suzanne. >> all right. have a great holiday. >> you, too. >>> the raging debate is should we put armed guards in every american school? in some countries it happens already. we go live to israel to see how they keep their kids safe inle school. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. >>> it got a little attention in the campaign, but now the gun control debate is front and center again. images have struck at the heart of many americans. now lawmakers promise new regulations including laws to ban assault weapons. the national rifle association is doubling down on its stance against any new regulations. listen. >> if we're willing to debate the whole question of these semi-au

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>> i hope so, suzanne. as ayou know, frank and i have two beautiful children aadopted domestically, but there are over 100,000 adoptions in america every year mostly by americans for american children. we have adopted anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 children overseas because americans believe and i think most people in the world believe that children should be raised in families by parents or at least one responsible adult in a family-like setting. it is grossly unfair not just to america but to the children of russia for what they did and the president signing a bill that does nothing but harm russian children who are desperately in need of a family. domestic adoption is growing in russia, but not sufficiently to take care of it. so, you know, i've never heard of a country that would use children as a political pawn. i mean, even in the united states' worst days, we don't do that. it really is very unfortunate. >> all right. senator, we appreciate your time and your perspective on both issues. next hour we'

i'm suzanne malveaux. we're keeping you updated on the news here in the united states and around the world. former egyptian president hosni mubarak being transferred to a hospital for medical treatment. the country's state prosecutor ordered the transfer. mubarak is serving life in prison for his role in the killing of demonstrars in egypt's recent demonstration. ian is live in cairo. ian, what are we learning about mubarak's condition right now? >> reporter: suzanne, right now he's in stable condition. he's had three fractured ribs after slipping in the bathroom. the general prosecutor ordered that he be taken from torah prison to a military hospital for more specialized treatment for his condition. his lawyer told us that he has been angry with the fact that mubarak hasn't been getting treatment he believes he deserves in the prison hospital, so he's glad to see that mubarak is moving to the military hospital. >> and , ian, do we expect that anybody is reacting to his condition? is anybody payingny atten

"cnn newsroom" with my friend suzanne malveaux starts right now. >>> i'm suzanne malveaux. welcome to our 500th edition of our show. we've got a lot to cover so let's get right to it. russia dominating our newscast this hour. for two very different reasons. first, the man, that man you see there, russia's top diplomat, he is now taking an active role in trying to end the civil war in syria. now, remember, both russia and china have blocked u.n. attempts to force out the assad regime. now the russians say they are willing to meet with the syrian opposition. it could open the door for real u.n. action on the ground, action that could mean american involvement. we've got more details in a live report in just a minute. >>> but also, russia's president formally saying no to americans who want to adopt russian children. it is a heartbreaking development for hundreds of americans who are trying to adopt children from russian orphana orphanages. that is happening right now. president vladimir putin signed the adoption ban today. sadly, more than 50 americans who were in the final s

i don't know if you realize the suzanne but a lot's changed since the one nine hundred fifty s. mainly one person's income can't feed a family of four in a white picket fence house anymore and how dare you generalize modern women meaning women who are simply in the workplace and want to be treated with equal pay and respect as men as ruining the ability of medic protect and provide for their families but you guys she does provide a lot at the end of the tunnel she says women have the power to turn everything around all they have to do is surrender to their nature their femininity and let men surrender to theirs if they do marriageable men will come out of the what work . gag yes suzanne if we just surrender to our femininity go back to cooking cleaning and having babies you know all the stuff you claim women's roles in society are the men what actually want to marry again men i can't tell you how disgusted i was reading such a sad and pathetic self loathing commentary from a female author personally call me crazy but i think it's time to progress rather than regress sixty years

cnn newsroom continues right now with suzanne malveaux. >>> hello everyone. i'm suzanne malveaux. thanks for joining us on this christmas day. merry christmas. we are keeping you updated on the latest news, also bringing christmas celebrations from around the world. a lot of people are getting something that was not on the christmas wish list. we are talking about the stormy weather. this is a powerful system that could dump 4 to 6 inches of snow and sleet on parts of southern great plains, the ozarks as well. the south is under the threat of severe weather and possible tornadoes. the storm already causing problems on the roads. the oklahoma highway patrol says westbound interstate 40 was temporarily shut down for two miles in a suburb of oklahoma city this morning. they say freezing rain is probably to blame for a chain reaction crash involving 20 vehicles. you see it there. including three big rigs. alexandra steele is the storm. >> take a look at this. severe weather is just beginning to ramp up today. we're looking at a whole day with severe weather. tornado watches you can se

