. >>> molly johnson planted a sappling in her backyard 25 years later molly and the tree have grown tall and donated it to e doc square this saturday afternoon. >>> they used to give us trees in arbor day in a little bag did you get one? >> i planted it and it died. it didn't do anything. >>> oh well. >>> top stories are all straight ahead on wbz the news at 5:00 starts right now. >>> breaking news now at 5:00, one person killed when a car crashes in the middle of a busy road the latest on the brazilian soccer team crashes in columbia, the news coming in with several survivors. >>> two local teams winning a spot for the national championship, they may not make it the high cost getting in the way how you can help out. >>> it is wbz news this morning. >>> good morning, 5:00 thanks for joining us i'm chris. temperatures could create icy roads in some spots let's get to danielle niles with this storm watch weather alert. >>> those icy spots will primarily be confined to well north and west of boston you can see the pink showing up on the map where it is just cold enough all it takes is a lit

. >>> molly johnson planted a sappling giving to her on arbor day in kindergarten, they have groan quite tall and she donated that evergreen to the town the tree will be lit in the square. >> i always loved when you got that tree in the bag and you planted. >> very excited until the squirrels dug it up and ate it. >> it was a little dry. keep it right here on wbz your top stories are straight ahead on this tuesday morning we'll be right back. fact. people spend less time lying awake with aches and pains with advil pm than with tylenol pm. gentle, non-habit forming advil pm. for a healing night's sleep. what makes thermacare different? two words: it heals. how? with heat. unlike creams and rubs that mask the pain, thermacare has patented heat cells that penetrate deep to increase circulation and accelerate healing. let's review: heat, plus relief, plus healing, equals thermacare. the proof that it heals is you. i really did save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. and great service. over seventy-five years. wait. seventy-five years? that is great. speaking of great, check

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roundtable, bengie sarlin, to my left is an nbc news political reporter, molly ball covers politics for the "the atlantic" and jason johnsonbenji, you can start, you've been working on this all week. tell me why a person should be afraid of steve bannon in the white house, in the west wing? >> well, this is the concern. there hasn't been someone like steve bannon in a republican administration. he's been this very kind of burn it all down, inflammatory site that's had pretty aggressive efforts to play up the alt-right and try to bring in this audience that really gets into issues of white nationalism, that you discussed earlier. and that's a scary prospect for a lot of republicans, who really have instinctively recoiled from this. during the campaign, they try to paint the distinction, where, we love the mike pence part of the campaign and we love it when he sounds like a normal republican. and we'll just kind of ignore that breitbart wing that's talking about strange muslim conspiracies and talking about banning muslims. you're not going to be able to do that when it's one of the most powerful people in the white house, w

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molly: barry goldwater. curtis: exactly. at thahat time, the traditional south was democratic. wasas the north that republican. the red states were democrat, the blue states were republican. lyndon johnson betrayed them, the seven democrats, when he signed the civil rights bill and the voting rights act. the traditional republicans, who were out of office -- basically richard nixon -- began to appeal to those voters. that was the beginning of what we called dog whistle politics, saying that we are going to restore your dignity, we will give back your states' rights. you have to realize, this is after 200 something years of slavery, after jim crow. jim crow, only in 1954. slowly over the years, republicans have been telling these people, we will give your dignity back. -- you have been told that your problem is because of the blacks, the immigrants, people of different religions, etc. so this has been cooking in the oven for a number of years. ronald reagan came in with his neoliberal politics that decimated the american economy, destroying households, destroying incomes. people are out of work. it has never happened before that children could not do as well or better than their parents.

senator is challenging the incumbent ron johnson, the man who beat him, fine gold looks like he is doing pretty good. the average suggests that what do you think, molly. >> this is fascinating people thought this was over weeks ago. now everybody. >> talking about the national republican senatorial. >> they have given up on him. >> they have given up. everybody thought it was done. fine gold popular figure. hillary clinton is ahead. all thall of a sudden people are back in fighting this one out because everything is moving in johnson's direction. i do think fine gold will still pull it out. he has the momentum and advantages just in terms of the state keeping it close. >> agree. latest polls have them in a statistical tie. it's possible that jobs can pull out a win on this. >> tough state. >> it is a tough state. >> and, of course, trump has gotten closer there. and i guess has gone in. >> there yeah. >> which suggests. >> closer. yeah. it's closer for trump but he is still not necessarily going to win there. >> okay. let's look at indiana. indiana evan bayh, the former senator went back out to run. question about whether he lives there and the real

molly. fun. >> not jill. >> she never had a biscuit let alone a sip of bourbon. >> well, guys. rereached the end of the show. spcial thanks to jill -- special thanks to jill dobson, kennedy and greg johnsondo you think i petered out on the show? >> you killed it. >> it wasn't exactly -- kenny what do you do when you don't have the sharp ending? do you fade away. >> i keep talking. "special report" is next. >>> the revolving door at trump tower just keeps spinning as the businessman turned president-elect continues the most important hiring process of his life. this is "special report." >>> good evening. welcome to washington. donald trump says he has agreements to fill major spots in his administration. the stream of traffic into and out of trump's headquarters in new york continues unabated. many are names would you recognize. let's get the latest on the comings and goings tonight. peter is outside trump tower. >> reporter: good evening. today nearly a dozen republicans