there's no evident danger. we sent a message out to the world saying happy new year. yes, our message to everyone would be to have a happy new year. we had ours first. 2014's great. come join us. >> thank you. happy new year. we hope you get home soon. >> thank you very much. also in world news, syria has avoided u.s. intervention in the war raging inside its borders by agreeing to a number of deadlines for disposing of chemical weapons but today it's missing one of those benchmarks. syria was supposed to hand over a significant portion of its stockpile by today. that will not happen for a number of reasons, including bad weather, according to the organization overseeing the disarmament. meanwhile, weapons of the nonchemical variety continue to claim lives in syria. forces loyal to president bashar al assad fired a rocket in the rebel-held area of aleppo hitting a bus and killing at least 25 people.