. >>> finally, good news if you can never get enough betty white. she'll be hosting a new nbc hidden camera show called betty white's off the rocker. where white will lead a group of seven senior citizens playing pranks on young people. think quick, what is your favorite show, film, anything that betty white has ever done? >> "the golden girls" that's obvious. >> it is. i was kind of looking for a film, but -- >> okay. >> i'll let you off the hook. this note comes to us from wcau nbc 10 in philadelphia. westchester, pennsylvania, kids got a sweet treat for surpassing their goals. students at chester brook academy elementary made human sundays out of their teachers piling on hot sauce and whipped cream. yikes! the unusual indulgence was a reward for the kids who were challenged to read 1,000 books during march's national reading month and the teachers, look at that, they got their just desserts when the kids read a total of 5,000 books. can you imagine it if they read anymore? >> that will be a day they remember. probably the most fun they've had all

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. >>> finally, good news if you can never get enough betty white.ting a new nbc hidden camera show called betty white's off the rocker. white will lead a group of seven senior citizens playing pranks on young people. they should have just started that show today because they would have had a bona fide reason to pull those pranks. >> that's going to be a good show. you tonig don't expect seniors to be doing that stuff. the reaction will be priceless. >> i know. and i love her. i think that she is absolutely phenomen phenomenal. >> she can carry the show by herself. >> if anybody can do that, it's definitely betty white. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned because we have a lot more news coming right up.

betty white will host her own show with a twist.ow senior citizens that pull off jokes on younger people. >> that's revenge. >> off their rockers, the hidden camera's show will air right here on nbc. she's hoping for some more nbc magic. biggest success was nbc's "golden girls" in the late-night 1980s. >> i actually do. >> i still love "the golden girls." emmy winner from "saturday night live" last year. >> you go get them, betty.

she is host betty white's off the rockers. wow.the reality show about senior citizens who play pranks on younger people. okay. >> i like it. >>> all right. get ready to pay more green for chocolate. >> yeah. hershey is raising prices. how much more will it cost. >>> after a week of living free and single, that tweeting egyptian cobra from the bronx zoo is back where he belongs. where he was hiding out when we return. woman: my giant -- they're fantastic. i can't say enough about them. i can go in, get the things i need, and i know i'm saving money. why would i shop anywhere else? at giant, we want to thank you for making us the store you love to shop for over 75 years. this week, look for savings in every aisle, just for you. like whole fresh pork shoulder roasts, 99 cents a pound. and strawberries and blackberries, buy one, get one free. i pay for my groceries, and i look at the bottom of the receipt, i'm like, "yes! i did it!" that works for me. more savings every time you shop, with your giant card. >>> 5:26. welcome back. justi

. >> betty white jokes that she's been off her rocker for years and now she has a chance to prove it. >> a former governor gets ready for cartoon crime fighting. kendis gibson has the latest in this look at hollywood. >> reporter: arnold schwarzenegger is about to get animated! that's the governater on the cover of "entertainment weekly" in his first role since leaving office. schwarzenegger lends his likeness, voice and life story to a superhero who goes from governor to high tech crime- fighter. veteran television actress is embarking on a new hidden camera reality show. in the series, betty white's off her rocker, the 89-year-old will follow senior citizens as they play pranks on younger people. >> young people will rule saturday's big awards show here in los angeles. they're getting the slime ready for jack black who's hosting the 2011 kids choice awards. ♪ >> sunday, reba mcentire helps hand out the 46th annual academy of country music awards on cbs with cohost blake shelton. >> i think i'm going to be ok. i think reba is the one we need to be worried about. >> anything could hap

. >>> on a bright night, betty white, everyone loves betty white.how on nbc called "off the rocker" a group of elderly pranksters going around pulling pranks on younger people. another show "hot in cleveland." she's probably the only 89-year-old on the planet with two comedies. a prankster show featuring betty white. it's coming. >> she's a saucy dame. betty white. >> she's a saucy dame. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil®. here's one story. my name is betty and i'm from miami florida. and i am an animal lover who does rescue. being a foster parent for dogs is very grueling. washing them is the toughest part. it causes a lot of strain on my lower back. i used to take tylenol and now i take advil, and it works quickly and it takes away my pains. [ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil®. hey, i'm troy polamalu, and i owe my great hair to head & shoulders. it gives me a healthy scalp and great looking hair. you making fun of me? no. you making fun of me? yes. [ male announcer ]

we're told the working title is "betty white's off the rockers."he's done many guest roles on shows like "community," but you may know her best for work on "golden girls" in the '80s and the early '90s. >>> hollywood is coming to the bay area. marin county is turning into a hollywood back lot, claim with superstars nicole kidman and clive owen. a production team is currently shooting a new drama. where are they shooting this drama? st. vincent's school for boy. it's about the romance between ernest hemingway and goldman. james gandolfini is producing this film for hbo. >>> all right. so how do you like the gig for jeff ranieri out there in -- >> oh, my goodness! >> why aren't you out there? >> i've got to get his agent. >> what happened? >> exactly. where's my agent, get him on the phone right now. we've got stuff to talk about. it is a busy, busy day. giants, giants, more giants, something about the world champions. we'll do that today. it's opening day in baseball. giants and the dodgers, can anything be better than that? we'll bring you a slice

