. >> john huntington, start-up owner of hydro bikes in long beach, california. also made his first groupon offer last year. it was august 24th, 2010. just two months after his opening day. and he remembers it well. >> i made 13,800. that day. so that was a very profitable day. it was a great 17 hours. >> how many is the back table set for? >> ray hasser, 14-year owner of lasher's restaurant also in long beach was haile skeptical when groupon approached him. at first blush he didn't see how what amounted to a 75% discount could possibly make him a profit. >> i put the math to it. and i came up with some ideas that i thought i could make money, and still take advantage of the tremendous impact. >> indeed the impact can be tremendous. groupon told lasher that nearly 700,000 people saw his offer. which resulted in over 600 groupons sold. >> when it goes on groupon it goes out to millions of people. around the world. i mean i have groupon people have bought groupon in china. >> but what seemed like a lucky windfall to one small business owner can feel like a disrupti

nearly 30 years later after he finally died from the huntington's disease he inherited from his motherhen he can't write or talk a all anymore he hits it big. all of a sudden everyone singing his songs. kids are singing this land is your land and schools and people are talking about making it the national land fund. bob dylan and all those others are copying him that he can't even react to it. the disease doesn't affect his mind. she's sitting in a mentor institution and he knows what's going on but he can't tell anybody how he feels or what he thinks. well this land is your land began with the title god bless america. you will see that it's a god bless america and it contains a couple of cover anticapitalistic versus i don't remember seeing in school, do you? [laughter] a lot of americans never heard them until january of 2009 when pete seeger and bruce springsteen and sang them from the steps of the lincoln memorial at the inaugural concert the next day newspapers across the country say that's the way he wrote it? yeah, that's the way woody wrote this. so i will leave

in las angeles, see the 18th century engravings by english pioneers at out of the shadows at the huntington's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. nothing could stop "contagion" from infecting audiences with a box office win this weekend. they took the top spot with just over $23 million reaching expectations despite dismal overall box office figures for this weekend compared to last year. "warrior" debuted with just over $5.5 million, still good enough for third place. >>> it may be the year of the r-rated comedy, but bucky larson "born to be a star" bombed with just $1.5 million for the weekend. >>> finally, could a new showbiz power be evolving? jennifer lopez and bradley cooper went out for what was described as a romantic dinner in new york city. any guess at where they went? >> no. tell me. >> per se. have you ever heard of it? >> no. >> it is a family fancy place where i don't think they host us. they could have been meeting about a movie or something like that, but -- >> didn't she just get divorced? >> i think it's been, what, ten days? yeah. moving on. >>> and fina

. >> quite a different story from john huntington where a 50% off a ride put his unknown business on the map. >> i'm making more money from the people and the walk ones now than i was making before i had groupon. my daily increase in dollars immediately tripled. >> ray lasher didn't think groupon was worth it at first. the deep discounts didn't make sense to him until he realized he could up sell the customers keeping the groupon below the average receipt total. >> say they spend $100. $50 is the groupon. they spend another $50. that second $50, i'm making my full profit. i have people in empty chairs. >> timing is key. since the last weeks of the offer get the biggest number of groupon customers, he schedules it to expire early fall. >> as you get toward the end of the expiration date, it's not a bad idea to time it. i time the end of my groupon to my slower period of time. >> large numbers alone are not meaning success. >> it didn't translate to more sales or more growth. >> if you can harness the numbers, bring it on. >> i have great reps. it will be great for some and not for oth

they point to model rosie huntington whitely has having the features that get men going.rominent curved, forehead, eyes, nose and mouth relatively low. large eyes, round cheeks and a small chin. she's a victoria's secret model. >> and a great figure. >> she was in the movie "transformers 3." i'm more megan fox. >> your ideal is a little different. >> women and narcotics the same. >> visual creatures. >> that's right. >>> and for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everybody else, your friday funnies. accept it. you can't change the way banking works. just accept it, man. free ? doesn't close at five ? try nature. it's a bank. what do you want, a hug ? just accept it. hidden fees, fine print, or they'll stick it to you some other way. stay with the herd, son. accept it. just accept it. accept it. just accept it. accept it. if we miss this movie, you're dead. if you're stuck accepting banking nonsense, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. >>> and finally on this friday morning, we're wrapping up the week with the best medicine possible, a li

