Independent theaters and youre looking at one of those theaters outside of baltimore, maryland, where an audience is watching the interview as we speak. Our rosa flores is outside another movie house in new york and, you know, it makes you wonder, rosa, if this kind of backfired on north korea, if in a way the country unintentionally gave this movie a whole lot of promotion. I wonder what youre seeing where you are. Were seeing a lot of moviegoers. I want to show you the movie poster, brianna, because it went up minutes ago. This was not even here. This is how fresh all of this is because of the rapid release. Now i want to take you i want you to see the marquis here because many people didnt even think this movie was ever going to make a cinema in the United States. Now we know more than 300 independent theaters are running this movie. Here you pay 12, you buy your ticket right here, you walk in, a few people just walked out moments ago because the First Showing wrapped up and we talked to them. Theres mixed reviews. Some said it was great. All we wanted was laughs and those laughs were delivered. Other people were like, you know, hesitant about the plot you were talking about. Heres what one gentleman had to say. It was political satire over the top comedy for sure. I mean, there was a real controversy because of the issues of pulling it out of theaters and threats of blowing up patrons, so there was certainly a controversy. But this was a goofy, political satire movie that is straightforwardly entertaining but it does it is certainly antinorth korea. It said bad things about north korea and about their leader for sure. Now this particular theater received an email from the fbi, a call from the fbi, and a visit by the nypd to give them information about terrorism. They also have a poster that is going to be posted thats going to be going up just letting people know what number to call if they see anything suspicious, brianna. But here is the little tidbit of information. The gentleman you listened to, i talked to both him and his wife, and he tells me his wife wanted to come watch the movie but didnt want to use her credit card to pay for the tickets. So she made him use his credit card because, of course, aside from the threats, the physical threats of violence they received a lot of people were worried about the hacking. Not so much the physical violence at a Movie Theater. Wow. Youre really seeing concerns about that. Thank you so much for your report. Seth rogen and the interview codirector Evan Goldberg made a surprise appearance at a soldout midnight showing of the interview at a Movie Theater in los angeles and had something to say before the movie started. Ta take as listen. This is our neighborhood, we live around here. We live near here. Weve been here before. The fact that you guys all came out is super exciting. We just really wanted to say thank you. If it wasnt for theaters like this and for people like you guys, this literally would not be happening right now. Thank you guys, so much, we really appreciate it. Hope you like the movie. Is he holding a beer . Thats sort of a thats a cool Movie Theater, i guess. The interview also Available Online streaming on youtube, google play, other digital outlets. Joining me from irvine, california, to talk about this, cnn intelligence and security analyst bob baer, here in washington, our Global Affairs correspondent. Ahis, from the getgo here, i thought wow, poor sony but sony is a loser in all of this, put money into a move year, its not going to pay off. Now were seeing the opposite of that and when it comes to, you know, geopolitically who are the winners a and losers here . Some people say all publicity is good publicity, brianna, sony started off as the big loser here between the hacking, embarrassing emails, and then all of the threats and having to pull the film and then the rebukes from president obama to industry, now kind of forcing them really to do something and release the film. If this film does really well, obviously, you know, thats good publicity for them. But i think on the whole they didnt come up looking so favorably. Even though theyre releasing the film. Now north korea, started off here as a winner. Because this is what north korea loves to do. To force the hand make they love to get attention. And the fact that kim jongun and the north korean regime was able to get this big sony studio to pull a movie that was derogatory about kim jongun, i think initially they came out to be a winner here. Now they could end up to be a loser because now theyre going to have to deal with the repercussions of that. President obama has threatened, promised there will be action against north korea. And the film is out now, i dont know how many North Koreans really would need to kind of see this because theyre fed so many myths about kim jongun to make them revere him. I think that in north korea, that movie is not going to be shown. Clearly this demeaning movie about portraying kim jonguns assassination is out there, and he doesnt look so good. I think president obama comes out pretty strong here. Initially these racist emails about president obama by sony executives were so mean and derogatory, it made people really sympathetic to president obama. He then gave a very sharp rebuke to sony saying he thought it was a mistake, that the film was going to be pulled, and he forced them basically forced them. Along with the industry. He could be a loser too because now he has to deal with the north korea problem and there could be some, you know, another serious confrontation with north korea which nobody wants. I think everybody has a little bit of winning and losing in there. Yeah. Spread around i guess. Bob, you have these hackers, they call themselves the guardians of peace, theyre threatening a