. >>> david letterman is next with jack hanna. >> ought to be some interesting animals for sure. see you tomorrow morning, 4:30. ( band playing "late show" theme ) >> from the heart of broadway, broadcasting across the nation and around the world, it's the "late show" with david letterman. tonight... plus paul shaffer and the cbs orchestra. i'm alan kalter. captioning sponsored by worldwide pants and cbs and now, your friendly street corner cobbler, david letterman! (cheers and applause)

hanna: there are more wild animals on these plains than almost anywhere on earth.the movie "out of africa" was filmed. but no movie could capture the real-life drama of this incredible place. hi, everyone, i'm jack hanna here at my base camp on the serengeti plain at busch gardens, tampa bay. on this "animal adventure," we're going on an african safari to one of the best game parks in the world -- the masai mara. thousands of tourists visit here every year, but they are still outnumbered by big-game animals. i've been to the masai mara before, but never like this. [ african tribal music plays ]

. ♪ >>> this is a wedding of hanna and daniel. that's hanna sitting there right now.room and groomsmen have a very special dance prepared for the bride. ♪ >> wow. very boy band. >> "my love" by justin timberlake. they break into dance. a very amazing performance. >> they all can dance. >> it's pretty rare to have all of your bros know how to move like this. >> these guys are so going to get -- after this. >> wow. >> the guy can dance. it's true. >> what do the brides maids do after this. >> you can't just be like oh, thanks. >> the girls don't show up at all. >> "tell me tell me baby" by n'sync. >> oh. they knock. >> so good. >> they had to put it in there. you can't do n'sync and not knock. suddenly there's a microphone and you're wondering what's coming up. suit and tie by justin timberlake. watch this. ♪ >> you cannot mess up with j.t. >> that's the groom on the mike. >> i love these guys. they're awesome. >> time to serve the food. let's get this party going. >> nick is hating because he can't sdmoons i'm not hating. i'm ready for the cash bar. >> they end their d

i'm jack hanna.i go on the job with some completely captivating canines. ♪ come to the world of adventure ♪ ♪ the animal world of adventure ♪ [ howls ] ♪ you can hear the adventure [ roars ] ♪ the sound of wildlife adventure ♪ [ squawking ] ♪ you can feel the beat ♪ feel the rhythm and heat

hanna rosin.e, where we asked three experts to weigh in on how to discipline your child- - from toddler to teenager. find the story on our homepage. we'd love to hear youraúvice as well, which you can leave in the comment section. and to the analysis of shields and brooks.ç that's syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. let's talk first about the politics of the week. we had primaries. we've got ohio, indiana, north carolina, 36 for 36 when it comes to the incumbents retaining their control. so i want to ask you first, is this a sign of things to come, especially in these republican races? have the republicans learned something from the previous elections where they were displaced by more conservative or tea party candidates? >> i think so. you have the dynamic of the scab lishment ofrthe tea party segment, especially the rogue elements. rand paul willç campaign, mike huckabee against the establishment candidates and all those candidates lost this time. so

he feels an upbeat, positive attitude got him and hanna through the worst of i.touched by hannah" is what it's call call called ralter than get koun, he's getting to work hoping to make the most of his story and the time he has left. >> from the power of positive thinking to the power of o carrierringringcon0 >> in fact, in story reelly begins with rama not talking to anyone. just sitting on a bench at school. alone, of course. >> it turns out what happened in that bench was the crack in rama's shell to begin breaking out of it. >> because of them, i'm like who i am today. >> and who she is is pretty spernl. >> you might want to do a ri grex line. rama saw a handful of students struggling to pass the exit game. game. this was the start of the club. >> and the rest, they say, is history. or, in rama's case. >> in this, her junior year, ra plrks a has tutored more than 1220 fellow students. >> so you, father-in-lawly, have tutored about halve if school. >> coming up. they may be kult. >> your chair is wig lting. meet the kitty crusader who helped the is kittens wit

. >> jack hanna's "wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwideinsur. >> hello, everybody, i'm jack hannaming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo. and welcome to "wild countdown." i've always been fascinated by creatures with extraordinarysen. look at the size of that one! some can see their prey from miles away. >> from thousands of feet in the sky, these guys can see the eyelashes of a mouse flickering. >> others navigate in the dark with their ears. >> if you stand in the way of a bunch of bats waving your hands, you probably would not hit them. >> whoa! and some find victims just by sensing body heat. oh! i saw it. >> did you see it? >> oh, yeah.

