top of everything else. he teamed up with the aarp to fight poverty in the senior community. we were the first ones to get a look at his new car, the number 24 car. here it is, guys. >> let's unveil it. we want to see it. >> it's a beautiful car. >> you have a couple of helpers. this is the number 24 car like you have never seen it before. gorgeous. i love the touch of neon. i can't imagine how much time it takes to do this. >> i would not want to have to paint this race car. after every weekend, it's going to be quite a job. >> looking good. congrats to them. for a good cause. >> thank you for allowing me to be here. i'll head back to atlanta where kyra phillips is for the next hour of the "newsroom." >> we're waiting for you to come back. thanks a lot. it's 9:00 on the east coast. 6:00 on the west coast.

a big day for proposition 8 in california, the ban on same-sex marriage, getting a challenge in federal appeals court. and check your facebook profile. the company's rolling out tweaks that they say will do a better job telling your story. the changes include more emphasis on your pictures. and the hunt is on for a killer shark in egypt. it attacked and killed a german woman snorkeling in the waters. >> we begin with your paycheck and taxes. senators have been debating them all weekend long on capitol hill, and after a series of test votes, well, looks like they are closing in on a deal to extend the bush tax cuts for all americans no matter how much you make. help for millions of the jobless may be part of the compromise. christine romans in new york. less than four weeks until the tax cuts expire. let's discuss the bottom line.

>> let's look at what the tax situation looks like for different people if the tax cuts are extended and if not. first if you are single making $47,000 a year if the tax cuts are extended your tax bill is about $4200. if those cuts were allowed to expire your tax bill would go up to more than $5,000. a family of four making $7500. $75,000 rather. two small children. if the tax cuts are extended the bill is about 1653. if the tax cuts were to expire, $4,290 is the new tax bill. these are the bills back to what you were paying around the mid to late 1990s. a couple age 65 or higher, making about $121,000 a year, how would their tax situation change if those taxes were extended. if the cuts are extended, about

1 $12,695. if the cuts expired, $19,567. so this is an issue that is very near and dear to many seniors. the bottom line is those tax cuts, the bush era tax cuts were designed to be temporary. but when you put money in people as paychecks it's hard to make it temporary. that means someone has to take it back eventually. roll it back to the levels it was in the 1990s. and no one right now wants to take responsibility for that. especially in a recession. >> we're going to track. especially the senators offering different time tables for the cuts. christine romans, thanks so much. the recession may be over but the top economist says brace for a long recovery. the unemployment rate has been at 9.5% or higher for 16 straight months. ben bernanke thinks it will be a while before we get back to normal. >> between the peak and the end of last year we lost 8.5 million jobs. we've only gotten about a million back so far. and that doesn't even account

the new people coming into the labor force. at the rate we're going it could be four or five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate. somewhere in the vicinity of, say, 5% or 6%. >> bernanke wants to commit $600 billion to hold down interest rates. critics say it's a risky idea, that could lead to ballooning inflation. >> well, this fear of inflation i think is way overstated. we looked at it very, very carefully, analyzed it every which way. one myth that's out there is that what we're doing is printing money. we're not printing money. the amount of currency in circulation is not changing. the money supply is not changing in any significant way. what we're doing is lowering interest rates, by buying treasury securities, and by lowering interest rates we hope to stimulate the economy to grow. the trick is find the appropriate moment to unwind this policy. that's what we're going to do. >> the fed boss also says he

hasn't ruled out expanding the program, spending even more on government bonds if the economy fails to perk up. >> we've got new developments out of iran. it says it can now make nuclear fuel from scratch including a crucial component known as yellow cake. it's a coarse powder. making it is the first step 18 process that converts uranium into one of two things. fuel for a nuclear power reactor, or the metal used in an atomic weapon. that has the white house pretty worried. until now iran has had to depend on other countries for this raw material. this comes just as long delayed nuclear talks get under way in switzerland today. googling yourself, everybody does it, right, even chinese leaders. when one higher up typed in his name and that search engine and found some less than flattering posts he turned up the heat on google to sensor its material.

that's according to a new wikileaks cable. deb, google and china have a rocky relationship for years about thut takes it to an interesting level. >> reporter: it does. it sheds a lot of light on what was really going on. china felt threatened by the kind of information that google was providing, specifically even though google agreed to sensor some of the material now put everything on it according to chinese law, what they did was a link to google.com, and once people were on google china as they accessed google.com they got access to a lot more information. that made the chinese government very nervous and they had to put pressure on google to take it down, to filter the flow of information. google stood up to china, the first time the chinese very sort of taken aback by the fact that they were being defied by google who had promised congress that they weren't going to allow themselves to be totally cens

censored. google was the only search engine in china at the time. the attacks show that the move to try to take down the google site was in fact political, it was not business motivated but chinese businesses were threatened by government officials, saying that they needed to stop doing business with google. that's the kind of pressure that google was under while all of this was going on. it was interesting and we have a quote from one of those wikileaks. it says google's reebt move presented a major dilemma for the chinese government not because of the cyber security aspect but because ever google's direct challenge to china's legal restrictions on internet content. another thing that was interesting according to the documents recently released that is that google and 20 other companies were hacked, hacked according to these cables, by the main information agency in china that the company's

computer systems, they were broken into effectively and china blocked sites like facebook, youtube and the web, all of these political attacks but china very much trying to censor the material. ironically drove a lot more people to access google. >> the leaders in the chinese government do not like anything negative said about them. thanks a lot. the u.s. is talking with nations how to respond to north korea's actions now. secretary of state hillary clinton is hosting talks with top diplomats from south korea and japan. last night president obama phoned the chinese president and mr. obama urged china to send a clear message to north korea the provocations are not acceptable. the president and first lady took seats for the kennedy center honors last night. prior to that show the president hosted the honorees at the white

house. they were oprah winfrey, paul mccartney, bill t. jones and merl haggard. the president got some laughs, though, after stumbling over a word. >> special thank to -- too many people he wrote in his decent, the super -- let me start that over. to many people the super -- it's this lip. it's hard to say. you try it when you had 12 stitches. >>y you may remember the president got the stitches after being elbowed at a basketball game the day after thanksgiving. small plane smashed into a couple of homes and set them on fire but the pilot is alive this morning. hurt but alive. the people in the homes, they are okay. it happened last night in utah. the plane crashed into a power pole first, tore the plane apart, knocked out power to 1700

homes. witnesses couldn't believe what they were seeing. >> i looked out my window. there were splashes that lit up the sky. i came out and it's foggy and i could see 15, 20-foot flames out of the top of the house a few houses away. so i came down here and we witnessed the pilot being pulled from the curb away from the wreckage. he was bad condition. it wasn't a pretty sight. >> pretty banged up, burnt on his hands and face. but he was actually coherent and remembered what his name was and what he was doing. >> the plane went down as it got ready to land in thick fog. investigators are trying to figure out what went wrong. how you doing, buffalo? we know that you are used to snow but this is crazy. the city is getting a fresh blanket today, too. some areas could see a foot. that's the lake effect for you.

