i mean, you know, can you believe the real bing crosby stops by and sings white christmas. >> wow. >> that's fantastic. >> so we actually -- i have a crosby, and i got permission from bing crosby's family to call him bing crosby. >> that's very nice of you. >> we were gonna call him the crooner because there's like, well, i don't want to -- but they said absolutely. we just love that you have -- so if you want to see bing crosby alive again, come out and see my show. >> how cool of you to reach out to the family as well. that's very smart. i like that. we're about to hear you perform now. >> well, not me. i think you'll hear maynard tomkins. >> there we go. >> the world's greatest elvis impersonator. now, normally he does not know any elvis songs. >> oh. >> but he specially learned one just for this so let's bring maynard tomkins out. >> come on out. >> here we go maynard coming to the stage now. >> there we go. very nice. >> there he is. is this good? >> oh, that's perfect. >> all right. we'll let you take it away. >> okay, are you ready? >> no, i'm ready. >> yeah, okay. i'm ready. >

we could have a white christmas a song that was first recorded by bing crosby in 1941, irving berlinng during a warm afternoon in la quinta, california, and he rushed out to a secretary and said, write down these lyrics quickly before i forget them. i have written the best song i have ever written! and, in fact, white christmas as recorded by bing crosby in 1942 is the number one selling single of all time at 100 million copies of. they had to have him rerecord it in 1947 because they wore out the original master. native of washington, outpaced adele. temperatures in the low 50s for the bay area with mostly clear skies, gusty winds blustery christmas but hey, it's december. the extended forecast we are going to be looking for shower or two this morning but not much. we'll have mostly clearing conditions, gusty winds, saturday mostly sunny. on sunday a few showers around the bay area. monday through thursday, we have sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s. so it's looking crackling cold today. >>> governor brown continued a christmas eve tradition parks and rec department, 91 for

has been translated into more than 300 languages and performed by singers from all genres, from bing crosbyley cyrus and even had a metal groups -- even heavy metal groups. one of the more recent versions, this one performed by goats. >> ♪ silent night holy night ♪ comete: it is very hard to out of a story like that and be very serious and announce the fact that i am joined now by our business news editor, markus karlsson. we are going to talk about the latest episode, the story of the ongoing saga involving an intranet -- internet entrepreneur. markus: those goats are a tough act to follow. accord has ruled that he can be ruled kim has dotcom and three others can be extradited. whenpload was shut down inice raided dotcom's house auckland. lawyers said they will appeal the decision. dotcom emerged from court after a judge said he should be extradited to the united states. >> we have filed an appeal. i'm still on bail. we will go through the process until the very end. reporter: he has lived in new zealand since 2010, where he was arrested in a dramatic raid on his mansion nearly four years

. >> bing crosby. wanted to be better than bing turned out that he ended up better than bing according to the fans. >> another of his biggest fans, nancy's sister, tina sinatra who helped turn hall at the university of southern california into exhibit featuring all things frank. >> he wore this when? >> in the '50s and into the '60s. >> when you see hat like this you instantly think -- >> him. >> of your father. >> himself. >> right. >> what do you think were ingredients of your father's success? >> he had an appeal to both men and women. i think that men could identify with him and my mother always said, women wanted to feed him. that's one way of putting it. >> that kind of attention was a constant in sinatra's life. when bobby socksers swooned for young blue eyes they were swooning for a married man. sinatra wed the former nancy barbato in 1939. his private life was about to collide with his sweet faced public persona. he would leave nancy in 1950 for screen siren ava gardner. >> she was fantastic. i

not exactly something for bing crosby song. >> not quite especially not in the south where christmas was ruined for many americans. abc's kenneth moton has the latest. >> reporter: holiday weather for the record books. this christmas morning the weather threat continues for parts of the south with heavy rain causing flood watches. >> we woke up to civil defense pounding on our door telling us we had 20 minutes to leave our homes. >> reporter: people evacuated their homes to escape floodwaters from the south the weather turned deadly. tornadoes. and one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. >> if you look at the damage here, it is as bad as any tornado that we've had and i've >> reporter: in wisconsin, crews are working overtime to restore power after strong winds wreaked havoc in other parts of the midwest, snow and lots of it. a heavy downfall in omaha, nebraska, caused a traffic nightmare before christmas. >> it's impossible for me to get there. it's insane. >> reporter: along the east coast it's not a white christmas but it's definitely a warm one. vermont. in new york c

