fighting back. >> it would be a collapse, temporary collapse. >> reporter: north korea's internet is reportedly back up and running but some experts say the web could have gone dark because of something as behind as a software glitch. joel waldman, fox news. >>> today protesters continued their rage as two police officers warn their deaths. flags are flying at half staff in new york for rafael ramos and wenjian liu. bill deblasio and his wife stopped by the memorial in brooklyn. the gunman took his own life. rafael ramos will be laid to arrest on saturday. officer lui's family will make funeral plans when they arrive from china. his wife shared her grief with the public. >> this is a difficult time for our families. we will stand together and get through this together. >> nayor deblasio is asking protesters to put aside their anti-police demonstrations on hold saying the focus should be on the families of the slain officers. in houston, police are on alert after someone posted a message on social m

some internet experts say they would not be surprised to fine out it was the united states fighting back the temporary collapse of the north korean internet suggests the american may have had a hand in that. >> north korea's internet is reported back up and running but cyber security experts say the woman could have gone dark because of something as benign as a software glitch. in washington, joel waldman, fox news. >> the city of philadelphia is testing out a new city website and you can help design it. the site which was just roll out is basically a work in progress. the city says they want to know what people living in philly want on the site. so you're allowed to submit suggestions online and new part of the site will roll out every couple of weeks. operators of the site admit it's not perfect right now but they hope to continually make it better. >> all right. wet but mild as we head into the christmas holiday. >>> 60s? >> by the way my daughter she was trying to get here from houston. three hour delay. three hour delay. so she's one of the many. >>> did that happen the last time. >

promised a retaliation for that action but not comment whether the united states is behind the internet outages plaguing the democratic people's republic of korea. >> as far as the topic of human rights is concerned what is the significance of the u.n. meeting that is happening today? >> well, north korea has long been on the security council's radar for its nuclear program ant its discussion of nonpliftion in thnonproliferati. but this is the first time the u.n. is discussing north korea because of its human rights. and frankly it's a little unusual to discuss the country based solely on human rights. but the argument we have been hearing today is that the situation there is so bad and it's being orchestrateby the highest levels of government, systematic human rights abuses, they talked about the prisons where political prisoners are sent, women, children, malnutrition, mass starvation, systematic rape, torture, there is no country in the modern world that parallels north korea for its human rights abuses which they say in many instances constitute crimes against humanity. so the unite

internet is what the chinese government considers crucial to maintain power. and many other governments including france, spain, south korea, iran, russia, united states, also apply of regulations or internet monitoring. they may not be as stringent as what internet users call the great firewall of china however. >>> computers are getting smarter faster, more sophisticated, can the human brain keep up. this time next year, it may well be a robot in this spot. hope not, but jake ward looked at the issue. >> reporter: those of you who drive regularly know this already. but driving is chaos. the sheer amount of data coming at you. the lane markers, and the street signs, the signals, and the rain on the wind shield, all of that is an unimaginable amount of data, and before now it was assumed that only our sophisticated brains could handle that kind of data and process it for us. but in cars and in all other parts of our lives algorithms are taking over. computers are becoming as good and sometimes better than humans in terms of processing their data. by the end of last year, a u.s. government competition for emergency robots had already spawned machines that could na

. >>> tonight north korea is just coming back online after internet outages over the last 24 hours. the news comes as the unitedtates continues to grapple with the cyber attack that it blames on the communist country. that's next. >>> plus, the music world mourns a pioneer, one of the few artists to perform at the original wood stock. kate. >> christmas right around the corner and we are tracking a storm not snow this time around but rain and wind. i'll tell you when the heaviest gets here and when it moves out for the upcoming ho . >> new developments tonight in the sony hacking scandal. reports say north korea once again has internet access after nearly 24 hours of outages. north korea is threatening to strike back at the united states after claims from officials here that the nation is to blame for the sony cyber attack. here's craig boswell. >> reporter: north korea is issuing new threats against the u.s. saying our toughest counteract will be boldly taken against the white house, the pentagon and the whole u.s. mainland. the regime is angered over what it says is reckless rumors behind the sony attack. pre

united states from havana. gross was arrested back in 2009 after he was caught smuggling satellite equipment into cuba. it with us part of a u.s. aid plan to increase internet access in a severely restricted company. the release of three of the so-called cuban five, being held on espionage charges in the united states. let's heard to elise laf vick, she's in washington with more. tell us more. >> well, carol, the cubans released alan gross. as you know, his health was really failing. in addition to this, in this landmark deal, the u.s. and cuba swapping spies. the u.s. released those three cuban intelligent agents in jail for more than 15 years. cuban releasing an u.s. intelligence source who has been in jail in cuba for more than 30 years np u.s. not releasing those names for security purposes. officials tell me with gross's release, president obama set to announce the most sweeping overall in u.s. policy against cuba since the embargo was impos imposed. a major relaxing of travel. virtually anyone can go to cuba with a license to travel. let's take a listen to a little bit more about that deal. >> he's shaking hands with castro. >> a historic handshake be

