i loved your production of the nutcracker.e with the ballet but it does a lot of stuff. >> we're doing much more than the nutcracker. clearly it is our focus this time of the year, getting the students ready and working with the orchestra and main focus right now, we have ongoing saturday ballet classes. we have a program in the spring and we have a two week summer program for young dancers held at north college. >> cheryl: i know you have programs that are accessible to the community? >> one of the reasons i found the company is so passionate, we have 1400 students coming to dress rehearsal and given more than thousand tickets away to schools. >> cheryl: for those that don't know, how about the music. >> many people have a great familiarity with it. i never had to dance in the piece. when i came to choreograph i was in love with every second. it's. >> and you have the oakland east bay symphony. >> cheryl: now we have the beautiful dancers with us. i want to start with you. you look absolutely gorgeous. how do you do it and wh

arpino when i was in joffrey ii and i had been dancing the "nutcracker." we sort of filled in for different parts that they needed, for bigger ballets. and he saw me and gave me this look and he said, "good, baby, you're a good dancer." and i was in awe "thank you, thank you." then he said, "but try and lose a little weight if you can." for the joffrey at that time most of our work was touring. and it's very hard to fund a company that you never get to see. we rarely performed in new york anymore. that was a very difficult time for everybody. woman: there were times where we waived paychecks or let them come in late. all sorts of instances to be able to support mr. arpino. because we really believed -- i mean, he was dad, you know it was our family. we didn't want anything to happen. we wanted to do everything we could to keep it moving forward, and keep it growing. narrator: the company's financial woes resulted from the drastic decline in federal arts funding, compounded by the high cost of robert joffrey's elaborate restaging of "le sacre du printemps"

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if this is your casting call for the 2012 dance along nutcracker goes hollywood! off this year's show follows fritz and clara to tinsel town as the hollywood is hauled out for the holidays! at the dance along nutcracker, you and the supporting cast of his are the stars. when the clapboard claps and the cameras roll, you may find yourself past starlets like judy garland and marilyn monroe, dodging bullets in the wild wild west shootout or plucking the maltese falcon from the minutes of a hard boiled detective. bring the kids to a daytime show or treat yourself to the dance a long red carpet gala. >> in the east bay, as >> is the oakland zoo officially turned on a holiday cheer. it is the bay area's largest l e d holiday light display, complete with dozens of colorful lit animal thing displays. santa's sleigh also arise from the north pole for photo opportunities. zoo lies is every night through december 31st, except december 24th and the 25th. adult admission is $8, kids are six books. >> 7:42 a.m. as the time. we will be right back with gary radnich. >> the top st

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>> she read the nutcracker and another book. that was about christmas. >> i love the nutcracker. do you love it? >> yes. >> i am afraid of the mouse king. it's not just me. so you are in there. how do you leave the classroom? >> we got in line and we had to close our eyes. >> you had to close your eyes? >> yes. >> when you opened them, where were you? >> we were walking down to the fire station. >> what happened and then it's over and you have to be happy you are okay. are you okay? >> yes. >> did you have pete there? >> no. >> you know you are missing all the pizza. christmas list made and sent to santa. how long is the list? >> three pieces of paper. >>> here is the bay area, groups of people are creating vigils to remember the victims. live in golden gate park where one is under way right now. has it begun? >> just a few moments ago, deep in this grove behind us at aids memorial grove, a few people gathering. an event put on by a group, they say it's important time to come together regardless of their religion. they do pop-up events and this is one of them. they are praying an

>> she read us the nutcracker and another book that was about christmas. >> reporter: i love the nutcracker. do you love it? >> yes. >> reporter: i'm afraid of the mouse king. a little scary, let's be honest, it's not just me. so you're in there, how do you leave the classroom? >> we got in a line and we had to close our eyes. >> reporter: you had to close your eyes? >> yes. >> when you opened them, where were you? >> we were walking down to the fire station. >> reporter: what happened there today happened and it's over, okay? and you have to be happy that you're okay. are you okay? i didn't even check you out, are you all right? >> yes. >> what happened here in the front? did you have teeth there this morning when you went there? >> no. >> reporter: good. you're aware you're missing those teeth? >> yes. >> reporter: you got a christmas list made, sent to santa? >> yeah. >> how long is the list? >> two pieces of paper. >> reporter: it was a long list. she's in better shape with santa after what she lived through today. but the biggest gift with these families, these teachers, first responde

