hi, i'm montel williams and i want to welcome you to my brand-new show, living well with montel!ing and applause] go ahead, have a seat, guys, have a seat. i'm really excited about this because i'm going to be giving you brand-new ways to live well physically, emotionally, financially and spiritually. now, luckily i happen to have a very good friend who knows the spirit inside and out and there is no way i could start a new adventure without her. you know who she is. >> sylvia: i grew up in a middle-class family in kansas city, missouri. at three years old they told me that i knew who was coming, who was going to ring the phone... at five, i was sitting on the couch, facing two of my great-grandmothers and i saw their faces run... which scared me to death. not knowing, at the time, until my maternal grandmother-- thank god i had her, who was a psychic-- said that means that they're going to "pass over to god's house," is how she put it, and within two weeks both of them were dead. at 71 years of age, doing it for 53 years professionally, if i didn't have passion for it i would be

welcome him to living well with montel.ere. >> todd: how are you? >> you know, todd, when you hear this story, and you hear this, you think to yourself, first off, you know, "it will never happen to me," that's one. and number two, people don't really, you know, hone in on the fine points of how this whole process started. let's talk a little bit about that, because that's one of the techniques that these guys have gotten smart enough to understand how to do now, right? >> yeah, this is part of the kind of normal scam, montel, though in this case the packages actually arrived to eileen and mike, to their doorstep. but in other cases they're just doing some charges, kind of testing the waters, and you don't notice that they just did another gas station, just did a fill-up, got a wireless service. >> so they can take your credit card, go ahead, two dollar here, eight dollars there, $10 here... and you know, just like eileen, you get the bill, "ahh, i must've forgot." you pay it. so they keep watching those people who are not

. >> reporter: year after year, baltimore native montel williams lobes to legalize medical marijuana. williams uses it to relieve symptoms of ms. >> i have been living with neuropat thick pain in my lower extreme might advertise, my face and side for 10 years. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, period. it doesn't go away. >> reporter: williams says the mayo clinic and others know it works but opponents worry that it sends the wrong message. >> i don't care if it's for medical use or personal use, when you smoke pot you get high and when you get high you are impaired. >> reporter: people who are suffering ask others to understand it helps them eat and sleep and survive. >> the use of marijuana is keeping you alive. >> yes. that in combination with other medications, that is keeping me alive. >> reporter: vic carter, wjz eyewitness news. >> montel williams is part owner of several medical marijuana dispensaries. >>> next up this morning on wjz. >> good morning, i'm alex demetrick. politics mixes with first amendment rights. that story as eyewitness news continues. >> good morning, i'm meg

. >> reporter: montel williams lobbied to legalize it.nts wants to use it to counter m.s. >> i have been living with neuropathic pain in my lower extremities, my face and my side, for 10 years, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, period. it doesn't go away. >> reporter: the mayo clinic and others know it works. but opponents worry that legalizing marijuana sends the wrong message. >> i don't care if it's for medical use or personal use. when you smoke pot, you get high. and when you get high, you are impaired. >> reporter: people who are suffering ask others to understand, it helps them eat and sleep ask survive. >> so marijuana is keeping you alive? >> yes. and that in combination with other medications. that's what's keeping me alive. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: it is important to note that montel williams is part owner of a marijuana dispensary in sacramento. and his name is on a license application for a dispensary in washington. the use of the drug is legal to varying degrees in 16 states and in washington, d.c. >>> time now for a quick lo

. >> it is important to note that montel williams is part of a dispensary in sacramento and his nameensed application a dispensary in washington, d.c. the use of a drug is legal to varying degrees in 16 states and in washington, d.c. >>> a terrifying accident in western pennsylvania, two sunbathers are run over by a car with their cousin behind the wheel. police say the 13-year-old girls fell asleep while lying on the middle of the road and the cousin turned on to the road without noticing them. the girls are expected to survive and the cousin will not face any charges. >>> a couple of college baseball teams showed the competition doesn't stop when there's a rain delay. nebraska and cal state baker's field matched each other move to move even as the rain fell. you would have to wonder how long they spent practicing this and not baseball. >> i liked the game. >> that's better than the mascots racing around. >> the coastal rivalry, yes. >> i think they're sending some of that rain from nebraska our way. a bunch of rain from ohio to kentucky, west virginia and yes it's beginning to move

montell bruce is playing host of the sky running world series for the first time europe's highest mountain has always been one of the most sought after climbs for their belts around the world and the inaugural sky race where their fleets ran not walked to speak turned out to be a great spectacle. starting from thirty five hundred metres above sea level human simply couldn't absorb oxygen properly that means breathing is hard work in itself but this guy runners get in their way they're just a nation the summit of mount. the more experienced runners started from two thousand three hundred meters with this summit touching the sky at five thousand six hundred and forty two they quibble and off fifty football fields italy's market i guess perry won the first race of the season at the vertical kilometer event and was eager to repeat his success but it was his fellow reigning skier run a world series champion luis i'll bet there are now and outsider who braved the snow and moved mountains to stop the clock at three hours and forty one minutes the race was a little longer than i'm used to and the

spaniard louis hernandez set a new record in reaching the peak of pressure on europe's highest mountain montell . incredible pictures that's coming up but we kick off with football where athletico madrid have been celebrating their second year opening title in three years to hugo simone east charges dining fellow spanish side. in bucharest in truth it was a one sided contest from start to finish in the romanian capital colombian hot shot falcao scoring twice in the first half the put his side firmly in control the striker becoming the first player in history to win the competition with two different clubs into having tasted victory with porto in twenty eleventh diego julie completing the scoring with five minutes to go meaning the final score to athletico three nil bilbo no need to pick themselves up dust themselves on a per for the comp but del rey final against barcelona later this. year was here because it's going to express the joy that i feel now after everything that was said when i arrived at athletico madrid some people say to that it was a mistake just sign me and i would like to say n

