matt and betsy mullener say they plan to visit that purloined teapot often.s news, new york. >> glor: that is the "cbs evening news" tonight. later on cbs "60 minutes." i'm jeff glor, cbs news in new york. scott pelley will be here tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> it's the new movie that has people buzzing. done and what the station manager says is the motive. a popular south bay attractn becomes the scene of a gang >> radio station targeted by vandals. what the station manager says is the motive. >> a popular south bay attraction is the scene of a gang event. >> it would be great to get out there and start putting money in our pockets. >> the bay area's love of crab leaving a sour taste in fishermen's mouths. ,,,,,,,,

. >> you do all of that and then you, what, you get a doll two minutes beforehand, a betsy betsy-wetsy, but it is not horrifying at all. you clear -- it clearly looks just bought. i would have thought to myself, this thing is a set up. the doll is a sham. you can make a scary doll. it is not that hard. that doll looks like it was bought in wal-mart five minutes before. >> you would have scared the girl. >> i would have worried the camera paned down and i would have had a wet spot. >> i would have lost control of my faculties. >> we all think we are smart and i sit there and not moving. >> do i have 10 minutes? >> i have been on the elevator with you when that has happened. >> so do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us. it is red eye at fox news.com. and do you have a video of your animal doing something? go to fox news.com/red eye. click on a video. still to come the half time report with tv's andy levy. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by giant robot. enormous mechanical devices that can be programed to carry out instruction. thanks, giant robot. >>> we are back. to fin

the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman.y our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome to a story that's been unfolding for nearly 40 years, but has gone largely untold, and that's the way the central characters wanted it. they were smart and understood something very important -- that they might more easily get what they wanted from state capitals than from washington, d.c. so they started putting their money in places like raleigh, north carolina, nashville, tennessee, phoenix, arizona, and madison, wisconsin. that's because what happens in our state legislatures directly affects our taxes, schools, roads, the quality of our air and water, even our right to vote. politicians and lobbyists at the core of this clever enterprise figured out how to pull it off in an organized, camouflaged way, covering their tracks while they put one over on an unsuspecting public. this is the story of how and why it worked. ou

good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> gretchen: now, betsy, i understand that this was yourouple of times i thought that is so cool. and has such a neat beat that i think we should do it in exercise class. so i told aneil that let's try it. she hadn't heard of it. she looked into it and found this dance step. that's how we learned. >> gretchen: akneel, you teach classes at this particular residence in phoenix. you seem to me to be slightly younger than some of the ladies that you're teaching. >> just slightly. >> gretchen: 'cause betsy got you on this one. she knew about gangam style before you did. why didn't you know about it? >> that is correct. they are a lot more hip and cooler than i am. i did not see it on tv. >> gretchen: you had to give yourself your own primer on how to do it? >> correct, yes. i didn't even know about what they were talking about. they were just saying this invisible dance horse dance song. i'm like, okay. so i had to look it up on youtube and try to figure out how to do the dance. then brought it to class. >> gretchen: all right. so now you then b

the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. lately i've had phaedra on my mind. not the greek myth of the tragic daughter of that name, but the relling of the story in a 1962 movie starring tony perkins and melina mercouri. their illicit affair over, perkins crashes his cherished roadster over a cliff. a big sendoff accompanied by none other than johann sebastian bach. >> oh john sebastian! you're playing your music like crazy and i'm listening to it in greece! what are you doing here? oh john! why aren'tou home minding the children? i at least had some business in greece! i had a father that killed every phaedra! phaedra! phaedra! >> that scene actually keeps coming to mind as i try to followhe modra in washington that has us heading for a cliff. a fiscal cliff. but are we? or is this, another myth in the making? for some insight, we turn to two seasoned obse

