. >>> on our people scene people are placing bets on peters to top bette midler in hello dolly. and she has big shoes to fill. bette midler won a tony for the original revival cast and had weekly sales of 2.5 million there's and critics have given their take on peters one saying she is flightful. >>> and still ahead on "action news," at noon another check of the forecast for you as with we look live outside spring mountain at lunch time not a lot of skiers out there kind of soggy and nobody skiing in the rain. melissa magee has the update from accuweather when "action news" continues in a moment. >>> flyers are on a winning streak and they beat the blue jackets. 2-1. claude giroux got his 21st goal of the season and the new goalie had a good game with 19 saves. welcome to the scene. >>> the sixers were back in action taking on the chicago bulls and held on to win a squeaker and ben simmons and joel embiid combined for 62 points, sixers have won six straight. >> sixers looking good? >> yes. >> melissa magee is back way closer look at the accuweather forecast. >> damp and dreary o

bette midler. steve: maybe four hours.eighbor when we need him? your reaction? >> it's really disgusting. by the way i spoke to rand paul last night. did i an interview with him that's going to air on my show on tv on this weekend. we had a chance to have a nice conversation. i have always respected rand paul because he's a person -- he is not a show boat. this is who he really is that's a deep conviction. he went to the senate with. and i respect the fact that he will stand by his stuff, no matter. what and he knows he is not going to be invited to all the cool parties. but, what bette midler did yesterday in the tweet, which she basically wished upon him another attack by a neighbor who blind sided him while he was mowing his lawn with ear phones on and the guy came up behind him and could have killed him. he had six broken ribs. three of them displaced. punctured his lung. i mean, it was a very, very dangerous situation. that neighbor has now been charged with felony assault and here's the thing. i'm sure bette midler t

judge jeanine: the next one is bette midler.d palms neighbor when we need him. >> i'm not going to go there. you had we take out cher last week. i'm not taking out one of my icons. i love bette. when it comes to comedy i follow the joan rivers rule. judge jeanine: she is saying where is rand palms neighbor when we need him. his neighbor beat the hell out of him. he broke his ribs. he lied about what happened in the first place. and she antifa, we want to beat the hell out of them. >> that's why people are tuning them out. judge jeanine: we don't want to tune out the victims of crime. is this woman an icon of yours? chelsea handler. >> no. do we have a picture? judge jeanine: rosie o'donnell, only rosie o'donnell. chelsea handler. in my effort to achieve some level of bipartisanship, my goal this year was to sleep with a republican voluntarily. it's going to be tricky. >> careful what you wish for, chelsea. when i met my husband mark in 2004 he was a raging democrat voting for howard dean. by that summer i had him voting for geor

i bet bette midler doesn't think this even happened.did this happen to democrats, it would be front and center. the story of what happened on the baseball field one-way within 12 days. that's how they treat violence against republicans and threats like this. this is nothing. >> what's her name? >> [laughs] >> midler? >> or chris matthews? >> the problem with the midler thing is that it's a joke. okay? we know it's a joke. let's not forget it's a joke. the problem is we can't make that joke. she can make that joke. a liberal can make that joke that a conservative can't bear that drives me crazy. >> it's not funny then. >> by the way. jokes don't have to be funny. i should know. >> you specialize on that. >> that's the joke. there is a hypocrisy going on on both sides. the democrats not care about deficits. the republicans now don't care about deficits. it reveals how incapable of the political body is at looking at the future, self-preservation comes first. it's so easy for them to switch sides. we should scream about that! we don't scre

what's the bette midler song? sue? blue and green? ♪ >> sue is looking like what?this is the thing. i wonder if all of those people in there, i know it is cold outside. but that many people packed together in the parkway, do you even fl the cold with all of that body heat? >> not at all. so should we check in with bill? >> yes let's do it. >> reporter: i want to tell you something real quick. as you continue to see the steady flow of people coming in, we've done the electric slide, we've shown jerseys, we've done eagles chants. one thing that we haven't done at all is complain. because there are not delays. they're manage to go get this entire crowd in. they're getting into the city. they're moving smoothly. so we're getting a chance to have some fun. mikey thought you would actually get a kick out of this. i was talking to these young laid ills, you told me -- what did you tell me? >> i was waiting my whole life only 19 years but philly deserves it. >> struggling your entire 19 years waiting for a championship. >> reporter: why was it important? why did you guys n

, you are on broadway in the revival of "hello dolly." ( cheers and applause ) taking over for bette midlerhow like this a year into the run. >> bette was magnificent in the role and the cast was fabulous, opposite victor gar bro. but the show is music. every song is glorious. michael stewart wrote the book and he used to write for your season show of shows. and the book is so funny. and it's from thornton wilder. and i'm having a fabulous time. it's a beautiful show, and it's uplifting and light in this world, where we have to get into the light, back into the light. >> stephen: sure. and it's wonderful. >> stephen: well, we could use a little happiness. thank you for spreading it. >> thank you. >> stephen: bernadette, lovely to see you again. "hello dolly" is on broadway at the shubert theater. bernadette peters, everybody. ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) dominika: i saw something i was not supposed to. (music) dominika: they gave me a choice. dominika: die...or become a sparrow. (music) nathaniel: in moscow there's a program, nathaniel: they call them sparrows. trained to seduce

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bette midler, "another school shooting, this in florida. congrats to the spineless cowards who do nothing to help us and this horrific epidemic in congress." and director adam mckay posted "normal person. oh my god, kids are being killed in schools, and churches, and concerts. let's do something. kids are being killed in schools, churches and concerts! let's not do one single thing." author stephen king writes "broward county, broward school shooting, there'll be prayers from blabber mouth don, pence, the grinch, and their rightwing cohorts. there'll be no call for any sort of sane gun regulars." of sane gun regulars." they want to point fingers and blame and use all kinds of vicious, horrificus rhetoric it never accomplishes anything. now, they shouldn't be what these tragedies are about here. people rolling out the same, old, tired talking points and political arguments. liberals start blaming the weapon that the shooter used, in this case, an ar-15, but if they want to ban ar-15's, these mad men will use something else. we saw that atha

bette midler, another school shooting. this in florida.rats to the spineless cowards to ho do nothing to help us end this horrific epidemic ie congress. kids are being killed in schools, churches, concerts. let's do something. republican congressman kids are being killed in schools and churches and concerts. let's not do one single thing, #blood on your hands at g.o.p. and at nra. author steven king writes broward school shooting, there will be prayers from blabber mouth don, pence in the grinch and their right wing cohorts. there will be no call for any sort of sane gun regulars. they want to point fingers and blame and use all kinds of vicious rhetoric it never accomplishes anything. now, they shouldn't be what these tragedies are about here. have you people rolling out the same old tired talking points and political arguments. liberals they start blaming the weapon that the shooter used. in this case an ar-15. if they want to ban ar-15 and these mad men they will use something else. we saw that at virginia tech where a gunman used a pis