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♪ from washington to the vatican president obama sent warm wishes to the new pope, praised his work with the poor and said he looks forward to working with him to advance peace and security and the dignity of people regardless of faith. vice president joe biden will lead the u.s. delegation to the

>> reporter: thats why the startup of this family bakery became a town event. >> i think its time we opened this place! thank you for coming. >> reporter: even the mayor came to the grand reopening. >> theres a saying that the strong get even stronger during a difficult journey. the same can be said of a community. >> this is my neighbor, my old neighbor. we left our neighborhood together. >> reporter: liz easton says she has now come full circle, and shes not the only one. her bakery joins some...

Were back with a question many people are asking on this late december evening, where, oh, where is winter? usually this time of year weve had a big winter storm to tell you about, but not this year. in fact, records are being set this season for how little snow theres been. for some thats good news. for others cold comfort.

Now its time for some political and current event stories on the lighter side, although it does involve al qae qaeda. bring in ana kasparian whos right here. whats going on today? >> who knew youd find an al qaeda story thats light and fun? british intelligence hacked into an online magazine for al qaeda and they replaced an article on how to make a home made bomb with cupcake recipes. okay, the cupcakes include recipes for mohito cupcakes and rocky road cupcakes which sound delicious. >> the mo...

>> thank you! >> reporter: carrara is part of a cupcake craze sweeping the country. >> right down to the wire, people! >> reporter: the food network even has a tv show "cupcake wars." >> i do watch the "cupcake wars" every episode. >> reporter: in ohio, jeannie rian quit her job, too, to start a cupcake business in her kitchen. >> i wanted to be able to stay home with my daughter and make a career out of something that i love to do. >> reporter: from her small kitchen, rian recently filled an or...

Painted logs. i love how resourceful she is. see you at 6:00. >> caption colorado, llc comments@captioncolorado.com >> smith: tonight, countdown to a shutdown. unless theres a budget deal and soon, more than four million government workers will be staying home. youll get your social security check, but your tax refund. dont count on it. im harry smith. also tonight, a disturbing new trend-- after years of declines, drug and alcohol use by american teenagers is on the rise again. police believe t...

Thats how you get in touch with me. facebook and twitter. but we do have a piece of video. lets go to that now. there you go. thats all it takes. you send your best photos or put together 30 seconds or less and we will feature it and it might be right here on tv. ill be camped out here in the newsroom throughout the day showing the best we get from our ireporters in addition to some of the best celebrations all over the world. >> yeah, youre going to have your first new years with your brand new...

Might get the jackson or the beatles a fun gift. >> and original. >> exactly. and people can trade them. >> going back to your employees, this seems like a good gift if you have a special employee. this business card holder. >> exactly. business card case is a classic gift. you cant go wrong with it. but what i love about this one here is that you can deboss it with three initials it is going back to personalizing the gift. >> okay this may be -- maybe you did a big deal with the customer. >> a ...

Velvet and chocolate. everyone loves the chocolate. >> this is something you can give to a whole office, thank tout whole office of customers. >> its perfect for that when we get them into the office, theyre gone within five seconds. >> and lets admit there was one more before the segment started. >> i know. everyone was wanting them this looks a bit more expensive. >> this here for 49.95 is our seven-in-one game. you can find all your favorite games in here, whether you love checkers, chess, it...

The front of the store. we have our bakers, we have our frosters, dishwasher and delivery men. >> people are needing work. it feels good to be able to provide some jobs for these folks. >> at frosting bake shop in mill valley, california, business is going so well, owner karen trip is opening a second bigger store and hiring 12 more employees. >> this is just one of 2 million small businesses which account for more than half of all private sector jobs in the u.s. in fact, small business has crea...