tonight we have tom cruise on the show -- [ cheers and applause ] and tech expert joshua topolsky. [heers and applause ] yep, you heard it right, ladies -- tech expert joshua topolsky. [ cheers and applause ] that's for josh. hey, did you guys see this? facebook founder mark zuckerberg apparently went hunting, he killed a bison, nicknamed it billy, then mounted its head on a wall. then, zuckerberg was like, "anyone else want to complain about the new facebook timeline? okay, good." [ laughter ] that's right, mark zuckerberg killed a bison and mounted its head on the wall, which explains why today all my farmville animals migrated to friendster. [ laughter ] get this, guys. [ light laughter ] nothing like a good friendster joke, huh? >> steve: yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: according to a new survey, the most annoying word of 2011 was "whatever" -- [ laughter ] which is why i always go with the much less annoying option "whatevsies." in honor of christmas, a town in the uk held a reindeer race on friday night. and of course, it happened to be right when my grandma was crossing the stree

trowbridge's cell mate, joshua bean, shares the same unusual pairings of convictions.r and abuse of a corpse. he's serving 68 years. the victim was his ex-girlfriend, heather norris. >> it was a toxic relationship. it was love/hate. and i still very much love her. >> throughout the couple's three-year relationship, heather had told her family that bean was physically abusive, and even though bean faced a pending trial on domestic abuse charges at the time of heather's murder, he says he wasn't abusive. >> the whole thing was predicated on a lie. and the lie is that we had a violent relationship. >> i'm not going to say i'm not without fault, but as far as what happened with her death, worst case, voluntary manslaughter. best case, self-defense. >> bean insists the couple had an argument and heather came at him with a knife. >> i was able to get ahold of her former and try to pry the knife out of her hand, and even still, after i had the knife, she continued to come for it. that kind of caught me off guard and in the heat of the moment, i reacted. i stabbed her in the s

>> joshua beans: no. i just...d knock and make sure he was still there. >> logan: the beans brothers weren't home from iraq very long when they decided they wanted to go to afghanistan together. president obama had just announced he was sending 30,000 more troops to fight there, but the brothers' marine reserve unit in florida wasn't scheduled to deploy. so they spent the next two years searching for one that was, and found the lone star battalion in texas. the problem was, to serve with that unit, they had to come up with a story and an address in texas. >> daniel beans: ( laughs ) we... we were opening up a lawn care business in plano, texas. that was our reasoning for... for making the move. >> joshua beans: we had to... we had to have a reason to move to texas and join that unit, so... >> daniel beans: he worked the weed whacker. >> joshua beans: so i... that's what we decided we were going to do is we moved to plano, texas, which i still to this day don't know where that is. >> daniel beans: no idea. >> logan:

. >> my name is joshua coffey, but everybody calls me country. >> why do they call you country?> because i was raised in the sticks. i stole some copper from a local junkyard and the proprietor of the junkyard owed me some money, and like an idiot i stole from him instead of trying to go about it the correct way. figure i learned that lesson the wrong way. joshua coffey has served more than four years of his six-year sentence at the wabash valley correctional facility. his job in the kitchen helps him stay focused and out of trouble. >> that's crazy. i came in at 4:30 this morning and i'll leave about 5:30. so i work 13 hours. >> stacking the line! >> the reason i do it is to get out of my cell, you know, come down here, get a little freedom. you know, eat a little better. the food that they serve doesn't taste bad, but it's appeal is horrible. some of the food they serve us looks like cat food. and i'm not even joking. i swear, if you put the food that they gave us in a bowl and put a can of premium quality cat food and put it there in front of the inmate, i'm not even saying a

