hill center. sherman elementary. the francisco middle school pto. states peter and paul school. john parker elementary and garfield elementary and thank you victoria pastry cake donated the cake and make sure you eat some cake and join us for our campaign in north beach. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. we're almost there. oh, former commissioner lonnie chen. thank you lonnie for being here [ applause ] we're almost there. one more individual. she has already been mentioned. it's a perfect tribute, a capstone, julie christiansen. >> thank you >> can i get my team up here? i have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesn't really belong to me. it belongs to all of these people. who else is here from our group? come on up. who am i missing? >> the whole village, come on up. >> so we have a couple of city folks. where is greg scott? gret get up here. greg, get up here. i want to point out jill, karen. jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. we would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would

. >> reporter: kirstie and john have remained lifelong friends. now divorced from parkern this 20-room spanish mansion with her two children, 18-year-old lilly and 20-year-old drew and about 24 pets. including ten lemurs. >> you want to be hand fed. >> reporter: do you want to be married again? >> i sort of do want to be married again. i haven't met anyone that i would even really want to date, let alone marry. it has to be someone who's funny and enhances my life in a big way. >> reporter: finish this sentence for me. >> okay. >> reporter: kirstie alley is -- >> wild. >> reporter: still? >> i think i'm wild. i consider myself very eccentric and i could honestly be sitting here with you right now while there were ten cats jumping on the table and jumping on our heads, i think that's pretty eccentric. kirstie's book "the art of men" in book stores now. thanks to barbara walters and thank you for watching abc news. we hope you check in for "good morning america." they're working while you're sleeping. we're always online at abcnews.com. "jimmy kimmel live" is next.

john kerry. >> kyle from from montana. >> mark parker, jonesville, north carolina. >> that's because the supplyfore, employers can pay less. >> from florida. >> demille, do you have a spare room? unbelievable and painful. from oklahoma city, oklahoma. >> who the bleep knows, charles? it's the local authorities in new york and new jersey that are screwing up big time. instead of making sure power sources were available before the storm, they did nothing. every gas station should be required to have power backup in case of emergency. instead these people have zip. but if you want cigarettes, they have them. long island, simply chaos. little advance planning was put into place. from new south wales, australia. >> norman sheriff, sidney, australia. >> i say what else is new, norm? the liberal media is usually shocked when another media person doesn't think like they do so the labels come out. deen was the last time 60 zombies and vampire had everywhere. this is not that movie. this is a good movie. the tip of the day, you may want to check out. that's it for us. check out the fox news website from

jake gyllenhall, john cho and rob reiner, sarah jessica parker. they have meat loaf. wow, looky here, katherine archuleta, obama campaign national political director joins us now. >> caller: good morning, how are you? >> cautiously optimistic, how are you? >> caller: very excited. i just came back from meeting voters and volunteers across the country. i can tell you that they are fired up and ready to go. >> stephanie: and i'm guessing moving in a direct that would be considered forward. >> caller: yes. with an exclamation point. >> exactly. >> stephanie: i'm getting, i can just feel david axelrod run for his must stash and would not be threatening to shave it off if he was not confident. >> caller: it is david axelrod. >> stephanie: how are you guys feeling? i mean obviously i saw david on t.v. this morning. he seems very confident. obviously we've got a lot of close polls but the president's ahead in pretty much every battleground i'm seeing, correct? >> caller: correct. the exciting thing for me as the political director and having had this opportunity to do this f

parker has the story. >> reporter: it's moving day. >>> john is a marine who earned two purple hearts.oday he's being given a house. he has given much more than that. >> i remember seeing my guys, i kept blacking out. all i remember is saying i don't want to die here. i ain't going to die in this place. >> he woke up two and a half months later and learned he had been hit by an ied. he lost all four limbs. >> at first, there were very extremely rough days. i was not a pleasant person. >> but he has adjusted and today he gets his freedom thanks to the work to two foundations. >> the homes are given to him free and clear. >> the kitchen sink is mounted for him. the cabinets move. >> a lot of what's in the house is motion sensored. you step into the bathroom and the toilet seat pops up. over here you can waive in front of it and the sink turns on. >> he can run all of the electronics from an ipad. american heritage homes built the house. >> my husband fought vietnam. i have a son currently in candahar. and 19-year-old son who is looking to go into the service after college. so i see serge

john and patricia carpenter from parker, colorado, 75 years they've been married.there's a story for a musical. happy birthday and anniversary. hey, give me a point, mate. now, back to new york. >> all right. thanks. >>> coming up next, how you can make a career out of planning over-the-top wedding proposals. first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> back now at 8:37. "the proposal" is one of those important moments in life. these days more guys are popping the question in very elaborate ways. we tagged along with two proposal planners. yes, they actually exist. to see what it takes to pull off the ultimate fairy tale. >> my name is mars els garret. i just saw in her what i wanted in somebody to spend the rest of my life with. she is just a great person. she's got a great heart. she's my best friend. >> my name is sarah pease and i am a proposal planner. it's my job to plan, design, execute dream marriage proposals. >> my name is james ambler a former papparazzi photographer and now i use my skills to cap your wedding proposals. >> are you marcel? >> yes i am. >> i'm sara

