. >> reg-story structures are not going to protect us from north korea. we out to have a more offensive with north korea, china may or may not be in lead with north korea, communist party is close to north korea. gerri: there were fingerprints on this that seem to suggest that china was involved, that was the initial reporting. today the president denying they had evidence china was involved. we'll have to wait and see. thank you so much for being on the show. appreciate your help. >> thank you. gerri: and that sony hack attack taking center stage at president obama's last press conference of the year as we mentioned. here with the highlights is fox business senior washington correspondent peter barnes. tell us more about the president's stance on sony? >> reporter: let's circle back to intro. the president was asked if he thought sony made the right direction by pulling the movie from theaters. here's what he said. >> sony's a corporation. it suffered significant damage. there were threats against its employees. i am sympathetic to the concerns that they

from senator mccain and actor rob lowe. did north korea outsmart us? abc's cecilia vega now. >> reporter: in city after city today, billboards covered, theater signs taken down. sony wiping away all signs of the interview, even scrubbing its website clean of any mention of the film. and now, from the hollywood the backlash. stars firing off on twitter too. from rob lowe -- "wow. everyone caved. the hackers won." and ben stiller. really hard to believe this is the response to a threat to freedom of expression here in america. senator mccain saying it sets a troubling press dent. sony cancelling the movie's christmas premiere after hackers linked to north korea threatened to attack theaters that showed the comedy. now the movie giant could lose millions. the $44 million film not released in any format. add marketing and penalties -- the price tag could top $100 million. sony says it was the victim of an unprecedented criminal assault. but many in hollywood now wondering if the real victim is free speech. >> it's going to have a chilling effect on edgy, p

sources familiar with the investigation tell us the electronic assault from north korea was routed through a number of infected computers in locations overseas -- singapore, thailand, italy, bolivia, poland, and cyprus. >> the president considers it to be a serious national security matter and it's being treated as such. >> reporter: apparently, to further cloud the trail, an administration source says, the north korean government directed a hacker or a group from outside the country to launch the unprecedented attack. the assault include this threat to american moviegoers -- "the world will be full of fear. remember the 11th of september 2001." the masterminds likely part of the elite north korean spy unit bureau 121, which is tasked with developing an army of so-called cyber warriors. recruited as children and trained for years at this military school. all apparently because the north koreans are angry about a movie depicting the assassination of their leader. the administration now weighing its options. >> if there's not some type of a response by the u.s., those who carried this out an

from north korea. the white house has been presented with options from advisers. those could include further sanctions against north korea. including banking and economic sectors. >> michelle kosinski for us>>> u.s. officers shooting an unidentified canadian man on the ambassador bridge. he approached the checkpoint waving a gun. turned out to be a replica gun. he has been treated and taken into custody. >>> this is a live look at pope francis at the vatican. giving his end of the year address. he is set to address his plans for the church in 2015. we will have the latest from our vatican analyst john allen is listening in and will bring analysis. sort of state of the union for the catholic church. >>> asian and europe markets are higher. crude oil is up about $4 since last week's low. how the global markets last week's impressive rally in the u.s. the dow and s&p up more than 3%. the nasdaq rose 2.4%. the fed promised to remain patient and that was just what the markets needed. futures are higher. just in time for holiday shopping, staples confirmed hackers stole data for 1.2 million customer credit cards. now the fallout should be minimal. only 115 of 1,400 stores affected. banks typica

north korea's internet service still spotty at best after it went down completely for 9 hours. kyung lah now joining us live fromung, about who or what is behind the internet outage in north korea? >> reporter: we know what the data was showing us, a problem. it doesn't tell us the origin of this. we've been watching the pattern and cyber intelligence experts say basically on what they see with this pattern is that it certainly looks like it's a rogue hacker. they don't believe it's the united states or some official entity. they think it's probably most like ri given there's a sudden outage and sputtering for hours on end, it's probably a 15-year-old in jersey wearing guy fawkes mask. that's what most of the hacking community believes. >> how's the service tonight? >> reporter: the service is actually the way it was yesterday. there was a complete failure overnight. it was as if north korea was completely wiped off the internet map and throughout the day, we've seen a lot of trouble trying to get on to the state's web sites. they're failing at times. certainly looks like they're struggling to come back online.