>> he let me know that we got dennis, we've got diane and we've got joshua, her son.y got them in custody and no one was hurt that. was very good news. >>> coming up -- three years after tim wicks goes missing, diane fruge breaks her silence. >> he told me that he gets tim up to canada, that no one will ever miss him. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c'mon, michael! get in the game! [ male announcer ] don't have the hops for hoops with your buddies? lost your appetite for romance? and your mood is on its way down. you might not just be getting older. you might have a treatable condition called low testosterone or low t. millions of men, forty-five or older, may have low t. so talk to your doctor about low t. hey, michael! [ male announcer ] and step out of the shadows. hi! how are you? [ male announcer ] learn more at isitlowt.com. [ laughs ] hey! the sleep number bed. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. you can adjust it to whatever your needs are. so whatever you feel like, t

quickly. >> very much disturbed at the outbreak >> 1 teenager 18 year-old matthew hermann who said joshua merritt is locked the door so he could not get out of the halt a recent graduate at brother rice high school charged with hate crime, unlawful restraint and misdemeanor battery a second teenager also at that school and the third a different school both charged as juvenile. pregnant and counselors for students who have been shaken up by the news. >> we had no knowledge of this fall when up as a teaching moment with our gunmen. >> even the joshua merritt says behavior not in line with the brother rice message to respect and love others. >> these people did not represent the brother rice. >> the one accused teenager a student at brother rice now be removed from the school another important note parent a cook county state's attorney employee parent lives in the home when this happened to avoid conflict of interest case for that individual student had over to illinois attorney general office. story from the newsroom back to you. >> still had another reason to keep an eye on cholesterol lev

the latest about joshua komisarjevsky and from his sentencing. .'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. >>> joshua komisarjevsky convicted in a brutal home invasion in connecticut was sentenced to death just a few hours ago. he killed jennifer hawke-petit, then tied up her two young daughters and set them on fire. dr. william petit said in court today, i lost my wife, my family, my home, my partner. for what? money. why did komisarjevsky do it? i got some insight when the murders first happened in 2007 from one of komisarjevsky's friends. >> reporter: a hint of violence, a disturbing prediction of what might come buried in this letter from prison. >> i need someone like you who knows a little bit about my past to keep me grounded in the future when my criminal demon wants to wander. >> reporter: days after the attack, we interviewed this woman who told us she was a close woman. she shared the letter he says he sent her from prison

joshua, thanks so much for answering those questions for us today. appreciate it and we will see you soon. coming up, thousand to get free pizza. meteorologist tom kierein is back with another check of when we could see some snow flurries and stay with us. nbc all afternoon long. 3:00, people's choice award winner and ellen is hanging out with the academy award winner colin firth. 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 with disabilities at 1-800-974-6006 >>> back at 11:5. it has become part of the game. officials are starting ing ing grunting crackdown in tennis. fans and even some players have complained to the world tennis asso

joshua sharfstein...is maryland's health secretary.he's also concerned with ow the board investigates "certain complaints would come and they might be reviewed by someone who had no training in that area and they would decide concerns about maryland's physician board...are aaso being voiced y some state lawmakers. (brochin) "it's not right to have a physician who has a dubious record who's still able to practice for two years because an investigator hasn't had a chance to get to chairman of maryland's board of physicians sayssin the past five years, his agency's budget has been slashed by nearly six million dollars. and when the board imposes fines on doctors that have been sanctioned, that money does not go back to the board. it goes to the state's general fund."those budget cuts...have also reduced the board's ptaff... from 85... to 73. (brochin) "if the board of physicians comes and they say ww have a backlog of two years."(brochin) "and they're doing the best they can, then we need to find room in the budget to add one more investigator or two more invvstigators or two mooe invest

as joshua parker was awarded the keys to a new honda civic.he was given the new set of wheels for winning the 2012 maryland teacher of the year award. pprker says a new car was a long time coming. "when i came into teaching i didnt have a car at all, i actually took, i was at dundalk middle school and i took two buses, one out of the city and one into the city, so i didnt have a car for about four months, so imagine all the books that i have andd papers, with no car." car."the honda civic was donated by the maryland automobile dealers association, which has been awarding brand new cars to the winning eacher for 11 years. 3 3 baltimore ravens spirit never sleeps. and thattwas proven overnight as ravens supporters painted the town purple again... with ravens logos everywhere. joel d. smith is live in fells point to show us how they did it, and what's next this playoff week. good morning joel d. 3 good morning patrice. 33 3 3 a new g-p-s app... created by microsoft... is stirring up a lot of pontroversy among drivers.it's called "avoid ghetto"... and it's purpose is to do just that... help d

