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everybody. herman cain's accuser now has a voice. the republican presidential candidate, well, listen to how he reacted, confirming the allegations. >> you know, i've been in washington all week and i've attracted a little bit of attention. >> yes. the accuser has now come out and confirmed some of the details. you'll hear what he has to say about this whole cain drama. also, a family court judge caught whipping his daughter. she says it's abuse. he says it's punishment. but did he cross the line? and when do you know that corporal punishment has crossed the line? headline low to you all. this is your cnn saturday morning, november 5th. thank you all for being here. i'm t.j. holmes. we have to start right now with the sad news we got just a short time ago about the death of andy rooney, the legendary

cbs "60 minutes" commentators. cbs confirmed that a short time ago. he was best known for haas essays at the end of "60 minutes." it was just a month ago that he announced his retirement and signed off with that last essay. earlier, i spoke with bob arnott about his friend, andy rooney. >> he pretended to be this curmudgoen. i was kitty cornered to him on the seventh floor at cbs. he had this plush, but he was the nicest, sweetest guy you could ever begin to possibly imagine. of course, i was a neophyte in television at the time. and, of course, we're all nervous and frazzled, trying to pull stuff together and, you know, for this little morning show. the he was never flustered about anything. it was like it was no big deal. we go, how does this guy do it?

and, of course, it was so incredibly ingenious. it was so interesting, so fun and, you know, how did he ever figure that out? and it was so low tech. he had this old type writer, he typed it all up, took a camera and it was no big deal. >> rooney died last night in new york. he had been in the hospital after suffering complications following minor surgery last month. but andy rooney, dead at the age of 92. three minutes past the hour. let's turn to oklahoma, shall we? and i don't know how you woke up this morning, but my alarm clock went off. some folks in oklahoma, an earthquake woke them up. it was a 4.7 magnitude quake. they had a few smaller after shocks. we don't have reports right now of injuries or damage. let me bring in cnn affiliate koco meteorologist rusty mccrany. rusty, is it fair to say this was enough shaking to wake people up? >> all over oklahoma, t.j., and even surrounding states.

we had reports of people walking up from kansas, missouri, texas and arkansas. it's one of the bigger ones we felt in quite some time in oklahoma. >> that's my next question. how often do you all get razzled around? >> oklahoma has some active fault lines and we have a fair amount of earthquake activity. it's just most of them are so small that we hardly ever feel them, especially here in oklahoma city. this one was centered about 45 miles east of oklahoma city. so to get a 4.7, to have it be one that, you know, really woke up a lot of people this morning and that's just kind of been the buzz through the area today, just how many folks were awoken. as you said, though, luckily, the damage reports that are coming in are just minor right now. >> minor. you all are getting some, but still, minor reports is how we -- >> yeah. drywall is being cracked, objects off of shelves, even larger appliances like refrigerators, washers and dryers getting rattled around. there are a lot of natural gas pipelines running through that part of the state, east through

oklahoma city. but no reports of any gas leaks or gas problems or water main breaks or anything like that. >> russky mccranie, thank you so much for jumping on the line. it's 4 minutes past the hour. let's pass it over to reynolds wofrl. we don't think often about oklahoma and earthquakes. oh, you know what? give him a shot of him turning on his microphone there. he's been touring. >> you have your tour group back here. when i'm on the phone chatting with the folks in the tour group, the last thing you want to do is have this microphone on because sometimes you might say some things that are a little crazy and a little weird, probably not best for overall public consumption, but for a few friends that we have here, it's all good. scott, our photo journalist, i'm going to climb over this stuff. i know you have to weave your way back through here. it's amazing, t.j., you're

right. when it comes to this earthquake we had in oklahoma, it's not like the san andreas fault in california. it's not that big of a deal in oklahoma. it's a very, very big deal. it was a 5.5 back in 1952, on april 9th, to be exact, that caused a lot of the damage in the city. it was 45 feet long. so he, yes, they do happen in oklaho oklahoma. snow will be the situation today. it doesn't look all too xwlesive right now. but you have an area of low pressure that set sg up right there. that low pressure is going to pull moisture up out of the gulf and cold air is going to cause a transformation to give us snowfall. before it's all said and done, the snow you're seeing could be up to a foot. great for skiers. for drivers, not so much. t.j., it looks like it's going to be a tough time for a lot of

