larger bathtubs elsewhere as well, but he did not get stuck in the white house bathtub. >> do you care about chris christie's weight? should it be an impediment to him be president? >> i do not. if you need a proof point to the fact that being a large individual is now impediment to serving in high office, my grandfather is that proof point. he was governor general of the philippines from 1900 to 1903. don't you think that was an arduous task? secretary of war, president of the united states, and then chief justice. 30 years, and he weighs over 300 pounds throughout that period. chris christie can be elected and serve as president of the united states. >> good point. michael, let me talk to you about guns bah i tell you why. because a lot of people reference your father when it comes to guns because although he was the first to publicly endorse the nra as president, and he was a gun owner himself, he also endorsed an assault-weapons ban. what do you think he would have made of the current debate right now? >> oh, i think the current debate, if he had been president of the united states

nice hot bathtub. comfortable futon sounds good to be. we'll stay here tonight. thank you very much. this way please. upstairs please. thank you. your well co. and this will be your room. here are your bathrobes and the bathroom is through there and i'm,ihache and if you have any problems, let me know. thank you and enjoy your bath. he puts the three young men in the room right next door to the samurai. nice hot bath. feels good after a day of traveling. [singing] feels good huh? hey! why don't we have a party tonight. great idea. let's invite some geisha girls. we're on holiday so let's order the very best saki. later that night. [whispering] whoa! three gorgeous geisha girls come on in. okay. let's start the party. [music] whoa! yeah. hey! [music] [laughter] [singing] in the next room, the samurai was trying write a letter. [music playing in background],iha chi. iha chi! the samurai is calling me. i wonder what is wrong. did you call me? yes,iha chi! i'm sorry. next door being noisy. sorry i will go and tell them to be quiet. very, very sorry. [loud party noise

> stephen: it takes place at the very absolute bottom of the mississippi delta a place called the bathtub. tell people what it is. what sp so special about it. >> it's a community at the wrong side of levees at the bottom of louisiana. >> stephen: why would anyone live on the wrong side of levee. the levee is to keep nature away from people. >> but there's towns that exist down there that have a way of life that exists for hundreds of years and they are rooted to the environment there. the economy is based on fishing and degreing all things very specific to the region. so the culture is based in being able to stay in these special places. what the film is about is the way the places places places art the moment. >> stephen: the economy down there seems to be based on heart rending sandness. [ laughter ] >> no it's -- >> stephen: obviously it's ultimately a hopeful tale but it's heart piercing at times. >> well, you know, i mean, one of the things that the film is about is the way in a the people in the bathtub not just survived this storm but also, you know, keep a hold of their joy and t

i guess i could try it out in the bathtub.lace to try out my boat. uh-huh. huh? (george hoots) (excited chattering and hooting) relax. i'm in fifth grade-- i'm prepared. aw. aah! oh, man, this is great! i can see if my boat holds up in bad weather. yeah! (thunder rolling) steve: she takes a dripping and keeps on, uh... floatin'. yeah! my history teacher's gonna be so impressed. i mean, i actually did my homework. i need an a to pass the class. (chatters) george was sure steve would get an a. his homework floated really well. unfortunately... it was floating away. (both scream) come back, boat! maybe george could make the boat move towards him. (hooting, chattering) good thinking. we can make another wave with this rock, and the splash'll send it back to shore. (steve groans) i killed my homework! (chattering) (steve gasps) it's unsinkable! i should get an a-plus! uh-huh! (both gasp) quick! catch it! (george hoots, pants) oh...! whoa! aw, look at it take those rapids! i am a master barge builder. (hooting, chattering) oh, yeah-

goes to school, they going to know, once there was a hushpuppy and she lived with her daddy in the bathtub. who the man. >> i'm the man! >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> rose: this is extraordinary. how did it all start for you. >> it began --. >> rose: born in new york, born in queens. >> okay, yeah way back. >> well, came, you think if you want to go all the way, you know my parent was take me on trips around the country when i was a kid. i remember going to new orleans when i was 12 or 13 years and making a pledge that one day i was going to come back for good. and-- . >> rose: did you. >> i did. this place resonates for me, oncoming back. >> yeah, i have little glimpse of what i remember from that trip. i remember very specifically i was too young to get into any of the bars, i was walking down the street and someone saw that i was looking in from the window, a guitar player and he came outside and played a guitar solo for me outside. and i remember feeling like i had never seen-- i had never seen this anywhere before. and something about that made me think this is the type of-- th