in fact i spoke to budget committee member congressman john yarmouth of kentucky and senator bob parker. take a listen. >> the only way we're going to get to a solution by year end is if the president and speaker boehner come to an agreement. because i believe anything they agree to is something that will pass the senate. so it's really the house and the presiden president. >> -- is very remote. i think we're more likely to postpone the spending cuts. i think that would be disastrous for the economy. and i think we're likely to let the tax cuts expire than come back in january and cut the taxes for at least 98% of americans. >> joining me now to map out a timeline, nbc white house correspondent mike viqueira who joins me from right there in the white house. so are you getting a sense of the schedule of these events? >> reporter: the schedule is pretty much up in the air. pretty remarkable that john yarmouth, house democrat from kentucky is basically saying let's go over the cliff because we're never going to come to an agreement. the trouble is that cliff if we go over it, the congress

that's something else gla john martell noted one of the significant differences between the film and book, the film's implication that richard parkerfriends with pi. >> that's not quite my intention, though. i think richard parker represents something very complicatefor me. and they can be friend, companion in some ways. can be adversaries. it can be a reflection of himself. the way of nature. >> rose: "in the novel heremains a true tiger in there is never a notion of friendship. for the sake of the movie he's created a slight illusion of friendship. in he maintains the animal is a wild animal. it has its own rules. >> woo make very clear at the beginning and the ends of the movie that they are not friends. in the middle, it's blurred. it makes it more interesting for the movie. it makes it more interesting for me that the tiger has different dimensiones, symbolically, too. >> rose: you sauls say-- always say in my movies it's the idea not me. >> you should do the it service. >> rose: what's the big idea are you doing service to here? >> to this particular -- >> rose: yeah. >> i want to take the audience to a spiritual experience o

john and patricia carpenter from parker, colorado, 75 years they've been married.there's a story for a musical. happy birthday and anniversary. hey, give me a point, mate. now, back to new york. >> all right. thanks. >>> coming up next, how you can make a career out of planning over-the-top wedding proposals. first, this is "today" on nbc. [ female announcer ] welcome, one and all, to a tastier festive feast. so much to sip and savor. a feeding frenzy, to say the least. a turkey from safeway will have everyone raving. there's fresh, natural, frozen, whatever your craving. spend $25, and get a frozen safeway turkey for 59 cents a pound. or spend $25, and a frozen butterball turkey, just 99 cents a pound. so raise your glass, pull up a chair, grab a plate. this tastier thanksgiving is well worth the wait. safeway. ingredients for life. i am making crescent bacon cheddar pinwheels. wow, i'm impressed! [ ding ] dad, the cable's out! you got that right? [ kiss ] thank you ♪ [ male announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin. here's a better idea. pillsbury gra

fox 5's beth parker shows us what some people gave him after he gave so much in service. >> reporter: it's moving day. johnine who earned two purple hearts. today he's being given a house. he has given much more than that. >> i remember vaguely seeing my guys. i kept blacking out. all i remember is saying i don't want to die here. i ain't going to die in this place. >> reporter: he woke up 2 1/2 months later and learned he'd been hit by an ied in afghanistan. he lost all four limbs. >> at first i do admit there were very extremely rough days. i was not a pleasant person. >> reporter: but he has adjusted and today he gets his freedom thanks to the work of the gary sinise foundation and the tunnel to tower foundation. >> the home is given to him free and clear. there's no mortgage. >> reporter: the kitchen sink is mounted especially for him. the cabinets move. a lot of what's in the house is motion sensorred. for example, you step into the bathroom and the toilet seats pop up. over here you can just wave in front of it and the sink turns on. >> this is the brains of the home. >> reporter: he can run all the

john happy. what happens now? nothing. nonetheless great job by that coach urban meyer. ♪ >> that's pro vvo utah parker style. paper to spell his name. definitely an a for effort. not sure if it will get the job done. i like what they are doing to try to bring kids to byu. >> i love it. >> tried to get you guys to do your gingham style dance. >> how will rick. do you have a style, no way. >> not in public anyway. >> maybe with the whiskey notes some of that will come out. >> futures steve doocy, is that what you are saying? is that your job? >> maybe. >> you also said you are going to win the lottery. if you win the lottery you might not have to be steve doocy. those are the problems you might face if you win. >> weather maps as you wake up this morning very chilly. not that bad, could be worse certainly. better in the northern plains than it was yesterday. look on the bright side take a look at the forecast for the day today. looks similar to what you saw i didn't do yesterday. a little lake-effect snow going on. hi little break in the coastal areas. everybody else cool. get ready for tuesday a little bit of