Backbone to do something you know is not popular but trudge rward. I think thats why she got the cover. Thats what its about. Thats why shes an impressive politician when you do something that is unpopular that goes against the grain that will probably damage your poll numbers but you do anyway is and i appoint of principle, thats a terrific thing. Weve got a twitter question. I was thinking i have a twitter handle. Youll know this if youve been watching this week. My twitter handle is ichard p bacon. Love to hear from you. Heres our question. I think its a way of getting to know the viewers better. Who would be your person of the year in i i dont mean politician. I mean within your own life. Okay. You can be sarcastic and funny if you want. Sure. You can play it however you like. Tweeters, who would b your person of the year and why . Make the why short because its twitter. richard p bacon. Welcomed israeli president ruben ritalilino the white house. Mr. Obama said he was deeply moved by what he called ritalins commitment to equality and juice. President rivlin lit a menorah made in israel during the 1920s. Then he wished christians around the world a merry christmas. This is a big deal. It reall funny thing that a lot of israeli politicians even though they kind of tangled with the obama administration, everybody wants to geto the Hanukkah Party even if they dont agree with his policies. They want an invite to the Hanukkah Party at the white house. Thats beautiful, isnt it . We all know that march madness is a few moments away. For those basketball fans needing an early fix, it doesnt get better than this. It happened in a High School Hoops game in minnesota. These kids were down by two. A free throw with less than two seconds left, missed and a look at that. Wild celebrations there. Thats remarkable. Its hard not to feel a sense of joy when you see other people boom. Thrilling. Isnt it thrilling . Thether team goes down with that one shot. Oh, well. Coming up in the skinny, politics meets pop culture. What theyre watching and listening at the white house. Also ahead, the excitement over Bruce Springsteens new concert tour. Gh ticket prices and warnings about ripoffs. And the former beauty queen in trouble after a bear hunting trip. The controversy and allegatations over a coverup after a lk at the forecast map. You definitely are. Sometimes we use ky ultragel to enhance my bodys natural moisture so i can get into it a bit quicker. And when i know shes into it, i get into it and. Kind of like a Virtual Grocery store washed up along pls east coast everything from coffee and wine to dog food and laundry detergent. People who live nearby are takingng adntage. Loading up whatever they can carry away. The coast guard believes goods came from a cargo container that fell from a barge. Do you want coffee that sat in sea water all this time . When i dream of treasure washing up on the shore, it doesnt mean old cartons of milk. And dog food. There is this is trouble more trouble for a former miss kansas. The beauty queen and Outdoor Channel host teresa veil is facing criminal charges for illegally killing a bear. Yeah, if quick she could face one year in prison. Teresa veil is no stranger to controversy. The former miss kansas was the first miss america contestant to openly display tattoos. And she had to choose a new skill for the talent comompetition when the wouldnt let her shoot a bow. Its a bear hunt in alaska that has her in hohot water. The star of the outdoor show limitless with teresa veil faces charges for accidentally killining a bear and allegedly trying to cover it up. During a legal hunt, sheep had permission to kill one bear and tried to make it appear the second bear kill was legal. Its very important they operate well within the boundaries can of the law. If they operate outside of the law it undermines the purpose of having a professional guide organization in the state of alaska. Michael renfro has also been charged. If i couldo it over again, i would do it differently. Myself or my busiss. The only gain was hopefully teresa wouldnt lose her career. The Outdoor Channel says the hunt in question never aired and that they are committed to ethical hunting. Veil says she followed poor advice and allowed the second bear to be improperly tagged adding she reported the incident andas fully cooperated with authorities. I am deeply sorry for my mistakes. Arraignment is set for next week. Neal karlinksky, abc news, seattle. Thank you very much indeed. The man you will have to befriend if you want to listen toto the wu tangs clan news album. A hair color debate on one of the disneys most beloved princesses. The skinny coming up next. Abc stations. 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I run harder on treadmill with that song. I call that inarguable as a choice. This is her. Shes got moves, doesnt she . She n dance. We should get her on dancing with the stars. Shes not doing anything next month, right in the shes got moves. Shes definitely got moves. Shes got moved. Yo know what else she likes, tv show, blackish, the abc show blackish. Tell you what shows they watch. Its a goods window. A great window into a person finding out what telly they watch. We should ask the producers of blackish to get her a walkon. Why not. Lets also talk about another story. Little mermaid. So the lite mermaid is being remade as a live action film. So there is the origal. You can see that in that clip there, the Little Mermaid has red hair. However, in the realife action version,hloe grace more tez playing the Little Mermaid has an