illegitimate traffic and make it impossible for people like my brothers who wanted to play xbox to get onto the server. for a number of hours both servers were down. this morning xbox is mostly up and playstation is mostly still back down. they ask people to follow them. a perverse form of entertainment, the hacking group if you retweet us we ll get the servers back up. microsoft and sony are aware of the problem, working on it. this morning sony says they re still working on it. this is completely not related to the sony attack? you see the earlier hacks, this is something that s been going on for months and playstation in particular has been dealing with it for months. even though it comes at the same time as that devastating cyber attack at sony it is different. it appears to be unrelated. what happened at sony was really cyber criminals breaking into the computer systems and stealing data. this is different, taking the servers offline, making it impossible for people to pla
liberals. all this as massachusetts senator elizabeth warren is creeping up as a party favorite. will hillary clinton be able to drum up the support she needs if she makes a bid for 2016? folks crowding movie theaters christmas day to get a first look at the controversial movie the interview of the was it a blockbuster hit or a complete mess. have you seen it? i haven t seen it yet but i plan to. a little crude but very funny. looking forward to it. a new report raising some eyebrows how a driver with no experience was allowed to drive in a presidential motorcade. how does that happen? that is amazing. our #oneluckyguy. outnumbered at the top of the hour. a lot of first-timers today. jedediah, harris, thank you so much. see ya. leland: speaking of that movie the interview, learning about another possible cyberattack against sony. some users of sony s online playstation store and microsoft s xbox site are saying they had problems logging in on
fear laughing at our leaders. can not allow dictators or fundamentalists tell us what media we consume and how we want to express ourselves. reporter: again this is a big test case for sony and for the industry in general. the movie itself of course deals with the assassination of the north korean leader but it is a test case because it wasn t planned to be released this way. it kind of gives maybe hollywood an idea, at least industry insiders believe where the whole streaming sits. a lot of people in the last year or two stream television shows. it is very popular to do that. movies streaming still aren t at a level yet i think a lot of studios would like. this gives them idea of first-run movie that comes out and see how it did and how the infrastructure would handle it. xbox and playstation had some issues with some problems yesterday with their gaming sites. not sure if those were actually tied to the group responsible for hacking into sony pictures
washington. thanks, doug. another possible hack attack on christmas morning stopping kid from playing their brand new pray stations and xboxs. we have a report on this. dangers journalists face in war zones. what one new report is revealing.
experts say when it comes, it s like everybody breathing in a lot of second-hand cigarette smoke. listen. so it affects the heart, the lungs, the brain, and in case of a pregnant mother, affects the placenta, and so there are all kinds of studies showing that people exported to more air pollution have higher rates of heart attacks and strokes and premature death. and in fact a couple of times a year the chinese smog gets so bad it pushes us above the federal safe air standard level. what s the goal of the study? reporter: the hope is to be able to convince people in the united states that when we buy all those cell phones and xboxs and all the toy from china, there are consequences. they are the ones manufacturing most of the goods but also marring most of the smog, and they are exporting that smog. so, maybe the goal is to get them convince the united states and china to get better air