and first up in the over 25s, rachel potter. >> ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah i'm rachel potter.ars old, and i'm from nashville, tennessee. ever since i was probably about five years old, i have always dreamed of being a country singer. i moved to nashville from new york. now i am bartending because i have to be able to support myself while i go after this dream. [cheers and applause] my first audition-- i just went in with the attitude that if this is meant to be, it will be. ♪ can anybody find me >> rachel potter is my powerhouse vocalist. her vocal stylings are so unique. i love that about her. >> ♪ love [cheers and applause] >> where do i begin? you're just a beast. >> [laughs] thank you. there's a moment that it feels like your life has changed, and when that happened, when that moment happened in new york, it was like... wow. ♪ baby ♪ you must not know 'bout me ♪ you must not know 'bout me for the 4 chair challenge, i truly wasn't feeling very good, and honestly, i don't think i've ever felt pressure like that before. it was just, like, very overwhelming. [voice cracks] ♪ y

for years, it's been-- long, long, long before harry potter, i would go out and speak about the three "ss." it was sexuality, swearwords, and satan. and that's been true for a very long time. people would ban-- choose to ban books. satan's been there. the other issue, beyond the three "ss," i think, is an issue about-- well, sensitivity, a fourth-- in that your book raised concerns among african-american parents who thought it was stereotypical. we also see a book like huckleberry finn being banned because of the racial epithet. what's your take on that? oh, boy, what a mess we get into with all those. i have a final paper by one of my students in chico who loves this book nappy hair, telling how wonderful this book is and how could people love a book like huckleberry finn and teach that when there's a book like nappy hair to look at? and the very same sentences where he was saying he has the right to have this book, he's saying we shouldn't have the right for huckleberry finn. the "n" word can hurt so bad that there needs to be some-- a little bit of education before you get into it.

the honour coming with hope that potter will bring in more rev few for the service, and from harry pottero monty python. the troupe is reuniting. john cleese, eric idle, michael palin, terry jones and terry gill yam say they are putting together a new stage show. the details will be announced this week. . >> textures are close to feeing -- temperatures are close to freezing in new york city. they are close to going over. boston is at 33. the difference between 11:00 pm tonight and last night - there was a drop. temperatures dropped 16 degrees from what they were last night in new york. for boston, it's about 20 degrees colder there, feeling chilly in philadelphia. 18 degrees colder than last night. it will be the coldest situation until we get to the weekend. what is happening is another weather system is coming out of canada, similar to what brought the cold air to begin with. the air mass behind the cold front came from alaska. the system will make its way down, across the northern plains, bringing the cold air, the coldest that we have seen all even long. we'll see temperatures into th

from first book to final curtain call, "harry potter" took 14 years. a decade. so in some cases, actors are dedicating half their lives to a single story line. as are fans. >> people who are harry potter fans, by the end you saw people who were in college who felt they had grown up with harry potter and were maybe 12 when he was 12 and now are about 20 when he's 20. >> diehard or newbie, fan frenzy never gets old for film executives. all combined, harry, bella and others have earned movie studios more than $11 billion in their young lives. that doesn't include this weekend's bounty. so horror flicks, rom-comes, give it your best shot. for this game, victory favors the young. the first installment in the franchise earned more than $150 million in its opening weekend alone. that's the third largest opening of any movie in the u.s. >>> in 1983, michael jackson revolutionized music videos with his mini movie for the song "thriller." 30 years later, one hip-hop star has upped the ante. the new video for the song "happy" is not only 24 hours long but its inn

harry potter stamps that have 20 unique images from the eight movies of the boy wizard, friends and fantastic creatures. you can order them by the website or buy in person. >> now we know what to get mike for christmas. >> that is cool. good morning, everyone, here is a look at radar, broadening out to show you all of california and nevada and utah and arizona with the clouds from yesterday moving away with low clouds off the coast. they will stay that way. you can see the high clouds coming in from monterey and near 80 in sacramento, record high in tahoe is 64 today. temperatures are in the 80's, san diego 81, los angeles, 89, same in palm springs, check out the warmth in palm spring, above average. leyla gulen? >> we have a report of a solo vehicle spinout on highway 4. it looks like egg was running on time. however, this could start to slow traffic in the westbound direction along highway 4 coming up to bailey with slowing through antioch moving at top speed. headed along 680 from walnut creek to dublin is 14 minutes and 101 southbound from santa rosa to san francisco is 50 minut