from north korea. halle jackson starts us off tonight from los angeles, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, cam rin. "the interview" is out on its originally plan the release date, the 25th. not at big thoughters which worried about threats. today no security problems have been reported at smaller cinemas like this one where some folks say they're not just here to see this movie, they're here to send a message. this christmas day opening did not involve traditional presents. >> it's a gift. know what i mean? to get to see what all the hoopla was about. >> it wasn't the most christmas thing we did but it was the most american thing we did. >> reporter: l.a. to new york audiences lined up at more than 200 independent theaters for "the interview." >> free speech! >> reporter: at one sold-out screening a midnight surprise. the movie's co-director and costar seth rogen with an adult beverage and adult language. >>> for theaters like this and without you guys this literally would not be [ muted ] happening right now. >> reporter: sony pulled the movie after a threat insurgency large theaters which screen

north korea is refusing to attend. kristin saloomey joins us live from the united nations. kristin, let's start with the new threats from north korea. what can you tell us? >> well, pyongyang is threatening strikes against the white house, the pentagon and the u.s. mainland which it calls a, quote, cesspool of terrorism. in response for president obama quote recklessly spreading rumors of north korea's orchestrated attack against sony pictures. of course referring to the hack of sony which led to the cancelling of the satirical comedy "the interview" which featured a plot to assassinate north korea's leader kim jong-un. the u.s. 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

sources familiar with the investigation tell us the electronic assault from north korea was routed throughber of infected compute interlocation over seas. singapore. thailand. italy. bolivia. poland and cypress. >> president considers it to be serious national security matter and it's being treated as such. >> apparently to further cloud the trail administration sources the north korean government directed a hacker group from outside the country to launch the unprecedented attack. assault included this threat to american movie goers. the world will be full of fear. remember the left of september 2001. mastermind likely part of the elite north korean spy unit brewer 0121. which is task with developing army of so-called cyberwarrior. recuted as chirp and trained for years at the military school. all apparently because the north korean are angry about a movie depicting assassination of the leader. administration now weighing the option. >> the if not some type the of rae response by the u.s. those that have carried this out and others who are watching it will recognize that they have got free

north korea. our will ripley is following this story live from tokyo for us. yone's asking, how did he get from the united states into north korea? >> reporter: arturo martinez -- so he got out, got a payday loan, then went to beijing, china, and crossed into north korea sometime in november. he was there just a couple of days after the american director of national intelligence james clapper retrieved -- >> all right. we're having technical problems hearing will ripley. we're going to bring him back in the next hour as soon as we fix them. it's an extraordinary story. this 29-year-old from el paso, texas, who was in a psychiatric hospital in california was released. he took out a payday loan. his mother says. flew to china, and then crossed over into north cree y. he's in north korea right now. you looking at a picture of him. right now. his name, arturo pierre

north korea. the suspicion was north korea because of the codes used in the past which people knew came from north you have the fbi saying it was north korea. going through the statement to see if there is any link to assistance to north korea from china or russia or iran and there is nothing in here at first glance that seems to indicate assistance to north korea but this is a definite figure point at north korea for sony. john: this is now a question of what should we do? will the president retaliate? we will hear from the president and 1:30 eastern time at his news conference this afternoon but the things brings up the question, in a number of people, newt gingrich said yesterday we lost the first battle in cyberwarfare. are we in a cyberwar? >> we have been in a cyber willwar for years. it is not a surprise north korea has a cyberweapons program. kim jong un called cyberwar for, quote, a magic weapon. they have reportedly thanks to south korean intelligence winnows is about a thousand people they have devoted to this effort. what should we do? we should put back on this list of state sponsors

north korea. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us.ps off a momentous week with a news conference set to begin at the bottom of the hour. we'll have live coverage of that. the president steps before the cameras after taking a major step toward diplomatic relations with cuba. he's certain to face questions about that as well as other hot topics, including the sony cyberattack linked to north korea, immigration reform and the fight against isis. the president is expected to highlight job growth and other improvements in the economy. he will answer reporters' questions for maybe as long as an hour. it's scheduled to begin at t

