thought the most important story was the reaction of the death of a petty street criminal and it was most reported but not close to a story that is rocking your world and you probably didn t feel the tremor. the international monetary fund revealed that china s economy surpassed that of the united states and now china is now the world s largest economy. they reported on this story and it could should have caused demonstrations in our streets. we are losing our country and no one seems to notice. less than 15 years ago, the u.s. economy was three types the size of china. and americans since 1945 have grown used to having the number one economy and must have taken it for granted. get ready to the new ranking or get angry and we ll do something about it. our current president said running up the huge debt on children and dprand children was irresponsible and unpatriotic. if so, he is the least patriotic president in history. our debt topped the 18 trillion mark. that is more than double than it took the first 43 presidents to create. his solution. keep borrowing and then give out free cell phones and paying people additional money to not work. and he wants to ignore the constitutional process of law and open america s door to cheap labor and make its harder for the american family to stay afloat or get ahead. and he thinks we ought to punish productivity of works by putting in the largest corporate tax rates. they are higher than those than france and they elected a real socialist to be their president. and while china is building up the free market, the u.s. letses environmentalist fight to save mice and minnows and mud puddles at the expense of farmers and workers. and building trades. redistributing wealth and instead of encouraging people to earn them some. i was stunned by the level of consumerism that dominated the chinese cities and people. they are building for a robust future and as of this week, we should realize what we are are doing is not working. surely america doesn t want to learn the new chant, we are number two? it is not mere pride of being first but economic freedom to it be a military power capable of protecting our nation against any threat. and being the moral power to set the table for a lawful and just civilization. i am not satisfied with america being number two and i sure hope you are not either. (applause) well, we sent huckabee correspondent brian reese to talk to holiday shopper ares and peek in their bags. we wanted to so where their gifts were made? christmasornaments made in china. what is more americaa than cowboy boots. where are they made? made in china. made in china. this is made in china. made in china. christmas is huge in china and made by chinese children for american children and that s what santa had in mind. american girl, take a quick look where it was made. made in china. and we came to the united states and we could have dpn to china. american by design and made it china. that s right. but it is american by design and we charge more. yes, that s correct. oh, man. my next guest said that our government is not making it easy for manufacturers to stay in business or expand business. joining me is william marsh who owns a steel manufacturing company. i think of what happened, and the surprising turn of china being the largest economy, how surprised are you when you heard it? it is not a surprise. if you look at head winds that businesses are fighting today, it is difficult to so the economy improving. the past five years or so the growth is a nemic and the fact that the american economy is doing as well as it is a testament to the workers. my guys work in a loud and difficult environment and they put bread on the shelf. when an american goes to the gas station. it is not for the government that we owe the goods and services that exist. it is our workers. but it is disheartening that our economy could do better if we were not pushing against the head winds. what should we do differently that make its better for the worker. the guy working on your factory floor, how does he get the next it is not just the worker, but companies and managers and workers must all be on the same team if they are going to succeed. if the company is divided, the company will fail. what do we have to do? what is the government doing wrong or right? it is well known that america has one of the most aggressive and highest tax policy in the world. that strips companies of capitol which is necessary to grow and it is necessary to reinvest in equipment and workers. we have a overzealous regulatory burden that other countries don t face and from our perspective, if you listen to the rhetoric on the part of the political spectrum, we are told that private companies didn t create that. and we are told that private companies aren t responsible for the jobs created and you shouldn t be allowed to keep what you earn. that is disheartening to the american business. when you talk about the regulatory environment specifically. what makes it hard and what regulations in your business are characteristic and make it tough to go forward. i have a great example. our company has an excellent safety record and we receive refunds because we are so safe. and nevertheless ocea, a dpft safety bureau came in our plant to do a hearing test. turns out the threshold level is 90 decibels. and the recording was 91 decibels. the remedy we have by government standards is a costly program. days off of work for education and testing. monitoring solutions that are expensive and the company solution that we have, tens of thousands of dollars and also in lost production, the solution that we have is a $0.01 earplug that workers put in their ear and drop the noise level by 30 decibels. it is crazy. william, it is great to have you here. thanks for being here. new york mayor bill deblasio suggested black men like his son ought to be worried about being boat up with cops. our next guest has his own concerns. stay with us. i am joil band band. mary landrieu is fighting for a fourth term against bill cassidy. cassidy is opening to expand the gop majority in the u.s. senate. fox news senior corspopdant john robert system in baton rouge to tell us how it is going. reporter: julie, it will not be long now if mary landrieu will know she will go back to washington for six years or six weeks. we ll get the results quickly i believe. landrieu goes in the run off with a disadvantage. bill cassidy, the republican challenger has a lead in the the polls. she is battling stiff head wientds. she was first elected in known 96. and then the deep unpopularity of the president. and pulling out of the race and loving her to battle this on her own with a help of a few friends like bill and hillary clinton. she is vastly outgunned by the republican machine that swept over america on november 4th. she is outgunned in the adfront by len thousand ads in the last month. it will be a difficult campaign for her to win. but don t count her out, she has won difficult campaigns before. and she said she would prevail in the election, but did allow if she does fail, to get a fourth term it will be her fault and no one else s, julie? i am julie bandaras. thank you for watching and back to huckabee and you are watching fox. go to fox news.com. have a great evening. you don t need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we re exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg. isn t as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. i m the prothreed of messy kids they get stains like you wouldn t believe. this tide ultra stain release and zap!cap helps me get out pretty much any stain can i help? aww try our newest ultra stain release helps remove 99% of everyday stains. new york city police officer in the choke hold death of eric garner. the 43-year-old man who resisted arrest for selling loose cigarettes. deplaceio said centuries of racism led to motives like this and he fears his biracial concould be a victim of police brutality. we shouldn t teach our children they should be afraid of new york city police officers, because we are the ones, we, too, are fathers and mothers who go out in the streets and protecting our children, your children and all of the children from the criminal element. that s who our sons and daughters should be afraid of. we have the managing editor of above the law redline. he wrote a opinion piece for police officer for not speaking out against expressive force. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. you wrote about it passionately, but when you so deplaceio that he is more afraid of his son being boaten up by the cops than a beaten with a crime. i am more afraid of being boat up by a cop than a victim in my neighborhood. if we don t like that answer and that to be the case, then it is it on the cops to make me not feel that way as me magically feel like the cops are my friend when i have evidence they are rntment there are more minority cops than white cops in new york. is it because of the incident you are afraid. who says that black people are not racist against others. i think al sharpton said that and that would be my answer. you have fear because of the conflict resolution. the cops are only allowed to use deadly force if they feel threatened. there is little i can do to make a cop not feel threatened by me. walking around and living my life, i am perceived as a threat. nwouldn t you have to resist arrest. i think it is horrible what happened to garner. it was not the intent for the cops to say we ll kill and take his life. i don t think the stand orderard is comply or i will kill you. i try to comply with the police and if i get stopped. i try to be nice to policece. if i had a harvard mouth on me one day, it shouldn t result in my death. but arrest. besides killing me. but i understand. that they didn t pull a gun or taz him and kill him. the choke hold was not helpful to him because of asthma and other things going o. but i don t think that anybody suggested that that was their intent. this is the decision about the grand jordecision. they didn t have to find that the cop intended to kill him. they had to find the cop intended to choke him which they did. the medical examiner that the choke led to his death. now it is it a question for a regular juriy to decide if that was justified or excessive or murderous. all of the grapped jory had to do was find an entend to choke. he didn t do i of high cholesteral or choking on a ham sandwich. but from being choked by a cop. i understand. is there a difference when a cop take a person s life. like when someone t- bonus me in a car versus someone who did it intentionally. i think the from the video it is a manslaughter. i don t so intent to kill. but i would like a jury of my peers. what would i see as manslaughter they might see justified or murder. we have s public way of figuring this out. it is not a proved closed hearing where the witnesses like the cop was not cross examined over his own attack. and people don t understand this. they so the criminal trial and understand that the defendants don t take the stand in their own defense. one of the reasons why they don t, they will be cross examined about their prior history kwh which they don t want out at trial. and so when the cop is able to testified in front of the grand jury without his prior history coming up. that is a disadvantage. and i would like to be tried as a cop. hopefully we will not have to try you. elle, i am delighted to have you here. the candor is refreshing. thank you for coming, thanks. and coming up next, we lly get a different perspective from a black police officer from flint, michigan. and then later. president obama is forcing nuns to pay for contraceptives or pay huge finds. that is coming up next. 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listening to what elle had to say and put in the context of the garner decision and you have the video that the world sees the police officer employing an illegal tactic and taking a life of a season, it should be a clear case where there should be a indictment and i agree with him. what we are wondering was it si racial issue or bad policing on the part of the cop that brought him down? well, sometimes it matters whether it is racial or not. police have power. and you have the power of the government acting against the citizen whether he be white or black. the police officer is an agent of the government and then he takes a citizens life. it is an agent of the government it doesn t matter whether black or white. one of the things is his concern that cops are more interested in protecting each other than the public. is that a fair criticism? i thinkñi it is fair. there is long gown that there is a blue wall of silence within police ranks, and that also police officers work in a political environment in which if you speak out against certain activities regarding the police there could be retribution within the ranks for doing it and why most people will shy away from it, that type of activity. brian, we talk about the things that could be helpful. i don t think anybody likes the consequences of what happened in the garner case. i can t imagine anybody seeing the tape and being horrified. it didn t matter if he is black or white. it is unsettling to watch. what can we learn and should we be doing as a society and culture and community to before the bridge between cops and citizens and blacks and whites, give us thoughts there. one there has to be accountable equally for our people. again, we look at garner situation, and i think there is a blatant case of misconduct by the police. and in the ferguson case, i felt that the young black man may certain decisions that brought about the circumstances that ended in his life being taken, and so i think we have to have accountable on all sides, from the police and from citizens, to heal this divide. you see a big difference between what happen in staten island versus ferguson and michael brown? i do see a difference. again, there is denial on both sides of the fence. some whites may deny racism by the part of the police, and with the ferguson case, there is denial in the black community that we have a problem in the inner cities with young black males that are out of control and create negative circumstances. and so if we could maybe deal with that denial on both sides of the fence in america, perhaps we could come to a point of healing. nbrian, i hope we can do it. and i appreciate your unique perspective. and thank you for joining us. thank you for are having me. two more americans, a teacher and a journalist was murdered this week by terrorist. the battle against radical islamist, we ll talk about it next. honey, isn t that the dog s towel? 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i would not use the word empathy. but deepen the understanding in order to beat them. understand we understand their motivation. religious and we will not beat them. we don t talk about religious ideology in the public domain in the west. on the other side they do. to understand the now form of communism, america was well equipped to defeat extremist ideology. that s where the debate should be. undercutting the strength which the be extremist had. you said something significant. it is a religious issue and you can t combat it without looking at that. we are pushed to the side and said that is politically incorrect and never bring up it is a religious passion for that. are you blowing that by not acknowledging it is drip by radical islamist? you are right to identify it. and one of the reasons i was keen. you understand power of religion as a motivation and form of behavior. our political correctness on this front is our weakness and they poke fun of the west and having analysis paralysis. we analyst and are not blunt in saying, you represent an extreme fridge of is extremist islam. we are to defeat you. and for example, they believe in oneness of god. that is not enough because unless they have their form of government they think they are sinful. and they believe in suicide boerms that is not the end of life but the beginning of new life. and we say they are not martyrs and they are murderers and they are going to hell. we ll not force them to think. hold on, is the message from my mosque or university campus correct or not. empowering mainstream normal muslim to hit the message in campuses and in prisones and website system where the investment should be. that is not what my government is focused on. your perspective is valuable. i hope they understand you are speaking truth in a way not many people are. please come back. i give you my word, governor. it is a delight to have you here. my latest book. god, guns and grits and gravy and releases in january. if you order on the link before december 10th. you get a family recipes and card and put them under the tree and when the book releases. it will be shipped to the recipient. go to mike huckabee.com. and go to the link to get the christmas edition. nask the obama care advisor said americans are too stupid to recognize the deceptions in the law. is he smart enough to dig himself out of the hole he has dug himself in? 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yeah, we want to bring him in front of the congressional committee. he used taxpayer dollars to sdoef taxpayers and once it became law he made fun of them. this is the guy to answer the questions. what can you do and what matters can you have when he comes before the committee? i know you can ask him questions, but is there recourse? it is continuing to show how bad the law is and deception that was used to pass it. remember all of the false statements regarding obama care when they were trying to get it passed. if you like your plan you can keep. it premiums going down and the website is going to work and it is secure. and itcontinuing pattern of these guys sdoefing the american people and the gig is up. americans know the law doesn t work and they were deceived when it was passed and now we have to put pressure so ultimately, i know it is a ways off. if we get a new president we can get rid of the law altogether. and do what needs to be done in health care. chuck schummer just before thanksgiving, coming out and publicly saying it was a bad political move and it hadn t worked out like they wanted. are democrats falling off the wayingon themselves? nchuck schummer s comments we heard those. but no, and maybe some understand they should have done it differently. but they are committed to the law because they believe in big government. we have to show why it hurts family and why we need to get rid of it. when we watch the hearings this week and a lot of americans will want to see johnathon gruber squirm in his chair. what kind of questions are posed to him? each member the try to get what they need to get across. and what i do know is this. he was called the key player and architect of romney care and obama care and went to the white house 21 times and he was in the oval office discussing obama care and all of that took place, and now pelosi said, just some advisor and the president said he is an advisor. and amazing how they used him to pass the law and now distance themselves from the individual. there will be questions along those lines as well. if he is the architect the bridge is falling down. thank you for being here. little sisters of the porand catholic nuns that cared for the poor in america for 150 years and the federal government said it is not a religious employer and not exempt and forcing them to provide contraceptive coverage. if they don t they will pay million in irs fines and penalties. it will be heard in denver on monday. they represent the little sisters of the porand he joins me now. josh, great to have you back on the show. thank you. here is my simple question. how can the obama administration think that the little sisters of the poor are not religious enough to meet the criteria? you know for 175 years, the little sisters of the poor cared for the elderly, poor and dying people who don t have anywhere else to go and in the last days and care for the folks of the catholic faith and different faith and people of no faith and now the government said that is not good enough. if this kind of service inspired by their catholic faith is not religious service i don t know what it is. i was thinking knowing the little sisters of the poor if they are not religious there is not a baptist in america that has a shot. this is astonishing to me. you are going before the 10th circuit court of appeals and tell us what you hope will happen. the little sister s case is just this. the laws and constitutions of the united states do not permit the federal government to force a catholic nun to violate the church s teaching just to go on caring for the sick and poor. that s what the federal government wants. they are requesting them to provide drugs and devices that contradict catholic church teaching or authorize their insurance company to provide it on behalf of the little sisters. neither of those things can they do in keeping with their faith and neither are consistent with the laws and constitution of the country and for me, neither are necessary. expanding access to the affordable contrait acception is a worthy goal. and the government doesn t need to force the little sisters to violate their faith to accomplish that goal. it is very clear, if the little sisters lose, we all lose. now we have the government telling us, it is okay to believe as long as it is in the context of the limits of what the government said is enough. best wishes and delighted to have you back. thank you for having me. well, it s time to cut loose and kick off your sunday shoes. the young and talented a j ray will be joining the little rockers and we ll be performing footloose when we come back. you don t need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we re exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg. isn t as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. i have $40,ney do you have in your pocket right now? 