looking for explanations, he examined the methods of modern potters.in the outskirts of the ancient city, in the neighborhood of san sebastian, a handful of potters still use ancient techniques. man: bueno, este viene siendo de... interpreter: i learned how to do pottery from my grandparents and from my great-grandparents. i watched how they worked. i started when i was very small. keach: oliverio hernandez-resendiz is one of the few remaining potters in san sebastian. he makes large pots that are used primarily for cooking. resendiz works with molds, enabling him to work quickly, while keeping the size and shape of the pots consistent. the use of molds explains why the remains found in tlajinga were so uniform. widmer: it tells us that we're dealing with a specialized production of ceramics -- not simply a whole range of ceramics for use in the compound. but, instead, what we're finding is they're making one or two types and making lots and lots of them. the thing about this ceramic production is it's basically simple -- you take clay, you make the sh

good job for them. >> i don't know if the ticket worker recognized the harry potter reference.ter and doesn't know about its existence. one or the other. >>> a lot of people have been talking about the late chris farley and how much they wish he could do a spoof on toronto mayor rob ford. that dream has come true for -- some. there's a mashup that has gone viral. chris farley. little snippets. you get the resemblance and you can see it. >> too bad chris farley isn't around. it would be amazing for him to a portrayal of rob ford. and yep, somebody on the web working on it. a strange way. >> you've got to wonder who's channeling who there. >> he is perfect for that role, isn't he? the physical comedy, everything. >>> talk about victoria beckham donating a mountain of designer shoes to help the victims of the philippines typhoon which is a great idea. she is giving fans the opportunity to do the same. that hit november 8th. her husband david beckham using their celebrity status and fashion connection. to raise money. >> look at all of those shoes. >> you see anything you like that

harry potter took 14 years. filming lord of the rings lasted more than a decade., actors are dedicating half their lives to a singing storyline. >> fan frenzy never gets old. harry and bella have earned more than $11 billion in their young lives. and that doesn't include this weekend's bounty. so give it your best shot. but, for this game, victory favors the young. jake tapper, cnn, washington. >> wow. that is something else. hey, well, tomorrow, some of hollywood's most famous artifacts picked out specifically by turner classic movies will hit the auction block. and the nautilis diver's helmet. >> does it look familiar? this? we dug it out of that box ourselves. so it's not the real falcon, but joining us with the real deal -- but doesn't it look like it? very impressive. there she is. you've got some of the other hollywood treasures right there in your grasp, catherine williamsson. good to see you. >> thank you so much. good to be here. >> this mall tees falcon, maybe not the real deal, but the one you have is going to fetch millions, isn't it? >> it is. you hav

he was developing something called draco, like the harry potter character, and apparently was able to look at the dna of any virus and create a queue or. they had shown that it worked i think 10 different completely unrelated viruses. and i apologize if it's poor form to ask about someone else's work but i've been scouring the internet for more news about it for two years, finding nothing. and i was wondering if you are familiar with it and if you had a few on it speak with no. i've not heard of it, which means it probably didn't really work. or you'd be able to find lots about it on the internet. >> for someone like me who has no background in biology and who is kind of maybe a little bit of natural paranoid about the dangers of synthetic biology, the future of downloading things, what reassuring words do you have to say -- [laughter] >> well, you know, and as i indicated not only in the book but in reality this is something we spend a lot of time and effort on. .. >> not just by the bush administration, but at the level of the white house to to decide whether the, our data should be

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los angeles times" and the author of the recent book "the new deal on modern history and wendell potterecutive with a new ebook coming out december 6th entitled "obama care what's in it for me." tell me what happened when you got her on the phone and started comparing the plan she had to what she could get? >> it was clear to me when i listened to her when i read about what she had said and looked at the clips that she wasn't telling the whole story and probably didn't understand herself what her options were. so i had her on the phone. i had covered california in our state's exchange app and she was surprised to learn this 400 some odd dollar a month plan she was pitched was not the best plan she could get. she could get a better plan than she had for much less money than she was paying because she had as many people who have had policies canceled have had, she had junk insurance. it didn't really cover very much. under obama care she was eligible -- first of all, she was eligible for $200 a month in income subsidies, premium subsidies and she could get a bronze plan far superior to th

potter, you first. how much of a setback is this? much of a win is this for the insurance industry? how damaging to obama care? your thoughts. >> first of all, ed, thank you so much for what you're doing and calling it like it is. i appreciate you and your work. it's so important. this had is i think a temporary setback. the president was hemmed by people of his own party who should have known better who as you said are more interested in getting re-elected than the best interests of their constituents. some of these are the same people who cost us the public option, ed. so it's regrettable. it's pretty disgusting to actually watch t to tell you the truth. but i think it's temporary. i think that some insurance companies will take the president up on this offer, because at the end of the day, this is about profits, and if they think they can continue to keep people in junk plans, they'll do it. until they can no longer do it. i think, though, if the administration and democrats can actually get their messaging right, they can convinc

