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Your christmas shopping and found everything you wanted to give your loved ones. >> plenty of gadgets and gizmos will be unwrapped and some of them will be in the air shortly thereafter. gio benitez reports that drones as gifts have taken off, for better or worse. >> reporter: forget simple gifts like sleds or snow globes. the christmas gifts flying off shelves this holiday season, drones. some stores reporting demand soaring. as more and more states try to figure out how to deal with private drone use, aviation officials are not only sounding the alarm but launching a new campaign. know befor...

Editors feel had the most effect on the news and our lives. among those covered is ebola survivor dr. kent brantley. brantley was honored tuesday for his medical missionary work. other 2014 contenders included the ferguson protesters, vladimir putin and taylor swift. this morning the faa announced it is clearing four more companies for commercial drone use. the agencies announcement on drones come amid mounting safety concerns, concerns highlight bid the faa's own report on near collisions between drones and passenger planes. rene marsh has more. >> reporter: it could be the closest a drone ...

The house of representatives today held a hearing on drone use in the united states which is quite restricted as of now. also today the federal aviation administration opened up a path for more companies to use drones, allowing four new businesses to conduct aerial surveys and monitor construction sites among other things bringing the total to 13. meanwhile, there have been several near collisions between drones and passenger planes which of course, has been raising serious safety questions. joining me to discuss it all, is cnn correspondent, renee marsh. renee, something else for me to fear w...

Few executions are ever carried out. more than 900 people who have been sentenced to death since 1978, only 13 have been execu executed. lawyers claim they have evidence to challenge last month's republican run off. the attorneys announced they expect to file a challenge within ten days. thad cochran was declared the winner by fewer than 8,000 votes. mcdaniel has nod conceded. he claims some voted in democratic and republican primaryryes. an faa investigation as they want no know if the use of a drone violated restrictions on commercial drone use. his spokesman says the use of the drone co...

U.s. strategy to destroy al qaeda has curbed the rise of sunni tower -- terrorism, and the former head of the u.s. military central command has oversighted the middle east, co-chaired the panel and emphasized that drones are a tool and not a strategy. >> if i had a dollar for every commander, political person, leader of the cia, that has pronounced the death of a terrorist organization or extremist movement over the past 13 years, i would be a rich man. >> since 2010 the recent record by the rand corporation concluded the number of terrorist groups has jumped 58% since 2010 and that was a peak...