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In the address he wrote himself, he is trying to calm the jitters after the wake of the terror attack in San Bernardino. Lets get the latest from Senior Correspondent jim acosta. Reporter john and christine, no major policy proposals in ate addre address. The president described the attack in california as a terrorist attack. Here is more of what the president had to say. We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined by america and islam. That, too, is what groups like isil wants. Isil does not speak for islam. They are thugs and killers. Part of a cult of death. They account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. Including millions of muslimamericans who reject their hateful ideology. The terrorist victims around the world are muslim. We must enlist Muslim Community as our allies rather than push them way through suspension. Reporter the president said the violence in california underlines a threat from terrorists who draw their inspiration from isis. The president is recommending that Law Enforcement Work Together to be on the lookout for extremists. As for possible congressional action, the president asked lawmakers to give him authorization to use force. Mr. Obama wants to beef up the gun laws. He wants people on no fly lists from buying firearms. The white house is going after the financing of isis. He is vowing to intensify air strikes along with the british who joined the campaign. Thanks, jim. Republicans running to replace the president blasted that speech. Marco rubio said there was nothing in it to assuage peoples fears. He said nothing. He said there are people that work for dhs that are on the no fly list. The people who conducted the attack would not be prevented from weapons. The cynicism to spend a significant amount of time of discrimination of muslims. Where is the problem of d discrimination of muslims . As for donald trump, he was on twitter during the speech. He wrote is that all there is . We need a new president fast. Like marco rubio, donald trump wrote, obama refused to say, he just cant say it we are at war with radical islamic terrorists. Donald trump spoke earlier about tracking muslims in the United States. You have people that have to be tracked. If they were muslims, they are muslims. I use the word vigilance. We have to have it. If we dont, we are foolish people. You know we are really being led by people who dont know whats happening. You have president obama talking about Global Warming as the biggest problem. We have a president that is not with it at all. And ted cruz says he would work to defend and destroy isis. Nothing president obama said tonight will assist in either case. Ben carson said the declarations of policies are working are strange. Strange that it took days to respond. Carly fiorinas response tweeted. No strategy. No leadership. And president obama has placed on the Intelligence Community and military. We need to put in place an aggressive strategy as i have proposed. Earlier, governor bush responded to the suggestion that muslims in the United States should be monitored. We have all of the abilities to monitor people that are in our country trying to attack us. Im not suggest that already exists. The director of the fbi made it clear there are hundreds of cases that they are monitoring. We dont have to target the religion. We have to target those who have coopted the religion. No response from hillary clinton, but she put out a statement before the speech was released. And details of the radicalization of Syed Rizwan Farook. He said his son expressed support for isis. The fbi is now investigating contacts farook had with others before he and his wife embarked on their bloody rampage. We have more from kyung lah in San Bernardino. Reporter john and christine, the father of Syed Rizwan Farook has been speaking to reporters on and off. He stopped to speak to reporters from his door step saying his son was growing more conservative. All pakistanis coming from the major cities are liberal people. And he was toward conservative. His views were conservative. Reporter the father detailed more in an interview with italian newspapers saying his son shared the ideology of baghdadi. Relatives in pakistan tell cnn that they were concerned about the shift in character of farook. Throughout the weekend, there was no official news from the authorities. We are expecting that to change later today when the fbi holds a news conference. Also, farooks coworkers will return to work this morning. All county offices will reopen except for the office where the shooting took place. We heard about the husband. What about the wife . Tashfeen malik. Those who knew her speak to cnn about the mother who turned into a killer. Thats next. We are learning more this morning about Tashfeen Malik, the pakistani woman who murdered 14 people with her husband after dropping off her 6monthold baby to a relative. Investigators are focusing on her days as a pharmacy student in southern pakistan. Cnns sophia sefe join Social Security joins us on the phone. What are you learning about this woman . Reporter christine, i spoken to her professor right now just 15 minutes ago. All he said is she was nothing out of the ordinary. She did cover her face at university. The majority of the students cover their faces there already. She used to sit with the female students, but that was nothing out of the ordinary. He condemned the incidence. The spokesperson of the university condemned the incident saying it is unthinkable that someone can commit such an act. The university has students from all sorts of backgrounds. It seems and everyone seems astonished that someone from here can go and commit such an act in the United States. Apart from that, we know members of the family have scattered all over the region in pakistan. Were en route to