>> bob: 55-50, wolf pack. and parsons had it tapped away. >> larry: sometimes you have to be in the right place at the right time. horner the deflection to smith allowed him to get the basket. >> bob: werner. never had possession in the front court. here's parsons for three, and that rims out. smith, the rebound. eight rebounds for tracy smith to go with his game-high 20. pack in control now. 1:20 left in overtime. >> larry: good pass. >> bob: and he'll shoot two. >> larry: florida's adjustment defensively was not quick enough that time to try to prevent smith from scoring. watch horner in the corner right here, receive this pass and immediately look inside. that's almost a touch pass. i mean that ball his hit fingertips and it was gone into tracy smith, showing his operation again. he is some sort of maestro down low. >> bob: werner officially charged with the foul. his second. and tracy at the line, hasn't been there since the first half. and overall, 2 for 3 tonight. >> larry: this is one part of his game h

as do the wolf pack.up and three down for sidney lowe, one of the great wolf pack players of all time and now in his fourth season coaching his alma mater. a veteran officiating crew to work this one in raleigh today. gary maxwell is working with tony green and roger ayers. the gators in their blue and orange, and the wolf pack in the home white. tracy smith will jump for the wolf pack. vernon macklin for florida. and our tripleheader of acc sunday night hoops is under way. >> larry: good play by westerner to come up with that ball. keep an eye on walker with the ball. very, very quick. >> bob: nc state starts in the man. walker in the lane, and a whistle. he got hit in the head, as he made his way into the paint. >> larry: bob, you may see this particular setup, the way florida runs it. werner will move out to receive that ball. he is an excellent passer. walker made that curl coming around the elbow. he was wide open, and the defender was trailing him. you don't want to do that against this guy. >> bob:

that's his fourth three. 45-44, wolf pack.larry: how about the split by parsons? he got into the lane and found macklin wide open. that was a good job of handling the ball by chandler parsons. >> bob: now it's florida by one, and look at the points in the paint for the gators. >> larry: gonzalez has to pick up his offensive gave. he has not had a good scoring game here today. >> bob: gonzalez. and a foul on florida in the paint. no shot. that stops the clock with 6:59, and the foul on vernon macklin, number three. time-out in raleigh. a job hunting expense ? ( man ) last summer my kid made 4 figures. does he need to file a tax return ? they're not just any questions. ( woman ) did we just make a charitable donation ? they're the trickiest, thorniest, questions of all. ( woman ) is this considered a home office ? bring your tax question to the company that helped clients get over 43 billion dollars in refunds last year alone. how can i get more money ? click, call, or come over. h&r block: get it right. about the inside game to

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> i am less interested in passing out blame than i am in learning from and correcting these mistakes to make us safer. for ultimately the buck stops with me. as president i have a solemn responsibility to protect our nation and our people and when the system fails, it is my responsibility. >> president obama taking responsibility this week for america's closest brush with airline terror in years. he suggested no one will be fired at least for now and he ordered a series of reforms including tougher rules for putting people on the no fly list, and more widespread distribution of intelligence reports. the president also renewing his declaration of war on al qaeda and its growing presence in yemen. cnn international security correspondent paula newton is in yemen for us. we'll go to her in a moment. also here in washington are our homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve and former homeland security inspector general clark kent irvin. thanks to all

wolf live on this special election. wolf? >> the votes are enormous. 57% of the precincts have reported. scott brown, larry, the republican in massachusetts with 53% to martha coakley, the democrat 46%. he's building up almost 100,000 lead right now, 653 to 575,000, so he's doing well, but once again, they still have a lot of votes yet to be counted. i will say this, larry. they're coming in, the votes in massachusetts, very quickly, so we're going to get a lot of results over the course of the next hour. at some point, i assume, we'll be able to project a winner. we'll do it if we can this hour or we'll do it and wait. >> we'll hang right with you. let's go to john king. he's in brown headquarters, the park plaza in boston. john is a veteran of boston politics. how much of the votes are from urban areas? >> that's the great question, larry, because right now 30% of the precincts in boston has reported in boston. martha coakley, the democrat, is getting 59% of the vote. we need to watch, and that's why everyone in this room a