suzanne? >> how likely is this going to be passed, this is going to happen, the governor signing this? and how divided is this community? >> reporter: it's extremely divided. if is expected to pass. for one, as you said, first part of the bill just passed -- just passed the house. by the way after that happened protesters who are inside the capitol building now started shouting "veto, veto, veto" and started a sit-in. ev jesse jackson walked into the area and sat down with them and said a prayer. this is divisive. to give you an idea how divisive it is, see that tent here over my shoulder? that is tent for one of the groups in favor of the right-to-work law. guess who tore it down? those against the law. they're not happy about it. the divisiveness right there on the ground. >> what happens next here? i understand there were schools closed because so many teachers were walking out of the classrooms to protest there. how do they heal? how do they come together? where do they go from here? >> re

>> reporter: well, hey, suzanne. all the company is talking about now is a single product, something from its mac product family. obviously that pales in comparison to the number of units they make of the iphone or ipad, for instance, but it does represent a start. there are a couple of different ways of looking at had. some might say $100 million, that's chump change to a company that has, you know, $100 billion in the bank and that it won't employ all that many workers. my own analysis of this, and i cover this -- have been covering this company for a long time, is that, yes, apple has the greatest pr machine in the world, but, look, this is a beginning for them. this is good pr for them, but it will establish a presence in the united states, and it may encourage other companies to do the same thing. you know, it's no secret why the vast majority of apple products are made in china because we're talking about cheap labor and we're talking about infrastructure capacity, which we don't currently have in the u.s. tim

i mean, suzanne, you covered him. you saw, he campaigned on reinstating the assault weapons ban in 2008 but didn't do much about it, didn't do anything about it, really, because as i said, democrats here on capitol hill, many of them just didn't want to touch it. the open question still is the votes. and just even looking ahead, you've got to still talk about politics. the next election, 2014, you have a number of democratic senators up for re-election in conservative states, whether it is kay hagan of north carolina or mark begich of alaska or mark prior of arkansas. those are people who were trying to get in touch with their offices but may be reluctant, even in the case of this horrible tragedy, to do much because they're afraid of getting pummeled back home. the one thing that maybe we're hearing more talk of is maybe not so far as the assault weapons ban, but something to curb those 30-shot magazines, things like that, which even joe manchin says, you don't need that for anything, not even hunting. >> that's a ve

>> reporter: we know the white house is at this point, suzanne. it's really the white house and senate democrats who are talking at this point. congressional democrats and republicans are not talking, and this is important to note as the senate is set to reconvene on thursday. at some point take up some sort of measure that harry reid will have cobbled together hoping to get some republican support. but right now it is possible, of course, to resolve this. it's also possible according to a lot of sources that we're talking to that we do go over the cliff, but at this point the white house talking to senate democrats about what their proposal is that they'll be putting out here in the nex week. >> if there was some break through i'm assuming the president would cut his vacation short and go back to washington? is that what you understand? >> reporter: they haven't made it official, suzanne, but i think that is the expectation. talking with sources. it's not really a matter of if the president is going back to washington. it seems to be more a matte

i remember that as well, suzanne. what you're describing is the first time that she had one of these blood clots. if you've had one before, you are at higher risk of having one again. if you add into that the traveling, which people are sitting, and they have their legs bent, and that reduces blood flow around the legs. that could put you at risk. also, after this concussion, one of the things she was told was to take it easy. you and i both know that's not an easy thing for her to do, but if she was taking it easy, lying around, that could put you at increased risk for blood clot as well of all of those things potentially increase the risk. the treatment again, these blood thinners, they usually do the trick. >> we wish her a good recovery. thank you, sanjay. we know she does not sit still for a minute. appreciate it. thanks again. >>> want to get back to the fiscal cliff, where less than 15 hours from toppling over the edge if lawmakers can't seem to hammer out a deal or work something out. president obama says he i

suzanne. >> thank you, ashleigh. this put guns back on the national agenda, and today we're getting a two-minute warning. that means the president will arrive very shortly in the press briefing room to explain, to talk about his role and the government's role. he was moved by what he saw in connecticut, and he says that he wanted to make this a priority in his administration. so we're waiting for those remarks. we want to bring in wolf blitzer to talk about this. we know there are some things that the president can do and other things he cannot do. he clearly has it to work with congress if he's going to move forward on gun legislation, but he can also carry out executive orders and short-term measures that he can take. what do we expect in terms of the strength, the robust nature of these remarks that something really will be done and he's got the political will behind it. >> i think we'll hear strong words from the president right now, and he's express his outrage over what happened in newtown, connecticut and earl

