i always wondered why they kept her in the airplane hanger and haven't brought her out. she is so attractive. why have they finally decided to bring her out? >> she is obviously out partly because it is campaign season. she wasn't out much in 2010 because she figured she would want to save up her capital for 2012. she is their best weapon. she was on ellen last week, on leno and warm. >> and she is spontaneous, which most politicians aren't. she is technically a civilian, but she can respond to something funny. >> she is going to be the top surrogate for the president by the time october rolls around. mine is the focus on hispanic voters. they decided in the obama campaign to spend an enormous amount of money on hispanics. the key is health care. i am told by sergio, the guy running the program, that health care is the key to hispanic votes. it is difficult for the president because his health care plan is controversial at best, but has to stress it in the hispanic community. >> will republicans push the president to endorse an israeli strike on iran. we will be right ba

. >> celebrities to obtain drugs through their vast number of fans and parasites and hangers on.which include physicians. >> music producer, quincy jones, has seen it all before. >> i've been there were with ray charles, jimmie hendricks. everything you think they want or you want, there's no question about it. >> enraged, joans did what her entourage apparently could not. >> i wrote with me a letter about seven years ago. i said this is not going to work. she was apologetic and trying to clean it up a little bit. ♪ [ music ] >> like amy winehouse and michael jackson, whitney's efforts at rehab failed. she had so much money, she no longer cared about her career. so quincy jones settled into the same resolve as his musical genius friends, unwilling to help those who won't help themselves. >> they don't care. make every excuse in the world. it's a joke. >> meanwhile, a cause of death will be known as early as wednesday, but don't expect an answer for many weeks. given dr. conrad murray, investigators will be checking every prescription and every amount of drug to uncover what was m

all her friends and hangers on. >> sean: i think first of all, you reaction to it.been suspended. the broader point here. they apologized. what should happen? >> it's not a free speech issue, because it's a private company making ils own programming decisions. it's a question of taste. i think from what we heard of the clip i don't listen to the show, i regret to say. it sounded like it was tasteless. i can't blame people from objecting. on the other hand, it sounds like they are in business of being tasteless and there is something ridiculous about it, to have the shot jock goes too far. >> with the imus controversy that people would learn. maybe it's not a term you use, different term. what do you think? >> well, they were wrong. these guys are funny and edgy. they were wrong. whitney houston is a fantastic entertainer. he is really should get the respect of that. there is nothing wrong with that. actually, i thought that everyone should get a it withny houston song, mo elleithee should get a song like toward the obama thing -- >> sean: forget that part. there is

you have plasma bags hanging from coat hangers. i watched a little baby die today, absolutely horrific. the doctor said i can't do anything and that is happening over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> reporter: today in oyster bay, new york, colvin's mother learned about her daughter's last dangerous assignment. >> terrible. you're never ready for it. all these years and all this time i was never ready for it. >> reporter: a daughter, a reporter whose work meant everything. >> you know, it still matters to me. when it stops mattering to me, i'll stop doing it. >> reporter: and brian, there are still 30,000 people in the city of homs low on food, low on supplies and under attack. even where we are on the syrian border with turkey, we can still hear the shelling tonight inside syria. >> richard engel, be safe in your travels. richard with is tonight again from the syrian/turkey border.u from the syrian/turkey border. richard, thanks for your reporting. >>> the u.s. e

. >>> it's a frightening cliff hanger on "american idol." a.j.ack with us next hour on that story and other "showbiz tonight" headlines. >>> and looking at health for her this morning. 40 billion bucks is on the table to help reduce the number of pre-term births and early elective deliveries in the u.s. the department of health and human services is using the money to educate honts, doctors, and mothers. it says that these early elective deliveries can cause problems for both the mother and child. >>> still ahead, it's a candy bar slam for a patriots player. we're going to tell you why these butter fingers were dumped in boston. sports in ten minutes. >>> well, cpac, the big conservative convention underway in washington this hour. for 19-year-old blogger brandon keyser, its a he a big time opportunity for a kentucky guy. this is a place for the up and coming conservatives to stake their ground. okay, brandon, you're there. are you missing ash lynn yet? is everybody watching back home in kentucky? >> i hope so. >> listen, you know, a lot of teens

