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intensified. the army shelling its own people as the arab world steps in to try to end the slaughter of civilians. and an all-out brawl at the mall. police with guns drawn, shoppers scrambling for exits. chaos after christmas on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, december 27th. this is american morning. i m alina cho along with ali velshi. good morning. good morning to you. we re so glad you re with us today. there s a lot going on. let s get right to it. starting in iowa. it s the place to be this morning. five top republicans plan to visits hawkeye state today. not going for the corn. seven day rees main until the iowa caucuses. the first in the nation, a nomination is up for grabs. cnn political director mark preston is live in des moines this morning. mark, the week begins with newt gingrich trying to distance himself once again, not from someone else, but from his own past. reporter: yeah. from his ....
good morning to you. it is tuesday, december the 20th. i m ali velshi joined again by alina cho this morning. good morning. good morning to you. so glad you re with us and up first, the u.s. keeping an eye out for advancing troops and any other threatening moves after the death of a dictator in north korea. north korean media show the images of kim jong-il s body laid out in a glass coffin. his third son and successor, kim jong un, paying respects. and live for us in seoul, south korea, anna, good morning. the south korean government sending its condolences along with a dose of what some are calling christian mystery diplomacy. what s that all about? reporter: that is right, alina. the sense of condolence, the official wording from the south korean government. this is a real thorn in relations because relations between the two countries hit rock bottom of late. it s worst of the relationships for years. offering sympathies certainly seems to be an act of south korea ....
are climbing through the rubble looking for both the victims and survivors with bare hands. in libya, they are waving flags, blasting car horns and cheering wildly. people across the country are celebrating the end of the moammar gadhafi era. transitional leaders today formally declared the country liberated. meanwhile, it is now confirmed moammar gadhafi died from a gunshot wound to the head. libyans in misrata have been lining up to file past the body of the long-time leader. a libyan doctor announced the autopsy results today and says his official report will be eventually released to the public. in western australia, police have identified the american victim of a shark attack. 32-year-old george thomas wanewrite of texas was killed by a great white while scuba diving. friends say he whiz in the water alone when they noticed air bubbles and blood rushing to the surface. this was the second fatal shark attack in the past two weeks near the city of perth. no ....
issaquah today. dozens of shots fired as people scrambled for cover. they started shooting at us and the bullet went between me and my friend tony. we could hear the bullets bouncing off the concrete behind us. it started when the suspect described as a 51-year-old maple valley man stopped his car in traffic and started confronting people with an assault rifle. eventually opening fire. when we were about alongside the elementary school, we got shot at nine times. police swarmed the city crowded with shoppers and people enjoying the warm day. he fired randomly for about half a mile. at one point, a sheriff s department sniper took to the air to take him out with reports of him shooting an at police. he was moving toward the high school where a little league football game was going on. he said do not come to the game now. outside the high school. police told us they have the suspect pinned down. parents texted their kids hiding, hoping to escape the gunman ....
the most pressing issue there is greece. reporter: yeah. that s right, ali. what i should also mention, though is that the markets have certainly learned over the last two years this euro in crisis has gone from bad to worse. what they wish for and, then, again, what politicians deliver. what they would ultimately like to see, these leaders agreen on a bold action on a statement promising bold action like raising the euro s bailout fund to cope with countries like greece that they re still having trouble paying bills and might also like a discussion about moo mooch mutualizing. germany, of course, is still very, very reluctant to fit the bill on that, ali. different finance abilities. so that mutualization or further union mayen very far apart. the international monetary fund christine lagarde has stern warnings about the prospects for recovery in europe. what did she have to say? reporter: yeah. not mincing worlds and in an interesting position, because this time ....