two feet fell last week, the storm dumped so much snow that some homes couldn't handle the weight on the roof. >> it was heavy and it's kind ever dangerous at some point. >> the whole awning including the door and the steps into the mobile home. >> we're in a desperate situation here. >> reynolds wolf, they said the city moved about 10,000 truckloads of this snow. >> hard to believe. >> yeah. it's insane. >> the issue we've got, the strong wind out of the north and the northwest, the lake water is relatively warm which heightens the sense of evaporation. it's cool air aloft, freezes and this is what you have. the wind direction pretty easy to see if you notice the movement. everything out of the north and the northwest, as it continues to march across there are a couple of key spots that are going to get fairly heavy snowfall. you look at these models, there

is the possibility over 48 hours areas near erie could get in excess of one, perhaps two feet of snowfall. buffalo should be in pretty good shape according to this model. syracuse along m street in the campus area, some heavy snow. same for parts of southwest ontario and traverse city, michigan, might get snow. one place that got snow was actually in south bend, indiana. we've got got the video. it's the home of the university of notre dame. yes, out at the golden dome t snow coming down. visibility hampered. we can expect things to improve by late afternoon. till then it's going to be all snow business. back to the weather computer. i want you to notice something else we have out of the north. a lot of cold air. check it out. 22 degrees your expected high in chicago. you see the areas that happen to be shaded in yellow. that's the normal high. 38 degrees in chicago, 22. in frank fort, kentucky.

only in the upper 30s. let's go back to this weather computer. let's advance this and give you an idea across the country. though things are going to be cooling down in the eastern third, out west the four corners it's warming up. las vegas, along the strip, 65. 78 in phoenix, 66 in los angeles. we've got the lake effect snowfall we also have snow across parts of the northern and central rockies. rainfall much of the west coast, san francisco northward, all the way to seattle and in the southeast all dry but still the cool air locked in place. a lot of weather. this week no exception. >> you may want to double-check your coverage as the nationwide recall of chicken salad. foot safety inspectors found hard plastic in eight-ounce packs of bumble bee lunch on the run and in 3.5 ounce packages. the usda says there is a remote

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forget goosebumps. it's all for a good cause. more than 1,000 people turned out along the shore of lake erie. they took part in the annual polar plunge which has become a holiday fundraising tradition for special olympics in buffalo. it's our cnn affiliate there reports $150,000 was raised for a fantastic charity, by the way. the water temperature, a nice 44 degrees. hey, it was warmer in the water than outside. when you change something that affects 500 million people, that's a talker. facebook's tweaking your profile page and you should see that change today. of course, when facebook tweaks a network that holds personal info you wonder if your secrets will be safe. leslie stall asked mark zuckerberg all about that privacy issue. this is from "60 minutes" last

night. >> we never sell your information, advertisers who are using the site never get access to your information. do we get it right all the time? no. it's something we take seriously. every day we come to work and try to do a good job. >> yet you have the ftc looking into it, members of congress looking into. there have been privacy groups lodged formal complaints. you have hire add lobbyist in washington to deal with this. you know it's a problem. >> well, i think that it's a really important thing for everyone to just be thinking about. privacy and making sure that people have control over their information is i think one of the most fundamental things on the internet. >> let's talk more about the new facebook with paul dylan, an expert with 750 facebook friends, by the way. why change something that's working so well? >> well, the next great battle of the internet will be fought in the social network sphere.

facebook has the pole position. i think this aimed at google, placing more distance between facebook and its main rival. >> interesting. so it's competitive thing. aren't pictures, i mean, that's what gets a lot of people in trouble, so does this mean you have to be even more careful now with what you're posting? >> absolutely, kyra. i think that the privacy issue is interesting with face book. it's what facebook does, i think they have feign the high road. there is also what people do with their own information. when people get in trouble on facebook it's often because they reveal things they shouldn't be revealing because they don't understand how to use the privacy settings. and i think the latest changes make it incumbent upon face book members to learn how their information is used and to lock down that which they don't want to share. >> that's a good point, protecting the client. so you know, how does facebook

prevent slipping up as a gatekeeper. there have been issues in the past and now it's sort of like opening up a bigger opportunity for something to go wrong. >> you are absolutely right. facebook takes a hands off approach to people's personal privacy. they give you a lot of controls for deciding what you want the reveal but many people don't understand how to use those controls. so by default, they sort of let it all hang out. when people get in trouble on facebook it's often because they allow photos to be posted or tagged of them doing things they don't want others to see, then it becomes a problem. facebook can argue you should have known better. on the other hand their privacy settings are not necessarily intuitive. >> what are we going to see today, the changes? do we know? >> you're going to see a lot more faces. there are going to be a lot more photos on the profile. facebook has been improving many features over the last couple of

years, as it's gained traction it has started making some of its features better. its photo sharing is better thanned was a couple of years ago and this profile page, no question it's an improvement. there is a lot more faces, it's a lot more social. they are trying to drive their advantage, improve their service now that they feel they have critical mass. >> always good to see you. appreciate it. >> you too. >> give them an offer they can't refuse. the home made famous now for sale. during its first year, the humpback calf and its mother

