nobody could have been more excited about adopting a child than burt.e also remember this year a giant who saw our place in the world, stephen hawking, and a first family losing its matriarch, barbara bush, and then just weeks ago, her husband, former president george herbert walker bush. in music -- ♪ chain chain chain ♪ chain of fools >> reporter: -- we lost the queen of soul. >> aretha franklin was music, style. >> sassy, soulful. and just beautiful. >> she was one of the greatest singers ever. ♪ you make me feel ♪ like a natural woman >> oh. that voice. ♪ what you want >> in some respect, i mean, women live by this song, and some men, also. when she died, the music died for me. aretha was music, and she still is music. >> sure is. robin roberts and jimmy kimmel present "2018: in memoriam," tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc. i'm david muir. good night. 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on abc. i'm david muir. good night. tonight, 10:00 p.m. right here on abc. i'm david muir. good night. od night. ♪ >>> in just a few weeks, how long your commu

. >> burt reynolds in his own words. >> you work hard, try, be a good guy. >> then the star death that drewly shocked us. >> i have a family. i have a young daughter. >> how the life of robin leech was just as rich and famous as the stars he covered. >> and we remember penny marshall. >> they call me l arc verne. shirley. i respond to anything. >> she taught me right there. >>> this is "entertainment tonight." >> hello, everybody. thanks so much for joining us as we remember the star wes lost in 2018. there have been a lot of incredible singers in history, but there is only one aretha franklin. >> only one. 18 grammys. she performed at three presidential inaugurations and for the pope. wean of soul commanded r-e-s-p-e-c-t and boy did she get it. >> aretha lost her battle with pancreatic cancer passing away at her home in detroit. ♪ life's so unkind >> i think just being yourself, being an original. that sets you apart from everyone else. >> in recent years franklin battled health issues but chose to keep her condition private. >> i can't control what people think. >> this was aretha's

actress lonnie anderson and others open up about burt reynolds. >> burt reynolds was an icon. >> burtnolds. >> i knew him from "the tonight show" and how funny he was and how crazy his relationship with johnny carson was. >> john boorman saw him on "the tonight show," and decided to cast him with in "deliverance" because burt controlled the guests and he controlled the audience. >> why do you go on these trips with me? >> he should have won the oscar for that. his performance didn't get its due because there he was in the centerfold of "cosmo." >> he called me up and said, guess what? i'm going to pose nude. you have got to be kidding me. >> "cosmopolitan" didn't have a centerfold before that. >> laying there naked. i thought, wow. he looks good. >> the first thing i thought of when burt was gone was coming down the steps of an airplane and having him waiting on the tarmac, arms folded with that just cute mischievous, grin, to pick me up for our first date. we knew what we were getting into when we got married. he planned the entire wedding. he picked out my flowers. he picked out the

. >> reporter: as dick van dyke's burt did in the first film, lin-manuel miranda's jack is a big partentures. >> i like to picture he apprenticed under burt, he knows how magical mary poppins is. most kids grow up and forget? jack's never forgotten. >> good to see you, mary poppins. >> how big a dream would it have been to imagine being in a mary poppins movie? >> audacious is the only word. you never think there will be another mary poppins film. >> good heavens, it really is you. you seem hardly to have aged at all. >> really, how incredibly rude. one never discusses a woman's age, michael. >> who is she there to save? >> michael, really. >> what brings you here after all this time? >> same thing that brought me the first time. i've come to look after the banks children. >> us? >> yes, you too. >> i think she comes to look after the banks children, and ultimately i think it's about him. he's a banks child as well, you see. >> reporter: but it's the children that get to go on those magical adventures. ♪ ♪ some people like to dive right in can you imagine that ♪ >> she very much wants

future ambassador butter -- burt walker was there. lots of connected family members. so we saw candidate bush and then vice president bush and then president bush in our state a lot. i was the elected secretary of state when he was vice president and was the secretary of state when he was president, and so i had the chance to benefit from knowing him, the chance to go to walker's point a few time, to go to church with the bushes. if you were with the bushes on a sunday, you were going to be left by yourself or you were going to go to church because that was as much a part of who president bush was as anything else, maybe a bigger part than anything else. he said in his faith, maybe he wasn't as sharing as publicly of his faith, but he was absolutely, mr. president, committed to his faith. in fact, a charm -- he raised the money to raise a chapel at camp david during his presidency. there had not been a chapel there before. a umin of presidents starting with franklin roosevelt had used camp david, but it was president bush who decided, well, the church services on sund

