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what you may not know is dickens' personal connection to the story. >> had dickens himself been >> dickens in his childhood had faced great hardship. his father was riddled with debt trouble. >> the head curator of the charles dickens museum. >> at one point his father was thrown into jail for debt. he had to work in a factory to make money and support his family. >> price says the early experiences influenced much of dickens work. with "a christmas carol" he wanted to address serious social victorian england. >> he decided he was going to write a political pamphlet. however he wrote said i'm not going to do the pamphlet i'm going to put out something at christmastime and it's going to have 20 times the force. this is the drawing room. >> the museum is in the london house where dickens already family. did the family celebrate christmas in this room? over the christmas period dickens would invite his family to come celebrate the season here in this house. >> the dickens own you'll tide tradition show up in the story would influence the way readers celebrated christmas. >> there are records

>> yes. dickens would invite his family to come celebrate the season here in this house. >> the dickens own you'll tide tradition show up in the story would influence the way readers celebrated christmas. >> there are records that after reading "a christmas carol" they were going to buy a turkey make sure that that was part of their christmas meal. >> in the 172 years a christmas carol has never been out of print. it's been adapted into stage productions and to at least radio movie and television versions. it may surprise you which one our experts think is the most faithful. >> i think that you probably can't go wrong with "a muppets christmas carol." >> i think the muppets one if not the best version, it's >> christmas is not about you it's about other people. i think the muppets get to that version. >> for many it seems that a story of a christmas carol has become the meaning of christmas. >> it has for many people, it's an integral part of christmas and has been since it was written in 184. the interesting thing i often refer to it as being second most famous christmas story ever tol

you can learn a little bit more about charles dickens too. yes, on december 13th if you'll be attending that perfornance we'll have a representativ e from the sioux city public library who will be speaking about charles dickens and his writings and the story behind the play. of course the theatre is going to be decked out in christmas decorations, it's going to be a lot of fun up there. to get your tickets go to scctheatre.org for those. rebecca, thanks so much for being here. thank you. thanks for joining us for around siouxland. >> this bottle of wine was found in a very unusual place: an elk's mouth! the elk was seen holding t bottle in its mouth in evergreen, colorado last week. a resident captured a series of photos after she says the animal picked through a neighbor's recycling bin on the curb. she joked the elk probably chose a red wine "to go with the white snow or to pair with his leafy greens." in case you were wondering, it dollar bottle of cabernet sauvignon. << ben's back with one more

so, again, we go to charles dickens. the tale of two cities. there is two chicagos. tourism, there are no tour buses going through the south side of chicago. >> brown: people go to the movies and think of them as entertainment, escape, but is this art a call to action as a kind of witness? >> there may be different audiences. you can have an entertaining film that makes you think, too. it doesn't have to be one or the other. i think in that same vein, "chi-raq" has humor but it's very serious subject matter. not everyone will want to see "star wars" this christmas. i want to see it, but there are many different audiences. >> brown: lee has also been critical of his own industry for lack of diversity including a recent rebuke when he was awarded an honorary oscar. >> this industry is so behind sports it's ridiculous. it's easy to be the president of the united states as a black person than be the head of studio. honest. >> we never liked diversity. the people we like directly affects what we see because these are people who are say we're making this, we're not making

i was a dickens guide, a victorian. idea of messing with narrative like that never occurred to me. in reading like that, it gave me permission to write in a certain way. the same thing with toni morrison and song of solomon. british, in a very colonial education. disillusionment, change of the geography. i was looking for bigger answers than the church could give. very, a lot ofbe praise and worship not a lot of intellectual stimulation. it is hard to begin jamaica -- be gay in jamaica. . was a celibate christian thinking that i was sustaining myself that way. not anything that ever confronted in jamaica. for moving when i left was that i just wanted to be somewhere else. lot a knock on a jamaica. i adore my country. it took years of coming into myself and wanting more out of life. want, who am i? i am in all of of coates. his article ons reparations was the best thing that has been said about it. acute don't realize the nature of race in jamaica. mess is a whole different kind of mess. ourse far more subtle with .s mor

generally in the 10 to 15 mile per hour range, although we have a 20 mile per hour sustained when near dickens elementary. they have 34 at the las vegas airport. these winds are coming from the north him of the around the back side of that system. they are pesky.t the loews, uniform in the 30's. we are talking some 20's on the boarcurrently, only in the 40's around the valley. it is 49 officially out at mccarran. at least it is not too bad in l.a., 58 degrees on the coast. here is the system that went through sunday night, brought us ald. it we are onwe are on the backside of it. having a deleterious effect on our weather. if you high clouds around but our skies have gone blue, bright blue.highs today well below normal all across southern nevada. 40's in the valley to the 20's on the mountains. overnight lows, 12 up on the mountain. single digits in caliente. freezing point in boulder city. let's go from 50 today, with that chilly breeze in the afternoon. through the afternoon, and then 10 to 15 miles per hour overnight. i am looking for frost in the suburbs in outlying areas of the valley. in

