. >> later, i will fell you about my weekend in birmingham, alabama which included a visit to the trip bombed in 1963, killing four little girls. birmingham now is a very, very different place today. >> this is my first time in the city of birmingham. city of birmingham is a miracle. what has happened in this city during my lifetime is a miracle. . ♪ [ toys chattering ] it's filled with new duracell quantum batteries. [ toy meows ] [ dog whines ] [ toy meows ] these red batteries are so powerful... that this year they'll power all the hasbro toys donated to toys for tots. want to help power some smiles? duracell. trusted everywhere. >> if we have to work through christmas, we are going to do that. if we work through christmas, we'll work through christmas. >> harry reid will keep the senate in session around the clock in order to get 10 of president obama's nominations including the secretary of homeland security confirmed before the senate adjourns for christmas. senate rules actually require certain intervals of time between steps in the confirmation process. and senate republicans a

there is no earthly reason that i could not have been a soviet specialist in birmingham alabama. okay. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> are there any more questions? [inaudible conversations] >> hello, i am hannah and my question is, are you going to plan to run for office again? [laughter] >> no, actually was never even in my high school student council. and i did not ever run for anything. i loved public service and i'm very involved in k-12 education and with the boys and girls clubs of america. i probably will get more involved and that is all public service. >> thank you so much. [applause] [applause] >> type the author or book title on the upper left side of the page and click on search. you can also share anything you see on booktv.org and selecting the format. booktv streams online for 48 hours every weekend with the top nonfiction books and authors. booktv.org. the wright brother's hometown. the city houses the national museum of the united states air force. the largest and oldest military aviation museum. and we risibly visited with time warner cable to bring you som

. >> reporter: at the university of alabama-birmingham orthopedic surgeon brent ponce prepared for ahield he work google glass, the wearable computer. its built-in camera is streaming live video of the surgery to another surgeon 150 miles away in atlanta. for dr. phani dantuluri, he not only watched but was able to lend a hand. a ghostly hand was superimposed on the operating table. it appeared in ponce's google glass display. when you first put them on, what was it like? >> it was a little bit of a light bulb experience. we not only had to say right here, right here. go faster from here to here. >> reporter: on this day ponce and dantuluri were testing the google glass paired with vipaar a video conferencing platform that allows users to interact with the picture. it may be another year before the combined technology goes mainstream. ponce is the only doctor testing it in surgery. >> with this technology, if i'm struggling, another surgeon is able to say, hey, get yours head in the game, let's do this, let's do this. we're able to walk through it together. so it's a little bit more

. >> reporter: at the university of alabama, birmingham, orthopedic surgeon brent ponce prepared fore google glass. it's streaming live video to another surgeon 150 miles away in atlanta. >> can you square up on the screen? >> reporter: where dr. phani dantuluri not only watched the surgery but offered a virtual hand. >> see that right here? >> yeah, i just did a case like this about two months ago. >> reporter: a ghostly projections of phani dantuluri's hands were superimposed over what ponce saw. the merged images appeared in ponce's google glass display. when you first put them on what did you like? >> there's a little lightbulb experience, not just to say go left or right up or down, but right here, go faster from here to here. >> reporter: the pecktoralus major is right here. >> reporter: on this day, ponce and phani dantuluri were testing google glass paired with vipaar, a video conferencing platform that allows users to interact with the picture. it may be another year before the combined technology goes mainstream. ponce is the only doctor testing it in surgery. >> with this

trillion eggs that are laid globally, 99% of all of those eggs, whether where i was raised in birmingham, alabama, or beijing, china, are laid in exactly the same place, these industrial warehouses known as battery cage facilities. so imagine a warehouse rows of cages, 9 to 10 female bird in each cage. they're crammed in. they can't flap their wings. they're left there for two years. besides the obvious animal welfare issue, it's really unsafe. as we speak now, there's an avian flu outbreak in mexico. somebody's going to get sick. prices are rising. and it's also pretty devastating to the environment because these hens are fed massive amounts of soy and corn requires all of this land and water and fertilizer. >> okay. so i'm a little scared by all that. and shouldn't i be also scared by guys in labs -- >> genetically modified? are we talking about genetically modified? >> we're not. we're talking 92% of the world's plants have not been explored for their applicability in food. plants you've heard of and haven't heard of. and all we do is search the world's plant species. and we screen them, askin

