a christmas album that was only good at christmastime, but good all year round, every day would be likeoliday, my favorite thing. tavis: my mother listens to christmas music in july. literally around the house in july in indiana with 89 degrees humidity in indiana, and she is walking around the house. >> indiana? tavis: yes. >> my gosh, enjoy this. tavis: i do not know the answer to this question, carole, and i should have researched it be, -- researched it, because it bugged me. >> you are correct. there are three original songs on the album, and they were all co-written by louise and other people, and it was so much fun for me to be singing some of tell-alls is a song, and also because of the we is -- singing someone else's song, and also because louise's sensibility is so much like mine. she was part of a mission, and it was to write something for carole, like carole had written it. >> i will see if i get to the short version of this. throughout the whole record, i thought we need to have a new year's dishonor. i will not do one more without that. -- we need to have a new year's song

christmastime? 12,000 bags. no easy tax. >> [unintelligible] christmas wrapping. never forget that it is christmas. >> opening these letters from their loved ones is the biggest boost to the forces that opposed drops in on christmas day. >> you are watching "gmt," from "bbc world news." british public sector workers go on the biggest strike in decades against planned pension reforms. diplomatic fallout continues on tuesday after the sacking of an embassy in tehran. aaron, in terms of preparation for the breakup of the euro zone, this is something that people are now planning for. claps absolutely, the company is preparing action plan -- >> absolutely, the company is preparing action plans. last night we had the euro zone finance ministers meeting. again, the market is very disappointed from what was delivered, or the lack of what was delivered. they did in greek -- they did agree to rescue the effs. nowhere near what the markets needed on their part to handle it. to handle the pickups -- pickups that were sustained. -- hiccups that were sustained. they did guarant

you cut off unemployment around christmastime? republicans are in a bind here. they have the weaker hand to play politically on these particular spending taxation arguments and obama needs to hit them hard and that's what he'll do. i think fairly successfully. >> and you wonder if he goes in and says, not only have we stopped the republicans from taking back that $1,000 but look what's going on in the stock market, your 401(k)'s doing a little better today, right? >> i don't know if he can take credit -- >> you can't do the central bank move. also, the market is, you know, much more unpredictable -- >> volatile at this point. we'll take a 400 update when we can get it. >> let's look at this race overall and we'll talk more about this coming up, but basically are you looking -- are you looking for the president now to be formulating his strategy around mitt romney, around newt gingrich? how much more seriously are they taking newt gingrich right now, charles? >> well, i mean, if you look at the actions they're taking, they're taking mitt romney a lot more serious

it is just another silly tax added on to something that everybody gets at christmastime. >> 15 centsnot that much, but it is just another thing you have to pay. >> the fee would pay for a program to help the industry do marketing fresh versus a fake trees. for smaller businesses like joe's, prices could be affected. >> if somebody has an artificial tree, they will pull it out. and use that money for other things. >> this 15 cent feet is delayed for now according to the white house. no word yet on when a final decision will be made. we are live from chantilly. >>> still to come, we will tell you why eddie murphy is stepping down as the host of the oscars. >> find out if yours is on the list. >> a local veterans' claims he was roughed up and handcuffed to a poll for two hours by security at an area mall. and he does not know why. [ male announcer ] the chicken marinara melt is the featured $5 footlong™ of november. juicy chicken, marinara sauce, and melty cheese served toasted on freshly baked italian bread. get it pronto, cuz this november only it joins our everyday $5 footlongs! subw

little more diligent about watching out for mental health issues and that kind of thing around christmastimebecause they do -- it's depressing. >> i really like christmas, but if i stop long enough and i think about it, i'll get teary-eyed. but it will pass. january 1st, it will be all over with. >> there is no place in angola where the spirit of christmas is stronger than at the toy shop. the toys are distributed to needy children throughout louisiana. >> what we're going to make for you now is a little car. >> it's basically an all-year process. the only time we stop is when we run out of wood. >> it's the best job in the prison. you're doing something you want to do, and you're doing something to help children. it's a lot of fun. this is the time of year you enjoy being in the toy shop. when i was small, i didn't -- very seldom did i have any toys. although i'm in prison, i'm still a human being and i love christmas and i love children. it makes us all feel good. >> when you mount these on here, that's your axles, for your -- you see how the car could ride, okay? now you've got a little c