perhaps no one is more shaken here than betsy cork who read the scripture. >> conditioning of israel the lord is in your midst you will have no further misfortune to fear. >> i'm spwnsly proud of everyone in newtown. i'm proud to be from newtown. >>reporter: she grew up with friends who were the first responders at sandy hook elementary but is proud of the way the entire town has responded. >> the people of connecticut people of newtown are showing the world how to live. how to love. and how to love people. >> olivia angle, 6. sandy hook endured 20 deaths of 6 and 7-year-olds. i prosecute pose to you tonight we are in the midst of an evil of biblical proportions. >> i have just been in touch with friends on facebook. i couldn't really watch any of it. >>reporter: pain for her is deep. so many others are also feeling deep sense of sorrow and that's why pastor paul says he organized tonight's inner denominational service of remembrance, healing and hope. >> we don't do it then people do one of two things. either become distant and disengaged or they become harsh and bitter and this is

or does it just come up -- well, why would ert [speaker not understood] be on the list and not -- betsy car michael and schools in the bayview, for example? but i'm just wondering. >> right. there are actually three safe routes to school applications, et cetera, on this list. they do stem from a combination of identification efforts. one is a city-wide identification of project needs and there are also walking audits that are performed by the department of public health and also the safe routes to school members to identify specific projects to be implemented in the near future. >> and the two that i see on the list look like they're build outs and it looks like they cost [speaker not understood] for a build out. that sounds like a lot of money for a build out. i'm wondering if you could talk a little about that. >> as far as the project scope, it is a collection of different scope elements. so, it's not to say that the $500,000 cost is only build outs. but we can certainly provide more details on the scope elements. >> let me add to that, commissioner mar, it's a very good question. th

for betsy there's a close connection to sandy hook elementary. that's where she grew up and still has friends who were first responders to the shootings. she is upset but proud the way the town has responded. pastor organized the service of remembrance, healing and hope to give people a place to share tears. he says that is important to avoid becoming cynical about the tragedy. >>> post office has establish add address you can use to express condolences to the people of sandy hook. you can send letters, care packages, p.o. box 3700, newton, connecticut, 06470. you will find the address on abc7news.com. you can show support to the people of newtown by posting this badge to your facebook wall you can find that on facebook.com/abc7news. stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage of the school shooting tragedy. the abc7 news web team is sending out updates you can sign up for breaking news alerts at abc7news.com. >>> this morning eight people are recovering after being exposed to toxic chemicals, including members of a haz-mat crew. eight people wer

perhaps no one is more shaken here than betsy cork who read the scripture. >> conditioning of israel the lord is in your midst you will have no further misfortune to fear. >> i'm spwnsly proud of everyone in newtown. i'm proud to be from newtown. >>reporter: she grew up with friends who were the first responders at sandy hook elementary but is proud of the way the entire town has responded. >> the people of connecticut people of newtown are showing the world how to live. how to love. and how to love people. >> olivia angle, 6. sandy hook endured 20 deaths of 6 and 7-year-olds. i prosecute pose to you tonight we are in the midst of an evil of biblical proportions. >> i have just been in touch with friends on facebook. i couldn't really watch any of it. >>reporter: pain for her is deep. so many others are also feeling deep sense of sorrow and that's why pastor paul says he organized tonight's inner denominational service of remembrance, healing and hope. >> we don't do it then people do one of two things. either become distant and disengaged or they become harsh and bitter and this is

. >> betsy any and i am speaking as the president of the diamond heights association. prior to the meeting we submitted a letter to your board requesting that you deny the appeal. our board feels that the community out reach and the community plan that met with the community and provided so much opportunity for input we feel that that long and thorough process came up with a really good thought out plan. now diamond heights our western border is right at glen park. and our residents would greatly benefit from the renovations and the improvements. and so we do urge you as association to deny the appeal. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, next, speaker, please? >> good evening, my name is hugh (inaudible) i would like to say something that the project will except some of the park of the project. i mean the moving their tennis court and cut the trees. my point is to this project is substitution of the bad maintenance over this park. i can give you some samples. if you saw all of the chunks of wood, not by... but during the last five or ten years. actually it should be