. >> reverend jackson, i am learning now that you are in birmingham, alabama, not birmingham, england, but it is a pleasure to talk to you. >> i am in birmingham england -- >> i'm birmingham england. >> i got it wrong twice. >> reverend jackson, it is great to talk with you, whichever birmingham you are in, thank you very much. well this is a scene outside a family's home in johannesburg, nelson mandela the first president of south africa has died surrounded by his wife and family. he was 95, and from there around the world peaking are paying tribute to the freedom fighter. two images are striking. joining us now, in washington, d.c., i do know she is in washington. she serves as ambassador to nigeria, and the republic of congo. and she has met nelson mandela twice. it is good to see you, what was it like to meet nelson mandela? >> it was one of those things that you never forget in your life. in fact, i was speaking with my mom this evening when i heard the news, and all of those memories came back to me. i had the opportunity to meet him, when he first traveled out of south africa,

>> doneny, in birmingham alabama, the explosion was so loud, and shook the ground so violently, that residents initially thought there had been a plane crash. actually according to fire crews it was a gas line that ruptured in an apartment building early this morning and then bust. the explosion blew out part of the building you can see the fire crews there, and showered debrises on houses a block away. doctors say that he is in critical condition, a woman that was waythe man was found dead. six other people were injured. one of the most spectacular of the pacific coast is now thick with smoke and jammed by emergency vehicles. in big sir, 1500 homes have been destroyed. highway one the pacific coast highway remains open, and the resorts are not in danger, however, forest officials say the 600-acre fire is only about 5% contained. the cause of the fire is under investigation, california is in the midst of the dryest calendar year on record. former boston crime boss is on the move. transferred to a federal facility in new york. bulger has been moved to a federal lock up in oklahoma. lo

. >> my biggest winner, the cub scout pack at the sixth avenue baptist church in birmingham, alabama.me this check for the k.i.n.d. fund, amazing work they worked all year at it. and thank you everybody for all the work you did this year making this show easy for me to do. coming on looking smart. i need that. thank you very much. happy new year. >> happy new year! >> cheers. >> happy new year. >>> when the plane first banked over jonestown, it looked like a quilt, and we didn't know what we were seeing until someone in the cockpit said, "those are bodies." >> die with a degree of dignity, lay down your life with dignity. don't lay down with fears and agony. >> you could actually smell the

we are starting in birmingham, alabama, down to montgomery, over to warm springs, georgia and atlanta. andersonville, jekyll island, savannah, charleston. nine days, several presidential sites. what we have done this time, we designed a tour that is equal parts civil war and civil rights history. host: is this a lecture series? guest: we get a bus and we put 35 people on it and we go to great historic hotels and historic restaurants and lots of historic sites and museums and libraries. you name it. it's a great adventure. we have lots of repeat participants. if people want to call, they can go online if they want information to presidentsandpatriots. all one word. if you want to talk to a real, live human being, call 202-657- 7444. host: richard norton smith is with us for the next half hour or so. as we talk about second-term presidencies. ginger is up next from louisiana on our line for independents. good morning. go ahead. caller: i am somewhat of an anomaly, or was. not in the majority. i live in louisiana, i am a caucasian, and i was so excited when obama came out. i fell in love

." >> i was a little boy when i first heard about birmingham, alabama.was good. police were using fire hoses to attack civil rights protestors. later that same year, the 16th street baptist church was bombed killing four little girls. when i was invited to birmingham last weekend the first place i went was the birmingham civil rights institute which has extraordinary exhibitions telling the story of that time. i saw the shoes denise mcnair was wearing when killed in the bombing. i walked across the street from the institute and saw where the bomb was placed at the 16th street baptist church. three of the girls funerals were held at the 6th avenue baptist church. the church that invited me to attend their services on sunday morning. dr. martin luther king spoke many times from the sixth avenue baptist church pulpit during the bad times in birmingham. but sunday morning, i was invited to speak there because the cub scouts at the 6th avenue baptist church wanted to present me with a check for the kind fund. kids in need of desks is a partnership with unicef

