From the sony cyber attack to diplomacy with cuba and Race Relations in america. Dan springer, where he is now as you can see by the beach. Hi, dan. Why wouldnt i be by the beach. President obama is looking forward to the 17day vacation with his family here in hawaii, but will be plenty of work, including what to do about north korea and recent cyber attack on sony. He said yesterday in his final News Conference that the u. S. Will respond and not discuss any possible options. Weve learned one considered putting north korea back on the countries that sponsor terrorism right next to iran and syria and for now cuba. It would be largely symbolic. The president also criticized sony for its decision to cancel the release of the interview in response to the threat of violence. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. North korea has denied any involvement in the hacking of sony and it offered to prove it through a join
Death. Police officer are also now investigating threatened copycat killings. Theyre looking into at least 15 online threats. Tensions between police and the Mayors Office already strained by weeks of protests over alleged Police Brutality came to a breaking point on saturday night when Police Officers turned their backs on their mayor, bill de blasio. This happened when he showed up to pay his respects to the slain officers. Earlier this morning, former new York Police Commissioner ray kelly said the mayor may need to tighten control over protests in his city. I think if you allow people to take over bridges and roadways its only going to ultimately embolden them. Here you have 35,000 uniformed officers. You dont have to make a lot of arrests, you can just prevent people from going on the bridge, prevent them from taking over a roadway or move them quickly. I think there is an issue if you tolerate a lot of things and, of course, that impacts on other peoples lives, too, that it will
The collapse of the russian ruble. The resurgence of the taliban. We have a worldclass panel to talk about it all. But first here is my take. This has been a week where big news has been exploding. We will get to all of it, but let me tell you about the thing that most agitated me this week. The response to the Cyber Attacks on Sony Pictures. Now that u. S. Intelligence Officials Say they believe north korea was behind those attacks, the discussion has finally moved away from emails about Angelina Jolie to the real story, which is far more troubling. One of the nastiest regimes in the world has effectively threatened to launch terror attacks in america if an artistic work were to be shown publicly, and stunningly, almost everyone involved has caved. Imagine that the iranian government had threatened a terror attack on u. S. Soil if, say, a book were about to be released that parodied its supreme leader. Would we not regard this as an intolerable surrender to threats of terror and a vio
Pictures and vowed to respond but stopped short of saying what and when that would be, only that he would do it at a place and time of his manner. But his harshest marks were not about north korea. It was more about sony. Sony is an organization. Im sympathetic to the concerns they have faced. Having said all of that, yes, i think they made a mistake. We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States. Because if somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what they start doing when they see a documentary that they dont like. It is a fair point. And that is pretty blunt. The president of the United States coming out. If you are Sony Pictures, coming out and saying you made a mistake. That is not mincing words. Well ceo from sony Michael Lynton replied. I dont know exactly whether he understand the sequence of events to the movies not being shown in the Movie Theaters and therefore i woul
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Brown good evening. Scott is off tonight. Im james brown. This is our western edition. On a night when millions are heading out for the holidays, severe thunderstorms are lashing some parts of the country. At least one tornado was reported in southern mississippi. Our cbs affiliate in huntsville, alabama, whnt, is reporting at least two deaths. Cars, and in this case, a ambulance flipped over in high winds. This system is expected to cause problems through christmas. Eric fisher, the chief meteorologist at wbz, our cbs station in boston, is following this. Eric . J. B. , a rough night of weather here across the southeast. Tornado watches in yellow, and weve already had several tornadoes touch down. You can see some of the video, in particular, around Marion County in mississippi. Columbia community very hard hit. We saw widespread damage with cars flipped over, trees uprooted, certainly a lot of damage to homes