see you tonight on late-night actor jay leno. -- after jay leno. >> washington is still alive.hance to extend his winning streak to four games. offensively fell apart in the fourth quarter. part of his natural demeanor, which some people in baltimore cannot appreciate. >> he is a competitor. it is interesting for those of us who are around him to sit back and see sometimes the perception of him. but when you are around him, you know the other part of joe. you know the fire that burns inside. you know the competitor he is. >> a comfortable life for the broncos. denver up in the fourth quarter. it is now a 26-13. it looks like the broncos will get the win and then come to baltimore well-rested. denver will have won eight games in a row. peyton manning has made a difference. a. j. francis nano preps for a possible nfl career. grilling a day on hanna be a pro, the conservation -- you see the blueprint led up by some many who came before him. francis very excited about this possibility. the heat made big headlines on tuesday. assuming they just believed to the wizards would lay down

and jay leno sees the light. >> this is very dangerous for the white house if they should start asking real questions. >> jon: on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist, cal thomas. jim pinkerton, contributor. and kirsten powers. >> jon: i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. ambassador susan rice asked for a face-to-face meeting with some of her most focal critics to make things better. the meeting took place and appears to have made things worse. >> rice herself asked for the meeting, but the effort to smooth things over didn't exactly work. >> for the first time she acknowledged her comments were wrong. >> susan rice has been depi depicted from everything as a thrown under the bus sacraficial lamb to a willing political accomplice. >> and ambassador susan rice meeting on capitol hill with some of her critics, how she wrongly characterized the attacks in benghazi on september 11th and as reported, the meeting did not clear things up. >> we are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get.

tell me 10 minutes a weekho going to destroy your whole career, i'm not buying that all i say to jay leno is do whatin was done for you. that's all. and now jay used to come on every five to six weeks on the letterman show. i got him on the merv griffin show a billion times. that's what happened. it doesn't hurt you if you bring on the new guy because you want to see somebody knew. when johnny carson was the host. we didn't know johnny carson. high exsoughted vatican leader. when jay leno took over, it was one of us. and wen said okay, our guy is is in. yea! and it would be like bill closinggetting in and the door to james carville. >> bill: you were down in the -- i didn't see you though. you were in tampa. >> we couldn't get on the floor and get press passes. >> bill: they wouldn't let you in because you would mock them. >> i didn't realize that was their objection. >> bill: why should we let this guy in he is going to mock us? >>is the dnc put us up this is true in south carolina. >> bill: you took their money. >> they did not allow us to be -- they wouldn't even put us in a hotel in s

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and jay leno sees the light. >> this is very dangerous for the white house if they should start askingquestions. >> jon: on the panel this week, writer and fox news contributor judy miller. syndicated columnist, cal thomas. jim pinkerton, contributor. and kirsten powers. >> jon: i'm jon scott, fox news watch is on right now. ambassador susan rice asked for a face-to-face meeting with some of her most focal critics to make things better. the meeting took place and appears to have made things worse. >> rice herself asked for the meeting, but the effort to smooth things over didn't exactly work. >> for the first time she acknowledged her comments were wrong. >> susan rice has been depi depicted from everything as a thrown under the bus sacraficial lamb to a willing political accomplice. >> and ambassador susan rice meeting on capitol hill with some of her critics, how she wrongly characterized the attacks in benghazi on september 11th and as reported, the meeting did not clear things up. >> we are significantly troubled by many of the answers that we got and some that we didn't get. >> i'

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general" but i shared with him when i took my seat on the board of supervisors i got a call from jay leno. true story. he called me to congratulate me on my public office and glad to know that other lenos were fairing well and asked if we had family in common and he laughed when i said i was part of his russian jewish part of the family so i left it with that. this is particularly appropriate to do this in san francisco and san francisco is a italian city and always has been and will be and to get things going i have seen you put in some years of service in telea eve and familiar with israel's politics you can get into san francisco's politics and i brought this and i know senator will say something as well and we want to congratulate you and all of our italian american community as we kickoff the year of italian culture in the united states and we look forward to joining hands with you to make it as successful as possible. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> all right. and please consider me one of "us". >> thank you very much. and bona tale. i asked senator leno how do you think they

and the heisman winner was on with jay leno last night. >>> just ahead, the voice tribute you're goingo want to hear. >>> plus, business at newtown florists is busier than ever. but it's not about the business. it's really about the community. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this tuesday morning. heavy rain moving through new england is one of the big weather stories this morning. again, the only areas that will deal with snow, higher elevations in northern portions of maine. everybody else gets soaked. psychiatry resorts are getting rain, not what they needed before the big holiday break. the other story that will happen later today into tonight, snowstorms through the mountains of utah, colorado, then is looks like wednesday night into thursday, a priben of heavy snow through the center of omaha, lincoln, des moines, ames, madison, green bay. chicago, you look to be too warm, rainy for you. minneapolis, you're on the edge of the snow. heaviest to your south and east. the forecast for today, the rainy weather in the east will be exiting throughout the day. south, no