. >> an explosion rips through a apartment complex in birmingham, alabama. trapping a command woman in her bad. the man was pulled out alive. the woman died. investigators believe natural gas triggered the blast. >> pope francis turned 77 today. the holy father invited four homeless men to his home at the vatican for breakfast. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. >>> helicopter cash killed six american soldiers today in afghanistan in the south of the country, accord ago to u.s. and nato officials. the deadliest single incident for international forces in months. u.s. officials say the chopper went down in the southern province south and west of kabul. one person survived with injuries. this year more than 100 members of the u.s. military have died in afghanistan, coming as the u.s. is prepared to pull most troops from the country by the end of the year. conor? >> there's about 50,000 or so american troops left in afghanistan, do

from i-10, to i-20, through birmingham, alabama. up the atlantic coast. and present a lot of rain.air is running out ahead of it. it's going to be mostly rain. when you get to upstate new york, upstate vermont and new hampshire, the ski resorts are loving that. there's plenty of snow as it moves into the atlantic. the cold air that would make this a blizzard is up in the great lakes. and it comes in behind this, as we go into the first part of next week and head toward the new year. the temperatures really get cold. 1 below by new year's eve in minneapolis. 15 in chicago. new york city, 32 and 23 in boston. when the ball drops, it should be about ten degrees in new york city. as we look out to the west, a little air stagnation as you go on the eastern side of the mountains here. you see that the air quality and some fog here along the pacific coast. >> this weather forecast is brought to you by abrea. >> kareem abdul-jabbar. >> what did he win? >> a handshake. >> a kiss from ron. >> it's a good day. >> a developing bromance. this is great. thank you, guys. >>> coming up on "gma," t

mention this because this isn't like orange county, california goes bankrupt jefferson county birmingham, alabamas bankrupt because they made investment. it doesn't have an economic problem it has that, of course. it has cultural collapse and nothing a bankruptcy court can do is going to change that. >> so what about this white house? what it's saying and doing? >> i would like to see them try to get a bailout for a blue city ruined by one party democratic rule through congress. absolutely no attempted. carney had an opportunity to say the federal government is going to help and he stayed way away from that obama said i'm going to spend the next three years of my administration if i have to defending obamacare. he doesn't have any political capital left over for anything, especially the bailout of a democratic city. >> do you think there was ever an effort in the works, marah, to work something out. >> no. >> help detroit in any way? >> no, i do not. i do not. i think this is seen as the best, most orderly way that detroit can kind of get back on its week slowly. >> for all the preelection talk a

. >>> let's head on down to birmingham, alabama, for today's top spot. rmingham is home to the zoo light safari. the zoo is transformed into a winter wonderland this time of year. you can stroll through a display with more than a million lights. there's also a candy cane train or you can hop on the jingle bell carousel. that sounds amazing. happy holidays to the folks in birmingham with a little something to do this sunday. >> yet another one to add to our field trip list. thanks. >>> up next, if you're stumped about what to buy your favorite uncle for christmas or maybe about what to buy your favorite uncle for christmas or maybe your co-anchor, you can send him if you about what to buy your favorite uncle for christmas or maybe your co-anchor, you can send him 're living with chronic migraine, your life is a game of chance. about what to buy your favorite uncle for christmas or maybe your co-anchor, you can send him but what if the odds could be in your favor? botox® is an fda-approved treatment that significantly reduces headache days for adults with c

