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Protests Marked End of 2014; AirAsia Search Teams Hampered by Stormy Weather; Remembering Ebola in the U.S.; The Top Twitter Trends

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have breaking news right now: Malaysia Airlines has confirmed it has lost contact with a plane carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members.

ROBIN WILLIAMS, ACTOR: Good morning, Vietnam!

CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: This is the tail section of MH17.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The first confirmed case of Ebola in the United States.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Tonight, I'd like to talk with you about immigration.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: A cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is history.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Air strikes are authorized.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Republicans grabbing control of Congress.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The vast majority of our players are great men.

CUOMO: Teargas just dropped right near us, it will get very bad if we don't have masks.

PROTESTERS: Black lives matter! We can't breathe!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are being tested in Sydney.

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CAMEROTA: Good morning, everybody. Happy New Year.

MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: Happy New Year. Welcome back to a special New Year's edition of NEW DAY.

CUOMO: Not so loud. PEREIRA: People are moving a little slowly.

CAMEROTA: People are just waking up. Welcome to 2015. If you remember what happened last night.

I'm Alisyn Camerota along with Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira.

Coming up, we're looking at how major news events in 2014 could impact or affect change in this New Year, including how huge national story on the closing weeks of last year. The issue of alleged overreach from the police and the racial protests happening across the country and the dialogue that came from all that. Where is this taking us? And could the outrage change the country?

CUOMO: And plus, we have a crisis on another continent we had to deal with remember the Ebola situation? What did we learn from it here in the U.S.? And what can we do about it going forward, specifically with science. Will be able to get the upper hand of this cruel and terrifying disease this year? We have some information for you.

CAMEROTA: All of those stories and more ahead. Stay tuned for that. But, first, let's check your latest headlines over at the news desk.

JOHN BERMAN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Thanks so much.

Good morning, everyone. Happy new year. I'm John Berman, about one minute until the hour right now.

Search teams are once again racing to find victims in the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501, despite heavy rain and four-foot waves in the Java Sea. Officials say it could take a week or more before the plane's black boxes are found. CNN has learned that the USS Fort Worth could be dispatched to the search area as soon as today.

Let's get the latest now from CNN's David Molko in Surabaya, in Indonesia. He joins us live.

Good morning, David.

DAVID MOLKO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, John.

Let's get straight to some news straight from the search zone where we're hearing from search-and-rescue officials that they have now recovered nine bodies at this point.

So despite the weather and rough conditions -- we're hearing 10- to 12-foot waves out in the search zone in the Java Sea today. That's hundreds of miles northwest from where I'm standing here in Surabaya. Despite that, they are still pulling human remains and airplane debris from the water.

Here in Surabaya, at the crisis center and police hospital, a sobering moment a few hours ago as the first victim from that plane crash was officially identified. Her name is Hayati Lutfiah Hamid. She was No. 1. We saw her coming -- her casket coming off the military plane on Wednesday here, followed by another and four additional ones today. They identified her by fingerprints, an I.D. card; and she was wearing a necklace with her officials -- initials, I'm sorry.

A few -- a few minutes later another heartbreaking moment as her remains were turned over to her family. Her brother was there to receive the paperwork as well as her remains. Her burial, we're told, either tonight or tomorrow. And unfortunately, her husband and her daughter were also on that flight.

The mayor of Surabaya, here behind me in the crisis center, said she's telling families to pray for a miracle. And right now, 161 more families are still waiting for answers -- John.

BERMAN: David Molko for us in Surabaya. Again the news: now a ninth body has been recovered from the sea.

New Year's Eve celebrations turning tragic in Shanghai. A stampede along the city's historic waterfront just before midnight led to at least 35 deaths and nearly 50 injuries. More than a dozen of those injuries are said to be serious. China's official news agency reports people started scrambling for coupons being tossed out of windows. Apparently, they thought it was money.

New York City plans to rename two Brooklyn streets in honor of the two police officers who were ambushed and murdered in their car last month. City council officials will take up the plan later this month. Meanwhile, the wake and funeral for Officer Wenjian Liu is scheduled for this weekend. FBI director James Comey is expected to attend the service.

