it has big ears not just to hear with. they have blood vessels in their ears to keep them cool in the desert like a dog has a tongue, your temperature is 98.6. the elephant has big ears to keep it cool. this animal can go its whole life in the desert without drinking water. it eats scorpions, snakes, lizards. >> without ever drinking water? >> water comes from what he eats. >> it eats insects and spiders that have water in them? >> yes. this is the smallest fox in the world. this fox here, this is -- which is that one? both these, right? okay. the swift fox which is one of the rarest, very endangered in our country. it goes 30 to 40 miles an hour, the fastest fox in the world. full grown, this one right here. they are a very social creature. they take care of the sick, the old and the young first. when you say cunning like a fox, these things are bright. swift foxes in this country, very few people get to see. smallest fox in the world. beautiful animal. this right here, though, this is the largest owl in the world. the eur

. >> gangly, big eared, with a shrill voice and a tendency to laugh before anyone else in the room, few presidents seem more unelectable than abraham lincoln. but his leadership in a time when red states and blue states were soaked in blood makes him one of our most beloved americans. a perfect character for a founding father of the blockbuster, steven spielberg, who sat down with his lincoln, daniel day lewis, and our diane sawyer. >> reporter: fascinated by lincoln since he was a child, steven spielberg always wanted to do this movie. america at its finest, with lincoln as the prism for understanding the delicate balance between dedication and doubt. >> i have this recollection from my childhood, when my uncle took me to the lincoln memorial and you're led into this dark, kind of rotunda, and there is a giant sitting in a chair. >> reporter: what did you see in hi face? do you remember? >> i thought he was looking directly at me. and that was it. >> reporter: i'm trying to imagine the two of you as children. >> we still are. >> reporter: okay, makes it easier, it helps. the boy who gr

the last point is the idea she is not qualified and i doacht trust her -- don't trust her, i have big ears for racial language and i'm hearing them there. this is not a reasonable way. >> i didn't pick that up. the one person they said was unqualified is soto mayor. >> and go to say we supported condoleezza rice it's just susan rice. >> when we come back, the president has a bit of bro-mans going on with john boehner. >> my understanding is material is speaker boehner's birthday. >> i we will talk to senator sanders when we come back. and the elbow of the day of i have to be honest, it's ridiculous today. good luck tryinginging to guess. when alea was born i definitely was not prepared. i just asked myself, "am i doing all that i can, am i doing the best that i can for her?" my whole family was so thrilled and so excited. it was just the start of a wonderful journey. i feel lucky every single day that i have my parents, i have my grandparents and that alea has grandparents and great-grandparents. sometimes they'll joke around and they'll say, " how's our baby, how's our baby?" and she's al

ear must haves. he wore them in rhode island. they were big. >> brian: big ear must haves? >> dana: yes.line. >> bob: get us out of here, please. >> brian: i will. governor, i still think you're right. i think his dad would have beenup set with him. >> dana: don't bring your dad in to this. >> kimberly: bob produces you. >> bob: producing the whole show. >> -->> brian: you are looking for love, an entrepreneur has a way to get a date, right away, at the airport while you wait. that's how dana perino found her husband. >> dana: that is not exactly true. >> kimberly: met her at the airport. >> bob: shuttle flight. 20 minutes long. ♪ ♪ breaking new♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] this december, remember -- what starts with adding a friend... ♪ ...could end with adding a close friend. the lexus december to remember sales event is on. >>> i'm bret baier in washington. big story here, civil war in syria. how involved the u.s. might become. tonight, someone is cutting internet and cell phone service. publicly denying any change, the administration officials are reportedly considering expansion of the u.s

the last point is the idea she is not qualified and i doacht trust her -- don't trust her, i have big ears for racial language and i'm hearing them there. this is not a reasonable way. >> i didn't pick that up. the one person they said was unqualified is soto mayor. >> and go to say we supported condoleezza rice, it's just susan rice. >> when we come back, the president has a bit of bro-mans going on with john boehner. >> my understanding is material is speaker boehner's birthday. >> i we will talk to senator sanders when we come back. and the elbow of the day of i have to be honest, it's ridiculous today. good luck tryinging (vo) now, it's your turn. (vo) connect with the young turks with cenk uygur. >> it's go time. >> he went the and talked to his donors. he thinks president obama won the election and we have stap of it. >> the president's captain capain did was focus on certain members of his base coalition given extraordinary financial gifts from the government and then work very aggressively to turn them out to vote. >> all those gifts he gave the constituencies. ly hissed hispanics

