the potential for something that you do, a small act to be shared on social media and suddenly be shared a million times. suddenly, you go from just being five people doing something to being a million people looking at five people doing something, and that i think is encouraging to somebody who s a protester who feels like maybe their voice is small and would be drowned out otherwise. hunter, how about that? well, i think social media s absolutely having an impact. there s no question that we ve seen with occupy wall street, black lives matter, sort of more movements gaining steam than we have in the past. but i again think the biggest thing you know, members of congress are self-interested, and they don t care necessarily about hashtags. what they care about is their own poll numbers. and the second we see this social media snowball start to impact that, i think we may see
it s just a second. it s just yeah, so what do you mean when you say virality? the potential for something that you do, a small act to be shared on social media and suddenly be shared a million times. suddenly, you go from just being five people doing something to being a million people looking at five people doing something, and that i think is encouraging to somebody who s a protester who feels like maybe their voice is small and would be drowned out otherwise. hunter, how about that? well, i think social media s absolutely having an impact. there s no question that we ve seen with occupy wall street, black lives matter, sort of more movements gaining steam than we have in the past. but i again think the biggest thing you know, members of congress are self-interested, and they don t care necessarily about hashtags. what they care about is their own poll numbers. and the second we see this social media snowball start to impact that, i think we may see them, you know, do th
translator: i could never imagine this would happen. we have lived here for more than 1,000 years. we never thought we would be displaced. our houses are destroyed. we won t be able to come back. reporter: in town, the green of the single practiclastic chr tree breaks up the harm around it. just holding this mass requires armed soldiers at the door. translator: we need a guarantee of international protection. there is no safety. we cannot live in the area. today, we have no dignity. we are displaced in our own country. reporter: displaced but not disheartened. translator: we have to have hope in this life. if we don t have hope, then we are finished. reporter: the ancient hymns of one of the oldest christian communities are being sung here once again. a small act of life in a country that has seen so much death.
are being sung here again. a small act of life in a country that s seen so much death. muhammad lila, cnn. all right, muhammad, thanks very much. let s check in on the christmas forecast and the super typhoon bearing down on the philippines. karen mcginnis is live in the weather center. good morning. merry christmas. we have quite a bit of weather to tell you about. a white christmas can be found. a good portion of the united states is looking at some exceptionally warm temperatures, 15 to 20 degrees above where it should be this time of year. the snowfall from the four corners region, arizona, colorado, new mexico is up from the central provinces of dan and into the dakotas. there s quite a bit of fog. also some ice. that s going to be very problematic from folks who are going to try to get some plans for christmas day. it is going to be slow going on some of the secondary roads and certainly the interstates where
going on. you re the director and producer of this documentary. so, how did $15 a month turn into a harvard law degree for him? the thing that happened is that he couldn t afford to go to primary school because at that time, even primary school cost money in kenya. so, he was a top student but because he couldn t afford it, he got kicked out. because he was sponsored by this woman helda beck, he could stay in primary school, he did really well. he got to secondary school. he got a scholarship to stay in secondary school or high school, if you re an american, went to university of nairobi, which is free in kenya, or it was at this time. now it costs money. then he got to harvard and got a fulbright to pay for that. now he s doing i was this work around the world. his classmates who was just as smart as he was and didn t get sponsored, they re still in the village and picking coffee. that one small donation changed the course of his life. you see these and to be quite honest, they re