and it will be a nightmare. >> jimmy: here you are, with alfred hitchcock.a cartoon character or something. what was he like? >> well, he was -- when weep first came to hollywood. we got a lucky break. because we still had a chance to work with the legends. he is even bigger than a legend. he is -- the legends were bigger than life. you can't be bigger than life now in this business. but, he was bigger than life. no matter what. he was funny. he was a very huge man. people think well he was small. he stood backwards so much. if you measure, the height and tipped him forward. and he weighed 265 pounds. he was big. one funny thing that happened one day. the first day of the movie. of shooting family -- shooting family plot. at the end of the day. he said to the first assistant, oh, might i have a word with the crew. the first assistant said yeah. i decided the first day of the movie. i was going to put my chair next to him. wasn't going to miss ten weeks with this guy. we had a relationship. he started to get up. as he got up. his hips went between the arm of

she was the only actor ever to win an academy award in a film directed by alfred hitchcock.d a bitter rivalry with her sister and fellow actress olivia dehaviland. joan fontaine was 96 years old. >>> if you're headed to the post office today, best of luck. the company says who is going to ship and why workers say they don't mind the rush. [ ♪ ♪ ] c1 >> tori: u.s. stocks higher rebounding from their worst week in weeks as huge yields boosted out looks and the outlook rose for the alone the number will be about 3.7 million, it is a welcome increase for a postal system that has gone through severe financial problems. >> we'd like to see this tip throughout the year but we also know that this is our peak mailing period so we're doin' everything we can to attract those people that are shopping online. >> postal officials say you can get your first-class letters and cards to your destination by christmas if you mail them by friday. the last day for priority mail is monday. >>> today on ktvu channel 5 news continuing coverage on the developing news we brought you at the top of this

. >> joan fontaine, the only actress to win an oscar for a role in an alfred hitchcock film, has died at age 96. the british-american actress won best actress for her role in "suspicion." it was his american debut, "rebecca," that really made her a household name. >> because i put it there. >> joan fontaine was described by some as one of the last lading -- leading ladies of hollywood's golden era. she passed peacefully in her sleep on sunday morning. that is all we have time for right now. thank you for joining us here. remember, we will have more news at the top of the hour. >> you can check on our website any time. see you soon. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- back to the studio. the headlines. europe and the way forward. the eu foreign ministers will be meeting in brussels. in the ukraine, a compromise? german spacing life under a , and angelaion merkel prepares to be sworn in for the third time as chancellor, and israel retaliates with bullets. lebanese sniper fire.

she won that oscar starring alongside cary grant starring in an alfred hitchcock film, suspicion. she later appeared in "ryan's hope." and as panelist on "to tell the truth." she died yesterday. at her home in california. she was 96 years old. >>> time now for the weather across the nation. there will be snow from the upper midwest to the great lakes. northwest pennsylvania could pick up a foot of lake-effect snow. unusually quiet and dry in the west. >> honolulu, phoenix, miami, all in the mid to upper 70s. it's going to be seven, though, in anchorage. cool 40s in the northwest. teen and 20s in the northeast. >>> how about some holiday cheer from the first family front and center last night for an annual christmas tradition. >> the president was joined by the first lady and his daughters for the christmas in washington charity show to benefit a children's hospital. they had five helpers on hand for the 32nd annual concert and patients all dressed up as elves. >> malia and sasha were elves when they started there in washington. >>> well, an important story for women. the connectio

giant pass ago way this weekend, joan fontaine known for her award-winning roles in numerous alfred hitchcock thrillers. she died sunday at the age of 96. when she won an oscar for "significance" at 24, she was the youngest best actress winner of all time. and actor/writer/director tom loughlin of "billy jack" died sunday at the age of 82. he'll be remembered as a pioneer in the film industry. he was one of the first filmmakers to advertise on television. >>> a big cleanup in the northeast sunday after a weekend storm dumped more than a foot of snow in some parts. travelers were forced to deal with slippery roads and flight cancellations. bill karins is here. streets right now look okay, though. at least in snork city. new york city. not sure in other places, i'm sure. >> a lot of them cleaned all right. here's the deal. i can get us on a flight, we can be poolside in l.a. by noon, maybe jump back on a flight at 5:00, get a tan. >> a $2,000 round trip? >> 83 in l.a. not fair sometimes. let's talk about this forecast. yesterday it was still one of those coolish-type days in many areas of the w

