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Contacted the agency march 1st looking for two tickets for two men on different flights. that travel booking expired. he called to rebook both on the same flight and paid cash. two days later, the plane disappeared. >> they could be garden variety drug traffickers, people smugglers, fraudsters. >> a side from the two men, all other passports of passengers checked out legitimate. officials say the more information they get the more theyre focussing on factors other than terrorism as the cause of ...

>> 24 students from a california high school where a theater stage collapsed have been treated for minor injuries an released. amateur video shows the terrifying moments when the stage gave way. as abcs bazi kanani reports, investigators are focussing on how many students and how much weight was on the stage. >> reporter: a heart-stopping moment for students and parents in this packed anaheim high school auditorium. the front part of the stage at the high school suddenly dropping out, parents ru...

Lending unusual intrigue to a high profile white house visit. 300 dinner invitations engraved with the former first ladys name had to be scrapped according to "the new york times." and normally she would sit next to president obama. so what now? the updated seating arrangement is not yet public, but sources tell cnn the white house and french officials would have coordinated on a solution. >> you have o be flexible. you have to be prepared. and you just sort of change course. >> reporter: social...

Guess are there a set of best ways that you think this problem of heroin use, whether it be the age of 12 or 21 or 31 and 41, how do you tackle it? >> first of all, if you have a child like you all kind of showed in this clip beforehand, if you have a child at 12, 14, 16 doing heroin, you have bigger problems than heroin. people still have to parent. thats related to parenting. thats not so much a heroin problem. thats a parenting problem. we need to make sure we dont conflate bad parenting or p...

Today if they had the skills for this rig, for this factory, for this airplane center. i dont have them. i talked to someone that told me he needs welders so badly. then you go to community colleges, they have a backlog of space to be trained as a welder. wheres the crazy mismatch? how do we fix it? those are the things policy makers should be focussing on not blaming each other. >> we had the debate over the new health care law and the idea its discouraging people from working more. you can wor...

This a tragedy. >> this made headlines because of the bizarre strategy. the the defense testified he was a product of affluenza, a lifestyle where weather brought privilege and no consequences for bad behavior. his attorney blasted the media in the case for focussing on the testimony. >> that word might have got said once by a witness in passing. all of a sudden that became the story. i submit it was ridiculous to think we walked into court and said this is a rich, white kid and she decided to p...

So its a thankless job. jenna: was that your experience? you were able to contract a portion to the 2000 state of the union address focussing specifically on foreign policy. did you find it sort of that gruelling process and how difficult was it to condense the words into the message that you wanted to express for that one topic? >> well, it is because youre trying to fit everything the government is doing into an hour on the case of president clinton, an hour and a half. he gave a lot of speech...

Recovery. somebody whos been out of work six months and gets $300 a week, they spend $300 of that money going into the economy. its good for the economy economists say, good for the people. now is not the time to pull it back. the message you get from washington, the president is focussing on the wrong thing. hes focussing on long term jobless not creating better paying jobs for more to get into. >> critics also say from economic standpoint the focus should be on obamas weak economic recovery no...

Approval rate for congress are at historic lows following the unproductive session. new years resolutions for the washington politicians. so, let us bring in princeton university historian julian sell czar and conservative anchor of the hot list on blaze.com. and julian, you wrote for cnn.com, i think five new years resolutions you would suggest for the president. why dont you start us off. >> well to form better relations with members of the hill, the second is to sweat the small stuff and focu...

On president obamas choice to succeed ben bernanke. new york is positioning itself to become the 21st state to allow the medical use of marijuana. andrew cuomo is not taking the legislative route. instead he is using his administrative powers to unveil an initiative this week. it would allow a limited number of hospitals though dispense the pot. those are the top stories right now. back to you. >> thank you, peter. we are just days into the new year but already all eyes are focussing on this y...