the big charlie brown tree lighting ceremony isn't going to be taking place until next month. now, yes, it is easy to overlook. but however it is making an encore performance. >> the charlie tree has kind of seen better days. >> reporter: who would have thought this charlie brown tree could look any worse. it's a poor pathetic cedar that didn't like well water and turned brown and is basically on life support. a year ago the city received international attention when it turned that in to its city's holiday tree to save money. >> i don't think it's new york, it's concord, so i think it's fitting for the neighborhood. and i thought it adds character you know. instead of getting this giant thing that okay we're going to ship it in and have to ship it out i like the charlie brown tree. >> it was the combination really of the community support across the country that really inspired us to continue. we knew we wanted to do the trees again this year. as you pointed out, the economy is not changed enough for us to do anything different so again, our whole team is making the best of wha

this year concord isn't giving up on its so-called charlie brown tree.lo tells us it may have some competition now. >> it's, uhm, could be on life support. it's not been declared officially dead. >> reporter: who would have thought this charlie brown tree could look any worse? it's a poor pathetic cedar that didn't like well water and turned brown. a year ago, the city received international attention when it turned this into its city's christmas tree to save money. >> i don't think it's new york. it's concord so it's fitting for the neighborhood and i thought it adds character, you know, instead of getting this giant thing that okay we are going to ship it in and then ship it out. i just like the charlie brown tree. >> it was the combination really of the community support across the country that really inspired us to continue. we knew we wanted to do the tree again this year. as you pointed out, the economy has not changed enough for to us do anything different. so again our whole theme was make the best of what we had. >> reporter: while the idea has

it's not been declared officially dead. >> reporter: who would have thought this charlie brown tree could look any worse. it's a poor pathetic cedar that didn't like well water and turned brown. this city received international attention when it turned that in to the holiday tree to save money. >> i don't think it's new york, it's concord, so i think it's fitting for the neighborhood and i thought it acted character, you though, instead of getting this giant thing and ship it in and ship it out, i just like the charlie brown tree. >> it was the combination really of the community support across the country that ealy inspired us to continue. we knew we wanted to do the trees again this year, as you pointed out, the economy has thought changed enough for us to do anything different. so again, our whole team is making the best of what we had. >> while the idea has been a hit with many for its fiscal responsibility and charm, the charlie tree as they call it, like the economy, isn't making an exactly rousing come back. the city's arborist says the brittle branches can't stand ornaments and li

they made charlie brown rap for the commercials. have you seen this? i'm against that.hey also, again, i guess to try to focus on teens, changed some of the voices in the special itself. >> you and everyone here said when i went to the bathroom, i'm fake. >> jenny thinks she heard me talking [ bleep ], now she's blowing it up to something completely different. >> i walk away, and he goes, who is the fakest one in the house? everyone nods and says jenny. >> i never said that. >> that's what i heard. that's what i heard. that's what i heard. >> that wasn't me, but then you told him -- >> that's what i heard. >> i called you fake. >> that's what i heard. >> from who? you are all [ bleep ] -- >> have a huge ding dong. >> jimmy: well those darn "jersey shore" kids have struck again. they are all waiting around for the great pickle. in other scary halloween news, tonight on "e.t.," sarah palin sat down with mary hart. >> are you going to run for president? >> you know, i have not decided what i'm going to do in 2012. for me mary it's going to entail a discussion with my famil

john two little outside his two thousand and six congressional debate with democratic challenger charlie brown what campaigns are just advertising driven advertising is horrendous very expensive. certainly electronic media is ridiculously expensive and that's the best way that everybody wants to use my point is where to respect the first amendment says congress shall make no law bridging the freedom of speech and the fact of the matter is that part of the meaning of that is that you can't control the means of making a speech you have to let people raise the money in order to be able to get their message out otherwise you've affectedly denied them the freedom of speech how much money will you be spending on electronic media in this campaign that is a trade secret it is an open secret that nearly three billion dollars were spent on campaign ads in the two thousand and eight election and the candidates they spent seventy five percent of their time fund raising. and. where's the money right. so we can stop those practices by ensuring the candidates are given free air time that's a very simple thin

it reminds charlie brown. he was always surprised when lucy pulled the football away.y are always surprised in washington and state capitals when the dollars never come in. john: some of maryland's rich left the state. >> they are out of here. these people aren't stupid. >> i've lived here all my life. john: he isn't stupid he lives in that big house we showed you before. he made millions building this business which processes paychecks for companies. >> i started with $3,000 and one employee. john created 13,000 jobs. -- john: then he created 13,000 jobs. will he keep paying tacks in new york state after the governor signs a tax increase. >> we increased the income tax for millionaires last year. >> it was the straw that broke the camel's back. not that i like to throw the number around but my personal income tax last year would have been $13 800 a day. would you like to write a check for 13,800 a day as opposed to moving to another state where there is no or a low state income tax? john: he did also have this house in florida. >> moving to florida, zero personal inco

