university of new south wales and volunteers helpers and crew telling families not to worry. they ve got enough fresh food on board for two weeks. more dehiydrator food. too much snow and too much cloud, alex. so martin, we had an explanation earlier that was just an excellent one that you offered on how this happens because a lot of us can t envision how a ship gets going through the ice and you think you can see this coming. you need to turn around because you can anticipate the problems you re going to have. and yet, you gave a good explanation for those who weren t up early this morning, can you say how this happened again? well, yeah. i you say they should turn around. that would certainly be a good idea if you could. once the ice comes in, it comes in so quickly that you can t. by the way, there s nowhere to go. they were trying to go home. the thing is that the as the exhibition leader chris tourney
don t forget the russians are going to be playing host to the fifa world cup in 2018. there s a formula one race in sochi coming up after this also. this is russia s way of asserting itself through the sporting scene just the way china did. this is big stuff. yeah. can we talk about some of the big stars? i m curious about bode miller. a few years back, he was supposed to be the big hope for gold. and he ended up flaming out. what about this year? is he a threat? one step back, alex. bode was supposed to be the big deal in 2006, didn t come through. in 2010, he absolutely came through. he took all of last year off to fix his knee. and this year, is he skiing with once again the only way bode can with style, panache, you pick your word. he is once again bode the man, and if you know skiing, there s only one bode miller. he s the best male skier the united states has ever produced. he skis only one way, all out.
excollection of americans records is legal. in this his ruling he suggests the collect of data helps had the government connect the dots. any evidence in this collection has ever stopped one terror threat? not according to the president s own review board. they found that there was little evidence to suggest that this was really helpful in stopping terrorist threats, at least this particular program. you know, alex, this is something that s going to be decided on a political level again before it even reaches the supreme court level. the patriot act expired, the provision in the patriot act that authorizes this bulk data collection program expires at the end of 2014. so congress is going to have another chance to speak on this. the president has his own recommendations to the recommendations he got. there are a lot of opportunities for this law to be tweaked before justices weigh in on it again. you make a point there because david, in the final news conference of the year, the
the hackers didn t steal it. that would take decades for them to crack each pin independently. it s just not worth their time to go after those encrypted pins. but other cyber security experts aren t so sure. target may be understating the significance because in the past, the criminals have actually decrypted the pins and used it to steal cash from consumers. some frequent target shoppers feel the retailer s offer of free ked monitoring just isn t enough. we weren t aware that target wasn t protecting this information and now as a consequence, we re the ones having to foot the bill for all this extra effort. reporter: this really came at a crucial time for target. holiday shopping season. target s shares are down around 2.3% since news of the cyber attack broke, alex. i ll bet. people are concerned. for sure. gave gutierrez, thank you so much. unemployment benefits for more than 1.3 million people
seriously disputed citing examples of disrupted plot. in response, the aclu says it will appeal the ruling. president obama is making a personal appeal to extend unemployment benefits ending today for more than a million americans. let s go to nbc s peter alexander in hoon lulu, hawaii, where the president is spending his holidays. peter, who is the president reaching out to? well, alex, he reached out to this bipartisan pair of senators just yesterday in hopes that he can give some of a boost to that what they put together, dean heller the republican from nevada as well as jack reed, the democrat from the rhode island. the president apparently told them that this is an urgent economic priority, that according to the white house right now. to give you a sense of the urgency associated right now, it affects 1.3 million americans, the long-term unemployed. the folks who now see the expiration effective today. they would have been receiving weekly benefits about $300 a