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they don t know yet how far with this. but people are were tired already of this not having a relationship with america and now they will see an opportunity to increase business and things will come from america that will create jobs. people in cuba believe that we have so much in common with america. and with americans. and so this is certainly good for both partners we believe. cuba plays a very important role and now they are expressing how happy they are and they see america with different eyes. so it opens a new market for american producers is good for the american business with the congressman, your thoughts as alan gross comes home and the possibility of normalization with cuba. first of all, we re always elated when an american gets to come home, so i congratulate alan gross. he got his freedom, he got to spend hannukah with his family. that s wonderful news. what is not wonderful news is that the families of the brothers to the rescue shootdown, those four wonderful american patriots, they are spending yet one more christmas without their loved ones and they died at the hands of fidel and raul castro. what is sad is that tomorrow the cuban people will wake up and they will still have no political freedom. they will have no human rights to be expected. there are no political parties that exist in cuba, that has not changed. obama has given away the store. has given everything to the castro regime. of course the regime is happy. we got nothing in return. congressman-elect carbello, you are a new generation of cuban american. your generation, does it feel in south florida, does it feel the same way as the older generation or are they looking forward to some sort of normalization? we all wanting the same thing for the cuban people. we all want the same thing for the united states and that s a strong america that leads and a free cuba. nothing that happened today gets us closer to those goals. the president of the united states has made every american serving abroad less safe today. he s provided a blueprint for dictators throughout the world. if you want to extract unilateral concessions from the united states, all you have to do is hold an american hostage and be patient. we have given cuba everything at the president s disposal for alan gross. we re happy that he s back. we re happy that he s back. but alan gross wins today, that s a good thing. the cuban government wins. but u.s. national security loses. freedom and democracy throughout the world lose. congresswoman, was our foreign policy with cuba working? we have this 1996 act where we have this embargo and i guess the president is trying to sort of soften up some aspects of it. i m not even sure if the law allows him to do it but that s a wh whole other debate. was our foreign policy working? you bring up a good point about him possibly breaking the law. i believe he has broken the law. there are three laws that he has violated. we re going to do an investigation about the clarity of how he got the mission to do this. but what it shows, greta, when you ask a key question, has our policy been working. well, the policy of 190 other countries who have been wheeling and dealing and going to tourist trips and doing everything with castro, they have not brought cuba any closer to freedom or democracy. so it s not that the united states policy has not worked, the other policy of engagement has not worked. and in fact what president obama has done today, normalizing relations, that will not bring the cuban people any closer to democracy either. the one that will not change is the cuban communist dictatorial regime. these guys are not going to change. congressman-elect, i started to ask you before about men and women ine. you re in your early 30s if i remember from the last time we talked. do they feel the same way you do about it or is that more of an older generation thing as we look towards cuba? yeah, greta, i told you our generation wants the same thing that all generations living in this country want. we want to see the cuban people free. my parents were born in cuba. they had to leave. my grandfather served a political sentence, prison sentence in cuba. so we feel it in our hearts. and today we are very sad because we feel that for the first time in this 56-year-long drama that the cuban people have lived, for the first time the person in the white house is on the wrong side of history. we want the president of the united states to stand with the cuban people. we want the president of the united states to stand with those heroes that are sitting in castro s jail today, and we want the president of the united states to stand for a strong united states that leads with a clear voice and with moral authority, and that is not what happened today. and we shouldn t be surprised, greta, because this is the same president that s at the table with the iranians. this is the same president that draws red lines and ignores them. so what happened today is alarming, but it s not surprising. thank you to both of you for joining us. thank you, greta. thank you, carlos. congressman chris van hollen has more on the government plane that lifted alan gross out of cuba after a very tough five years in prison and landed back on u.s. soil. he joins us. nice to see you, congressman. before i get to the question about how the flight was, what did we gain out of this? what we gained is a change in policy that might finally have a chance might finally. to enpower the cuban people. what we know the policy has been a failure. what was the failure at spent of it? the failure was that by isolating and punishing cuba, you were somehow going to get a change in regime from the castros or have an opening in cuba clearly failed. what it did help do is sustain the castro regime. the castro brothers have survived eight presidents. except that we re sort of getting to the end of this biological clock with the two castros. i mean they can t last forever. they re both getting to be pretty elderly gentlemen. and cuba isn t a threat to us in any way. but we now have an opportunity to empower the cuban people because the one thing that they re probably most afraid of is more engagement, more travel from americans, more trade, more communication, opening up the world to the cuban people. no one is talking about the castro regime changing their mind, that s not the issue. they didn t change their mind with 54 years of the failed policy we have. more engagement with the cuban people, a little more taste of free market and free ideas will, i think, encourage more demand for change from the cuban people. what was that plane ride like? did alan gross when did you first see him? we first saw him when we walked off the plane and the tarmac into a build in havana. as you can see from the pictures he s lost a lot of weight, he s very fragile. where was his wife at that time? she was the first to come in the room. that s why his face lit up. judy has been fighting for five years to bring alan home. you see that picture? it s a great picture. i can tell you he was in great spirits. obviously even greater spirits when he got on the plane and it lifted off. he s maintained some strength, even though he s wiry and gave everybody a big bear hug. this is not new to you. he campaigned for you years ago. alan was one of the people who helped go door to door in my first campaign. after he was taken prisoner, i worked very closely with his wife, judy, and his entire team to try and make this day come about. but there were lots of ups and lots of downs you got a good phone call the night before this election, i hear. one of the things that happened is as we got over the years we were ail to get alan more privileges, including calling. it used to be once a week and then he got to be on the phone so, yes, i got a call from him in october saying best wishes in the election. so he did bring me luck. it mm-hmm been amazing after you left cuba airspace. when they leave that airspace and enter the u.s. airspace, what a thrill that is. it was. you can see a great weight lifted. did they announce that? and he kind of said yeah, you know. so it was a great moment. it s always great to have an american home who was held overseas. congressman, thank you. i imagine it was a great trip and lots of fun. it was fun, but everyone was very, you know, on edge until we actually got alan on the plane. i don t doubt that. congressman, nice to see you. thanks. thank you. while alan gross finally got his freedom today, so did three cubans. many republicans and some democrats are calling it prisoner swap. the white house denies it s a prisoner swap. ed henry joins us live. ed, what difference if we call this a prisoner swap or not? i know the white house denies it, but what s the big deal about this? well, the deal, greta, is the white house is saying getting alan gross out was separate from the swap. they don t want to be tied up and look like there was a trade there. they re saying that cuba on a humanitarian basis let alan gross out, then the u.s. was able to make this swap of three cuban spies, as you say, let out of american prison and then there was an intelligence asset to the u.s. government, we believe a cuban man, who was helping the u.s. from cuba thrown he was caught by the cuban authorities at some point and thrown in prison, been there for some 20 years. so that was the swap. look, that might be a distinction without a difference. all of this was happening around the same time. it was a deal between the president of the united states, the dictator from cuba. i think the big question moving forward, you ve got democrats, not just republicans but democrats like bob menendez saying they think it was a direct swap and how that might matter moving forward. will someone like bob menendez go along with formally lifting the embargo with cuba. he s saying no. while there are republicans not normally aligned with the president, congressman plake wants to see the embargo lifted so this is scrambling the parties a little bit. ed, thank you. while some are jumping for joy, some are blasting president obama for the plans to normalize economic and diplomatic things with cuba. lindsey graham said i will do all that i can to block the use of funts to open an embassy in cuba. even senator robert menendez is not wild about president obama s plan. he said trading mr. gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous press denting. and joining us john, what did we get out of this? we got a chance, an opportunity to turn the page. for what, though? he s talked about this going back to 2007-2008. he d wanted to say let s get rid of the old policy and start a new policy. that wasn t possible as long as alan gross was held captive. releasing him gives you the chance for the new page but there are limits to what he can do. senator graham is going to try to hold up funding. the idea of full normalization, a lot of lift has to happen and that s where the give and take has to happen with the castro regime. you wouldn t see that at all without these first steps. susan, i m all for making friends with everybody and i think it s important everybody be friends, but the fact is that this regime, they re monsters. i mean we re not talking about the human rights violations going on in cuba right now. i d love to have a great place and everything. but they have the worst record for freedom of the press, they lock people up for political opponents. so i m not quite sure is the idea that maybe if we re a little bit nicer they re going to release prisoners and they re going to stop locking people up and all of a sudden let newspapers flourish? i think the point congressman van hollen made is a good one. no one is expecting the castro regime to change. but no rights are going to be added to people s lives because of what happened today. but they are getting near the end of their biological clock as you said and there may be an opening in the future where people will want freedom and a freer society will evolve. but the points made today by rubio and menendez and others who are opposed to this are that this is not going to change anything. people aren t going to get more rights. they re still going to be human rights violations. whatever freedoms are provided by the u.s., the internet or travel, the cuban government will control tightly. that s a really important thing to be aware of. so essentially, john, susan is saying we re trying to get our foot in the door for when the castros die. we re trying to get ahead of the game. that s the theory, but i mean what the people who support the embargo have always said is this is our last and always leverage point for when they re gone. that is when we want to negotiate with their successors and say you want normalization, you want greater economic interaction, then give some more freedom to your people. let them speak freely, worship freely, move freely. you got none of those things today. i don t really see there s the theory if we engage a little more, they will be inspired. i hope that s right, i fear it s not and i fear the cuban people will be owe pressed longer than they would have. i think they think the cuban people themselves will force change in the government by having more exposure. we ve had some bad luck with the arab spring where we have the expectation. it s really hard to predict what people are going to do. panel, stay with us. straight ahead, former florida governor, jeb bush, and he s a potential presidential candidate. he says the obama administration s decision to restore diplomatic ties with cuba undermines america s credibility. you ll hear more from him. plus a long-time friend of governor bush goes on the record next. also there s developing news. sony cancelling the release of the film the interview. that s coming up too. patented sonic technology with up to 27% more brush movements. get healthier gums in two weeks. innovation and you philips sonicare save when you give philips sonicare this holiday season. that s all i crave.e that s where this comes in. only nicorette gum has patented dual-coated technology for great taste. plus nicorette gum gives you intense craving relief. and that helps put my craving in its place. that s why i only choose nicorette. dad,thank you mom for said this oftprotecting my future.you. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are uniquely thankful for many things, the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. if you re a current or former military member or their family, get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. you don t need to think about the energy that makes our lives possible. because we do. we re exxonmobil and powering the world responsibly is our job. because boiling an egg. isn t as simple as just boiling an egg. life takes energy. energy lives here. governor coming out one day out of the gate and skewering the president? well, jeb bush just a few weeks ago said the problem with the restrictions on cuba is that they re not tight enough and we should be tightening the screws, not loosening them. with this, this goes back to a feeling he s had for a very long time that we cannot give an inch. we cannot give anything to cuba until castro gives freedom to the people of cuba. keep in mind jeb bush s background. he moved to south florida in the early 1980s, established connections, friendships, worked closely with cuban exiles who have very strong feelings about this. oppose the castro regime. later when he got into politics he worked very hard to bring them into the gop fold in florida and he s succeeded to great extent. this became a very important part of his political base and later the gop political machine after he left office. that said, the political climate here in florida, polls do show a shift of opinion in favor, more people wanting to see us improve relations with cuba. but you have to keep in mind those who oppose the direction that we saw the president take today are very fervent and very passionate about this. they tend to be very loyal voters and often can be single issue voters when it comes to this. we only have 20 seconds left. what does this mean having if governor bush gets in, what does that mean for senator marco rubio? it s going to be a problem for marco rubio. if this debate advances to the senate, it can elevate his profile. but keep in mind they re very much aligned in terms of how they believe with respect to this issue and in terms of donors and support with jeb bush out front. this continues to be a problem for marco rubio if he chooses to run for president. craig, thanks. all eyes on florida, of course, as always as we approach 2016 in two years now. thank you, craig. sure thing, thank you. our next guest is the chairman of the american conservative union and he has been friends with former governor jeb bush for decades. good evening, sir. greta, good to be with you. i noticed you ve told us about the fact that governor jeb bush might run for president. you said you have mixed feelings and you go on to say but he ll be a difference maker. what did you mean by that? a difference maker meaning, look, we live in an area of gridlock, less people turn out to vote than they ever did before. more people are registering no party affiliation. folks don t seem to be happy with either party. so jeb bush, who s a conservative problem solver, is coming and saying, look, it s time we get together, we heal our nation, we move forward with a positive vision, but we ve got things to do. we ve got energy policy to put together. we ve got tax reform. we ve got to balance our budget. we ve got to deal with our entitlements. i m going to be the candidate with ideas. i m not going to go out there with a strategist telling me precisely how to win. i m going to share my vision and i hope the american people buy into it. i hope they do. if they don t, i ll go home in peace but i m not going to be led by a group of strategists who tell me what to say, what not to say and end up in a process where i m part of this toxic environment that politics is all about today. he s just not going to do that. i can tell you, i hear the consultants in these races all the time and so i get the frustration that candidates can have with the consultants but i m curious, there s a big difference from being a great governor or great president than being a great campaigner, which office. in iowa, you ve got to go door to door, you ve got to be in kitchens, you ve got to talk to the people. some people are better talking to audiences. is he the kind that can sit in a kitchen and is he willing to do that? i ve seen jeb bush walk down a street with me in the dark of night and stop to see a homeless man and see how he was doing. this is a different kind of candidate. one of the most caring, one of the most compassionate candidates you re going to see in the trail in your lifetime. i m curious, what s the downside for him? what s going on in his mind why he might not? it sure looks like his toe is in the water, but why might he not run? well, look, he s proud of his family. he s got one son who just won statewide office in texas. he s got another son who s by his side every day in business. he loves his daughter, loves his wife. he travels a lot but is more at home than he was before. he s dangled a bit in business, he s done well there. he gets to play golf on sundays. he s going to give up a lot of this life to try to help america get back on its feet and to heal our country, and that s a major sacrifice and he s giving up a lot to do that. does he have the fire in the belly to do that? he s the most competitive guy i ve ever met. i ve been with him and two campaigns for his dad, three campaigns for him, two campaigns for his brother and he s the most tireless worker, most compassionate and competitive guy i ve met in the process, so he ll be ready for anything and anyone if he decides to do it. we just saw a picture of the two of you and of course i hope you ll come back because if he does get in, we ll need to talk to you a lot and find out what s going on in the governor bush campaign. thank you, sir, for joining us. my pleasure, thanks, greta. and you can see our complete interview with al cardenas. executive orders by any other name. president obama finding another way to bypass congress. that s coming up. here at fidelity, we give you the most free research reports, customizable charts, powerful screening tools, and guaranteed 1-second trades. and at the center of it all is a surprisingly low price just $7.95. in fact, fidelity gives you lower trade commissions than schwab, td ameritrade, and e-trade. i m monica santiago of fidelity investments, and low fees and commissions are another reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. call or click to open your fidelity account today. and i quit smoking with chantix. i had tried to do it in the past. i hadn t been successful. quitting smoking this time was different because i got a prescription for chantix. