there is in the world. >> bacon go was bacon as far as i'm concerned. >> i like bacon wrapped with bacon. >> yes. >> this is a cool pouch there. there is a clear pouch. here is what you get. do you know what that is for? >> cleaning your ipad, glasses and on the other side that is a micro fiber and you get your fingerprints off everything. then, another side you buff it out. that is silk. >> yes. >> and there is that kind of stuff. >> how do we get this? >> i'll tell you. you can call or you can log on to abc 7 news.com. if you go to my blog there you'll find two additional finney friday free stuff for the holidays, then, christmas day, free battery autos what? like is like gold. >> never have enough batteries on christmas. >> thank you. good stuff. >> and who knew jant lives in northern california? >> maybe not the original, but he's helping make a holiday wish come true, next. f >>> coming up police say this man practiced med swin out a license and that is not all. >> watch out. if it happens to meesh kit happen to you. >> the phone call that this woman receive that had cost her thousa

bacon flavored pancake mix and even bacon flavored coffee. >> and what kind of money are you talking about? >> you're starting at around $20 to $50 a month depending on the packaging. >> so you could get at tleeft two or three months out of it for under $100. wine is huge, always has been. and it's kind of even coming back bigger this year. >> absolutely. i saw ra geenl na, she said the growth is 14% over the year. there's a lot of great value to be found in that. take a producer like oriel. these guys are out on the west coast. you can get a mixed package of these whines. they'll give you about a 50 pishs of a discount if you go for, say, a half case. lots of great value. >> you talk about finding a gift to some of these gifts. >> yes. think outside the box. guys, when they shop, they buy things that they nationwide. you want to buy them something that they don't know they need. how about sports? why not get him a lesson from his favorite player. >> that has to kocht more than $ 00. >> you can get a pga tour pro to come and teach him how to

look for something natural, turkey bacon.about these, three bundles have only 79 calories and three grams of fat. >> wow. >> can you wrap it like 100 times in bacon? >> well no but you'd be surprised, once you cook the bacon it has a strong flavor. you'll see them here so you really as opposed to the advertisers you get at parties, usually three, four, five of the tiny little appetizers have 500 calories so here is 79 calories. asparagus is another great option. so now dessert. >> dessert! the chocolate raspberry dreamer. >> you dream about it, it was the best title. people don't like when you call things things they're not. we have fat free cottage cheese and i'm going to add 100% raspberry all fruit and cocoa powder because i like to add cocoa powder to a lot of things. >> why do you like to add cocoa powder? >> i'm not sure. cocoa powder adds two grams of fiber and plus you satisfy your chocolate cravings without eating like a chocolate bar. >> boom. >> that crass. berry jam you put in there? >> 100% raspberry fruit spread

bacon frosting, try that out. bacon floss. >> can i really eat this?p, nothing says, hey, i want to get clean and refreshed like scrubbing yourself down with some lard. a little everything for that bacon lover in your life. bacon croutons. here you go, don. try that out. >> are you sure that's human food? >> it's totally edible, and bacon hot sauce. anywhere from $3 to $18 to think geek. the crew is going to eat bacon croutons. dude, you guys, eat it! step up. they're not as good as our light sabers from yesterday, but we brought some unique stuff. this is a jawbones jam box. looks like a little giant brick. this is one of my go-to portable speaker options. what's awesome about it, it's wireless. you can be in the kitchen or the living room, this will connect to anything with blue tooth. your computer, tablet, smartphone. you can use this as a speakerphone for conference calls. >> jawbone? >> known for audio and giving you good quality sound. something that's a little small. a nice go-to audio option for the music lover in your life. this is a rainbow