she had the undiagnosed and misdiagnosed huntington disease.s recuperating father on another boom to bust oil town in the texas handle -- panhandle. he dropped out of high school and became a sign painter. he married and had his first two children and they all waited through the years to carry the black lizard of dust across the great plains. this was the work out topsoil of over 100,000 square miles of ravaged farm land. in november of 1933 the dust buried the midwest and came back the following year and buried the entire midwest again and as far east as albany and buffalo, new york and the dust continued to blow for the rest of the decade. the sky would turn black and red with thousands of tons of boiling dust. animals and people choked to death. children went out to suffocate. the worst day that they could remember was april 14th, 1935. palm sunday. they call it black sunday. winds of 80 miles an hour with the topsoil and red clay from nebraska dumped on the dying town of tampa, texas. woody recalled when the dust cloud hit it looked like th

when i was at the snooki book signing in huntington.e women who had daughters there as young as 9 years old. >> bill: they wanted them to be snooki. >> wanted them there dressed as snooki. >> bill: dressed as a vampire doesn't mean you are going to be democratic could youla. i don't think anybody looks up to these people except stone cold dumb people. you talk to a few of them. you seem to attract them. you don't have to look for them they come to you? >> i think it's the fox news mike sign. >> bill: yeah. jesse watters there he is. when we come right back it will be miller time. what does the d man think of affirmative action for unattractive people? there is a movement to make that happen. and then, congresswoman maxine waters attacking fox news once again. why? coming right back. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i'm bill o'reilly in the miller time segment tonight, because of his very busy schedule,we had to schedule up with the d man last night. topics for discussion range from unattractive people to dipg dick cheney's new book.

huntington beach, california, stacey, you are on the air. >> i had a feeling that night something terrible would happen, the night before. it was not something i could do anything about because i did not know what it was. i stayed up all night watching the news, waiting for the horrible thing. that morning is when it happened with the airplane is hitting the towers. i felt so helpless. a lot of people have said they felt something, the victims and survivors. it was just a bad feeling. they could not do anything about it. what has really hit me throughout these last 10 years is the dignified way in which the american people respond to crisis and even being under attack. we people came out and the border, they help each other. they stopped and picked each other up. -- the way people came out with water. they help each other. they stopped and picked each other up. it is an example to the world of how free and democratic people behave. people all races and creeds coming together, not venting rage at the enemy or people who did this, but with a good heart and pulling together. that is unique an

take a look at this woman, rosie huntington huntly, victoria secret model and in transformers 3, according to men's health, seeing an attractive face has the same effect on a man's brain as cocaine, narcotic. they have done studies. >> are you high right now after seeing the pictures? >> what they're talking about. i feel like a crack head. it's true. >> here comes the polka, folks. what else can we say? >> it's friday. ♪ politics and foreign wars ♪ all the weather all the sco s scorscores ♪ it's late at night you're wide awake and you're not wearing pants ♪ ♪ so grab your world news now mug and everybody dance ♪ ♪ have some fun be a pal every anchor guy and gal ♪ ♪ do the world news polka everybody! ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ insomniacs only ♪ that's the world news polka ♪ who cares what the bosses think they're a goofy crew ♪ ♪ and if your neighbors call the cops here's all you have to do ♪ ♪ when they yell ♪ it's half past 3:00 tell them that's news to me ♪ for ♪ why not tune in abc and join our little joke ♪ ♪ five whole days every week we're here with a tongue in cheek and the wo

