0 candy crowley, cnn, washington. thank you very much. we want you to vote on the top ten overall stories of 2013. go to cnn.com/yir, year in review. i m brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. happy holidays to you. in for jake tapper, dana bash. the lead starts right now. all they want is christmas with their little girl. i m dana bash. this is the lead. the national lead, a family hoping for a christmas miracle will now get a second opinion. after a young teen goes in for routine surgery and comes out brain-dead but is it already sadly too late? we re talking to the girl s devastated mother. also in national news, civil rights leaders call up president obama, saying his picks for the georgia bench could set back voting rights for years. civil rights icon, the reverend joseph lowrie, joins us. the world lead. pope francis tells the holy see that this isn t an episode of the view. stop talking and start serving this christmas. i m dana bash in for jake tapper. we be
0 i m very proud of my daughter. goosebumps. thank you so much for being with me. see you back here on cnn 11:30 eastern tonight. now the lead with jake tapper starts now. so president obama today asked the ceo of netflix for an advanced copy of next season s house of cards. he doesn t have it already? i guess the nsa does have its limits. i m jake tapper. this is the lead. the national lead. where does your privacy stop and the government s need to know begin? tech companies raided by the nsa for user data sent executives to the white house to ask the government and the president to back off. the world lead. want to make sure everyone attends a service in your father s memory? executing your own uncle for disloyalty will get those rsvps rolling in. is north korea planning a show of force after today s show of respect? and the money lead. a massive $636 million prize in tonight s megamillions drawing. have you read the fine print? we think we know the reason nobody has
0 6th. jason carroll, cnn, new york. that does it for me. thanks for joining us. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. a typhoon bigger than the size of california before it made landfall. it s been blotting the philippines off the radar for hours. i m jake tapper. this is the lead. the world lead. they were calling it a super typhoon and we are only getting a sense of the damage done in the philippines. perhaps the strongest storm in recorded history, laying waste to the country. we have a live report from manila in moments. also in world news, what s happening in geneva could change the world as we know it. talk of a potential deal with iran. to stop or slow its suspected progress towards a nuke. can iran be trusted to keep up its end of any potential bargain? the politics lead. it s become president obama s read my lips, perhaps. now he s apologizing after telling americans if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. was he listening to advice from new jersey go
0 government money. understood. ezra, why aren t those companies doing well on wall street hiring more folks? we talked about this sometimes. it s almost an issue of patriotism. to them it s a cost benefit analysis. they don t see they will get a profit back because they don t see enough profitable opportunities. this is something that i think we actually should worry about. you are seeing while i don t think the dow s numbers are a great example of it, we are seeing it detaching the corporations and the very wealthy from sort of the average working american. in the last couple of years, the top 1% has gotten 121% of the income gains. the reason they can get that is the bottom 99% lost a bit of money. meanwhile, as ben mentioned, profits are up. they re near record levels as a percentage of gdp. in a bad economy for workers, you are seeing a good economy for people at the top. and that distance between how they can be doing and both what they need in terms of labor and also how m
0 chinese said they were going to spend a lot of money on domestic growth to help boost consumer demand. republicans could make the argument that we could cut a lot of spending, the market goes up. the real reason the stock market is going up today is because of china spending a lot of government money. understood. ezra, why aren t those companies doing well on wall street hiring more folks? we talked about this sometimes. it s almost an issue of patriotism. to them it s a cost benefit analysis. they don t see they will get a profit back because they don t see enough profitable opportunities. this is something that i think we actually should worry about. you are seeing while i don t think the dow s numbers are a great example of it, we are seeing it detaching the corporations and the very wealthy from sort of the average working american. in the last couple of years, the top 1% has gotten 121% of the income gains. the reason they can get that is the bottom 99% lost a bit of money