people on parts of i-80. possibly on i-40 before the weekend rolls out. >> thank you so much. stop playing with the tour groups, okay? >> yeah, okay. >> 7 minutes past the hour. controversy is still swirling around ren herman cain. he spent the past week remembering & accusations from the 1990s. we learned a little bit more about the claims for an attorney for one of the accusers spoke out yesterday. shortly after giving a brief statement, the attorney spoke with our wolf blitzer. >> several instants, i believe that was the phrase you used of sexual harassment. what can you tell us about the nature of this sexual harassment? >> i'm sorry, i would like to be able to reveal all the details, but my client prefers not to do that. all i can say is there was more than one incident. they qualified as sexual harassment turned law in my opinion as a lawyer and my client chooses not to get into

the details again. the details were filed internally with the national restaurant association in 1999 and i assume they were brought to mr. cain's attention. >> now, what is the cain campaign saying? they say they're done talking about this. they've been talking about it for a week and they're ready to put it behind them. but the candidate, herman cain, had something else to say about it, just kind of a reference to it at a marriage tea party event. take a listen. >> you know, i've been in washington all week. and i have attracted a little bit of attention. and there was an article in the "new york times" today that has attempted to attract some more attention. that is kind of what happens when you start to show up near or at the top of the polls. it just happens that way. >> now, the article he's talking about there, the "new york times" article, it was about his relationship with the coke brothers. you may have heard that reference to coke brothers

before. they're conservative businessmen who hosted that tea party event he was attending. cain has another big event scheduled today, a one-on-one debate with newt gingerich. we're at nine minutes past the hour now. pakistan is reportedly trying to hide its nukes from american eyes. so they're moving warheads around the country in the back of delivery vans? no armor, no military convoy? this information coming to us from an article in the atlantic magazine. one of the authors of that report spoke with our anderson cooper about the fears now. >> he was seen repeatedly that the pakistani military are penetrated by people who are sympathetic. when you're, for instance, moving weapons from one place to another, which is how the pakistanis hide them from, among others, the americans, if you have someone inside who is going to tell you, at so-and-so hour

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12 minutes past the hour now. and the debate on corporal punishment re-ignited this week after a video on youtube shows a father striking his daughter with a belt. we're going to show you a bit of the video here. the man is a family court judge. a lot of people found this disturbing. >> stand over that bed. >> why? >> stand over that bed. stand over the bed. stand over the bed. >> ow. stop. >> stand over the bed. >> all right. the man you see in that video, texas court judge william adams. now, since the video was

released, thousands of people have campaigned through social media sights to have him removed from the bench. they say across the line from discipline to child abuse. but the judge says he was punishing his daughter who had stolen music and games through an illegal downloading site. >> in my mind, i haven't done anything wrong, other than discipline my child after she was caught stealing. and i did lose my temper, but i've since apologized. >> now, his daughter, hillary, she was the one who taped and distributed that video online. only showed you a few seconds of it. the whole thing goes about seven minutes long. you see more of the same in the video. she has been doing a round of interviews, now talking about her story. and she talked to our anderson cooper. >> he's in serious denial. i told him it hurt to walk the next day. and his response was one word. he said, good. >> now, of course, there has been some outrage about the judge, but he is going to face

prosecution. why? because the video was from 2004. texas has a five-year statute of limitations on child abuse charges, of injury ago child, i should say. the county va says no indictment can come of the video. anderson asked why she waited seven years to release the tape in the first place. >> there wasn't any carefully planned orchestration or anything like that. and i didn't really mean for anything huge to come of it. i just wanted to put it out there for my dad to see it and maybe a few other people. to maybe help us reconcile and see that this was wrong. >> now, judge adams, he also released a statement through his lawyer. he says his daughter released the tape for revenge. he was going to stop giving her money because she was about to drop out of college, according to the father. the statement reads, quote, hillary warned her father if he reduced her financial support and took away her mercedess

