do you guys know who marcel the shell is?ve marcel. >> want to see me try to turn the page? >> sure. >> marcel the shell with shoes on is the brainchild of former "snl" cast member jenny and her boyfriend, now fiance, dean camp. last year they created this little animated film with the seashell with the googly eye and the shoes. >> my name is marcel. oh, no. that's not the first time i've done that. >> people loved it. >> my name is marcel and i'm partially a shell, as you can see on my body, but have shoes and a face. >> quickly went viral, got over 12.5 million hits. >> yes. what i use as a bean bag chair. a raisin. guess what i do for adventure? >> what? >> i hand glide on a dorito. >> now, marcel the shell with shoes on has a part two. >> where is he right now? oh, god. i can smell his face. >> and this is all to promote a brand new children's picture book called -- >> "marcel the shell with shoes on, things about me." >> all i care about is treats, treats and snoozing. ♪ >>> it's a san francisco treat for the eyes. see h

. >> in your book you write about marcel prp oost. i must confess i wouldn't know much about him if it hadn't been for this show and a visit we made a few years ago to shelby foots' home in tennessee. i want to show you a clip and ask you why people read marcel proust. >> my mother gave me this for my 78th birthday, and every time i feel i've earned the right to do it, i quit everything and reread proust. i've done it -- in the back of this, i wrote each time, it's the ninth reading, 1993. i haven't felt justified in taking off too much since 1993. >> so you've read this book, and it's what, 3,000 pages? >> yeah, mm-hmm. >> nine times? >> right. >> why? >> it's -- two reasons. one is pure enjoyment. proust is one of the most entravonning writers that ever lived. and the second is he can teach you something. a writer can learn from proust. and he can indeed -- we were talking about shakespeare. that's the grand master teacher. >> let me stand over here so folks can see you better. what is it about the written word that's either attract

. >> our facebook friend marcel really thought this through. it is a, used cars. millionaires as a whole are good at money management, there's no reason for them to buy a brand new car when they can get almost the same thing a year or two older, cheaper. well said. >> marcel is going to put me out of business. keep the guesses coming. we'll have the answer at 6:54. >>> 6:23 this friday morning. howard bernstein with you. grab a jacket before you head out unless you like to be cold. it is brisk out there. we're down in the 30s in many areas. wind chills, some of them down in the 20s. that's the type of day we have ahead. cold day. sunshine and just a couple of clouds. partly to mostly sunny. only around 50. low 50s for highs. with winds 10 to 20 gusting 25, maybe 30. it won't feel that warm thanks to the wind chills. mike and jessica? >> thank you, howard. in sports, we're not halfway through november but the college basketball season tips off in earnest this weekend. >> you're so excited. >> national championship, uconn huskies. >> a few begin play tonight. tonigh

they couldn't be there today, but taylor and marcel, we appreciate their contributions. also in the audience and perhaps you would like to start with public comment is j.d. beltran, acting executive director of the arts commission and is the director of strategic initiatives. >> and we will open it up for public comment. >> and this is an exciting moment for the arts commission and working with the department staff, in particular anmarie rogers and i wanted to congratulate on the success of the downtown gallery with the requirement and there are many outstanding works of art and your staff has done great work. over the past two years in particular, the arts commission has met with san francisco beautiful and the board of san francisco-american institute of architects and the arts club and spoken with the area and working with the mayor's office of economic development and numerous arts organizations and we have gotten a sense they believe there are in ways in addition to permanent public art that a robust and dynamic art environment can activate and enliven the downtown

