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>> reporter: tonight, a celebration of hollywoods finest. but not everyone is celebrating. >> the trend over the past several years has been a decline in movie attendance. everybody expects the credit when its going well and points the finger. >> welcome to the hollywood. >> reporter: why more and more movies are anything but just the ticket. coming up on sunday morning. >> osgood: the motion picture academy hands out awards in 24 categories tonight. something for everyone. except for ...

prospect in our sunday morning cover story. >> reporter: tonight, a celebration of hollywoods finest. but not everyone is celebrating. >> the trend over the past several years has been a decline in movie attendance. everybody expects the credit when its going well and points the finger. >> welcome to the hollywood. >> reporter: why more and more movies are anything but just the ticket. coming up on sunday morning. >> osgood: the motion picture academy hands out awards in 24 categories ...

>> im done listening to you. you guys need to do something. my child, my children, all of them, i run a business in this town. it is not safe. why is it you need to prove to us it is safe to put our children in this school. as a community, we need to come together, we need to pull our children out, there is other places we can take them and give them the education they need. you are not doing your job. you are not doing your job. and not answering questions. im tired of it! we need to ...

last night at a community meeting organized by the school district, outraged residents didnt hold back. >> im done listening to you. you guys need to do something. my child, my children, all of them, i run a business in this town. it is not safe. why is it you need to prove to us it is safe to put our children in this school. as a community, we need to come together, we need to pull our children out, there is other places we can take them and give them the education they need. you are ...

Overseas, a series of strong earthquakes hit the city of christ church in new zealand. the quakes rattled buildings and sent holiday shoppers fleeing into the street. so far, no major injuries. former presidential candidate john edwards is asking a federal judge to delay the start of his criminal trial. edwards says hes been diagnosed with an undisclosed medical condition that would make it difficult for him to attend the trial scheduled to start january 30th. edwards pleaded not guilty to fel...

Light. theyre respectful of his judgment. i think in this case he substituted his judgment for the collective wisdom of the republican conference, which was leading them in the wrong direction. they were sort of -- with him at the back sort of following the rabble, he wasnt able to guide them as a rudder. but now attempting to move them from a leadership position out front, some republicans will like that, others will bristle at it. well see what the numbers are. my guess is he didnt go forward ...

earned vacation. lets go to the first read of the morning. it looks like there will be a tax cut for christmas after all. five-day standoff came to an abrupt end on thursday when speaker boehner essentially cornered by the president in his own party called his colleagues and told them the fight was over. >> you know, sometimes it is hard to do the right thing. sometimes it is politically difficult to do the right thing. may not have been the politically smartest thing in the world, but...

todd who son a very -- or well earned vacation. lets go to the first read of the morning. it looks like there will be a tax cut for christmas after all. five-day standoff came to an abrupt end on thursday when speaker boehner essentially cornered by the president in his own party called his colleagues and told them the fight was over. >> you know, sometimes it is hard to do the right thing. sometimes it is politically difficult to do the right thing. may not have been the politically s...

Consider here. and can pakistan and the ruu.s. get on the same page when it comes to fighting terror. general, good morning. >> all right. >> good afternoon, i should say. this has been going on since early this morning, theres so much concern about the supply lines, we have to get our troops what they need. how critical are the closures? >> and well, its not that critical for right now, jamie, about 30% of all of the nonweapons materials that traffics in afghanistan, they have sufficient reserv...

asking how and why n.a.t.o. helicopters and fighter jets fired on two separate pakistani army check points in the middle of the night, killing at least 24 pakistani soldiers and wounding 11 more. a spokesman for n.a.t.o. called it a tragic development and offered heart felt condolences to the families of those killed and said that n.a.t.o. commander in charge in afghanistan had pledged to thoroughly investigate and determine the facts. and here is what the spokesman says so far. >> the...