i know, you just like -- [ imitates piano ] >> it's a gorilla.e by just one chord. >> both: bonk. >> and then they go nuts. >> jimmy: it's the single greatest. i love it. i go nuts. >> i usually stop after the first chord. >> jimmy: then go change. yeah. "your song" comes on the radio, leave it on or change the station? >> i never listen to the radio hardly so -- i would -- >> jimmy: just listening to your ipod. >> you'd leave -- you'd leave it on. you'd have it on. >> jimmy: i love it. contemporary. one of contemporaries you're most jealous of? >> jealous? jealous is the wrong word. envious. envious of their talent. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly, yeah. >> probably rufus wainwright, who wrote incredibly these incredible symphonic type songs. >> jimmy: oh. he's phenomenal. >> so, someone like that. >> jimmy: i love him. very, very good. song you wish you'd recorded. >> "song for you," leon russell. ♪ i've been so many places in my life and time sang a lot of things i had some bad rhymes ♪ ♪ i've acted out my life in stages with 10,000 people watching ♪

go with the gorilla. >> the columbus zoo, one of their star attractions there. genius, i guess, in the betting world. >> apparently. for now, at least. he's on a tear. we're going to keep following as long as he remains on this tear. >>> we want to turn to the weather. and from houston affiliate meteorologist casey curry, from my hometown. good to see you, casey. >> good morning. we are continuing to watch, not only the threat of severe weather today. we just talked about that. now, the heat, in parts of the country, feeling more like june than april. yesterday, houston hit 90 degrees for the first time this season. and probably the first of many. in addition to the heat, we've also got some very chilly temperatures across parts of the west. 45 in billings. 42 in salt lake city. and later today, again, severe storms stretching through the central and northern plains. and back down through the ohio valley. back to you, dan. >> all right. thank you. >>> we've all played through the nightmare scenarios in our minds of what can happen to us or our loved ones out on

i wanted to address the 900- pound gorilla in the mervyn king -- in the room, drugs. when i was a high school, we had parties and drove around. we knew better. my grandmother used to tell me of stories of drinking in the proposition, that they told people that drinking would make you blind. some teenagers take stupid risks. it has never solved the stupidity problem, and it never, never will. suppressing raves in san francisco will just move them to other places, like oakland warehouses. if we have a problem with drugs, we should have laboratories. we should work on educating youths on the risks and rest in hydration at parties. the youth has a bigger obesity problem than my generation ever had. dancing brown 600 to 800 calories per hour. i do not think we want to discourage dancing. finally, it is just not a normal to have youthful energy to dance and experiment with of of and drugs and have a good time. it is just a rite of passage. president newlin: thank you. >> hi, thank you for hearing us. my name is -- i am what i guess everybody here would call a waver -- raver

. >> we've seen the depiction of president obama as a monkey, as a gorilla. every kind of subhuman species. we've seen this time and time again. even by the standards of racism, vile, crude, bigotry, this tops it. >> reporter: and it is not isolated. there was this picture of a watermelon patch in front of white house sent out by the mayor of los alamitos two years ago. ann hutchinson said the recent attacks by donald trump on the president's citizenship and the e-mails as part of a pattern. >> i cannot separate that from donald trump, the birther movement, and this climate that has been created in america where the president literally, and his family, is fair racism game. >> i immediately responded to marilyn davenport. i sent her an e-mail right back saying it was dripping with racism. >> reporter: scott baugh is the chairman of the orange county poifrlt and he other republicans have condemned the picture and called on her to resign. he rejects the idea that they have a problem with racial sensitivity. >> there is racism everywhere in america. when do you d

i wanted to address the 900- pound gorilla in the mervyn king -- in the room, drugs. when i was a high school, we had parties and drove around. we knew better. my grandmother used to tell me of stories of drinking in the proposition, that they told people that drinking would make you blind. some teenagers take stupid risks. it has never solved the stupidity problem, and it never, never will.

