you can find any type of content on youtube, and we don't say youtube is a news site primarily. it's a site for video content. with political speeches and such, i think that the interesting part about them on youtube is you can catch them anywhere. it used to be that if you wanted to see a political speech or a political moment you'd have to catch the 7-second sound bite that the network news had time for on their evening newscast. during the 2008 election when president obama gave one of his most famous speeches during the election, which was his speech on race, that video was uploaded right away at 10 a.m. to youtube. you know, millions of people watched it. ended up being viewed by 7 million people on the site, and they could watch it in its entirety. so you have more of an opportunity to catch this content wherever you are for however long you'd like to and make your own decisions about it. >> john, do you worry at all that a television audience that used to gather to watch important things now disintegrates or fragments into watching amusing but inconsequential videos on pl

the most watched talking head- on youtube belonged to a dog. >> reporter: the thing about youtube videos is that some you get, and some seem like jib rush. for instance in this year's top 10 most viewed videos the number 5 spot went to a very annoying cat, the you in we are 10 spot went to a very adorable cat. a mother cat hugging its kitten hill the two of them take a cat nap. the number 9 video was volkswagen super bowl commercial called the force had. number 8 was a cute 11-year-old canadian sing sergeant lady gaga 's hits. lady gaga was so impressed she invited maria are a gone to sing a duet in concert. number 7 was a dance comedy video. youtube is the place if you want people to at least 56 million people looked at the twin talking babies that seemed to understand each other perfectly. adults enjoyed adding subtitles and nominating them for best foreign language film. comedy music videos were popular and we might as well acknowledge the number one video that got over 180 million views. okay. that's enough acknowledgment. but it's the video that came in at number 2 that's number one

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and youtube individuals that include why this accounts for almost 40 million of youtube's total viewsng's popularity doesn't seem to be waning. last week a flash mob danced to the song. at a mall in auckland, new zealand. this week police in india started using versions of the song title to help combat road rage and encourage bike riders to wear helmets. if only police campaigns were as catchy in this country. >>> a man faces a lawsuit from his former employer. they claim the company owns his twitter followers and the disturbing details about a christmas day house fire that killed a family of five. what the fire chief told us at today's press conference. >>> and a tragic end to the case of a missing child we told you about last night. "outfront" next. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind. ♪ [ male announcer ] the citi thank you card. earn points you can use for travel on any airline, with no blackout dates. nyqui tylenol:

and youtube individuals that include why this accounts for almost 40 million of youtube's total viewssong's popularity doesn't seem to be waning. last week a flash mob daed to the song. at a mall in auckland, new zealand. this week police in india started using versions of the song title to help combat road rage and encourage bike riders to wear helmets. if only police campaigns were as catchy in this country. >>> a man faces a lawsuit from his former employer. they claim the company owns his twitter followers and the disturbing details about a christmas day house fire that killed a family of five. what the fire chief told us at today's press conference. >>> and a tragic end to the case of a missing child we told you about last night. "outfront" next. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable. one night britta told me about a tradition in denmark, "when a person dies," she said, "someone must open the window so the soul can depart." i smiled and squeezed

at last, we will bring swift and sure justice to hardened criminals on youtube. that's enough, jimmy. you know where you are not going to be a single lady? in jail. with your cell mate denny's whose's locked up for blujsoning a mailman to death with a bag of potting soil. joining me now is one of the many victims of internet piracy, a manage music manager whose clients have been nirvana and beastie boys be former head of mercury records and gold v entertainment, danny goldberg. danny, thank you so much for being here. okay, all right, there is a huge problem, isn't it sm. >> i think the internet is great. i love it. but over the last 125 years, there-- 15 years multibillion-dollar companies have been created and at the same time thousands of jobs have been lost in movies and records and books. and the pendulum needs to swing back to the middle. >> stephen: shouldn't the free market handle this? when my show start i was about 25% of all the videos on youtube, all right. [bleep] you not. now my parent company viacom brought a billion dollar hammer down on google th

when my show started i was about 25% of all the videos on youtube, all right. [bleep] you not, now my parent company viacom brought a billion dollar hammer down on google that owned youtube. isn't that how it should be worked out, by companies policing themselves? >> well, lawsuits are part of the law. and laws, a new law allows people to sue for things like that. but policeman arrest people for stealing. and you need cops to enforce-- to enforce the law. >> stephen: can we get internet policeman, maybe those guys from tron on motorcycles. all right, hold on a second. now joining us now to defend thieves and pirates, please welcome professor of internet law at harvard, jonathan zittrain. thank you so much for joining me. (cheers and applause) why, why do you want artists to starve? >> i want artists to thrive. the internet allows artists to find their audiences. when justice -- justin beiber started just sing his favorite songing on youtube he got discovered thanks to the internet. and the odd thing is, under this law, the behavior of just fin beiber, singing h

