america s newsroom. bill: i m bill hemmer. jose gutierrez is an architect from cincinnati. he was in mexico visiting his fiance over the holidays and they went missing christmas day. 300 miles northwest of mexico city, the region known for cartel violence. dana: williamlagelage is live in los angeles. bill: 40 million americans a year visit mexico. being kidnapped is a small risk, some areas are a lot worse than others especially where cartel checkpoints leave tourists defenseless. the latest victim ohio architect in mexico visiting his fiance. they were offered dinner with two relatives when they disappeared on christmas day. we were just going to have a dinner together along with her sister and her cousin. witnesses report seeing the four pull into a van, later found filled with bullet holes. bodies buried nearby. officials confirm the fatalities this week with his employer saying we ll miss him more than words can express. where this happened is in the middle o
Christmas is well, its about the best time of the whole year. No matter when they take place, modern era or period, Christmas Movies and Television Specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because its christmas. Christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. Everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. Nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many peoples childhoods. And being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching Holiday Movies is just joy. A Christmas Story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. Jingle bells, jingle bells. Jingle all the way. A Christmas Story. I watch it every year at least twice. Its like the script of my life. Can we go now . Can we go now . Yes. Yes, we can go now. Come on. It brings out every childhood wonder and hurt that you can imagine. Good morning
anthony: how does the joke begin? three men in a bar? but it s not a bar. imagine the bronx a corner bodega, or maybe a luncheonette, a diner, three men, strictly by coincidence, find themselves in the same place at the same time. sitting at the counter is afrika bambaataa. across the room is melle mel. door opens, and who walks in? dj kool herc. three men who created the musical style that s become the soundtrack to, well, the whole wide world. do they all nod at each other? lament how all of them got screwed over, cut out of the big money? or just laugh at the absurdity of it all? hip-hop it came from nowhere else. it could have come from nowhere else but the bronx. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la anthony: this is the br
fun, we have a huge show ahead including a bad gifts return edition of supermarket showdown. we are going to face off and in quality trivia challenge, plus we are answering your fan mail questions, but first, time for a holiday hangover themed fastest, are you ready? what plenty of folks are happy to see the holidays were known and most people wishes that it happened longer than it actually does, 52% say that they may tried to fit in as many festivities as possible, but the same percentage agree that there is not enough time in the holiday season to do everything they want to do, do you wish that the holidays lasted longer? jimmy: no, and thank you for not acknowledging that i look like a whole santa who got fired for smoking pot with the elves. people are trying to do too much and that s why they think the season is too short, everybody needs to try to stop having the coolest christmas on and scream and paste themselves, let s play some music and have a good time, there we
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