. >> she says she wanted a toe tag by harry winston, and she wanted a fan so her hair could blow liken a dress from valentino. she might get all of that. >> joan rivers paved the way for so many great comics, including our next guest, and that's judy tenuta. hi, judy. how are you doing? >> hi. oh, i'm great. how are you? considering. >> yeah, considering. so when you got the news? >> oh, well, the first night that i heard what happened, i just thought oh, it's joan rivers. she cannot be brought down, you know. so i just thought oh, well, they'll just take their the hospital, and she'll be fine. and then the next thing you hear is that she is on life support. and i'm oh. you know, like everyone else, just praying and with baited breath and, you know, hoping that she gets angry enough to get out of there, you know. you know. >> she mentored you. what did you learn from her? >> oh, well, you know the greatest -- 1986, she had her own late night talk show, "the joan rivers show" on fox. and she -- she invited me on. and i had a great time. and she was like come back any time, you know. sh

. >> i thought it was great she wanted a toe tag by harry winston, which means she wanted a diamond studded toe tag. >> that's it for us. thank you so much for watching. cnn spotlight joan rivers starts right now. >> good night. >>> will you welcome, please, joan rivers. >> for 50 years, -- >> you are not the one to interview one who does humor. sorry. >> fearless. >> are we fearless? >> no big deal to have a woman in the white house. john f. kennedy had a thousand of them. >> and funny. >> no man could ever put his hands up a woman's dress with a library card. >> rebounding. >> you laugh at it, you can deal with it. >> and reinventing. >> you want brutal honesty? >> on the red carpet. >> i'm not going to say anything nasty. she came in an egg. and some people will do anything to not have to speak to ryan seacrest. >> at her kitchen counter. >> you know how you get a man's respect? >> how. >> naked. >> out front and in the spotlight where she always liked it best. cnn spotlight joan rivers. >> can we talk? >> joan rivers could always talk. >> do you know what it's like to go in the morning

i want harry winston to make me a toe tag.wind machine so strong that even in the casket, my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> joan rivers making us smile right until the end. i hope to see you right back here tomorrow night. we'll give joan the last word. good night. >>> tonight, lingering affects of a roaring fire that ripped through a store. >> a rapper being released on charges of taking a marin county person hostage. why prosecutors aren't ready to see him in court. >> remembering joan rivers. memories of her early days in her career in the bay area. >> from sky seven hd, you can see a column of black smoke and firefighters are on the scene to make sure that it doesn't erupt again. good evening. >> off-duty firefighters jumped in to help, rushing to stop the flames. >> the fire spread quickly at 22 nd and mission this afternoon. you can see flames leaping from the building. >> we are live tonight to begin our team coverage. katie? >> smoke is lightning up a bit. i e seople wearing masks over mouths and

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i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. >> reporter: well, it may not be exactly as rivers describes she will be buried here, sorry, not buried. her funeral will be here at the temple emanuel in new york regarded as one of the largest and most beautiful synagogues in the world, dan. >> linzie janis, thank you. >>> another health crisis this morning. we're going to talk about the third american aid worker to be treated in the u.s. for ebola. he's waking up this morning in a hospital in nebraska. what makes this case unique is that dr. rick sacra was not treating ebola patients when he got sick over in africa. he was working in a maternity ward so what's his prognosis? here's abc's bazi kanani. [ sirens ] >> reporter: the third american with ebola whisked by ambulance and police escort after a 6,000-mile journey from liberia to omaha, nebraska. this is where dr. rick sacra is being cared for this morning by dozens of staff at the nebraska medical center taking on this case of ebola to make sure they're ready for more if needed. >> the longer the current outbreak goes on it's inevitable

i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. >> she would love every bit of this publicity. joan was the first 15 minutes in all the morning programs today. joan would love this. >>> when we come back, barbara walters and joan rivers. 25 years of friendship and truth telling about the career that almost didn't happen. >> i was fired from my job every night. they would come back and say, you're gone. >> next on "20/20." sweet! spicy! savory! enjoy it all... 'cause red lobster's one and only endless shrimp is now! endless choices! endless variety! kick it up with our spicy new wood-grilled sriracha shrimp and it's back: parmesan crusted shrimp scampi! the year's largest variety of shrimp flavors! so many to explore! as much as you like, any way you like! endless shrimp is here! but not for long. so hurry in and sea food differently. [ male announcer ] over time, you've come to realize... [ starter ] ready! [ starting gun goes off ] [ male announcer ] it's less of a race... yeah! [ male announcer ] and more of a journey. keep going strong. and as you look for a medicare supplem