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the nation's top economist is talking about the recovery, yes, it's none other than fed chair ben bernanke and his forecast, normal unemployment is

five years away. claire evans of the new york stock exchange with the market's reaction to. that hey, carter. >> you know, let me frame this out for you. a normal unemployment rate in this country is approximately 5%. we haven't seen that in more than two years. bernanke gave his forecast on "60 minutes" last night and it follows a really weak jobs report on friday. the unemployment rate in this country jumped to 9.8%, now, the fed chair says that the fed itself is considering more stimulus efforts. that depends on how effective the current round is, that quantitative easing we talked about. it depends on inflation but that's not much of a big risk right now. those comments reviving economic fears on wall street. let's check. looks like the dow down about 9.5 points so the stocks modest at this point. the loss is modest at this point, rather. okay. here's something very interesting. if you're looking fror property

it's a good time to buy. looking for a quiet place surrounded by nature with an infamous name attached to it. 1.5 acres in montana, $69,000. it belonged to former unibomber. he was captured in 199 sick. by the way, if you're interested the cabin is not included. it's on display at the museum in washington, d.c. it will be through next year. >> we were talking about this morning like this is kind of creepy. we thought we could pitch in, buy the land for motivational retreats for the team. what do you think? >> i think that's a great idea. i guess we can catch up on our wilderness training. >> exactly. boy. something creepy about that. i don't know. thanks, carter. let's look at other stories. don't worry about taxes going up according to mitch mcconnell. he expects a deal soon that

would extend the tax cuts. the two sides can't agree on whether everyone should keep them or just the middle class. and check your pantry. food safety inspectors found hard plastic in eight-ounce packages of bumble bee lunch kits. and in 3 1/2 ounces of chicken salad with crackers. there is only a remote possibility you could be hurt by it. the suitor company packages both products. >> the chinese government worries it can't control google and that citizens might get uncensored on line content. we know this thanks to wikileaks. one cable talks about a government leader upset to find negative comments about him online. wikileaks is up and running, its swiss web host has refused demands to take it off line so. with word out that the site has

exposed what amounts to a secret list of potential targets for terrorists the question is, why hasn't washington tried to knock wikileaks off line maybe with cyber warfare? a former cia officer has an idea. jamie smith head as private intelligence firm that does some government work. >> up to this point wikileaks has released classified information. however, the information has not arisen to the level that makes it a national security threat in terms of our nation's survival. it's a military decision as opposed to a political decision. there are some administration officials that are embarrassed and diplomats are going to have a tough time executing their mission. however, nothing that's been released is threatening the survival of our nation. if we were to unleash our offensive capabilities what would happen would be our enemies would be able to understand and counter in any future attacks they might have

planned what our capabilities are. >> more frustration for comcast customers in the midwest. for the second time in a week, the company lost internet service. starting last night customers in illinois, minnesota, indiana and michigan found themselves off line. comcast apologized on twitter, says service should be restored today. last weekend east coast customers also experienced outages. here is a story we'll watch. in geneva, talks about iran's nuclear program, talks that have been stalled for a long time actually start up again. with the new emphasis, iran says it can now produce its own nuclear fuel from scratch. matthew chance is joining us. iran will take part in the talks, too, right, matthew? >> reporter: that's right, kyra. the first time in more than a year that the international community led by the united states in this instance managed to sit down with the iranians and talk about the controversial

nuclear program they have. the big concern of course is that iran is developing a nuclear weapon, iran says that's not true, they are trying to generate equity through nuclear power. there is not a lot of faith. they want iran to show and prove it doesn't have military intentions for this nuclear program. that's that the talks are all about. >> what do you think? is there optimism that the talks are going to make a difference? >> reporter: i know there's not a lot of optimism according to the diplomats i spoke to. iran came out 24 hours before these talks started and said look, we can now do this extra additional thing in terms of uranium enrichment. they have been throughout we're not going to give up our rights to enrich uranium. let me say that doesn't mean that the international community isn't going to try. these are about possibly ave averting a military

confrontation in the future. possibly the military option, tackling this program. diplomacy is the option everyone wants to pursue. >> got it. matthew chance, thanks so much. a teenager playing bumper cars with a stolen dump truck. oh, yeah, police vehicles chasing you. one wild ride that went 52 miles as we take you cross country. ♪ [ ted ] for years, i was just a brewer. until one of the guys brought in some fresh bread that he'd made from our pale ale. and from that first bite, i knew my business would never be the same. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity to grow, the hartford is there. protecting their property and helping them plan their employees' retirement. ♪ beer or bread? [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com.

>> welcome to wikileaks tmz. looking for world leaders behaving badly. >> our guys caught up with hamid karzai leaving tong. i think it speaks for itself. >> i do not take bribes. >> what an idiot. good work. >> congressman charlie rangel

speaking out about his censor. more on that story. hi, mark. >> good morning. charlie rangel was on state of the union last week he was found guilty on 11 counts of violating house rules including not paying taxes on a vacation home down in the dominican republic. he was asked by candy crowley yesterday about with that. he said look, he thinks that his colleagues voted for the censor because of the pressure and the low approval ratings that congress has seen in the past few months. in fact, he said i can understand that the feeling back home but i tell you individually whether it's republicans or democrats, they knew what i had done, did not reach the level of censor. so charlie rangel is saying that in fact he thinks his colleagues are doing it because people are frustrated with congress. you know, newt gingrich seems to

be inching toward a presidential run. i'll tell you, back in 1998 when i was a newspaper reporter i remember talking to him. he was the former or the house speaker at the time. he was seriously considering running forment. he decided not to do it then. now he seems to be heading that way. he said yesterday on fox news channel where he is a paid contributor he is much more inclined to run than not run. we expect gingrich to make an announcement in the new year. he was harsh on the obama administration. he might be throwing his hat in the ring. >> interesting. seem like michael steele can't catch a break. what's the latest on this embattled chairman, shall we say? >> yeah. you are absolutely right. michael steele, the embattled chairman of the republican national committee lost a very key ally. the general counsel for the rnc

iswisconsin republican party chairman stepped down in his role as general counsel of the rnc. he said that he sent a letter to michaelle steel yesterday, told him that he was leaving his post. now, he is considering running himself. i asked when we might hear an announcement. so michael steele loses a key ally. if previz decides to run for chairman he would join a crowded field who want to run the national committee heading into the 2012 presidential year. >> got it. mark preston, thanks. you can also 24/7 go to our website also. senator lindsey graham says the u.s. should consider permanent presence in afghanistan after combat troops pull out. >> under the right circumstances it would make sense to me for

