wusa9.com. >> we will see you wednesday morning at 4:25. make it a great morning, everybody. final countdown. the 33 trapped miners could be rescued as early as tonight, as officials get ready to start bringing them to the surface. we're live in chile with the latest on the operation. focus on favre. the football great speaks out about allegations he sent racy photos to a reporter, as he apologizes to teammates for the distractions. so what did he tell them? >> that's between me and my teammates. apparently not all of them. >> we'll take you inside the nfl's investigation of the growing sexting scandal. and classroom meltdown. a teacher loses it and it's all caught on a student's cell phone.

we'll tell you what happened to the teacher and why he's now in a hospital, "early" this tuesday the teacher and why he's now in a hospital, "early" this tuesday morning, october 12th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good morning, everyone, from new york. hope your day's off to a good start. welcome to "the early show," i'm maggie rodriguez. >> and i'm harry smith. three weeks from today, midterm elections. a lot of people say the republicans are going to take over the house. some say really it's going to be the senate, too. big changes afoot in washington. we'll look into a crystal ball with former arkansas governor mike huckabee, talk to him exclusively in just a couple of minutes. >> also ahead this morning, do you want to live to be 100? well then you should probably move to macau. which is the place in the world with the highest life expectancy. or you can watch our "healthwatch" today where we will reveal the secrets to longevity. we begin this morning with those

miners who have been trapped more than two months in chile. by this time tomorrow, some of them may finally be back on the surface and back with their families. cbs news correspondent seth doane is at the san jose mine this morning with the latest on rescue efforts. seth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, maggie. imagine for a moment the height of the eiffel tower, and then double it. and then imagine traveling that distance in a tiny capsule through solid rock. that is the incredible rescue operation that is about to get under way today after engineers ran several successful tests of the capsule yesterday. these are the first pictures of that 13-foot-tall capsule as it was lowered into the rescue shaft for test runs monday. it was winched a tantalizing 46 feet from the miners, 2,000 feet down. >> we couldn't risk that somebody would jump in. >> reporter: a successful test of the capsule monday paved the way for the next step. that's installing a winch system

to pull the miners up. most likely starting late tonight. the order they'll come out is reportedly held on a secret list. which rescuers could change when they go in. but shift leader luis orza is said to have volunteered to be last. on the surface, teams of doctors will immediately evaluate them. >> this will be their next stop. they'll be airlifted to this hospital in copiapo for observation. here, beds have been readied for their most famous patients yet. and an examining room as dark as a movie theater was designed to mimic the mine. deep underground, miners are said to be contemplating life after this odyssey. speculating about movie and book deals, and appearances on game shows. but just outside the mine, loved ones reflected on the last two difficult months. there were days when we lost all

hope, maria herrera told me. but i don't want that to take away from the joy we're feeling now. herrera says she's anxious, but excited to see her brother daniel again. she pleaded, i want you to tell the whole world that what's happened here was a miracle. now, last night it seemed almost a reflective calm, seemed to kind of fall over camp hope here. but, of course, this morning tensions are rising. nerves are on edge, as a rescue nears possibly tonight. maggie? >> seth. it's very interesting that rescuers have decided to bring the fittest miners out first. when it stands to reason that the fittest people would be able to endure the longest underground. can you explain the thinking behind that strategy. >> reporter: absolutely. it seems kind of counterintuitive, doesn't it? but rescuers want the fittest, the most able, the most tech savvy miners out first so that they can glean as much

information about that journey up as possible in order to help the rest of the rescue process. maggie? >> makes sense. seth doane at the san jose mine. we'll see you again tomorrow. thank you, seth. now here's harry. >> all right, maggie. now to politics. three weeks from today, voters across the nation will head to the polls for the all-important midterm elections. and democrats are fighting hard to keep seats they once considered safe. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes is in west virginia. one of the new battleground states. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, harry. the democratic governor here in west virginia has very high approval ratings, and yet he is tied or trailing in the polls for senate. and so he's released a provocative new ad in the hopes that it will shake up this race. >> i'll take on washington -- >> reporter: if you didn't know any better you would think senate candidate joe manchin was a republican. taking a shot at the president's energy bill in this new ad. >> i'll protect our second amendment rights. >> reporter: but he's actually a democrat, firing at his own party.

>> i'll take dead aim at the cap and trade bill. >> reporter: talk about extremes in this election. isn't it kind of extreme to be firing a gun when you're talking about -- >> in west virginia, if you don't know how to shoot a gun and handle a gun, you probably shouldn't be running for office. >> reporter: even if you're firing at legislation? >> legislation, sometimes you need to blow it up when it's bad. >> reporter: here in west virginia, the president is deeply unpopular. so governor manchin is distancing himself. >> the only rubber stamp that i have ever been or i will ever be is for you and the state of west virginia. >> reporter: he's not the only candidate putting the president at arm's length. in kentucky's senate debate, democrat candidate jock conway argued he's his own man. >> this election is not about president obama. this election is about jack conray versus rand paul. >> reporter: democrats are playing defense all over the map in this final stretch. 12 of their senate seats are at risk, compared to just five republican seats. >> william jefferson clinton. >> reporter: former president bill clinton is trying to help stop the bleeding.

using his widespread popularity to campaign for two senate candidates on monday. >> and you should thank your lucky stars that you have a governor who is willing to go to washington and do there what was done here. >> reporter: now, there are many places where president obama is being welcomed by candidates. in fact, he's campaigning in four states over the next seven days. harry, one candidate we haven't seen out on the campaign trail stumping for fellow republicans, however, is george w. bush. >> nancy cordes in west virginia this morning. thank you very much. joining us now from destin, florida, is former arkansas governor mike huckabee, a fox news contributor and host of the network's "huckaby show" on the weekend. governor, good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> does this surprise you? because i'm thinking back to your own candidacy, and when you started running for president out in iowa, several summers ago, it occurs to me that you were tapping in to some of the same stuff that seems to be

rising up across the country right now. >> yeah. i was four years too early, harry, obviously. but i think that there was a sense of discontent that was beginning to brew, and i was speaking to it. but obviously it's grown. and i think that sometimes people mistake the tea party movement as being some republican movement. what it really is, it's a citizen's uprising. it's a matter of voters who are watching their government do what they know they can't do on their own, businesses and households, and that's spend money they don't have and borrow money they can't afford to pay back. >> which ends up creating a very interesting conundrum for the republicans, because they are certainly going to welcome the change in all of these seats that are projected in both the house and in the senate. but if you look at some of the polling numbers, tea party supporters themselves say there is a lot or some, 84% say, there is a lot or some difference between them and republicans. this is not going to be an easy thing to fold in these folks once they get in office.

