Ashleigh banfield, thanks for being here, john berman and Michaela Pereira are off today. We expect to hear there the widow of one of those two new York City Police officers who were shot in cold blood last weekend as they sat in their patrol car. The wife of wenjian liu is due to speak at a press conference. A new York Foundation expected to announce it will take over the mortgage payments on the homes of both liu and his partner rafael ramos. Well bring you her comments as soon as she steps up to the podium. As we wait, we want to tell you about a series of alleged brandnew threats made against nypd officers since liu and ramos were gunned down a week ago. Police say theyve arrested seven people now, seven, in connection with threats made via phone and social media. And one stands out as especially vile. According to the nypd, a man called the precinct where liu and ramos has been stationed. That person asked whether the bullets had been removed from the did officers heads so that he could kill more cops. That caller, police say is a 41yearold man and he has been arrested on charges of aggravated harassment and making terrorististic threats. In the meantime, officers from across new york and the country are expected to converge in queens this afternoon. Theres a public viewing scheduled for officer rafael ramos scheduled to begin at 2 00 eastern time just ahead of his funeral set for tomorrow morning. Miguel marquez is live outside the christ tabernacle church. I thought it was a misprint when i saw 25,000 officers, just officers, are expected to be in attendance. Thats just a miraculous number, miguel. Its spectacular. The last time they had a funeral in 2011 for an officer killed on the job, they had about 20,000. They know there will be Police Coming from all over the country. This case has been so big and fu touched so many people. This area in queens very tight in here. Fairly small streets. Its going to be an ocean of blue when they get going here tomorrow. Add to that the family, the friends, and the public that will show up here. Youre looking at upwards of 30,000 people packed into this tight area in queens. It will be an impressive show of emotion. With that many Police Officers in one location, is there a concern about the possibility of additional threats against them or, lets just say, maybe even terror threats unrelated to this particular story . Well, look, they have been looking at every single threat that they can. John miller, the official with the nypd, told the New York Times the other day some of these threats are just prankster, some are just drunks sending out ridiculous texts and they are going through all of those. I think nypd is confident they have a good sense of whats serious, what isnt. This is not the first time theyve done this. They know what to expect at these funerals and how to protect them and they will certainly be on the lookout for anything that may be coming down the pike. Ashlei ashleigh . I know that there were a number of threats that were made against the nypd and i think they determined about half were credible and needing serious followup. Now we have been seven people who have been pinpointed. What more to we know about the kinds of threats that were made and how serious they were . They kind of range the gamut. Some of these were people who made fake 911 calls about other people who they said were making terrorististic threats against nypd. Two people arrested there. Some people posted online, social media, not very smart in this day and age and context to be posting threats online. Three people arrested there. Two others, one a person overheard threatening the 104th precinct. That person was arrested for a gun possession. The other one was the one you mentioned. This 84th precinct call this came in, the very precinct where these two Police Officers worked, with where this massive memorial is growing, someone calls in to issue a threat there. Idiotic doesnt begin to explain it as shocking as it is but that person was arrested and will be tried. Ashleigh . Miguel marquez reporting live from new york at the site of where the Funeral Services will be held. Huang for that. June other news to update you on, former president george h. W. Bush is sending a third day after a houston hospital after expensing shortness of breath this week. A spokesperson says the 90yearold remains in great spirits and his prognosis is very positive. Two years ago the 92yearold spent two months in the hospital after suffering bronchitis and a persistent cough. But 2 xbox person says this case is nothing like that. U. S. Troops stationed in hawaii got a special Christmas Day visit from none other than the president of the first lady. Thats pretty nice. How about that . President on vacation with his family there. Of course going home for christmas. Saluting the troops saying the world is safer and more peaceful because of their sacrifices. He also said their work the drawing to a close in afghanistan. This is an important year. Weve been in continuous war now for almost 13 years. Over 13 years and next week we will