those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. ask your doctor about lyrica today. it's specific treatment for diabetic nerve pain. this is piers morgan live. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight i say this is the thing that's making all the trouble right now. the polar vortex. under the wind chill tonight's temperatures could plunge to the lowest yet. not just uncomfortable, it's downright dangerous not just for people. i'll talk to the cue rater of the national zoo who is moving animals inside as we report now. philippe cousteau is here to explain why it's too cold even for some polar bears. plus you heard this from dennis rodman this morning. >> do you understand what kenneth bae did? do you understand what he did? >> what did he do? you tell me. >> to his country. no no no you tell me. you tell me.

>> tonight john mccain tells me what he thinks of dennis rodman's rant. and new year new you. what better time to change your life. and who better to help me than my guest tonight, an expert on reinvention, one of america's favorite journalists, jane pauley. and jamie oliver and cohost sherry shepherd of "the -- it i freezing cold out there. really freezing cold all across america, all 50 states being hit. no one knows that better than my intrepid colleagues. ted rowlands, eric mcpike rosa flores, pamela brown in buffalo. with exactly what we don't need right now, a new blizzard. and chad myers in the cnn weather center. pamela brown is in buffalo, new york, currently a low of 4 degrees. how bad is it tonight? >> reporter: it is absolutely

brutal, piers. there's really an understatement to say that really dealing with the trifecta here. ferocious winds with the biting cold and of course the snow. let me show you what it looks like here. if you look underthe street lamp here you can see the blowing snow. wind gusts have been up to 45 miles per hour. and what you can't see of course is how cold it is. that's creating a big issue here and a big part of why this blizzard is so dangerous. in fact, there have been flood warnings in effect because of broken water mains. and also we've learned that lake erie where we're standing right next to is actually frozen over, which is impacting the lake effects snow. we're not seeing near the totals we thought we would see because lake erie, the moisture from the lake isn't going up to that cold air to produce the accumulation that 3 feet of snow that we thought here. where we are right outside buffalo we're seeing about 10 inches of snow. but of course a blizzard warning in effect through tomorrow morning.

so we could see more as these conditions persist. piers? >> pamela brown, thank you very much. ted rowland, cnn correspondent is in chicago, illinois near the amtrak train station. currently 4 degrees, i believe. what does it feel like, ted, compared to yesterday for example? >> reporter: big difference, piers. we did move to michigan avenue downtown. yesterday when we were coming to you we were below zero. 4 above feels like tropical weather here. in fact, it's woken up some people. the hibernation seems to be over in chicago. temperatures are going to get better and better. today was another horrible day, however. sub zero temperatures, roads were in terrible shape. and you mentioned those train -- folks that were stuck on amtrak trains. it was a very bad day. the warmth that is slowly coming is welcomed here in the midwest and specifically in chicago. >> ted, let's talk more about these trains. you know the 500 passengers stranded on three amtrak trains in illinois. what is the latest on them?

and what kind of strain generally is this massive cold burst now putting on all electric grids in that area? >> reporter: well, specifically with the train passengers, they ran into a snowdrift that the trains beliefably couldn't get through. >> reporter: well, specifically with the train passengers, they ran into a snowdrift that the trains beliefably couldn't get through. so they were stranded for in some cases 13, 14 hours sitting in a train car, one of the biggest problems they had was that they were starting to run out of food. they were using the same bathroom. one passenger said it was absolutely disgusting. they had to create a smoking car. because smokers were getting agitated. it was so cold outside they couldn't let them outside to smoke so any created a smoking car. best comment was from a woman who said she could not feel derriere after 20 hours plus of sit down on the amtrak train. they were fed, they were kept warm and there were no injuries, however. >> how is your derriere feeling in about 48 hours standing on

your feet in the cold? >> reporter: may face is worse man my derriere. i'm okay. i've got the old long underwar working for me, piers, and many layers. but there's nothing on my face. yesterday was worse than tonight, though, that's for sure. >> you need some old king henry viii long johns in england. very long woollen johns to cover that whole area. ted stay safe here. stay as warm as you possibly can. now to erin mcpike cnn correspondent in minneapolis, minnesota. currently 4 degrees as we heard in chicago. there's been a low of negative 16 degrees. to put it in context, extreme wind chills the flesh can actually freeze i'm told in as little as five minutes. authorities have already blamed 16 deaths on the cold so far. 11 from traffic accidents, three from hypothermia. how does it feel to you, erin? you've obviously been in this for quite some time. what does it actually feel like to be in the extreme cold temperatures? >> reporter: well, piers, it is