. >> thanksgiving has yet to arrive but on state street is already christmastime.y're preparing for the eagles on monday night and a bad day to be a favorite and the big 10, rich king has all the highlights coming up. [ man ] did we get anything good? sweetie i think you need a little extra fiber in your diet. fiber makes me sad. oh common. i dare you to taste one hint of fiber in fiber one. oh, i'd be able to tell. why don't i just eat this bag? and how can you talk to me about fiber when you are eating a candybar. you enjoy that. i am. [ male announcer ] fiber beyond recognition. fiber one. [ female announcer ] among marie claire's top 25 beauty products that will change your life... for the first time ever... a toothpaste. crest 3d white. if beauty editors notice, who else will? crest 3d white toothpaste. life opens up when you do. no pie today, ted? no, no, i just paid my car insurance bill -- ouch. [ man whistles ] sounds like somebody paid too much. excuse me? i use progressive's "name your price" tool. they showed me a range of coverages, and i picked the on

now, have you noticed when you get your catalogs from christmastime, every person in those things isgood. they have their hair -- >> eric: you know who is not skinny? field and stream catalog. 40 pages of guns. >> bob: they carry 40 pounds of ammo. >> greg: overweight people work harder. they don't waste their time exercising or socializing. >> bob: this is a perfect example right here. >> kimberly: you're obsessed you tell us already you have a full-on love affair with chubbies. he does! >> greg: people discriminated against are homely people like me. >> bob: you're not homely, you're just short. >> greg: did someone say war on christmas? i think i did. wi will explain it to you after the break. if you leave now i'll go on the internet and say mean things about you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: welcome back to "the five." i love that music. more political correctness run amok, this time in "road to socialism." the liberal governor there chaffey is calling the state house christmas tree, holiday tree. you can't call it a christmas tree apparently. he claims it's a church and state th

we have nine live reindeer at christmastime in hershey park.available to all of our guests to see and enjoy. >> so much fun coming up in hershey for the holiday. there are skunks that paint and santa's reindeer street lots of fun at hershey park. i'll give you a hint of where i will be tomorrow. it is not where i am but where i can go, join me and her majesty as we prepare a foddie feast. this will be posted on our facebook page. we will choose and the winners of people got it right to make when a wbal priz epack. >> i think you will skunk people with bad clue. -- with that clip. >> we have to kick it up a notch. >> go to our facebook page and click on the close. clue. we'll talk to you again during the next half-hour. the chocolate is good that the decorations are fantastic. 37 degrees at the airport right now. there is a little bit of thought this morning but not as thick as yesterday. the biggest flaw is on the lower eastern shore counties -- the biggest fog is on the lower eastern shore counties. it's beautiful sunrise is in progress. to th

julie: that's always very touching to hear those thanksgiving greetings, and christmastime as well andave more for you. a colorado soldier coming home to surprise his children at their school. they had no idea that he was coming. and he was crying before he ever even made it inside. listen. obviously he teared up there andrew moreno's kids were at the front of the class reading a book about a soldier when their father walked in. oh, my goodness, if you don't have chills well then i don't know what is wrong, because they looked up, the two ran across the room and into his arms. moreno said it was the moment he had been waiting for for 400 days. >> it's something to think about every day while you're gone, and it's the -- it's what gets you through the next day, and the day after that. thank you guys so much for letting us surprise them and for everything that you've done for my family, and my kids, since we've been gone. >> are you going to stay home forever from now on? >> i think so. i would like to. in my opinion they are the two heroes. the mothers, the fathers that stay behind, the