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. the fact that it reduced the urge to smoke helped me get that confidence that i could do it. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. some people had seizures while taking chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix or history of seizures. don take chantix if you ve had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i love myself as a non-smoker. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. katy pesoft and fullntrary, how dlike a flower,grow? with new covergirl full lash bloom mascara. finally! volume that s soft - not spiky. new full lash bloom mascara from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl so tell me your thoughts on this. yeah, i think this is a big victory for the bad guys. i think that s the dangerous precedent in this. this was essentially a terrorist act and by sony now giving in after equivocating a little bit, you go back to the original making of this movie, if you re going to make the movie and not stand by it at the end. my colleague talked to president obama even today and the president s advice is go to the movie. obviously this was the intended effect was to squelch this movie, to make it not happen and it s worked. you know what, i ve told both of you during the break, i actually i ve been to north korea, as you know, three times. north korea looks at this they have nuclear weapons and they are so erratic, you can t even point at a picture of kim jong-un without risking going to some prison camp. i don t know why sony didn t make this a fictionalize movie about some make-believe country because we re not dealing with normal people. we re not dealing with a normal situation. we re dealing with people who see us as complete enemies and we re trying to kill them every single day. i m noticing on social media people are joking can they make requests to producers about what kind of pictures sony can produce because it looks as though they re being dictated in terms of what they are going to put out there. i think that s the sad fact about all of this. we should not have a foreign country dictating the terms of what comes out, no matter who they are. of course we shouldn t, but we re not dealing with a full deck on this. i mean that s the problem is that, you know, this is a predictable response. if you ve ever been there, literally they think we are training seven days a week, all three of you and i m training every day to try to kill them when we re not doing any of that. but they see that and see this as such an insult, they re going to go nuts. but what does going nuts mean? this, this. are producers upset about the hacking. it s a terrible thing to hack. look, they did a terrible if they re the ones that did it, it s a terrible thing to hack. it s a terrible thing for us to bow to the pressure. it s a terrible thing to have the terrorists act on the movie, but it s all going back to the judgment of making that movie, knowing that we were dealing with a situation that wasn t quite normal. i mean i think north korea is the most brutal regime in the world. it s run by a totalitarian psychopath. i think if hollywood had any decency, they would make a serious film detailing the brutality that is going on. that s a great idea. an i think right now i hope they re just delaying this. we don t know all the details. maybe there is some credible threat we don t know about. imagine if isis isis is actually carrying out terrorist attacks against americans. what if they threaten an american mall or football game? i know, it s terrible. they caved to pressure because they feared people would not show up on one of the most profitable days for movies. i am not defending north korea. i m just saying it s a very dangerous situation sony got into without using good judgment to begin with. i am not defending north korea in any way. they made a movie they aren t prepared to stand behind. does it even look funny? what exactly is the joke in all of this? i think sony has a lot to explain to the american people and to the world community about the making of this movie and of course this halting and contradictory response. and all their embarrassing e-mails too. we didn t even get near their e-mails. anyway, panel, thank you. if you are outraged over president obama s use of executive action, brace yourselves for this. turn out it is not just executive orders. president obama also using something called the presidential memorandum to bypass congress. according to usa today, president obama has issued the memorandum more often than any other president. gregory courty joins us. nice to see you. we have presidential memorandums and executive orders. what s the difference? the differences can be subtle. executive orders are what we re probably all familiar with. they re numbered. executive order 1033 or something like that. mem memorandums are called by scholars executive orders by another name. they re more regulatory in nature but very similar and both carry the same force of law. they re essentially the same then, right? they re used a little differently. but you could you could use them interchangeably? there are some areas where previous presidents have used an executive order. for example, nixon had an executive order on let s get rid of some of these federal properties we re not using and save some money. president obama did that by memorandum. so the fact is that all these things that they re doing by executive order or presidential memorandum, are there instances when they can only use one and not the other? they tend to only use executive order but there is any restriction? if you re going to amend an executive order, you re going to use an executive order to do that. neither of these terms are defined anywhere in the law much less the constitution. so it s precedents. president obama says the truth is even with all the actions i ve taken this year, i m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in over 100 years. he s not mentioning the presidential memorandums so i m wur wondering if that s a slippery quote. he said people didn t have a problem with george bush when he uses executive action. he uses the terms executive order and executive action somewhat interchangeably. so slippery, transparent and deceptive? i have no evidence to suggest this is a deliberate misdirection by the white house. he must know the difference between presidential memorandum and executive order. he s got to know the difference. he signs them. and when you add presidential memorandums and executive orders together, is president obama on the low end or has he done more? he s certainly signed more presidential memoranda than others. when you call them both executive actions, he s on pace to take more than any president. the reason i ask this because as i read this, it seems that they re essentially the same thing. whether they have historically been used for different purposes or not. you can amend executive orders with executive orders. it seems when the president says i m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years, he s being a little slippery because he s not mentioning the presidential memorandums which he does so much more than other presidents on the presidential memorandums. no. these are precise terms that even the president, even the president s press secretary sometimes slip up. josh earnest said he s issued an executive order on immigration. there was no such thing. the immigration executive action that republicans are so upset about were not done by executive order, they were done by memorandum. last year when he took executive action on gun control, those were not executive orders, those are presidential memoranda. if he s going to tell the epa how to enforce the clean air act, that s done in a memorandum not an executive order. right now are democrats on a desperate search for a message for 2016? plus we re trying to solve a mystery that has to do with the release of alan gross and sergeant tahmooressi finally released from a mexican prison. celebrate what s new, the bigger, better menu at red lobster! with more of what you love! try our newest wood-grilled combination! maine lobster, extra jumbo shrimp, and salmon! so hurry in! and sea food differently. it s one of those things i think that went away from that democrats didn t do a very good job of in the 2014 election. we talked about everything but the economy and that s still going to be it s still going to be a driving issue in 2016. there has to and change has to happen. we have a changing economy. there have got to be some new ideas out there about how to effect its impact on the american people. like what? how do you convince the middle class america that something good is happening? what s the message to them? it s about how we re going to adjust to it. kodak when kodak went bankrupt, it had 187,000 employees. when instagram sold itself to facebook for a billion dollars, it had 13 employees. both parties are not addressing the how technology and how fast paced we re moving forward into the future is actually hollowing out jobs there. it s not just attacking wall street. like that s one of the things that is a go-to populist liberal you know, elizabeth warren attack wall street. wall street does need to be reformed. republicans may offer tax cuts. the tax system does need to be reformed but no one is addressing the economic consequences of where this tech economy is taking us and how do we get the american people to participate in it and whether that s job retraining, other things, but somebody has got to speak to it. but that requires a long vision. it seems to me the voters are looking more right now. can i put food on the table and pay the tuition, so that s the problem. that s right. and, you know, everybody is going to offer up really quick, simple solutions that no one believes anymore. or you ve got to take a step back and really talk to the american people with what we have to do to be competitive, to move forward and to get people it s not the same old, same old. a lot of the ideas look, i was a ted kennedy liberal and, you know, there are a lot of populist liberal progressive economic ideas i believe in but a lot of the ideas on both sides are obsolete now. you need to take those principles but apply them to the issues that are for us right now economically and lead the american people there. joe, thanks. good to be with you. remember that outrageous convention government employees spending your tax dollars on themselves, face hotel suites and mismatched wine glasses? 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right would outweigh the benefit to taxpayers. how does she figure that? how could it possibly be we don t want exact information? well, she cited difficulties in actually gathering the information and keeping track of it. and said, basically, you can either have an accurate report or a timely report, but you can t have both. okay. so why can t we at least change the time requirements a little bit? i think most taxpayers want to know whether or not they re partying on our dime again. right. it s essentially the bureaucratic answer of we can t get this data because we don t have it because these services are being provided by contractors. i read your story and it said that hhs had 140 conferences last year. that seems like a lot. i don t know why they re having all these conferences. go figure on that one. the ig, the inspector general, looked at only four of them. so out of 4 out of 140. and out of the four the ig looked at found hhs had failed to list $1.4 million. so is there a discrepancy in each of the four? yes. each conference had a discrepancy. and that 140 number that you just cited, those are just the conferences that cost $100,000 or more. they actually have more conferences than that. and hhs actually spent $56 million on conferences alone in 2012. it s stunning, though. if you look at four conferences, if you sort of the inspector general looks at four of them and finds 100% mistakes, they have 136 more at over $100,000 a year a conference, and nobody is going to bother to look at those? right, exactly. you can only imagine that there is similar waste in all of the other conferences. and keep in mind that this was two years ago. so there was, you know, two years of additional conferences that we don t know where the money went. and the cfo at hhs doesn t see this as a problem? evidently not. it s just kind of evidence of the bureaucratic culture that leads to so much waste in our agencies today. but it s worse than bureaucratic culture. it s our money. la-di-da. why does she get to decide that? exactly. she cited the fact that there are already guidelines in place to produce reports that have estimates. so she said that sufficient accurate reports aren t necessary. well, there is our government working for us. anyway, sarah, thank you. thank you. and coming up, after the release of american allen gross from cuba, i m not trying to solve a mystery. i ll tell you what i mean, off the record next. but here is a hint. it has to do with sergeant andrew tahmooressi. at 10:00 p.m., senators marco rubio and ted cruz talking about cuba. tonight 10:00 p.m. on hannity. people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. it s a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although it s not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug, farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower blood pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling or difficulty breathing or swallowing. if you have any of these symptoms, stop taking farxiga and seek medical help right away. do not take farxiga if you have severe kidney problems, are on dialysis, or have bladder cancer. tell your doctor right away if you have blood or red color in your urine or pain while you urinate. farxiga can cause serious side effects, including dehydration, genital yeast infections in women and men, low blood sugar,kidney problems, and increased bad cholesterol. common side effects include urinary tract infections, changes in urination, and runny nose. do the walk of life yeah, you do the walk of life need to lower your blood sugar? 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just a job to provide for myself and his parents, but a career that he enjoyed and more importantly passionate about it even though he spent a lot of hours working, he was always love for his work. we spoke about the law and how he applied the law. he was objective in his determination of the law with courtesy, we areith respect and with the highest professionism. although he worked often, he always took time to spend with me his number one fan and his pamly and friends. he was always there when somebody needed something. when wenjian was not working, he cared a lot for the chinese community. he wanted to always do his best to help and support. the very community that he was part of wenjian s kind heart loved by his friend and colleagues and our extended family ha isthat is here today. the caring son, a loving husband and a loyal friend. you are an amazing man even though you left us early, but i believe that he will have his loving spirit to continue to look out for us. he will keep an eye over us. wenjian is my hero. we can always count on him. again, i thank you, my extended family my fam ily of blue for attending today s services, thank you. wen wenjian will always be in my hearts. i love you, i love you forever. [ applause ] ing breaking news, the ongoing funeral service for new york police detective wenjian liu and you heard the widow, and the two with were married for four month, and gave what is a remarkably brave eulogy about her slain hudzsband and talking about how she was his soulmate and best friend and only son of immigrant, and very, very dedicated to his parents and mot to mention the people of new york city whom he risked his life and then died trying to protect them. there are thousands of people crowding the streets outside the brooklyn funeral home where this service is under way, and the police officers are standing shoulder-to-shoulder and notably some officers did turn their officers as the new york mayor bill de blasio did deliver a eulogy. inside the drekirector fbi and the police commissioner and as i mentioned, officer liu s widow and his father. and his father did not speak in english, but you did not have to understand the language to feel his pain. it was really a heartbreaking, heartbreaking event. liu and his partner rafael ramos were gunned down december 27th when they were gunned down in their squad car, and we will be joined by miguel marquez who is outside of the funeral services. miguel can you tell us about the scene there among the thousands of men in blue who came all around the country to at tend this funeral. reporter: for the bulk of the entire ceremony there was a contingent of asian officers just outside of the church here, and we believe that the coffin of officer liu is coming out soon and nypd officer did come up and ask whether we will be broadcasting live or speaking at that time, and that is something that they want to keep very somber event here to honor this police officer as his casket moves towards its final resting place. with the are regard to the police officers turning their back here in front of the funeral home there were zero. no police officers who turned their back. just down from here, on the processional route where the casket will go there with were some police officers who did turn their backs according to our sara ganim who is down tlhere and other producers who saw them but much smaller number than last week, and the police commissioner asking by memo to the police force that it was not an appropriate thing to do. that it is a time for grieving and not grievance and that when they turned their back on the mayor during officer ramos funeral last week they did no valor to the officer s sacrifice and honor of his job in doing so. so he has asked them not to do it now. you can see now the police officers are lining up now. this is the ceremonial unit of the nypd lining up in order to receive the body the casket of officer liu. we expect to see that coming out of here shortly. it looks like they may be slightly ahead of schedule and though it is a little unclear that the family did arrive an hour before the ceremony began and several speakers to listen to his father speak, and i don t speak cantonese, but to listen to him speaking and trying to get through the words and emotion, and it was hard to watch that. this was meant to go for another hour and he may be coming out soon. the ceremony they had in there was a lot of individuals bringing food to the location of the casket and also burning pieces of paper or cardboard to symbolize things from the physical word the food and those symbol ss are things that officer liu in the buddhist tradition would take on to the next life. dana? miguel i agree with you to watch his father to lose any child is just defy sies the laws of nature, but to lose your only son as he did is just words just can t can express how much grief he must be feeling right now. thank you very much and stand by us miguel because we want to go to cnn correspondent sarah again mim who ganim who is outside of the funeral home. can you hear me? yes, it is dana bash sarah, and can you hear us? we are having trouble getting her ifp working, and we will go inside of the studio to tom fuentes, and you are a law enforcement analyst, but also a cop on the beat where you started outside of chicago for six years. and for those of us who have never served or had the honor of serving, talk about what is it like, and what has drawn thousands of people around the country including towns like chicago for