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. >> newt gingrich telling jay leno about his novel approach to fiscal cliff, one i heartily endorse. former speaker of the house is familiar with economic crises, his battle with president clinton twice led to government shut-downs. his new book is "victory at yorktown." he joins me now. welcome, mr. speaker. i thoroughly enjoyed your suggestion for a drinking game, fiscal cliff. trouble is if you had it for every time that phrase got mentioned we would all be paralytic by midday. >> think how much less worried we'd be. >> you are the perfect guy to talk about this, because i'm getting increasingly fed up, bored, miserable with the whole thing. i wake up in the morning with fiscal cliff reverberating in my brain and i can see politicians playing the very game that you alluded to there on jay leno and it is a game for them but for other people, it's a very real thing. and the economy at the moment is completely stagnant waiting for something to happen. you've been in a position of very negative government shutdown with president clinton and a very positive, where you and he in the sec

been a nice snow stand which -- it has been a nice snow s >> announcer: it's "the tonight show with jay leno," featuring rickey minor and "the tonight show" band. tonight, jay welcomes -- matt damon, from the new movie, "zero dark thirty," chris pratt,

and the heisman winner was on with jay leno last night. he said he hopes to keep the heisman trophy next to his bed. >>> now for another look of the weather, here is bill karins with the weather channel forecast. i guess that football made the former president feel a bit better. >> thank goodness i didn't watch that jets game last night. that was ugly. good morning. talking about ugly, rain this morning covering the map all through new england. give yourself extra time, providence, hartford, boston, all areas along the mass pike. even new hampshire and vermont, rare that you are getting a soaking rain in the middle of the night this time of year. but there's no cold air around. only the mountainous areas of maine will get snow out of this. today's forecast, we already cleared out the rain. we should get sunshine in here. it will be a warm day before that cold front moves through. temperatures in the 50s, near 60. the warmest day for a long time. even in new england, we will be watching the rain exiting during the day. the next storm is on

general" but i shared with him when i took my seat on the board of supervisors i got a call from jay leno. true story. he called me to congratulate me on my public office and glad to know that other lenos were fairing well and asked if we had family in common and he laughed when i said i was part of his russian jewish part of the family so i left it with that. this is particularly appropriate to do this in san francisco and san francisco is a italian city and always has been and will be and to get things going i have seen you put in some years of service in telea eve and familiar with israel's politics you can get into san francisco's politics and i brought this

and given to the first facebook fans who asked for th >> announcer: it's "the tonight show with jay lenoturing rickey minor and "the tonight show" band. tonight, jay welcomes -- from "the o'reilly factor." bill o'reilly,

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. >> and now, reports say nbc could be looking to replace jay leno with its own late, late comedy guyfallon. leno's current deal expires in 2013. >> the move to a younger host is meant to attract viewers in the vitally important 18-year-old to 49-year-old age group. let's hope it was handled better than the leno/conan situation a while back. >> we can hope. >>> finally, the christmas tree that was a little too big for the house. or was it? take a look. at first glance, it sure looks like the tree went straight through the roof of that home in seattle. >> in reality, the homeowner cut the top of the tree off and used some extra roofing material to create the illusion. the whole thing is bolted to the roof, after a first attempt was blown off by some strong winds. >> i love it. >> give him points for creativity. that's pretty cool. >> i love it. i want to do that. >> you want to do that? >> i may try. >> i like this time of year. folks get creative with the decorations. i like that. well done. >>> well, for some of you, your local news is next. >> for everyone else, don't go far. "ameri

tavis: that was jay leno with that blue dress you had on. >> oh, please. tavis: that wasn't me. >> oh, come on. tavis: by the way, why do i get all black and jay got like blue and flowing? >> i wore something very -- tavis: it's very nice. i mean, you're always hot, you're always hot, but jay -- >> i didn't come here to -- i know, i'm wearing a -- tavis: you didn't answer my question. why did jay get all this and i get this? what's up with that? >> because this is a serious conversation and that is -- tavis: send this tape to jay. i do serious conversations. >> well, you do. tavis: yeah. >> and you know what? something tells me he'd love to be sitting in your seat. no, i'm serious. tavis: he makes a lot more cash, a whole lot of cash. >> it's so not about the cash, though. tavis: oh, yes, it is. >> no, it's not. tavis: oh, yes, it is. [laughter] >> no, it's not. at this point in your life and this point in my life, it's not about the cash. it's got to be about something else, it's got to be. if it isn't, i can tell you right now, the first book i wrote, the

was honored to perform in front of the american soldiers and that included an appearance on the jay leno show specifically for u.s. troops and said in his final statement i hope they can accept my apology. >> he was slated to perform for president obama . that is probably unlikely now, uma and the petition to rescind that invitation is submitted on the white house website. we'll see what happened there. losing a lot of fan united states. >> absolutely with those comments he will lose fans. >> still to come, we have a real treat. a live one on one with reverend franklin graham . make sure no child is forgotten especially at christmas. ? the financial advisor gives his take on the looming fiscal cliff. >> the president will want it and get it and win the battle on the higher tax rates on upper income people. >> art lafferks r said the gop still has more cards to play in their hand. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. welcome back everybody. help is on the way for hurricane sandy vi