now, this is from hanna and ella to your brother.ere you live. and on the lid, you can put a message. and it says "i love you, dad." >> that's adorable. >> something fun to do together. we're a big scrabble family. i put two sets and i put all the words that associates my whole family. michigan, boats, john, jill, dad and gave it to him. this is something you can make at home. >> good job. you did it again, baby. >>> it takes months to plan but only minutes to ruin. >> how to prepare for those unexpected wedding day emergencies. this is a good segment. >> but first, this is "today" on nbc. i love. >>> it's supposed to be one of the happiest days of your life, but wedding day is not always. despite months of detailed planning, there's one thing you can never plan for, and that's last-minute emergencies. >> so here to help the brides and grooms handle some of the hitches of getting hitched is the founder of theknot.com. >> hey, carly. >> hello. >> we have some scenarios for you. first of all, what happens if you're going to a wedding,

why are you sliding to the fá right, jack hanna?ahead. >> i'm ready. >> i sa >> yee-ha! >> shhh. you have to be quiet. that scares him. i made that up. >> reporter: we were just getting started. >> did you ever pet a giraffe? >> no. >> their tongue is 12 to 14 inches long. >> let me see how far out she'll go. i bet you didn't know they had penguins in africa. i didn't. >> watch, watch this. look at that. one of the fastest land mammals in the world. >> i bet you also didn't know that cheetahs are such timid animals that they're raise with labrador retrievers at the zoo to help them be more courageous and confident. >> we're going right now into my tent camp. they'll come in your tent and look right at you. i've had monkeys take my underwear and socks. hanging in the trees and throw them all over the place. >> no. >> the lion. oh, my gosh. >> but(lz favorite part, this plane. imagine you've landed in the wild from inside with only this window separating you, you can experience what it's like when the king of the jungle comes to check

. >> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide insurance. >> hello, i'm jack hanna, comingfrom my base camp here at the columbus zoo. and welcome to "wild countdown." ever since light first appeared on earth, countless species have come and gone. but a few are still around. boy, that thing looks prehistoric. man alive. today we'll discover mammals, reptiles and birds have hardly changed since prehistoric times. boy, look at that fish. he looks like he's been around millions of years. and of course, my blooper of the week. [camels grunting] i got to get out of here.

our news continues at 4:30 >> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide insurance. >>eryone, i'm jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to "wild countdown." all baby animals need plenty of love and care from their animal mothers. >> there is a tiny one over there, maybe a week old. >> oh, look at him. look at him. you are right. or their adopted ones. >> so i hand-reared these warts. their names are patrick and patricia. >> and sometimes mothers just need a little help. >> it only has less than a 50% chance of making it to this time next year. >> this bear? >> yeah. >> today, six stories about animal babies guaranteed to make you baby crazy.

, i'm jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo.welcome to "wild countdown." it's the law of the jungle: eat or be eaten. these animals can eat 25 to 40 to pounds of meat at one time today, see how seven carnivores hunt down prey. you can see the mother is still breathing real heavy from the kill. scavenge for scraps... do they bite? >> they certainly do. >> ok. and scare up a meal any way they can! >> they're killing machines. these guys are killing machines. >> and later, one of my favorite bloopers. exactly how does the door work? how

. >> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide insurance. >> hi, everyone, i'm jack hannato you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to "wild countdown." most of the animals i meet live in just one kind of habitat, but some just can't make up their minds. whoa! whoa, buddy. today, unique species that split their time between dry land and water. oh, there they are out there. from the florida everglades-- >> whenever you feel like you get ready, we will jump in there. >> did you say we'll jump in there? the river in borneo-- >> oh, look. >> oh, sue. >> i love that. >> and even a waterfall. i have been all over the world

. >> he was hired by hanna-barbera which was a pretty extraordinary first job. >> you are?ny bravo. >> i wrote for a show called "johnny bravo" that aired for a few years. it was a cult hit in its own right. >> he gains some on camera experience. these are outtakes of him spoofing captain kirk on cartoon network's "adult swim." >> i'm a -- >> then in 1998, his big break. fox home to the simpsons gets a look at animated short. >> i'm steve. i'm a dog in case you're, well, stupid. >> fox invites him to shoot a pilot so long as he does it on the cheap. >> they weren't going to give me a million dollars to make a pilot so they said, listen, if you can do this for 50 grand we'll give you a shot at a prime time show. >> he titles his program "family guy." >> don't touch the thermostat. >> man. >> it's a twisted take on the nuclear family complete with mattress idol talking baby. >> stuie, i said no toys at the table. >> is this a grape or a cherry? >> seth voices several characters from stuie to dad peter griffin. >> alcohol is trouble. i feel kind of guilty i ever gave chris his