. >> alfred hitchcock's "suspicion" in which joan fontaine played the timid newlywed whose husband might or might not have been trying to kill her. >> i don't understand men like you. always giving this feeling that you're laughing at me. >> her co-star was ker grant but it was joan who wons a on cass for her performance. she game a star a year before in "rebecca," another hitchcock fill billion another timid d.c. film about another timid wife. >> are you all right? >> right, you are. >> she flourished in the black and white hay day of the holiday melo drama. there was a touch of melo drama about her family life as well. her older sister was also a star and they weren't friends. joan on the right, olivia next to her. but she couldn't remember a single act of kind innocence their childhood. >> our family are all ac centric. my father was ac centric. my mother was a very positive and definite person and my sister and i are definite positive people. you put that together and you are bound to have differences of opinion. you just have to. we are not passive people in any way. what a deliciou

in "suspicion" alfred hitchcock cast her in a role of a timid wife opposite cary grant. also nominated. she appeared in more than 30 movies and dozens of stage productions. fontaine died at her home in mchlt carmel, california, on sunday. she was 96 years old. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," gayle king in south africa on nelson mandela's funeral. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." this is the "cbs morning news." [ female announcer ] now your most dazzling accessory can be your smile. colgate optic white dual action shines and whitens over 2 shades more than a leading whitening toothpaste. and whiten even more, with optic white mouthwash and the whole colgate optic white line. ♪ hark how the bells, sweet silver bells ♪ ♪ all seem to say throw care away ♪ ♪ from everywhere, filling the air ♪ [ female announcer ] chex party mix. easy 15-minute homemade recipes you just pop in a microwave. like caramel chocolate drizzles. happier holidays. chex party mix. morning's top stories.k at this south africa unveiled a giant statue of nelson mandela this morni

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. >> it make you think of the alfred hitchcock movie. this is a sign. i said, what ever.it is what it is. when the birds fell out of the sky, i thought, i better get the bible and read this. >> this was something to talk about today on friday the 13th. a day for the much-anticipated christmas parade. hatzel vela, abc 7 news. >> were still monitoring breaking news from colorado where a student gunman is dead after a shooting at a local high school. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. sign. then drive. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. hurry, this offer ends january 2nd. visit vwdealer.com today breaking news from outside of denver. one student is dead, and two .ore are wounded one of the injured students was shot after confronted the shooter. you thing the hospi

joan fontaine, she played in alfred hitchcock's "suspicion" alongside cary grant and starred in hitchcock'sch she won an academy award. she later appeared in "ryan's hope" and was a panelist on "to tell the truth." she died in her sleep at her home in california. she was 96 years old. >>> and when joan fontaine arrives at the pearly gates, she may find peter o'toole making himself at home. >> he played royalty especially well and passed away over the weekend. brandi hitt looks back at a lived large. >> reporter: it was "lawrence of arabia" that made peter o'toole an international superstar. the playwright nole howard said if he had been any prettier it would have been called "florence of arabia." he had those piercing blue eyes and talent to match. >> do you think i'm just anybody? do you? >> reporter: o'toole quickly proved he was not just anyone. on stage and screen, he was acting royalty. >> i warn you, there can be only one justice in this country, and that is the king's. >> reporter: he played tutor to the "last emperor" and a teacher in "good-bye, mr. chips." >> it won't rarely be goo

alfred hitchcock's first film, the first gentlemen prefer blondes. a 9-hour version of one film, it is unknown whether it was one of the great masterpieces of all time, or a self indulgent slog. it would be nice to see the kind of singles and bunts rather than humes to get a feel for what the era was like. >> yeah, and some cheeky films in there as well? >> yes, the cleopatra had an edgy dimension. i think we have lost the film that had one of the early nude scenes. probably people had a tendency to preserve the respectable films, and we have lost some of the darker side of american culture at that time. >> michael hogan good to talk to you. >>> just ahead here on this news hour, in sport we countdown to the final world cup draw in brazil, but one big issue is dominating the meeting. jo will be here with all of the details. ♪ >>> hello again sport in a moment, but first the former industrial region known as the rust belt the areas once thriving cities began to struggle l when manufacturing jobs began to disappear. people moved away, unemployment went