internet capability. but say it's down. a lot of people will suspect the united states did this, given the fact that the president said the u.s. will respond, it will be proportionate. the u.s. might not necessarily announce what it's doing. what's your sense if in fact the internet is down in north korea, was the united states behind it? >> wolf, i'm not going to comment on that. we'll let the public know what happens after we do the attack. we don't tell people that we're going to come and hold them accountable, what we're going to do until we finish. we have different agencies in our government coming together who will make a recommendation to the president, our commander in chief. then we will act and we have to make sure we do it the right way. we are going to be a standard for the world on how we deal with destructive attacks. it's just not about north korea. it's about terrorists. it's about isis hiring hackers to do these type of things. so we have to do this right. it's got to be strong but it's also got to be proportionate. but i'd like to talk, too, ab

>> i view it as a bet on alibaba as a bet on china and the internet outside of the united states. i think that this company's very well positioned to execute in countries like malaysia, places outside of the united states. war chest of $25 billion in a currency of $200 billion plus to buy companies in the u.s., again, i just see the growth is there. killing it on mobile. >> nicole? >> moving in markets outside the united states. there's a big internet outside the usa. >> there's no question china's a huge opportunity. that is absolutely the bull case. china's only country supporting north korea and there will be pressure on china there. and any china data negative will impocket the stock that is are levered toward china and not questioning the long-term large opportunity in china but pay attention to the risks. >> andrew, before you go, where do you think alibaba could be trading here? how much upside? >> i don't want to call a number but i would say that last time i was on the show talking about alibaba the internet market was overtook the u.s. internet market. now the chinese ma

internet within you know a sovereign state? >> well normally that would be pretty hard if you try to take the united states internet down, that would pretty difficult north korea has a really small internet. they only have 1,000 i.p. addresses in the whole country compared to a hundred million here in the u.s. if you have some big computers with big internet connections and flood that one connection with traffic, you can drown out anything that people in north korea want to do. that's actually something that again, there's lots of people other than the u.s. government, who could have done this. >> certainly speculation continues as to what happened is still forthcoming. in the meantime, timothy lee, thank you. appreciate it. >> we're going to have more on the airasia plane that's been missing for 13-plus hours. keep it on msnbc. why do i take metamucil everyday? because it helps me skip the bad stuff. i'm good. that's what i like to call the meta effect. 4-in-1 multi-health metamucil now clinically proven to help you feel less hungry between meals. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line. ♪ ♪ i love my me

internet access. is there some shenanigans on this? the united states government declining on that our markets took off. up the nasdaq by 16 points. "after the bell" starts right now. liz: it is a record for the s&p 500 of the number to beat was 2075. david: extraordinary. we're less than 40 points away from 18,000 on the dow. liz: let's get right to today's market action of the fire has been lit unall of our people we have here. christian mcgoon from yield shares, says the markets won't rely on what the fed says in 2015. we'll ask him what will they rely on? john few hi says we'll continue to see volatile markets to the end of the year. this is tacked on to three major rallies last week. what do you ad attribute the gain? thinner volume, not surprising as we head into the beginning of a holiday week. >> like i said couple weeks ago it would be slow to the end of year, right, nothing happened. we're right where we started. no. i think all honestly, the big break was short oil, shout s&p sent the whole market lower. that has broken apart. you can'

reporter: recall the president obama the chief culprit the statement also accused the united states of shutting down internet service to the country in retaliation for alleged acting the tax on sunny u.s. official said the loss in was not involved with either issues. coming up with people are being told not to eat certain caramel apples to hear the live the outside the golden gate bridge gorgeous conditions outside but again it is really a chilly saturday morning you're wikiup to will be right back. >> reporter: official said the 29 year-old kristen dennis was forcibly taken from her home that describe the suspect is 6 ft. 2 1/5 pound african-american man and a to 40 of the dead so far have no as and reopened following a fatal hit and run crash that killed and also had a traffic light system, died away the cdc is now warning about a sweet link to the least five guest the contemn it would hysteria among the victims of santa cruz. >> reporter: they're one consumers on its people in 10 states have gotten sick and five in my have died after eating contaminated treat the cdc is also advising people to avoid prepa

over the weekend they blamed the united states of being behind internet outages in north korea.cess, they called president obama a monkey. a monkey in a jungle. a flat-out racist comment about president obama. this is north korea, a country so upset about a film that perhaps they attacked an entire company and shut down the internet company and yet they are willing to make a racist comment about another leader. >> this is consistent with their unpredictability rationality. nothing seems to have changed between the father and now kim jong-un in terms of their tactics of using profanity and racism. they have made these comments about the president and others before. these kind of racist comments. so they are in a cocoon. their whole existence is based on a cult personality. so anything insult like "the interview" to the personality is almost like a military attack on them. so when you're talking about north korea, i've dealt with them for years. they don't think like years. they think in a different phase and what has happened there is fairly consistent with their unpredictability

