>> a girl named meredith vieira. ladies and gentlemen, meredith vieira. >> please, please. >> i know. exactly. i want to go on record first saying i'm so jet lagged and in a fog. >> well, you just came off vacation -- >> i want to apologize for you having to carry the entire show. yes, indeed. yes, indeed. so i did get back from this long flight. i went to -- for the holidays, i ended up going with my sister halfway around the world to a place called the maldives. >> do you know where it is on the map? >> it's in the indian ocean. look at us. terrible hair. >> aw. >> but still it was a beautiful, great time. that's my sister hala. you have to fly to dubai, that's 14 or 12 hours. then you have a six-hour layover. and then you -- >> excuse me, is that you in the bikini? >> yes. >> you look fantastic. >> oh, that's -- >> you look so lovely, you do. >> anyway, so we spent a few days in the sun, and while i was there my mom is the one who's celebrating. it's new year's. that's me calling her. by the way, on new year's eve

>> team meredith.we're going to be back with one of the funniest men from "snl," darrell hammond. great impressions coming up. >> first these messages. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist crystal egger with the weather channel. we've got a lot of cold to talk about, snow ice, a little bit of everything coming through with our next storm. later today we're not going to see a whole lot coming together just yet with the exception of great lakes where lake effects snow will continue even into chicago, northwest indiana, scattered snow possibility for you. it's definitely cold in the northeast. the coldest air up across northern minnesota bottoming out this morning minus 30 to minus 40 degrees in places like international falls. that is brutally cold. we've got snow coming through utah and the colorado rockies with our next western system. that's also going to bring some light rain down to interstate 5, even into los angeles. the 5 may be a little wet for you on your commute today. 25 degrees in chicago. on

and with thanks to meredith, with that word of caution in mind, let's now return to meredith's interviewup at a pivotal moment in the kennedy presidency. >> let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort. >> reporter: it was the most tense period of john kennedy's presidency. the cuban missile crisis in october of 1962. the world was on the brink of possible nuclear war, and in her oral history audio tapes, jackie kennedy described how she begged her husband to keep his family close at hand. >> please don't send me anywhere. even if there's not room in the bomb shelter in the white house, please, i just want to be on the lawn when it happens. i just want to be with you and i want to die with you and the children do, too. >> reporter: and yet on the critical night before the cuban missile crisis was peacefully resolved, mimi says the president sent a limo to pick her up from wheaton college. she was in the white house, jackie and the kids were at glen ora, the kennedy's summer retreat, in virginia. >> the president wanted me to be there. >> reporter: that hardly seems the

the book is not about james meredith. so often book titles, subtitle carries a story and it is a soldier story. and army out of place, yes but again they did their job. i saw pieces of violence after that first morning but then we moved into a somewhat boredom, boredom to the point that even he himself, james meredith and eccentric character but a brave character, sort of chafed at being guarded as we regard him. now not moving him around from point to point as we were advised by john dower, my iconic civil rights hero in the civil rights division and nicholas katzanbach. he was to have as much freedom as any other student. well, yes but at the same time there were deer hunters and it was the season and we had -- we were constantly aware of who might come up onto the campus, didn't look like a student, had a bent mind in a deer rifle and we had to be constantly aware of that kind of threat to his life. he was a brave person. i was sitting in his dormitory room for the first couple of days reading the hate mail, the death

the book is not about james meredith. often book titles, the subtitle carries the story, and it is a soldier's story. an army at a place to yes. again, they did their job. i saw pieces of violence after that first morning, but then we move into someone boredom. a board to the point that even he himself, james meredith, an eccentric but brave character said -- sort of chafe at being guarded as we would guard him, not moving him around from point to point as we were advised by my iconic hero, a civil-rights hero, first assessments of rice division. he was to have as much freedom as any other student. well, yes. but at the same time there are deer hunters, and it was the season, and we were constantly aware of who might come upon to the campus. did not look like a student, had been to mine in a deer rifle and we had to be constantly aware of that kind of threat to his life. a brave person. i was sitting in his dormitory room the first couple of days reading the hate mail, the death threats. a very detailed. we know where you