website, but because it is too complicated and the legislation itself is longer than the a harry potterd it is a company -- is accompanied by 11,000 pages of regulations that modify and codify and amend that harry potter novel and i cannot possibly work. republicans now need to step up and say we need to fix a we can fix and in the meantime we are going to offer a solution so that americans can have access to quality and affordable health care. neil: we we now know from pools today that if the election were held today, mitt romney when. and i'm wondering, in your editorial in california, knowing what californians know, dooyou think that i would be talking to a senator right now? >> well, who knows. you can't go back in time. but it is true that timing is everything and i think that what people are finding out more and more into that the federal government is not competent at everything but some things. but the health care system is not all of them. this includes programs and solutions and the second thing they are learning is that words are cheap. what matters is reality and actions and

stamps. >> harry potter stamps.but since there a a little small, therere 20 in this, we'll show you five of them. are you ready? >> t first oneis, go! >> there's harry >> harryotter. and the second one -- whoo >> hmione. >> bring it on down, sister. and -- >> whoop >> that guy. >> oh, that's dumbledore. >> and -- whoo oh, that's voldemo. and -- whoop! >> hedwig. >>> we'rplaying a very speci "who knew." >> yes, we are. a very special -- > we're back with mo of "today" on thiwines day wednesday. we're ready to play ho knew," toy wor marking the niversary of the dut of the first stock ticker with some ll street trivia. >> we are? >> yes, we are. kathie lee is across the strt at the nbc expernce store, ready to hd out 100 bucks to those who got the aner right. to tse who don't, they g kathie lee cd. w lucky are they? anyway, hereo help m out is cnbc power lunch anchor tyler mythisen, who we suld disdisclose, hpens to be the sband of our senior producer, joanne lamarca as heeveals moments befo -- why is your wife scared?

i was easily persuaded, but this was about two years before "harry potter" and about a year before "lordo it was just making its come back. >> leading the group of 59 investors was universal pictures, a corporate sibling of the company that produces this broadcast. reportedly it took less than two years of sellouts to return investor money and the crowds have not stopped coming. >> this is cool. >> you see when you walk out here how increedably big this theater is, and how big the balcony is. >> this is an expensive show to produce. let's talk about that. flying monkeys, how do you keep making money on this show given the fact that it is expensive to produce? >> when you create a show, one of the first things you look at is how to marry the business side with the artistic side. in this instance, we needed to create a world, have it be big. in the end it's great storytelling. the business of it begins when the show opens. if you have a successful show, then you have the hard task of how do i keep it running every week? what happens if a hurricane comes to town? >> so you're grocing about

. >> the first united states postage stamp with images from harry potter movies go on sale with fiveion books of 20 first-class forever harry potter stamps that have 20 unique images from eight movies of the boy wizard. you can order the stamps from the post office website on buy them in person starting thursday. >> here is mike with the forecast. >> maybe he will fine us, we have the dancing lights of the bay bridge this morning as we look from our camera beyond the ferry building with a beautiful back drop at six to nine degrees warmer-than-average with san francisco two degrees warmer-than-average. the average is 65 to 66 the most homogenized we get in the bay area. we will be nearly 90 in los angeles and 81 in san diego and 80 in sacramento and record 61 in tahoe. safe travels. leyla gulen? >> a brand new accident in walnut creek traveling along southbound 680 up to main street and airbags have been deployed. so far it is not causing delays at nine minutes away from highway four to 24 but want out for that, it could cause delays. our tolls show traffic backing up away from the ma

. >> he's like a little skating harry potter. he's using an adult-sized keyboard.ight to that. his little legs have to kick it up to power it. >> he's already sponsored. >> at 5 years old, really? >> probably a good investment. we're watching the video. they got their money's worth already. >> dog loves the leaves. >> our youtuber friends are back with another episode of mythical morning. this is an episode dedicated entirely to broccoli. an ad agency in new york took on the task of advertising broccoli. this is in fact real. broccoli, not 43% less contentious than kale. broccoli, google it. now, because they were so moved by this pro bono work, they decided they should create some broccoli ads of their own. >> studies show that people who eat broccoli will live longer. so if you want to an old crotchedy person longer, eat broccoli. >> bake it in a cake, i don't care, just shut your pie hole and eat it jm! >> i don't know how you shut your eye pooi hole and eat it. >> it's dinner time. you need a side with vibe and street smarts. it's time to get your broccoli on.

