. >> you see adele holding her laptop but sadly not much info out there. have been blessed with a new track from grammy award-winning crooner michael bolton. he partnered with american greetings for a personalized e-card. you can purchase it for your friends in case posting a simple happy birthday on their facebook page isn't enough. hit it, michael. ♪ ♪ it's amazing happy birthday ♪ unbelievable? ♪ the very best day of the year ♪ you are the finest woman today ♪ and now it's your time -- >> bolton experienced a career renaissance of late poking fun at himself. >> so much of this with the "snl" guys and he kind of keeps the schtick going now. he has a great career in commercials but making fun of himself. >>> celebrity birthdays. who do we have kicking us off. kicking us off, anita pointer of the pointer sisters turns 67. >> captain sully, sully sullenberger is what he is known as heroic pilot of the miracle on the hudson turned 64. >>> "law and order" sex crime detective olivia benson, mariska hargitay turns 51. "saved by the bell's" tiffani thiessen 31.

no one here has a normal life, including vivian's older sister, 4-year-old adele. >> every day on the way home from school, she's like, can we stop at the park? and i'm like, we can't stop at the park because vivian's nurse leaves at 5:00 and we have to be home. >> what would adele say about that? >> she'll say we can't -- when we pass the park, she says those kids are at the park but we can't go to the park because vivian has seizures, and it kills you. >> new york university dr. davinski is vivian's doctor. he's also one of the world's leading epilepsy experts. >> western medicine has failed their children. >> but the wilsons now found themselves in the political crossfire of pot. marijuana was legalized for medicinal use here in new jersey right before chris christie took office in january of 2010. it was done by his democratic predecessor. but once in office, he blocked the legislation for more than a year. he eventually signed one of the strictest, most limiting medical marijuana bills to date. just six approved stores in the entire state, and perhaps most damaging for vivian, no

. >> oh finist guy i've ever met is al adels he's today's al adels. top of the line all the way. >> good to hear. thank you. >> you would want your daughter to date him if he wasn't married. >> and thank you for joining us. more tomorrow on that shooting in san francisco. how you doing? phil dunphy. what do i have to do to get you to ask, "what do i have to do to get you into this car today?" well, why don't we start with a test-drive? i'll get the keys. sounds good. right where i want him. come here. come look at this. this thing warns you if you deviate from your lane. in my car, that's my wife. "andre, if you try to kill me, i swear i will kill you!" well, i guess this is what i'll be driving for the next 39 months. this is my dna talking but you do not seem sufficiently excited about the prospect of driving a new cadillac. no, it's great. i've just leased the same thing forever. part of me wants to shake things up. i don't know. get something like... like that.

in official word from the either super tar but lady gaga did show herself working on music and adele's sophomore a album is slated for this year. she has been quiet since she has had a baby. >> i miss her. >> i do too, her voice. >>> so, the piano man is returning to philadelphia this summer for a a concert at citizens bank park. billy joel will perform at the ballpark thursday august 13th, this is his fourth concert there joel perform at citizens bank last sum inner front of the sold out crowd. tickets go on sale january january 20th. >>> so, a lot of people go to extreme lengths to look like their favorite stars, right. even go under the knife to do this. >> request to look like celebrities is only rising. so some surgeons saw 13 percent increase in requests for celebrity inspired procedures and accord together american academy of facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, such a long name, doctors say, what is alarming in some cases is that some people are using beauty of the celebrity to gain success, and also say that people are often trying to mimic what is fake being photo shopp

. >> i don't know the words to adele but i like to listen to her. >> they deserve every advantage so i just started shelling out whatever we needed and i asked myself this question out of compassion if it was my kid how would i treat that child? >> all together. >> tim says he has been too busy organizing all the gear to stop and count how much he spent. he guesses it's between 50 and $100,000. >> there's your e minor good. >> all on a musicians pension and a middle schoolteacher's salary. >> that's the kind of advantage every one of these kids needs and they haven't do that so if i can provide it i want to. >> believe it or not tim is not done buying equipment for his students. he recently purchased 80 electronic drum kits costing about $15,000. garvin thomas nbc bay area news. >> hats off to tim. what a remarkable teacher. checking in now with rob. nice to see somebody so passionate about his job. >> absolutely and impacting so many lives the way he does that's wonderful to see. many of those stories on bay area proud you can check it out on nbc bay area.com. you can see now hazy s