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late night host jay leno could be out by nbc late late guy jimmy fallon. he would move to the coveted tonight show spot when his contract expires in 20014. >> and now your starting lineup. your top sports stories. ryan sacking mark sanchez as the starting quarterback as the jets. here's a shocker ryan will not be starting tim tebow. greg mcelroy got the nod. teeb bow will ask to be traded or released if mcelroy starts the last two games. texas a&m quarterback named the college football player of the year. the hides man winner is the first freshman to win the award. victor cruise paying respects to his biggest man. m he visited the family of jack pinto one day after the shooting victim was buried in cruz' victory. mu he tweeted much love to the family, i am sorry for your loss, looking throuat life thro different lens. >>> several companies have been funded by you the tax payer under the investigation. they are ore charging to get more of your tax dollar. >> a storm so strong it knocked a cargo train right off its tracks. copd makes it hard to breathe, but

one more thing, by the way, to go back to jay leno, i think jay missed the story that we had here onyears of the mayan calendar. so we're good for 8,000 years and ten days. >> good. >> they found the rest. >> relieved. i don't have to check things off the bucket list. chad, thank you. >>> former president jimmy carter weighing in on global warming. >> we need to have consistency in america in committing ourselves to preserving environment, protecting us from global warming, which is real, and we also need to have leadership coming from the white house every day saying we need to do something about global warming. >> his message to president obama, up next.ssive di ct and or car insue companies? yes. but you're progressive, and they're them. yes. but they're here. yes. are you...? there? yes. no. are you them? i'm me. but those rates are for... them. so them are here. yes! you want to run through it again? no, i'm good. you got it? yes. rates for us and them -- now that's progressive. call or click today. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth i

york daily news" suggesting that folks over at nbc are looking for perhaps a way to either push jay lenoight show" or at the very least make plans when his contract is up in 2014, suggesting that jimmy fallon will take over "the tonight show," and this is based upon calls from various talent agents who handle the behind the scenes dirt. >> he's not giving up that spot. >> he's tough to kill. his $15 million a year deal expires in 2014. so basically what you're watching is this push to getting younger viewers. maybe this is nbc's way of competing with kimmel by putting fallon on at that same time slot to replace jay or after jay leaves in 2014, if he leaves. but it's a long understanding in the industry that leno would not step down until dave letterman steps down. and letterman is under contract until 2014. who knows how it will play out. but nbc shuffling that late night deck. we know how the last time went with conan. hopefully lessons learned over there at the peacock network. >>> talking about money, mark zuckerberg is planning a large gift to charity. get this, he's going to donate

do you anticipate beating jay leno at least? taking him down?s the game plan? >> jimmy: i really don't know. i have no idea. >> that's great. you're going places. >> jimmy: i want to ask you, this is your moment, your hour here and i want to ask you about your -- whenever there is a disaster, in times of strife -- >> everywhere i work, in radio i worked in toilet holes, the worst radio stations, lowest radio stations, lowest rated. there would be four rock stations in town and i would be on the lowest rated one. i would go to parties and people would say, what do you do for a living? i'd sigh -- i'd say i'm on the radio. they would never know. i always -- no one hired me who was number one. and even when i got to sirius, at first advertising budget, then it went away. it occurred to me, only way to get publicity is to have morons go out, like during disasters. like during this horrible hurricane, people are losing their lives. some guy gets up there, doing standup on fox 5 and he's like, yes we're here in the middle of the hurricane, thousands h

last night he told jay leno about an awkward bill clinton encounter he witnessed at a party back in the '90s. someone brought up "primary colors," that movie that gave a morally challenged portrait of clinton, and damon remembers clinton's response about the actor who refused to play him in the movie. >> in pausing he goes, you know, i understand they offered that part to tom hanks. tom hanks turned it down. he said it was disrespectful to the office of the president of the united states of america. i like tom hanks. >> now we know how clinton tells you what he feels about someone else. >>> next, a lot of republicans are still trying to figure out how to win elections. one idea, broaden your base to attract more voters. another possibility, keep talking up voter photo i.d. laws and trying to prevent democrats from casting a ballot. enter republican campaign consultant scott tranter. here he is at a panel discussion yesterday talking about why democrats and republicans will never agree about voter i.d. laws. >> i don't hold out any hope there's going to be any great grand bipartisan agre