this funeral? well to understand police officers it helps to have been one and having been in the life of a police officer. it is not a job but a way of life and not just for you, but the family. it is what has been carried through for the ramos and liu families they have to live with the life and the fear and the threat, and i know my mother who had passed away now, she had a husband and two sons who were police officers at the same time, and she had this worry every day. i cannot imagine. i cannot imagine. the koncontroversy about what these officers faced when it came to racial protests and some of the protests getting personal when it came to the police officers after the killings in ferguson missouri of black teenagers in new york city. as somebody who has bp on the street and been on the beat what strikes you when you see all of this? what strikes me is that the one message that people don t really realize and the one thing about being a police officer is that you realize in the entire criminal justice system, and in the entire medical system and the entire community leader ss, the police officer deals with the victim. the victims die in your arms and the victims die in the ambulance with you in the hospital or in the surgery at the hospital after they have been shot is or stabbed or involved in a terrible accident and it is the police and there is an image that the police have no empathy or sympathy for the members of the public and in the arereality, they have more. the hardened exterior to cope with that is the fact that the police see itt everyday. if the they have animosity, and the the guys carrying the guns in the community, and the gang-bangers gunning down other members, it is because they are seeing the the people shot by the gangs, and the people victimized by the crime. absolutely. so i want to turn back to the scene so that the viewers know what we are look ging at, the funeral just concluded, and we are watching the sea of blue police officers from all over there, and you will see the color guard getting ready, and looks like we are waiting for the casket to come out to take wen wenjian liu to his final resting place. miguel marquez is there. these funerals are so tough to watch and to see this brotherhood and sisterhood to come together. if you can pan over here, ricky, this is the ceremonial unit inside of the funeral home. they are now lining up outside of the funeral home and the co color guard with the u.s. flag the new york citying in ing inand the nypd flag are going to line up in front of the hearse that will take detective liu to his final resting place. the level of mourning and the sense of the sol lumemn nature of what is happening here is unmistakable. what we saw here today is a service that we are not accustomed to and to hear his father speak in cantonese, and even though none of us spoke cantonese, it was very clear and the love of his son was very clear. they did some translation afterwards to talk about how his son would heldp him come work in the garment district after his school work and he would call him and very conscientious and good son. the mayor talked about detective liu s love of fishing. and his cousin spoke about, and we all called him wenjian liu, but his family called him joe. it is how they have become an american family in their own way, and now with the ceremonial unit out of the the funeral home it seems that they are now waiting for the mayor of the other dignitaries and the other director to come out, and then we believe we will see the casket of wenji aan liu come out of the funeral home to make its way. and what miguel is talking about is so true in that what you heard in the eulogies and throughout the service is that people were humanizing him, and he was not a number or a cop on the beat that was killed, but a human being with a family who loved him so much but another thing is what truely american story this is. and so classic new york. and so specific new york you have the son of immigrants coming in and really wanting to be a good american as they called him joe, and looking at the line of work that he chose. and for many of the immigrant families especially when a son or daughter says that i want to be a police officer, the families coming in from other countries, they say, you can t be a police aufofficer in the united states, and this is the wild west and the rest of america looks at us with our 300 million gun s ins in a population of 320 million looks at us as violence and out of control and the violence on the streets and the wild west atmosphere and so in some ways when they hear that their family members want to be a police officer, they rare terrified, and that is probably why he had to call his dad after every shift to say he is still alive he made him. and i would want my son to call me after his shift everyday too, so i understand. and we have a sea of oblue and police men from all over the country to attend the funeral, and sara can you tell us what you are seeing? yes, dana this is the procession route, and i have stepped away from the route to be respectful not to disrupt the officers who are lined up to watch the ceremony, but they have lined up here and listened to every single speaker, and tens of thousands is of officers are here to pay their respects. it is not the brightest or the warmest or the driest of days here in brooklyn but they did not come out in any less numbers as they did last week for officer ramos funeral. you heard are from wenjian liu s father who spoke in mandarin and he said that he was so proud of his son to be a member of the nypd and to help the immigrant community when he was not working. and we heard a couple of notable things prfrom the fbi director james comey and new york mayor bill de blasio and we wondered if there would be an honor of the commissioner to not turn their back on the mayor as he spoke, and we did see some officers turn around and not a majority and not even half of the officers where we were standing, but some. and more than the nypd and some officers who were from out of town who also turned around for the speech. this tepgs between the nypd and the mayor have been growing since the protest in new york, but many of the officers i have spoken to here from nypd and out of town say they don t believe that the funeral for a fallen officer is a place for that. and to give you the idea of how many officers are here this is a sea of blue for nearly a mile and this is how long the route is for those who want to pay their respects. jetblue flew in more than 1,100 officers from all over the country for free. i have seen badges and vehicles from cincinnati and virginia and connecticut and california and it is a long way to come. i have talked to three officers who came from outside of new orleans and they said it was incredibly important for them to be here for this, and not to show support for the fallen officer, but also because they feel that they do still get the re respect and earn the respect of the majority of the nation, and they wanted to show that to the world by coming here to this funeral, and just another note dana about security here because it is not just police officers, but it is a lot of the communities here in the streets, and we are seeing the patrols on the roofs, and canine units and helicopters and many of the units are blocked off on the procession route where the casket is going to be driven down to the cemetery. it is not the only roadblocked off here. they are making sure that it is a safe place for them to hold this ceremony and to hold a proper funeral for one of their fallen. dana. thank you and great the information and color there. i should mention that as you were speaking sara we saw some of the congressional delegation exiting the funeral home there. is another one, peter king, the republican from new york coming out, and some other well known republicans, charlie rangel and congressman joe crowley who was on the show earlier today whose father and grandfather who were both new york city police officers and so we are watching the dignitaries come out, and that probably means not too far behind will be the casket of the slain officer, and while we are watching that i want to turn back to tom fuentes. and you heard sara talking about despite the commissioner bill bratton asking the rank and file not the turn their backs, some did. she reported very important to note that it was not the number that it was at rafael ramos funeral, but it happen ded nonetheless from a treatise from their leader because it detracts from the respects of their fallen comrade. and tom, what do you make of that as a former officer? i think they should not have done it in my opinion, it is not the time or place as mentioned by commissioner bratton. and i thought that commissioner bratton s request to not do it and he said that he would not discipline any officers and no repercussions that way, and he requested it as a fellow officer, and he was a fellow officer in the 1970s when we were pigs and spit on and he thought that police officers out there out of respect for him, and despite the feelings for the mayor which are neg thetive and deep, but out of respect for him, they might honor that respect. and let me play the devil s advocate they defect the freedom of speech everyday and why shouldn t they have their freedom of speech? why shouldn t they display their ainge anger if they are angry? they should, but by doing it today, they are talking about that instead of the great life of officer ramos, and their parents, and the other great officers in the world, and talk act this issue and that is the reason enough not to do it. i get that. and the big picture, and the years you were a cop? yes, in illinois, and 1970 to 1973 when i became a member of the fbi. and racial issues have changed since then, and society has changed since then but is this something that the police force focus odd n? absolutely. the idea that when people say we need community policing. they have had community policing. my father was a police officer and it was a kid going with him to community events and chaperoning field trips and dances and all of that and i was 1 years old when he was a police officer, and the idea that the police need to get into the community and work them, and when you talk about what officer liu and ramos did in their communities tashgs i are a part of that as well as thousands of nypd officers engaged everyday in their community and in the neighborhoods talking to the people trying to help in the policing that they are doing. i the think that is part of what the police are upset about with the public rhetoric that they have not done community policing or they need training because they don t know how to talk to people. police aufofficers have a phd in street psychology and if they don t talk to somebody properly it is because they don t want to and not because they don t know how. it is not because they need to take classes on wrestling, because the modern police officer has to be a wrestler and telling somebody they are under arrest and the person won t comply that is not going to cut it. and the rhetoric about policing needs to be that we need to have a discussion and not accusations back and forth by sound bite. and on that note, we need to return to the solemnity of this moment and hopefully we can see another picture of the sea of blue because it is powerful and poignant. and there it is. and before we go to t rehe reporters in the sea, tom, as a former police officer, yourself and what goes through your mind as you see that e remarkable scene. the brother 450d and the sisterhood of law enforcement, and why it is close, and why the remind minder of it. 115 police officers have died in the line of duty this year, and it is because of the recent amount of public discussion that has been so negative about policingch that is actually contributing to the police officers wanting to travel from california and canada and new orleans to come to be a part of this because they realize that they need to show the solidarity of being in the profession and calling together. well, it is looking like solidarity and achieving that by looking at the pictures. miguel marquez, i want to bring you back in, and listening to tom fuentes and being a police officer, and looking at the police officers from all over the country, and i would believe that is the sentiment that you are seeing there on the ground? yes, it sis, and i can see a half mile down and you can see a fine line of blue all of the way down. they have created just enough space in the very wide street so that the funeral cortege can make its way down that way. the mayor is speakingt that funeral in a personal way about detective liu. also this attack on both detective liu and ramos was not just an attack on two individuals, but it was an attack on the city of new york. the police work the police department being the bedrock of civil society, and the necessity to honor police officers and to have a good relationship between the political set and the police set. so my sense is that the rancor that we have seen in the recent weeks, and the anger in recent weeks h will find ss will find a newer and bet better level, and we have seen in the last half hour not only dignities, but police officer s to come out of the funeral home, and we expect to see the casket of detective liu to emerge shortly for the final ride to its final resting place. and miguel, you have sort of been experiencing the whiplash of emotions there in new york city and now more the past couple of weeks, because of the assassination of these two police officers but then just prior to that the anger at the justice system and in many ways, the cops that we have heard, but the justice system because eric garner who was now everybody knows was killed during an arrest after he was trying to illegally sell cigarettes and the uproar about no indictments about that. that is the ancillary and i have logged many miles as they have angrily taken over to the streets here and that is where a lot of the rancor between the mayor and the nypd comes from. there were beat cops walking alongside the protesters and stopping the traffic to make sure they could be safe and making sure adds they were taking over the streets and the city were safe. governor cuomo said it in his remarks last week probably best there is no better sign of what a great police department that we have that they were at the butt end of the anger of the protesters, and yet, they were protecting their fest first amendment rights while they were taking their abuse at the same time. so that s the sort of stuff that we saw for many, many miles through the streets of new york, and i am sure that those beat officers told their buddies by text and social media and everything else you should hear what they are calling us and hear what they are saying. there is already upset with the mayor before these two officers deaths, but afterward ss, it took it to another level. and i want to tell you that the towers to tunnels program that offered to pay off the home loans for them and they needed $800,000 and they have $700,000 and so they can almost pay off their home loan ss. and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised for these two individuals. for people who felt they were left out in the cold, and bereft and not loved in the city, and last week s funeral, and this week s funeral is showing a different picture. thank you, miguel for the insights and as you were speaking former mayor rudy giuliani is there to pay his respects as well. i want to go back to sara ganim who is there in the crowd, and by way of the context and the background, we have been talking about the new york mayor bill de blasio and the anger that he has apparently incited among these many of the cops the reason most recently is the reason that he taught his biracial son how to handle whether when he is approached by a police officer, because he would be approached differently, because of the color of his skin. and sara, that is what sparked the people turning their backs on him when he spoke last week and to a much lesser extent just this morning. reporter: that is right, dana and some say it goes back to his opposition of stop and frisk when he was running for mayor. and being here, and not just here for the wake yesterday and the funeral today, but going back a few weeks to the very public memorial site in brooklyn sorry, sara, i am sorry to interrupt, but i want to tell you that the family and the widow and the father of wenjian liu just exited the funeral home. keep going, i apologize. no, that is okay, dana. the days after were emotions very raw where the members of the community where where the members of the community had marched in the community had marched in the protests and they said this is not the time to criticize the mayor. there was a scene from the memorial and i witnessed it and it was so incredibly powerful where a woman came with a sign for officer ramos young son who said that your father had nothing wrong and she was having a hard time to tape it to the brick wall and officer came up to put it up on the wall and they put it up together and it was representative at the mood of the memorial, because it was interesting at the same time that some of of the police unions were criticizing the mayor, and now a few weeks remove d removed from here at the funeral here at the wake, and i heard many officers some of them former nypd who work in other departments in other states who had come back for this say, look, it is a political issue, and also a very personal issue for many of the officers but this funeral is not the place for that. and that comes from this feeling that last week at officer ramos funeral, the pictures, the the photographs of the nypd turning their backs on the mayor, those were incredibly powerful pictures, and they changed the narrative of that day away from the funeral, and away from the celebration of his life and towards a more political issue, and people did not want to see that happen again today. and sara i have been in those situation, and it is physically difficult to move around but have you talked to any of the officers who defied commissioner bratton and turned their backs nonetheless? well shgs, i have not, but dana, from where i am, it was not a whole lot of them around certainly mot the numb lyly not the numbers that we saw last week and in the crowd of about 450 where i can see and count from where i am standing maybe 50, or maybe even less, and then some of them were not nypd at all, and they were officers from other jurisdictions who wanted to make the point that they stand alongside the nypd on this issue, but it wasn t a majority and it was not half. it was a few. and their commissioner william bratton, when he made this plea for them not to do this today, he said look it is not a mandate and i won t discipline anybody over it, but i am asking that this day not become about this conversation that we are having right now, that it become that the narrative stay with officer liu and his family and the nypd and like i mentioned before when i talked to officers who came in from out of town i did get the feeling that one of the reason ss that they wanted to come was because they wanted to show that solidarity and they wanted to show that they do feel the support of the nation and while this is a personal issue, a lot of them felt that it was an issue for today. thank you, and that is the case for today. for the viewers who are tuning in we are looking at a cold and rainy day in new york city, but one that is not deterring the thousands is of police officers and dignitaries who have come from around the kuncountry to pay their respects to officer wenjian liu who lost his life and killed on desemcember 20th along with his partner rafael ramos. there was an incredibly moving funeral service that included speeches not just from the dignitaries such as the mayor as we have been discussing or the police commissioner, but hi father who spoke cantonese, and did not speak english, but you did not need to speak that language that to understand the sorrow and the pain of losing his not only son, but his only son and his only child, and then from his widow who he was married to for two months who called him her best friend her soulmate and somebody who really gave his all for not just her and his family but for the city of new york. i want to bring back tom fuentes, and as we look, we are as i mentioned, we heard the ceremony and seeing everybody leave. what we are waiting for right now is for the casket of wenjian liu to exit the funeral home and make its way down to what the reporters on the scene have been describing over a mile of people just lined up on the procession route. what are your thoughts as we areing at this now? just how moving and solemn and the emotions of the officers are of everyone who is attending this. and you know if any