. >> tell the story about when barbara bush came here? >> the first time barbara bush came in, she was first lady. and i was thrilled to welcome her. and i said hello and i walked up the stairs with her. and i asked her, is this the first time you were were at the four seasons. and she said young man, i have no idea where i am. i just go where i'm told. >> that's pretty good. >> it's the same deal like when ronald reagan had lunch here one day. he had lunch at this particular table. and everybody was entertained, asked him, what are you having for lunch? and they showed him the menu and he said, i can't read. and one of his assistants said, mr. president, what are you having for lunch? and he said, whatever you're having, i'm having. >> easy to please. >> he was very -- >> when he left, there was a huge crowd outside and everybody wanted autographs and he reached into his pocket -- and he had a stack of business cards with his signature and picture. >> what does did mean to you, to having been together this long, running this establishmen

my barbara bush is getting bigger by the minute. [ audience ohs ] [ laughter ] i call it that because girl. >> i'm thinking about making cabbage tacos for us tonight. maybe i better pick up some air freshener. >> how about instead you get a scented candle, we have vanilla and lavender breeze, stress relief. i think there's peppermint in that. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >>> oh, look, ellis island. the new world is upon us. i can smell it in me nose. >> just think of it, a chance to start a new life for our children. >> and our children's children. >> i someday hope me great-great-grandson might own his own land. >> and i hope my great-great-grandson will be a learned doctor. >> oh, what about you about cornelius timberlake? [ laughter ] what do you hope your great-great-grandson will be like? >> well, i know he'll be very handsome. >> all: oh! >> and -- he'll be a millionaire. >> a millionaire? from fur trapping? >> from coal? >> no, from popular songs. [ laughter ] >> what sort of songs could make a man millions? >> i don't know. maybe something like -- ♪ cry me a river [ laughter ]

she's the granddaughter of george and barbara bush. they did a cute thing. ey got each member of the bush family to tape a message for jenna to welcome her to her first day at work. >> the executive producer jim joked around i think and said, oh, you'd be great on our show. >> oh, dear. >> part of the wedding -- >> i'm super excited. diplomat really think he was for real, but i guess he is. >> good luck, jenna, i wish you the very best on the "today" show. i know you'll do a great job. >> are you ready for some football? [ laughter ] >> same question they asked her on the first day of kindergarten. a piece of television history is about to become history. tomorrow is the final episode of the soap opera "guiding light". "guiding light" is the longest running series ever on television. it has been on the air for 57 years. it was on the radio for 15 years before that. so some version of "guiding light" has been on the air for like 72 years. somehow i never managed to watch it one single time. [ laughter ] it was a sad day on the set today as they taped their ver

. >> i think i heard that barbara bush, when he she lost her child early that is when he some want prematurelyi don't know if there is a big link. >> >> but there are a lot of people who are really young, 0 who are totally gray. >> sure. >> so if you have i question you want answered, go to myfoxdc.com and click on the weather tab. we'll answer absolutely necessity question you have. >> okay. absolutely anything. >>> we want to go to the roads and see how things are looking outhere. >> i think what tucker said is true. my mama says i give her gray hair all the time. i say i keep her young. she says no, you keep me gray. southbound 270 out of germantown, a parking lot right now. it is bumper to bumper slow out to mva. 395 northbound close to the beltway headed up to duke street. this is a live shot of 395 in lorton, definitely below speed. the beltway between annandale and merrifield runs without win the. that's a check of your -- runs without incident. >>> fox 5 is on call with a controversy in new york state. set's health commissioner ordered an ultimatum to all health care workers. get immun

her father is worse. >> that is what we have always loved about barbara bush. jenna bush the more you like her. some people the more you know them the less you like them. she is a doll. >> she is charming. talk about charming. did you see this the other day? this daddy in the stands. his name is stephen. at the phillies game. catches the ball. yeah, baby. who gives it to his daughter who says, daddy, you have to give that back. this is the best part. he thinks, how fabulous is my daughter. he is father of the year. >> guess who is with us. >> he just happens to be here. >> daddy and emily. >> they gave you the ball? >> they gave us a ball. >> i heard you got more than one. >> this morning they presented us with a signed ball from jason werth. >> have you caught one before? >> this is a first. i have been going to phillies games for a long time. always wanted to catch one. just thinking don't drop it. >> you hand it to emily. >> i give it to my little girl. >> look how much she loves her daddy. >> she threw it over the side. what did you think? >> oh, my gosh. th

barbara bush, the first lady, has come out and said this is certainly within the president's right. your response? guest: if the president get involved, invariably, even if he is giving a totally innocuous speech, politics gets involved and forces this conflict. if you look at when george h. of the bush gave his speech, the democrats were very angry saying that this was campaigning and that they should be doing other things. it was a very legitimate point. the president should not be involved in these things. in the very least, it does cause conflict because the president is a politician and you cannot separate that from the office. host: we have a parent caller couple -- a parent caller from columbia, missouri. caller: when ronald reagan came here in the 1980's, my daughter was in grade school then. they turned out the entire school district and stephens college in columbia . someone was reminding me the of the day to go and stand on the sidewalks as this black limousine was driving through. obama is our president. to me, it is obscene for anyone to object to him giving a speech to

