>>> coming up, the new head of myspace. you remember myspace. mike jones with the world's hardest job, taking on facebook. and the world's toughest boss. that was selina lo's reputation. we have two stories of turnaround. our reporters, editor of mashable ben parr and kym mcnicholas of "forbes." this week on "press: here." >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. you know what's a great story? the comeback. once on top of the world, the fall and then the return. defying all odds to beat the current champion. almost never happens. oh, sure, it happens in "rocky" movies, and from time to time in real life. the red sox, the only team to battle back from three games down to win the american league championship. >> it's me, man. >> reporter: famous hollywood comebacks, john travolta or robert downey jr. they did it against all odds. >> i don't want to see -- >> reporter: but in high-tech the comeback is a rare story indeed. apple did it, going from all but bankrupt to the world's most influential tech company. and now myspace is going to try it.

myspace account making it easier to keep up with all the updates.connect with facebook button will appear on the myspace home page. both companies say plans for additional content sharing are in the works. it's myspace's way of admitting facebook is the king of social media. a trip to magic contingency domestic doesn't mean you have to leave social networking behind they have partnered with tour visiting walt disney world and disneyland can check in at different locations. they can earn disney branded stamps and pins. found a great restaurant and want to spread the word there's a new app for that. google hot spot allows users to rate and recommend 50 million locations around the world from your computer or android phone. you can also access recommendations from contacts within your hot spot network. creators say hot spot integrates the same concepts behind google places but in a more trustworthy user friendly medium. i'm barbara hall and you're now clicked in. >> also this week google announced boutiques.com allows users to search the latest trend i

updates are going to appear on myspace. at its peak, myspace had more than 100 million active and registered users but that has gone down significantly since facebook started gaining popularity a few years ago. >>> misleading statements sometimes flat-out lies, they are the complaints filed in a bay area court against a very popular online retailer. overstock.com. mark sayre with the claims that have overstock under fire. >> reporter: overstock.com bills itself as a site where you can find brand name merchandise at a significant savings over other online and traditional real tailers. >> not every time when they say 70% off is it 70% off. >> reporter: but this shopper says in his experience that's not always the case. >> recently i bought a mattress topper and it said it was 70% off of the standard price, but it was really maybe 10% different. >> reporter: he is not alone. the district attorneys in 7 northern california counties have filed a lawsuit against overstock.com. the suit alleges the company employs misleading measu

those of you on myspace can logon to your facebook case through myspace and you can port your content back and forth between the two sites. meanwhile, lots of news moving to markets today. from washington, house republicans blocked a bill that would have extended jobless benefits beyond the holiday season. 2 million people stand to lose their benefits starting december 1. back here in the bay area, home sales continue to stagger. sales in santa clara count dropped 29% last month. sales in san francisco fell 21%. and for the first time all year, home priceless also fell. home tracker data quick blaming still high unemployment with the end of those home-buying tax credits. nonetheless, investors still have an appetite for stocks, even when scold by of all things, an american auto company. gm back on the exchange today going public in the second largest american ipo ever. gm stock jumping about 3.5% as it reappears. stocks strong across the board today. every index you see gained 1.5%. tech stocks lead the way higher on strong earnings and optimism about the future. we have more optimism

myspace is plng to install a facebook like button.yspace users logon with the facebook i.d.s. my space currently has 100 million users. facebook hasbout 500 million. >> take that. >> take it. >>> still ahead on news4 at 4:00, a driver in major distress crashes into several cars. >>> a trav accident in massachusetts saves a man's life. a very strange story. here is janet woo. >> reporter: oil tank repairman richard sylvia was driving down a busy road when he popped some raisins into his mouth. he choked and passed out. >> when he blacked out, the truck came across traffic. >> reporter: smashing into this car whose driver is still shaken. >> i see this big trk coming at my car. it was so scry. >> reporter: she tried to avoid him but her car was totaled. she only has these mangled license plates left. the oil truck then struck this white van and kept going. >> he was coming from over there. and he came up here and crashed on our lawn andent along here and took out thesign. he crashed right here and left when his airbag went off. >> repor