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remember when chris fowler scared the dickens out kirk sherbsreit on holloween. well herbsteit got fowler back on the jimmy kimmell show another look in slow mo love the face. he might want change his diaper. best slide the lsu basketball team into the photog. but cheheout his teammat he s sdes into cheerleader and i hate when this happens you lose your shoe and the opposing player picks it up and throws off court . hey what are doing. ref says that of the week he throws it off the back of the basket and out of f unce. worst half couou shot a little wide and long missed it by 30 feet. best dance of the week that would never end the steelers william gay. thinks he is out at the club dances with every player on the team. he was even dancing on his knees walking off the field. ya that is a little excessive. that will cost him and it's always a good idea to have someone coverin the tside receiver o's got brandon marshall nobody. it could be worse i love the ole fafa standing on the sideline play. whatch number jogging off the field on the punt. but he never leaves th

the world's highest honor for the dog diesel will receive the dicken medal. this after nomination from the english "sun" newspaper. pastjust coming up ,20 9:00 here in paris. it is the beginning of the end of the islamic state group, so says the iraqi prime minister. iraqi forces seized the city of ramadi back from the militant group. they predict that the group will be defeated entirely in 2016. southagrees to compensate korean women taken as sex slaves during world war ii. and britain's prime minister is waiting into criticism as he tours flooded towns in northern new england. questions are raised over the government funding for flood defenses. the top business headlines with markus karlsson. hi there. there, catherine. anchor: let's start with the oil prices in saudi arabia. yes, brent crude is near and 11-year low once more. and one of the major producers unveiling dramatic spending cuts, saudi arabia cutting subsidies on things like fuel and water. this as the government forecasts and $11 billion deficit next year. our correspondent has more. saudi arabi

cnn's max foster resurgence. 3 scurvy, tuberculosis, scarlet fever may conjure up images of a charles dickens' tale.but diseases of the victorian era... are re-emerging in modern day britain."it was a complete shock."24 year old josie garrett is nearing the end of intensive treatment for tb. she's studying for a masters degree, but a year ago, was isolated in hospspal. (josie garrett, tb sufferer) "i contracted tuberculousis from my boyfriend. he caught tb from his friend in south east london, his friend contracted tb from his dad, his dad first was diagnosed tb in the 90s after traveling to india. and it basically re- emerged as a drug resistant form of the disease. up until this point i wasn't able to work, wasn't able to socialize, i wasn't able to kind of live a normal life."tb synonymous with poverty - affecting g e most vulnerable. but health officials warn strains of the disease lie undetected in all parts of modern society and could break out in the future.(dr onkar sarhota, london assembly) "the bacteria in tuberculosis can infect and stay in your body for a long time. and it becomes

i remember being a 9th grade teacher and encountering students who were not ready to read charles dickenst the ninth grade that was part of the textbook that we were required to teach. the no child left behind law left very little flexibility. there was a buzz phrase called equal access to the curricular standards, and if we departed from that text -- it was something we just couldn't do. i see a lot of positive things that could happen, given that states have more flexibility in being able to meet the needs of students in our very, very diverse country. >> will the law just continue to reproduce the kind of results we have been getting so far? because the parents who are best able to advocate for their kids and advocate for their school systems are more able to provide their own children with more of everything, so does everybody end up in the same place in the race? >> well, the law -- the law moves away from test and punish, to test and reveal. annual testing is still required but the federal government is no longer determines how that works in states. the states are now responsible fo

the yearly dickens festival. the town would transform into an 1830s london.nd that is doug dressed up. santa and his helpers are very busy this time of year, but not too busy to visit with some special kids. now, this is caring santa. he returned to the oxford valley mall today and children with special needs and their families came out to visit the big guy in a specially designed environment. there were no lines. no crowds and no music. plenty of fun. >>> now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> wow, we had another beautiful day. what a nice way to end your weekend. temperatures above average for us once again and tomorrow morning, it is going to be a cold commute, but i amtraking mild temperatures. more dry days ahead for us. we're going to stay dry most of the week. philadelphia, 47 degrees. a new few clouds. winds about miles per hour and akroz the rest of the area, 39 degrees and mid-40s. wildwood. 38 in pottstown. 38 in the poconos and 38 in allen town, so, our 24 hour temperature change map shows we're about 4 degrees warmer than this time yesterday an

