jasper -- jasper. >> this is a way of life around here. >> meredith, richard and jasper are with us noworgotten just how dysfunctional you two were. you know, when you left, it was a weight being lifted. and now i'm reminded of what goes on in the household. >> may i point out that the dog's quiet? >> sitting next to some yapping -- >> oh, thanks a lot. that just set me up. that's just great. how did the book come about? >> you know, where i was beginning work on a much more serious book, another book about chronic illness. and the dog started barking and i was talking to my agent and i said i'd really rather write a book about how i would kill the dog. now, i would never kill a dog. >> let's get that out. there's a lot of animal lovers out there who are going to say that's a horrible title for a book. >> i would never hurt an animal, but if a meteor landed on his head -- >> it would not upset you. >> no fingerprints. >> do you think it's possible you are a little blind to jasper and some of the dog's more irritating habits? because i have to say, the dog did spend a lot of time around

jasper has -- in fairness to richard, jasper is a difficult dog. he's a barker, he is possessive.-- >> he's a shrieker. >> i can see why he he thinks he's married to meredith. >> u.s. subs in the indian ocean have picked up the shriek. >> it's a very funny book. i will be serious. very entertaining and amusing and anyone that loves animals, or feels the way you do, it's a classic family pet story, isn't it? >> it is. it's about a family, it's about the pet, it's about pet culture which is totally out of hand, and it's a -- a little bit of social commentary and a lot of comedy. >> it's very, very funny. >> let's talk about things that aren't funny, but very entertaining to watch the breakfast tv wars, the general feeling it's the moment you left "today," it's all gone to hell in a hand cart. not far off. >> things happen. and there are ups and downs, and "today" show where i was and i love and i hope to do more pieces. my heart and soul is with nbc, going through more of a difficult time than we did a few years ago. we will be fine. we certainly will. and don nash, executive direct

this is jasper today. the transformation is remarkable. his owners are delighted. >> before the event, he was a crippled the dog. he had no rear leg function. he dragged his feet. he could not move them generally. now he can stand and walk. he can make a stab at running. he does bunny hopping. >> researchers removed specialized cell from the lining of his nose which promote the growth of nerve tissue. these were grown in a dish for several weeks and then injected into his damaged spine. the nerve connections grew enough to allow his front and rear legs to reconnect. the repair was not complete. the signals to the brain were not restored. that explains why he still wobbles when he walks. more than 20 dogs were treated. most saw some improvement. this research is great news for jasper and other dogs prone to spinal injuries. could this technique played a role in helping reverse paralysis in humans? scientists funded by the medical research council say this study in animals should give the green light to a trial with humans. they went -- they

. >> pan just this thanksgiving, is that what you're background to say, jasper knows it's thanksgiving he can smell it coming. >> a guest tells a dirty or a racy joke? >> and i've had that happen. >> of course you have. >> and you're alone in the roonl, bob. >> no, my old man went after the guy, physically went after him and doesn't put up with na. >> i had pretty boring thanksgivings. >> i would never say that, but-- >> and what if someone got up super early and won't leave at the end. >> i think that's the worst. my grandfather always said if you're not early, you're late. so i'm a very punctual person not try to get that too earlier and have a rule always be one of the first to leave and your host will thank you. >> they do when you leave. >> the best people, the one mo does the dishes. >> i'll do the dishes, i can't k.c., but i'll do the dishes. >> i can't do the dishes. >> i'm not big on dishes either. >> and that's why, right. >> just paper plates. >> do you have restaurants. >> i waitressed at thanksgiving and eating turkey between big parties of 10 and 15. >> when we moved last

jasper reading "joy of hate." isn't that cute?ric: is jasper in the book? >> greg: jasper wasn't born. >> bob: order it. >> greg: i will do a chapter on each person on "the five." except for kimberly. >> kimberly: interesting. >> bob: has everybody done their thing? >> kimberly: no. >> greg: i have a banned phrase. here it is. wait for it. i hate it when they do that. today in the news, so-and-so was arrested for -- wait for it. just say it. >> dana: or just pause. >> greg: don't say "wait for it." i blame kimberly. >> kimberly: i think you should. >> kimberly: you say "wait for it all the time." when do i say that? play it back. >> bob: what is that? >> kimberly: i have to do my mine more thing. this is about honey boo-boo. artist from san francisco that made a honey boo-boo portrait out of trash. took him 50 hours, 25 pounds of trash. it's jason. for $5,000 get you honey boo-boo, dollar make you holler. it's cute. >> dana: why are you booing? >> greg: so much other th