the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. junot diaz is known to start conversations some folks would rather not have. here he is at a recent conference in baltimore, urging the audience to take a page from jose marti, the revolutionary poet and hero of cuba's independence from spain -- >> you need to cultivate the marti mind. the marti mind is simply that, as much love as i have for my own group, i have for every other group. to take possessive investment in each others' struggles. where whatever's happening to the gay community, is happening to us. whatever's happening in the asian community, that's us. instead of possessive commodified investment in our identities, we need to take possessive investment in our other communities' struggles. >> the life and work of junot diaz contain many worlds, and that makes him all the more worth listening to. his imagin

betsy cooper was 116 years old and lived in a nursing home outside atlanta, where her son, who is 77, said she'd just had her hair done on tuesday morning. cooper was born august 26th, 1896. yeah. when asked her secret to a long life, cooper said, minding her own business and not eating junk food. >> may we all be that blessed, huh? wow. >>> and it was a dramatic, now you see it, now you don't moment, in the show-me state. part of the blanchett bridge in st. charles, missouri, was blasted away in a matter of seconds. 4.5 million pounds of steel. dropping with such force, in fact, it sent waves in the river bank. most of the bridge is being replaced or reconstructed. >>> and sports now. last night's nba highlights. we get those from espn. >> doug kezirian here with your "sportscenter" update. it's fun time in the nation's capital right now. the wizards hosting the miami heat. second quarter, lebron had a triple-double in the game. but the wizards, leading after every quarter. fourth quarter, lebron, cuts the four-point deficit to one. under two minutes to go. wiz up two. kevin saraphin

perhaps no one is more shaken here than betsy cork who read the scripture. >> conditioning of israelhe lord is in your midst you will have no further misfortune to fear. >> i'm spwnsly proud of everyone in newtown. i'm proud to be from newtown. >>reporter: she grew up with friends who were the first responders at sandy hook elementary but is proud of the way the entire town has responded. >> the people of connecticut people of newtown are showing the world how to live. how to love. and how to love people. >> olivia angle, 6. sandy hook endured 20 deaths of 6 7-year-olds. 7-year-olds. i prosecute pose to you tonight we are in the midst of an evil of biblical proportions. >> i have just been in touch with friends on facebook. i couldn't really watch any of it. >>reporter: pain for her is deep. so many others are also feeling deep sense of sorrow and that's why pastor paul says he organized tonight's inner denominational service of remembrance, healing and hope. >> we don't do it then people do one of two things. either become distant and disengaged or they become harsh and bitter and t

it is too bloody, to betsy, let the americans get pulled deeper into it and bided their time and wait. i think there are huge issues with that, moral strategic and otherwise. i get the sense that is where they are heading. >> i think as some point, -- i think at some point, when they started thinking about when they could tell assad it is time to sit down, the also into the realization, maybe we do not have the leverage with that we did. if we tell assad to step down and he says no, where are we? i think it is a car they were not willing to play because it might not be the high suit. >> let me just ask a question on the and the game issue. -- endgame issue. is it possible for alawite officers to stage a coup against assad? they say, he is expendable, but we have our lives to protect. maybe with a two, we could negotiate some kind of deal where our lives and livelihood will not be jeopardized. is that in the cards? >> the short answer is no. i think the assad regime has gotten good at preventing a coup from happening and then figuring everything else from -- everything else out afterwa

