we get to know the man behind the frog -- jim henson, creator of the muppets. >> scientists say these mice may be able to teach us a better way to lose weight. >> i'll tell you about one teen's amazing journey from water treatment to royal treatment. >> drunk drivers are not only dangerous to themselves, but to everyone on the road. >> join me at the big top, where some local visually impaired students will get the chance to feel the ringling bros. barnum & bailey circus. >> so, get ready. "teen kids news" starts right now. >> welcome to "teen kids news." i'm mwanzaa. >> and i'm siena. here's this week's top story. social networking -- speak to any kid, and they'll tell you it's as much a part of their daily routine as eating dinner. speak to anyone from law enforcement, and they'll tell you that it can be an invitation for trouble. the internet is a two-way window. it allows us to research school projects and keep up with our friends. but social-networking sites also let outsiders into our lives -- outsiders who may try to kidnap, hurt, and even kill kids. and those dangers are very

they are talking about a trade where the person on the other end of the trade referred to off its muppets and they will have cashed in and sitting on the beach and in their big house, big yacht, big bank account and everybody else as we saw in '08 gets the bill and 40% of their net worth in three years. it's very close to a second great depression in many respects and to prevent that we have to regulate them. >> the dodd frank law was signed almost two years ago now by obama and financial protection bureau and also the volcker rule prevents a few things more important done in recent history than passing financial reform. unfortunately, frankly it's an information campaign. and the last thing anybody would like to say, i'm sorry, for years you've made billions of dollars in bonuses but from now on you'll only make hundreds and millions in bonus. for most people they'd be happy with that. on wall street that view that as a crushing blow. they cannot possibly live on hundreds and hundreds and millions of dollars. they need the billion and massive and think about it, it two decades and that's

they look like muppets a little bit >> i always say that.uppets >> reporter: quick; what are smaller than lamb as, softer than sheep and cuter than all heck? why, alpacas, of course. you may know them as gloves, scvment carves and sweaters >> hey, pretty girl reporter: amber isaac knows them as a livelihood on her ranch in golden, colorado >> i bought my alpacas at the height of the market at the end of 2007. right after that the recession hit. everything tumbled >> reporter: and the alpaca bubble burst, sort of >> every bubble burst. and then at that point i was like, well, what do i do? i've just bought these alpacas. i thought, okay, things are low now. i'm going to use this time to grow my herd >> reporter: you bought more? i bought more alpacas reporter: as she told alpacas magazine in an exclusive interview she had been working back stage on broadway when she had a fateful encounter >> i saw my first alpaca literally stopped dead in my tracks and my heart started pounding. there was no question that this is is what i was going to do >>

we will do this big pageant is muppets and founding father wakes, erik estrada do this, all the stuff. and the fact that the suits of that era were like dang, that's a good idea, let's put that on air, right? says something about the culture. today we would not have that same sense of yes, every now and again this country did something like this that pulls together high and low, broad and narrow, all different ways of singing and making known the many voices that are hurt when someone tries to sing america. and to do it in ways that are beautiful, creative, and innovative. that is a charge that all of us have to take it that everybody here is an artist, but everybody here is capable of harming a convict everybody here knows the tune this land is your land to everybody here knows the tune america the beautiful. half of you here know how to great kind of mix tapes and all kinds of things with technology. nothing stops us from taking what was old and may be crusty and may be too wide and maybe restrictionist and maybe even racist, about some of our heritage in saying i reclaimed us. i re

this was the sexiest movie of the 1970s since "the muppet movie." >> you have seen the movie. >> i love the movie. >> it is a great film. it is one of the most suspensful films ever, and they should be proud of it. it is a beautifully shot film. >> have i a real connection with it. -- i have a real connection with it largely because you tell me i have a pretty mouth. everybody should celebrate their inner hillbilly as greg and i do about 4:00 every saturday in central park. join us this saturday. we will toss a coin as to who gets to squeal like a pig. >> is this richard quest? facts are facts. >> you know, i guess i should just move on. i have great "deliverance" facts. i read burt reynolds' auto-biography. in it the guys who played the hillbillies were stunt men. burt reynolds told them to bring their own clothes. they didn't know what to wear so they showed up dressed like that. that's amazing. remember the guy with the cutoffs and the clod hoppers? that is amazing to me. and a lot of the stuff in that baby scene was i'm improvised by the stunt men. the baby was disgusted and offende