A White House bid by Jeb Bush is looking ever more likely this morning. The former Florida governor has resigned all of his remaining board memberships. He's even parting ways with his own education foundation. Now, the move does not affect business interests where he is a principal partner or owner. Last month the former governor announced his intention to actively explore a run for the White House.

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BERMAN: There it is. An estimated one million people jammed a frigid Times Square to ring in 2015. The annual ball drop triggered plenty of hugs, plenty of kisses. A whole lot of confetti, as well. Mayor Bill de Blasio and his family pushed the ceremonial button.

Back to NEW DAY for their special coverage.

CAMEROTA: The final weeks of 2014 saw protests in major cities across the country, inspired by the deaths of two different black men: one in Ferguson, Missouri; the other in Staten Island, New York, both at the hands of police. The outrage stoked by grand jury decisions not to charge those officers.

CUOMO: The families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner promise they will continue to seek justice. So what does the road ahead look like for them? And really for these big groups that have decided to protest and demand justice, demand a change in law enforcement culture? What's it going to really lead to? Let's discuss where we are, how we move forward, how we repair.

We have Don Lemon, of course, the host of "CNN TONIGHT"; and Mr. Marc Lamont Hill, CNN political commentator, host of "Huff Post Live" and a professor. Gentlemen, good to have you both.

I think the one obvious question when we look at this situation is now what? Right? You've had the protests. You've had the outrage. You've had the disposition of the criminal justice system in at least two cases. What happens now, Professor?

MARC LAMONT HILL, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: I think you organize. You know, being an activist is one thing; being an organizer is something else. I've been an activist for a long time. It's not hard to get people to go to the scene of a crime, the scene of a tragedy. But the next day -- the phone calls, the voter registration, the organizing of a policy agenda -- that's what's next. And that's what's going to happen now.

The interesting thing for me is there are 27, I believe, mayoral elections coming up in 2015. That should be an agenda item for anyone who wants to be mayor. Who's going to be your police commissioner? What's your agenda? What's your framework for thinking about policing? That kind of stuff I think is going to change.

PEREIRA: Don, how do we get that, though? Because we know that we've got a passionate group of engaged young people, specifically. But those same young people aren't necessarily the ones that are heading out to the polls.

DON LEMON, CNN HOST, "CNN TONIGHT": Yes. And that's what the numbers show and the studies show. We see every time there's an election that voter turn-out for young people, very low, especially during mid-term elections.

But I think what you do is, you have to take it to the polls. That's where the power is. And this new movie that's out now, that's running in theaters now, "Selma" -- right? -- shows how people were organized.

When I spoke to Oprah Winfrey, she said what was important about the protests then, is that -- and the protesters then is that they had a strategy. It was strategy, strategy, strategy. It wasn't just about marching, just about yelling, just about being in the streets. Those -- that march from Selma to Montgomery was about getting the voting rights, right? Equal rights for voting.

And so I think that that's what those protesters need to do now. Take all those thousands of protesters...

HILL: Yes. LEMON: ... and they all need to go to the polls the next time there's an election, and they need to register to vote.

HILL: But that's just it, right? Because as you mentioned, '64 and '65, that didn't happen through voting. It happened through civil disobedience and through pushing politicians.

LEMON: That's the start of it, and that's great. Civil disobedience is great. I say peaceful protesting, that's great, as well. But again, I believe the real power -- and I think you will agree that it's in going to vote. Because you said, the police commissioner, the mayor, the governor, the president, that's where you're going to make change.

HILL: Yes. Yes.

CAMEROTA: Let's talk about a different kind of poll, public opinion polls. A recent CBS News poll from last month asked blacks and whites how they felt about race relations. They got very different answers.

Forty-two percent of whites felt that race relations in the United States are generally bad, whereas 54 percent of blacks felt that they were bad. And obviously, it was inverse; it was flipped for generally good, white versus black. Marc, what do we do about that?

HILL: I think that's just the reality of race in America, is that people who are on the bottom tend to look at race relations as more poor than they are, or more than their counterparts do. I don't know if we can change this until we change the substantive realities that people are wrestling with. As long as people don't have jobs, they're going to say the economy is bad. As long as people don't have housing, they're going to say the housing market is bad.

