>> reporter: we think we know halle berry.d in our living rooms for 30 years. my colleague, t.j. holmes, sat down with the beauty queen from ohio who'd become a hollywood legend. she broke the mold as a bond girl in "die another day." >> magnificent view. >> reporter: as storm in "x-men." but it was her transformation into laticia musgrove in "monster's ball" that won her an oscar for the best actress, making her the first and still only black woman to ever do so. >> he was a good kid. he was a really good kid. he was so good. he was -- he really -- he loved me. >> reporter: now miss berry is hoping for another breakthrough, this time in front of and behind the camera. she produced and directed "bruised." >> that's your motivation to get over here. if that's the case, you might stop us back here. >> reporter: stripping herself down to play jackie justice, a disgraced mma fighter and mother. >> 20 years ago, i didn't even dream that i could do this. i didn't think that opportunity would come my way in my lifetime. you know, whe

doctor patrick berry, thank you very much for| berry, thank you very much for joining us.d, we're going to the polish border with ukraine now. kasia madera is there for us. what is the picture there, at the moment? . . what is the picture there, at the moment? , , ., ., , , , moment? this is one of the busiest border crossings _ moment? this is one of the busiest border crossings in _ moment? this is one of the busiest border crossings in eastern - moment? this is one of the busiest border crossings in eastern poland. j border crossings in eastern poland. we were here all day and it has got increasingly busy. polish border guards yesterday said around 16,000 people have crossed. they are geared up people have crossed. they are geared up for that number to be larger today as well. two people i want to speak to have just made that crossing. they have been travelling for around three days. vlad and nastia havejoined us. you have walked across and you have had quite a long journey. nastia, walked across and you have had quite a longjourney. nastia, how long have you been trave

. >> at 289 grams, this berry broke the world record.d weather slowed the berry's ripening process allowing it to continue to gain weight. >> that's what it is, like so many of us during pandemic lockdowns, i wonder what you do with that kind of strawberry, do you put it in cheesecake or dip it in chocolate? >> you got to eat it fast, though. >> yeah. >>> next to getting inked at 90 years old. >> this is cool. a michigan woman took her grandmother to get matching tattoos in honor of her milestone birthday. >> they chose to get sleeping angel designs. and while both appeared thrilled at the results, grandpa appeared less thrilled by his wife's tatted shoulder. >> what happens to tattoos when you get older? you get them. that's what happens. >>> the polka is what happens next, because it's friday! ♪ ♪ ♪ politics and foreign wars ♪ ♪ all the weather, all the scores ♪ ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ ♪ things that roll in way too slow ♪ ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ ♪ it's late at night, you're wide awake and you're not wearing pants ♪ ♪ so

we can't believe that the berries will soon be growing. here. it will be a dream come true for our impoverished community. the common common. yeah. because the fees vivian, blueberries fly off the supermarket shelves in europe and also people here the chance of a more comfortable life. but while peruse, economy enjoys the boost. the environment bears the burden the catastrophic consequences of importing can be seen across africa. heavily subsidized fed from europe has largely replaced regional produce at the expense of local farmers. agriculture in ghana, for example, is a struggling sector activist alberta. acosta encourages women to plot their own back yard gardens. it's economical and their families get to 8 freshly grown food. a crown of women is gathering to get some gardening tips. all grown fresh produce isn't hard, and the benefits are enormous. when does that come in out here in northern gonna out back to our cause, her and her team are showing local women how best to create a backyard vegetable garden. the small organization started ou

we can't believe that the berries will soon be growing here. it will be a dream come true for our impoverished community. we go more common. yeah. because the fishing peruvian blueberries fly off the supermarket shelves in europe. and also people here, the chance of a more comfortable life, but more peruse, economy enjoys the boost. the environment bears the burden the catastrophic consequences of importing can be seen across africa. heavily subsidized badge from europe has largely replaced regional produce at the expense of local farmers. agriculture in ghana, for example, is a struggling sector activist alberta. acosta encourages women to plant their own back yard gardens. it's economical and their families get to eat freshly grown food . a crowd of women is gathering to get some gardening tips, o grown fresh produce isn't hard and the benefits are enormous. i understand coming out here in northern gonna, i've been to our cause. her and her team are showing local women how best to create a backyard vegetable garden. the small organizations st