hello, al. >> how good is it to have meredith back, al? >> so good. >> meredith has done this. cleanse. >> what is it? >> this is almond milk, strawberries, protein powder. i usually put a little almonds in it as well. >> mm-hmm. >> you want to put that down? >> yes, i'll put that down. >> okay. >> al? >> yes. >> by the way, this book is riveting. for those of us who've known you for a long timish it's funny how revealing it was even to us. were you at all uncomfortable with revealing that part of you? >> you know, i wrote it, and i worked with a terrific co-writer, a woman laura morton. but you know, i didn't think it was that big a deal, and then i started hearing from people and they say it's brutally honest. i thought, oh, wait a minute. maybe i shouldn't have put this in here. >> so why did you? because it is brutally honest. some of your stories are -- >> whenever i go out to speak or i'm at functions where people keep wanting -- what did you do? how did you do this? what did do you? i say maybe i should write it down. so that's what i decided to do. >> well, your dad was

clean meredith's fireplace. a red dot means love. pink is family. blue is other. that's kind of a cool idea. you can go on that app, and you can even click all the way around the world to find out what people in china are resolving and what people in europe and that kind of thing. >> would that encourage you to keep your resolutions seeing what other people are doing? >> no. i would be curious to see what other people want to do. >> yeah. >> what kind of changes they want to make. >> i bet so many people it's losing weight. they want to lose weight. >> yeah. >> there's actually a new app that's out. is that correct? >> this is a cool thing. this is the kind of deal where you punch in your height, your weight, and how much weight you want to lose over what kind of a period of time, and you type it in this app, and it's called my fit pal.com. they say this is the number one app for weight loss. it breaks it down to how many calories you need to eat per day to get your goal by whatever time you would like to reach your goal. >> i thought that was cool. >> you don't r

and here she is, meredith schener, congressional reporter for roll call. hi, meredith?i am so looking forward to rupert murdoch buying the chicago tribbun so they can start a war. >> bill: getting into the media wars? >> you know, i love that >> bill: is there anything murdoch doesn't own yet? >> i don't know. >> bill: seriously? >> not me yet. >> maybe cnn is next. >> are you for sale? >> no. >> he owns "the wall street journal." of course, he owns fox. i mean he owes -- >> now he owns the chuck schumer war on beyonce. >> meredith here with team press, peter ogburn and dan henning. hello, guys. >> phil bachus has the phones and cyprian boulding still recovering from yesterday's birthday. things seem shaky this morning. >> out of focus. >> happy belated birthday. >> he came stumbling in this morning, stinking like a tavern and birthday cake, which is how dan usually smells. >> probably should have sent him home. secretary of state, she is still secretary of state, hillary clinton, having a fair well lunch today with president obama. last night, she gave a fair well inte

let's look at meredith's closet.ne of the biggest problems people have with closets is they don't have enough storage, and they have too much in there. a great way to eliminate the problem is to double or triple your storage by adding a great adjustable storage system. this one is from organized living called freedom rail. it's very easy to install. it will double or triple your storage. >> what did you add? this extra layer right here? >> you can give yourself drawers, double hang, shelves for shoes. >> it comes at a cost. >> no, actually, this is a really inexpensive line. >> it is? >> you can start from $150 and go up from there and customize it to your needs. another great organizing tip is you can get a valet rod. you can pull out what you are wearing on the show the next day, hang it, and then get dressed. >> so you go and they'll measure this for you, though, because how do you know? >> yes. you know, there are on-line -- there's a design your own tool at organized living that you can design your own closet. e

