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Your christmas shopping and found everything you wanted to give your loved ones. >> plenty of gadgets and gizmos will be unwrapped and some of them will be in the air shortly thereafter. gio benitez reports that drones as gifts have taken off, for better or worse. >> reporter: forget simple gifts like sleds or snow globes. the christmas gifts flying off shelves this holiday season, drones. some stores reporting demand soaring. as more and more states try to figure out how to deal with private dr...

Editors feel had the most effect on the news and our lives. among those covered is ebola survivor dr. kent brantley. brantley was honored tuesday for his medical missionary work. other 2014 contenders included the ferguson protesters, vladimir putin and taylor swift. this morning the faa announced it is clearing four more companies for commercial drone use. the agencies announcement on drones come amid mounting safety concerns, concerns highlight bid the faas own report on near collisions betw...

The house of representatives today held a hearing on drone use in the united states which is quite restricted as of now. also today the federal aviation administration opened up a path for more companies to use drones, allowing four new businesses to conduct aerial surveys and monitor construction sites among other things bringing the total to 13. meanwhile, there have been several near collisions between drones and passenger planes which of course, has been raising serious safety questions. joi...

Few executions are ever carried out. more than 900 people who have been sentenced to death since 1978, only 13 have been execu executed. lawyers claim they have evidence to challenge last months republican run off. the attorneys announced they expect to file a challenge within ten days. thad cochran was declared the winner by fewer than 8,000 votes. mcdaniel has nod conceded. he claims some voted in democratic and republican primaryryes. an faa investigation as they want no know if the use o...

U.s. strategy to destroy al qaeda has curbed the rise of sunni tower -- terrorism, and the former head of the u.s. military central command has oversighted the middle east, co-chaired the panel and emphasized that drones are a tool and not a strategy. >> if i had a dollar for every commander, political person, leader of the cia, that has pronounced the death of a terrorist organization or extremist movement over the past 13 years, i would be a rich man. >> since 2010 the recent record by the ran...

Commander, political person, leader of the cia, that has pronounced the death of a terrorist organization or extremist movement over the past 13 years, i would be a rich man. >> reporter: and without clear rules on drone use, the panel warned the u.s. would find it hard to object if the russian president used lethal force. >> were all concerned from vladimir putin were to use drone strikes to take out those he felt were politically inconvenient in eastern ukraine, for instance, it would be a lit...

Bill: a product call powdereddal today hole gained national attention it was reported the government approved it for sale. it turns out the approval was issued by mistake. the company says they are planning several flavors that you can add water and sprinkle on your food. >> reporter: the first outdoor site to test drone use. the fda working to implement unmanned drones into our air space.

Aircraft, basically, which is what a drone is could sort of fly over these spaces and capture images from them. were you surprised at how accessible everything was basically? >> it takes about the amount of time that it would take to learn to ride a bicycle. to learn to fly a drone, and then it was very simple to do. so it was not that difficult. what i was specifically looking for was to call attention to first of all, foreign drone use, which you have talked about. but how the military technol...

Praising american job create tors and bashing president obama for a lack of leadership. he was snubbed last year after praising the president about his efforts regarding hurricane sandy. republican congressman darrell issa apologizing to his democratic colleague elijah cummings for cutting off his mic during a statement. it happened wednesday. chairman issa says he should have been more sensitive to the mood in the chamber. cummings accepted the apology. lets take a look at whats happening i...

Political activists have used them to show the size of the crowds at protests. that the government was trying to minimize. so theres all sorts of amazing applications out there. many of which weve only begun to think of. >> heres the thing, though. youre talking about -- you talk about all of the good that drones can do, all the great things that drones can bring to the world. why drones should be our friends and not our enemies. but youre aware of the other side of this debate. drone use has se...