america to have an air base in the north and the south of afghanistan for -- in perpetu y perpetuity. that way afghan security forces would have american air power to combat any effort of the taliban to come back and have special forces units assigned to the air bases to make sure the afghanistan never goes back into chaos. i would like to see that on the table. >> parker spitzer airs 8:00 p.m. here on cnn. buckle yourself in for a wild joy ride as we go cross country. police in northern ohio say they finally slapped the handcuffs on this 17-year-old driver of this stolen dump truck. he led law men on a collision-packed 52-mile long chase through three counties. before it was over the teen took out a couple of cruisers, smashed private vehicles, luckily nobody was seriously hurt. in dallas the salvation army counting blessing thanks in part to one person. they actually dropped a south

african coin right into one of the red kettles. the coin is valued between 1300 and $1500. in boston it was beginning to sound a lot like christmas. the boston pops conductser holding a massive christmas carol in hopes of breaking a record. that didn't happen but they will try again next year. >> one big belch from the throat of fire. we'll tell you what the latest eruption from ecuador's volcanos mean for people living close to it. first, today's flash back, this date, 1963, the fab four released the first of what would become a christmas tradition. you know this christmas release record, right? snet rocking around the christmas tree ♪

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nasty weather out there in the midwest. going to break some records tonight? >> you know, there is that possibility. i'm more concerned with people not breaking records but breaking backs by moving so much snow. >> that bad. >> could be heavy. look at this i-report we have sent in. brandon sparks i believe his name. his name is going to be mr. pain. there's going the be a lot of it. the next 48 hours, parts of the great lakes, especially the eastern half, could see a foot, maybe a bit more of snowfall. you see the snow way beyond his waist. what we're going the see today is that lake-effect snowfall. the reason is simple.

it's pretty easy to see if you look at this map. we've got the prevailing wind, the cold air invection making its way across the great lakes, scooping up moisture and that moisture off the lakes is falling through the lower levels of the atmosphere where it is well below the freezing point and snow is going to be a possibility in many spots. believe it or not this time i think buffalo just might escape some of the heaviest snowfall. instead, farther south along 90 into erie, that's one place that could see several feet, maybe several feet of snowfall. in the next 48 hours. same toward syracuse and the western half of the state of michigan, in traverse city, throw in petoskey, maybe even charlevoix, heavy snow on the way. the reason why we're seeing this is that wind off the great lakes. it's also going to bring a lot of cold air in parts of the southeast. the high for the day, check this out. atlanta going to 43, 32 at the freezing point for your high in st. louis, 40 in washington, new york and boston. you're going to have temperatures in the mid-30s but with the strong wind it's going

to feel much cooler. 65 in las vegas, 62 in san francisco. speaking of san francisco, that is one place where we have a delay at this time. in fact, about an hour at this point. and in washington, d.c., reagan national departure delays about 30 minutes that should improve. more delays expected in smaller regional airports like buffalo, perhaps in cleveland before the day is out due to snow and poor visibility. you're up to speed. >> i love being up to speed. thank you. i count on you. >> whatever it takes. >> take a look at this. this is ecuador's throat of fire volcano sending a plume of hot ash and rock into the sky. we're told nearly a half mile high. residents of a nearby town had to clear out and temporarily evacuate. folks are wearing surgical masks to limit the exposure to ash. the volcano has been spewing for the past 11 years.

>> let's take you across the world. in egypt, that's where the beach is closed as the hunt is under way, for what? a killer shark apparently. four people have been bitten, one fatally. friday two sharks were killed but neither thought to be responsible for the attacks. the tourism ministry says that the beach will stay responsible for the attack. they are keep the beaches closed until the shack responsible for the attacks is caught. a man falls off the subway platform with an oncoming train bearing down. people tried to wave down the train. an offduty police officer pulls that man to safety just before the train arrives. the officer turned savior aptly named angel. we have lots of developments coming up this hour. first, christine romans. last-minute nervous about what your tax bill could look like if you are single, married

with two kids, 65 or older and retired. i will tell you what will happen to your tax bill come january 1st. i'm carter evans at the new york stock exchange. we're keeping an eye on your money for the holidays. all i want for christmas is for gas to stay below three bucks a gallon. not going to happen. thanks, guys. we're also talking about a new barbie that a lot of us can't understand. have you seen this? she comes with a video camera. we will talk about why this model has gotten the fbi's attention in a way malibu barbie never did.

♪ >> c'mon, jamal, let's see it. it's not happening. there it is a little bit. tony harris. >> he does have some competition. is that called the wide receiver move? >> that was the beginning of the dirty bird. how it started, i was stumbling around one day.

>> the dirty bird. i was learning about the dougie. is the dirty bird an old thing? >> a more famous and old thing that led the falcons to a super bowl. we're 10-2 right now. >> what's going on? >> the falcons, a team nobody is talking about. yesterday, the atlanta falcons went on the road won again. you have matt ryan doing his thing. everybody was talking about it in the nfl. what can you do to be one of the best teams in nfl. what do you have here? >> eric weems. five different guys had a chance to stop him. you watch him slice and dive through. the falcons at this point in the game, fourth quarter, down by ten points, not a good situation when you are the top team in the division. down by ten points. eric weems does it. matt ryan throws a touchdown

pass to michael jenkins. >> nine yards, how difficult is that? >> it's the fourth quarter, on the road. lofton does a fantastic job. gets the interception. the falcons win. big, big game. to prove you are one of the best team, you have to win on the road against a winning team. >> are we talking about the falcons? you led them to their only super bowl win back in 1998. i'm just saying. >> the last time the falcons were 10-2, they had a certain player who do d a dance in the end zone. >> where is your ring? >> i'll bring it next time. >> what's next? >> tiger woods yesterday -- i'm not liking the goatee by the way. >> tiger woods was leading. he is leading in the chevron challenge, chaps. mcdowell does a fantastic job.