>> well, republicans need to understand that it's not that the tea party or the american people in a whole are in love with them. they're just so angry that the democrats have shoved down bailouts on obama-care that they didn't want, overwhelmingly rejecting it. they're tired of the stimulus bills that have really cost jobs. unemployment is still hovering near 10%, 9.6% last week. with a net job loss. every month the economists say we're so surprised we're losing jobs. when the economists every month are wrong maybe they're the ones that need to be unemployed because they haven't gotten it right yet. i think what we're really seeing though, harry, is to me this is an affirmation of the greatness and the genius of our founders. they created america to be a self-cleaning oven so that when things get really nasty and the politicians gunk it up, the citizens can turn up the heat, and then come november the 2nd we're going to open the oven door, sweep out the ashes and give it a new start.

>> here's my question, though, but when it's time to govern can anger govern, or better yet, how about this one, if a tug-of-war starts between the tea party folk and the mainstream republicans, who's going to win that tug-of-war? >> well, the people ultimately win, and that's the good news for america. political parties are to serve people, not to lord over them. the democrats are in trouble because they just went ahead and did what they wanted to do and recklessly and irresponsibly disregarded their bosses. if the republicans, who have done this in the past, and that's why they got booted out in '06 and '08, if they do it again, then i think, you know, we could be looking at an unusual political climate. if the republicans even have so much as single-digit iq after this election, they're going to go in and cut spending, they are going to do something significant to show that they really mean business when it comes to making government responsible again. which it hasn't been for a very, very long time. >> former arkansas governor mike huckabee, appreciate your time

this morning. and your insight. good to see you. >> thank you very much, harry. >> all right. here's maggie. >> i like that oven analogy, right? it's time to check in at the news desk for a look at the rest of the day's headlines. jeff glor is filling in this morning for erica hill. good morning, jeff. >> thanks, maggie. good morning to you. and good morning, everyone. the cleanup continues this morning after some wild weather overnight here in the northeast. severe storms rolled through new york city. they brought lightning flashes, heavy rain, and quarter-size hail. the hail fell so fast in parts it almost looked like snow in parts of brooklyn. also, the weather last night delayed the start of the jets and vikings monday night football game by 45 minutes. in texas, the alleged ft. hood shooter returns to court this morning and faces his accusers for the first time. major nadal hasan allegedly opened fire at ft. hood nearly a year ago. he's charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. the hearing will determine if there's enough evidence for a trial. victims and victim's relatives will testify today.

a medical breakthrough as doctors injected a patient with stem cells taken from a human embryo to try to repair spinal cord injuries. the therapy is only for recent spinal cord injuries, given within seven to 14 days. it's for patients paralyzed from the chest down. doctors should know within two months if it's restoring any function. and it was a case of real life interfering with art. a washington, d.c. police suv got hit yesterday during the filming of the movie "transformers 3." it collided with a yellow camaro known as bumblebee in the movies. the police officer apparently did not know about the filming. >> the police car, he just came through, and everything, and all the cars had to like swerve around. bumblebee was in the back where he couldn't see. once he came up --

>> little guy there is like, what's going on? the police officer, we're told, suffered only minor injuries. coming up on 13 minutes past the hour. dave price now has your first check of the weather. >> drive like you do. nice to see you. good morning, jeff, good morning, everyone. lots to get to. let's go to the maps right now. talking about all that severe weather continuing to roll on through, pushing to the south and east. here's the deal. you've got moisture coming up on the gulf. we've got lifting winds which are going to take that moisture, send it high up into the atmosphere and that's going to stir up some thunderstorms. rolling through places like memphis, birmingham, jackson, new orleans. watch for some gusty winds and the possibility of some hail, as well. meanwhile, different story out west. conditions really dry. record-setting temperatures in places like san francisco. 91 degrees. look at these three-day temps in places like fresno. it's going to be just incredible. 90, 88, 85. these temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above the norm. and meanwhile we are watching

paula. a hurricane. where does it go? into cozumel maybe with a direct hit. question is does it eventually make it to florida by saturday? it's 14 minutes past the hour. that's your latest weather. maggie? >> all right, thank you very much, dave. this morning a future hall of famer is caught in the middle of an nfl sex scandal. brett favre is scrambling to deal with not only a loss to the jets last night. but also some allegations that he sexed some very racy photos.

and now he is speaking out about it. cbs news correspondent kendis gibson is in new jersey with the latest. kendis, good morning. >> good morning, maggie. brett favre arguably is the best quarterback of his generation, is staring at a scandal far more potent than any linemen he faced here playing the jets last night. the question today, was it favre who sent those voicemails and left those inappropriate photos for a sideline reporter? well, he's not saying. >> you're behind the scenes. >> reporter: no doubt 26-year-old jenn sterger can turn some heads. and two years ago, when she was a sideline reporter for the new york jets, one of the heads she may have turned belonged to the team's future hall of fame quarterback, brett favre. >> you know, he's got to feel entitled and did some stuff he probably shouldn't. >> reporter: what favre, who is married with two daughters and a grandson, allegedly did was call sterger. sports website deadspin.com says

he left this voicemail for her in 2008. >> i'm going back to the hotel and just, just chill. so send me a text, cause i'll be in the building for a couple hours. love to have you come over tonight. >> he reportedly then sent sterger naked pictures of himself. >> this is also something that violates like -- that should probably violate the league's code of conduct policy. and it's possible harassment. >> reporter: nfl commissioner roger fogoodell promised a full investigation. one favre says he will cooperate with. but the issue may go beyond sterger. "the new york post" reports favre had similar contact with two women hired by the jets to give massages. one told the paper, he was looking at me like i was a hanging slab of meat. >> no. i'm not getting into that. >> reporter: favre, who's now a minnesota viking, reportedly broke down in tears as he apologized to teammates for being a distraction before last night's game against the jets.