. >> alfred hitchcock and charlie championship lane, giants in cinema. they rose to fame in silent films but most of hollywood's earliest treasures are lost because of decay and neglect. [♪ music ] >> reporter: charlie championship lane, one of the greats of cinema, a pioneering entertainer. he rose to fame during the era of silent films. [♪ music ] a director, composer and actor, you is seen here in his sitting role, the enduring and enduring tramp. early motion pictures were caught silent because synchronized dialogue was not yet possible. the sound composed to capture the emotional swell of the scene was added during editing. but it laid the groundwork for cinematography. modern film as we know it, talkies were born and silent film effectively disappeared. the golden age lasted from 1912 to 1929. 11,000 movies were made. but only a quarter of them have survived in their entirety. a lot of them this lower quality than their original format. another 5% are incomplete. the rest an overwhelming 70% are deemed lost because so few frames exhibit. one of the

she's best known for roles in two alfred hitchcock classics, 1949 "rebecca" and 1940 film "suspicion. she said she was surprised and saddened by her sister's death. in 1941 she went head award. fontaine won that in "suspicion." >> still think my way is best. >> i'll be late. anyway, if my father saw me in late he might have a stroke. s". s". what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night before it even starts? what if i eat the wrong thing? what if? what if i suddenly have to go? what if? but what if the most important question is the one you're not asking? what if the underlying cause of your symptoms is damaging inflammation? for help getting the answers you need, talk to your doctor and visit crohnsandcolitisadvocates.com to connect with a patient advocate from abbvie for one-to-one support and education. adt can help you turn on a few lights... ♪ ...bring family in from the cold... ♪ ...even let you know when an old friend has arrived. ♪ now get adt's best holiday offer. adt. always there. >>> which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours. chris, there is stil

he was the only actor to win an academy award in a movie directed by alfred hitchcock. >>> previouslyords for so- called long gun purchases were destroyed within five days. dealers will need to register purchases with the state. some gun owners have criticized the new saw saying it targets people who purchase their guns legally but does nothing to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals. >>> there is a new study that says california is not collecting all the fines it ohm poses on assist the living homes. they ordered those facilities to pay almost $3 million since july of 2007. but the report says its only collected about half that amount. state officials say many times the operators shut down and they move away before they can collect the fines that are owed. >>> contractors putting the finishing touches on a remodel of a state of the art center. it will be operated by children's hospital at stanford. that new location in capitola is meant to make things easier for patients in santa cruz county so they can get good care without having to travel all the way to palo alto. >>> 5:48

unlike that alfred hitchcock joke, very topical."c. [ as mccartney ] "i am, i am. [ laughter ] i was the sarcastic one." this is just a crazy story. police in california are trying to find the owner of a boat that crashed into a nude beach last week, while carrying 80 pounds of marijuana. [ laughter ] not good. i mean, the last thing you want to see at a nude beach is a bunch of fatties. [ laughter ] bad choice, bad choice. [ cheers and applause ] what do you think i was talking about? >> steve: i thought you were being -- >> jimmy: no, no, no. >> steve: i thought you were being blunt? >> jimmy: joint. >> steve: i thought you were being blunt. >> jimmy: no. [ laughter ] no. i did not. >> steve: no. >> jimmy: no. but, police are looking for the owner of that boat, crashed into a nude beach with 80 pounds of weed. officials describe the suspect as matthew mcconaughey. [ laughter and applause ] i knew it. he knows he did it. >> steve: he knows he did it. [ as mcconaughey ] >> jimmy: "all right, all right, all right." [ applause ] paradi

she starred in two of alfred hitchcock's films, including his adaptation of daphne du maurier's gothicel "rebecca". fontaine was 96 years old. and peter o'toole, known best for his role in "lawrence of arabia," also died this weekend after a long illness. he was 81. >> ifill: still to come on the "newshour": the legality of n.s.a. surveillance; a time of transition at the federal reserve; the challenge of reducing gun violence; questions over the effectiveness of anti-bacterial soap; syrian refugees in one of europe's poorest countries and a new look at the storied life of music legend johnny cash. >> woodruff: in the first legal setback for the national security agency since the disclosures by edward snowden-- a federal judge ruled today that its phone metadata collection program is likely unconstitutional. u.s. district court judge richard leon found that the program appeared to breach the fourth amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures and, that the justice department failed to show that the mass collection helped stop terrorist attacks. in a statement edward snow

