We just showed you, gas prices are low so everybodys feeling that no matter how much money you make, youre feeling the low gas prices. Job market is coming back. Higher income mostly higher income earners, theyre really feeling the stock market returns. Theyre more likely to be in the stock market. Great return to the stock market this year so for the first time in seven years, a majority of americans are feeling good, say the economy is doing well. So that gdp number, low gas prices, the stock market put it all together, theyre calling it the christmas rally. Even minimum wage were expecting to go up. There will be 20 states where minimum wage rises come january 1. So even though theres been consternation about how wages in general are not rising, wages are the part of this economic recovery that have the v not been there, the states are raising minimum wages in 20 states so people will have more money in their pockets. Christine, thank you for the good news, a Christmas Gift there. Police departments across the nation are warning their officers to take extra precautions and some are making changes after saturdays massacre of two new York City Police officers. In massachusetts, the Boston Herald reports state troopers are being urged to do the following, asked to wear body armor, not let anyone approach their cruiser from the outside while they are seated inside and watch for suspects who appear to be conducting surveillance of officers. In other cities like dallas, the focus is on having officers ride in pairs. Wfaa is reporting dallas officers are also being advised not to place themselves in situations where they would be outnumbered. And in new york, officers are also being directed to work in pairs. Union leaders say its important to put their own safety first and to respond to every call with two cars and not to make arrests unless its absolutely necessary. Cnns brian todd is live in washington this morning and, brian, theres now concern from what we understand that the fallout over these murders of these two nypd officers could lead to a spike in crime. Thats right, randi. A former Police Commissioner in new york has given an ominous warning about that. Hes concerned about the changes in Police Behavior stemming from this sequence of events. Also this morning, top Police Union Leaders are telling us theyre making a direct link between the recent protests and the murder of those two officers. Two fallen officers, a city convulsing with tension and a sense that the strain between Police Across the country and the public they protect is growing. Police are angry that recent demonstrations turned into personal attacks against them. We can certainly blame them and i think that to the extent that this deranged individual acted on saturday, theres little doubt that he thought that there would be a wave of sympathy from within the Community Based on what hes been hearing from the agitators. Reporter in the days before the Police Officers murders, police in new york had been assaulted during protests, on the brooklyn bridge. And at the Staten Island ferry. As the tensions escalated, Police Increasingly pointed blame at new york mayor bill de blasio, accusing him of being less than supportive and giving protesters too much leeway. The police union in new york circulated a form let cher officers could sign saying they didnt want de blasio coming to their funerals if they died in the line of duty. Police turned their backs on the mayor on saturday when he appeared at the hospital after the officers deaths and there was this angry outburst from the police union chief. That blood on their hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. Reporter de blasios office calls that overheated and irresponsible, an ominous concern from former new york Police Commissioner howard safir that Police Across the country wont take the extra steps they usually take to protect the public. Somebody gets a call that theres a domestic dispute in an apartment. They pull up the the apartment building, they dont see anything, they report it as uns unsubstantiat unsubstantiated. Without even going in . Im suggesting its possible. Reporter howard safir says he remembers back in the 1970s and 80s in new york when during a time of more Violence Toward the police, the police were called blue flower pots because they sat in their cars not doing much. Now, neither safir nor jim pasko of the fraternal order of Police Believe were headed back to a period like that but safir worries about how police will behave if they continue to feel unappreciated. Randi . Brian todd in washington, thank you very much. Lets talk more about the tension between the public and police. Joining me now 1 reverend Marcos Miranda and vince ward from the center from constitutional rights. Nice to see you both, thank you for coming back. You heard brian todds reporting there, reverend. Do you think this tension between the nypd now and city hall could actually lead to a spike in crime . I believe that the answer always is in peace and in love. And i still believe that we have the greatest police force in the world as well as policing the greatest city in the world. And we know from 9 11 that we can come together as a people, that we can flush risch, we did it turn the Crown Heights riots as well and i believe we can do it again. Critics have been coming forward saying these nationwide protests against Police Brutality have created this antipolice environment. Your organization from what i understand recruited more than 300 volunteer lawyers to represent protesters in ferguson. What would you say to those who feel this way now . Yeah, the protests against bad Police Policies are completely separate from this terrible act of a lone person killing Police Officers just because theyre Police Officers. They wear to very different things. Its possible in our society to both condemn wanton killings by Police Officers of unarmed africanamerican men and to protest and to stand against the killings of Police Officers. Theyre not incompatible. And i think the problem that were seeing here is that theres a blame game happening. The Police Unions and everybody else are trying to blame everybody else for what is essentially a bad police policy. And the nation as a whole needs to come together and mourn the deaths of both the Police Officers that are killed in the line of duty and the civilians that are killed for no reason at all. We hear a lot that they need to come together but what should be said in what should the mayor say . What should the police say . I think the mayors initial response was the right one, which is that people are angry because of whats been happening in ferguson and Staten Island and they should be angry and the Police Officers are angry because of whats happened to these officers, which is terrible, and they should. But the mayor needs to bring everybody together and the answer is not to decide to shut off the First Amendment for one group of people in order to service another. Its possible to want to change Police