i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for larry tonight. i want to alert you that larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event also planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo star, will.i.am. ryan seacrest and tia leony are some of those who have teamed up to help haiti. estimates of those dead are pegged at 100,000 as of now according to haitian officials. secretary of state clinton arrive in haiti this afternoon. and the top two diplomats of the united neighs stationed in haiti were declared dead today. the scene for us in port-au-prince. quite a day for us. carl, set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened? >> well, what i've been looking at too is the relief operation because, yes, you're right. the recovery operation is still going on. people are still looking for signs of life among the rubble. but, of course, there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their homes, who have lost everything as a result of this earthquake. and the effort now is to ge

i'm wolf blitzer sitting in for larry tonight. i want to alert you larry will be here on the air sunday with the latest news from haiti. larry has a big event planned for monday. mick jagger, seal, colin powell, ringo starr, will i am, ryan seacrest, taylor leoni are a few who will join to help him. first the news from haiti today. estimates of those dead are pegged at about 100,000 as of now. secretary of state clinton arrived in haiti this afternoon and the top two diplomats for the united nations stationed in haiti were officially declared dead today. carl penhall is on the scene. it has been quite a day. set the scene for us. tell our viewers what happened. >> reporter: well, certainly what i've been looking at today is the relief operation. you are right. the recovery operation is still going on. people are still looking for signs of life among the rubble but of course there are thousands upon thousands of people who have lost their homes, lost everything result of this earthquake. the effort is to get aid to them quickly and

wolf, you've seen a lot of these. how do you score this one? >> if you like a lot of wonkish detail, as i do, the president went through a lot of that. so i was just happy that he got into those kinds of specifics. he made his case. and i loved watching it. i'm sure you did, too, larry, a lot of our viewers did, the democrats jumping up, applauding, standing ovations, the republicans sort of sitting quietly. you saw john boehner and eric cantor, they were stone-faced so often when the democrats were enthusiastic. if yur a real political news junkie, as all of us are, you love this stuff. >> larry: john king the host of "state of the union with john king." they borrowed this tonight from your show. >> they came before me on this one, larry. >> larry: how did you see it, john? did he hit it out of the park? >> it's a fascinating speech. we won't know the answer to that. part of the answer will come in november's elections. he clearly understands he's lost the bond he had with the american people during the campaign. many said he wasn't just a pol

it is about jobs, wolf. and when you see as we witnessed a day in detroit half the people in detroit are unemployed. the african-american community in certain parts of the country, they believe it is more like a depression, not a recession. so there is growing frustration to not just to put pressure on president obama, but also the democratic controlled congress to keep the promises, to keep the pressure on the great jobs. that's why the house yesterday passed $150 million jobs bill. the congressional black caucus pushed for that in their letter to the president and the democratic leaders to say we expect to hold you accountable the same way they held bill clinton accountable and tried to hold george w. bush accountable as well. >> wolf, here is -- >> roland, go ahead. explain. but what else do you want or do these disappointed african-americans, what else do they want him to do? >> well, i'll give you an example. when the president talked two weeks ago to gannett news service that he thought it would be a m

a heartbreaking loss for the wolf pack. what a way to start the new year for acc sunday night hoops. our final score, the florida gators, 62, and the wolf pack of nc state, 61. stay tuned, our tripleheader coverage continues next. we'll swing it over to winston-salem, north carolina, for xavier and wake forest, followed by clemson and duke. for debbie antonelli, larry conley, our crew, this is bob rathbun saying so long from raleigh, north carolina. gators in a miracle. [ male announcer ] the lexus december to remember sales event. now through january 4th. ♪ special lease offers now available on the 2010 rx 350. ♪ december to remember sales event. now through january 4th. ♪ special lease offers now available on the 2010 es 350. ♪ special lease offers now available on the 2010 es 350. t'reunng the men's room marathon. with lots of guys going over and over. and here's the dash to the men's room with lots of guys going urgently. and then there's the night game. waking up to go. these guys should be in a race to see their docto

i'm reynolds wolf for hln.appy new year. >>> three fishermen found themselves stuck in a sinking suv on new year's day. >> it was last breath time basically for me. >> how they were rescued as water crept up to their necks. >>> thousands of villagers in the philippines went home today. they were forced to evacuate when a volcano began rumbling earlier in month. most of the people who were evacuated live within five miles of the volcano. even though scientists say the volcano's activity has been decreasing over the last few days, they warn the mountain's level of volcanic unrest is still high. >>> a students car bomb at a volleyball game killed at least 88 people. it happened yesterday in northwest pakistan near the border with afghanistan. the explosion injured 37 people who are still in the hospital. a local police chief says the explosion was so strong it was felt 11 miles away. he says militants have been threatening the area since the military pushed them out two months ago. >>> a computer glitch caused a s