in group a f l n p r cost defeated marcell on their travels one nil reviving the greek side chances of taking a second qualifying place are still guaranteed themselves a place in the round of sixteen following a two one one win over georgia in robin van persie with a brace for the gunners there. we were in a different group. very happy and pleased to. come from. when you do qualify you. exactly. what we did. i'm very happy because we came from. very. little was really tried hard but systematic movements were gone we just went wild and that's not us normally so they kind of deserve to have watched us know played very very well especially offensively one process before most tonight was just unbelievable some players. and finally in group ybarra leverkusen have gone top of the pile after a two one comeback victory against chelsea of a lengthy annihilated with seven on all three goals at home so the germans have a nine point five games they are now into the last six being the fates of the second playoff place will be decided in two weeks' time when chelsea and plenty of meet at stamford br

six two seven five win over american sam querrey puts him in the semi's in valencia and he'll face marcel got to know these next. three. of the swiss indoor pool mint in basel know about djokovic she is amazing season continues with number sixty seven for him coming against cypriot markets but the artist but the search had to work hard for it after losing the first. that djokovic today responding by winning the next two sixty six three and will play japanese wildcard kenya she quality in the semi. and home favorite roger federer is on course to meet him in the final of the world number for booking his place in the last full with an impressive straight since being boarded thanks to the school in this one federal face fellas with stanislav starting. now it is the final week of the fixtures in the russian premier league however the champions won't be decided for another six months or so and that is because the table will then split into two hearts after this week the top eight playing each other how you manda way to decide the eventual champion in may it's already clear who will be in which

does marcel have a twitter page? he doesn't have one but a lot of people on twitter sharing their love for him. >> here is one right here. >> it's one of his quotes. >> i see. who is behind this? >> it's a former "snl" cast member named jenny slate and she created it and now a children's book out about it. very popular and we might see more of marcel if the fans demand it. >> a lot of stuff happening on the web this week. bridget, thanks a lot. have a good thanksgiving. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, a litter of the cutest puppies you have ever seen. expert who wrote the book on training dogs will answer your questions about getting a lov ♪ >>> that is a gorgeous shot of central park right there, russ. >> fantastic. >> you hear the puppies in the background here in the studio in new york city. welcome back to "the early show." i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell. >> and as we have been talking about, 'tis the season for puppies. we are going to answer your questions about adopting a loveable canine this holiday sea

was soon level midway through the second so mark is marcel foster restore parity for home side and things would get even better for spacek in the first of just six minutes of the game remaining also grabbing his second problem red and whites on the verge of victory. returns had other ideas and would make it to two just thirty seconds later he does see it getting a bite from goal to give his side a chance at getting a much needed winning over time in the end aside from chekov wouldn't need the extra period as they were set up again with just a minute left response are committing too many men forward the visitors took full advantage and an easy in practice second of a game on the breakaway to get beat here's the points we won those five games there were with some pretty good teams you know and you know i think we showed people that we can play hockey too and we want to not just a bunch of. players and. it also hopefully hopefully yeah that we can get something on again but you know it's tough you know every everything the sleeve is good you know it's not. socially for us you know we have to

aleksey yeah from close range muscovites fire was soon level midway through the second so mark is marcel foster restore parity for the home side and things would get even better for spacek in the perth for just six minutes of the game remaining also grabbing his second for the red and whites on the verge of victory. however the tears had other ideas will make it through to just thirty seconds wait to see if getting a bite from goal to give his side a chance of getting a much needed winning over time in the end aside from check of wouldn't need the extra period as they would set up again with just a minute where. response like committing too many men forward the visitors took full advantage and an easy in practice second of the game on the breakaway to give details of points we won those five games there were some pretty good teams you know and you know i think we showed the people that we can play hockey too and we want to we're not just a bunch. of fighters and. it also hopefully for yeah it's something all again but you know it's tough you know every every team this leaves you know it'

does marcel have a twitter page? on twitter sharing their love for him. >> here is one right here. >> it's one of his quotes. >> i see. who is behind this? >> it's a former "snl" cast member named jenny slate and she created it and now a children's book out about it. very popular and we might see more of marcel if the fans demand it. >> a lot of stuff happening on the web this week. bridget, thanks a lot. have a good thanksgiving. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, a litter of the cutest puppies you have ever seen. expert who wrote the book on [ male announcer ] does your cable company keep charging you more... and more... and more? stop paying so much for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for our best price online: just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years. you save $600. go to verizon.com/greatprice to sign up now and get $300 back with a two-year contract. fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers superior picture quality more hd, plus america's fastest most consistent and most