be ending our combat mission in afghanistan. Is [ applause ] obviously because of the Extraordinary Service of men and women in American Armed forces afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. We are safer. Its not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again. The president reiterated very Difficult Missions remain including the battles against isis in both iraq and syria. Still ahead that the hour, was your xbox on the fritz last night . Could you be a victim of a hack attack. How about all the other people who were livid that they couldnt game without their new toys. Also, sony firing back and releasing the interview. After all the International Back and forth, how did it perform at the box office . Theres two tickets there. How many other tickets were sold. Find out next. Wellllll. Earlyfit latefit risefit fallfit ballfit wallfit pingfit pongfit pingfit pongfit rowfit throwfit slowfit olliefit oopsfit otisfit thiswayfit thatwayfit daddyfit pappyfit datefit weightfit goalfit gooooooalfit stepfit stairfit smartfit heartfit spinfit bikefit hikefit yikesfit wheeeeefit wowfit whoafit findyourfit its all fitbit i felt its a movie that we should see. That nobody should be allowed to stop us from freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Moviegoers, boy are they embracing the first amendment. As the controversial comedy the interview hit hundreds of theaters on Christmas Day, despite fbi warnings of threats against theaters, screening new york to l. A. , all of them went off without a hitch. More or less. It wasnt a bad day for the bottom line, either. The seth rogan film about a fictitious plot to assassinate the leader of north korea banked almost a Million Dollars at the box office. Joining me right now to talk about that and how it happened, rosa flores at the theater yesterday watching theater goers coming in and out. Along with senior media correspondent brian stelter. Breaking news coming into us. Sony is talking about the box office totals. That say the audience was fantastic. In limited release, it featured numerous sellouts and if a first day gross over one million. Thats a nice mark for sony to hit. Thats something for them to celebrate after what has been a very rough month for them, ever since that cyber attack. Was that something they were planning to release or were they waiting to see if it was good news and release it if its good. The statement, what do you mean . I think theyre trying to put the most positive spin they can. They were going to premier this film in 2000 to 3,000 theaters. So theyre happy to have made any money at all. Being in only 300 theaters, that was pretty good. One theater was critical of this whole story. I loved seeing the comments of the people going in and then coming out. Theyre very profound. A lot of people saying this was their exercise of free speech, whether they wanted to see this script or not. And a lot of people said this is probably the best thing that happened to sony with this particular movie. A lot of peep were not planning on watching the movie if it were not for the fact that they wanted to exercise their patriotic duty and support free speech. The woman that specifically told us that, heres what she said when she walked out of the theater. I certainly enjoyed it. Its not the greatest comedy ever made but it was funny. Funnier in some places than in others. I think my overwhelming conclusion is that it would have been much funnier if no one had died. Thats great. She loved it. Although she did say it made her feel uncomfortable laughing throughout the movie knowing someone was going to die at the end. Well, there is that controversy. We open bringing that up. We all talk about how no one should try to suppress free speech, we should be responsible if w our free speech as well. I had the head of one of the biggest Media Company say that to me. He said i understand the film is supposed to be funny, it might be funnier to make it about a real life person but if it had come across my desk i would have suggested making it a fictional dictator. And i think they didnt have to kill him at the end for it to be a good comedy. After that its like why did you have to kill him . The twitters will be light lightening up with how could you people have any sympathy for a guy like kim jongun. Its about having respect and the same respect due back to your president and any leader. Because we would be incensed if someone blew up our real sitting president , not a fictitious character. If there were a movie involving obama or putin or any other world leader it would have been a different story. But we should point out it was incident free yesterday. There were no Security Issues at theaters across the country. Well, kind of. I heard there was a power outage at one theater. Thats right. In northern new jersey there was a power outage that affected the Movie Theater at a pith pivotal moment. Turned out it was just a neighborhood blackout. Id have been more than nervous. I would have bolted out of that theater. So something i expected but didnt expect in this kind