tree and bacon t-shirt. if you're wondering what he really said in dog speak. cnn new york. >>> . >> it's in the eyes jamie. you can tell what's on a dog's minds sometimes. >> clear cold out there. 43 right now at the airport. a nice day in the wake of christmas, a nice day to run out and maybe make an exchange if you had to that kind of thing not a bad day to be out and about. sunshine over the severn river as we look out to the east u. s. naval academy. all of them are on christmas break. sunny skies in laurel today. little morning cloud cover in the baltimore area but ocean city was crystal clear all day long right into the evening. maryland's most powerful radar all five sweeps showing not a thing. that's going to be the case tonight and in the morning tomorrow. clouds increase through the day. we do bring in a chance of rain tomorrow night. temperature wise 30s and 40s out to the west and mid 40s across the central part of the state from baltimore testoon. the beach at 43. but again these numbers headed

this has some bacon it is a high fat bacon it renders off and beat pan you are left with a great flavor reed the add some onions and tyme,then saute it and it goes on the pizza . roll out the dough use any tiype of cheese you want then add the bacon. you bake it for 30 minutes at the end it will look like this golden brown. >> that does not look like pizza. that is it just great these are wonderful recipes we will put them up on our web site thank you so much for coming by today . we will be right♪ ♪ you want to save money on car insurance? no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. [splash] ♪ [drill sargeant] attention [boots hitting floor] [bells ringing] [helicopter propeller] ♪ lean on me ... [helicopter propeller] ♪ when you are not strong ... and i'll be your friend ♪ [male announcer] because sometimes, even the

davis-bacon has been suspended twice since then. after hurricane andrew and after katrina. in national emergency grant. >> when i was labor secretary, i wanted to understand erisa. i never got there. i think there is a difference of opinion. bill, you are at the creation -- >> after the first nixon term, we did not want any standards for pensions. we wanted to put in the legislation that would develop a a petrol fiduciary standard. we did not want moral hazard and we were afraid if we put in any regulation we would produce incentives to create new pension programs. so we thought it was a foolish initiatives. except for the fiduciary standards which were different laws which were confusing about what standards applied to trusties. when i left, left wing types like bill got involved and they pushed through this legislation. >> actually the first term nixon proposal in 1971, larry is partially right. you did have the tradition -- fiduciary standards. that was a little bit of organized labor. and the individual retirement account came about. that was and i did in the first term

outlaw means it's loaded with hickory-smoked bacon, onion rings and topped with my bourbon barbecue sauce. and i'll tell you somethin' else they don't have- -my outlaw spicy chicken sandwich. yehaw! whoa! whoa whoa whoa whoa.. ride that spicy chicken!

davis-bacon has been suspended twice since then. after hurricane andrew and after katrina. in national emergency grant. >> when i was labor secretary, i wanted to understand erisa. i never got there. i think there is a difference of opinion. bill, you are at the creation -- >> after the first nixon term, we did not want any standards for pensions. we wanted to put in the legislation that would develop a a petrol fiduciary standard. we did not want moral hazard and we were afraid if we put in any regulation we would produce incentives to create new pension programs. so we thought it was a foolish initiatives. except for the fiduciary standards which were different laws which were confusing about what standards applied to trusties. when i left

and cheese it will probably be the same calories as a bacon cheeseburger.lack bean soup. there's fine e fiber and protei also loaded with antioxidants. if you're traveling, about to get on the plane, you want to keep your immune system up. >> vegetarian wrap also a good option, but not with cheese. >> get rid of the cheese. 82% of the airports have a vegetarian option. vegetables are loaded with fiber and water. water critical for staying hydrated. when you're dehydrated on the plane, you've at risk for colds. >> i know you like sushi rolls. >> it's a clean option if you don't go for the crispy sushi and add avocado in there for the healthy fat and the fiber. it also has b-6 which helps produce serotonin to keep you calm on the plane. >> kip the protein bar, low fat yogurt. >> portion control and banana, tried and true. also has magnesium which is important so we don't get too tired. >> and nuts. everyone loves nuts but they're very high in fat. >> in portion control, though, they're very satisfying. a little bit of nuts can help save us calories later on.