in the bathtub?rse, believeability was a question for the jury to decide and decide they did. though as you'll see, that wasn't the end of the story. not by a mile. >>> coming up, a son overcome with emotion. a final push for the truth. >> please, for your family, for your kids, tell us what happened, and then a final, fateful twist. >> it just is the ultimate answer. this is it. >> and coming up next friday on "dateline." did you kill travis alexander? >> yes, i did. >> inside the steamy trial that's riveted the country. >> i hate to put it this way, but i felt a little bit used. >> jodi arias charged with killing her lover she says in self-defense. >> he attacked me and i defended myself. >> these are the stories you haven't heard. >> this was not a kind, gentle way to die. >> from her friends. >> all i can say is that's not the jodi that i know. >> and his -- >> he would joke about it. if i ever show up dead you know why. >> inside, the jodi arias trial. so which would you rather have? a big treeh

whitney houston drowned in a beverly hills hotel bathtub on february 11th of last year... just hours before she was expected to attend a pre-grammy gala. in her lifetime, houston won six grammy awards... and was nominated 26 times. [b10]whitney memorial-tag >> pete was just reminded me this time last week. ask exactly seven days ago it was still drizzling through the superdome ceiling. the fun from a week ago, coming >> more than 130 churches over baltimore were filled with red today. it did not have anything to do with upcoming valentine's day. ladies were wearing red for the ninth annual red just sunday. the event is to raise awareness among women of heart disease, hardy of vascular disease kills one woman every minute in the u.s. many never know they are at risk. the started in 2005 just three churches. >> now sports with pete gilbert. >> marilyn's return from virginia this morning -- friday morning took several extra hours thanks to snow and sleet. thinking that explains the lethargy with which they played today against virginia. playing defense. certainly not here. jo

the ground's going to sink and the water's going to rise up so high, there ain't going to be no bathtubng girl determined to find her lost mom embarks on a journey at the edge of the world. academy award nominated beast of the southern wild follows 6 year old hush puppy who believes she lives in the prettiest place on earth. all that changes when her father comes down with illness. he has prepared her for life without him but mother nature has a different plan. sheds light on poverty and features lifelike and animated images. the movie snatched up four academy award nominations including pest picture and best actress. 9 year old star is the youngest person ever to be nominated for academy award for best actress. she joins us more to talk about it and plays her dad. welcome all of you to washington, to our studios. we are thrilled to have you here. congratulations to you miss pretty. >> thank you. >> gentleman, i have to start with her. i have to do it. what is it like ? can you even imagine that you might win an academy award. the youngest ever. >> i guess. things happen. >> right. but

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posts the most ridiculous photos of her in her bathtub.rought the dog in the tub with her. >> where is nick cannon? >> he doesn't get in on that. that's the part that bothers me. >> he's underneath her with a scuba tank. >> i love her. >> i kinda like her, too, for this. >> she's like gwyneth paltrow but not as vixie about it. >> gwyneth paltrow wants it to be serious. >> her group was all about valentine's day for one and she recommended you buy this book called cooking for one, all recipes for one person. so ridiculous. >> what did you make? >> that was mean. >> wow. >> i was kidding! >> oh, my god. >> you guys do that to me. >> you don't know anything about me. >> i was just kidding. ok. >> coming up -- >> we thought we had video of dina from "jersey shore" flashing her books. it was just a lookalike. people were >> closed captioning and other considerations for "tmz" are provided by --- >> we thought we had video of dina from "jersey shore" in mardi gras flashing her boobs. >> but it wasn't. sadly, it was just a look alike. >> sadly, y

they are the most ridiculous photos of her in her bathtub, in her house, big old bubble bath. brought the dog in the tub with her. >> where's nick cannon? >> he doesn't get in on that. that's the part that bothers me. >> he's underneath her with a scuba tank. >> i love her. >> i kinda like her, too, for this. >> she's like gwyneth paltrow but not as vixy about it. >> gwyneth paltrow wants it to be serious. >> her group was all about valentine's day for one and she recommended you buy this book called cooking for one, all recipes for one person. so ridiculous. >> what did you make? >> that was mean. >> wow. >> i was kidding! >> oh, my god. >> you guys do that to me. >> you don't know anything about me. >> i was just kidding. ok. >> coming up, leann rimes is suing her dentist because he messed up her teeth. >> did you see the picture? that john brooks put in of nic cage's old teeth? >> oh, my god. >> 10 1/2 minutes with a couple of miami housewives. they keep talking about how they're going to have a foursome, i think they mean dinner but they start touching boobs on each other.

