diesel and alien technologies. reporter: even reporters can pronounce golden goat, but some of these names can get your goat. is it baba kush? reporter: if you re really nice to the clerks let s smell the tahoe triangle. reporter: maybe they ll sing it to you. tahoe tahoe it s off to smoke we go reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, denver. we ll explore all the angles of legalizing marijuana next week in a special series gone to pot starting monday night 8:00 eastern on cnn. all right. the pope makes a surprising phone call of who he called and what he said next. and just about a month until the winter olympic becames, and we ll talk to a security expert about how they ll keep the games and the athletes safe.
0 shootings, but they ve seen the reduction in homicides. thanks to trauma centers, hospitals where people who might have died from gunshot wounds 10 or 20 years ago are now surviving. and they re taking their cue from afghanistan and the war there where lots of our military are surviving. a host of influences here. criminologist jack levin of northeastern university, thanks so much for your time and expertise. appreciate it. thank you, fredericka. and happy new year. all right. we ve got much more straight ahead in the newsroom. right now it s 3:00 eastern time. i m fredericka whitfield. here s a look at our top stories. on the heels of a massive snowstorm, a fierce arctic cold front is sweeping across the country threatening to push low temperatures even lower and possibly shattering records across the u.s. and we have the results of a new study on vitamin e and alzheimer s disease. hear what happened when patients took the antioxidant every day and what the lead research