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Condemned to endless gridlock. there are areas where we can work together. >> reporter: the first item the president wants congress to tackle in the new year, extending unemployment benefits to the more than one million people who have lost them. he will lay out the rest of his 2014 agenda on january 28th in the state of the union address. dana? >> athena jones, thank you very much. joining me now from the white house is white house senior advisor, phil shalero. the big news today is the two million number, signed up. but i want to talk about the more immediate deadline. that is tomorrow. on j...

Once it does, it will transport 12 people at a time to a chinese ice breaker. then a barge will ferry them from the ice breaker to another ship from australia. the stranded research ship, the "akademik shokalskiy" had set out to study climate change in antarctica and retrace the steps of explorer douglas moulson who studied life on the frozen continent a century ago, but they got stuck in thick ice. >> these are big chunks of ice, really thick, lots of years' worth of growth. this is not going to be easy to get through. >> reporter: since christmas, three separate ice breaker ships have tried ...

Russia, just 300 miles east of the site of the games in sochi. the same region where the men implicated in the boston marathon bombing lived before moving to the united states. the russian government is responsible for overall security at the games. the state department, as it does with all large events, will send diplomatic security agents to join with russian security and foreign officials. >> our diplomatic security personnel have been working with the russians for many months on security. they obviously work with our team, with high level officials, also we provide u.s. citizen services to...

With marijuana when he was just 10 years old. by age 14, he was hooked. what did you get out of it? >> bad grades and trouble, pretty much. >> reporter: kicked out of school, he's been in and out of jail ten times in the past four years. >> when i was 14, that was the first time i got my first drug paraphernalia ticket. i had five possessions and it slowly got worse. >> reporter: collins warns marijuana isn't as harmless as some may think. did you ever think you were going to become addicted to it? did you really realize even what was happening? >> like i didn't think it was possible to like b...

What kind of police presence are you already seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: there is a lot of security here. rehearsal as you can hear behind me has started. there's a lot of nypd here, a lot of officers in other uniforms and also plain clothes officers in the crowd. also before people even got here, a lot of things were cleared out. the newspaper stands were taken out, the trash bins were taken out and the street vendors were cleared. that is an explosive detection dog. and they have been all over the area. so very, very tight security. >> a guest there who is going to be part of th...