. ♪ the silliness of children starring in viral youtube videos.avid is likely the undisputed king of monetizing his 7-year-old son's trippy few minutes of post-dental delirium. >> why is this happening to me? >> reporter: he won't say exactly how much, but after 100 million views, he's made several hundred thousands dollars. he has created a website called david after dentist.com, emblazoned t-shirts, the copy right is on the way. there are bumper stickers you can buy and new videos to watch. it reminds me of "spaceballs." you ever see that movie? >> yeah, sure. >> reporter: but was it all too much too soon? >> from day one to day five, we're at 4 million. and we're like, what is the reaction? are people making fun of him? once we figured out that everybody thought david was cool and this was very funny and they were laughing with me, not at him, then we were fine with us. >> reporter: one psychologist we talked to questioned the entire notion of exposing your child to the world via youtube videos. >> what you think may be something that's cutesy

my cats have a youtube act.ike to engage audiences. >> reporter: she is confident her followers will help her get in front of the biggest awed epps of them all, a future employer. >> if anything it's going to show i am trying to make myself something. >> reporter: in san francisco, elizabeth cook. >> its been a windy night around the bay area. we still have fierce winds, stronger winds still to come. the complete fore,,,,,,,,,,,,,, . >>> from the weather center the information coming in fast and furious so farah round the state of california. pg&e a says about 30,000 without power due to downed power lines caused by gusty winds, locally about 3,000 people throughout the bay area. we have had downed plants, downed power lines and a lot of debris on the roadway. the wind, continues to blow hard tonight. overnight through the morning drive before beginning to go down during the afternoon hours and this is why. we continue to see the wind warning in effect for anything about 1,000 feet and above, that's the red high

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youtube's list included animals, of course, with the dog tease. taunted over the dog and voiced the reaction. 76 million views. ♪ >> the cameo on "snl" was enough to boost michael bollton. he played a raving "pirates of the caribbean" fan. at number four was a video of twin babies appearing to have a goo goo, gaga conversation. nylon cat appeared to hamster dance. >>> a minnesota woman took her passion for christmas cards to the extreme. the rest of the family is not as enthusia enthusiastic as she is. here is kevin tibbles with the story. >> reporter: perched, as always by her sewing machine, she has the next big secret. how do you come up with the ideas each year? >> sometimes they come to me in dreams. or my husband refers to them as nightmares. >> nightmares. for nearly two decades sue handmade costumes and got her family to pose for christmas cart that is take elaborate to the extreme. there was the choir year, the elf year, the toy soldier year. friends now clam mor for them. even friends of friends want to see what she's come up with. no on

youtube. >> jimmy: yeah, swedish youtube, yeah. >> it's on the youtube. >> jimmy: it's on the youtubeand i was always a big fan of "voltron" growing up. obviously. >> oh, come on. >> i mean, "voltron" is, like, the '80s -- >> there's got to be some "voltron" fans out there. >> come on, "voltron" fans. >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, yeah. "voltron." i remember "voltron" growing up. >> defenders of the universe. yeah, yeah, yeah. so, i wrote and directed this little "voltron" short, and my buddy, tim almondson, who's in "psych," was, thankfully, cool to come down and be my commander of the red lion and stuff. >> jimmy: would you want it -- well, is it going to grow up from here and, like, you would direct a "voltron" series? >> yeah, it was really crazy. the first time i did it -- the first day that it was out, i actually got called from the guys that own the rights to "voltron," and they were like, "dude, we've been trying for ten years to get the sort of hollywood jive going on a live-action "voltron" movie, and you did it with this short in your garage. let's meet. so, i've been meeting with

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because it's amazing to see it's not youtube, it's you koo.ir own companies for the biggest growing market in the world. >> in the chinese model, there's a chinese equivalent of every american firm. there's a facebook equivalent, twitter equivalent, google equivalent, which are doing well. chinese laws make it difficult for american companies to enter china and operate. you have to operate through a joint venture and you're subject to these horrendous censorship loss. we decided to move to the other china they love to say, one country, two systems. we prefer the open system of hong kong. there is a firewall literally called the great firewall, which blocks content that they don't like between hong kong and the mainland forcing them to do the censorship. we just could not abide by their rules. >> is this really going to be the century for china? >> china is the world's manufacturer, and they do it very well. they do not yet have all of the advanced society functions that they need, an independent judiciary, the kind of political dynamic, creati

