you, ladies. >> bing is a big hit. >> bing is a big hit.d this "a very terri christmas" at the mirage, i wanted to bring back those bing crosby, perry como christmas specials. we basically recreated that entire format on stage. i knew bing crosby had to be a part of it. >> you keep vicki in the trunk. we'll be back with more of "today" on nbc. >>> we are so thankful in these tough times so many individuals and companies have stepped up and come forward to help us get toys and gifts to needy kids in our toy drive. so far more than $25 million worth of holiday cheer has been sent to nearly 200 family charities. >> some are dedicated to helping homeless families cope with everyday life. bob and laura monaghan, founders of up with baby strollers are here. >> you have three children of your own. >> yes. >> tell us what you're doing for us. >> we are happy to partner with the "today" show toy drive and donating $200,000 worth of strollers to families in need. >> that's awesome, you guys. >> what makes your stroller unique. what makes it work so w

craig: you do bing crosby. geoff: who is that at the door? come non. craig: hello, bing. beads up there right now. geoff: no, no, they are likely to freeze. craig: hey, craig, is it weird that i'm 21 and worried about getting wrinkles? yeah. depends on where you're worried about getting them. parts of your body probably already got them. geoff: what the hell? craig: yeah. this is from vick from cardiff in the u.k.. have you ever been been there? geoff: oh, i love cardiff. craig: cardiff is in wales. it is the country where people talk using only phlegm and is not. -- snot. geoff: chhhhhhhh. craig: i hope the censor isn't from wales. dear craig. i'm moving out of my flat. that's what they call an apartment. geoff: i can't see. craig: oh, dude! oh, man. your hat -- let me just get this for you. geoff: ooh! ooh! [laughter] craig: there you go. sorry, man. that's terrible! there you go! geoff: that was quite a treat. [laughter] craig: yeah. all right. [applause] vick says dear craig. i'm moving out of my flat. should i tell my flat mate? that's what they call their roommate.

craig: you do bing crosby.

. >>> coming up, is binge drinking contagious? yes, it is one of the many things you can catch from bill, wasted bill. >>> now you can vent before you jet. they have created a meet and seek feature that allows frequent fliers to choose whom they sit next to by checking out profiles of passengers who are linked during check in. a company called plainly .com has a similar service and boasts of the benefits of a boeing buddy, quote, you can then make arrangements to sit together on the plane and have a coffee on the ground or share a cab home. why? we believe your fellow fliers are the greatest untapped resource of knowledge and entertainment on your plane journeys. that sounds like the worst thing ever. either way this topic smells like a topic that belongs in the always fragrant -- >> lightning rooooouuuuuuunnnnnd. lightning round. >> jaime, is this an idea whose time has come or time has gone? >> well, at first it was a compelling entry in the 2011 worst ideas list. if you think about it just a little longer, if they added an entr

i wanted to be bing crosby. to get him to sing on the show, the bishop said bing, see this kid?bing crosby turns like this and sings a cappella. the bishop had never had enough. he said your turn. you sing a song. he knew all of the lyrics. i saying pennies from heaven to bing crosby. he crimes in, but here's the punch line. i never told him what he meant to me and i never wrote him a letter or made a phone call. i was too intimidated to say bing, this is how it started for me. you inspired me. i can't thank you enough. i never did that. ten years later. that was a great game. >> we'll be right back. >> what are we laughing at? what kind of a show is this? [ child ] it's so cool! you can put a force field on him and be invisible! [ child 2 ] i call first player. no. i already called it. [ dad ] nobody's playing anything until after we get our homework done. thank you. hello? test drive's not over yet. [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. [ louder ] hello? but we still need your signature. right now during sign then drive, it's never been easier to get the all-new passat, t

and then i started hearing a bing, like bing, bing, bing.iterally five feet away i see this man probably in his late 50s, early 60s, and i look down and i see these two younger hispanic guys kicking him in the head, like, repeatedly, and his head was bouncing off this pole. >> what you saw here today was actually a battery. they were stomping his head. as you see, he was pretty messed up. >> the inmate who was attacked survived because of quick response by staff on the yard. his assailants were sentenced to six months in fulsom's administration segregation unit. some of the most violent gang attacks have taken place here at california state prison corcoran's security housing unit or shu. we visited the shu's now vacant exercise yard, which has been the scene of some of the prison's most brutal violence. >> i can see why fights went on in that exercise yard because it was literally like a cage. there was nowhere for you to go. if you really wanted to take someone out, that was the place to do it. it's literally like the most extreme ultimate

