howie mandel is back with a new game show called "take it all." thank you for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> lots of ways to win and steal someone else's prize? >> it is kind of like "secret santa." you could pick a gift, and if somebody wants the gift, they could take it or go back into the pile. you want to strategizing. whoever has the least valuable prize at the end of the round will lose and go home with absolutely nothing. that is the strategy. they are taking from each other. the prizes are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. there are new mercedes, homes, hovercraft's -- things you cannot even imagine. when it is down to two people, they have to face off and decide whether they will keep what they have, where one might try to risk it in -- and take it all. >> what do you like so much about game shows? you have done this before. >> i do not like game shows. i like "deal or no deal" because you did not need to know trivia or have a skill. this is the same thing. you are watching people. you can sit there with your entire family. trivi

that goes to your comment about the mandel project as well. we do know that it is the street that parks department should have -- [inaudible]. it is ultimating a city street. city of san francisco see it as a street. they don't see it as one agency and another agency. this process which looks at the quality of the street, paramount importance. >> i'm concerned we'll be using the park money for the street. i like to maximize our open space park money. >> ultimately i think that, i spent years sitting at the department heads working group talking about complete street. here we have a law for repaving our streets. we can't repave them the same way. this is a program that you have complete control over as the governing board of the authority have an opportunity to shape it. >> we will work over the next four months that we receive to see if we can address a lot of the issues that were brought up. is it specific to how -- >> that's what we will be doing over the next four months. >> we will continue to work together to incorporate the recommendatio

good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry, and let's start with howie mandel. yes, howie mandel. there is a lot we can learn from him. when you think of howie, you may think of the standup xhecomedia with a surgical glove on his head and he has survived and thrived in the brutal world of entertainment, but this is the howie mandel i'm interested in today. >> deal or no deal. >> you see, it turns out that the howie of deal or no deal might have something to teach us about our no deal congress. yes sh yes, nerdland, this is where game theory meets game show theory. this week, i learned that economists study game shows to help them understand high stakes decision making. and in fact, one group of researchers writing for the american economic review are declared "deal or no deal" to have desirable features that it is almost appears to be designed for an economics experiment rather than a tv show. if you don't know the show, the premise is breathtakingly simple. a kconsistent is shown 26 briefcases each containing a hidden amount of money ranging from one cent to $1 million. they can

howie mandel hosts "take it all". >> it's deal or no deal meets the price is right.ts are not cash and prizes, and risk them all to steal the prizes of others. >> the stakes are life-changing, hundreds of thousands, puts them in a whole any tax bracket, whole new life bracket. ♪ when we finally kiss good night ♪ >> michael bubble hosts his second annual christmas special in his home country. >> tonight is just all my friends and family. >> blake shelton is among the guests. mark barringer, nbc news. >>> all right. here's the rundown "the voice" at 8:00, followed by "take it all" then at 10:00 buble's christmas special. that's all right here tonight on nbc4. what a range. >> it must-see tv, isn't it? >> yeah. >>> widening scandal on "sesame street." the new allegations against the man who made elmo famous. >>> and more on rg3's knee injury. we'll check in with a doctor to find out just what it would take for him to recover and get bac if the politicians in washington negotiate a bad deal on the budget and deficit, what do you think will happen to medicare and medicaid

>> howie mandel, welcome back.lute worst in people. that's great. >> it's cunning gamesman. it's gamesmanship. the prizes that they get. it's like secret santa or white elephant but hundreds of thousands of dollars, cars, hovercrafts, submarines, they could take from each other. >> like a yankee swap. >> yankee swap but the deal is -- i'm still on the deal. the deal is whoever has the least valuable prize gives it back and goes home until two are left and they accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in prizes and now they face off against each other. they have a choice. keep mine or take it all. i can be cunning and gamesman-like and say, you know what? i have no money. i lost my job. i have three kids. i'm going to keep my car, my hovercraft and you'll do the same, right? it's a deal, right? you'll do that. then i say lock it in as the host and i was playing you because i go take it all. you said keep mine. i take all my prizes, all your prizes and you have nothing. >> again, the worst of human nature. >> tha

this was a watercolor done in 1945 by david mandel which -- by david mandelowiz. this building started gradually falling and sliding down. >> they had to replace the street right there. and in the process of jack hammering out the old st., they weakened the rocked. then the rockfall occurred. it undermined the building. once the building was undermined, it could no longer state occupied, and the decision was made to remove the building. as you recall, it made headlines. eventually, the building was removed and a new wall was built. the lot where 22 once sat is still there. there are big disputes over whether it can be developed safely predict -- developed safely. and the filbert street stairs, because of the rockfall that occurred, new stairs were built, and they were built in a manner that when rockfalls occur, that actually lift out the stairs and put them on the ground and allow the crane to get back there to access the rockfall. >> beyond that, the building that we see at the bottom of the rockfall was actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be compo

