she was from new mexico, albuquerque.nded up living in new mexico together while she was doing research for her dissertation on addiction. she is a medical anthropologist at stanford university. we have some stanford people here representing tonight. so we went to another landscape, northern new mexico, which i had already seen. i had dinner a couple times as a tourist when i was younger. but we had all seen northern new mexico at nottingham represented artistically. whether it was a little postcard in a truck stop order judge john nichols or george oki or how many westerns, you know, have we seen that have these landscapes? >> it has a powerful drive. the official state nickname is land of enchantment. it carries a new age mysticism with it. and it is chloe and warm and fuzzy and obscures reality. ultimately, that is what "desert america" is about. how we imagine the desert or had has been imagined forest by the many desert imagery's that have been created for us. the stage upon which real estate is sold and hotels and s

>> steve: well, albuquerque, more like albakicky. three! >> jimmy: oh!applause ] ♪ you won the game, so you get the tacos, and you get to take them home, and you get to take them out of the box, and you get to make them for your friends that you invited to your house for your dinner that you made with your own two hands. [ cheers and applause ] of course, no one goes home empty handed. you guys will each be taking home these official "late night with jimmy fallon" black belts and a can of turtle wax. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and a can of turtle wax. there you go. so, you can wax your car, and you can let it dry, and you can take a rag, and you can wax it on again, and you can wax it off, and you can say, "wax on, wax off," because you like "the karate kid," and you identified with ralph macchio when you were 12, and that's why you tried to comb your hair the same way he did for your sixth grade photo. [ cheers and applause ] >> yes! woo! >> jimmy: thanks to everyone for playing karate pinata. stick around. we'll be right back with jason sudeikis. [ chee

from albuquerque in the south valley, and we ended up living in new mexico together while she was doing research for her dissertation on addiction, she's a medical anthropology at stanford university. shoutout to stanford. we have stanford people renting here tonight. so i followed angela on to another landscape northern new mexico, which i already seen. i had been there a couple of times as a tourist when i was younger. we have seen northern new mexico represented artisticallied a nauseam whether it's, you know, a little, you know, postcard in the car sell, the truck stop, georgia o- kef. how many westerns have we seen that have landscape of -- [inaudible] northern new mexico in particular has a very powerful draw in terms of the enchanted landscape, indeed that officials nickname of new mexico is land of enchantment. it carries a weigh of new age mysticism with it. and [inaudible] >> you knowy and warm and fuzzy and tends to on secure a complicated more reality. also that's what desert america is about. it's about how we imagine the desert or how the desert has been imagined for us by

. >>> this is from kotb 4 in albuquerque where one restaurant thinks you have to go hot or go home. owners of el pinto tried their hand at making the hottest salsa on the planet. their seek red ingredient, trinidad scorpion peppers, 1,000 times hotter than the average green chilli. we have warnd your taste buds. >> you won't have them. >> proceed at your own risk. you will burn them off. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> the stars of one mexican festival are full of hot air, literally. dozens of hot air balloons were launched into the sky to kick off the international balloon festival. balloons range in shape and color from teardrop designs to butterflies, even elvis made an appearance. the festival was started to boost tourism and has welcomed nearly 2 million people over the past decade. >>> well, in japan, a new school gives new meaning to teacher's pet. a former mascot has opened her doors to teach the art of costume and movement. each two-hour lesson costs about $26 and involves students suiting up in various an

many spots from vegas to los angeles to phoenix, even albuquerque. boise is 70 this time of year.e'll watch a weak system move into the northwest, light rain in the higher elevations. still very mild everywhere else. still feeling like the beginning of fall more than the middle, veronica. compared to the east coast, it looks like no problems voting in the west at all. >>> now for some entertainment news. "wreck-it ralph" took the first weekend of the holiday box office season with a $49 million debut. >>> actor john cusack has announced his production company is going to start shooting a film next year based on the life of outspoken conservative rush limbaugh. take a look at this rendition of my your michael bloomberg and his enthusiastic sign language interpreter. >> i'd also like to thank my staff with the special thanks to my sign language translator lydia, who brought some pizazz to what would otherwise have been a dour occasion. thank you, lydia, for your pizazz. i turn it over now to new jersey governor chris christie. >> hello. hello, i'm governor chris christie. this is my

