Inside america. At this hour were waiting for official word from the white house about the origin of the computer hack attack, prompting the company to halt the release of the film. The film depicts the assassination of north koreas leader kim jongun. Joins us our justice reporter evan perez. Evan, clearly, when the Administration Says its about to name north korea as the sponsor of this attack, thats a very, very big deal. Its a big deal because they dont do this very likely. This is not something that happens usually this quickly. Were talking about an attack that just happened a few months ago. There was a case recently in the last few months in which the u. S. Accused china, the Peoples Liberation army and a unit there of launching attacks against u. S. Companies to steal economic secrets. Here were talking about north korea essentially censuring the United States movie industry. And that has really big implications. This is not something that even our government is able to do. It was already used to censuring their own activities, but now theyve reached outside of their borders. Its interesting because were used to a fair amount of bluster and often idol threats from north korea. Does this seem because its in the cyber realm, this is something more gray . Here is what theyve done. Normally we see these threats when theyve created a new missile. Often these missiles dont work. They explode when they launch them, and its very embarrassing for the regime. In this case theyve been able to carry out an attack very suck selvesly now because this movie has been pulled and they didnt have to do any of those things. They didnt have to spend nearly as much money. It was successful in a way that none of those other threats have ever been. Theres two things that happened here. One there was this cyber assault on a Company Inside america, and the scope of it was vast. What they pulled off was a very, very big attack. Later, very recently there was a threat of actual physical violence, warning that if these movies open, there would be some kind of september 11th style attack. Is it the belief in the u. S. Government that north korea is behind even that threat, that threat of actual violence . There was some discussion behind the scenes as to whether or not they were even capable of really carrying out a physical attack like that. What this threat really did was it opened up the possibility of chaos on what is really one of the biggest movie going days in this country, Christmas Day and you can have people calling in bomb threats, clearing move i have theaters around the country, simply because this threat was made. Its not believed the hackers had the ability to do this. What they did was invite chaos. Evan perez, thanks for joining us to talk about this. Appreciate it. There is a lesson here. The president is saying that one of the lessons here is that Cyber Security is not as tight as it should be. He said that in an interview. Lets turn to our chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto in washington. Jim, its interesting. We understand were living in a digital era, Cyber Attacks are not uncommon. But a target of a movie studio, people are trying tound stand how that can happen and also what the government may be doing to fix it. Starting with how it can happen, to be clear, people shouldnt have any doubts about this. These kinds of attacks have been going on for years, not from north korea but from china, against u. S. Government departments, military contractors, private companies, stealing business information, stealing high security information on weapon systems, et cetera, with a great deal of success. It took the u. S. Government really a number of years to confront china directly and publicly with that information and in part with what evan mentioned there, with this identification of a particular military unit outside of shanghai that was responsible for this attack. In effect showing and saying to china we know youre doing this. Now we have north korea. Until this point it wasnt known that north korea had such a capability to carry out an attack with such success. Now they have shown that. One of the difficulties with this story is quantifying the cost of it. You can say, well, theyre stealing secrets, how much is it worth . Who is losing . How does it work out . Here you have a very definable cost of this. The movie cost i think 45ds million to make. Its out of the movie theaters. Thats a 45 million price tag for a major american studio in addition to the fear factor, that on Christmas Day you have families who will go see what they thought was a silly movie and now that movie is pulled from the movie theaters which is beyond that as well, a First Amendment issue. One attack from a very unpredictable country with a very broad ranging effect. Jim, its easy to say it is about a silly movie, that in a certain way has colored the story all along. Now as we sit here today, as evan is reporting, as were reporting if, in fact, this is north korea that sponsored a successful cyber attack on the u. S. , on an american company, doesnt the United States, doesnt the white house have to respond and what are the options here . Absolutely. Were told the white house is planning they made clear they are planning a response. Once they get around