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>> peter: charlie scene. >> alisyn: on virgin galactic, a trip to space, also a $16,000 four night stay on-- im sorry at a spa under the indian ocean. >> clayton: black calf yea, eye and neck cream al lynn puts on the show. >> alisyn: no, i spread on toast. >> clayton: one week $48,000 fitness and wait loss. >> alisyn: electronic cigarettes adjourned with crystals. makes sense. >> clayton: and what is this, shimmer toilet paper roll for $20. >> alisyn: its what i demand. really the only thing il...

A mountainside has forced the closure of a state highway after last weeks storms caused the ground to give way completely, severing the road. engineers are still determining how long it will take to repair the highway, which is the main artery between los angeles and big bear mountain. also in california, preparations are under way for the 122nd rose parade, taking place on new years day. each of the 47 elaborate floats are made from natural materials like flowers, seeds or tree bark depicting...

Proposal, lets see how many more we can get. plus the new years eve ball going to drop down from a flagpole on the top of the building right behind us. it has been lowered here in times square every year since 1907 two exceptions, 1942 and 1943, due to the war. >> bill: that ball weighs 12,000 pounds. >> megyn: 12 feet across. >> bill: 26 hundred waterford crystals that gives it that unbelievable glow. >> megyn: 12 feet in diameter which if you turn me to the side is what i am now. with this lit...

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Those are those ice-like crystals. if you can remember way back to the beginning of this. remember that big, giant, containment dome. somebody described it as a four-story outhouse that went down to the bottom of the sea over the gushing well. those hydrates got inside and clogged the top and made that containment dome buoyant. they could also muck up this process again. but things so far look good. and then later today, what theyre going to do is theyre going to shut down two containment proces...

Pouring out. the cap was removed this morning, was off for most of the day. the reason, admiral thad allen says one of the underwater remotely operated vehicles bumped into one of the vents, closing it and creating pressure. the concern was ice-like crystals would form. so they took the cap off. its been off most of the day. its a huge setback in the effort to end this catastrophe. day 65 and the oil is flowing freely once again. day 65. now, if you thought you already heard all the evidence the...

One for b.p. officials trying to stop gallons of oil gushing in the gulf every day. theyre considering new options because the attempt to use 100-ton containment vessel failed. kris gutierrez is live in venice, louisiana, with more. hi, kris. >> reporter: hi, shannon. joining us live is curtis thomas with b.p. you are going to explain that the containment dome didnt work as you hoped yesterday but you are going to try to use it, correct? tell us. >> absolutely. we knew there would be a lot of ch...

Combines with water down at the bottom where theres a lot of pressure and a lot of cold temperatures, it creates crystals likes ice. its creating like a slush inside the dome, making it buoyant. these crystals are lighter than water. it was also clogging the dome up. they wouldnt have been able to use it if it was clogged. so they set it aside and theyre trying to figure out how to attack the hydrates. either put a heat source down there to heat up the environment and get rid of the crystals or,...