i want to be buried in a valentino gown and harry winston to make me a toe tag. >> remember the elizabeth taylor fat jokes. elizabeth taylor so fat she's the only person screaming in front of a microwave screaming hurry. shemed be sol outrageous. how could she do this, is that was joan and that's what made her a great talent. >> and she lived to make people laugh. she said that time and time again. twitter rebrem branses, that funeral in new york in sunday could be a who is who in comedy. we don't know what the plans are yet obviously. tom o'neill, thank you so much and we're -- >> i hope merle streep does go. she work furiously at her craft. >>> we're going to take a short break here. here ahead is this man from massachusetts behind some of the horrific social media messages used by isis to recruit new members? he is one of the fbi's most wanted suspected terrorists. we have his story straight ahead. >>> plus as we mentioned, we're waiting to hear from president obama, he is set to speak at 11:30 eastern before wrapping up his nato visit. we'll bring you that live when it happens. when f

i want to be buried in a valentino gown and i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. i want a wind machine so strong that even in the casket, my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> just like joan, always leave them laughing. >> what do you want on your tombstone, joan? >> on my tombstone? she had a great time. >> she did. she sure did. and she made sure everybody around her had an even better time than she was having. and maybe nobody understands who had ark, just how hard it is to make comedy look easy, except another comedian. >> and lots of comedians are paying tribute to joan rivers. >> for so many years she was guest host of "the tonight show." >> it's only fitting that one of the most heartfelt came last night from jimmy fallon. >> sad news, i don't know if you guys have heard this, our pal joan rivers passed away. >> joan rivers would have just loved it. from coast to coast, the world of comedy was talking only about her. >> she would come out and just say what you were thinking but you wouldn't say it, you would stop -- but she wouldn't stop.

i want to be buried in a valentino gown and harry winston to make me a toe tag. machine so strong that even in the casket, my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> and we'll see on sunday if her wish comes true. that clip from her awedy book published two years ago titled "i hate everyone starting with me." and stay with abc news as the remembrances for joan rivers come in. in just a few moments comments from rivers about her greatest disappointments and how she stayed busy until the end. that's later in this half-hour. >> lack forward to that. now a developing story. a flight from washington to beijing diverted for an unusual reason. the fbi said a mother aboard the flight was attempting to kidnap her child and asked the pilot to turn back, part of a custody battle. the united jet returned to dulles five hours after it took off. the child was reunited with his father. the mother is in custody and due in court today. >> an american missionary infected with ebola is expected in nebraska later today. dr. rick sacra contracted the virus serving in li

i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. i want a wind machine so strong that even in the casket my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> trying to make us laugh even today. let me bring in cnn correspondent nischelle turner here in new york. seems like she's getting some of what we wanted. >> yeah, we know she is. we don't know if she'll be buried in the valentino gown. maybe she will be buried in roberto covali. we are seeing all of her star-studded celebrity friends to say good-bye. >> we know deborah norville, cindy adams? >> we're hearing hugh jackman may sing or speak at the funeral as well. we heard that the gay man's chorus will be singing one of the numbers they will be singing is "what a day." i think that's very fitting. "what a wonderful world" they will be singing as well also, very fitting for this morning. i know the temple holds a couple thousand. we're not sure how big the crowd will be. it definitely has capacity. >> 65th street in central park over on the upper east side of the manhattan wh

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i want to be buried in a valentino gown and i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. want a wind machine so strong even the casket my hair will be blowing more than beyonce's on stage. >> now, as you mentioned earlier the funeral issic thatting place sunday here in new york. no word yet on whether it will be public but as you just heard rivers certainly wanted it to be a huge affair. george. >> oh, she did and just an example of how she made us laugh and made us squirm so often at the same time, here joan rivers in her own words. >> i was such a dog to get me down the aisle they threw a bone. you know what i'm saying? my husband and i no longer see eye to eye, but he doesn't find me sexually attractive. last night i said do yyou find e sexy. i'd rather not find you away. i worked a jewish nightclub. we had a two complaint minimum. i am at the age now i have liver spots, yes, and my dog tried to eat my hand. my house is so filthy, oh, michael jackson puts on both gloves before he walks in. you don't know. you know what it's like to have a hot flash so bad it sets your

she wanted a employee dry and a toe tag with harry winston diamonds. >> she died on beyonce's birthdays of tributes. what stories have you been hearing on joan rivers today? >> ev remembering the life she she brought. sarah jessica parker being one. she challenged joan to the als ice bucket challenge, one of three people. we asked sara why she challenged her to do the ice bucket challenge, why she chose joan. she said, actually because i knew she would make something so serious so funny in a good way and that's what i think everybody remembers about joan, that she could take a very serious situation and make it very funny. her funeral is scheduled to be on sunday in new york city. and i can imagine it's going to be of a celebratory nature with lots of laughs because that's the way she would have wanted it. >> what i loved about her career, she kept coming back. notwithstanding a lot of challenges she kept coming back and was doing that until the end. >> she was so relevant. >> nancy, thank you, thank you. >> we'll have mump this evening on the life and legacy of joan rivers so check yo