the judge has officially sentenced joshua komisarjevsky to death by lethal injection.partner in crime on connecticut's death row. dr. petit left the courtroom after a five-minute recess. they didn't want to be involved in listening to whatever joshua komisarjevsky or the defense had to say. >> i want to interrupt you just for a moment here because i understand that the grandparents are speaking. the family of jennifer hawke-petit are speaking now. let's listen in. >> to stay and listen to what joshua komisarjevsky has to say. >> what did you think about that? >> we didn't listen. >> i didn't listen. thank you. >> talk a little bit about bill has been -- you said the bill we knew is gone as well. can you talk a little bit about that? i've never heard you say that before. >> well, i said it after the first trial and you would have to know bill as we knew him, you know, he's starting to come back a little bit now to what he was. he never will come all the way back, or at least i hope he does but i doubt that he can. he's just -- to know bill, the brilliant young doctor th

two, a judge sentenced joshua komisarjevsky to death. he said quote i did not rape, pour that gas or light that fire. he was convicted of killing two, a judge sentenced joshua komisarjevsky to death. he said quote i did not rape, pour that gas or light that fire. he was convicted of killing william pettitte's wife and two daughters before setting their house on fire. dr. pettitte was the sole survivor. number three, proctor and gamble announced its quarterly profit fell 49% last year. there were some one-time charges that hurts company. if you take those out, the company did better than wall street was looking for and p and g cut its outlook for the quarter because of a higher tax rate. four, the u.s. economy grew by 2.8% in the last three months of last year. now, that was weaker than expected. they were looking for 3%. now, there was a pick-up in consumer spending, but it wasn't as much as people were looking for and the cut in defense spending hurt gdp in the quarter. nigel gault tells us the data does not show the recovery taking off

in 2007, joshua and an accomplice raped and tortured the family and set the house on fire. survived the attack, steven hays is also on death row. >>> demi moore's 9-1-1 call. >> tell me exactly what happened there. >> okay, she smoked something. it's not marijuana. but it's similar to incense. and she seems to be having convulsions of some sort. >> a friend's call for help reveals demi was having trouble breathing on monday. >> is she awake? >> semiconscious. barely. >> the 49-year-old actress went to the hospital immediately. she >> she's been taking things because there's been stuff recently that we're all just finding. >> the roughly 10 minute call doesn't mention what the other stuff might be, but moore didn't intend to hurt herself. >> accident or intentional? >> she smoked something on purpose but the reaction was accidental. >> she was treated for exhaustion but no comment on the 9-1-1 call. mary, wjz, eyewitness news. >> us magazine, dropped out of playing in the upcoming movie. >>> a gun toting florida grandmother helped police catch a criminal. she heard a police

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this is illustrated beautifully in the book of joshua. when the exodus ends and the entire people of israel crosses the jordan river into a new state. to answer your other question about why water and why division, i think that we really can, from ancient traditions, bring this tradition, yes, the river can divide, but also, it can be an incredible place of connection. in that sense, i recommend in the book that people in the region have more contact with the river, they're more involved with its state. right now, the lower jordan river is at 2% of the historic flow. 98% of the river is being diverted. this shall it couldn't be a better time to bring people's attention to the marvelous traditions that surround the river and how it really can be a place where jews, christians and muslims can rally together to save the precious resource. >> we live in a part of the country where we're sensitive to the use of language. when it comes to the issues of the middle east. we use the word state, are you talking about the ecological status? >> exact