i mean, plastic bags hanging from coat hangers. i watched a baby die today. absolutely horrific the doctor just said, i can't do anything. that is happening all over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> reporter: in oyster bay, new york, colvin's mother learned about her daughter's last dangerous assignment. >> it's terrible. never ready for it. all these years, all this time, i was never ready for it. >> reporter: a daughter, a reporter, whose work meant everything. >> you know, it still matters to me and when it stops mattering to me, i'll stop doing it. >> that was nbc's richard engel reporting. some 30,000 people are still in the city of homs. dozens of countries are now exploring ways to aid the syrian rebels, including potential military assistance. >>> still ahead on "way too early," the new york knicks starting to look like a playoff contender with jeremy lin leading the way. we'll show you what the league's new sensation did against the hawks last night. plus, mitt romney dips into 1990

you have plastic bags hanging from coat hangers. i watched a little baby die today. absolutely horrific. just a 2-year-old, been hit. they stripped it and found the shrapnel had gone into the left chest and the doctor just said, i can't do anything. his little tummy just kept heaving until he died. that's happening over and over and over. no one here can understand how the international community can let this happen. >> the french photographer remi ochlik was also killed and the syrian video journalist ramial side. their deaths were a reminder that scores were dying every day. the white house spoke of shameless brutality in syria. such words are welcome in homs but you must move quickly, begs this activist. the british photographer paul conroy was injured. there are efforts to get him out with a wounded french journalist. but the ferocious bombardment is making that difficult. international committee of the red cross has called for a humanitarian ceasefire. for all the victims of this conflict. >> international community has often seen -- seemed paralyze over sir yaf

i'm going to berlin to kill that son of a bitch paper hanger. when the war was over, when it was over, he wanted to foe to berlin, so i had him on the jeep. bradley called on the radio. he said, george, you're gonna stop right here. don't go no farther. we're going to cut off your gas and water and this and that and then the telephone and you can't talk to nobody, so forth and okay. so he got back, he wondered why, and he told him, russia was going to take berlin instead of him going in there. he hesitated for a while. he had tears in his eyes. this is where he wte berlin was his story to take over. he wanted to be in there and let them know who he was and so forth. he was afraid to go there in the first place. he was afraid to go there. so okay. we went in there, got back, and got his jeep all ready. he wanted a dome. he wanted a dome to put on top of the jeep in case when he gets into berlin they wouldn't take a pop shot at him. all the airplanes, they were blown down on the ground. i went out to see if i could get the big dome from the back.

so these airplanes had like clothes hangers and you hang a newspaper up. that's how you read them. kgb stayed up in the front of the airplane with the vice president and with their key people that were with him and so i'm back there with the doctor. and so when he had's see something he wanted to take a picture of, i'd stand in the aisle and see where the kgb was an see if they were in the front so he could take pictures. he got a lot of photos out of that, right behind the kgb. >> i want to ask you, you raised some questions about rosemary wilson. give me some examples. >> in 1960, she -- we'd have a scheduling committee which include don hughes, bob finch, rosemary wood and myself. and she was very key figure in all that. she also -- she didn't try to come up with new policy but she could influence nixon's view on it because she was always very frank with him. never any conversation rosemary wood had, wasn't very direct one. so sometimes we'd have a problem and she'd be our go-between. but she was a very smart woman, totally dedicated to him. but said he had a great sense of humo