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. >> you've called facebook muppet bait. >> it was muppet bait. >> we had a number of analysts coupleweighted 45. >> where's henry blodgeblodget? >> i think it's very healthy everyone has different popinion here. usually everyone's in a herd. >> choose a side, my friend. >> it's a great company. it's still expensive at 33. >> if you were putting a target on it, this could be a nice grower. i think the stock is probably in a multi-year peer like google started in 2007 where we're having multiple compression, which is it just goes up and down -- did the iphone do to -- >> surprisingly it did hurt. >> gm -- i think you guys wrote about it on "business insider" -- i'm a big fan, by the way. good work there. when it came out, it came out during "street signs," boy, this is a big story. >> two days before the ipo having a huge advertiser come out and say we're just stopping because they don't work, you couldn't have a worse outcome. >> what's their click rate? and they're probably half drunken mouse overs. >> they probably are. the early feedback on the mobile product is good. anecdotally.

. >> he sounds like the piano player in the muppets band. it is a great club.ver midwestern tour and now i'm back doing stand-up. it is awesome. john and i are in santa fe. >> yes. >> stephanie: when can you bring sexy liberal back to chicago? you made my mom pee her pants. [ applause ] >> more incontinenceness incontinence than your parents. >> nice thing about incontinence is hang on. it will eventually get there. >> stephanie: a lot of peeing reports. the big one coming up. next! >> announcer: in a world where everyone is going gaga for sexy liberal laughs, one tour is crossing the nation to bring intelligent, progressive comedy to you. nominated for touring awards including best tour, best new tour and best new comedy performer, the stephanie miller sexy liberal comedy tour is returning to los angeles! on saturday, july 28th, stephanie miller and her band of sexy liberal players will perform live at the pantages theatre in hollywood california. tickets are available online at ticketmaster.com. at all ticketmaster retail outlets or by calling. a proceeds of

he is so -- muppet. he must be good looking he is so confident. >> he looks like a muppet.l young clayton morses out there? what is the tip that you give kids that you have learned your struggles? >> that you know, breakups and failures, they are going to happen. you can't just -- if you dwell on them too long, it holds you back. >> oh, my picture. >> this is also another -- [ laughter ] >> who didn't have luck with the ladies. >> now, justin. >> this was right around the time justin where i went over to the neighbors house with the rose and asked her to the prom shelly if you are watching and she said. no. >> i can't imagine why. >> i might have worn that shirt. >> show a picture of his beautiful right -- beautiful wife because he has turned it around. >> one good nugget young kids can take away and learn how to be good with women if. >> if they are geex. >> first thing is to believe that you are worthy of being dated. i love self-deprecating people if it's too much. people are like oh god why am i dating you? you are such a loser. >> the book is i suck at girls. it is out

it was the most successful deployment of a muppet in the region since karzai.ess is cleared up soon. our pakistani puppet program is too important for national security. remember, that's how we found osama bin laden. first we asked the children, who are the people in your neighborhood? it turns out one of these things was not like the others. >> that was clever. >> what elmo know when e know it? >> it's almost 6:00 in the east. we want to talk about former president bill clinton apologizing for going off message on the obama campaign. will it faekt his relationship with the campaign or a bunch of hubaloo? we have the details coming up. is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ don't want you spilling that hot latte on my driver's seat. this is my car. who are you