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he's the tall guy with the big ears. richard, good to see you in person. have bigger here's in real life. richard and i are old friends. this time it is more of a fill in the blank. so the election is over, now it gets interesting because of what? richard, you have traveled all this way to join me in new york, so you go first. 60 seconds as you start it on the bell. >> 60 seconds on now it gets interesting because. now, ali, it gets interesting because nothing has changed. just think about it for one moment. the fiscal cliff remains, and the united states is getting ever closer to going over the edge. but worse than that, the european sovereign debt crisis continues. greece still hasn't had its latest trench of money, the situation in spain is deteriorating, china is slowing down. and as carl younger said in europe, everybody knows what needs to be done, whether it's in europe or the united states. everybody knows what needs to be done, they just can't get reelected if they do it. worse than that, if they actually do it, they could find themselves to be in

ross perot, the guy with big ears, i like them. so it's got to pass the laugh test and not just a moment it happens but between now and the next several election. the t.a.r.p. bill wasn't hated -- >> let's take a look, stick with your last test. so i hear in what you are saying considerable. i hear you saying that republicans should not negotiate with themselves, should push for the best deal that they could get, but you aren't here as a dead individual by not saying that people should go off the cliff speed is two things. personal, if, we have the same conversation were having a we had two years ago when addressing fiscal cliff two years ago and obama decided he didn't want to damage the economy because he was up for reelection and all the tax cuts were extended for two years. same players, same chessboard, democratic president, democratic senator extended everything to get because they decided the president wanted to save himself on not damage the economy. his position now, half of them aren't extreme the red states be so i can a

identifies with president obama, because both of her ears stick out. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: big earedi, how are you doing? >> stephanie: good, go ahead. >> caller: i'm a college student, just turned 18 so i got to vote this year. >> congratulations. >> caller: i'm so happy. congratulations, voted for president obama but my comment was what do you guys think about the political genius known as donald trump tweeting all the hate he was putting out there about obama. >> stephanie: his meltdown was on a par with karl rove's. >> caller: i think he liked mitt romney so well because he had the hair do he always wishes he had. >> i posted yesterday a photo that someone sent me, because donald trump tweeted something and deleted i had "he loft the popular vote by a lot and won the election. we should have a revolution in this country." right below calling donald trump a tool is an insult. for anyone who wanted to see the post that donald deleted, it's still out there. >> stephanie: we were saying something has really gone full circle when bill crystal approaches being right on anything. we are

big data. it is nausea. it is your inner ears won't work, your eyes become out of shape, don't see quite as well when you're in space that long. they have to know if we're going to go eight months out, eight months back, what will happen to these men and women that might go to mars. >> i'm curious how they trained for it. i want you to join me in your nonplusness with leroy chow. >>> coming up next, eight years after his death, yasser arafat's body being removed from the ground. find up what investigators will do to determine whether he was poisoned. first, quick check of the big board, the dow in the red, down 76 points here. hour and a half away from the end of the training day. investigators back at work like so many of us after your thanksgiving holiday. as you know, all eyes on congress and the looming fiscal cliff. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 when i'm trading, i'm so into it, tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 hours can go by before i realize tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 that i haven't even looked away from my screen. tdd#: 1-800-345-2550 tdd#: 1-800-3

over the centuries everest has beckoned thousands of mountain ears experience and amateur big was first climbed by a british expenditure in in one thousand fifty three and to get third twenty nine years for soviet climbers to conquer the sun it however they did it in style choosing the hardest rude on the southwestern ridge and to these day no one has yet to a bit of this period there that's where. for us it was a dream come true the peak of our climbing careers here we didn't know what to expect as we hadn't had any experience of reaching peaks higher than seven and a half kilometers it was a real challenge for us and for all the climbing community as we climbed by one of the hardest groups and that was all thanks to our great team back home we were cheered like a limpid campaign. was a big challenge especially the difficult roads there are so why was there. despite more than four thousand people climbing everest so far there are still thousands more who dream of doing it and as the mountaineer is themselves say once you've done it your dream of repeating it that's was ill or not on th

ears. stocks rallied big following word of progress in congre's fiscal cliff negotiations. yeah, i will believe it when i see it. after tumbling in early trading the dow rebounded more than 200 points, closing up 10 points. see what happens when congress stops screwing things up? i don't know. we'll see. >>> disney joining a wave of companies increasing their annual stock dividend. the company will raise the stock cash payout by 25% to 75 cents a share. disney is trading up slightly of a hours on the news. >>> shares of costco leaped more than 6%. the company beat expectations for november same-store sales and announced it will pay out a special stock dividend, $7 per share. >>> now to our top story night t could be a total game-changer for pensions and municipal creditors. thenation's biggest public employee pension fund, calpers, is preparing to sue the bankrupt city of san bernardino, california, since that city stopped making payments to the pension fund. calpers says the city already owes the fund almost $7 million since filing for bankruptcy in august, on august 1st.