good came from the last two weeks of the funeral s funerals, it is that when you have got to know officer ramos and the family better and officer liu and the family better you realize that they are not just people but great human beings and great people and the things they stood for, they are the best that our society has, and they are police officers. it makes me proud to have been a police officer and fbi agent and 36 years sworn in both positions, and makes me proud that i was one of them. tom i have seen you on our air talking about a lot of really, really horrible things unfortunately over the last couple of years, but this is personal for you, i can tell. this is so thank you, for doing this and you are bringing a sense of what it is like for those of us who again didn t have the honor to serve can understand. i want to go totoer errol louis and tom verni, and what are your thoughts? well listening to e dedetek detective liu s family and his wife speak, and like you said you don t have to speak the language to know the raw emotion they are channeling. it is unbelievable tragedy that many of us can t wrap our heads around what took place a couple of weeks ago. i know that as seen earlier on cnn there were a number of nypd officers that did turn their backs when the mayor was speaking, and then when the police commissioner came up to speak they turned back around, so it is important to note that the officers out of respect for commissioner bratton did turn around and for the entire funeral were faced forward. the only time that some of them did turn around is when the mayor was speaking. what do you make of that? well, you have to remember that the police are not allowed to strike here in new york. there is a law that prevents them from striking. they are working pour or five years without a contract, and aside from the political rhetoric that mayor de blasio has come out not only as mayor, but as a candidate when he was running for mayor, and also his comments after the no true bill in staten island for the eric garner incident he has come out in a very anti-nypd specifically set of rethetoric. and the officers, you can t not take that lightly, because this is somebody that you are working for, and aside from the fact ta they are working for years without a contract which in and upon itself is ridiculous, this is the only way that they have a chance as a group to have a silent protest to show their discomfort with the mayor and disagree with him. they are basically giving him a no confidence vote is what it is coming down to. they don t have any confidence in the mayor to prept them in a favorable light to represent them in a favorable light, and it is not just based on the perception but on the mayor s actions in the last year or two. ander roll and errol, you have covered the police department for many years, and new york city and does this strike you as more raw and intense than in the past? well, it is unusual, and not more raw. anybody who was around in 1992 when 10,000 cops essentially rioted on the steps of city hall sort of stormed the building and caricatures and that was a time of very high crime. crime is at a historic lows and as tom points out, there are underlying workplace issues that need to be resolved and not by bill de blasio s making and he has been there for one year and five-year no contract is something that he inherited and trying to e negotiate, and for this department to be as upset as they are speaks to the difficulty of changing the culture of the very large, very respected and very proud organization and there is no question that the change is endorsed by the citizens of new york. they voted in bill de blasio for a reason. this is not some side plank or side print in his agenda, because it is central for what he ran on, and he won in overwhelming votes to make change. and speaking of mayor de blasio blasio he did speak in the funeral in the last hour. i want to play a little bit of what he said. let s listen. detective wenjian liu was a brave man. he walked a path of courage. a path of sacrifice and a path of kindness. this is who he was. and he was taken from us much too soon. i want to go back to you, tom. as a former member of the nypd and as a detective, when you hear the mayor say that does that make you feel more feel better a about the mayor and the tension that we have seen thus far that he is trying hard obviously to mend the fences? well, it is something that i have not seen in quite a while. i honestly, you know, me, personally, and i think that i speak on behalf of a number of officers, and i can t speak on behalf of the entire department of course but i don t really put a lot of, you know credibility into the words that he came out with. i mean, he is really trying to back pedal as best he can. i think that he knows that on a lot of levels that he, you know spoke, i h think, out of turn and especially after the grand jury made their verdict out of staten island and you can t take back what you said and you can maybe offer the retraction and come back and say, listen maybe i spoke out of turn and maybe not saying that the entire nypd is a bunch of racist storm trooper, because that is what he was saying. what happened in staten island had nothing to do with the race, and it was an arrest of a career criminal who chose to resist arrest and the officers used physical force to arrest him, and unfortunately result ed ined in that man s death, and that is in part of itself a tragedy. you won t find any officers glad that person died but it is certainly not the result of the officers looking for, and quite frankly, the officers that day were enforcing quality of life law has the mayor and the city council are out there wanting them and demanding they enforce. turning away from the politics for a moment and back to the solemnity of the moment. what we are seeing now, and waiting for casket of wenjian liu to come out, and while we do, i want to come back to remarkable and the brave eulogy that his widow, and the two were married for two months gave during the funeral ceremony. listen to this. i thank you for sharing this moment with me. with us. with our family. to reflect the goodness of his soul. and the wonderful man that he is. many of you know as joe, especially at work. but to me he is my soulmate. tom, back to you in new york. you know, while you are on the beat, i m guessing as tom fuentes here in the d.c. studio said to me a short while ago, your family is on pins and needles everyday even though things like this don t happen very often, and you are always in the line of fire and it is your duty and what you do? yeah, i had a full head of hair when i started the police department and for those who have seen me it has taken its toll and i did 22 years in the nypd, and i was a beat cop, and community policing and so the concept of the communeity policing that some people have talked about and maybe trying to e restore here in new york i think it is a fantastic way of policing neighborhoods. it absolutely is. and when it is done correctly, and the nypd unfortunately have lost 7,000 or 8,000 police officers since the time of 9/11 and so the physical bodies that you need to conduct that, it is going to be taking some fancy footwork to reassignment personnel to do that the, but that would be a great way to do that to reconnect with the communities in the city. but either way, whether you are doing the community policing or the narcotics tails or chase canning after gangsters, any time you are walking around, you are a walking target. so until you finish the stint that you are slated to do whether it is 20 or 25 years in the police department and until you get out and retire do the families breathe a sigh of relief that you are finished and do your duty. i can imagine. miguel marquez, back to you at the scene. we are looking at the two flags from the color guard, and the ceremonial and now they are going up so perhaps we are going to be seeing the the casket coming out soon. but miguel, it is cold can and rainy and still packed with people there. they are not going anywhere, and this is a solid blue mass that want toss to show the support. the rain has been going on, and it has stopped now shgs, and the trumpeters have come out so we expect taps will be played soon. there were a number of things that we learned in the service. the the mayor gave two examples. clear ly clearly he spent a lot of time with the liu family in the last couple of weeks. clearly a man who loved to fish and when he got a big fish he loved to share it with with the family. and two was the call he went on and there was a call of a man who had fallen and he spoke chinese and when they needed help he would be called in and the man was on the floor and he didn t want to get up or move and liu spent hours with this man and turned out that it was a guy who was elderly and just wanted some company, and liu was more than happy to play along and help this guy up, and those tiny things. and this is a guy who studied accounting but he wanted to become a cop. and he did. bill brotton, the police commissioner spoke about being a cop. he came to the profession late, but the pool was just as strong as someone like brill bratton who joined very, very young. perhaps the most telling sign of this family and the remarkable life was his cousin who said that we didn t call him wenjian but we called him joe. this is a family that arrived here 20 years ago from china and has become fully american family as we wait for the only son of this family wenjian liu to make his way out of the funeral home here in brooklyn. dana. absolutely heartbreaking to watch and think about. and while we are weight, werare waiting, we want to go to another portion of the funeral home and hear from the new york police commissioner bill bratton and hear what he had to say. officer liu believed in the possibility of making a safer world. all cops do. it is why we do what we do. and it is why we run towards danger when others run away. we believe in the possibility of keeping disorder controlled. we believe in the possibility of a city free from fear. pretty emotional from him, and at times in watching his speech even somebody who has seen a lot in his many decades on the police forces across the country look like it was hard for him to sort of keep it together understandably given the gravity of the moment and the speech that he had to give for the loss of his rank and file. we are looking at the color guard and the ceremonial moment when wenjian liu s casket comes out of the funeral home to begin a procession in what the re reporters on the scene there have described as remarkable a mile long the sea of people and not just police officers around the country, but the everyday average new york citizens out there, and sara is out there with the people. sa sara, as they are ready for the moment for the processional and what are you hear prg the people hearing from the people on the street there? reporter: dana i am here with a group of toronto officers who have collected badges from a group of the people here who have handed them out the the members of the community and not souvenirs, but handing them out as a remembrance of the day, a it was a really good moment. it was a great moment to see the officers first of all from so far away and not even part of this country and the united states interacting with the members of the community who came here from far away places who are here to just pay their respects and as they wait along the procession line, they are exchange, and the worlds are colliding. it was a sweet moment. mostly you know officers are standing out here. and it is driz canzling on and off, and they are waiting along a packed processional line, and they are waiting to pay their respects. off officers are here from all across the country, and more than 1,100 came in on jetblue for free, but i would venture to say that i would take the guess to say that there are more than 1,100 officers here from out of town. i have seen so many with my own eyes from departments across the country, and not just the officers are here dana and something that i have noticed is that i have seen patrol cars from as far away as ohio. i saw a group of sheriff s deputies on motorcycle who clearly came here from cincinnati out of state, and that is showing that they drove all of this way on the motorcycles to be here today. i have seen the patrol cars from other states as well not as far away as ohio, but there were a group of motorcycle officers from new jersey today traveling in a group. so we have seen a lot of nuggets that sew that this is really a community event, and when i say community i mean not just new york but community of support and community of within new york as well but a lot of moments today that are indicative of why people want to be here. the events in new york in the last couple of weeks, that is part of it. there is a feeling that they need to come here to show support because of the recent events here. that is clear to me. a couple of the officers here who talked to me from out of state and had been members of the nypd prior to leaving the state told me that they wanted to make it clear that nypd is very diverse, and very diverse and large department. they didn t buy into this idea that there is you know widespread racism. they wanted to come to show and stand alongside their follow officers officers, and show their support because of that reason, and i have to say it is something that is very clear as we stand outside here today. dana, finally, i want to say that it does appear that things are going to be moving along here shortly. as you look down the sea of blue i want to make it clear that this is a very, very long procession line because there is nearly a mile worth of police officers standing here filling up more than half of the street so that they can be here and witness officer wenjian liu s final drive to the final resting place. they are waiting here to pay their final respect ss. dana? and is sara talked about the solidarity as they say, and they all bleed blue. that is very clear in watching these pictures and these images. solidarity is not just about the local police from new york and around the country, but the federal law enforcement. james coalmymey is the drekirector of the fbi, and he spoke. i was not lucky enough to know detective liu. but i have listened to other people talk about how deeply he cared about being a police officer. and former fbi officer, tom fuentes, why so important for the director of the fbi to be there to speak? well to let people know that it is an international issue, and he represents the federal law enforcement, and it is more than the thin blue line, because all of the international partners stand together the as well. the fbi is a conduit the rest of the world through the legal at ta attache program, and they can get assistance from each other, and it is a worldwide fraternity and not just within the ud or within the united states or new york. and errol louis, as you look at the pictures the perception of outside of new york city is a rough and tumble place, but when push comes to shove, the new yorkers get together and they hold hands and really there for each other. i noeknow a lot of the people that we are seeing in these pictures are cops from out of the city but errol, as somebody who has covered new york city, and been a resident of new york city for a long time i m guessing that is probably not a surprise to you? oh no not at all. the thin blue line is pretty thick and long as you can see. i mean, i should mention that my dad is a retired nypd inspector, and my older sister is a retired detective. there are lots and lots of people who have lots and lots of close relationships to the cops. new yorkers are extremely proud of the nypd and it is an important institution in the town. one thing that is important, dana, the protesters who were doing a lot of the black lives matter one of the slogans and organizing all over the country, and they inspired sort of a not quite backlash but a parallel movement, and there were lots of people who have been out there doing their own marches in surprising number of jurisdictions all over to the country, and from massachusetts to utah, to seattle and everywhere in bewean, these sort of spontaneous citizen rallies in sup role for policing. and one of the central democratic institutions in our country. and as you said your father was or is on the police force, and what is your opinion in regard to the national racial tensions? well, i called up my dad, and i call him up anyway but i asked him about some of the events and what he thought, and he said that he was surprised that the cops had turned the backs and so forth and he read that as them being ma nup lated by the union relationship in a way that would not have happened in the day. it is fine to be angry with the political leadership and fine to do something about it but you don t do it when you are in uniform, and not because it is the thing to do. these things tend to work themselves out, and his perspective which is valuable is that it ebbs and flows, and the cops get upset about one thing or another, and whether it is creation of the civilian complaint review board which is a hot button issue a generation ago or appointment of the new inspector general which is a recent fight and court fight or the stop and frisk, and now body cameras and other procedural questions, and it is something that plays out in the public, but it is not supposed to divide the city. as i mentioned here in new york and you have it right up there on the screen there is not so fundamental of a breach that the whole town is going to fall apart. it is the kind of dispute that comes up every so often do we need to tweak it a little bit. my friend tom mentioned eric garner as a career criminal and they would say, he is a guy selling loose cigarettes and trying to scratch outt a living on the wrong side of the law, but you give that guy a ticket a warning. you don t swarm him with six cops and end up killing him, and these are the indkind of fine-tuning questions that need to go on at the the community level. that is where this gets solved andt not so much the politicians. no question, err oshgtsol and as with we await the casket coming out of the funeral home, i want to get back to the human element here as we are seeing a young man slain in the line of duty. and i want to go to what his cousin officer liu s cousin said about him speaking at his funeral earlier today. he was the most caring and thoughtful cousin that anyone could have. he would go out of his way to make sure that we were always happy and taken care of. he brought pride and honor to our family. he was a role model for many. myself included. and will continue to be. oh. that is just incredible and poignant. miguel marquez is standing outside of the funeral home and he watched the entire funeral, and you are watching the the scene right now, deskribcribe it. oh, it is always tough to take take, the drum corps has just come up from a side street. they have specialized vehicle that they have filled with the flowers from inside of the funeral home with a badge of the city of new york police department and the drum corps may be the most chilling of everything that will happen today as they march down the street, and the steady beat and the steady dirge as they pass the line of blue. several members from inside of the funeral home have come out, and we expect that things have expected to get going here fair fairly soon. it is very, very difficult to watch. impressive in the mile or so that i can see, all blue.