. >>> at least in these parts the closest you'll get to a white christmas is listening to bing crosby sing white christmas on youtube. we're looking for record breaking warmth on christmas day, but before we get there we're going to have some rain. >> we're still seeing mostly cloudy skies over midtown now, fog reported at jfk and fog is increasing inland. we're at 59 mild degrees at 11:00, mostly cloudy skies, west wind at 5:00. more of the air will be swallowed up by this advisory it's fog that will slow you down tomorrow morning, not the rain. that's for later morning and midday. highs today upper 50s, lower 60s, the normal high 41, the 62 in new york city is warmer than phoenix, arizona, and three out of the next five days it's warmer in the big apple than it is in the desert. .2-inch of rainfall in central park, heavier amounts in central and long island. we could all get an inch tomorrow morning. low clouds are around now. there's your late morning rain. the heavy rain the still down here tomorrow afternoon, so it's a while before this lull in the rain really gets going into hea

. >> to be clear these are not nat king cole, bing crosby, holiday classics, are they? >> they have different moods, each one. some get a little darker. some are funnier. and some are a little more serious. >> reporter: from sentimental -- candles burning >> reporter: to a little bit twisted. >> it was our second song we just came up was about don't shoot santa claus. i've been a clean living boy >> about a kid that wants to get back on the nice list. >> reporter: along the way the group got some star-studded help. elton john chimed in on one song plus there were cameos from owen wilson and luke perry. amaze us how many people come out of the woodwork for a good cause. >> reporter: so far the killers have raised more than $850,000 for red. money that helps kids get life saving treatments. and with their newest song dirt sledding -- your dreams come true >> this year you could break the $1 million mark. what does that mean to you guys? we're just grateful to >> reporter: a band singing holiday tunes to save lives. joe fryer, nbc news, las vegas. >> impressive. well that

doug: gateway park and i will tell you in the past few minutes we have gone from binge crosby to done martin to something more rock. we will talk want the beautiful outdoor affair and steve rudin has a look at the weather still to come at "abc7 news at 5:00". >> christmas is coming early in d.c. they are giving away 250 bicycles tonight. i'm stephen tschida. i will tell you about it. alison: later, making a change. a look at what the future holds for byrd stadium. jonathan: all bets are off. find out where two online betting sites are told to find out where two online betting sites are told to cease it's the holidays. and of course, everyone wants to get online at once. to watch things. buy things. but slow internet makes it hard. that's why it's time to get fios. it has the fastest internet and wifi available. with speeds from 50 to 500 megs. and right now, you'll get 50 meg fios internet, tv and phone for 79.99 a month online for your first year. and with a 2 year agreement, we'll give you all the premium momovie channels for a year. pl, 400 dollars back. so go online or call now. g

child of us sicilian immigrants he decided to teenager who want to become a singer after watching bing crosby perform. they went from a high school dropout to shipyard workers singing waiter to superstar. his career spanned seven decades. antwan: franks favorite new york city restaurant offered a special menu featuring singers favorite dishes. frank sinatra would dine in his private room. frank sinatra passed away in 1998. christina: what comes to holiday gets a hover board is one of the hottest selling price around. antwan: so hot it's going up in flames. what they are doing to prevent these potentially dangerous toys from ending up in a the christmas trees. a shocking number of americans have gotten packages stolen from their doorsteps. how you can protect your antwan: how they're using all the attention to benefit those who are less fortunate when we dunkin's new sweet black pepper bacon sandwich, with double the slices of caramelized crispy pepper bacon. it's the bacon experience you've been waiting for. bacon up. catch holiday-cookie cheer on the tip of your tongue with dunkin' donuts' h

chris: if you are looking to get into the holiday mood, you may want to toss a bing crosby on the lawn, because the weather is not quite operating. what are the chances for a white christmas? >> and the decision not made by a judge today. and on news nine at 6:00 -- >> the only way we are going to get over this is one person at a time, one kid at a time. josh: and on news 9 at 6:00 -- an unusual approach to fighting addiction. hopes of helping her people are working harder than ever, but the everyday cost of perscriptions, child care, or even just buying groceries can be a stretch for too many families. hillary's plan: raise the minimum wage, get equal pay for women, cut taxes for the middle class, and new incentives for business to share profits with employees instead of just rewarding ceos. those at the top are doing just fine. it's your family that needs a raise. i'm hillary clinton, and i shelley: the u.s. will establish direct mail sale -- with cuba a , service that ended in 1963, officials say they' agreement on a pilot program, but several technical and operational aspects are s