as you know, everything is on americascup.com, it is also on our youtube page.e would encourage everyone to have a look at what is going on and visit us in san diego for a face-to-face look. thank you. >> next up, we are going to hear from kerry. -- carrie. >> good morning, everybody. i had the pleasure of being in portugal. it was absolutely tremendous. both my chairman and myself were there. we were very heartened by how exciting the racing was. i am not sure if anybody had a chance to catch the fleet race in plymouth, but tom covered a bit of the action from the collision in the starting line to a couple of capsizes. jimmy, who was driving one of the oracle boats, stepped out of the water and said, this is just like san francisco. that type of promotion really is a calling card, a road to san francisco for the next two years. what the event of a party has been able to pull together and started to come to bear. we are really excited to be able to bring this to fruition. they are doing their part. the city is doing their part. we are also incredibly proud of ho

>> youtube, jib jab -- >> they make holiday cards, too? >> yes, they do. absolutely. >> let's talk about the top movies of -- >> all-time. the christmas movies. >> this is according to access hollywood. let's start with number five. >> "home alone." love that movie. that is the movie that brought him on the scene. john candy was in it. >> yeah, he was. >> and then "the night before christmas," and it was written by a local girl. >> i did not know that. >> and number three is "efl." did you like that? >> yeah, four food groups, sugar, sugar, and sugar and sugar. >> and then "a christmas story," and that's funny. >> number one, many people love to watch it over and over again, and you know what that is. >> "it's a wonderful life." >> i was surprised that "miracle on 34th street" didn't make it. >> yeah, me, too. those are all great ones. will you sit down this weekend and just watch movies? >> absolutely. i have a week's vacation, and i am coming here and other than that, i will hang on the couch and watch the christmas movies. >> the little drummer boy, tel

now to the second most watched youtube video.his one has people cracking up. >> you know that bacon that is like maple? maple flavoring. >> the maple kind, yeah. >> i took that out. i thought, i know who would like that. me. so i ate it. >> it's called ultimate dog tease. okay. 78million hits and it was done by a canadian voice over artist. if you haven't seen this whole thing, you have to. the whole family was cracking up. and family friendly. everyone can watch it. >> the canadian accent. all right, let's go to new year's weather. >> this new year's weekend looks fantastic. we're talking mild conditions. it will be breezy during the afternoon. but hey, for the end of december, this is a really nice looking forecast before the big changes come this way. here's a look at the national picture. the weather makinger right now is in the upper midwest and the great lakes region, you can see this area of low pressure spinning, bringing mostly rain. not cold enough to bring a lot of snow into parts of detroit, even cincinnati and chicag

>> well, actually my granddaughter put it on youtube because i didn't know anything about youtube anded this would happen. >> bruce, had you ever heard of a viral video before this? >> i am a viral 87-year-old. >> but did you even know what a viral video was before this? >> no, no i didn't. i didn't know what youtube was either. >> you didn't use the internet or anything like that? and so now with 9 million people having watched this over the last year or so, what's the best thing that's come out of it, bruce? what's the worst thing? >> the best thing is the fact we've got to do this with a lot of people, shake hands with a lot of people and visit some shows like in san francisco, for example, and people are so warm. that's it. >> you get to meet people because of this. >> oh, yes. >> what made you save the booby part? >> well -- >> because it's just the way he is? >> i don't even remember saying that. >> that's one of the nice things about being 87, right? >> that's right. >> i got to admit if i had to do it again i might not say that. >> all right. this is a reunion by the way. you

>> yes. >> this video is one of his more popular ones on youtube.ing. maybe because of how shocking it is. only moments before this confrontation, bates is out on his normal rounds, shooting video, when a big delivery truck catches his eye. >> i didn't pay any attention to it. it's a huge truck. except, i notice he kept circling this prostitute in this park. and so i decided to start rolling on him. well, sure enough, he pulls up to her, she gets up to the cab, starts talking to him. a minute later, boom, she's around. she's in the cab. they're driving away. >> so he follows the truck to a popular local restaurant, where it parks. >> i'm thinking this is it, they're going to do it there in the cab of the truck. no. they get out of the truck. they go around to the back of the truck. they open up the back of the truck and they go inside, shut the door, and i'm assuming proceed to engage in a lewd act. i called the police. i called lowe's. lowe's didn't have any way to contact the driver. >> bates says he hears violent noises coming from the back of th