. >> with the end of the year in sight and christmastime around the corner, it's difficult for the republicansstop payroll tax cut advocate increase on the middle incomes worker. >> in the end, congress may not pay for it but is likely to pass a deal. >> this becomes one big christmas tree for tax cuts. >> another factor is we are heading to election year. nobody wants to be on the wrong side of the issue. meanwhile, john boehner is asking the president to push forward on the 25 job bills passed that house but are stuck in the senate. >> shannon: i don't think it's a quiet holiday. >> not another all. >> shannon: thank you. >> one of russia's top newscasters give salute talking about president obama. we'll show you later in the grapevine. up next, the president of yemen signs on the dotted >> shannon: the white house says bay rain's government must hold accountable the people responsible for human rights abuses against protesters. bay rain released a report revealing widespread use of torture, excessive force and fast track justice in an attempt to crush the largest arab spring uprisinrising i

during the holidays we all went ice skating at christmastime, my aunts and uncles. >> it may be slushy. >> well into the 60s. i don't know how firm the ice stays on a 60-degree day. yesterday, 50s, no problem. i could see that working out fine. but 60s. >> you wouldn't need to wear a cut. >> and since it's the first weekend, free hot chocolate today. it doesn't matter what the weather is if they're offering hot chocolate. >> a little whipped cream. >> i don't know if they're offering free whipped cream. >> maybe you go out there and do a little ice skating today on a mild november day. or maybe you're headed out to fedex field to root on the redskins today. ah, good weather for everything you want to do on your sunday. cloudy skies. rain drops are still a good ways away. nothing more than a quit spritz or sprinkle. after dark tonight, more like after 7:00, 8:00, that's when our rain chances really start to ramp up. out there right now, one or two lonely slivers of sunshine. just enough sunshine to cast shadows across much of the area. shows skies get grayer and grayer. 56 mild degrees.

from a small town named cecilia, louisiana, probably the only time you see a red light there is christmastime. >> in the 1983 nfl draft, he was picked by the st. louis cardinals and later played for the houston oilers. >> i played with the great warren moon, some of the great players. played for the man in black, jerry glanville. >> number 44 for the washington red skins. this right here is herschel walker, 1981. i can name you a few guys, famous guys that got a few of those scars on me. >> ramsey's football career ended when a neck injury forced him to retire. >> from there it's like i guess downhill. got convicted in '91. got out, stayed out about a year, and here i go again. i chose drugs socially trying it out with the crowd, you know. ended up hooked. i feel like i let a lot of people down. i'm just trying to do what i can do right now to try to, you know, regain some of that swagger back. you know, i'm getting kind of old, but i still have faith that one day i could, you know, get back out and maybe contribute something to society. everybody knows prison is not a nice place. football he

it's almost christmastime, and all the republican candidates are in the mood, if you will.e's michele bachmann, quote, our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. self-reliance means if anyone will not work, neither shall he eat. neither shall he eat. well, for a chorus to the scrooge-like sentiment, consider the booing at the gop debate when a soldier in iraq identified himself as being gay or the cheering when congressman ron paul said, if some 30-year-old in a coma didn't buy life insurance, he should die. or when rick perry talked about all the executions he's approved and the audience cheered like hell or when herman cain kissed off waterboarding as okay with him, he being man who said electrocuting people across the rio grande is equally okay with him, that putting alligaors in a mote on our side of that wall would be what the doctor ordered.

