Surf and on the sand. Santa parked the reindeer and padded around in flipflops to deliver gifts and good cheer. China does take pride in its massive exports of toys saying without its cheap products, america couldnt enjoy those piles of gifts under the christmas tree. Pope francis has a simple message this christmas. Then pride and selfishness. A call it the francis effect. God is peace, let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day in our life. In our families, in our cities, and nations, in the whole world. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by gods goodness. John allen is cnns senior vatican analyst, welcome. Reporter hey, carol, Merry Christmas to you. Merry christmas to you, too, john. The pope delivered such a simple message, choose light over dark, its what we learn all of our lives, yet coming from a man whos head of a church, it seems fresh. We have got a blustery Roman Christmas afternoon here today and just as the wind is blowing strongly in the city, a lot of people
President obama his resignation. Very bad girlfriend, girlfriend from hell. I recommend to my wealthy friends they only date trump brand girlfriends. First up, major developing news in less than an hour, the nba will finally make an announcement about l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling of the pressure has been building to take action against the billionaire owner on racially charged recordings on two websites. Its unclear whether the new commissioner will punish sterling and if he does how far he will go. When you ask other owners about whether sterling needs to be punished, well, opinions are mixed from Dallas Mavericks owner mark cuban, its a very, very slippery slope if we start pup punishing owners and whatever it takes, we have to make sure this kind of event never happens again. Here is Magic Johnson yesterday, remember his Instagram Photo with sterlings then girlfriend sparked reaction. Unfortunately hes a man in a powerful position and a man who should be embracing minorities
To the American People on wednesday night president obama announced a major es calation o a campaign to defeat isis, that is advancing across iraq from syria. Adding u. S. Fire power to the countrys bloody 3yearold civil war and he called on congress to expand effort to train and arm moderate Syrian Rebels which are being carried out by the cia on a much smaller scale. America will lead a Broad Coalition to roll back this terrorist threat. Our objective is clear. We will do grade and ultimatel destroy isil through a Counter Terrorism strategy. We will conduct air strikes against these terrorists. We will increase our support to forces fighting on the ground. President obama ordered 475 more troops to iraq, bringing the total number of boots on the ground to about 1600. But obama emphasized the sustained military campaign against isis would be different in the recent invasions of iraq and afghanistan which put tens of thousands of u. S. Troops on the battlefield and killed nearly 7,000
Ertnst ahead by seven points over bruce braley. The Gold Standard poll in iowa. President ial campaigns wait with bated breath and the polls that conducted it said it looks like this race is decided, but at the same time, the average of all the polls in average has urged ahead by more than two points. Thats factoring in this new poll. The importance of the outcome of the race in iowa for the battle of control of the senate is being driven home this morning by harry reid who said in a new interview if iowa does go to the republicans, hes out as his job as majority leader. What joni ernst would mean that Mitch Mcconnell would be the head of the senate. Think what that would mean for our country. Those are harry reids words there. The democrat bruce braley and defining ad in the campaign, one in which she boasted over a bill and clinton described that as both a positive and a negative. Said she wanted to take herrer cutting skills to washington and make them squeal. That sounds good. But
This super bowl is viewed with more importance than most. We have lots to get to this morning. A big show of sports. A big show of politics a big show of news. All of it ahead and reaction from japan at the death of another hostage at the hands of isis. We begin with another winter tomorrow already causing havoc as it makes its way from the midwest to the east coast. As we come on the air from new york, a travel ban on large vehicles is on effect on the ohio turnpike. Large trucks and trailers are banned from that road. Looking at a live shot in click go. Thats where a blizzard warning is right now in effect. The storm has dumped several inches of snow in iowa. New england still digging out from last weeks multiple feet of snow. New england could be in the path of another winter storm right now. Msnbc meteorologist dominica davis is here with more. We are looking at 23 states under winter warning advisories. Warnings or advisories. That extends all the way from the great lakes through