holiday windows at new york's lord and taylor department store always draw a crowd, but ceo brendan hoffman will tell you.... >> the important thing is that they come inside and shop. >> reporter: lord and taylor sales in its 46 stores are up strongly this year. but congress's failure to cut a deficit deal is threatening to put a cloud over the crucial holiday season. >> washington is not really helping out right now. are they? >> i don't think they are right now. >> reporter: if congress allows the payroll tax cut to expire, 121 million families will lose on average $934 out of their paychecks next year. what is your sense of what the consumer mood is right now? >> i think the consumer is confused. with everything going on in washington, the gyrations of the market, the high unemployment rate, the consumer is confused. >> reporter: while consumer confidence recently sank to its lowest level since the recession, americans haven't stopped shopping, at least not yet. the national retail federation is forecasting to 2.8% sales increase this holiday, well below last year's more than 5% jump. bu

a hoffman estates high-school teacher steps down from her job for allowing a male student to live with her. good afternoon i'm steve sanders >>and i'm dina bair we welcome our viewers for watching us around the country on wgn america and on the web. wgn's randi belisomo has more details on her resignation ... >>the teacher noticed the student having behavioral problems and offered to tutor him after school off the sessions began in the classroom then move to a restaurant and soon he was living with her at home >>the school board removed the teacher from her classroom and september when they learned the boy was living with her without their knowledge it came about through a freedom of information act filed by the chicago tribune ... officials will not disclose the boy's identity but he did attend hoffman estates haskell the relationship began last year with a tutoring session but even after his grades improved the two of them continue to meet throughout the summer going to movies and out to eat. the teacher suggested the boy moved in when the parents were talking about moving the area h

i wonder what did hoffman at lord and taylor tell you about how he sees the next few weeks. >> reporter: i asked him at first what he thought about next year. he said i'm not even thinking about next year. i'm solely focused on these next five weeks. for the next five weeks every day is literally its own event. they're fighting for every sale every single day. retailers do not like surprise attacks, which is what they think washington has sprung on them right now. >> pelley: anthony, thank you. the congressional failure means that nearly two million workers could lose their unemployment benefits on december 31. we asked dean reynolds to show us what that means. >> reporter: in the cruel calculus of unemployment, laurie allen is running out of solutions. >> you don't have an appreciation of this until you are literally experiencing it. >> reporter: a former office manager out of work since june of 2010, she will lose $1300 a month in jobless benefits unless congress approves an extension. do you have a plan-b? aside from turning to family and friends? >> not at this point. >> reporter: h

. >> let's talk weather with mike hoffman.was going to complain isn't my drive up here going by south bend and the lake effect snows but alaska, that's a storm. >> yeah and it's a unusual storm and does happen sometimes like you said about every 40 years. the models don't catch it. >> not coming here? >> you would think a big trough would form but we will have to wait and see. we will sue you that in the next half hour. in the meantime we have to how you the drought monitor. the just extreme drought continues in many parts of the area across texas, western oklahoma, southern kansas into parts of the southwest. it's dry in the southeast and that's been getting dry late in the growing season. on up into iowa and southeastern minnesota as well. not a good situation this area i don't see a big hope for you this winter either. maybe i will be wrong on that. here is the jet stream into that week. we have a kind of cut off trough in the southwest that will spread moisture in to the areas. you have at least some chances for scattered

. >> i'm with justin hoffman, bro. come on. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: justin hoffman.ght that was just the way you are. [ laughter ] i was, like, this guy is unbelievable. >> yeah -- no, i'm not like that. >> jimmy: no, not at all. >> no, the character that i play is like an assassin. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, i didn't think you were an assassin. i didn't think that you were an assassin. >> a little bit. >> jimmy: no, not a little bit. >> i don't kill for people, bro. no, but -- every time i play a role, it's always like -- you know, i always base it on somebody. and there was this local drug dealer from my old neighborhood. and he pretty much does everything wrong as a drug dealer. like, he's constantly high. he's constantly broke. [ light laughter ] and, you know, he takes the bus. and i was, like, you know -- i was almost going to say his name, but he's probably in jail right now. [ laughter ] i'm like, "yo, buddy, what's up, man?" he's like, "i got a dui, dog." [ laughter ] how is that going to happen? and i asked him. i was like, "yo, what happened?" he's like,