automobile, which her father provided, he would then regret it. the file was shen uploaded. this has brought up a larger issue, the issue of corporal punishment. amy baker is with us, a psychology just. lenny, thank you for being here. i need to say, first of all, we're not here to debate that individual fro. neither one of you are saying that was just corp. rat ral punishment or that was a father disciplining their child. i think a lot of people are in agreement, including you two, that that went too far. let me start with you, polly, if i can. when does it cross the line from discipline to abuse? >> obviously, what we saw was not spanking. he was out of control and he was in a full blown rage. this was undoubtedly abuse. >> but for a parented home -- >> there's no excuse for it. i was spanked as a child. and when i saw that tape, i was

saying, thank god i did not have a father like this judge. >> and, you know, amy, on that question of -- for a parent at home, i'm among them, i've got some pretty good whoopings when i was a kid. for a parent out there, when does it cross the line from you disciplining your child to where it might be construed as abuse? >> well, the law is very clear that corporal punishment is a physical action designed to control or correct a chile's behavior that does not cause injury. texas state law is very clear that when the action causes injury that results in harm to the child's body or serious risk of harm to the child's body, it's abuse. i don't think anybody would argue that this is corporal punishment. >> polly, is there still a place in these days? it's not like some of the debates we've been having this week, there's a generational gap. some older folks got whoopings, and in this day and age, maybe they don't expect kids to be hit

with a belt or whatever it may be. is corporal punishment still a useful tool pore parents to discipline their children? >> to me, that's an individual thing with a parent. again, there's a big difference between a swat on the bottom, which is what many of us got, and welts that turn into bruises. i mean, there's no excuse. and to hear this man say, well, you know, it wasn't as bad as it looks, he wasn't the one on the receiving end of that belt, was he? >> amy, let me bring you in on that same question. does it still have a place and can it be effective or should we try our best, at least, to do away with disciplining our children in this way? >> you know, the research is very clear that corporal punishment is no more effective than alternative discipline techniques and it carries with it risk of negative consequences to the child's body and spirit and self-esteem. so there's no need for corporal punishment. >> now, what would you say, and i know a lot of people are sitting there and i'm going to

get e-mails and tweets and everything else about that statement you just made from a lot of people who say, you know what? i got pretty good whippings and spankings when i was a kid and i turned out just fine. >> they really don't know what it would have been like to not have the whippings and spankings. they wouldn't be carrying with them the experience of having been hurt by their child. one of the problems of corporal punishment is that it teaches children to resolve problems through violence. is that really the message we want to give our children? even if it's effective in the short run and stopping the undesirable behavior, it's shown to be ineffective and can lead to acting out and noncompliance and resentment on the part of the child. that's another reason to try alternatives. >> polly, do you agree with that, that alternatives could work? and i don't know how it would have turned out or many don't know how it would have turned out if you didn't get those spapgings. and a pop on the bottom is one thing, but an actual spanking, is there still a place for that,

holly? >> again, it depends on the situation with the child. i've raised three child. they're grown now. all three of them would tell you to this day that at times the groundings were far more painful than any spanking would be. you take away the computer, the tv, the phone, that was a lot more painful. again, to me, back to this judge, he just reminds me so much of so many abusers that i have heard, turning it around, trying to blame the victim, trying to minimize what he did. and i just -- i applaud this girl, hillary, for having the courage and the shrewdness to do what she did. >> polly, amy, thank you both for being here and sharing perspective on this. it's a conversation a lot of people are having. it's a tough top sxik it's a very personal topic in a lot of homes across the country. so i do appreciate you both for being here. thanks so much. >> sure. >> thank you. 20 minutes past the hour now here on this cnn saturday morning.

a lot of you have been weighing in on this topic. we are reading your comments. we're going to share more of that throughout the morning on some of what you're saying about corporal punishment and in this particular case about texas. also, the sad news we got just a little bit ago about andy rooney. we'll be talking about his old boss who used to work at "60 minutes." dead at the age of 92, after a month after signing off from the show, now he has signed off in another way. good break. be right back. senokot-s®. for occasional constipation associated with certain medications. now you can save big on senokot-s® tablets! go to senokot-s.com. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good.