should be making -- they should be making a contribution, if you will, taking ownership of repaving mandel. i just want to go on record this pa lou project a high priority. i hope to work together to see if we can get this pa lou project up into the top tier of projects. thank you. >> for the record, the broadway project second street and masonic all improves paving. >> i would like to advocate for that too. there's enough for all of us. >> commissioner kim? >> thank you, i do think that this is a great group of projects and i'm excited to see many of these moving through the obag funding target. i just had a question about pa lou as well. i know there's $3 million allocated it makes sense for us to work in partnership with the prop b repaving. i'm curious what that amount would need to be in order to fully fund that project? >> as we've seen it, there's about $3.4 million in our request forpaving. >> we're talking about additional $340,000 for the funding for th

mandell la spent 27 years in prison fighting racist white rule. he became south africa's first black president in 1994. >>> well, furry over the death of -- fury over the death of a nurse that worked at the hospital where kate middleton was being treated and now the hospital is having its say. cbs reporter erica ferrari tells us the deejays are off the job indefinitely. >> reporter: they expressed their sorrow outside the building where saldinha's body was found. officials at the hospital sent the letter saturday to the owners of the australian radio station condemning the actions of two of its deejays. applied a hoax that some say may have contributed to the 46- year-old's death. >> i think it's a terrible shame that she felt she had to do something so tragically sad. for something that was just a stupid joke. >> reporter: on tuesday she trafficked a call to -- transferred a call to another nurse. that nurse then gave a detailed report of kate's condition to the deejays who were impersonating the queen and prince charles. >> the people who have d

each time mandel la is hospitalized it's cause for concern, yet each time he's managed to beat the odds. the same kind of resilience he's shown all his life. people are hoping he does it again. mark phillips, cbs news, victoria. >>> the australian de-jace who hospital where the duchess was staying speak out for the first time. last week the deejays pretended to be the queen and prince charles and spoke to the nurse who cared for the duchess. this morning they say they're deeply sorry for their prank. >> the joke was always on us, not anyone else. it wasn't about trying to fool someone. i mean we just assumed with the voices that we put on, you know, we were going to get told off and that was the gag. >> the deejays went on to say they couldn't have imagined that the prank would have ended with a death. the show has been pulled off indefinitely and are undergoing counseling. >>> the music world is mourning the loss of mexican american singer jenni rivera. a family says her plane crashed sunday. officials there say there were six other people onboard and there were no survivors. as teresa

our thanks to the kids of the mandell school of new york for sharing their fascinating insight on santanightly news" for this sunday. up next, sunday night football, the 49ers and the seahawks. i'm lester holt. for all of us here at nbc news, good night.

you get the same feeling when you organize your closet, you feel as fresh and clean as howie mandel'sds. some people got into nud. a librarian from kansas city, actually threw a national unfriend party from the library and sent this picture of her nud party. you can see it was a raver. the only people who showed up was this kid. alicia said, and i quote, attendance was not what we hoped. but i would argue that that is the point of national unfriend day, it's not about socializing, it's about anti-socializing, the fewer people at the party the better. that's what nud is all about, in a way alicia had the most successful nud party of all time and probably the only nud party of all time. i thank her for her service. we all do. [ applause ] thank you. leading up to national unfriend day i asked viewers to send videos explaining who their most annoying facebook friend was and why they were unfriending them. we had great responses we ran some but more good once over the weekend. here now for post-national unfriend day, part ii. >> i'm unfriending a friend today because when he writes me he

. >> being photographed by nick cannon and howie mandel.not the way i like to wake up. >> well, i thought it was a nice way to wake you up and say put your seat belt on, piers, we're landing. but anyway, nick's still got the pictures, by the way. >> i know he does. >> anyway, i had, you know, those fun bags as ozzie calls them, put in, and one of them had leaked very badly so my breasts were odd-sized. i got the cancer gene and i thought this is ridiculous. so i went in and they just took everything away. >> what does it -- to be a woman going through that, for most women it would be like the ultimate nightmare. i read this interview you gave, the first i heard about it was hello magazine dropped and there's this amazing interview. i was really struck by even someone as tough as you waking up the next day and you've had this operation which every woman would dread. how did you feel? >> relieved. >> really. >> yeah, i did. i fell really relieved. i felt no more squishing in that mammogram because they hurt, especially with the fun bags. so i

let's talk to bethany mandel. i made a few notes on this. "there will be blood," one wacked out assemblyman in 1947. threat, punches, smashed a tent of america for prosperity and the american media doesn't want to cover this. why is this? >> the narrative is unions protecting working man and then they are out to help benefits and job prospects for millions of americans but that's unfortunately not the case anymore. >> even if they were out to help the ordinary man, this is about economic freedom for ordinary men and women, right? the right to join the union or not. the right to keep your paycheck or not. but even if that were true, their behavior, huggery, violence, the media will not cover this. >> it's remarkable how much they are willing to ignore for the sake of the narrative. >> which is the narrative? >> the union are the good guys -- >> it's it's a little rab narrative. >> yeah. >> and at the end of the day, a pro-baum narrative. >> yeah. >> i think the union is doing themselves great harm. haiy. there's a group in ohio, ohioans for w