how did brown win, wolf? >> he got out the independents. he was impressive in doing that, convincing a lot of independents and probably a lot of democrats at the same time that he would be a better united states senator. it was an uphill struggle. it was only a few weeks ago, larry, that everybody assumed that ted kennedy's seat would be -- remain in democratic hands, martha coakley was a pretty popular attorney general. she had a good brand name. no doubt about that. things did not go in her way, and within the past two or three weeks it began to collapse pretty quickly. all of a sudden he wins rather decisively. he got 52% and she got 47% of the vote. that's an impressive he victory, especially for a republican in the state of massachusetts. >> larry: john, a lot of times in sports as we know we don't know approximate if the winning team won or the losing team lost. did brown win this, or did coakley lose it it? >> reporter: that's a great way to put it, larry . if you talk to everybody here, they say a little bit of both. you can see the

we'll go to meteorologist reynolds wolf in the severe weather center.severe today. >> oh, my gosh. it was cold here. it is pounding parts of the nation like a sledgehammer. it is brutal out there and the numbers tell the story. take a look at what we have right now. current temperatures fargo, 25 degrees below zero. in duluth, the teens below zero, 18 below. 10 below in minneapolis. green bay and milwaukee, even chicago in single digits. the same can be said for much of michigan. you don't see numbers up there, but i can guarantee they will be in single spots like detroit. in the great lake state, we have i-reports to tell the story and what they are dealing with. a lot of snow. all lake-effect activity. it says, for, cold, even here in florida. this is a dusting of snow. the ireport is sent to us from diana kalen. it will be chilly in three rivers, michigan, and the next couple of days. we are not expecting temperatures to warm up for a while. here's what's in store for the rest of the nation. it will be very cold and it is not just the temperatures bu

i'm reynolds wolf.day. >>> when money is tight, usually the first thing to go is fancy restaurants. but coffee is something folks won't give up. and one city is brewing up a new season for tourists to savor t flavor. >>> the u.s. postal service kicking off the new year are a rate hike. prices will be going up for ground package, air express items and international shipments. but the post office says the rate increase does not include first class stamps. >>> the rough economy may have forced to you cut back, but one thing some folks won't give up isn't their good old cup of joe. in seattle, there are so many coffee shops brew, people are going on what's called a coffee crawl to sample flavors. our affiliate went along. >> reporter: most won't give up that morning cup of coffee no matter how many pennies they want to pinch. >> ich just noticed coffee houses have gotten busier with the economy going down. it's a nice affordable luxury, something to go treat yourself. and i think it's causing people to drin

wolf's publication -- i can't get the word out, i'm sorry.e have amassed unfunded promises to guarantee future unfunded been fits when totalled, $57 trillion. every man, woman and child owes $184,000. i have used this back in my district and woy like to say it this way, mr. speaker. when that beautiful baby is born, the first cry out of his or her mouth is a cry of do i owe $184,000? yes, baby, you do owe $184,000. every american does. this could, according to the information from frank wolf, could skyrocket to $21 trillion by the year 2020. how does frank wolf and jim cooper, in a bipartisan effort, try to deal with this out of-of control spending? they have introduced h.r. 1557, safe commissions act. and the actual title is the security -- securing america's act. this would be made up of 16 bipartisan appointed people to be on this commissions act and it would be their responsibility to go through how government spends its money from the entitlements to the spending on education, transportation, health care, national defense, tax policy and

i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. the arrest of paul merhige brings some closure to the family of the victims of that thanksgiving day massacre. >> while he was loose some of the family feared for their own lives thinking he might be seeking them out as well. now at least part of that nightmare is over thanks to a tip generated by "america's most wand." we'll have the latest including an interview with the parents of the youngest victim. >>> also as the president returns from his hawaiian vacation, he'll meet this week at the white house with his top security team to find out just how the would be christmas bomber got onto that northwest flight headed to detroit undetected. more on that just ahead. >>> plus the latest on the winter storm battering the northeast. >>> first, let's get back to that breaking news of the arrest of paul merhige, wanted for gunning down four family members at a thanksgiving dinner. authorities had been looking for him for more than a month and found him at a motel in the florida keys last ni