. >>> good morning, michael hoffman wrote me and likes the notion of the big bubble of no trouble. we are not quite there yet but about to get there. watch the gasp of the storm bringing us rain. see from perryman and aberdeen, making a dive to the southwest and about to turn the corner. we are going to hug around coastal arundel county and kent island, rock hall gets wet. weave got clear skies to our west. check out our temperatures this morning, 41 bel air and towson. 41 columbia. i'm at thunder hill elementary in a couple of days. excited for that visit in the cool kids campaign. there goes our big bubble of no trouble with sunshine building in this afternoon, high temperature of 56 degrees. good looking day weatherwise, the traffic, here is tonya. >>> arundel county crane highway an accident with injuries. look out for delays. a live look at our traffic cameras, starting out on the beltway on the southwest side going through kayton'sville. the end of the delay, past the end of the delay, going to start near old court road. topside, look 695 at providence. that delay will start

>> yes, it is. >> hours later detective hoffman gets a call from mario's attorney. himself in. >> turn around. i'm going to pat you down, real quick, mario. mario arrives as scheduled outside the jail. >> spread your feet. is this your phone? >> he's given a date to appear in court and is released from jail. >> chris hansen "dateline" nbc. >> did you ever beat jessica? no. >> did you ever beat elizabeth? >> the only thing i am guilty of is being black and having a girlfriend that's a prostitute. that's what i'm guilty of. they were just two of at least a dozen women working for mario. >> there's no crime in having 15 girlfriends. i'm not married. i'm still young. >> there's no crime in having 15 girlfriends, but the question is were they going out turning tricks and giving you the money? >> no, that's what i'm saying, no, they wasn't. >> how do you make a living? >> i'm a dude. i'm an escort myself. >> mario might be an male escort, but now he's a felon. he's pled guilty to pandering with force. as part of a plea bargain he'll be on five years' probation. the detect

hoffman is the god father of social. all things social are leading him. he has huge vision. >> charlie: what does that mean all things social leading to him. >> you talk to the social entrepreneurs like mark zuckerberg or mark pinkus at zynga. reid holds part of the vision for social in the industry. you look for these people as our industry matures, these people, these kind of fathers of the industry also emerge. steve jobs was the father of the pc, you know. now with social, you have new fathers. >> charlie: have they replaced the pc in your judgment. >> i think so. >> charlie: what do people in the pc business do. >> make tablets. >> charlie: nobody's made a tab will you tell that can challenge that. >> it's only been months. that's the cool thing about ipad. i do seminars all over the world. we're doing a seminar on wednesday, 10,000 people in new york. i would say how many have an ipad. half the hands will go up. th computer's been arnd for 18 months. do you know how long it took to get a pc to that level or lapto t

linked in founder reed hoffman and jeff weiner won entrepreneur of the year award over the weekend in their category, technology. they went to the national awards after winning here in northern california. >>> and italy has a new prime minister this morning. one of his first moves was to borrow more money. he put more than 3 billion euros worth of bonds on the market and it sold. that's good news. admittedly, high interest rates, 7% or more. by comparison, germany pays less than 2%. a reasonably stable europe greeting wall street this morning as we see the new prime minister in that video. >>> what's in store for iran, american and israeli governments warning they won't let iran build an atomic bomb. that certainly will make wall street a bit nervous as we watch some of the unease in that part of the country. back to you. >> scott mcgrew, thank you very much. >>> nice clear day across much of the bay area. christina loren has a look. some rain is on the way, eventually. >> yes, eventually. don't wash your car just yet. we'll tell you when that rain arrives. just want to point out this

still ahead this hour it's the return of our new york resident where this week laurie hoffman is find out if pos is by are fed up with political correctness . we've got thing in england where comedians have been pulled up on political correctness being carried overboard people who are getting a little crazy with being having to worry about every word they say. should we censor every word that comes out of our miles well more of what the people of the big apple have to say in just a few minutes from now plus. amid the financial worries of american europe investors are making a sharp turn to the east where china keeps on rising in the ranks on the global economic stage beijing's might however is not being met with enthusiasm in the u.s. . assesses the attitudes. we shall know what you always were tell me obama. maybe we can see the six. years old she's waiting. was the boss and. she and sad i'm going to be warm and go. into the future you have to yikes ok let's just get right down to it shall we should we put front of china on it well what other place in washington d.c. is chinatown to