i do like halle berry, so tell me more.h who gave us independence day, day after tomorrow, 2012. patrick wilson and halle berry are astronauts in space, they get attacked by giant space gloop. they get down to earth, nobody believes them. ten years later, the moon is falling out of the sky and a conspiracy theorist says it's �*cause the moon is made of cheese or something on those lines and, therefore, the thing they have to do is to go back into space with the conspiracy theorist who's never been in space before to save the world from being destroyed by a roland emmerich movie. here's a clip. you know, without electronics, we're going to need to make split—second calculations up there. plus, we lost our flight engineer. mm. no no, no, no. guys, i'm not cleared for this. well, i'm the acting director of nasa, so ijust cleared you. congrats. yeah, but i've got ibs — irritable bowel syndrome. i get motion sickness too. you said you always wanted to be an astronaut. i have debilitating anxiety. kc, if the moon really is what y

. >> reporter: chloe's story helping began when she met officer berry in their hometown of missouri citys. >> they're still friends to this day. >> reporter: she saw officer berry with her long red braid giving a ticket it made chloe afraid so she and her grandmother came up with an idea -- >> you can give books to the police officer so they can give it to kids when they pull over their parents and that's how it started. >> we've had a lot of things happen in our world but there are a lot of good police officers there and officer berry definitely is at the top of my list. >> reporter: chloe used her very own money to buy those first books. >> i used all of my coins hi been saving up just since like a year or something and it all summed up to a total of $150. >> reporter: now with the help of community donations, chloe also gives books to schools, homeless shelters and hospitals. she even holds pop-up events. >> books are like adults with medication, kind of like -- you can kind of go wherever you need to go when they have the tools to be able to go somewhere else for a minute, to just ki

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payton was his coach and berry coached one of the other teams. to the game we go. first to 50 wins it. this one, no defense in this game and it went down to the wire. after a near steal, tate takes it strong to the rim and hits the game winner. team berry would win the champ kropbship and beat team thomas to take home the rising star's crown. >>> to the celebrity game where bill walton served as one of the coaches. the play of the game combined the olympics. high jump champion tumberry showing it off. climbs a ladder to slam it home. end of the game, here is cleveland browns pass rusher with an impressive dunk. did not matter. team walton wins, 65-51. >>> major league baseball players are not close to playing ball any time soon. the two sides remain far apart on two key issues. revenue sharing and the luxury tax threshold. major league baseball announced today they are declaying the start of spring training until -- delaying the start of spring training until march 5th. including the one that a's and giants would of played would have been next saturday. they will m

not that there's anything wrong with picking berries. the white house really has to make some adjustments of their own and get us out of this. it is way past the time. >> that is right this is really beyond spin. we have too many dollars chasing too few goods. have a government that is printed historic amount of money and encourage demand and discourage supply. it seems to me, door with got to move on quickly, just anything this administration could do to make it easier and cheaper to produce things, to work and the united states, to encourage people to work in the united states seems like the direction we need. >> i was a couple things make the trumpet tax cuts permit that would encourage businesses to stay in the united states. stop all the ridiculous spending. and some at least in the east village of manhattan i really do look forward to picking strawberries in my neighborhood. [laughter] collects some exciting opportunities we will look forward to lots of strawberry picking ahead. and for now if got to take a break when we come back

the other artifact that people love that i wasn't all that excited about was, i had called chuck berry to ask for one of the guitars that he wrote "maybellene" on. and instead, he said, "you can have the guitar if you take my candy-apple-red cadillac." now, i had no interest in a candy-apple-red cadillac, but the staff was so much smarter than me, and they said, "no, this is really important." so they convinced me. we collected it. we put it on display. it's now one of the most popular artifacts that people want to get their pictures taken from -- chuck berry's 1972 candy-apple-red cadillac. so, we went from crying to laughing, but what it allowed us to do was to tell a full story of a community. >> yeah. in the summer of 2020, after the murder of george floyd, the african american museum's rapid reonse team was in lafayette square, collecting posters, art, photographs, stories about the protests. you've said, "protest is the highest form of patriotism." so are these items part of the museum's collection now, and will they be on exhibit someday? >> i think it's important that part of t