christmas surprise if sony releases the movie. Sony has. What do you think might happen if anything . I think if anything is going to happen, theyre going to release some more sony emails. I think so far they dont sony doesnt look all that bad. Just, you know, stupid traffic back with each other, the executives, but i think what this tells us is that north korea is still a very dangerous country. It has nuclear weapons. Clearly the tactics theyre taking on this was to simply ignore the movie. They were advised six months ago, let this pass, a brate movie, a comedy, nothing to with your politics. They ignored that. Were still dealing with a her mitt kingdom we dont really understand and unfortunately its a hermit kingdom with nuclear weapons. Bob, you know, you have people watching the interview. In fact ive spoken just anecdotically with people i know who never would have watched this movie but because of the publicity they have gone and watched it online. Some people wonder if maybe they shouldnt, afraid they might open themselves up to hacking. You heard possibly in that last report there was a woman who went to the movies, didnt want to use your credit card, she told her husband to use his credit card, didnt want to open herself up to retribution. Do you think thats a real concern . I dont think its a real concern. The North Koreans would have to hack into, for instance, visa or American Express and run an algorithm through it to see who went to the movies and, you know, just way too complicated. I think they the theyll go for a bigger cyber bomb likes against sony, more sony emails. At the end of the day i think we all did the right thing, sony did releasing this movie, not going to stand for external censorship, we cant. So i think its a Christmas Day victory for us all. Do you think, elise, youre hearing a Law Enforcement source tells cnn that fbi and also the department of homeland security, has sent out a joint intelligence bulletin. Whats this about . Its just a warning to be alert. Obviously there have been a lot of threats out there both by the guardians of peace that claimed responsibility for the hacking, but also their a worried about co copycats, letting Law Enforcement and everybody know to be aware of those threats a and be careful. Theres no specific threat. But everybody is. They want to see the movie. Theyre curious. Everybody as we saw at that Movie Theater, a little jittery. Quick to both of you before we go, are you going to see it . Have you seen it . I havent seen it yet but im going to see it. I follow north korea very carefully and i cant resist. Its part of the story. What do you think, bob . Well, this for me is a [ inaudible ] holiday. I was tasked to get rid of people before, but i guess its a good comedy. Ill see it for sure. Ill see it too. There you go. Maybe sony is the winner to sort of bring it if full circle. Elise and bob, thank you to both of you joining us today. And still ahead, questions remain over how a coalition plane went down over isis territory. We are going to the pentagon for an update on that. And later hes exploring the idea of running for president. Jeb bush may be closer to a decision on running. Hi, im travis powell. I would like to wish my family in North CarolinaMerry Christmas and happy new year beautiful wife jessica and daughter lee ann, daddy misses you. Which means its time for the volkswagen signthendrive event. For practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a germanengineered volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta. And the 2015 motor trend car of the year allnew golf. If youre wishing for a new volkswagen this season. Just about all you need is a finely tuned. Pen. Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. The father of a jordanian pilot is pleading with isis militants to put mercy in their hearts and release his son. Translator he is now in the hands of Islamic State fighters and i do not want to describe him as a hostage. I call him a guest. He is a guest among brothers of ours in syrias Islamic State. I ask them in the name of god and ask for the dignity of the pro fet mohammads peace be among him and treat him well. 26yearold Moaz Al Kassasbeh was captured yesterday when his plane went down during a mission over the selfproclaimed isis capital of raqqah in syria. Isis claimed it shot the plane down but the u. S. Military says evidence indicates militants did not take down the aircraft. U. S. Central command adding this, quote, we will support efforts to ensure his safe recovery and will not tolerate isils attempts to misrepresent or exploit this unfortunate aircraft crash for their purposes. Joining me pentagon correspondent barbara starr. You have centcom indicating that perhaps they have a reason to believe that isis couldnt do this. Is there any like strict evidence about why they wouldnt have been able to. Well, look, i mean its very unusual for Central Command to come out with such an adamant, clear, unequivocal statement, they say the shootedown did not happen, the plane went down for some other reason. We dont know what that reason is. If you think about it, its sort of logically how could they come to this conclusion. Did the pilot perhaps make a mayday call . Was he having technical problems . Were there some other problems with the plane, some equipment failure . Did a wing man see something . If a wing man flying nearby they would have seen a missile launched. Maybe the wing man didnt report it. He didnt see anything. We dont know. Theres a lot of very typical factors that can go into the military somethicoming to an in understanding of what happened. Clearly they want the pilot back, to be able to talk to him, and if it was some sort of technical, maintenance issue, or equipment problem with the plane, theyre also going to want