. >> is betty white off her rocker? her new reality show may be. tonight the series features senior citizens with a golden girl at -- as host. >> coming up, a store that may make you cringe about what comes out of a faucet, the next time you wash your hands. >> a study shows that handsfree faucet's harbor more bacteria than regular faucets. >> george lettis has more. >> washing our hands is one of the more mundane things we do, but a research team at johns hopkins hospital conducted a study that serves as a wake-up call, especially when it comes to those fancy, automatic faucet's invented to improve hygiene. >> what we found was that the electronic faucet's surprisingly grew a lot of bacteria. >> when compared with the old fashioned faucets, the electronic once had 50% more bacteria growing in them, and it grew much faster. the team believes the parts that make up the motion sensor technology are to blame. there are a lot of little grooves and folds to the plastic parts, where bacteria can hang out. >> it is an opportunity for it to embed itself an

i will be watching. >> anything that betty white is associated is a winner, i'm sure.es because she was on "the ellen degeneres show" and trying to explain how her 4-year-old ate x-rated candy. >> this is a moment not a big deal but for the paparazzi. katie holmes can't go anywhere with her daughter without mob of photographers. little kids pick up things they should n't. here's how katie explained what happened on ellen's show. >> she grabs some gummies that are boy part gummies and i was horrified. >> boy part? >> p-e-n-i-s gummies. >> wins for me. and i should add, carroll, she was in a popular sweet shop that caters to kids. wasn't an inappropriate place and tried to get the daughter to put them down in a low-key manner. of course, that doesn't matter when you're katie holmes and then the picture is viral and made you snort so apparently it's entertaining. >> when she spelled that word made me laugh. >> she is used to having the kid around, i guess. >> a.j. thank you so much f. you want information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j. has it toni

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i heard that you didn't -- [ laughter ] -- i heard that you didn't let betty white win. >> jimmy: bettyyed better, she would have won. >> here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ go ahead. >> jimmy: i'm looking at you, hyundai. let's do it. move the bucket. [ cheers ] oh. oh, come on. [ cheers and applause ] >> all right. >> jimmy: butter fingers, up there. ♪ [ audience ohs ] [ cheers and applause ] like a ringer. you're like a ringer. >> i'm ahead. >> jimmy: ridiculous. come on. here we go. >> one-zip. ♪ >> jimmy: what is wrong with you people? [ laughter ] gosh! >> all right. >> jimmy: they hate me up there. i don't know what -- knocking them out of the bucket. ♪ [ cheers ] what? who threw that? >> you put -- >> jimmy: yeah, who put his hand out? >> watch it, buddy. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: small people. be nice. >> thirty-zip. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> all right. >> jimmy: yes! ♪ we are the champions i'm talking about me as plural -- ♪ my friends [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers ] ♪ >> jimmy: the first ever -- >> great job. >> jimmy: -- james franco! [ cheers and applaus

. >> reporter: like betty white in the body of a youthful sprite, wiig's real-life sweetness amps upedy in edgy circumstances. her bed fest with jon hamm for example. wiig wonders about her mother watching this. >> this is so awkward, i really want you to leave but i don't know how to say it without sound like a [ bleep ]. >> it's a sex scene. it's gross. >> reporter: this was her first kiss on film with billy crud. >> i do remember asking the director. because i didn't know, do we like really kiss? is it like full tongue and stuff? he was lake no. >> reporter: that come up at all during "bridesmaids"? >> yeah, but i have learned that people do kiss with their tongue in movies. you're just going to use this part, aren't you? >> reporter: i didn't know this. who does it? >> you can see it sometimes. you can see. >> reporter: "bridesmaids" even has wiig discretely without clothes. you disrobed for a movie without being asked to do it by the director? >> yes, yes. that's how i -- that's how i do it. >> reporter: you do optional nudity. >> yeah, if he asks me to do it, i would be no. >>