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i m t.j. holmes alongside reena ninan. the big story, this just broke just a few hours ago here in new york. now has a lot of folks concerned. we re going to kick off this half hour. the latest on the ebola case. the doctor in new york city testing positive for the deadly virus after returning from west africa. a 33-year-old doctor treating ebola patients in guinea. one of the countries devastated by the disease. he is now in isolation at a manhattan hospital. his girlfriend quarantined. the doctor rode the subway, took a car service here in new york just the night before he fell ill. linsey davis has more on how this all unfolded. reporter: inside this ambulance rushing to bellevue hospital, 33-year-old craig spencer. a doctors without borders physician suffering from a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. a confirmed case of ebola right in the heart of new york city. i know it s a frightening situation, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: dr. spencer had been in guinea, one of three hot zone countries. last thursday he flew home connecting through brussels before arriving at jfk airport. he d been monitoring his temperature and reported his fever. police officers in masks, neighbors anxious. a local councilman trying to calm fears. frankly, people in the neighborhood are scared, and some of them are panicked. i had one gentleman who wouldn t even shake my hand because he was scared. reporter: the health department says a team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. the patient is now in isolation. the health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all of the patient s contacts and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary. reporter: in recent days, bellevue hospital has been holding drills in case a possible ebola patient comes through their door. those plans going into motion. reporter: it took only a few hours to determine that spencer did, indeed, test positive for ebola. linsey davis, abc news, new york. this is what we know about dr. spencer s past few days. he left guinea october 14th, stopped in brussels before arriving in new york on the 17th. he sticks to guidelines checking his temperature twice a day. this past tuesday he feels tired. wednesday, spencer takes the subway to brooklyn to a bowling alley and hops in a cab back home. he notifies authorities yesterday morning when he comes down with a 103 fever n also has diarrhea. at some point he also went for a three-mile jog, but health officials say there s no reason for alarm. you should stay with us here at abc news as we cover the latest ebola infection. look for more live updates in our next half hour and on america this morning. we know more about the man who stormed canada s parliament building. he was a loner who had drug problems, criminal record and converted to islam. abc s karen travers reports authorities still want to know much more about him. reporter: this dramatic video shows bystanders scrambling as michael zehaf-bibeau races toward canada s parliament. this picture authentic but from an unknown source shows him up close with that weapon. police say zehaf-bibeau came to ottawa earlier this month to get a passport. his mother saying her son wanted to travel to syria. this rampage may have been a result of him not getting that travel document. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives and i m not inside his head, but i think it was central to what was driving him. reporter: canadian authorities said they have 93 citizens under investigation or surveillance as possible terrorists. zehaf-bibeau may have had extremist views, but he was not on that watch list. had we have known that he wanted to travel to syria, then he certainly would have been. reporter: abc news learned zehaf-bibeau crossed into the u.s. on four separate occasions. canadian and u.s. officials are trying to retrace his steps to figure out where he went and who he may have met with. concerns are growing in canada and in the u.s. about homegrown terrorists who may be trying to join isis in syria or iraq. canadian officials say they still have a lot to learn about how and why michael zehaf-bibeau turned to radicalism. karen, thank you. three people are dead after a midair collision in maryland between a helicopter and private plane. all three fatalities were aboard the helicopter which was on a training flight. the two men on the plane were injured but have already been released from the hospital. they were able to deploy a parachute which lessened the plane s impact on the ground. the helicopter hit a storage facility as it came down. a powerful storm system moving through washington state yesterday spawned a tornado. it was caught on video in longview, washington. meteorologists measured it at an ef-1. it carved a path of destruction other yards wide and a mile long. luckily caused no reported injuries. on the east coast, a powerful nor easter slammed much of new england leaving its own path of destruction. abc s rob marciano was in the heart of the storm zone just outside boston and has the latest. reporter: with howling winds near hurricane strength and nearly a half a foot of rain, the northeast is getting lashed by a nor easter. conditions in peabody, massachusetts, so severe schools canceled. drivers in high water. this man had to be carried out to safety by firefighters. along the coast, boats run aground, crashing waves up to 18 feet high. dangerously close to homes. across the northeast, a tangled mess of downed trees, crushed cars and debris. thick trunk trees snapped clean in half. in connecticut, downed power lines sparking this gas fire. we periodically go and monitor it to make sure the heat from the fire isn t spreading to the home. reporter: wind and rain so severe drivers abandoned their cars. this won t be the strongest storm new englanders see this winter, but certainly a large one and slow mover. it s done its damage as far as beach erosion already. it will move out through the day an friday but not before taking some of this coastline with it. rob marciano, abc news, massachusetts. wow. that was an interesting tag there. rob is the best out in the field. worked with him for a long time. he s fantastic out there. good to see him out there. now here s a look at today s weather. the nor easter is blowing out to sea lingering behind showers across new england. heavy rain in the pacific northwest and up to six inches. cool across much of the northern half of the country. 50s and 60s. but dry conditions in the midwest. 70s and 80s. 96 degrees for phoenix. a lava flow on the move threatening thousands of residents on the big island of hawaii. the flow is less than a mile away from the town of pahoa. it s only a matter of time before residents there are forced to evacuate. they hope to give them at least three days notice. that s scary stuff. it devoured 130 acres of terrain by thursday afternoon. unstoppable, huh? what do you do? you just have to get out of the way. probably just a matter of time. hopefully everybody will be all right. our friends out in hawaii. some of the big island residents are used to it. it began in 1983. i guess this is something they know comes with paradise. comes with paradise, right? we ve got a sight out of idaho coming up. a captivating sight here. as seen from high above, it s a bird s-eye view of the corn maze at the farmstead in meridian. this year it s carved out of the wizard of oz theme. emerald city, dorothy. planning the maze takes about a year. there s no place like home, though. if i could click my heels right now. you say that every morning. coming up in the skinny, hollywood a-lister who is selling lingerie but, of all places, at target. a big scare on the highway. motorcyclist who defy police and frighten other drivers. important safety advice on 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intense moments from the highway. a video you re about to see intense moments from the highway. a video you re about to see looks like a face-off between patrol officers and the bikers who suddenly surround them. seems to be happening more and more as bikers continually try to one up each other. brandi hitt has the story. reporter: watch as a swarm of motorcycle riders takes over this northern california highway speeding past a minivan, popping wheelies, then look on the right. a california highway patrol officer, his siren on, tries to pull over the leader. but the riders taunt him, waving at him to go away. that officer eventually forced to pull over and call for backup. they can t expect that just because they re skilled at doing this type of riding they ll not have an incident. reporter: it s not the first time we ve seen this type of biker swarm. just this week, 100 riders taking over the streets of philadelphia. and in new york last year, nine bikers charged after chasing down an suv and beating the driver in front of his family. the highway patrol tells us if you find yourself surrounded and feel unsafe, don t engage. instead, stay at a safe speed or pull over. if you feel really threatened, you can always call 911. california police combing through this video for clues. trying to identify these reckless riders who could now face criminal charges. brandi hitt, abc news, los angeles. some of these cops have stopped going after motorcyclists because they can maneuver around easily. a little faster. sometimes it hurts innocent bystanders in the chase. that s a good way to go. you aren t going after guys that are hard core criminals. yes they might be doing something wrong but it looks soy irresponsible. a lot of people love it because it does look cool. it looks dangerous. these guys are skilled. but, geez, guys. we ve got the skinny coming your way. a song you love, somebody is actually apologizing for even making the song that made him famous. i m sorry to hear that. and halle berry s foray into the lingerie world. you don t want to miss that next on world news now. announcer: world news now continues after this from our abc stations. because it is. we may not recognize it from this. this is not what you remember him looking like when the song was a hit. you re beautiful was huge and put him on the map. it was in 2005. there was fallout from it being overplayed. let s play it one more time for giggles. you re beautiful you re beautiful you re beautiful it s true you remember the song? even the video here was a little annoying. standing in the snow disrobing. he s giving everything to this beautiful woman that he saw in a crowded space. that s why the song was huge but he is now saying it was a problem for his career because some of the even the record company pigeon holed him into this thing marketing towards women. then you re shutting out 50% of your possible fan base. it did well and the song still sticks. marketing also painted him to be an insanely serious person, although he considers himself anything but. blunt has a new album out and hopes it will spawn a single half as successful as you re beautiful. don t be ashamed, james. milk it for as long as it s worth. you re welcome at this desk any time. joan rivers. news about her. her daughter melissa will be inheriting the bulk of her estate after her recent and sudden passing. it s no big surprise she d be the benefactor. but the amount is impressive. over $100 million. joan who had been performing just days before her death had amassed quite a fortune. $75 million just in cash. that will gall to melissa as well, including her $35 million condo on new york s upper east side. also melissa s son cooper will receive his own share of joan s estate. it s, of course, no consolation for losing their mother. we talk about all this money but they d much rather have joan back. halle berry back in the news for her latest business venture. no stranger to baring some skin. it s only fitting she ll launch her own lingerie label. the 48-year-old actress reviving a french luxury line named scandal. there s a twist. it s going to be sold at target. i love that. very affordable price range of $7 to $18. after searching its history, researching it, she decided to relaunch it. scandal is expected to hit target next week. fans of the web series between two ferns got their first episode since last high-profile guest interview and that was president obama. it continued with a-listers. this time brad pitt. and bradley pitt, that s how they introduced him. lots of signature and awkward moments including the two playing chicken with their chewing gum. also a brief intermission from louie c.k. who did a stand-up set that didn t go over well. also not going over well was this question. tell me what it was like the first time you laid eyes on angelina. was it like one of those classical love stories like when i don t know, when ross first saw rachel? you know that show friends. have you seen that? i ll be there for you that is awesome. you might recall pitt used to be married to rachel from friends. jennifer aniston. and he played it off pretty well. i can t tell if the guests are just playing into it or some get uncomfortable and it gets awkward. come on. they knew it was coming. brad was having a good time. seemed like fun. you have to be a good sport to go on that show. you do. good job, brad. but this year, we ll fight back at the first sign of sick. no more feeling coughy, mucusy.just.yucky. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. is this about me? am i the yucky? 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(awkwardly laughs) get out. enough s enough! d-con baits are fomulated to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. spots and residues. wow, what a difference! all right. friday. we made it. it s been a busy week keeping track of a lot of stuff, including developments with ebola, the fight against terrorism and a familiar face we haven t seen in a while. the blessed lady who covered madonna. it s all here in our friday rewind. there s a man with a rifle shooting at a bunch of people. so we you know, i yelled at all my guys. there s a guy shooting. so everyone, get down, get down. but let there be no misunderstanding. we will not be intimidated. canada will never be intimidated. after 21 days of being on that watch list, there s zero chance that any of those young men or that louise carries the ebola virus. thousands of hours have been spent in an effort to find him. we think perhaps today proved their worth. he had actually turned towards me and that s where you could see the mud on his face, what height he was based off the truck he was standing next to. could go back as far as 20 years based on some statements we have. his level of cooperation and the things he s told us would indicate possibly other victims could surface. when you van air bag that s designed to protect you that can explode into shrapnel and kill you, this is an extreme situation. he honored women s features. he honored our bodies. he wasn t afraid to pull back and let the woman be the star of the look. i was just lucky to get to wear his designs. i fell in love with my boss in a 22-year-old sort of way. it happens. but my boss was the president of the united states. like a virgin touched for the very first time you know, there was an editorial by a conservative bishops and in it they said that nun, not even the americans of sister act would have thought of such a reckless move. reckless? that s a strong word. that is strong. i love her. did you download her song yet? not yet. i will after that comment. hope you liked our look back at the week. a whole lot more where that came from. and log on to our facebook fan page, wnnfans.com. announcer: this is abc s world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades. good morning. i m reena ninan. hello. i m olmes. good morning. i m reena ninan. hello. i m t.j. holmes. here are some of the top headlines on world news now. ebola has come to new york city. a doctor just back from treating patients in west africa is now in isolation. his manhattan apartment cordoned off. he took subways, went bowling but authorities are telling new yorkers there s no need for alarm. we have live coverage ahead. the nypd is investigating a potential terror attack on a group of officers. a man reported to be a former navy sailor wielding a hatchet wounded two officers, one of them critically before he was killed in a hail of gunfire. hazing forced a pennsylvania high school football team to cancel the season with just two games left to play. an investigation fond freshmen were forced to perform humiliating acts. the coaching staff suspended. peyton manning threw three touchdown passes as the denver broncos blew past the san diego chargers, 35-21 last night. it was denver s second decisive win in five days for a 6-1 record. those some are of our top stories on this friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. let s start with the latest american to test positive for ebola. a new york city doctor in isolation as we speak. the doctor had been treating ebola patients in the west african nation of guinea mean was out and about in new york before his temperature spiked yesterday morning. lana zak joins us with the latest. reporter: good morning. this morning the disease detectives have identified four close contacts they ll be actively monitoring while the bowling alley is being completely scrubbed. they are taking no chances. here in new york, the words no one wanted to hear. today testing confirmed that a patient here in new york city had tested positive for ebola. reporter: inside bellevue hospital, 33-year-old dr. craig spencer who had been in guinea fighting ebola for doctors without borders. he returned to new york via brussels last week. early thursday, his temperature hit 103 degrees. one of the first signs of ebola. emts in protective gear rushed him to bellevue hospital which had spent recent weeks holding drills, preparing for the possibility of ebola striking america s largest city. is this a worst case scenario, ebola in new york? it s really not. new york city has one of the best health departmhe couy so d t couy so d t reporter: though many in the city are on edge, the governor wants to reassure the pu that it s here in new it s more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people o but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: even though we now know that spencer took several subway trips, we re being told not to panic about that. it is extremely unlikely he could have transmitted ebola to anybody else on those trains. any sort of transmission from a dry surface to a person has never been found. reena, t.j.? lana, how is new york better prepared for this than, let s say, dallas. reporter: new york being an international city was also preparing itself for this possibility. so it has been training all of its doctors, its health personnel, as well as its first responders. and they believe they have put very strong protocols in place, including eight different hospitals throughout the state that were ready to accept any abc s lana zak for us this morning. has a lot of people concerned. a lot of anxiety. like the governor said, the more you know, just get thatio there and we shall s r as dallas nurse nina pham continues to recover from ebola, her things for her are looking up for her beloved dog. a new k is spending his days in quarantine. the playful 1-year-old spaniel has been enjoying play time with vets in hazmat suits three times a day. so far he s tested negative ebola. the ebola epidemic is keeping west africans in this country. reverend amel sampeel and his family were supposed to return to liberia two months ago after a conference in virginia. then airlines began cnce flights wes flights wes onier to is o and now there sress to suspend tsto still a lot of questions about that gunman who stormed parliament this week. michael zehaf-bibeau had a troubled past. converted to islam recently. wanted to go to syria. still unknown why he shot and killed a soldier standing guard at a war memorial in canada or why he went to the parliament building. dramatic video shows that attack on the seat of the canadian government and the act of heroism that ended it from start to finish it took all of about 90 seconds. we ll get more from abc s dan harris. reporter: this is the moment the attack on parliament begins. the new video shows the suspect leaving his car and sprinting toward the parliament building. fd nninthe parliament building. leaving his car and sprinting fd nninthe parliament building. is r, dpi and this is what happens next. gunfire echoing off the ornate historic walls of parliament. the bullet holes were visible everywhere. amidst the chaos, prime minister stephen harper quickly whisked away. but in a small room nearby, this member of parliament was trapped with her 2-month-old baby. were you terrified? of course. i thought how can i make sure the baby is not yelling and crying. reporter: he was saved by this man. the parliament sergeant at arms kevin vickers who shot and killed michael zehaf-bibeau. look at this video of vickers in the moments afterwards, gun still in hand seemingly completely calm. on the floor of parliament, he received a standing ovation. and there was also a moment of silence for corporal nathan cirillo, a reservist, father and dog lover who was shot and killed while guarding the national war memorial moments before the gunman attacked parliament. and one more emotional moment to tell you about. the prime minister of canada taking to the floor of parliament and vowing that this country will never be intimidated by terrorists. he received a standing ovation. dan harris, abc news, ottawa, canada. three men aboard a helicopter are dead after it collided in midair with a private plane. the plane on a flight from cleveland was able to deploy a parachute to soften its fall into trees. the helicopter came straight don between two storage units. its passengers had no chance. the cause of the accident still under investigation. longview, washington, cleaning up the damage this morning left behind by a tornado. the twister with winds of up to 110 miles an hour carved a path of destruction 50 miles wide and a mile long. it uprooted trees and damaged homes. no injuries to report. on the east coast, a nor easter slammed much of new england. the storm dumped nearly a foot of rain while near hurricane strength winds generated waves along the coast up to 18 feet high. it left a tangled mess of trees, crushed cars. now a look at today s weather. the nor easter blowing out to sea leaving behind lingering rain showers across new england. the pacific northwest will see up to six inches of rain. and a stalled tropical storm system will bring downpours to south florida. 