woody died from the huntington's disease he inherited from his mother which progressively silenced him throughout the 1950s and 60s his son recalled the irony of that song's history. i remember him coming home from the hospital and taking me to the backyard just him and me and him in teaching me the last three versus to "this land is your land" because if he thinks i don't learn them nobody will remember them. he can barely strum the guitar at this point and his friends think he is drunk or crazy and stick him in a room in a mental hospital. than when he can't write or talk or do anything at all anymore he hits -- everyone is singing his songs. kids are singing "this land is your land" at school and people talk about making it the national anthem. bob dylan and those others are copying him and he can't even react to it. the disease doesn't affect his mind. he is in a mental institution and knows what is going on but he can't tell anyone how he feels for what he thinks. "this land is your land" began life with the title god bless america. you see the manuscript. it is god bless america

see no huntington was my teacher when i was a graduate student at harvard. he wrote an important book in 1968 called political order in changing societies, which rereading it now in light of the arab spring actually is probably one of the best guides to what is going on in the middle east at the present moment. it is a book that needed to be updated. i thought of a project is doing a revision of this book. among other things, on the very first pages is the soviet union and united states are equally developed political orators. that didn't seem quite right after the fall of the berlin wall. the other major issue is when i was just referred to. i've been thinking about iraq, somalia, all of these foreign policy analogies we face. i may have the solution, the problem is getting to denmark. denmark is in quotation nice because denmark is actually not a real country. it's a mythical place that is low corruption, democracy, stable government, the services delivered very efficiently and so forth. we have this vision of denmark in the back of your heads in we go to

in an interview to the huntington or the huffing ton post, that is, the huffington, he says that hiss with a that he was not more uncompromising and rejects suggestions that he would have done better if he had played along. >> we have a traffic alert in mir land where new laws go into effect sunday night. one law makes it illegal to text or read en e-mail while driving. it has been illegal to send a text while driving. maryland has made it a misdemeanor to cause death while driving for text users. >>> left exist to i-26 westbound 66 will bepermanently closed. drivers will have to use a right exit that will be expanded two lanes. >> that's a big change. >> that is, thank you for that. that's every word is important there. >> tucker barn is here with us now. he has word on today's weather. >> yeah, improving, in fact, that's going to be less humid today. temperatures in the 70s. this is going to be a nice- looking friday. all fridays are good looking. but thinks the first time that the weather is going to be cop rating. much cooler this weekend. get ready for a real cooldown. go straig

see no huntington was my teacher when i was a graduate student at harvard. he wrote an important book in 1968 called political order in changing societies, which rereading it now in light of the arab spring actually is probably one of the best guides to what is going on in the middle east at the present moment. it is a book that needed to be updated. i thought of a project is doing a revision of this book. among other things, on the very first pages is the soviet union and united states are equally developed political orators. that didn't seem quite right after the fall of the berlin wall. the other major issue is when i was just referred to. i've been thinking about iraq, somalia, all of these foreign policy analogies we face. i may have the solution, the problem is getting to denmark. denmark is in quotation nice because denmark is actually not a real country. it's a mythical place that is low corruption, democracy, stable government, the services delivered very efficiently and so forth. we have this vision of denmark in the back of your heads in we go to

richmond, whether it is the folks in louisa and central virginia in the earthquake or the folks in huntington have been saying we just need that -- that assistance that other communities have had when they've been met by natural disasters. what purpose do we have for government other than to make sure there is an emergency response and after that response that there is an ability to get people back on their feet? i want to thank my colleagues again, particularly the senator from louisiana who has been tireless on this issue of making sure that fema has the resources they need to address these disasters and we do that in a meaningful way, recognizing of course that we can't just put these on the credit card forever. and that we have to have a rational way to pay back. but to figure out an important 10-year rolling psychle to budget for emergencies ought to be part of our discussions going forward. trying to say at this moment, the downturn of the recession, that somehow communities in need whether they're in oregon or whether they're in virginia or one of the 48 states who have been hit by --