of number, 750,000 illegal down loads of this movie yesterday. Thats huge. Thats just the ones we can count. In china this film is also being pirated and getting review there had as well. On their legal file sharing web site there is. That may cut into the profits sony makes on youtube. Now that theyre releetsing it on line, will people pay or watched the pirated version. And if you were able to use it through seetheinterview. Com you were able to just give the link to somebody else via email so those you cant count either because you get access to it for 48 hours and if i just say, hey you share. It just share the link, how do you count that. Its like tv ratings, how many people are sitting in the living. They theres one person paying the six bucks and how many eyeballs are on the screen . Well never know how many people chose to watch it but sony doesnt usually release this data. Its a landmark movement for movie industry regardless of how people chose to pay. It shows there can be a simultaneous release in theaters and at home. Well zee more of that in the future chk though chains dont want this to happen. Lest anybody joining us, people are saying boy, you missed the bigger headline. The hack of playstation and xbox. 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Aleve. Proven better on pain. Hey guys. Guys pillsbury cinnamon rolls, with cinnabon cinnamon, are an irresistable sunday morning idea. Nothing calls them to the table faster. Make breakfast pop if youre one of the thousands of online gamers who got a christmas visit from the grinch, sorry, folks, hackers apparently took down networks that let players compete in the virtual world. Operator of xbox say their system is mostly restored. Back with me is brian stelter. The lizard squad. The lizard squad saying that theyre the ones responsible for taking down those systems. Which is some sort of hacker gang. It goes to show how stlangs dark corners of the internet can be, ashleigh, that theres a group out there but. Theyre not saying it has anything to do with the movie the interview. Thats right. We should say this up front. This seemed at first glance it could have been connected to the release of the movie online, a Historic Movement where its available on xbox video store and released by sony picture which is sonys playstation division. But it does seem unrelated. This hacker game has been threatening to do this for weeks and theyve been behind other outonlies of the Playstation Network and xbox live. Were talking about a pretty big meet ya story here because theres about 50 Million People that have xbox live sun skripgss. About 110 million that has playstation life accounts. The internet is like a utility these days so when you can see a Gaming Network taken down by hangers, its eye opening. I can see you in your moms Bush Administration basement yesterday after you opened up one of your new games yelling mom, meatloaf and trying to play video games. That was me ten years ago. But my younger brothers well, christmas, all of these people getting games, one the biggest games of the year. Didnt the twitter universe go ballistic. These hashtags still trending on twitter because you have folks that are web savvy, they can get on lyeline. Even though its not connected to the release of the interview but it might affect it. If you cant get on your xbox live system, it could dampen sonys totals. I like that conspiracy theories, i made unup myself and im going to test it on you. Just last block we were talking with rosa flores about how there were 750,000 illegal down loads yesterday of the interview. Just on the day. But at the same time, those people were selling playstation and Microsoft Xbox couldnt get. It couldnt get the legal version. Couldnt pay for the legal version because they were down. Might they have illegally downloaded it if thats been financial damages . Thats been a decade. If people can pie legally, lots of people will pay for content. But if its not easy to pay legally they will find the illegal version. Thats been true in music and television and movies. So lizard squad, are they traceable . Is anyone trying to hard to find them if they can be found would someone take anxious . We sure, microsoft and sony are. Hackers find a we verse joy there ruining peoples christ s christmas christmases. Its like scrooge showing up and taking away presents. This is a relatively small hack compared to what happened in 2011. When that happened it cost sony 171 million. I dhout will be that experiencive but they do financial damage when these Companies Take down virtual servers. And lizard squad caming 2011 as well. I believe they were claiming that but they have been been responsible for other hackings of Playstation Networks and xbox live. I wonder if theyll be so happy they crowed all over the internet to get all that cred and then they end up in a courtroom. You can do all the digital damage you want, you will end if you end up in on their radar. By the way, did your mom make you made loaf . We had turkey for din e. 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