>>> this is katherine ferguson academy.ool in detroit and you got pregnant or you had a baby, since 1988, katherine ferguson academy was designed to keep you in school and keep you from dropping out and to get you in college, real course work, high expectations and help with parenting classes for the moms and childcare and early education for the kids. right in the middle of a hollowed out inner city, they have land and the school has used it to have the girls tend beehives and take care of animals. that is part of the role of katherine ferguson, the girls learning to grow food and harvest crops and learning farming. the formula seems to have worked. at katherine ferguson they can brag on their graduation rate and on their college acceptance rate. there is no place like katherine ferguson academy in the entire country. >> i want everybody to have the same opportunity that i had. oi got out of here. i want you to graduate. i have two kids. you can make it with one, two, or however many other you got. they are going to make i

of supporters of catherine ferguson fought to make that so. to tell when you we aired that story, a particularly -- the part of the story of those girls getting arrested trying to keep their school open, i mean i get feedback from people i know who watch the show all the time. that was the only time the feedback after watching one of our shows from a lot of people that i know was them asking me how to get there. how to physically go there. they wanted to go help. we have more ahead. everyone have their new blackberry from at&t? it's 4g, so you can do more faster. so, kathryn, post more youtube videos of your baby acting adorable. baby. on it. matt, ignore me and keep updating your fantasy team. huh? jeff, play a game. turbo-boosting now, sir. dennis, check in everywhere you go on foursquare. that's mayor dennis... of the water cooler. you're the best. liz, rock out to pandora. oh, no i'm an only child. and nick, you shouldn't even be here, you can do everything from the golf course. good? good. [ male announcer ] on at&t, blackberry® torch mov

at the last second, ferguson chooses not to hook turn and slams into the trailer.t may not look like it, but it's a decision that may have saved his life. >> it was a week later. a gentleman did the same thing up around denver. he hook turned it and hit the ground. he's dead. >> ferguson survives the impact, but he doesn't escape injury. >> i broke eight bones. i bruised my left lung. my arm was yanked out of its socket. all the nerves and stuff like that. >> every nerve is severed and ferguson loses all feeling and movement in his left arm. three and a half months after the accident, he makes a difficult decision. >> i literally asked them to take my arm off. it was cumbersome. it was doing nothing. my doctor said, yeah, there's no use keeping it there. >> ferguson may have suffered a serious injury, but that won't stop him from taking flight again. >> i just enjoy the sport. and as soon as my amputation heals up, i'm going to be back in the sky again with one arm. >>> just when new yorkers think they have seen it all, a woman dangles without a safety harness from

craig ferguson and mr. geoffrey peterson right after this. n ome.ond my heart to support my brain and eyes too. and these ultra-concentrated minigels are much smaller than many others. it's part of a whole new line of supplements. there's probiotic and fruit & veggie too. new pronutrients from centrum helps make nutrition possible. [ female announcer ] go-to... [ male announcer ] making spirits bright! [ female announcer ] cheers to you, mr. kangaroo. go-to... [ male announcer ] unsilent night. [ female announcer ] never the wrong time for the right wine. [ male announcer ] yellow tail. the go-to. [ female announcer ] never the wrong time for the right wine. [applause] craig: welcome back, everybody. welcome back. two days until christmas. the christmas tree is getting fat. all the people rarned wearing a hat. are you excited about christmas? geoff: uh-oh, no. craig: what do you mean? geoff: i'm just being secretive. of course i got you something. craig: i think you're going to like what i got you this year. geoff: yeah. craig: do you want a hint? g

