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you have to commute across all of those. his statement does those in ways that's very craftily done and very intentionally done and that's probably a good thing, but what's also clear is that months ago when we first filed the papers, he sent out an investigator within a couple weeks, and that's rare. usually a governor waits six, eight months down here and he did it in a couple weeks. you have to believe he was driven by the facts. all the aides we talked to were very close to the governor were as outraged as we. >> ben, you called it, his statement, crafty and intentional. some are already calling it political as well and making this decision. we know he's come under scrutiny for comments he's made about the civil rights movement back in mississippi and in some ways calling it, it wasn't so bad or he couldn't remember it being so bad. some call this political. do you think it's necessary, though? because if you read his statement, it sounds like, you know what, i'm going to let them out because it's costing my
chicken wire, wood, a little bit of steel reinforcement. almost 350 pounds. 30 pounds of news print has gone in on the paper-mache shell, just itself. >> reporter: how long have you been working on it? >> almost two weeks now. last four days actually detailing the outside. we'll build the fabric plume or the crown on top of the pineapple. >> reporter: we have our own anderson cooper who's going to be with kathy fwrgriffin in tim square. they're laughing at us now. >> you're in hawaii. >> they have the big giant ball in times square. do you think you're going to overtake it? >> the pineapple is a symbol of welcome. we welcome everyone. this is bigger than life. this is hawaii to us. this is hawaii. >> reporter: if you can't make it to hawaii in terms for new year's eve, the resort is going to put on its website a link to the u-stream of the pineapple dropping life midnight local time on new year's eve. in the meantime, i'm sad because it's going to be my last standup of the year without pants.
here, engine trouble. an emergency landing. no one injured in a fire that broke out, but a couple of people were injured sliding out, evacuating. we'll pass details along as we get them. now a story that people have been watching for some time. for months, a lot of attention has been paid to it, but people have been fighting for years. today they got the word that they wanted. two sisters are actually going to be let out of prison early. because of a decision by mississippi governor hailey barber, releasing these two sisters who are serving two life sentences each for a 1993 robbery. that robbery netted $11. now, that alone had a lot of people pushing for their release. that's only part of the story. the sisters, one of them, jamie scott, you're seeing her on the left. she is ill, desperately ill with kidney disease. gladys scott, her sister, on the right here, wants to give jamie one of her kidneys. haley barbour, the governor, he
pull it from the market and wait? >> well, i think that those things are inversely correlated, right. if you're a buyer right now, it is an incredible time to buy a piece of property. prices have come down like we haven't seen them in a long time. some areas are down to prices where they're at in the year 2000. plus, that coupled with the mortgage money as cheap as we've seen it maybe ever, probably as cheap as we've ever seen it in our lives. i think the idea to get a stable loan product and pay a low price for a house, for a buyer, yeah, it's great to be out there. i think you hit it on the head. as a seller in this marketplace, my advice to people is if you don't have to sell it right now, try to outlast. wait and see. the market has waxed and waned for a long time. if you're waiting for the market to come back, i can assure you, it will, that's not a bad idea. >> look at bristol palin she just got something for $172,000 in cash. there are deals.
state money. that doesn't get at the heart of the issue which a lot of people feel maybe the conviction shouldn't have been done in the first place. secondly, how in the world can these two young black women get double life sentences for an $11 robbery in which they weren't the actually ones robbing the guy? do you think it's necessary for him to still go further and say, you know what, justice was not done in their case? >> i said craftily, as in skillfully. that's what we're pushing for. that's what we want. at the end of the day, the most important thing is that they're free and they're reunited with their families. it's been clear to me where the governor's office has handled it. the conversations we've had with people, you know, who all up and down and very close to him that justice was at issue here. if he chooses to talk about it in a different way, or heck, if he's truly motivated to get to the right decision in a different way, as ben told me when i first told this job,
old year out because you never know what happens next year. that's really very optimistic, isn't it? >> sure is. all your thinking is brighter days are to come. >> for sure. however, we are not getting off to a good new year's with the weather on the east coast. >> especially if you're a person trapped in the new york area airports. we'll get to that in a minute. first christine o'donnell, facing a criminal investigation for allegedly misusing campaign funds. earlier on "american morning" she denied any wrongdoing and claimed that the probe is politically motivated and called out fellow delaware resident suggesting the vice president or someone on the campaign may be behind the allegations against her and the criminal investigation. another storm dumping rain on the already water logged west threatening areas where some homes are filled with mud and could make it to the east coast in time for new year's. we're live with the extreme weather center. also a bomb exploded this
>> if we can for a second just to get your thought on this, let's go back for a second. people hear some of the circumstances surrounding the two going to prison in the first place. they were young women, 19 and 22 at the time, lured a couple of guys into a vehicle. they call it an ambush. they didn't do the robbing. i'm sorry. my producer was in my ear there. to my question that i'm asking here, the two ladies, the conditions, they got two life sentences for an armed robbery. they didn't necessarily commit themselves, accessory to, possibly, that netted $11 and nobody was hurt. how was that possible in the first place? >> i'd help you reconcile it if it was possible to reconcile. t.j., you know, i think in a story like this, we may be focused too much on the feel-good aspect of the -- the governor finally releasing them. but the real issue here is how
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