obviously cold here. there is no doubt about that. and i haven't been standing outside for more than ten minutes at a time. i've been standing out here now for about five minutes. and my fingers are very cold. it's hard to move them. but what i will tell you about this is that it's not as treacherous, let's say, as it is where pamela is in upstate new york. there hasn't been precipitation falling here in the last couple of days, but that can be deceiving. we want to show you why. a video came to us this afternoon from a woman who was driving north on interstate 35 in ramsey county, minnesota, earlier this morning. she lost control of her truck. it went over the bridge. now, miraculously this woman left her car without more than a few bumps or bruises. so she survived and did pretty well. but still, the minnesota department of transportation wanted to make an example of her. they went to their facebook page this afternoon and said, this is why we're urging people to slow down, pay attention and watch out for icy bridges and ramps.

that's because these sub zero temperatures create these black ice conditions so drivers aren't really aware of what they're getting into. and that's why they want people to slow down. the other thing we can tell you about this extreme cold is that it's causing a lot of frost bite. so one of the local hospitals here said that they usually see about 30 patients a year for frost bite. but just in december they saw 30, and already in january they said they've seen about 25 in this first week. but it's getting a little bit better, and schools in the area should be open tomorrow. so it seems like the worst is over, piers. >> erin mcpike, i think you've exceeded your 10-minute limit. get inside immediately an get some warmth warmth. now rosa flores, cnn correspondent at laguardia airport. a balmy 10 degrees by compared to what it has been. a low of negative 7 degrees. record low since 1896. you're from texas, aren't you, rosa? this should be like some horrid horror film?

>> reporter: i would say holy guacamole where is my -- the national weather service has a wind chill advisory for the northeast. hear this. of negative 15 to negative 30 degrees depending on where you're at. so the only other thing i could say would be ay carumba, piers, it's cold. >> tell me about the flight situation. because 3,000 flights have been canceled in or out of the united states on tuesday morning. jetblue in particular shut down basically all operations at boston's logan airport and the three new york-area airports. 150,000 jetblue passengers alone affected by these cancellations over the last six days. pretty chaotic. is there a sense of anger what jetblue does? or was it basically all they could do in the circumstances? >> reporter: you know, there is probably some anger from

passengers just because of all of the flights that have been canceled. some of them are probably taking it better than others. but imagine this. a lot of them are sleeping at the airport on the floor or they're sleeping on cots, or this is right after the holidays. so a lot of folks who spent all of their holidays with their family or their in-laws, they're back with their family and/or their in-laws because their flights got canceled. so it's a very frustrating situation. so you can't blame these people if their patience has frozen with the cold, piers. >> weeks with the in-laws. that's something to look forward to, isn't it? let's move on. rosa, thank you very much. we go to chad myers now, meteorologist extraordinaire in the the cnn severe weather center in atlanta. all 50 states in america, has this ever happened that they've all recorded freezing temperatures before at the same time? >> reporter: you know, it has. and even for hawaii because you have mountains that are 14,000, 16,000 feet high.

obviously it's cold up there. but what happened, piers, think about this. think if we had a large water balloon up over the north pole. and somebody poked it. well, all of a sudden all of that cold water went stray south because there was nothing to hold it there anymore. the balloon popped. well, that's what happen when this arctic vortex came out. it was supposed to be up here to the north. it popped. and it went all the way down to the south. so we had that big big cold air mass drop all the way down even into florida. it goes away, though, for saturday. new york city, buffalo, all talking about 50 degrees by saturday. atlanta to 60. and minneapolis to 32. how about that? >> i just got back from australia watching england's debacle playing cricket. it was 114 degrees out there. these massive swings of temperatures around the globe, what do you think it says about global warming? i'm about to talk to philippe cousteau about that. what is your sense, chad, what is going on here?