the muscovites who was soon level midway through the second talkie is marcel foster restore parity for the home side and things would get even better for spacek in the first of just six minutes of the game remaining also grabbing his second of the red and whites on the verge of victory. how the tears had our ideas would make it to to just thirty seconds away turn it or see you getting a bite from goal to give his side a chance at getting a much needed winning over time and the end aside from chekov wouldn't need the extra period as they would set up a game just a minute where. the spotlight committing too many men forward for visitors to full advantage and an easy in practice second of a game on the breakaway to get details from points where we won those five games there were some pretty good teams you know and then i think we showed people that we can play hockey too and we want to we're not just a bunch of. players and. that also hopefully hopefully yeah that we can get something on again but you know it's tough you know every every team in this league is good you know it's not like

inspections and they had letters know that we could take the responsibility for greece is a us national marcel but he was a purely preparatory mission conducted by the european commission and the national governments we had made the decision to take greece in we cannot claim without having firm kreutz that the information we got then was diplomatically speaking not entirely correct very much keep in mind that the european parliament voted in favor of greece's membership almost unanimously including the conservatives who are now trying to distance themselves from that decision sometimes in politics you don't want to believe things that he wants condoned or actually happening of us and for any of us that either the commission was wrong or the handling of greece has been wrong since it ended which which is a matter of cones in the is the up it's pointless to talk about how things were in the past we're talking about the future but i hope we manage to keep greece in the euro zone for that to happen as the new greek government will have to be nonpartizan uninfluenced by debates provoked by right we

does marcel have a twitter page?t have one but a lot of people on twitter sharing their love for him. >> here is one right here. >> it's one of his quotes. >> i see. who is behind this? >> it's a former "snl" cast member named jenny slate and she created it and now a children's book out about it. very popular and we might see more of marcel if the fans demand it. >> a lot of stuff happening on the web this week. bridget, thanks a lot. have a good thanksgiving. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, a litter of the cutest puppies you have ever seen. expert who wrote the book on training dogs will answer your questions about getting a love i didn't puppy this holiday season. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. >>> speaking of cute puppies, look whae have here. >> don't you just love a dog that will lay on your lap? >> give him time. give him time. >> that's right. this one is going to get pretty big too. look at the belly on that one! ow! >> we have a little budda puppy over here. >> who wouldn't want to adopt these? >> we w

have you seen marcel, the show with shoes on and just to get -- because it is so hard to escape cancerd. >> we have a question from a viewer, april with stage four colon cancer. she wants to know how does she prioritize? >> well, look at who you are. what is really important to you. and then -- and talk with your doctor and get a second, third or fourth opinion if necessary. that can be overwhelming as well. but when i recently had cancer, again, i made a list of all of the options and assigned numerical values. that helped me. >> lorie hope, the author of help me live, 20 things you want to hear -- 20 things people with cancer want you to know. >> and we're going to continue our conversation with lorie at wusa9.com. >>> making news now at 5:51, today, the memoir of congresswoman gabrielle giffords goes on sale. gaby, the story of courage and hope outlines the arizona democrat's struggle to recover from being shot in the head on january 8th. on interviews with her husband, retired astronaut mark kelly, giffords said she plans to return to congress when she's better. >>> a victory for e