suzanne. >> thank you very much. welcome to cnn newsroom and welcome to our viewers around the world as they simultaneous cast this domestically and internationally. we were breaking news out of connecticut. we're following this school shooting. police told us a number of people have been shot at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut, about 60 miles north of new york. first calls coming into police around 9:40 local time this morning. children were being evacuated, the schools in the area all on lockdown. now, we have learned that the shooter is dead. we are also hearing multiple local reports of fatalities. i want to go to our cnn's jason carroll for the very latest. first of all, outline if you will how many people we know are dead, who has been killed, and who has been injured. >> well, first of all, let's go back to the beginning. we started to receive reports at about 9:40 a.m. that's when police, suzanne, reported that a shooter was in the, quote, main office of the school. at that point we had a

>> good afternoon to you, suzanne. the biggest story, of course, this major storm we've been talking about for days, right? now the bull's-eye is in the northeast and it's a different bull's-eye and we're not seeing the blizzard warnings and even if vermont and new hampshire, they're saying why is this rain? all of this rain is moving out and it's moving out of new york, philadelphia, providence and still in boston and up through the northeast and northern new england, you can see that, but the problem there is the rain coupled with intense winds and 40 and 50 mile per hour wind gusts and this is the synoptic storm we've been talking about for the last couple of days and what's happened now it's transitioned to a lake-effect snow event and copious amounts of snow and you can see them coming out like huron and eerie and places like cleveland and buffalo and syracuse and rochester and eerie and 6 to 12 inches coming and the ski resorts there, look at this. this is by tomorrow night and this pink delineating eight inches

thanks, suzanne. >> ashleigh? >> it's so interesting to hear you and david gergen having that conversation over the gun control debate. there's another big conversation reigniting now and the debate over violent video games and whether they lead to actual violence. if you're a parent and this plagues you, you are concerned about, we've got advice coming up in a moment. >> media violence is a risk factor, is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that far away. we're going to wake the world up. and watch, with eyes wide, as it gets to work. cisco. tomorrow starts here. >>> 14 days and kouptsing to the fiscal cliff. boehner letting taxes increase on $1 million a year, a plan b, short-term step to avoidsdyñ mae spending cuts and tax hikes that would

now, you know, suzanne, this is washington. there's a huge difference between a realization and legislation. we'll just have to see what happens, and we're going to have to see what kind of skin in the game president obama and the democrats have come up with. this is going to have to be a bipartisan solution. >> all right. you mentioned mitt romney in his grave. let's see if he becomes resurrected. you never know. there might be another life for him. we'll see. thank you, anna. good to see you, as always. >>> suspected serial killer israel keys crisscrossed the country undetected for more than ten years. the fbi says he admitted to the crimes, but they still don't know who all his victims were. we got the search tore answers, plus new surveillance video of keys before he died while in custody. i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i looked at my options. then i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eli

>> it is extraordinary, suzanne. in a week when the country is so focused on the safety of small children, the army is getting a failing grade big-time. the president having to pick up the phone and call the secretary of the army on tuesday night to express his personal concern right from the white house about a number of arrests and a growing scandal at an army child care facility here in washington, d.c. here's what happened. back in september two workers arrested, charged with some assault against small children at the facility, pinching them, slapping them, dragging them across the floor. this sparked a look at the background checks on all the workers there. it wound up last friday 30 child care workers of 130 that worked at the facility, 30 workers over all dismissed. they have things in their background checks like assault, drug use, abuse of minors, things like this. many more had some minor charges, but generally things that certainly would have disqualified them for working in this facility. >> when was the

>> well, suzanne, this is a challenge. the illegal trade in wildlife products is a challenge growing expo tentally. it's worth 7 to $10 billion every year. this memorandum of understanding is, i think, a sign that nations are starting to wake up to the very serious gravity of the situation. >> you've got vietnamese hunters since 2003 being paid an estimated $22 million to kill rhinos in south africa. that's an awful lot of money here. how do you make a pact between these two countries and have an impact on something that is that lucrative in trade? >> well, there's lots of different ways. of course, rhino horn is ending up oftentimes as a form of traditional medicine, so part is about educating buyers, educating individuals to be more sophisticated in understanding there's no scientific basis for rhino horns being a medicinal cure for anything at all. also, understanding that the trade is international. here in los angeles it's a major hub for the trade in rhino horn. illegal crime syndicates, it supports militias and dest

hi, suzanne. one of the things we're working on is called the rad works project, and we're in a project that's looking at advances in radiation protection, detection and we have three elements to us. one is the radiation environment monitor, which is being used to detect -- it is a low cost -- i mean low cost, low power, low mass device to detect particles, charged particles. then we have the advanced neutron spectrometer or ams which we're using it again, low power, low mass, to detect neutrons in the environment. and then the third is the storm shelter. and with the storm shelter, it is where we're trying to figure out what logistics and things can we use on orbit and that's one of our options that we can create the -- the crew would have a safe haven or place to go to where they have a safer area from the effects of solar particles. >> want to bring in chad myers here, a space enthusiast. among other things, meteorologist, ask some questions as well. >> i always wanted to know, you know, we kno