blonde hair and will have blonde hair in the film. It has caused a degree of outre. This is i an person on twitter who says i will not be watching the new Little Mermaidmovie. Ariel is a redhead, not a blonde. However, i would say this to Stephanie Marie are, whilst i understand your anger, Hans Christian anderson, the author the book specified the color of the hair of the Little Mermaid. Its too late because television has intervened and shes a redhead. Shes not a blonde. Shes a redhead. Disney intervened. Disney. Theres one funny story which is particularly interesting. A chap has bought the wutang clan, they made one album. By one album, i mean they printed one copy of this album they made. And the guy who bought it is a chap who managed to inflatehe price of a lifesaving drug. He invested it and paid a lot of money off the back of it. So the guy whos got this precious album is a guy lots of people dont like. Now the only way you can hear that album is if you befriend that man that no one likes and goes around in other words, its a track and youll never well be back with more. You are my whole life dolce and gabbana. Light blue [cough, cough] mike . Janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm fomy phlegmy cocough. Yeah. But what about mike . He has that dry scratchy thing going on. Guess what . It wor on his cough too. Cough guess what . It works on his cough too. What . Stop dont pull me spoiler alert she doesnt make it only mucinex dm relieves bothwet and dry coughs for 12 hours with two medicines in one pill. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. You cant start a fire without a spark this guns for hire even if werreust dancing in the dark this, this one right now. That is dancing in the dark. Were playing it just to get things moving, just because we like it. Dancing with the dark. Theres excitement in the dark. The boss is returning. Next month. There are already some qstio about the very expensive tickets being offered for sale this morning. They may be a scacam for over eager fans. Cant start a fire whether its the allure of dancing with in the dark with the boss, or recapturing those glory days reporter millions are willing to journey to thunder road and beyond for tickets to Bruce SpringsteensJust Announced 2016 concert tour. Tickets already on sale for as on sites like stubhub, Ticket Network and vivid seats. Even for those willing to take the pricey plunge, the new York Attorney general says be warned. If you try to buy them, you might find yourself. Going down, down. Reporter thats because these tickets dont actually exist yet. Posted by scalpers trying to lure in devoted fans to tempt to pay a premium. Even scalpers cant buy tickets till they will go on sale december 11th. It the attorney general alleges they take those regularly priced tickets and try to pass them off as premium tickets to early buyers pocketing the difference. Adele saying on her website the resale of tickets will not be tolerated. Its kind of sad somebody would try to take advantage of that, no . It is. Its an interesting debate resale. Dont you . If youve bought a ticket you could argue that you own the ticket. Therefore, it is up to you if you want to resell it. I know him personally. We go to the gym together and have the same guns. You can tell. Im incredibly gullible. Heres the ing. Im just really gullible. When people tell me something, i think it definitely happened. En that photo came up and you spoke about it with great sincerity, so for a brief moment, i genuinely believed. Thats us. He asked me to come up and dance in the dark with him. When the boss asksou to come up, you come up and you dance with the boss. I dont know if you were really on that stage. Wnnfans. Com. Good morning. Im richard bacon. Im reena ninan. Headlines were following this morning on world news now. Donald trumps popularity among Republican Voters shows no sign of weakness despite the uproar over his plan to ban muslims entering the u. S. A new poll from South Carolina shows trump with a 20point lead over his gop rivals. Straight ahead. Fascinating. The man accuses of the shooting at a planned parenthood clinic says tre is no need for a trial. He is guilty. One of more than a dozen outbursts he made in a Court Hearing in colorado. German chancellor Angela Merkel is Time Magazines person of the year. The magazine praised her for her leadership on everything from how europe is dealing with tens of thousands of refugees to greeces debt crisis. And United Airlines iss bringing back free snacks in Economy Class. Woo who. The airline acknowledging flying has not been much fun lately. The perk was used d in february. Those are some of our top december 10t0th. Aouncer from abc news, this is world news now. Yeah. Do they serve snacks on British Airway sfwhz. Yeahah. You dont have to pay extra. No. By the way the snacks theyre giving away arent that nice youve got to the wait till february to have an under whelming snack in economy. Welcome. Were going to begin this half hour with one of your favorite topics. You were so excited about donald trump, right . Its the most interesting story inhe one of the most in my litime. Im being sincere. We were wondering what his poll numbers would do. Theyre not weakening. We talked a lot about this on tuesday. Despite the uproar over his plans to ban muslims from entering t u. S. A new South Carolina poll has trump with a 20point lead over his nearest rival, dr. Ben carson, and to pick up the point some of that polling was done after trump unveiled his controversial proposal. Opposition continues as trump