your mission. but can you remind us of what were you all setting out to do in the first place before this happened? can you just repeat that? the tone signal s not so hot. sure. i m just wondering what the primary mission has been for you. what were you setting out to do as part of this expedition? what s the research? oh, the research, yes, absolutely. we re following in the footsteps of a great australian explorer and scientist, sir douglas morrison. 100 years ago, he basically took the antarctic expedition off the map. it was the equivalent of space travel. it was to see what lay south of australia in the process two of years, and they had amazing adventures in their own right. they made a raft of fantastic observations, which the pages would fill a bookshelf and there s a baseline of data, but we re comparing. and many parts of antarctica
0 that s how people sing it. there you go. that s exactly how people sing it on new years eve. learn the words to old langs him. it s a tradition. it s a tradition. ac 360 starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com done, thanks there is a huge development in the duck dynasty controversy and the government spying on you, the target data breach got worse. hackers have millions of pin numbers to go with the credit and debit card data they stole. we ll ask an expert if you should be worried and we ll take you on board the ship stuck in polar ice as 74 passengers and crew members learn a rescue ship steaming their way might need to be rescued, as well. we begin with the big court ruling on your privacy and security and the government s power to keep you safe by snooping on you, me, the guy down the hall, all of us. today a new york federal court judge weighed in on the nsa operation that collects the numbers called from all of our phones, when they are made and for
0 clear something has to change. america s economic future depends on it. that s it for your money. we re here every saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern and 2:00 p.m. see you next week. have a great weekend and very happy new year. hello, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield. here are the top stories in the cnn newsroom. we have new video from that ship stuck in the frozen waters of antarctica. it s been four days since it got stranded, and although a rescue vessel is within sight, it s not able to get close enough to the ship. but chris turney, the expedition leader, and others on board say everything is actually going well. i don t think anyone s fearful. chris is the expedition leader. no one s fearful, right? no, people have been remarkably good, actually. morale s high, actually, at the moment. we have wonderful food, three meals a day. it doesn t seem to run out. they actually seem pretty excited about this adventure. so, we hope to hear more from chris turney live from th
leader. he s been broadcasting aboard the vessel since christmas day. he sent out a may day distress signal on christmas day but since then he s been doing plenty of interviews. he s saying they had a great day, they re all warm but looking forward to an imminent rescue. three rescue vessels were sent towards them. all of them are ice breakers. the first is almost there, the chinese vessel the snow breaker. what needs to happen now is simply that they carve a route through the ice. the boat is intact. it can t escape the frozen waters. the whole purpose of this expedition was to retrace the steps of the australian explorer sir douglas morrison. that s why this expedition is called the spirit ever morrison. he spent two years in ant arctic call from 1911 to 1913. it s certainly a relief to all of those on boards that they re not spending anywhere near that amount of time there.
the highest performance of educators across our country. thank you for your service and thank you for being here. thank you. and joining me now is douglas morrison, the sioux falls, south dakota, school board president. thank you for being here. so our last guest, the veteran said he thinks that educated people can find a way to find time in the day for high schoolers even who don t have home room to say the pledge. your thoughts on it. yeah, i would agree. we put a man on the moon, we can certainly find the time in the school day to say the pledge of allegiance. why wasn t that the decision of the board. well, the decision of the board was we bought a policy forward for public input that actually added it to the middle school and left high school the way it was. we put it out for 30 days for public comment and had no comments. i think we had one comment which was from the original complaint.