speaking to one of them where she used to live when she visited pakistan. People are scared. People are not willing to speak to the media at the moment. What do we know . We know she was born in pakistan and a pharmacy student. We know she spent time in saudi arabia before meeting online, we think, her husband and moving to the United States. What do we know about her movements after she was a pharmacy student in pakistan . Reporter we know she was a pharmacy student here in pakistan. We know she had distant relatives. We are getting reports and we are trying to confirm while she was a student in the Pharmacy Department of the university, she would take lessons at an academy which was not affiliated with the university. Those reports we are still trying to confirm. Apart of that, she is not somebody from what we heard from professors and University Spokesperson as somebody who was out of the ordinary. She seemed like someone who was quiet. We have been told she was a good student. Apart from that, she remains we continue to dig and get more information as the day progresses. Sophia saifi on the way to the shooters hometown. Hopefully you can find out more information. Thank you so much. The Justice Department set to launch an investigation into the Chicago Police department expending the ongoing civil rights probe into the shooting death of laquan mcdonald. This comes after news of the shooting differs from what is seen on the video. The federal investigation of the Chicago Police department will be similar to the ones in baltimore and ferguson, missouri. New details in the shooting of tamir rice by the Cleveland Police officer last year. The report hired by the family suggests that the boy had his hands in his pocket. The enhanced video of the shooting has been studied. Others call the Police Shooting reasonable. A grand jury has been hearings evidence. Time for an early start on your money. U. S. Stocks are up. It was a rally on friday after the jobs report. Paving the way for the Federal Reserve to raise rates next week. Uncertainty about the strategy has held stocks for months. The dow was barely higher for the year. The nasdaq is up more than 8 . Now as the economy is improving, investors are betting on a rate hike. Warm weather ahead for the week. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the fair weather forecast. The mild weather is here to stay for a few more days. Look at the trend. Like an october set up. 55 in boston. 54 in new york city with mostly sunny skies. High probability for this trend to continue for the next seven days. Not only is it milder, but a lack of snow. In buffalo, new york, 21 inches of snow had fallen at this point last year. Sitting at a goose egg so far. By the way, 116 years ago is the last time we went this late with no snowfall on the ground across buffalo. William mckinley was our president if you are curious. A quick glance across florida. Historic rainfall. 9 inches coming down on saturday. Over a foot has come down in the month of december. In miami, this is the driest time of the year. That pattern is set to continue. Thank you, pedram. Former president jimmy carter is low key even when the news is fantastic. Revealing his prayers appear to have been answered. We get more from cnns nick valencia. Reporter jimmy carter says he is cancer free. The former u. S. President made the announcement on sunday in his hometown of plains, georgia. People erupted into applause over the announcement by the 91yearold. It was this summer that carter said he was diagnosed with cancer and had to go through a procedure to remove a mass from his liver. The doctors said the cancer was found in his brain. That included four spots. President carter did start to go through radiation treatment and experimental drug. He mentioned that drug in the statement he released to the media. He said my most recent mri did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or new ones. I will continue to receive the cancer treatments. We spoke to the leader of the church who had been praying for the announcement. They called it a miracle. John, christine. Wonderful news. He looks great. Happening now. A london knife attack being investigated as terrorism. Live with overnight developments. What authorities now say happened and some dramatic video and audio. Stay with us. Police in london are treating a knife attack as a terrorist incident in a tube station. The suspect is charged with attempted murder. Cnns Frederik Pleitgen is following the latest for us in london. Reporter all of this happened at 7 00 p. M. On saturday night. Of course, this is a time when the London Underground subway system was busy. There is video of the incident where the man wielding a knife stabbed one person in the neck and moderately wounded another person. Also threatened a woman and at some stage said this is for syria. He could be heard saying that on the audio and the police is treating this as terrorism. There were, of course, many people who witnessed all of it. I want you to listen to one person on the scene and described what he saw. Told me as soon as i got there, he slit another guys throat. I saw a guy huddled and the guy brandishing a knife. A small blade three inches long. He is screaming run. Reporter and the 56yearold man wounded in the attack, police say his injuries are not life threatening. Luckily. The police are also saying the suspect, a 29yearold man from london will appear in court today. He has already been charged with attempted murder. Christine. Terrifying. One thing this incident really seen around the world on social media because of the remarks of a bystander. Tell us about the remarks going viral. Reporter you are right. It is showing the defiance. One man as the perpetrator was restrained saying you aint no muslim bruv. It is turning into a hash tag on twitter. It shows the defiance of the city in the