. >> i don't know the words to adele but i like to listen to her. >> reporter: they deserve every advantageso i just start shelling out whatever we needed and asked myself this question out of compassion. if it was my kid how would i treat that child? >> all together! >> reporter: tim says he has been too busy organizing all the gear to stop and count how much he spent. he guesses it's between $50,000 and $100,000. all on a musician's pension and a middle schoolteacher's salary. >> that's the kind of advantage every one of these kids needs. and they don't have that. and so if i can provide it, i want to. >> reporter: believe it or not, tim is not done buying equipment for his students. he recently purchased 80 electronic drum kits costing about $15,000. >>> these people are fortunate they survived the polar bear plunge. san francisco's annual swim from alcatraz takes it to a new level. participants dove into the water from the island and raced about a mile and a half to shore. 130 swimmers took part this year battling 40-degree weather and gusty winds. >> happy new year! >> why are you doin

>> travolta paid her to get him off the hook for the whole adele thing. >> we needed something else. an honest mwas she trying to say something? >> she did it on purpose. everybody calls him dick poop onset. she just was like i'm gonna let the world know. >> as she should. andy, i think you are the only one who has seen most of these films. how are things going? are you happy? >> first of all, it is important to say that. we have no idea why selma got two nominations. anyone who claims to know is lying to you. people can guess, but that's it. we will never know why it only got two nominations. the academy doesn't release the info. it didn't go out to the guild and that had a lot to do with it. i think the director should have gotten nominated over fox catchers. it was bad. i mean it was meed yoater. mediocre. the nose should have been thom nateed. he is british. >> he is british. >> every year there is an oscar controversy. who didn't get nominated? who did? >> the -- they are not racist. >> my father is one of those men. >> "12 years a slave" won best picture and other awards if you

. >> i don't know the words to adele but i sure like to listen to her. ♪ >> they deserve every advantagei just started to shell out everything we needed and i asked myself out of not discipline but compassion, if it was my kid, how would i treat that child? >> reporter: tim said he's been too busy organizing all the gear to count how much he spent. he guesses it's between $50,000 and 100,000, all on a musician's pension and a middle school teacher's salary. >> that's the kind of advantage every one of these kids need and they don't have that. so if i can provide it, i want to. >> reporter: believe it aren't, tim is not done buying equipment for his students. he recently purchased 80 electron being dr-- electronic drum kits costing about $18,000. >> what's the story on our microclimate forecast? hmm, a lot of people sleeping in on this new year's day? you can count the cars on this live look at the golden gate bridge. a lot people have the day off, celebrating ringing in 2015. >> i'm sure there's not more traction there because so many people came to town just for new year's eve. this is

. >> can i go to adele. >> i want to know about ndrm. >> that one escapes my pen.e to come back on that one. don't know the answer. >> how about corey in new york? >> jim, what's up? you are the man. >> thank you. >> what do you think about glw? like long term? >> long term it's fine. i worry short term when i saw san disk. i know corning is not san disk. i worry about component companies. long term i think you are absolutely terrific. can i go to sean in wisconsin. >> caller: thank you for helping us stay the course when things were so crazy a few weeks ago. >> i appreciate it. >> caller: zillow it lost value and now it is trading side ways. what do you think about it? >> it does look like for the moment that it has peaked out. i want to speak to the ceo. it made that deal. it made a good deal and paid a lot of money. now it is kind of resting. i'm not going to push it right here. i just can't push it right here. let's go to mark in florida. mark? >> yes, sir. >> you are up. >> caller: got a question for you regarding bp buy, sell hold or short. >> you have to pay

adele? >> i am adele morris the policy director for climate and energy project here at brookings. my question is about the scoring of a bill that's got a lot of complicated elements in it that are not simply just fiscal policy or tax policy. so for example, let's suppose we had a bill that imposed an excise tax on carbon content and fossil fuels for example, and some of that revenue buys down business tax rates, for example, so you've got the kind of question of how you're going to dynamically score a tax swap maybe with additional elements in there. but then what if also, there's a regulatory reform in there that says we're going to suspend clean air act regulations on stationary sources? how do you or do you deal with that and also, in that context would there be a change in how cbo would score an excise tax because they have the standard 25% haircut on the gross revenues of excise taxes? would the dynamic score change that? >> all right. let's get an answer to that. >> i would hate to be confronted with that issue but excise taxes do have allocation effects and labor. an excise