>> reporter: i've heard all the chatter about global warming how cold this is. over the past 30 days there have been 1,000 or so -- probably about 1,000 record highs across america. there have been half of that for record lows. so even though it feels cold, it still has been warm over the past 30 days. it's global. it's not where you live. i know global where you live things like you to the safeway and back that's your globe. we're talking about like australia. 100 degrees. 115 down there in some spots. hot in some spots, cold in others. that's the way it goes. >> chad myers, thank you very much indeed. now to dr. brandy smith from animal impact. bet the cold making life miserable for humans, and animals alike. you've the curator of the washington zoo in washington, d.c. 400 different species, presumably there are many animals that can deal with extreme cold temperatures and many that are used to much warmer climb climes. how do you cope with this?

what are you doing right now? >> we're taking care of all of the animals. the animal that is love this weather are spending a lot of time outside. our seals and sea lions love playing outside. some of the tropical animals, gorillas and orangutans have no interest in going outside. they want to stay inside, be warm and relax. >> are any animals actually dying in this? has it been that dangerous for them? >> not at the zoo. so the animals here, we take care of them. they have 100% access to the temperatures that they need. so all of our animals are well cared for. a lot of them we give the opportunity to go outside if they want to. so our giant pandas can choose if they want to go outside or stay inside. but any animal that needs heat gets it. >> for people watching who have got cats and dogs and so on, normal family pets, what is the best advice for what you do in

this kind of situation if this deep freeze continues? >> if you have animals that are outdoors, the best thing you can do is bring those animals inside. so if they're regularly outdoors, bring them inside when it's as cold outside. make sure that their food isn't frozen, that their water isn't frozen, that they always have access to those things. but even that they're used to the outdoors, this temperature is just a little too cold for them. >> and are the pandas the ones that are enjoying this the most? >> the pandas are definitely enjoying it. i will say it's even a little bit too cold for them. so they only spend a few -- maybe about an hour or so outside today before they came in. what the pandas really seem to like is snow. they'll go outside and play in the snow. so here in washington, d.c., we just have really cold, no pretty snow to go with it.

>> dr. smith, continue your great work down there. look forward to visiting the zoo again soon. thank you very much for joining me. i'm joined by philippe cousteau, environmental impact environmentalist of cnn of course. what would you make of all of this? a lot of chatter as chad was saying about global warming what maybe happening here. you're from a very eminent family, have studied this kind of thing for donkeys years. what do you think is going on? >> piers, it's really important to remember that while the long-term trend is global warming, that the climate is warming, i prefer a term climate change. because it gives a little bit of a more accurate sense of exactly what's happening. long-term that the climate is changing, and growing warmer. but that can mean that in short-term trends that some places will get warmer, some places will get colder. ironically, the ocean's dry interclimate, ice caps melting, shifting the ocean currents, could be one of the things contributing to this jet stream and these air currents shifting and making it colder in some areas. there are extreme storms in europe and u.k. right now that are also caused by this. >> it's been horrendous. >> horrendous there. >> very hot in places like australia. extremes almost everywhere. >> chad makes a great point.

when we look out the window at new york city it's very cold but it doesn't mean that the long-term trends aren't what they are. it's global for a reason. >> to those who remain resolutely skeptic about all this and say there's no such thing as global warming, there's no science that really supports it, what do you say? >> well listen, there are people that are advancing an agenda that has nothing to do with science. the science is overwhelming. 97% of peer view scientists have confirmed this is a trend that's happening. i don't personal lie like to get into the argument. i think what we need to do is recognize that the world is changing. we need to recognize that there are consequences to our health, to our security, et cetera. and we need to start having an adult conversation of what to do about it. >> i've had people on this had the debate saying the number of hurricanes and tornadoes and so on is pretty consistent actually historically with patterns that come and go. they're not really an indicator either way about climate change. are they right? >> one of the things that's

important to remember too is that in many cases, though not all, climate change is not necessarily causing these storms to happen but can increase the severity of them. and so the differentials between hot and cold in currents in the ocean and thus in the climate can make storms more severe, can cause more storm surge, is causing sea level rise. so it's really an issue of degrees in severity in many cases that climate change is causing. but again, there are people that have an agenda and they want air time. they will argue this until the end of their days, i'm sure. but the end of the day, the evidence is overwhelming. and i think the responsible action is just to get on with it and realize again that it's affecting all these issues, including our economy, and that we need to do something about it. >> better to take action and be proven wrong than to take no action and be proven wrong, right? >> that is the prudent response. >> seems to me the responsible thing to do is try to do something. thanks for joining me. coming next from america's deep freeze to one of the globe's hottest hot spots. this country's rocky relationship with north korea isn't exactly being helped by

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tensions rising between north korea and the west when you've got a delicate diplomatic situation on your hands who better to set loose in the middle of it all dennis rodman. the situation not making washington very comfortable right now. joining me now to talk about that and other issues of the day, senior senator from arizona, john mccain.