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: the tree is up on wall and broad, and so is the u.s. stock market. the holiday season typically is a good time for stocks. in fact, since 1950, december has been the best month of the year for the s&p 500 with the index gaining an average of 1.7%. this december is off to a good start, even though the fiscal cliff looms large over trading floors. most investors remain optimistic there will be a deal in washington before santa arrives. but floor broker teddy weisberg isn't sure where all the optimism is coming from. >> it's a real dilemma here because a lot of folks that i talk to, and customers and professionals alike, are very, very nervous. and i think they are perplexed by the lack of weakness in the market, if you will. >> reporter: economists say no deal between lawmakers and the white house by new year's could push the u.s. into recession by early next year. that dire prediction should be bad news for stocks, but investors remain unfazed. experts say stocks are more likely to move in a tight trading range in the next few weeks. >>

>>> i'm suzanne malveaux. we learned the oregon mall where three people were killed is set to re-open tomorrow. we have new details. an ex-girlfriend says 22-year-old jacob roberts known as jake had been working as a cook for more than two years. she says he was an outgoing, happy guy, skateboarder in high school and he was a sandwich shop employee at the time of the shooting. here's his facebook page. it shows the work of a street artist with a spray painted slogan, follow your dreams with a big red canceled sign across it. he writes, quote, i may be young, but i've lived one crazy life so far. he lists shooting as one of his ten interests along with camping, rafting, sushi, and spending money. the ex-girlfriend also says roberts told her his mother died at childbirth and never met his father and left his aunt's home at age 13. we want to talk about what we know about his profile. is there anything that stands out in details you learn? >> if you look at everything totally, especially that facebook post, it re

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: yes, there will be life for the u.s. stock market after the fiscal cliff. it may not seem so today, as stock investors ran for the exits even faster than washington lawmakers left town for the holidays. but, somehow, someway, sometime there will be a deal between congress and white house. and, once that happens equity investors will need to refocus. >> once we get into the new year, i think we're going to get right back into earnings season again. and, once again earnings season is what happened last quarter and what do we think is going to happen in the quarters moving forward. >> reporter: as far as what happened in the quarter that ends for most companies on new year's eve, the answer isn't good. according to standard and poor's, wall street analysts predict big u.s. firms only saw a 3% increase in profits in the urth quart. october 1, they were far more optimistic, forecasting a close to 10% gain. so what happened to all that earnings optimism earnings? it turns out it evaporated, as the u.s. economy started to show

>>caller: suzanne in suzanne is >>host: hi mike mezack are you ready to go? >>host: i love the 2 hours we have in store. >>guest: a lot of different things. final prime-time show before the holiday. >>host: walk you through some of the holidays. a little bit about6 c13 one. i love the case but there is a lot inside. >>guest: the case is $129.95 by itself. we will send you the case at $30 off and fill it with the first two years of the gem-brilliant uncirculated national park quarters. philadelphia and denver mint in the regular and 24 cake plaid version. clad version. >>host: i want to show you the case and please order early. you will seed thanks sell out so quickly. a lot of items will be out of here because of limited quantities. --you will check this out.this is the set of proof state quarters in the original packaging. why is that significant? >>guest: 3 crucial because it is just a quarter set. first time having them in several months. only 200 to go and i will show you to love them on a coin by coin basis are basically equal to $199. --two of them. >>h