he said it is good. >> bacon, nuts, caramel. >> put chocolate on the strawberry.ur hand. polka time. >> you eat that, chocolate. chocolate covered strawberries. that's good. getting some of the bacon. we will let you get to the polka. it's friday. roll it! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> this morning on "world news now" -- last chance. the candidates for the gop presidential nomination faced off in the final debate before those critical iowa caucuses. >> front-runner newt gingrich took the most shots will it change the mind of the first in the nation voters. it's friday, december 16th. >>> good morning, everybody. happy friday! yes, indeed. i'm rob nelson. >> i'm sunny hostin. with the iowa caucuses just 18 days out, candidates for the republican presidential nomination squared off in the final debate of 2011. front-runner newt gingrich the target of course of many opponents' jobs. but standing tall, gingrich says he is the only one who can beat president obama. >> interesting debate last night. only the 60, 70th time they have debated. they have got to be tired. they came out swingi

little bite-sized things, cheddar herb biscuits. >> lovely. >> bacon.ture's candy. >> that's great. you have a choice of savory or peach condiments. you have brown sugar, honey. you have bacon, parmesan cheese, cheddar. you lay it out. all of this is rented. your guests top what they want. you have barbecue shrimp you put on top. the other thing about this menu, it is kind of what i call rethink and reload. everything we have here you can use over here. >> real quickly, your food is not rented. where's some places you can go to get buttery things for your biscuits. >> i say all of this. but i have a book coming out but one of my favorite stores locally. giant and wegman's. those are great places. it's okay. i hope you like it. it's really good. >> it's easy. thrilled. >> mm. >> give us the weather. >> nice and mild through the weekend. nice evening this evening and gets kind of cold next week. >> thank you so much. happy new year to you. >> happy new year. >> cheers, cheers. >> that's all the time we have for now. thanks for joining us. >> happy new yea

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and bacon t-shirt.what he really said in dog speak, jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> newsroom continues at the top of the hour with fredricka whitfield. what do you have for us? >> i don't have anything like that. just as it's been an incredible year for social media and youtube, it's been an incredible year for legal cases as well. our legal guys avery and richard always join us and kind of tell us how to think about or what to consider with the many cases throughout the year. what we decided to do this year was a countdown, top five cases. some of these cases are household names like lindsay lohan, rod blagojevich and casey anthony. why they are tops in their view. >>> it's already 2012 in some cases, hong kong, china, australia, josh levs will be along to take us overseas to see how folks are bringing in or have already running in the new year. beginning at 2:00 today usually folks join me and others in the newsroom. not today. we're going to be focusing on the contenders, 2012. three days away from i

crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. game day ideas made easy. in 15 minutes, [ female announcer ] you call that bread? you can serve some warmth with your bread. and some flavor with your bread. and some layers with your bread. if you're serving bread honey, then serve it. . >>> this is wjztv, wjshd and wjz.com, baltimore. >>> from the city to the counties to your neighborhood. now it's complete coverage, it's wjz. >>> revealed for the first time the woman behind those election night calls speaks out. >>> testimony about the robo calls. >> hello, everybody, i'm denise koch. >>> more than 100,000 voters received confusing phone calls before the polls and now an aid to former governor ehrlich is on trial. reports if mitt mitchell courthouse. >> reporter: she told jurors those phone calls were never intended to. >> i would call it a political tactic. >> this is rhonda russell, the woman whose voice was heard from robo calls to 112,000 registered democrats. the call told voters governor o'malley had won reelection before the polls even closed. >> we

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crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. game day ideas made easy. >>> a d.c. school is celebrating the centennial anniversary. the alexander building has a rich history in northeast d.c. now that community wants the neglected landmark to be a place for educating children. derrick ward has the story. >> reporter: ivy city owes the origins to the railroads. b & o brought a railroad here. new york avenue and the industrial character largely define most people's notion of the area. travel down one of these streets and go back in town. ivy city was becoming increasingly african-american. >> at this time, it was like a little village. >> reporter: this school was built as a colored school. it was named for alexander crumb el, a saint in the church. the building and heritage was a source of pride to the city. she was a student there. >> i ended upcoming back to teach at the school. >> reporter: they say it was a community school before the term. >> the neighborhood people were very cooperative and supportive. it was a wonderful time i had here. >> reporter: since the

