>> howie m mandel. >> you began two years before me. >> shart thousanding me at howie m mandel.ers i get. >> why would anyone want to follow you? >> i'm wonderfully entertaining. who told you about twitter? and now you're on a very powerful -- >> six times as many followers as you. >> i don't get a chance to plug it. >> i'm six times as popular as you. officially. >> from the moment you said hello you've been making me feel comfortable here. i didn't do anything. i'm just me. >> you tormented me. >> i existed. >> just by being alive, you annoyed me. >> is that why you called me here today? >> i would like you to apologize. >> for being me? >> say sorry for being so annoying. just say i'm howie -- this is like -- >> it's like annoying anonymous. >> i'm just going to plug. watch mom on wednesday after "idol." >> i cut you off. >> i already said it. "mobbed" on wednesday. great show. >> it's going to tank in the ratings. >> it's going to do great. fantastic. this show is powerful. i just got two more followers. who knew that this show had this power. three! you did abarticle how yo

howie mandell thank you so much have a great day. >>> all right.hank you. >> there was a delay. >> a little bit of a delay. >> get i don't know our dancing shoeings annie yu taking us back to 1962 on to the set of the award winning musical hair spray she joins us from signature theatre arlington virginia. hey, annie. >> hey, tony and alison. it is a lot of fun out here, being at this hair spray location, signature theatre this theatre is not just a fun place to come and see shows but gives back to support fine arts education joining me now is eric safer the cofounder and artistic director thank you for having me out here. >> thanks for coming. we had a good time. >> lots of laughs. >> tell us about the theatre here and all the wonderful things it does. >> well, we have been here 22 years and we just came here 4 years ago and we have an open house every year that is all free and we also have, a program called signature in the schools where we bring -- write a new world premier play for kids and they perform it and they perform it for nine classes, t

curt menefee along with terry, howie, michael and jimmy. mr. johnson, it seems like all day long, green bay wasn't the same team that dominated in the regular season. >> jimmy: yeah, but first of all, the giants played great. special teams they were sharp, recovering two onside kicks. 420 yards total offense and four takeaways. but this is not the same green bay team that we saw during the regular season. they had so many missed opportunities, dropped the football, they didn't secure the football. three fumbles and an interception. and, michael, let me just say that about the giants, that crow tastes terrible. i've been eating it all year long. >> michael: i've been serving it and i've been watching every bite. it's funny, we sit here and watch the game and you guys were saying this feels like when you were there in 2007. they can't do it. >> howie: week after week. >> michael: and they continue to get it done and you have to give a lot of credit to tom coughlin. three weeks ago a lot of people were ready to say he's stayed too long in new york

iih so many diverse stories to work with and no telling how they will turn out, howie says you will beer how it ends. mandel says, "you don't know how someone is going to react cause they're human and you don'ttknow how every tool we can prop up to make this a positive experience is what we do." that episode of ámobbedá airs tonight at 9 o'clock right here on fox 45.yyu can also catch a previous episode of a man that hopes to ake his long distance friendship to the next level... that airs at 8. 3 herr comes the rai. rain...meteorologist steve fertig is back with a look att when we can eepect it to start coming down... next. here's a friendly reminder. it's your last chance to get verizon's reliable high speed internet and phone for small business for only $84.99 a month. call 1.866.solutions now or visit verizon.com/solutions. only $84.99 for high-speed internet and phone. plus your choice of either no annual contract or a two year price guarantee. call 1.866.solutions or visit verizon.com/solutions today. hurry -- this offer won't last long. contact the verizon center for customers wi

to see what kind of signs they are planning to put out and in how many languages for us to ceassee howy it is tuesday that would be posted in stores and -- how easy it is to see that would be posted in stores. the merchants can decide whether they want to pose that or not. i think it should be available. >> i think out reached needs to be done to the elderly. and when we educates children and young people, they tend to bring these programs home. we have elderly who are using plastic bags to line their garbage back at home, so there might be some particular resistance to because of the way they are using them that we are not aware, but i think we need to definitely educates the elderly. >> do we want to see ongoing education in our buses? >> absolutely. . >> is there any consideration of a short race. -- short grace period where they would be informed this is going to happen? i have to see this day covering were all of a sudden these people are going to be prepared, even with education. gooall of a sudden there are gog to be all of these people who do not have a bag. >> i think the depar