it's quite big now i mean they called for a weeklong sit in on to her ear and really we can see probably about thirty or forty tents is not as big as we've seen before but still quite significant and they said there was a march today led by the opposition forces to the judicial buildings against this document which which removes powers from giving awarding them to the president and what we're seeing really is a unique opposition forces uniting around this anger towards this document and really coming together and actually organizing themselves the first time in quite a long time so i think it's quite significant even though the actual numbers and the here are quite small right now what about the president and indeed his supporters how are they reacting to these latest events. well what happened to days when this protest against this constitutional declaration actually arrived at the high court of justice the supreme court of justice they were met by go. what people are saying are pro brotherhood or brotherhood members who attacked the protest as the meeting was actually taking place in t

. >> i got shot in the head years ago, and see that big old hole in my ear there?llet came out. the bullet went in right here underneath my right eye and come out my left ear. this window here is up higher than the wall. i remember when i first come up here on this unit, i look out there and seen a car down the street. just it kind of dawned on me. damn, there is a world out there. it's been so long since i'd seen a car. >> but stafford has now left his cell with a view for the intensive detention unit. where he will be locked up. the disciplinary board has found him responsibility for the stabbing of pat ellerman. >> get the blood out of my shoes. that's -- becauseon my shoes. >> two weeks after his brutal stabbing, ellerman has returned to general population. >> i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight. he won the war. >> stafford received a year in the hole, despite ellerman's refusal to cooperate with the investigation. it's all part of the convict code. >> i'm a convict. you don't tell nothing. >> why? it is. i mean, i got to live here the rest of my l

. >> don't be fooled by the big, googly eyes, soft ginger hair and freakishly human-looking ears.s monkey is powerful! not that powerful. >> there's an adorable monkey as -- at the san francisco zoo that everybody believed was the good luck charm for the giants to win the world series. they named it after sergio romo. the monkey's name is going to be romo. >> that's a great idea. so creative. so inspiring. so -- obviously a rip-off of another baseball team. >> they're trying to steal our theme. >> yes, the rally monkey, the official mascot of the los angeles angels for the past 12 years. he's adorable. >> where does the rally monkey live? >> on the big screen. [laughter] >> put it in like movies and the place goes crazy. >> hmm. wait a minute. what are you talking about? we don't see a monkey -- oh, my god, he's going to stab that woman! >> how'd the angels do last season? they didn't get to the playoffs. >> if it can't get you to the series, what good does it do you? >> i guess it didn't do any good. >> it's all about romo! >> i think it's sad. don't you think it's sad? i was lik

. >> i got shot in the head years ago, and i got a big old hole here behind me ear. the bullet went in underneath my eye and come out. >> i looked out there and seen a car going down the street. i thought, damn, there is a world out there. it's been so long since i seen a car. >> but stafford has now left the cell with a view to the detention unit where he'll be locked up. the disciplinary board has found him responsible for the stabbing of pat ellerman. >> got the blood out of my shoes. that's why i stopped fighting because i seen blood on my shoes. >> two weeks after his stabbing ellerman has returned to general population. >> i was stabbed ten times. i think i won the fight, he won the war. >> stafford received a year in the hole despite ellerman's refusal to cooperate with the investigation. it's all part of the convict code. >> i'm a convict. you don't tell nothing. that's just the way it is. i mean i've got to live here the rest of my life. i don't want anybody thinking that i'm weak, that i'm going to talk, that i'm going to say anything about anything. i'm no

and these earrings, with the holiday season coming up. >> such a big trend, too.bic and there's some fabric in there. but it is $42. >> now, i live in boots. i love them. we could use them right now. it's cold out here. >> and the equestrian look never goes out of style. it's a great look. these are from bamboo. and they're $30. >> oh, my gosh. that's fantastic. >> we really found items that say luxury but don't have that price. >> and these items, these aren't sale prices. these are the regular prices. kate dimmock, thank you very much. "people stylewatch" is on newsstands right now. and to buy all of the items you just saw, go to our website goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! >>> coming up, linsey davis is getting a beauty treatment on her face. a special facial. >> live and in hd, this is an abc 7 news update. >> good morning. it is 8:27. i am cynnÉ simpson with your local news update. from the dnc chairman, he says make a second attempt to virginia. governor of top adviser to bill clinton and hillary , he ran for governor in lost the primary. president obama spe