soon he was working with legendary directors like alfred hitchcock. >> remember when we were kids?ford just to name a soon. >> i understand that you're an oxford man. >> not exactly. >> dern was definitely getting noticed. but still wasn't getting top billing. as all of your contemporaries were doing these big movies and getting lead roles you said you were never jealous, you were just worried about when your time was going to come. >> i was worried if my time would ever come where i would get a chancea shot at those kind of roles. and then came "coming home." >> what are you saying that you're not going to make the effort? >> what i'm saying is -- i do not belong in this house. >> his role at returning vietnam vet opposite jane fonda earned him an oscar nomination. yet something still didn't feel right. >> the difficulty for me was, i started getting a lot of congratulations. for the performance and the movie. and i never served myself. i felt bad about the fact that i hadn't done that and i was being somebody who haddon that. >> one, two, three. >> the buzz surrounding his curren

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graduated from was bottles high-school bread she won an academy award for her performance and alfred hitchcock's suspicion of. she is the sister of olivia de haviland , fontaine was 96 years old. >> at the movies this weekend. the hobbit the desolation of a smaug was number one, it rained in $73.7 million spread the more we are earn. the movie frod 22.2 in its third weekend, bringing its overall ticket total to 164.4 million. the no. 3 spot this weekend was killed by tyler perry, a madea christmas with a $16.2 million. >> good morning the the top stories that we are following, there are evacuate chance at a terminal due to a water main break. >> we are waiting for a report to be released about last year's fire at the chevron refinery. >> we're following breaking news out of harvard university. explosives may have been placed on campus. this includes the science center. you are looking at live pictures of the campus. university police are on the scene. there are no explosives found so far. this is also finals on weak ad harvard. >> we will have new details coming up. >> we want to give you an upd

the alfred hitchcock. >> she won a oscar for suspicion. and see my favorite year.as a fabulous fun ending and he plays errol flynn. >> it is one of your favorites. >> you listen to me. >> somebody has to. [ laughter ] >> my favorite year. and of course the lion in winter. and katherine hepburn said one hell of an actor. and he was so beautiful to look at it should have been called florence of arabia. >> they were see blue. >> we lost these good actors they live throughout the film. >> great ones that you pointed out. >> we'll be back. so you made some bad decisions last night. make a good one this morning. get two biscuit sandwiches, with your choice of country grilled sausage, egg, and cheese, or bacon, egg, and cheese, both on my new southern style biscuits. you'll save some cash 'cause right now they're two for just three bucks. c'mon cody... let's get some breakfast. you drive. i traded the car for the tattoo. check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that frankli

she was a hollywood starlet winning an oscar for the alfred hitchcock film "suspicious" and director tom laughlin passed arabia way. he was 82-years-old. >>> big news, if you have beeniching for more "av tar" james cameron says there will be not one, not two, but three sequels. he is hoping to have the first one in theaters by this time in 2016, which would make eight truly blue christmas. the original" avtar" the highest grossing movie ever nearly $3 billion worldwide. >> the technology and how they pulled it off was amazing. >> it was outstanding. now have you three more se questions. >> the story line becked it. it should be easy. >> i think so. >> the ending left it opened. >> a cap for success. >> you would think $3 billion. >> many of you heading out to work this morning, need to dick out your cars, first, unfortunately, a big storm crept for the atlantic. it kept many shoppers home. cnn is in a frosty massachusetts this morning with the very latest. good morning, am alexander. >> good morning. it is a cold morning here just outside of boston. kate, we are feeling that arctic c

. >> she won the academy award for the alfred hitchcock thriller. she was the sister of olivia de havilland. >> let's see what tamron is doing. other than mourning the dallas cowboys. >> thanks for bringing it up again. >> we heard of random acts of kindness or pay it forward. there's something else on the internet that captivated the attention of so many people. it's on instagram. it's called tips for jesus. let me explain here. around the world, someone has been giving out huge tips. i'm not talking a couple of hundred dollars. this tip was $5,000 in connecticut. this is all anonymous. this tip popped up recently in mexico, another $5,000 tip on a $577 bill at this restaurant. so there's multiple ones. it's gone on for about three months. in total tens of thousands of dollars given out on this account and guys no one knows who it is. there's one suspicion that's out there. it could be this guy. he's the executive for paypal. jack shell shell by. he has not confirmed or denied but he did send out a story on his facebook page about these tips. what