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23 minutes past the hour now. the occupy movement is takes roots in a lot of places around the states, including atlanta. many are getting advice from civil rights leaders, including jesse jackson. i he was here with me in studio a short time ago. i asked him what advice he was giving. >> remain focused. focus on themselves and the 99, focus on banks and bank policy as well as the impact of these expensive and unnecessary wars. >> other civil rights pioneers offering advice and support. among them, andrew young and reverend joseph laurie. 24 minutes past the hour

now. where is your money today? is it on the move? one group wants you to move your money today, out of the so-called big banks and move it into credit unions. they're calling this move your money day. so far, it seems a lot of people are paying attention to the message. 650,000 people, at least, have fled the big banks in just the past month. listen to how one of the organizers describe the grassroots effort and how it grew so big so fast. >> i started the idea itself. it began as a facebook event i sent to 500 of my closest friends, educating them to the powerful impact credit unions can have on our local community. from there, they invited 500 and they invited 500. so now we are 42,000 supporters in less than two weeks. big banks for far too long have mismanaged funds and it's time

that we vote with our dollar and help restore local communities. >> it was just a month ago, you may remember, that bank of america announced its $5 debit card fee. sparked a lot of anger around the country. now other banks say they're not going to do those fees now, it may be too late. now, if you're one of the thousands of people looking for possible alternatives, here is a website for you. it's ncau.gov. they allow you to simply plug in your zip code. it will allow you to find credit unions near you. we're getting close to the bottom of the hour. would he we'll be talking to andy rooney's old boss after the break. andy rooney, of course, we got news a short time ago, now dead at the age of 92. also this morning, we'll have more on the former sexual harassment allegations against cain. can he survive the storm? and in tuscaloosa, a

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man has died at the age of 92. this comes right at a month after you signed off tr his legendary essay at the end of one of the "60 minutes" programs. he had been in the hospital. he had minor surgery, but developed some complicationes from that surgery and had to go back into the hospital with cbs confirming this morning that he, in fact, died. john cline joins me now on the line pup certainly worked with him for a number of years. john, something a number of people told me this morning, this was just -- can you pick a better way to go, to sign off from the show and literally sign off? >> it's really something, you know? everything about this guy was original and you could almost say perfectly timed. to me, he's one of those people who was in the group that figured out what tv news was or

would be. they all were making it up as they went along. and he started in the 50s and just exploring unusual topics and different ways, even back then. a lot of people don't realize he was documentarymaker or documentary writer, primarily. and he did a lot of work. that was before he ever went on camera, you know, as a -- as an essayist. so, you know, he did a lot of amazing things in his life. >> what's the right way to remember him today? because one of his former colleagues say, you know, you think of this old curmudgeon sometimes. but what's the right way today to remember andy rooney? >> i think andy would have wanted to be remembered as a writer, primarily. and i think that andy proved that television is a writer's medium, not a visual medium, that it's the power of ideas over pictures, you know, andy's segment didn't well contain a lot of visuals, if any.

usually it was just him sitting there, illustrating his points n along the ways. and i used to say to you guys, listen, think of what you have to say first and then worry about how you're going illustrate it later. and andy proved that. and, you know, that's a -- to his everlasting credit. i think the other thing that he illustrates is that you never know which way your life is going to go. i mean, he didn't really become andy rooney we know and love today until -- i think he was in the 60s is when he started appearing on "60 minutes." and up until then, he was going a completely different direction. and, you know, for all those 50 and 60-year-olds out there, who knows what is around the corner, you guys? >> that's a good point to make. jon cline, former cbs executive and cnn executive. we appreciate you taking the time. thanks so much. >> you bet.

32 minutes past the hour. we'll turn back to politics. what a week it was. it was all about herman cain, it seems for the wrong reasons. he's been trying hard to make the story a skull harassment settlement just go away. >> don't even bother asking me all these other questions that you all are curious about, okay? don't even bother. >> these women do want -- are you concerned about -- >> excuse me. excuse me. >> well, things haven't exactly done the way cain would have liked this week. let me bring in our friend, cnn political democratic strategist maria cardona as well as lenny mccall sister. good to see you both. we'll start with you both, your political highlight of the week. what have you got? >> it's herman cain all the time, but it's not about 9-9-9. can i can he survive? can he thrive is in the? it depends on if he continues to lie. >> lenny. >> i have two, one side for each

side of the political aisle this week. for one side, it's the other 9-9-9 plan. president obama's unemployment record for 2011. for the other side of the aisle, it's herman cain, yogi berra and political crisis management. listen to what i said, not what i said except of course what i said is exactly what i said is what you wanted in the first place. >> let's get to herman cain here, shall we? it's hard to know where to start. they say they're not going to talk about it any more and they're done. is it up to him, maria? >> no, absolutely not. and it's interesting because we were all waiting with bated breath to his if one of his accusers was going to come out publicly yesterday. she decided not to relive the accusations and what she went through in the 90s. but the problem is that she was not the only one.

