facebook, when i saw that picture. and colombia is right there to the side, where you are shows up on facebook. and it had colombia there. so i started looking it up. >> reporter: is this a colombian newspaper? >> no, facebook. >> facebook, on the computer. but i had a detective to check it for me. it wasn't her regular detective. it's the one that came to the shop and they checked it. and she was in colombia. i knew it all the time. but i just wanted to prove to other people that she was there. >> the teenager's family says they intend to sue the u.s. government agencies that mistakenly deported her to south america. iranian officials say the u.s. navy did a humanitarian act by rescuing 13 iranian sailors from pirates in the arabe ban sea. troops responded to a distress call from an iranian fishing vessel on thursday. they captured 15 pirates. the american naval men did and most of them, somalis. and freed the iranians being held captive. one year ago tomorrow, a deadly shooting in tucson left six people dead and 13 injured, including congresswoman gabi giffords. giffords made her first appearance at her tucson office since the shooting. she presented a plaque which honors her aide, gabe zimmerman, who was killed in the shooting. tomorrow, there will be a candlelight vigil at the university of arizona which giffords is scheduled to attend. and there are less than two weeks until the south carolina primary and a new cnn/"time" orc poll shows mitt romney with a solid lead there, well ahead of rick santorum and newt gingrich. going into tuesday's primary in new hampshire, romney leads the field with 44%. that's according to the latest poll from wmur and the university of new hampshire. that's more than double ron paul's 20%. we'll have a live update from new hampshire in just a few minutes. penn state university is welcoming its new football coach, bill o'brien is replacing former coach joe paterno who was fired amid a scandal over alleged child sex abuse by a former coach. the team says they are looking forward to a new start. >> we're very excited about it. we heard the news late last night. i talked to a couple of my buddies on the team. they're excited as well. it's a fresh start for the penn state program and i'm anxious to get going. >> o'brien is the outgoing new england patriots' offensive coordinator. encouraging job numbers. the december job report is out, and the unemployment rate is down to 8.5%. 200,000 jobs were created in december. 150,000 were expected. president obama says it's the highest number of private sector jobs added since 2005. but he added, that's not nearly enough. more now on that south carolina couple desperately trying to regain custody of their adopted daughter. a judge ordered the child be returned to her biological father, citing a law that makes it illegal to break up a native american family. cnn's george howell has been following all the developments. george, this is certainly generating a lot of controversy. the family, the south carolina family is trying aggressively to get the child back. how will they do that? >> basically, right now, they are looking to file an appeal to the state supreme court to see if they can get their daughter back. at this point, we're talking about a family, matt and melanie, who raised this daughter -- their daughter, rather, since she was born, 2-year-old girl. they say this was an open adoption. but her biological father has stepped back into the picture, dustin brown, and because he is enrolled in a cherokee nation, his daughter then being native american, under the indian child welfare act, he was able to get his daughter back in court. so on new year's eve, this family thought that they'd have at least another day to prepare for this transfer. they didn't. that night, they actually had to hand veronica over to her biological father. and we actually got an interview with the family from our affiliate wciv. listen to what they had to say about that transfer. >> matt said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father, to send her off with people that she didn't know, what she must think of us. she had in my mind a really confused look on her face which just -- but i'll always remember her crying after us. we had to walk out of that office and leave her there. >> everybody keeps saying how bad they feel for us. but she's a 2-year-old girl that got shoved in a truck and driven to oklahoma with strangers. >> a lot of people talking about this case. >> oh, my goodness. so the father, dustin brown, he actually contested this about four months after the adoption, that after he had signed the consent. but he explain that is he didn't know what he was signing. so all this time has elapsed and now he's been awarded the right to return -- what happened to all that time in between? >> a lot of that clearly, four months after his daughter was born, he got into the process, filed the litigation. we are just now seeing that come to terms. we're seeing the case. he won that case. but we did get an interesting quote from his attorney. i want to read this to you. this is from shannon jones who says, it is important to understand that the indian child welfare act was not used as a loophole in this action. my client would still be entitled to custody of his daughter under south carolina law. so apparently this is something that mr. brown, his attorney had been working on for some time shortly after veronica was born. >> fascinating case. this is really just the tip of the iceberg. it has a long way to go before it is resolved, right? >> yeah, again, this case to go to the state supreme court there in south carolina. that could happen in the summer. so right now, veronica is with a new family. brown's attorney says she's transitioning well. but her adoptive family want her back. >> george, thanks for bringing us this story. and in just a few hours, the gop presidential hopefuls will face off in their first of two debates this weekend. they're criss-crossing new hampshire ahead of tuesday's primary. joe johns joins us now from manchester with an update. joe, what are they doing in those final hours before the big match-up tonight? >> reporter: hey, fred. if ever the rest of the field wanted an opportunity to try to bring mitt romney down to size, this would be it. in fact, this is the perfect opportunity. so the first thing we're going to have to watch tonight in this debate and another one that's going to occur tomorrow is the extent to