house issues a veto threat. also bill clinton making the case for president obama by invoking the ghost of osama bin laden. plus, space shuttle enterprise arrives with a bang in its new hometown, new york city. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a sharp battle is unfolding here in washington over a bill to extend lower interest rates on student loans. millions of students are involved in this. it s a bipartisan goal, but there s partisan bickering over how to pay for it and now the white house is upping the ante with a veto threat. our congressional correspondent kate bolduan is watching this unfold. what are you seeing on capitol hill, kate? this fight against student loans is about much more than student loans but it s drawn familiar battle lines. house republicans versus president obama and congressional democrats. reporter: defying a veto threat from president obama house republicans push ahead friday to pass a bill
going to win. dave: following twitter. and how i choose my football picks. clayton: and socks. let s go with another winner, rick reichmuth at a christmas display down there, right, rick? i hope you bring the stocks with him to the show, those look cool. so many people have a tradition, christmas lights and so many places getting into the business of it. we re down here in myrtle beach, south carolina, the christmas wonderland and they set up a christmas wonderland. 1.7 miles and synchronized it to music. you turn on the radio channel to a certain channel and it s synchronized to all of the lights and it s really, really cool and the families come all over the place and they re coming around the country and we re here at the one in myrtle beach this morning. a very cold morning here in myrtle beach, i can tell you that much. we love to get pictures from you. so many towns have these kind
dot in the center of the screen. researchers call this space weather and it can prove devastating. electrical supplies can be disrupted, so can satellites. solar storm destabilizing our magnetic field, which is why scientists want to keep a constant watch. what we really want to do is to be able to see exactly what the sun s doing. we want to be able to watch regions on the sun as they grow and evolve and we want to see them as the sun rotates and brings these regions of activity towards pointing towards the earth. reporter: this nasa mission using british cameras is set to run for many more years. all the time building up an understanding of how the sun works. how its eruptions can be forecast. and producing sights that most of us could never have imagined. david shukman, bbc news. we look so cool. just too cool. let s not even talk. bask in the sun. look cool, baby.3q
by 2013 ikiss claimed to have 15,000 fighters. the report shows isis is bolstered by the lack of air power over iraq which allows its fighters to march almost at will. its immediate goal was to capture mosul which it did last week. iraq is being inundated with foreign fighters. 15 american alleged jihadists from minnesota are currently under investigation by the fbi for traveling to syria and iraq to fight alongside isis. other foreign jihadists are believed to have been lured into the fight by isis recruiters who have produced propaganda videos, romanticizing the notion of jihad. some of those recruiting videos include rap videos that make jihad look cool. if you look at the isis playbook, bret, it s clear their goal is to take baghdad. jennifer griffin, thank you. the gas prices are going up in