myspace has created a matchup with facebook.an sync their status updates on both social networking sites and people can sign into myspace using facebook accounts. myspace used to be the number one social networking site. but it's struggled lately to attract new users. >>> northern california can claim the world's tallest married couple. there they are. wayne and laurie from stockton. if you laid them end to end they would stretch 13 feet 4 inches. at 6'11" for him, 6'5" for her. let's go back to tracy and elizabeth for traffic and weather. what do you think, tracy? you're all of 5'2"? >> yeah. that's why i'm always -- always have heels on, otherwise i feel like i'm not so tall. forecast for today not so dry. we are looking at a few sprinkles out there for the morning but that's not when we're expecting most of the rain. that's coming in for the afternoon. here's a look at our five-day forecast. so today for the morning, a few sprinkles. for the afternoon, a better chance of rainfall with cool temperatures. highs mid-50s at the c

those of you on myspace can log on to your facebook account through myspace. you can also port your content and information back and forth between the two sites. and you can call this a comeback. once an american icon, general motors stumbled into bankruptcy, but came revving back today with a very well-received ipo. gm shares up more than 3% by the closing bell. we'll take a look at what that means for gm and the future of the auto industry a little later in the show. back to you guys. >> all right. scott, thank you very much. >>> well, rain and snow. they're both on the way for much of even the bay area. jeff ranieri is tracking the storm from our weather center. >> but first, let's give you a live look at the high country right now. this is i-80 near colfax. really not snow on the ground yet, but that is about to change. mike join us live from truckee with the excitement that the storm is bringing for skier sand snowboarders. hey, mike. >> reporter: right now i am standing in downtown truckee, and take a look. soak in this picture, because in a matter of ho

. >>> myspace signed a deal with the old woe.f you have a myspace page, you can use it to log on to facebook. you can also get content through facebook based on your likes and interests on facebook. the two sites were big rivals and facebook seems to be the dominant social network nowadays. >>> as for the royal wedding, well, we know who and we have an idea about when we just don't know where. where will prince william and kate middleton get married? she is on a scouting mission or went on a scouting mission at westminster abbey. >>> general motors back on wall street repaying the $50 million from taxpayers and there's a divide growing between wall street, washington and also main street in detroit over who should get paid first. carol kcostello joining us live from washington. of course, everybody wants their money. >> green seems to be the only thing that matters but maybe not in this case. so try to think about this story with an open mind. if you ask the united autoworkers' union how gm failed so spectacularly, it accepts som

. >> it's myspace is what it is. >> is it? >> allegedly. no. it's myspace. look, it is pathetic because the only thing you need to hook up with in college is beer. that's it. but -- >> can you drink beer in college these days? >> why can't you? >> you are under age. under-aged people can't get drinks itch that's a message we need to get out there -- no, i mean drinking responsibly. >> liberals out of texas. >> johnson. >> actually, he came out in new york, but he's from texas. >> diane -- >> do you -- >> since john gave me nothing. do you think -- i'm moving on, sir. do you think women are going to sign up for this thing? >> that's the problem that i see with this. i don't know any college girls that have any trouble getting laid. i don't think they need a web site. so it's a bunch of loser guys that are signing up for this web site, to what? chat with each other? >> [chuckles] >> i think when you say that every guy at the table -- yeah, that was me. >> we are having a discussion about the internet. >> it's been seen where people can talk to each other. >> b

"myspace" announced today mashing with facebook, the new feature allows "myspace" users to create a personalizedam of content in their facebook profile. it is the first time the two sites found a way to share content. now that we told you that. one pastor has a message for the faithful. quit facebook. >> and tonight's "word on the web", judy kurtz reveals why the religious leader wants the congregation to sign off the site for good. judy? >> reverend miller said that it is time to face the facts. facebook is causing husbands and wives to flee their marriages. according to miller, 20 couples from his new jersey church ran into marital problems over six months because of the social@ networking site. the reason, is eight spouse connected with an old boyfriend or girlfriend over facebook. now the pastor is ordering about 50 married church official to say delete facebook accounts or resign from leadership roles. and he is strongly suggesting that all other married couples in his church follow his facebook adviie. miller plans to delete his account this weekend. and a 2008 report by the pew internet w