joshua of ucla studied the impact of alzheimer's in california. >> this will grow in the next twentyears and now is the time to act. not when it's even worse than it is now. >> the daily's have been married for 48 years. he is frustrated by the lack of progress, but isn't ready to let go. >> i can't lose him. i pray to god that she goes before me. >> a top priority will be arming doctors with tools to recognize symptoms early. the idea is to go after prevention like with heart disease. if you wait until someone had five heart attacks, it may be way too late. if you give these medications early, maybe some of the drugs that seem to be ineffective will end up helping patients now. dr. john, cbs news, new york. >> where there are gadgets, there are always electric charges. the california energy commission voted last week pho approve new efficiency standards for 170 million charging systems. so-called vampire chargers can waste up to 60% of the electricity. the regulations are expected to save more than $300 million annually. residential and commercial electricity bills. >> the amount of

joshua said, in joshua 14, verse 11, i'm 85 years old now, i'm stronger today than when moses sent mears ago. e.d., this is the one that makes it work. renew your mind daily. romans 12:2, be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. jesus said in matthew 4:4, man shall not live by bread alone by every word that comes from the mouth of god. my word is the light to your feet and a light to your path. this is the most awesome presentation, e.d., and any of you listeners, viewers want to come and hear this room, give me a call at jerryandersonchristianspeaker. com. this is going to be awesome. e.d., you know what, god loves you and i do, too. and you can't do nothing about it. happy new year. >> jerry, thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> go to our belief blog at cnn.com/belief. you can also share your thoughts there. >>> religion and the 2012 presidential vote, evangelical christians may hold the key to the first contest but why? we'll break that down, next. [ mom ] scooter? your father loves your new progresso rich & hearty steak burger soup. [ dad

not only did it end the cycle from joshua, it ended -- [chime] supervisor campos: -- president chiu: thank you, next speaker. >> i would like to talk about the branch library, which the library wants to remove and replace with a replacement that someone close to the original call a sanitized, gentrified product. this is a historical, multicultural community-created merrill that features a world- famous chili and singer- songwriter -- chilean singer- songwriter and an african american songwriter who is not named on the building. at the time this was originally discussed in august of 2009 at the library commission, the work a lot of individuals and groups who supported saving and refreshing all of the merrill, or at this the front, which features the singers i have referred to. the mural also honors working women and the neighborhood. those who support the preservation of a least one side, and in many cases all three, included david campos, mr. amiano, presidio heights muralists, the neighborhood association, a professor, and more. the compromise of august "was abandoned without a word

joshua studied the impact of alzheimer's in california. >> this is a crisis that is only going to grow in the next twenty years and now it's a time to act. not when it's even worse than it is now. >> the dailies have been married for almost 48 years. he is frustrated by the lack of progress, but isn't ready to let go. >> it's very difficult. i can't lose him. i pray to god that she goes before me. >> a top priority will be arming doctors with tools to recognize symptoms early. the idea is to go after prevention. if you wait until somebody had five heart attacks before giving them lipitor may be too late and the same may be said about alzheimer's disease. maybe some that seem ineffective may end up helping patients now. >>> where there's gadgets, there's bound to be an electric charger of some type. tough new state rules could force those devices to become less wasteful. approve new efficiency standards for 170 million charging systemming. so-called vampire chargers can waste up to 60% of the electricity that they consume. the new regulations are expected to save about $300 million annu

the jury had earlier recommended death for joshua komisarjevsky who blamed his accomplice for most of the crime. addressing the court about his heartbreaking loss of his own wife and daughters, dr. william petit says evil does live among us and we need to rid the world of it. >>> the company that owns the costa concordia is looking to cut a deal with passengers who were forced to abandon ship before it capsized off the coast of italy, looking to lessen the wave of class action lawsuits that are likely headed its way, the company is offering passengers a $14,000 settlement right now, in addition to a refund plus travel expenses. as you can imagine, a lot of passengers decided to take a pass on accepting the deal. >>> overseas tonight, a dramatic surge of violence in syria. government forces there have killed more than 70 people since thursday. reportedly including women and children, including what's being called the slaughter of at least one entire family. making the last 48 hours among the bloodiest in the ten-month uprising in syria. the death toll so far since last march, more than