it won't be as good as bing crosby or tom waits. ♪ they used to tell me i was building a dream, and sob, when there was earth to plow or guns to bear, i was always there right on the job. they used to tell me i was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead, why should i be standing in line, just waiting for bread? >> once i built a railroad i made it run, made it race against time. once i built a railroad now it's done. buddy, can you spare a dime? ♪ amy: yip harburg singing in 1975. >> ♪ once i built a tower to the sun, brick and rivet and lime once i built that tower now it's done. brother, can you spare a dime? ♪ amy: when was this song first played? >> in 1932. and in the "americana" review, every critic, everybody took it up, and it swept the nation. in fact, paradoxically, i think roosevelt and the democratic party really wanted to tone it down and keep it off the radio, because playing havoc with trying to not talk about the depression, which everybody did. you remember the hoover thing, not only "happy days are here again," but "two chickens in every pot," and so forth. nobo

some of the best christmas music ever was in the late '50s and '60s by artists like bing crosby, frank sin atra. i was off yesterday and ran into johnny cueto. >> tell me how this happened. the two of you struck up a conversation. >> that's right. he was sitting at this establishment i walked into. i ran into a friend. >> in san francisco. >> the balboa cafe. and i ran in there and pretty soon i noticed he was there. but not a lot of people were talking to him. i realized why. his english isn't the best. i sat down next to him. >> at a table? >> in the bar area? >> in the bar area. >> i know the place pretty well. >> near the bathroom. >> i sat down with him and as soon as i started speaking spanish, he told me he was happy to be here, he says the people here in san francisco speak really fast. >> so obviously you a lifelong giants fan, for him to tweet out i met sal castaneda, now i'm 0 feshly in the bay area -- officially in the bay area, how did that feel? >> it felt like we were friends even though we sat down for just a little while. that was very gracious of him. >> we exchanged

i think, mark, i've recorded more christmas songs than anybody except perhaps bing crosby. >> right.office. he was about 78 years old, paul alter. he had created television shows like "what's my line" and so many other big shows. very creative guy. he had written -- he loved christmas. he's like irving berlin, jewish, but loves christmas. and he had 21 new christmas songs, very creative. and some of them quite touching. and i said, i'll record them. so i recorded 21 new songs of christmas. this is one of them you're hearing. and it was fun. it doesn't look like christmas in l.a., but there's also "little drummer boy next door," the guy that gets a drum set for christmas you crazy or the fruitcake that nobody wants and passes it to every member of the family. and it comes back to the person who made it. it's really creative songs. plus the true spirit of christmas is a lovely song written by a friend of mine named peter murphy. "the true spirit of christmas" is, of course, the one whose birthday it is we're supposed to be celebrating. so merry christmas, mark. >> thank you for that, p

bing crosby knocked it out in 18 minutes back in christmas of 1941. [ i'm dreaming of a white christmasto irving berlin, i think we got it. it sold 100 million copies since 1941. well outpacing all the hysteria surrounding adele. we love adele. >>> most inland valleys are going to have freeze watches tonight overnight lows and the reason we're rhapsodizing about a white christmas is because that low as it kicked inland produced some snow in the bay area mountains! up in mount hamilton, there were flurries reported over the santa cruz mountains on highway 17. and so we should be waking up to a rare event in the bay area. futurecast shows mostly clear day in the offing for us. could be a shower or two in the south bay in the early going but not much. it's going to be cold. so a few scattered showers. snow above 3,000 feet. it will be dry but cold all the way through saturday. the tahoe report squaw valley new snow they pick up 12 to 24 inches and there's powder on top of that base of sierra cement. high temperatures today we are going to be looking for santa rosa to hit 54 degrees. napa 5

. >> woodruff: next for this holiday season, a new way to look at a classic song-- bing crosby's "white christmas." it's the best-selling single of all time with more than 50 million copies sold. jeffrey brown recently sat down with composer and pianist rob kapilow who deconstructs music for the newshour from time to time. they met up in arlington, virginia at the signature theater for our latest installment. >> brown: rob kapilow, welcome back. >> so nice to be here. >> brown: so "white christmas," a touching, beautiful, nostalgic song. but started life very differently, as a kind of parody. >> yeah, you know we now think of it as this perfect, sentimental depiction of christmases past. but in fact, it originally started with a verse the no one sings anymore, and that berlin actually eliminated from the song, that sets the song in beverly hills, l.a. it actually started "the sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway." and it's actually sung by somebody in beverly hills around a pool, dreaming of christmas up north. so originally, it was a send-up of the very so

