atone shtentio attention, including the attention of our president. and eruptions rage in afghanistan even after president obama apologizes for the burning of the koran. we are getting reports of a serious increase in the chaos there. in this country, a man accused of killing his wife while on a scuba trip and who pled guilty to it elsewhere finds he will not be spending time in prison in this country, the judge said i don t even want the jury to hear this. yesterday we told you about the lawmaker who called the girl scouts a bunch of communists and radicals. he says he s sorry, however he says it doesn t change the way that he feels. we ll have a lot more on that. up first, as ashleigh said, more pain at the pump. apparently there s no relief in sight. aaa says national average price of gasoline now is 3.64 per gallon. it s the highest ever for this time of year. we re watching the aaa report this year to see when they come up with a daily increase or decrease. the
actually was firing off rounds of gunfire to get the crowd to disperse so that he could move his way to the front of the line to get his air jordan 11 s. nike put out a statement saying, come on, knock it off, they are tennis shoes after all, or basketball shoes after all. you have very rowdy holiday around the country. megyn: some are calling on nike and michael jordan to step in on these and say, hey, stop, they should have known that this was going to harpbgs because it s a limited release sneaker. they gin up excitement about saying you can only get it right now. it s never going to be released again, and it s very popular in the inner-cities. some are saying it s basically a call to incite this type of excitement which can lead in certain circumstances to violence. is that right? i don t know, i ll leave it to the viewers to decide. trace, thank you. it is something that we ll be discussing in about half an hour right here. you have all the shopping violence. it s a disturbing tre
stopped like stepped out of her little box, and the female punched her in the eye. reporter: the woman of course is now charged with two counts of assault, just one of the rowdy incidences this holiday take a look this video from the mall of america in minnesota this was a brawl that broke out, and i m talking about fists flying. we had chairs flying, food was flying, and the store started shutting down. it was all apparently because there were rumors that the rappers, drake and lil wayne were about to make an appearance at the mall. the police came in and arrested nine people. luckily there were no weapons or serious injuries. at several stores across the country, megyn, there were all kinds of fights and violence because of the air jordan 11 s being rereleased, right? they are basketball shoes. look at this in indianapolis, people storming through to get these tennis shoes. in richmond, california, which is in the bay area, someone
rick: those who scored a pair of the 180-dollar shoes says the madness was well worth it. it s ridiculous out here. the line is crazy, that way, this way. jordans 11, they came out not since 1996. everybody is trying to get them. everybody needs to scoot back so i can get my jordans. rick: rick leventhal joining us more with more on this. reporter: it seems appropriate that the latest item to spur fighting inside and outside stores is a pair of basketball shoes, and this is way beyond pushing and shoving, as you mentioned with pepper spray, gunfire and numerous arrests coast to coast. take another look at the video from indianapolis where a crowd, hundreds strong, gathered before dawn at the lafayette square mall waiting for hours before pushing and shoving their ways through the doors. you see one of them broken there. pulled off the hinges.
the last american combat troops leave iraq. we ll show you the end of a war. pedal to the metal. get behind the wheel with us in one of the most popular video games on the market. we ll drive the mario cart tonight. you are bringing a video game to life. it s all right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. welcome to our viewers around the world. you re in the cnn newsroom. a landmark moment for the united states. after nearly nine years, 4,500 american lives lost, 30,000 more injured, the iraq war is over. now that the last remaining u.s. troops have left the country. cnn was there when the final convoy rolled across the border into kuwait. this is how it all played out live on cnn on this show last night. this is breaking news hala, and it is history. the war in iraq is officially over. u.s. troops are moving across the border into kuwait now. and what this means is that really the last vehicle and the last convoy of t