in nashville i met up with a collection of libertarian groups crossing the country pitching gorilla internet tactics for free market ideals over two hundred years ago guys a group of people just like you did something extraordinary ordinary people doing extraordinary things they were activists just like you i truly believe that they were activists then we are activists now make no distinction about it so what we do we become digital activists we are there by the media and we learn the media and we manipulate the media it was printing presses then it's the internet now that's where we influence the hearts and minds of our fellow citizens the tea party's got us running up the hills where the majority is trying to give you the tools the muskets right so. here's what i do i get on amazon i type in liberal books i go through and i say one star one star one star the flipside is you go to a conservative libertarian whatever go to their products and give them five stars ok so literally it was in the books i. put a prisoner on i don't read so that's how it works ok there's places on this where you ki

plus they pretty much got it so they definitely are the are the you know the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room so the what i end up sort of seeing is that since i also look at what's happening in d.c. you'll see i'll give an example you'll see the obama administration saying it's very committed to protecting people in darfur and then you see in the security council they're not actually using their influence to do their i'm sure if they wanted to they could do a lot more but their focus it's sort of like they're able to play off i feel like the people the supporters of obama or largely the same people concerned about their floor and they just sort of assume that obama and rice are doing their bidding and fighting the good fight in the u.n. and when you look at it there are you know that the u.n. is doing very little to protect civilians and therefore in any of the major take this is elsewhere it's interesting that you mention that at something that. their rights really played out today saying that the united states is making efforts and making progress in sudan and that's one of the

residents in encinito had used the name for the so-called gorilla art.s made of sustained glass that appeared under the overpass over the weekend. technically, it is an unauthorized use of public property, but city officials say they have been flooded with e-mails and phone calls from people there, asking them to leave this piece where it is. no one has claimed responsibility for the artwork. >> great piece of work there. >>> animal rescuers in oregon are practicing with a new tool, a large animal sling designed by uc davis. the horse is plastic, but rescuers are preparing for real life scenarios. >> you got a real animal there that may be in shock or exhausted. >> the sling is designed to distribute heavy loads. each strap can handle 6000 pounds. >>> now that they have recited their vows, want to take home a piece of will and kate? in london, stores are selling just about anything imaginable adorned with the smiling couple. there's everything from plates and key chains to ball point pens. >> check that out! >> on a box of cereal. >> i'm kind of over it,

that's a growing problem called gorilla pimping where women and girls are forced into prostitution. >>> today more oakland residents will have a chance to weigh in on the mayor's agenda. mayor quan and the councilmembers will lead a town hall meeting for residents of district 5, including fruitvale and san antonio neighborhoods. today's meeting will be at st. john church at 10 a.m. >>> a local reporter is receiving death threats for his articles about the former black muslim bakery. he writes for a news group while on a story about a alleged real estate scam he received a phone call from a man saying he will end up like his friend chauncey, who was shot and killed in 2007. former bakery member admitted to the killings saying the hit was ordered by bay. >>> new information this morning on the former contra costa deputy accused of making dirty arrests. he is now accused of making five scam arrests for private investigator christopher butler. he is now accused of taking a bribe. he was arraigned in court yesterday on charges of obstruction of justice, making false statements, making fals

i come to the jersey floor because it's the only floor with hot gorilla juice heads. woo!eep ] tan, all right? [ laughter ] seriously, i don't need a tan. and, honestly, i don't like how much they tan. [ laughter ] >> got to work out. >> yeah. >> jimmy: so before we hit the clubs, we got the whole routine. my hair's perfect, my tan is friggin' exceptional. now it's time to workout. >> yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! >> this is all you. that's all you, that's all you, that's all you! >> that's good. all right, good. i'm done. [ laughter ] ♪ >> club time, yeah. >> this is not a gym. these are office supplies. [ laughter ] they're lifting office supplies. >> jimmy: sweatshirt time. all right, it's sweatshirt time! >> oh yeah! >> jimmy: sweatshirt time is when we all put on hooded sweatshirts and sit around for five minutes wearing sweatshirts before we leave for the club. sweatshirts on! >> oh yeah! >> sweatshirts time! sweatshirts time! sweatshirts time! >> jimmy: sweatshirts, yeah! [ laughter ] sweatshirt time, yeah. ♪ >> we're ready to go to club. you guys ready? are you ready? >>

and proving once again that colo the gorilla really can pick a winner. >>> and fall from grace. kirstie and maks take a painful tumble on "dancing with the stars." and pick themselves right back up. we'll hear from the fall guy himself, when maks joins us live, this morning. >>> good morning. robin is off this morning. i'm elizabeth vargas. and there are new reports of damage still coming in, as that massive wall of severe weather is moving east. at least 20 tornadoes reported, already rattling people from alabama to kentucky. there was even a tornado warning just south of washington, d.c. >> and in washington, the clock is ticking, elizabeth. a possible government shutdown as early as friday. just three days before the government runs out of money. both the white house and congressional leaders circulated plans overnight for dealing with a possible shutdown. it's the first time they've done that. the president is calling all sides to the white house this morning. but they are still far apart. no deal means like on saturday morning, national parks could close. other government s

