stay tuned for the one and only montel.s is how we do it. business partners, they were brothers. competitive... stubborn... and always pushing each other, the way only brothers can. ♪ one hundred years later, their spirit lives on. . kennedy: welcome back. montel williams suffers from multiple sclerosis and benefitted from medical marijuana, he talked about that very openly and recently visited the missouri capital with film crew to promote hb 800 that would promote the growing and distribution of marijuana for qualifying medical patients in that state, and the award-winning talk show legend montel williams joins me. good to have you. >> always good to be here. kennedy: you look fantastic, the marijuana is working? >> the marijuana and i stay on top of my illness. kennedy: has to be disciplined approach. >> we think about what's happened in the last 15 years of combat around the world, we've not gone into meet the enemy with the arsenal of tools we need to win the battle. i look at what i do and i need an arsenal of tools i

[ cheers and applause ] my goodness, sir. >> montel, how are you? >> good to see you. >> how are you? >> good to see you again. good. >> good to see you. how are you? >> first of all, thank you, sir. thank you. first of all, i mean, your service to this country is just indescribable. you have taken on everybody -- organized crime, drug cartels. you name it -- you have taken it on and beaten it down and really done one of the best jobs, i think, of anybody in this country doing so. now you're taking on identity theft, sir? >> well, you have to look at the shifting nature of crime. >> okay. >> this is the fastest growing form of crime. it's insidious, because people can steal your identity and you don't even know about it. >> what made you aware of this to focus on it? >> well, i've been in the security-consulting business now for 10, 11 years -- since i left being mayor. so i've heard hundreds of complaints like this from individuals, from businesses. the whole area of cybertheft has just been growing and growing since -- since i've been in this busi

>> listen, montel, listen. my wife tells me i look good but i don't need her to tell me i look good. i used to think i was fat and sexy. now i just think i'm sexy. i don't know. i'm just going for it. >> so everyone understands -- you did the exercises every day. >> every day. >> you took the containers. >> mm-hmm. >> you sized your food, made sure your portions were right. tell me the truth. did you starve once? >> i didn't starve not one time. >> were you weak because you didn't have anything to eat? >> i did not. in fact, sometimes i had too much food. it's 21 days. these little containers here -- it's so easy. if i understood this 10 years ago, i promise you, montel, i would never have gotten to 373 pounds, because what i understood a meal was -- fill up the whole plate until i couldn't see any color of the plate. that was my meal. and i'm a buffeter, and, so, what a buffeter means, it's, it's a -- there's a club of us and, so, america, if you go to buffets twice a week, you're a buffeter. [ laughter ] >> d

and if the voters are saying it, and by the way, my friend montel williams was on last week.williams who bless his heart battles ms, his daughter is a lymphoma survivor dealing with that form of cancer. you've got people who have glaucoma, aids, you take cancer alone, and the things that medical cannabis are able to do improve sleep, anti-nausea, anti-vomiting, it helps with migraines, these are things that are medically proven. what is your problem with that? >> the palliative effect is be addressed through the fda. they have legalized three medicines that have components of marijuana in it. there are drugs that are already out there. it's a very dangerous precedent to let the state population to vote on this. opium, for instance, kennedy, a key component in morphine, we didn't vote on that at the state level. it went through the proper channels. >> it did? you know opium was made illegal and why? >> yes, i do. kennedy: because of immigrants and all of the drugs we prohibited through the drug hysteria have been essentially at root racist. >> racist that's really taking it a

. >> and bri talk show host montel williams tweeted this out. his support for the school writing #pray for fhs. grew up in maryland. hang in there frederick high. thoughts and prayers. remember #fhs strong stick together. we'll have the latest development on abc news starting at 4:00 and you can get instant updates on our website and facebook and twitter pages. >> turn to some breaking news now coming in from the hill where house speaker john boehner just announced that pope francis will address congress on september 24th. and he will be the first pope to do so. the pope is planning to also visit new york and philadelphia during his trip to the u.s. >> switching gears now, talk about the forecast. an arctic chill is moving into the area today. temperatures are expected to fall as the day goes on. chief meteorologist doug hill is here with a look at our first forecast. cold one out there. >> yesterday, jummy we had temperatures in the mid to upper fifty in some spots and we knew it was coming with a cold front. it's here. temperatures are falling

you have seen spokesmen like montel williams saying you can get a loan and now the government wants toayday lenders from taking advantage of consumers. >> "the new york times" says at the core of the problem is the fact that payday lenders get around individual state regulations that are meant to protect often times poor people from abusive practices. i don't know if you realize this. sometimes the fees and interest amount to more than the principle that these people are actually taking out. so now the federal regulators are coming in and saying we need to hold these lenders more accountable. they want to do things for example, like force the lender to make sure the borrower can repay the loan within two weeks. now, this is a very complicated issue. the industry will say, hey, we're helping poor people. we're the only source of financing. a bank isn't going to lend them the money. there has to be a balance between providing a service for these people who often on average make $22,000 a year and abusive practices, right. these people are going to these payday lenders for a medium of ten

first through third graders will attend mosser elementary and fourth and fifth grader, rose montell ementry and childhood sirnt. >>> pennsylvania pushed through a bill to privatize liquor stores, but their success will probably stop there. the house called for closing most of the state's lecher stores and selling off 300 retail licenses. a retail bill passed two years ago and got nowhere in the senate. this bill has many problems. >> i do not believe it provides the consumer convenience that folks are looking for and i'm not really sure that it would lower the prices of the products that they're looking for. so i -- those are, i think, valid reasons to vote against this bill today. >> opponents also say thousands could lose their jobs. governor wolf has promised to veto the bill. instead he wants to change the existing system by adding more sunday hours and also allowing liquor sales inside supermarkets. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> no snow day for a lot of students at the jersey shore. their school bus had to navigate throu

today on "living well with montel"... >> something was terribly, terribly wrong. >> announcer: when the fraudulent bills started showing up, it was bad. >> i had not applied for any of these things. >> announcer: what happened next was worse. >> the woman told me, "the credit cards have been activated from your home phone." >> announcer: 30 years ago, she was a hardworking single mom fresh from college, so why couldn't she open a line of credit? >> finding out that i was $112,000 in debt was devastating. >> announcer: three decades later, it happened again. it's identity theft, one of the fastest growing crimes in america. it's not just a fraudulent charge that your bank or credit-card company will fix. it's so much more. >> the police could not help me. >> announcer: once thieves have

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