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dick van dyke originally played mary poppins best friend burt now age ninety three he's returning as well in a new role. and marries found a new friend in the person of jack the lamplighter marriage so you know lovely is what. you really think so nice to see you jeff good to see you too mary poppins there is something magical about you know bringing light to london and i think jack does that as well i mean he sort of he he gets to go on these incredible adventures with mary poppins and the children he brings light to to the world the one. as mary poppins emily blunt has some quite impressive shoes to fill. apparently she's a hit with both animated and real audiences she's already nominated for a golden globe as best actress mary poppins will be returning to cinemas around the world starting december nineteenth. staying in london and royalty was out in full force on wednesday moving on now to that and other stories making headlines on the culture saying. prince charles and his son prince harry hosted a reception in london on wednesday for celebrities so active in search of causes amon

the saudi regime as everybody in this country now knows was made clear to the entire world with the burt of dissidents saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes i just believe that the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as india says around. think you'll ever be normal again meanwhile the un finally managed to bring all the warring factions in yemen together at formal peace talks in the swedish capital stockholm. the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths managed to broker a peace deal and declared a cease fire between pro-government forces and who the rebels in the port city of who they dared to start on the eighteenth of december twenty eighth teen. after the saddam bus bombing a group of u.n. experts that that saudi and immorality forces may have committed war crimes in yeme

burt, what is your plan. any retail giant that lost 40 consecutive quawshters. he's a privileged wall street guy who doesn't understand mainstream. you and i, jeff and your whole team are so grateful for the workers holding on to their jobs and doing the work in stores. but having families been in retail across three centuries web's the biggest retail loser in north american history. to let him almost strip mine the company going forward. the big thing is to bring rack arthur martin and bob me metlerd such a great job. the board which is mostly controlled by lampert should get liz williams, the sears dream team back that built it into such a powerhouse and rebuild it now while it's one of the great roman empires of retail. but it's not viabling as long as eddie lampert is anywhere near this company. jon: under lampert leadership there has been no evolution. >> it's almost george orwell who wrote the book 1984. sears is last store standing on the canadian border outside buffalo. lampert and the board were so myopic they closed the stores near the canadian border.

hey burt you're all right. appreciate it. >> check that market we come back a built.st a couple of minutes ago. now we're down 177. but it is still a lot of red on the left-hand side of the screen. back 2009 apple opened a data center in north carolina. you know that well they did. since then, hundreds of jobs have been created, apple invested billions in the community and taxes actually went down. is that what austin, texas has to look forward to? when they get an apple data center? more varney after this. comcast business built the nation's largest gig-speed network. then went beyond. beyond chasing down network problems. to knowing when and where there's an issue. beyond network complexity. to a zero-touch, one-box world. optimizing performance and budget. beyond having questions. to getting answers. "activecore, how's my network?" "all sites are green." all of which helps you do more than your customers thought possible. comcast business. beyond fast. we're down 20022 minutes into the session. down, 208. apple investing big in texas you know that, that is a billio

burt your friday planner, covered up with clouds and rain chances.r flood watches remain in place for the rest of the day. a lot of o are high standing water across the area. the heavy rains threat not materializing at the level we thought. the computer modelsere estimating 2 to 3 inches of rain. this is going to add up to bt aan inch. were goinge what we to face. the main area of low pressure still well down to the south across northeast georgia. so we're not anywhere near done with the rain yet. re's future weather. off and on periods of showers. another round of moderate rain likely to come in here into the later parts of the afternoon. a rumble or two of thunderate this afternoon and this evening. that will be the cold front around oming through 10:00 to midnight tonight. that will be the end of the rain by saturday morning. skies will being out. it will be a bright and sunny ksnish to saturday. sunday l very nice indeed. here's your whole five day forecast. mild and rainy today. breezy storm. northwest winds blow the clouds and rain chances away

i burted out, king hussein of jordan.a letter, hand written from him, saying, i wasn't pleased with my answer to you. i hope i wasn't offensive. >> the commander in chief, the guy who is -- >> the reporter who had taken it, signed it with a happy face. >> i wonder if we could picture the current commander in chief writing letters like that. michael steele, is it -- it is -- is it fair to say that we are memorializing the -- that wing? it's interesting, he was saying there's a lot of bushies left. >> it's not the same. i'm sorry, it's not the same. a lot of those people have moved far away from herbert walker bush stood in order to stand where they are today. i mean, that's just the reality of it. >> but his political life, geographically, and frankly, when you trace the abortion issue, he basically -- he reluctantly moved to where the party was headed. i don't think he moved to texas, but he seemed to geographically and ideal logically -- >> i think in that sense, though, context is everything. those issues were not as do