and under dave bing's leadership it's seeing a real renewal.. there's been a lot of attention to a youth movement to creating jobs in detroit. so we'll see if dave bing can avoid bankruptcy in detroit in the next year or two. >> do you think rahm emanuel for president? >> he loves to say that he absolutely has no interest whatsoever, but i would say he's on the short list for 2016. >> mitch landrieu? >> we'll have to see. the fate of new orleans is very tied to the fate of mitch landrieu. >> okay. let's take a closer look at four republican congressmen on the list. paul ryan described as a house republican whiz kid. tim scott of south carolina. kevin mccarthy of california, and jim jordan of ohio.ç we've heard a lot about paul ryan, but who else on the list is do you think going to make it to capitol hill at some point? >> i mean, jim jordan could be a very interesting candidate. he has had a lot of -- he's joined the debate much more in the past year or two. again, a lot will depend on how things play out in the 2012 election and who really e

years go by, bishop show, bing as a guest, i'm going to sit right next to bing crosby, and i used to. they get him to sing on the show. see this kid,ç biggest fan you ever had. go ahead, sing a song. so he turns like this and sings a capella. beautiful. and the bishop hadn't had enough. now regis, it's your turn, you sing a song to bing. he knew all of your lyrics when he was 6 years old. i sang "pennies from heaven" to bing crosby. and he chimes in. but here's the punch line, i never told him what he meant to me. i never wrote a letter made a phone call, i was too intimidated by his presence to say, bing, this is how it all started for me. you were the one who inspired me, who influenced me. and i can't tell you, i can't thank you enough. >> one of the great guys in our business, regis philbin, wishing him the best. >>> the first look at the new issue of "time" magazine. let 's go to vegas. alright, let's do it. let's do it, let's go to vegas. vegas baby! maybe we should head back to the dealership first? vegas! no, this is a test drive. vegas! [ male announcer ] it's practically y

. >>> a new study finds binge eating and depression are intertwined. boston researchers found teenage girls who reported feeling depressed were almost twice as likely to overeat. the study authors say binge eating may be a way the patients try to cope with their negative emotions. >>> a new clue into the minds of autistic children is coming from the blink of an eye. researchers at emery university found children with autism blink more rapidly than other youngsters when watching emotional scenes play out. blinking slows down when we're paying attention. >> theistic children are far more drawn to objects in motion. scientists say knowing what makes an impression on the autistic brain can improve therapies and blinking rates might reveal what's working and what's not. >> scientists have discovered nine new genes they believe fuel a common type of leukemia called cll. more than 14,000 americans are diagnosed with cll every year. about half the time, the blood cancer is aggressive while other patients don't have any symptoms for years. researchers say the n

bing wants to take down 6,000 more by the time his term ends in 2013. these demolitions are a key component of bing's plan to turn detroit around. it's called detroit works. with a sprawling city 139 square miles and few resources for city services, the mayor took the detroit works project as an opportunity to redefine the city's fiscal, economic and social landscape. he began by taking inventory, taking a close look at what detroit really has. demographers have identified at least 100 distinct neighborhoods within the city limits. with that in mind detroit works unveiled its short-term plan classifying the city's neighborhoods by their quality of housing and stability of population. the degree of city services and investment would depend on whether the neighborhood is deemed steady, transitional or distressed. >> we have to get this right now. i mean, we have serious structural problems. as you look at the vacancy of property, as you look at the infrastructure. >> reporter: architect laney hamilton grew up in detroit. his firm compiled the report that

. ♪ >> binge, binge, binge -- >> i know, everybody does. >> eric: well it was great year at the factore thank you for watching. a reminder, if you purchase a premium membership will you receive bill's best-selling book. and bill and dennis is going to santa barbara on february 25th on their tour. tune to to see me at 5:00 p.m. thanks for watching. i'm eric in for bill o'reilly. spent stops here.

according to the cdc, binge drinking among young people has reached epidemic proportions, with 200,000 of alcohol-related incidents and 1,700 college students dying annually because of them. after tracking hundreds of women through their first year of college, "the journal of studies on alcohol and drugs" found a direct correlation between binge drinking and their likelihood of being victims of sexual assault. let me be clear. there will always be just one person to blame for rape and that's the rapist. but just as we educate people on the dangers of driving drunk, as well as the dangers of getting into a car with a drunk driver, we should be aggressively educating people of both genders, particularly young people, on the other dangers involved with excessive drinking, including sexual assault. this ad campaign may have visually missed the mark, but its opponents miss the point. dylan? >> this brings up an interesting dynamic in the whole political conversation, beyond what you just mentioned. which is, it seems that there is a faction of folks that have defined the fact that equality