betty white still getting laughs at 89.t running one of the world's biggest businesses at 80. and new jersey senator frank lautenberg still going strong at 87. but linsey davis found a school teacher from senator lautenberg's state who has them all beat. >> reporter: growing old gracefully is nothing new to agnes zhelesnik. she's had 97 years to learn. >> today we are making banana bread. >> reporter: "granny" is what everyone calls her and this is how she spends most of her time. >> putting a teaspoon of vanilla in here. >> reporter: a dash of energy, a pinch of persistence and an extra dollop of work ethic. >> whenever she makes a recipe, she adds one little touch which is love to it. >> reporter: mix it all together and you have the woman who's believed to be the nation's oldest full-time teacher. >> ready to work today, gran? >> i sure am. >> reporter: a discovery her daughter made when she recently filed her mother's taxes. >> they said, "she still has a w-2 form?" i said, "yes." she said, "well, when was she born?" i

they forget, you know, i couldn't move my hips and dance like betty white when i was 30.'s one of those unusual people, but i don't think there's anything in popular culture that accurately reflects the lives of old people because it's a downer, and even not in popular culture, the hbo production, alzheimer's project, the first real tv series to really examine alzheimer's and produced by maria shriver's father who just died from it and there's a lot wrong with the series because it presented only nice long term care facilities or it was horrifying enough, it did accurately show what people in the last stages of alzheimer's are like, but there was always a caretaker, a home, a woman -- there was nothing in that about the people who have no caretakers in the late stages of alzheimer's. people who are not in a nice nursing home, whose life savings have run out and are in nursing homes in medicaid, and i've done articles on those nursing homes, and they are not nice places. in a way, it shows the worst case individual scenario. there's always a caretaker. there's always a wom

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betty white is one of those unusual people but i don't think there is anything in popular culture that accurately reflect the lives of so people because it is a downer and even not in popular culture, the hbo production alzheimer's project which is the first real tv series to really examine alzheimer's and produced by maria shriver of course whose father recently died of it. there was a lot wrong with that series, and one of the things wrong with it was, it presented only nice long-term care facilities or people -- it was horrifying enough. it didn't accurately show with people in the last ages of alzheimer's are like. but there was always a caretake. there was nothing in that about the people who have no caretakers in the late stages of alzheimer's. people who aren't in the nice nursing homes, whose life savings have run out and are in nursing homes on medicaid and i have done articles on nursing homes when i was angry and they are not ice places. and so it did not in a way, show them that the worst-case individual scenario. you lose your life but there was always the caretaker. it wa

. >>> so betty white is at it again. >> well apparently there's a new survey that says -- new researchr-old betty white. she has a new show. it's a reality show for senior citizens. what's it called? "off their rockers." >> okay. so she does gags on older people. >> you have to be a little careful. people can -- there are pacemakers and things involved. but nobody -- >> older people prank younger people, okay. >> she's not cranking -- that's even better. that's good. >> that is good because you just don't expect that. that's excellent. >> and her other show called hot in cleveland -- >> what is it? >> hot in cleveland. who is hotter than betty? we love her. a woman took umbrage because a lot of people put up basketball stands, hoops, in their yard or something. this woman wilmington, delaware, lady -- >> she's had it up for a long time and they pass add city ordinance saying you can't have a basketball hoop or a tree or anybody within like seven feet of the street. in protest she stayed up there on top of her basketball hoop. the city came in and knocked that baby right down. so the de

terms early on today the president says they should expect another afternoon summons to the white house. betty? >> joel, so break it down for us. how much of this back and forth is about economics and how much of it is about politics? >> well, both sides know that americans are concerned about the debt and the deficit. they agree on budget cuts. they just don't agree on how much, but there's plenty of politics in this as well. conservative republicans are insisting that these budget negotiations include certain policy restrictions like defunding the health care law and cutting funding for planned parenthood and holding gop leaders' feet to the fire. >> thank you, joel, we appreciate it. >>> in japan officials plan to inject nitrogen gas into one of the reactors at the crippled fukushima power plant. nitrogen can prevent hydrogen from exploding. there have already been three hydrogen related explosions at the power plant. meanwhile it is reported that u.s. engineers in japan report the problem in japan could last indefinitely and get worse. among the threats reported by the "new york times," th

betty, good morning to you. with suggestions from the white house that gadhafi's inner circle is crumbling around him, we saw libya's leader on state television last night in what appeared to be another bid to hold on to the loyalists he still has. these cheering supporters refused to leave moammar gadhafi's tripoli compound, so they can stay on as human shields. >> we are not surprised with the no-fly zone. we will always protect our leader. >> reporter: on state tv thursday the ruler released a statement saying he's not the one who should go. but that's exactly what rebel forces are demanding. they fired rockets to try and retake the oil town of brega. still their weapons proved no match for gadhafi's better-equipped troops. officials estimate about a quarter of gadhafi's forces have been knocked out of action. but still have a 10-to-1 advantage over the rebels. >> what the opposition needs as much as anything right now is some training, some command and control, and some organization. >> reporter: on capitol hill thursday, top military leaders acknowledged the rebels need help. but said if anyone is going to arm

