books. 41 employees in a british mattress company attempted to set a world record this week in mattress dominoslife? the last person in line falls on to a sconvey or. this group won't have any problems making it into the guinness book. >> they'd better discount the damaged mattresses. i want to discount your playing around with my mattress. >> let's do this. >> look at him. that's okay. i'm jealous. fun day at work. ever play the game telephone as a kid? >> yes, i did. >> well, jake bron stein, one of the foundinging editors of "fhm" magazine, the men's magazine sent the record for longest whisper chain, he passed his message through 59 people. the message was the most exciting part. we're so mushy today. it's a wedding proposal to his girlfriend kristina. take a listen to the reaction. >> will you marry me? [ screaming ] >> did you just whisper something to me? >> yes. >> what did you say? >> that you're nice too. >> we're way too mushy right now. we got caught up in the moment. >> we'll talk to a conservative analyst who thinks something is missing from the new g.i. joe film. >> how about whe

mattress dominos. this is a new video gone viral, check it out. >> literally 41 people lined up to play mattress dominos. game of mattress dominos has been catching on especially on college campuses, now it's being recognize the by the guinness book. >> that tape shot in the uk. check youtube. you can thank me later. that brings us to the punch line. courtesy of stephen colbert looking forward to tomorrow's beerfest at the white house. >> this post racial beerfest scheduled for this thursday at 6:00 all stems from last week when officer crowley arrested henry louis gates in the fact of being in his own home. in officer crowley's defense, gates fingerprints were everywhere. >> stephen colbert, that's the match-up. three musicmakers joining us tonight. music car will.i.am. and also rudy giuliani. hear what he says to the crazy fringe known as birthers. >> i don't get the issue. i don't know why they're pushing it as far as they are. the fair point it does obscure the message. there are important messages

it is called mattress dominoes and that's because of a group of employees at bensons for beds in england. looks like they pulled it off and now they have to wait for words in the guinness book to find out if they are in. the record at stake, largest chain ever of massive dominoes the record holder currently nobody. nobody has ever done this before. i'm thinking they have the record locked up, whatever that is worth. >> i was going to say what's the report. >> probably nobody has done it. >>>. >>> in the mail bag tonight, bernard, apparently of no known address offered condolences to the peggy cooper who lost her home in a fire. a situation he says did not have to happen. the complete loss of the home and everything in it could have been saved if our city had done what it should have, concerning the present fire hydrant situation. if we can spend so much money on things that are not needed why can't the city get behind such needed repairs as our fire hydrants. it is sad it takes such terrible happenings to wake up the city to what is really needed. >> the wakeup happened a couple of years

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to commemorate the historic of the germany capital, it will be recreated by toppling 1,000 mattress-sized dominos november, the full thousand will line the route of the old wall. each domino will be custom painted by german high school students, students who only know about the wall from what they read in textbooks. these kids weren't even born in 1989, when ronald reagan personally took a sledgehammer to the wall while he whistled "winds of change." to new zealand where we meet logan campbell, who looks like he finished 16th for his country at last year's olympic beijing games, but there's much more to his story. desperate for the funds for the return to the london olympics, campbell has opened his own brothel. he expects london to cost twice the $120,000 he spent to get to beijing and this time his parents are unwilling to foot the bill, but they are on board with the whore house. licensed prostitution is legal in new zealand. still his country has to pick him for the team. tune in to see if new zealand lets the male madame play in the games in london. only on the networks of nbc. okay, i'm fir

. >>> plus they all fall down, making dominoes out of mattresses in search of a world record. "early" this friday morning, july 31st, 2009. captioning funded by cbs >>> we're getting off to a rainy start this friday. hope it's brighter where you are. good morning, everybody. i'm maggie rodriguez with jeff glor. welcome, jeff. >> it is good to be here. do you have a beer here for me? >> yes. harry and jules are on assignment this morning, but justin and i are toasting. >> tea and water for now. >>> speaking of this much discussed beer summit, or white house happy hour, i got to thinking -- this was harry's idea. beer may be able to mend hurt feelings. can it also be a health benefit? >> interesting question. >> we'll look into that this morning. >>> also ahead this morning, in this housing market, what can $300,000 buy you. we'll take you to several cities across the country to show you. in some places, it's actually half of what it used to be. >> very interesting. also, how to buy foreclosed homes potentially these days. >>> first, we'll begin with this. it appears that cash f

. >>> and the good folks ever the local mattress warehouse have an interesting way of showing off the merchandise. an afternoon game of dominoes. if you think your boss is getting heavy, you don't know until you've had a co-worker strapped to a 40 pound mattress fell on top of you. this mattress flipping in just for fun. oh, no. hoping to make it into the guinness book of records. 41 colleagues participated. i hear more had the box spring department not shown up three sheets to the wind. >>> coming up, the return of william shatner. and some breaking news from tonight's white house beer summit. we'll have reactions from professor gates after the break. >>> also ahead, william shatner's first. sarah palin's farewell address at governor. now turned a tweet into -- kind of. also, the latest from the bertha conspiracy. some wanted them to stop. others are signing on for future presidents to prove citizenship. details on the big births divide in the gop next on "countdown." ♪ (announcer) introducing new tums dual action. this tums goes to work in seconds and lasts for hours. all day or night. new tums dual action. bring it on. >>>