50s and 60s across much of the northern half of the country. dry conditions prevail across the midwest. 70s and 80s. off the course of north carolina, this is the party you want to go to. a great beach party, right? sharks. feeding frenzy of sharks converged on the cape lookout national seashore. new footage of that frenzy happened earlier this month. see all that? they were feeding on birds up against the shoreline. the man who shot the video said he wasn t frightened at all. incredible to watch. if that doesn t scare you, this next story should. might want to look away. i haven t seen this video yet. spiders. they were celebrating spiders, the arrival of fall with tarantulas. there s a festival north of fresno, california. 17th annual festival they are having out there. it kicks off this saturday. they are celebrating tarantulas. they bite, too, don t they? you know what, most of them cannot harm you. they look scary. i learned this in some survival training i got. the overwhelming majority of tarantulas can actually do no harm. it features a tarantula race, pumpkin carving and pizza eating contest if your stomach isn t too squeamish. they have festivals for everything out in california. there s a garlic festival. they got everything. coming up in insomniac theater, keanu reeves dodging bullets. and also a coming of age movie. the reviews just in. also safety on the football field. protecting athletes with better helmets. we ll show you how they hold up. there s a week for apple cider. it s apple cider week across the country. we re in for a sweet celebration here on world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by nice & easy hair color. s? 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that s their claim. reporter: the verdict five stars for all three helmets tested. virginia tech finding riddell s new flex design reducing head acceleration better than any helmet they ve ever tested. we want parents to learn that getting out of the old helmets into the new better helmets will reduce your risk. reporter: virginia tech hopes it makes football a much safer sport. jim avila, abc news, blacksburg, virginia. we love our football, but my goodness, the pounding these bodies and brains take. we re learning more and more about it. scary stuff. good to see. concussions, head injuries, side effects. i get nervous when my kid gets that age about actually letting him he ll want to play football. even soccer. concussions for girls who play soccer. it s a big deal. a lot of moms and parents are going that direction. dads, too, that don t want them to go that direction. i m hoping he s going to be a bookworm. he can be a bookworm that plays basketball. or tennis. or golf. cricket. whatever.5!hp how about apples now. he can be apple pickers. coming up, apples. how awesome they are. besides being a healthy fruit, they are a truly american fruit. we have some facts about apples. even how you can catch a buzz from them. now you ve got my attention. you re watching world news now. is a top of the weekend to-do list. thousands of families venture into the orchards. today starts national cider week. it s one of my favorites and one of the many benefits of apples. there s plenty more you may not know about apples. reporter: apples. there s more to them than meets the eye. with more than 70 million tons produced worldwide, it s one of the most valuable fruits here in the u.s. and they don t just keep the doctor away. they keep that waistline down. a new study published by science direct says apples promotes a friendly gut bacteria which stabilizes the metabolism and makes you feel full. it may stimulate the right microflora in your system that actually help you to stay thin. reporter: apple connoisseur and author of apples of uncommon character jacobson says apples are coming back in a big way. kind of a second golden age of the apple. people are paying more attention to where their food is coming from and they are looking for interesting character in their food. reporter: jacobson has profiled some 123 apple heirlooms. we re seeing apples better than we ve seen in decades. introducing new johnny appleseed hard apple cider. in the 1700s your best bet for getting drunk was apples. and we re kind of rediscovering that purpose of apples. reporter: speaking of rediscovering, we re at the farm house in new york city where we re going to learn how to make apple cider. come on. let s go. it s a little hard to walk. i don t recommend coming in heels. hi. the 200-year-old farmhouse gave a glimpse into what life is like. it s hard to think about manhattan and farming. those two things don t need to go together but that would have been the way of life for quite a few people. reporter: new york was the premier producer of cider. their cider press would have been over there. miles and miles of orchards here. manhattan was occupied by the british staying in military huts like these. what we re doing here is crushing the apple. reporter: we re just in time for their annual apple pressing. i m making apple cider. that is some good apple juice. every year fall rolls around and you have your apple traditions. it s just a really nice touchstone. like the perfect little apple. helps give a rhythm to life. and a recent scientific study found that in addition to all those health benefits, apples are also an aphrodisiac. participants who consumed one or two apples a day had increased sexual satisfaction. they link the anti-oxidants to increased blood flow and you guys can put together the rest. who knew. they said it keeps the doctor away. is it only a certain time of year people think, it s apple cider time? just during the holidays? usually thanksgiving. my family is serving apple cider. cider is making a comeback, like the hard cider. people are brewing these at very high levels. everything from your dry cider, like a fine wine, to your more tart cider. something sweet. this is made from an apple called red field which is a very rare apple. these apples are coming from apples we haven t heard or seen in a long time. this isn t cheap. this is going to cost you some. i m sure your family will love you for it. besides a white or red. or beer. it s not your wine cooler 2014. so it s cute. thank you for this. you re right. we didn t when i first read the tease and they said you d learn something about apples, i was skeptical. i learned a lot about apples in this. coming up, we ll see what s hitting the theaters this weekend. stay tuned. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? don t avoid it. resolve it. our new formula with a special conditioning ingredient softens your carpet with every use. because it s resolve, you know it cleans and freshens, but now it also softens. so your carpet is always inviting. resolve. a carpet that welcomes you. cat, what i say goes, and i say go to bed. the weirdest part was she had an this nightgown that was practically see-through. variety says it s easy to be distracted. it s a complex take on how teens must break away from their parents. everyone appears to be frozen in time and evil lurks behind suburbia s respected facade. one that some are speculating could become a reeves plays a title character who comes out of retirement to get back at the gangsters who pretty much mess with the wrong dude. a lot of guns, casual violence and pretty much what you d expect in a movie about a hit man. hey, john. perkins? i thought i d let myself in. i noticed. he dodges bullets, does that in a lot of movies he s been in. reviews have actually been good for this. chris of entertainment weekly says it s one of the most excitingly visceral action flicks he s seen in ages. roger moore says keanu s best role in years is shockingly one that doesn t require a lot of talking. would you see either of them? i m going to go with the keanu reeves flick. you are a big keanu reeves fan? going to see a teenager in a coming of age thing is not my thing. that s the news for this half hour. follow us on facebook, wnnfans.com. facebook, wnnfans.com. this morning on world news now ebola is in new york. a doctor who treated patients in africa returns to the city and gets sick. it s here in new york. it s more frightening. the big question for public health investigators, did the doctor spread the virus? trail of terror. the gunman who stormed canada s capital in a deadly rampage. disturbing new details. he was the kind of person that people around him wouldn t feel too comfortable hanging around. his behavior before the shooting and visits to the u.s. later, parental debate. should moms and dads spank their children? it s an age-old question about punishment and why it s heated up again this week. it s friday, october 24th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good friday morning to you all. i m t.j. holmes. i m reena ninan. we begin with the newest ebola patient. ebola has made its way to new york city. a doctor in the city fresh from a trip to west africa where he was treating patients is now confirmed he s stricken with the virus. a federal ebola s.w.a.t. team was dispatched to manhattan. that doctor now in isolation as health officials scramble to retrace his steps. lana zak is joining us with the latest. reporter: good morning. many are concerned this young doctor went bowling, even rode on the new york public subways. the question now is, when did he become contagious? here in new york, the words no one wanted to hear. today, testing confirmed that a patient here in new york city had tested positive for ebola. reporter: inside bellevue hospital, 33-year-old dr. craig spencer who had been in guinea fighting ebola for doctors without borders. he returned to new york city via brussels last week. early thursday his temperature hit 103 degrees. one of the first signs of ebola. emts in protective gear rushed him to bellevue hospital which spent recent weeks holding drills, preparing for the possibility of ebola striking america s largest city. is this a worst case scenario, ebola in new york? it s really not. new york city has one of the best health departments in the country. so they are better prepared than i would think just about any place in the u.s. reporter: though many in the city are on edge, the governor wants to reassure the public. that it s here in new york, it s more frightening. new york is a dense place. a lot of people on top of each other, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: a team of disease detectives are now tracing all of spencer s possible contacts. and we know at least one of those contacts, his fiance, is now in quarantine in bellevue hospital. live in new york, lana zak, abc news. reena, t.j.? we know this is incredibly dense city. a lot of people in this city. a lot of concern. he was on planes, trains and automobiles. so what is the threat? what are the chances? that s the question everyone else has. what are the chances this man that was moving around so much could possibly have infected other people? the department of health identified four close contacts that they are actually actively watching. as far as the cab driver they ve been told me and his passengers are not at any risk of contracting ebola. i know the 4.3 million new yorkers who ride the subway every day are sure to be wondering whether or not they ve contracted ebola. i m told by all the experts that it s very, very unlikely that any of them have. all the experts feel like they ve really found this early and have been able to isolate him. how likely is this to spread to other cities besides new york? new york is in a unique position because it knows that it receives so many international travelers. they ve really been preparing for this sort of possibility. and they really think they ve managed to get it on time. of course, all the experts still say that it is very likely that the united states will continue to see other ebola cases but that they hopefully will be isolated and that those that those people can be isolated within these special hospitals to prevent an outbreak from occurring in the united states. thank you so much, lana zak reporting from new york. stay with abc news as we cover the latest ebola case. look for updates on abcnews.com and more live coverage on america this morning and good morning america. new video of the ottawa gunman running into parliament as bystanders raced for cover. he s already shot and killed a young canadian soldier at the war memorial and with guards firing at him he ran down a hall past rooms filled with members of parliament. one had her 2-month-old baby with her. i was terrified, of course. the first thing i thought when i was sitting is how can i make sure the baby is not yelling and crying? the attack was ended by parliament s sergeant at arms who shot and killed the intruder. seen moments after the shooting, canadian authorities say the gunman acted alone in both attacks. the gunman 32-year-old michael zehaf-bibeau was a loner, troubled and frequent run-ins with police. brian ross reports the gunman was apparently on a suicide mission. reporter: 15 years ago, michael bibeau was a chubby student at a catholic high school. he was shot dead, carrying out a one-man suicide mission. this picture, which is authentic but from an unknown source, shows he was armed with a small caliber winchester hunting rifle as he stormed parliament, apparently upset because he d not received a passport to head to syria. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives. reporter: bibeau s rise to jihad began after he left the catholic high school out of montreal in 1999. over the next ten years he was little more than one of life s losers, a petty criminal and drug user, often homeless. his conversion to islam led him to this mosque outside vancouver three years ago where he was remembered as troubled. he was the kind of person that people around him wouldn t feel too comfortable hanging around. reporter: even without a passport, he was able to cross the border into the u.s. four times. most recently last year at a time authorities say he d already become radicalized. bibeau s parents said they had not seen their son for five years until his mother had lunch with him last week. in a statement they said they are cry, not for their son but for the soldier their son killed. brian ross, abc news, new york. new york police say terrorism may have been the motive behind a grisly attack on a group of patrol officers in queens. a man wielding a hatchet attacked four police officers in the street wounding two of them. one critically before he was shot dead in a hail of gunfire by two other officers. a bystander was also shot and wounded. the attacker is identified as 32-year-old zale thompson who once served in the navy. the manhunt finally over for murder suspect led out of a maryland prison by mistake. rodriguez was captured near his home in baltimore just blocks from the murder scene. he was accidentally allowed to walk free a week ago while awaiting trial. corrections officials took two days to notice the error. they d confused his old case with the current more serious charges. another high school football season has been canceled because of hazing. school administrators say the hazing at central bucks high school near philadelphia occurred during the preseason. investigators describe the incidents as humiliating initiation rights. varsity and junior varsity coaches have also been suspended pending further investigation. the team had two games left on the schedule. the football season is ending early for a colorado high school football team. this time injuries and a lack of players are to blame. cheyenne mountain high school started with 41 varsity players but ended with just 12 healthy players. the school ended last week s game early and will forfeit the final two games of the season. we probably started with 30 less kids this year, so that i m sure contributed but never seen never been in the situation around a program or working with a program where we couldn t finish a season. the colorado springs team ends with one loss and one win, nine losses. it was shut out five times. now turning to those air bags that can explode in the front seat of your car. the japanese company that makes them sat the center of a preliminary investigation. the lawmakers want to expand that to some 30 million vehicles. the recall could become the largest in history. manufacturers could take years to replace all those air bags. investors seem to be losing patience with amazon. amazon s stock lost more than 10% of its value after the e-commerce giant announced its worst quarterly loss in 14 years. amazon has been responding loads of money on products and services and its kindle fire smartphone has been $170 million disappointment. wall street was expecting a much smaller loss. wall street did like the news that more than 100 sears and kmart stores will close and lay off thousands of workers, some before the holidays. sears disputes the report from a financial tracking service, although it didn t fully deny it. the struggling retailer will disclose details next month about how many stores will close and where. topping our health headlines, continuing our theme here of giving you news of why it s good to drink. raise your glass once again this weekend. it may help your memory. researchers found light drinking light drinking after the age of 60 okay. i missed that detail. i have to wait until 60? may help maintain cognitive health. it helps the hippocampus, the brain s memory muscle. two drinks a day for men, one for women. the kind of alcohol doesn t really matter. what was it yesterday? beer is good for you if you are trying to have a child? yes, procreate. and there you go. good for your memory as well. happening today in london, the auction of an extremely rare bottle of 100-year-old champagne. it s not just the age here that makes it so remarkable. this stuff is special because of where it was harvested. the champagne region in france back in 1914. the sweetest of summers that s yielded the sweetest of grapes. and how much is it? it s expected to fetch more than $6,000. really? maybe someone like you who lives in the fancy apartment that you talk about all the time. do you know my apartment right now is around the corner from bellevue where the ebola patient is? i kid you not. we have changed our opinion on your apartment now. coming up in the mix, combining your favorite ingredients from doughnut bacon cheeseburger to make one treat. you ll hate this actually. you ll need a workout to burn off those calories. how about a trampoline routine. the ups and downs later on world news now. announcer: world news now weather brought to you by united health care. we do? 