ebert blogged earlier this week that the cancer had returned and he was going to take a break from workroger ebert was 70 years old. >>> the mariners and the a's went at it again today at the coliseum. mark is going to tell us who came out on top. sports is up next. well, well, well. growing up, we didn't have u-verse. we couldn't record four shows at the same time. in my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. and if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, that's all we watched. and we liked it! today's kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv starting at $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. >>> mark is here now with sports. giants open tomorrow. but the a's got a little winning streak going here. >> yeah. not too shabby. they come on strong and take care of seattle and look good doing it. we've got to show you a little fan activity. look at the grab made by the fan right there! the most spectacular part about it, didn't spill a drop of his beer in the left hand. looking good! jo

ebert blogged earlier this week that the cancer had returned and he was going to take a break from workger ebert was 70 years old. >>> the mariners and the a's went at it again today at the coliseum. mark is going to tell us who came out on top. sports is up next. well, well, well. growing up we didn't have u-verse. we couldn't record four shows at the same time. in my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. and if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george that's all we watched. and we liked it! today's kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv starting at $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. >>> mark is here now with sports. giants open tomorrow. but the a's got a little winning streak going here. >> yeah. not too shabby. they come on strong and take care of seattle and look good doing it. we've got to show you a little fan activity. look at the grab made by the fan right there! the most spectacular part about it, didn't spill a drop of his beer in the left hand. looking good! josh r

. >> film critic announced he has cancer again and roger ebert will scale back his movie reviews announcing this in a blog last night. ebert previously battled cancer in his thyroid and lost the ability to speak and eat. he says the latest cancer was discovered after a painful fracture making it difficult to walk the he plans to spend time writing about his health challenges. >> korean automakers are recalling two million vehicles to fix airbags and brake light switches. safety regulators say a faulty switch can stop the lights from lighting and cruise control may not turn off when a driver steps on the brake light. the recall involves santa fe and tuscon and the optima and sportage from the 2007 through 2011 model years and they will notify owners and replace the switches for free starting in june. hyundai is recalling the 2011 through 2013elantra because a bracket can come loose. >> apple fans, if you are looking for a new tv you may not have to wait longer, an analysts says he has learned from suppliers apple is on track to launch a new tv set by the end of the year. the biggest tv is 60" with smaller

. >> film critic announced he has cancer again and roger ebert will scale back his movie reviews announcing this in a blognight. ebert previously battled cancer in his thyroid and lost the ability to speak and eat. he says the latest cancer was discovered after a painful fracture making it difficult to walk the he plans to spend time writing about his health challenges. >> korean automakers are recalling two million vehicles to fix airbags and brake light switches. safety regulators say a faulty switch can stop the lights from lighting and cruise control may not turn off when a driver steps on the brake light. the recall involves santa fe and tuscon and the optima and sportage from the 2007 through 2011 model years and they will notify owners and replace the switches for free starting in june. hyundai is recalling the 2011 through 2013elantra because a bracket can come loose. >> apple fans, if you are looking for a new tv you may not have to wait longer, an analysts says he has learned from suppliers apple is on track to launch a new tv set by the end of the year. the biggest tv is 60" with smaller versio

roger ebert has died at age 70 after a long, courageous battle with cancer. just this week he wrote on his blog he was facing a recurrence of cancer and was going to slow down and not review as many movies as he once did. here's a look back at roger ebert's life and career. >> roger ebert once wrote no good film is too long, no bad movie is short enough. and that was roger ebert. as much as he loved to praise and celebrate good films, he also loved to point out their flaws. >> we pick on big visible films since they're more likely to be seen by more people and therefore, cause more suffering. >> he suffered through a lot of films, working for the chicago sun times for 46 years. he began as a freelancer in 1966. the next year he was asked to be the newspaper's permanent film critic. it was an unexpected role. he always said he never planned to make a career out of being a critic. but the fact is, he was made for the job. he simply loved movies. he even wrote a screenplay for a trashy hollywood film, beyond the valley of the dolls. the movie bombed so ebert finally decided to review films instead

