i think some of and there was a joke has david e. kelly bugged our dressings rooms.parallels. i'm not joking, i'm serious. too many parallels and sometimes i'll use the word brother. not too many people use that word. gotto uses it, you know what i'm saying? things like that. or you're my man. so i really think it's a joy working on something that has substance and truth in it. that's what i'm proud of in the show. >> the scripted drama shows are supposed to be entertaining and engaging and maybe educational. you think people will learn something from the slow? >> i will say i learned a lot from it, and this is a microcosm of life, and we happen to be doctors. if you change a couple of circumstances, it could be any job. it could be america. this hospital, chelsea general, could be representing america, and looking at some of our actions and our foreign policies. maybe we need a 311 monday morning meet. >> i admit a case of every organization or bureaucracy should have -- if for no other reason, let's be candid here, let's close the doors and be candid with each othe

a thrill to get a call from a tv legend david e. kelly.on legal," "the practice" "chicago hope" and tomorrow he rolls out a new one called "monday mornings." i'm excited now to give you a little preview. >> coming through. >> welcome to chelsea general. this is the emergency room and it's a trauma center. >> get out of my way. >> clear. >> multiple traumas at once. this is the sort of place where they all end up. multiple trauma and lots of action in this area. but you remember this dr. tyler wilson comes in with the team of doctors to make it all happen. that's what this hospital is all about. >> it's a single-level set, as you might imagine. ways we can make it multiple levels. for example elevator over here that goes straight through. you go through that elevator and you're suddenly on a different floor. are these real? >> anything could be real. we're going to go to my favorite place at chelsea general, the operating room. this is an operating room that you're going to see where we could actually perform surgery. we wanted the entire r

. >> you wrote a terrific book called monday mornings, david e. kellyto produce -- >> monday mornings. we landed on monday mornings. >> it premiers tonight on tnt? >> it premiers tonight. i'm exited. it's taking people into a place in medicine i think very few people know about. a secretive meeting that takes place in hospitals where doctors openly discuss their mistakes. and it's been a lot of fun to put together. >> is it easier to do the scripted stuff or have to deal with the facts and work that stuff out on tv, is it more fun to write whatever you want? >> the left side of the brain does the facts. the right side does the creative stuff. it's fun to interplay between the two sides of the brain. >> just so you know what we are talking about off camera during the commercial break, he's training for a triathlon. >> i invited her, put a little pressure on ashleigh, all your fans out there. >> ain't going to happen. i'm thrilled for you. i don't know how you find the time, my friend. you have a wife who needs to be sainted. >> yes. and seen more often.

public process that could bring up e-mails that came to light during the resignation of cia director david petraeus. allen exchanged e-mails with tampa socialite joe kellyh a subsequent review cleared allen of any inappropriate activity, yesterday defense secretary leon panetta said allen has been under a tremendous amount of pressure and urged the general to take some time on whether decides whether to take or leave the nato post. >>> turning to the markets and a corporate marriage on valentine's day, american airlines and us airways have formally announced plans to merge, creating the world's largest air carrier. that happens about every three years, doesn't it? this new airline will keep the american name and its ceo. it will offer 6,700 daily flights to nearly 60 countries. it's not the only big deal on wall street today. berkshire hathaway and 3g capital have agreed to buy heinz, a deal valued at more than $23 billion. the news sent the kech yaup maker's stock up more than 20%. should make for an interesting new closure report the next time we look at the john kerry and teresa heinz kerry scloefr reports. up next, power play. a deep dive in the pre

investigating what was called potentially inappropriate e-mails that he wrote to a woman named jill kelly, the woman caught up in the paula broadwell/davidate last year. jill kelly called an fbi friend saying she was receiving disturbing e-mails. turned out to be from paula broadwell. but at the same time, general allen apparently writing jill kelly also potentially inappropriate e-mails. it must be said, allen was cleared of any wrongdoing in that matter several weeks ago. but he came back to the united states and it was very well known inside military circles he was thinking about retiring from the service after all of this. suzanne? >> barbara, do we know if that, in fact, is accurate? do we know if there's a health issue he has to deal with within his family, that that's the reason why he's leaving? >> i'm looking at the white house statement just like you. the president saying a short time ago he is accepting general allen's request for retirement so he can, quote, address health issues within his family. one can only assume that it's true. but several days ago, defense secretary leon panetta also told reporters that he counselled a

e-mails he exchanged with socialite jill kelly. he was cleared of any wrongdoing after the e-mails were discovered during an investigation of former cia director david petraeus. >>> the future of the papacy is becoming clearer. we now know when the selection process is likely to start and how pope benedict xiv will spend his final days on the job. >>> if the drink diet soda, listen up. we'll tell you about a new link between sugar-free diet soda and diabetes. >> what do you do when you've won the super bowl of dog shows. if you have high blood pressure and get a cold get coricidin hbp. the number one pharmacist recommended cold brand designed for people with high blood pressure. and the only one i use to relieve my cold symptoms without raising my blood pressure. coricidin hbp. >>> deadly fire in maryland. why firefighters had trouble finding water to fight these flames. "news4 at 4" back in just seconds. >>> investigators are working to figure out what caused this fire. it's a dash-cam video of what they found. eight people were home at the time. seven got out, but 66-year-old geraldine key could not. firefighters say their job was especially hard,

kelly is the woman who claims to have received threatening e-mails from paula broadwell. that claim triggered the investigation that led to the resignation of cia director david petraeus. pentagon investigation cleared allen of any wrongdoing in that case. >>> today's ash wednesday mass at the vatican was likely to have been possibly benedict's final mass. it was moved to the basilica today because of a larger that is usual crowd. he is step down at the end of the monday. the vatican says his successor will likely be picked between march 15th and 20th. he says he can almost filly field the kind any and affection he's received. >>> whether you like baseball or not, it really doesn't matter. you've got to love what happened today. pitchers and catchers for the nationals reported to florida today. spring training is under way. dan hellie is down there. he got this afternoon to the camp. where are you. >> reporter: it's viera, right next to melbourne, a little south and east of orlando, just about 45 minutes away from the airport in orlando. it was a quiet day here for the nationals. 82 degrees, sunny, beautiful. the pitchers and catchers spent much of the day un