it reminds charlie brown. he was always surprised when lucy pulled the football away.ey are always surprised in washington and state capitals when the dollars never come in. john: some of maryland's rich left the state. >> they are out of here. these people aren't stupid. >> i've lived here all my life. john: he isn't stupid he lives in that big house we showed you before. he made millions building this business which processes paychecks for companies. >> i started with $3,000 and one employee. john created 13,000 jobs. -- john: then he created 13,000 jobs. will he keep paying tacks in new york state after the governor signs a tax increase. >> we increased the income tax for millionaires last year. >> it was the straw that broke the camel's back. not that i like to throw the number around but my personal income tax last year would have been $13 800 a day. would you like to write a check for 13,800 a day as opposed to moving to another state where there is no or a low state income tax? john: he did also have this house in florida. >> moving to florida, zero personal inc

tonight, the classic peanuts special, "a charlie brown thanksgiving" aired here on abc, a week earlyi don't mean any disrespect to pea nuts, i love the specials, but we've been seeing the same thing since 1973, so, we decided to spice them up a little bit by replacing the dialogue with the dialogue from this week's episode of "hell's killetchen." >> what's wrong with you? >> i'm trying to work, chef. >> look in my eyes when i'm talking to you. >> i might seem like a little dumby on the outside, but on the inside, i'm a cooking machine. >> wake up. you need to cook the rice longer in the stock. it's undercooked! >> i have never seen such chaos. >> what's wrong with you? i'm not here to wipe your little butt. let's get out right. >> jimmy: it's better, right? [ applause ] more contemporary. hey, we got some great news here in hollywood this week. yesterday, a federal judge lifted the lapd's band on the costume characters who roam around outside our building, posing for pictures, to get money to buy liquor. they had been banned for a few months, but now they're back and infor one cannot

charlie brown. never got a chance to kick that football. lucy, you are a crazy bitch!oodstock, come again? what are you saying? we may never know. [ laughter ] sweet noodlings of kanye west and mademoiselle jessica simpson play as these characters larger than life float across the skyline and out of my life once again. until next year, life is sweet, life is a parade. happy thanksgiving. your adoring son, james thomas fallon. [ cheers and applause ] thank you. stick around, we'll be right back with colin firth, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] phone can go from my pocket to taking a picture in seconds. what up, dave! i just point, shoot, and post to facebook. so instead of fumbling to open my camera app like dave here, i can put my phone away, and open my parachute. open yours, dave! hey, is it cool if i date emily when you're... ...nevermind. vo: less fumbling, more capturing. new windows phone. get yours at at&t. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> our first guest is an oscar-nominated actor who's starred in the hit films "bridgette jones' diary," "love actually," "mama

pilgrims thanking god and the native americans, for a bountiful harvest, like this story, told in "a charlie brownhanksgiving." >> the pilgrims had the first thanksgiving feast. he invited the indian chief, who brought his indians and a great abundance of food. >> reporter: and there's the alternative story, given now life this year on tea party blogs and radio, is that thanksgiving is really about the perils of socialism. according to this version of history, the pilgrims were early socialists, on their way to the new world, to cool their resources and profits. rush limbaugh talked about it on his radio show just yesterday. >> long before karl marx was born, the pilgrims discovered and experiments with what only could be described is socialism. and what happened? it didn't work. and they nearly starved. >> reporter: limbaugh said it's only when the pilgrims dissed socialism, dividing the land into private property to be farmed for profit, that they finally produced the bountiful harvest and thanksgiving feast. but many historians say, it's not that simple. >> they didn't go over as socialists and

brown and martin bashir. >>> we begin in house where charlie rangel has found guilty. a sharp rebuke for the common who arded the panel did not give him enough time or the resources to fight the allegations. luke russert joins us now. what happens next? >> it's quite remarkable. a two-year investigation essentially over. we heard he was guilty of 11 of the 13 counts they put against him. ethical wrong doings if you will. what will happen now is that this subcommittee will then meet for a hearing to decide what exactly his punishment should be. it could be a rep remand, an pums, a fine or the committee would write a letter saying the case is over. once they recommend a punishment, it will go to the full ethics committee. if it is -- it will then go to a vote of the full house. if you want to look at this historically, the last rep remand we had was newt gingrich. the last expulse was jim trafficant. as well as a fine or official letter. >> there's a personal drama here, also. he was just re-elected. a legendary congressman. what about his clout in his district? he has b

look at chris brown and rihanna, the public condemned him. but you've got charlieknife allegedly to his wife's throat, repeatedly being charged with abusing women. and it just seems like the public doesn't care. why? >> i think it is the fact that they sort of excuse him by virtue of the character he plays on television, number one. but number two, you haven't had the kind of vivid evidence we've seen with a mel gibson, or chris brown, where we actually looked at the evidence. if we had seen or heard the things that actually happened, i'm not so sure we would be so forgiving. >> we're here in the warner brothers lot where "two and a half men" is filmed. it doesn't seem that anything charlie does outside of here affects his role on the show. just six months after that incident between him and his wife in aspen, cbs reviewed his contract for nearly $2 million an episode, making charlie sheen the highest paid actor on tv. in less than a week after charlie's alleged rampage at the plaza hotel, he was back on the set of "two and a half men." cbs and warner brothers had