[ laughs ] >> ladies and gentlemen, craig ferguson!k.] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- [cheers and applause] craig: hey, everybody! hey, look at you! come on in. hi, everybody. welcome. welcome to los angeles, california. welcome to "the late late show." i am your host, tv's craig ferguson. thank, everybody! shhh. quietly. ooh. settle. shhh. settle down. all right, everybody. settle down. sit down. quietly. quietly. that's right. stop your cheering, oh, yes. michael got very excited there because a lady from the audience blew me a kiss and i blue her a kiss. and he thought i was blowing him a kiss. he was like, oh, finally chris mace time. it's for for you, bitch. it's for the lady sitting behind you and it's for you at home. that would be sexy, isn't it? it's a great day for america, everybody! [cheers and applause] it is. it's monday, of course. monday, december the 19th. it's the run-up -- december the 19th already? where the hell did the year go? no, it's december the 19th. christmas is coming. the

throws to ferguson. touchdown south county. right now they lead 38-22 in the fourth quarter. >>> hometown hockey, caps will try to snap a four-game losing streak at home against the senators tonight. hunter going for his first nhl victory as a head coach. you can see the game at 7:00 on comcast sports net. >>> former caps coach bruce beaudreau. ducks up 2-0, on the attack. ben maxwell with the puck, shoots on that. rebound to andrew gordon. a former cap. he scored his first while playing for beaudreau in washington. fakes the shot. passes to claude, and he goes top shelf where mama hides the cookies. the flyers win 4-3 in overtime. you know bruce, he's always an upbeat guy. >> there's a lot of positives. first of all, there's more skill up front than i thought there was. the energy and the enthusiasm on the bench i thought was really good. and i knew everybody left everything they had on the ice. i mean, it wasn't a question of people not giving it their all or anything like that. they tried hard. but in the end, you can't over

geoff: it is tweetmail time brought to you by ferguson and peterson, 2012. craig: that's it? geoff: putting the peoples first. craig: that's it? geoff: that's all i got. craig: all right. play the thing. >> ♪ euro trash isn't euro litter head on the dance floor and shake your twitter bum, bum, bum, bum, bum check the tweets plus e-mails ♪ craig: ♪ and your e-mails send in you know what we should do for christmas? remember that david bowie and bing crosby sang "the little drummer boy thing"? we should do that. who do you want to do? geoff: you do a killer bowie. craig: you do bing crosby.

geoff: you have bested me, ferguson. craig: and i also said that thing.mething in common. [laughter] craig: you know what i like about christmas? when i was a kid, we used to get -- we used to use my dad's socks for a christmas stocking. that's all we had. we were poor. my dad's socks and when i woke up on christmas morning, there was always a little tang reend some chocolate in the socks. -- tangerine and some chocolate in the socks. it looked like a knobby foot. to this day when i think of feet, i think of christmas. geoff: what the hell? craig: what? geoff: i was just thinking about putting weiners in socks. craig: you think about that a lot, though. geoff: that's true. craig: all right. what time is it, geoffrey peterson? geoff: it is tweetmail time brought to you by ferguson and peterson, 2012. craig: that's it? geoff: putting the peoples first. craig: that's it? geoff: that's all i got. craig: all right. play the thing. >> ♪ euro trash isn't euro litter head on the dance floor and shake your twitter bum, bum, bum, bum, bum check the tweets plus e-ma

in his new book,s, "civilizatio" niall ferguson without his theories. thank you for joining us. are we done for? >> not necessarily. this is not a case of irreversible decline. we have to get our act together. if you think about china, india, brazil, it is also partly to do with us doing things worse. not just politically, but economically, too. >> is there a sense of what we have seen this year is the limit of governments? no matter how much money you put into the system -- president obama as a case in point -- that stimulus package had a small effect on the margins? the financial markets have a disproportionate amount of power. >> if you think 500 years ago, it was not governments that caused the rise of the west to happen. they made the west for ahead of the rest. it was not keynesian fiscal policy. these measures that have become part of our lives are essentially 20th-century inventions, cooked up in the 1930's an 1940's. in fairness to today's politicians, they've done a better job dealing with the fiscal crisis than their predecessors in let's say 1932. but you have to rem