mostly 70s across the south. 60s from salt lake city to albuquerque. >>> coming up, corporate profits. let's just say, lots of them were pretty good in the third quarter. >>> and we've got news about the hostess bankruptcy. that's coming up in your business news. >>> plus, uh-oh. a watery mess at a watering hole. the details on that bit of wet weirdness, still ahead. >>> welcome back, everybody. when the government released thursday's gdp report, there was a milestone number in there. u.s. corporate profits hit an all-time high between july and september, rising at an annual rate of 3.5%. the strength was driven by financial companies whose domestic profits rose by more than $71 billion during those three months. >>> potential buyers are lining up to try to acquire hostess brands, maker of twinkies, now that final moves to close the business has been approved in bankruptcy court. 18,000 workers are losing their jobs. but hostess did get court approval to give top executives bonuses, totalling almost $2 million. >>> it's back to the bargaining table today for negotiators trying to end

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albuquerque, new mexico's wage will rise to $10.350. the idea in san jose started with students in this professor's classroom. >> i think there's going to be an explosion of citywide minimum wage ordinances in 2015. we started getting calls today about how did you do it? >> reporter: the move will cost the city of san jose about $630,000 estimated for every year. and the minimum wage increase is expected to go into effect around march of next year, which is 90 days after the vote is certified. live in downtown san jose, maureen naylor, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> voter turn out statewide was significantly lower than four years ago. according to the secretary of state's office. 59% of voters in california went to the polls yesterday. in 2008, that number was above 70%. here in the bay area, just over half, or almost 55% of registered voters cast ballots yesterday. >>> the santa clara county registrar said it has almost a quarter million ballots to count. more than 35,000 provisional ballots. >>> stay with the 10:00 news. in 9 minutes, mitt

say we have airline that not only serves birmingham, houston, denver, and boise, but also albuquerquee between birmingham and boise is 2. we can now msure the dmeter of the network, which is the greatest distance between any two nodes. it's the greatest number of flights that you must take to get from one place to another. since memphis only connects to birmingham, the diameter of this flight network is 3. a diameter o3 means no more than two transfers. when edges go away, connectivity generally decreases. these statistics get at the large-scale structure of the network, but what about small-scale properties, the sort of "clumpiness" of the network? one way to measure these properties is to show, for any given node, what fraction of nodes in the graph it's connected to. another way is to ask, "what is the probability that it's connected to any other node?" a node connected to a large proportion of the graph is a hub, like an airline hub, which is on average connected directly to more cities than non-hubs. this is a sile notion of clustering, but there are more subtle notions inspired

albuquerque, new mexico's wage will rise to $10.350. the idea in san jose started with students in this professor's classroom. >> i think there's going to be an explosion of citywide minimum wage ordinances in 2015. we started getting calls today about how did you do it? >> reporter: the move will cost the city of san jose about $630,000 estimated for every year. and the minimum wage increase is expected to go into effect around march of next year, which is 90 days after the vote is certified. live in downtown san jose, maureen naylor, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> voter turn out statewide was significantly lower than four years ago. according to the secretary of state's office. 59% of voters in california went to the polls yesterday. in 2008, that number was above 70%. here in the bay area, just over half, or almost 55% of registered voters cast ballots yesterday. >>> the santa clara county registrar said it has almost a quarter million ballots to count. more than 35,000 provisional ballots. >>> stay with the 10:00 news. in 9 minutes, mitt