to identifying north korea as being behind this attack. Theyve got a lot of tools in their sars nall. One, they can take the path they took with the Chinese Military entity which is seek out who is responsible for this perhaps name, if an individual is responsible. They were able to do this with the China Military unit because they were able to identify mark mers the code that led them to particular individuals. They announced charges. Of course, theyre never going to get these guys out of china, but public live achb nounsing those charges have some effect. There are broader economic sanctions the u. S. Can take as well. This would be the nuclear bomb, the nuclear option, excuse the expression, to block north korean business from dollardenominated trade by going aefr the chinese banks that deal with them. That would cost north korea an enormous amount of money. You take economic and legal steps. We should be looking for these steps to be taken by this Administration Quite soon. Well be waiting for that. Jim sciutto, thanks. Who exactly inside north korea is behind this . It turns out they have a small army of cyber warriors, a Secretive Group called bureau 121. Our kyung lah found out this bureau is working to wage cyber war on anyone the north considers an enemy of the state. Were learning more about the Shadow Agency out of north korea. The government is confirming here in south korea that it does exist. Were hearing from experts who allude to something of 1,000 to 1,800 secret agents around the world, that it may be a much more organized attempt by north korea to try to move into this parallel war of cyber war. She also spoke with a defector who worked as a computer analyst for the north. Listen to what he had to say about this bureau 121. Translator cyber attack capability is much more dangerous than Nuclear Weapons because often its hard to find the attacker. At low cost an effort, north korea can cause an incredible impact on society, politically, economically and militarily. Peter brooks is a security expert and former Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for asian and pacific affairs. Good to have you with us, peter. Good to be here. Theres a lot of aspects of this that i think are particularly damaging and concerning. Perhaps most chilling is if they can essentially censure us here in the United States by pressuring a studio to shut down a controversial film, at least to them, what more can they do . And do they have their sites on, say, disrupting Something Like our Financial System or Government Affairs . Well, this is obviously, michaela, a worldwide wakeup call, worldwide web wakeup call. This is something thats gotten a lot of publicity. As jim and evan have pointed out, this has been going on for a long time. Its not often north korea. But we have seen them get implicated in the Obama Campaign in 2008, the Mccain Campaign organizations and a number of attacks against south korea. We are so slavishly dependent on computers, whether our personal lives, professional lives, that this is a target, a major target for international organizations. There are reports out there that say there are over 100 nations out of probably 200 in the world that have some sort of offensive cyber capability. Clearly theres any number of important targets. You mentioned one, economics, our Financial Health, computers that might be involved on wall street and other parts of the country involved in finances. This has been talked about for a long time. Not only by nation states but other groups such as al qaeda. Remember, the attacks of 9 11, that was about getting at our Financial Health and bringing down the United States economic strength by attacking those towers in new york city. After that we heard a lot of talk about cyber terrorism and financial districts and financial concerns and banks have always been high on that list. Of course, cyber criminals are doing this right now when thats theyre stealing from peoples credit cards and bank accounts. Peter, the United States does some of this, too. Famously the United States and israel took out with cyber methods some kind of eye rarian nuclear interest several years ago. The United States has vast experience here. That gets to my next question. Should the u. S. Be better at this, with apple, twitter, microsoft, everything . We invented this stuff. Should we be better than north korea . I think we are quite good at it. The question is will the private sector do whats needed to improve Cyber Security. When youre talking about improving Cyber Security, youre talking about dollars. If you dont think you can invest in this, you kin vest the capital in something else. This is a wakeup call. One of the things we need to do is invest in Cyber Security, not only at the governmental levels to protect Defense Industrial secrets, but also our private sector, our intellectual property. In fact, the reference there earlier about the chinese hackers who were indicted in the u. S. Court system, they were targeting things like the nuclear industry, the stole lar industry and i believe also information technology. Worldwide web wakeup call. Peter brooks, always good to have you. We think about how this is a really big wakeup call for hollywood. Remember a few years ago there was the file sharing and music sharing, piracy concerns. Now theyve had to realize their systems are really vulnerable. I think hollywood is vulnerable. This is embarrassing for them. When you have a statesponsored act of cyber terror here, it goes beyond that issue to be sure. Ahead this hour, did terror just win . Sony caves to the threats from north corey yeah. Well talk about the cost to the company and perhaps also the cost to the country. Well also discuss how the pope played a significant role in president obamas move to ease tensions with cuba. Well take a look behind the scenes of the negotiations. Hello. Im an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. So my buddy here is going to help me find it. Here we go. Woo who, woah, woah, woah. Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart associations go red for women campaign. If you see it i hope youll let us know. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. Just look at those two. Happy. In love. And saving so much money on their Car Insurance by switching to geico. Well, just look at this setting. Do you have the ring . Oh, helzberg diamonds. Another beautiful setting. Im not crying. Ive just got a bit of sand in my eyes, thats all. Geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. The cyber attack is very serious. Were investigating it. Were taking it seriously. Well be vigilant. If we see something that we think is serious and credible, well alert the public. For now, my recommendation would be that people go to the movies. President obama weighing on the threat of hackers. While the film has been shelved for now, you hear the president there telling americans, go ahead, dont be afraid to go to the movies. The film has been shelved. Sony is not going to release it. Whether you agree with the decision or not, there doesnt seem to be any interpretation that sony caved to this threat of cyber terrorism. The New York Post says kim jong won. Brian stetler, the host of reliable sources is here. If the goal was to keep sony from releasing the film, it worked. Yes. It sounded like extortion at one point. They were saying, if you go to the movies when the interview is playing, youll be in danger. It was effective. These theaters were concerned that americans would be concerned enough not to go at the movies, worried about the other movies premiering next week. Sony had little choice but to cancel. Brian, i am wondering what the conversations are like in other studios in hollywood. What kind of conversations theyre having there. I think theres a little bit of relief that the interview wont be playing, not because it was competition, but it might have scared folks from going to the movies at all. Inside sony, theres a lot of anger. Theres a question about why were they able to go forward with this movie and imperil the whole company. It would have been self censorship. Theres a lot of concern about the precedent being set by essentially caving in and not standing by freedom of expression. Youre hearing it all over the place in hollywood stars, jimmy kimmel, mia farrow, rob low. Mitt romney, the star of a netflix film even spoke out against it. Maybe we should play sound from him it. The white house is debating whether or not to publicly accrues north corey yeah. The Justice Department is expected to make a statement tomorrow. It could be deemed an act of war. Can you imagine if we wind up in a war because of the guys from Pineapple Express . There is some fun there. At the same time he got serious and he said hes ashamed that the theaters fuld movie. Twitter he called it unamerican. Hes not the only one to say that. We havent heard from seth rogen or james franco. Rob lowe tweeted, he said both of us have never seen or heard anything like this. Hollywood has done Neville Chamberlin proud today. Ive been having a hard time, guys, finding defenders of sonys decision. I heard people comment to me, oh, well, i hope somebody leaks it on the internet because i still want to see it. I think that will happen. Ive heard other people say, wait, what if somebody made a movie about assassinating our president or Prime Minister of britain. We would be completely offended by that. Absolutely. Its interesting when you change the equation, it makes you consider a different view. On the one hand, theres no one in the world like kim jongun. Decades ago, fidel castro. I think its really important. We should try to flip the script and think about it from the other point of view. I dont think the United States would threaten to blow up movie theaters. Exactly. Agreed. Agreed. Youre right. There is an important difference. By the way, sonys stock way up. I think investors are relieved by this decision. Well talk about that in a little bit. Sony is a business. Comparing it to neville chamberlain, some kind of national appeasement is slightly different. They have stockholders and Business Decisions to make. Well talk about that in a little bit. 