but matt and betsies are not just any guests they come bearing gifts. >> it's my pleasure to return thisank you. >> a single cup ceramic teapot with silver trim, an heirloom in the mullener family for 75 years, pilfered from the waldorf. >> i've never been able to use it because it always had that taint about it. >> the taint of -- >> of to the being entirely legitimate. >> the mullener's teapot joins a hoard of waldorf contraband back home safely after years in the cuss tote of light fingered guests. >> that's from 1947, a couple here on their honeymoon. >> an amnesty program says the waldorf's matt sgloldby, the lot el reclaiming some history and collecting marketing tales for facebook and twitter. >> this gives us a chance to shape the waldorf in the minds of the next generation to show them what luxury really is. these knives, this is from paula herald, the broadway producer. >> reporter: just a couple of butter nifls but to paula herald's grandmother a symbol she had been somewhere grand. >> who know, you know, she only went to the waldorf twice, she might have taken all the silver

meet the press was just one of many they had several stories about this now the executive producer betsy fisher martin tweeted this she said by the way we reached out to all thirty one pro-gun rights senators in congress to invite them to share their views on meet the press no takers so you know if these new laws are made at this point it's hard to know what the opposition would even look like. but with very strong views on this subject usually wouldn't even show their faces well oh this is really not a good time for anybody to come onto any t.v. network and start you know defending the possession of guns in the united states you know considering how much grief and sorrow people are experiencing i can kind of understand why these lawmakers would not show face on t.v. and try to defend this position because when something like this happens you know opinion shifts of course when it comes to children's lives and then you know defending the rights of people who want to possess guns and certainly you know something that's a very controversial topic right now and they don't dare raise this iss

they are celebrating and i think there is this idea that everyone is awestruck by and very moved by betsy a lot of heat in the lake something that vision about not really the case definitely stressful trying to find the perfect gift for the perfect person the political comedian dean obeidallah dr victoria taylor psychologist at the american institute for cognitive therapy thank you both for joining us happy holidays to you . all right christmas is just weeks away so time now for a christmas story one that was written in two thousand and five and has now taken off to become an entire industry there once was an elf called the elf on the shelf who shows up in your home after thanksgiving he keeps watch on your family and monitors all the naughty and nice things you do around the house and then takes his observations back to santa seems like a nice story right don if you take a step back and actually think about it it's actually kind of creepy a spying elf that watches people when they think they are in the private and then there's the stick and find a bluetooth enabled sticker designed to he

this morning iawce yes, greg it me me motional about betsy cooper, the world's oldest person passed awayefore women were able to have suffrage and the right to vote. pretty incredittal when you think about the things she has seen across the course of her life. >> greg: what? what are you talking about? >> bob: that is a nice story. >> bob: this is a good christmas story for you out there. eight states that republican governors turned down working poor people for medicaid under obama healthcare bill. duggard says it's 40,000 people working. able-bodied people. they are working and working for. you tight give them medicaid. here is the thing you republicans are never going to understand. you don't get they'd like to see people get help. nine governors, nine republicans 150,000 average citizens not going to get healthcare. merry christmas for the republican governors for all of you. >> dana: now you're back to doing what you did in the election and not give us time to respond. >> bob: this is one more thing. >> eric: do my one more thing. i love dogs. good boy, good girl. check out what the

for betsy there's a close connection to sandy hook elementary that's where she group and still has friendsho are first responders to friday's shooting. she is upset, but also proud of the way the town has responded. >> the people of connecticut, the people of newtown are showing the world how to live, how to love and how to fight evil. >> the pastor organized the service of remembrance, healing and hope to give people a place to share tears he says that is important to avoid becoming disengaged or cynical about the tragedy. >>> the post office has established an address you can use to express condolences to the people of sandy hook. you can send letters, care packages even drawings from your children, p.o. box 3700, newtown, connecticut, 06470. the address on abc7news.com. stay with abc7 news for continuing coverage of the tragedy in newtown. the abc7 news web team is sending out updates, sign up at abc7news.com. >>> eight people are recovering after being exposed to toxic chemicals, including part of a haz-mat crew. eight were rushed to the hospital after being exposed to chemicals from a