postal service just released 20 harry potter themed stamps. yeah.r fans said, "yeah, i don't really need stamps because i mail things by owl." [ laughter and applause ] finally, good news. guys, there's a new study that found that eating nuts every day can actually help you live longer. you can read all about it in the scientific journal "that's what she said." [ applause ] we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, everybody, welcome. we have a great show. thank you for watching. thank you for being here. it's been so busy here for our show, because we're doing our show, but also we're getting ready to take the reigns of "the tonight show" in february. [ cheers and applause ] this is very exciting. yeah, we're getting so excited over here. we're building the studio and all that stuff. but also, on weekends, i'm traveling around to different affiliates and saying hi to different stations that air our program. so i was in chicago last week. this is wmaq, channel 5 in chicag

needs this me reply one horse institution only to have someplace people can come without crawling to potter. >> in it's a wonderful life, community banks still play a vital role in the nation's economy. providing loans to small businesses and farms and individuals whose needs and profiles don't always fit the rigid criteria of big banks. >> rural areas are especially important areas served by community banks, especially smaller community banks because those are the areas that large banks either don't want to serve or are pulling back from serving. >> typically defined as banks with less than $1 billion in assets community banks fared worse than their bigger counterparts during the financial crisis. of the 414 fdic banks that failed between january 2008 and december of 2011, 85% were community banks. the roughly 7,000 community banks that survived the crisis are now wrestly with its costly legacy the raft of new regulations crafted with big banks in mind that require big money and big manpower to implement. >> nothing but the truth so help you god. >> the problem was acknowledged by janet ye

this was two years before half harry potter and a year before lord of the rings. >> wicked cost $14 millionrm back in 2003. leading the group of 59 investors was universal pictures. it took less than two years of sell outs to return investor money and the crowds have not stopped coming. >> this is cool. >> when you see when you walk out here how incredibly big this theater is and how huge the balco balcony. >> it's 1800 people. >> 1809. we sell every ticket. >> this is expensive to produce. fly monkeys. how do you keep making money on this show given the fact it is expensive. >> you look at how the marry the business side with the artistic side. in this instance we needed to create a world. it had to be big. at ten of the day it's good story telling. if you have a successful show then you have the hard task of how do i keep it running every week. what happens if a hurricane comes. >> "wicked" bringing in nearly a million dollars a week. >> we almost regularly gross 1.7, 1.8 million a week. we have eight other companies doing equal amount of business. there's no time to run all the way back

for example, jim potter, who is the prime mover behind many of the microhow doing developments in seattle, said in an article in business journal that you know, amazon and google rent all of these hotels, people that they bring to the city, and he said i would like a small piece of that business, and he's talking about some of the big companies in town, amazon and google. and expanding in the region. so you know, there's a big problem with credibility here. the developers say that we're all about credibility and affordable. and not really. the apartments are only affordable for 12 years, under the law. >> dennis, our community is concerned about affordability: >> i'm into tiny house.com. and those needs are very different. for us, it was a need for durable temporary housing. we had a mortgage-free dream. and we wanted to build a mortgage-free tiny home instead. and our tiny house is the first step in realizing that dream. we have lived here for 2 and a half years, and counting, and we're currently building our bigger mortgage free home. >> a lot of people are happy with with it, so if you

. >> this town needs this one-horse up institution if only to keep people from having to crawl to potter>> embodying the spirit of the american underdog. from small towns to urban streets community banks play a vital role in the nation's economy, providing financial services and loans to small business, farms and individuals who don't fit the criteria of big difference the communities banks, especially smaller community banks, those are the areas that large banks either don't want to serve or are pulling back from serving. >> typically defined as banks with less than $1 billion in assets, community banks fared worse than their bigger counterparts during the financial crisis. of the 414 fdic insured banks that failed between january 2008 and december 2011, 85% were community banks. the roughly 7,000 community banks that survived the crisis are wrestling with this costly legacy, the wrath of new regulations crafted with big banks in mind that require big money and big manpower to implement. >> nothing but the truth so help you god. >> the problem was acknowledged by federal reserve nominee

harry potter will pop up on a stamp near you. the u.s.ostal service is releasing stamps in honour of the boy wizard and friends. it's hoped he'll help to boost the cash-strapped service. that will do it for al jazeera america, i'm stephanie sy. news at the top of every hour. thanks for watching, have a great evening. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." when a child is raised in a loving home with two loving parents, does gender matter in we'll hear from two raised by same-sex parents. >> all right, raj is bringing in all of your questions in the show. we have 600 lights on facebook right now. >> check out my page. this has set the record for the amount of community feedback.