this one i'm some want to get off stick on but i do know that meredith whitney predicted that this year would be it and the fact that we got to the end of one year is is of is is not data to me everything takes longer than you think it's going to take and i don't know why she said this year because we can just keep putting it off for a long time but but there are there are an ample examples of cities that are just broke and their states that are that are have their pension plans that are forty percent underfunded and you know i did the math and i point out the thirty you have to pay thirty thousand dollars per taxpayer in the contrary to bring the state pension plans up to speed so there's just there's problems everywhere and there's still people who are overpaid and still so i could be wrong kate could be right but i'm betting on mary you're betting on meredith ok and then quickly before we go i guess just to sum it all up what do you think is your biggest concern moving into two thousand and thirteen because you are kind of a perma there and the thing you're most excited about. i'm ex

what do you think of the bangs, meredith?k the bangs are great, and i think she's very brave to have cut her hair right before she's going to be seen by millions. that's really -- >> could have gone either way, right? >> yeah, exactly. what do you think? >> i love the bangs. i love the bangs. >> some people thought it was severe. >> i think it's soft and pretty. >> are bangs considered a very daring look? >> yes, yes. >> it's a big change. >> yes. >> what would be daring for a man if bangs are daring for a woman? >> i have no idea. shaving your head. i poofed my hair up. yes. maybe the poof. yeah, yeah, yeah. >> tell us who you like. there were a lot of great musicians. >> you know what i loved about beyonce? before she sang, she surveyed the crowd like a queen. she stood there, and she took it all in like i'm the queen, and i loved it when she pulled that ear piece out of her ear. i don't need this ear piece. i'm done with it. i'm going to belt it, and i'm going to give it. >> i love beyonce, but like you, i loved kelly clar

and are still so i could be wrong kate could be right but i'm betting on mary you're betting on meredith ok and then quickly before we go i guess just to sum it all up what do you think is your biggest concern moving into two thousand and thirteen because you are kind of a perma there and the thing you're most excited about. i'm excited about natural gas is still you give it away and you have cooties are still cheap and and here's a sector that are born everyone seems uninterested in and at the same time in the same mouthful say this is this is the energy that's going to fuel the future of the united states so i'm buying the equities right that seems pretty simple ok and i don't i going while the least exciting thing to me is it appears as though there's no mechanism to pull the fingers of the banking system and the people who are doing these benefits off of politics i can't see any mechanism to get them because you know if you try to stop the flow of capital into politics they'll just be met with more capital to fight the fight and i don't see how we get out of this until you know admin

what do you got, meredith?icine go down? >> a spoonful of sugar. >> very nice, very nice. >> she's got it. >> that's right. you know, mary poppins is number three on our list. it was nominated for 13 academy awards. it won five. they gave it the most nominated and winning disney movie ever. >> love it. back across. >> sylvia, newport, maine. >> which well-known candy exploded in popularity after it appeared in the 1982 blockbuster "e.t."? no looking. >> you want help from matt? >> no, reece's pieces. >> they got it. that exploded. >> they are very sharp, your audience. that's number two on our list. did you know that spielberg shot that film from a kid's eye level to really drive home that relationship between elliot and e.t.? >> love that. back across. >> what's your name? >> olga from bridgeport, connecticut. >> all right. finish the lyrics to this song from the animated classic "beauty and the beast." take a listen. ♪ ♪ the sun rising in the east ♪ tale as old as time >> tale as old as time, song as old as r

