november 18th. >>> it was a longshot but he took it. marine serving in afghanistan needed a date for the marine corps ball so on a bet with a fellow marine, he made a youtube video and asked his favorite actress, mila kunis to go with him. mila kunis says she's trying to make it work and it turns out she might have a filming conflict but she'll try to make it work. i always thought i had a chance, said sergeant scott moore, and sometimes, he said, that's all you need. >>> the name sherwood schwartz may not ring a bell but his television creations including "gilligan's island" and the "brady bunch" a culture of americans who grew up in the '60s and '70s. he started out in radio writing jokes for bob hope and red skelton and found sitcom immortality in television. critics panned his shows but audiences loved them. "gilligan's island" lasted four seasons and so did "the brady bunch." both live on in memories and reruns. sherwood schwartz died today in los angeles. he was 94 years old. >>> when we come back, brian williams talks to the meda

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she remains a longshot. she has a good chance of winning iowa, but i dhave not sure where she goes in terms of winning after that. she could easily end up number two. she is very appealing. the more you learn about our -- 23 foster kids, five kids of our own. looking after each other -- she talks about life, family, love the game after each other. it is not only rhetoric. she would have a hard time in the general election. >> defense secretary robert gates retired this week. they gave him a good a sendoff at the pentagon. he said when he looks back at his service, he will think of the younger warriors, the ones who never came back. remarkable guy, don't you think? >> certainly the only secretary of defense in history to serve the successfully and a president of different parties and get the trust and admiration of both of them. he had a sobering remarks on the way out. "i go to arlington, i go to hospitals, i meet with the families, i know the awesome responsibility and the unpredictability of war and those

literally aware it had to go down longshot or closeup and it was interfering with the story line. i graduated from san francisco state and it was creative writing within the english department. i was taking a class much like this. writers on writing and a writer came to speak to a group of young writers the first writer who came was a poet. and i was i fell madly in love with language. i think that's why i'm probably conscious with the writing process because i began with the foundation of language, which is poetry for me. it made me aware of how to use language. not to over use language. you know things like that that aspects of it. i talk a lot about the writing process for a lot of reasons because i think that if you tell what it really means to be a writer people will think oh , it's not -- i think to a large extent you all think we run with the bulls. you know and you think we are sitting in cafes and i can never write in a cafe because i would watch people too much. how can you sit in a cafe and write a novel? we all have our process. i think the interesting things to talk a

she remains a longshot. she has a good chance of winning iowa but i am not sure where she goes in terms of winning after that. she could easily end up number two. she is very appealing. the more you learn about her -- she had a 23 foster kids, five kids of her own, she talks about life and family, looking after each other. this is a person who has lived in. it is not only rhetoric. ideologically, she would have a hard time in the general election. >> defense secretary robert gates retired this week. if they gave him a good sendoff at the pentagon. he said that when he looks back on this service he will look back at the y young warriors and the ones who kept on fighting and it would never came back until the end of his days. remarkable guy, don't you think? >> only secretary of defense in the nation's history to serve successfully under two presidents o different parties and have the trust and admiration of both of them. he had a sobering remarks on the way out. "i go to arlington, i go to hospitals, and the

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democrat in congress before becoming republican as governor in '91, a longshot yet to show up in theolls with little name recognition or cash. the story of the poll is perry, who without entering the race is battling for the lead and picking up steam in washington, carl cameron, fox news. >> bret: speaking of "steam," the soaring temperatures that plagued the midwest for much of the week have spread further east. look at this. the heat indexes. forecasters have issued excessive heat warning for huge section of the country from kansas, to massachusetts. nearly two dozen deaths have been blamed on the temperatures. the national weather service expects triple-digit temperatures in the eastern part of the country through saturday before cooling off to the mid-90s on sunday. >>> u.s. ambassador to the united nations says some countrys may cease to exist. we'll tell you why. on the grapevine. and what have we learned in the seven years since the 9/11 commission issued its report? >> bret: checking international headlines now. the syrian city of homes saw intense and sustained violence betw

former louisiana governor buddy romeer who has little name recognition and less money is considered a longshot he will announce his candidacy thursday. >>> los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa characterized this past weekend as carma-heaven instead of baccari. theof carmageddon. the gridlock never materialized. crews got the stretch of road back in operation, 17 hours ahead of schedule. easily in time for the monday commute. another construction closure there will required in 11 months' time. gal is up. crude oil prices fell amid growing fears of a possible debt default on either side of the atlantic. august futures dropped above 31. president obama bypassed elizabeth warren to nominate richard cordray today to head the new consumer protection agency. correspondent shannon bream look at the republican opposition to the pick, the agency itself and how it could impact the 2012 race. >> i am happy about this. this is a moment for celebration. >> for more than a year, elizabeth warren fought to get the new consumer financial protection bureau part of the dodd-frank regulatory law up and running,

when you take a wide longshot, you can see the haziness in fog. hong on the ground it is not all that terrible. a fantastic day. warmer than yes. and mix of '50s and '60s right now not until midnight were the fault rebuild. this afternoon we are going to see a temperatures spread like we have been seen all week. the warmest spots and the delta and livermore valley. '70s and '80s brought most of the area. 60s along the coast. o'clock here is your 7 day forecast. or to the warm weather is sticking with us through the weekend and into next week. we will be right >> watch as a man tries to get away. how to different people, running on of the building and it basically tackle him. they probably would have got away if that woman had not thrown open the door and threw herself in front of the guy. seagrams to buy. the guy got away, but the bite did not. >> we are back in 2 minutes as a kron 4 morning news continues. a hot spot on traffic. details straight ahead. >> the top stories we are following, to different brothers on a plane from miami to san francis