and mikko brando, who's been a kind of co-host with us on all of these shows. nd, longtime employee, best man at his wedding. mikeco, the son of the late, great marlon brando. >> as far as i know, they were supposed to all meet there tomorrow morning at forest lawn, the family. but no confirmed -- >> larry: is it a funeral? >> that's a $10,000 question, isn't it? >> larry: where's the body? >> wish i knew. >> larry: you don't know? as close a friend as you were. if there's no body, no funeral, what are they going to do? >> if they're going to do that at all. >> larry: you're not even sure they're going to forest lawn? >> correct. >> larry: why are all the police cars going? what do you know, roger? you always know something. >> well, i thought maybe they were doing something today. sort of an end-run around the press and the public, which would be a smart thing to do. and they may have actually -- may have actually happened already today. these people need to grieve in private a little bit. so i think it's -- it's more than likely it's happened today. there's so

mikko brando returns tonight, long-time friend and employee of michael jackson. in fact, michael was best man at his wedding, godfather to his daughter and son of late marlon brando. michael jackson is dead three weeks ago today. you've been on this show a number of time. has it settled in for you? >> not really. i go through spurts where i get emotional when i hear his voice, when i see his photograph. it hits me. but i try to move on. >> okay. we're going to show that shocking footage from the 1984 pepsi commercial shot during which michael's hair caught fire and obtained and made public by "us weekly." you were there. tell us what you saw and felt and did as we show this. >> we were shooting a pepsi commercial for the upcoming tour. the victory tour. and it was at the shine auditorium in downtown l.a. i was standing stage left. and when he came into my sight, i just saw him. i saw his hair -- it was on fire. my instincts were to run out there and put my hands over his head, put him out. i did it. i think the fire marshals were. there they asked us to move about

the first one there was jackson's longtime friend, mikko brando, son of actor, marlon brando. >> i justup to him, put my hands, shook his head, sent him down to the ground and tried to do the best i could. >> reporter: you can see as jackson gets up, his head is significantly burned, down to the scalp. >> he initially felt a very hot area and couldn't distinguish whether it was the hot lights or something was happening. and after a second or two, he felt the intense onset of pain, fell to the ground and several people came to put out the fire and apply ice to his head. >> reporter: days after the incident, jackson unsuccessfully tried to get the footage released. his record label, cbs records, released this photo. ♪ pepsi eventually ended up releasing the ad, which featured jackson and his brothers. jackson would later claim the accident and subsequent medical treatment led to an addiction to prescription drugs. >> as you may already know, after my tour ended, i remain out of the country undergoing treatment for a dependency on pain medication. this medication was initially prescribed t

mikko brando. >> he made you wear michael jackson's hat during an interview. >> he put it on during one. it was too small for me. >> that had to be a little bit weird. >> and -- >> it's not a jewish thing. >> yeah. yeah. not exactly the -- >> we owned the building where they do the dancing. >> but you don't do the dance. >> no. >> it's an interesting story. i'm wondering when i watch you if you care. >> i care. this is the rule -- 52 years of doing this and you have to do this too because you're responsible for the show. once that light goes on, i'm there 100%. i'm doing the best i can. now, i may rather want to do something else, but once that light goes on, we have an excellent staff, good producers, they keep the show humming. my job -- >> you do for sure. >> you don't throw it away. >> when heidi and spencer show up on your set, do you know before hand who these people are, do you bother yourself with that kind of minutiminutia, do keep up with that sort of thing? >> who are you talking about? no, we had them on once. that story, i don't understand. i have seen celebrity. you know,

the first one there was jackson's longtime friend, mikko brando, son of actor marlon brando. >> i went up to him and shook his head, threw him down to the ground and tried to do the best i could. >> reporter: you can see as jackson gets up his head is significantly burned, down to the scalp. >> he initially felt a very hot area and couldn't distinguish whether it was the hot lights or something was happening, and after a second or two, he fell the intense onset of pain, fell to the ground and several people came to put out the fire and apply ice to his head. >> days after the incident, jackson unsuccessfully tried to get the footage released. his record label, tbs records, belie released this photo. pepsi eventually ended up releasing the ad, which featured jackson and his brothers. jackson would later claim the accident and subsequent medical treatment led to an addiction to prescription drugs. >> as you already know, after my tour ended, i remained out of the country, undergoing treatment for a dependency on pain medication. this medication was initially described to soothe the excru

