the blue reduced visibility and people were slamming on their brakes. lubbock, texas, this is west texas. take a look at what happened here in the last 12 to 24 hours. snow was coming down. snow. more snow. things were covered in ice. there were downed trees and downed power lines. there was a lot of damage to trees in the area. very dangerous conditions fred. and this is what you have to look forward to as you travel home. oh my goodness. well folks are going to have to take it easy go slow right? right. or stay put. it s just too treacherous out there. karen maginnis. happy new year. happy new year. the united states is hitting north korea with new strict economic sanctions. happy new year to them huh? it s in the alleged role in the cybersony attack. jordan chang joins us from forbes.com. and the book nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world.
and they caved and then sony said the theaters aren t going to show it and we have to pull it? that is right. this was between freedom of expression on one hand and fear on the other. ultimately fear won out and here is what happened. capitulation, that is one word for what happened on wednesday. sony caving under pressure, canceling next week s release of the interview and yanking films from the schedules citing fear by theaters after threatening a 9/11 style attack at theaters where the film is played and the u.s. has no reported threats. but we take serious threats against the homeland, including threats against movie theaters. there was fear some wouldn t go to the movies. and now calling it a complex
prisoner allen gross. president carter pushed for his release for years. we talk to the former president live on the program. and major turbulence on a flight headed to dallas. an intense winter storm injured several on board and forced the plane to make emergency landing and the sony s decision to pull the movie the interview and the ridiculist. we look forward to that. in a moment of shock, 132 children murdered in pakistan. in response, militants ambushed a school slaughtering 145 people. lifted the moratorium on the death penalty for terrorism. for the first time, we see images of the gruesome aftermath. pakistan army allowed cameras in. we thought it was important to show them and knick robenick ro out front. reporter: a few of the children in these classrooms
hurt and cost billions of dollars of damage so what does the u.s. do? it is worse than that if it is all true. it is not just the cyber attack, but the threat of terrorism that has succeeded. what the north koreans did is say if you show this work of art, this piece of movie, we will we will stage a terrorist attack. and they said physical attacks in the theaters. and it worked. and we see them as comical and odd with the weird hair dos, but imagine if iranian area did this and we re going to have a terrorist attack if that book is pub lpished. we would be outraged. it is the movie theaters that have caved. there is not one hollywood producer that stood in solidarity with sony.
place of our choosing. thank you. thank you, erin. and sony tonight yanking that movie. is the u.s. caving to kim yong un. and an american released after five years in prison. part of a historic deal coming under fire. could this historic day collapse. and pope francis, the first latin american pope had a crucial and surprising role in the u.s.-cuba agreement. we ll tell you all about it.