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Is important. >> reporter: they are being tested at london. they scanned passengers irises. unmanned exit lanes are also in the works. they use sensors and locks to make sure no one sneaks into a secured area by an exit. and at international arrival terminals, theres the global entry program. for those who seen up, machines scan fingerprints and passports for customs and immigration. >> it takes low risk travelers and gets them through our process that much quicker, which would give me more time...

This is as new york mayor elect bill de blasio say its over. soon they may be a thing of the past. tomorrow new york mayor elect bill de blasio takes the reins from current mayor mike bloomberg. >> we are going to get rid of the horse carriages, period. >> reporter: they have been offered in central park for more than a hundred years. theyve been celebrated on film here in barefoot in the park and on tv, including sex in the city. >> and i wasnt going to question any of it. not even how he found...

Replacing them. >> that fingerprint scanning, how widespread is that here in the u.s.? >> reporter: youve got that global entry system in 34 u.s. airports. u.s. officials are negotiating with leaders from countries like saudi arabia for reciprocal agreements to put those in their airports. this is a growing program here in the united states and its going to grow abroad. this phenomenon is certainly going to spread. and up ahead, msnbc takes a ton of flak for a segment making fun of mitt romney...

>> merry christmas. happy holiday season. thats a pretty normal greeting inside this romney family card, but not so normal. the national spotlight thats been placed on one of the smallest faces. >> everybody loves a baby picture. >> reporter: but this was no baby talk. listen as msnbc host and an actress walk on racial lines. >> theyre on governor romneys knee. his adopted grandson who is an adopted african-american child. any captions for this one? >> one of these things just isnt the same. >> ...

Responsibility to get them safely to the port. >> reporter: syria has to haul the chemical agents by land to the coast. danish and norwegian ships were supposed to peck up the chemicals at the port, burr the vessels have turned around and returned to their port in cyprus because the chemicals werent ready for pickup. more than 1,000 tons of vx sarin and mustard gas. they say the situation is to blame for the delay. they said security wasle leslea going to be a problem. >> we also hope that the s...

Condemned to endless gridlock. there are areas where we can work together. >> reporter: the first item the president wants congress to tackle in the new year, extending unemployment benefits to the more than one million people who have lost them. he will lay out the rest of his 2014 agenda on january 28th in the state of the union address. dana? >> athena jones, thank you very much. joining me now from the white house is white house senior advisor, phil shalero. the big news today is the two mil...

Once it does, it will transport 12 people at a time to a chinese ice breaker. then a barge will ferry them from the ice breaker to another ship from australia. the stranded research ship, the "akademik shokalskiy" had set out to study climate change in antarctica and retrace the steps of explorer douglas moulson who studied life on the frozen continent a century ago, but they got stuck in thick ice. >> these are big chunks of ice, really thick, lots of years worth of growth. this is not going to...

Russia, just 300 miles east of the site of the games in sochi. the same region where the men implicated in the boston marathon bombing lived before moving to the united states. the russian government is responsible for overall security at the games. the state department, as it does with all large events, will send diplomatic security agents to join with russian security and foreign officials. >> our diplomatic security personnel have been working with the russians for many months on security. th...

With marijuana when he was just 10 years old. by age 14, he was hooked. what did you get out of it? >> bad grades and trouble, pretty much. >> reporter: kicked out of school, hes been in and out of jail ten times in the past four years. >> when i was 14, that was the first time i got my first drug paraphernalia ticket. i had five possessions and it slowly got worse. >> reporter: collins warns marijuana isnt as harmless as some may think. did you ever think you were going to become addicted to it...

What kind of police presence are you already seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: there is a lot of security here. rehearsal as you can hear behind me has started. theres a lot of nypd here, a lot of officers in other uniforms and also plain clothes officers in the crowd. also before people even got here, a lot of things were cleared out. the newspaper stands were taken out, the trash bins were taken out and the street vendors were cleared. that is an explosive detection dog. and they have b...