charlie, an old friend of ours that i went to high school with. >> really. >> really, in high school. he does a lot of this in the city and he's come and given us one of these brown bag lunches with acoustical separation and talked about just what he's saying, using different thicknesses of material. the assembly has to go beyond the glazing, it has to be the building wall assembly that reduces outside noise. >> tempered glass is designed to take impact. that would have broken the window glass or the plate. i'm trying really hard. this doesn't want to break. let's give it a real... you know, so it's a good product. it's interesting. this center is the strongest part. the weakest part is at the edg edges. it takes quite a bit of impact, as you see. but -- in a quake, when they say don't leave the building, you know, there's a reason. you're probably better staying inside, under a desk or whatever else, because it's probably not going to be the glass that falls down but the cornice, some of the ornamental brickwork. who knows. we're likely to get hit by a power line. >> stay in the building. >> stay in the building, get under your desk. keep a bottle of scotch ther

charlie, the voice comes on saying charlie rangel was convicted in abstentionia in the ethics committee, after 50 years of service to this country in pinstripes and khaki brown, he couldn't even afford a lawyer. people look and go, oh, what have they done to this terrible man? how could they have done that? come on, he knows what he's doing here. he knows he's guilty, he knows they will pound him. pulls back at the last second, goes out, you're going to convict me in absentia. poor little old me, i'm the chairman of the ways and means committee, the most powerful guy on the hill, i can't even afford a lawyer. >> maybe i should sell one of my apartments. >> but if you'd like rented control -- >> it's grotesque. >> he should have behaved the way almost everyone in congress behaves, we'll pay you later. like the national debt, his legal fees. >> chris has important news. >> you have important news? >> about screaming. america should be interested pris wi prince william and kate middleton are officially engaged. >> tina brown, finally, you're of use to us since you don't give us the "newsweek" story. this guy, mika says he's absolutely gorgeous, good looking guy

brown in chicago and janice dean in the fox weather center. we'll show them to you in a minute. first, high drama in the halls of congress at the ethics trial for charlie rangel, what's happening now, molly? >> reporter: jenna, the ethics committee is back to work now, they say they'll go on without congressman rangel in his trial on 13 ethics violations. rangel had asked for a delay and walked out. i'll have more just ahead. jenna: interesting story to watch. also breaking developments in the search for a missing family in ohio after the 13-year-old daughter is found alive. steve, where are police searching now? >> reporter: a nearby park where the 13-year-old girl was recovered and we do have reports from the local affiliates there may have been evidence taken in from that park, three bagsful. jenna: big storms also across much the country. j.d., is it finally winter? is it here? >> reporter: officially it doesn't arrive until december 21st, jenna, but some areas over the weekend, over a foot of snow. we're calling it snowvember! we'll talk about it. jenna: after snowmegeddon, i don't know if we're read grow that. all those reports coming you on "hap

am not in charlie -- shintaro ensure that green energy -- all of the studies we have seen which tally of green jobs make no effort -- if we buy more green energy, we will have less need for brown energy. the studies never looked at the lost jobs on the browned side. they do not look at the number of jobs that were lost. it is a complete mess. let's assume the numbers are correct. pennsylvania offers an interesting point. there was a study that came across recently, an acclaimed summer-like threesome -- they claimed something like 3000 jobs were created. the revolution in natural gas and the exploitation of hydraulic traction has about 89,000 new jobs in pennsylvania. this is complete news to anybody. if we're talking about trying to create jobs through industrial development, you can embrace natural gas. it is hard for me to believe that green energy will be the backbone by which we are going to create economic growth. if all i have said is correct, green energy is more labor intensive is not a good argument for green energy. you do not create wealth by maximizing the input associated with production. so even if it is a jobs creator because it is more labor intensive, that is

charlie. i wonder is there a voting part of people that enjoy the political whiplashed? is there someone that supported senator kennedy, president obama's, senator brownnd to all patrick or is voter turnout going to be a big factor even more so next time with surprises? .. >> in the gallup numbers for the third quarter, 40% of adult call them selves independence. and that plot led by an 18-point margin in favor of democrats in '06, and by a point in '08 and 8.4 said obama, senator mccain. i don't know what they did yesterday. i know for the year they were averaging with gallup a 10-point spread. in a cbs "new york times" poll it was a 20-point spread. probably something in between. 55-39 spent a lot of the same people. it is the same people who are spending back and forth. >> the thing is when they were voting for democrats in '06 and oh it eight, i think those people, they were expressing displeasure with whatever was going on. i don't think was an ideological vote, and just as i think their votes this year are not ideological foes. these people, they want results. i mean, independent voters, the liberals have passion. and conservatives have passion.