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>> brussels sprouts, scallops, butter, salt and pepper and some smoked bacon. >> smoked bacon. should i taste mine? >> yes. >> cheers! happy holidays. >> this is lovely. >> merry christmas. >> this is very nice. you know, i always wonder how do you pick the right champagne -- all champagnes are good to me. how do you pick the right champagne? this is a pink champagne. >> this is less than 1% of the champagne production. i pick champagnes up every day. not just for breakfast anymore. >> is one better than the other? >> the best is what you're having and the best under your budget for the occasion. >> this is a pink champagne. how much does this cost? >> these would be around $80 retail. it is not on the inexpensive side. it is extremely rare. >> it is very, very good. >> what did you put in there? what kind of sauce? >> a little sauce. and the recipe is on my web site, jchayward.com. i'm going to move over here. that looks so good! >> help us finish it off. >> and this is the finished product. >> absolutely. >> sounds like a plan. >> i'm going to come in because it smells so goo

a little chopped garlic in there, working, smelling, does it smell as good as bacon?d you don't have to use an italian accent when you do that. >> i'm good for homer simpson. a little chopped tomato, a little salt and pepper. >> i like that. now let me ask you just a quick question, does it come out like spaghetti? >> yes, as a matter of fact once you roast it because we rub it in oil, cut it in half, take the seeds out, put it in the oven and watch this. it flakes out, it comes out just like spaghetti. >> cool. i didn't know that. >> we treat it the exact same way. >> we're doing it very simply with whole butter but you could have put a marinea with it. >> i want to mention you guys have some appearances coming up at whole foods this sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the whole foods on river road and then saturday, february 4th at the whole foods on leesburg pike but maybe we will see you here before then. merry christmas, happy holidays to both of you. thank you very much. >> god bless you. >> always a pleasure to have you here. >> that's it. we'll be back -- no. we'

can you have bacon? >> i can have bacon. is my drink. >> lastly, we've got chocolate espresso cups here. so it's chocolate and espresso. with a little whipped cream. >> we're all fasting! giada, love, love, love. >>> up next, tony bennett spreads some christmas cheer. he can eat it. with a song. first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> tony bennett had a great year. his most recent album received three grammy nominations. unbelievable. >> now with 60 years full of songs, the music legend is releasing 73 cds worth of music. can you imagine? in his new box set called "tony bennet: the complete collection." as we sign off for the day we leave you with tony and a wonderful mel torme song called "the christmas song." god bless, everybody. >> good-bye, everybody. ♪ chestnuts roasting on an open fire ♪ ♪ jack frost nipping at your nose ♪ ♪ yuletide carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like eskimos ♪ ♪ ev'rybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe help to make the season bright ♪ ♪ tiny tots with their eyes all aglow will find

bacon is a huge guy. he makes my grandson look tiny. >> dana: we'll save it for break. save him from himself. coming up next, we'll show you one of the coolest video i've seen made by the military members in honor of christmas. we'll be right back. >> greg: freedom! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> greg: you may or may not know this, dana is married to a great guy named peter, who is a. by lucky brit. he sent us a video showing how some british sailors celebrate christmas. roll tape, roll-tapers. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> juan: i like that. >> andrea: dana's husband was in the yellow bikini. >> greg: why was your husband looking at this? >> dana: he gets a lot of e-mails from folks. but did you know, greg, that was the theme song from "love actually" one of your favorite movies. >> greg: possibly the worst movie ever made if you look it up. "guinness book of world records" says it's the worst. >> dana: i love that. i'm glad the british taxpayers haven't complained. imagine if something like that happened on one of our ships. there would be uproar. >> our guys a

and one of them also employs bacon, two of my favorite things in life.ot a character from a movie, he's a talk. take a look at the ultimate dog tease. >> you know the bacon that's like maple. >> the maple kind, yeah? >> i ate it! >> awww! >> this video is not modified for him. >> no, that's the genius of it. >> i don't believe it. >> they recorded the dog first. you fill in the blanks. around the dog. >> the worst part is the last part. >> i took some chicken. >> yeah. >> i put some cheese on it. >> yeah? >> and then i -- >> i covered it -- >> covered it with what? >> with cat treats. >> yeah. >> and then guess what -- >> what? >> i gave it to the cat! >> awwww! >> it cracks me up every single time. >> that's not the only one that people really love. a lot of people like denver the guilty dog. >> somebody got into the kitty cat treats. did you, macy? >> macy is like i don't like kitty cat treats. >> i don't even like partymix. >> denver, did you do this? [ laughter ] >> maybe if i close my eyes they won't see me. >> look at that face. oh my goodness. den