. >> coming up next, is halle berry going to the moon? yes, but only in her new movie. taking you behind the scenes. that's after the break. when a truck hit my car, the insurance company wasn't fair. i didn't know what my case was worth, so i called the barnes firm. i'm rich barnes. it's hard for people to know how much their accident case is worth. let our injury attorneys help you get the best result possible. >> halle berry is going to space in her new fall, which is out this friday. >> entertainment tonights nischelle turner has a behind the scenes. look. katharine graham, how his new space adventure looks wild. and she got very close with costars patrick wilson and game of thrones. john bradley. >> what's the plan? 6 of say verse. it seems like you guys did spend a lot of time together. we're in a room. >> that was due smaller than the room that we're now in the cockpit was the only time we actually just got to hang out. it's only time i saw their faces. >> when the mask came off and i like, oh, there you are. the is out of all se has the trio are trying to save e

unlike smaller european bill berries, which are rarely cultivated and have less commercial potential peruvian blueberries, of forcefully brand new varieties promise, even bigger harvests. this one is called mateus. it grows abundantly as firm, tasty fruit and is about to take german supermarkets by storm level. kendall, their quarterly, i were reacting to demand in europe. correct? i mean, they, yes, the consumers their want better quality blueberries. anbo us had my sexy kinda big firm blueberries that can survive long transport routes and, and can be kept in the refrigerator for a while. you're feed myth, enough road to get where one thought of mattie and they need to be a shiny blue color is will no body that could be named blue mahoney. palazzios he had lab rowena to meet europe's exacting standards. the fruit is often treated with fungicide before it's shipped. it's kept in cold storage for 3 weeks as it travels the 10000 kilometers to germany. the carbon footprint of the shipping root is considerable, even if it's less than it would be by plane. new plantations are springing up

west africa correspondent, florida to cora, met g d, berry, ebay, to find out more. this is legacy university hospital generations of doctors, nurses, all kinds of medics have studied here. and this is one of the books that they use. it's a standard textbook used my international students all around the world. and if you flip through the pages, it's very easy to see that most of the illustrations here are just as white skin is almost as if black people don't have operations. i don't have babies. and for yes, no one really challenged that i met with one man who not only challenged it, what is doing something about she the berry e b deed ceased his illustration of a black fetus went viral. people around the world realised they had never seen themselves represented that his picture turned into much more than a drawing and more like a voice speaking out for the black community, they had to understand that destroy was more than just a medical official or what it was a message of hope to do to, to the black community. and then i said for me, known drunk are no longer a pas

she d, berry, e, b, d, deceased. his illustration of a black fetus went viral. people around the world realised they had never seen themselves represented that week. he speaker turned into much more than a drawing. and just more like a voice speaking out for the black community been a hard to understand, i destroy was more than just a medical official and what it was a message of hope to do to the black community. and then i said for me known drunk, i no longer a passion when the pep was for me. so i mean, i had to torn from being different lo street or to be an advocate. little efficient housing means there's news because disney lack of representation, medical literature, for example, some skin condition represent differently on the blocking than iis on i cities on, on a white skin. and it has led to a lot of these deadness on, on the side of the doctor because he or she had no experience or happened with technical knew how when, how to dad knew just keep going on and the block vision. and this one where it was just a matter because he, we walked all including

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and now it is my great delight to introduce to you pj o'rourke and dave berry. i think it's my job now to introduce pj a little bit more. and i'm honored to do this. first of all, thank you to the book fair. we love the miami book. fair. pete. jenna have both been there live. and we're sorry we can't be there live this year, but we're okay because pj has like a wall of books behind him, which is the rule these days right? well one of these days i'm gonna sell one of these. have you ever right my unsold copies of my own books. i have copies of my books that are in like, i don't know what language they're romanian. i don't know. yeah. have you ever read any of the books in the wall behind you? just curious pj? oh, no, no, okay strictly for show. no, is that even your wall? i mean at least your books it is my wall. okay? no, i feel a little i just looked at your wall and i'm feeling pretty like a lot of walled envy right now because i don't think i have it's not even my wall. it's it's my wife's wall behind me. but anyway, i have been a fan of pj o'rourke's for a l

a touching the unofficial results tabulation for berry county, again, my client has apparently takenhe machines and ballots into evidence. the local sheriff has taken all the ballots and machines into evidence? he has? someone actually tried it? . the attorney for that sheriff put it in writing, to sydney powell, that they did that in barry county, michigan. we tried contacting the attorney who sent that email, he won't talk to us. if he changes his mind, call us back. we did actually though managed to talk about -- talk to the sheriff himself. sheriff door leaf, is his name. he told us he has no idea why his lawyers sent that email to trump election conspiracy lawyer sydney powell. sheriff leave denies that he has ever see post voting machines are that he put voting machines and ballots that in the evidence room like his lawyer succeeded. but he did confirm that he reached out to other michigan sheriff somewhat appears to be a related scheme or a related ideas. this is what he told us, quote, i made a phone call to see if there were voting incidents and their counties that could jus