>> happy new year to you, sir. >> happy new year to you. i hope you're healing from your trying to be a young man again and play cricket. >> i had a little encounter with an australian fast baller from cricket. but nothing compared to the wounds you suffered over the years. so i shall keep my bleeding to a minimum. let's turn to north korea off the top. what do you make of dennis rodman? there's a school of thought that he is being reckless and naive here. other people think any kind of dialogue with north korea is better than nothing. what do you see? >> i think it's an idiot. i think he's a person of not great intellect who doesn't understand that he really does provide propaganda for one of the very brutal, ruthless young man. in one way it's almost comic, but on the other side of it it really does enhance his prestige with his people.

and he's one of the -- the guy runs a gulag after 200,000 people that's full of unspeakable cruelty. and he also has missiles and nuclear weapons. so it isn't a child's game here. >> i want to play a clip from a conversation that dennis rodman had with my colleague chris cuomo this morning which concerned the situation involving kenneth bae being held there obviously for reasons that nobody seems to be quite sure of. listen to this. >> are you going to take an opportunity if you get it to speak up for the family of kenneth bae and to say, let us know why this man is being held? that this is wrong, that he is sick. if you can help, dennis, will you take the opportunity? >> watch this. the one thing about politics, kenneth bae [ inaudible ] if you understand it. if you understand what kenneth bae did.

do you understand what he did? >> what did he do? you tell me. >> to this country. >> what did he do? >> no no no you tell me -- you tell me why is he held captive in this country? >> they haven't released any charges, they haven't released any reasons. >> senator mccain, the problem with all this is he sounds shockingly naive at best. at worst he's become a kind of propaganda tool for the north korean regime, hasn't he? >> absolutely. for him to say do you know what he did, obviously they had fed mr. rodman some line about the person which is just -- the whole thing is, as i say, in one respect it's kind of a sideshow with a guy that's not too bright that's looking for something to do. and that kind of part of it can even amuse us. but when we're talking about an american that's being held prisoner in god knows what conditions and he is basically

defending him, that's pretty bad behavior. >> it certainly is. let's move on to another big story that's emerging today in washington. still on foreign affairs, this is robert gates, former defense secretary's new book. some pretty damning revelations in this. not least of which he reveals the president had serious doubts about the entire enterprise in afghanistan. he writes that by the year 2010 he had concluded the president doesn't believe it his own strategy and doesn't consider the war to be his. for him it's all about getting out. he goes on to write, i never doubted obama support for the troops, only his support for the mission. what do you make of this? >> it's the assessment i've had frankly since the presidential campaign. i think you know that one of the major reasons why he won the nomination of his party instead of hillary clinton is because she had voted for the resolution to go to war in iraq and he had voted against it.

and so look, every time i've ever heard him talk about afghanistan he's talked about withdrawing. he said he'd get us out of iraq. he got us out of iraq. and to blame al-maliki by the way is absolutely false. we didn't want to stay and the president didn't want to stay. so i was not surprised to read that or hear about that portion of mr. gate's book. by the way, if i could remind you, it's in the second battle of fallujah we had 95 killed and 600 wounded. >> well, talking of fallujah, there are reports this week al qaeda has retaken control in parts of fallujah. what does this tell you about the reality of the situation on the ground there? >> tells me because we didn't leave a force behind not to fight but to influence and to help and train and assist and do all the things that american troops could do and not fight anymore, that the situation

deteriorated very badly and the iranians gained greater influence. and al-maliki rather than trying to bring his country together began almost immediately or within a year of persecuting the sunnis, including his own vice president, and alienated these people in anbar province and now we are seeing people driving through fallujah with black flags. and it's really tragic. because we lost so many brave -- it was where the real fighting went on in the iraq war, piers, as you know. and it's tragic for the families of those who sacrificed. >> finally, senator, this ongoing battle over unemployment benefits. where are you sitting on this issue? >> well, i'd like to find a way

to pay for the $6 billion it's cost. it's impossible for me not to believe that we can't find $6 billion in order to fund this rather than just increase the debt. second of all, we obviously need to reform the system. third of all, harry reid, who has now become almost a dictator in the united states senate, won't allow us any amendments to try to make it better. that's not the way the senate had worked particularly in the early years i was here. we would debate and we would amend. they would probably win votes. but at least they should have -- harry should give us a voice and allow us an amendment to make it better. that's what the senate's supposed to be about. and he's stopping all that. >> senator mccain, it's good to see you back on as feisty form as always. you're clearly rested and up for the fight in 2014. good to talk to you. >> thank you, my friend. coming next new year new you your guide to changing your life with advice from jamie oliver, jane pauley and sherry shepherd. should be fun.