>> reporter: we're inside michael jackson's bedroom suite with mikko brando, our tour guide.n, it was okay but when he looked it, he wanted his privacy. >> reporter: this is one of the bathrooms. there are two bathrooms in this suite. this is the area that michael jackson slept sometimes. there's staircases up there, a small bedroom up there. he slept on both levels? >> he felt whenever he felt like sleeping. he had a choice of two. >> reporter: this is a massive bedroom suite. let's get to all of it. out here is the view. it's gorgeous. you were married out there. obviously, it doesn't get much better than that for a few outside your room. >> no. there was a gazebo out there by the tree. we got married there. everyone was out. it was beautiful, the flowers, the grass, everything was immaculate. >> reporter: the house now sun furnished, obviously. give us a sense of how different it was fully furnished. >> it was the place. i've seen a lot of houses in my life but this was the house. >> reporter: you could see here are the other bathroom and the big tub. real quickly before w

. >> larry: i see mikko brando in there helping to put this out. you were covering that. >> i was the local reporter at abc station in los angeles. we've never seen that view before. only saw a grainy image from the front. realize for ten seconds perhaps michael jackson's hair was on fire, he didn't even know it. when people realize it, you see they came to his aid, but he had second and third degree burns, tremendous amount of pain. had to undergo surgeries, skin grafts. took demerol for the pain. >> larry: that we knew all about, right? >> we knew about that. and we also knew later that he became dependent upon demerol. you look at that moment in the last days of his life and wonder if that marked his undoing, unknowingly. >> larry: that was a commercial for pepsi? >> that was a commercial he was shooting with the jacksons. that was, i believe, the sixth take. the pyrotechnics went off too early. they were supposed to -- when he was down the stairs but he was at the top of the stairs and they went off too soon and a spark hit his hair. he had hai

his good friend, mikko, brando, will join us live. >>> now, to the economy. >> there's news there.ths ago, the words banks and bailouts seemed to go together. now, jpmorgan reports an excess of $2.7 billion in profits. bianna golodryga is down on the floor of the new york stock exchange, joining us for some context here. good morning, bianna. >> reporter: good morning, chris. >> big numbers coming out from the banks. big numbers on wall street. yesterday, the stock market, all week long, has been strong. what's driving all this? >> reporter: chris, what we're seeing is banks are finally doing what they're supposed to be doing. they're making aot of money. right? we saw the stellar number come out of jpmorgan, on the heels of the number out of goldman sachs. does the reversal in the bank system mean we're going to see reversal for consumers and for the economy in general? and the answer is not really. the two aren't really direcy related. if you look at where the banks are suffering, they're suffering on the consumer side. jpmorgan announced they suffered losses double from a year a

the first one there was jackson's long-time friend mikko brando, son of marlon brando. >> i went up toe best i could. >> you could see as jackson gets up, his head is significantly burned down to the scalp. >> he initially felt very hot area and couldn't distinguish whether it was the hot lights or something was happening. after a second or two, he felt the intense on set of pain, fell to the ground, and several people came to put out the fire and apply ice to his head. >> days after the incident, michael unsuccessfully tried to get the foot annual released. his record label released this photo. ♪ the pepsi generation ♪ >> pepsi ended up releasing the ad which featured jackson and his brothers. jackson would claim the accident and subsequent medical treatment led to the addiction to prescription drugs. >> you may already know, after my tour ended, i remained out of the country undergoing treatment for a dependency on pain medication. this medication was initially prescribed to stop the excruciating pain that i was suffering after recent reconstructive surgery on my scalp. >> possible d