. >>> new this morning, firefighters in birmingham alabama are searching for two people in the rubbleg. that building exploded early this morning sending eight people including four children to the hospital. firefighters say the fire burned for about two hours. people had to call through the flames and debris to get to safety. the cause of the explosion still being investigated. >>> time now 6:46. later today the u.s. senate holds a test vote on a bipartisan budget bill. the democrats think they have the 60 votes needed to move the bill forward. last week it passed by a why had margin in the house. senate republicans are less enthusiastic but it appears there may be enough republicans who will support the legislation for it to pass and avoid another government shutdown. >>> first lady michelle obama spilled the beans about what she plans to buy for the president this holiday season. >> i might get him some workout clothes. [ laughter ] >> hey, that's what he wanted though. he said that's what he wanted. >> he said he wanted that. don't laugh at him. >> he said he wanted to work out. t

phil robertson was 15 years old when the 16th street baptist church was bombed in birmingham, alabamaphil robertson was 18 years old when civil rights workers, were murdered by the ku klux klan in mississippi. but phil robertson wants you to remember a happy-go-lucky life in the south. for black people in those days who sang while they picked cotton and never sang the blues. joining me now, msnbc's joy reid and back with us eugene robinson. eugene, you group in the south. lived through the years. and, listen, i think, there is a lot of revisionist history pushed out there intentionally. and in this guy's case not so consciously about those were the good old days. >> this makes me tear out what is left of my hair. i've get it, drove me crazy when haley barber if you recall, came up with his revisionist view of the snunny south. the ku klux klan in a suit. they would play a constructive role. everything was fine. there was no problem with race in miss miss. in the 60s. this is the same thing. the happy negros in the field. unbelievable. he would have been in his 20s when three black stu

martin luther king went through when he was jailed in birmingham, alabama, and after he was released, went on to become an abdomanybodiable force bringing about justice for america. >> how do you pacific that on to young people? because he has been out of public life for quite awhile before he died. >> that, he was. and one remarkable thing about him, when you look at him and look at king, falling to an asass in's bullet and god allowed nelson mandela to live until he was 95. it's a phenomenal expression to all of us and realize young people can look back at what he did from his jail cell and delib -- to liberate his country from apartheid is something our children will have to understand and look to understand and know that this he can can do the same thing in various parts of life. >> if you were telling a stranger about nelson man dela and there was one thing you wanted them to know, what would it be? >> when the world puts you to your lowest point, never give up. never give in. never give out. keep on going and know that inside of you is the seed for liberation and, also, for the

taxes next toecond lowest birmingham, alabama. that's a good city too.he cities with the highest taxes,ma bridgeport, connecticu. don't go to philly my friend. >>> coming up we've got some charity recommendations for you this holiday season, including ones you should stay away from. plus the taxman himself, grover norquist is why he is fed up with the irs this year and why next year could be even worse. this is the quicksilver cash back card om capital one. it's not the "juggle a bunch of rotating categories" card. it's not the "sign up for rewards each qrter" card. it's the no-games, no-messing-'round, no-earning-limit-having, do-i-look-like-i'm-joking, turbo-boosting, heavyweit-champion- of-the-world cash back card. thiss the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, everywhere, every single day. now tell me, what's in your wallet? gerri: welcome back to our hour long users guide to taxes. we're turning to the irs. we'll tell you what nobody else will about the new agency and role it will play in the comin

another $109,656, bringing our total to $5,851,920 and that does not include what happened in birmingham, alabamale. i spent the weekend in birmingham, where a small group of cub scouts led the congregation of the sixth avenue baptist church to make the single largest contribution to the k.i.n.d. fund that any organization has ever made. we will have a complete report wednesday night on our trip to birmingham and the inspiring work of those amazing cub scouts at sixth avenue baptist church. >>> remember, if you make a contribution to the k.i.n.d. fund as a christmas gift, unicef will send a gift notice to the recipient of your gift, telling your mother or your grandmother or a friend that you have donated a desk in his or her name. you can also do that with the tuition component of the k.i.n.d. fund. we've expanded the k.i.n.d. fund to include a tuition program for girls, because girls' education faces unique challenges in move mulawi. and in a country where more than 40% of the population lives on less than $1 a day, yes, you heard this right, parents have to make some hard choices about which o