. >> four more followers at howie m mandel. >> how to save the planet? >> eej case. th education. >> i actually do quite like you. >> watch "mobbed" on wednesday. >> why not. >> i'm not leaving. i want more followers. more followers at howie m mandel. >> and erson cooper is next. >> no, i'm not leave pg. . >> please leave. >>> it's a story that's already spread shock and outrage across the country. we're talking about mississippi and haley bar lobour's decision pardon more than two dozen criminals. dr 300 criminals. and four convicted killers, all worked at the governor's mansion as part of a long standing program now suspended along with the pardons. before the court put the pardons on hold, those four killers walked away. three since checked in as required by the judge and expected to show up at a hearing this friday. last night, mississippi authorities tracked down this man, joseph osment and served him with papers ordering him to be in court as well. they found him in laramie, wyoming and tried to flee. he tried to get away in his girlfriend and they served them

i understand you're not eh an immediate fan. >> i wasn't, howie.nitially very cranky, and i'm a little less cranky now, but my initial reaction was we've been down this road before. it's a morning equivalent of groundshog day again. you know, we have a beyonce story. there was a story -- a long network promotion with juliana mrguilles. you only get a few chances in life, and you don't want to keep making the same mistakes. i feel lying cbs news is making the same mistake with this program to a certain extent. >> juliana -- has a cbs show "the good wife." television critics are entitled to be cranky, it's almost a job requirement. the show is produced by the former producer of "msnbc's morning joe." it has a lot of politics. you described it in your review as a brisk line-up of substantive news stories. you were impressed. >> well, impressed -- what i liked was that if you watch the other morning shows, "the "today" show" and "good morning america "ow you have ten or 15 minutes of fluff news. at least they waited until 8:00 to give us that constitus

with that, howie? >> that is, this question is commenting about what you said, regarding contingancy for overseas, the model has been that the conflicts the war fighters go in and companies in this room get hired to support them is there anything else talked about in the budget regarding future conflict other than just production from the afghanistan account? >> what i found remarkable yesterday is finding the word contractor somewhere. anywhere, it was impossible. a so, what this means to me is that it either something they don't want to talk about, and they have been reluctant to talk about reliance on contractors for base operator support and other support they received in afghanistan, and to be honest in so many other places around the world. i think this is a debate that really does need to happen. i would not be surprised if the authorizing committees take it up as part of the okay, you are cutting end strength and you'll not be doing stability operation on a pro longed basis but we need to be in

so with that, howie. >> this question is right directly commenting on what you said regarding continuous operations overseas. i know there is less going to afghanistan than last year and next year. we have seen the model is is conflicts, the war fighters go in and companies in this room get hired to support them. is there anything else described and talked about in the budget regarding future conflicts other than reductions from the afghanistan account? >> what i found remarkable yesterday is finding the word "contractor" somewhere, anywhere was impossible. what this means to me is it is something that they don't want to talk about. there has been reliance for contractors for base operating support and other support that they receive in afghanistan. to be honest in so many other places around the world. i think this is a debate that really does need to happen. i wouldn't be surprised if the authorizing committees take this up as part of the you are cutting and you are not going to be doing stability operations on a prolonged basis. but we need to be involved. so how are we going to do it

more followers at howie m mandel. >>> i'm zain verjee at cnn in london. the headlines this hour. this is video posted on you-tube reportedly shows rebels from the syrian army clashing are government forces. opposition groups say 100 people died on monday. the government says six soldiers were killed. the united nations security council is taking up a draft resolution this week calling for bashar a lar to step down. i suspected u.s. drone strike in southern yemen on monday night. security officials say american missiles struck a province near the areas taken over by militant group. >>> u.s. republican presidential candidate newt gingrich is blaming what he calls dishonest campaign ads by opponent mitt romney for his poor performance in the poor with the florida primary hours away, romney surged ahead of gingrich by 14 points. >>> united nations nuclear experts say japanese regulators need to improve their plans for dealing with severe accidents. they've been studying the stress tests that tokyo ordered after the fukushima daiichi. whether the plants themselves are safe. those are