which mitt romney becomes the center of attention and how he handles it. up until now, we've all assumed the guy leading the charge would be former house speaker newt gingrich who feels as though he's been done wrong by all those negative ads that ran in the state of iowa in the run-up to the iowa caucuses. but now the former speaker is saying he plans to play nice, at least to some extent. let's listen to what he said earlier today. >> i'm not going to go after mitt romney. i may define the reality of a reagan conservative and a massachusetts moderate. i may describe the difference between cutting taxes and raising taxes or being right to life and putting planned parenthood into romneycare. but i don't get this "go after" stuff. you don't need to do that. >> reporter: newt gingrich does know he has to be careful because too much nasty talk could actually backfire on him. another guy to watch could be rick santorum who to a large extent in the debates before the iowa caucuses was seen as something as noise in the background. but after that strong showing in iowa, he's also potentially a center of attention. he's been attacked again and again by people including ron paul who has said santorum's actually a counterfeit conservative, if you will, even calling him a liberal because rick santorum was so involved in the earmarks process when he was in the congress. and the last person you have to watch, of course, is rick perry. this will be a stamina test for him. he's had problems with that and these are going to be two debates in a row, a lot of chances to mess up, fred. >> joe, you talk about some tough words coming from ron paul. we know some of the tough ads have come from him against his republican rivals. but somehow that doesn't seem to be attracting, i guess, the kind of fire or momentum that other candidates are getting? what do we mean? >> reporter: yeah, the thing about ron paul that's really interesting is he's a very soft-spoken man at the debates. he tries to stay polite. he defends his positions. but when you watch his television ads, they're almost fire-breathing. so there's a split personality there for his campaign almost. i've even asked him about that -- why is it that you're such a quiet-spoken guy and you have such fire-breathing ads? well, i didn't get an answer from him. but it's pretty clear that he likes his tv ads to do the talking when it comes to the tough stuff. >> folks will be watching for the debate and tuning into the analysis tomorrow as well. a special here on cnn, 4:00, political show, "the contenders 2012." thank you, joe. trust cnn and the best political team on television for complete coverage of the new hampshire primary. join wolf blitzer, erin burnett, john king and candy crowley. why is joran van der sloot yawning in court, rubbing his eyes, seeming like he'd rather be somewhere else? the judge gave him a talking-to, details on that straight ahead. do you have post-christmas shopping regrets? straight ahead, planning for better 2012 holiday season, plus tips for getting the best deals all year long. tired eye relief with hydroblend™, only from visine®. just one drop instantly soothes and revives tired, overworked eyes. and comforts them for up to ten hours. visine® tired eye relief. try now and save $3. have more fiber than other leading brands. they're the better way to enjoy your fiber. joran van der sloot faces murder charges but it's got nothing to do with aruba and natalee holloway. rafael romo explains. >> reporter: joran van der sloot had spent the past 18 months as an inmate at the costa rica costa rica prison in peru's capital city of lima. some inmates see him as a celebrity. >> he's one of us. it has nothing to do with us. we don't have nothing against him. >> reporter: after his arrest in chile in june of 2010, he was sent back to peru and take ton the lima prison to await trial in the murder and beating death of 21-year-old stephany flores. this shows flores and van der sloot playing poker at a casino. another video shows them entering van der sloot's hotel. she had suffered multiple injuries, a broken neck and was covered in blood. the killing happened on may 30th, 2010, exactly five years after alabama teenager natalee holloway disappeared in aruba after spending time with van der sloot. though arrested as a suspect in holloway's death, van der sloot was never charged due to a lack of evidence. in peru, van der sloot initially confessed to killing flores. >> translator: so it is true, i'm going to ask you this, did you kill stephany tatiana? >> translator: yes. >> translator: you killed stephany tatiana flores? >> translator: yes. >> reporter: but van der sloot later recanted. peruvian authorities say they have done everything according to law. >> translator: the statement given by the dutch kiz where he declares himself convicted and con fezzes his crime was done according to the formalities of the law. >> reporter: van der sloot still has the support of his family and some friends. >> what the media portray him as is far from the truth. he's not the serial killer, sociopath, psychopath the media makes him out to be. >> reporter: the flores family says it wants van der sloot to be punished to the maximum sense of the law. >> we need justice. he's a psycho, a murderer and he has to pay. >> rafael romo here with me now. you spoke personally to his attorneys. are they even perplexed about what joran van der sloot has in mind or what he wants for his destiny here? >> i spoke with his attorneys before they went to court yesterday morning. he told me, we're going to follow the strategy. we're going to plead guilty to a charge of qualified homicide. that's what they call it in peru. here it would be similar to first-degree murder. and under peruvian law, that allows somebody accused of this kind of crime to get some sort of leniency in the judge. so instead of getting the maximum 35 years in jail that he would, it would be maybe a maximum of 20. that's what they were originally going for. but then at the last minute in court, joran van der sloot changes his mind and he says, i need more time. and that's the reason they were granted a continuance. >> he's asked for more time, he needs more time to think about it. but he was rather disrespect to the court. so to ask the court for leniency seems as though he may have shot himself in the foot on that. >> that's correct. at one point, the judge told him, you have to sit up straight and respect the court. he