in his new book, "civilization," niall ferguson without his theories. thank you for joining us. are we done for? >> not necessarily. this is not a case of irreversible decline. we have to get our act together. if you think about china, india, brazil, it is also partly to do with us doing things worse. not just politically, but economically, too. >> is there a sense of what we have seen this year is the limit of governments? no matter how much money you put into the system -- president obama as a case in point -- that stimulus package had a small effect on the margins? the financial markets have a disproportionate amount of power. >> if you think 500 years ago, it was not governments that caused the rise of the west to happen. they made the west for ahead of the rest. it was not keynesian fiscal policy. these measures that have become part of our lives are essentially 20th-century inventions, cooked up in the 1930's an 1940's. in fairness to today's politicians, they've done a better job dealing with the fiscal crisis than their predecessors in let's say 1932. but you have to rem

the company relieved him from his post last week. >> rachel ferguson is up next with weather. 5 >>> hi there. time for the weekend's forecast. we start in eastern asia where things are once again going to be dry and cold across much of the east asian continent. a few snow showers down towards the southwest of china and then further south we will find continuing rain showers over eastern indochina. mostly vietnam getting hit with those, and the then the philippines continuing to see heavy rain, particularly up here for northern luzon. as for japan, well, wintry precipitation coming to northern portions then actually quite far down the sea of japan side of the country. meanwhile, it will be nice and dry and sunny also for the pacific edge. temperaturewise, 9 forecast for tokyo on saturday. 2 in seoul with 5 in beijing. now, 5 is also forecast in shanghai. temperatures are really dipping down here in eastern china. also seeing a chilly day comparatively. hong kong at 16 degrees. a little cooler than usually seen this time of year. all right. into north america we go. another reach than is

this is the backdrop for a timely new text from neil ferguson. his latest is called civilization, the west and the rest. could have you back on this program. let me start with some news before we get to the text. anything that we should be celebrating out of this summit? >> that was a real washout. the europeans went into that hoping to get help from china and other emerging nations. they were slapped down good and hard. without some outside help, they seem incapable of solving their own problems. we're watching the classic collapse of market confidence in a sovereign borrower. the difference is that greece was small, italy is big. europeans are in the territory of not so much too big to fail as too big to bail. i struggle to see how that will solve the problem they have created for themselves. my book is about the crisis of western civilization. the cradles of western civilization. tavis: how does this issue get addressed in greece or italy? >> given is very unlikely that the germans are going to agree to write a check big enough to a bailout an

we begin with nail ferguson, the british historian. his new book is called "civilation" the rest and the west. >> i tell you what is over is western predominance. that assumpon that gu like us should rule the world which has been around a long time. i think that's over. and when you consider that it was 500 years in the make son, basically for half a millennium people like us got richer, more powerful, taller, healthier than everybody else i think that's over. in that see we're entering a new era in which there won't be a natural ascendancy that people takeor granted. >> rose: we continue with the history of a city and the book "jerusalem: the biography." >> i wanted to write an unbiased unprejudiced account that jerusalem is a city of mythology all the religions have their own storieand ny are historically wrong and yet people die for them. and so they're as important as the facts. >> rose: we conclude talking about photography and photographers with john loengar whose book is called "age of silver: encounters with great photographers

you have niall ferguson on earlier. nominee you could see a third party candidate, whether that's ron paul, michael bloomberg, who knows. >> it's going to be an exciting year. hope you spend time with us in 2012. >> as long as pete will wear red sweaters for christmas. >> it's christmas eve. merry christmas. >> halloween. he thinks he got a red sweater. >> this is my christmas sweater i want to wish our viewers happy holidays, happy hanukkah, merry christmas. this is a chris may sweater. >> tune your sets to make sure it doesn't look orange. >> it's also my halloween sweater. >> good to see you guys. happy new year. 2011 was a rough year to figure out what to do with your investments. it's about to be a new year. the right approach to your money next on "your money." cushiony . uh oh. i gotta go. [ female announcer ] and with charmin ultra soft, you can get that same cushiony feeling you love while still using less. charmin ultra soft has extra cushions that are soft and more absorbent. so you can use four times less ve