woods and graeme mcdowell have a playoff. he beats tiger wootsds. last year in this very same tournament, graeme mcdowell was a last-minute alternate to tiger woods and wins the u.s. open. woods was up by four strokes. it's been the difficulty with his game. he had difficulty with putts, up by four, did a great job to catch up. everybody is saying that the story is obviously that tiger woods lost. >> you're an athlete. you know how personal stuff gets in your head and it's hard to come back. >> here's what i'm going to say. he looked very good yesterday. he did look again like the number one player. tiger woods will be back next year. >> should we talk a little auburn. this is in honor of my best friend visiting this weekend. >> cam newton, very controversial this entire

season. fantastic job in the fcc championship. 400 yards, against steve spurrier's team. on the flip side, you have one of the most talented teams, the oregon ducks. this is it going to be a fantastic bcs championship game. would have loved to see utah in it but these are two of the most consistent teams throughout the entire year in football. chip kelley leads the oregon ducks. these guys can score at any point. this is going to be a great game. in all of the years of the bcs, 13th year, first matchup between sec and pac-10. the fifth different sec team. in the south, we play football team. >> i grew up in the era of bear bryant. >> exactly. >> that was the team to watch, and the coach to pay attention to. >> and this history from bear bryant on down, the great

argument, who plays better football, the sec or pac-10. two teams who have been very consistent all season. >> you went to utah. if you could play college ball now, what would be your dream school? >> utah again, thu very much. >> he has to give a shoutout to the alums. >> we have a great program. i loved my program. i graduated. i got a degree. i'm standing next to you becse i have a degree. >> he's big time now. >> how would this mascot that got in trouble? this is like the mascot gone wild, right? >> first of all, you are already a mascot, and now you want to lose your job. this guy is standing on top here, throwing snowballs at people. this is a mascot who gets cited for disorderly conduct and gets kicked out. >> they took him down.

>> it gets better. >> they took this guy better and brought in a replacement mascot. i'm like, was this set up? was this set up. the police took him down, took hip out of the game. i don't know what's going to happen, but the replacement mascot came in. this is a football game. >> the university of cincinnati has never been more crazy. >> this is a football game, and not the quarterback. you're replacing your mascot. can everybody have some hot cocoa and take a chill pill. >> what's the move? >> the dirty bird. 10-2, 10-2. first place, kyra. >> jamal is back. welcome to the 10:00 hour. 7:00 a.m. california time. big day for prop eight. the ban on same sex marriage getting a challenge in federal appeals court.

a french court says a continental airlines mechanic bears blame for a concorde supersonic jet that crashed ten years ago and killed 113 people. he was fined more than 1200 and got a suspension. the hunt is on for a killer shark in egypt. it actually attacked and killed a german worm snorkeling in the water off sharm el sheikh. three other people were hurt last week in the same area. you're paycheck and your taxes. senators have been debating them all weekend long on capitol hill and after a series of test votes looks like they are closing in on an extension of tax cuts no matter how much you make. christine romans here to tell us more about it. less than four weeks until the tax cuts expire. let's talk about the bottom

line. >> many payroll departments are watching this nervously because they don't have much time to change their with holding tables if they have to do that. if you're single, you make $47,000 a year, what will this mean to you? it means your tax bill, if the tax cuts are extended, are about $4259. what about a family of hour making $75,000 a year? a couple of young children. don't forget, there are tax credits and deductions for small children. if they are extended, the bill is 1,600. if they expire, that would mean it would go up to 4,200 a year. what about a couple married, 65 or older, making $121,000 a year? if extended, about $12,600, and

it jumps up to $19567 if they are not extended. everyone is different and has different circumstances and diducks but the tax policy center has a lot of people zeroing in on their own information and trying to figure it out what it means for them if they are not extended. >> the recession may be over but the nation's top economist says brace for a long recovery. the unemployment rate has been at 9.5% for higher than 16 straight months. ben bernanke thinks it will be a while before we get back to normal, too. >> between the peak and the end of last year, we lost 8.5 million jobs and only got about 1 million back so far, and that doesn't take into account the new people coming into the labor force. it could be four or five years before we are back to a more normal unemployment rate in the vicinity of 5 or 6%. >> bernanke wants to commit at

least another $600 billion to hold down interest rates but it is a risky idea. the u.s. is talking with allies about how to best deal with north korea. secretary of state hillary clinton meets with diplomats from south korea and japan. they want to be on the same page in responding to the shelling on south korean island. president obama told china's president north korea needs to stop its provocative behavior. new developments out of iran this morning as well. they say they can now make nuclear fuel from scratch, including a crucial component known as yellow cake, a coarse powder, and making it is the first step in a process that converts uranium oar into either fuel for a nuclear power reactor or the metal used in a nuclear

powered weapon. they used to have to depend on other countries for this raw material but this reservation comes as long delayed nuke talks comes in switzerland. the cable describes chinese officials anxiety about citizens getting unken sored online content through google. china turned the heat up on the search engine firm after a top official entered his name and found critical posts all about him. a lot of digging going on this morning in south bend, indiana. this snow, several inches of it, part of a system that could set a record in chicago. the lake effect, well, that's snow that hit buffalo, again, where the heck did fall go? it went away quickly. >> it did. a few leaves started falling, and, boom, replaced by

snowflakes. there are a lot of people enjoying snow, but for many people in buffalo, it's been damaging. many people out and about in parts of buffalo last week had problems along parts of i-90 trying to get from one area to another, especially say buffalo back towards erie. it just wasn't happening. the heavy snow that stacks up on the roofs, you have a little bit of temperature activity, and a little thaw and it refreezes, and it creates ice dams on overhangs and roofs. the snow continues to mount up and doesn't slide off and you have the sheer weight causing the roofs to fail. you see structure failures on mobile homes. rough times there, and more snow in parts of erie. thankfully, not that i want bad things to happen in places like erie but it appears buffalo will be spared.

there is a nor northerly movement. syracuse, you are in on the action. cleveland going to get some of it. the western shores of michigan. kalamazoo, up to 10 inches of snowfall. be prepared. while thins are cool in the eastern half of the country, things should warm up in parts of the four corners. utah, was such a range, heavy snowfall a possibility. also, central and north rockies, snow coming down. great news for skiers but for travellers, always a different story. got to take it easy out there. treacherous times. >> all of the marks you worked in, did you ever do the big polar bear plunge? >> no, no, no. >> chicken. >> absolutely. that's definitely it. >> from michigan to wisconsin, i remember the crazy folks doing it. look at this one. some guys, by the way, that went

in in skivvies that shouldn't have been shown. >> speedo free. >> this things should be speedo free. about 1,000 people turned out along the shore of lake erie this time. it's become a holiday tradition, reynolds, and they raised money for special olympics, fantastic organization, fyi, in buffalo, new york and apparently they raised about $150,000. pretty worth it, huh? >> it's a great cause. it is. but you have to remember outside the water, the temperatures are below the freezing point, and you get in the water, that's in the 40s. >> the water was warmer than the weather outside. >> it's when the water is warmer you run into the problems. you remember the "seinfeld" episode, the shrinkage episode. >> sure. i guess there was a lot of that going on over the weekend. >> for a good 'cause.

