girls out for a little bit of shaved ice. there are no public events scheduled during the course of the time that he s here. obviously, he ll likely have some morning workouts and golf time, none of which people back at home will see. not a lot of news is expected to come out of the time here, but of course, he has his daily briefing each morning. it s actually his wife, the first lady s brother, craig robinson, also the head basketball coach at oregon state university, they are playing here in a tournament in week, so at some point, it s possible we ll see the president making a little jaunt over in that direction to watch the oregon state team play as well. peter alexander working in honolulu. thank you so much. want to turn now to the war on drugs. this week, president obama commuted the sentences of eight people serving long prison terms for crack-cocaine convictions as part of the administration s effort to reduce what it calls undually harsh sentences for
after one student became infected. school officials tested 140 students and the tests came back positive for 45 students. they ve decided to test all students. let s turn to the space odyssey, shall we? the first of three space walks ended safely this afternoon as astronauts worked to fix the cooling system. it took five and a half hours. they ll head back out on monday to install a new ammonia pump and if all goes well, they could take christmas day off. jay, this was fascinating to watch, but it was amazing to see how quickly they worked. i think even nasa was amazed at how quickly things were getting done. how far ahead of schedule they were. they sure did. they thought they d be out there six and a half to seven hours and were out there five and a half hours as you said, t.j. and everything went real well. they did part of monday s space walk today. they took the faulty pump, moved
because they are very concerned and scared they will alter the very delicate sectarian balance that is there between shiite, sunni and christian. we have 15 years of civil war and the civil war was simply because the minority, the christian minority wanted to dominate the political system and the economic system. you re talking about here, we re showing those pictures, you re talking about rain and cold and people essentially are covered by curtains and blankets. this is what they re dealing with now. now, something that has come up with lebanon, ikea a brilliant idea to have prefab houses, which are these constructed homes that can be set up right there and they re much nicer than this. can add some warmth, give you some cover from the weather. lebanon for the longest, resisted that idea. in part because they didn t want people to get too comfortable. absolutely. they resisted this idea. they fought this idea because
you will be a part of it, thank you for being here as well. thanks for having us. now to dennis rodman. he s make iing his third trip t north korea. he says he wants to spread the word about basketball. is his visit doing more harm than good at a time of high tensions between the u.s. and north korea? this holiday season, our priority is you
we have to be very careful about our data and i know there was a slide that said swipe your debit card as a credit card. that s not going to work either. so we ve got a lot to figure out and perhaps there should be a task force on this, too. we should gotten you the soap box instead of the chair this afternoon. i m sorry. she used the credit card to pay for the soap box. there s a frustration that a lot of people have right now. so done apologize for it. matt, the reason we kind of put these things together is we just don t feel comfortable with new technology. the president tried to reassure the american public at least about the eves dropping part. i have confident in the fact that the nsa is not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around, but i also recognize that as technology s change and people can start