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and officer liu's funeral will be held when the family member arrive in the united states from china. >> north korea's internet is back up after a nine-hour outage. no one is claiming responsibility but it is days after president obama promised a pore's -- a taking to larger than average waves despite warnings that the highest tides of the year could be dangerous. >>> i will tell you when and where they will hit looking through the coastal flood advisory and in the forecast, record highs today and update on the wet weather tomorrow. >>> sevens can you see how crystal clear it is from emeryville to the bay bridge and the eastern span is moving nicely but we have extra traffic. it is a foggy commute here at the golden gate bridge through the north bay coming into san francisco like night and day but as you head into san jose you will find c.h.p. issued high fog advisory. be careful. low visibility. >>> the next "star trek" movie could be faster and more furious because paramount has announced the third installment will be directed by the director of "fast and furious," including 6 which made $780 million around

internet." so is this the retaliation that the united states president was talking about for nock's massive cyberony? the u.s. government is not saying. but i want to bring in congressman ed royce who's the chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs. chairman, thanks for taking the time to be with us today. what's your speculation, if that's all we've got, speculation. is this the latest salvo from the americans or something different? >> you know, we don't know at this point. but what's interesting is that we did have conversations with the government in china, i know, and part of that discussion was over the fact that china unicom has been used as sort of the north korean access point. so it's anybody's guess right now in terms of whether it was china finally saying no and shutting that down or some other source. but the other thing we should remember is there's only a couple thousand access points or addresses in north korea. so three quarters of the country doesn't even have electricity. i've been in north korea. it's not as though we could do much damage or a hacker could do much dam

. >> do you think that the united states lashed back and shut down korea's internet. >> anything is possible. the military has five areas where they wage war - air, land, sea, space and the last one cyber space. so they do have a military sanction. >> the u.s. could launch a cyber war against north korea. >> yes. cyber attack - cyber specialists were responsible for what happened. >> without us imposing about it. >> of course. why would they let us know. >> i mean. the old days of war, you knew when you dropped a bomb on north korea or another country, that that bomb landed. but you don't know who commits these attacks. as sony found out. >> right. we don't know if the attack came from north korea earth. >> all right. >> so the story amazing. >> do you believe it came from north korea? >> no, not for a minute. >> let's say the white house, federal bureau of investigation believe it came from north korea. >> john, if you sign up for my class on hacking, on day one, we would learn how to cover your tracks. the way to do it is to break. >> a low-security computer. >> you teach people how to hac

. >> again, it's not at all clear that the united states is behind whatever has just happened to north korea's internete u.s. has promised that there will be some sort of response from the united states toward north korea, now that the u.s. government has determined that they are responsible for that hack of sony pictures and the associated threats. do we have anymore clarity on what the range of potential responses by our country might be? and why does our government keep stressing that whatever we're going to do as retaliation, it might be something that's done in secret. joining us now is bill richard zone, former u.n. ambassador. just last yoor, he visited north korea. governor, nice to have you here? >> thank you, rachel. >> you have had unusual access because you've done these missions over there on humanitarian issues. earlier this month, you were quoted as saying you will be surprised if the north korean government was behind the sony hack. the f.b.i. says it was them. does that surprise you and why? >> well, i believe the f.b.i. at the time when the initial information was coming out, i didn't

. >> meanwhile, north korea has had trouble keeping its internet running since monday and the unitedtes will not say if the u.s. is behind the outage. >> as we implement or responses some will be seen and some may not be seen. >> they said that the u.s. government was really the power behind the making of the interview. >> a seth rogen film about the plot to assassinate leader, kim jong un. >> if the u.s. did this, they are clearly defining the parameters for this activity, it could be devastating if it leads to this time of warfare. >> they say that the internet in north korea was a denial of service, by satellite and south korea, and china shine brightly and north korea is a black void. once again the first theaters to agree to screen this film have been independent theaters, the bigger chains have yet to jump on board and the white house is applauding sony's move on for their part they say they are proud themselves for not backing down to cyber terrorism. >> emmet thank you. >>> meantime, congress is looking for answers about this sony breach, maryland congressman wrote a letter t