i want harry winston to make me a toe tag.alled her a dear friend. kathy, it's nice to see you. good morning. my condolences. >> thank you. i am devastated because i will miss her forever. but also, i am so dazzled and impressed by her that, even the night before she went into her coma, she did a book q and a for her latest book, "diary of a mad diva" and did a full hour set here in new york. so that's hardcore love of the game, professionalism and she also had so many platforms to do her comedy and sell stuff on qvc and found time to be a friend. >> i love what you said about her. you said she was the one that you looked at and realized women could take center stage and be funny. >> yes. but i also was aware of her struggles and true trials and tribulations. often in our conversations i would be complaining about, you know, sexism or something about being a girl comic, which is very different than a comedic actress or whatever. she would just say, it's just different for girls. it's just different. and sometimes i would tell

she wanted meryl streep crying in different accents and a harry winston toe tag, hollywood all the wayll those final wishes be honored today? >> reporter: hey, there, melissa. they talked about this being a red carpet funeral. we don't see any red carpet on fifth avenue but this is a high-profile funeral. howard stern just walked in. rosie o'donnell, kathie griffin, those comedians who say joan rivers was their inspiration for getting into the business, there will be a lot of sadness because of her sudden passing on thursday. the theme here is this is all about humor. she had a sense about her funeral and her life that she wanted this to be big time. and she would be honored. a lot of friends have said since her passing this week about this turnout. there are dozens of television cameras here, dozens of still photographers and hundreds of people standing by behind our camera three and four people deep just to get a look at some of the people coming and going for this service. the service is set to get under way at 11:00. as we understand yesterday the body was transported to new jersey

i want to be buried in a valentino gown, and i want harry winston to make me a toe tag. machine so even in the casket my hair is blowing just like beyonce's. joan rivers. a remarkable career and a remarkable life. that does it for us. our coverage continues next with cnn international. remarkable c remarkable life. that does it for us. our coverage continues now with cnn international. >>> thank you for joining us for cnn's special coverage. the world mourns the passing of legendary comedian joan rivers. >> you laugh at it, you can deal with it, that's how i've lived my whole life. >> yes, she did. we'll get reaction from some of her closest friends as we look back at her life and groundbreaking career. we'll go live to new york where her death has sparked two investigations. >>> and the other big story we continue to follow, the final day of the nato summit. ukraine's president hopes for a plan toward peace. our top story is the passing of joan rivers. can her voice really be gone? funeral services for her will be this sunday in new york. remembrances are pouring in fro

. >> she said in her funeral, she wants the toe tag to be from harry winston and wants a fan hidden inie antoinette would have lived if she was a comic. she was so many people but one was making you laugh no matter what it took and a big part of her also was -- did enjoy the finer innings athings and in fa very, very close with the royals and she actually took me four years ago to windsor castle and buckingham palace and we had two amazing nights with charles and camilla, her buds and would go painting with prince charles in balmoral and he adores her. i was very impressed by that. because people maybe would say joan's humor wasn't classy. well she's in buckingham palace right now. >> in pretty good company. >> she's in good company. also, she would -- charles said something wonderful to me when she was introducing us and he pulled me in and he said, withoute comedians and newspapes who would keep us honest. the gets it column. >> you'll be sharing for memories. nank you for flying in for this. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> the nfl season is starting. natalie has more on that. >>

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he will be a stamp of approval for harry reid and a continuation of the obama agenda. that's not going to happen. [applause] winston churchill said the kites fly highest in the strongest of winds. there are a lot of winds blowing, contrary to our best interest in the world and in this country. we are going to change that around. i promise you. thank you so much for coming. let's go to work each and every one of you. every phone call you make, every bumper sticker you put on, every sign you put on, you're part of a wave to better this country. god bless. semper fi. [applause] one other thing as the person who crawled through the barbed wire fence -- that's a terrible joke. we are going to -- let's go have some. all right, thank you. [applause] >> an update from the kansas h wase race -- jeb bus campaigning for senator pat roberts in wichita today. the associated press reports of that at a fund raiser for the sayslican senator, bush kansas voters should reelect senator roberts to the gop can take control of the senate and fix a few things in washington. pat roberts is being challenged by greg orman. recent polling sh

harry reid and a continuation of the obama agenda. that is not going to happen. [cheers and applause] winston churchill said kites fly highest in the strongest of ways. there's a lot of wins blowing in our world and country. we are going to change that around. i promise you. thank you so much for coming. let's go to work. every phone call you make, every congress, you are part of a wave to take this country back. let's get started. god bless, semper fi. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. [applause] one other thing. as the person who called through the fire fans, one more point not true. that's a terrible, terrible joke. hey, we are going to go flip and cakes. let's go have some. thank you. [applause] >> i just want to remind you that the distance from the white house theory where he came in from the green room is about 80 feet. this is only 60 feet, the width of this ran the 60 feet. [inaudible] >> now, it would be yards. it is 70 or as long come at 30 yards inside the house. inside the house. i've been there many, many times. you know, to talk about somebody transversely and the white house