. >> the best tradition of the specials i watched as a king, comeau and bob hope and bing crosby and johnny cash used to do holiday specials. were you aware. history? >> i wasn't aware of the history that much. but the music is something obviously something that's important to me, acnew dad and having a kid, you know, that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent it just gives you a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one on the way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forward to it. >> thank you. >> catch michael buble's "christmas in hollywood" december 10th right here on nbc. that's your "pop start." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> make me feel like the holidays are here. good to see you. >> quick check >> jeremy: good morning. a lot of clouds through the morning hours. a few isolated showers and sprinkles this afternoon. rain gear needed late in the day. chilly, raw for much of the day. temperatures only in the upper 30s to the lower 40s. and your chance of rain again not happening

bing crosby and rosemary clooney doing the snow thing. we have clouds and drizzle. we'll have that through next hour or so, but there's another band of rain coming into western new england, headed for the worcester hills over the next 45 minutes. boston between 7:00 and 8:00 a.m. you see these big gaps where there is no rain happening, one over boston now and another one in new york city back toward williamsport? that will be your day where we'll have periods of rain, and then in between the rain, a so rain gear a great idea. because you will need it. but you won't need it the entire day. and the amount of rain that happens is not overwhelming. so i don't think there will be any flooding rain or anything like, that but allow a little extra time out there. roads are still wet from the drizzle and mist overnight. chilly and raw. upper 30s. the city at 39. worcester 39. and as we work through the day, we'll hold on to the clouds and the drizzle and the showers. low 40s at 2:00. in fact, by 7:00 p.m., that's time. temperatures up near 50 degrees. >> christa: thank you s

tradition of the specials i watched -- you're much younger than i am, but peri combo and bob home and bing crosby and johnny cash used to do specials. >> i aware of the history that much, but the music is obviously something important to me. being a new dad and having a kid that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent, it sort of just gives a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one on the way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forward to it. you can catch michael bu buble's christmas in holiday. >> that's >>> and that's your latest forecast. matt? >> all right, dylan, thank you very much. this week on today's hassle-free holiday season savings, we're bringing tips to help you curb your bad spending habits. the first steps, admitting you have a spending problem and identifying why you're overspending and where your money is going. >> if this sounds a little too familiar, and this looks a little too familiar, it may be time for a spending reality check. we asked our viewers to come clean about reasons

i'm sure you're familiar with bing crosby's song "i'm dreaming of a white christmas" i know you can seet. white christmas, how exclusionary can you get? dan went to a petition asking students to sign saying the radio stations can no longer play the song. i know he's out to debunk this and it's a setup. and anyone that sees racism in it is pathetic. looks like the students were offered an excuse for intellectual weakness. at a time when america is here is their back yard and christians being slaughtered, this is ridiculousment now you know why a splash in politics, anything, but politically correct. and he's determined to have his free speech rights no matter what. i think we're at a turning point, we're so sensitive to every possible slight we no longer believe there's a slight at all. those students who say they're so offended by crosby's "white christmas", they're showing us the enemy and it's political correctness. merry christmas, everyone! .. .. innovative sonicare technology with up to 27% more brush movements versus oral b. get healthier gums in 2 weeks guaranteed. innovation and

tradition of the specials i watched -- you're much younger than i amam but peri combo and bob home and bing crosby and johnny cash used to were you aware of the history? >> i aware of the history that much, but the music is obviously something important to me. being a new dad and having a kid that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent, it sort of just ves a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one on the way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forward to it. you can catch michael bu buble's christmas in holiday. >> of quick check of the weather.of siouxland tuesday winter weather advisory in effect for southern siouxland this evening it was a messy monday with many siouxland communities seeing snow accumulation of 4-8 inches by late afternoon. we'll see a lighter snow continue into tonight and tuesday with another 1-3 inches of snow possible for many. the wind is s so going to come up some on tuesday with winds possibly gusting to about 25 miles per hour trying to blow some of the snow around a bit al

not exactly something for bing crosby song. >> not quite especially not in the south where christmas was ruined for many americans. latest. >> reporter: holiday weather for the e record books. this christmas morning the weather threat continues for parts of the south witheavy rain causing floodwatches. >> we woke up to civil defense pounding on our door telling us we h 20 minutes to leave our homes. >> reporter: people evacuated their homes to escape floodwaters from the southth the weather turned deadly. more than a dozen killed when 24 tornadoes. and one stretched 150 miles destroying homes and lives. >> if you look at the damage here, it is as bad as any tornado that we've had and i've been through a lot of them. >> reporter: in wisconsin, crews are working overtime to resestore power after strong winds wreaeaked hac in other parts of the midwest, snow and lots o it. a heavy downfall in omaha, nebraska, caused a traffic there. it's insane. >> reporter: along the east coast it's not a white christmas but it's definitely a warm one. record highs from florida to vermont. new york cit