you know, it's kind of hardcore gamers and exercise fans right now on the we're still in berry berry, early day gentlemen. taina presence in the market. a company such as facebook in the past was aggressively trying to copy paste strategies of different competitors buying them. but that won't be possible any time. so in the near future, i don't think that and the regulates in the world, would be just saying, you know what you can go for and it take over in the mean time. is this the reason why he is going into the uncharted territory, which is a matter of us because we know nothing about the laws to be implemented of all the mess of us reality and he's trying to find in each a nice there. yeah, i think that may be a piece of it, but i think it's true a more his vision. i mean you're, you're, you're without a doubt, correct. as you get to be a certain size and scale, when you become a trillion dollar, are near trillion dollar company, you're going to get a lot more attention to you can't be as aggressive, at least overtly. you can't go by your competitors like he did with, with instagr

with the current spike, driven by the owner, kron berry and the familiar sight of crawling qs as thousands are forced to test every day. this follows the announcement of hong kong, toughest isolation measures yet including the closure of places of worship and here dressers of vaccine path mandate for shops. and supermarkets is also been introduced later this month. liter carrie lamb has promised no blanket city locked down, but vowed that hong kong will maintain it 0 co policy. the problem we are phasing is given the magnitude, the pace off and the severity of this 5th wave, it has a oh grown i'll capacity. so the immediate response of the hong kong, as al guffman, now with the support of the central people's guffman, is to enhance the capacities at various la of pots of this antietam, mikka effort. vaccination rates are now rising, especially among the elderly. many seniors were unvaccinated before until now. hong kong had been coping well, but there is growing frustration towards the government's approach. this is insane, but there is no way to reach the cases. one way, the time we achie

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and no more squash brands, berries. that's because robots could as human growing role in fruit and vegetable harvesting the need is particularly great in industrialized countries. because harvest workers, there are becoming harder to find the japanese paper folding technique. origami is also being used to develop robotic applications. it could make the vehicles ultra flexible helping to reach people after earthquakes, for example. today, and we're going to see a lot more robot use in unstructured environments. if you will soon have robots that can recognize their environment and adapt accordingly. a young couldn't get into patient can, can. among the other areas where robots are taking on more tasks is construction. it's one of the last sectors that had manage without them. but the all purpose humanoid robots, a domestic dream, come true. doing all of our chores is not something we'll have in the foreseeable future. he's a man reading a humanoid robot. just doesn't make any sense. think of the immense amount of energy a

as its troops entered separatist controlled areas in the east as ukraine berries it soldier killed in don bass, president laudermill zalinski pleased on the risk of a major war. what shall stratford reporting from easton ukraine, where there has been heavy shilling along the front line? germany puts a brake on the nord stream to gas pipeline, and the u. k. sanctions russian banks to punish the kremlin global oil prices hit their highest level since 2014 after fears of a full blown russian invasion. and it's for the usaa women's soccer team. have reached a landmark equal pay settlement, a multi $1000000.00 agreement, and the 6 year legal battle with the sports national governing body. ah, russia is facing condemnation and sanctions from the west. after president vladimir putin recognized the independence of 2 separatist held areas of eastern ukraine and deployed russian troops there. in the past few hours, germany has suspended russia's new major natural gas pipeline is called the nord stream to. that's what germany's done in response, the project was supposed to double russia's supply

he posted on twitter, saying both he and his wife have the ami con berry and, and are experiencing mild symptoms. he'll continue to work from home while recovering. we had a long week, former us vice president mike pence has criticized his last last saying donald trump was wrong to believe pencil could have overturned the results of the 2020 election. trump pressured pro pence to block congressional certification of results, the amount of to falsely claiming the election were stolen. no idea more on emerg to austria, which is the 1st european country to mandate cove at 19 vaccines for all adults. the noodle officially goes into effect after being signed by the president. but enforcing it will be a challenge. resistance to vaccination is high among a small minority of the population and the threat of random checks and fines looks unlikely to sway them to w fanny for shar reports from vienna. this patient is here for a 3rd shot against corbett, but taking a job is no longer a question of choice. starting today. it's compulsory in austria. sad that noted amendatory vaccination because norm