. >> caller: from the land of enchantment in albuquerque. >> love it. >> caller: jim, i'd like to know lsi. >> i think l system i is breaking good, not breaking bad. i think the company is doing quite well. however, it is technology, which is a disliked sector. lsi is doing well, though. let's go to roy in new jersey. my homestate. roy? >> caller: thanks for taking my call. do you agree with the deutsche bank analyst that is recommend epps i loan is the 30? >> i think the guy was saying how much lower can it go? i think exxon, that's how i interpret their statements. i would rather by in a company duke controversial saying things about the ceo, but i think epps i loan has not treated the shareholders right. michael in georgia, please. >> caller: hi, jim. i was wonders about nokia. >> here's why they're buying nokia, because they -- if that dog doesn't have as much fleas, maybe nokia is flea-less. here's my problem it can go to four, five, i neat a fundamental reason to own a stock, and i don't it with nokia. jim? >> caller: my stock is dupont. >> it was a terrific question by my old fr

mostly 50s in the midwest. 77 in phoenix and 57 in albuquerque. >>> it's time now for what is inevitablyavorite story of the day." it comes to us from logan, utah. >> that's right. that's where a bunch of guys collected more than 1,400 bags of leaves and then emptied them into a backyard. and then it was time to play. by jumping off the roof, yep, right into that pile. >> awesome. >> that looks fun. >> the pile was 17 feet high, big enough to keep everybody safe. they estimated the whole pile of leaves weighed about 20,000 pounds. pretty cool camera shots too. >> nice video work. >> don't try that at home. >> everyone as a kid loves doing that. even adults. jumping in piles of leaves. 'tis the season. look at that thing. >> you have to know what is in the piles of leaves. sometimes there can be some dangerous elements. >> oh, look at that. a little round-off. i give them 8.0 for the dismount. looks good. >> are they going to burn them now? >> yeah. i love the smell of burning leaves, though. don't you love that? >> i actually love the smell of a burning fireplace, mm-hmm. >> go on. >> th

mostly 70s across the south. 60s from salt lake city to albuquerque. >>> and warning, this next videobe difficult to watch. a strong man from the nation of georgia, yes, set out for a new world record by pulling a truck with his ear. the truck weighed more than 8 tons. >> good lord. somehow the team managed to attach a rope to his left ear without it falling off somehow, and he pulled that truck more than 70 feet. the guy said he trained two months, which topped his ear achievement in 2011, pulling a seven-on the military helicopter at the time. >> i'm just so disturbed by this. >> we all have dreams and hobbies. >> i can't. i just -- >> yes, it will be submitted to the guinness world record. not to mention the local chapter of mensa. >>> all right. coming up next, michael jordan's outrage at the country club, and it was not about his golf score. >> hmm. >>> and a new york police officer's act of kindness getting attention worldwide. what an inspiration for us all. you're watching "world news now." ♪ everything's right i said hey i put some new shoes on ♪ >> announcer: "world news now

albuquerque. 80 in phoenix and miami. >>> well, a holiday tradition kicks off here in new york tonightting of the rockefeller center christmas tree. first time i have been here to see it. i'm excited. >> a must do. >> a different take on tradition in southern california where the world's tallest lego christmas tree has been lit. >> the tree is more than 30 feet tall and it is made out of about 245,000 green, dublo bricks. "criminal mind" actor thomas gibson was the guest who flipped the switch at the big tree lighting ceremony. very cool. >> wow. put up our tree the other day. half the strands were burned out. >> that always happens. everyone loves the process. >>> all right. coming up, a splashy career move for anna nicole smith's 6-year-old daughter. >> and late eric what would do you with tonight's $500 million powerball jackpot? we're going to share your dreams. it's all coming of on "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by charmin ultra soft. charmin ultra-soft. you're not using too much are you, hon? ♪ nope. [ female announcer ] charmin ultra sof

what got me arrested was i drove a rental car and state troopers were looking at that from albuquerque to amarillo. they pulled me over right away. i wasn't speeding. i had 250 pounds of drugs. i am not in a rush. i was doing everything i could. i was white knuckle driving doing everything i could to keep the car in the middle of the road. every turn signal is used, every traffic while was obeid. they pull me over right away. the first time that i broke the pattern that they look for. now of course they look for everything because the drug trade is so profitable and lucrative, $30 billion trade that everyone using anything, grandparents using their rvs and people in their fishing boats when they go to the lake. anything because profits are enormous, so the cops are where to look for that now. >> hipolito, how about your mexican background in relation to being able to infiltrate these groups? >> it is extremely important and i have to understand as i was doing this kind of thing that it was what it was with somebody from mexico or central america by the drug cartel but it brought out al