perfect pass to ferguson, touchdown south county. ferguson had three td's and a field goal. nice.p to jake josephs, 21 yard scoring, south county wins it 38-22, advancing to the state title for the first time in school history. elsewhere in virginia, centreville is moving on, they will play next week for the title. pry ar wood is playing for back to back state championships next week. in maryland, douglas zee feets middleton. and river hill beats thomas johnson 41-13. >>> at verizon center this afternoon, an episode of georgetown cupcake, the hoyas devour the new jersey institute of technology. jason clark honored for scoring his 1,000th point as a how ya on thursday against alabama. hollis thomas buries the three ball, clark had ten points, georgetown up 42-28 at the break. second half, more hoyas, henry sims outside of thompson, he's so smooth. thompson finished with a career high six three pointers. the hoyas crush the highlanders 84-44. georgetown improves to 7-1. elsewhere, virginia defeats longwood 86-53. tomorrow redskins jets, huge game. let's get it on. can't wait. >> we'

rachel ferguson is up next with weather. >>> hi there. time for the weekend's forecast. we start in eastern asia where things are once again going to be dry and cold across much of the east asian continent. a few snow showers down towards the southwest of china and then further south we will find continuing rain showers over eastern indochina. mostly vietnam getting hit with those, and the then the philippines continuing to see heavy rain, particularly up here for northern luzon. as for japan, well, wintry precipitation coming to northern portions then actually quite far down the sea of japan side of the country. meanwhile, it will be nice and dry and sunny also for the pacific edge. temperaturewise, 9 forecast for tokyo on saturday. 2 in seoul with 5 in beijing. now, 5 is also forecast in shanghai. temperatures are really dipping down here in eastern china. also seeing a chilly day comparatively. hong kong at 16 degrees. a little cooler than usually seen this time of year. all right. into north america we go. another reach than is going to be pretty much calm and sunny.

joy yeah that's right and good news if you're a fan also support because their manager sir alex ferguson celebrates his seventieth birthday today and he will be at old trafford for a couple more years at least good news for them with plenty coming up just after. hello there thanks for watching the sport and these are the headlines rubina ready to swoop for russian an everton midfielder billion yet to no. class basketball store on breaker olenka turns his back on the n.b.a. to stay with his hometown club. for all blacks coach graham henry is knighted in the years on his list after leading new zealand to world cup glory. but first everton midfielder but yet the north could soon be back playing in russia british media reports suggest the twenty six year old will be sold to rubin in the january transfer window the russian international has not played for the top three since december tenth and is concerned a lack of thirsting football could affect his chances of playing for his country at next summer's european championships really been oversold to everton by lokomotiv moscow just over two ye

failed to make the knockout stages back in two thousand and six but ferguson denies it's been a bad campaign so far and says their three three draw with barlett old trafford earlier in the year so only slip up. always where you. are suffering from it because for most in the game against basel doing so in that you can really. sizes that we want because for the majority you discovered by the printer and then you can. vary what came home game in future and elsewhere rail madrid coach jones i'm very near will be fielding mainly reserves but their final group game is i x. having one group d. by a landslide a spanish league leaders go to the dutch giants who can afford to lose and stood dance into the knockout stage as their place would need an enormous victory over zagreb she snatched the second qualifying place. now boxing world heavyweight champion of the americas go will reshape jewel his counsel fight against john mark moment for the next march and it could also see his brother the tali fight david haye on the same card the moment fight was due to take place this weekend but was call

avoid defeat against the bottom side black that is just about to kick off united manager sir alex ferguson is seventy today by the way but he has said he will stay at old trafford for a couple more years at least elsewhere in. the. q.p.r. for them to travel to north i'm both into a second bottom face calls for only two points from the drop zone themselves while aston villa had to chelsea and insists they will not be able roared by stamford bridge. who lost in the woods reconned the players have gone through the shackles off was the last couple of games will certainly want to play a different school it was who was more of the. who put some really good for born in a national view. if we go with not simply you know should not. have been performance we haven't. you know we we can surprise people well liverpool are now level on points with chelsea and off it after coming from behind to beat newcastle three one last night a dialogue a goal goes the magpies gilead am field before craig bellamy scored twice to put the reds ahead and their returning skipper steven gerrard added a third to make sure

