and if donald trump is elected, kerry will be succeeded by gary busey. (laughter) and then i'll sit down with the lovely and talented claire danes. (cheers and applause) always lovely to have. she is the star of "homeland", which this year takes place in germany, so i will ask her if they are changing the name to "fatherland" then, i will sit down with youtube star pewdiepie... (cheers and applause) ...who has a very selective scream in this audience, you will notice. he is the first ever to reach 10 billion views. and here is the crazy part-- he is not a cat. (laughter) and folks... oh, oh, does anyone else feel like having sex right now? (laughter) also, there's music playing. that is jon batiste and stay human. say hi, everybody. >> hi! >> stephen: they're about to start the show. but before they do, one more thing. a new study says talking to a therapist may not help treat depression. and if hearing that news makes you depressed, i have no suggestions. >> tonight, stephen welcomes secretary of state john kerry... claire danes... internet sensation pe

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. >> and gary busey says good-bye to the ballroom and opens up just to "gma" this morning. when you made me cry >>> and good morning, america. a lot to get to this tuesday. thank goodness the rain has stopped in the carolinas. but the threat has not passed. take a look at this drone video right here. it shows just how powerful these floods are. you know, nine dams have been breached already. many neighborhoods still underwater. it is causing billions of dollars in damage. >> as you know, george, the water is still rising this morning. and will be for days. you see the map showing the flood warnings right now. our extreme weather team covering it all and we start columbia. good morning, alex. robin. scene behind me. the heavy rain washing away a huge chunk of the road here as the floodwaters start to go down, the damage is becoming clearer. this morning, nine dams breached here as the governor says things could get worse before they get better. our first look at the severe damage caused by those massive floods that left parts of south carolina underwater. raging floodwaters

but first i would like to take a moment to pay tribute to gary busey, who sadly has been eliminated from "dancing with the stars." that's right. this came as a great shock to gary, who had no idea he was even on a tv show. [ laughter ] and it came as a great shock to all of us. but gary, god bless him, handled the elimination much the same way he handled his dancing. with the style and grace of a bear being hit by a tranquilizer gun. >> the fact that i've been eliminated is false. because i will -- [ cheers and applause ] because my spirit with anna as a partnership will remain in this room throughout the show. so you won't see us dancing, but we'll be there. [ applause ] and the point of it is this has been a beautiful experience and i've learned so much from everyone. i'm not finished. >> okay. we've got to -- stop. i've learned from everyone how to be better with everyone. when you learn from everyone how to be better with everyone, everyone is getting greater with >> all right. there. poor alfonso ribeiro picked the wrong night to fill in for tom bergeron. but i think gary sauft said

>> that's better than gary busey. >> tonight's guests include actor morgan freeman, actress ruth wilson and "hello games" founder shawn murray. >> i said the "late late show" but i meant the "late show." >> it's friday and it's early. >>> the latest on a deadly school shooting in oregon. the suspect's name and the overnight development in a motive. >> a break in a decades old cold case. the break in at rest years after the tufts student was pumpkin excitement is back at dunkin'. pick up your favorite pumpkin-flavored baked treats and beverages, like the new pumpkin macchiato people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin' has a dark roast coffee that's deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish that's never bitter. put down the dark roast you've been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. >>> it is 4:53. we're tracking two developing stories this morning. we're learning the name of the shooter in yesterday's deadly shooter at a community college in oregon. investigators say the shooter is 26-year-old chris harper mercer. he died in a shoot-out with police

sorry, gary busey, but it's true. it's your time to go. ctually meant he and partner anna's energy will remain in the ballroom. >> he did have a good run but all things must come to an end. maybe he will show up next week and put up a fight. you never know. >>> next up, a fearsome hollywood foursome exemplifying the often hash tagged term squad goals. >> earlier this year, amy schumer and jennifer lawrence announced they were working on a film together. now it seems they've added two more heavy hitters to their crew, aziz ansari and chris pat. they've shared their activities together through video posts on instagram. >> the first shows aziz waking up schumer saying it's writing time. come on, what is this? we writing scripts or staying at a bed and breakfast. let's go. >> and a little later. >> hi, guys. >> a short film entitled "hi guys" as he swings while pratt stands there just looking like pratt offering nothing but his cool stare at the camera. not sure how much work they got done. we shall see next year. this is good news for soda fan