from north korea. the hacker could have been in south korea and used malware to make it look like it came from north korea the amazing thing about these hackers, you only need a few of them to really do enormous demonstration, 1,000 or 2,000 people working on it but five or six who know what they're doing can cause a lot of damage. brian, thank you. while the attack on sony is getting all the attention, the u.s. has been the target of tens of thousands of cyber attacks over the past year. the u.s. government now in "the situation room" is chris frates of cnn investigations, helping us better appreciate this stapa of the story. the u.s. government has been hacked? >> that's right. re-reviewed hundreds of pages of documents on security breaches against the u.s. government. what we found was astounding. every day, the government is under attack, cyber attack. there were 61,000 hacks and security breaches throughout the u.s. government last year. >> there's an adversary out there whose job it is to break into our systems. so somebody's trying 24/7, it's going to get much worse than it is today. >> reporter: c

north korea's internet woes. let's bring in kyung lah. she is live for us from seoul with the latest. you know, we should point out that internet connections in north korea, i don't know, only 1,000 or 2,000, you know, internet service protocol addresses. compared to the address where there are billions. a small internet infrastructure. it is the infrastructure that uses to launch this malicious code. >> reporter: exactly. think of it as a giant pipe. i should refrain from saying pipe. it flows from north korea and goes out to the world. that is what took a dive in the overnight hours here in korea. it was as if someone took scissors and cut that pipe. we tried to log on to the state news agency, you get a blank white screen can an error report. hours on in, it did appear that the internet was starting to come back, but it would drop off again. we got pink flowers. it has been a very unusual day. this does according to intelligence experts is the hallmark of a rogue hacker to make a statement to north korea. >> it could be china unplugged north korea. it could be the u.s. somehow shutd

the fbi says there's no doubt that this came from north korea, that they used some of the same infrastructure that they've seen before used in other north korean cyberattacks. and i'll read you a part of the statement from the fbi. it says, "as a result of our investigation and in close collaboration with other u.s. government departments and agencies, the fbi now has enough information to conclude that they were able to destroy thousands of computers, according to the fbi, and steal e-mails and social security numbers and other private information of sony employees and executives and they were able to hold hostage, basically, a company to force them to cancel the premier of this movie called "the interview." in other words, they forced a censorship of a major american movie company as a result of this. >> evan, you broke this story two days ago that the government has concluded that north korea was directly responsible. you said an official statement will be coming out and it did come out a couple hours or so ago. and it followed word that the hackers have now delivered another new message t

this come from north korea or red china? >> a lot of us disagree that it came from north korea. think it was more of an insider coupled with the hacker group that may be alliance, north korea or china or russia. there's a lot of different speck laces over this. the problem is we have no proof. there's not been any that's provided by the fbi, so we should wait to see what happens. >> david kennedy, thank you for your view on that. >> thank you. >>> coming up, oil services down, plumeting about 25%. our panel. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help our members with everything from investing for retirement to saving for college. our commitment to current and former military members and their families is without equal. start investing with as little as fifty dollars. >>> we have to take a look at shares in this company, cveo hit on a kuch with cap x outlook for 2015. interesting to the panel here curious for thoughts. we heard from the dallas fed this morn

us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> what? >> so north korea doesn't think that's so funny, cnn contributor and "entertainment tonight" host michelle turner joins us fromw are you? >> so nice to see you! >> couldn't keep me away for very long, could you? >> exactly. let's talk about what's happening with sony and the hack. their movies are online, right? is that what happened in a nutshell? >> yeah, basically it is what happened in a nutshell. this is the a big deal, carol, because not only have movies that are already been released and movies still yet to have been released been pirated, there is now this report that the fbi is looking into this hack as something that has to do with the james franco/south rogan film "the interview" which we know the north koreans are not happy about. in fact, they gave that strongly worded letter earlier calling it like an act of war, this movie, they were upset about it. it's not the first too many they've been upset about a movie hollywood has made but there could be a lot of ramifications because not only have these movies been pirated, this group called gop, they call themselves, also say that they have got a lot

north korea. there might be other intelligence sources that lead us to that conclusion. the attack itself may have come fromome place elsewhere internet access is widely available. there may be access to other means through the internet to allow them to conduct that attack through sony. even sow if it had come from north korea itself, the band width requirements to get access is not that sophisticated and presumably the north koreans do have access. >> during the news conference it was asked if north korea possibly got helped in this attack on sony. someone brought up china. the president said there was no link of china being involved in this. what is the likelihood that north korea outsourced this attack? >> i probably would turn it more as a possibility that they outsourced it. the level of sophistication where they have the capability organically or the outsource of the attack itself. organically, the capability exists internally to be able to do these things. you know, north koreans as other states, spend a lot of time training people. we're jumping to conclusions about the level of sophistication of th