drove a rental car in the state troopers were looking for rental cars on a freeway driving from albuquerque to amarillo and they just pulled me over right away. i wasn't speeding. of course a 250 pounds of drugs in the car. i'm not in a rush. i was doing everything i could. i was white knuckle driving, doing everything i could to keep the car straight in the middle of the road. every turn signal used, every traffic law obeyed in the second they saw was a rental car and a young kid, they pulled me over right away. he was the first time that a group the pattern that they looked for. and now of course they look for anything because the drug trade has become so profitable and lucrative. it's a $30 billion trade that anyone using anything, grandparents using rvs come to people in there as fishing boats and they go to the lake, doing anything because profits are enormous. so the cops are aware to look for that now. >> hipolito, how about your mexican background in relation to being able to infiltrate these groups? >> it was extremely important and yet i have to understand is that as soon as kind

big victor on his way home to albuquerque decided to take a shot. oh, my gosh.complete steak dinner with potato, salad, shrimp and a roll. when you think about it,... >> come on, bill. you can do it. >> reporter: victor got off to a fast start. i think i've hit the wall. the wall of meat. i stopped before it was too late. this is there for a reason. after two-and-a-half pounds, not too shabby. and victor came close but the clock ran out. in the 50 years since bobby and danny's father opened the big texan, about 55,000 have taken the challenge and about 8500 have won. is human record is an astounding eight minutes 52 seconds. the overall record, however, is held by this siberian tiger that was brought into the restaurant on a dog leash. this time 90 seconds. this mecca of meat has become an international draw, practically a must-see on a tour of america. >> when they come through the texas panhandle this is how they're seeing texas. if you go to hawaii you want to see a girl in a grass skirt. you come to the texas panhandle you want to see a cow boy on the horseb

. >> stephanie: robert in albuquerque you are on the "stephanie miller show."dible ] you have awakened a sleeping giant, essay, and we brought it home in california colorado new mexico, nevada and even florida. 2-1 non-cuban latinos voted for obama.% >> it was admiral yamamoto but i get your point. >> caller: [ inaudible ] >> stephanie: i would say mojitos for everyone. robert congratulations. >> caller: thank you. let's go to tony in miami. >> caller: hey, steph i'm one of though latinos who waited in long lines for a long time and did some monitoring for the obama campaign. and there was a lot of females with the look of oh, know you didn't, vote. >> stephanie: yeah. ♪ nah, nah, nah, nah ♪ >> stephanie: hi, floyd, welcome. >> caller: listen, i just wanted to talk about the rhetoric and the hate coming off of the other networks right now. i watched glen beck yesterday and he practically scared me away from the show. you have to know all of the information out there. >> stephanie: yeah and he was already a tad bit tightly wound before this whole thing, right? >

i was in albuquerque, new mexico, the emerson school. i went to a fifth great class.school that is totally turning around, people are working together, doing the common core, doing things that -- doing good strategies that are going to work -- that will probably work. fifth grade class. i said to kids, what do you want to learn. hands shot up. science. science? great. i'm like, what, all of you, science? anybody want to learn about the president, the election? why science? they hadn't had science ever. why? it's not on tests. even beforehand, it's not on the test. there was such a fixation about the test. this is stem education. meryl johnson in cleveland told me in cleveland, she actually just retired. great english teacher, cleveland, a place where we're trying to work together. the levy just passed. the austerity in cleveland, she has 55 kids. in each of her english classes. do the math. how do you differentiate instruction for each child with 55 kids. so the issue comes if we stop the blame game of parents and teachers. somebody can't do their job, they shouldn't

betty is calling from albuquerque, new mexico., and it's a wonderful morning. >> bill: isn't it? absolutely. i love it, i love it. >> caller: absolutely. i love what happened in my state, as well. >> bill: yes. >> caller: i called to say we should be giving out as much recognition as possible to nate silver, who singlele handedly has turned polling on its head. >> bill: you know what, i agree. we all said yesterday that the friends i was talking to, nate silver was either going to have to be a hero today or have egg on his face, and he called it, baby. he called it. when we finally add florida i think he had obama at 314. i forget what florida is, but he'll be like right on, yeah. >> caller: absolutely. thank you sir. >> bill: all right nate silver of course the 538 blog in the new york times, who was saying that president obama had 70% chance, 72% chance and the republican, he ended up with a 92% chance for president obama. republicans were beating the hell out of him saying he's a fraud, he doesn't know what he's talking about.