. >>> a woman is dead, a man seriously hurt after an explosion in birmingham, alabama.ortly before 3:00 a.m. on tuesday. police say the man and woman were asleep in a first floor apartment when all of a sudden something exploded and the building collapsed. they were trapped under a concrete slab that had fallen from the first floor. fire officials expect a natural gas leak was blamed for this. >> a lot of questions here, a huge concern, after a routine operation turns tragic for a california family. and now they want to keep their daughter on life support, despite doctors saying that she's brain-dead. 13-year-old is now an a ventilator in children's hospital in oakland. they went to the hospital last week to have their tonsils removed. but something went very badly wrong. the family has presented the hospital with a cease and desist letter saying they alone should decide if she should die. >> i'll take my daughter off of life support because i love my child. i walked into her that hospital she was percently fine. she had no health problems. even after she got out of the

after that, an event held in memory of four african-american girls killed in birmingham, alabama. finally, we take you to dealey plaza in dallas for a ceremony or numbering the 50th anniversary of the assassination of president john f. kennedy. american history tv, all this week in prime time on c-span3. ladies" continues tonight with a look at the life and career of pat nixon. she traveled abroad more than any first lady before her and let efforts to require -- to acquire art for the white house. she offered her husband support when the watergate scandal broke. the life and times of pat nixon, tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. you can listen on c-span radio. on fire.rld is moving extremely fast. in computer science, my education expires after five years to 10 years. everything is new, facebook and twitter are new. new programming languages. historically, we have sliced human life into three or four or five slices. a play phase, a learned phase, a work phase, a resting phase afterwards. maybe eventually dying. what we should be doing is interweaving these phases, play, rest

after that, an event held in memory of 4 african-american the 16th street baptist church in birmingham, alabama. finally, we will take you to dealey plaza in dallas, for the anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy. the first lady's series continues tonight with a look at the life and career of pat nixon. she traveled abroad more than any other first lady before her, and led efforts to acquire more furniture, antiques, and art for the white house. she offered her husband's when the support watergate scandal broke. you can also listen on c-span radio. >> reporters in washington were recently given a tour of the u.s. capitol dome, which will soon undergo complete restoration. the outer iron shell has more than 1000 cracks caused by aging and whether. kevinl now hear from hildebrand about how the dome was built over the original dome that sat on top of the capitol building. this is half an hour. staircase wasar the original way to the first capitol dome, and continues to be the way we get to the walter dome. it was built in 1826. the original staircase was wooden. 1851, whenved in there

did all of you no in birmingham, alabama, that one city between 1957 and 1963, 18 black churches and homes were bombed? in mississippi during a two-year time period in the 1960s in mississippi, 50 black churches were bombed or burned. so if you lack at terrorism against african-americans, against native americans, millions of native americans killed, you see that any race is capable of committing terrorism. and there's a big art of american history that -- part of american history that we're not often taught, especially if you look at the campaigns against the meative americans -- native americans, the genocidal campaign against native americans. this goes way back in history. what did the ancient greeks call all non-greeks? barbarians, exactly. any of you know where the word barbarian came from? it was a way of making fun of how people talked. the greeks believed that if you weren't speaking greek, then when you talked, it sounded like you were saying bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, so they called them barbarians. so it's a subtle, kind of how people today might make fun of how foreign peo

new this morning about an hour ago, firefighters in birmingham, alabama found the two people who were missing after an apartment building exploded. a man and a woman were sleeping in a first-floor apartment when the explosion occurred. they were buried under the rubble from the second floor. now, we know the man is alive. we don't yet know the condition of the woman. but they have been found. the cause of the explosion is still under investigation. >>> the u.s. chemical safety board is recommending major changes to the way refineries are regulated here in california. this after the fire at the chevron refinery in richmond. the board is calling on california to adopt these safety case systems that used in the united kingdom in australia. that requires refinery operations to -- operators to present a written plan for controlling safety hazard. that includes input from employees. regulators would have the power to audit that report and also issue citations. >> i believe it's gonna take a lot of work. i personally like the effect where workers are given more power to kind of be involved i