. >> the world burt reynolds 9/11 looks different after 9/11. >> every nation has a choice to make. in this conflict there is no neutral ground. the fact shows saddam hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction. >> in this battle against terrorism, there is no silver bullet. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> today, america is again forging its future by choosing a man to lead it into the 21st century. this is cnn's coverage of election 2000. >> this is the last official stop of campaign 2000. [ cheers and applause ] >> people do what i think they're going to do, you're looking at the next president of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> the schedule over the last 48 hours reflected a major worry. florida, home of governor jeb bush. >> and when he looked me in the eye and said, florida is going to be bush/cheney country, i believe him. >> in texas. >> george w. bush was known as a bipartisan governor. at the time the state house was run by democrats, and he had a very good working relationship with them >> we poured our hearts and souls in this cam

. >>> coming up here, calling for a fine on burt. why one state senator is the transit agency should face the maximum possible fines for misusing its funds. >>> the coast guard training in high surf at ocean beach. coming up we talked to the crew tackling treacherous waters. >>> i'm keeping an eye on your forecast and also that treacherous water. the surf is still high. we will talk about that when i come back with your forecast. >>> we want to let you know about this developing story we are falling out of the north bay. there's a backup on westbound highway 37 after a pursuit and then a crash in that area. one suspect is now in custody but commuters are certainly feeling the pain right now. if you're heading toward san rafael on highway 37, you are probably owing to want to avoid that area or give yourself plenty of extra time to make the trip. both directions of highway 37 are now back open. it will take a lot of extra time to get things back to normal in that area. we will be right back. i am a family man. i am a techie dad. i bel

my name is burt shen, certainly no enemy of technology. i've worked for at&t, intel, qualcomm. i think my objections are three. number one, due process. mobility was -- and sprint were fined $11.6 million in april of this year for very similar issue, going ahead with putting up poles without first checking for impact, and then, we've noted other problems with their mailing and other procedures. number two is risk to property and to property values. and then, number three is risk to health. i know that it may not be the primary purview of this board to think about health issues. to first approximation, the risk is proportional to the dose and the duration of the exposure so that even if it's a one time measurement is fairly low, if somebody's actually sleeping there for eight hours a night for ten or 15 years, the cumulative health risks may be quite high. in finally, because we've been talking about poles, if the equipment is to unobtrusive, what's the need for a bigger pole with a deeper foundation? thank you. >>clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name's r

. >> i'm not sure what's coming down burt at the end of the day -- >> the administration is coming downerent issue. >> his family is going to be arrested. >> that's not what we're discussing. >> i don't have to ask the question. we've all been together so long that you know what i'm going to ask before i even ask it. >> anticipate your question and you anticipate our answer, that's right. telepathy. good to see you guys, happy holidays. >> happy holidays. >> all right, still ahead, new details emerging about justice ruth bader ginsburg's health scare. more on that next. honey treasures from whole blends. blended with purpose, for dry, damaged hair. with lush honey, known to replenish and royal jelly and propolis, known to nourish and repair. as a whole blend, it helps heal damage to the ends. blended makes us better. whole blends. blended makes us better. at dewar's, all our whiskies are aged, blended and aged again. it's the reason our whisky is so extraordinarily smooth. dewar's. double aged for extra smoothness. whoooo. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price

and music by burt bacharach lyrics by hal david, it was so contentious, they actually broke up as a writing partnership. is heard andat she with too many open spaces. she sings, on the list of things i will not miss, first of all is open spaces. one goal of the land conservation and preservation during the third quarter of the 20th century is a recognition that the united states was becoming increasingly urbanized. as it happened, it's citizens needed access to protected land and open spaces with an urban environment both new and old in order to refresh and reinvigorate mind, body, and soul. no one would ever quite division of shangri-la expressed their with the implementation of cold war era programs of urban renewal. the relationship between the renewal and the preservation was an intense one. it was full of lots of controversies. apparently, they were supposed to have similar goals, preservation and renewal, but because of the bureaucratic mix that there were thrown into, they came up with different responses. for those in alexandria, you can see the remnants of urban renewal in our comm

burt lower. was the cowardly lion and in godot he played estrugone. what book of the bible plays a pivotal role for the protagonist of brad bury's fahrenheit 451. that's the book of eclasses. the make way for duckles is the classic that never goes old which of the name does not belong to the one of the eight little ducks. jack, tack, spack, or quack. the answer is c, back. what award-winning 2010 novel devotes several thousand pages of it pagings to a powerpoint chart? that's thegon squad by jennifer eagan. this is one of my favorites. which heroine of a children's book has been cited as three supreme court justices as a former influence? nancy drew. sandra day o'connor, ruth baiter ginsburg and sonia sotomayor, in interviews years apart and independent of each other when they were asked what set you down the path to a life in the law they all said nancy drew. which book did dorothy parker write, this is the greatest review of all time. this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force. that's interestly enough the n