>> what did you say to your teammates? >> that's between me and my teammates. apparently not all of them. >> reporter: on the field, favre nearly managed to stage a comeback with three second-half touchdown passes and became the first quarterback to throw 500 in a career. the vikings fell short losing 29-20. after the game favre refused to address the scandal. >> no. >> reporter: but he will eventually have to answer to the nfl for questions that aren't going away. and depending on the outcome of the investigation, favre could either face a fine, or possible suspension. maggie? >> kendis gibson in new jersey for us. thank you, kendis. still ahead here for us, the desperate search for a little girl who's gone missing in north carolina. we'll speak exclusively this morning with two members of her family. >> also this morning a teacher has a violent meltdown in the classroom. and it's all caught on tape. we'll tell you what happened to him and the students. and uncovering the fountain of youth.

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life expectancy. not so great. our dr. jennifer ashton is here with what we can learn from other countries and live to be 100 years old. but first, police say time is running out in the search for 10-year-old zahra baker. the little girl suffers from bone cancer and one thing that's making the search difficult is that officials aren't sure how long she's really been missing. before we speak exclusively with two members of her family, cbs news correspondent whit johnson has the latest on the story from hickory, north carolina. whit, good morning. >> reporter: maggie, good morning to you. zahra baker was actually home-schooled this year. police say they haven't found anyone outside her immediate family who has seen her in the past few weeks. it's now been three days since she's gone missing, and we still know little about what may have happened to her. police and the fbi are still trying to piece together a time line. 10-year-old zahra clare baker's disappearance. around 2:00 p.m. saturday adam baker called police to report his daughter missing.

he also told investigators that his wife said she last saw zahra asleep in her bed about 12 hours earlier. zahra suffers from bone cancer. a disease that's left her with hearing aids in both heres and a prosthetic leg. both her hearing aids were found in the home. neighbors say they haven't seen the girl outside the house in weeks. investigators found what they believe to be a ransom note addressed to her father's boss. and while authorities haven't ruled out the possibility of a random kidnapping they have their doubts about the note, which read in part, we have your daughter, and your son is next unless you do what is asked. 1 million, unmarked. we'll be in touch soon. >> we are questioning the note. we have no further demands from that note. >> reporter: on sunday police arrested elisa baker, zahra's stepmother, on unrelated charges. later that night a search warrant revealed police dogs detected the smell of human remains in two of the baker's cars. >> i hope and i pray that we'll find her and she'll be okay.

because that young one was the best young one you could ever ask for. >> reporter: now there was also a fire reported at the family's home the same day zahra went missing. police admit this is a complicated case with many layers, and they need more help from the public to put the pieces together. maggie? >> whit johnson in hickory, north carolina. thank you, whit. let's get a bit more insight into zahra's life and her story. also in hickory this morning, joining us exclusively, two of zahra's relatives, brittany bentley, who is married to zahra's stepmother's nephew, and kim drum, her mother. good morning to you both, ladies. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> brittany, let me begin with you. what do you think happened to zahra? >> my honest opinion, i think -- something to do with it. something for a long time that we knew was going to happen. everybody that was close to the family. >> okay, let's tell our viewers, i'm sorry to interrupt but i want to make sure our viewers follow the story. lisa is zahra's stepmother and

you are married to lisa's nephew and say that you saw them frequently. what makes you think that she would harm zahra? >> just from the times i went over there. the environment she lived in. she was locked in her room, allowed five minutes to eat, that was it. she was beat almost every time i was over there for just -- just the smallest things. lisa would get mad and take it out on zahra. she just had a horrible home life. one time i remember she had a black eye and she said it was from the door. but we all knew it was from lisa. so, yeah. >> wow. she was locked in her room all day? she was beaten? did anyone -- did her father, for example, try to stop this or did anyone report this to authorities? >> that's the crazy thing. i never saw adam spank her, punish her, do anything. but he would sit there and watch lisa do it to his child. he would just sit 24r and not say anything.

yes, her daughter actually reported to dsa, and they came. i don't know how much was done. but yes, it was reported. >> we should say that lisa has been arrested, but on charges that have nothing to do with zahra's disappearance. so, kim, let me ask you, do you believe it's possible that this was just a random kidnapping? >> no. i knew it from the moment my father had called and told me, this is lisa. >> they found -- authorities say that they found zahra's hearing aids in the home. but they didn't say anything about her prosthetic leg. what does that tell you, kim? do you find that unusual? >> that's -- that's what's completely made it unusual to me. zahra, when she spent the night with us, and she stayed with us a lot, an hour before she would go to bed, she would always take her leg off. it was just -- it was a routine for her. she never, ever went to bed with

her leg on. >> i can't imagine what it must have been like for a child to endure, if she did endure what you say she went through, plus have this bone cancer that has robbed her of her hearing and a leg. how did she handle her disabilities, brittany? was she kind of a miserable child or was she a happy child, in spite of this? >> oh, no, she was a happy child. you know, i remember she -- she could walk on the leg faster than we could walk on two legs. she was an amazing child. she was never angry, depressed. always happy. always loving. so i didn't understand. only time i ever saw any anger in her is when she would come stay with us on the weekends when it was time for her to leave, she would just get mad. i hate you, i hate you. and i just want to understand why, because she didn't want to go home. because her home life was miserable. >> well, we hope that she is still alive, and returns safely

soon. brittany bentley, kim drum, thank you so much for your time, ladies. >> thanks. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. it's time now for ano up next, a frightening meltdown in a tennessee classroom. all of it caught on a student's cell phone camera. you'll see what happens and what happened after this when we return. [ male announcer ] if you've had a heart attack caused by a completely blocked artery,