it definitely. specials i watched as a king, you're much younger, perry comeau and bob hope and bing crosby and johnny cash used to do holiday specials. were you aware. history? >> i wasn't aware of the history that much. but the music is something obviously something that's important to me, acnew dad and having a kid, you know, that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent it just gives you a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one on the way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forward to it. >> k thank you. >> catch michael buble's "christmas in hollywood" december 10th right here on nbc. that's your "pop start." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> make me feel like the holidays are here. >> q >>> temperatures better than 50s. tomorrow, rain lingering into the evening hours. thursday, 50. near theend, 50. >> and that's your latest forecast. matt? >> dylan, thank you very much. today on this week's hassle-free holiday savings bringing you tips to help curb your bad first steps, admitting you hav

tradition of the specials i watched -- you're much younger than i am, but peri combo and bob home and bing crosbyory that much, but the music is obviously something important to me. being a new dad and having a kid that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent, it sort of just gives a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one onhe way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forward to it. you can catch michael bu buble's christmas in holiday. >> of quick check of the >>> it's sa sunny start around the bay. 40s outside right now. a few high clouds moving into the afternoon. any shower chances at least for today should stay off to the north bay in areas north mainly to the north of sonoma county. north bay and tri-valley will see mid 60s in the forecast before thursday, some big changes. the wind and rain return. skies clear for friday. >>> and that's your latest forecast. matt? >> all right, dylan, thank you very much. this week on today's hassle-free holiday season savings, we're bringing tips to help you cu

tradition of the specials i watched -- you're much younger than i am, but peri combo and bob home and bing crosby and johnny cash used to do specials. were you aware of the history? >> i aware of the history that much, but the music is obviously something important to me. being a new dad and having a kid that can't wait for santa claus, it's brought even a bigger joy into it for me. as a parent, it sort of just gives a new sense of how great the holiday can be. >> you've got the little one and another little one on the way. >> yes, i do, yes. >> we look forwardo it. you can catch michael bu buble's c cistmas in holiliy. >> of quick check of the while some of us had sleet and freezing rain, most of us saw mainly rain. we south. the heaviest reports aa to the north, but it includes the sleet and mainly snow showers today and tonight as the low early this morning, but should be able to rebound somewhat this afternoon. roads are still partially vered to the w wst, but we have mainly wet roads here. stormtrack7 live weather network cameras will show the wet roads and are seeing more of the freezing ma

the song, i'll be home for christmas, was originally written during world war ii and performed by bing crosbyt guests are giving it a modern makeover for today's troops. look at their video. ♪ christmas eve will find me where the love light gleams ♪ >> it's such a heartwarming video. please welcome a cappella group, friends of the show, home free. good morning, guys. >> good morning. >> is it real video of families being reunited? >> absolutely. >> real video. >> where did you get it? >> our video crew tracked those down and they were able to find all these real home videos. it's amazing. >> it's great. >> you were launched into stardom on nbc's show "the singoff." i want to know, though, all this time that you've had on the road together are you guys getting along? everything's good? >> yes. >> not -- >> these guys are brothers. you know how that goes. >> that's right. >> adam when you decide to put together this video, it's not something new. you want to put it together for the military. why? >> well, it's a very touching video, and it really speaks a lot to the idea of wanting to be home f

bing crosby turns out wasn't nearly as much of a family man as it turns out we thought he was. own christmas special? >> so this morning brian kilmeade is putting on costumes. we have about 15 changes. >> i had a whole thing planned. >> thank you for that walk down 1950s memory lane. >> not '50s, young man. >> lea gabriel is standing by with a look at some fox news alerts. good morning. >> good morning, guys. we start with a fox news alert. more than a dozen tornadoes caused devastation across several states. at least six people are dead, three in mississippi, including a 7-year-old boy. two in tennessee and one in arkansas. dozens more are left injured. nearly 70 million americans are in the storm zone stretching from new orleans to chicago. and the bad weather and holiday rush is snarling air traffic across the country. airlines are juggling flight times and adding red eyes in an effort to keep up with the demand. >>> and another fox news alert. two texas police officers shot in the line of duty. officer cory westbrook seen here and sergeant pedro gonzalez were trying to serv