scientists at the university of cambridge took the cells from jasper's nose and then injected them into the damaged spinal cord. the professor nicholas jeffrey designed the study. >> the cells that we use when they're in the nose, they usually help nerve fibers to grow from the nose into the brain. that is their normal function in the nose. so the idea is that when you transplant them into the spinal cord or anywhere else in the nervous system, then they might also help new nerve fibers to grow from one place to another. >> reporter: and it's not just jasper who's whizzing around the house again. the scientists say some of the other dogs in the study regained limited use of their hind legs. but the researchers acknowledge the procedure alone won't likely have any useful benefits for human spinal cord injury patients. >> i don't think there's ever going to be a quick fix for spinal cord injuries. >> reporter: he believes it's a small step in the right direction. max foster, london. >>> more medical news when a medical emergency strikes, every second counts. and that's where a new iphone

this is jasper now showing off his working skills.researchers hope it will help people in the future. >> that is unbelievable. medical miracle. >> great. >>> mike was talking about the weather around game time 5:30. >> i think it is going to be nice, not too cold, not too hot, no rain on the way. high clouds are going to make today mostly cloudy, we look from mount sutro towards diablo. as we look from mount tamalpais a little breezy, mild winds making it feel warm, kicking up a few clouds, especially across the north bay the best area where we may have a stray shower. as we look at doppler, you can see we are getting the best returns to our north where they are going to stay. hardly any snow, very high elevation snow with this warm core system. different perspective you can see some of the low clouds along the coast mainly the rest of the clouds up to the north where the rain is going to fall even in the sierra, snow levels with in next system that could be around 7,000 feet, monterey bay 55 santa cruz inland 58 gilroy everybody else

. >> greg: i fed this to jasper. >> bob: you just thought of this?t -- >> andrea: it looks delicious. uh-oh. >> greg: this is the first time there has ever been a twinkie shake. that is amazing. amazing! >> bob: eric, get some of that. is that good? >> andrea: that is really good. >> greg: it's disgusting. >> andrea: this could save twinkie. >> greg: disgusting and wonderful. i don't have the time to chew. i'm in a hurry and i want a twinkie, i will drink my twinkie. >> andrea: bob pounded it. >> greg: he drank the whole thing. >> bob: that was brilliant. >> andrea: you even have the mustache. got twinkie? >> bob: i got heat for saying there is only one better thing than twinkies and i meant to say eating ho-hoes. i hope they get together. unions and the hostess. >> andrea: eating ho-hos? you would say that. wouldn't you? >> bob: listen, let's get serious. is there any chance -- [ laughter ] do you think the unions will get together with the company? >> eric: i think they want it to go. >> dana: one more thing. >> bob: one more -- [ laughter ] >> dan

this is jasper now showing off his working skills.searchers hope it will help people in the future. >> that is unbelievable. medical miracle. >> great. >>> mike was talking about the weather around game time 5:30. >> i think it is going to be nice, not too cold, not too hot, no rain on the way. high clouds are going to make today mostly cloudy, we look from mount sutro towards diablo. as we look from mount tamalpais a little breezy, mild winds making it feel warm, kicking up a few clouds, especially across the north bay the best area where we may have a stray shower. as we look at doppler, you can see we are getting the best returns to our north where they are going to stay. hardly any snow, very high elevation snow with this warm core system. different perspective you can see some of the low clouds along the coast mainly the rest of the clouds up to the north where the rain is going to fall even in the sierra, snow levels with in next system that could be around 7,000 feet, monterey bay 55 santa cruz inland 58 gilroy everybody else l

this research is obviously great news for jasper.breed like this one which are prone off to spinal injuries. the big question is, could the technique one day play a role in helping to reverse paralysis in humans? scientists funded by medical research council say this proof of concept study in animals should give the green light to a trial with patients. but warn it may not work as well. in the quest to reverse paralysis in humans, cell transplants are just part of the answer. last year rob summers from the united states was fitted with electrodes in his spine which enabled him to stand. >> wondering about potential impact of this. 200,000 people in the u.s. living with spinal cord injury. 12,000 to 20,000 new injuries a year. >> ground breaking. >> this could go a long, long way. >> we'll be right back, everyone. >> this could go a long, long way. >> we'll be right back, everyone. [ female announcer ] think coarse facial hair removal has to be painful? challenge that with new olay facial hair removal duo. a two-step process that remo