reynolds wolf has been watching it all this morning. we're not just talking freezing temperatures. we are talking below freezing. >>> yeah. this is like freezing your face off. 27 below in fargo, 20 below in duluth. but in this spot right up here in international falls, we have temperatures at this hour of 35 degrees below zero. that doesn't include the windchill factor. thankfully the wind isn't much of a factor, but certainly cold times. mims, 14 degrees. voila, here's the city of mary tyler moore. that's right. looks pretty good there. we see a little bit of the heat coming off the buildings but not going to be that warm of a day. the highs for that part of the world, only 2 degrees, single digits all day for you or those minus conditions. over in chicago, 12 degrees the expected high. in new york or boston, a little warmer, into the 30s, boston in the high 30 degrees, could be a little warmer, the charles river, you see the low clouds hanging up above, but i tell you, you want to talk about up above, farther north of boston, the big story is snowfall, especially upstate maine.

i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> some anxious moments at seattle's airport. man who says he has a gun locks himself in a bathroom and refuses to come out. rush limbaugh says he's fine. he was released yesterday from a hospital in hawaii. limbaugh went in wednesday because he was having chest pains. doctors say tests showed he didn't have a heart attack and, more importantly, he does not have heart disease. as evidence he was feeling better, limbaugh couldn't resist taking a political jab at a hospital news conference. >> based on what happened to me here, i don't think there's one thing wrong with the american health care system. it is working just fine, just dandy, and i got nothing special. i got no special treatment. >> at his news conference, limbaugh also said he wasn't taking painkillers. you might remember that in 2003 he admitted he was addicted to painkillers and went to rehab. >>> authorities in new york city want to know why police apparently ignored an illegally parked zan in times square for -- parked van in times square for days before someone f

. >>> i'm meteorologist reynolds wolf for hln. we've got a two-part weather story today. part one deals with an area of low pressure up in new england that's going to bring heavy snowfall. and could provide up to a foot of snow in some places. the second part, the bitter cold that's going to be moving into half the nation. let's start with the snowfall first. it all stems from this area of low pressure which is not only drawing moisture from the great lakes and st. lawrenceseaway but the atlantic ocean. that low picking up the moisture and as that moisture falls through the lower levels of the atmosphere, we'll see snow pile up. that coupled with windy conditions can give you nearly white out conditions. look for very treacherous issues in terms of driving. same deal could be in store for you along the finger lakes back in parts of new york state. maybe even parts of pennsylvania back near erie, cleveland. could see heavy snowfall today. when you look at this area of high pressure, it's that high working with the low that will bring in cold air into the southeast. high in

your family appeared on the show, wolf blitzer was guest hosing. during the interview falcon said something that raised a whole lot of questions about what had really happened and why. let's take a look. >> and falcon did you hear us calling your name at any time? >> um-hum. >> you did? >> you did? >> why didn't you come out? >> you said that we did this for the show. >> no. >> you didn't come out? >> no. >> larry: authorities, richard, specifically cited falcon's words as part of probable cause they had for believing you'd committed a criminal offense. he said did you it for a show. >> okay, well first off, let's take no consideration he's only been speaking english and just learned three and a half years prior to that. he's 6 years old during this interview. number one. number two, i had gotten back into the house, after the initial talking to the press in front of my house, i opened the garage door to get my family back inside, away from these guys and i look over and there's 30 or 40 camera guys. i asked falcon after that, i asked him, why did

. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. i was tempted to turn on the tv and see if the "today" show was on a two-hour delay or something. it was cold. i did not want to get out there this morning. >> i think it was in the low teens here. >> needless to say we were not on a two-hour delay, we are here. it's cold everywhere, not just here in the northeast. >> florida is caught in the grips of all this. record lows as far south as miami. temperatures dropped into the 30s there bringing snow and ice to many parts of that state. most of europe is also in the freezer where the coldest winter in 30 years is cancelling sports. the mercury hitting almost 20 below in some parts. our weather team has it all covered. we'll bring you all the latest in just a moment. >>> then out west, they're assessing the damage this morning after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook northern california on saturday, knocking out power to thousands and causing damage to buildings and utilities. a lot of frayed nerves there this morning. we'll have a live re