.\ roger ebert died two days after he blogged. rence of cancer. ebert, who was 70, was the first movie reviewer to get the pulitzer prize as a critic. >> jacqueline: the rain has ended but the fault for the north bay tomorrow. the special with the reduced visibility. with the chance of rain in the north bay. sunday, a slightly better chance of seeing rain, at every conditions and in some areas of drizzle, light rain that the radar is not picking up. however, as we take a look offshore some high cloud coverage that will impact another storm is brewing. freudberg.and however,e high cloud coverage and temperatures? mild. in the self bay upper 60s/70's. the south-bay. with upper 60s also for the inland valleys 60s through san francisco the number of americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose to 385-thousand last week. that's up 28-thousand from the week before. according to the labor department. this marks the third consecutive week of gains in benefit claims. the labor department will release its monthly jobs report to

. >> reporter: ebert learned this week his cancer returned, vowing to fight it again, his final blog y of reflection i say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. i'll see you at the movies." chaz ebert says her family is touched by the outpouring of love. and says her life with roger was more beautiful and epic than the movie. john, diana. >> thank you, brandi for that. >> there is a cartoon we want to share with you done by a cartoonist which is really touching. if you take a look at it, basically gene siskel, saving a seat for roger ebert in heaven at the movies. you know this is something that i -- wherever they are, they are probably together looking down and watching the movie as we speak. >> or arguing. >> probably arguing right now. >> so entertaining -- >> yes, they were. really touching. really a great way to kind of honor both of their legacies. you know, and, roger ebert more so than, you know, just being able to talk about movies he was such a wonderful communicator. even when he lost his voice found a new voice on twitter. he had 800,000 followers incredible

ebert would describe that in his dreams, he could still speak. >> that's just like i was in life, you could never shut me up. >> reporter: just two days ago, his final tweet, a link to his blog titled "my live of presence." ebert taking note it was 46 years ago he became a film critic, telling his followers, i'm not going away. hoping to still write reviews while he battled cancer. ending his letter, he said, on this day of reflection, i say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. i'll see you at the movies. >> i'll see you at the movies. at its peak, the show reaching ten million viewers at once. actor eddy murphy once joking, if siskel and ebert called it a horrible picture, i'm telling you, they could kill a movie. and oprah tweeting today,s siskel and ebert back together today, end of an era. >> he said once in heaven, the movie would be citizen kane and they'd be offering haagen-dazs as you watched it. >> he'd give it two thumbs up. >> thanks so much, david. >>> now we move on to those new gun measures in connecticut that we told you about last night. the strictest in the nation have become law. the governor signed legislation requiring background checks for

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ebert known for his up ins up, thumbs down tv reviews. just yesterday he announced on his blogs undergoing radiation treatment, said he would step aside for a while but would be back. he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in '02, and later had surgery for cancer in the salivary gland. he lost his chin and his ability to speak but he later resumed writing fulltime and even returned to television. roger ebert starred as a film critic for the chicago sun-times, starting in 1967 in '75 he became the first movie reviewer to get the first pulitzer prize for criticism. roger ebert, dead this afternoon at 70. >> in other news today. the sheriff in new orleans today answering for the shocking video out of the jail he runs. the video came out during a federal hearing on improving conditions at the lockup. look at this. inmates smoking up. snorting, shooting some sort of drugs. some of them are openly drinking beer. showing off wads of cash and cell phones. they're in jail. perhaps most disturbing, they're waving around a loaded gun. again, in jail. i don't have any way of knowing how old

. >> reporter: roger ebert's last public utterance appropriately was on line, a final tweet two days ago, linking to his blogannounced the recurrence of the cancer and wrote, thank you for going on this journey with me. i'll see you at the movies. so now, cue the music, fade to black. roger ebert was 70 years old. thanks for watching abc news. tune in for good morning america tomorrow. we'll see you here tomorrow as well. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! ♪ wow. [ buzz ] delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? bee happy. bee healthy. with clusters of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love.