. >> something that betsy and i learned overtime, she had more experience with the book publicationsd we worked so diligently writing them. a lot of the archival materials is not always on television. the debut was in 47. >> on radio it was 45. >> one of the interesting things is whenever we are looking at a slight of history is running up against the fact that that may have been on radio and not necessarily television. it's a wealth of material. >> when you were picking these clips, what ended up jumping out at you? you went through the 60th and dare i say, you have been there since the 55th at least? >> 21 years, yeah. >> what was it about when you put this together, that was something you didn't know. >> the way we put it together was organized. we have given a lot of thought of do we want to do this by decades and we wanted to do it gramatically. we have an interesting section on civil rights and the cold war. you see history through the lens of "meet the press" and hear from james and martin luther king. that's all put together in a spot to hear the video and. >> let me play a l

betsy fisher marten tweeted they tweeted to all senators in the congress to invite them to share views. no takers. texas congressman was pretty much alone on sunday defending the nation's gun law saying the tragedy could have been stopped if sandy hook's principal had access to her own weapon. >> i wish to god she had an m 4 in her office so she pulls it out and she had nothing in her hands. she takes his head off before he could kill those kids. >> meanwhile mayor bloomberg argued the nra is not as powerful as it once was. >> the nr a's number one objective this time was to defeat barack obama for a second term. the last time i checked the election results he won and won comfortably. the myth that they can destroy political careers is not true. >> this is going to be a policy debate and potentially political fight that could dominate in 2013. joe lieberman is calling for a restoration of the assault weapons ban, but a national commission on mass violence in the wake of this tragedy. we are keeping a close eye on the news conference that we expect to begin sometime in the next 15 to 20

betsy cooper was 116. her family says she had been sick recently. but she felt better monday. even had her hair done and watched a movie. yesterday she had trouble breathing, and passed away. guinness certified cooper the world's oldest person last year. in case you're wondering, that title now belongs to dina manfer dini, who lives in iowa. she just celebrated her 115th birthday. >>> coming up next, we are hearing from the parents of a young cancer patient taken from a hospital. police say the girl could be in danger. why her mother and dad said they are not the ones ho put her at risk. >>> we're now hearing from the parents of a missing 11-year-old cancer patient. the girl disappeared last week when her mother sneaked her out of the hospital in arizona. authorities say the girl could be in danger. but as miguel almaguer reports, the parents say the hospital put her at risk. >> reporter: 11-year-old emily was last seen with her mother, the young leukemia patient spotted on surveillance cameras walking through an arizona hospital last wednesday at 10:25 p.m. ducking into a bat

for betsy, crossing el camino real is a daily routine. but with a total of six lanes of traffic to navigate here at santa helena avenue, it is no easy task, even though pedestrians have the legal right of way notice that no cars stop and she has to wait for a break in traffic before she makes her move. >> it's really scary because, like, all the cars are, like, going through and you have to, like, wait until everyone goes because some stop and some don't. >> reporter: a few years ago joe smith saw a serious accident a block away at millwood. >> she was going 60 miles an hour and hit her. >> reporter: a teen was critically injured here in 2006. all three of these crosswalks are within a short distance along el camino real, none have any kind of warning signals, and all have had serious accidents over the years. do you think it's safe? >> no. it's not safe. >> reporter: what about the drivers? are they paying attention? >> well, most the drivers don't care. >> reporter: since el camino real is a state highway, only caltrans can make changes

the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. sometimes we can see the universe in a grain of sand, as the old saying goes, but nowadays a graphic chart more vividly reveals the world we live in. take a look at this statistical snapshot of the media ecology that largely determines what you and i see, read, and hear. in 1983, 50 corporations controlled a majority of media in america. in 1990 the number had dropped to 23. in 1997, 10. and today, six. there you have it -- the fistful of multinational conglomerates that own the majority of media in america. what do we call it when a few firms dominate the market? oligopoly. doesn't quite rhyme with democracy. but today, believe it or not, big media is about to get even bigger, unless the public stands up and says "no!" here's the story. the chairman of the federal communications commission -- the fcc, the agency of