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joining me now is wendell potter, a former head of communications at the insurance company aetna andr of "obama care, what's in it for me" what everybody needs to know about the obama care act. if you had to guess, there was no press inside the meeting between the president and health insurance executives. if you had to guess what was going on in the meeting, what would you say? >> i would say that the president was saying, look, guys, we have to work together. this law will help you in the long run. it will help keep you guys in business. so let's do something for at least those you serve for a little while. at least let's get through this next month. the problem is, of course, the president felt boxed in to do this because there was some members of his own party, particularly in the senate, but also in the house, who were caving and who were making it necessary for him to take this step. plus, his own administration was not doing such a keen job getting the website up and running. so unfortunately, the president had to do this. i'm sure he had to do it and did it very regretfully.

we have digitized everything from harry potter and the whole she bang. those are available for free. there are 500,000 books that are available for those. if they have to buy a commercial device that will speak to them, it talks a little bit like this. but it is a format that we can move these books to. investigation before the president's commission on the assassination of president kennedy pursuant to executive order 11130. executive order correcting commission reporting upon the facts relating to the assassination of the president and the death of the man charged with the assassination. so there's now an open library.org, the website to go and find these books. not only books for blind and dislexic but also books to borrow. there are 250,000 books only one at a time. we have 250 million of those available. it's very popular. we often don't have the newest books. we've got something on every subject. actually the whole internet archive is a bargain. it is $12 million a year. there are 150 people that work for the archive but the reason why it can be th

make sure that we have this wonderful neighborhood, what sweet auburn is to atlanta, that is what potterwas in new orleans. this generation work so hard to give us the opportunity to grow up with a great foundation. it is on us, the joshua generation, to bring it back. we reconstituted ourselves, put together our own corporation. we have a couple of dozen homes with solar and geothermal. we brought the neighborhood back. tavis: i want to ask you what a blessing it has been or how therapeutic -- you will fill in the blank -- to express your artistry in a series like "treÉe " that is based in your hometown. before i do that, every time i hear the story of joseph bartholomew when designing courses on which he could not play, as was the case in new orleans, i think of paul williams out in l.a. if you go to a paul williams home these days, you are all that. i was going to tell the story. i love it. it is a great story. for those who don't know the story of paul williams, whenever you fly into los angeles, that spider at the center of the airport, the revolving restaurant, he designed a spider

. >> you think of "transformers" and "harry potter" and "spider-man 3" and "pirates of the caribbean.big movie. the ratio is so imbalanced it's not even fair. that's the part that's disappointing about this business. television is the same way. >> we have to take advantage of the opportunity, maintain a standard of work. because that's what's changed. we expect more from ourselves as actors, as professionals. that's what made the difference. >> there is opportunity. i'm not going to say more opportunity. but there is opportunity for us. the door is open. only a select few are welcomed in. the rest of us have to kick the door down and make our presence known. >> chris rock and nea long raise some eyebrows and questions with their film exploration "good hair". >> it has an actual impact on african-american relationships between men and women. this cough. >> it's a hab it. >> it's a habit. it's like dating an addict [ male announcer itchy scalp, meet selsun science. you're history. selsun blue itchy dry scalp. gets to the root of dandruff and hydrates the scalp. selsun blue itchy dry sca

will be required to clean the highway at least three times a year but many activists like lorraine a potter plan on being outside the data center much more often armed with an anti n.s.a. picket sign they believe that it is their place. to take in harvest all of our information the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be secure from unreasonable search and seizure. r t four was born into a nationwide grassroots movement after whistleblower edward snowden revealed how the n.s.a. spies on its own citizens as well as foreigners world leaders and even the vatican we're never going to be able to reverse this if we don't speak up if we don't say something if we don't get people aware of what's being done so what's being done inside the utah data center according to reports the surveillance complex will be filled with servers routers and computer intelligence experts working to intercept capture and analyze vast quantities of the world's communication. or other after buildings back there the secrets inside the data center are heavily protected by fences the national guar

members will be required to be highly at least three times a year but many activists like the real potter plan on being outside the data center much more often armed with an anti nsa picket sign. they believe that it is their plates. to take in harness oliver information. the fourth amendment to the us constitution guarantees the right to be sick to work from unreasonable search and seizure the rt four was born into a nationwide grassroots movements. after a whistleblower adverts noting revealed how the nsa spying on its own citizens as well as foreigners world leaders and even the vatican were navigating its reverse this if we don't speak that we don't say something if we don't get people aware of what's being done. so what's being done inside the u type data center. according to reports the surveillance complex will be filled with servers routers and computer intelligence experts working to intercept capture and analyze vast quantities of the world's communication i direct your buildings but there's a secret inside the data center are heavily protected me and says the national guard and