you are more likely to fall in your bathtub and break your hip. there are some typical injuries, but mild. we have had a couple of deaths, but from natural causes, one from an accident at the event site. of course, what city hasn't? we used to scare people with that. in the old days, just to let people know, this required hardihood. we put down that people had died here. well, they have died everywhere. and we still scare some people a bit. people are not used to this unmediated environment. as long as you drink water, you are probably going to be ok. there is not a lot of criminal activity. everyone is really over provided for. to meet the survival challenge, they oversupplied. superfluous goods that people end up giving away to one another. there is really not a lot of crime. there is too much to do. [laughter] >> could you talk more about that factor, that there is an abundance of good, which is interesting, being in the desert. the economic system that is up there. we talked a long time ago for a "for a magazine" story. one of the things that

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they are the most ridiculous photos of her in her bathtub, in her house, big old bubble bath. brought the dog in the tub with her. >> where's nick cannon? >> he doesn't get in on that. that's the part that bothers me. >> he's underneath her with a scuba tank. >> i love her. >> i kinda like her, too, for this. >> she's like gwyneth paltrow but not as vixy about it. >> gwyneth paltrow wants it to be serious. >> her group was all about valentine's day for one and she recommended you buy this book called cooking for one, all recipes for one person. so ridiculous. >> what did you make? >> that was mean. >> wow. >> i was kidding! >> oh, my god. >> you guys do that to me. >> you don't know anything about me. >> i was just kidding. ok. >> coming up, leann rimes is suing her dentist because he messed up her teeth. >> did you see the picture? that john brooks put in of nic cage's old teeth? >> oh, my god. >> 10 1/2 minutes with a couple of miami housewives. they keep talking about how they're going to have a foursome, i think they mean dinner but they start touching boobs on each other.

gsa conferences with people and remember, the famous photographs of the gsa administrators in the bathtub with his glass of red wine. >> greta: i sure do. >> that's going to-- we all need therapy to overcome that image, but that's the kind of thing that oversight will allow the republicans in the house to say, wait a minute, mr. president, you threatened that ag meat inspectors would be taken away, well, here are some really, some programs that the agriculture department that are not as important. let me give you the classic example. we have this program that takes, you know-- gives money to people for free cell phones and already we've gotten government reports from the agencies and for the agency itself saying that it's rife with fraud and abuse. well, maybe we ought to be cutting that program before we cut other things that are more important. so the republicans have a 1-2 punch. give the president flexibility so the cabinet secreries can pick and choose, and takes something less important out of the accounts and keep the important parts of the budget into act and oversight to blow the

see if you can find a place in that bathtub that you can get a drop of water. bring that to the microscope and look at it and not have some pink in there, ink gonna do it, that's gonna spread out uniformly. you're not gonna get it. that ink will spread out everywhere. in the same way, if you drop that ink in the ocean of the earth, in the earth's ocean, it'd spread out too. when christopher columbus, coming across the atlantic ocean, okay, if he had taken a glass, like a 6-ounce glass that you drink water, yeah? he can reach down into the ocean and pick up that glass and then take that water and ththrow it back in, maybe tag it, maybe tag it, maybe make it all red or something, make it radioactive, somehow you can tell later on. today that glass of water all mixed up, long ago, yeah? go to the ocean, dip up, hold up to the light, it's somewhat like a little pink, because you know what? some of the atoms in christopher columbus's glass are in that glass of water. there are so many atoms. oh, i'll just throw a little ddt in here. it'll be okay. what do the pengui

girl: put it in the bathtub. into the bathtub. that's a good idea.g to have a bubbleath... hendrick: with the older preschoolers, we've learned the value of modeling and active teachin and how important play can be in developing a child's social skills. $5.00. you've got $5.00? thank you. ok, where are you going to take your greries to now? to my mommy, to my uncle, my sister, my brother. helping children find their way through the maze of social relations is an enormous task. our job is an important one, and if we approach it with as much care, owledge, and, yes, empathy as we can ster, we can do so much to help the young children in our care become happy, loving people who possess the social skills that can benefit them roughout their lives. i'm joanne hendrick. thanks for joining us. see you next time on the whole child. announcer: in the real world of child care, children, like adults, don't always get along, but there are ways to help children express their aggressive feelings safely, techniques for teaching self-discipline and building inner co