denise majette for paul to go back just before the break however a goal a second hoffman to finish to won the champions the penalty for not just one point in the last four games. mean lost second place to scout and missed a chance to close the gap back to three points after losing to want to turn jade luck yellow off and gave the mega rich person the lead straight after the interval and while the love immediately level for the army ran out of it was three minutes to go that great check google for sent off of pouring down. it's on you tube from resulting penalty to once one cheek two guys to seventh's. while they're on the sunday rock bottom time for. finally ended their nine game losing streak the goalless draw attention relegation group need is close now though both teams created a number of scoring opportunities but still unable to break the deadlock despite the point just one one seven points from safety when west since july doesn't stay six points clear the vast off at the top. i'm calling have gone to four points clear of the drop zone off the drawing one want to second guess fir

brenden hoffman says the a... black friday is a barometer for the season. >> it's anened kateor. as black friday goes typically the holiday goes and as the holiday goes typically that's the icing on the cake for our full year. >> reporter: big as it is, black friday is still just one day in a 60 day holiday season says bill martin of shoppertrak. >> while it's the largest day and has been the largest day for the last seven years tlfshlgs's still plenty of important days left to come. >> reporter: four of the season's five biggest shopping days are still ahead, retailers have a head start with the race for holiday profits only just beginning. >> pelley: anthony, what does this say about the economy going forward? >> it suggests the pulse of the economy may be stronger than we thought, that's a good thing. but there are still head winds out there and unthere's still unresolved european debt crisis which is the hurricane lurking off the coast. we don't know how strong it is or whether it will come ashore. >> pelley: hurricane off the coast. anthony, thanks very much. things are gett

and our online talk show host laurie hoffman is in new york has been trying to find out what her legacy the on the wall street movement is like an attorney. i get the wall street movement achieved its goal of creating a shift in the system or is it slowly becoming a blip but history probably won't remember this week let's talk about that i think . brought some attention to the issues that nobody really wants to talk about so. if it becomes part of the conversation. there's still a lot of work to do i'm hopeful that they'll continue with their efforts and they will get maybe people think i won't make a big difference so i think we'll think about it for a while then go back to the ball. park. but i think that's one of the problems no one really knows what their mission is other than because people lot of problems do you think if they had a leader that would help them define what their movement. i think if they were that organized jobs would be laying around wall street i'll be honest with you i don't know what the message is so clearly they haven't communicated bat well not at all so how

twenty three hoffman's policies in the russian capital headlines are coming up with me in a few minutes well in the meantime let's cross over to the business desk we've. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program as we've been reporting russia has been given the green light to join the world trade organization the move is expected to open new markets for russian goods it will also boost the desired for good vestment into the country chief economist from deutsche bank russia gas last use of what it is joining me now on the suitors hello thanks for joining us so how tough will the transition period be well the longer the transition period the easier it is for domestic producers and in most of the cases the length of these transition periods is quite significant. for some of the. including say for the insurance sector it's up to nine years for some of the manufacturing some sectors such as the auto sector it's seven years so russian producers still have quite a significant time. frame in order to prepare for this increased competition is coming russia's way after w t o accession

denise majette for paul to go back just before the break however a goal a second hoffman to finish to want the champions the penalties now just one point in the last four games. no mean lost second place to scout and missed a chance to close the gap back to three points after losing to want to turn jade lucky off and gave the mega rich boost the lead straight after the interval while the love immediately levelled for the army band however with three minutes to go that great chance you got sent off of point down usually it's on them to eat from the resulting penalty to one to one cheek to guys to sevenths. fatherly on the sunday rock bottom time for. finally ended their nine game losing streak the goalless draw attention relegation group need is close know both teams created a number of scoring opportunities but still unable to break the deadlock despite the point just only one seven points from safety winners since july doesn't stay six points clear of roster of at the top. spot on call have gone four points clear of the drop zone after drawing one want to second place first off the h

. >> let's check on the weather with meteorologist mike hoffman. i know it's november and supposed to be indeed but why when i'm driving north of south bend, both in the south of north and the next day and driving south of the farm and the wind is out of the south. >> maybe switch your days. >> something. >>> that's the battle between the warm and cold air this time of year. the drought monitor is obviously something we have to concern ourselves with as we head towards the next growing season and it appears like we are going to start off in pretty bad shape and much of texas, oklahoma and parts of new mexico, because under the current weather pattern we don't see a lot of moisture for you folks. it is dry across the northern plains which may get help this winter and the southeast is very dry as well. you can see much of georgia and parts of south carolina. we do have the drought coming out of the southwest which would get some decent chances in the drought areas which could be good news. now here is thanksgiving, this is very cold air and you may h