was slouching, scratching his head, yawning. >> the yawning seemed in kind of a sarcastic way. it didn't seem like it was legitimate. >> yeah, and at some point when the prosecutor was reading some of the very specific charges, he was shaking his head in disagreement. and specifically when the prosecutor said, he beat her violently in the face, he beat her in the head, he took her pants off, he strangled her with his own hands and choked her to dooet with a piece of his own clothing, when the prosecutor was reading this, he was shaking his head and you could see that he was in disagreement. but not only that, a very disrespectful demeanor in court. that was not a very good thing to do. >> we'll see what this new week brings. rafael, thanks so much. >> sure. police say there is a serial killer in california. his target, homeless men. and they are terrified. but first, cnn's dr. sanjay gupta has launched a new program called "the next list." the show profiles innovators from all walks of life. this week, he talks to a former cab driver turned award-winning perfume maker. >> being self-taught is very much a blessing and a curse. the curse part means that i do not have or did not have a lot of the technical experience that people who were classically trained in the very few perfume schools that exist do. they knew how to work with certain materials because this is the knowledge that was passed down through these schools. i had to figure everything out myself. >> and tune in sundays to watch "the next list" or set your dvr for 2:00 p.m. eastern time. and then in your 2:30 "newsroom" show, a year after six people were killed in tucson, we'll be live in arizona for the ceremonies marking the tragic event. this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ we're getting back in shape. oh! try these. i sprinted here... wow! from your house?! from the car. unh! ooh. [ male announcer ] get back on track with low prices on everything you need. backed by our ad match guarantee. walmart. perhaps you spent too much money or bought things that weren't on your christmas list. . if so, now's the time to correct those mistakes and plan for the next holiday season. jane o'donnell, consumer columnist from "usa today" joining us. besides overspending, tell us about some of the shopping regrets that people start to feel about now. because they're getting those credit card bills about now. >> exactly. all of them are pretty much variations on overspending. but things like losing track of your purchases. we all can do well by shopping early. but i don't know about you, but i tend to hide the purchases from the little one in my house and then you can forget you even bought it. so you obviously need to keep close track of what you've bought. also, a lot of us will get these last-minute jitters and say, there's not going to be enough under the tree and then buy too much. these last-minute purchases tend to not be well thought out and poorly researched. >> you have to learn from those mistakes. first you have to assess and identify what those mistakes were. learn from them because even though it's january and christmas and all the gift-giving holidays are behind us, you say time now to start planning for your budget for a better 2012. how do you do that? >> well, you really want to look back on what you did spend. so it's a good idea to go through your credit card bills, look at what your debit card purchases are and hopefully you'll remember if you paid just cash. but look at how much that was. if that's a reasonable number, if you think it's reasonable to do that again whether you can afford it, take that number, divide it by ten and then take that amount out of your checking account and put it in perhaps a no-fee christmas club or some sort of separate account that you're not going to tap throughout the year, that that will be your christmas account. >> so the idea is you want to spent maybe that much, if that's what was comfortable this past year, or stick within that goal that you just set of how much money you're going to be saving per month. and don't overextend yourself. >> that's right because then you're not going to have the big year-end credit card bills. you can actually spend a little bit throughout the year to even have less of an effect at the end of the year. >> let's talk about how you're going to spend throughout the year. you say there are certain months where there are certain deals. if you want to get some sart of electroni sort of electronic, there's a certain month to do that. you should plan your budget that way. >> electronics can be a little iffy. there are great deals to be had late january and early february. of course, there could be a newer version by if end of the year. but two of the things i recommend -- winter clothing, who doesn't like a nice pair of leather gloves or great mittens or a great hat? get those now. stock them away for next year. in june, there are some great white sales, if you've got a child going away to college, that's a great time to stock up on those kinds of things. the june white sales, i'm told, are even better than the january white sales. >> and jeans, jeans in september and october? did i see that correctly? >> yep, great time to buy jeans. if you have the right size and the right style. >> don't gain, don't lose any weight. and then november, you've got the hdtvs and laptops and december, those are the other electronic games and bicycles. thank you for helping us to plan. still trying to shake it all off from 2011. time to start thinking and planning for 2012. >> absolutely. >> do you don't go overboard. jane o'donnell, thanks so much. everybody's heard of wind surfing. maybe you've even tried it. you've got a board, you've got a sail, the wind and usually water. but how about in the case of the stillness of winter? then what do you do. in the dead of winter, oftentimes you start thinking about, i wish i were on a beach or something like that, maybe wind surfing. so maybe you can't go to the beach. but you can do something like wind surfing. >> it can feel like that if you dress appropriately. >> what are they calling this? >> i think it's ice surfing or ice sailing. i've heard of ice sailing before. but i think it's more like of a boat thing that you sit in. this is standing up. so it is like being a wind surfer -- >> the only difference is you're wearing ski gear. but it's fun. this guy has a hat on. are you not feeling that cold? i am and i'm just look