this is jasper. they gave him a going-away party today. they helped us raise jasper.she has a voice i'd sit down, too, if i were one of thing tos. >> bob: so did my ex-wife. >> kimberly: to my house and figure things out. >> greg: i heard the dogs were not fan of your dogs on doggie blog. >> dana: they are friends on facebook. >> greg: they talk about your dog all the time. suck-up. wonder where the dog learned that. five days until this comes out. preorder it. shut up, bob. you'd do the same thing. put it up on the rankings. join me, greg gutfeld. get it. >> bob: very good book. i suggest everybody buy it. really. >> kimberly: i started it. >> bob: kimberly can read. >> kimberly: yeah, what really bothers me is you knew my home address and it came to my house. >> bob: he rents the place across the street from you. >> kimberly: he rents the tree. >> andrea: he rents the fire escape. >> andrea: my turn. last night, i had the privilege of aanding and honor of attending the bob woodruff foundation stand up for heros in new york city. and i think one of the best moments w

i'm joan jasper, i'm with the department of public exhibitions here at the library. thank you so much for coming to our exhibition tonight with author craig childs. he's been jet setting all over the country promoting his new book, the house of rain. we also want to thank the publishers for bringing craig to us and we also want to thank (inaudible) at the book table at the end of the program. craig childs is a commentator for national public radio's morning edition. he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to

. >> i'm josh and this is jasper. >> i'm jeremy. >> i'm jona. >> i'm joel. >> reporter: in case you've lost count, they have 12 children. >> i remember seeing a thing, an ad for a store one time. it said the average family will go through 27 boxes of cereal in a year. i kind of laughed at that because we go through 50 boxes in a month. >> corn, mixed vegetables and mow take toes, fruits -- potatoes, fruits. >> reporter: their monthly grocery bill is $600. throw in a bill holiday meal and the budget can get tight. >> it's not necessarily that we wouldn't have a dinner if the uso didn't provide it but we would have to budget that in and we would have to probably cut in other areas to make sure that we had all the trimmings and everything like that. so for the uso to be able to take that burden of it off is a huge thing for us. >> reporter: staff sergeant leader has served one tour in iraq. he knows what it's like to be away from home for the holidays. he also knows duty can call again any time. >> i don't take for granted our holidays together because of all the troops that are out there

this is from jasper, india. guess what's in this well. >> pigs? >> no, that is a goat. >> aw. >> they got a bunch of ropes and one man's willpower to go down into this well and drag this goat out. >> it sounds just as awful as a pig. >> are they going to wimplg this thing out by its neck? >> yes. they are successful and watch what happens after they unleash him. all the animals are out of the hole and they lived happily ever after. >>> guys, it's all about the sound in the next video, listen to the beginning of the video and tell me what you think it is. >> someone had a box of fireworks? >> it sounds like someone is learning how to play drums. >> this is a shoot-out between s.w.a.t. member, sheriffs deputies and an armed man. 19-year-old andres aguillar. this is video from a neighbor. you can see aguillar in the video. he shot at police before and during a traffic stop. that led to a standoff with police where they later found aguillar here. you see s.w.a.t. members taking cover behind a car. >> that's crazy he is recording this with bullets goin

. >> i'm josh and this is jasper. >> i'm jarrett. >> i'm jess and i this is jedi. >> i'm jeremy. >> i'm jalen and this is judy. >> i'm jew day why. >> i'm jonah. >> i'm joel -- i'm judy. >> i'm jonah. >> i'm joel. >> reporter: in case you lost count, the leaders have 12 children. >> i remember seeing an ad that says the average family will go through 27 boxes of creel in a year and kind of laughed -- cereal in a year and i kind of laughed at that because we go through 50 boxes in a month. >> reporter: their monthly grocery bill is $600. throw in a big holiday meal and the budget can get tight. >> it's not necessary all that we wouldn't have a dinner if the uso didn't provide it, but we would have to budget that in and we would have to probably cut in other areas to make sure that, you know, we had all the trimmings and everything like that. so for the uso to be able to kind of take that burden of it off is a huge thing for us. >> reporter: staff sergeant leader has served one tour in iraq. he knows what it like to be away from home for the holidays. he also knows duty can call again any

this arrowhead here is maybe just under half an inch long, tiny little piece made out of jasper in some canyon someplace. there are larger objects. there are cliff dwellings that you find up in the alcoves. this is out on the navajo reservation in southern utah. this is part of a structure that's about, i'd say, 300 rooms running along the back side of this canyon, a little village, small city, something. artifacts everywhere. one of the walls had fallen out, revealing the floor that had been packed in there, hundreds of years of people using the same floor just pushing down the dirt so that there are pieces of woven -- of braided string sticking out of the floor everywhere and arrowheads and broken pottery and i realized when i came up against the stack of this trash pile i put my head against it and looked along it. i could see it was covered with hair. people in that room had been combing their hair for hundreds of years and it had been landing on the floor. and then new floors are built on top of that and new floors and i ran my hand across, just barely across, the front of this and