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joining us now live richard wolf, an msnbc political analyst. richard, the developments in gemmen are intriguing regardless of what's fueling them. let's go through the possibilities. general petraeus meets with yemeni leaders yesterday. today they decide to announce there's an active al qaeda threat. is it possible that maybe this is because general petraeus meetings with yemeni leaders did not go as well as he had hoped? >> it's possible, but there's another piece of news as well, which is that the british government announced that it was setting up with the americans a counter terrorism police unit in yemen and, you know, if you are going to say we're going take these people on directly it's going to be american and british funded because the yemeni government cannot deal with this, it's a deeply dysfunctional government, not really in control of its territory, then you can expect some kind of response. the other aspect of this is that it seems from what we know of the nigerian plot, that the intercepts, the surveillance of what these al qaed

i'm greg wolf. we'll get you back to tucson in a moment.st let's recap what happened saturday in the pac 10. washington state at washington. in the second half it was all huskies. on the break isaiah thomas is going to beat pondexter with 29 points in ten boards. stanford, sun devils on the road. glass ser outside to abbott. sun devils win 88-70. usc at oregon. in late second half malcolm armstead, 3 of his 18, ducks win 67-57. ucla taking on oregon state. ucla up three, michael roe on the money to tyler honeycut. ucla wins 62-52. don't forget highlights, tune in later tonight for "the final score" presented by burger king. more of the acura half-time report right after this. we' ootichin no so sho intina t has. you 'm the er. just mahapp d dintio filt... pa squ at rkes? sc wh scooters? ke wu're ing uch. f my dr... an b a bi i o go b chi ch. nighight i can just sleep. [ announcer ] the new international business class. only on american. we know why you fly. why el me? acura half-time report. 34-32, the top teams in the pac 10, the cal bears

they looked silly on a show but did you see wolf blitzer tank on jeopardy? he did that all by himself. and if you disagree with meow are probably a racist homophobe. >> do you watch the show? >> i do watch the show and i have been to jersey before and i like it. i love the fact that people from new jersey swear up and down to make sure to tell you that these people are not from new jersey. they are from poughkeepsie or staten island. >> it is true. they drive all the way down there. >> greg: are they silly kids? >> they are killly but it is so much fun to watch. i love that they give themselves nicknames. like jay woww. why is t two w's at the end? >> greg: it is a sign of significance if you -- >> that is in fact her birth name. >> woww? >> yes. aren't people who pretend to be smart far more dangerous than people who are actually dumb? >> there is dumb and there is dumb. it is not like any of these people flew in a private yet to a conference on global warming and then got snowed in by the biggest blizzard in decades go >> greg: that is my point. i look at

development of the the phenomenon of terrorism, it is quite clear that the home grown or the lone wolf terrorist has become a major threat and concern to the country. so yes, the national security preparing this group, we will be looking at that threats and seeing how we can improve our defenses against it. not all of the bad guys, unfortunately, are from abroad. we got a few year. >> you are right. >> i would simply agree with him. >> gentlemen, i just wonder, when you go back to the al qaeda situation now, what i tend to pick up through my basic information is that they are going to the chatter out through the various pipelines and to all our security agencies that is misleading and misdirected. you would never be able to tell what is really in fact a possible threat. that is number one. number two, i understand that they're going to try to spend us into oblivion with costs. they will have a stretch to come up with every contingency to try to protect ourselves. the civil liberties will be coming. you have these actions that have taken place. the chatter is misleading. and the attempt

cnn meteorologist reynolds wolf. >> we're following two big weather stories today. one is going to be the chance of heavy snowfall in parts of the northeast. the second story the cool temperatures. let's handle the snowfall first. this area of low pressure we have in parts of maine that could bring a foot of snow in the highest elevations. that coupled with the strong winds could be blizzard like conditions for parts of maine. snowy conditions in parts of new york and pennsylvania also through a good part of the day. that low coupled with the krar of low pressure over the great lakes is going to pull cold air to the south. that's the second part of our story. high temperatures expect to climb to 32 degrees in memphis, tennessee. 31 in atlanta. 7 degrees in minneapolis. back into tampa and miami, 50s and 60s. northeast we go, boston with 28. 40 in denver. 31 in salt lake city. 51 in seattle. that's a look at your forecast. brooke, let's send it back to you. >> thank you, sir. those are your top stories. >>> lately we've been devoting much of our time on "gps" to cris