rick tyler maybe you should have stayed around former spokesman for newt binge rich. >> i have thought about that a lot of times. they haven't gone up for mitt and haven't gone down. they stayed at 25 percent. 23 percent. 24 percent. it does not seem this republican party wants to elect mitt romney to their nominee. the only other person who has gone up and not down and newt he happened to be doing it before the eiowa caucuses. >> he has only had two weeks in the spotlight since thanksgiving. the process takes a little while. >>> oo in terms of getting scrutiny we are taking a good hard look as campaign professionals and trying to say what is likely to happen what is possible to happen. i think what is likely to happen is the responsible electorate in the states you have outlined they take responsibility to make hard decision and cash their ballots or go to the caucus they get serious and give the candidate heart scrutiny. in almost all of those states at least two-thirds of the republicans say they are still amenable to change their minds on the candidates. >> it is dynamic. >> most e

. >> is the dad lip-syncing to "bing crosby's jingle bells"?k of this when i was five? >> well they would have had to shoot it with like tapes and stuff. >> editing the videotape. >> everybody throws away their christmas cards every year. this is something you could save and look back on years later. >> we couldn't afford to send the cards any more. we had to come up with another way of connecting with family and friends. and being a video professional, i decided i've made enough videos for other people, why can't we make one for our own family. >> which is so brilliant. i'm not kidding, where did you do it? how long did it take? >> the current video, i would say there's probably like 600 calls. >> i know because i strung them. >> we usually do it in our living room. you can work around kids' nap schedules and feeding them. and we collaborate with all the kids and let them have their ideas and go crazy in front of the camera. >> your entire family looks like they were carved out of cream cheese. >> how do you keep everybody smiling and getting

bing, bing, fire up the bang.esn't lock good, trace has been watching this, while we have been endying merry making. >>trace: this is ten miles eats of downtown, a big deal, a tanker struck an underpass on the freeway and those would know the 60 freeway it is a major artery running east and west in los angeles, a key route to get into orange county or out of on county and as you could imagine it is should down, now, and for the foreseeable future. what you cannot see, this is under a bridge, and firefighters are just now starting to get close, for a couple of reasons. one, because there are wires above, you can see them barely going across there, there are wires above this and, too, this has been burning for the better part of 15 or 20 minutes and the integrity of the bridge is also being called into question, so when they get the fire out, they are not going to be open the friendship for several hours, maybe days. until they figure out if that bridge is stable or not. >>shepard: we don't know about injuries? >>tr

. >> greta: he did hit back on one thing, whether romney should refund the money he made bing capitalthey criticized for not fighting back, then he did fight back, they hit him over the head. >> that was a fiasco for him, he attacked romney in the terminology of the left. they say we don't fight like that. >> greta: romney attacked him in terms of whether he had taken money from freddie mac and he attacked romney for taking money from bing. >> he admitted, meaning romney, he got under my skinned and i shouldn't have said that. it works out badly when he tries to fight back. >> greta: are you surprised someone is going to top to the iowa is going to be a surprise? >> looks like ron paul could do very well. he could possibly win. we could see four or five candidates within six or eight points of each other. it could kind of a muddled result. i was there friday at a rick perry event. i go up and ask people have you chosen a candidate. first six people said, no, haven't decided yet. they feel like they have plenty of time to choose. >> greta: wild guess, i think senator santorum may be a

a lot. >> bing crosby, david bowie?1975. you can find it on youtube. >> please, i'd love to find it. >> should i save you for last? >> yeah. >> i have two unusual movies. >> save those. >> kimberly, your favorite movie? >> i really loved "miracle on 34th street." and every time i see it, it bring has tear to my eye. you can't help but love this song. it's a christmas -- it's believing in something and having faith and it has great legal themes. >> the thing about that, isn't that a great movie? >> i love it. >> remember the guy, the drunk who was santa claus? then he gets replaced by the real santa claus because there's a real santa claus. it's a great movie and it change that had woman -- she said a stick in the mud. >> check this out, you said you got the legal aspect. bob picked out the drunk that was the santa claus that got replaced. there was a lot of business in there, too. the town, the loans, the bank was going under. it's got something for everyone. >> excuse me. >> macy's. >> different movie. i think you're t