. >>> discussing the human rights response, north korea refused to attend that meeting. kristin saloomey joins us live from the u.n. what can you tell us. >> well the problems apparently started over the weekend, but now the internet in north korea is reportedly completely down. of course, there is a very small internet presence in that country confined mostly to the elites but it is not working at all. and this of course just days after president obama threatened to retaliate against north korea for that hack on sony pictures entertainment, which he blamed on north korea of course. but he never said exactly how the united states would recontaminate 88th, only that it would be -- re-- retaliate, only that it would be proportional the uniteproportio. the main lan which they called a cesspool of terrorism, because the united states had accused them of doing this hack. so back and forth but the state department as you mentioned will not confirm whether or not the united states is behind that outage. have a listen. >> as the president said we are considering a range of options in response. we aren't going to d

the estimated of 1,800 of the brightest minds from pyongyang university to use the techniques for north korea is an inexpensive way to cause a huge amount of damage. look at the american corporation stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars and relationships destroyed and a major american film has been censored as a result of the activities. deb, you talk about cyber security. one thing sony should have done better and companies should learn they need to do a better job of monitoring if somebody infiltrates the system and takes information. in this case, the hack went on for a long time. had somebody detected it sooner. you cannot always stop people from getting in. if you detect it and stop it, you can prevent this problem. >> it is no longer good for protecting companies from the outsi outside. you have to have an internal system and monitoring everything inside. a lot of people inside cyber security are focusing on that. will, i appreciate that. >>> hollywood is reacting with fear to the cyber attack on sony pictures. for many at least, a lot of disappointment of the decision to withd

us earlier in the hour. now they that we have affirmation from the fbi they did conclude north korea was behind the attack and will impose costs to those responsible, your reaction to this. >> that is a whole new tenor of conversation and tone coming from our government. we've been basically giving china a pass for many years. they have been stealing technology via the internet for a long time. so i think the gloves are finally coming off with state sponsored hacking. >> chris, what the fbi is pointing to here, ip addresses associated with known north korean infrastructure. also, the code they say was used before an attack linked to north korea. is that enough for you do feel confident that the north koreans had a significant role in this attack on sony? >> yes, it does. because i know the company that's working on this fire eye has a very good handle on the types of malware that come out of these countries. they have been building this library over time. the fbi is very good at this. i do not think the director would have come out and said this without having very good evidence. >> so whether do you make of

north korea. alexandra field joining us now live from new york. eah, this comes from their state-run central news agency. the response is long, it's rambling, it's accusetory, and at the end, it has a bizarre request. we'll take a look at part of it. in this response, they say, whoever is going to frame our country for a crime is going to present concrete evidence. the statement goes on to say that america's childish investigation result and its attempt to frame us for this crime shows their hostile tendency towards us. and then it says, we will not tolerate the people who are willing to insult our supreme leader, but even when we retaliate, we will not conduct terror against innocent moviegoers. the retaliation will target the ones who are responsible and the originators of the insults. this statement goes on a little bit farther, but it wraps up by saying that north korea and the united states of america should do a joint investigation. and the statement says if the u.s. fails to participate in that investigation and continues to accuse north kor

theater at penn cinema gave it a thumbs-up. >> it shows perspective from the side of north korea, from what their people see, verse us what we actually see. it shows the difference between propaganda, and how we perceive it, and how they portray it. >> pen cinema says wilmington police will provide extra security, staffers say the movie's first showing was so strong it nearly sold out. >> now, movie-goers in the big apple lined to up seat interview, as people flocked to these tears suit movie, sony's ceo michael lynton took time to those who supported zone. >> i it has been a long and difficult road for us to get here. and i wanted to say how greatful i am to each and everyone of you. we certainly had our setbacks. but we never folded. we never stopped pursuing as wide a release as possible. it was essential for our studio to distribute this movie, especially, given the assault on our business, and on our staff. this release reps our commitment to our film makers and free speech. >> the interview is also streaming on several on line sites. >>> another possible hack attack left a lot of people disappointed on christma