jon: new video just this to fox of a tedly explosion that rocked an apartment complex in birmingham, alabamaters sifting through the wreckage for hours searching for survivors. one woman, who'd been missing, was finally found, but she died before crews could pull her out. the crews did manage to free a man from the rubble. eight other people were hurt when the apartment complex exploded and then collapsed. amazingly, none of those other injuries said to be life threatening. jenna: well, out to california now. right now hundreds of firefighters are battling a major wildfire there. more than a dozen homes already destroyed near the scenic california coastline and 100 people forced out while emergency crews try to get the flames under control. claudia cowan is streaming live from big sur, california, right near the fire. claudia? >> reporter: and, jenna, 400 firefighters are battling flames that have score. ed about 550 acres. that may not sound like a lot, but take a look at this smoke here behind me. the fire's burning just beyond this ridge in a valley that contains some of the most pristine

here larry miller from our station in birmingham, alabama. >> reporter: janice brown couldn't fight backf auburn university football player chris davis. he helped to clinch a win in the university of alabama game, the final moments of the biggest rivalry in history. >> when he caught that ball, he looked like mom, i'm bringing it home. i was so excited. >> reporter: brown was in auburn when her son made the winning touchdown. he met him in his dorm room after the game. >> all on his bed, taking pictures. we had a good time. i enjoy my son. >> reporter: those who know him describe him as quiet, laid-back, and focused. teachers and administrators where davis graduated were also glued to their television set on saturday night. >> i was so excited and proud. of course, everyone was kind of rooting for alabama. when i realized it was chris davis, i was like go, go, go, don't stop. >> chris is a quiet guy. so his play on the field is larger than he speaks. >> reporter: brown said she knew her son would do great things. she said as a single mother she had a lot of sacrifices for her four childr

in birmingham, alabama. ♪ >> top it off -- >> nice. you are great. thanks for bringing us recipes.alapeno peppers are just a little hot. these are the jalapenos i just had! >> taylor, thank you so much for coming by. great book. >> good recipes. >> coming up straight ahead, kathleen sebelius getting grilled. get it, over the botched obamacare rollout. did her testimony leave more questions than answers? the american people need to know. ♪ ♪ >>> kathleen sebelius back in the hot seat, admitting there were flaws with the obamacare rollout. really? >> knowing what you know today, you would have started the launch october 1? >> i would have probably done a slower launch, maybe with fewer people and done some additional beta testing, which is part of what has happened frankly in the early months of the launch. >> i think the launch was plenty slow. the hhs secretary also answered questions about the botched rollout and low enrollment numbers. but did she leave us with more questions than answers? joining us is the house oversite committee chairman, darrell issa. did you learn anything y

host: birmingham, alabama. republican line.aller: i wanted to know -- i wanted to ask a question about who gets health care or not. the prices seem to be going up and up. guest: medicare part d is only available to people who qualify for medicare. that is if you are over 65 or you have disability. some people who are in medicare part d are dual eligible. meaning they run medicaid and medicare. open to the general public. it is not open if your drug costs are superhigh and you want them to go on -- down. the good news for the general public is that a lot of big- name, very expensive, brand-name drugs are losing patent protections. there is a huge patent cliff. you may have heard of lipitor. that went off patent. plavix when off patent. ofn that happens, the cost those drugs go down in whole lot. that is helpful to people who were not in medicare part d. they're able to buy these medications generically and saving a lot of money. host: our guest is charlie ornstein with propublica. is there a baseline way to tell just how much lo

i grew up with a lot of voice and it was in birmingham alabama.we were out all day until mike when he came home. back to where you were saying with the political correctness, you know the boys sometimes doing things in daycare or in school. we have to sometimes find a way to politically correct them. when they are there with swords and talking about they want to be a sniper we have to say hold on just a moment here. maybe instead of that sword you will play paintball or laser tag we also have to look at while we were out here doing everything, we lost some boys. i have one friend who wanted to be superman with plastic on his back running around the chair and he died. those are the kinds of things that we have to watch but men, our young men are out there doing a lot of things but those things can also bring them danger. getting back to my question, my question is there are a lot of mentoring groups being born because there is money coming through the state, through the federal to look at various populations that are graduating. we are going throug