. >> this is a response posted on our facebook fan page from marcel king. she wrote bridal showers most hated by women. you have those that are jealous that have never been a bride and have divorce and have become bitter toward marriage. >> add your answer to our facebook page. we'll reveal the survey answer in our next hour. >>> still watching the dense fog east of town. many visibilities, half-mile, quarter mile or down to zero now. watch out with the dense fog advisory east until 9:00 a.m. our future cast, this is really fog. it is not raining here. what we're seeing rainwise though, some showers coming in from the west. 9:00, mostly cloudy, 53 with showers toward the shenandoah valley. we can see the rain early in the day moving east. colder air moves in. by 6:00 p.m., we're down to the 40s. grab a jacket, grab some rain gear. mike and andrea? >> money troubles may force the entire sports to be cut at the university of maryland. >> plus, coach shanahan defends his decisions concerning the redskins quarterback. kristin berset has details in your morning

terrelle pryor, marcel reese and cartwright were at the food bank this morning. players packaged part of the 150,000 pounds of food collected last weekend. despite recent donations, more help is needed. they have a record number of needy families this holiday season. >>> now the xfinity sports desk on "nbc bay area news." >>> let's check in with henry will ford to talk about what's happening today in the world of sports. hey, henry. >> there's a lot going on. they're nothing like hanging out with the family on thanksgiving day. both jim and john harbaugh will be hungry thursday, hungry for a win and not tur keechlt the head coaches face off when the 49ers visit the baltimore ravens thanksgiving day. everyone is talking about this game. 49ers depart for baltimore wednesday morning with hopes of staying undefeated on the road in 2011. so how do the red and gold prepare for the ravens in just three days? mindy batch has the answer from 49ers headquarters in santa clara. >> jim harbaugh did not hide his displeasure to have to travel three time zones on a short week t

. ♪ i think my friend winton marcel us explained it very good.rovisation is really not so much remembering things-- and this is what i do when i play. i forget things. when i go on the stage, i want my mind to be a blank. so that i can... things can come into me without my knowing where they came from. >> brown: are you surprised by what comes out? >> sometimes i'm surprised by what comes out, yeah. >> brown: at several key points in his career, rollins simply stopped performing and recording. most famously he spent one of what he called his sabbaticals practicing on the williams burg bridge in new york. he later released an album entitled the bridge. >> i went away because i was getting too much acclaim. >> brown: too much attention. you don't like that? >> no, i liked it to a point but, you know, "jeffrey, i think the biggest thing that in my life that i can be proud of is that i knew inside how i was doing. whether i was playing great or whether i wasn't playing great. i shut out the people who were telling me, oh, sonny, don't go away. you're

and professor howard marcel. thank you for coming, and i want to thank you c-span and on behalf of the institute for humanities and the book fair, lsna, and the hatcher library, thank you, howard. >> thank you. [applause] >> for more information, visit the author's website, howardmarkel.com. >> the idea that climate change change -- when the green's used that phrase, what they want you to think is subliminally manmade climate change, and this is where we dispute it. those on my side of the argument. catastrophic manmade climate change, if you look at the intergovernmental panel on climate change's reports over the last 20 years, the ipcc has grown increasingly shrill in its predictions about manmade climate doom, but in that period, no convincing evidence has been produced to show that human influence on climate is so significant or dangerous that we are all going to fry. on the contrary. global warming actually stopped or flattened out, you know, over ten years ago now. we are entering a period of cooling, and i

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my wife marcelle and i have driven around the state, we have talked to community leaders, to those who have worked on disaster relief and others. it's very clear, given the mammoth unprecedented destruction of this storm, certain waivers are needed to allow states to have funds for repair work that they need without going through all kinds of burdens for those repairs. i mention these waivers, mr. president, because if we're going to assure that vermont and the other states can promptly design and begin emergency and permanent repairs, we have to do it now. we put the waivers into this bill, and i hope the other body will understand that we need them. this bill and its developments in america's crumbling and damaged roads and bridges is a crucial step. it will help restore the economic vitality of our country. i'm also pleased the legislation includes the emergency community development block grant funding. right now, h.u.d. has no funding available. they can address the housing needs of vermonters affected both by hurricane irene and the flooding of this past spring. these disaster re