it's not too late to keep your new year's resolutions and reinvent yourself. tonight new year new you with a woman who knows more than most about changing your life. jane pauley. top chef extraordinaire jamie oliver and "the view" cohost sherry shepherd on her weight loss secrets. we begin with jane pauley, from "the tonight show" and ""dateline"" jane looks forward in her new book" your life calling" imagining the rest of your life. jane, welcome to the show.

i read a great statistic in this book, which is that by the end of 2014 pretty well every one of the baby boomers will have reached the age of 50. i'll be 50 in 2015. so where does that leave me? >> you're a gen xer. but we're all going the same direction so welcome aboard. >> it's a great book. because actually what i recognize is that whether as of 40 or 50 years ago 50 was seen as the beginning of the end, now for many people it's being seen as a complete opposite. the chance to reinvent yourself, do something completely different. be crazy, travel the world, whatever it is that takes your fancy. what made you write the book? and what are the key things you think that people should embrace as they reach the 50 milestone? >> well, this is kind of an aspirational time of life. i'm a baby boomer, a leading

edge baby boomer. i'm a lot older than you are. and that's fine with me. we are changing the way people look at the mid-life decades. the time of life when your responsibilities raising children begin to ease up, you've sent your kids to college, your job has either been as rewarding as it's ever going to be or -- i mean, even if you've lost your job, it is an opportunity with a greater life expectancy to remain productive and creative on your own terms. so once my generation creates a template for how it's done, yours and the generation y and the millennials following are going to take for granted that there is a career arc followed by whatever. so it's really an aspirational time of life. >> i recently interviewed

barbara walters who of course you replaced on "the today show." in the 1970s. >> nobody replaced barbara walters. >> that is true. she's a remarkable lady. into her mid 80s now. >> absolutely. >> she looks about 50. she's just finally retiring. though i don't really believe it until i see it. what kind of inspiration does somebody like barbara not just to your generation but to all future generations of women in the media and women working anywhere in america? >> she's a really good example that it used to be these exceptional people like barbara or mike wallace in our industry who could continue to be at the top of the majors for an entire career, i think what is new is that millions of people are going to have a productive lives in their 60s and their 70s and beyond. and we're going to just take for granted that we have those

opportunities. we will define opportunity differently than we did when we were in our 20s. our aspirations may not be to get a new job title, to measure our happiness by the size of a paycheck. less is more can really be true. more freedom, fewer bonuses. but what barbara, being gorgeous and smart and still at the top of her game was exceptional, in future generations a lot of people will be having careers and experiences like that. but my generation, because we do everything by the tens of millions, will really cause the paradigm to shift once and for all, and to make attitudes toward aging change. we're not in denial. i mean, i know that old age will come.

but as i wrote, it will be a period of life that comes later, and be a shorter period of time at the end of life. in the meantime, what is the question? what are you going to do with these bonus years? so that's the heads up that my book is about. your life calling is that it's both an opportunity and, oh, yeah, what am i going to do for 40 years? >> one thing you could do. you've recently been back with bryant gumble and returned to "the today show" with glory. would you see yourself coming back into the breakfast rooms? >> i don't have the stamina to keep up with the program that bryant and i did. it was a lot sleepier by comparison. and i was fortunate that we were there during a fairly slow news day and matt was doing most of the heavy lifting. and bryant and i were just having a really great time.

but i will go back. if they invite me back on occasion, i'm in. it was so much fun. >> well, jane, it's lovely to talk to you. you're a tv legend. it's a great book. for anyone who's thinking i'm getting to 50, 55, what the hell am going to do with myself. read this book and feel invigorated and inspired. jane pauley, thank you very much. >> well, thank you. coming up next, jamie oliver's mission to save america's kids from obesity. a really important mission, too. and next, weight loss secrets effervescent cohost of "the view" sherr hi shepherd. and her twerking skills. take a look. most common new year's

most common new year's resolution to be broken is the dreaded weight loss goal. sherry shepherd has lost over 50 pounds and keeping it off. she has a new book about it. with me now hilarious and beautiful cohost "the view" sherr hi shepherd. how are you? >> not twerking. i'm a little tired. >> i know you do. i couldn't help but notice your hysterical reaction to the footage of you twerking. in fact so much so i'm going to replay it for you. here your all over again. look at you go, girl. >> whoo. that's a grown woman twerking. >> miley cyrus, eat your heart out. >> yeah. you've got to be living the life to twerk. >> i've had the pleasure of being on your show a few times. it's great to have you here. tell me about plan d, this book you've written. it's obviously come from personal experience. >> absolutely. >> tell me what you went through and what's inspired you here.