i remember one time i was coming out of a bank, it was around christmastime. guy was with the salvation and asked me for money, i go, "i don't have any right now, but i'll be right back." you can imagine what i did. >> now 49 years old, torres started his career as a bank robber when he was only 17. he claims all of his robberies have been nonviolent. >> i go in there and basically just passed a note. i never used a gun. basically i would put, "this is a robbery, give me all the 100s, 50s." bottom drawer first. i don't want the money from the top drawer, that's chump change. you want to get where the big money's at. >> torres became known as the mummy bandit, because of how he would cover his face in robberies. he says the man in the latest photos that led to his conviction was an imposter. >> i would put band-aids to hide my identity. band-aids, nothing like the guy in the surveillance picture. where is the mummy bandit? he happens to be on the streets today. okay? he's a scapegoat. it's got to be this guy, he's robbed more banks than anybody on the planet. >

i wasn't entirely happen because steve's a friend i got a wrapped gift from himt christmastime i opened it up and it was his book with a card that said i thought you'd have at least like to hold the number one book. >> charlie: i think publishing bill riley's book about the lincoln assassination -- >> it's doing very well. and bill gratefully using his program every night to promote that book. some of you have written in about that stuff. >> charlie: a couple of conference to chris matthews. >> right. >> charlie: and well it should be. if you have a show you ought to be able to at least do something. >> exactly. >> charlie: give us a sense of how you go in search of america. and how you go in search about what's boati and how you find those stories that you think reflect the essence. >> in my case what i do because irspend so muchime on main street as i describe it out there as well as new york expuft places. i went across the country on highway 50 and talked to a lot of people. because of the nature of my interest and the kinds of things i like to do i find myself in small and medium s

i hate those things all year round, not just as christmastime. but there you have it.k more about it and other happy things on "american morning." see you later, christine. >> bye. >>> here's what we're working on for 5:30. all eyes on the herman cain campaign. what will the presidential hopeful do next after he's accused of having a 13-year-long extramarital affair. >>> and the cameras are there as governor rick perry, he got mixed up again. it's 26 minutes past the hour. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. but for some of us with overactive bladder, our pipes just don't work as well as they should. sometimes, i worry my pipes might leak. but i learned there's something more i can do. now, i take care with vesicare. once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks day and night. if you have certain stom

government and business, and whoo-hoo, it's a revolver going in crazy, you know, like a mall at christmastimehn avalon is taking a look. >> that's right, erin. look, revolving door has been doing overtime and newt gingrich is becoming a symbol of it. as he rose in the polls, he came under scrutiny for some payments he took from freddie mac, totaling $1.6 million. now, he said he wasn't lobbying, he was giving historical analysis. but as a point of comparison, the average historian makes around $60,000 a year. and that gap is what's calling a lot of people to cry foul and be frustrated with the way our system is working. this week it took on new urgency when news came out reported by "the washington post" that he made $37 million through the center for health transformation over eight years, working for the health care industry. now, it's not just the outside paycheck we object to, it's the hypocrisy that comes with that. take a look at this kind of quote that he was peddling at the time. advocating, "anyone who earns more than $50,000 must purchase health insurance or post a pond." now, if th

middle of the coup when yeltsin was rallying people and he went over there and came back around christmastime. he was ambassador to russia. he said i think i'm only fellow who was the ambassador to 12 countries. so that was -- i did not know that uncle bob had flown into a coup. i just knew he got me a pink cake for my seventh birthday. i began writing this book at the columbia journalism school. i took a book class with sam freedman, and i think that he -- where he made one of his biggest marks on history was on keeping the democratic hardy together from 1972 to 1976. those were the parties that were really torn apart in 1968 after the debacle of the convention and the assassination of rfk and martin luther king and the party was in vietnam and a number of issues. he came in and really held the party together, first as treasurer of the democratic national committee and then as chairman of the democratic national committee. the democratic hardy then looked a little bit like the republican party today in that it was very fractured and there was an extreme wing, the mcgovernite wing of the demo

interest to believe and these people knew that the bonuses that they were going to get, you know, at christmastime were going to be a lot bigger if their colleagues in the investment banking department were raking in a lot of fees by selling the bonds of these countries. and one of them was argentina. well, anyway, the argument that there was -- you know, that there was -- i don't want to call it misbehavior but nonmarket behavior going on wall street is explained in a chapter of the book. and i won't go into all the details of it. anyway, you can see at this point, as i looked in this, i began to feel there was a lot more here than just a chapter for a book. that there was something much more important than just, you know, the tragic story of a country that's known more than its share of tragedy. you know, this was a story that really i felt exposed a serious problem with the global financial system. the problem, i think, is this propensity to pump up the economies of the countries that we call emerging markets. the countries of latin america, asia, eastern europe and so forth. and pumping them u