martin in albuquerque you're on "the stephanie miller show." welcome.>> caller: two things. i think you could use a few more fart jokes. but i do appreciate your look of shrillness. i find it refreshing. the reason i why i called -- >> stephanie: my lack of -- >> caller: you're not shrill enough. jump up and down and show everybody your hair on fire. if you want to compete with fox. but my concern was now that the upper end gerbils are essentially gone, what about the lower end gerbils? the local -- the gohmerts of the world. i think it would be -- i think it would be well advised to target these knuckleheads because 2014, allison is not going to go away. all of the -- adelson is not going to go away. they'll change their tactics. >> stephanie: no. we're moving -- what's the word i'm looking for chris? forward. we're moving forward. >> that's right. >> i don't know if adelson will shell out the big bucks again after having lost all of that money. >> stephanie: yeah. even a gambler is like all right, i'm out! getting up from the craps table. >> the chat

it's an adorable new addition at the albuquerque zoo. >> oh. >> a 3-week-old rhino calf has arrived atget accustomed to the staff and the three adult rhinos he will be living with. the big baby is being bottle-fed because he didn't bond with his mom, but don't worry, he can hold his own. he weighed a paltry 132 pounds at birth. god bless his mother. >> at birth? >> how much did she weigh? >> if you could see my face. 132 pounds. and he will grow to weigh over 2 tons. that's "pop news." >>> although, we do have our "pop news" quiz. a little food for thought. what did jessica biel just reveal on the red carpet about her husband, justin timberlake? was it, "a," that they're both taking time off work? she's going to sing on his new album? or that she hopes he'll direct her in something? we'll let you know after weather. >>> we have to get to sam. >>> what a great bunch! get outside. get outside in times square. and join us for the preholiday explosion here in times square. so exciting. tell me your names. >> julia. >> julia, where are you from? >> louisiana. >> louisiana. can you show ever

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. >> stephanie: love me some santa fe and albuquerque. >> it is gorgeous. austin. >> caller: austin. it was still tough though. >> stephanie: all right honey. [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] by the way, i was saying, human rights campaign. landslide victory for lgbt equality up and down the ballot. marriage wins at the ballot box. maine, maryland, minnesota and washington state is not in yet but it looks very good. >> yeah, apparently it looked like it was in last night but it's kind of close and provisional ballots need to be counted in all of that. >> stephanie: pro marriage equality president wins re-election. first openly gay senator tammy baldwin. great state of wisconsin. voters retain iowa justice. lgbt voters, the other story line oh, they're not happy with the president. enthusiasm blah, blah, blah. 77% of the lgbt vote for president obama. >> enthusiasm. >> stephanie: it turns out there was a lot. >> enthusiasm. >> which means there are about 30% who voted for romney? >> stephanie: i don't know. carol in pennsylvania. carol in pennsylvania. you're on

gary johnson is joining us from albuquerque, new mexico. good to see you.an governor of new mexico for two terms. ran as a libertarian for president this go around. you probably just heard the interview that we saw that wolf did with van jones, the democrat on the left, mary matalin on the right. and still some bitterness, some contention over this race. a divided country. how do these two parties, what do these two parties do to get something done and to put away some of the vitriol? >> well, how about the notion of coming together? romney, you know, not as conservative on dollars and cents as republicans would like. but when it comes to social agenda and i'm talking now about romney and republicans, i think for the most part, it scares people. and then democrats, you know what? they could be a lot better on civil liberties, and they could acknowledge that there have to be some cuts that really do have to take place. so it really is combining the best of both worlds. it's reflective. it needs to be reflective of the majority of americans which really are f