i'll second that. >> tell us about dickens. >> dickens came in with probably a sibling, a younger siblingte. and then we found out that dickens has really rotten teeth. and very high level of heart worms. up here you don't have to worry about it but in the south they're very prolific. so we have to treat the heart worms in a long step program. >> about $700, right? >> yeah. >> if they were to donate, keep him alive that would help. >> he needs his teeth cleaned, and he needs the treatment. at his high level it can be really dangerous. >> we've got about 30 dogs now. what's your message? >> my message is to not buy. and not breed. because if you breed a litter of puppies and you've got ten that's going to kill ten dogs in a shelter. >> that's interesting. we should point out that you only adopt in the state of texas. so for people across the balance of the country go ahead and check out your local shelter. >> yeah. >> you also have a great message, a lot of families go into a shelter and they're looking for the little, young cute dogs whereas there are a lot of senior dogs and dogs with sp

the age old story of christmas past, present and future as the dickens classic comes alive.lroads under the tree and outlandish lights tree to tree, house to house, and electrical connection of neighbors glowing brotherly love and sisterly affection. >> imagine sick in philadelphia. >> seven fishes and baked delights, the dreaded or loved holiday fruit cake. it is these and more that philadelphians love. the grand or

those familiar with that, that's the charles dickens novel.nd in fact the march that took place black friday was a clear indication of a tale of two cities, because the people bein' affected were furious about this tape that was released by the... you could say the execution of laquan. the murder of laquan. sixteen shots. our first day of filmin' was june 1st. our last day of filmin' was july 9th. durin' that time, from the first of june to july 9th, while we're shooting, while we're filming chi-raq, 331 people were wounded and shot. sixty-five gun murdered. >> 331? >> wounded and shot. sixty-five gun murdered. and it's escalated since then. but when nine-year-old tyshawn lee is lured into an alleyway and shot... i don't care what his father is, what his father did. if he's a gang or not. no nine-year-old should be executed anywhere, let alone in the world. especially not the united states of america, the so called beacon of democracy, peace and all... ...all the other stuff. >> right. and we have story after story like that. do the right thin

the age old story of christmas past, present and future as the dickens classic comes alive.under the tree and outlandish lights tree to tree, house to house, and electrical connection of neighbors glowing brotherly love and sisterly affection. >> imagine sick in philadelphia. >> seven fishes and baked delights, the dreaded or loved holiday fruit cake. it is these and more that ph

ty jones said we need to recreate a 21st century dickens, someplace that offers a place for our community to see something that gets us in the christmas spirit uptown. and he was, like, i think you are the guy to do it, you and jason michael webb. >> how long have you two been collaborators? >> wow, a few years. this piece was commissioned back in 2012, and we've been working on this since then. lelund, and now when we think of the holidays, you know, you're talking about loss, you know? is it a tough theme to try to manage into an uplifting experience? >> i think we wanted to have something that was authentic to the holiday season. >> okay. >> we wanted to make sure that we move people in profound and measurable ways and pleasurable ways as well too. so i think at the end of the day to be able to have a substantive story that actually brings joy to folks during the season. >> most difficult part when you get this idea, walk us through the process, jason. what's the first thing you do, you start thinking music? you get the book together or what's the first part? >> the most difficult and

you'll feel like you stepped into a dickens village. vittoria woodill check it it for you. >> in cape may we're celebrating holiday lights and history. i'm vittoria woodill coming up a tour and i don't want to miss the trolley. >>> plus, the time has come. hollywood roles out the red carpet for the world premier every new star wars movie. the lengths diehard fans have gone to be among the first to see the force awakens much kate. >> as the rain moves out of the area tonight, temperatures remain in the 60s but they will begin to drop. once we clear out the rain it does turn cooler. one punch and then a second punch of cooler air coming in later this week. i'll have your full seven forecast coming up. >>> also, some jaw-dropping video should show you. two hotel employees narrowly escape a pickup truck crashing through the lobby. why police say this was not an accident. when "eyewitness news" comes right back. ♪ >>> back now on "eyewitness news" a scary close encounter at oklahoma hotel. an angry customer intentionally drove his truck into