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he didn't get her a job. he got him a job. >> oprah was one of five honorees last night. as you know, when so many big names gather in one place, our a.j. hammer is all over it. hi. >> hi there, kyra. oprah was one of the five cult ral superstars whose lives and work were celebrated in the 33rd kennedy center honors. paul mccartney was toasted, too. the composer herman, bill t. jones, country icon merril haggard all honored for their lifetime contributions. stars turned out for the big star-studded ceremony and winfrey was honored for her more than 4400 shows and nearly 25 years as a talk show host. she has, as it was tut.

her official citation, impacted every aspect of the entertainment world. cnn caught up with oprah, and we asked if she had any advice for the next oprah as she wraps up her final season this year. >> the only advice is to be yourself because all of life is about becoming more of who you are. and you can be you better than you can be anybody else. you know, i started out pretending to be barbara wall streeters and figured out i could be a better oprah. my best advice is always to find a way to being your best self-. the gala was taped on sunday night and scheduled to be broadcast on december 28th. i enjoy the show. it's festive and stars come out and there is an air of sophistication coming from the

hollywood people. >> you just described yourself. one of the big stories in hollywood last week, actor josh duhamel getting boosted from a flight for texting. >> it seems that josh has learned his lesson which is don't mess around with the flight crew. he is talking about the incident. he was kicked off a new york to kentucky flight thursday. he was removed from the flight for refusing to switch off his blackberry after a flight attendant asked him several times to shut it off. when he didn't, the plane turned ba, to the gate and he was removed. can you imagine how the other passengers felt about that? he said i have learned that it's best to always turned them off. lesson learned and he says the experience was quote not my favorite moment. i was flying this moment. a lot of people have a problem that you have to turn off your cell phones and blackberries. as long as that's the rule and faa regulation, i'm shutting it

off, and i encourage my fellow passengers, celebrity or not to do the same so we can move along. >> you are such a good boy. you're sophisticated and you follow the rules. is there anything hidden i don't know? you come across far to perfect. >> i have a big list here. where do i begin? >> no. we're going to keep the image going. if you want any information about anything breaking in the entertainment world, showbiz tonight a 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. on hln. we're talking about a barbie that a lot of us don't understand. have you seen this? it's a barbie that comes with a video camera light there in the mill of her chest. we'll tell you why the model has gotten even the fbi's attention in a way holiday barbie never did. ♪ you're the one

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this just in. a supreme court says that it's going to take up the walmart sex discrimination case. more than 1.5 million current and former workers are seeking back pay and punitive damages against walmart. you may remember the suit was

first filed back in 2001, and the plannives say women were paid less and given fewer opportunities for promotion than men. buckle in for a wild joy ride. police in northern ohio say they finally slapped the handcuffs on the 17-year-old driver of this stolen dump truck who led law men on a collision packed 52 mile long chase through three counties. the teen took a couple of police cruisers, smashed a few private vehicles. nobody was hurt. in dallas, texas, the salvation army counting their blessings. someone dropped a south african coin into one of their red kettles. it was worth between 1300 and $1500. in boston, keith lockhart held a massive christmas carol

trying to break a guinness world record. didn't do it but it sure was beautiful. let's talk about a toy that might be on santa's 2010 list. have you seen it? it's called video camera barbie. barbie can record all of the exploits of her owner and her friends. the little girl's play time easily uploaded to the internet for anybody to see. would you be cool with that? >> you don't know if they are going to take it somewhere and put it on line or a parent might try to do something. not something i would want. >> predators through children, to download stuff recorded on a kid's doll like that. i just don't think that would be the right thing to put out. >> once its on the internet, it's always on the internet. >> this barbie has gotten on the fbi's radar. they say they don't have any reports of pedophiles using the doll for illegal purposes but it

says the possibility of the combination of these two in a single device is a big concern for investigators. law enforcement is alerted to be concerned about the possible possession of pornography such as the barbie video girl. mattel says the products are concerned with children and their best interests in mind and many of their employees are parents and they understand the importance of child safety. it's the number one priority. why even go there? seems like barbie doesn't need that technology because she's about little girls and their imaginations. the techie video gadgets can come later. let's talk to jennifer wooden mitchell. i understand you are outraged about this. why? >> well, you know, i do support technology and kids and 21st century learning skills and all of that.

i would just warn parents to be very careful when gifting any toys that are internet linked. if parents are not familiar in their entirety with their ability to upload onto the internet and how their kids can be exposed to other people, i would really caution them to be careful giving this to children. we have parents who are very anna log and kids who are digit. parents should be very, very aware of it. not just with a barbie doll, any technology their kids are using. you know, jennifer, what would a young girl who plays with barbies need with this? it gave us all kind of a creepy feeling when we actually talked about it. >> i agree. it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense, but everything is

turning tech now. everybody wants to have that edge, that connection, but that connection is not always in the best interest of our children and their safety. >> jennifer, the fbi is saying this is why we're oops putting out this internal warning. by the way, it wasn't for the public to see. it was internal. the point the fbi is making is when you make a bust in the home of a pedophile or wherever and you see barbie goals don't this country to that as evidence. look to see if it is a video barbie. it might have important information fosh the case. how creative have pedophiles gotten to this point in 2010, and would something like this, a video barbie be appealing to a pedophile? >> of course. listen. pedophiles think 24/7 about ways they can get to kids. we don't think that way. they do. it is very important that parents not discount that it could be used in that way. i'd like to say it wouldn't be

or couldn't be, but, unfortunately, that's how pedophiles think. so consumer beware here. >> jennifer wood mitchell, thank you for calling in. >> thank you for having me. >> michelle rhee didn't make a lot of friends when she fired teachers in d.c. now she is getting ready to inject herself in the education debate once again but this time on a much bigger level. >> man: diving to 4,000 meters. >> boy: go down, down, down. down. straight. go straight. no, to the right. to the right. >> go to the right, go to the right. >> whoa! >> whoa! >> what is that? >> man: well, that's a, uh... i don't know. >> whoa.