and like any smart start-up, it recognizes the gorilla in the room -- this browser has to be mobile.ke your browsing with you wherever you go. >> that's rock melt ceo, eric, making sure his company headed straight for the apple iphone. the must-use platform in the tech world. >> it's super-important. the iphone is a phenomenon in and of itself. it created a new market. it's really exciting to be able to participate in that and reinvent what browsing means on your mobile phone. >> the iphone has become a new market and a lucrative one. earning apple more than $12 billion over three months. that's half the company's sales. >> the entire mobile ecosystem has grown by leaps and bounds over the last couple of years. that's primarily thanks to apple and the iphone. >> and when you take into account all the apps you can download and profit from, it's easy it see why any new piece of software wants to sit in the palm of your hand on this device. >> that's why you see companies like rock melt and others are getting, their strategies to get on the iphone as fast as possible. because it's the p

. >> knight: when you've got one 800-pound gorilla in the room, you're scared to death of the guy.es want something from eli. and since he is the biggest game in town, nobody wants to alienate him. >> i just appreciate you all so much. >> safer: just watch this crowd at the recent gala for the los angeles museum of contemporary art, which broad bailed out two years ago for $30 million. it was a scrum of culture vultures, fashion victims and art victims, dealers and collectors; a night when skinniness was next only to godliness; when philanthropy and social climbing, self- aggrandizement and greed dissolved into one gigantic air kiss, all under the benevolent eye of that feared and admired dictator, eli broad. beyond the altruistic part of it, ego plays a part in this? >> broad: oh, absolutely. >> safer: a desire to be loved? >> broad: a desire to be respected. i'm not doing these things to become the most popular person in the city; i want to be the most respected person. >> safer: we left him on the roof of his art foundation-- this fully contented man, this master of all he surve

so more specifically, one of the things i talk about in that first book is sort of gorilla theater in the '60s and symbolic protests, theatrical politics, and there's some act up episodes where they take a page from the playbook of the hippies and the diggers and groups like that. including this one. in one episode act up infiltrated the republican national convention using fake badges secured by ingratiating themselves with the kinko's staff. in another episode, in another more elaborate guerrilla theater ruse, act up members invented fake names and posed as republican women to gain admit tense to a club where new york senator alfonse demat toe was speaking. an act up member wore later red shift and these really cute papa gallo shoes. inventing a cover story to explain her nose ring, she told the guests that her father had served in india during the nixon administration. [laughter] when d' amato began, they stripped away the costumes to reveal giant buttons proclaiming lesbians for bush. [laughter] and stood up an assortment of posters and fliers. so theatrical protests was part of t

never give an 800 pound gorilla a caffeine. my son saw that and have you seen this headline? it is terrible. what are you doing? i said we can't worry what people are going to say. we are going to define the future of the company. it was the beginning of the turnaround of the company and it is worth repeating. at the height of the financial crisis when no company in america was traveling, we decided we needed to have a companywide meeting, the most important person at starbucks was the retail store manager. so we brought 10,000 people to one place. every municipality wanted this invention because there was no company spending any money. they visited starbucks and made a pitch. the short story is we decided to go to new orleans. we went to new orleans first and foremost to commit 50,000 hours of community service to help those people who are left behind after katrina. then we had 10,000 store managers meeting in one place. what galvanize the company was the rekindling and reminding of the values and core purpose of the company which was very important. then we had this meeting

first up, scientists give apple ipads to zoo gorillas to see if they're happy. fake.ith the photoshop. how about this, a top university pays more than $30,000 for words of wisdom from -- wait for it -- snooki schooling rutgers students on how to rock that poof. scarily that's true. french president nicolas sarkozy uses a $20,000 armor-plated bullet and knife resistant umbrella to protect him from attackers? believe it or not, that's real. then there's the announcement from european airline ryanair that they're launching child-free flights because passengers like to avoid other people's little monsters. that one is fake, although a lot of people like the idea. finally, how about the oklahoma farmer who made a cutting-edge discovery. cows who eat hershey's can actually produce chocolate milk. chocolate milk from a cow? >> moo. >> reporter: sounds yummy. it also sounds too good to be true. >> i believed that last one. >> wait. >> that story came from our tulsa affiliate, and they did such a convincing job. you should go online and check out the story. i like the ryeen ai