jungle jack hanna pushed hard for the measure to pass.ell, it went down hard, thanks to part to this. a flyer from americans for prosperity's ohio branch, which falsely claimed that property taxes would have gone up 105% if issue 6 had passed. we talked to columbus mayor michael coleman about this last night. he said he was surprised to see the koch brothers poking around a municipal tax levee issue and warned they were far from finished. >> this is incredible that the koch brothers are interested in a zoo levy. but that tells me that they're going to be involved in our school board races, they're going to be involved in our city council races. they're going to be involved in over tax issue that comes before the voters in the city of columbus. and they're going to be telling us how we should with deciding how we govern ourselves. >> joining me now, ryan grim, washington bureau chief for the "huffington post." ryan, i couldn't get over this story, the fact that they were like going big on this tax levy. so much of this is part of a much la

. ♪ ♪ hi, i'm jack hanna-- here in the outback of central australia, welcome to animal adventures.

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. >> mother of three heather hanna says her kids haven't yet had head lice she knows how quickly it spreads i say the kids need to stay in school is really a terrible idea. >> the school district has had says have by scaring of disease but isolating children can stigmatize them. the district superintendent declined an interview today. although the state says kids with lice can go to school ... >> inaudible pediatrician daniel edwards urges common sense. >> if your child has active lice excusing them for the day so they can get treatment. >> he said lice are easily killed by over-the-counter products and units or eggs are not contagious. >> after child has been treated it is certainly reasonable for that child to return to school. >> parents tell us they would like kids with lice to stay home. >> the best thing to keep them home and get under control so doesn't keep spreading. >> had lice policy was on tonight school board agenda but about 3:00 p.m. this afternoon the superintendent withdrew the item for more study. it is to be taken up by the board at a later meeting. >>> mount diablo is no

. >>> in the clus bum dispatcolum dispatch, betty white and jack hanna help cut the ribbon for a newus zoo which will house 150 animals from 20 species. that will be fun. >>> other stories we're watching here for you, people in jordan are preparing to welcome the pope on saturday. it will be be the first stop on his tour of the holy land, one that also includes israel and palestine. tennessee is bringing back the electric chair, the state's governor signing it into law yesterday. it will be allowed if the drugs used for lethal injection are not available. and those drugs are currently in short supply nationwide. tennessee last used the electric chair in 2007. >>> you can never get enough of these. an american soldier surprises his kids at school after almost a year overseas. his daughters cannot contain -- >> they're never letting go. >> they leap into their father's arms there. lunch time surprise. just in time for memorial day weekend. all righty. what house pet could weigh more than 500 pounds. well, talking about a pig, of course. ester. the wonder pig. i mean wonder. look at how

. >> she believes that, but, still, she couldn't walt to pick up her kindergartener, hanna. >> you know, kind of praying that god protects our children. >> reporter: and we're back here live where you can see children are practicing baseball on the field behind the school. i'll tell you, there is a big sense of relief today. again, nothing happened. everything wentd well and school o fishlts expect the schools to someday safe. reporting live in danville, jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you , jodi. >>> the president is expected to arrive for a second fundraiser, the second in a fund raising tour tonight in about 45 minutes. >> a small victory against a big tycoon with a major step forward. >> i'm scott budman. tesla dealing with dmantd issues by hoping up two new showrooms in the bay area. >>> new tonight at 6:00, some mixed news for tssla. shares of the pal os sprks alto company, stocks dragged down by more than 11% by investors who wanted more shares and challenges that tssla is facing. >> well, raj, one of the reasons investors sold today is that while tssla is selling mor

other we're all about working together the older ones teaching the young ones >> because of that model hannathe resident math tutor or another sibling who would edit english papers and that was helpful. gerri: will you holmes will your kids? >> yes. forster with mom and dad is sitting right there. [laughter] think you for coming on you are amazing and inspiration top performers. gerri: this is what some if you are posting about the poll question. has your age ever worked against you in a job hunt? >> indirectly as. with age comes experience and titles and salaries would everybody is going cheap. >> yes. it is obvious they were patronizing me because of my age. >> the age of concern is around 50 they are sure you'll cost them more and medical costs has a lot to do with the. >> you can be sure we will not by another gm product ever again. we have a car that has been recalled how many years we have to wait for it to be six? we enjoyed our car disapprove the length of time we have been told we feel we can no longer trust them. >> i recently sold my gmc truck back to the dealership i have no inte