her recent book with joshua rosner on crony capitalism at fannie mae is called "reckless endangerment how outsized ambition, greed and corruption led to economic armageddon." welcome. >> thanks, bill. >> you just heard david stockman say it could happen again. do you think it could happen again? >> it will happen again and the unfortunate fact is we did not fix the problem. the dodd-frank legislation which was supposed to be the fix-it for the enormous crisis that erupted in 2008 failed in so many ways to really address the major issues, the most important being too big to fail, did virtually nothing to cut these big and impossible to manage banks down to size. but there are other elements to the dodd-frank law that i think are also problematic. now we have hundreds of rules being written by the regulators, and although it might make sense that they know what they're doing a little bit more than maybe your, you know, average lawmaker, what it did was it gave the financial services industry two bites at the apple. they can lobby their lawmaker when dodd-frank is being written and now t

while the am of the russian capital you're watching r t joshua welcome to the program the syrian leadership has rejected the arab league's transition plan aimed at curbing violence in the country that's according to syrian state t.v. the authorities say it doesn't reflect the will of the people and violates the country's sovereignty or the surfer as reports on what exactly the regime of jack's two. but it's not for civilization that's for heavy guns crazy to be satisfied safe side that is the conclusion of the report by the arab league monitors.

reporter: montgomery county superintendent joshua starr now hopes to pry loose at least 40 million more from the state to keep the renovation program on track next year. >> we have 2,500 new kids coming in and it's important they have the facilities they need to meet that growth. reporter: an appeal is underway. >> it costs about 25% less to build a be now than five years ago and we want to take advantage of the market forces right now. >> pretty spiffy. there were ribbon cutting on seven locks elementally and camden road elementary as well. that is our report. i'll be back tonight at 11:00 with meteorologist topper shutt and log on any time to www.wusa9.com or follow us on facebook. see you later tonight. >>> now, "entertainment tonight," the most watched entertainment newsmagazine in the world. >>> george clooney. the oscars can wait. hollywood's most glamorous couple is on the red carpet tonight. >> we're behind the scenes as george walks arm in arm with fellow oscar nominee vola davis. >>> then, new brad pitt taking his son pax for a ride. >>> and did justin timberlake and jessica b

a day out of the russian capital you're watching r t would be read in joshua today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news the arab league's fact finding mission in syria is waiting for the green light to continue its monitoring antibodies for another month the decision is due to come later on sunday as the observers report comes under scrutiny at the leaves gathering and cairo that's a bit harsh. this isn't from opposition groups which say the observer mission has failed to curb bloodshed the latest flare up at least fourteen people have reportedly been killed in a roadside bomb attack on a van carrying prisoners in the northwest of the country are just there for us to join the observers as the visited a town near the syrian capital damascus now from.

his name is joshua. >> [speaking spanish] >> i was one of the mothers that was not agreeing to the changes that were taking place at the school at the beginning. >> [speaking spanish] >> because of that, i have been involved in a lot of the meetings and participating. now we have a person who is an intermediary and is helping us to resolve a lot of our doubts and differences. >> [speaking spanish] >> i respect all of the parents that have said that the case has been mistreated, but i cannot witness -- i cannot say that i have seen what has happened. because i have never seen anything. all i have hat -- all i've heard is their complaints. >> [speaking spanish] >> at the same time, i am asking each one of those parents to please get involved in the meetings and to participate. there is much to learn. there are programs that have talked us to measure so that we with more clarity some of the points we have been ignoring. >> [speaking spanish] >> please, i want to call everybody to stop this now. we are adults. we can resolve our differences in different ways. i notice has turned into almost a