williams can play a gorilla easy. >> reporter: robin williams later on sunday morning. >> osgood: there's a rising star in tinsel town. he bears a striking resemblance to our bill geist. >> reporter: jackhammering never sounded so sweet. they're installing a new star on the hollywood walk of fame. i think you'll be very surprised at who it was. i know i was certainly surprised. bogart, brando and me later on sunday morning. >> osgood: we'll also catch jerry seinfeld's act and consider whether henry 8th did his own embroidery. all that and more but first the headlines for this sunday morning the 17th of april 2011. the death toll is at least 35 in a powerful storm system that swept across the south eastern united states. it's estimated to have spawned upwards of 100 tornadoes. at least 60 of them in north carolina alone. rescue workers expect to find more victims as they sift through the wreckage today. the faa is taking action after another air traffic controller fell asleep on the job. the latest incident happened early yesterday in miami. the faa is expected to announce new restrictions

and we're trying to cut a few harris off an 800-pound gorilla, and i have never seen more people crying, plant ining their fist on the floor like they are 2-year-olds over a couple hairs off an 800-pound gorilla. it's not george bush's fault if you have a flat. host: goes back to your earlier point about the debate. the debt ceiling debate that will come up in may in 2012. guest: right. it's not a good sign that there's this level of argument over such a small portion of the government. but as your previous guest said, one of your problems here is that it is the portion of the budge it that affects a lot of people and there's a debate over the policy riders that have been attached to this legislation. so those are issues too. there are other issues at play that are causing this sort of contentious debate. oonched i think both sides have an incentive to take this right up to the brink and to show their side that they've done everything they could to defend their position. host: if there is a government shutdown hypothetical that shuts down next week, april 19th is the deadline this year

it was one analyst report that said -- it was about me -- it said never give an 800-pound gorilla caffeine [laughter] and, you know, my son saw that and said, dad, have you seen this headline? it's terrible. what are you doing? and i said, listen, we can't worry about what people are going to say. we are going to define the future of the company, not the outside world. and then we did something else which was the beginning of the turn around of the company. and i think it's worth repeating. at the height of the cataclysmic financial crisis when no company in america was traveling, we decided that we needed to have a company-wide meeting with the most important person in starbucks which is the retail store manager. so we brought 10,000 people to one place. now, every municipality including d.c. wanted this convention because there was no company spending any money. and, in fact, municipalities visited starbucks and made a pitch. the short story is we decided to go to new orleans. >> right. >> and we went to new orleans first and foremost to commit 50,000 hours of community service to help t

and we're trying to cut a few harris off an 800-pound gorilla, and i have never seen more people crying, plant ining their fist on the floor like they are 2-year-olds over a couple hairs off an 800-pound gorilla. it's not george bush's fault if you have a flat. host: goes back to your earlier point about the debate. the debt ceiling debate that will come up in may in 2012. guest: right. it's not a good sign that there's this level of argument over such a small portion of the government. but as your previous guest said, one of your problems here is that it is the portion of the budge it that affects a lot of people and there's a debate over the policy riders that have been attached to this legislation. so those are issues too. there are other issues at play that are causing this sort of contentious debate. oonched i think both sides have an incentive to take this right up to the brink and to show their side that they've done everything they could to defend their position. host: if there is a government shutdown hypothetical that shuts down next week, april 19th is the deadline this year

. >>> if you want to know who is going to win tonight on the men's side, our favorite gorilla is backshe uses the bag under the box with, drum roll please, uconn. sorry, butler. she nailed the predictions last week. she's on a roll. >> i would like to know what her method is. >> you heard it here first. put your money down. >> follow the banana. >> i think the secret is the fruit in the wag. let's get to the boards. we've got some storms to talk about. this is likely to be, the next 24 hours, any way, the outbreak times. vivid lightning in dallas overnight and in the morning. an awful lot firing up there. we have the powellerful cold front. the jet stream is wrapped up in this as well. anyplace in red here, down into central florida, and up into pennsylvania, also into the morning tomorrow morning. we're concerned about the really big-sized hail. the frequent lightning and the damaging winds and possibilities of tornadoes. stay up in that red zone, with your local abc stations. in the west, fair and beautiful. denver coming in at 56. dallas >> here's a look ahead at your monday mornin