head on youtube, jenny has the count down. >> reporter: the thing about youtube videos is the fun you get and some seem like gibberish, for instance, in the top 10 most viewed videos , the number five spot went to an annoying cat. the number ten spot went to a very adorable cat. a mother cat hugging its kitten while the two take a cat nap. number nine video was volkswagen super bowl commercial, called the force. number 8 was a cute 11-year-old canadian singing lady gaga's hit. lady gaga invited maria to sing a duet in concert. number 7 was a dance comedy video. youtube is the place if you want people. twin talking babies understood each other perfectly. adults enjoyed adding subtitles and nominating them for best foreign language film. comedy music videos were popular. we might as well acknowledge the number one video that got over 180 million views. okay, that's enough acknowledgment. it's the video that came in at number two that is number one in my heart, since it's my story, that's one we are going to concentrate on. there is just something riveting about the talking dog being tea

youtube is the place if you want people to add least 56 million people looked at the twin talking babiestand each other perfectly. adults enjoyed adding subtitles and nominating them for best foreign language film. comedy music videos were popular. and we might as well acknowledge the number one video that got over 180 million views. okay. that's enough acknowledgement. but it's the video that came in at number two that's number one in my heart since it was my story. that's the one we're going to concentrate on. >> you know what the meat thrower is, right? >> no. what was in there sfp. >> there is something riveting about the talking dog being teased. >> you know that bacon that's, >> you know that bacon that's, like, maple, has maple flavor? >> the maple kind, yeah? >> i took that out. >> yeah? >> i thought, i know who would like that. me. so i ate it. >> looks like he's getting his hopes up, then they are dashed. hopes up, then dashed again. >> reporter: clark the dog has a facebook fan page with a joke bacon tree and bacon t-shirt. if you're wondering what he really said in dog speak,

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memorialized on youtube. >> handle with care. >> oh. just like that. >> ground service. i get it. ground. on the ground. >> reporter: and it's not just fed ex. >> what could ground do for you. >> reporter: ups brown can toss your package underhand. and it can toss it overhand. >> heavy. >> reporter: it can toss it like a horseshoe and fences and gates are the delivery man's member sis as the driver posted from a delivery point of view, gates are hostile. don't like it, get rid of the gate. the guy's videoing this ups delivery man comparing the technique to loading garbage. >> anything damaged in there? no. >> reporter: of course, it could be worse. at least they are not ace ventura. of all the special deliveries we saw none more special than this by fed ex. they were -- dlsh were sparks off the box and the man that was shooting. >> this guy has no idea he is pushing an oven. >> reporter: as for the computer monitore over the gate, the person who posted it says the monitor was broken and it is sad because he was home at the time the delivery man run the -- rung the bell. i am sure

"real violence is not allowed on youtube.ite for inappropriate material. once flagged, content is reviewed by our staff and usually removed from the system within minutes if it violates our community guidelines." in this case the victim never reports the attack or tells her parents. but the school district gets wind of the video, tracks down those involved, and calls the police. the four students are immediately suspended, and that's just the beginning. >> the three girls were charged with attempted assault. by the time we had gotten into the investigation, it was difficult to document the extent of the injuries to the young lady, so we charged them with attempted assault. >> the girls plead guilty and are serving probation. ryan alomar who videotaped the assault is also arrested. >> he was charged with unlawful assembly. he came with a video camera, came prepared to film this situation. >> for the teens who beat up this girl and the video voyeur who taped it, the thrill of it being seen for bragging rights turns into the bes

. >> a rising star on youtube shares his personal battle with a life-threatening illness. >>> holiday horror. hear breaking new details on the connecticut family trapped inside their burning home christmas day. >>> overcast in the afternoon. snow flurries stopped. tim will tell us if they'll make a return in the forecast. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> no doubt you are watching us. you are saying what snow? other people are saying i wish i could see some. radar tells the story where the line of snow showers is. the system is moving north of us. we are on the very bottom edge of this. we have been watching on the radar snow showers moving across the region all day long. much not making it to the ground. in the last hour we are seeing much of it move across north baltimore county, carroll county and frederick and hagerstown town. you might see light rain or the sun out. right now temperature at bwi marshall 40 degrees. certainly not enough to sustain accumulation. 51% relative humidity. south wind. we'll get up to 42 in the next hour. barometer has been falling at 30.00. around the state temp