. >> now wearing ear phones with big chunks of metal up against my here's. >> stephanie: all right, we'reek. 1-800-steph-12 toll-free from anywhere. fortunately, we have a pre-holiday street. [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> announcer: karl. >> stephanie: karl frisch from bullfight strategies. what are you doing here? >> i'm here in town for the victory fund for the annual lgbt leadership, so i'm in town for that. i have not been in studio since you started in current so i wanted to plant a flag. >> stephanie: yes, so festive. we haven't seen you since the big--well, the big victory parties. we're all having big victory parties. >> there is nothing bad that happens on election day. >> stephanie: let's review. >> it's the only thing if you're mitt romney, i actually was laughing my tail off watching the republicans castigate romney. it's kind of like blaming a chamaeleon for being green for its surroundings. >> stephanie: we'll get to this. but his adviser bragged about losing the poor and minority voters to obama. he said it was basically the victory for romney because he won the right kind of voters. >>

peplum going into winter and fall, a great dress by mark by andrew mark, the earrings and bracelet are kendra scott. >> beautiful. big round of applause. denise, you can join your friends. >> and our second lady is nicole jordan, 37 from lexington, kentucky. she has had the same look for, as she says, way too long. she jumped at the opportunity to get a whole new look. let's listen to her story. >> okay. first time in new york city. >> right. >> so, what kind of look are you going for here? >> what kind of look? i guess anything different than what i'm looking now. >> and you're single. we have a lot of men watching here. what are you looking for? >> i just want a man with a job and doesn't live with his mom. >> i think we will find that after this makeover. okay. are you ready to get a little glam? >> i am. >> how hard can it be to find one of those? she is here with her sister, kim, friends angie and mark. keep on the blindfolds, one last look at nicole before and bring out nicole jordan. my god, wow. >> you guys take off -- stay right there. and take them off. >> she's gonna freak. >> turn around, nicole, take one

big race. >> craig melvin, you're still getting earfuls i suspect, thank you very much. thanks for being there today. >>> and will the marathon controversy have any impact on mike bloomberg and also on his endorsement of president obama, that's next. plus, the networks of nbc, universal are hosting a benefit, a concert for victims of hurricane sandy. hosted by the "today" show's matt lauer with performances including bruce springsteen and bon jovi and billy joel and many others. money will all be donated to the red cross and starts at 8:00 eastern on the networks of nbc including msnbc. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds good. it's amazing what soup can do. >>> with new york city mayor michael bloomberg under fire for green lighting the marathon, is his endorsement going to help or hurt the president? will it make any

the lights on and i want to take your attention to the far side and there will eare some generators back there. you have two big generators and we have been hearing them working this morning ever since crews have been out here with that area blocked off. i asked the gentleman down there when they could be turned off and he said he i don't know but he was trying to get somebody out here to talk with us. it all started at 9:30 last night and there was an explosion in the basement of city hall. it set offspring letters and -- off blinkers -- sprinklers and they needed to get pg&e out to address the problem because it was a high voltage area. >> we can't get anybody inside there to cut the power off because it is a high voltage area. >> they did address the problem. we are told there were multiple sources and they been working into the basement. they do expect business to be conducted as usual. they are trying to filling out how to get the power back online and i was told the light flickered overnight when they were trying to do that work. the work is ongoing and we don't have any idea when it should be finished. t