albuquerque. hi, jose. >> caller: hi steph what is it up?ephanie: wow. the president mentioned this in his speech. he said thank you for waiting in lines, and by the way we have got to do something about that next time. as inspiring as it was to see people standing in line six hours in florida. why are people standing in line for six hours. >> it should not be that hard. >> stephanie: by the way can you say that name again. >> caller: rio rancho. >> stephanie: can you -- [overlapping speakers] >> stephanie: say ruffles have ridges. it's hot. >> ruffles has ridges. >> stephanie: oh that was not a hot. but go ahead. >> caller: but susanna martinez and the secretary of state here you know what -- [ speaking spanish ] >> oh! >> stephanie: i -- i loved his accent is all i'm saying. was that a bad word? >> yes! [ buzzer ] >> stephanie: good for you for knowing spanish. >> the only spanish i know is from sesame street and the taco bell menu. >> i don't think that was is on the menu. >> no it's not. >> stephanie: gracias for saving my ass. linda --

will in albuquerque, go ahead. caller: i like what the president spoke about, but i got to get this off my head. boehner, what are you doing? c'mon, man. work with the president. you always want to say you are working with the present, but you are just spinning the wheels as a republican, and i honestly i did not understand that. we own a small business in albuquerque, and his thing about this to and $50,000 a year type thing, spending and losing jobs it for business is ridiculous, and i personally believe that if boehner does not get off his butt and start working with the democrats, he is making himself look like the gop is making him look like they are not doing anything. harry reid always says he wants to work with everybody, and these guys over here, mcconnell and boehner, they are just spinning their wheels. host: id you call that ridiculous, this statement on raising taxes on those earning 2 and 50,000 more? caller: i do not think it is on to affect us because if we are making money, we're gonna have to give

scattered showers south of albuquerque into el paso 80s, dallas, phoenix. mild in the 60s.stly 50s in the northeast. >>> and today is pardon day for one lucky turkey in the nation's capital. >> the president arrives back in d.c. from his southeast asia trip just in time to carry out one of the most important duties. and for the first time, ordinary americans are helping out, weighing in on the white house facebook page. the difference between cobbler, the other gobbler. one is pardoned, and the other is considered an alternate. >> both lucky. >> yeah. >>> we quickly move on to the next holiday. organizers are calling the biggest christmas tree auction in the world. >> it took place in central pennsylvania. 80,000 trees were up for grabs. priced from $8 to $25,000 each. bidders grabbed lots of 25 to 100. most will end up in tree lots all over the northeast. i love the smell of a freshly cut christmas tree. >> almost as good as the plastic ones. >> bah humbug. scrooge. >>> coming up, if you're hitting the road with little ones, a lit of helpful items you want to pack if you d

handyman business when i was a junior in college and for that business to employ over 1000 people in albuquerques amazing what can happen when you do what you say you will do and when you show up on time. it is just amazing. i sold that business in 1999. nobody lost their jobs, business is doing better than ever. as governor of new mexico, i ran completely outside the political system and got elected republican governor in a state that was two-one democrat and made a name for myself vetoing legislation. i may have vetoed more legislation than the other 49 governors in the country combined. i vetoed 750 bills, i have thousands of line item vetoes that made a difference when the kings to billions of dollars and made a difference when it came to laws that would told you or i. what we could or could not do in the bedroom. with regard to immigration, i think that is a hot-button issue. it highlights the differences between me and everybody else. let's start off with the premise that immigration is really a good thing. let's make it as easy as possible for somebody to want to come into this country an

host: that was jamal in albuquerque, new mexico. i want to show you more tweets.in "the new york times," they traveled with mitt romney throughout the campaign and here is their article in today's paper. "long quest for the presidency draws to a frustrating conclusion holding a press conference on his plane. "mitt romney's date began before yesterday in a tiny suburbs of generously sized homes that yielded so many of the idyllic images that crowd of his biographical campaign videos -- his brood of five sons tumbling across the couch, turning a garden hose lose on their unsuspecting father. after a breakfast of peanut butter and honey on toast, mr. romney and his wife, ann, arrived at the senior center, a polling place where a plaque on the wall describes the romney's as "diamond benefactors.' pro-obama signs shares space with a friendlier made once. seeing the name was quite a moment, he said later. 'we have been working at this for a long time and being on the ballot of the united states is very humbling.' from there, the almost- presidential mixed with the work