Until race relations at a core level, in terms of housing, education, healthcare, food, et cetera, is dealt with, you're going to see that gap between how people see race in America.

PEREIRA: But don't you think that we can see things from a community level, too? Because this is the one thing that I want to know about. I'm about starting small and on the ground, and I think that's where the movement started. But what about our attitudes toward one another?

LEMON: You read my mind. I think that we should -- people are so angry lately. There's this energy going, everyone is out to get someone.

PEREIRA: A lot of finger-pointing.

LEMON: It's amazing, right? And I don't know what is going on in the universe and the cosmos or whatever. But I think people need to be less judgment and more curious, right? Be curious instead of judgmental.

Because we're not -- as long as we have these conversations, they're not going to be perfect. People are going to mess up. They're going to say things that they shouldn't say. But you have to allow for that in order to, as you say, on a human level, to understand it.

PEREIRA: Foster understanding.

LEMON: To foster understanding.

CUOMO: You also need leadership. You know, you were talking about Selma. Harry Belafonte was a very big organizer down there. And he said that one of the big differences, one of his regrets with today is that he doesn't see the next generation of leadership coming up and helping to spearhead these efforts, control conversation, harness the energy and move it. What do we do about that?

HILL: See, I'm excited by that. I disagree with Mr. Belafonte on that. Only on that single particular; I agree with everything he says (ph).

But I think that this movement is different. Our freedom song is going to be different. Our struggle is going to be different than it was in the 1960s. and I think not having a singular leader is actually a good thing. I think having more distributed leadership is a good thing. Not having a charismatic leader at the top is a good thing. And I think what many people in the previous generation are attempting to do is co-opt the movement and take it back to 1964. We don't always have to march to a major tempo (ph).

LEMON: Rick Duvall (ph). I mean, it's not 1964 again.

But what I do have to say -- and this is -- this is -- you know, this -- you have to be careful with everything, because this is a sound bite society, right? We're talking about having conversations.

I think, in my opinion, the people, the younger people now who are involved in the movement, are not quite as informed as the people before. They don't read as much into, you know, what they should be reading. They don't know about history. And I'm not sure whose fault it is. I think it's maybe our education system, to some point.

Because as I went to view the movie "Selma," I was there with a group of children. And they said, "We didn't learn about this in school. We did not learn about black history."

I went to a black Catholic school. I knew about everything in the movie. Maybe not so much about the women who were involved in the movement. But I knew about those things. And I think that's important, to realize how those people fought and went back.

HILL: You sound like an old man. It's not true. That is not true.

LEMON: They kept going back and back and back in order to vote. And they read; they listened. They didn't always agree, as you and I don't always agree. But I think they were a little bit more informed. And I think that we can...

HILL: That's not true, though. That's not historically true. Fewer than -- about 12 to 13 percent of black people participated in civil rights marches or Civil Rights Activism of any sort of in the 1950s and '60s. And by participating that means even going to one march.

Most of them weren't reading books. Most of them weren't doing that. It was a very small group of people, the people highlighted in those films and other places, who did that. The average person just showed up to the march. The average person just knew they wanted justice. That's similar to what we're seeing right now.

In 1910, real quick, there was a book that W.E.B. Dubois published, and in the intro he wrote, "This next generation of people are politically disengaged. They're not reading enough. They're too active (ph). They're going to juke joints." He was talking about Martin Luther King in there.

LEMON: Yes, but I'm not saying that. I'm not saying that. I'm not talking about the juke joints and all that.

HILL: No, no, no, what I'm saying is every generation thinks the next generation is the same thing.

CAMEROTA: Absolutely. Absolutely.

HILL: And even the civil rights generation that we now sort of laud, they were also criticized for the same stuff. So I actually like this generation of young people. I think they're very informed.

LEMON: No, I'm not saying I don't like it. I think it's great that they're out there doing it but I think that we can always be a little bit more informed. And when you ask people about why are you out here doing it? You know, who are your leaders? There's no clear understanding about that. And that's what I'm saying. There's no clear understanding about what a strategy is. So...