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You call the president appeaserinchief and said president obamas decision to allow the castro regime to plaque mail the United States and abandon our pro democracy principles is an outrage. Those are very strong words, sir. There is this question from people who support the president s move. In your mind was the u. S. Policy towards cuba working to over throw the castro regime . Remember the policy was there for two reasons, and the one who seemed to understand that and stated what those reasons were in 2008 was president obama who now has contradicted himself one more time. This is another groover moment. The policy, number one, for our National Security interest. Youve got to remember when castro had money from the receive yet empire he used it to spread terrorism, to send troops to africa, latin america. Our gis died fighting cuban troops in grenada. That hasnd happened because castro doesnt want to do it but because he doesnt have the money. Thats part one. Now president obama has done everything they can to give him the money. The second thing, as president obama im self stated, its the leverage so when the castro brothers are no longer around, theyre already in their 80s, its the leverage to have a transition towards dem october seechlt remember the sanctions are there until just three things happen, free all political prisoners, not the ones that president obama and castro decide are the ones to free, number two, allow for freedom of press, labor unions, Political Parties and number three, democratic elections. President obama stated in 2008 we needed that leverage and normalization had to be contingent because of the leverage on those conditions taking place and then again not unlike mr. Grooveer, once again, president obama in order to give concessions to a state sponsor of terrorism and hes going to take him off that list, by the way, as another concession. He has given the castro regime everything theyve been asking for for a long, long time. Congressman, im curious. What about the president s assertion that it is time for a change. This is a starting point. It is a new era. It is not 1961. It is 2014. You a new generation of cubans, a new generation of cuban americans that are looking to see change there. We have International Partners that have been pressing for change in our policy towards cuba. There are some that say we should not have sanctions against, for example, iran, another state sponsor of terrorism. The president wasnt very keen either, but we were able to prevail in congress to impose tougher sanctions. There are some that believe we should have never had sanctions against south africa. I believe that was a very dark moment in the history of the United States when we didnt have sanctions towards south africa. I believe if you ask the president , he probably agreed with the sanctions against south after kachlt we have a regime thats on the state sponsor of terrorism list including president obamas administration, put them on the list year after year. We have a regime harboring fugitives, one on the fbis most wanted terrorist lists. These are not just fugitives, these are terrorists harbored by the castro regime. President obama has not demanded they be returned to the United States for sentencing. We have a regime that continues to murder its people, that continues to use every means they can to hurt u. S. National interests and the president s attitude is no problem, things have changed. Things have changed in europe, but they havent changed in north korea, they havent changed in cuba. Again, president obama himself stated that we needed the leverage in order to guarantee a transition to democracy when the castro brothers are not there. But now he has folded to pressure. He has conceded to blackmail, and this is a sad day not only pour the cuban people, but for those who are working for democracy around the world, that frankly were abandoning our principles and the president has broken his word one more time. Congressman mario diazbalart, thank you for being with us. Appreciate your time. Ahead well speak with congressman chris val holland who worked tirelessly to get alan gross freed from that jail. He was on the plane that brought him back to u. S. Soil. Hell join us next. People with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. If you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. Its 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. 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Ask your doctor about farxiga and visit our website to learn how you may be able to get every month free. This was a mistake. This is throwing an economic lifeline to the castros at a moment when their regime was vulnerable. It was a serious mistake. I think its a bad idea. I think theres a reason why i dont think theres been any noticeable change towards making that a more free and prosperous country. Theres a reason why we have the policy in the first place. I think we gave away too much and i feel bad for all the human rights dissidents suffering today and will be suffering tomorrow and still have no freedom. Withering criticism for the president s move to normalize relations with cuba after more than 50 years. Joining us is Maryland Democratic congressman Chris Van Holland on that plane bringing alan gross home. Thank you for joining us. I can imagine its been a bit of a heady time for you. Give us a brief word or two about what it was like to be with alan gross and his wife on the plane yesterday. Sure. The big moment was when we walked off the plane in havana, went across the tarmac, we went into the building where alan