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video posted on youtube shows a confrontation between berkeley police and some of the occupiers there. police ordered them to leave by 10:00 last night after south baying calls about violent incidents lapping at the camp. something they're not denying. >> poverty is violent. these are things that happen on the street all the time. unfortunately, these things kind of got concentrated here and that's a good point. beat would have appreciated the police not ignoring this place up until today. >> as of this morning, a handful of tents still pitched in civic center park and protesters say they have no plans to leave. >> the golden state warriors say a relationship between monta ellis and a former team employee was consensual. erica smith and her attorney filed a civil suit against ellis and the war yars claiming ellises harassed her with dozens of text messages some of them including explicit pictures. she worked for the team for three years in the community relations department. she claims she was fired to cover it up. the warriors denewrongdoing. >>> san leandro police discovered a marij

youtube's number one political video of 2011.lion views so far and probably not a name you have heard before. this happened in iowa this february and in front of a packed iowa house of representatives. here is 19-year-old college student zach walls' impassioned speech against a proposed iowa constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. >> as a sixth generation iowa and rayed by two women, my biological mother told her grandparents that she was pregnant and that the artificial insemination had worked and that it was not until i was born and broke down to my cuteness that they admitted to having a grandson, but not once have i been confronted by a individual who recognized i was raised by a gay couple and the reason is because the sexual orientation of the parents have has zero affect on the content of my character. >> yes. >> and it is the power of democracy on youtube. >> and despite the impassioned speech the amendment passed in february, but clearly, he made quite an impression on youtube. >> yes, and stay with me, as th

it has been re-posted dozens and dozens of times to youtube. it has lit up twitter.urse, and here's why we're telling you this, a couple of problems here. that is actually not the name of this song, in case you're wondering, i know i was. and it's not radiohead. singer/songwriter christopher stoppa came "outfront" today to share his story. >> i happened to see an article and saying there was a lost radiohead track, and i thought oh, that's kind of interesting. so i clicked on the website and there was a small blurb saying that some lost track that had never been released had been found, and i thought that was interesting and so i hit play and what started coming out of my speakers sounded very extremely familiar and after a couple of seconds i thought, well, wait a minute. this is my song. ♪ ♪ >> so my first thought was to think somehow i had hit play on my itunes or something on my computer had triggered itunes and i was hearing my own demos, but the funny part, of course, is that that was the song that i recorded in 2001 called "sit still" in new york. morris was t

it has been re-posted dozens and dozens of times to youtube. it has lit up twitter.ere's why we're telling you this, a couple of problems here. that is actually not the name of this song, in case you're wondering, i know i was. and it's not radiohead. singer/songwriter christopher stoppa came "outfront" today to share his story. >> i happened to see an article and saying there was a lost radiohead track, and i thought oh, that's kind of interesting. so i clicked on the website and there was a small blurb saying that some lost track that had never been released had been found, and i thought that was interesting and so i hit play and what started coming out of my speakers sounded very extremely familiar and after a couple of seconds i thought, well, wait a minute. this is my song. ♪ ♪ >> so my first thought was to think somehow i had hit play on my itunes or something on my computer had triggered itunes and i was hearing my own demos, but the funny part, of course, is that that was the song that i recorded in 2001 called "sit still" in new york. morris was there and me

a youtube video ben posted one week before he died without saying a word, he described to the world howted death three times, at the age of 4 after a seizure, he saw a bright light above him, and ben also shared an interesting vision he had when paramedics were reviving him at school earlier this month, standing in a white room with his favorite suit, and he was smiling and he said he wished he never woke up. he ended with this. >> i just think ben opened the door for a lot of people to think about something that maybe they never thought about before, and that to me is a wonderful gift. >> that was aaron cargo reporting. >>> staying healthy during the holidays. up next, an important task that you might want to put on your to do list if you have children heading back to school next week. >>> and then rumors of a rap star that caused this chaotic scene inside a mall. >>> and questions about authenticity among mourners of kim jong-il. and veronica johnson will be back to tell us more about a changing >>> we begin this half hour with an update on our breaking news. we're following it from m

and the rising star on youtube died on christmas day. but not before leaving behind a touching video that will reveal the rare health problem that took their life. anna werner has his story. >> hey guys, thanks for watching. >> reporter: for more than a year, the austin, texas teen had been cultivating a following on youtube with the whit and wisdom of someone far beyond his 18 years. >> what are your views? do you think that is an issue? >> that is the most joyful person that i ever knew. >> reporter: just before christmas, he made a different kind of video. still funny, but also terribly sad. ben shared with the world his personal struggle with a life threatening heart condition and how that challenged him every day of his life. >> it was about 13 months old and he was taken to a cardiologist. they did some tests finding out he has a condition. >> a sickening of the heart muscles that will make it difficult for the heart to pump blood. and causes chest pains, high blood pressure, and eventually heart failure. ben details how he cheated

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