HILL: Strategy is an interesting point.

CUOMO: You also had a desperation to motivate and influence the system in the '60s, whereas now there's a rejection of the system in a way that is new to our cultural dynamic. People don't want to vote.

LEMON: They don't trust.

CUOMO: They don't believe in the system.

LEMON: They don't trust in -- yes, in the process.

CUOMO: So what are you left with? That's one of the big challenges.

HILL: Other forms of activism. That's why I say we should appreciate the vote, we should value the vote, but see it as a tactic, not as an overarching philosophy. Right? It's one strategy among many. And that's why many young people, even those who don't believe in the vote, are still out there advocating for police oversight, for community review boards, things that -- I think you're right -- will be better done if you have a voting block that's powerful, but it's not the only way to go. It's not the only game in town any more. And I think that's...

LEMON: Did you actually agree with me?

HILL: Just a little bit.

LEMON: Oh, my gosh.

HILL: This is getting too weird.

PEREIRA: A rare moment of consensus here: We certainly do have our work cut out for us in organization, don't we?

LEMON: Yes, yes.

CAMEROTA: Marc Lamont Hill, Don Lemon, and thanks so much for having the conversation.

LEMON: Great conversation. Can we continue to have this? I would love to.

CAMEROTA: Let's do that.

LEMON: IN 2015.

CUOMO: Absolutely.

CAMEROTA: Absolutely.

LEMON: All right? As long as he's not involved.

PEREIRA: Oh, whoa.

CUOMO: You see? There it is. I gave him an opportunity to be different in two-zero-one-five ...

CAMEROTA: Some things never change.

LEMON: I love talking to you two. But that one I'm not so sure about.

CAMEROTA: All right. See you guys, soon.

CUOMO: I'm going to be better than him.

We're also going to be talking about a word that had been synonymous with fear and death: Ebola. You remember how worried everybody was here when the virus paid its first visit to the U.S. in 2014? So, the virus that has been so lethal in Africa only claimed one life in the United States. So what does that mean? What have doctors figured out? We have information for you.

CAMEROTA: And we'll talk about that, plus some of the biggest trends on Twitter to look for this coming year. You're watching a special New Year's edition of NEW DAY.

CUOMO: Hash tag #DonLemonCantDress (ph).

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CUOMO: Happy new year. Welcome back to this special New Year's Day edition NEW DAY.

2014, unfortunately, was the year that introduced you to the world of Ebola, right, the virus that's ravaging parts of West Africa. Not "ravaged," is ravaging. Right? Especially Sierra Leone, Liberia, New Guinea.

Now, the first patient to develop Ebola in the United States was Thomas Eric Duncan. You'll remember him, may he rest in peace. He died at a Dallas hospital in September. Since then nine others recovered from Ebola here. An there are currently no new cases in the United States, at least that we know about.

So what can be expected in 2015? And how is the fight against Ebola going inside where it really matters in the hot zone?

For some answers we have Dr. Seema Yasmin, CNN medical analyst and a former disease detective for the CDC. Disease detective. That is -- that's scary work.

All right. So let's talk about what matters most, Doc, which is part of the answer for people here at home. It really matters in West Africa right now. How does the fight go there?

DR. SEEMA YASMIN, CNN MEDICAL ANALYST: Absolutely. That is still the hot zone. We're still seeing increasing numbers of infections there, more than 500 cases reported in Sierra Leone just recently.

And what we are seeing, troops going in there, more volunteers going in. It's really such a delayed response, and because we were late responding in the beginning, we're still playing catch-up. And actually, the virus is moving a lot quicker than we are.

CUOMO: Why?

YASMIN: It's a very contagious virus. Maybe not as contagious as others out there. But because of that lack of health infrastructure there, there are still not enough hospital beds for Ebola patients. And what I'm hearing now from doctors at the front lines is people are dying in their homes of things like malaria, cholera, things that could be treated in the hospital, but the beds are taken up with Ebola patients.

CUOMO: So you have lack of health infrastructure. Plus what happens with the disposition of bodies after death. The combination is sparking a movement of the virus in West Africa. Problems we do not have, thankfully, in the United States, right? And that's a big reason you say don't worry if you're here.