. >> former "hanna montana" star. >> maybe they know each other a long time.e something, maybe, we don't know. >> harris, you have two daughters. i want to bring in comments from her father will smith on this to metro. he said we don't do punishment on his parenting style. the way we deal with our kids, they are responsible for their lives. our concept is, as young as possible, give them as much control over their lives as possible. and the concept of punishment, our experience has been, it has a little too much of a negative quality. your response? >> you know it is interesting, and i kind of agree with him in one way. you want to give your child autonomy. you want to grow, this sounds very old school and incorrect but how we talk down south, you want to grow hem up, if you will and give them a sense they will make the right decisions but if you read his comments thoroughly, he said they don't punish at all. if you tell a child there are no boundaries, they will test you at every chance they get to see what those boundaries might be. you're not teaching them

mark hanna, analyst who works primarily for democrats.t did i say wrong. >> it sounds good, bill. i like where you stand because it acknowledges that we have a problem and as everybody knows the first step in solving any problem is admitting you have a problem. what conservatives have failed to do from, you know, in recent years is acknowledge the problem. you have marco rubio out there still denying the fact that climate change is happening. >> going to be on the program. the senator is going it to be on the program tomorrow i think you should grill him on. >> it we will. joe bastardi is the go to guy in weather deal. he is a global warming climate change denier. but he points to a lot of interesting facts in history, you know, the dust bowl in oklahoma. the dinosaur's extension that the planet does evolve. however, as i have always said, mr. rosenburg and i'm sure you watch the factor every night so you know i say this, it's better for everybody to have a clean planet. so why are we arguing about whether it's natural or whether it's man

. >> this is hanna. this is you. this was a couple of weeks before 9/11 actually happened.o this is our last family picture. >> i love this one. >> yeah. that's him. that's you. that's your smile. that's you. you act just like him. right? mannerisms, everything is just like your father. you look like him. you act like him. >> you act like him and sound like him. >> it is a somber and rainy day here at what used to be called ground zero and perhaps won't be called ground zero as much anymore. my colleague, deb feyerick, who 13 years ago was here as well along with me, covering this story, remarkable magnitude. she's back here with me again today. deb, you had a chance to go down to the bedrock, as they say. this is seven stories underground where this incredibly poignant memorial is. we just saw that wall of faces. walk me through a little bit more of what visitors who come to new york city and come down here to see that they're going to see and feel when they get in there. >> reporter: yeah, it is an incredible museum. just because of the mood, the way it feels, the way it

. >>> hanna berry -- because somehow people still use the word feminist as an insult as if asking forpect is a disgusting idea. >> from lindy -- because we still treat misogyny like it is built into male biology. >> and because girls grow up knowing it is safer to give a fake phone number than to turn a guy down. it is true. >> rather than seeing elliott rod ger as a victim of society, the media has depicted him as a bloodthirsty madman, a mere glitch in the system and yet the facts show a different story. my panel is back with me and i'm going to start with you. talk about your piece, what you meant when you wrote that. >> i think we like to believe in the myth that school shootings just occur, they are an anomaly an these people are just glitches in the system, we write them off as crazy people, as madmen. when you look at the data, there is a lot of research out there that shows they're very similar. they have a lot in common. school shootings follow patterns. most shooters are male. >> you made six points. we have it here actually. >> great. >> nope, that's different. men commit s

representative hanna. >> thank you very much. thank you very much for being here. i want to follow up on something that chairman brady talked about briefly. milton friedman once said inflation is always and everywhere and today we see that the united states department of agriculture estimates that food costs may go up as much as 3.5% this year and that is the highest potential rate in the last i think three years. in this morning's "wall street journal" allen melzer, a distinguished federal reserve historian writes, the fed focuses far too much attention on distracting monthly and quarterly data while ignoring the long-term effects of money growth. beyond the pure inflationary concerns, he said some of the side effects of the fed policies has the ugly consequences which is the low interest rates for retired persons that forces them to take substantially greater risks than bank c.d.'s and that many of them relied on in the past. he says -- goes on to say -- this usually ends in tears for a lot of people. and we see people who planned on retirement and simply based o

