An Army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 and wounding 30 yesterday at Fort Hood military base in Texas. The suspected gunman, identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, is in the hospital in stable condition after being shot by an officer responding to the scene. Investigators now are searching for what motivated the shooter, who was about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Larry Mantle finds out the latest developments.

California health officials would like to get all “high risk” patients vaccinated for the H1N1 flu by December 31 but shortages of the vaccine will put that goal in serious jeopardy. At least 25 cities and county health agencies have received less than 45% of the vaccines they ordered. Is Los Angeles County facing shortages of the vaccine? Larry Mantle talks with Dr. Jonathan Fielding about the availability of H1N1 vaccine in the county.

On 2005, at the age of 27, Malalai Joya was elected as the youngest member of the Afghan Parliament. Today at age 30 she has survived five assassination attempts and is arguably one of the most controversial political figures in Afghanistan. Her new book, A Woman Among the Warlords, is an account of how she risked her life by denouncing the powerful warlords in her country. Joya joins Larry Mantle to talk about the truth members of the Afghan leadership concealed and what it cost her to speak out against them.

Larry Mantle and film critics Claudia Puig of USA Today, Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor and Charles Solomon, animation critic and historian for amazon.com discuss several of the week’s new releases including Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The Men Who Stare At Goats, The Box, Precious, The Fourth Kind, The Yes Men Fix The World, Turning Green, The Wedding Song, Died Young Stayed Pretty, and Araya.

Why do we need another book on Elizabeth Taylor? Author William Mann says that Taylor created the culture of celebrity that we have today and that everyone from Madonna to Britney to Miley Cyrus has taken a page from her book. In his new biography of the famed film star, Mann reveals how Liz Taylor “did it,” how her on-and off-screen passions ignited the sexual revolution and how she helped kick down the studio system by taking control of her own career.