using today. >> jamie, you just came back from north korea and you know, from what i've heard inside the country kim jong-il and kim jong-un are big fans of western culture and let us not forget dennis rodman the defacto ambassador. this would seem to be a feather in his cap that he has gotten a major, major movie studio to effectively bow down to threats of what we think are his regime. >> sure. it's definitely a case archtypical case of symmetric warfare and whatever we want to call it and this is a huge deal. from the north korean perspective, this malignment of their leader and when i was in north korea, it's not just that these are leaders, the kim family are leaders that are praised. they are gods. they are everywhere. everybody has the pins and you have to have the pins with their likeness on it. so from a north korean perspective, this is blasphemy and these guys are doing a lot to try to undermine that, but the second thing is that global attention on north korea is now coalescing on this u.n. report that was released earlier in february. >> bad timing for them. >> in some ways that is

north korea and japan. north korea has called the film an act of war. cnn's will ripley joins us live from tokyo.e learned new information about how this film was approved in the first place. >> yeah, well, there was certainly, according to these e-mails and what we're learning there was increasing discomfort among top-level sony executives about the content of this film. and you can bet there are going to be serious questions raised here on out about how much of a role sony here will play when it comes to sony pictures entertainment. seth rogen with all due respect may not be familiar with the geopolitical issues, the tension between japan and north korea. we know that the sony entertainment ceo consulted a probably concern, a think tank, rand corporation. he's on the board of that corporation and he asked one of the korean experts to take a look at the film and write up his thoughts. the expert said it's pretty clear it wouldn't be received well by asian audiences. so commercially, it wouldn't be a success and consequences prettily are significant, john. >> will ripley for us in tokyo. thanks f

us from honolulu. we appreciate it. >> thanks, luke. >> up next, north korea's newest comments. the latest move from sony pictures turns out you may be able to see the interview after all. we'll be right back. bl my name's louis, and i quit smoking with chantix. i had tried to do it in the past. i hadn't been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. the fact that it reduced the urge to smoke helped me get that confidence that i could do it. 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 notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don' take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop

from north korea. thank you for being here for us. >> you bet. >> what we're hearing from south korea is the geopolitical story which is unfolding as we speak. there's another side of the story unfolding and that's the commercial side. it has been sony pictures' worst week ever. already crippled by that cyber attack that happened at the end of the november, the movie studio had to cancel the christmas release of "the interview" on wednesday because theater owners said they wouldn't show the movie. so why did the theater owners say that? because of anonymous hackers' threats. that threat from tuesday you heard about even invoked 9/11 and warned americans to stay away from theaters. on cnn i called this capitulation and so did a lot of others and even the president said sony had made a mistake, but now sony is trying to find a new way to distribute the movie. an attorney retained by sony said this on "meet the press" just a few minutes ago. >> remember, sony only delayed this. sony has been fighting to get this picture distributed. it will be distributed. how it's going to be distributed i don't think anyb

>> i think this could be north korea taking themselves off the net. they may be trying to prevent us from places in response. so it's really hard to tell at this stage who's doing what and to what extent. it could even be the chinese. they're pretty angry at north korea for a lot of their provocations in recent years. and they may have concluded that this was -- this sony attack was a violation of their major objectives in northeast asia of stability and peace. >> bruce bennett, fran townsend. thanks to both of you. thanks very much. >> thanks, wolf. >>> just ahead, we'll shift gears. something to make you smile. anderson has been asking you to vote online for your favorite ridiculist of 2014. tonight we start counting them down. your pick for number five, that's next. ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac ♪ ♪ ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac ♪ ♪ ♪ look here daddy, i'm never coming back ♪ ♪ discover the new spirit of cadillac and the best offers of the season. lease this 2015 standard collection srx for around $359 a month. hurry in. offer ends soon. but the comfort it pr

the north korea development had especially the comments about how weak it makes us look. the actor here was sony, but the way they caved and knuckled under to this act from a totalitarian regime, how does that make us look in terms of our ability to confront these rogue international actors, and as mark was saying there was not a lot we can do. north korea knows they are waging a symmetrical warfare. it will be interesting to see what sort of rhetorical posture they take against that. >> clearly he wants to talk about the economy. there positive signs. what does he have to say about the other domestic issues and now we learn that the state of the union is officially going to be on january 20th. >> as molly said, it has been taking north cocoa rhea out of it for a good period for him and economically for some reasons that continue to unfold. the declining price of gasoline is making life better and easier for some of these little income american that is the president puts at the top top of his list of concerns and thrown vladimir putin on his heels after several months when he appeared to have the u.s. and the west on the defensive. putin is facing a deep