YASMIN: Absolutely. We heard that from the CDC right at the beginning, that we would likely see imported cases here in the U.S. just because the outbreak was going on for so long in West Africa, but we would not see an outbreak anywhere near what we're seeing in West Africa here in the U.S. We have plenty of doctors here. We have great medical facilities. CUOMO: So the simple answer: A person says, "I think I'm going to get

it. Somebody had it, and they were working in Africa. Now they're here, I'm going to get it. It's just a matter of time." The answer?

YASMIN: I mean, they're not going to get it. The chances of it spreading here in the U.S. are much, much lower than we see in West Africa. Let's look at Liberia, for example, a country of about four million people. They have about 50 doctors, and so many of those have died. Sierra Leone, the same. They have 156 doctors. Ten of those have died recently. In the U.S., that's equivalent to us losing 50 or 60,000 doctors. That's the scale that we're looking at.

CUOMO: So you have to look at it relatively. We have much more ability to treat it here. And that's why we see the success with cases.

Now the unfortunate part of that is it means that we also don't have the magic cure. We don't have the silver bullet. We don't have the vaccine. Where are we on that front of developing a vaccine and developing treatments?

YASMIN: So we're in phase one, early clinical trials of a few different vaccines. One of those trials has been stopped, unfortunately, just for a few weeks, because they were trying to find out why some volunteers had developed joint pains in their hands and their feet.

But we still have to question why don't we already have a vaccine? The World Health Organization and other partners have been working on a vaccine for about ten years. But they didn't have enough resources. The NIH here in the U.S. did not have enough resources, did not have enough support to make sure that we'd be ready right now. And so we're about ten years behind.

CUOMO: Well, one leads to the other, right? You didn't have the support because, let's be honest, you didn't have the right people getting sick. Now did you? If you had people in the more developed world, you know, people who have more money who are getting sick, you would have had more movement along those lines, both on the public field and in the private field. Right? They would have developed a cure.

YASMIN: That is exactly, exactly right.

CUOMO: That is an a reality of the human condition. Is that often too many who help themselves get help first.

YASMIN: That's exactly right. And also we're seeing it again now that the headlines and the news cameras are moving away from the Ebola epidemic, because we don't have cases in the U.S. any more. So we have to question what does that say about us, that there was a near hysteria in parts of the U.S. when we had a few cases here, there are still thousands dying in west Africa, and it seems that we don't care as much.

CUOMO: And, you know, you don't want to learn the hard way. And that's why you want to treat it where it is and help others. And we are seeing commitment from the U.S. and others, so we're moving, at least, in the right direction.

All right. So another thing you got me scared about now, you in the medical community, is that I'm not going to get Ebola, but I am going to get the flu. And you're making me get this shot, and it's not even going to work, because the flu has changed. What's the reality?

YASMIN: Well, first thing, don't be scared. Fear is never helpful.

CUOMO: Too late.

YASMIN: But it's important to get -- don't be scared. It's important to get educated. The truth is that it's a guessing game with the flu vaccine. We start thinking in February, OK, the flu season will start later in the year, but what strains will we see? What should we put in the flu vaccine? So most flu shots protect against three or four different strains of the flu.

So even if it's not a perfect match against one particular strain, it's still a good idea for to you get that flu shot. It will protect you against other flu strains. And even if you get the flu, once you've got the shot, which can happen, you're less likely to get very sick.

CUOMO: So it -- even though it's imperfect, it's still your best bet?

YASMIN: Absolutely. It's one of our best weapons in our tool kit against infectious diseases.

CUOMO: Doctor, thank you so much for setting us straight on this, and I wish you the best for the new year.

YASMIN: Thank you. You, too.

CUOMO: Alisyn.

CAMEROTA: OK, Chris. We're checking headlines at the news desk in just a moment.

Plus, what were the best tweets of 2014? And who must you follow in 2015? That's ahead on this special holiday edition of NEW DAY.

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CUOMO: Welcome back do a special New Year's Day edition.

PEREIRA: Are you whispering because... yes?

CAMEROTA: Because they're hung over.