blog. i'm going to be forever grateful to roger ebert for helping my career and more grateful for turning on to so many beautiful wonderful films. roger's top ten all-time favorite movies. stanley kubrick's a space odyssey, citizen kane, a general, herzog's wrath of god apocalypse now raging bull, tokyo story vertigo and the tree of life. i thank roger for sharing his gifts. i can think of no better way to honor him than to spend time with his brilliant twitter feed and his online columns. take advantage of his wisdom, his wit and his deep and abiding humanity. that's "viewpoint" for tonight. i want to thank my guests, saman arbabi, elayne boosler and tina dupuy. listen, make sure you tune into monday's show because phil donahue will join me to talk about thomas young and if you can't wait, phil is screening his powerful movie body of war this sunday on

blogs and on facebook and twitter. they completely anticipated this democratizing force that's happened and then to roger ebert's ever lastingthan get in a defensive crouch around that, made it almost obsolete. he almost had a second career on social media. he mastered that technology with such eriodiction and such -- it was such a terrific thing for him. he almost made a second career for him. >> my wife is getting back at 5:00 and i can't wait to go see the redford movie. we grew up when people were bombing the bad guys. some people said, they are on the left. i didn't. i want to know about these guys. i'm going to watch a movie. i'm going to decide if i like it based on the audience around me, too. at "argo" i thought, this movie is going places and same thing with "rocky." i go with my reaction. i'm not saying this isn't birdman, this isn't treaufeu. this is good. >> that's what ebert captured and gene. >> who picked "argo" as the best movie of the year? >> it's the one i haven't seen yet. >> what's the matter with you? >> "zero dark thirty," i haven't seen that. >> are you going to wait for netflix? >> two nights aglo g

i want to echo what roger said in his last blog, i want to thank you for going on this journey with us. michael, how should we remember roger ebert and what advice should be given to other film critics who may be coming up on the blocks on how they should do this unique job he did? >> that's a very good question. film criticism these days i think has taken a very sad turn. it's all about, you know, the rotten tomatoes score and in the old days, you had the family kaufmans and judith crist and others. i remember as a teenager reading these film critics and really starting to think about movies in a way i had never thought about them before sitting in, you know, the middle of michigan. and in fact, he had such a great sense of humor, too, that when i first met him, i had taken my film to the film festival. i was nobody, i was unknown, unemployed, and when i got to the festival i found out that they scheduled it against the opening night gala film in the opera house at the same time. i'm thinking nobody's going to come see my film. i saw roger ebert going into the opera house and i went up and introduced myself and said roger, i've

ebert became a household name after reviews films on television. last night richard roeper shared some of his memories. or read in his blog, what you tv saw is what you got. that was roger. he was a larger than life guy. he had a great passion for the movies. you mentioned how long he's been doing this when i joined the show, he had already been a film critic for 30 years. he reviewed 10,000 movies and he would still get excited every time the lights went down and the curtains parted. he was always rooting for a movie to be good, if it wasn't good, you knew about it. >> ebert was a phenomenal writer. >> an institution in the country, but in chicago this guy is a legend. to think of how much bigger is he in chicago people in chicago real sad this morning. >>> some amazing surveillance video to show you this morning. a woman bursting into a tsa area, attacks the agent. then this man, an off-duty cop, body slams the person. >> the woman was being assaulted, she was defenseless, had her arms up trying to defend herself. somebody really needed to help her. luckily i was close enough to be able to help her out. >> tsa released

ebert at the movies launched in 1975, and roger ebert was writing film criticism up until the day he died, and truly one of the greatest, liza. >> his blogse couldn't talk anymore as we saw in an interview i did with him two years ago but he continued to write up until his last day, his last blog in fact was so touching that he wrote after he discovered the cancer had returned and this was earlier this week he said he was going to take a leave of presence, instead of leave of absence, but he's certainly going to be missed. i don't think anybody went to the movies without thinking about what roger ebert thought about that movie. >> you're right. >> would you always watch siskel and ebert at the movies to get a sense of what you wanted to see and what you didn't and they had such a great spirited discussion. probably couldn't even happen today but they had a great discussion. >> sometimes you saw both sides of the story, and sometimes you know, roger would like the actors, and the other wonderful man wouldn't talk about the actors but he liked the movie. so it was always interesting. >> did he ever come down hard on you, liza? >> no, thank