. >> reporter: 71-year-old gary busey stayed in the competition for four weeks. he says he doesn't need a mirror ball trophy to feel like a winner. >> the mirror ball trophy is useless. what works is when you dance in your heart and achieve an accomplishment on the dance floor with a beautiful partner that is making you be the best you can. >> reporter: among the teams still going for the prize, bindi irwin and derek hough. they had the evening's highest score, 28 out of 30 and the first 10 of the season for a contemporary routine dedicated to her late father. >> it wasn't just for me but it was for dad too and for my family so it meant a lot. it really did. >> reporter: three teams scored triple 9s, tamar braxton and val chmerkovskiy. nick carter and burns burgess emma slater. alfonso ribeiro stepped in for tom bergeron who needed to be at his ailing father's bedside. witney carson's engagement and alison holker's announcement? >> i'm pregnant. i'm very excited to be here and i also am the corps choreographer. >> paula deen hopes she remembers all the steps. >>

up your hair, poke yourself in the eye, grab a squirrel, shove it down your pants, bam, you're gary busey. for anyone not familiar with the halloween, pat robertson was kind enough to lay it out for this on this morning's edition of "the 700 club." >> saturday is halloween. and that's the day when millions of children and adults will be dressing up as devils, witches and goblins, ha ha! to celebrate satan. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that's pat's way of saying he won't be giving out candy at his house. according to yahoo!, 68% of parents plan to steal some of their kids' halloween candy this year. which as terrible thing to do. [ cheers and applause ] in my opinion, it's a lot more fun to pretend you ate their me. once again we're issuing a halloween candy youtube challenge. we've seen gems over the past four years but this one featuring brothers c.j. and jacob in my opinion is still the gold standard of all of them. >> i ate all your candy. left. >> what? the heck? >> mom! . >> don't you guys think you ate enough candy last night? >> no. i only had like one bite of candy. are you serious? and

if you win, is your vice president going to be gary busey? [ laughter ] >> look, i love gary. he's fantastic. but more of a supreme court justice, in my opinion. [ laughter ] vice president is a very serious job. so i'm probably going to go with somebody else. i would say, maybe, kanye west. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: smart move. all right. guess it's time to go out and talk to that dopey goofball jimmy fallon. and give him the biggest ratings his pathetic show has ever seen. how do you think it's going to go? >> it's going to be really classy. >> jimmy: it's going to be really fantastic. it's going to be -- >> jimmy: huge. >> huge. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] pc does what!? pc does 360 rotations. pc does what no pc has done before. does yours? phil! oh no... (under his breath) hey man! hey peter. (unenthusiastic) oh... ha ha ha! joanne? is that you? it's me... you don't look a day over 70. am i right? jingle jingle. if you're peter pan, you stay young forever. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch

>> well, that's better than gary busey. [ laughter ] >> also on the show last night, claire danes, star of the show time series "homeland." tonight's guests include morgan freeman and hello games founder shawn murray. >>> a lot more ahead in our next half hour including the deadly shooting at a college in oregon. >> what we're learning about the shooter overnight. plus we'll have a live report from campus. >> bracing for hurricane joaquin. the local community is preparing for the worst. pumpkin excitement is back at dunkin'. pick up your favorite pumpkin-flavored baked treats and beverages, like the new pumpkin macchiato people of the coffee drinking world, dunkin' has a dark roast coffee that's deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish that's never bitter. put down the dark roast you've been putting up with >>> good morning. it's 6:29 on your friday morning. up and at 'em. i'm chris mckinnon. >> danielle, we've had quite a bit of rain. >> steady red rain's ahead. that's what the old hancock says. >> this morning not in the city of boston yet but pockets of rain