. >> the world burt reynolds 9/11 looks different after 9/11. >> every nation has a choice to make. hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce weapons of mass destruction. >> in this battle against terrorism, there is no silver bullet.

burt, get the air mattress. >> for who? >> ronnie. >> ronnie's home?he show adam pay, everyone. ch [ rs and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: welcome back. >> thank you so much for having me. it's so nice to be her >> seth: this show is so funny. and it's such a great premise. >> oh, thank yound >> seth: youam play members of an entourage. >> yes. me and sam richardson "vom p" and the wonderful "detroiters" play members of a hip-hop star's entourage. and then about two minutes into the first episode, that hip-hop star dies. and we have to go back home to where we're from with no driver's license or no money and no education, but, super entitled. [ light laughter ] h: yeah, it's a very nic setup. and you are -- you come by this premise, honestly. you're a genuine hip-hop fan so much so you named your son -- >> drake. >> seth: okay. [ laughter ] >> yes i named my -- >> seth: that is true. >> that is true. i named my son drake. and i defy anyone to show me a better jew for aew to name their kid after. >> seth: yeah. >> maybe natalie? [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. tho

burt reynolds, harry anderson, margot kidder, robin leach, stan lee.ost the great aretha franklin, the queen of soul, at 76. roy clark left us. legendary authors and writers phillip roth, the great tom wolfe and neil "doc" simon. the designer kate spade. science and technology legend stephen hawking and microsoft paul allen who left us way too young at 65. winnie mandela and u.n. schedule kofi annan at 80. auto racing icons dan gurney and the greatest silver fox of nascar, david pearson. preacher billy graham gone at the age of 99. also, remember the loss of anthony bourdain this past year. took his own life at the age of 61, and the global reaction to the loss of this cook, this chef, this storyteller, this traveller, i think surprised a lot of people. farewell. >> all of which somehow brings us to this moment, number one on our list. this year's list of the most is topped by -- >> bob mueller. >> robert mueller. >> mueller. >> bob mueller. >> robert s. mueller. >> "s" stands for swan. robert swan mueller iii. >> he still holds all the cards and he st

the saudi regime as everybody in this country now knows was made clear to the entire world with the burt of dissidents saudi journalist jamal khashoggi maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes i just believe that the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as india says around. think you'll ever be normal again meanwhile the un finally managed to bring all the warring factions in yemen together at formal peace talks in the swedish capital stockholm. the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths managed to broker a peace deal and declared a cease fire between pro-government forces and who the rebels in the port city of who they dared to start on the eighteenth of december twenty eighth teen after the saddam bus bombing a group of u.n. experts said that saudi and immorality forces may have committed war crimes in yemen. so

the saudi regime as everybody in this country now knows was made clear to the entire world with the burtof dissidents saudi journalist jamal khashoggi and maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes i just believe that the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as india says around. think you'll ever be normal again meanwhile the un finally managed to bring all the warring factions in yemen together at formal peace talks in the swedish capital stockholm. the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths managed to broker a peace deal and declared a cease fire between pro-government forces and who the rebels in the port city of who they dared to start on the eighteenth of december twenty eighth teen after the start the bus bombing a group of u.n. experts that that saudi and immorality forces may have committed war crimes in yem

i guess i was like burt's intern -- [ laughter ] in the first movie.th jane banks like all -- all our liv. and basically, my character knows that mary poppins is magic and everyone else has te forg e.d then emily blunt is like perfect in this mo i mean, such an insane cast. >> jimmy: when she arrives on the scene, i don't want to ruin it but you jt goose bumps, and you go, "this is gonna be so fun and it's magical." >> yeah. >> jimmy: great work. cli want to show everyone . here is lin-manuel miranda and emily blunt in "mary poppins returns."k take a loo this. ♪ which proves the cover is not the book so open it up and take a look ♪ ♪ 'cause under the cover one discovers that the king may be a crook ♪ ♪ chapter titles are like signs and if you read between the lines ♪ ♪ you'll find your first impression was mistook ♪ ♪ for a cover is nice but a cover is not the book ♪ >> should we do the one about the wealthy widow? >> oh, by all means. >> always loved that one. >> well, go on then. ♪ lady hyacinth mccaul brought all her treasures to a reef ♪ ♪ where sh