. >>> what i remembered, president bush, that barbara said "no more" after you were 80. >> well, barbara, "one way or another, this is your last jump." i said, "come on, darling, one way or another?" the last one was "i'm glad you did this at the church here. we won't have far to move you." >> everybody, i'm talking to robin meade. we are taking your calls. you see robin every morning here on "headline news." we have to go so far as to jump out of a plane to overcome our obstacles? i'm not jumping out of a plane. i have no interest in that. >> exactly. no, we don't have to do crazy stunts. to really demonstrate we have self-confidence in ourselves. it can be something as simple as, when you're struggling with your self-esteem, try to think in terms of respect. respect is higher in the ladder of confidence than just being liked. i was infat tated with whether nancy grace likes me or the audience likes me. therefore, i was putting other people's opinion of myself above my own opinion of myself. if you give yourself respect, you're giving other people respect, you're kind of throwing out th

. >>> i remembered, president bush, that barbara said no more after you were 80. >> well barbara hassing her enthusiasm. one of hers is, "one way or another, this is your last jump." i said, come on, darling, one way or another? the last one was i'm glad you did this at the church here. we won't have far to move you. >> you are seeing our robin meade. of course we all wake up with her every morning. my children watch you every morning, robin meade. trina in minnesota. what is your question for robin? >> caller: i have a quick question. i used to be a lot thinner and prettier and i hit my 40s. my question is, i go out and see all these happy looking, pretty people just having this great life. i kind of hit that mid-life blah. how do you convince yourself that you're still a viable, pretty good-looking person compared to, according to my husband and everything, how do you convince yourself that you are really not as bad as you feel on the inside? >> well, hopefully your confidence isn't based on your outside appearance because you are so much more than that. i always tell people your o

. >>> what i remembered, president bush, that barbara said no more after you were 80. >> well barbaraay or another, this is your last jump." i said, come on, darling, one way or another? the last one was i'm glad you did this at the church here. we won't have far to move you. >> you are seeing our robin meade. of course we all wake up with her every morning. my children watch you every morning, robin meade. caller. trina in minnesota. hi, trina. >> caller: hi. >> what is your question for robin? >> caller: i have a quick question. i used to be a lot thinner and prettier and i hit my 40s. my question is, i go out and i see all these happy looking, pretty people just having this great life. i kind of hit that mid-life blah. what i'm wondering is, how do you still convince yourself that you're still a viable, pretty good-looking person compared to, according to my husband and everything, how do you convince yourself that you are really not as bad as you feel on the inside? >> well, hopefully your confidence isn't based on your outside appearance because you are so much more than that. i

barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >>> well, russia has responded in kind to president obama's scrapping the bush administration's missile defense shield. it's dropping its own plans for a missile site near poland. here's what we're talking about. the russian missiles would have been in a small russian enclave on poland's northern border, but poland was supposed to have a u.s. missile site. but president obama says the u.s. will now focus on more mobile missile defense systems. >>> it's a critical time in the health care reform debate. i asked the former senate majority leader, tom daschle, who has the ear of the president on health care, about the arguments on both sides. >> i think when it comes to how much help there is for the states and how much help there is for the middle class as they try to buy insurance, we're probably going to have to adjust those figures. i think there's a growing consensus that we've got room in the budget now to address those figures at a little bit more successfully. so, my guess is you're going to see those numbers tweaked in the next few days. >> that sounds like more expe e expensi expe

barbara starr for us this morning. thank you. >>> former first lady laura bush sat down with our zain verjee for an exclusive interview., as well as her thoughts on michelle obama and the upcoming memoirs of the bushes. it's coming up now on 36 minutes after the hour. ( whooshing ) announcer: you could buy 750 bottles of water or just one brita faucet filter. ( drop plinks ) brita-- better for the environment gathering dust, as pollen floats through the air. but with the strength of zyrtec ® , the fastest, 24-hour allergy relief, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. with zyrtec ® i can love the air ™ . >>> welcome back to the most news in the morning. and more of our cnn exclusive, former first lady laura bush has been out of the white house and out of the spotlight, but she's certainly been keeping busy. >> she's been in paris, promoting her worldwide literacy tour. also, around 700 million adults around the globe cannot read and she's hoping to change that, so she's giving a speech on literacy there today. but first, she sat down for a chat with our zain verjee. take a look. >> how's president bush doing

bush hager introduces us to an amazingid after your local news. >>> a foggy morning here in the nation's capital. 65 degrees. 7:56 this friday morng. welcome. i'm barbara in the news, police in fairfax county need your help finding a group of men who broke into an annandale home and beat a man up inside. four or five men dressed in black utility uniforms and wearing masks, burst in a home in the 3400 block of charleston street yesterday afternoon claiming they were the fbi. inside the home where a woman, her son and his baby. the woman says the intruders tied the three of them up and demanded money. she says they also beat up her son and they took off in a tan or gold cadillac escalade. >>> metro riders can expect more delays. track maintenance will take place on the red and orange lines. on the red line, single tracking between medical center and strathmore stations. on the orange lines, they will single track between the east falls shuch station an the boston station. riders should add 20 minut >>> good morning. it's cloudy, cool and damp. temperatures in the low and mid 60s. highs in the mid 70s. mostly sunny tomorrow. mid and upper 70s. sunday, par