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betty. you know, this bargaining on the budget has been a nonstop back and forth between the capitol and the white house. but still, the first government shutdown in 15 years is now closer than ever. president obama says he needs an answer this morning from congressional leaders working to avoid a government shutdown at midnight. >> my hope is, is that i'll be able to announce to the american people sometime relatively early in the day that a shutdown has been averted. >> reporter: it was another all-nighter for congressional aides, still trying to reach a compromise on federal funding for the final six months of the fiscal year. the president says his fourth meeting with house speaker john boehner and senate majority leader harry reid last night yielded progress, but still no deal. >> we haven't settled issues in 40 years. we're not going to settle them in a few hours. >> resolve this issue now and make certain that we resolve it in a way that no member of our armed services or their families is harmed by the decisions that we make. >> at least protect our military, who are serving in afghanistan

than promised, apple says making the white casing for the phone was more challenging than first thought. it will sell for $200 to $300, depending on the model. betty, i'm sure a lot of people will be looking forward to getting that, finally. >> absolutely. all right, ashley joining us live here in new york. thank you. >>> straight ahead your thursday morning weather. and in sports the wild shots were flying as the spurs try to stay alive against the grizzlies. [ male announcer ] there's a place where everyone feels at home. where the company, the conversation, and the food make all who enter feel welcome. a place that feels as warm with a crowd... as it does with just a friend. it's a place you'll find town house crackers. because they're part of what makes your place the place. ♪ welcome to town house. where good times reside. >>> here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. new york, thunderstorms, 73. miami, partly cloudy, 90. chicago, light rain, 50 degrees there. dallas, it's going to be windy with 73 degrees. l.a., a sunny 81. >>> time now for a check of the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows a fast-movi

cbs news correspondent whit johnson is at the white house with much more on this. good morning, whit. >> bettywell, here we are again. it's already taken six short-term measures to fund the government so far. lawmakers in the white house are now working on a seventh and all sides hope this one will last the rest of the year. >> both sides are close, though. and we know that a compromise is within reach. >> reporter: that compromise, according to democrats, is in the ball park of $30 billion in cuts to this year's budget. half of the $60 billion republicans passed in the house more than a month ago. >> after a few weeks of negotiations between democrats, republicans, and my team at the white house, it appears that we're getting close to an agreement. >> reporter: not so fast says house speaker john boehner. >> there is no number. there's no agreement on a number. we're going to fight for the largest spending cuts that we can get. >> reporter: if an agreement can't be reached by the end of next week, the government will shut down for the first time since 1996. essential government services like

betty's brother. very good. >> next, live. your calls and comments on "washington journal." then remarks by e.p.a. administrator lisa jackson. then a white house forum on energy security. >> what i try to do is tell a story with visuals instead of words. i'm basically writing stories with images. >> carol guzy has won the pulitzer more than any journalist. >> i think the great thing is we get to experience so much on so many differental levels. >> you can download a podcast of q & a. it's one of our many signature programs at c-span.org/podcast. >> this morning nicholas from the heritage foundation looks

analysts say the white house could be under more pressure now to buckle to republican demands for big spending cuts, this is even before we get to the debate over raising the debt ceiling, betty? >> all right, susan mcginnis in washington for us, thank you, susan. >>> the pentagon has cleared army general stanley mcchrystal of any wrongdoing. this stemming from a rolling stone magazine article that cost him his job as top commander in afghanistan last year. the pentagon said it could not confirm that mcchrystal's staff made disparaging remarks about president oh bbama's national security team and vice president biden. rolling stone said the story is accurate. >>> a key operation is under way to stabilize japan's damaged nuclear power plant. workers are now pumping out high highly radioactive water from the basement of building of the reactor number two. removing 25 tons of contaminated water will give workers more room to repair the broken cooling systems that were knocked out by last month's tsunami. >>> just ahead on "the morning news," yet another air traffic controller incident compromising air safety. plus, the murder of a young woman in canada that may have been caught

like on the south lawn of the white house as you see richard nixon walking out for the final time with then-vice president gerald ford and pat nixon who is there with betty ford. and as she was boarding the plane, it was reported that pat nixon mouthed the words, so sad, this is so sad. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: pat nixon and richard nixon and her imprint on the white house. what is it? >> guest: you know, very stoic, very stoic. she, clearly, and i think the biography that her daughter, julie, you know, did of her really does tell her story better than most can. what a strong woman, how much sacrifice really in her life, but also, in her own gentle way left an imprint on the white house too, and you see a photograph of things that she did and children that she met and ways that she reached out and embraced people that came to visit the white house. what that clip also tells me, too, is really the extraordinary families, of course, that go through the white house but, also, how the white house is able to manage these transitions of different families and different experiences and times in our country, crisis and also times of joy. it stands as that very