bernstein was played by dustin hoffman. who played woodward?rd, that's correct. i wanted to break him in easy. he was up all night. during the gerald ford presidency "saturday night live" often lampooned him and portrayed president ford as accident-prone. [ laughter ] truth is ford was one of the most athletic presidents in history. what sport did railroad is ford play in college? >> bill: the answer is football. all right. now, what position did he play? >> he was -- >> bill: no. what position did he play? >> center. >> bill: levy, still tied. >> i got to get some kind of extra credit for that. >> only if you need it. you can save it. >> bill: that's a joke. question number 4. >> he was recruited by two pro-teams. >> bill: everyone knows ronald reagan was a movie star before he was elected president. >> sometimes when the team is up against it, breaks are leading the boys, ask them to go in there with all they have got. win just one for the gipper. >> bill: what major league baseball team did ronald reagan call games for on the radio? what tea

bernstein was played by dustin hoffman. who played woodward?rect. i wanted to break him in easy. he was up all night. during the gerald ford presidency "saturday night live" often lampooned him and portrayed president ford as accident-prone. [ laughter ] truth is ford was one of the most athletic presidents in history. what sport did railroad is ford play in college? >> bill: the answer is football. all right. now, what position did he play? >> he was -- >> bill: no. what position did he play? >> center. >> bill: levy, still tied. >> i got to get some kind of extra credit for that. >> only if you need it. you can save it. >> bill: that's a joke. question number 4. >> he was recruited by two pro-teams. >> bill: everyone knows ronald reagan was a movie star before he was elected president. >> sometimes when the team is up against it, breaks are leading the boys, ask them to go in there with all they have got. win just one for the gipper. >> bill: what major league baseball team did ronald reagan call games for on the radio? what team? >> bill: ve

mark hoffman wrote this posting saying skins could end up in a 0-0 tie. >> if we're lucky, we'll get a top ten pick this draft. stick a fork in the redskins, they are done this year. ouch. >>> kevin thinks washington's offense is in breach of contact. how can they continue to collect a check? thanks to everybody who posted comments. >>> the verdict watch continues here on news 4. also ahead, is kim kardashian having doubts about the divorce? why she traveled to minnesota to see kris humphreys. >>> the hot color this year is orange. we >>> well, she came and she went. lindsay lohan is a free woman agachblt just four and a half hours after turning herself into jail this morning, she was sentenced to 30 days behind bars for violating a probation because of a necklace theft conviction. she was released after a few hours because of overcrowding issues at the jail. she'll have to continue her community service at the los angeles morgue. >>> is kim kardashian having second thoughts about her divorce in kris humphreys after 72 days of marriage? it's what sources are saying. kardashian left f

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. >> you look like a young abbie hoffman. >> you were a pro, babe you had an afro!go. >> that's, i don't know what that is. >> we got to go. >> 54. >> happy birthday to you. you are so sweet. thank you. >> the icing is really good. >> mmm. >>> coming up next, getting ail head start on your holiday shopping with "jill's steals and deals" but first these messages. [ male announcer ] what if we could keep enough plastic waste to cover all of manhattan out of landfills each year? the equivalent of 140 million trash bags, gone. by using new glad trash bags, designed with reinforcing bands to be stronger with less plastic waste, we can. ♪ it's a small change that can make a big difference. ♪ she's a black friday living legend. she even named her kid "black friday." [ woman 2 ] whoa. [ male announcer ] black friday's here. deals start thursday 10 pm. but we're open all day and night so you don't have to wait outside. the only place to go on black friday. walmart. which shirt feels more expensive? that one's softer. actually, it's the same t-shirt. really? but this one was

union square, they can watch my protest of populations of trillions -- >> reporter: the talented hoffmans played christmas carols to raise money for sister sophia's ballet lessons. >> we're going to get a lid cut but we're mostly -- little cut but we're mostly paying for her ballet. >> reporter: women in tights protested fur. >> supposedly the biggest shopping day of the year, and the beginning of fur season. fur season is through the winter. >> reporter: police officer carl payne was warning anyone that pickpockets love black friday as much as shoppers. >> their christmas. they notice mobs, people, people paying little or no attention at all. >> reporter: just when you thought things couldn't get any more chaotic -- members of the occupy movement marched into the square blocking traffic and clashing with police. [ crowd noise ] >> reporter: eventually the group filed off with police in tow, leaving behind hundreds of stunned shoppers. >> i like -- there's happy and also angry. i don't know, just angry. i guess that's how confused i am. >> reporter: confusion, anger, in the end may be ju