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level. an entire meltdown was caught on video. jeff glor is with us with the story. jeff, good morning. >> harry, good morning to you. nashville math teacher's tirade went from odd to violent during an 11th grade algebra class, all while one student's cell phone camera was rolling. brian boyd has been a teacher for 21 years but it seems unlikely students have seen anything like this. at first -- >> shut up. >> reporter: students could be heard laughing at her teacher in what seemed like harmless play. but as things escalated and became more violent -- students ran from the classroom. >> once everybody had started running out of the classroom he picked up another chair, threw it at a window. it was scary. it was definitely scary. >> -- started -- >> being honest, we're very fortunate, very fortunate that none of our students were injured or hurt. >> reporter: woods' sister

leanne smith, spoke out during a press conference monday, saying her brother suffered a nervous breakdown and regrets what happened. >> he expressed his passion and love for teaching. he expressed his concern for his students. >> reporter: although she didn't say exactly what caused his erratic actions, she pointed to students' disruptive behavior in a video. and hinted that disrespect in the classroom is a nationwide problem. >> the lack of respect for authority in our society's classrooms across the nation is one of the many consequences of the way public school teachers are forced to deal with their classrooms today. >> reporter: it is not the first time a frustrated teacher's tirade has been caught on tape. a youtube search shows multiple videos of teachers yelling. >> stop acting like an idiot! >> reporter: throwing -- and even fighting. in may, a houston area teacher was caught physically beating one of her students after they misbehaved. she was later fired. as for mr. wood, he's been

placed on administrative leave, as he continues treatment at a nearby hospital. wood, a father of five, remains in treatment this morning. as doctors try to figure out what caused him to lose control. sad story. >> especially in the middle talking about the disrespect in the classroom and if we could just see pushing toward the edge. might there be any charges involved here at all? >> right now police say they're not pressing any charges against him, because the principal says he didn't actually threaten any students or touch any students. but this is a guy clearly who didn't just fall into teaching. he's been doing it for two decades. his parents were teachers. he's been in the classroom for a long time. >> jeff, thank you so much. up next, want to live to be 100 years old? we'll tell you about some surprising longevity boosters when we return. equals chili's $20 dinner for two. share one of five appetizers, like our famous texas cheese fries.

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in this morning's "cbs moneywatch," living to be 100. the average american lives about 78 years, but some people do make it to the century mark and beyond. our dr. jennifer ashton is here with ways to increase your life span and remain in good health. good morning. >> good morning, maggie. >> so, we are 49th as far as life expectancy in this country. macau is number one and we live about six years less than people in macau. >> exactly. >> so what are they doing there in the south china sea f >> we can do better. it's not only what they're doing there. it's what we're not doing here or in some cases what we are doing here. and the theory as to why we don't do so well compared to other parts of the world have to do with how we live. higher rates of obesity, smoking, death from motor vehicle accidents, homicide, that all takes its toll. and then, of course, they tend to have a more active, outdoor lifestyle. and they do some of the things that we're going to talk about and hopefully we can do some of them, too. >> probably they're more stress-free, too. i'm sure stress is a big contributor. >> it can be. and we have a lot of stress

here. but there's a lot of things that are in our control. some things are not in our control. >> let's look at these things. longevity boosters as we'll call them. number one, we know that marriage can boost -- can enhance your life. >> right. >> but it depends on your spouse's age. >> exactly. so if you're already married -- >> if you're already married, obviously there's nothing that you can do about this. but men tend to do better in marriage if you will, than women. in other words some studies have found that men, if their wives are younger, as it happens in my household, tend to live a little longer. the cougars, the women who marry younger men, don't do as well. their risk of death goes up by 20%. >> what's the thinking? >> it's really unclear. this is one of those things that's an association. maybe for men if your wife is a little younger you tend to be more active, and have a healthier lifestyle. but again -- >> pain if you're an older woman married to the younger man you have the stress of keeping up with him. >> could be. could be. >> the next one, light drinking. >> very controversial. this needs to be individualized. one study has shown that people

who drink less than one ounce a day extend their life span by two years. again, wine and other forms of alcohol all seem to be equally protected. but it's a very individualized. it's not good for everyone. >> and lastly, drinking -- i mean higher education. >> right. ironically a study done at harvard show people who have 1 or more years of higher education live around 80 years, which is significant, in thinking there that they might have less high risk behaviors such as smoking. again ironically done at harvard. but again, another reason to stay in school. >> dr. jennifer ashton, thank you so much. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. >> "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by citracal. citracal is calcium cictrate so it can be absorbed with or without food. he recommended citracal. it's different -- it's calcium citrate, so it can be absorbed with or without food. also available in small, easy-to-swallow petites. citracal.

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welcome back to "the early show" on this tuesday morning. a lot of people here supporting the cruise industry, encouraging all of us to book a cruise. i love cruises. my friend, harry smith, has never been on one. what is wrong with you? you are un-american. >> no. when we were kids you used to like cruise down torrance avenue and ridge road. >> in ships. on the ocean. >> oh, oh, sorry. >> how come you haven't done that? >> i just maybe -- maybe i've never had enough time. >> oh. that's the story -- >> because it's a time commitment, right? >> he just doesn't like the idea

of being stuck with people on a ship. i'm kidding. i'm kidding. i'm giving him a bad rep, i'm sorry. >> okay. >> that's the kind of gossip that can be harmful about somebody. that's what two new studies are saying this morning. some can be good. but there's an important, however. and we're going to tell you what it is in just a moment. >> plus fans of "the big bang theory" are flocking to thursday nights, because the show has moved to thursday nights. it is kicking some serious butt on thursday night. and, jim parsons -- >> sheldon. >> emmy winner jim parsons. >> woo-hoo. >> right? you're going to tell us all about moves in the show, changes in his life now that he is emmy winner jim parsons. you don't say his name anymore without saying emmy winner beforehand. >> even his mom has to call him emmy winner jim parsons. but first, i think he's won an emmy, jeff glor at the news desk with the headlines. if not, you should.