religious affairs analysts martin as always, thank you or i time to talk about the olympic games. berry, beijing, where germany have one another gold metal in loose thanks to the most decorated german winter athlete of all time. natalie guys and baggage elsewhere on tuesday to new olympic records were set in a single session in the speed skating event. as the dutch team added more metals to their talent, the netherlands continue to clean up in beijing. tuesdays 1500 meters. so weld record holder keel noise retain his olympic title while teammate thomas co collected silva. coal had put himself in 1st place with him. you will impede record only from noise to immediately set one of his own. when he took to the ice moments later, his gold medal was the 3rd one by the dutch skating team so far at the beijing gains. dots dominance in the rink is matched by german dominance of the lose track . defending olympic champion natalie guys, and veg, navigated beijing's devilishly tricky course with composure and after 2 of her rivals crashed on the notorious 13th corner. her path to the top of the po

>> we think we know halle berry.n on movie screens and in our living rooms for 30 years but it was her transformation into the tisha musgrove that was her true breakthrough winning her an act -- and oscar making her the first and only black woman to ever do so. she is hoping for another breakthrough, this one in front of and behind the camera. she produced and starred in "bruised." stripping herself down to play jackie justice. >> the story was so clean in my mind because i had to reimagine it for someone like me. it was not written for a black woman. the world became clear to me. there was a story that was burning inside me to tell. reporter: another actress has crafted a wide-ranging body of work including civil-rights legend, diane nash in selma. >> ms. nash -- reporter: my colleague, deborah roberts sat down. >> is there a different journey for women depending on your tone of skin in hollywood? >> absolutely. it is undeniable. kristen: and you can see scream queens rising tonight at 8:00 right here on abc 7. oh,

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so this is my, this is mike berry, i hope god and you like that. we really want to mention, i mean, we want to mention, i just want to make sure that i, this is my final apartment. you know, that i end up in this i like the fact that it's not finished. it's not then you can say that it's not finished, not even close. i would have been done by now if things i didn't do it any way. it's ok. yes. ok. yeah. but it's not really bad. it's just growing. i think he didn't really get it. the rest my family does not know, he said, i will not tell your mother. ah as long as i make this vessel my vessel and as long as my family knows that i would like to be buried in it. and my family knows it's because of them and their love and support that i'm doing. the ass i made the right decision. ah, i am in iran, the head of a mental health hospital experiments with a bold new treatment. the therapeutic power of love, the prescription romance against all odds. his patience embraced the matrimonial remedy. but can wedlock lead to better well being on his board? the mer

so this is my, this is mike berry hope. gov and you like that or to we really don't wanna mention . you know, we want to mention, i just want to make sure that i, this is my final apartment. you know, that i end up in this i like the fact that it's not finished. it's not fair as you can only when you say that it's not finished, not even course. i wish i would have been done by now. if, if things have gotten better and when it's okay. yeah, it's okay. yeah, but it's, it's not really about us. it's growing i think he didn't really get it. the rest my family does not know who said i will not tell your mother. ah as long as i make this vessel, my vessel as long as my family knows that i would like to be buried in it and my family knows it's because of them and their love and support that i'm doing that i made the right decision with me so alex, i'm from full minutes of practice. ah, to exceed the dream of becoming afghanistan's 1st ever. when to in the pm's, they will have to overcome many mountains come over your path of hope and inspiration, where the light shines. witness on al jazee

crisp pizza dough top with a rotating list of fresh berries tearing atop its and other bay area shops on the list include golden boy in san francisco's north beach, little start in the mission district and zachary's in oakland is also in the top 20. i was checking them out on instagram and they look so darn good. >> do it name. with valentine days three days three days away, pg&e is warning about potential hazards from the loons. utility site the balloons can easily drift up into power lines entry rear and average. last year there were about 280 outages in the bay area linked to metallic buildings. >> if your gift includes a metallic balloon or a mylar balloon, make sure you get away and keep it way down. the power outages around this time from wayward metallic balloons floating into power lines. >> pg&e urges people to keep the balloons indoors whenever possible. he also says no one should ever try to retrieve a balloon that is called in electrical lines. >> very dangerous. >> here is the first alert forecast on this all-important friday with marylee. >> good afternoon. it is friday.

why not have nutella rocky road we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors like the lichon for example. it's something that it took years to come up with to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a ch