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reporter: in many cases highlighting a generational divide. those who spanked in the past saying it s fine for the present. i love this because i used to beat you with it. reporter: experts say that tradition may not be the best way to teach your kids a lesson. our discipline approaches should be around giving kids practice building skills, giving them practice doing things the right way. reporter: a funny take i told you to spank him, not crush his spirit. reporter: on a serious issue. mara schiavocampo, abc news, new york. crushing his spirit. that s key. that s an important point. you know, to each his and her own. lord knows i got whoopings often growing up and, you know, is there a is there a statute of limitations? well, that explains a lot. i turned out all right. really? apparently i can have my parents arrested. in the 80s they d send us home with these buttons, the child abuse hot line. i threatened my mom a time or two i was going to call the number. did you get spankings? no. now that explains a lot. two different parenting tactics. coming up, the latest exercise craze. working out on a trampoline. is this effective or just a gimmick. either way you look at it, it looks like fun to me. it s our try-day friday. in our next half hour, some intense high-speed moments caught on tape. bikers facing off with highway police. it s happening more and more often. we take a look at an alarming trend. you re watching world news born from 1945 through 1965 have the highest rates of hepatitis c, but most don t know they re infected? people can live for decades without symptoms, but over time hepatitis c can cause serious health problems. if you were born during these years, the cdc now recommends that you get a blood test for hepatitis c. so talk to your doctor and find out if you have hepatitis c. it could save your life. know more. the latestxercis the latest exercise craze you ll always hear about the new and creative ways people are trying to stay in shape. this next one seems like more than just a trend. it s called jump life. the workouts take place on trampolines. abc s lifestyle and travel editor genevieve shaw brown shows us how it s done on this try-day friday. reporter: workout warriors looking for a high energy fast-paced routine to help them reach their fitness goal? look no further. it s time to take a leap of faith on this latest fitness craze. literally. what has these fitness fanatics jumping for joy? the fun. they say they re working out but having such a great time. people leave with smiles on their face because they feel like not only did they work out, they come out all sweaty but they also feel like a kid again. reporter: i didn t want to jump to conclusions, so i went to jump life gym in manhattan to check it out. i m thinking this will be like jane fonda goes clubbing on a backyard trampoline. and that s pretty much what i get. you can lose anywhere like up to 600 calories. depending on your height, weight, intensity you take the class to. reporter: this major workout even safe for people who have been injured. it s low impact. a lot of people who have existing injuries like knee problems, back problems, find it a very, very comfortable way of working out and getting their fitness in. reporter: and it turns out people all over the world are jumping on this workout craze. berlin and frankfurt and hamburg, everywhere it s starting now. great energy. great vibes. great music and it s just a fun workout. genevieve shaw brown, abc news, new york. what are you grumbling about? 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still to this day? yeah, i think it is a nice song. he s even saying it s not a good song. well, maybe he ll change his mind after we again? discuss it later. hello. i m t.j. holmes alongside reena ninan. the big story, this just broke just a few hours ago here in new york. now it has a lot of folks concerned. we re going to kick off this half hour. the latest on the ebola case. the doctor in new york city testing positive for the deadly virus after returning from west africa. a 33-year-old doctor treating ebola patients in guinea. one of the countries devastated by the disease. he is now in isolation at a manhattan hospital. his girlfriend quarantined. the doctor rode the subway, took a car service here in new york just the night before he fell ill. abc s linsey davis has more on how this all unfolded. reporter: inside this ambulance rushing to bellevue hospital, 33-year-old craig spencer. a doctors without borders physician suffering from a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. a confirmed case of ebola right in the heart of new york city. i know it s a frightening situation, but the more facts you know, the less frightening this situation is. reporter: dr. spencer had been in guinea, one of three hot zone countries. last thursday he flew home connecting through brussels before arriving at jfk airport. he d been monitoring his temperature and reported his fever. police officers in masks, neighbors anxious. a local councilman trying to calm fears. frankly, people in the neighborhood are scared, and some of them are panicked. i had one gentleman who wouldn t even shake my hand because he was scared. reporter: the health department says a team of disease detectives immediately began to actively trace all of the patient s contacts to identify anyone who may be at potential risk. the patient is now in isolation. the health department has a team of disease detectives who have been at work tracing all of the patient s contacts, and we are prepared to quarantine contacts as necessary. reporter: in recent days, bellevue hospital has been holding drills in case a possible ebola patient comes through their door. those plans going into motion. it took only a few hours to determine that spencer did, indeed, test positive for ebola. linsey davis, abc news, new york. this is what we know about dr. spencer s past few days. he left guinea october 14th, stopped in brussels before arriving in new york on the 17th. he sticks to guidelines checking his temperature twice a day. this past tuesday he feels tired. wednesday, spencer takes the subway to brooklyn to a bowling alley and hops in a cab back home. he notifies authorities yesterday morning when he comes down with a 103 fever and also has diarrhea. at some point he also went for a three-mile jog, but health officials say there s no reason for alarm. you should stay with us here at abc news as we cover the latest ebola infection. look for more live updates in our next half hour and on america this morning. we know more about the man who stormed canada s parliament building. he was a loner who had drug problems, criminal record and converted to islam. abc s karen travers reports authorities still want to know much more about him. reporter: this dramatic video shows bystanders scrambling as michael zehaf-bibeau races toward canada s parliament with a small caliber hunting rifle. this picture authentic but from an unknown source shows him up close with that weapon. police say zehaf-bibeau came to ottawa earlier this month to get a passport. his mother telling authorities her son wants to travel to syria. this rampage may have been a result of him not getting that travel document. i think the passport figured prominently in his motives and his i m not inside his head, but i think it was central to what was driving him. reporter: canadian authorities said they have 93 citizens under investigation or surveillance as possible terrorists. zehaf-bibeau may have had extremist views, but he was not on that watch list. had we have known that he wanted to travel to syria, then he certainly would have been. reporter: abc news learned zehaf-bibeau crossed into the u.s. on four separate occasions. canadian and u.s. officials are trying to retrace his steps to figure out where he went and who he may have met with. concerns are growing in canada and in the u.s. about homegrown terrorists who may be trying to join isis in syria or iraq. canadian officials say they still have a lot to learn about how and why michael zehaf-bibeau turned to radicalism. t.j., reena? karen, thank you. three people are dead after a midair collision in maryland between a helicopter and private plane. all three fatalities were aboard the helicopter which was on a training flight. the two men on the plane were injured but have already been released from the hospital. they were able to deploy a parachute which lessened the plane s impact on the ground. the helicopter hit a storage facility as it came down. a powerful storm system moving through washington state yesterday spawned a tornado. the funnel cloud was caught on video in longview, washington. meteorologists measured it at an ef-1. winds up to 110 miles an hour. it carved a path of destruction 50 miles wide and a mile long. luckily caused no reported injuries. on the east coast, a powerful nor easter slammed much of new england leaving its own path of destruction. abc s rob marciano was in the heart of the storm zone just outside boston and has the latest. reporter: with howling winds near hurricane strength and nearly a half a foot of rain, the northeast is getting lashed by a nor easter. conditions in peabody, massachusetts, so severe schools canceled. drivers there in high water. this man had to be carried out to safety by firefighters. along the coast, boats run aground, crashing waves up to 18 feet high. dangerously close to homes. across the northeast, a tangled mess of downed trees, crushed cars and debris. thick trunk trees snapped clean in half. in connecticut, downed power lines sparking this gas fire. we periodically go and monitor it to make sure the heat from the fire isn t affecting the home or spreading to it. reporter: luckily, no injuries. in rhode island, wind and rain so severe, drivers abandoned their cars. this won t be the strongest storm new englanders see this winter, but certainly a large one and slow mover. it s done its damage as far as beach erosion already. it will move out through the day on friday but not before taking some of this coastline with it. rob marciano, abc news, massachusetts. wow. that was an interesting tag there. rob is the best out in the field. worked with him for a long time. he s fantastic out there. good to see him out there. hope he s in a warmer area right now. now here s a look at today s weather. the nor easter is blowing out to sea lingering behind showers across new england. heavy rain in the pacific northwest and up to six inches. cool across much of the northern half of the country. 50s and 60s. but dry conditions in the midwest. 70s and 80s. 96 degrees for phoenix. a lava flow on the move threatening thousands of residents on the big island of hawaii. it s advanced more than five football fields in the past 36 hours. the flow is less than a mile away from the town of pahoa. authorities say it s only a matter of time before residents there are forced to evacuate. they hope to give them at least three days notice. we see these pretty pictures, but that s scary stuff out there. it devoured 130 acres of terrain by thursday afternoon. unstoppable, huh? what do you do? you just have to get out of the way. probably just a matter of time. hopefully everybody will be all right. our friends out in hawaii. some of the big island residents are used to it. it s been erupting it began in 1983. i guess this is something they know comes with paradise. comes with paradise, right? we ve got a sight out of idaho coming up. a captivating sight here. as seen from high above, it s a bird s-eye view of the corn maze at the farmstead in meridian. this year it s carved out of the wizard of oz theme. all right. okay. i see it now. emerald city, dorothy. lots of detail. planning the maze takes about a year. i would imagine so. there s no place like home, though. if i could click my heels right now. you say that every morning. coming up in the skinny, hollywood a-lister who is selling lingerie but, of all places, at target. first, a big scare on the highway. motorcyclist who defy police and frighten other drivers. important safety advice on the road. you re watching world news now. announcer: world news now announcer: world news now weather brought to you by metamucil multi-health. there are two reasons why i need to keep an eye on my health. ugh! we won! that s why i take metabiotic, a daily probiotic. with 70% of your immune system in your gut, new multi-health metabiotic with bio-active 12 helps maintain digestive balance and is proven to help support a healthy immune system i take care of myself, so i can take care of them. experience the meta effect with our new multi-health wellness line and see how one small change can lead to good things. does your carpet ever feel rough and dirty? 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even the video here was a little annoying. standing in the snow disrobing. he s giving everything to this beautiful woman that he saw in a crowded space. that s why the song was huge, but he is now saying it was a problem for his career because some of the even the record company pigeon holed him into this thing marketing towards women. then you re shutting out 50% of your possible fan base. it did well and the song still sticks. he also points out that marketing also painted him to be an insanely serious person, although he considers himself anything but. blunt has a new album out and hopes it will spawn a single half as successful as you re beautiful. don t be ashamed, james. milk is as long as you can. a lot of people have a lot of apologizing to do for a lot of songs if this is the direction we re going to go. joan rivers. news about her. her daughter melissa will be inheriting the bulk of her estate after her recent and sudden passing. as melissa is joan s only child, it s no big surprise she d be the benefactor. but the amount is impressive. over $100 million. joan who had been performing just days before her death had amassed quite a fortune. $75 million just in cash. that will all go to melissa as well, including her $35 million condo on new york s upper east side. an insider divulged this information also saying that melissa s son cooper will receive his own share of joan s estate. it s, of course, no consolation for losing their mother. we talk about all this money, but they d much rather have joan back. halle berry back in the news for her latest business venture. no stranger to baring some skin. it s only fitting she ll launch her own lingerie label. the 48-year-old actress reviving a french luxury line named scandal. there s a twist. it s going to be sold at target. i love that. for the very affordable price range of $7 to $18. berry discovered the label while shopping in paris. after searching its history, researching it, she decided to relaunch it. scandal is expected to hit target next week. it s target and scandal. fans of the web series between two ferns got their first new episode since last high-profile guest interview and that was president obama. it continued with a-listers. this time brad pitt. and introduced as bradley pitt that s how they introduced him. the satire was heavy with lots of signature and awkward moments including the two playing chicken with their chewing gum. also a brief intermission from louie c.k. who did a stand-up set that didn t go over well. also not going over well was this question. tell me what it was like the first time you laid eyes on angelina. was it like one of those classical love stories like when i don t know, when ross first saw rachel? you know that show friends. have you seen that? i ll be there for you that is awesome. you might recall pitt used to be married to rachel from friends. jennifer aniston. and he played it off pretty well. i can t tell if the guests are just playing into it or some get uncomfortable and it gets awkward. come on. they knew it was coming. brad was having a good time. seemed like fun. you have to be a good sport to go on that show. you do. good job, brad. but this year, we ll fight back at the first sign of sick. no more feeling coughy, mucusy.just.yucky. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. is this about me? am i the yucky? 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(awkwardly laughs) get out. enough s enough! d-con baits are fomulated to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. spots and residues. wow, what a difference! all right. friday. we made it. it s been a busy week keeping track of a lot of stuff, including developments with ebola, the fight against terrorism and a familiar face we haven t seen in a while. and don t forget the blessed lady who covered madonna. it s all here in our friday rewind. there s a man with a rifle shooting at a bunch of people. so we you know, i yelled at all my guys, there s a guy shooting. so everyone, get down, get down. but let there be no misunderstanding. we will not be intimidated. canada will never be intimidated. after 21 days of being on that watch list, there s zero chance that any of those young men or that louise carries the ebola virus. thousands of hours have been spent in an effort to find him. we think perhaps today proved their worth. he had actually turned towards me, and that s where you could see the mud on his face, you could tell what height he was standing next to. could go back as far as 20 years based on some statements we have. his level of cooperation and the things he s told us would indicate possibly other victims could surface. when you have an air bag that s designed to protect you that can explode into shrapnel and kill you, this is an extreme situation. he honored women s features. he honored our bodies. he wasn t afraid to pull back and let the woman be the star of the look. i was just lucky to get to wear his designs. i fell in love with my boss in a 22-year-old sort of way. it happens. but my boss was the president of the united states. like a virgin touched for the very first time you know, there was an editorial by conservative bishops and in it they said that nun, not even the americans of sister act would have thought of such a reckless move. reckless? reckless? that s a strong word. that is strong. i love her. did you download her song yet? not yet. you should do that. i will after that comment. hope you liked our look back at the week. a whole lot more where that came from. and log on to our facebook fan page, wnnfans.com. announcer: this is abc s world news now, informing insomniacs for two decades.
otherwise, what his motivations are. now, in terms of the new reports coming through that there are explosives in the cafe and two more around the cbd, well, we did hear these reports very early on, early in the morning, just a couple of hours into that siege. now of course police can t confirm these to us at the moment. but you have to take into account that they ve set up quite a 200-meter exclusion zone around this lindt cafe. now in the vicinity of this cafe is not only channel 7 news, which is a major tv broadcaster here in australia, but we re atalking about the u.s. consulate, the reserve bank, major branches of the common woelt bank and also i have close by is the new south wales parliament. so this has had maximum impact. the media of the world, the eyes of the world are now concentrated their focus on the cbd. and, look, it is somewhat a confused situation. i think i heard you discussing before that police aren t forthcoming with information. this is certainly a moving feast. and they don t like to give information until a situations like this are resolved. we ve been told earlier on today that the man inside, the brother, that he s now referring himself to is monitoring media. and obviously, he s using media as a very powerful tool, confirmed just a couple minutes ago that he s now contacted a third media organization, and you have to take into account as well, the propaganda effect of staging this siege right outside a fourth media organization, which is channel 7. i just want to say, i just want to draw down on this straight. we re saying that the gunman s contacted a radio station and two tv stations not directly, but via hostages so he relays the information to a hostage who then sends it to someone at one of these news organizations. at the same time, through these hostages, he s relayed information that there s two bombs in the cafe and two bombs hidden somewhere in the central business district. is that pretty much what we understand? that s where we stand, but you have to take into account the timeline across the day. first it was the radio station that was contacted. then there was about four hours until hostages contacted channel 9. now from reports i m seeing, it is through the hostages, yes. they haven t spoken directly to this man calling himself the brother. but obviously, it would seem that he didn t get what he wanted when he first called the radio station. there s been a lapse of a couple hours, and then things have really ramped up in the last two hours or so. and he s as far as we know, not getting what he wanted. which is this conversation with the prime minister. yes, and no word from police, not a hint of a word about any bombs. yeah. that could be in the coffee shop or in the area. and laura, sorry, these details you may or may not know. and if you don t, that s fine. but when they talk about bombs, i mean, that s a fairly generic term. it could refer to a small explosive or something that has a huge impact. exactly. was anything like that specific? that s exactly right. and we know how unsophisticated an explosive can be. a bomb can be, and no, we don t have anything specific as that. we don t know if what materials are involved, but we, the only thing we do know is that this man walked in with a shot gun, it s believed. and one of the, a witness who didn t get caught up in this siege situation actually saw that gun and then, of course, left the building, and he s out of harm s way. interesting, more interesting details from you, and we appreciate you joining us, and we know it s hard to decipher truth from whatever. but you ve brought us some information. and we appreciate it. it just adds to the ongoing confusion. laura there joining us from sky news australia, bringing us up to date with this information. we had heard some information about this earlier in the day, and we actually stayed away from it because it was unconfirmed. it was initially said that as laura just reported then, that he had contacted this radio station. he did, in fact, want to speak to the prime minister live on the radio, but it was all unconfirmed. so we just stayed away. as she said, we expect to hear from the prime minister again, within the next 20