they dont have the wreckage but theyre going to want to know what went wrong, the f16 is a real work horse, for so many air forces around the world so they need to figure out here what exactly did happen. Could there be any element, barbara, of the pentagon trying to downplay isis capabilities here so as not to raise fears . Well, spouppose anything is possible but again, if theres some sort of evidence that it was shot down and the pentagon knew that and lied in an open press release from a fourstar general, i think that is pretty unlikely. One can only assume at this point that general austin, the head of Central Command, has good reason to put out a statement to say evidence is clear. If new, different evidence comes to light, you know, so be it, but they are pretty clear in their Public Statement and thats something the military doesnt really take likely. All indications the pentagon has reason to believe isis doesnt have these capabilities to take down a jordanian plane. Since i have you here, i want to shift gears. There is a Washington Post report and it says that the white house wants to accelerate the closure of guantanamo. This was something obviously president obama wanted to do from the very beginning of his presidency. What can you tell us about this . What we all know now is that not sure accelerated but they are moving in the direction, the president making very clear that he continues to try and get as many detainees from Guantanamo Bay sent back to their home countries or it find third countries to take them. Expect to see another five or so detainees in the next five days, and perhaps another five or so early next year. One of the stumbling blocks, 50 plus detainees there from yemen. They cannot be sent back to yemen right now. Yemen is very unstage. Al qaeda is very active there. So nobody wants to see those detainees go back to yemen and possibly readily return to the battlefield. Theyre looking for a third country to take them. The president making no bones about it. He wants to get the population at Guantanamo Bay down as far as possible, as fast as possible. He is facing big congressional opposition to close it once and for all to put the remaining detainees in stateside prisons is Something Congress has been very opposed to. Yeah, for years now. Barbara starr, thank you so much from the pentagon for us today. And american veterinarian got the best present she could ask for this christmas, her freedom. Stacy addison arrested in east timor after Police Found Drugs in the cab she was in. The 41yearold maintained her innocence throughout her detention. She will remain in east timor until she gets a new passport and after that she says, without a doubt, she is going straight back home to portland, oregon. Just moments ago, the state department issued a statement saying the u. S. Welcomes addisons release. And just ahead a cdc worker is being monitored for symptoms of ebola. Well tell you how the lab tech was possibly exposed to the virus and how the agency is responding. holiday mhey is playing i guess were going to need a new santa the music builds to a climax. more people are coming to audi than ever before. See why now is the best time. Audi will cover your first months payment on select models at the season of audi sales event. Visit audioffers. Com today. The cdc dealing with another embarrassing an potentially dangerous mistake this time involving the ebola virus. A technician may have been exposed at one of the atlanta labs. The cdc says theres no danger to the public but the incident raises concerns and we have joe johns with us to talk about the details. I mean, how is a lab tech exposed to ebola. I know, think about it, this is probably a lot about procedures and we might not even know about this but for all the other things that have happened over the last year. This apparently happened on monday, discovered on tuesday, the cdc said a small amount of material from an experiment was mistakenly transferred from one lab to another, might have contained live ebola virus, cdc says were talking about one individual whos being monitored and that the technician has no symptoms of illness and that others who entered the lab have been contacted and will be assessed for possible exposure. So far cdc says only that one person is going to need monitoring at this point. They say they dont believe anyone else in the lab actually could have been exposed brianna. How do they deal with these lapses . You alluded to the fact that this is kind of what like the third one i think. The third one. There was one with anthrax recently, another one, h 1 n 5 bird flu and now they have sort of a whole list of notifications. First close down the lab, then you decontaminate it and then you notify everybody up and down the chain. You launch an investigation. All these steps have to be followed so it really wouldnt have been feasible for them to keep this quiet. They had to go through the protocols and deal with this one situation which hopefully that person is going to be okay. Theres comfort in that but i think if you work at the cdc, youve got to be right. Youre concerned about your safety. Yeah. Its all about procedures and when dealing with something as serious as ebola, this is a whole new world were dealing with right now and people have to be careful and everybody has to know when you got a problem. Yeah. Very little room for error. Joe johns, thanks so much. The movie the interview debuts today in hundreds of theaters across the u. S. But many people are watching it from home. Theyre doing it online. Is it safe to stream this film or are you perhaps opening yourself up to a hacking attack . We have the answer next. Hello im Sergeant First Class james hudler with the 1100th as itimg in kuwait. 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