from u.s. allies. germany calling it gruesome. china and north korea predi predictably calling it hypocrisy. cnn's ian lee is joining us live from cairo. lee, the u.n. is saying they need to take the moral high ground. if they don't impose sanctions, what happens? >> reporter: a strong call for the prosecution of bush-era officials, especially coming from human rights groups from amnesty international and united nations. a u.n. official talked to christiane amanpour about that. >> whether the program produced actionable intelligence or not is irrelevant. the obligation to prosecute crimes of torture is an obligation resting on the united states because it is party to the torture convention. whether or not actionable intelligence resulted makes no difference. >> reporter: christine, so far the obama administration has been reluctant and has resisted calls for prosecution. there are other alternatives. one that has been thrown out is a formal pardon which would led the officials off the hook, but any torture in the future use would be prosecuted. the other option is to the european court system. it is highly unlikely the

north korea accusing the u.s. of hypocrisy and pointing the finger at them for human rights violations. cnn's ian lee is joining us from cairo. the u.n. is saying the u.s. has lost the moral high ground. u.n. calling for prosecutions. any chance that will happen? if not, what happens next? >> reporter: christine, we have seen a strong international call for the prosecution of bush-era officials. especially from human rights groups like amnesty international and human rights watches and united nations. one u.n. official involved in the human rights works talked to our christiane amanpour recently. take a listen to this. >> whether the program produced actionable intelligence is irrelevant. the obligation to prosecution crimes of torture is an obligation resting on the united states because it's a party to the torture convention. whether or not actionable intelligence resulted makes no difference to those who committed crimes of torture. >> reporter: it seems very unlikely that the obama

north korea. joining us here in studio are justice correspondent evan perez. evan? >> john, the statement fromreads as follows: "the fbi now has enough information to conclude that the north korean government is responsible for these actions." this is the hack against sony pictures. they say that they did some technical analysis of the malware that was used, the software that was used to infect the computer systems at sony and they found that this was malware that the fbi has previously seen used by the north korean government. they say that, for example, the fbi found encryption algorithms, code, data that was included in the malware code that was telltale signs that it came from north korea. things they've seen before. they say that they tracked all of this traffic that the -- that was used, again, to attack the sony computer systems and it tracked right back to north korea. >> initially when this first happened a lot of voices were saying that it was likely north korea. it has taken time. we have heard that the white house and officials and the government was going to officially name. talk

us. that is where deterrent effect comes from. north korea knows we're willing to do something. to them to decide if they will counterattack. they could do so, even though the internet is down and most of their cyber warriors are in china and some in germany and u.a.e. most of them are in china. if north korea wants to make a decision to go after us they can do it. this will be very interesting to see what happens in the next 24 hours. tracy: how does china fit into this whole story with you? >> china was accomplice wit the attacks in north korea. the reason is we know chinese ip addresses were used to attack sony. the firewall, which is internet controls, china knows everything that crosses its boarder with regard to the internet there. is large amount of data going out of china and see enormous amount coming in. because sony lost more than 100 terabytes of data to the north koreans. all that data went across the great firewall into china. tracy: gordon, i want to get to peter barns with mon on this. kt mcfarland call it cyber war. president calling it cyber vandalism. what are

>> we're used to hearing this kind of rhetoric from north korea, serious consequences. they've talked about raining fire down on washington. those are the kind of things, the kind of incendiary language that while certainly acknowledged and noted has not been taken as much of a serious threat until now where now the world is waking up to the possibility that north korea may in fact have this sort of cyberarmy at its disposal to conduct these types of attacks on anybody that the country may feel deserves them. so what north korea wants is a mutual investigation with the united states. but that's very unlikely to ever happen. one, north korea and the u.s. don't have any sort of diplomatic ties whatsoever. but also, other countries that have tried in good faith to work with north korea in a mutual investigation including japan, where i am right now, they've only come up dry. they've come up with a will the of broken deadlines, broken promises, and no real answers, and of course one would assume that that would be the outcome if the united states were even to entertain the

north korea. you've seen clips from "the interview." the group wants to useo air drops of the movie into north korea. who knows if they can pull this off. humanitarian drops. they drop food, information and whatnot from the outside world to the north koreans. what would you think about them dropping the movie "the interview" in to north korea. >> they're not really going to do that. >> i wish they'd drop it off in lower manhattan because i want to see that. >> they look like a little bit like kondoms. >> they are not dropping condoms into north korea. those are just the air in the balloon there. >> i'm just wondering. could be a safe sex campaign. >> it's not. >> we're trying to help the north koreans. >> in any way we can. safe sex -- oh, reena. >> are you blushing? >> i can't believe -- >> i'm a light skinned brother. when we laugh, we get red. >> here's a reason not to get red. a cute story about a girl who all she wants from santa, not toys. her house burned down in october. she's asking, instead of all the things i asked for, can i have cement blocks, he