joshua pearl brought his daughter with leukemia. >> she has never been able to go sailing on the bay so it made her really happy. >> reporter: students like this 13-year-old ana hernandez learn new skills. >> i can actually say that i know how to sail and how to manage a sailboat. yeah. so it's pretty cool. >> reporter: for captain richard, a former professional photographer, deciding to lead the volunteer expeditions was easy. >> my whole childhood was on boats and i know what that can mean to a child to get out there, the adventure, you know, getting the love for the sea and the marine life. >> reporter: he spent more than a dozen years sailing similar journeys with thousands of kids for the pegasys project in berkeley. now he is launching his own nonprofit, spirit of the sea. a representative of the berkeley boosters police activities league says he makes a difference. >> he really relates to the kids well. he has great stories to share with them. he has so many years of experience on the water. he's just very passionate about it and the kids get that. >> reporter: right now, he t

teenagers dallen morgan and joshua hoggan are no in custody.hey planned to bomb an assembly at their school. >> they prepared an escape plan that included stealing a plane from a local airport. they learned how to fly that plane using flight simulator software. police and students taking it very seriously. >> this was not idle chatter. that was early on recognized that there was significant thought, there was significant purpose. >> i'm terrified to be here at school right now. i have a lot to live for. i don't want to die at school. >> one of the boys told investigators he's so fascinated by the columbine attack, he even visited that school. searches have turned up no explosives so far. >>> police have released a 911 call from a hostage situation at a suburban mcdonald's in cleveland. the operator knew it was serious when she asked the manager there. >> can you see a gun on her, mickey? >> um -- it's in my back. >> it's on your back? >> yes. >> the manager was not hurt. the woman who says she was mentally ill is now in stable condition after b

time for my first 5 photo of the day >> you guys know who this is, joshua everybody. >> how cute. >>iday card to me. could be a holiday card. >> official report tony this is joshua's first official sled ride. >> really. >> maybe it was take than weekend when we picked up that whopping 1.2 inches of snow >> i saw folks out there. >> you had to we haven't had much else out there >> maybe it is safer. >> pull it off but he looks cute as can be and looks like he is having a great time. >> i love that sock monkey hat too. he is so cute. >> nice and bundled up. looks nice and warm in that big jacket. >> cheeks all rosie he is cute. >> got a little blanket too. >> joshua i hope you had a wonderful time in the snow and enjoyed your first sled ride to send us your child's picture go to myfoxdc.com click on mornings we have a lot of kids out there looking for more snow none in the forecast today, much like yesterday, today we will feature, warm temperatures highs won't be as warm as yesterday, upper 40s afternoon highs, currently 37 washington spin around the country buffalo 29, nothing too ex

it is ten am in the russian capital you watching r t with me marina joshua welcomed the arab league's monitoring mission in. syria has been suspended due to a sharp rise in violence opposition activists suggest that over two hundred people have been killed in the past four days across the country syria's state t.v. has reported that damascus regrets the league's decision saying it may result in more bloodshed and for military intervention that's as the u.n. security council is set to discuss a new resolution on syria calling for regime change and warning of further action if damascus fails to comply russia has opposed the document saying it can be used as a basis to solve the situation on top of this the e.u. imposed yet more sanctions against syria this week to further pressure the president now that the servers mission has been frozen people are preparing for the worst as artie's correspondent sara furth reports. over the last few weeks we've accompanied the observers on many of their excursions into some of the country's most restive areas here this prison on the outskirts of damas

instead of the rest kapil you watching r t with joshua welcome to the program the global have to visit the group anonymous has hit some of the most prominent websites in the us including those of the white house the f.b.i. and the ministry of justice major film and music companies have also been targeted the attacks come in retaliation to federal raid on the massive file sharing service . which has around fifty million daily users the website his bosses have been arrested and are now facing prison sentences the move comes hot on the heels of a mass blackout of thousands of websites including pedia in protest against controversial new web control laws washington hopes the bills will be approved by lawmakers to curb illegal downloading and protect copyright but critics say this will lead to censorship of the internet berry brown has worked with anonymous on various operations before says the latest hacker attacks are.