get $100 cash and only $300 on credit. if you have a larger purchase, i may want to have a backup system or visit your chase bank and determine if they have a new solution for you or get some money out of the bank at the teller. but for a lot of shoppers, it s creating a little bit of a headache for these few final days heading into christmas because many people have long lists and they re running around and finding out their cards don t work when they re trying to buy something that costs a few more dollars than the credit card limit has put into place. kerry sanders for us in ft. lauderdale. kerry, thank you. the year that congress stole. how 2013 became all about thefts of opportunity. also, this still unfolding duck dynasty drama. those are today s topics for our agenda panel. dafna linzer, managing editor msnbc.com, corey dade, contributing editor at the root and lee fang, contributing editor for the nation.
walks. martha: phil, thank you very much. bill: right now they are working on the backup system keeping them going. hopefully that will be the way it is through christmas day. martha: they try to exhaust every possibility figuring this out but they are going to send hip out there. bill: president obama s approval rating has taken a nosedive. does the president still have the clout to move the american people? martha: a retired nsa veteran is speaking out very strongly defending edward snowden as the reports swirled about the possibility of granting him amnesty. this story has taken on a whole
a nationwide shutdown of the u.s. customs computer system delayed passengers arriving on international flights for several hours friday night. in atlanta home to the world s busiest airport, at least 600 people were waiting in custom lines at any given time causing some to miss connecting flights as officials used a manual backup system. border officials have yet to make an announcement on that outage. turning back now to the boston bombing case, investigators are building a case against dzhokhar tsarnaev and three of his friends now accused of obstructing justice. the teens allegedly recognized their friend in surveillance video at the bombing site and not only did they not inform authorities, but they reportedly removed evidence from his room. joining me for more on the case is legal analyst lisa green. thanks for being here. it s unclear how much, if anything, these teens knew about
in part due to celebrity influence. it looks like it s starting to be more popular. celebrity gisele, ricki lake, cindy crawford are making this more popular. at this moment, i thought i could conquer the world. i just felt so empowered and i felt so ready. you can throw anything at me and i can take it. just tell me what. reporter: still, doctors caution staying home isn t always the best option. people have to understand they re not celebrities, so they have to have a good backup system and a good plan if something goes wrong. reporter: abc news, new york. i know people who have tried this and got in a predicament where they ended up going to the hospital. but i think it s great. my sister had all of her kids naturally with no drugs. i wasn t so fortunate. both of my children got stuck. thanks for that.
to continue to push. we do have those last three days, folks were out in force today in ohio, especially in cuyahoga county. i was down at the board of elections with them. about 3100 people voted today. mothers, fathers, children, out in the cold. they were excited. it was electric. and then to have stevie wonder come by and vivica fox come by. so we are already in cuyahoga county holding strong despite his antics about it. he is the secretary of suppression. make no mistake about it. what about flashlights and paper ballots? does that kind of contingency plan inspire confidence? i mean, these are somewhat a primitive backup system. are they in place and do you believe they can be affordable? ed. we re going to overcome this. i m happy to report there are only three polling places right now without electricity. director jane plat and her staff have been working very hard with our utility companies there. there are only three. i am confident, because she is confident, that they wil