the search has been called off for a boogie boarder who vanished off huntington beach.s despite warnings from lifeguards who were ending their shifts for the night. >>> security is being increased across the country as the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approaches. abc news has learned that the fbi and intelligence ancies are now ramping up, concentrating on landmarks and transportation hubs. agents are urgently hunting for any clues of a terrorist plot. they say a major concern is the lone wolf, a home-grown terrorist who had done little to draw attention to himself. >>> there's added controversy this morning about those new airport scanners. german officials have decided not to use the machines because there were too many false alarms. they say the machines cannot tell the difference between underarm sweat and potentially explosive chemicals. the tsa a sists the technology is the best there is right now. >>> and now to the economy this morning and to a jobs report that's due out later today. estimates are that employers added 93,000 jobs last month and that unemployment he

see no huntington was my teacher when i was a graduate student at harvard. he wrote an important book in 1968 called political order in changing societies, which rereading it now in light of the arab spring actually is probably one of the best guides to what is going on in the middle east at the present moment. it is a book that needed to be updated. i thought of a project is doing a revision of this book. among other things, on the very first pages is the soviet union and united states are equally developed political orators. that didn't seem quite right after the fall of the berlin wall. the other major issue is when i was just referred to. i've been thinking about iraq, somalia, all of these foreign policy analogies we face. i may have the solution, the problem is getting to denmark. denmark is in quotation nice because denmark is actually not a real country. it's a mythical place that is low corruption, democracy, stable government, the services delivered very efficiently and so forth. we have this vision of denmark in the back of your heads in we go to

rosie huntington-whiteley considered one of the most addictive women of all. that women never see, we can confirm that. >> can you confirm that? >> i didn't realize i was addicted to angelina jolie. i have a massive problem to deal with. >> the power of cocaine? >> between the music keys and the supermodel, researchers have time on their hands. >> they want to talk about it. i feel these are the things that we women, we knew all this already. but thank you, harvard. >> for confirming it. >>> i'll bet sam's out there somewhere. sam? >> giant crowd in times square. folks, robin, george, josh, lara, a lot of folks have showed up to see you in times square. good morning, gang. where are you from? >> louisville, kentucky. >> robin tweeted that you guys are here. you're here for the game tonight. >> yes. detroit. >> which is -- what city is the game in? >> detroit. no. new york. new york. >> and so, we think there's a little chance of showers. but mostly dry and cool. are you guys okay with that? >> yeah. >> all right. let's get to the boards. one or two things goin

. >> reporter: busts occur weekly with smugglers found at far north at newport beach, huntington beach up in santa barbara county. well over 200 miles from the border. how tiff a job is this? it's basically like finding a needle in a haystack. >> very tough. >> reporter: they're using intelligence and line of sight to catch the smuggling boats but also getting help in the air with helicoptering canvassing this wide swath of ocean. hoop would you say is winning the war on the water? >>s probably even right about now, but every day there's more and more assets coming into play. >> reporter: sandra endo, cnn, los angeles. >> fascinating story. it is. we asked you to "talk back" on one of the big stories today. the question this morning, is a higher tax on millionaires class warfare? this from phillip. this is manufactured class warfare for re-election purposes. this is nothing more than a stunt to gain support on election day. i'm tired of the phrase, pay your fair share. over 50% of americans do not pay tax. correction there, phillip. 45% do not pay income taxes. what about their fair sh

you're not going to cheat huntington. what he does to come he breaks the law down, they all have to suffer much lesser get nothing at all. he buys out joanna's fathers farm. her father had five children, none of them had shoes. a final detail that comes in there. where does the mortgage come from? in the mortgage came from the county clerk, then loaned it out to local farmers. so at this point i thought, you know, from bottom to top, no wonder mark twain calls it the gilded age. everyplace you scratch you find these kinds of stories. i later found her playing on the people the 19 shinji. not very many in the road our guys but plenty people in the 19th century. >> well, we come to the point in a program where it's time for the one last question. i'm afraid it's kind of a big question. i will paraphrase several versions of it that is, from members of the audience. but one standard narrative of the transcontinental railroad is that it is the first installment in a series of federal investments in the development of the ameri