CUOMO: I know, I know. Right. But it is a new day, the new year. Congratulations. In a moment, we're going to check out the top Twitter trends of the year. That's always fun. What big events were the most discussed on social media?

CAMEROTA: And what are the big tech trends coming your way this year? So we're going to look at the must-have gadgets.

PEREIRA: Also, do you have Oscar fever yet? Hollywood is getting ready to celebrate its best and its brightest. What you need to know about the upcoming awards season.

But of course, first, let's get you up to date on all the headlines of the day at the news desk.

BERMAN: All right. Good morning, everyone. Happy new year to all of you. I'm John Berman. About 25 minutes after the hour right now.

The search for more victims and the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 is back under way this morning, despite rain and four-foot waves in the Java Sea. Officials say it could take a week or more before the plane's flight data and voice recorders are finally located. Nine of the 162 people on board have been recovered. And CNN has learned that the USS Fort Worth could be dispatched to the search area today.

We want to get the latest now from CNN's David Molko. He is live in Surabaya, Indonesia.

Good morning, David.

MOLKO: All right, John, good morning, good evening from here in Surabaya.

I want to head straight out to the search zone with some additional information just coming in to us. We talked about how the number of bodies recovered has gone up from eight to nine in the last hour. Now we're learning that two of those nine are now on a plane on their way here to Surabaya. Six already have been brought to the police hospital just next to where I'm standing. An additional two in the air will be received, we expect, at the military base by Indonesian troops, carried, the coffins carried off the planes, put in ambulances and brought here to the police hospital.

A few hours ago, a very sobering moment here as the first victim of the AirAsia flight was formally identified. She is a mother, a sister, and a wife. She was on that AirAsia flight traveling to Singapore, unfortunately, with her husband and her daughter. John, we're seeing this a lot with the passenger manifest. Hayati Lutfiah Hamid was No. 158, and a lot of those traveling on this flight were traveling for the holidays. We -- you know, we all do it. We travel with our families somewhere to celebrate the new year or to visit family. And we're seeing that on the passenger manifest: two, three, even seven members of the same family.

Right here behind me, the family crisis center, where families continue to wait. Earlier today, up to 100 family members and their supporters -- religious officials, neighbors, friends, teachers -- were here to support them. They are still waiting for answers about the fate of their loved ones -- John.

BERMAN: All right. David Molko in Surabaya, what a loss it is for them. Of course, today is New Year's Day, 2015. And now the countdown is

over. The clean-up begins in Times Square. An estimated one million people ushered in the new year at the annual ball drop, marking the occasion with hugs, kisses and some tears. Happy new year to all of you.

Let's go back now to Chris, Alisyn and Michaela.

CAMEROTA: Some of this year's biggest moments and conversations played out on social media. People around the world tweeted to express outrage when grand juries in New York and Ferguson came back. And to express their delight and joy when, say, their favorite teams pulled off big surprises. So here to take us through all of it is Rachel Millner. She manages product communication at Twitter.

Hi, Rachel.

RACHEL MILLNER, TWITTER: Hi. Thanks for having me, and happy new year.

CAMEROTA: Happy new year to you, as well.

OK. So you have put together these top five tweets. You chose them because they resonated around the world. Let's look at those.

So the first one is, it says here, "The Civil Rights Act is 50 years old. These two pictures were taken 50 years apart." And this is the hash tag #Ferguson. Tell us about this one.

MILLNER: Yes, of course. So in August, around Michael Brown's death, we saw the emergence of the hash tag #Ferguson. This photo is one of the examples of the many millions of tweets that really reflect that movement.

You know, people came to Twitter to not only send dispatches from on the ground, witnesses to the crime. And express, as you said, shock and outrage and awe. But many other millions of us were just watching it unfold on Twitter.

And interestingly enough, it really inspired lots more hash tags, so #BlackLivesMatter and #ICantBreathe and #HandsUpDontShoot. And we saw not only something that was very local in Missouri, and then of course, related to the Staten Island case and Eric Garner, but become a global conversation.

CAMEROTA: This is an incredible picture. OK, next picture. This one speaks for itself, this is #bringbackourgirls. This is about the Boko Haram case, and this hash tag took off around the globe.