i m a singeling father of twoo little girl. i ll do whatever i have too to put a roof over their head. as i said, the city never sleeps. i i prefer it. i m used to it now. my whole life is geared around it. i think there s nothing greater than to be able to take a child who faces adversity and to put a smile on their face. welcome to favorites in foeng focus. i m tom foreman. we re glad you ve joined us for our annual gift to you from the fine photojournalist here at cnn. all year long they gather wonderful cameras with their cameras, microphones and your voices. we like to share some of the very best at this time of year. we begin by pulling the wrapping from a story in our nation s capital. part of our jobs in focus series. as most appropriate for this season, a tale of folks finding sweet success in bitter economic times as captured by photojournalist dave ruff. anyone loves cupcakes. a dozen? i m in the middle of class and i came with my students to come to
he has 60 shrimp diseases. shrimp kabobs, shrimp creole. that is based 20 miles from here. pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. we pride ourself on the freshest ingredients. anything coming out of the water is safe and delicious as always. maybe we can get the message across that, you know, you can still buy local seafood. there is a lot riding on it. to be able to get out there and say, look at our seafood, still the greatest seafood ever, safe, still tastes great. i don t know what the future is going to be. i hope we can change it. cnn photojournalist, john bena and producer, eric fiegle put that together. if you are hoping to put together your own seafood spread, you are in luck, because waters will be open to both commercial and recreational fishing as long as it happens to be shrimp or fin fish. if you are hoping to catch some oysters and bring in some crabs,
that is the international assistance mission. a humanitarian group dealing mainly with medical help to afghan citizens. it is a christian group. although, they are saying that christianity, in this case, had nothing to do with it. these workers we are told, some of them doctors, some of them medical staff, were traveling into a very remote part of afghanistan. they were stopped by the taliban. we understand from the police in that region that they were forced out of their car. their belongings were taken and then they were mothodically shot. the international assistance mission says there were six americans, one german, one british and two afghans who were killed. another two afghans were allowed to go free. now, there was an interesting part to this. that is that the group, the team that was going into that part of afghanistan, did have a facebook page. on that, you can actually track the map showing where they were going up from kabul and then going northeast into this area
welcome to washington, d.c. s union station, where over the years millions of people have come and gone with their gifts of the holiday season. i m tom foreman, and this is giving in focus, a gift to you from the fine photojournalists here at cnn. it s a collection of stories from all over and of all sorts told by the people involved and captured with nothing but a camera and a microphone. and we begin with a young man, a very young man, named justin martin up in new jersey. a few years ago he became concerned when he heard that not every child had a teddy bear as he did. and he set out to solve that problem. jonathan o beirne has the bear s tale. we went to a lot of build a bears that didn t they didn t believe that a 6-year-old boy could build 1,000 bears. i think most people some people want them to maybe play with or sleep with or something. stuffing goes inside this little tiny hole. we put it in that machine. then it comes out of the little tube over there. when