replaced it with a coat hanger. ( shouting continues ) ( phone ringing ) are you okay? yeah, i'm okay. hi, jo. so, karen's finally started her project, has she? yeah. how much of it has she done? oh, you know... quite a bit. she, uh, wrote the word "africa." oh, here we go. everybody does it. i mean, helena's mum obviously did her clouded leopard project for her. i mean, helena can barely hold a pencil, let alone construct a scale model of the karakorum mountains. so, was that jo? mm. so, you're still friends, then? that's good. yeah, why wouldn't we be? no reason. no. so, what did she want? she just wanted me to say that she was round here if her dad rings. w-well, where is she? you didn't ask? didn't sound like i want to know. duh. but you know you shouldn't lie-- if i know it, then there's no need for you to tell me. well, how do we play that one? that-- do we phone her dad, or... oh, god knows. oh, this is a complicated age, isn't it? i'm programmed to kiss sore knees and push swings. i feel like i need retraining. are you sure you're okay? ( sighs ) at the hospital

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this is plastic bottles and coat hangers. she has a wonderful philosophy that everything discarded can be made new and beautiful again. we believe that homelessness is not permanent. people can lead a wonderful, productive lives. >> we will taste some of the chocolate. we can see some rain showers across the area. the story of this artist -- she became a self-taught artist. this will be available for auction. >> that is a great story. how do they get the tickets? >> chocolateaffair.org. you have to make a contribution. >> a wonderful event. we have some rain showers. most is south of baltimore. south and east of baltimore, he might have some rain to start the day. it is not very heavy -- you might have some rain to start the day. it should clear up this afternoon. there's some rain bacchant west virginia. -- there is some rain back in west virginia. six more weeks of winter if phil sees his shadow. we have some colder air working in behind the system. 49 at the airport. that cold air will sink down into baltimore and the sout

so here we were in the early stages and were launch iing fro hanger s. the air force was controlling the chains. here comes what i thought was a little bit obnoxious congressman and he said i want to see the apes. insaid, okay, they are not really apes but we'll see if we can get there. i got down there and i talked to the handlers, air force kept -- i forgot his name -- and he said, you know, enos came back from a training session and is pretty much kicked off and went into it. he said you know what he does? i said, yeah, i know what he does but i got somebody who wants to see him. he says, i would rather not. i said, okay. i go out, i says, congressman, i said we only got one ship that came out of training and his disposition isn't that great. i'd rather not that you go in. he says, you are telling me i can't see the apes? i said, no, sir, i'm not telling you you can't see the apes, but sometimes it might be better not to do that. he says impea a congressman, if i want to do that, i like to do that. i said, okay, go ahead, sir. so he went in and i kind

bring children that weren't whitney's children when they were there and five other body guards and hangers on. >> i think he's looking at this as family. this is their family. she still -- she came for his event with her entourage. we don't know what was going through his mind. this is a very terrible time for that family his family and her family. those kids whitney helped raise those kids. they were together 18 years. there was a lot still there between her and that family. >> i don't doubt that. >> i don't think bobby is smart. he's not smart he's a nice guy. i hate that people are painting him that way. he never defends himself no matter what you say about him. he never says anything bad about whitney. he does things that i don't think are so smart, but both of them were kids that got a lot of money very early on and they were super stars. >> they put a lot of it up their noses unfortunately. i am coming your way but i have to take a commercial break first. there's a lot going on tonight, folks. stay tuned. we will be right back. >> it was so obvious. she impressed everybody's heart in

. >> these crochet pants are one of those things you see on the hanger and think you couldn't wear.t's talk about cover-ups. >> i am so excited. a producer from our show is bahamian. she helped me find the most beautiful bahama mamas and we have michelle, lisa, and lisa's mother, angela, all wearing cover-ups from echo design. what i love is this resource has become one of my favorites over the year because they start around $40. the most expensive is $140. but really affordable and everybody's personality. >> and they have to be washable. >> washable. >> easy care. >> light weight. look at the colors. michelle has the matching bag if you want to find accessories. >> fit everybody's coconuts so beautifully. one size fits all. >> lisa's could even be a dress at night. >> really pretty. you guys look great. thank you, ladies. >> that's fun about coverups. consider them the gown on the beach like the red carpet. >> glamorous. >> i like this next group because if you're lounging around, you grab for a pair of sweats and want to chill out. >> not today. >> you want to feel good and look