>> good morning. thank you very much, maggie. have been on a cruise, though. >> there you go. >> good morning, guys. good morning, everyone. in chile, rescue crews could begin hauling those 33 trapped miners to the surface by late today. you're looking at a live picture from the mine site where hopes are very high right now. they'll ride a very tight capsule 21 inches in diameter was successfully tested yesterday. cbs news correspondent seth doane is at the san jose mine with more. >> reporter: the climax of this incredible rescue operation, one of the most complex ever attempted, is drawing ever closer. yesterday, engineers successfully tested that rescue capsule several times. they found the capsule didn't spin as they worried it might, setting the stage for a possible rescue tonight. underground soon, they'll start fasting for that 2,000-foot journey to the surface. and on the surface, hospitals are being readied. an exam room was even created to be as dark as a movie theater. to mimic the conditions of the mines.

meanwhile, the world is focused on the desolate strip of the desert, looking forward to a possible rescue tonight. seth doane, cbs news, at the san jose mine, chile. three weeks now until midterm elections, and with both houses of congress in play, both parties are fighting hard to secure those final votes. cbs news congressional correspondent nancy cordes is in westover, west virginia, this morning, with more. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: jeff, good morning to you. west virginia has not sent a republican to the senate since 1958. but that streak could be in jeopardy. so the democrat, governor joe manchin, is pulling out the big guns. in his new ad, democrat joe manchin takes aim at a favorite republican target. >> i'll take on washington, and this administration, to get the federal government off of our backs, and out of our pockets. >> reporter: governor manchin had been seen as a shoo-in for the senate seat. now, he's neck and neck with sarah palin-backed republican

john raese. >> what happened at that time in history in germany is absolutely one of the worst atrocities in, you know, in the history of man. >> reporter: in ohio, tea party candidate would love to get the conversation back to politics. instead, it's all about the pictures that emerged over the weekend of him wearing a nazi ss uniform. he says it's part of a historical re-enactment program meant to educate the public. >> this is not just something to do for fun. this is actually serious business, to keep -- to keep the truth alive. >> reporter: in new york, another tea party darling, gubernatorial hopeful carl paladino isn't backing down. after taking heat for his outspoken opposition to gay marriage, he made his feelings on gay pride marches crystal clear. >> have you ever been to one? the men wear little speedos and they grind on each other. would you take your children there? i don't think so. >> reporter: here in west virginia, voters say they're frustrated by all the

distractions. the candidates, they say, are running against washington and president obama. when what they want to hear is what they'd do to help west virginia. jeff? >> all right, nancy cordes in westover, west virginia this morning. nancy, thank you. five minutes past the hour. we turn back outside to mr. dave price. dave, good tuesday morning to you, sir. >> and good tuesday morning to you, jeffrey. nice to see you. got a great bunch of people out here. now here's the deal. so we know maggie's been on a cruise and loved it. i went on a cruise and loved it. harry has not been on a cruise. here's the deal, if you've never been on a cruise, there are big ships. there are small ships. there are ships where you sit with everybody. ships where you can sit alone. ships where you can do lots of things. ships where you don't do lots of things and just sit there. but here's the deal, if you want to find the right cruise for you, what do you do? you go see a travel agent. they know what they're talking about. cruising the sea having a big event, of course, cruise night

in america. cruising.org on the website. find a travel agent who can help you out. nice to see you guys. thanks for being here. let's check out the weather and see if you're sailing acontrols the country, west coast look at that. hot and dry. temperatures 10 to 20 degrees above the norm. as we head to the southern plains, pushing eastward, we're talking about the possibility of severe weather. we're watching a nor'easter, the ingredients coming together for the end of the week and in the northeast we're seeing the farewell to some rain. keep in mind you're going to see some tough storms rolling through as we head towards the latter part of this work week.

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gossiping can be sort of like watching a train wreck. it can make you feel ashamed and even guilty. but sometimes we just can't help ourselves. but now two new studies say don't feel so bad. it can actually be a good thing. "early" show contributing correspondent terry winter brill has more.

>> go for it. you want to talk about me, i don't care. >> reporter: gossip. you know it when you hear it. >> gossip is any time you're talking about somebody who is not there. >> reporter: and we've always been told not to do it. >> you can't say something nice, don't say anything. >> reporter: sometimes, though, you just can't help it. >> unrealistic that human beings won't talk bad about other people. >> reporter: but what if we told you that gossip could actually be a good thing? >> depends on the situation. >> reporter: a new british study says chatting about others can make you happier. >> fyi, we were gossiping. >> reporter: there's a catch, though. it has to be nice gossip. >> gossip gets such a bad rap. usually when you think gossip you think of being malicious. no, the studies show the bulk of gossip is good for good people. >> reporter: the research shows that after saying good things about a person, positive emotions were raised 3%. while self-esteem rose by 5%. >> i do like -- >> i actually think that people

can be even more interested in good news gossip than bad. >> reporter: getting engaged. getting married. getting pregnant. having babies. happy occasions. and while it's best to keep things positive. the study also finds that any kind of gossip, bitter or sweet, gives people a greater sense of social support. >> because you feel connected. >> i believe that. >> reporter: >> and whether it's good or bad sometimes isn't really even the context. it's more about what helps us feel better. gossip creates social you. >> reporter: so go ahead, talk amongst yourselves. and if you say something nice, it just might make you feel better. >> joining us with some advice on when to share and when to zip it is "early" show contributor dr. jennifer hartstein. good morning. >> good morning. >> and sometimes in the makeup room we engage. >> absolutely. >> because gossip, like she said, is not talking bad about someone like everyone thinks. it's saying anything about someone behind their back. >> right. and historically gossip really

is just talking about people. and talking about situations. and really kind of what did she say? oh, my god, did you see how great she looked? that's still gossip because you're not talking directly to the person and telling them that. you're talking about it behind them. that's what kind of the underlying theme of gossip. >> so we've established that. but this study found no matter what you say about someone, good or bad, any time you gossip, it does make you feel more bonded, more connected to the other person. does that make sense to you? >> absolutely. because think about it. you're sharing a secret. you're sharing a moment. it's that little bit of specialness between two people. so it does create a level of connectedness in your own little kind of world, good or bad. it does create that connection, and you can share it with other people or just between the two. >> however, if you say something bad after you walk away, these studies found, don't feel quite right. >> you don't feel great. that some old adage still exists. we found if you say positive things you're going to increase positive emotions up to 3%. and you're actually going to increase self-esteem up to 5%, which is great news. but also, if you credit side, you're going to decrease positive emotions 16%.

and decrease -- and increase negative emotions up to 34%. so we want to really keep in mind that the negative stuff is still going to make you feel bad. >> i don't know. because, the only time i feel good hearing something bad about someone else is when it's about an ex-boyfriend who a friend reports looks terrible, whose wife is not attractive. you know, things like that. >> you know, moments that were -- >> things that are not necessarily hurtful because they'll never know we said it. >> exactly. and there are moments when we kind of do have that, whew, my life is better without that person. or look at me and look at them. and there is that sense of feeling good. but at the end of the day you don't end up holding onto that the same way you do if it's a positive direction. >> the worst thing, everyone can agree on, untruths, rumors people spread just to feel like they're the person who knows everything. >> you want to spread things like good news, positive encounters, positive joy and happiness stories. those are the things that are going to boost your self-esteem and make you feel good. >> but you should never share. i find a lot of people tell me

other people's news. did you hear so and so is pregnant? >> absolutely. but that's what makes it gossip. >> i know. >> that is what makes it gossip. we share other people's stuff. shhh, don't let anybody know. but unfortunately we do share those things. >> and men don't gossip as much as women. >> men do not gossip as much as women historically or even today. >> because they were out hunting. >> we were home with the babies and our ways of creating community was to talk about everybody else. >> all right. well thank you very much. dr. jennifer hartstein. up next, emmy winning jim parsons, dr. sheldon cooper himself, is here to tell us all about the explosive new developments on "the big bang theory." i don't know what that voice was. i'll be back.