you'll feel like you stepped into a dickens village.ittoria woodill check it it for you. >> in cape may we're celebrating holiday lights and history. i'm vittoria woodill coming up a tour and i don't want to miss the trolley. >>> plus, the time has come. hollywood roles out the red carpet for the world premier every new star wars movie. the lengths diehard fans have gone to be among the first to see the force awakens much kate. >> as the rain moves out of the area tonight, temperatures remain in the 60s but they will begin to drop. once we clear out the rain it does turn cooler. one punch and then a second punch of cooler air coming in later this week. i'll have your full seven forecast coming up. >>> also, some jaw-dropping video should show you. two hotel employees narrowly escape a pickup truck crashing through the lobby. why police say this was not an accident. when "eyewitness news" comes right back. ♪ >>> back now on "eyewitness news" a scary close encounter at oklahoma hotel. an angry customer intentionally drove his truck into t

dickens worked to complete the book in time for the holidays.ished, a christmas carol was an instant success. there were live stage performances in london. the book helped popularize the celebration of christmas, which, until then, was sort of a ba h m humbug affair in england. the story helped promote the idea of christmas as a time for giving to the less fortunate. with its iconic characters like scrooge, tiny tim, a christmas carol has remained an enduring classic and has never gone out of print. and it's been further immoralized on the big and small screens in countless ways. there are the celebrated classical renditions like the 1951 film version. >> who and what are you? >> i am the gohost of christmas past. >> past? >> your past. >> what is your business here with me? >> rise and walk with me. >> there are also more comedic takes onhe story. bill murray may have been the funniest miser in the 1988 film "scrooged." >> that was a good one. you are going to be visited by three ghosts tomorrow at noon. >> tomorrow's bad for me. as a matter of

the age old story of christmas past, present a future as the dickens classic comes alive.ailroads under the tree and outlandish lights tree to tree, house to house, and electrical connection of neighbors glowing brotherly love and sisterly affection. >> imagine sick in philadelphia. >> seven fishes and baked delights, the dreaded or loved holiday fruit cake. it is these and more that philadelphians love. the grand or of longwood gardens the quaint delight of peddlers village. and music. did we mention music? ♪ the sites, the sounds, the tape after very philly holiday. >> i'm jessica dean. >> i'm ukee washington. for the next half hour we want you sit ban relax, we take through some of philadelphia's best holiday tradition. >> in one of the newest traditions for a lot of families, franklin holiday festival, and the electrical spectacle holiday light show. >> a show with 50,000 dancing lights, the centerpiece and i will

the dickens administration exasperated the problem of race in the city. it wasn't there and 65, people were sitting around the table were talking about the welfare, people were not too interested in it, in 1994 the four the city was on the verge of bankruptcy. literally on the verge of bankruptcy. dickens had brought the city to bankruptcy but he threatened cuomo that if you allowed to plan the control board to take over i will play the race card. so cuomo backed out and giuliani was handed it. so he had to move quickly on the welfare reform. as a fiscal matter. people liked what buckley said and like the idea of welfare reform but it wasn't a matter of this is a nice idea putting people to work, this is a matter of of necessity. it had to be done. welfare had to be reduced in the city budget had to be reduced. this is just and formal, people sitting around talking, and the giuliani campaign the thing that got most exciting was the fact that buckley talked about the fact that new york's set more to washington that i got back. this was a revelation. new yo

. -- our alleyaliante camera. 35 degrees in the northeast valley at dickens elementary by the air force base, and west, southwest winds at 37, 43%. barometer holding steady at 30 inches. mercury will be coming down 37 north las vegas airport, 40's green valley and spring valley lookin9 degrees. 30 in pahrump, 25 up in kelly is a, so some very cold air up in lincoln county, which is going to be under a winter weather advisory, so we are talking abou some significant moisture up there. for the valley, we can get some showers in here is that you can see some clouds starting to jurist through. they will be in and out, but generally they are on the increase. a little system that give us rain friday afternoon, that low tracks out here, and it is just causing havoc, a real mess of four drivers right along the central part of the country. much colder air behind this frontal system, and it is rather warm acrnothing warm about that flow right from the gulf of alaska. that is cold air behind the system which will be another bonanza for e sierra. i tell you, there will be a lot of sun. hopefully th

remember when chris fowler scared the dickens out kirk sherbsreit on holloween. well herbsteit got fowler back on the jimmy kimmell show another look in slow mo love the face. he might want change his diaper. best slide the lsu basketball team into the photog. but checkout his teammat he slides into cheerleader and i hate when this happens you lose your shoe and the opposing player picks it up and throws off court . hey what are doing. ref says that wasn't'tery nice. worst ininunds pass of the week he throws it off the back of the basket and out of bounce. worst half court shot a little wide and long missed it by 30 would never end the steelers william gay. thinks he is out at the club dances with every player on the team. he was even dancing on his kneess walking off the field. ya that is a little excessive. that will cost him and it's have someone covering the outside receiver who's got brandon marshall nobody. it could be worse i love the ole fake standing on the sideline play. whatch number jogging off the field on the punt. but he never leaves the field and