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failed three years ago because of a public backlash american lawyer eric montell over believes the timing and planning of the trial is questionable. one has to wonder why now you know that within twenty four hours of president obama taking office issued an executive order to close guantanamo bay is the most powerful leader in the world and that did not occur for what reason i have no idea three years later on the eve of another election i think what they're trying to do is take that issue off the table and say well we're at least trying to proceed in an orderly fashion but i think it's a fairly thin veil and people will be able to see through it does a tremendous injustice to the memory of those victims are not leben i think it does a tremendous injustice to the thing that we call the justice system in america they have no plan and it's taken three years to get to this particular point and this is going to be another tremendous and sat waste of us resources on a matter that can be resolved in a number of different ways and they're just such not to do so. the relations between china and th

. >> reporter: year after year, baltimore native, montel williams, lobbies to legalize marijuana.ms. >> i have been -- living with neuropathic pain in my lower extremities and my face and my side 10 years. 24-hours a day. 365 days a year. >> reporter: williams is saying that the national insist today on drug abuse and others know it works. but opponents are worrying that it sends the wrong message. >> i don't care if it is for medical use or personal use. when you smoke pot, you get high. when you get high, you are impaired. >> reporter: people who are suffering and others the helps them eat and sleep and survive. >> the use of marijuana is keeping you alive. >> yes. that in combination with other medications. >> reporter: vic carter, eyewitness news. >> montell williams is part owner of several dispensarys. >>> earlier this morning, connecticut started the 17th state, became the 17th state to legalize it to some degree. >>> coming up on eyewitness news saturday morning -- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to eyewitness news saturday morning -- it is 7:32. i'm gigi barnett. >>

cases in the past where there have been questions as to whether the informant like the person mr montell in california was actually tasked to go and. individuals on and coincidentally or maybe not so much is when they got to court the recording the very initial recording were lost or absent so the only recordings the government had to show in evidence or the later recording and the key recording than any kind of entrapment defense the very early recording between the informant and the target is that's when you know for sure whether that person was predisposed predisposed to commit a criminal act or not so that has also raised suspicions among some members of the public as to the evidence most in those recordings are missing i think those are all really important questions hopefully they find the answers as they do dig a little bit deeper into this case are as he's associate professor of law at texas wesleyan university thanks so much and you. well let's go now to taking a look at some of the changes in terms of delegate count for the few republican candidates left in the race now the num

now to montel williams. how does all this play at out? >> hollywood is quite differently. a lot of active people in the community there. president obama was greeted as a hero at george clooney's home event. >> now let's talk about mitt romney. first, joe biden apologize to the president about the marriage, saying he should not have brought it up before the president had a chance to talk about it. do we buy that it? . >> it seems to . he and president obama have a good working relationship, but are not necessarily close friends. -- it seems to be legitimate. >> when it comes to mitt romney, he is getting a little heat. there's a story coming out that he believed -- bullied gay classmates in high school. >> it sets him up as a rich kid that people tend to resent in high school. even though high school was quite some time ago, we are talking about'the s to of years. -- we're talking about the candidate's formative years. romney says he does not remember the incident, but the victim sure does, as well as other people involved. it makes him look and sensitive and a little bit o

these four gentlemen, i've got dave, herb, montel, and don. in a putting contest. guys, how did you do? >> great. >> you did not do great. you missed everything. i saw it. right there. no? >> no. >> they might have won something but they got a few more holes to go on this beautiful afternoon. i tell you what, guys, a great day for mary's center. look at tower cam and you see plenty of sunshine. it is going to be a perfect evening. you guys might be golfing until about 7:00 or 7:30. don't worry. the sun goes down at 8:15. we'll be back in a couple minutes. >> thanks. appreciate it. >> see you guys. >> oh, boy. he's -- >> going to sink one. >> i thought he did too. >>> still ahead yet another tragedy for the kennedy family. what an autopsy report is revealing about the death of robert kennedy jr.'s estranged wife. >>> and people in the district do a double take as google shows ♪ [ male announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller

montel williams has testified how it's helped him with his illness. i had a navy seal friend who died of cancer. there is no question but that marijuana, which he smoked, helped him with his appetite when he wasn't eating and his cancer took him from 215 pounds to 115. and his grandmother said, it's the only thing that makes him laugh and it's the only thing that makes him eat. and when he was dying, my friend, i wanted him to have whatever he could have to make his illness less damaging to him and less difficult to deal with. so i rise here to assure people that it won't affect your states, it will just be those states where it was voted in. it will save resources and be able to give our government the proper direction to use its resources, to protect us against heroin, crack and cocaine. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. who seeks time? the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. frank: mr. chairman, i salute -- i seek to strike the last word. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five