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earlier, he and his neighbors were stuck on the big icy hill in adele my. >> i helped some other people -- you still couldn't get out of -- you could go that way, that way. there was no way to really get past the neighborhood. >> reporter: we're going to be tracking road conditions as well as any school cancellations and delays this evening as well as tomorrow morning. and you can keep track as well by downloading the nbc washington app, and you'll get those alerts right here on your phone. reporting live from university park darcy spencer news4. >> darcy, thank you. >>> with this first big snowfall of the season we have seen some pretty creative head wear across our region. so for his first competition of 2015 pat collins asked all of us to show off their best snow hats. pat's live at his partible snow office in northwest d.c. pat, what's the good word? >> reporter: doreen show me your hat. first, snow. first part of the year. first snow stick challenge. the search today for the best snow hat. what have you got? >> we've got 4 inches. >> 3.5. >> 3, maybe. >> reporter: as we were out an

a state roger adele was take roger could del. goodell..> pam: yes he is no drawn up when it comes to his news services. no drama. >> gary: i understand why you can't say anything but hey but we're not gonna have that little press conference and take a pass. >> gary: the warriors against utah jazz. the kings zone when he is penalized he is picked to replace coal bryant oakland's dave miller is still the odd man out iran is been entered. durant injured... >> gary: tiger woods worst round as a professional today. my glove the waste management he shot 82 he missed the cut the fish 132 out of 132 golfers. wasn't in the marchand joe coming after his war trying is horrible round the marchand juppe joke.. >>: tiger woods spaking under the assault don't get find i'm is doing this so that i don't get find fined... >> reporter: wide you defend a bomb like lynch. why did you defend lynch >> gary: is so easy to say who would you help. all i know is what i've been told about this guy. unless you know somebody's background and you know what people have o

even our military, is lawyer-adeled, lawyer-ridden and worried about offending our enemies.t samuel huntington called a clash of sillizations because there is no civilization on the other side. we it is our job to defend civilization against barbarians. again, this will be a headline story. everybody will say how terrible it was. we'll be sad for those brave journalists and we are not going to stand up. we in the journalism world are not going to stand up against fanatical islam. we're not going to do it. we don't have the guts. bill: ralph, it appears the white house changed its language within an hour and initially calling it a terrible act of violence. josh earnest 30 minutes ago talked about the act of terrorism. the president put out a statement about the terrorist act and talked about fight against terrorists. so then is this a case where the white house perhaps has gotten right now? >> no. because it has to say islamist terror. this administration is just soft on radical islam. it is just stunning to me. i mean, look the problem again we've said it forever the problem

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the moment drew a lot of comparisons to john travolta's adele dazeem moment at last year's oscars.and, in fact, in a "pop news" scientific investigation, we discovered there is a name for this phenomenon when you're trying so hard not to say something wrong that it's exactly what you say, it's called recall bias, so we feel you, cheryl boone isaacs. >> sure. >> president obama first came up and the obama/osama thing. >> oh, yes. >> the irony in this, in this category, if you see the list of the other nominees, i believe we have it, they are so difficult to say, the easiest name on the list was dick pope. i mean, the other ones were -- you should see their names. >> oh, my gosh. >> it's just consonants and so, of course, inevitably that's what happened. >>> and finally in poop news -- oops, i mean "pop news," there's words that make us giggle and then there's everyday words that make us cringe. our senior broadcast producer denise knows that all too well. there she is. and, you know, denise and i have been keeping a list of these words, and last night at her going away party we shar

adels that they call defiance recystance and entrenchment. they understood their relationship to outsiders of one of colonization and the temples seemed to mark a line in the great bassin sand. what emerges from the cycle of secret keeping and expose is a cultural script an american political ritual that has continued unabated to our time. time permits consideration of some of the most memorable iterations but only in brief. 1890: as the 1880s' anti-polygamy crusade wreaked havoc, accommodations were made to put off the seemingly inevitable with 1300 mormons imprisoned, many more disenfranchised and church property in federal hands, they hoped for a workable middle way. only when back-channel communications warned that the temples, too would be subject to federal seizure did the great accomodation come. the u.s. secretary of interior sent word in august of 1890 that he would not abide the earlier gentlemens' agreement sparing the lds temple and the church president's famed polygamy manifesto came days not weeks later. even polygamy which morm

me up inside wake me up inside ♪ ♪ call my name and save me from myself ♪ for me it's anything by adelleough. >> do those two songs make you happy? >> no, no you have to take the sadness and push it deeper down. >> so when it's -- >> it's not cathartic. >> don't wall low in your sadness. ignore it. >> move forward. i believe that, i'm not kidding. >> albert on facebook says his favorite sad song "the sound of silence" by simon and garfunkel. ♪ my old friend i've come to talk with you again ♪ >> that's terribly marose. >> how about this one, scott on facebook says the thompson twins, hold me now. ♪ hold me now warm my heart ♪ ♪ stay with me ♪ >> it's like a video game. >> 1987 again. >> chuck on facebook says "stay with me" by sam smith. >> oh yeah. ♪ won't you stay with me because you're all i need ♪ >> absolutely. the top 80 sad songs of all time today have been announced. >> why would you? >> since you're watching i want to be best friends so -- >> unbelievable. >> we're going to make it up to you. the rest of this show is going to be so upbeat and optimistic and cheerful. we're sorry.