>> a girl named meredith vieira. ladies and gentlemen, meredith vieira.e for you having to carry the entire show. yes, indeed. yes, indeed. i did get back from this long flight. i went to -- for the holidays, i ended up going with my sister halfway around the world to a place called the maldives. look at us, terrible hair. still, a beautiful, great time. that's my sister, halla. you have to fly to dubai, that's 14 or 12 hours. then you have a six-hour layover. >> is that you in the bikini? >> yes. >> you look fantastic. you look so lovely, you do. >> anyway, so we spent a few days in the sun, and while i was there, my mom is the one who's celebrating. it's new years. that's my calling her. by the way, on new year's eve, my sister, my brother, and i were all tucked in dead asleep, and the only person partying was her! >> oh, my god. >> she's got it. >> you know what i did new year's eve? >> tell me. >> we had a party. supposed to be five or six people, ended up being 30 people. 6:30, coming at 7:00. 6:30, we have a fireplace in our family room, we leave ou

her twitter handle, by the way, is meredith --@meredith vieira. >> that's so original. >> what do yout to tweet. >> i'm not tweeting. i'm deleting that. good-bye. good-bye. how about i'm just going to write tweet me. come on. by the way, i just want to let you know how many -- no. this is what you're doing right here. >> okay. >> okay. tweet me. send. now, the thing is you got since yesterday -- >> right. >> -- an additional not just 1,000 twitter followers. not an additional 2,000, but an additional 3,000. >> why would -- how do you get followers if you are saying you don't tweet? i don't -- they're following me. >> they're following you. they're waiting patiently for you. >> we'll see. >> all right. >> play list thursday. >> go ahead. >> this is a good one. i think you're going to like it. it's old school. you may know it. >> wait, wait, wait. i know all about this music, okay? kathie lee and i have talked about your play list. >> get ready. this one is so good. get ready. >> we've hijacked -- >> what? >> take a listen. ♪ >> what is this? oh, no. note my love could hold you ♪ >> oh,

the safety of james meredith, the student in question gives him some guy. someone has been killed at this point in the right that is unfolding on the campus. and they are doing an elaborate dance where president kennedy is nonetheless insisting that a couple of things have to happen, and here's is how it unfolds. [laughter] >> what was president kennedy seeking to accomplish? and can you explain this ballet speak back there's so much having adam glad we got to be. you can hear a lot in the tone that you can't always get from reading the transcripts. and in that very important conversation he is asserting the right of the president of the united states to order the governor of mississippi and to restore order in a perilous situation, meredith is in danger of his life. parenthood, james meredith has been inspired to register for the university of mississippi when he heard president kennedy's inaugural address. so there's so much history in the air before playing the tape, tom leaned over and said i wish we could hear the chicken. the previous phone call, they

thomas, neighborhood parks counsel and we started to work with meredith and started exploring different option on different ways do this and former supervisor bev industity got really excited about the project and then when supervisor wine wiener came in he was incredible supportive and in my of 2012 we asked the neighborhood to see if they would be willing to make pledges towards the project and we have raised $475,000 in problems in just the neighborhood which has really been amazing it's basically a table at the farmers market that we man every saturday and since then senior -- has contacted us and told us about at the state level and we have had fashion partners and this is really an exciting public private partnership in our opinion and we have actually been contacted by different parkgrams in your districts to have how we have done our project and so we are really excited that this model that we have kind-of you know, strapped together is gaining mommentum in some other districts also and so as scott said, we invite you all to please come and see the market on saturday on 24th str

meredith, six months' pregnant lost their baby son. >> i think about him every day. old he would be and what he would be doing. >> the family you would have had. >> right. >> reporter: david huffman drove the other car. surveillance video from the charlotte bar showed he had the equivalent of 15 drinks in two hours. he stumbled outside and three minutes later was killed when his car crashed into the eastridges'. >> this is something that could have been prevented. you know, this is 100% preventable very outside boston a company called kin it ick is working on a project that could end drunk driving for all. all 16 major carmakers and the federal government split the funding. >> we've narrowed it down to two types of technology. one is breath-based. one is touch-based. >> reporter: either way, the goal is if someone is impaired behind the wheel, the car will not start. >> in our case, the car will start, lit not move. >> reporter: it sends an infrared light into the fingertip. it measures the tissue's alcohol content or a sensor mounted near the steering wheel can test