. >>> and finally, on this friday, colo, our favorite gorilla at the columbus zoo, is on a winning streaknner of the ncaa championships. now, we've asked her to pick the winner of the masters tournament from the list of our four favorites. guess who she picked? tiger woods, after knocking over a box with his name on it. and eating the banana underneath. tiger is 6 shots behind the lead. who knew that tiger woods was the underdog? but we'll see if colo is right this weekend. right, sam? good morning to you. >> that's right, juju. good morning, guys. it's a pretty warm one at the masters. probably afternoon storms the first two rounds. and then, the third day will be really, really warm. we'll see if colo works with the whole tiger pick. i have to show you the crowd. this is something you won't believe. how many folks are out on the corner in times square this morning, just spending their morning with us, right here on "good morning america." we are filling this place with signs and folks and fun. all kinds of stuff. let's get to the boards. one or two things going on this morning we want t

like the geico commercial with the guy and the old porsche drying down highway 1 and the 800 pound gorilla next to him and doesn't care. our communications. if we go a day without space, i don't care what you hang on the aircraft. right now, we're toast, and hopefully this forum is going to help bring out new ideas to get us guard on that. we have to -- we have to get that communication hurdle taken care of, and that's probably one of the bigger players, one of the big areas that i see we can improve upon. thanks. >> thank you very much. we're going to introduce the general -- [inaudible] tom in >> thank you. i'll take a moment here and find the file. it's a very short presentation. [laughter] one of the advantages of going in the back is that i really get to reenforce a lot of the points that the two folks before me made, and you'll see some of the same themes coming to the floor again. these are inheritly joint and involved in what all the services are doing. we're involved with the army and what they're building. we are actually now in the forefront of what the navy is doing, and so we

mainstream media reporters in most of the cases especially congress are neglecting the 10,000-pound gorilla in the room. we are fighting three wars. that is sacrosanct money as far as these congressmen are concerned. it is a half billion dollar budget and another half billion if you add on all the extras that are included in the defense budget. we can't afford to -- and it is not like giving tax breaks to billionaires and corporationless who don't pay taxes. even those two things together you could probably end these wars which are causing us more harm in those regions than good. host: so, from the week you have seen what are the lessons learned or what do you think can be applied going forward as far as further budget debates? caller: they need to take down the big pieces. what they are talking about here is if you drew a graph of the amount of money you are talking about and they were dickering about would be a fine pencil thin line compared to the rest of the money. by the way, final comment, i'm an independent, i go either way, vote for the best candidate but if you look at history i'm

. >> there's also, no, the fact, i guess that 800-pound gorilla in the room, there's a quite powerfulisraeli lobby as well. bush's father came into contact, barack obama has come into contact with a. i think it is deeply important for the republicans to pick up that segment of the population, of the jewish population i guess in particular, but also the evangelical christian population that is deeply, deeply committed to israel and to the status quo. >> i'm not sure the israeli lobby -- a lot more to it. >> if i could add something to the discussion, i think some of the panel here have noted, there's a lack of deliberation in many stages in the bush administration, and i think that carried across also in the international sphere. so if there wasn't a lot of coordination with either allies or enemies in the islamic world, as evidenced by just not taking into account some of the customer contacts in places like pakistan and afghanistan when making decisions about foreign policy, that's also been a problem, not just from the administration but going forward for the american military estab

important point if i may, because while we're in this era of distraction right now, the 900-pound gorilla we should be thinking of in egypt, we're spending a lot of political shows on libya. a lot of stuff going on in afghanistan. but there's been meet with north korea between north korea sending signals it will begin misbehaving again because it sees us as militarily overextended. and by the way, there will be no strategy at all to get north korea to give up its nuclear weapons system because we just invaded a country that had nuclear weapons, and systems and programs. so the distance is that now have become huge for other governments in the future, the whole calculus has changed. answer negotiations with north korea to get rid of nuclear arms, fundamentally don't make sense. i just want to bring this up as well. i think it's important -- >> it was an important year. that's when iran stopped working on a nuclear weapon. and i thought i heard you admit that, but i guess i was wrong. >> two points. sorry about that. gadhafi, mubarak. i can keep these muslim names straight. and no, i -- lib