. >> host: ipaq drift by rachel mandel went beyond the usual pundit book. it's questioning american military power and a lot of it is not written from a liberal date. she is an unabashed liberal, but she's on tv. i think she has a phd in something, like lyrical science or some thing. i think charles murray would not want to be called a pundit. he's famous for the controversy over the bell curve. this looks that great working-class to separate classroom raise which complicates everything. you look at how the values of the working class has gone down hill and is a way to alleviate, adopted middle-class values while the working middle class is a complex argument. two places to describe these things. it's an interesting, provocative book, somewhat more than someone ranting and rallying. >> host: charles murray is a scholar at the american enterprise institute as well. probably not fair to call him a political pundit. he launched his own imprint, but his talk show is off the air. can you see the result in his sales? >> guest: as far as i can tell, glenn beck, wh

it is not a howie mandell story. it has everything to do about the fiscal cliff.s happening behind closed doors. and what is said in public does not seem to clear anything up. >> the longer the white house slow walks this discussion, the closer our economy gets to the fiscal cliff, and the more american jobs are placed in jeopardy. >> so what's really going on behind the scenes? earlier i spoke with republican senator jeff sessions, who's been asking the same question, and i asked him how much he, as the ranking member of the senate budget committee, actually knows about what's going on. >> very little. almost nothing, frankly. i mean, i learned from sources that the speaker was disappointed and things were not moving forward as well as he seemed to have indicated right there in those public remarks. but otherwise, really, we don't know. and the people that are losing in this process, this secret process, are the american people. they'll be the ones asked to pay more taxes. they may be the ones that are asked to tighten their belts. and they need to know what the

you can't put a band-aid on this and suspect everything is going to be great and have howie mandel say deal or no deal. not good for the overall markets or economy. >> it's clear that revenue is not on the table. >> what do you do, run for the s? panic is not an investment strategy. give us some good advice. >> this is a headline-driven market, so if there is any type of positive news out of washington, look for stocks to act positively. realistically you want to be in treasuries. cash or treasuries. only with the help from ben bernanke and company. >> thank you, guys. >> we'll keep an eye on that, too, as a matter of fact. thank you, guys. we'll see you later and wall street is throwing in the towel as we head towards the close. apparently fewer people want to be long going into the weekend. the dow now at the low of the session, down 160 points. >> indeed. next, even as star pucks stores in d.c. are riding together on come together on the fiscal cliff deal, it does appear the ceo apparently may not understand what exactly the fiscal cliff is. what this may say about the whole cliff s

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. >> mandel's for families trying to adopt children in russia. vladimir putin has signed a new law banning adoptions by americans. russia is retaliate against the u.s. law that imposes sanctions on russians who are found to be human rights violators. about 50 u.s. families were in the process of adopting children. the head of a bay area agency says it is not deal with any local clients at the moment. >> same-sex marriage in the state of maine became legal to that. the city of portland began issuing first licenses to eager couples or just after midnight. other cities are holding special hours drop the day today. this november, maine, washington and maryland became the first is to approve a marriage by popular vote. same-sex marriages are already taking place in washington state. maryland will begin issuing marriage licenses on tuesday. >> we will be right back. >> welcome back. here is a live look outside on our van ness will scan. >> we're taking a look is storm tracker 4. we are still in dealing with sprinkles outside. it really is not too much.

>> reporter: you know, i recently spoke to graca mandel, and she used a wonderful phrase.andela was like a glue to differences, bridge to differences. it was his wise leadership, his calm sense of responsibility that literally ushered this nation into a democracy. so all races, white, black, young people, old people, across the economic divide, everybody has a very deep, emotional attachment to what mandela did for them and what he symbolizing. people are pragmatic. they know he's frail and 94. he hasn't been seen in public for over two years, to there is a sense and acceptance that just one day he won't be here. >> robin, thank you very much. we want to update you on any developments regarding his health and, of course, his struggle against aapartheid made him a hero. he was aa husband, father, grandfather, much, much more. i had a chance to travel to south aftrica and set down with his former son-in-law to talk about what he means to the country and particularly to his family. >> we call him mutata. we always respect that he's the foundation of this nation. he gave us, y

i found that i have allergies and there is a book by a doctor marshall mandell and he talks about howlegies can affect just so severely that they can cause depression, retardation, autism, and many physical diseases. hypertension and hypoglycemia, etc. it is hard to say this because people look at this like i'm crazy. look at your diet. how many people believe it schizophrenic could be caused by your diet and things you could be allergic to? guest: do people have food reactions? yes. as a cause of schizophrenic and autism, no. there is a genetic issues, many other aspects here. host: could you give folks your background? guest: i am a psychologist by training and i worked in the navy reserve as a psychologist. it is unjust aspects of food. -- .t isn't just aspects of food we know when a person is isolated and not eating healthfully, a lot of those things can impact brain development. it can worsen a mental illness n.pto but that the lifestyle changes as a part of that. guest: thank you for your call and for raising children by yourself. that can cause depression, too. i have raised fi