. >> reporter: 12-year-old howie pritchard suspected a thief all along. >> i thought i would catch myporter: but she got more than she bargained for when she set up her laptop and focused her webcal on the entrance to her bedroom. instead of catching her sister, police say she caught this guy, busted rifling through her drawers and stuffing his pockets. >> i saw there's a guy going through my stuff. >> reporter: place say he made his way into her home during an open house. and when howie came home a few hours later, she caught him on her laptop. >> i saw my chair was moved and i saw him come through the hallway and went through ply drawers. >> she came down the stairs screaming, somebody ripped us off. we looked at the video and it was shocking. >> reporter: the pritchards didn't recognize the man, but police did. douglas john callendrella is a 46-year-old real estate agent, convicted of stealing from houses before. two years ago he was arrested for accessing locked boxes to rifle through bay area homes. investigators say when put more than 50 stolen items on ebay, a victim notified p

meteorologist howard bernstein is live on the weather terrace with the forecast how is it out there howie? >> temperatures are dropping and you're really going to feel the difference from yesterday when it was delightful with temps well up in the 50s and even touched 60 in one or two spots. today windchill will feel like it's in the 20s or worse in some spots. the rain is east of us and pulling away quickly. partly cloudy skies now and 39. it will winds are going to be a real problem with the wind advisory until 6:00 p.m. you can see the rain that pushed through. it did briefly change over to snow in hagerstown and upper montgomery and howard county and up to baltimore and carroll counties as well but now well east of bus the snows continuing in the -- us with the snows continuing in the mountains, where it's 14 in  oakland. you get near whiteout conditions at times. still 39 for us and mid 40s in southern maryland but the winds not friendly making it feel like 33 in town but quickly into the 20s and even teens north and west. bundle up it's going to be a cold day and a cold weekend. i'

howie mandel, sharon osbourne and howard stern.pen auditions february 11-12, at the bill graham civic auditorium. doors open at 8:00 a.m. you can register on the website, head to nbcbayarea.com, search america's got talent for a link. >> we have a mathematical oddity. interest rates so low they have fallen below zero. that doesn't seem possible. >> german interest rates have fall son low you have to pay to allow you to lend it money. it sounds insane but negative interest rates, a sign that investors are worried about europe. they are desperate to find a safe place for their funds is. they would rather lend it to the government which would pay them back less than put the money in a european bank. >> the connsumer electronics show. >> welcome to 2012 gadgets galore. we've got tons of stuff. hp, this is the spectre. an ultra book made out of gorilla glass. 1399, comes out in february. we have apps and technology to help you lose weight. this is a company called digital storm. cool computing. this one aimed at health care will deliver

been interesting in the past few days, covering iowa and new hampshire and looking at exit polls and howie gel cals are voting, for catholics and mormons, faith and family matter, but religion different than it used to be. probably a good thing. tomorrow, jim demint comes out to talk about the south carolina primary,

been interesting in the past few days, covering iowa and new hampshire and looking at exit polls and howie gel cals are voting, for catholics and mormons, faith and family matter, but religion different

more followers at howie m mandel. >> anderson cooper is next. >> no, i'm not leave pg. >> please leave. >>> it's a story that's already spread shock and outrage across the country. we're talking about mississippi and haley barbour's decision to pardon more than 300 criminals. and four convicted killers, all worked at the governor's mansion as part of a long standing program now suspended along with the pardons. before the court put the pardons on hold, those four killers walked away. three since checked in as required by the judge and expected to show up at a hearing this friday. last night, mississippi authorities tracked down this man, joseph ozment and served him with papers ordering him to be in court as well. they found him in laramie, wyoming and tried to flee. he tried to get away in his girlfriend and they served them with a sympathy. the pair were planning to get married and invitations gone out. there were hints of thinking of living on the land and not settling down. and there were hints they might have a small private ceremony to take place at an undisclosed time, date and

