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Totally abandoned and forgotten, an american held hostage since 2011 pleads to president obama to gain his freedom. warren weinstein appears in a video released by al qaeda. and if you didn't get your christmas presents, don't blame santa. santa's helpers, u.p.s. and fedex, say the ownness is on them, and they're rushing to get packages delivered today. a mystery deep below the streets of seattle and it stopped the world's largest tunnelling machine in its tracks. hello, everyone. i'm pamela brown in today for ashleigh banfield. it is thursday, december 26th. welcome to "legal view." up fi...

>> i think far too often the question is can we make a deal. i'd like to say can we find a solution. it's more spending for both sides. most conservatives would agree that's the problem in washington. i don't know how a deal is good for conservatives or americans. if spending is going to go up. >> given what you know and that the alternative would be a shutdown, would you be willing to support it for now? are you willing to support paul ryan now, knowing what you know now, would you vote for it. >> i would not. and it's usually not a binary choice. at the end of the day, in august 2011, we sai...

It looks scary up there. but invigorating at the same time to some, i suppose. >> reporter: yes. it will take about three weeks to come down. now the earthquake that you mentioned from august 2011, that caused 150 cracks in the exterior of the washington monument. thieves been repairing that. and those repairs are now about 80% complete. they're going to continue to make repairs after the scaffolding comes down. the interior is about about 30% complete as far as that kind of reconstruction goes. but here's the thing. in washington, a lot of people have liked the view of the scaffolding because...

>> it began with protests, as in many of the arab countries, inspired by egypt and tunisia. people started protesting for more freedom. but the reaction from the gadhafi regime was to shoot protesters, to try and stop these protests with violence. >> the violence that gadhafi unleashed on them was a violence of another order altogether. we're not talking now mubarak's security forces. we're talking about mercenaries. we're talking about jets. we're talking about tanks. so with the libyan revolution the idea of non-violence had to be laid to rest for the sake of libyans. >> the war rages for mo...

Up skyscrapers. in d.c. the decision create aid city skyline like no other. one where you can see great federal monuments of our nation from long ways away, there are no buildings blocking your view. i don't know why they did it in the first place in 1910, the overall effect of the height restrictions an ak te-- architectural thing. rich people have the view. poor people have the view. it isn't something to trade on. d.c. height restrictions are permanent. more than a century. nobody was ever going to take away that view. two years ago, in august 2011, a rare east coast earthquake rattled the ...