>> it wasn't myspace ship. i own a space ship. it was possible it was a giant robot fart maybe. >> i am the only person saying it, and i think it is a possibility. >> it is a possibility. it would be based on the fact that robots eat. and we don't know that. in order to fart you must eat. >> you are not the only person saying that. hannah tee touched on that an hour ago. >> i think matt lauer talked about that this morning. >> i am glad people are on it. >> i actually saw it on the internet. mike, you know, should we just be safe and bomb iran? >> oh my god, greg. oh, about the missile? the ufo? no. i am almost positive this was mork returning home and/or the kardashians in a flying miata. this is on california's coast, so worst case scenario we blame the japanese. >> i am totally for that. remy, how about venezuela? nearby, bomb it? >> you are so violent, greg. >> they say never let a catastrophe go to waste. bomb venezuela. then apologize afterwards if we are wrong. >> no, no. you are wrong, so no apologies. i am not sure which

users to access myspace.u who were following along with me. >> it's hysterical. >> first ipad 2. the computer world says it's on its way. >> i've got to say apple must love the fact that right before the holidays when i think they're hoping lots of people will buy ipads. here comes a rumor big improvements are coming in four months. there are reports that apple has upped production or has upped its orders of components. they're saying it will be thinner and lighter as usually happens. also probably a front-facing camera which would enable that face time video chap that we're seeing on the iphone four and on the mac. >> if you own an ipad that you say got to shelf this one and go out and get another one? >> i'm always been an advocate of waiting till the second version when it is a completely new product. i would ride it out in first place, but i think if you have an ipad, the original, and you really see a reason to have a cam are on it -- i think the camera t camera is one of the things that people said -- e

por ejemplo mun2, youtube, myspace. tambiÉn trabajamos con diferentes celebridades.on los resultados? ¿quÉ has visto? >>hemos visto que la gente joven se estÁ promoviendo, se esta moviendo y se estÁ animando. n sÓlo a sus padres, sino a sus amigos que no son latinos. eso lo vimos bastante en arizona, lo vimos en colorado, en miami, en san francisco; por todo el east coast, y fue bastante agradable. >>cuÉntame sobre lo que estamos haciendo aquÍ en california, san diego. este lunes pasado hubo una reuniÓn de msnbc sobre inmigraciÓn, en inglÉs, en la que tÚ participaste. cuÉntame sobre la importancia de eso. >>¿sabes? nosotros ahora... cuando uno empieza hablar sobre el tema de inmigraciÓn, no reconocemos que es bastante difÍcil, porque es bastante personal. entonces, nosotros lo que queremos hacer es primero que todo, invitar a los latinos que hablan inglÉs a participar en la polÍtica y tambiÉn que el americano en general sepa lo que nosotros estamos tratando de resolver a travÉs de la migraciÓn, ¿no? y es una oportunidad para que tengamos el primer diÁlogo en inglÉs,

. >> coming up, the myspace- facebook masekela, how they are americans together -- matt to cchup. >> we could be one step closer to knowing the fate of the man accused of killing chandra levy, three o when my husband got sick and couldn't work anymore, it was up to me to support our family. karri danner went back to school, to become a nurse. my education made all the difference but now some in washington want regulations restricting access to career colleges and universities, denying opportunity to millions of people like karri, letting government decide who can go to college. it's my education, and my job,. don't let washington get in the way. >>> welcome back. we begin with breaking news. a deadly accident has shut down the southbound baltimore and washington parkway near route 198 in laurel. a man was trying to push his broken-down car off the highway when he fell. and he was struck by another vehicle. the man has not been identified, but he was pronounced dead. >>> the search is underway for mental detect a student at university of maryland parking garage. the students had just

. >> she created a myspace account with a fake name. >> i did not know what was going on. i was confused. >> if not for a teacher intervening, victoria says she would have been attacked. >> they were threatening to join me, that they were going to fight me. >> for months, she dealt with the repercussions before she realized that she was set up by another girl. >> the affected my whole time in school. >> the key right smith says that the harassment law will -- vicki wright smith says that the harassment law will help. she says the school told her that they discipline the cyberbullying, but because of privacy laws, they could not tell her what the punishment was. ultimately, the other girls feel that they were victims, too. the bill will be fast track and expect to pass it before the end of the year. >>> at one time suspect in the chandra levy cases and now speaking out. former congressman condit's and dna was found in her underwear, but not in her apartment. there was a cloud of suspicion that this month seemed to fade away. >> i do not know that it will ever entirely behin

charleston, george myspace mas on leads wofford by two. this game goes to overtime. george mason falls to wofford 82-79 in ot. stay with us. we have plenty straight ahead. fox amorning news at 5:00 begins now. >>> we get a live look outside. it will be slow going for many of you this morning because the fog is pretty thick out there. we'll talk to tony about that in just a second. thank you for being here. i'm gurvir dhindsa. >> i'm steve chenevey. welcome to fox 5 morning news. a lost times you don't see the fog in the city itself but we've got it this morning. >> we sure do. it is quite thick in places. we have a dense fog advisory in effect until 11:00. we'll show you the counties included under the dense fog advisory. it does include washington, d.c. all the close-in counties, fairfax county, montgomery county, prince george's county. all the counties you see in gray there. farther out to the east, fog advisory into effect until 9:00 a.m. here, it is 11:00 a.m. visibility will be reduced to 1/4 mile in places. we've seen reports of visibility reduced down to a ha