the pentagon confirming what we have suspected for years that muppets are a secret weapon in the warone, aren't you? welcome back to "early start." >> kids who are watching that. >> by the way i have said for years this music has been torturing me. >> oh, it brings back good memories. >> i'm ashleigh banfield, nice to have you with us. >> i'm zoraida sambolin, it's 31 minutes past the hour. we were looking at this amazing video yesterday. we need to look at it again. an afternoon at the bar turns into a chaotic scene as a pickup truck plows through the wall, pinning the patrons in the bar, it happened when a 51-year-old woman had a diabetic reaction, losing control of her truck and driving into gordy's place, that is a bar in little canada, minnesota. it is tough to look at those pictures. yesterday, we were so worried about the folks who were there. jen cosack helped free the customers and bartender pat crzynski. the folks who were hit in that video, how are they doing this morning? >> for one we've heard most of them have been released now and the one lady we haven't heard from, th

muppets are getting suspected terrorist crack apparently. it's friday, june 1st.ow. ♪ >> if it's the dixie chicks, it must be will cain. love it or leave it. >> you can only buy little sodas in new york city. >> you can buy big sodas in lubbock. will cain is with us and abby huntsman and jeff toobin, cnn senior legal analyst joining us this morning. we're talking about john edwards. a likely off the legal hook after the jury acquitted him on one count of campaign finance fraud. they were hopelessly deadlocked on the five other counts and the judge declared a mistrial on those charges. prosecutors had accused edwards of using nearly a million dollars in illegal campaign contributions to keep his pregnant mistress under wraps during his presidential run. edwards addressed those allegations himself yesterday on his way out of court after the verdict was read. >> while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. and there is no one else responsible for my sins. >> the charges against e

you guys are like the old guys in the muppets except there is three of you.an sullivan. >> he's something. you know, brian, the kids and i. >> statler waldorf. they are laughing about this. he is laughing right here about it. all the kids down at the holiday inn this morning, they are only talking about one thing and one thing only. cypress. what can you tell us? >> you will give me a little business. all the other kids with the pumped up kicks. >> this kid knows everything. >> nobody cares about that. i want to throw this out and that's why i pitched this thing. you probably got that in her birken bag. it's nothing. if we asked for a bailout or needed a bailout, the same percentage of the economy, america would be asking for an $8.5 trillion bailout. that's how much of a state. >> you just give it to them. by the way, i know you have money because you air mac user. people using macs play 30% more for hotels. you are a mac user? here's a better room. >> they are targeting consumer who is pay more. >> you are the pervert. >> we love you deeply. >> next, the be

. >> muppet doctors. >> voters attempt to replace wisconsin governor scott walker.atest. john? >> we're finding when you combine a strong partisan agenda with a political environment, the results are combustible. president obama learned that in 2010 after pushing health care. scott walker is finding out today. he's pushed aggressively to curb the union power. >> it's not personal. we just have very different views of the world. i think the best way to move forward is to get government out of the way and put power back in the hands of the people. my opponent believes more government is the answer. >> that opponent is tom barrett of milwaukee, a mainstream democrat who lost to scott walker two years ago. he been badly outspent but insists he's making head way at the end. >> our tracking poll on thursday and fry showed there's a one vote difference. not one percentage point, one vote. the energy we feel on the ground, the number of people we have throughout the entire state leads us to be very, very optimistic. >> but look at these al rajs for real clear politics which

. >> the muppet is ashamed of being associated with it. >> stephanie: tea bagger ever look in the mirrorfter the hour. back with financial analyst ian millheiser on "the stephanie miller show." [ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ theme music ♪ ] >> stephanie: okay, here we go. [ ♪ theme ♪ ] >> stephanie: oh when you say go, does that mean start talking now? oops. here i am being completely prepared for hour number two. i'm no jacki schechner in terms of preparation. good morning, jacki schechner. >> radio thing getting in the way for you? >> a little bit. >> stephanie: we've got stuff to do. we've got ian millhiser coming up. supreme court stuff and much more and governor jesse ventura jim. >> jesse ventura with his book, democrats and republicans no more gangs in government. >> he doesn't show up, i'll do it. >> stephanie: in the meantime, here's tom brokaw to introduce jacki schechner. >> live from the news center plex plex, jacki schechner. live. >> stephanie: hi, jacki, good morning. >> made some history yesterday. for the first time ever, an openly transgender person has testified in front of congres

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