to every other through kevin bacon.he science came from a 1967 study where researchers asked volunteers to try to send a postcard to a person they didn't know. it took six jumps before it arrived by mail. but that was back when there were postcards. six degrees is getting a makeover, all thanks to social media. a new study finds that on facebook, we're getting closer. connected by an average of 4.74 friends. what does that mean for society? kevin bacon was not available for comment -- we actually tried -- so, in lieu of that, we'll connect bacon to another pork-related celebrity. miss piggy is in "the muppets" with amy adams, who was in "julie and julia" with meryl streep who starred with kevin bacon in "the river wild." just four jumps. in that spirit justin bieber, hu jintao, kevin bacon, nick jonas and miss piggy should all link hands and sing the old disney favorite -- ♪ it's a small world after all >> reporter: it is a small and ever smaller world after all. john berman, abc news, new york. >> and now they're all o

i have my own four degrees of separation between me and kevin bacon.en here at fox, arguably we are only one degree removed. even though i've never been in a movie. do you have a degree of separation? email us at kelly@foxnews.com. students are pitching tents and reclaiming their post near the site where campus police used pepper spray on a group of occupy protestors at uc davis, and hours after the police chief was placed on administrative leave. trace gallagher has more. >> reporter: the tents are back, they are not as plentiful as they were. a lot of the students instead of pitching their tents they are bringing sleeping bags and calling this thing a pajama party, but they are still calling for the chancellor to resign, because they say they do not feel safe with her as the chancellor of that university. i want to show you some more pictures of this actual pepper spray to give you context. it's important not to show the video over and over. this thing happened a while. they were on scene for several minutes. we froze this video. you can see police s

but no comment yet from our main man kevin bacon. don't know how i made it to 4:00 on east without knowing that information prior to this moment. that's it for us today. down 50 today better than the 100 we were down yesterday and next week we will be better. it is friday for us, so we are thinking energy your turkey and your family and all that stuff and we will be

us through six degrees of relationships, somehow can find a friendship back to kevin bacon. facebook says -- now researchers are on the facebook data team say everyone on facebook is separated by 4.74 degrees of separation. we did a little research. i myself am friends with one of our producer's jessica. jessica is friends with an abc producer who is friends with juju chang, on "good morning america" friends with diana egron from "glee" pla." here's another one, myself friends with jessica our producer friends with franklin witherspoon from the atlanta falcons friends with jeremy macklin a wide receiver for the philadelphia egles. >> basically if you have your privacy setting to friends of friends to view your profile, everyone could view your profile. >> this freaks you out and scares you. >> makes you want to hide some of my pictures. >> what do you have on facebook? >> nothing. >> i see her page. nothing on there to hide. >> it's a day ahead of thanksgiving and i just wanted to share some things about turkey, particularly how much they like to sing and how much they like

of course, it evolved into a game to link random movie stars to kevin bacon.working study ever. they report we are all friending each other more than ever before. so instead of people having 6 degrees of separation it's now fewer than a. 4.74 to be exact. facebook, thank you. a woman paulk walks out of her living room before a car crashes through the wall. that tops our news across america. >> arizona. the phoenix homeowner says she had just gone into her kitchen when she heard a loud crash. that's when she found a taxicab parked way inside her house. >> i'm thankful that i'm still here and that no one else was in the house. >> shepard: police say a second car hit that cab sending it into the home. nobody hurt. ohio. police say a worker at a big boy restaurant in west toledo contaminated two pots of coffee by pouring animal medication into them. cops say another worker saw him do it. a restaurant spokesman says no customers were in danger. a local paper reports the guy claims he was delewded at the time. north carolina. more than 70 firefighters tackling massi