. >> nfl hall of famer and football commentator howie long is 52. john singleton is 44. producer and cohost of the talk, julie chen is 42. do you know who would be 600 years old today? we're not going to tell you right now. we'll have the answer in about 15 minutes. stay with us. >>> welcome back to 9news now. 5:45 on the 6th of january. the question for howard is what officially begins tonight? >> i'm drawing a blank. >> in our favorite city. >> wait, wait, wait. >> january 6th. it has to be the beginning of carnival season. you said favorite city. >> carnival time. >> it starts tonight. >> you got it! >> that's what -- let the good times roll. if you've ever been to new orleans, you know what i'm talking about. >> i'm talking about the battle, people fighting each other in the streets. >> the oyster house. >> ok, weather. >> all right. little warmer down there than here. we'll be rather mild today. today would be like a cool winter day in new orleans. temperatures will be climbing into the 50s around here. let's get you started with a look at the bus stop forecast. and

. >> also, howie, my mother was a librarian, so i tend to favor kind of more quiet audiences. >> but it's a live event, mark. why shouldn't the audience be a part of it? why should the moderator be saying sit on your hands? >> well, i guess i would agree with jeff. i'm a somewhat younger foeingy, but this is about the candidates. skwet who is going to run the show? literally. if the idea it s to inform voters, then i think the more time that's devoted to candidates, the less time it's given over to cheering and applause, again, maybe it's sort of old-fashioned, but it's about the candidates. it's about the voters learning. i don't think so much in the production value and the hiss reonices is as important. >> i'm going to disagree. you don't want people hoot and hollering to the point where you can't hear the candidates and it becomes a circus, but, you know, it shouldn't necessarily be anticeptic show that's done in the temperature-controlled quiet of a television studio. >> they don't have to be anticeptic. >> there's a lot of backing and forthing between candidates. i don't think

thoughre ut the tiations were going on to try to figure out how to get the north back into the npt and howi agreed into the negotiating mode with them and that is when the framework was signed and fort tn very briefly the north koreans y maintained the needed nucleare t energy because they didn't have sufficient other energy, and thn agreement was that south korea, japan and the united states wer ould provide money for buildin the light water reactors in f exchange for which the north koreans would freeze their nuclear program. and they were doing that and while i hold no brief at all for kim jong il, the three countries that promised to build the were nuclear reactors were slow t because in fact parliaments of all the centuries including the congress for having a hard time coming up with the money for thn and meanwhile we were delivering heavy fuel to the north koreans to try to delete g8 giving food through the world food program. and then we -- the situation deteriorated in august, 1998 when the north koreans launched a missile over japan. and so we thought that this was the most dangero

behind their spots is that they are saying what they want to say, they're measured -- sometimes tested, howiey don't want to get past that box. they may get in trouble. >> i think it's voubl to go and say, hey, this is what you're people are saying, what your ads are saying. he's here, say it to his face. >> go ahead. >> what the moderators are trying to do is make the debates entertainmenting, which they are not naturally -- >> and illuminating. >> naturally so. illuminating, the candidates are handling just fine. we're asking chicken hawk questions. we're asking -- insult this guy to your face. we're giving him 60-second answers and 30-second rebuttals because anything longer than that is not entertaining tv. >> not everybody gets the chance to speak -- >> how do you have six people on the stage -- >> the whole debate structure is to make news as entertainment. >> sorry, the light went on. your time is up. i got to go to another sound bite. >> people want to see a punch. >> right. which sometimes can overshadow the substantive aspects of the debate, i think you were alluding to. "meet the p