>> no, you actually had people come up and whispered in my ear, hey, by the way, i'm a big fan.they don't want anybody to know. >> i like the fact that they weren't sirly. it didn't seem like they didn't like you. >> they just won the election. >> bill: goodwill? >> yeah j if they had lost -- now, how extreme was the crowd going to that show? >> well, inside the show, you would have people applauding about jokes about the palin children. that's how extreme it was. you would have people making jokes about white power and mormonism and really vicious, vial hateful things. >> are you comedic license but i think you cross the library and the crowd eight -- ate it up. the crowd is not that intelligence. the guy was talking about how great fema was. everyone is clapping about fema everybody in new york has no power. no food, no water. it's crazy. >> bill: all right. jesse watters, everybody. making friends wherever he goes. when we come right back, is it legal tis the season there after the nativity scene again. you knew it was going to happen. legal is next. i was having trouble gett

the big companies have cash coming out of their ears. the reason they're not deploying it has nothing to do with regulation in technology. it has to do with the fact that consumers are broke. and we need to start stimulating that. >> consumption has gone up much faster than investment. that's simply wrong, henry. look at the numbers. the fact is that the volatility of the so-called tech sector, which used to be three times that of the index when they were aggressive entrepreneurial compani companies, is now flat to the index. we don't have tech sector in the s&p. what we have is mature consumer businesss who operate like quasi-monopolies -- >> but jim lacamp -- >> sitting in tech is just waiting for apple to turn into sony. >> jim lacamp, i know you sound very pessimistic but a lot of times down through the years you're buying. and i want no know what you're buying because i know you're getting ready to buy this correction. what are you going to buy? >> i am going to buy, larry, but i'm not going to buy yet. we've seen some damage in the

ear. it's a big moment. it's really an honor to join this program. >> you're in a great place and we are thrilled to have you. and we'll hear more about you a little later. >> i'm a little worried about everything you'll learn about me, but hopefully you'll stay with us. we do have a lot to get to. we are covering two big stories, of course. there is the countdown to election day and the aftermath of hurricane sandy. >> right now, this region is still reeling, but starting to make progress five days after hurricane sandy hit. today, gas rationing begins in new jersey, while people across the eastern seaboard are still trying to pick up the pieces. if they can get gas to move somewhere. can it be done? can new york city do anything to avoid ending up being under water again? we've got it covered. >>> also, important tips for you on how you can clean up from the storm and make sure you're ready before that next big one comes along. >> later on, some of new york's most famous natives held a telethon for hurrica

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. >> it was, as the vice president whispered in his ear, a truly historic achievement. >> this is a big> but the victory served notice to republicans that if this president didn't get their help, he'd still get things done. big things. republicans vowed to fight him every step of the way. >> over the past week, some have said it was indelicate of me to suggest that our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny president obama a second term. >> stop cap and tax! stop cap and tax. >> meanwhile, across the country, a new political force was mobilizing, the tea party movement, who aimed to push the government further to the right. >> stop spending money, now. >> in the 2010 midterm elections, the republicans, many backed by the tea party, won the house and weakened the democrats in the senate. most of these freshman came to washington now, not to meet and negotiate, but to demolish a government they saw as bloated, rotten, tyrannical. >> the reason we came here, the new freshman are here, is because the american people said, enough. >> can you hear us now? can you hea

big risks and uncertainty. washington already has a good ear into what wall street is thinking, that the fiscal cliff is a barriertheir business and that a solution is needed. but what the president wants to know is how business leaders across more consumer facing industries think the problem as well as a solution would impact every day americans. the list of 12 ceos said to be compiled by the white house crosses multiple industries from etna to xerox. what they want is not a one-time meeting but a dialogue over this. >> all right, kayla. thanks so much. so why is such a key group left out of the conversation? with me now in an exclusive is the president and ceo of new york community bancorp. nice to have you here. >> d did you get the invitation to the white house? >> no, the mail was a little slow due to sandy. >> serious l the banks are not invited. is this a concern that one key part of the economy is not involved in the conversation? >> i think it's fundamental. without money, you can't create jobs. the single best source of money is banking. so even though the other corporations that are there need to spend

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some 80s showing up ear near the coastline some record- breaking heat possible as this big dome of highure sits overhead. that's going to crank these temperatures up with that offshore wind so record- breaking heat looking likely toward the latter part of the day. temperatures running 2 to 3 degrees above previous records but big changes after that. around the state nice, as well. 86 degrees in redding. 80 sacramento. 64 lake tahoe. 79 in yosemite. we have some big changes coming up in the next few days, maybe we start talking about some snow. how about 83 degrees today in san jose? about 80 in half moon bay. that would be something else. 79 in pacifica. good beach weather there. 80s showing up in many of the valleys as high as 82 in napa and about 85 degrees in pleasanton. inside the bay 81 in san francisco. that would be a record. about 80 in oakland. and about 85 degrees in santa rosa. next couple of days some of the nicest days of the week. then we cool down quite a bit wednesday. thursday and friday chance of showers returns. cold enough that we could see a couple of snowflakes on