i'm still on myspace. >> that is not true. >> me and four other people. >> that won't get you in troublewhat are you going to do? you going to stp them from going on twitter? facebook makes it easier. but if you're going to cheat, you're going to cheat. >> it's hard to be christian and have all this technology. i can't be tweeting and facebooking and still be faithful to my wife. >> on the the other hand, you can say twitter made me do it. >> how about tuling back on the collections? one less collection plate for the pastor. >> on the next one. the elections are over, but some people haven't gotten the memo. he beat lisa murkowski in the primary, but now he's lost in the general election. miller challenged 8,153 votes that went to murkowski. even if he won every single challenge, he would still lose. but joe miller doesn't do math. math also has a well known liberal bias. so he's refusing to concede. >> joe miller is embarrassed. he lost to the first person to win by write-in election for senate seat, and he came along the mayflower. he wept on twitter and said i'm buying my furniture. o

and on the right-hand side, you actually see icons for social sites, facebook, twitter, myspace. the cofounder and ceo of rock melt says they designed the browser based on the new way people are surfing the web. >> people go to the same site 5, 7, 10 times a day they are polling for updates. the thing that didn't make sense is why isn't the browser intelligent enough to understand what my favorite sites are and have that content ready and waiting? >> sure enough, when there is some kind of new content like a new posting or article, a little red number will pop up next to your friend's picture or your social site telling that you there's something new to read. you can click on it and check it out. couple other things about rock melt. it is free like every other browser. you can download it. a beta version is being released this morning. unlike other browsers, you have to log in. you have to type your user name and password to access these social features. so that's something that's different compared to a lot of other browsers. funding and support is coming from the former founder

that he's banning twitter, facook and live blogging durinan upcoming speech in san francisco, or as myspaces reporting, "we're back in business, baby!" [ laughter ] stick around. whave a great show. give it up for the roots. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: we've got a big show tonight. from the new film "love & other drugs," the lovely and beautiful anne hathaway is here. [ cheers a applause ] and talented. she's a great actor. from the popular nbc ow "chuck," zachary levi is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] i like that guy. "chuck," he's a good guy. also, mma legend, frank shamrock, is here to tell us about a big fight night coming up on showtime. then we have some great, great music from the frames, everybody. [ cheersnd applause ] glen hansard fans, we've got a new band, good rock and roll. that's a lot of show. all right, guys. it's thursday, which means it's time to remix the clips. here we go. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is where we take stuff we foundn the internet and tv, stuff thas funny, weird or interesting, and we have our very own que

matrimonial lawyers says 81% of its members have used or been faced with evidence taken from facebook, myspacetwitter and other sites in divorce cases in the last five years. >> it's so new, they're saying divorce lawyers, they don't even have protocol for litigating things that appeared on facebook if there's infidelity. there's no rules for how to take something from a social network. >> those who have networked too much. >>> coming up, the bakery promising all of the flavors of thanksgiving. >> all of the flavors. you'll find out just how special these cupcakes are, a taste test coming up next. > >>>thanksgiving of course is about a lot of things. it's about being grateful, it's about great football, and of course tons and tons of eating. why sit down to a full meal when you can get all those incredible thanksgiving flavors in one bite? >> i think you know where this is headed. a company in los angeles has taken the thanksgiving experience and put it all into a single cupcake. to celebrate turkey day this year, yummy cupcakes coowner and chef tiffany came up with interesting gourmet flavors

