he seemed gloomy at the clip you played there at the bellagio.ast night here in los angeles he spoke at a star-studded fund-raiser last night and he made the point, will smith there was and magic johnson was there and he said look, 2012 is not going to be as sexy as 2008. again, a little bit more downbeat than we are used to hearing him. interesting to note his tone there. by the way, this trip is a real mix of policy and politics. he is going to attend six fund-raisers in the three-day west coast tour. he made his big announcement yesterday in las vegas, nevada. the foreclosure capital of the country. he said his administration would make it easier for folks under water to refinance their homes. he will be making an announcement tomorrow. more about fund-raising and of course that big appearance on jay leno which you mentioned, i'm in the burbank bureau right now. that will be taped around the corner. we will be watching that closely. appealing to younger voters there. >> there you go. they love their jay. >> absolutely. >> let's move back to th

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you can watch the fountains whirl, twirl and think object the bellagio. bring in a guest trainer to teach the fountains to dance. and this one is just for fun. consider buying this for the holidays. it's decorated with the velvet pillows and velvet couch. 18 feet high. it's a at the present time for 75 grand. -- it's a tent for 75 grand. niemann marcus promises to provide a truly unique once in a lifetime experience. wow. yeah. >> there's two things we don't need today. we don't need a tent, and we don't need a fountain with any more water. >> but you can hire a corps i don't go ra fer. >> let's get to business here. we've got westminster loaded up. watch the haze and yeah, watch the sky. that's a sign of more moisture and the rain coming down and actually reflecting those street lights in westminster east middle school, want to say good morning to all my friends. we've got ourselves 58 degrees, fog, some rain, and the winds not that strong. by the way, 16-mile-per-hour winds and a 10th of an inch of rain, really not that much out there, but there's more

of the time back in may there were fifteen hundred people looking for us going to be out of this bellagio is that alessio israelis british americans the colombian secret service the cia the da. everyone was off to. get this out of bed because they thought the one that other hunters had been a was never refused one of his bosses orders however ruthless they may have been he claims he was responsible for two hundred fifty of the estimated ten thousand murders ordered by a. once there was a very high profile woman that we will order to kill in custody not you know that and we shelter and the intercontinental hotel but getting out of the hotel was tricky as the police had time to helicopter they opened fire and i was hit here in the artery i managed to get home and public himself came over to see me that's when i realized it was a friend not just the boss i had a friend not a boss. tell was an army of lambs led by a lion i was a lamb the boss was a lion. by the mid one nine hundred seventy s. escobar was at the height of his powers. he was the leader of a group made up of his cousins and frie

oh, that was because i went and visited this place or i saw the wall at the bellagio and it triggeredcolors to come out or could be anything like that. >> is there anything you want those who are appreciating your art to go home with? or what is it you want them to -- >> just to get start ed. enjoy the journey. i'm enjoying my journey right now. i haven't been doing this that long. i started in 2006. something spoke to me, told me to paint, paint, paint. and i just had to do it. i know there are people out there who have this, hearing the voice, hearing something in their spirit telling them to do something. they put it aside and i think that when we have these types of gifts, and it is a gift, that they lie dormant unless we use it. if you don't use it you lose it. >> and you have to be goal oriented because otherwise you're going to fall flat and become complacent. >> right. >> talk about that aspect of it and even if it's slow at the beginning why you have to keep going after it and getting it. >> you have to keep going after it. it might not look like much at first but just give i

. >> for a million bucks, i want the bellagio fountain in my backyard. >>> thank you jack. >>> a piecef history from ancient rome is returned to the surface. >>> plus atural rehabilitated in virginia will face extra challenges now that it is back in the ocean. we'll be back after this. >>> welcome back. howard here with your severe weather alert here. severe storms later on this afternoon and this evening. this morning we are worried about the rain coming down at a good clip here. areas seeing very little, other areas seeing moderate downpours. lulls at times, mid-60s by noon. 65 to 70 for a high. again late this afternoon and evening with severe thunderstorms as a cold front sweeps this way. the weekend outlook when i see you in just a few minutes. right now to monika santani. >> reporter: a live look in virginia right now. 395. look at the heavy traffic there. we are just getting word of an accident at duke street. i'll have more details on this coming up in my next report. >>> it sank more than 2000 years ago. archaeologists have recovered the final piece of a roman barge from the r

president will make the announcement in las vegas, at a casino, and the guy who used to home the bellagio will not be there. >>guest: the policies of this administration have destroyed the living standard of the working class in america. what is ostensibly 9 base of the democratic party is taking the worst hit in history because of the unbelievably uninformed policies of this president and his colleagues who have fostered this ridiculous class warfare, the nonsensical policies that have been proven to be ineffective and unsuccessful everywhere they have been tried. >>neil: i know you have been a big supporter and backer and confidant of harry reid the prominent democratic senator from nevada who just squeaked by and he led the charge in the senate for the president and endorsed the health care plan, were these costs escalating prior to health care? or did they just get out of the control since health care came? >>guest: they were escalating before. at a rate of 8 percent a year. and the devastation of obamacare we estimate to be north of twelve percent. the rate of caseylation -- the rate

i love lots of different hotels, the bellagio and the venetian.on i come to expect from a new york city hotel and even though it's huge it feels very intimate. >> most affordable city goes to? >> kansas city, missouri. >> hello, midwest. i feel so great. >> kansas city is one of the cities if you have them in there you should go. it gets number one for barbecue so this is a good combination from affordability and barbecue. >> cheap barbecue. >> the brisket is the way to go. you have 200 fountains in the city, something a lot of people don't know. rome, italy s the city that has more mountains an kansas city. a lot of people call it the birth place of jazz, and there are tree lined avenues, art deck coarchitecture. i can go on and on. if you haven't been to kansas city you should go. >> go, go, go and the cleanest city goes to? the twin cities, minneapolis-st. paul. wintertime probably not the place to go for activities. no, you disagree? >> i disagree. the twin cities gets a bad rap for the bad weather but they're into wintertime. go there for the