the saudi regime as everybody in this country now knows was made clear to the entire world with the burt of dissidents saudi journalist jamal sharkey maybe if the saudis were willing to lie to us about what happened to jamal khashoggi they haven't been straight with us as to what's happening inside yemen because if the united states is being used to intentionally hit civilians. then we are complicit in war crimes i just believe that the relationship while valuable in the past has become too much of a burden and as long as india says around. think you'll ever be normal again meanwhile the un finally managed to bring all the warring factions in yemen together at formal peace talks in the swedish capital stockholm. the un special envoy for yemen martin griffiths managed to broker a peace deal and declared a cease fire between pro-government forces and who the rebels in the port city of who they dared to start on the eighteenth of december twenty eighth teen. after the saddam bus bombing a group of u.n. experts that that saudi and immorality forces may have committed war crimes in yemen. so

building contractor frank shoto who burt and his employees use the a forty several times a day.if they actually closed off the a forty to diesels that would cause a lot of chaos. skilled trade companies typically expect to use their diesel pickups for at least ten years the ever tighter environmental regulations are expensive. after the diesel emissions regulations of three or four years ago we bought two new vehicles that cost us around eighty thousand euros and if we have to grind our current vehicles to a halt and buy new ones will likely end up spending a quarter of a million. might stand culp is a roof he paid around forty thousand euros for a small pickup truck that runs on electricity that was his solution for the diesel restrictions but so far he's disappointed with his purchase he says it's hardly ever used and his employees still prefer diesels. there are not enough charging stations getting to building sites is just too much effort we often don't make it to or back from the site our employees find that really difficult and of course our customers don't have a charging

burt reynolds. >> stan lee. >> but we like to reach out to writers and ask for people who are going toeard. so you've got people who are semifamous. the wide receive for the 49ers. it was pie team grmy team growi. immortalized in this famous catch. every sports writer in the bay area. he was in the back corner, in the fourth quarter, catching the ball that won the game against the dallas cowboys. he just had an interesting life. something i didn't know until we did this. he was claustrophobic. every time he ended up in the bottom of the pile, it was a terrible experience for him. just a famous moment that he was part of. we have some really interesting fill loss of philosophers and s. >> remarkable list when you look at it and see these remarkable people and the impact on people in our society. >> and lesser known individuals. jake silverstein, thank you. >> "new york times" magazine, the lives they lived issue, is out and available online right now. jake silverstein, thank you. happy new year. >>> up next, we look ahead to 2019 with celebrations already under way around the world. fro

. >> burt reynolds, the hottest actor in hollywood. >> i'm surprised to see you here. >> i'm glad to what makes successful television programming is being in the right place at the right time. and it was the right time. >> entertainment journalism evolved as viewers got more curious and had more access. until that point, the entitlement business had been something we didn't know all that much about. >> we could go behind the scenes in our effort to really give an insider's look. >> the crafty old j.r. of "dallas" fame was with his mother actress mary martin as he was presented with a star on the hollywood walk of fame. >> it was very honorific of the industry. they would do serious coverage of it. it wasn't salacious. and you would see actors speaking as actors instead of on a johnny carson show. >> what are you like on camera? >> i'm like this. this is on camera. >> this is on camera. >> it was the beginning of a lot of money being made talking about entertainment and celebrities. >> robert redford plays the good guy in the movies but don't tell that to his neighbors in utah, they a

future ambassador butter -- burt walker was there. lots of connected family members. so we saw candidate bush and then vice president bush and then president bush in our state a lot. i was the elected secretary of state when he was vice president and was the secretary of state when he was president, and so i had the chance to benefit from knowing him, the chance to go to walker's point a few time, to go to church with the bushes. if you were with the bushes on a sunday, you were going to be left by yourself or you were going to go to church because that was as much a part of who president bush was as anything else, maybe a bigger part than anything else. he said in his faith, maybe he wasn't as sharing as publicly of his faith, but he was absolutely, mr. president, committed to his faith. in fact, a charm -- he raised the money to raise a chapel at camp david during his presidency. there had not been a chapel there before. a umin of presidents starting with franklin roosevelt had used camp david, but it was president bush who decided, well, the church services on sund