face of terrorism. I was on the subway line at the time the incident happened. People were concerned about the whole thing, but not panicking. London is a city where the Authorities Say it is in the crosshairs of terrorism. The response here has been remarkable to the insurancident took place. Thank you, fred. President obama with dramatic oval office address. His plan to defeat isis as he tries to reassure a nation after what happened in San Bernardino. Thats next. President obama vowing to defeat isis in a new oval office address. And what needs to be done to stop the terrorism. And warning signs missed in the california attacks. Family and friends revealing what they knew about the killers radicalization. Welcome back to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. President obama is vowing he has plan to fight isis. The president sought to calm jitters over terrorism. This in the wake of the San Bernardino attacks. The deadliest attacks on u. S. Soil since 9 11. The latest from jim acosta. Reporter john and christine, as expected, there were no policy proposals in the address. This was more about reassuring the American People that the president has the strategy to deal with isis. He described the attack as a terrorist attack. Here is more of what the president had to say. We cannot turn against one another by letting this fight be defined as a war between america and islam. That, too, is what isil want. Isil does not speak for islam. They are thugs and killers. Part of a cult of death. And they account for a tiny fraction of a more than a billion muslims around the world. Including muslimamericans who reject their fateful ideology. The vast majority of victims around the world are muslim. If we are to succeed in defeating terrorism, we must enlist muslim communities as our allies rather than push them away through suspicious. Reporter the president said the violence in california underlines a threat from self radicalized terrorists. The president is recommending that Law Enforcement and social Media Companies Work Together to find extremists. As for possible congressional action, the presideresident ask lawmakers to use force. Mr. Obama wants to beef up the gun laws. He wants people on the no fly list from buying firearms. As for what the president can do on his own, the summit will be held later this month to go after the financing on isis. He is vowing to intensify air strikes along with the british who joined that part of the campaign. Jim, thanks for that. The republicans running to be president swiftly blasted the speech. Marco rubio said there was nothing to assuage peoples fears. He said we need gun control. It would not have prevented the attack in california. We need to prevent people on the no fly list. By the way, these individuals that conducted the attack would not have been prevented from accessing weapons. The cynicism to spend a significant amount of time talking about discrimination against muslims. Where is there widespread evidence of discrimination of muslims and refusal for calling this a war on radical islam. Donald trump was on twitter. He wrote, is that all there is . We need a new president fast. He also wrote, obama refused to say, he just cant say it, we are at war with radical islamist terrorists. You have people that have to be tracked. If they are muslims, they are musl muslims. I use the word vigilance. We have to have it. If we dont, we are foolish people. You know we are really being led by people who dont know what is happening. When you have president obama talking about Global Warming is our biggest problem, we have a president that is not with it at all. Ted cruz released a statement, if im elected president , i will direct the department of defense to destroy isis. I will shutdown the broken immigration system that is letting jihadists into our country. Ben carsons statement, president obamas declaration that his policies were working were strange. Strange it took four days from the attack to respond and more strange that the attacks on our soil is proof his policies are working. Carly fiorinas response, very short. She tweeted vintage obama. No strategy. No leadership. Politics as usual. Jeb bush released the issue on self imposed constraints. We need to put in place a strategy to defeat isis and radical islamist terrorism. Jeb bush also responded to the suggestion that muslims should be monitored. We have all of the abilities to monitor people that are in our country trying to attack us. Im not suggesting we that already exists. That is appropriate. The director of the fbi said there are hundreds of cases. We dont have to target the religion, we have to make sure we are fully aware of the radicalization of those taking place all around the world. No response from hillary clinton. She did put out a statement on the fight of terror before the address. What did World Leaders think of the speech . Do they think obama is doing enough . We have sara sidner with the latest on the situation. Good morning, sara. Reporter good morning, john. As far as turkey goes, it is all about the border and securing the border. Also dealing with the refugee crisis this country is faced with being right up on syria and having so many thousands of refugees coming over that border. Really they want to talk about security and they want the u. S. Coalition to help them deal with security along that border. That means they say putting in what they are calling a safe zone. That would require a nofly zone inside of syria. They have been asking for that for several years now. Hoping the United States and coalition decides to go through with that, which would leave a large space between syria and turkey as a safe zone for the refugees, but keep the jihadists out of turkey. When it comes to iraq, it is a different scenario. They are saying we are okay with having the United States send in exploratory s