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jim parsons won an emmy this year for his outstanding work on the cbs hit comedy "the big bang theory." he plays a brilliant socially inept physicist, and on this week's show, he gets into an argument about a very noble gas. >> i'm telling you, it's zennen that makes light then the discoveries must be wrong. >> if we lived in a world where slow moving xenon -- you would be correct. pigs would fly, my derriere would produce cotton candy and the phantom menace would be a timeless classic. >> jim parsons joins us this morning. good morning. >> how are you? >> i'm well, i'm well. we haven't really seen you since you won your emmy. >> do i look different? >> you seem different. >> do i seem different? >> yeah. have i become callus and rude to you? >> well --

>> no? >> not on camera yet. but i saw the way you were mistreating everybody. >> oh, that's not true! >> i'm just kidding. >> i'm lovely as i've always been. >> yes. and for the record, since we had it in the clip, do you know what xenon is? >> well, before the clip you said it was a very noble gas. and i will very nobly repeat your answer. >> it's number 54. >> is that true? >> yeah. >> who coached you? >> i looked it up. but let's talk about stuff. >> okay. >> they move the show. >> yes. >> to thursday nights. >> yes. >> and when you heard that, what did you think? >> ooh i had some abject fear. because i'm a human being, and change is never fun for a human being. but i kind of bit my lip. honestly we've been moved four different times since we've been on the air. and three time slot changes and now a night change. but two things, number one, every move cbs has made with us has worked out for the better. >> right. >> getting more eyes to the

show. and the second thing is, it was very exciting to me, as a child of the '80s, raised on thursday night sitcoms, you know. >> right. >> to kind of join that old guard of becoming a thursday night sitcom. >> you are cosby. >> i am -- i was very alex p. keaton. but that's just me. >> okay, very good, very good. but that is the time. thursday night is the time. >> absolutely. >> and that is, whew, that's almost breathtaking. especially to think back to where the show started. because, it was not a big bang. >> no. >> when it came out of the box. >> no, i always say we were very healthy. we were very lucky that we never went to work feeling like we were on the chopping block of cancellation. the ratings were healthy. but it grew in a very steady rise for the next three years it's been. and i really think it's benefited us. it let us really find a grounding as a cast, just doing our jobs without a bunch of fanfare. >> voices for the characters. >> exactly. so now, when some bigger times

have hit, luckily, audiencewise, we're more grounded in the show. and the other thing that's good, is the way the show built had a lot to do with word of mouth. that whole gossip segment. and it's exactly like that. you know, spreading good news from one person to the other about the show. and that's how it built as much as anything. >> 15 million people. >> that's a lot of people. >> right. >> you win the emmy -- >> the enemy. >> you win the emmy, you're on the show that 15 million people watched and when you were in stand up for cancer. >> that's right. >> and people were calling in and stuff and you answered the phone and you said. >> i would say hello, they had already made a donation by that point. speak to a celebrity. i was the celebrity and i said it's jim parsons. who? and i would say from "big bang theory." oh, i've heard of that, never watched it. this happened maybe four or five times. then the last call i got was, didn't know me was somebody who didn't know who i was and said, is fran drescher by you?

and i said, i don't know where fran is, i'm very sorry and thank you for your donation. so you do what you can. >> it is humbling. >> very humbling. i don't care who you are or about your emmy. >> or your show. very quickly, the character from blossom. >> right. >> came on last year. and so now is there another woman coming onto the scene? could be a love triangle? >> oh, my god i hope not. i can barely deal with the one we have. no, you know, the whole thing that's gone on with mayam and that character has been fun to explore because will sheldon be able to have a row manltic relationship? and i still don't know if he will. i don't know if he's having one. he says that he's not. and having not read scripts beforehand i don't know where it's headed. i do wonder sometimes if we're living in a little bit of denial 73 sheldon is, and perhaps there's more depth to these feelings than he's aware of. >> whoo. >> but i'm guessing.

i don't write this stuff. >> we'll tune in. >> did i blow your early morning mind? >> we're tuning in. no question. jim parsons, thank you. you can watch instrumental music ]

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welcome back to "the early show," everybody. nice crowd on hand here on a tuesday morning. coming up, ask anyone who has had their home renovated, you are sure to hear -- >> horror stories. >> there are plenty of them out there it seems like. right? they range from simple delays to major rip-offs. so our consumer correspondent susan koeppen is here to help you chooses right contractor. we redid a bathroom about a dozen years ago. took them 8 1/2 months. >> i thought you were going to say years. >> throwing bushels of money at it. >> it's no fun. you know when you get a deodorant stain on your clothes?

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>> beware of bad contractors. americans spend billions of dollars on home improvements every year. but before you hire anyone, consumer correspondent susan koeppen is here with tips on how to avoid getting ripped off. because we always appreciate. susan, good morning. >> good morning, harry. i should say there are plenty of good contractors out there. but, as we found out, many contractors go unlicensed, and unchecked, and they can turn dream homes into disasters. the home improvement business is booming in america. with homeowners spending close to $300 billion each year. but what if someone turns your greatest asset into your worst nightmare. >> i did a lot of crying, swearing, and everything else. >> reporter: diane recently retired and decided it was time to upgrade her home. >> i decided let's just go do the whole she bang. >> reporter: but what she didn't know was that her contractor was working without a license.

something that's required in chicago, where diane lives. >> we were shocked what we saw. i ran out of funds. i mean, i couldn't keep going. >> reporter: after spending almost $30,000 -- >> all this plaster has to be taken out. >> reporter: diane and her husband had to start over from scratch. >> he'd promise you the world, but do nothing. >> reporter: authorities estimate consumers lose millions of dollars to shoddy or unlicensed contractors in the u.s. each year. in fact, only 25 states require contractors to have a license. one of them is california. that's where we met up with investigators from the contractor's state license board. today, they're conducting a sting. luring contractors to this home in redondo beach. all of the contractors invited to this home are being asked to do major painting or repairs. jobs that require a license. but instead of getting a job -- >> -- contractor's license.