north korea's internet went dark again after the government made derogatory comments about president obama on saturday. now the fbi is facing criticism from some skeptics claiming that the evidence the fbi used to blame north korea for the sony hack is flimsy and inconclusive. joining me now to discuss these allegations, illinois senator mark kirk. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me on. >> i know you have called for congressional hearings in regard to this sony hack. do you personally believe that it came from north korea? i know there's been a lot of speculation. >> i would agree with the white house statements that pointed a finger at north korea for this attack on sony pictures on "the interview." you got motive and opportunity there that would clearly point a finger at the north koreans. >> there are those who say that north korea does not have the technological capability to pull off such a stunt. >> that's right. there's only one isp in all of north korea, that sometimes the north koreans will farm out their cyber attack mechanisms to an autonomous region where there are a lot of ethic koreans living in china to disguise where the attack is coming from. in this

north korea. let's get the latest developments from kpix 5's kiet do joins us live in milpitas with more. od morning. >> reporter: good morning, the president is considering putting north korea back on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism. we are live here at fire eye headquarters in milpitas, that's because sony a couple of weeks ago hired the company to look into the hacking scandal. as you can imagine re

we just didn't get a decision from the president of the united states. >> using state-run media north korea's national defense commission, he'll strike back if president obama punishes the north. the country's million man army will target those responsible, not the innocent audiences in cinemas. as for sony pictures, the hits just keep on coming. new e-mails from studio chief continue to surface including two in which she disparaged actor and comedian adam sandler. sony pictures is considering how to distribute the dark comedy outside of theaters. >> we have not caved. we have not given in. we have persevered and not backed down. we have always had every desire to have the american public see this movie. >> among the response, president obama said he is reconsidering reinstating north korea on the list of nations that sponsor terrorism. >> thanks, james. new jersey governor chris christie now urging president obama to demand the return of an american fugitive from cuba. joanne chessmard was convicted of shooting and killing a state trooper during a routine traffic stop. she later escaped and

north korea. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank very much for joining us. be officially blamed on north korea. an announcement expected as early as today by the obama administration. u.s. officials believe the north korean leadership directly ordered the attack on sony pictures and the fallout from the attack keeps on growing. sony is being criticized by some for canceling the christmas day release of the movie at the center of the controversy. the movie titled "the interview" angered north korea because it depicts a plot to assassinate the north korean leader, k

from nbc news, which is telling us u.s. officials are confirming that they believe north korea is behind the cyberattack on sony pictures. e world will be full of fear, remember the 11th of september, 2001. that's the latest ominous message from the so-called hackers. those hackers made a threat against christmas day sony movie "the interview." >> the security concerns forced the media join the to pull the movie all together. sony's decision comes hours after major movie theater chains pulled the movie including carmike, regal, amc and cinemark theaters. we have reaction about this move. >> reporter: the film's plot revolves around a plan to assassinate north korean dictator kim jong-un. it's supposed to be a comedy but someone out there is taking this seriously, threatening to attack any theater that releases this on christmas day. "the interview" was supposed to be a comedy blockbuster. but after anonymous threats by onlike hackers, theatersç acro the country are cancelling their showing like here at the carmike theater in reading. >> it would be for safety sake. >> reporter: carmike was the first to cancel, then amc,

from north korea, their primary demand to stop the movie from being shown. the movie is about an american talk show host recruited to assassinate kim jong-un. >> you want us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> whaaaat? >> it's clearly no laughing matter. >> i think it was made in bat taste, but everyone has the right to freedom of speech, so that even constitutes hollywood. >> with leaks of embarrassing and sensitive information with a list actors insulted, it stands to take a big hit. the production budget was $45 million. add the domestic marketing of $35 million, an overseas budget of 10 million and strapping the movie has cost sony $90 million. the hacked email liability may cost more. remember when the sony play station network was habit last year? though smaller in scope, that cost the company $170 million. as for the threat against movie goers, the department of home land security says there is no credible intelligence that the group accounted carry out the attack. some worry more about the response than the threat. >> this sets a precedent for others who wish to attack cultural items. >> others say what's truly under attack here is our firs