just over two weeks jimmy kimmel moving his time slot from midnight to 11:35 putting him up against jay leno letterman. jimmy says the time slot will be the only change. >> i don't know we have a new plan. it's going to be the same show but we're going call things new. and then, maybe people will, who haven't been paying attention will they they're new. >> it moves to 11:pa january 8th here on abc. for hottest entertainment headlines like on the red carpet on facebook, or follow us on twitter. >> and looking more and more like there will be no professional hockey this year talking about going over the edge of a fiscal cliff over the ice and into the abyss. national hockey league wiped hout all games through mid january, now almost half of the season, gone. the owners locked out players, far apart from any sort of meaningful agreement at this point. in 2004, nhl became the only pro sports league to cancel the season because of a labor dispute. can't believe goitsing to happen again. >> when a shame. >> yes. >> still ahead on abc 7 news at 4:00 nation's largest medical marijuana dispensary fig

first as we go to break let's take a look at the "tonight show" with jay leno. >> new census deal. they drop illegal immigration from america for the first time in over a decade. sure now that we stopped making twinkies nobody wants to come here. of course not. ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. look this isn't my first christmas. these deals all seem great at the time... but later... [ shirt ] merry christmas, everybody! not so much. ho ho ho! this isn't that kind of deal. [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex office. mel greig. >> they legalized marijuana after a constitutional amendment. they are not allowed to smoke it in public. it is illegal to buy or sell it. the archaeologist who discovered tight tation says the blood did happen. they support the theory the black sea was fresh water lake over run by a wall of water from the rising m

. >> and bill o'reilly sits down with jay leno. we'll show you the highlights from the late night gab fest. caution, you where to internet no spin zone. the factor begins right now. >> hi everywhere, i'm laura ingraham in for bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. g.o.p. and post election blues. that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo many believe the president has the upper hand in the fiscal cliff negotiations. if we gopher 00 cliff republicans think they will get most of the blame. if they give in to tax hikes conservatives believe they will infuriate their base. senator rand paul even believes that since they have such little leverage in the talks of president obama. well, republicans should just get out of the way and let the democrats raise taxes as much as they want. and then let the president take responsibility for party of high taxes. now can i understand senator paul's thinking especially given the fact that the president has already announced ahead of his mano a mano meeting can john boehner tha

and he said he had been upstairs one night walking jay leno and heard somebody breaking in so he ran downstairs with a shotgun and this guy was heavily armed with a gun and a whole arsenal so he runs downstairs, shoots at the guy threw the door and doesn't hit him and he said he intentionally shot low, didn't want to kill him and called the police, took them four hours to get there. when they arrived the first thing was next time aim higher. it is very dark but also a better way of illustrating the severity of what is going on. >> let's talk about club thunderbolts. this came up on the web channel you have with us today, so i figured -- [talking over each other] >> john carlisle, one of the first people i met when i initially came here, to report on the auto show and the auto industry for rolling stone. i did not know it was going to be a book so i started poking around in local blogs and i found his blog and loved him. so i e-mail him and he wrote back right away, showing me around for that story and we became friends and when i moved here we would occasionally go out and i found th

then my dad took me aside and said, on, you better not kill jay leno.oing to get kind of a jolt from this. do you think you can handle it? do you have any health issues i need to know about? he said, well, i pulled 7.3 gs with the blue angels. >> so you worked with the department of defense and nasa for 25 years, had above top secret clearance. you hold five degrees. optical science, engineering, physics, aerospace engineers, astronomy and electrical engineering and are currently completing a second ph.d. in engineering. >> i completed that. >> you're a showoff, let me say that. you're a showoff. >> why this show with all of these degrees? >> well, that's a really good question. i was talking to my family about doing this show, the idea was we want to get the next generation interested in science and math again. we want to get the kids back into it seeing that it's cool. so we can have that next generation of people like neil armstrong. >> the term "redneck" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people and they're not always nice. but yo

there was one sole protester out in front of the kennedy center jay leno.had a big sign saying what about me? why dave? what about me? we will tell you more about the kennedy center honors and a lot more. let's get the latest. today's current day's update lease a ferguson standing buy in los angeles. hey, good monday morning, lease a. >> hey, bill. good morning, everyone. happy monday. hope y'all had a good weekend. the president gets to take a little bit of a break from the fiscal cliff today. he got that around 11 eastern last night after hosting reception for the ken see center awardees. it celebrates talent in art and music. the recipients included david letterman, dustin hoffman and the surviving members of led zeppelin. the president is the addressing defense issues nationally and globally. he told boyko borisov, they talk plan on talking about leadership in nato as well as involvement with the international security assistance force in afghanistan. the president will speak at the cooperative stlet reduction symposium at the national defense universit