alongside us, also fighting isis, somewhat in conjunction with us are the iranians. do people understand that and the complexities that come when you are in a defacto partnership with the iranians to fight isis while we re dealing with iran and people are upset about it? the short answer is. i think the american public still can t draw a clear distinction between our adversaries in the middle east who they long to which ethnic group. frankly the republican candidates flubbed that now and again as well t. fact that now we have sort of a shia dominated sector between the iranians and iraq and that we have sunni insurgents in the form of isis basically iran being a bull market against that is something that s very difficult to explain on this stuff. all right. the piece is in the new issue of new york times magazine.
the plane usually didn t travel. there s nothing that jumps out that says, this makes sense, implicating them. this investigation is ongoing. but as of now, they are not ruling anything in or out and are just waiting eagerly for the black box. very frustrating. yes. pamela brown, thank you so much. with the bluefin-21 area nearly now complete, is it time to ask if searchers have been searching in the wrong place this whole time? rob mccallum and mary schiavo are joining me. rob, the bluefin-21 is expected to complete its search in the next few days. i don t know how to take this news. is it that there s a third left to search and, good news, we re going to find it there in the one-third that is left or is it, boy, they are almost done and they are coming up snake eyes, maybe this was the wrong place the whole time? well t. could be the wrong
well t. good fuse is we are told the wounded u.s. troops have recovered enough to the point this holiday season they have been able to call home and talk to their families. kate. all right. barbara, thank you so much for that. the clock is ticking now for millions of americans to buy health insurance plans under obama care. a critical deadline is today in order to have could havage beginning january 1st. president obama said on friday more than 1 million people have enrolled from federal and state exchanges. but a new cnn poll shows that support for the health care law is at an all time low right now. let get more now from athenna jones live in honolulu where the president is on vacation. good morning or good evening to you. athena. reporter: good morning, kate. there is one more number that the president mentioned. more than half a million people signed up for health plans via healthcare.gov in the first three weeks of december alone. even with the problem plagued website working
tiger woods for your show airing tonight at 10:30 on cnn. let s play an interesting clip from that. as that stretch gets longer and longer without a major, what s that pressure like as it builds and builds? well t. for me i look at ittings as it takes a career. for jack it took him until he was 46. it takes a long time to win a lot of major championships. you re going to have your years where you play really well, you may clip two or three out of there, and then you ll have years where you don t win anything, but you re there. quite frankly since 08 i ve been there with a chance to win about half of them, just haven t seem to have won one. i get to ask about your girlfriend lindsey vonn. i believe she is described you s funny and a bit dorky. is that fair? i guess so. my teammates used to call me
the tsunami that hit japan was as we re speaking, i wanted to tell you that the usgs now saying that it was upgraded to an 8.8. they are saying it was an 8.8. i know you mentioned that and you said you didn t believe that that could be what it was. but, yeah, they are confirming that. what do you think about that? as far as, especially as far as a tsunami is concernd? knowing it was a 8.8? reporter: remember what happened in chile just last year. that was an 8.8 earthquake as well t. caused a tsunamiy that killed several hundred people near concepcion. this is gointo cause a significant loss of life and marm damage to a highly developed, industrialized country, asja japan is. so this is going to have a very severe impact. you know, we always talk about when these things hit, they will hit a city and it