the wind is definitely -- 21 mile an hour sustained wind and the northeast valley, dickens elementary school near ellis air force base. temperatures in the 40's, it feels a little cooler with those north winds. the 20's up on the 41 over in pahrump, 35 in mesquite. you can see the moisture that moved through yesterday is now well off to the east.we have another storm off the pacific northwest that we have to be concerned with.t into monday. that should dump some snow on mount charleston, matoday, it will look good, maybe not feel so good with those wins. if you' tonight, you definitely might need a jacket. it is going to be in the 30's. we have a chance for some moisture coming in to start the work week and some very cold -- i say cold, not cool, temperatures ahead. >> when jerry says cold, it is going to be cold. jerry.here is a warning from u.s. intelligence about a new potential threat fthey say the terrorist group has demonstrated the ability to produce safe passports. we have more on the alarming news just before the holiday>> federal authorities are investigating why several lar

on the past score, all that volatility, what the charles dickene dickens was going on when the fed wasdy to meet? what did you think of that? >> i think people got very nervous. it got oversold. we saw huge volumes and that was the signal to buy. i think fortunately, we won't get a lump of cold in the high-yield market going into the year-end. >> a lot of volume and volatility. one of the themes of 2014, '15 and i'm sure '16, is liquidity in markets, specially fixed income. liquidity in volume is not necessarily the same. you were writing about it. explain. >> they were saying, this might be an attractive opportunity. they do not want to buy individual bonds. they get this diversified portfolio. they can put risks to work and they are not taking that ideosyncratic risk, that they are owning the one bond that is going to get into trouble. i think you are going to see what we call beta products continue to attract attention. that's where the liquidity is in the short term. >> it leads me to my next topic. i'm a treasury guy, started out trading many futures markets and they are derivativ

. >>> i'm going to head over to a dickens festival in narberth, there's many festivities happening rightve warren, what else do we have going on. >> a lot. out west, there's brandywine christmas. i always love going there. huge train layout. they have a lot going on. they sent us this weather question. >> we're here at the brandywine museum of art in chadds ford pennsylvania enjoying a fantastic holiday train display. what's the weather like today, dave. >> you go out there route 1, and looks like it's cold to start. we're into the 50's. by noon act quick warmup. maybe lower 50's by 3:00 before we drop overnight tonight. maybe patchy fog hanging around. careful in north and western suburbs. to the south we are still cold. our weather scale ok right now. 4:00, 9:00 looking good. even tomorrow morning, not bad for the eagles and hanukkah. the seven-day forecast has the temperatures into the 50's with clouds to the south. there's a chance of rain on thursday. 60's by the end of the week, friday and saturday. karen and bill. >> you do this, deal with the family, me, not so much. decorating r

. >> stephen: what was charles dickens like? was he a nice man? ( laughter ) >> he was lovely. the main thing he wanted was a street named after him. and he got about 20 and something. no, i mean, we went to the country. and we had a sort of healthy life. and one of the things that i only noticed about six weeks ago, i remembered, i said my wife is a big organic food, and how we mustn't eat this and mustn't eat that and all that's going on. and i suddenly thought, in the second world war in england, for six years, we lived entirely on organic foods because there were no chemicals to put in the land because they were all used in explosives. ( laughter ) now, you know what happens to you when you eat all that stuff. ( laughter ) and also, we don't grow sugar in england. so there was very little sugar. or anything. so what happened to us, everybody, we all grew up on organic food for six years. >> stephen: wow. >> it was amazing. >> stephen: and that's why you can handle weekends like you just described with peter o'toole. >> it was lucky that we could, yeah. i mean, peter's only

students from class to class and just like those fellow students, lonnie dicken so that inson is moving. and she's used to the occasional stares. >> i definitely have a lot of eyeballs on me. i don't like when kids stare. >> reporter: the reason for those stares? >> i was born an amputee. >> reporter: dickinson has never seized life with the left arm. >> i don't know what it's like to have two arms. just something and i have lived with. so i've felt self-conscious. >> reporter: but there is a place where she's always found confidence. >> okay dancers, we'll start. >> i started dancing when i was eight years old. my mom put me in ballet class. >> reporter: dancing is the one police where she didn't find the stares. >> dance to me is my medium to communicate with others. at the dance studio i'm accepted. >> it's very unusual obviously in dance to not have a limb. you position that the minimum requirement for dancing would be to have all your limbs. and she proves that it's really not true. >> her disability asthma her a stronger, sharper thinker and tar more adaptable than any of us. ther