i'm joan jasper and i'm with the department of exhibitions and public programs at the library and i want to welcome you it our program tonight, our incredible evening with playwright and author phillip congatongas. this program is in connection with an exhibit, two exhibits, that we have up on the 6th floor. the first one is called if they came for me today, the japanese american internment project, and also we have another exhibition called relocation and resiliency, the japanese american internment in california. and both of those are up on the 6th floor and this is the last week, so if you haven't a chance to see these exhibits yet, we really encourage you to go on up and see them because they will be closing on sunday. we really want to thank community works for bringing the exhibit if they came for me today to the san francisco public library. and here to tell you a little bit more about community works is ruth morgan, so help me welcome ruth morgan. thank you. . >> thank you. i do hope that if you haven't seen the exhibit, you will go up to the skylight gallery and see it. the proj

this is jasper, a 10-year-old dachshund. his back legs were paralyzed after being hit by a car.sts took some cells from his nose and implanted them into his spine and six months later, he could walk again. wow. researchers say while this is promising, they are still a long way from restoring spinal functions in humans. >>> it appears singer rihanna's tour plane has descended into disturbia. mayhem broke out on the 777 plane carrying the singer and journalists. this is an around the world tour here. an australian shock jock streaked through the aisles monday. reporters supplied with plenty of alcohol were complaining about the lack of access to rihanna. so we've got people getting naked. we've got rihanna on the plane. and then you've also got all of this in one place. sounds like a party to me. don't threat suit fool you. this is what journalists do sometimes. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> while advances in medicine happen every day, there's a doctor in illinois who is being celebrated for keeping things the same more or less. for nearly 60 yeas. dean re

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. >>> in england, they released this pictures of a paralyzed dog named jasper walking with an assistive scientists from the university of came bainbridge took cells from his nose and injected them into his damaged spinal cord. experts say the procedure won't work for humans, but it's a step in the right direction for humans. >> the head of a newspaper in ireland has resigned after deciding it to print topless photos of duchess of cambridge. palace officials say publishing the images was a "grotesque invasion privacy. >> reporter: n. massachusetts a huge natural gas explosion damaged more than 40 buildings and damaged 18 people. the explosion was caught on video. investigators poured through that wreckage today assessing damage and looking for clue as to what caused that explosion. the blast leveled a stripclub. police say it was lucky a day- care center next door was closed at the time. >> a bay area push to help local businesses. >>> keeping it local, how businesses across the bay area fared today on small in business saturday. ♪[ music ] >> you have heard of this song? have you heard

dandoor you have anything interesting to say that doesn't include the word "jasper"? >> dana: i do. eric knows numbers but i'm talk about gut and heart. peggy noonan noticed this. the republicans across the country gone from anti-obama to pro-mitt. you don't get the crowd, enthusiasm, the goosebump commercials. i am not deep in the weeding on numbers but i think it's important. one other thing. thing that is impressive about america this time around in the presidential cycle that is negative. we all thought during the primary that mormonism, and romney's religion would be a really big deal. the obama team hung back from that. that was at the president's direction to his credit. we had a debate about who would be the best man to lead a.m. it wasn't about their religion. >> all right. >> bob: can we talk? >> greg: yeah. go for it. >> bob: i want to point outer rick's numbers if you will, he is not going to win iowa or new hampshire. they're in the bag. it gets back to ohio. one other point here, there are three states that automatically trigger recount. colorado, pennsylvania, florida

if i get a chance to go on journey with jasper, i promise you it will be real. >> kimberly: very dramatic. >> bob: you're up. >> kimberly: i'm doing it. ♪ ♪ sorry, you just love it. this is what i was doing saturday night. i was jumping on my bed. hat on and i had no boots but anyway, i was doing this with my boy. he loves it. we're dancing. >> eric: the point is, this video -- >> kimberly: sorry. everyone watched it. 806.3 million. beat justin bieber by 2.4 million. you were dancing on your bed. >> eric: go quickly. that time of the year. favorite picture. check out the scottsdale gun club, pictures with santa and the big guns. leigh it there, save extra time for robert beckel. >> bob: i have to tell you a story. wednesday night before thanksgiving. busiest travel night of the year. i went to penn station to get on my train. what happened? everybody was ou outside because police were evacuating penn station so you had 15 to 20,000 people trying to get to jersey. you can imagine what the jerseyites said how they wanted to get home. they weren't kind about it. i said let's calm down. but t

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