>> good afternoon from washington. in a few moments, president obama will hold his last news conference of the year before departs for his vacation in hawaii. the growing controversy over the hacking attack on sony and most importantly, sony's reaction. the change in cuban policy and the torture report. immigration policy. the economy and of course the plummeting prices for gas. all topics the president is expected to be grilled about in an hour long back and forth with the white house press corps. nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us live from the white house. thank you for this. this is going to be one power-packed press conference. just counting the topics, so many things to cover in just an hour. >> what is so interesting is that some of these topics we have not heard from the president directly on. that would be the sony hacking north korean developments of today. we heard the president talk