what we see here are many individuals sometimes lone wo wolf, sometimes cells indoctrinated at a younger some point in time they are activated by the network. they're coming from all over, not just from nigeria or yemen but including in person democracy. europe as well. >> there were jihadist website where the guy who pulled the bomb incident in his underwear two weeks ago today is being praised. not as a failure but having very much achieved his goal by economically sort of shaking us to our boots. and that gets the desired response. much as maybe because of unruly passenger, you know, we get properly concerned and tail commercial jets by f-16s. and something would happen. is that the goal? >> yes. you saw it very clearly here, there are writings and speeches and analysis by top al-qaeda and jihadist ide logs. the mere fact they can thrust through the layer of defense is a victory. it would be a good dessert if they blew up a train or plane or something else. but the economic consequences is something they speak about all the time. the fear, the fact we're not using anytime as much thes

and we are happy, jeanne wolf, to bring you to calcutta in a few days to have you read to become meet those of the city, the man of calcutta because the wife is coming with us to india. we are now returning to india to see some of our projects. and i could talk and all night with what happened in calcutta and what we would have done their. but i want to go now to the first part of this address to present you suffered great woman i have put forth you today in this lecture. one day somebody tells me in calcutta dominique, do you want to meet a south african mother teresa plaques i said south african mother teresa? how is this possible. he said another to ressa in this world and he suggests. you are to go to cape town and you will see her. we flew to k-town and one day we met a woman in her 50s, a white woman, the wife of a very important lawyer of the city of cape town and her name is ellen f. lieberman, and this ellen lieberman, please believe me, is one of the hero's of our planet today. her name is maybe not known. i hope now with my new book her name will be known. but she is a hero

frank wolf, he is a regular listener. >> you can listen to it on the internet every morning. >> anywhere in the world. >> you get calls from around the world? >> i would say anywhere around the country. we do not get many calls around the world. radio as a broadcast medium is changing as rapidly as everything else. i would say that we are probably five years away from getting rid of what we used to call radio towers because i think we will be broadcasting entirely over the internet. the new technology that will allow you to have the internet in your car will become fairly commonplace. there will be no difference between am and fm. the big loser may be satellite radio because that was a technology designed to offer an alternative to the old broadcast modulations. now, you will be listening online. >> in my case, i can listen to a liberal talk show host and a conservative talk show host side by side. i can flip back and forth and i can listen to you. we are carried on the iphone. >> we just got an application for wmal, so you can listen on your cellphone as well. we podcast as well. we try

came as a wolf. consider, for example, the official republican party platform of 2000 which applauded governor bush's pledge to name only judges who have demonstrated that they share his conservative beliefs and respect the constitution. all that was left out was that they should be willing to bend the law and overturn precedence to impose those beliefs. the pattern is not complicated. america's big corporate interests fund republican candidates for office, and those corporate interests want those republicans to help them. that's as old as politics. republicans, once elected, make it a priority to appoint judges who want to help them, judges who may give obligatory lip service opposing judicial activism, but will actually deliver on core republican political interests. the conservative bloc of judges overrules precedent and 100 years of practice to open the doors to unlimited corporate political spending. and corporations can now give ever more money into the process of electing more republicans. con

suzanne malveaux is in for wolf blitzer. suzanne, what do you have for us? >> thanks, don. the hour i'll talk to a 9/11 commission member who's concerned that the u.s. intelligence community is still failing to connect the dots when it comes to fighting terrorism. >>> plus, is president obama doing enough to help blacks? one prominent african-american says he is not. >>> and will iran decide its future in the streets? many are chanting "death to the dictator" while others are chanting "death to america." who's going to prevail in this showdown? i'm going to speak with the best-selling author of "reading the leader in tehran." >> suzanne, we will be watching, thank you. >>> how about this, the local sheriff calls it the strangest crime he has ever seen. a man in tennessee tried to steal vaa vending machine by chaining it to his pickup. within minutes, the police were hot on his tail but the suspect kept trying to escape even when the chain broke. the police caught him, he explained that he needed some money. now he will need some more spare change, especially since he's char