meredith, six months pregnant, pregtheir baby. >> i think about him every day.hink about, you know, how old he would be and what he would be doing. >> reporter: a family you would doin had. >> right. there are multiple times in that muht that this tragedy could d.ve been prevented. >> so we want to take this device and implement it in the car. >> reporter: bud glowg is leading a research team creating technology that could prevent 10,000 drunk driving deaths a runk dr unlike this existing breathalyzer test for convicted drunk drivers, these two new sensors would test anyone behind bee wheel. to the idea is to develop a sensor that can be implemented in the vehicle to prevent anybody that's above the legal limit, above the .08 legal limit from moving the vehicle and driving. >> reporter: the touch base sensor embedded in the start- lop button shines an infrared alght into the driver's finger. in a half second it measures the alcohol content in the tissue. the second type of technology is a breath-based sensor mounted near the steering wheel. it would measure mole

and then meredith, i know that you are a big fan of this product.t is not refreshing. >> land o lakes uses olive oil and sea salt. >> it's great. i can't have it right now. >> is it so much better than the regular kind of butter? >> shoppers loved it because it combines two ingredients that they're already using. >> exactly. >> butter always better than margarine too. healthier. >> we have the alexia sweet potato puffs. these are bursting with flavor, and they're trans-fat free. >> delicious. >> exactly. >> now you love? >> these are delicious. >> so excited. >> what makes these special? >> they're the duncan hines red velvet cupcake mix. they come with this great cream cheese frosting mix, plus consumers said that they were really easy to make. >> would you like a bite? >> i can't. >> why? >> because i'm on a cleanse. >> you told me to drink wine. >> this is the yoplait smoothie with greek yogurt. >> it has dairy? i can't do that either. >> shoppers said it was healthy and refreshing. >> i'm sure it is. >> i'm always into these kind of products. th

meredith, thank you for filling in. was it fun? >> it's been great.

. >> meredith smith has a plan. >> i will embrace the cold and wait. >> even marylands' governor has tips. >> i take them up my coat -- >> martin o'malley says a second innaguration is a big deal. >> the reelection was a more historic accomplishment. >> here are some of the crowd for maryland state ball. this ball goes until 1:00 am but many leave earlier to head downtown for festivities. the best advoiceice is to leave plenty of extra time. there are a lot of road ssds closed and yo uwant to deal with any unexpected delays. >> a candlelight celebration was held at the national building museum. mr. and mrs. obama joined mr. and mrs. biden. not everything went as planned. >> a truly magnificent michelle obama and the man she hangs out with, my friend president barack obama. >> the president and the first lady eventually did walk out. [laughter] >> and mr. obama addressed the crowd and thanked his supporters. >> make sure you know what we're celebrating -- is not the election or the swearing in of a president. what we're doing is celebrating each other and this incredible nation we cal

. >> hey, meredith. >> you tutor... you tutor for the s.a.t, right? >> yeah, for the s.a.t.er standardized prep. pretty much, i teach people how to answer multiple choice tests for a living. >> which makes you, in theory, a great contestant here. >> in theory. i hope so. and i brought one of my students, zach, with me. >> zach is right there. nice to see you, zach. [applause] so... sean... sean, if you do well, obviously, that will impress zach. >> it will. >> if you do badly, zach, what are you... >> well, i mean, i just know he's gonna do well. i hope he keeps teaching me after he wins a million. >> there you go. [applause] and if you don't do well, you owe him his money back. you know that as well, so...

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. >> [as barack obama] well, meredith, uh, you know, we have an important election coming up.he very nature and fabric of our country will be decided. uh, it's important, you know? so that's my obama. >> that's very good. >> i don't want to, like, be-- you know, it's a bipartisan program. [as george w. bush] so i'll do my bush, you know. today, uh, i'm here-- time-out, folks. there are words floating through the air in front of me. i'm freakin' out. [laughter] so those are my presidents. >> they're very good, daniel. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] i've got to-- i may never--i may never be on tv ever again.