patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and

but patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online. patty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪ >> hi. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> i don't want to follow eric schmidt. my job is to welcome you to this wacky place i call home, san francisco. a city that prides itself on the cutting edge of new ideas. you are home to the birthplace of live science and i bet half of you forgot t

but patty's only seen the sight, a girl can see from brooklyn heights, what a crazy pair! cathy: oh my, patty. did you find all your files? patty: finally! who knew it would be this much work when richard and i decided to retire! cathy: well, what are you going to do first? patty: we're heading down to brooklyn heights and start in on that social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online. patty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are >> weren't they great? i think they deserve another round of your thanks. they are thurgood marshall high school like school crew. -- light show crew. they were formed to demonstrate asian culture through the art of glow sticks. glow sticks are synonymous with the buyer dancing from hawaii. they did a great job with those clos

i live in brooklyn heights. i don't have lunch in manhattan. i don't spend a lot of time schmoozing on the telephone. and so this was very intensive and very rigorous. but no, i think particularly if you're doing such a long project and then you're writing such a long book, i think that you have to pace yourself in order to do it. and one of the secrets of pacing yourself is not to write yourself out at the end of the day. >> what's your relationship during this project with your editor? how's that work? >> my editor, well, ann godoff, who has just been such a wonder in my career, ann and i, we'd meet periodically for lunch. she was always full of kind of enthusiastic good ideas and the right questions. and what i love about ann is she's not only a wonderful editor, she's a wonderful publisher. so that for instance, ann had said to me, "we have to have a cover that shows washington on a white horse." i said, "why?" she said, "well, you make much of how majestic he looked on a white horse and this sense of stage craft, political theater that he

tucker managed to snap this shot last night outside of his home in brooklyn heights. very rare that you can get a really good picture image of lightning. so that's pretty awesome. and ken, i just put it on my blog as well, check it out, you're famous. >>> here's your -- here's your severe threat, the mississippi river valley, we have a storm system that's moving across. we don't have any warnings yet but the storm prediction center has deemed this region here a slight risk for large hail, strong winds, and we could see isolated tornadoes as we. so let's keep an eye on that. >> can you believe it, we're still talking about the tropics? this is hurricane paula. got that song in my head, ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ hey, hey paula. >> ♪ >> ♪ it is expected to be a hurricane for the next several days, as it just kind of me anders here across the yucatan peninsula, cancun, sort of in its way here, could get heavy rains for parts of cuba, and just want to show you the computer models we're watching. a lot of divergence. we're going to have to monitor this, here's the gulf of mexico, water s

but patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from brooklyn heights...♪ poppo: cath, have you heardy and richard yet? cathy: yes, patty was going to stop and pick up a pie... and richard was going to file for medicare... ross: filing for medicare!?!? we won't eat until midnight - tomorrow! cathy: richard's filing for medicare online at socialsecurity.gov! it takes less than 10 minutes. poppo: 10 minutes? but i had to go to the office and wait. cathy: online! ross: but what about the paperwork? cathy: online! ross: but richard's still working... cathy: online! hey! poppo: you made it! patty: no problemo, poppo! i've got the pie... richard: and i've got my medicare... cathy: and i've got the turkey! poppo: did you get that online too? ♪...when cousins are two of a kind.♪

but patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from brooklyn heights...♪ doctor kessler: what do weave here... patty: oh, we're identical cousins... doctor kessler: but that's genetically not possible... cathy: oh, yes it is... dr. welby told us it's quite rare, but it does happen. doctor kessler: well, dr. welby is a great doctor but... patty: you take medicare don't you...? doctor kessler: oh, sure... cathy: ...and you probably have a lot of patients who are ready to go on medicare, yes? doctor kessler: yes... patty: you know you could tell them that if they're 65, they can go to socialsecurity.gov and apply for medicare online. cathy: it takes less time than sitting in a doctor's office... sorry...it's, uh, it's less than 10 minutes... sometimes 5 or 6. it's quite easy! doctor kessler: you're really identical... and dr. welby really said... ♪...when cousins are two of a kind.♪