Practices without being antipolice and thats what this movement is about, regardless of what Rudy Giuliani and pat lynch say. Let me ask you about officer rafael ramos, reverend. I understand he was training to become a lay chaplain and he was supposed to graduate, if you would, just hours after he was shot and killed that saturday over the weekend. What was he like . You lad a chance to get to know to him. Amazing man. When you looked into his eyes all you saw was kindness. He completed our ten week intensive training, he excelled and he was due to graduate on the afternoon of december 20. Why was it, do you know, that it was so important to him to work to become a chaplain . In my conversations with officer ramos, he even believed being a member of the nypd was a sort of ministry. That he was serving his community and protecting his community. And so he was so excited because he actually thought that he couldnt be a chaplain, he thought only clergy members could be chaplains. However we allow lay leaders to be chaplains so he was excited that he could continue to help his community and he saw himself as doing this sort of Chaplaincy Ministry in the future after he retired from the nypd to continue to serve his community. Sounds like a very special man. Reverend miranda, vince war venn, thank you both. Appreciate your time. Remember when president obama promised to respond to north koreas hack on Sony Pictures . Well, beginning yesterday someone or something has been repeatedly wiping north korea off the internet. Experts say all signs point to an ongoing hack. Check out this graphic here from din research. Those white gaps show when north korea is blacked out from the web. Intermittent outages, of course, are expected but this is really out of the ordinary. At its peak, north korea was off line for more than nine hours on monday. Cnns kyung lah has all the details. Reporter north Korean Television broadcast without a hitch, leading the news, kim jongun visiting a fish farm. But in cyberspace, the country went dark. Staterun web site kcna blank, or blooming with flowers. Web security expert matthew prince was watching what he calls the map of the internet. The north korean internet had effectively been erased from that map. Reporter when you say erased, what do you mean by erased . The tube that connects them with the rest of the world has been cut. Reporter cut by a hacker . By america . President obama promised the u. S. Would respond to the sony hack. We will respond proportionately and well respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. Reporter given the rising tensions between the u. S. And north korea, dprk watchers doubt the u. S. Would bother or be so transparent. Could north korea have cut the cord . You want us to kill the leader of north korea . Yes. What . During the movie, the interview would manage to speak in or a preemptive move on a future cyber attack. Regimes like egypt and syria have switched off the internet before. Or could it simply be coincidence . System failure at a time when the world watches . Cyber experts say thats unlikely. An outage of hours upon hours, even for north korea, a country known for not having electricity or food for its people, is unusual. As matthew prince and i weighed the possible culprits, a surprise on staterun web site kcna. Oh, wait, im hearing that kcna appears to be back up. That, says the editor of a hacker magazine, points to most likely culprit, the rogue hacker, the on and off of north koreas web the hallmarks of a denial of service attack. Id say any 14yearold kid in this country could probably pull it off and any toddler in germany. Its not hard. Reporter some hackers online have said theyre response but the hacking and Security Community are suspicious of anyone claiming credit. Well likely never know who did this. Adding to the long list of things we already dont know about north korea. Kyung lah, cnn, seoul. Cnns Barbara Starr joining me now for more on how the u. S. Might fight cyber terrorists. Barbara, what are you learning . Good morning to you, randi. For the u. S. Military this is not a new issue. Id say over the last decade plus the militarys really been focusing on the cyber world and this whole notion of cyber warfare. In fact, they have now an organization in the military called the u. S. Cyber command just like central command, european command, pacific command. This is the Cyber Command that is e quint to fight a cyber war in cyberspace. Not on any one piece of ground around the globe. The Cyber Command is really an interesting organization. Lets look at some of the things they do first. They are first and foremost prepared to provide cyber support to those Combatant Commanders on the front line. If the commanders in the middle east, in the pacific are getting hacked, the Cyber Command will help them deal with that. It will help them form plans to even conduct attacks in cyberspace. So they also defend the military networks against attackers. If north korea was to attempt to come against u. S. Military computers systems, it would be Cyber Command that has the systems in place to defend against that. And in recent years, theyve also reached out to defense contractors, to the sort of environment in which they operate because so much of the classified work actually isnt even done in the military, its done with a major contractor out there. So they, too, have to be protected. And were talking big money here. The budget for the Cyber Command has grown in recent years, just in the last three years alone in 2012 it was 118 million and now it has skyrocketing to over 400 million a year in their budget to help do all of this. War in the cyber world is becoming a very serious issue. How to defend against an attack and, if you want to, how to launch an attack. Randi . It sounds like the u. S. Is ready. Barbara starr, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Sure. Were back after a quick break. Ive smoked a lot and quit a lot, but ended up nowhere. Now. I use this. 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He is visiting the Street Corner and the memorial where these two nypd officers were ambushed over the weekend on saturday afternoon. He has met with the families and this is his first time visiting the memorial there. Meanwhile, now to milwaukee where protests against a policeinvolved shooting are taking place after the District Attorney there decides not to charge a white officer in the death of a mentally ill black man. The federal government is now looking into the case. Cnns George Howell spoke exclusively with the victims mother and joins me from milwaukee. George . Randi, good morning. Before the death of Michael Brown in ferguson, before the death of eric garner in Staten Island, people here in milwaukee have been protesting, they have been waiting for a decision in this case. The decision came yesterday and the victims mother tells me she is frustrated. Dante was my youngest son. He should have been burying me. 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