apparently there was another woman and a third woman who actually has now said that they have suffered sexual harassment at the hands of herman cain. so it's not up to him. it's whether any of these three women com decide to come out publicly. >> lenny, why hasn't this seemed to have affected him in the polls just yet? is it too early? >> you have to remember, four years ago, we had a vice presidential candidate talking about the mainstream media. conservatives are fired up whenever they see the media having a controversy around a conservative candidate. they're going to rally the troops until there's irrefutable evidence. right now, that irrefutable evidence is not out there. therefore, you have a guy who is ahead in the polls that has already created relationships at the grassroots level from the christian conservative south that has big relationships with no damming proof out there. why wouldn't he continue to release and maintain that at the

polls especially when the number two right now is mitt romney and conservatives have said we're looking for anybody other than romney, at least at this point in time. >> what does this say, as well, maria, and lenny hit on it here, he's setting records in his campaign fund-raising after it comes out that he was accused of sexual harassment. what in the world do we make of that? >> that's a really interesting question, t.j. i don't know. it would be interesting to see how many of those supporters who have given him money and rallied around him are men and how many are women. let's look at this. sexual harassment is a serious issue. and, again, it wasn't just one woman to come out. if it was just one woman, i would say maybe it's a he said, she said, more than one woman, more than one instance. he's lied about it, which again says to me there is more there than what he is coming out with. >> he said he is starting to

remember things a little better. >> yeah, but t.j., he says he doesn't remember in one breath and in another breath he talks about how he talked about this with another guy who he is accusing of leaking this case, curt anderson. so he doesn't remember or he doesn't remember. and you can't tell me if you're seriously thinking about running for president that you don't think of everything where opposition research can come back to haunt you. >> but at the same time, you have 1992, i smoekdz it but i didn't inhale in the if a landerer that we had in the white house for eight years and we have two presidents that have experimented with everything from liquid substances to other types of substances. this is 2011. everybody has flaws and we've seen it from the last three presidents. that's why herman cain hasn't fallen off the mountain quite yet. so to sit here and suggest this is the first imperfect candidate we've had in 25 years is obnoxious. >> but there's a difference.

>> we're -- >> more in people's past. >> i think maria is about to say that, you know what? somebody who smoked a little something, drank a little something, even if somebody cheated on their spouse, it was nobody's condoning. this is a harassment allegation. it's a major difference. >> these are allegations, t.j. >> that's what -- there's one more than one. >> but we still don't know what the facts are. >> you're right. you're right. >> maria wab was he putting his hand on her shoulder or was it something worse? we don't know. >> we don't know. >> injury absolutely right. but if you're herman cain, you know exactly what these allegations were. don't lie about it. that's what makes it worse in the long run. >> you're right. >> that's the -- >> all right, guys, i'm going to have to let you all go. everybody take a breather. whew. i was off one weekend and i come back to this? good to see you both. >> you see what you did, t.j.? >> a one-word answer, all right? lenny, lsu or alabama?

>> i'm going to have to say alabama. >> maria? >> i mean pittsburgh steelers. >> you all can't even -- oh, goodness. >> i don't even know. i'm going to go with lenny, alabama. >> all right. lenny, maria, good to see you guys. i can't wait to see you again. >> have a good weekend. >> we're 39 minutes past the hour now. and it is the game like no other. people calling this the game of the century today. alabama versus lsu, we had a preview and we'll explain why this is such a big deal. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations. today, the city of charlotte can use verizon technology to inspire businesses to conserve energy and monitor costs. making communities greener... congratulations. ... and buildings as valuable to the bottom line... whoa ! ... as the people inside them. congratulations. because when you add verizon to your company, you don't just add, you multiply. ♪ discover something new... verizon.

