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Jail. >> reporter: see every other convicted murderer in south africa is pretty much in jail, oscar pistorias is getting set to spend another christmas at home with with his family. arthel. >> thank you so much, paul. >> south africa court upgraded the conviction of murder. and the court convicted pistorias without a now trial. can that happen in this country? what does that mean. first of all, greg, paul said $688 in bail and every other murderer in south africa is in the cling. >> it is chump change and 113000 he originally put up for his bail and the court still has that.

Supposed to get build. this building was supposed to be 18 stories tall and it's it 688 stories tall. i dealt with politicians. i'm going to be honest. i'm not going to slash and burn. you are going to look at bush in the sky. >> i'm not a big fab. last thing we need is another bush. >> you are going to slash and burn? >> all of my life they are all talk. they are no action and they are totally controlled by their donors and by the lyonss. this country, if we have another politician that includes hillary, we have another politician, this country is going down. >> coming up the factor favorite ...

Your business? >> well, it's not a business that i have. we're all volunteer. it's all a community that we work together at. but each of us individually have family farms that is our livelihood. and gardens of people who depend on their gardens to can for the season so that they have food for the winter months, you know. we live in the country. we are a farming community. this is -- we're on a water sharing program. so some people have water for a week. then the water went out before they ever got to water. we're going to be out at least 10, 13 days, maybe 15 days at the minimum. when the wate...

Officials now say it's at 688. within the last hour and a half, we've gone from 150 to 597 to 688. the quake struck an area near the ka it, hmandu where 180 people are dead. the quake also started avalanches on mt. everest. listen to a mountain climber. somebody we spoke to just a little bit ago. >> we moved out of the tents and we could definitely see a lot of ice and rock coming down. a couple avalanches in the nearby regions and 15 or 20 minutes after that, the aftershock was the one which actually did damage on this particular mountain. >> there have been at least 15 aftershocks of 4.5 mag...

>> they're high end. >> what was that sound that went off? >> it was just fireworks. >> that got your heart rate up. >> doesn't take much to get my heart rate up. >> look at all that crowd out there. >> confetti already going down as well. >> we were down there earlier tonight. it's incredible. the crowd, everybody out in full force. super excited about being in new york city, baby. and now to the star of the night. oh, yes, indeed the world famous new year's eve ball. it's designed by waterford crystal. it measures 12 feet in diameter and weighs more than 11,000 pounds. the ball is covered wi...