>> you know what, my mom inspired me. she was 41 years old when she passed away from the devastating effects of diabetes. and she left three young daughters to kind of fend for themselves in the world. and i was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes as well and hadn't changed my life. i was diagnosed a few weeks before i started "the view" back in 2007. and i realized i just had this vision, piers, of my son at 5 years old crying because he was tryinging to figure out where heaven was because that's where everybody said mommy was. and i knew that if i did not change the way i ate, that's jeffrey, that i was going to die. and my son would suffer the same fate that i did when i lost my mother. so i had to completely revamp my lifestyle, revamp the way i ate. and it's been a journey of losing weight, eating right, make right choices, starting to love exercise. and i wanted to share that with other people who have fear. i wanted to take the fear of diabetes away. and if you're prediabetic, i wanted to show you what you

could do to change so that you didn't come over here where i was. >> so what are the key things? i just had a two-week vacation in australia where i ate lots of lovely steak, drank lots of wine and generally abused my body in a terrible degrading manner, and now feel obviously full of self-loathing. >> it sounds quite sexy. >> i like to think so. how do you tackle that demon that so many tackle all the time? you do quite well for a time, then you fall off the saddle and you start eating too much, drinking too much. how do you battle the demons up there on your shoulder? >> number one, i say you have to forgive yourself. i say you have to be your own best friend. because if you were to call your best friend and say oh, my gosh, i messed up today on my diet. i'm never going to do it. i'm a bad person. nothing ever works for me. your best friend would say, get out of here. that's a bunch of horse crap. you're an amazing person. look how far you've come, look what you've done, look what you did yesterday. you can do this.

i think you have to be your own best friend and you have to learn to forgive yourself. because this is a journey. this i not a sprint. this is life. it's changing your lifestyle. so that's what i say number one. forgive yourself. number two, you got to challenge yourself. get rid of the stuff that you know you're not supposed to be eating. i know it's hard. because nobody ever says my boyfriend broke up with me. if you don't give me a plate of broccoli i'm going to die. you've got to learn how to love broccoli. got to learn how to love kale. i take kale. you can make kale in a bunch of different ways. saute it with red and green peppers and garlic and olive oil, put it in a nutry bullet. make kale chips. kale salad. four different ways that i make kale. >> here's the trouble. i can't stand kale. >> okay. >> i think it tastes horrible. >> you whine too much. that's your problem, piers. >> it's like eating proper seaweed. what do i do about the fact that i'm allergic to kale? >> well, being allergic is one thing and you can't stand it is another.

which one is it? >> i just feel like an allergy. i want an allergy to it. >> that's your problem right there. you don't want to tell me the truth. you don't like it. so i would try to make it in a different way. if you put kale in a newtry bullet with blueberries, strawberries, some yogurt, protein powder, it tastes differently than if you were to eat kale and stuff it in your mouth. >> what about inside the big mack and large fries i ate for lunch? >> you need a good woman i don't know what's wrong with you. >> i've got a good woman. why shouldn't i love the big mac? they're tasty. >> but how do you feel afterwards, piers? you feel bloated, you feel groggy. you don't have a lot of energy. that's what i want people to take notice of. it does taste good. but the feelings afterwards, you don't feel so good about yourself. and so i say, challenge yourself to eat food in a different way. and that's what i talk about in plan d. rejuvenate, getting a new relationship with food. and also about exercising. people think you've got to spend a whole bunch of money for a trainer. you don't need a trainer.