42 minutes past the hour on this cnn saturday morning. good morning to you all. thank you for spending some time here with us. give us a look at some of the stories making headlines this morning. we will start in greece. well, the prime minister there gets to keep his job. and that actually means something to us all. now, george papandreou survived a vote that could have forced him to dissolve the government.

that's important. because of the political mess going on right now, they're trying to get it sorted out. it all has to do with a deal to save greece's economy. that deal right now is just sitting and gathering dust. but the proposed bailout would wipe out half of greece's debt. it would force severe cuts in public programs. that has led to widespread rioting you may have seen pictures over over the past days and week there in greece. why is this so important? because greece's economy is linked to the world markets. so many banks bet big on greece's recovery and right now are losing money and that could affect us all. meanwhile, world leaders pledged support for the greek debt deal, another drastic measure while meeting in france for the g-20 summit. they wrapped up the meeting by unveil ago two-page document, a two-page action plan. the plan is short on specifics right now and the leaders admit it will be hard for some countries to follow through. we're at 43 minutes past the hour now. i don't know where you've been if you didn't know that lsu and alabama are playing tonight. one versus two.

it has national championship implications, but these are two powerhouse schools, powerhouse football teams and powerhouse coaches and they have rabid fan bases. >> explain to folks just how big of a game this is. >> alabama and lsu have bye weeks, number one and number two teams in the country. apparently on the same weekend that you decided to take off. t.j., you took the wrong weekend off, the one and two team, lsu visiting alabama in tuscaloosa today. the winner of this team has a inside track to the championship. they control their own destiny to who plays the national championship game earlier in the year. >> and give us an idea of where this thing is at, tickets are

going from $600 to $6,000. are people out there trying to possibly get tickets? i know people have been camping out for literally days. >> these fans made the trip up here as early as tuesday. lsu fans coming in. when you walk around with a camera, t.j., everybody thinks you can provide them with tickets. so just in the past few minutes, we've had a few people coming up to us, hey, can we get tickets? we came from cincinnati, we came from sheboygan. at least it's the biggest game of the day here in tuscaloosa, alabama. >> patrick, you get to be there. enjoy yourself, my man. thank you very much. >> thanks, t.j. . >> it's that time of year again. right now, you need to be thinking about your holiday travel. you need to be careful that you don't get bumped off your flight. how to avoid the bump, that's next. i habe a cohd.

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i thought about walking off the set after that last comment. i didn't think you could handle this by yourself. >> thanks for staying. thanks for staying. hln sports. you're going to need to see

this. >> this is pretty good stuff. >> this is good stuff. we'll wait for that one. but first, you have to hear the former caddie of tiger woods. these two just fell out. >> and it's a shame, too. these guys were such good friends and the falling out just keeps getting worse and worse. evidently, during an awards banquet on friday nigh for williams, he was talking about his big win with adam scott back in august. that came a month after he was fired by tiger woods. williams says he was making the comment in jest, but nevertheless, he got up there telling the crowd it was my aim to shove it up that black expletive, talking about tiger woods. he was saying on his website that he meant no disrespect to tiger woods. adam scott is standing by williams saying he did the right

thing by apologizing. word got back to tiger woods, what was said at this banquet. his agent releasing a statement saying if the reports are accurate, it is regrettable and that they had no further comment. i doubt we have heard the last of this. >> that's unfortunate. let's move on. this is good video, you all tell me this isn't good. >> let me set this up first. man manny pacquiao, many call him one of the best to step in the ring. the guy has a passion for singing. a couple of months ago, he rerecorded a version sometimes when we touch, the 1970s hit. the other night, he got up on stage with jimmy kimmel. let's say it's not an award winning performance. he probably would have gotten kicked off "american idol" for this. ♪ keep me warm in your love how deep is your love ♪

♪ how deep is your love how deep is your love ♪ ♪ because we're living in a -- >> as simon cowell would say, i thought it was awful. >> you have to give him credit for getting up there. >> i would never get up there and sing like that, even though i can sing. >> five minutes to the top of the hour. sing me to break. ♪ when we come back t.j. will have some awesome news for you ♪ dow like that? huh? let me tell you about a very important phone call i made.

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