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street. now the "new york times" is saying that some firms here are talking about moving up their bonus payments to this year in order to avoid a possibly higher tax rate. so currently top earners in this country, people making over $250,000 a year are paying 35% in federal taxes. if the tax cut expires, that goes up to 39.6%. so people making $1 million will have to pay $46,000 more in taxes next year if these tax cuts are not extended. so this is why it's a concern on wall street. bone nug bonuses are a huge part of their sala salary. last year wall street paid out $20 billion in bonuses. this could be a moot point because there are signs a compromise could be in the works to extend the bush tax cuts for all, even wealthy here in this country, for a couple of years but not permanently. >> for the rest of us, sounds

like we have to deal with higher gas prices during the holiday, in particular. how high could prices go? >> it's looking like $3 a gallon. many people in the country are already paying more than that. the national average, all of the places in this country, when you look at gas prices, the low prices and high prices averaging more than $3 a gallon by christmas. they are already seeing that on long island here in new york and chicago, minneapolis, philadelphia, san francisco. here's why. oil prices are at their highest level in two years. more than $89 a barrel today. one of the reasons for that, kyra, is the weaker dollar. the dollar got weaker when the quantitative easing that the fed put in place a couple of weeks ago went into effect. that weakened the dollar. when you print money, it making the dollar worth less and there is strong demand for oil because it's wintertime, and people are

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unsensored online content. one leader was upset when he found negative comments about himself on line. this just in to cnn. the woman whose name is face that became seven none mouse with the troefl education revolution is taking her reform ideas national now. remember michelle rhee? well, she stepped down as washington, d.c.'s school's chancellor in october. she was a hero to a lot of people and a villain to many others. during her three years in charge, she fired hundreds of teachers, dozens of bureaucrats and even principals. she did away with the city's tenure system in favor of a merit-based reward plan. now, just a few short months after leaving her post in d.c., she decided to launch an education advocacy group. her website went live just moments ago. this is what it looks like. she's going to be unveiling her

new ideas this afternoon on oprah. oprah is giving her the entire hour to talk about it. cnn education contributor steve perry got a sneak sbeek is joining us live via skype from hartford, connecticut. steve, what's the idea behind the group, and is michelle rhee going political here? >> the idea behind the group is to provide another voice in the political conversation. she's most definitely going political. in fact, she understands that while a lots going to happen in the classroom, what impact what is going on in the classroom is what's going on in congress and local governments. so she's going to put together a grass roots forum of parents and individuals who care about public education to do what they can to reform public education. >> we know that she's a controversial figure, to say the least. here's one point of her mission statement. actively and purposely engage in

politics. we'll support pro reform candidates and push an aggressive legislative agenda. no longer will the unions be the only ones exerting muscle with the politicians. all right. so how will she be able to bring people together to make educational progress actually occur? >> as we saw with the movie "waiting for superman" in which she was prominently featured, there is an interest in what's happening in our public schools. there is already a latent interest. she in particular has a ground swell of support. i get to go to college campuses and travel around the country and meet educators and college students. there is an intersection of people coming around one issue. it's education. what we find is that they're focused on how can we fix it. there is virtually no

organizations saying it should stay the same. the challenge is how should it become different. she is suggesting that we get downright revolutionary and create contracts that are more compelling for people interested in education, coming into education, rewarding success instead of just staying there the longest, and bringing 350 ie who are not involved in education into the education discussion. >> how does this organization differ from others that are trying to reform education? >> well, honestly, i don't think that many of the other organizes have been able to pull together the resources that this organization will. not just financial resources. i think one of the challenges is people think resources, they think cash. well, money's not the issue in public education. it's performance. what she's going to be able to do is pull together some of the most exciting educators currently in the business today and get them to speak as one voice about what can be done to

reform education. she's already got quite a bit of support. oprah is spending the entire hour talking about this. this is huge. >> right. florida's governor elect, rick scott, tapped her to ed his education transition team, right? what does that mean for rhee and her agenda? >> i think what is means is it's just another person reaching across the aisle. for so long, the conversation around education seemed to sit comfortably within the democratic party but what we found with this fall's elections is there are a lot of people who want into the political conversation and now that more people want into the political conversation as it relates to education, rhee is going to be a person who is a tour de force. she will have to be reckoned with. i am interested to see how this pans out. >> steve perry, thank you so much. growing up gay, a pair of new studies are giving us more

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day and move in two weeks later. >> gay men can't play sports, football, do anything identified towards masculinity. >> men speak in high voices. >> gay people like every person they see. >> gay people are the reason we have hiv. >> that's from a home for lgbt teens that i had a chance to visit. there they are prabing what the studies show, acceptance is critical for gay teens. kimora is the director there at true colors. i had the pleasure to meet so many of your kids, kids thrown into foster care because their parents don't want them. let's talk about these studies, and you're already way ahead of the game, but these studies that just came out about the role of acceptance and how incredibly crucial that is because of what's happening to our gay

teens. >> imincredibly happy that these studies came out. in a way, it seems like a no brainer but it isn't for some speem that if you love and accept your children and figure out how to do it, they won't be at risk for the evils. the important piece of the information is a parent doesn't have to be a fully accepting p-flag family that's there. they have to not abuse and criticize their gay kids and it cuts all of those horribles in half and the chance of committing suicide and doing drugs, cuts it in half. >> that's what the studies found, when the kids went accepted, in particular, by family members and teachers, that they were three times more likely to commit suicide, have bad grades, violent behavior, juvenile arrests, and it was even higher for girls. >> it is. a big piece of that is coming