gross was waiting, led by his wife judy gross who has spent the last five years relentlessly working to free alan and to see alans big smile. Hes lost some teeth, but he had a big smile, and for the first time he knew it was really the moment he was going to be free. There had been sort of ups and downs over the last five years in terms of hopes that we would get him home, but it was real. You can see it on his face. I think theres universal support and acclaim and happiness to see alan gross here in the United States once again. Less universal are the opinions on the president s overall agreement to normalize relations with cube bachlt when we led in to you you heard from politicians including bob martinez who lashed out against the agreement the president reached. The Washington Post which has largely been friendly to you and also friendly to the president had an editorial that said on wednesday the castros suddenly obtained a comprehensive bailout from the obama administration. The libization will provide havana with a fresh source of desperately needed hard currency and eliminate u. S. Leverage for political reforms. Whats your response to that . I exevery spekt the different opinions. People have been saying for the last 54 years that the castro regime is on its final legs. Any day our policy of isolation and punishing cuba is going to result in regime change and democracy. For 54 years it didnt work. Well intentioned, but it clearly didnt work. What it did do was isolate the cuban people and punish the cuban people but actually helped sustain the castro regime which, of course, has survived eight american president s. When something is clearly not working, you usually try something else. I firmly believe that a policy of engagement with the cuban people, more trade, more communication, more travel, will over time help open things up, not from the top down, but by creating more opportunity, a little more freedom on the island. Again, i think the burden is on the folks who say we should continue the current policy for another five years to say why it will be any different than the last 54. I want to ask you about you talk about punishing cuba. We know among the changes in the policy was fleeing some of the members of the cuban 5. We have some sound i want to play from daughter of one of the men who was shot down over International Waters by one of the cuban 5. Take a listen. The only person that we had responsible for what happened to them, for him to be let go, its a slap in the face to my dad. What is your response to her congressman . You see her grief. You can hear it. Its palpable. Obviously our hearts go out to anybody who has lost a father, a parent, regardless of the circumstances. But its also important to remember that as part of this agreement, were bringing home an individual who was a great asset for the United States, a Cuban National who is in prison right now, been there for 25 years, was going to rot away the rest of his life in cuban prison for having provided the United States government with very important intelligence information, information important to our National Security. Hes coming hope. We dont know his name because it cant be disclosed. But the reality is that person would die in jail without this agreement, and i think its really important to send a message to people around the world who are willing to risk their lives in order to provide the United States with important National Security information that were not going to forget them. So having that person come back sends an important signal to people who want to help the United States and help strengthen our National Security around the world. Congressman van hollen, thanks for joining us. Best of the holidays to you, sir. Thank you. Happy holidays. Boston marathon bombing suspect tsarnaev appeared in court this morning for the first time in more than a year. This was his final Pretrial Hearing before jury selection begins in his murder trial set for january 5g9. Tsarnaev was asked if he was pleased with his lawyers and was up to date on information about his case. Each time the 21yearold answered yes. Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to a 30count indictment. 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The vatican has actually played a role as an intermediary between raul castro government and the Barack Obama Administration since 2009. The vatican was involved in pressing four meetings then, the church in cuba as well has played an interesting role and a number of other countries have also. Whats been going on over the last year, the secret diplomacy, top secret diplomacy to bring the two countries together for talks to arrive at this final agreement is really a concerted effort, kind of behind the scenes diplomacy. Theres a long history of this that we have recorded in our book, but it really shows that out of the public eye, two countries can arrive at a new dawn, a new day as barack obama has put it in future relations. Its interesting when we look at this pope and the things he has done since his papacy began both around the world it has challenged catholic doctrine, but also on the international front. Of course, its not lost on us that he is latin american, very significant. Yes, and his country, argentina, has been in the