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: 11,000 jobs are a lot of layoffs, even for a bank as huge as citi. and there could be more. that's because the monster firm is still struggling to recover from the great recession even though it has fired a lot of other workers in the last few years. the thing is, citi has a new c.e.o. in michael corbat, and experts say he's anxious to make his mark, even if that includes cutting staff. and the need to slim down is not unique to citi; it's industry- wide. a financial industry runs into huge problems. it happened in the '30s, and it happened in the last five years. when you go through these periods, you go through a lot of change. that industry is now trying to figure out what is the right size of the industry. >> reporter: still, economists say citi's action today is not the start of a new ve aofls crfe america. the nation's job market may not be robust, but it's not frozen, either. in fact, today, the payroll firm a.d.p. reported 118,000 new private sector jobs were added in november, fewer than in october. the blame for last month's slowdown in hi

suzanne pratt, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: cliff or no cliff. still ahead, tonight's market monitor guest says stock prices and the economy will grow in 2013. hank smith of haverford trust joins us. >> tom: super storm sandy keeps showing up in some economic data. this time: consumer spending. spending fell 0.2% in october. it was expected to be up that much. stocks were mixed with continued nervousness about the fiscal cliff. the dow gained just three points, the nasdaq lost nearly two. the s&p 500 was virtually unchanged. on the week, the dow up just barely. the nasdaq the biggest gainer: up almost 1.5%, the s&p up half a percentage point. >> susie: investors took a bite out of yum brands today. the stock tumbled 10% after the parent of k.f.c. and pizza hut said its business in china is slowing. yum's c.e.o. warned that china sales will fall by 4% in the fourth quarter, that's a big drop from the same period a year ago when sales surged 21%. blaming the weak chinese economy, yum also said it plans to reduce the number of restaurant openings in

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here is suzanne's husband. mary margaret, their perpetually eight-year-old daughter. >> most people when they send out their holiday cards they have a picture of their puppy or their puppy and their baby and i kind of felt left out. >> reporter: so 13 years ago, she sent her first family christmas card. >> the whole reason, really, why i started this was like a pressure to conform. >> reporter: oh. >> because i was getting older. still didn't have a ring on my finger and i just kept getting a lot of pressure. >> reporter: from her mom, for example. >> she just kind of point blank said "susie, when you just going to get married? when are you just going to pick somebody?" and i just blew up. i was like "mom, it's not like i can go out and buy a family!" >> reporter: or could she. >> i was walking past a retail liquidation outlet and i saw an entire family in the window and i thought -- >> reporter: it just hit you. >> lightbulb! >> reporter: for the record, her mother ann recalls no such nagging. >> oh, she tells

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: four days after its debut, most of the much-hyped collaboration is still available at this target in edgewater, new jersey. there are gifts for your four- legged friends, and plenty of bar accessories for your partying pals, including shot glasses and cocktail shakers. there's even green transportation by alice and olivia. gone is this funky sweatshirt, although you can still get it online. almost gone are these brian atwood gloves at $50 a pair. and only a handful of carolina herrera notebooks are left. 24 designers created products ranging from $8 to $500 a piece. many of the designers are not household names, but a deal with target gives them mass market exposure. clearly, target and neiman marcus are hoping the partnerhip will put some sizzle into their holiday sales. >> i think it's done well, it's set up well. it's beautiful everything here. it's different. >> reporter: target is no stranger to other designer hook- ups, many of whose pieces normally sell for steep price tags at high-end department stores. don't forget the wildly successful miss

suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: one thing is for sure, wall street can count. that means investors know there are just nine trading days left until tax hikes automatically take effect across the nation, and hit americans where it hurts: their wallets. and, investors are also aware there are even fewer days before lawmakers are scheduled to leave on holiday break. despite the ticking clock, many investors remain optimistic there will be a deal between congress and the white house before the ball drops in time square. veteran trader jonathan corpina agrees there will soon be a resolution, but he thinks the news will be a big ho-hum for stocks. >> i think the sentiment of a deal solution is already priced into our market right now. so, what does that really mean. when we get news that a deal is in place or partially in place will we get a huge upswing in the market. i don't think so, i think it's already been priced in. >> reporter: other market pros are less sanguine about an agreement in the next few days. even with signs of progress in washington today, they wo

suzanne pratt reports, the outlook for bonds next year depends a lot on what happens washington this year. >> reporter: less than 2%-- that's what the benchmark ten- year treasury bond pays today. even with record low yields, investors have continued to buy bonds in a big way. everyone from the chinese government to american retirees hold u.s. treasuries. and the federal reserve continues to promise rates will remain low, at least for the next few years. so what does that mean for bond investors, especially as worries about a bond bubble grow? >> i know those people have been warning about a bond bubble for quite a few years. but the fact is, we just haven't seen it. the fed has made quite clear that if inflation expectations were to get out of control, or even if we got even close to it, the fed would do something about it. >> reporter: don't forget, inflation is the bond market's nemesis because it erodes the value of bonds. and there's concern all the money the u.s. central bank pumped into the financial system in recent years will drive up prices. and then there are those who bel