>> reporter: this contract gets arrested. so you've been working without a license? >> i mean -- yeah, okay, i don't have a license. >> reporter: and investigators say this contractor being arrested was arrested at another sting four years ago. are you working without a license? >> as a handyman, yes. >> reporter: california arrested more than 1,000 unlicensed contractors last year. >> you've got to have a license. >> reporter: at this sting, nine out of nine contractors were busted. for working without a license. experts say hiring unlicensed contractors can be a risky proposition. somebody who's unlicensed can come in, take your money, and then run. >> exactly. that's exactly what happens. >> all this wood has been ruined. >> reporter: unfortunately for diane, even living in a city where contractors need a license, she's out thousands of dollars, and left picking up the pieces. >> this one's still hanging. i leave it as a reminder to

watch who i'm hiring. >> and here's something else to consider. if an unlicensed contractor is injured on the job at your house. he can sue you. and you never know what you're getting. the investigators in california told me that they've caught sex offenders, druggies, even murderers at some of their stings, harry. >> nine out of nine? >> nine out of nine. >> all right. so give us some tips so we can, as consumers, can be protected as we get ready to do some of these home improvements. >> the first thing you should do is check for a license. as we mentioned only 25 states require a license. but your city, your county, your town, they may also require a license. so even if your state doesn't require one, check to see if your neighborhood where you live, they require a license. >> all right. so get a license first. >> right. so check it to see if they're on the up and up. also ask for references from the contractor, but also referrals as well. it's always good to talk to a friend, a family member, they had someone that they loved who was great, who was on time, did

the work. good price. go with that. and then also, never pay a lot of money up front. it's one thing to make a deposit and put down some money. that's okay. but make sure it's not a lot of money. and if the person is asking you for a lot of money, red flag. >> right. >> and then also try to get everything in writing, project expectations. start dates, end date, and what you want done. >> and that real live estimation that isn't going to grow and grow and grow. >> exactly. >> all right, susan koeppen, as always, thank you very much. now here's maggie. >> thank you, harry. real simple magazine has a popular column called new uses for old things. like turning a pasta maker into a paper shredder. the best ideas have been compiled into a book. and executive editor sarah humphreys is here with some great examples. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm great. we have them in alphabetical order. some uses for antacid tablets?

>> we went from "a" to "z" in this book. it hits backstores today. antacid tablets. you have a vase that you've had flowers in for awhile. you get that residue on the inside. throw the flowers away, fill the vase with some fresh water. >> plop, plop, fizz, fizz. >> let it do its work. after a couple minutes, swirl it around, dump it out, it will be much easier to clean. >> easier to clean the vase. when you get the deodorant stains on your clothes. >> this happens. >> jeff color i'm going to put it to the test. here we stained this shirt. you just need to be diligent, wipe it down, switch sides. but they really do work. keep these in your glove compartment, in your desk drawer for example, if something happens at the office. they're so good in an emergency and they really do work. >> any fabric? >> any fabric. yep. >> and it will dry quick? you can't go out -- >> if you have a silk top you might want to be a little careful. something that's machine washable, go for it. >> we see a water stain. it's hard to tell. but there is no deodorant there.

all right cooking spray. >> cooking spray. guess what? it helps things not stick p duchduh. you know you put your candle in the votive holder and it's stuck forever. beforehand you spray the inside with a little cooking spray. >> that's great. >> stick the votive in. light it, it's good to go. pops out after you had your party. >> it's a beautiful thing. i was watching food network yesterday and paula deen had a great tip. she sprayed it on the measuren spoon so when she put syrup in it to put it in the recipe. >> honey, corn syrup. >> it's the same thing with a cheese greater. >> take your cooking spray, spray the cheese greater and grate. that makes cleanup a lot easier. much less of the scrubbing. >> look how easy that is. >> nice and clean. >> very good. this was really cool. how you can use a cork to make your own sewing kit. >> take your wine cork, and then you can just put your pins and

needles in the top of it and run some, you know, thread around the base of it and this is good, keep it in your glove compartment for emergencies or get in your desk drawer. a good, little impromptu sewing kit. >> and that is cute as can be. >> super cute. >> we all know the obvious use for a salad spinner. but you say there are at least three other uses. >> the best one we have here, you know when you're hand washing your cashmere it takes forever to dry. all you need to do, do this with a hefty southwester. you don't want to do this on your really, really fine cashmere. you stick your damp sweater in the salad spinner. close it up. spin away. >> is this going to get rid of the lint? >> oh, i wish. >> and then when you take it out, right, give it a few spins, put it back on your towel, and let it dry. it's not going to dry it completely obviously. but it will shed some water so it will be a lot faster to dry. >> really? >> no hours of waiting. >> why am i skeptical about

this? it really works. >> it works. you've got to give it a few pumps. >> what are some other uses for the salad spinner? >> you could actually dress your salad in the salad spinner. if you pour some -- so you're not overdressing. pour some in and it will be lightly dressed. >> and there are more tips in the book for that. vodka. >> vodka. >> not just for drinking anymore. >> that's knife my favorite use. one of the things is before you're cleaning your diamond rings, and our producer has gratefully and graciously lent us her beautiful engagement ring. >> look at that engagement ring. drop it in a little vodka just for a few minutes. hat will just get rid of that greasy buildup ahead of time. and then use your regular jewelry cleaner or soap, water, to just kind of rinse off. this is the preclean. >> this is not -- >> right, got it. the last thing, a lot of customers use this. vodka kills odors. >> oh. >> and it doesn't have an odor. so what you want to do is when you take your clothes out, say of storage for winter, right?