from a at what you've seen and should the u.s. retaliate? >> well, north korea is responsible for this hack from all that we can tell. for instance, the code that was used against sony pictures entertainment was virtually identical to the code used against south korean businesses in march and june of last year and seoul traced those attacks back to north korea. the malware is written in korean. the north koreans first refused to deny their involvement. then they had a very unconvincing, it wasn't me. they've been gloating. so, clearly, it was the north koreans. we're going to find out from the administration today they probably will directly attribute it to them. >> what kind of response should there be from the u.s. in your view? should it be a military esponse, a cyber response? >> i don't think it should be a military response or a cyber response. there are a number of things we should do right away. r instance, we should impose sanctions that the bush administration put in place in 2005 when we cut north korea off from the global financial system. ose were so effective that when they wanted to ferry money around they had to use cash for their diplom

us to kill the leader of north korea? >> yes. >> even though sony pulled the interview from distribution, the company remains vulnerable to follow-on attacks. overnight, the hackers sent another e-mail telling sony it was, "very weiss to cancel "the interview," "but warning in broken english, "we want you never let the movie released," or else they will expose more of the data stole. "we ensure the purity of your data as long as you make no more trouble." u.s. corporations, as well as government agencies, get hacked every day. but the f.b.i. said the destructive nature of this attack, coupled with its coercive nature, sets it apart from anything that's happened before. anthony. >> mason: david martin at the pentagon. thank you, david. producing "the interview," which lampoons kim jong un, angered north korea. john blackstone tells us shelfing it has angered hollywood stars. >> reporter: george clooney said he spent a week trying to get entertainment industry power brokers to sign his petition supporting sony. he claimed that all refused. at the red carpet at an awards show last night, michael keaton and kisa kudrow, noted

. >>> still to come on "eyewitness news", harsh words from north korea in the wake of the sony hacking scandal. how the nation is threatening the user accusations north korea was behind that cyber attack. >> and how about this? gas for less than $2 a gallon. it is a reality and it's at a station not too far away. we'll tell you where. kate? >>> well, we've got some rain as people hit the road for holiday travel. this storm heading our way will bring rain for christmas eve. i'll tell if you it clears out for christmas day coming up in weather next. >> plus, just a couple of days left before christmas now and the last minute shopping rush is on. some local stores are extending their hours to cash in. >> internet is back up in north korea following an hour long shut down in the wake of the sony hacking scandal. the cause is unclear. cbs news reporter craig boswell tells us north korea is threat threatening to strike back at the us. >> reporter: north korea is issuing new threats against the u.s. saying our toughest counter action will be boldly taken against the white house, the pentagon and the hall u.s. mainland. total tanner regim

north korea. joining us from atlantic magazine corey bennett a cybersecurity reporter. cory, when we get into the issue of what's going on here in terms of this attack, the nsa is actually the government operation that's arming in this kind of case. one of their jobs is to protect american companies and protect us and american companies from a foreign invasion of this kind into one of these companies. and that's who's going to be deeply involved in getting at what happened here with the fbi doing the formal working of the investigation in case there's going to be any criminal prosecutions in the end. isn't that basically the way they team up? >> absolutely. we've also gotten the department of homeland security involved in this case. particularly after the threats which you mentioned. dhs got drawn in and has said there's no credible evidence that should be noted, there's no credible evidence currently of violent plots against movie theatres. but you're right about the nsa. that speaks to a larger point, we haven't defined y et in the u.s. what constitutes a cyberattack

north korean hackers. let's get some insight from suki kim who lived and worked in north korea as an english teacher. your new book, without you, there's no us memoir of her time in north korea. suki, i'm glad you're here because it's such a repressive regime and closed society. tell me about what you experienced in north korea. >> i lived for six months teaching the sons of elite in a private university. that was in 2011 and i was teaching 19 and 20-year-old young men and a lot of them majors in computer but didn't know the existence of the internet. >> they didn't know the existence of the internet and their major is computer science. i guess the equivalent here. what were they doing? >> only learning english because it was the year when the regime change was coming, so it was a particular situation. what i did observe is that they had so little awareness of their outside world because it was such a controlled system. their system absolutely controlled them in every single way, and, you know, obviously information was at the top list of those things that they did and the government didn't want them to know and internet was out of question.