. >> people put a lot of stuff on their facebook and myspace, other things they wouldn't normally tell >> reporter: federal authorities in washington tracked down fugitive maxi after he posted an update on his social networking page saying he's living in paradise in cancun. he's now in jail. in illinois convicted burglary joseph posted, i'm on the run, shortly after he broke out of a halfway house. he's behind bars now, too. police in medinah, ohio, have recruited a group of facebook friends who are helping to catch criminals. >> if you can get on the internet, you can get on our page and view the people wanted. >> reporter: almost 900 police and sheriff's offices across the country now have facebook pages. an estimated 500 law enforcement offices use twitter. >> we have to go where the community goes, and the community is online in the millions and the hundreds of millions. >> two shot coming at you. >> reporter: citizens in boca raton, florida, can watch viper watch. it features interviews with detectives about active cases. their stepped up efforts online paid off with the arrest of

form of kindle, and after that, she tells me, she has a new venture which will replace facebook and myspace. it's called myface. anyway. i do appreciate that very, very much. and i can't thank the national book award enough for this which i consider to be a great, great, great, great honor. this is a lifetime achievement award, i'm told. one the greatest achievements of my lifetime, was choosing lynn as my agent from the very beginning. [applause] [applause] >> actually, i didn't choose lynn, she chose me. she called me up one day. and she said, you know, when are you going to publish your book? i said i don't have a book. i have a bunch of magazine articles. she said duh. that's how the candy-colored, tangerine-lined baby happened to come about. lynn was one of the youngest agents in the entire business. she was 11. [laughter] >> but she's turned out to be great. and also another lifetime achievement, almost, was pat straun. she was my editor. we worked together on "the paints word," on "the right stuff," on, let's see, from "bow house to our house," and the " bonfire of the vanities." the

>> there's a lot of body snarking going on right now, happening in the tabloids, on myspace, facebooky hard for women not to internalize that message. i think that's what stat reflects. >> when you look at these magazines, a lot of them show these skinny, unattainable bodies. no one knows that better than you, crystal. when you started out in your career, you were one of those perfect bodies, a size 0 and were actually told you were too heavy. you took a break from modeling and came back as a plus-size model and now they are criticizing you for being too thin as a plus-size model. what message is all that sending to you and to society. >> i think the most important thing which i've discovered, you know, through this entire process, it's about finding you, your medium. you know, about being who you are. i think that, you know, i will never be thin enough or big enough for anybody. so i think through this whole thing i had to just really be happy being who i am, when i found health. i starved myself down to a 00 then in my recovery, got even up to a size 14 and i found that, you know, t

federer myspace of bleak house where the dickens character at the beginning is in the docket and there is a large estate and the book ends when the resources of the estate have been drained by the estate lawyer. none of the problems of the estate have been resolved for this is an astonishing thing. i understand that our rules prohibit us from taking action on that but if this were a court of law and one month before the capital case came to trial after two years of preparation and the lawyer with drew, a judge would not permit that to happen periantpermit that to happen. kicking your client to the side of the road when it came time but a hearing is improper. >> mr. bader field -- -- mr. but terfield. >> it is fundamentally unfair for council after learning of the date of this hearing -- i believe the data appearing was announced by the chair on october 7 and on october 14 we did not get a communication from but lawyer asking permission to withdraw. they simply gave notice that they were off the case. that is fundamentally unfair. it would not have happened in my courtroom when i was a

and after that she tells me she has a new venture, which was replace facebook and myspace. it's called my face. anyway, i do appreciate that very, very much. and i can't think the national book award enough for this which i consider to be a great, great honor. this is a lifetime achievement award i'm told in the greatest achievements of my lifetime was choosing len nesbitt as my agent from the very beginning. [applause] actually, i didn't so much choose lynn as she chose me. she called me up one day and she said, you know, when are you going to publish her book? i said i don't have a book, i have a bunch of magazine articles. and in the tangerine flake baby have to do to come about. when at that time was one of the youngest agents in the entire business. she was 11. [laughter] but she was -- she has turned out to be great. and also, another lifetime achievement almost as pat strawn. pat strawn and i -- she was my editor, worked together on the painted word, on the right stuff , from their house to our house and the bonfire of events. and then something stepped between us an

facebook, twitter, myspace, joining their web site. virally is where i tell people to start. i think unfortunately, the hard part is i have the platform. i'm under no dilutions. i'm john mccain's daughter. that's originally why people put me on television. hopefully now i have something to say and that's why. i think it's sad the media doesn't cover it. they are not interested. the most extreme are the most interesting. again, i blame the media for all of this by far. it worries me. because i just don't think an average person can get on television saying i think we should work together. i'm republican and i'm not extreme. i really want a large tent party. so i would tell you to go online, find a candidate, support them, i will continue to work, i'm getting already really excited for the next general election. i'll work my ass off on a campaign. i'm going to choose a candidate hopefully sooner than later. and every way that i possibly can, to try to help make sure that election we don't completely lose all 20 somethings from the republican party. >> thank you. >> thank you. t