. >>> one of the biggest cliff hangers leading up to the oscars involved the comedian, sacha baron cohenwho is demanding to walk the red carpet as the dictator he place in his new movie. the producers were against it. but cohen, or rather the general, would not take no for an answer. >> while i applaud the academy for taking away my right to free speech, i warn you, if you do not give me my tickets back by 12:00 p.m. on sunday, you'll face unimaginable consequences. death to the west. death to america. and good luck. you're fantastic. how was that? zid i sound crazy enough? >> and this just in. the academy has said despite their concerns, they won't stop him. we'll have to wait and see if he'll walk the red carpet tomorrow night. 7:00 p.m. eastern is when the oscars start. right here on abc. you want to watch "gma" on monday for the huge oscar afterparty. >> it will be a big night. >>> coming up this morning, why are scientists tykeling mans to find out if they respond and to learn more about them and us. >>> a new twist in a bizarre murder case. the man who said demons resembling barry

. >> it's a cliff hanger. >> literally. >> literally. apparently, four other people fainted. can laugh at and not feel guilty. will ferrell. what was he doing? >> he was introducing players and being his funny self. i'm not sure if we're going to show video. he's a scorpio and a horrible dancer. >> 6'5" from italy. ironically, he at a times italian food. marco villanelli. >> how did he land this gig? >> he's shooting a movie. he would be funny even reading the phone book. i think it's cool he did this and got a lot of laughs. >> it will make hornets tickets worth it these days because they're not doing good, at least the basketball team. >>> thank you very much. we'll be back with "news nation gut check." in my success. we purchase as much as we can on the american express open gold card. so we can accumulate as many points as possible. i pass on these points to my employees to go on trips with their families. when my employees are happy, my customers are happy. vo: earn points for the things you're already buying. call 1-800-now-open to find out how the gold card can serve y

. >>> one of the biggest cliff hangers leading up to the oscars involved the comedian, sacha baron cohenwho is demanding to walk the red carpet as the dictator who is the lead character in his next movie. the producers were against it. but cohen, or rather the admiral general would not take no for an answer. >> while i applaud the academy for taking away my right to free speech, i warn you, if you do not lift your sanctions and give me my tickets back by 12:00 p.m. on sunday, you'll face unimaginable consequences. death to the west. death to america. and good luck, billy crystal. you're fantastic. how was that? did i sound crazy enough? >> and this just in. and official with the academy says, while they have their concerns, they won't stop him. we'll have to wait and see if the dictator will, indeed, walk the red carpet tomorrow night. it's the biggest night. 7:00 p.m. eastern is when the oscars start. right here on abc. you want to watch "gma" on monday for the huge oscar afterparty. live from los angeles. robin's out there, lara's out there. it will be great. >> a big night. >>> and do

plus we will talk about one of the biggest cliff hangers leading up to the oscars. sasha baron cohen be able to come dressed as the dictator, the character in his movie coming out in march? we will give you answers to that question coming up. >> you know, his image came up, i start the laughing. >> every time you sigh him, you know, i spent some time with him, i interviewed him when he was borat some years ago when i first came to abc and that was the first challenge they threw my way, and he is just a riot. he's hilarious but you never know what to expect. >> i look forward to that. thanks very much. >> bye. >> in sports ton there's a big match-up on the hilltop. the saint mary's gaels can clinch their first regular season title in 20 years with a win over usf. meanwhile in arizona spring training getting into full spring. here's larry beil with more in this morning's sports. >>> good morning, everybody. the a's welcome manny ramirez to the team. he has had two violations of baseball's drug testing program. mike shumann was there for manny's arrival in phoenix. >>

