our first celebrity contest, from "menopause the musical" at harrah's las vegas, the beautiful, the talented, ms. cindy williams is here! >> well, thank you, chris. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. truly appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it too. >> it's good to have you here in las vegas, and we'll talk about the musical and all that good stuff, but first i want to talk about

gordan ramsey steak set to open this memorial day weekend at harrah's casino in acn2015 the chef owned gordon ramsey public and grill at the ceasar 's casino in atlantic city. gordon ramsey's restaurant group operates total of 33 restaurants around the worlds. >> well, gearing up for the grammys. coming up on cbs-3 "eyewitness news," host james cord on rehearsing for sunday night big show. who will walk away with the awards, three radio dj's are in the studio for their top picks. plus, dazzling show in the sky watch behind this amazing phenomenon involving thousands of birds. you're watching "eyewitness news" at noon, we will be right >>> welcome back everyone, music's biggest night is this sunday, sixo and all grammy awards presented here on cbs-3 , all of us have our favorites, performers we would like to see win, but let's get expert analysis from our radio friends joining us now, from today's 96.5, andy somers from 92.5xtu and marilyn russell from 98.1. ladies, welcome. >> hi, jim. >> i'm always looking forward to this, the expert opinions. so let's start with you, we start off wit

and we are looking across the ice, and there is harrah's marina and the borgota, the atlantic city skylinery calm winds here. we are expecting a lot worse, 24 hours from now, maybe even less, and to the right here, everybody knows, the acme, this acme has been busy, they're shutdown until 6:00 to stock up from the run they had last night. and then the video here, at the acme, that everybody knows near the bay in ocean city. here is what chris o'connell and his crew found last night, people buying all of those pre-snowstorm frenzy essentials, like just taking everything, but firewood, batteries were big sellers, because people always fear losing power, because they had those storms not too long ago, when everybody a as' memory, they didn't have power for seven days in places like wildwood. that was the worse of it. everybody can dig out after half a foot of snow, but it is when the winds start knocking down the power lines down here, and you don't have any power on your house, you can't see, and if you have any kind of heat that runs on any kind of electricity, you need firewood for sure. s

when we arrived at harrah fingers or knuckles i looked down on my hands for the first time. sit standing up for my fingers were soft black hair. i was horrified. how had i never noticed such a grotesque feature. i always knew i had it in other places but i had overlooked this. well i don't have any eric said. i nodded and said, me neither. >> you can watch this on our website, booktv.org. [applause] >> thank you. i did not those applause. thank you for coming out. my name is gilbert and i'll be your host. and from romans bookstore. thank you for supporting independent bookstores here.

. >> speaking of it's been years , check it out, that's snow in the is a harrah, the hottest dessert in the world. rare bought of icy weather hit the area covering parts of the saint i slopes in about 15 inches of snow. this is just a second time it has snowed in the sahara in 40 years. can you imagine? atlanta practically shutdown when they get a flurry. can you imagine? >> sahara i don't think they have many snow plows there. >> i wonder how the camels deal with that? >> we thought we had problems, katie? >> no kidding. just think ya, how would you deal? kind of like seeing the snow that fell on some of the palm trees down in south carolina. with the last storm that came in, anything can technically happen but it is very rare. look at the wide zoom, nice nationwide look for you here, we just mentioned the storm moving into california. any it with all of the wilds fires that had taken place, grounds just parched but no general take to stap the runoff of the water and mudslides, so scary stuff for those folks, meanwhile, batch of mo is tour starting to gather strength and organizatio