away from the gender norm. we are wondering what is it about their orientation that arou offends people so much. if you way you present yourself is offensive to people, they react accordingly. if you are a boy who offends people because are more like a girl, your parents reject you. if the girl is more masculine in presentation, their parents are more rejecting if they are not okay. if you are a gay kid that has that acting, looking straight way about you, then people aren't as offended until you're older and they realizei's not a face. when you are an adult and they realize it's not a phase, you have resources but 15-year-old and 16-year-old children don't have those resources. >> you have been successful in utilizing resources and dealing with kids who have been completely rejected. so let's say you were in front of your kids -- we saw a little

there in a class i had a chance to sit in on. as you bring these kids in that are thinking about violent behavior, suicide or have already committed crimes and now you've got them in your class, where do you even begin with these kids? when they're not getting it at home, what is it that you are doing that's helping them become so much better at life and, you know, their self-esteem. it was incredible the impact you had on the kids. >> well, the very beginning, one of the things do, and you heard our children talk about this, is we learn how to understand the home mow foeb and where people who reject us is coming from. kys hear from the parents, i hate you. most of the parents don't hate their children, and if the parents heard that they would be shock and offended and they knew their children they they hate them but parents can't separate the orientation from the child they gave birth to.

we say, your parents love you, but why might they reject you. of course, religion comes up, social standing, what their parents as friends think of them. your parents love you but there is this piece of you that your parent can't get over and get through. once we do that, we start dealing with how amazing we are as gay people and once they realize there are a whole bunch of us who have done wonderful things on this earth, they join that community. we do everything to make sure they are not ostracized from her home community or family of organ. a gay kid hearing that gay is okay, is going to be okay but a gay kid going to mom and saying i'm gay. for mom to find a place of saying that's okay, that's going to keep the kid alive. >> before we let you go, teachers, it was -- the research

that they found, teachers not accepting these kids, even punishing them, more likely to punish a gay kid than a straight kid, what is that about? >> they're being punished, but lots of kids are being punished unfairly in school but what happens when i typical kid when the clil is punished unfairly. mom comes in and demands a parent/teacher conference and that her child is treated fairly and with respect. when that child is gay and the mom doesn't respect the child and has issues with the child's orientation, that parent snt going to school and advocating to are their child. when we look at the rates of our children being punished is happening because the way they present themselves is offensive to teachers and once the punishment is meted out there is no way to 0 do it differently because the parent feels the same way the teacher does.

>> good to see you and talk to you. >> kyra, thanks. the kids say to say hi. >> big hugs and kisses to them. we have sad news coming to us out of dallas. the dallas morning news is reporting that don meredith has died. he passed away sunday evening in santa fe, new mexico with his family by his side. he was battling emphysema and suffered a minor stroke in 2004. he was nicknamed dandy don. the original dallas cowboy signing a contract with the team before it was officially in the nfl and after playing for the cowboys from 1960 to 1968, he went onto monday night football fame ending many games by singing "the party's over" when he figured the game was out of reach. he was 72 years old.

welcome to wikileaks, tmz. looking for world leaders behaving badly. >> our guys caught up with president hamid karzai leaving to know last night.

i think it speaks for itself. >> you forgot your briefcase. >> i do not take bribes. >> what an idiot. good work. well, the clock is ticking down on the lame duck session for what's still on congress' to do list, let's check in with mark preston. >> one of my favorite teaches on cnnpolitics.com is done by our friends at cnn money. they have put together the washington punch list. this is all of the issues that are going to affect your bottom line, your pocketbook. what's going ho happen to unemployment benefits? what's going to happen to extending tax breaks? what's going to happen with the fiscal 2011 budget? congress still needs to pass a budget for the federal government in 2011. they did a temporary fix that will get them through a couple more weeks but they still need

to address it. if you go to cnnpolitics.com, you can get to the link, to the washington punch list, the crib sheet to find out what congress is doing when it comes to economic policy and monetary policy here in washington, d.c. we have talked a lot about don't ask, don't tell. of course, that really seems to be one of the biggest issues right now that congress is facing, but how does it effect the military? last week when the pentagon put out its report, it talked about how they didn't think overall it would negatively affect the current service members that are in the army, air force, navy, marines, and there is one group where there is a debate, and that's with the chaplains. 3,000 chaplains serve in the military. if you go to cnnpolitics.com, there is a great story up there that lays out both sides about the don't ask, don't tell revoking if that's the case and how the chaplains are dealing with it.

>> americans ranking presidents who served in the past 50 years. i'm curious who is on top. >> well, this is always a fun story, and, in fact, there's a new poll out just this morning from gallup where they take the nine presidents that served over the last 50 years, and if you look at the top, it's john f. kennedy, 85%. followed lie ronald reagan, 74%, bill clinton at 69%, and george h.w. bush at 64%, and what's interesting is richard nixon, who isn't on the current graphic. he is the lowest rated president at 29%, and our most recent president, george w. bush comes in at 47%. one other interesting thing about this survey is it shows that jimmy carter is actually losing ground. in 2006, his favor ability

rating was 61 and it is going down. people think it's about his outspoken criticism of the war in iraq and his criticism of george w. bush. for all of the latest political news, go to our website cnnpolitics.com. well, if you have an adventurist spirit and extra cash, a lot of extra cash, you may wind up here in the desert, your ticket to ride into outer space. [ female announcer ] humana and walmart are teaming up

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real quickly here. we are getting word from barbara starr over at the pentagon that admiral mike mull. chair of the joint chiefs of staff is going to be heading out of washington tonight, apparently, for south korea. as you know, we have been covering the tensions there between the north and the south, and apparently this was a hastily planned visit, we are told, designed to reassure the south korean military that the u.s. is supporting it. you know, the south korean navy began those live-fire exercises on the seas surrounding the korean peninsula at the beginning of this week. once those tensions began to form between the north and south over the past few weeks, and we have been covering that. we will follow the trip be see what kind of impact it does make. every day at this time, we

honor the men and women in uniform who is given their lives in iraq and afghanistan who all of us. today we're lifting up first lieutenant tyler parten. he was killed in an attack in afghanistan in september of 2009. his friend sent us these pictures and great memories. she said tyler was a man of integrity, honor and compassion and was hilarious and nover forgot to see the humor in every situation. he was the kind of person who made everyone else feel important and loved. he enjoyed playing and composing music and would play harmonica for all of those kids in afghanistan. if you have a loved one you would like us to honor, go to cnn.com/homeandaway, pull you have your profile and seven us your thoughts and picks and we

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