representative hanna. >> thank you very much. thank you very much for being here. i want to follow up on something that chairman brady talked about briefly. milton friedman once said inflation is always and everywhere and today we see that the united states department of agriculture estimates that food costs may go up as much as 3.5% this year and that is the highest potential rate in the last i think three years. in this morning's "wall street journal" allen melzer, a distinguished federal reserve historian writes, the fed focuses far too much attention on distracting monthly and quarterly data while ignoring the long-term effects of money growth. beyond the pure inflationary concerns, he said some of the side effects of the fed policies has the ugly consequences which is the low interest rates for retired persons that forces them to take substantially greater risks than bank c.d.'s and that many of them relied on in the past. he says -- goes on to say -- this usually ends in tears for a lot of people. and we see people who planned on retirement and simply based o

many of the names are biblically inspired, ruth, esther, mary, hanna, rebecca. two thirds of the girls are christian and forced to convert to islam. families and supporters of the kidnapped girls have been protesting, demanding the nigerian find their nieces, sisters, daughters. the cries of nigerian activists have been echoed around the world. demonstrators from washington, d.c. to london held signs saying bring back our daughters, our girls, a campaign that began on twitter and spread. some girls are targeted by the government, saying they've been accused of working the group to make the nigerian president look bad. those accusations could stir more anger. >> many people are angry with the government's handling of the object ducks, and these allegations could lead more people to the street. >> as outrage swells globally, the united states is speaking out. secretary of state john kerry called for nigerian president to do more to find the girls. president jonathan then broke his silence. >> we believe that we will get them out. >> many nigerians want more than p

. >> some of the potential names on the calendar this season, hanna, kyle and vicky. >> the funny quote that became a serious issue yesterday. >> we have a three year ban on marijuana. i did not say that i'm going to change that ban. >> why he says marijuana is making it tougher for his agency to do its job. >> only 50% of a people after a stroke will actually get hand function back at all. of the 50% that do, most don't have very good hand function. we want to improve on that. >> we're going to talk about a breakthrough for stroke parties, a new study with stimulating result, giving hope to thousands of stroke advisors. >> the $20 billion mistake that has officials in france on the wrong side of the tracks. it's going to take a lot of money to fix the problem. >> a look at our images of the day and the competitors in the international association of athletics federation world challenge taking place in beijing. the challenge is the annual global competition that got its start in 2010. >> good morning. welcome to al jazeera america. >> ukrainians and russians putting a side their differe

. >> this is hanna. this is you. this was a couple of weeks before 9/11 actually happened.d that's your smile. that's you. you act just like him. mannerisms and everything is just like your father. you look like him. >> yeah. >> you act like him. >> you act like him and sound like him. >> there she is. i love that picture. you were 3 and you were 2. remember? through the years, i know all these names now. >> marian lecorey simone. although she wanted to look as pretty as possible, she was never above putting on a silly face. >> dancing on a bar because all her friends were. all her friends were 30. and she was 50. she hung out with them. remember she told us she had gone to the biker bar the night before. then it was embarrassing, but now we're doing the same stuff. >> and when he heard the call on the radio, he told his partners, we've got to go. and he just ran up the stairs, and he just hailed a cab. he went straight to those buildings. and he did what he had to do. he had to go help people. >> he would do things spontaneo spontaneous. he would go, get up, let's do somet

uprising from domestic extremists did for people >> : the idaho state police honor the group responded hannandersson with the capture last summer morehead like to see year-old was later rescued after a massive manhunt for dreams to my chow kit please say he about to hand out and kill the mother and brother before the call please they're doing what anyone would do. >> : we do what most people for what do where from the west we right in mounds wheat this does rebekah or play and does the things that was at a peak of people >> : again rescued the in the wilderness now living with the caught father in california. allied 10 year- old >> : to year-old apprentice paying a san diego draft law to year-old kevin lighthouse they now hundred guard sue mile bike ride and three quarter mile run. during her first should be volunteered for raw suffers scrubbed some bike for a winter trade her and her father every confidence in her ability. >> : i can put any words and how much it makes me feel and was a mind of how much she's accomplished. >> : father says that its annual began running a school before enter

estimates that the interstate 5 corridor around joint base, remember, i-5 extends from canada toity hanna, is the most congest -- toity wauna ti -- , is the most congested point. it is now in order to consider amendment number -- the chair: it is now in order to consider amendment number 14. it is now in order to consider amendment number 15 printed in part a of house report 113-460. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from kansas seek recognition? ms. jenkins: mr. chairman, i have an amendment the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 15 offered by ms. jenkins of kansas. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 590, the gentlewoman from kansas, ms. jenkins, and a member owesow polesed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from kansas. ms. jenkins: thank you, mr. chairman. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the chair: the gentlewoman from kansas is recognized. ms. jenkins: thank you, mr. chairman. in 2008 congress passed legislation to suspend public-private competition that d.o.d., through the o.m.b