himself or his family from possible retaliation, and he has trained his own children to hide in the bathtub. >>> coming up, a bay area mom turned amateur detective. how she broke open a college crime ring when police said they were too busy. >>> why a major insurance company may now turn you down if you own a certain kind of dog. >>> and a popular kind of booze that's being watered down. >>> another mild day today. widespread 60's but find out what one day in my seven-day forecast seven-day forecast will likely see some 70's. come p >>> one woman whose car was stolen got a call from oakland police. say said, we found it, come pick it up. when she showed up, she thought, hey, wait a minute, has anyone like bothered to look inside? well kpix 5 reporter christin ayers shows us how that woman stumbled upon a crime ring and became an amateur detective. >> reporter: it should have been an open and shut case. a woman who wants to be known only as margie had her car stolen on new year's eve from oakland's lake merit. two weeks later, oakland police found it. >> i received a call from the oakland pd

everyone in the nation we would have to walk in, sit down in a bathtub made in america, by americans. i think that would cut health care costs and we talk always about jobs and safety and health and i like that we be able to be san francisco, the city that knows how to put things out, get these balls rolling and have a diverse perspective to get things done because i know i would like to just like each one of you would like to have that walk in tub where you sit down where you don't have to fall and break nothing and you feel much better to volunteer and spread some happiness and joy so thank you and i hope this physical assets will be diverse. thank you. >> thank you. is there anymore public comment on -- yes for this item? >> this item if i am correct is senior disability action. >> yes. >> thank you council. my name is michelle schultz and i came here to support senior disability action previously senior action and planning for elders. i'm a member of this group and as far as being a senior goes i'm not sure technically -- could be 50, 52, 62, 65 but i am disabled, and this place t

. >> a number of her entourage went in and discovered her unconscious in the bathtub partially submergedtourage called 911 immediately. >> within minutes paramedics arrived making desperate attempts to revive her. >> her brother gary was in the room and his wife pat, obviously praying for a miracle. >> houston's close friend kim berell received a troubled call and raced over to the hotel. >> you could feel that something was terribly wrong, and by then i saw the yellow police tape down the hall. so i rushed to the room, and i said what's going on here? and pat told me she's gone. >> whitney houston was dead on the eve of music's biggest night, one of its biggest icons was gone. she was only 48. >> bobbi kristina broke down in the hotel lobby and just was screaming over and over again what's wrong with her? what's wrong with her? so we can only imagine what was going through this girl's mind, but her mother was her world. >> i wanted everything to just stop. wait a minute. because what i felt was happening, i didn't want to be happening. but there was no stopping it. a victim of her own a

bathtub has more holidays than the whole rest of the world. >> it's a film, it's about how to survivevive loss but emotionally, you know, survive loss with your joy intact. and that was the connection between the two things, you know there was this story that i was interested in about these communities in south louisiana that were losing their land. but when you went, when you go there and meet the people there isn't this sort of sorrow. there isn't this, you know, there isn't people feeling story for themselves, there is a real pride in staying and a joy in the culture that remains and then that was sort of a parallel to the story of this little girl who has to survive the loss of a parent. and the connections between the loss of a parent and the loss of a place were what resonated to me and that's something that i was-- i didn't necessarily understand when i started making the film but which i saw was true. the story is about hush puppie and she lives in this town called the bathtub cut off from the world by a giant water production system in a sort of mythic version of louisiana an

living in new orleans, we show a resiliency living down there that these people have been a bathtub.hey refuse to leave the things they love more than anything in life. i brought a certain illness to the movie being from that region that an outside actor -- which they tried to do. they tried to bring in outside, professional actors, but it did not feel right because they never went through these things that we go through living in the region, so that is one of the things that helped director benh zeitlin. tavis: so how did this happen? take your time and tell me this story. >> it is a long story. tavis: that is ok. i am not going anywhere. how about you? >> ok, well the bakery was right across. all of the people, benh zeitlin, everybody, they used to get doughnuts, and they used to put fliers at the bakery. "if anybody wants to appear in an upcoming feature film, poll the number and give us a call." 1 dick armey in the producer, were sitting in the bakery, so i decided to pull the number and go over there and cast. i went over there are, and he gave me a script. he gave the actress a