[camera clicking] so they steal the liquor from the gas station, they go on a binge, and then they comeng? what if the unsubs met at a meeting? they hear each other's stories and develop a bond because of their similar backgrounds. that makes sense. people typically drink to excess because they're unhappy with themselves or their past. from the looks of it, at least one of the unsubs shot from up front. run! well, if the meeting started at 8:00, and this happened at 8:45, they were probably in the sharing portion of the meeting. so maybe they didn't come in here to kill. you know, what if they really are struggling with sobriety? if they're really working the program, they could be working on the hardest steps. which are? 7, 8, and 9. acknowledge your shortcomings, accept responsibility, and make amends. the trouble is, these unsubs already broke one of the most important steps. what's that? the thirteenth step. members aren't supposed to enter relationships with each other while trying to get sober. what are you thinking about? we need to go to the next step. all this killing and drink

suspects were on a stealing binge across three states, filling their van with an estimated $50,000 in stolen goods. the crime spree came to an end when the engaged couple and the couple's 17-year-old son were caught stealing baseball cards. >>> finally, a sparkling 89-year tradition continued just south of the white house thursday night. the first family lit the national christmas tree. the president delivered remarks urging the crowd to help others during this holiday season. before lighting the 26-foot tall tree from new jersey. >>> now here's a look at your national and regional weather with nbc meteorologist todd santos. he has your weather channel forecast. that's always a great sight to see. >> it is. i got to see our tree in the backyard -- >> they turn it off when todd comes in to work. yes, congratulations. that's exciting. >> finally got to see it. it looked great yesterday 37 as far as the trees coming down across the west specifically, the winds easing up for a few areas. especially salt lake city. still, high wind warnings and we'll touch on those coming up especially thr

bing! 110,000th floor. ladies' lingerie. [boom] you catch that, hawk? oh, she's all right, she's all right. she's just talking to me, that's all. you trust me, don't you, frank? we're taking her down, hawk. that's an order. uhh, here we go again. frank, look at that. that's where we're goin'. i don't know how, and i don't know when, but... ♪ fly me to the moon ♪ and let me play among the stars and... ♪ [engine dying] oh, come on, baby, come on. you want to get out and give us a push, frank? ohh, we got to eject, we got to eject. it's 112,000 feet. are you out of your mind? we haven't got any choice, frank. we're not riding this one out. call a mayday. we're popping, we're popping. i'm not losing another ship. don't think about it, just do it. i'm gonna count down to one. you ready? one. ohh. ohh. crazy son of a bitch. he almost landed like a bug on a windshield. whoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! hoo hoo! this is it. first one down wins the prize. [siren] ha ha ha! [siren in distance] ha ha ha ha ha. whoo hoo hoo hoo! 112,000 feet, and i feel fine! you've always got

warning weather forecast go to wjz.com. ,,,,,,, >>> in today's wjz health watch, a new study finds binge eating and depression are intertwined. they found girls who reported feeling depress are twice as likely to overeat. the study says it may be a way for them to cope with negative emotions. >>> scientists have identified 9 gems that fuel a common like of leukemia. half the time the blood cancer is aggressive while others don't seem to have symptoms for years, researchers say these genes could help doctors identify which form the patient has and how they should be treated. >>> you want to be sure to check back in with wjz today at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. where will the protesters go now. >>> a new development, jerry sandusky's attorneys make a surprise move in court. join is for these stories and all the day's breaking news today at 4:00 right after dr. phil. >>> stick around, your five-day- medicare. it doesn't cover everything. and what it doesn't cover can cost you some money. that's why you should consider an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan... insured by unitedhealthcare ins

. >>> text messaging intervention could be the key to prevent t n teens from binge drinking for alcoholoisoning. they sent tex message iing and offered positive reinforcement. teens that received the text message intervention had fewer heavy drinking days and those days they did drink had two fewer drinks. >>> a special appearance to help female veterans of the future, bye bye -- bea cohen is approaching her 102nd birthday. today, she was honored by the good will service and shined a light on the problem of female veterans having issues of finding a job. >> right back with be right baca little stocking stuff that might pay off big. >>> christmas might come early for some lucky lotto players in the form of a big check. the mega millions jackpot is an estimates $152 million. the winner must match all five numbers and the mega number. the odds of that happening, 1 in 175 million. it's still a chance. >> we have a chance. >> yes. >> before we leave you, we want to give you an update, about 15 minutes ago, we told you about the leukemia slayer, story about the remarkable boy, jacob, he wante

bing crosby recorded back. he said, we got all that is that we could get all of that. it went on to be the biggest single of all time. it probably will not change. tavis: it has to resonate with people. >> those are good examples. songs are not poetry. there is a difference. the rappers are doing poetry. but there's no melody. i write a lot of poetry. what poetry is is a song without a melody. it is two different things. a song is different from poetry. tavis: i totally agree. these days, most songwriters do not know how to write a good melody. >> amen. tavis: the new project from merle haggard is called "working in tennessee." if you did not see the wonderful special on pbs, go on line and find it. you will not be disappointed. a great special about this wonderful artist. it is an honor to have you on this program. >> nice to be here. tavis: that is our show for tonight. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with robert blake. that is next time, we will see you then. >>