guy to central park. i work out with my son jeffrey. i do lunge and squats to the doggone washing machine and dryer. i run up the stairs with jeffrey. just do 30 minutes a day. break it up. you don't have to do 30 minutes at one time. so it's like you got to find way that is work with your lifestyle. >> okay. i'm going to start running to my washing machine as a matter of urgency tomorrow and i'll be having a nice kale sandwich tonight. >> do squats while you're going to your washing machine. do some butt squats, piers. >> i'm quite good at butt squats, actually. sherry, you look absolutely fabulous. i congratulate you. your hair's changed dramatically from this cover of the book. the whole lot of you has changed. >> i've got a wig line called sherry shepherd now. so i take this one off, i throw it, put the other one on. my husband gets to make love to a different woman every night, which is awesome. >> you sound will be the perfect woman, sherry shepherd. come back. the book is called "plan d how to lose weight and beat

diabetes." "new york times" best seller for a reason because it works. good to see you, sherry. >> thank you, piers. see you later. coming up next on my anchor leg of how to get a new you for the new year, jamie oliver weighs in on how you can keep your kids healthy and battle childhood obesity, an incredibly important campaign. he's been waging for quite some time now. we'll speak to jamie after the break.

who knows what this is? >> i need you to know that this is going to kill your children early. we're talking about 10, 13, 14 years off their life. but we can stop that.

>> that was jamie oliver. he's made it his mission about the obesity threat to america's children and he joins me now. welcome to you, jamie. how are you? >> hello, piers. >> spending the last few months trying to work out who is more unpopular in america right now, me for trying to bring in sensible gun control or you for trying to bring in sensible portion control. what's your thoughts? >> it's probably you at the moment, piers. but i'm probably close behind you. >> in all seriousness, i think what you have been doing is extraordinary. but how do you think you're doing in reality? are you having much effect? are you still running up a large hill? >> i actually think we got to the top of the hill. i really believe the progress has the capacity to be pushing good things downhill now. when i saw you last about this, there were many things we had to

battle against. i've decided to focus my efforts in california. if we can get california moving forward, the rest of america will follow, then the rest of the world will follow. we've had some amazing wins in the last two years. the lausd have dramatically changed their school service. we've banned flavored milks. we've brought up the issue of pink slime that the american public had no idea this was in their food. so the stuff i'm trying to do is to try and get the conversation going and get -- and joining up the local people that have been fighting this for many, many years. that's partly why i'm back in california again here. >> and a report from the cdc shows that childhood obesity rates have shown a small decline in 19 states, including california, from 2008 to 2011. 1 out of every 8 preschoolers is

obese in america, higher in african-american children. what have you found helpful talking to parents how to change habits? >> this is the first generation where kids can teach their parents about food. we've had three generations where the ability to learn to cook at school or where food comes from and how it affects your body in england and america. so this is a very dangerous thing to happen. and absolutely. i think when it comes to education and food and the environment and nature, kids love it. in elementary school, they go crazy for it. the best way to learn math is baking, weighing things and biology to get cooking. the one thing for sure, i've

never met a kid that if they've gone something, cooked it, that they wouldn't eat it. i saw alice waters yesterday that's been doing this for 40 years and inspired me as a 16-year-old to do stuff in the uk. and i do believe that that decline in obesity is about awareness and people talking about it. you know, i think the best is yet to come, piers, i really do. >> keep up the good work. a couple quick other things i want to ask you about. you recently revealed that you once asked my tv producer to cook a meal using human fresh. you said you didn't, but you said it tasted like pork. that prompts the question, how do you know? >> mainly because people use pig

ingredients, pork parts in surgery and stuff like that. it would be inappropriate to say about how i would know otherwise. but yes, i think we're as near as that. >> you're not a secret cannibal then, jamie? >> no, definitely not, definitely not. >> and on another matter, nigella lawson has been in the news, pretty ugly court case. what are your thoughts about nigella? she's been trashed in that case, but i can't help but feeling sorry for her. i like her very much. what is your thought? >> i love nigella. she's a beautiful lady. she's a good person. you know, i wouldn't want that sort of stuff if it was dragged through the press if it was me. i think the good news is, you know, she'll be fine. i think people still love her and respect her for being a

great writer and cook. and, you know, when those kind of state shows start in the uk, you know, it's quite hard to stop it. it probably hasn't stopped yet, but i send her all my love and yards. >> yeah, i completely agree. i think she's a force for good and she'll come back stronger than ever. jamie, good to talk to you, the food revolution tv series is back and you have this kitchen classroom traveling across california. sounds terrific. keep up the good work, mate. it's very important americans take what you say seriously. i appreciate it. jamie oliver. coming up next, the latest on the coast-to-coast deep freeze. america's cold snap is bad more on car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well, did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? that'll be $23.50. now .75, 23.75, hold 'em.

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