. >> no. [ laughter ] and this is the same people that designed the fountains at the bellagio if youah. so it's kind of all under construction during the day. but at night it's gorgeous. >> jimmy: i mean, this is crazy. it looks like a little model of a little town or something that you have -- >> i was so high up. we were 124 floors up. >> jimmy: is that right? >> it's the fastest elevator. you go ten meters per second. >> jimmy: i was gonna say how do you wash the windows? but then you got -- look at this guy. >> yes! >> jimmy: do you want this job? [ light laughter ] oh, my god! >> yes, in the tallest building in the world, and he was right outside my window. and i was like, "ahh!" >> jimmy: did he suction cup to the thing? or what are those things? >> yeah, he's suctioned cupped to the window. >> jimmy: yeah, he's like spiderman. >> yeah. >> jimmy: i mean, that's -- what an awful job! [ laughter ] that would scare me so much. >> oh my god, yeah. it would be really scary. >> jimmy: and just to show how crazy dubai is, the atm here, look at this. right next to the atm. it's gold. [

. >> the bellagio fountain. >>> police tack down the last of more than 50 exotic animals that escaped from an ohio farm, that story is coming up. >>> plus a second day of massive demonstrations gets underway this morning in athens, greece. >>> and ahead in sports, they used to be a shoo-in for the mls playoffs but d. c. united was playing for its postseason life last night. we'll tell you if they survived. we'll be back. >>> it is 5:08. still a stray sprinkle across parts of upper montgomery county. to howard county. otherwise, we're clearing out and the winds are starting to pick up and temperatures, they're dropping here into the 50s over the next few hours. if they haven't already where you are. we'll slowly recover to near 60 by noon. and only into the lower 60s for highs this afternoon with a 5:00 p.m. temperature of 60. brisk southwesterly winds at 10 to 20. 25 at times gusting to 30, 35 miles an hour. now to monika samtani. >>> we're going to take a live look into the certain corners area, route -- seven corners area. nice and quiet early. no problems to report on 66 inside the

they're offering his and hers dancing water fountain, from the designer that did the incredible bellagiofers a $25 paperweight. >> i'll get a rock. >>> if you like justin bieber, consider this your christmas present in october. the biebs has released the video for his song "mistletoe." 2 song immediately hit number one on i tunes. an early teaser for his holiday album that comes out november 1st. >>> is barbie going through a rebellious phase? check out this version of the mattel doll. parents are outraged. the doll has an edgy look, to say the least. she has a pink wig, some serious pumps and the tattoo of a tiger on her neck. wow. the doll isn't being marketed to kids. and it's selling on the barbie collector's website. will she end up being a bad influence on ken? that remains to be seen. >> so many -- >> best to let it go. >> just let it go. >> continue, lara. continue. >>> now, everyone's guessing. who is the actress suing movie information website imdb for revealing her age? in the lawsuit, they say they got her real birth date by using her credit card information. she's worried if

at the bellagio in las vegas. tinseltown fund-raisers, hosted by will and jada pinkett smith. and at the home of melanie griffith and antonio banderas. and with some of the powerful people in the industry, the president asked for hollywood help getting him re-elected. last night, he also made certain to have a few laughs. >> have you been watching the gop debate. >> i'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island. >> i know you quit smoking. >> i did. i did. [ cheers and applause ] >> that's out. >> that's out. >> remember, you're under oath. >> i am. >> reporter: while the president says he's quit, the campaign of republican presidential candidate, herman cain, is featuring smoking in a campaign ad. showing cain's chief of staff taking a puff. >> the country has never seen a candidate like herman cain. and they've never seen a campaign like the one he's running. >> reporter: with little campaign infrastructure, cain is almost defying gravity. in the latest campaign poll, cain takes a firm lead over mitt romney. among tea party supporters, the gap is much greater. he

a few years ago and i was at the rockefeller study center in bellagio, italy, talking to german historians. and one of them said you americans know nothing about your history. you don't realize your greatest president is james k. polk. and i said really? and he said oh, yeah, he took you to the symphony. poke is unique in american history. the only president who did everything he promised to do. he said i will never run again, one term. i will in the high tariff. i will establish a stable banking system. i will acquire oregon, and i will acquire california. and by the time he stepped down he had done all those things. houston said polk is a victim of the use of water as a beverage. he was a workaholic. he worked around the clock. he died a few months after leaving office, but he changed this nation significantly. spent if only polk had met johnny appleseed he could have got some applejack and been a little easier to deal with. you have a wonderful concept in your book, before we open up for questions come and we've got to mention kit carson of course and winfield scott as well but especial