adjusts his defense ofit slightly. Abcs Kenneth Moton with details. Reporter new calls to dump trump reached New York City Hall wednesday. The global criticism of Donald Trumps proposed plan to ban muslims from traveling to the u. S. Increasing. He actually just represents the face of something very evil in this country. Reporter trump taking hits but apparently n among gop voters. You got my vote. Reporter the celebritynd politician received big applause on live with kelly and michael. Our country has to get its act together. Itot about religigion. This is about safety. Reporter on the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery, president obama alluded to the recent trump rhetoric. We betray the efforts of the past ifwe fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms. Reporter people overseas are already pushing back. Business in predominantly muslim countries. In the uk, theres a petitioion asking parliament to keep him out of the country although its unlikely to go anywherere. My understanding he has banned 84 from entering the uk. Will the government lead by example in considering in making trump number 85. Secretary of state john kerry says trumps comments dont help the u. S. On the world stage. It makes our job of reaching outt to people and sharing the real america just that much more complicated and that mu more difficult. Reporter trump will visit israels Prime Minister this month. Benyah snin netanyahus rejected his recent remarks on muslims yesterday but says the meeting is still on because he meets with all u. S. Presintial candidates. Reena and richard. Kenneth,hank you so much. A major figure in the Muslim Community has weighed in on the controversy while not mentioning trump by name. Leaders should use their position to bried youingg about muslim. He says theres nothing muslim about killing extremists. Antimuslim anger has apparently been behind an attack on a group of muslim men in the bay area. Rasheed alba shary started recording this woman Denise Slater after she got agitated over seeing his friends praying. A park ranger tried to intervene she could now face hate cririme charges. Slater says shes the real victim because she was videotaped against her will. New details this morning about the kruppal responsible for the california massacre. Authorities looking into whether a San Bernardino high school may have been the next target of syed farook and his wife. Photos of the campus that he visited as a Health Inspector were found on a cell phone that the couple tried to destroy. Thee f director yesterday told waging jihad as early as 2013. They were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online and were working very, very hard to understand did they have other plans either for that day. And a longtime friend of farook mitted he and farook considered a plat since 2012 but he says they got cold feet when the fbi busted another terror plot in a nearby area. Yet another twist. The invesgation into the plotting of the San Bernardino massacre has revealed the couples use of secret messages. Authorities are looking into them and they have their hands full. Thaers abcs pierre thomas. Reporter abc news has learned that the killer couple had devices with enkings on them slowing the retrieval of potential information about the plot. Sources say authorities are working around the clock to decorrode the encryption. The fbi offered chilling new texas shootout with isis sympathizers last may shows how encryption can cripple investigations. The director sd one of the isis sympathizers who died in a hail of gunfire with Police Outside that cartoon conference about the Prophet Muhammad exchanged 109 messages with an overseas terrorist thehe morning before leaving for the attack. But the messages are encrypted and the fbi six months later still cannot unravel what was said. This type of encryption is a huge problem. It may keep the fbi from knowing whether shes homeland attacks are simply inspired by isisis or directcted and crowed by the group. Pierre thomas, abc news, washington. Pierre, thank you. The streets of chicago again erupted into angry protests amid a growing call for mayor rahm emanuel to resign. Hundreds of demonstrarators sut down the citys famed magnificent mile over the growing Police Scandal and accusations of emmanuel concealing a series of he says he accepts responsibility, but he is not stepping down. More than five inches of rain have fall in portland this week and rainfalall recor all over shattered. You see there the storms have caused flooding, mud slides and power outages. And now extreme weather has turned deadly. Hes neal karlinksky with more. Reporter meteorologists are calling it a fire hose coming in lord, help me get through this. Reporter from seattle to portland, three days of storms havent just brought widespread flooding, but mudslides. Near portland, a 60yearold woman was killed when a tree fell on her bedroom. A series of mudslides temporarily blocked roads. One barreled through this waterfront homoutside seattle, tearing through the first floor, the garage and cars, all of it while tyler fords grandmother was still insi. Devastating to see everything get turned upsidedown in an instant. But very thankful that evebody is alive. People have been rescued by boat. Next thing you know, its time to get out. Reporter the waters have now begun to recede. Not t befo porand smashed rain records two days straight. And seattle broke a record with 2. 13 inches of rain. The force of these landslidesed is absolutely incredible. Not only taking out a huge chunk of the hou