>> i'll go through one question at a time, wolf -- or larry, that your other answers couldn't get to. a big fault through the caribbean, all the way up the west coast. that fault line slipped. it didn't slip in the d.r. that's why there was no rupture there or no earthquake there, it was in port-au-prince. i'm going to play this, as you play it, you'll notice there is a big line right there. see that trench, that dark line through there? that dark line is part of the fault line. the fault line slipped near port-au-prince and we had a 7.0 earthquake. the problem, larry, is it was only six miles deep. you can have an earthquake 200 miles deep, the earth kind of pads it before it gets to the surface. you get six miles deep, there is no padding. there is a lot of shaking going on, and that's what happened here. the entire earth shook at a 7.0, and we're getting ireports now. i want you to go to ireport.com. we don't know that all of these are right, but we think so. we're looking at these earthquake pictures, and there will be more. look at this building, just completely shattered. >> are

it's probably pretty safe to say, right, reynolds wolf, no matter where you live in the country, stick your big toe outside, it's cold. i feel look a wuss complaining of cold when some are seeing palestine is double digits. >> everything is relative. here expecting highs around the freezing point a good part of the day. neighbors in the northern plains, way up, 32 degrees below zero at this time. there is a seg smnt of our population, does seem weird. some like to stay outside. some journey outwards. others during winter put on minimal clothing and jump into freezing water. or water close to it. >> oh, my lord. >> this is crazy. lake minnetonka in minnesota where people don little clothing, judge in and do the polar bear run. sometimes alone, some with friends. some convinceed by others and wonder how the friendship goes once they get out of the water. still, with a little bit i ge, not too worse for wear when they get out of the water, still a crazy thing. >> they're in, they're out's i would be like, get me back home, please. >> some of those faces not so happy when they get out of t

actually the real hero that got to it truth was another cnn guy, and that was wolf blitzer who askedquestion and that's when we learned it was a hoax. finally, the wife came forward said it was made up. falcon was there all the time. nobody is buying the story. >> the recent release of the video of the family kind of panicking, when, you know, asking the other son, where is falcon, et cetera? that kind ever made it worse. didn't it? >> yeah, if you really think about it, it's a bad story getting worse. i think richard's right. just knock it off, already. do your time and then move forward. that's all. >> okay. let's talk about something else that's significant, too, and affects a lot of people. particularly convicted felons who don't have the right to vote, but now a federal appeals court has weighed in. 47 states already not allowing convicted felons to vote. richard what now? and might this indeed open the door for felons to be able to vote? >> well, washington state had has said felons now have the right to vote it affected disproportionately the people that lost the right to vote

. >> reynolds wolf, thank you. >>> okay. so for brazil, the new year begins with a deadly storm. emergency crews are searching for survivors under the crush of two separate mudslides around r rio de janeiro. state officials say at least 45 people have been killed. cnn's natalie allen has the latest. >> reporter: 2010 started off with more tragic news as a stationary front continues to soak brazil's southeastern states, turning rio's picturesque float into nightmarish scenarios. on friday a giant slice of this mountain descended upon a high-end resort killing 22. officials say rescuers found another 15 bodies floating in the island following the new year celebrations thursday night. the per sis pent rain has put rescuers on the clock day and night. in the poorer suburbs, makeshift homes built on slopes are more susceptible to these types of disasters. sadness is in every corner. "no more tragedy. my god, we've had enough." on wednesday, some good news as the work of rio's rescue teams begins to pay back. the mother and the father of this home did not survive the mudslide, but resc

this will dramatically change the structure, the warp and wolf of campaigns, for the worse. and this is what is -- this is what so upsets me. at a time when people are feeling estranged from their democracy, this is doing to make it so much the worse. i do believe, and i don't think i'm i'm exaggerating. this threatens the vieibility of our democracy. it threatens what we're all about because we know how much in our experiences both of us know how much money can influence things. both of us know how it's unaccountable and how the ads can exaggerate and twist and successfully win. what is happening here, and i am appalled at justice roberts and justice kennedy. because there's always a balancing test in the first amendment. can't falsely scream fair to in a theater. we have liable laws but when it comes to democracy versus corporate power and wealth, there's no balancing test? >> there was a report last week that insurance companies were spending an estimated $10 million or $20 million to oppose the democrats health care plans seems like corporations are already spending a lo

and taylor lautner brought sort of a tiger beat style wolf appeal to the last twilight movie.e'll bring that back for eclipse which is coming out in july. >> have you seen the bbc america series being human? it's a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost. >> that's right. right. >> that will be the next thing being made into a movie, i'm sure. 3-d is going to be very big. a lot of folks, i mean, the vast majority of people seeing "avatar" are seeing it in 3-d? >> the 3-d appeal is boosting "avatar's" money haul i think. and that's, you know -- >> they can charge you more. they love that. >> they can charge you more. as can imax. a lot of theaters are not equipped for 3-d. i also think this past year has seen a big jump in the technology of 3-d. and alice in wonderland which is coming out in march, tim burton must have been so jazzed to be able to do it in 3-d. we'll see more of hat. >> what movie are you most looking forward? >> most forward to iron man 2. i think robert downey jr. have really made a mark for themselves. they want to make a rock 'n' roll superhero franchise that stand