host: frank joins us from birmingham, alabama, democrat line. caller: good morning. are you doing? before i get into the question about obamacare, you sound a little delusional like the individual that tweeted out rosa parks ended racism. would you like to apologize for parkstatement that rosa -- it was supposed to be good, but he messed it up. you sound a little delusional. are you going to apologize for him? do you know what i'm talking about? guest: i do not. it's early in the morning. caller: celebrate rosa park standing up and the tweet was that she stood up and ended racism. anyway. guest: i haven't seen that tweet, but this is obamacare, and it is not about racism. it is about making sure americans have good health care. it is making the system worse. what is your question? host: frank is gone. we will go onto our next caller. we're joined by representative tim huelskamp, republican from kansas, in the first district. where is garfield, kansas? -- it is is not in my in my district. it is a small town country. this is rural hospital area. that is what we're hea

a surgeon at the university of alabama birmingham recently used it for a shoulder replacement procedure. it was used with video conference there and the doctor said the glass transmitted live video to another doctor while his happens were super imposed by computer over what the other doctor saw in the operating table. google glass was previously used by a doctor at ucsf to pull up x-rays during a surgery. >> starting to sound like "star trek" the. >> christmas tree recycling is a tradition with recology announcing upcoming dates for christmas tree recycling going through a chipping machine that turns them into biomass fuel to republican jet electricity that keeps hundreds disregarded trees out of landfills. last year the city recycled 530 tops of christmas trees. >> remember to water the christmas tree. people, it is dry and warm out there. >> absolutely. fire hazard wherever you look. you name it. last time we had rain, december 6, and today is the 26th, so, it has been quote a while. 1.75 mile visibility. we could see we black ice form. have not heard of it but it is a possible. to th

the university at alabama birmingham is testing it out. now, the idea is to make it easier for surgeons to work together even if they are thousands of miles apart. using google glass, the surgeon in the operating room can live stream his work to a colleague anywhere in the world who can then lend a virtual hand. >> with this technology, if i'm struggling, another surgeon is able to say, get your head in the game, let's do this, let's do this, and they are able to walk through it together so it's more of a safety net. >> the pilot program is expected to expand in the coming months. >>> two trains collided in north dakota today sending a massive fireball into the air. one of the trains was carrying oil. as many as 10 tank cars burst into flames. some even exploded. now, no injuries were reported but people within a two-mile radius have been warned to stay inside as a precaution. >>> there have been no claims of responsibility in two suicide bombings in russia that killed at least 30 people. cbs reporter alfonso van marsh says the attacks hav

our pick city of the day, another fabulous one, birmingham, alabama. nbc 13.ng up to 72 by wednesday. as you look, you can see icy conditions making it across the dakotas. wet weather through the pacific northwest. big storm coming on shore there. look for a few northern new england snow showers. sunny and warm, texas sunshine and 81 degrees. that's what's going on around the country. heres what's happe >>> and that's your latest weather. >>> thank you, mr. roker. >> coming up next on trending, who needs to wait for the movie? ron burgundy actually anchored a real newscast. >> then at 8:15, a heart warmer, how tens of thousands of strangers are helping a young boy adjust to a new look. >>> and the finalist in our search for today's sound of music family will perform live. but first, these messages. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity t

. >> birmingham, alabama. >> what do you think of this cold here? >> we like it.are your current temperatures, minus 8 in rapid city. 19 in kansas city. 30 in new york. 20 in dallas. feels like 7 in kansas city. minus 25 is what it feels like in rapid city. except for florida. there's the satellite radar imagery. ice storm in the making here across parts of tennessee, kentucky, up towards west virginia, ohio river valley and into the mid-atlantic and northeast. unfortunately it will be a nasty travel day starting really right now in towards the evening overnight and into tomorrow. there's what we are looking at in the pink. that could be accumulating ice on the roadways, on the power lines. we could have some serious power outages. there's dc. expecting a wintery mix to start on sunday and then on monday it will turn into rain. waive, everybody. you love new york! you love "fox & friends"? yeah! back inside. >> thank you, janice. >> thank you, janice. >>> well, most of us use facebook, instagram, twitter every day. are we using them the correct way? social media g

