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Places. we have concern with what? -- >> we have confirmed that. >> possum breaking news that it was possum stew. they dropped possum stew. what a mess. >> news you can use. there is always going to be protesters out there trying to ruin new years eve and stir up the pot a little bit. last night in boston, this is what happened. they had for their new years eve celebration, a bunch of folks got in front of the public library and were doing what they call the die-in. they laid down on the streets...

Of champagne, fireworks and smooches, but this year protests are planned in several u.s. cities. the group called stop mass incarceration is now calling for nationwide demonstrations to protest recent police bruteality, but in boston the mayor is delivering a strong message to another online group, asking activists to hold off on a planned die-in during tonights festivities, and in new york city amidst celebratory anticipation the relationship between police and mayor bill de blasio remains tens...

You dont need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. were exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg... isnt as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. new questions about the anti-cop rhetoric as new protests are getting started in berkeley, missouri. demonstrators staging a die-in this hour at the st. louis airport. as we mentioned at the top of the hour angry and violent protesters clashed to...

United states from liberia. they survived, followed by others thanks to the selfless work of doctors, nurses and other health care workers who literally put their own lives on the line. as 2014 comes to a close, the world health organization tallies more than 6,000 deaths among roughly 18,000 sick. the outbreak in west africa is far from over, but early stage vaccine trials are under way, and they do look promising. >> you can catch the top ten of 2014 special with brooke baldwin on cnn sunday e...

♪ ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle all the way ♪ oh what fun it is ♪ to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪ ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle all the way ♪ oh what fun it is ♪ to ride in a one-horse open sleigh ♪ >> you were just listening to the young peoples chorus of new york city, they were singing "jingle bells" we have a lot to get to, including some of the biggest political moments of 2014. >> first a check of your headlines at the news desk and look at ...

Extremist group who says it did bring down the jordanian f-16 and took the pilot hostage but americas centcom says yes a plane went down, yes, evidence does show a pilot was taken hostage but it wasnt shot down. the pentagon supporting efforts to get that pilot back from isis safely. as many as 8 protesters were arrested in berkeley, missouri, last night. less than 24 hours after an 18-year-old named antonio martin was shot to death by a police officer. he had allegedly pointed a loaded pistol...

Of america protunda. only minutes into it, someone on the loudspeaker asked them to disperse from the property. many left while others were taken into custody. dozens of children, along with their caregivers, staged a die-in. children laid themselves on the ground. some were as young as eight years old. in cleveland, a rally was held at community center where 12-year-old rice was killed by a police officer. protests there had dozens of protest leaders from ohio and ferguson, missouri. its import...

Expecting government to step up. secretary pritzker, thank you very much for explaining two situations to us this morning. >> thank you. great corage there, the search is on right now for the leaders responsible for the pakistani school massacre. pakistani military and intelligence officials have travelled to afghanistan, wednesday, looking for afghan-based elements of the pakistani taliban who they believe carried out that deadly attack. at least 148 people were killed in the siege, among the...

Of those dying on the streets. i cant breathe. >> so you said earlier a movement is not simply a slogan. and clearly the images, the slogans, the actions become things. when i see the hands up, black lives matter, i cant breathe, i understand this thing is then part of this larger thing. >> thats true. but its also true that a die-in is very moving. but movements have to do more than that. because movements, were ub talking now about movements from the bottom of the society. movements by the you...

Wesleyan university joined the march decrying injusts against, quote, people of color.cambridg students and facultied walked out of their studies to attend a die-in. and at princeton, the university president announced he would improve their diversity policies as though collegiate diversity had anything to do with resisting arrest and so it goes. none of this activity is an apocalypse. not when you consider that in the last 50 years the flower children of yesteryear had bequeathed a sense of ant...