clearly important so i'd like to make special thanks to manchester united to david gill to surat ferguson for releasing wayne to be present . it seems possible to have gotten hard to lose that muscovites now undefeated for aids games in the year and a half to be in the russian capital on wednesday night prior to the game of director lanka and chris stage as the competition's players of the large four and november respectively. forty seven watched them and gordon pick up the slack for his side the american leading the way with a take eighteen point krista showed his what was one posting yet another strong game with fourteen points total four to stop a double figures to overcome the throats resistance cheska for an eighty seven to seventy eight victory. so under lanka was a mess spectator of the night but has been an important part of scars impressive ranch so far this year with the n.b.a. season due to get underway later this month for my you to just forward his decision to make stay or go. ask him that very question. in one thousand nine hundred nine and a kid in a language became not onl

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and conan, craig ferguson, and jay leno. who am i leaving out?: carson daly. >> dave: oh, that's okay. ( laughter ) ( applause ) so we are reaching out to the talk show community. and we've heard back from nobody. so that still leaves conan, craig ferguson, and jay leno t to-- so i'm sending out another e-mail tonight. i've kind of got the hang of it, and this is the one we're sending tonight. first what i learned, you have to start with the hash tag, so i put these two things up there, and then i add the hash tag. >> paul: i see that. >> dave: can you see it right there? and here i say, "hi, boys." so i'm telling them about the show tonight. ( laughter ) >> paul: okay. >> dave: barney frank plus-- big laws. tune in tonight. so we'll see-- here you go. ( applause ) are you ready, anton? there it goes. look out. there it goes. ( bell ringing ) this is discouraging. we've been tweeting now actively for two weeks. look, we only have 17 people following us. ( laughter ) but you have to start somewhere. >> paul: it's a start. >> dave: hey, i have to s

conocer la terna para candidatos a entrenador, guardiola, el campeÓn de liga, y de liga de campeones, ferguson su primer titulo como entrenador, serÁ una gran final, muy atractiva. las imagenecesidades de la celebraciÓn, howard, llego, y tomÓ las riendas de un equipo que no calificaba desde el 2002. titulo nÚmero 18 de conferencia de divisiÓn, 6 tÍtulos de conferencia, 5 sÚper tazones, el nÚmero en el 94, se recepera la grandeza perdida. inician reuniones de invierno en dallas, la firma de reyes, hay muchos rumores, pujols, beltrÁn, y rollins, este Último llegarÍa a gigantes de san francisco, terminamos con los deportes, buenas tardes. >>> gracias gustavo, esta noche, las pastillas anticonceptivas en el ojo del huracÁn. contra l la manera mÁs sencilla de protegobernadprot protegerse contra enfermedanÉs al invierno. >>> los que busquen una manera ecologicha de pasar la navidad, rentarÁn un arbolito, y lo podrÁn devolver para que seane plantados, buena idea, luego terminan en la banqueta con riesgos de incendio. >>> una vez me

premier de inglaterra...el manchester united ni se despeino en su visita al fulham...el equipo de alex fergusonperado al 100 por ciento de su lesion de hace un par de semanas...wipey el boxeador estadounidense floyd mayweather junior fue sentenciado a 90 dias de carcel y a pagar una multa de 2500 dolares por un caso de violencia domestica... estamos aquÍ con maripily, pero nuestra querida luz elena gonzÁlez anunciÓ que serÁ mama por segunda vez >>> segunda vez >>> gracias por dar la noticia de otra gran alegrÍa de mi vida la espera de mi segundo bebÉ, be preciosa, quÉ rico va a tener la pareja >>> estoy buscando la niÑa, porque mi hijo tiene 10 aÑos >>> por quÉ tÚ haces tanto ejercicio, cuando la toquÉ en comerciales, las tiene muy duras. no creo que es bueno tener todo tan duro, cuando uno va a tocar no hay masita. >>> hay masitas en algunos lados, por ahÍ en la barriga, por ahÍ hay masita >>> cuÁnto tiempo tÚ haces bicicleta? >>> corro bicicleta todas las tardes >>> una pregunta, maripily tienes que tener el asiento como normal, obviamente como si jennifer lÓpez estuviera haciendo bicicleta.