. >> like a cliff hanger already. >> already. there is more to come on news 4 this afternoon.ight's blind auditions. >>> also ahead big tigger joins us live to give his take on the death of whitney >>> well if you're trying to write that valentine's day card for your loved one, we are here to help, folks. >> wendy is here to help. thanks to an app that helps with romantic and flirtatious phrases. wendy? >> yes. this is called trip lingo. you know, this is a multi national channel. say you've just met someone and though their english is perfect maybe they're from another country and you just want to figure out how to be a little more oo la la when talking to them on valentine's day or any time. trip lingo is your free app that you need to download. let's start with select phrases. the essentials. i adore you. say you're with someone from portugal. there you go. that's how you say i adore you. there is even a little thing we can't play on the air but you'll hear on your phone and ipad. you can hit it and it will actually pronounce it for you. some of the other cards, a toast. hi

the cliff hanger at the end involving quinn is what everybody will be talking about and they're leavingbecause we're waiting to see if rachel and finn will get married. sue sylvester is pregnant. could this show get any stranger? >> a lot of content tonight. >> tons. our chat was amazing. we had lots of people talking and jenny, kay and lots of people were on there. everybody was blown away. no one expected the cliffhangers tonight and, of course, the music we didn't even get to. ry line and a cou things happening in real life we were talking about is that cory and lea michele have been caught dating again. >> they denied this rumor before? >> they denied it and they have dated other people publicly, but they've been caught going on dates and tweeting pictures of one another and taking them down. so it looks like that romance is heating up. >> reporter: interesting. >> we're waiting to hear from the creator ryan murphy as to why if you got a chance to see glee when they were here last year, they did their glee tour all summer. that's not happening which we're bummed about because you ge

. >> we left everyone on a cliff-hanger where i was trying to press you to say, i think it's a valid question, i honestly do. >> i know you do. that's why you're asking it. every politician has to prioritize, particularly if your a politician or state governor. is it right, taking your argument to its natural conclusion that warren buffet is as much in you're head for his economic situation as the poorest person in new jersey? >> first of all, warren buffet doesn't live in new jersey. >> if he did. >> secondly, that's not what said. you said that's theological conclusion of my statement. i disagree with you. let's look at what i've done in new jersey, okay? that's the best gage to judge a politician, not what they say in a talk show with you but what they've done. in two years, what we've done is to protect the most vulnerable here even when we had to cut $13 billion in state spending over two years, increased funding to hospitals, to take care of the poor to make sure charity care was available, increased funding to federally qualified health centers to make sure people have access

i see a lot of hangers on come around them and when they would come the first time in this studio, nexttheir five minders and all -- you know what i mean? that is kind of dangerous. what happens is you surround yourself with a bunch of yes people and a bunch of people that want like what deepak said, they get their identity from celebrities. >> i think that's a very good point. they become like blood sucking leeches. they get their own celebrity status by being around the celebrity. it's not in their interest to say no to the star. >> it's co-dependent addictive relationship. you have doctors that are known as concierge doctors, boutique doctors, pill mills owned by doctors and drug suppliers. so -- you have the same person getting prescriptions from multiple doctors, pharmacists usually know that the same person is getting from the prescription from multiple doctors but they ignore it very frequently. it should be something very easy to monitor. every time a narcotic is dispensed or sedative or tranquilizer, there is a record for it, yet people still have this problem. >> we don't know

there is talk of the missouri game as there was an ohio gang with warren harding, people just sort of hangers on, small timers who are put into positions way above their abilities. you see the old new deal is being shut out of the cabinet, not just henry wallace who is fired by harry truman for being uprose stalinist really giving speeches against the german foreign policy, but you also have where with harry truman the country turns against the party and the leader, which brings us into war. if you don't believe me, ask either bush. asked lyndon johnson, woodrow wilson after world war one, what happens to the democratic party. what happens to winston churchill, a pretty good or leader in 1945. he is out the door. the readjustment means a lot of things to turn now. republicans take the house and the senate in 1946. harry truman keeps going up and down in the popularity. by the spring of 1947 -- 1948 he is down and the low 30's in terms of popularity. and it's not only a republican democrat thing going on, the democratic party is splitting three wace, not just two ways, not just you have some s