. >>> a reindeer aren't the only things that can fly this christmastime.th helium balloons sunday near vancouver, canada. a woman did it to impress her friends but the tree ended up getting away. whoopsy. they told police when it drifted into airport air space that tree hasn't been >>> we begin a special series called "local legends." >> we begin in north carolina. people say you can't understand the blue bridge mountains unless you meet max woody. he is a spirit of a place he calls home. >> this is going to be a back play for a rocking chair. my name is max woody. my grandfather taught me the chair trade. now, this machine is old, old, old. sometimes, i'm not sure whether i'm i own this shop or whether it owns me and there is no glue or nails used. we drive square pegs in round holes. that will cause them to interlock together. if there is someone i don't like, i just won't build them a chair, but most people are appreciative of what you do. ♪ >> max is certainly aprishtprec the culture of this place where he kept it alive. he has a gift for working with

. >> well, you know, have a nice roast come christmastime i suppose. i don't know.g. merely reporting their interests. >>> carson is on the clock. >> "pop news," everybody. good morning to you. in the world of entertainment, the broadway musical "les miserabl miserables" is coming to the big screen. russell crowe, hugh jackman, anne hathaway are confirmed. and now, toiler swift, lea michele, scarlett johansson and evan rachel wood, have auditioned. lea played in the broadway version. >>> this morning, "us" magazine breaking the story that kourtney kardashian is pregnant with her second child. the big sister of kim kardashian confirmed she is three months along. she and her boyfriend are already the parents of two. and courtny will share her tips on e!'s mommy blog. never a dull moment in the kardashian family. >>> sean diddy combs son, justin, has accepted a scholarship to ucla. he has decided to play for the school's division i football team after being offered scholarships, the university of virginia, illinois and wyoming. nicely done. justin, 5'9", 170 pounds. >>

the things that are important to her all year long come out at christmastime.ies. >> reporter: often, first ladies like to employ their own family decorations. so tall this year, you had to take down the chandelier. decking the halls takes a lot of hands. auchbl hundreds of volunteers and white house staffers and an estimated 3,500 hours of work. three years ago, colleen, who has her own holiday decorating business, was determined to lend a hand. so, she did a bit of lobbying. you wanted to be in there decorating. >> i did. i wanted to deck the hall. >> reporter: she finally got an invitation. but assisting a process that's part military operation, part typical family chaos. >> they pack up boxes? >> yeah. they recycle at the white house. >> reporter: the lights aren't working, plug them in. >> a lot of stuff we go through at home. it's crooked. how do we make it straight? >> reporter: colleen has re-created some of the themes from the book. but looks can be deceiving. mrs. obama's gingerbread men look good enough to eat, but don't try it. they're baked with gl

jenna: by that time it's christmastime, though. >> exactly, you're ready for the snow.eral reserve is keeping a close eye on the economy and congress, as it considers additional steps to try to promote economic growth in this country. fox business network correspondent peter barnes reports for us live from washington. peter. >> reporter: hey jon. a lot of this could be triggered by gridlock, believe it or not. some economists now saying the federal reserve may have to ride to the rescue of the fragile economy once again because of the failure of the supercommittee. some economists now worry that congress and the white house will not be able to agree on extending a number of provisions that expire at the end of this year that might help the recovery. there's a $100 billion or so in payroll tax cuts for workers, $60 billion in unemployment benefits, $50 billion in accelerated writeoffs for companies that purchase equipment, and that totals more than $200 billion, more than 1 percent, of gdp. now, without those, one former fed economist thinks that it means more stimulus f