>> we didn't know he was surging in the polls, first of all, howie, but we had been trying to get thisnterview with her since november, and if she was out to really get him, i think she probably would have pushed to do it in december when he also appeared to have been surging. this was a long involved process, and we did the interview last friday, and took a few days to digest it, and then we were ready to go. we had to squeeze it in to make sure that we gave gingrich time to respond. we contacted him on tuesday, and didn't really get any response until thursday. >> and on that point, brian, during the cnn debate, while gingrich was in the process of unloading on the vicious and destructive media, he made some very particular allegations against abc news. let me play that for you. >> anyone who knew us this that period said the story was false. we offered several at babc to prove it was falless where else. they like to attack any republican. >> your response? >> that simply is not true. we offered two people, his two daughters from his first marriage, jackie and cathy. i interviewed bo

fox broadcasting has provided satellite time so we can talk with host howie mandel this mornnng.mobbedcked it up for ulaaiinn..what happens tonight? p actually met a few guys who worked on the crew a previouss episode.. they told me this show is a massive production. a lot of coordination.. whats it like behind the scenes?you are heavily invested in the show.. host.. executive producer.. what do you love about it? ((((ess)))you can see mobbed tonight at -pm here on fox45. we've all had it happen to us... at one point or another. the item you buy... gets stuck in a ending machine.coming up... one group's brillant solution... for freeing their drink. and becoming a pinball wizard... just got eaaier! pe're takkng you inside the brand new pinball museum... opening up in baltimore. you're watching fox 45 morning

merry christmas, howie!eople don't realize, but howie baby-sits terry. >> not funny, frank! i actually had -- fox came to me and said, you have to stop saying that, not funny, because people are listening to you and they're saying, oh, he's not funny. i don't say not funny frank anymore. i got called on the carpet. >> brian: you didn't think jimmy kimmel was that great when he was doing that, but you think frank is great. >> i do. >> brian: i want to talk about something else. you look in unbelievable shape. you dropped some weight. how did you do it? what are you doing? >> a little over a year ago, i went on nutra system for men and did it on my own, saw dan marino on television and don shula and decided i have to do something. i got unhealthy and went up to the post office googled up nutrisystem.com. i started -- i was putting myself on the plan and a year later, lost -- actually had gone as low as 38 pounds. >> brian: now you end up endorsing the product after you used the product. >> right. which is the

>> former hockey player howie said of hockeyy have the game is mental and half is being mental.o a saying that says my goal is to deny yours. hockey players certainly understand republicans in congress, especially somebody like newt gingrich. but they have this in common, they both have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins, so bring it on. >> will? >> i hate myself for torturing this metaphor. skate on thick ice, how about that? >> don't skate on thin ice. dividing us from wealthy to middle income, it's just not the way to go about it. i think this income inequality is not going to work some the general election. >> spoken from a water polo player. david? >> well, there's nothing hockey players know how to do better than pick a fight and i think that's what we're going to see president obama start doing tomorrow night in the state of the union. this is really the launching pad for his re-election campaign. these are the big themes we're going to hear from him and i would imagine we're going to see a president who looks like a fighter tomorrow night or at least that's cert

lot of members, who were clearly tech people and were quite familiar with how technology works and howie internet works and what the innovation community needed. those numbers are in the ascendancy. in terms of how congress deals with these issues it will get better. because there are a lot of very young, very articulate members who are engaged in this issue and have that deep understanding of how it works and what smart policy is. from that i am very optimistic. >> let's end it there and take your questions offline before they never let us use this room again because we are way over. the panel, i will speak for them, will stay. we just need to get out of the room. if you have additional questions we will check in the hall. thanks for coming. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> today presidential candidates newt gingrich and ron paul will speak at the southern republican leadership conference in charleston, south carolina. road to the white house coverage begins at 9:00 eastern on c-span2. >> a couple famous. he argued that american policy toward japan in 1940 and 41 w

in's hear from howie philadelphia on the line for republicans. caller: have a new year.ant to wish all the candidates could love tonight, especially ron paul. i wonder where gary johnson is at. [inaudible] have a good day. host: let's look at a couple of other stories in the news before we talk more about the iowa caucuses. this is an opinion piece in "the wall street journal." he lays out differences in the republican side versus the democratic side there. some other stories in "the new york times" -- host: we will see that develop over the week. "the new york times" has some of their proposed defense cuts. it goes through looking at what they would mean. here is another national story coming to us from "the baltimore sun." ezra klein in "the washington post" picks up some points he found to be most useful looking back in 2011. another one looks at corporate profits are up and wages are down. i will move over to that right now. despite the growing threat of contagion from europe, the u.s. corporate profits continued to rebound in 2011. that outlook for wages and employm