forefront of efforts along with brazil and mexico to push the Obama White House for better relations with cuba. And that started shortly after barack obama was elected president. He received a lot of pressure about changing policy towards cuba at the first summit of the americas that he attended in 2009, and the vatican has stepped up its role, obviously. The pope is the perfect moral interlocutor. Barack obama met with the pope last spring and a number of us analysts in washington who are familiar with whou howe secret diplomacy worked, felt that was the point where messages would be passed from the cuban government through the vatican and the pope was going to be enlisted to continue to be an active intermediary, interlocutory between the two countries until this very moment. Peter, let me ask you about the castros. Rah rule castro is 83, fidel castro is 88. What does this deal, do you think, mean to them personally and what do you think it means to their legacy . Well, i think that this change in u. S. Policy is a tremendous legacy for president obama, frankly. Its a Foreign Policy victory of great significance. Its changing 55 years of policy. He has taken the courageous step that none of his predecessors since Dwight Eisenhower have taken to change a failed policy and promote u. S. Interests along the way and cuban interests. For the castros, certainly it means the validation of their revolution. They have wanted to have the Mutual Respect of the United States, be treated like an equal party. They have been saying this to the United States literally since august of 1961 when the first secret meeting between the United States and cuba took place, a meeting with a kennedy aid, Richard Goodwin in august of 1961 in asking for better relations, Mutual Respect. For the castros, fidel has lived long enough to see this. Raul has an and dane to modernize and transform the cube an economy from socialism to capitalism. He needs the United States for that. Cubans dont want to live under the dark shadow of a National Security threat from the United States. They prefer to not deal with that and have u. S. Tourists and people come here and travel and spend money and have normal relations. Peter kornbluh, sounds like youll have another book that will be in the offing. Thanks for joining us. Well, we need to write the new chapter for this one. Thats for sure. Thanks for having me. Ahead this hour, sony pulls the film. Now the interview may not ever see the light of day, not only on home video. Normally an injury that keeps a hockey player off the ice. Not this time. A highly contagious disease has sidelined a bunch of players. Youll get the latest this hour. And cialis for daily useor you. Helps you be Ready Anytime the moment is right. 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Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart associations go red for women campaign. If you see it i hope youll let us know. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. There is outrage this morning and serious questions after sony canceled the release of the film the interview after a cyber terror attack that appears to be responsed by north korea and threats of violence on theaters if the film went ahead. Whats happening on wall street appears to be a different story. Sony shares are up since this all happened. Lets talk about that. Joined by senior media correspondent brian stelter. Here crisis and management control expert phraser. What about that. Sony is not the United States of america. Sony is not, you know, even 1940 england with chamberlain. Sony is a company with shareholders. They need to keep the stock holders happy and make money. This an argument to be said sony is doing this because its a Good Business decision . Stopping the film . Absolutely. They have botched the Public Relations from start to today. Theyve been consistent in their awful handling of it. The first thing they did fired their pr guy because the ceos husband was mad that he didnt get her on some panel. Then the embarrassing emails. Then they whimmed out with the theaters forcing them to cancel this awful movie that they should have bellied up to the bar and canceled. They hired david voice a thousand dollars an hour to threaten cnn and everybody else not to use this material and now theyve hired an army of Pr Consultants to clean up the mess. The first thing these geniuses suggest, go and meet with al sharpton. If they thought kim jongun was a snake wait until they meet with al sharpton. It has been a loseloselose Public Relations strategy. Breathtaking in its stupidity. Other than that, it was fine. Other than that it was fine he says. Brian, you got off the phone with him. Youve been on the line. What are they saying . The army of consimultaneousents the way you put it. Something i was asking them, is it over now . A big surprise supposed to come on Christmas Day. All the revelations youre talking about, the embarrassing revelations and emails, a series of leaks every couple days put on the internet. Will the hackers stop now that sony has given in and decided not to run this movie, it couldnt run the movie because none of the theaters were willing to run it, they were in a tight spot there. The answer is we dont know. We dont know if there will be the christmas