traditional, scripted programming from very established producers like jerry bruckheimer or like dick wolf with the law and order l.a. they're talking about a rockford files remake. as they say, they're going back to basics. it's almost ironic they were telling us a short time ago they were going to reinvent television. all of that has been discarded. it's back to basics. >> brown: bob thompson just to broaden even further. there's the dvr. one new factor here. there's the competition from the internet which we talk about a lot. but a lot of this also has to do with competition from cable i guess, right, in terms of what the networks are facing. >> that's right. i think this had a lot less to do with the new digital revolution and the internet and all the rest of it. i think this got down to good old fashioned fragmentation of the audience which has been happening since cable started kicking in the 1980s. when you've got so many other choices of places to watch, the networks are having a hard time getting audiences big enough to justify the kind of expenditures for these sorts of scripted

there's a war on fat because we are all getting obese and the year of the lone wolf gunman. a great year, 2010. with all the doom and gloom, i take it you are buying gold. >> i'm a big buyer of gold. we forecast gold drives in 2001. we are looking at gold 2000. look what's going on in europe with the economic monetary union. >> you are extrapolating out from trends you can see now. >> exactly. >> i assume the trends will get worse and worse and there's no way out of the dire trends. >> there is a way out. the way out is a productive capacity. go back to the 1990s. we were in a recession. we got out of it when we had the internet revolution. products were invented, designed, manufactured, service, it was our whole lives are different. we need a productive capacity. it could come in a new energy. >> gerald, it's a pleasure to see you. you are the first guy i hope is utterly wrong. >> thank you. >> the government pumping up the housing market with tax credits, expanding them this year. what happenings when it pulls away the punch bowl? my next guest says watch out for a massive

responsibility for every single lead that has some degree of credibility to it because if in fact he's a lone wolf or lone operator it will be difficult to find this guy as he operates out there. that's why is so important to take every threat seriously, sort through the priority and follow up. >> which, of course, we did with regard to the newark liberty international terminal cpit mak. we'll have to tighten up all the way around. we have to make sure we're closing all the potential loopholes, using technology, in the case of the tsa agent, he goes on a break, things open up, have to use technology and tighten it up. >> michael sheehan, you can go upstairs and kick a little terror to those guys. thank you very much. for more on the investigation into the christmas day plot and how some experts say terror watch lists have limited use, you can head to our website, michael is going right now. thank you very much. president obama is working to change the political conversation in washington away from the christmas day terror attempt and back to the economy. as a labor department report released frida

wolf: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. i rise in opposition to the rule but today the press is reporting that a backroom deal has been fix with democratic leadership to create a commission by executive order. there are also reports instead of putting every spending program and tax policy on the table, discretionary spending controlled by the democratic appropriations committee would be exempt. i oppose creating this panel by executive order. the american people will oppose this sleight of hand also. press reports suggest that the democratic leadership intends to bring the commission's recommendation up for a vote in congress, but a vote that is not mandated as it would be if congress passed similar legislation statutorily. more important, a vote that could have taken place under the plan would happen after the midterm election and before the newly elected congress begins, it would be basically a lame duck congress vote. lawmakers who are retiring or get to vote on the senate recommendations with regard to entitlement spend

romances that she loved to the 800 books of what winston churchill could each of them equally red wolf of the dog eared notes written. not at an early age molly was a gracious reader eight romilly curious, the great trait of a great journalist, just a closet in the right sense of the term. just open to new ideas and sets of experiences, and even before she was a teenager she was a wise guy teenager. [laughter] but she would be in her room and read and her brother and notably father began calling her the mole and it kind of transmogrified into molly. so if you were curious how it came to be that way that's in part where it came from. but her dad was quite an interesting man. we had difficulty in trying to reach a sensitive balance and describing, not to sound too pious or sanctimonious but it was difficult because her dad was a very autocratic -- described and frankly as molly wrote about him in her notes there are 150 bankers boxes for you to look at if you wish at the center for american history you can buy bankers boxes three or 4 feet long, the kind with drawstrings and dead storage