birmingham. >> montgomerie. >> stephen: okay. excuse me, montgomerie, alabama. and you challenge bias against poor and minorities if in the criminal justice system and work with people on death row. >> yes. >> stephen: and you have been named the mcarthur genius grant and all that good stuff. you also have the longest standing ovation on record at a ted talk. what were you talking about that got those brainy types all excited? >> wbltion i was actually talking about conservation and the challenges because we put so many people in prison, impose harsh challenges. >> stephen: what is the challenge. we have mass incarceration that was our goal and now we have a chiefed it. >> we've also really devastated communities of color, poor communities. we created despair and hopelessness. we've sppbt a lot of money. we're now spending $80 billion a year to keep people in jails and prisons. we create a lot of bad collateral consequences. people lose their right to vote permanently. >> stephen: prisons have gotten better, you have to admit that prisons have gotten better in t

host: frank joins us from birmingham, alabama, democrat line. caller: good morning. how are you doing? before i get into the question about obamacare, you sound a little delusional like the individual that tweeted out rosa parks ended racism. would you like to apologize for that statement that rosa parks -- it was supposed to be good, but he messed it up. you sound a little delusional. are you going to apologize for him? do you know what i'm talking about? guest: i do not. it's early in the morning. caller: celebrate rosa park standing up and the tweet was that she stood up and ended racism. anyway. guest: i haven't seen that tweet, but this is obamacare, and it is not about racism. it is about making sure americans have good health care. it is making the system worse. what is your question? host: frank is gone. we will go onto our next caller. we're joined by representative tim huelskamp, republican from kansas, in the first district. that is dodd city. --dodge city. where is garfield, kansas? guest: it is not in my -- it is in my district. it is a small town countr

yeah, they lost to university of alabama birmingham. and i saw the coach was, like, mad walking around. okay. >> whatever he said to them worked. >> yeah. they beat michigan state. all right. >> when we come back this morning, microsoft is moving to assure international business customers about spying. for once, news about the art world. normal rockwell's "saying grace" sold at auction for morp than $46 million. sotheby's says that it's a new auction record for an american painting. first, as we head to a break, take a from alex wallace from the weather channel. >> things are going to get messy for us. things aren't looking too bad for us. southern plains in texas, a few light showers. we anticipate as more moisture comes in, this cold air mass, that wintry mix, icing potential, snow, even into tomorrow we'll be dealing with this from oklahoma city to dallas and spreading over towards the mississippi and ohio river valleys. the noefl forecast calls for some of the higher totals to be anywhere from 5 to 8 inches. southern parts of missou

alabama. those injured included manning critical condition after being fulled -- being pulled from the rubble. it happened in birmingham but no word on what caused it. >> another smash and grab in montgomery county. for the ninth time in a week. police are looking for the thieves who broke into a business. >> they struck a subway business on randall road in silver spring. police are trying to figure out if this crime is connected to some of the previous break-ins. a splintered door and shattered glass greets customers at this silver spring subway after another smash and grab overnight. >> it's kind of frightening. >> the manager says that someone grabbed the cash box possibly with hundreds of dollars inside from this back room before fleeing the store. there were several cameras inside but he's not sure if he has any images of the thief. this woman owns the parcel plus next door and says her store was hit several years ago but all in all, this is a quiet shopping center. >> it looks like it started again. this is not something we need or want. >> the police say they are looking into whether this latest incident is conn

[ applause ] >> i did a town hall radio meeting in birmingham because i want to hear what the people have to say. it all started in alabama and after speaking to the people of jefferson county, there is no doubt racism is alive and well in the south. and i think it's growing. >> this is what an alabama public school teacher came to the microphone and said. >> i have been a part of public education since 1970 when the schools were first integrated, i see more hatred in the south now than i ever saw in 1970. and i'll tell you why. it's being preached in the pulpits and in the white churches. they are teaching people that if you vote anything but republican, you're going to hell pretty much. >> oh, mr. o'reilly, couldn't you have used that sound bite. you know a heck of a lot more. it's all stereo typing, isn't it? >> going to be jumping into a spit fire to save london. >> all of things that made america great, equal rights, civil rights, workers rights, women's rights and now under attack by the conservative movement in our country. >> i enjoyed a lot of things in london. it was fun. they want to hear from a liberal in the