surprise the hackers threatened. I will give the flip side. Perhaps it was a sound business decision for sony to pull the picture. Sony pictures is a content company an part of the idea of content and artistic expression is freedom of speech. You take risks. And freedom of expression. What does this say to the Artistic Community . What kind of message, pr message, does this send to the Artistic Community that sony just rolled over . Heres my answer. Dont hire seth rogen to create a movie killing somebody whos still alive. That would be my message to them. What i would do, what my Public Relations strategy would be for sony, is like bill cosby. Theres nothing you can do to this now to make this better. Its a disaster. Get off the radar screen, dont meet with anybody, create a good movie, and start to pick up the pieces from this disasser. You think thats all they can do . Absolutely. People are wondering when and if this is going to leak online. Yeah. Is this movie going to show up . Is. But then the concern those folks will face a hack attack in their own right . Thats right. For example, comcast, sources close to comcast say, theyre not willing to put this on their v. O. D. System. 20 of the homes in the United States have comcast, a lot of you are watching comcast. They dont want to make this movie available that way in partly for concerns about being hacked themselves and i think what happened yesterday, as these theaters backed out, then sony went out and reached out to digital distributors and thought any of you take this movie, help us sell it . The answer was basically no. I wonder whether it will leak online illegally, become available in some other way, someone put it on pirate bay. I have to guess some day some how we will see this movie. Is it your patriotic duty to watch it or watch team america. Thanks so much for being with us. Appreciate it. For more of brians fantastic reporting visit cnnmoney. Com do not miss reliable sources sundays at 11 00 a. M. Eastern. A disease usually associated with childhood taking out a growing number of nhl players and this guy, the games biggest star. Good morning everybody. We are about to make more deliveries to more places than anybody on earth. We have the speed. We have the technology. 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Lets talk to our medical correspondent, our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. This is interesting this is kind of racing through the nhl. Whats happening here . You know, this actually happens in what are called congested groups, groups that im not talking nasal congested, they live in congested situations, travel together, play together. This happens on college cam puss with some frequency. Several hundred people a year, you are involved in these mump outbreaks. What happens is, this is interesting, its often a visiting european that is the culprit. What i mean by that is that europeans arent vaccinated against mumps the way we are, and so a european will come to this country, come to perhaps visit a college, and will infect people. Because the person has the mumps and doesnt realize it. In this country people are vaccinated against the mumps but by the time youre a young adult the vaccination has waned to a certain extent. Are there boosters . We are vaccinated for the mumps and warn us if we get it what can we expect . Right. There are boosters adults are supposed to get if in a highrisk group, like a health care worker. Routinely adults do not get boosters in this country. What you can expect is to be miserable for a week or two with a fever, some of the swelling we saw on that hockey player. Now very rarely, there are fertility problems for men, for both genders, you can get meningitis. Usually its just an awful couple weeks and youre done. Another focus, lets do another virus while were at it. Okay. Flu season kind of the start of it. Have you heard any indication of how bad it is . So far, it doesnt seem terribly awful. Its in there are high levels of it in seven states. Thats not so unusual for this time of year. What is unusual this year, michaela, is that the vaccine may not be working so well. There is a strain that is mutated and it is no the in the vaccine and its a parly har l particularly harsh strain. Like every year do your best not to get the flu. Someone is sick, stay away from them, wash your hands. If you vice presideou havent gd even with the new strain the vaccine will help you. Lessen the symptoms you get. Theres always chicken soup. Moms chicken soup, the best. Absolutely. Wholeheartedly. Elizabeth cohen, thanks for that. Want more information visit cnn health. Com. That wraps it up today. It does. Thank you so much for joining us. At this hour. Im john berman. Im michaela. Legal view with Ashleigh Banfield starts right now. You win this round, north korea, but the white house says its, quote, working tirelessly to bring the forces behind a cyber assault on Sony Pictures to justice. With the u. S. And cuba now putting their cold war behind them, a fugitive cop killer, soon could be feeling the heat. And 70 years after the state of South Carolina executed this 14yearold boy, a judge says the trial was a farce. The sfns was cruel. And the conviction, just cannot stand. 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