often a la king think about are the exceptions. tim meeted shares scalage big subjects like genocide and epidemic disease makes them in comprehensible through any single approach. i don't think one could claim to understand, begin to understand an event like the great depression only by reading about a fictional families experience in "the grapes of wrath," but i also don't think you can begin to have a sense of what the holocaust was without reading it least one account of an individual life that was enmeshed in the holocaust in a great novel like the periodic table for instance. story escambia wendell on the in normandy and enormousness, a means for william blake to see a world in the grain of sand. we are born responding to the stories they think. there one way we organize the world's chaos and when we pass that information on from generation to generation. the best stories are living monuments, the memories that have to be preserved and they don't need any other justification. by training all the dickens my mother used to read

>> craig: and then i hear locke is doubtful from the la kings. just the numbers that green has put up this year and last year makes him a great candidate for the limpics. >> joe: if brent seabrooke doesn't make that, i think that helps the candidacy. >> craig: the way green skates, i think he's a perfect fit for team canada. >> joe: using the boards to get it to shown. on to brooke. blistered wide. nelson going the other way -- nilsson going the other way. tom redding said some day strudwick will be an outstanding coach. >> craig: he has got some hockey background at 6'4", 225, hometown boy that's nice to have in edmonton alberta. >> craig: i would say that's a lot for team canada. >> joe: stronger the second long. -- lock. we will get into this more. we are crossing our fingers 52 in the white can get that. >> craig: and the rest of the cast with the opportunity. it would be great to see six or seven of the caps make the olympics for the respective countries. fleischmann trying to change the score. visnovsky no doubt being part of the limpic mix

la >> merry christmas. eeeeeee >> larry: we are going to close our holiday special by featuring my wife shawn king.e's still some presents left i've yet to shake ♪ ♪ some things don't change ♪ gotta love the holidays ♪ ♪ gotta love the holidays ♪ though any other day is just another day to me ♪ ♪ but oh, get the family round the christmas tree ♪ ♪ that changes everything ♪ the weatherman's insisting the the most we'll get is misting ♪ ♪ i guess his prophesying ain't that great ♪ ♪ oh oh, hey hey, i'll see some flakes ♪ ♪ gotta love the holidays ♪ gotta love the holidays >> larry: how about that? from the whole gang at our house, everyone at cnn, "larry

la tif fa, we'll talk about tiger and oprah and a whole lot more. she'll also share one of the greatest stories never told. all next on "larry king live." we begin with the personal finance expert, the emmy winning tv host of the suze orman show, seen saturday nights on cnbc. "new york times" best-selling author has not been with us since february, which was hard to believe. when you were on that time obama was set to sign the $787 billion stimulus plan. how has it all worked since then? how are we doing? >> actually, if you look at it, we're a whole lot better than we were a year ago. we're no longer falling off the cliff. the banks have been saved, they're starting to repay a lot of the t.a.r.p. money. however with that said, forget about wall street, forget about the banks, how are everyday people really doing, larry? we still have a high unemployment rate, people are still under water in their houses, they don't know what to do. as far as the home loan modification program is going, i think that has been a horrific, underline, underline failure, but overall, we're doing quite a bit better than we were one year ago. atlantic recent c

kings win 112-109 california knucks trying to win four straight. tied 1-1, second period. >> scored! a rebound. what a piece by lat is basically it for us on the "final score." thanks for watching the show live from los angeles this evening. i guessed earlier that the las vegas big moment would be kobe bryant. they at any time tell me, really, we knew it would be kobe bryant. overtime winner in milwaukee. good night. >> lakers for the win. kobe going up. yes! at the buzzer, he does it! he wins it for the lakers. in overtime. 110-106. the best closer finisher. i'll have one of those. you know every time you order a captain and cola a holiday fairy gets her wings. shh, holiday fairy. thank you tim. (announcer) calling all captains. drink responsibly. ♪ tell me who's watching. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here. it's easy.

las vegas. >>> coming up, top of the hour, most of these regions youshgs hardwood series rolls on. oklahoma state and stanford. nba, wizards have won eight straight over the kingst on the other end, gilbert arenas swatted by evans. go the other way. 22-19. >>> don nelson back after missing five games with pneumonia. he's back with the spurs in town. spurs playing back-to-backs, looked awful against the suns. first quarter, warriors down one. they are the ones in yellow. maggette. popovich calls a time-out. first quarter still. curry. knocks that one down. 14-12, it is early. >>> back to the hockey, canucks trying to win four straight. the ducks in town. first period no score. bobby ryan goes the other way, and he goes what's called five hole. it is ryan's 15th of the year. . . brothers, not the movie but daniel and henrik sedin tie it up at one the other way. . >>> wig and liv. your long centering pass. >> the header was enough, and how they needed that! >> right! 2-1, liverpool is a winner. >>> that is it, we're out of here. i'm andrew siciliano. thank you for for watching. we showed it to you like five minutes ago. your las vegas "big moment" is kobe bryant a

la about him bowing, and after that gas was $2 or $3. we didn't have the horrendous summer. and then he went to china and they're saying he bowed before the kinglled in its debts we would be really messed up. i think obama the president is totally different and i wouldn't want to box him and there was a gentleman who called and said we should go to war and fight iran and be more hawkish. look, i work for a company that has the transferred me to different countries in the world. i was out of america for four years. and i was in europe. when i came back home and then i went back to london and london was -- had developed. we have been fighting wars for the europeans for the last eight years and they're busy building their own countries. it's time for us to focus on what we have in america and rebuild our infrastructure and honestly have free health care so we can compete with canada. i mean, our companies here cannot compete. i've worked in six countries. i work for an american company and i've worked in six countries and our company cannot compete because of the cost of doing business in america. you don't see companies complaining about free he