. >> assume the position. [ laughter ] >> what a great moment for kevin bacon? ow! [ laughter ] >> bill: all right. both got that right. question number four, it was widely reported that president kennedy while in office had an affair with marilyn monroe ♪ happy birth, mr. president ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you. >> bill: excellent rendition. don't know if i want that in my kids' birthday card. his father a hit with at hollywood crowd. he had a lengthy afiaf l affair with which actress? >> bill: who was he messing around with? that is correct. gloria swanson. so we know all the tabloid stuff but the important stuff we're not quite sure of. >> right. >>> doocy leads by one. this is it. question number five, ted kennedy got a slap on the wrist despite actions around the death of mary kopechene. >> i made repeated efforts by diving into the current and succeeded only in increasing my fate of iter exhaustion and alarm. >> bill: skeptical of that. some other women had been at the party the night of the accident were workers on whose political campaign? >> bill: cards up

. >> assume the position. [ laughter ] >> what a great moment for kevin bacon? ] >> bill: all right. both got that right. question number four, it was widely reported that president kennedy while in office had an affair with marilyn monroe ♪ happy birth, mr. president ♪ ♪ happy birthday to you. >> bill: excellent rendition. don't know if i want that in my kids' birthday card. his father a hit with at hollywood crowd. he had a lengthy afiaf l affair with which actress? >> bill: who was he messing around with? that is correct. gloria swanson. so we know all the tabloid stuff but the important stuff we're not quite sure of. >> right. >>> doocy leads by one. this is it. question number five, ted kennedy got a slap on the wrist despite actions around the death of mary kopechene. >> i made repeated efforts by diving into the current and succeeded only in increasing my fate of iter exhaustion and alarm. >> bill: skeptical of that. some other women had been at the party the night of the accident were workers on whose political campaign? >> bill: cards up please. let's se

but 4.74 degrees of separation. >> kevin bacon? >> right here in the center. >> i want to know what a 0.74 is, i'm not sure. my arms and one leg. >> you're on it. all right, josh, thank you. >>> going to turn to the congressional supercommittee's super failure to reach a deal on how to handle america's exploding deficit. abc's jake tapper has more now and joins us from the white house. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. if president obama thought that by avoiding being directly involved in the supercommittee's negotiations, he would avoid being blamed for any super fail -- well, he was wrong. the midnight deadline passed, not only without a compromise. but without even a last minute attempt to reach one. bipartisan committee opting to issue a terse statement, before packing it in before dinner time. >> there's still too many republicans in congress who have refused to listen to the voices of reason and compromise. >> reporter: while the president laid blame squarely at the feet of republicans, who refused to rais

. >> and didn't kevin bacon coin that freeze phrase?h. >> thank you for joining us at 5. >> the news edge at 6 starts right now. >>> we start with an alert on a developing story in virginia. the woman accused of a car jacking at tysons two mall is languaged to a second bang robbery and this -- bank robbery in the last few hours. the suspect has a long history of run-ins with the law. paul wagner joins us live with the story. paul. >> reporter: the way police tell it, stephanie schwab robbed a bank last friday and implied she had a gun. a day later, she's pulling a knife on a woman. tonight, police say that stephanie schwab is wanted for a third crime: robbing a bb&t bang this afternoon. this is stephanie swab the way she looked friday morning inside of the bang on balls ford road in monasses -- monases. the prince william county police say she employed she had a gun and took an undisclosed amount of mean. the next day in this parking lot outside of neiman marcus, police say swab approached a 59- year-old woman looking for help. >> that

>> it's one of those things direct or indlaekt's almost like six degrees of kevin bacon at this point. if an italian bank is going to fail, certainly german banks and french banks are only one or two degrees removed from that. then you talk about wall street and bank of america and citigroup and j.p. morgan. so it's unthinkable for us to even imagine some sort of controlled take apart like that. that speaks to the bigger issue here. there's no mechanism place for the ultimate taboo, which is the breaking up of the euro zone. it's not just a matter of retro fitting parking meters and a.t.m. machines. if you suddenly boot a country like greece out of the euro, you're going to see greek citizens potentially is a run on their bank go. out to take the euros out before the devalued and depreciated drachma comes in and that could cause banks to fail and a whole ripple across other economies there and it happens across the atlantic. i mean, if we thought we had a problem with a.i.g. and lehman brothers and that chain effect three years ago, it's on orders of magnitude larger than that. so we

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