living, you know, i love the movies of the '70s, i'd love to work with justin hoffman, de niro. >> i'miel day lewis fan and also sean. >> i haven't worked with sean. i've worked with great actors. russell crow, tom hanks -- >> instantly, he's the best he's ever seen. >> he's amazing. >> surprising, but -- >> comedy, too. people don't really know it but he's a very funny guy. >> marlon brando. >> the freshman. >> that's right. >> tell me about that. >> he's a great actor. yeah. that was wonderful. he's probably -- i might pick him. >> this was in the "freshman," right? >> this was in the "freshman." >> his career, when he was getting fed lines through his ear, right? >> you seem to be getting fed lines. >> that's why i'm -- to do it effortlessly without anybody even realizing. >> he did have that, but he was also extremely present. a little bit like what you describe from eddie. the energy that came out of that man was amazing. >> i thought you said about it, the reason he had the ear piece was it just -- it made him more spontaneous in a funny way. he didn't like having to think about

. >> little did those teamsters realize that jimmy hoffman's body is buried in jimmy hoffa's hair plugs. >> i got to do what i got to do. >> a cock sure hack to famous everybody's status but knew his own iq the first day he was able to apply for that knowledge. he is one of those guys who spends his whole life saying let me tell you something. >> let me tell you something else. >> and then he never tells you something. is he a functionary. he is a lap dog for barack obama. sends him out to curry favor with some of these individual groups they are going to need to amalgamate. the nonunion members who want to form a union because the whole thing is not working, we are not getting it anymore. >> bill: all right. those thinly veiled reference was interesting. if you don't vote for us, don't come, you know, don't complain, because we are in the tank for you. and the other party isn't. i thought that was quite interesting. >> yeah. well, biden knows where his bread is buttered. it would be fitting if he went out and did all this dirty work and sumly indicated and kissed butock and told them w

scheduled release in october 1997 he called our louisville affiliate wave and spoke with rotor greg hoffman has forgiven you with that murder. >> well, sure. don't you believe in that? >> not only does this confessed killer believe he's been forgiven. he said he'd like to spend the rest of his life preaching a gospel. >> possibly start a ministry of my own where i can minister to people in those situations. >> but for the schaeffers, there is only an unshakeable sense of bewilderment and loss. >> it's a life sentence. you never get over something like that. a total miscarriage of justice. >> in 2002 mel ignato headed back to prison. a jefferson county circuit judge following a jury recommendation sentenced ignato to nine years of perjury after testifying that he and schaeffer were in a loving relationship. ignato served four and a half years with time off for good behavior and was released in 2006. mary oon sure, the old girlfriend and admitted accomplice of ignato died in 2004 at the age of 54. that's our report. thanks for watching. i'm john seigenthaler.

did jerry ruben and abbie hoffman and dr.he children that they said i influenced? you want to drop the blame on charlie and say it's all charlie's fault. >> what did you do? >> i do the best thing i know how, nothing. i [ bleep ]. i play music and i smoke a little grass now and then. because it helps me and i like to relax with it. that's about it. i don't see anything wrong with drugs. drugs is all right if you don't misuse them. if you misuse them and you're misinformed about them, then you make a big bad thing about them. that's what the public has done. >> charles manson, drug counselor. he's going on and on about not misusing drugs. he used drugs, serious drugs, mind-altering drugs, lsd, extensively with his followers. some of them have reported after the group would have dinner, they would drop acid. and he would get on this pedestal kind of thing and do his preaching to them. he definitely knew the effects that drugs could have, and he used it to his advantage. >> if i wanted to kill somebody, i would take this book an

they had abbey hoffman. they need two or three legitimate faces to occupy the news. because a group can't send a message out. if you're going to go out and want a camera down there, say we want you to stand on your soap box, they've got nowhere to go. they need one or two or three people to become the faces of that movement. every movement has a face. >> it's absolutely right. we went to photograph them, and i thought, this looks like a gap ad. it really did. >> excuse me, they also -- >> searching in -- >> they need to go to washington. if they want the rules of the game changed, the guys on wall street aren't going to change the rules. they need to go to washington, go to pennsylvania avenue. >> they need a former wall street guy. a guy who lived in that world who has come to the other side and says, i've lived there -- >> not someone on a book tour. >> some legitimate person who has lived it, breathed it and says, you know what? i've seen the light. >> so you don't want susan sarandon and the hollywood stars? >> you want lloyd blankfein. >> would that be credible?