. >>> rachel ferguson is up next with weather. >> hi, there.ell, it's been a fine start to the week across much of japan. things are set to change as we head into tuesday. we start to see another system developing down here towards the south. this one is going to be spreading some cold rain across much of the southern half of the country, meanwhile, we have snow in hokkaido. that's actually going to be clearing on out as we head into tuesday. elsewhere, across the region, looking fairly settled. high pressure dominating with the exception of a few showers up towards northern china. if we have a look at what's happening in the south, though, you will notice some heavier rain moving across hainan island and in towards vietnam. due to a system pushing there on the eastern coast of indochina. that will keep things very well for the next 24 hours, probably into the middle of the week, i should say. as for the philippines, with he still see a very strong 31 dpe degrees for manila. a warmer day to come. all right, as we head into north america, out to

the straight one plays it more gay, the gay one plays it more straight that's eric and jesse tyler fergusoney are also, the president has said that's th family favorite show >> he just revealed that today. one big endorsement. who is this year's most fascinating person? find out tonight when barbara walters presents the 10 most fascinating 9:30. >> she is up there on the top of list. >>> auction of liz taylor's jewelry collection made a record setting 115 million dollars among the big purchases christie's in new york last night pearl necklace sold for a price of more than 11 million dollars. a 33 carat ring sold for nearly nine million purchased by a private buyer from asia. part of the proceeds will go to taylor's aids care foundation. >>> next, the new national restaurant ranking that snubs our local food mecca. we'll be right back. ♪ [ ukulele strumming ] ♪ [ folksy whistling ] [ man ] quitting is a fight you can't let yourself lose. it can take many tries. but keep trying, you will beat smoking. honey, you okay? yeah, i'm fine. ♪ [ ukulele ] on the network they deserve. like the powerfu

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you have niall ferguson on earlier.ee a third party, whether or not that's ron paul, michael bloomberg, who knows. >> it's going to be an exciting year. hope you spend time with us in 2012. >> as long as people wear red sweaters. >> it's christmas eve. merry christmas. >> halloween. he thinks he got a red sweater. it's orange. >> christmas, happy holidays, happy hanukkah, merry christmas. >> tune your tv sets. nothing says christmas like orange. >> also my halloween sweater. >> good to see you guys. happy new year. 2012 was a rough year to figure out investments. it is about to be a new year. we're going to help you figure out the right 2012 approach to "your $$$$$." next on "your $$$$$." you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. this was the gulf's best tourism

a frustrating day for most managers of the top of the table, but here is alex ferguson. >> [unintelligible] halfnately, we'll go to time which helps us. it's a tie game, you want goals to come at the right time this season. to get in that position, there is a chance. >> today is a difficult day. you play with all players behind the ball. it is not easy. , soe aren't even organized we weren't lucky over there as well. we tried hard to get the second rule, and there is a fantastic day to day. we should have done a better job at the beginning. we are disappointed today. >> rise in gigs will be given the opportunity to extend his remarkable run of scoring a every premier league season. he has been offered a new contract. he says, we know we can't go on forever, but he can play for another year. in britain, campaigners what to overturn the ban on hunting with dogs. a quarter of a million supporters turned up for traditional hunting today. the agreement includes a pledge. >> hunting hounds has been taking place in england for more than 400 years. it is still a feature of this winter landscape. i

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in his new book, neil ferguson lays out a compelling case of how the west lost their edge. thank you for being with us. are we done for? >> not necessarily. this is not a case of the reversible -- irreversible inevitable decline. but we have to get our act together. i think it is part due to do with cost of doing things worse. not only politically, but economically, too. it is not irreversible, but we have to act. >> is there a sense that there is a limit of government's ability to act? however much money you put into it, one trillion dollars put into a stimulus package that only had a small effect on the margins. the government is limited. >> if you think back 500 years ago, it was not a government that caused the rise to happen. my book takes the long view and tries to explain what made the west forge ahead of the rest over half a millennium. it was not the application of fiscal policy. these measures have become such a part of our lives, 20th- century inventions, and in fairness today's politicians, they have done a better job in dealing with them than their predecessors