. >> that's better than gary busey. >> also on the show, actress claire danes. tonight's guests include actor morgan freeman, ruth wilson and "hello games" founder shawn mike. >>> we're live in oregon where students at a rural community college are coming to grips with the latest mass shooting seen in that state coming up. >> and sadly, it's a situation that all schools have to train for. a closer look at how they are keeping students safe. >> also ahead, why police say there is no time like the present to make sure your property is protected from the current storm. danielle? >> better to be safe than sorry. joaquin has taken the track farther to the east. we'll talk more about it coming up. meanwhile, the weekend is not looking the best. showers in the picture tomorrow. we'll time out the weekend ready to head out when others head home. at eversource, we prepare for ugly weather all year long. upgrading technology, managing vegetation, improving how we get information to you, because we know you're counting on us. we're ready for winter, and we want to make sur

vote for donald trump and tell the world agree with gary busey. >> i'm going to pull your endocrine system out of your body. >> paid for by hillary clinton. >> jimmy: that's money well spent, i think. this is interesting. in england, this is true, a cracker from a lifee boat on the titanic t tt somehowanaged to survive for more than 100 years just sold at an auction for $23,000. for a cracker. this is why you never go to an auction hungry, because you make purchases -- this is a cracker, they say it's the most cherished piece of titanic history that your toddler will eat when you're not looking ever. had he thought to float on it could have saved leonard do dicaprio's life. it was reportedly purchased by a buyer in greece which might explain why their economy is what it is. but it's hard to imagine a cracker selling for so much money, but, in fact, the truth is, there's a big underground chak cracker market right now, especicily for celebrity releled cracacr. hey, now, i don't know what happened there. but here's guillermo has stolen a cracker from carrie underwood and is now exchanging it

take a selfie with a gator or an elk or baboon ♪ ♪ a great white shark or a rabid raccoon ♪ ♪ nor gary buseyis is a speed round. so buckle up your seat belts. ♪ mongoose no llamas yes ♪ hyena no narwhal not sure not jaguars no shrimp yes ♪ ? how much longer is this going to go on? >> well, there are 42 million species so -- >> jimmy: yeah, it's too much, really. we've got to end this at some point. you can't name every single animal. >> do you want people to die, jimmy? hm? >> jimmy: no. i don't want -- >> you heard it! jimmy doesn't care about your life, kids! none of you guys! good luck! >> jimmy: that is not true, don't be like that, ken. dr. ken jeong, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: when we come back, i would encourage you to come back because my cousin sal pulled off what is probably, this is a big statement to make, the greatest carpet cleaning prank ever pulled. come on back with us. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ there's a network that never stops improving. that's grown faster than any other, covering nearly every american... and these geese. but it's not who you think. squ

given secret service protection. [ light laughter ] as opposed to his current security, having gary busey follow him around with nunchucks. [ laughter and applause ] whatever boss. what do you need, boss? and after getting only nine minutes, nine minutes to speak during the democratic debate on seemed excited to be interviewed by wolf blitzer yesterday and get his message out. he even tweeted about it. look, he put "getting ready to talk with wolf blitzer on cnn." yeah, he was pretty pumped up. he's like hiking his pants up. getting ready to go. [ laughter ] let's see how the interview went. let's check it out. >> why are you doing so poorly in all of the polls? you're basically getting closer to 0% than you are even 1%. why bother right now, if you have limited money, limited support? why keep going? you're going to wind up looking silly if you keep going on like this. you've raised maybe $30,000. you have no chance. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: give it to me -- give it to me straight, wolf. what are my chances here? [ laughter ] don't sugar coat it, pal. chafee talks less in that interview th