just give him a little bit of a spritz. >> isn't your closet going to smell like a martini. >> you hang them in a ventilated area. but vodka doesn't really have a smell. >> i guess i never thought of that. >> it's the olives that have a smell. >> oh. well, smells like alcohol. >> a little bit. >> but very faint. all right. so good. thank you, sarah. >> you're welcome. >> you can find 869 of these doozies in the book. so you can go to our website to find out more about the book and see everything sarah talked about. right now here's harry and bobby. >> all right. imagine bobby flay showing up in your kitchen and challenging you to cook your best dish. and then he's going to do his version. that, of course, is the premise of foot network show "throwdown." and also the inspiration for bobby's latest cookbook of the same name. and bobby is here with some of his all-time favorite "throwdown" recipes. of all your shows, my favorite show. >> really? >> piece people live wherever

they live. and they write in. you hear about some guy in timbuktu who makes better lasagna than anybody else on the planet. and you go down there and cook with them. and they love that you're there. it's kind of a celebration. >> they're surprised that i'm there. usually we just -- >> subterfuge. >> exactly. but to me it's really not about the competition. people consider throwdown a competition show. but i really consider it a show about these great people who make all this fantastic food all over the country. so today we're going to do a dish that i did in new mexico. a place in san antonio, new mexico. not san antonio, texas. and green chili cheeseburgers. i love green chili cheeseburgers. new mexico is the home state of the roasted green chilies. we're going to make green chili cheeseburgers. >> we talked about burgers just the other day. you do this 80/20. >> 80% beef, 20% fat. you've got to make sure you have enough flat to make sure you have enough flavor. just make a well in the burger like that. so this way you don't have to push the burger down.

>> exactly. >> a thumb print in there. >> exactly. >> and the burger plumps up while it's cooking and turns into a football shape. people press it down and squeeze out all the juices. we're going to fake out the burger and let it come back to its original shape. >> when there's a little pool of juice in there -- turn it over? >> exactly right. you've been paying attention all these years. i love that. >> it's shocking. >> all right. let's get to the green chili part. these are roasted, peeled and seeded poblano chilies. it's a great -- it's a great starter chili i like to say. for people that don't know a lot about chili peppers, poblanos have a nice pepper background flavor but they're not too spicy. they have a little bit of heat. >> they're not going to knock you over. >> we can chop these up. i also have serranos which are kind of like jalapenos. i like a little more heat. if you ate the green chilies by themselves they might be hot to you. don't forget we have the burger, we have the bun and we have the

sauce we're going to make out of cheese. so the chilies and the flavor and the spicyness have to fight all through all those ingredients. >> then there's a lot of stuff going on here with this burger. >> exactly. so we have our green chilies here. our roasted green kill lis. i love roasted green chilies. just so much flavor in them. and then we're going to take a little bit of honey. >> honey? >> yeah, just a tiny bit of honey to chill out the spac spicyness. a little bit of acidity. a little olive oil and this is going to be our green chili relish. and you can do this a couple days ahead of time and have it already done. >> i like that. i'm getting this now. >> very, very simple. >> comes into clear view. >> let's move over here. we're going to make our cheese sauce, okay? now you can just slap a piece of cheese on there and make a cheeseburger with green chilies. >> no way. >> i like sort of the smoothness of the sauce. so we're going to make a little bit of bejamel.

butter, and flour. going to stir that. we're going to add a little scalded milk. and what's going to happen is the butter and the flour is the roux. >> right. >> and that's going to actually start to thicken up, the milk here we're going to get a classic what they call vegemel or cream sauce. we're going to take that classic sauce and let this cook for a little while. add a bunch of cheese to this. melted cheese. this is monterey jack. and we also want parmesan cheese in here, as well. a little bit of saltiness. natural saltiness. and season a little salt and pepper. this is what it's going to look like, harry. nice and thick. we want this nice sort of thick, cheese sauce. >> you know what i've been dying to do all morning? >> what? >> just put that in there. >> my wife calls this queso from texas. it's a cheese sauce you can dip in there. you eat and i'll do the burgers. we're going to take our burgers off. >> you toasted the buns? >> exactly. >> all right. you've got a perfect burger. >> i only flip the burgers one

time so they get nice and crusty on both sides. take our sauce, let the sauce just kind of melt over there. and make sure you put enough cheese in that sauce. look at that. >> oh, man. >> beautiful. green chili relish. >> oh, man. okay. >> the green chili relish is back. put enough on there, you know. you want to really taste the green chilies. >> what do you have there? >> pickled red onions. they give a nice little crunch to them. crispiness. put those on top. and what i do for my crunchification is i put a little bit of blue corn tortillas on here. there you go. that's a green chili cheeseburger. that is a losing recipe on "throwdown." >> bobby, as always, thank you so much. for this recipe, and more on bobby's book tour, all you need to do is go to our website, earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> i'm on tour everywhere. >> crunchification. right there, dude. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs.

how much do we love that? never gets hold, "hawaii 5-o." we love that. we were compelled to do it. every time we hear it. >> it's iconic. >> just immediately assume the surfing pose. >> without a doubt. >> you know that song was actually a hit record? >> yeah. >> when the show came out, that single, it became a single, was a hit record. >> on a.m. radio. >> there's a new rendition of it that has won a prize. cbs held a contest to find the best performance of the theme song, right? 18 bands across the country made it to the final round of the competition and last night, the winner was announced. ♪ that says "hawaii 5-o."

they also spelled out "book 'em dano." that's the university of maryland marching band. right? this was during a game against navy last month, which, by the way, the terps won. they also won $25,000 because they beat out 32 other bands who entered this contest. and they say that they're going to ruse it for some new uniforms. the uniforms that they're currently wearing are 13 years old. it will cost $125,000 they say, to replace them. but they have $25,000. >> that's a good start. >> the people -- >> you've got to sell a lot of band candy -- >> apparently next year they're going to be in the competition to march the theme of "all in the family." and spell out "edith" on the field. >> what do you think is the best theme song of a show ever? >> we were talking. the most iconic theme song ever for a tv show. i mean "hawaii 5-o" has got to be up there. >> oh, for sure. >> "mash." >> "all in the family." >> "cheers." >> "cheers" is a very good one. >> moving on up. >> "jeffersons."

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