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get doughnuts, bacon, sausage, hot dogs, ice cream. they have no idea they're sending people to heaven early." [laughter] we need to help them become a brain-healthy church. they have no idea what they're doing to the health of the congregation. the same thing happens in our schools. the same thing happens in businesses. and if you get this message, you can be an agent for change, because i don't think god wants us to go to heaven early. that's not the plan! are you going to be an agent for change, or, in fact, are you going to hurt those you serve? research suggests that your diet will affect generations to come. in a new study, animals that were given the typical western diet over several generations bred more obese offspring. the diet changed the functioning of the animals' genes so that over time, they ate more and more food and became fatter and fatter. this is very disturbing because it means that unless you get yourself under control now, it can affect your children, your grandchildren, even your great grandchildren. your legacy

we have the bacon we rendered.baby. we're going to add half a cup of wine. you can use broth if you don't want to use wine. a little bit of thyme. that's dry thyme. now, what we're going to do is take these vegetables. and we're going to add these vegetables. >> they've been sauteing for about how long? >> four or five minutes. not long because what's going to happen, in the slow cooker, we're going to program it for about four hours. >> okay. >> that's the great thing. this is not a crock pot. this is a slow cooker. you can program it high. or you can prom it low. again, if you don't want to use wine, you can use chicken broth. >> all right. >> we're going to let that simmer. >> and walk away. >> simmer and walk away. go do your thing. >> i can do that. i can walk away. >> you can do it. >> i can do that. >> now, this is what it looks like. check this out. >> oh, wow. >> see that? >> nice and tender. >> that's beautiful. >> falling off the bones. >> is that how you know when it's done, when it's falling off the bo

i'm going to throw down some bacon. >> any kind of bacon, pancheta? >> you can.>> raw sweet potatoes i have diced down. if you want to do this the night before, store these in the refrigerator in a little bit of water so they don't harden out on you. >> cook them down, they come out looking like this. >> a little bit of salt and pepper, add red onion, garlic sliced up, pickled jalapenos, secret ingredients and cumin comes together. >> and looks like this, i have a little piece of garlic stuck on my finger, brussel sprout salad as well, perfect for new year's day, almost no fuss. sunny, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> good to have you here. >>> up next our best bow to wow makeovers of the year. we'll catch up with some of the dogs we helped find loving homes in 2011. first this is "today" on nbc. ♪ bow wow wow yippee, yo, yippee yay ♪ >>> from bow to wow, it's our reunion year-end wrap-up. >> we're checking in with some of the lucky dogs who found great homes in 2011. jill rappaport is here with the recap. good morning, happy holidays to you. >> happy birthday

i made a bacon and a sage crumble and that's made with bacon sage and bread crumbs to put on top of thepiration i took my caramel rolls recipe and made that with a shot of maker's mark so that can be shared christmas morning and i am and a bit of a whiskey mood i also have a maple syrup high pie and i made it marshmallows with maple syrup as well ... and these are some offerings that will be featured in more magazine ... these are aromatherapy products ... i am going to a giveaway ... i love this pie dish so that will be offered to one lucky viewer along with some of the local burtons maple syrup ... if you go on to the websites wgntv.com or my website where you can register for my e-mail you ken when the prize to get more information about the soakedp and of course the recipes ... >>wgntv.com/midday will have all the information ... we will be right back and now the answer to today's trivia question: which poem eventually became the lyrics for the christmas song i heard the bells on christmas day? the answer is christmas bells written in 1864 by henry wadsworth longfellow ... >>weekend

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