we have prizes, four tickets to disneyland, tickets to see the nutcracker in san francisco and oakland ballet. see me, we are open at 5:30. >>> take part in the abc7 share your holiday food drive-by calling: 1-877-525-3775 -- it is an automatic donation of $10. super easy that will be up not just for today but beyond today you can do that any time. [ unintelligible ] >>> 5:12. we are just 20 days if the edge of fiscal cliff with no sign of a deal in sight. why some experts are saying we may not have that much to worry about. >>> high-tech features that promise to make the 49ers >>> good morning. you are looking live at the scene from san jose. a truck plowed into an apartment complex a 2-year-old girl was sleeping in the crib she is at hospital now. we will stay on top of this story. you can look and see there the damage to the apartment complex the child was knocked out of the bed we'll have more on the child's condition coming up. >>> president obama is planning a conference call today with a bipartisan group of mayors and community leaders to push for his plans to avert that fiscal

i love the nutcracker. and members of the new york city ballet celebrating 58 seasons of the nutcracker. and that is just wonderful. they are there celebrating that. and over on the nasdaq habitat for humanity. a wonderful organization we have been involved with. they are over there celebrating their hard work as well. of all the business news coming up. >> a lot of good people there. we'll smile and say good morning, to you. thank you for joining us here. it is wednesday, december 19th i'm dave clark be >> and i'm pam cook. time now 6:30. firefighters found a body while rushing to a fire near apartments in campbell. ktvu janine de la vega has been on the scene since 4:30 this morning. what is happening out there now? >> reporter: well, the fire is out. now arson investigators are back in the office trying to piece together what happened here. they want to find out how this fire started inside a storage unit behind the complex and how did the person get inside. at 1:15 this morning residents called 911 beca

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so at this point i'm rooting for the myans. [ laughter ] i hope is he happy now and enjoys the nutcrackeray. >> harris: it's a good show. it will be worth worth sticking around for jonathan hunt. happy holidays. >> happy holidays to you. >> harris: i'm glad you are still here. here is another reason. twinkies are coming back. no kidding. [ male anno comes to the financial obstacles military families face, we understan at usaa, we know military life is different. we've been there. that's why every bit of financial advice we offer is geared specifically to current and former military members and their families. [ laughs ] dad! dad! [ applause ] ♪ [ male announcer ] life brings obstacles. usaa brings advice. call or visit us online. we're ready to help. >> harris: you no longer need to search ebay for your twinkie fix. the golden sponge cake filled with creamy filling will return. that's the word from hostess. the company currently in bankruptcy court says it's perusing bids from buyers and expects to sell off a few of its brands and not just twinkies, one of its financial advisors devil dog

. >> she was given special permission to come back to perform in this weekend's nutcracker her mentor former teacher at the west side school of ballet asked her to dance at the sugar plum fairy as she lay dying of cancer this summer. >> for me it was important as a last gift and as a thank you to her for everything that she's done. >> and for womak, performing gives her a gift as well. >> the feeling when the orchestra plays and the curtain rises and the three or four minutes we're on stage. nothing can touch you. it's just you and the audience. >> when she returns to russia, she's going today to, debut as a soloist in a performance. >> we'll be right back. ,,,,,, well, well, well. growing up, we didn't have u-verse. we couldn't record four shows at the same time. in my day, you were lucky if you could record two shows. and if mom was recording her dumb show and dad was recording his dumb show then, by george, that's all we watched. and we liked it! today's kids got it so good. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv with a total home dvr included free for life. only $29 a month for six mon

. >> she was given special permission to come back to perform in this weekend's nutcracker her mentor and former teacher at the west side school of ballet asked her to dance at the sugar plum fairy as she lay dying of cancer this summer. >> for me it was important as a last gift and as a thank you to her for everything that she's done. >> and for womak, performing gives her a gift as well. >> the feeling when the orchestra plays and the curtain rises and the three or four minutes we're on stage. nothing can touch you. it's just you and the audience. >> when she returns to ,,,,,, you disgust me. prove it. enough is enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. d-con. get out. until it's completely clean. lysol toilet bowl cleaner kills 99.9% of germs and removes stains better than clorox toilet bowl cleaner with bleach. so if you want to do the whole job, lysol's got you covered. people have been shot. aboun hour ago, officers found . >> we have breaking news in oakland tonight where four people have been shot. about an hour ago. police officers found

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. >> the opening bell on wall street a little nutcracker action which the ballet bringing in the morning bell. the question is what the santa claus rally continue? the dow features are up 33. it appears republicans and democrats are getting closer to a possible deal. we'll bring you the numbers on wall street throughout the day. >> now for the numbers on the weather front and they are low. >> you are right. and app but it is 28 degrees right now. the wind chill is 23 degrees. it is very cold up north. and oakland a wind chill is at 30 degrees. same for hayward where the current temperature is 34. it feels like 37 below freezing. 29 and pleasanton 36 in redwood city. sam francisco is 31 but the north bay temperatures are all in the upper 20s. well below the freezing mark. there is a freeze warning in the north bay because of freezing conditions. there is a frost advisory in effect until at 8:00 a.m.. colder temperatures are around sunrise, it will continue to get colder this morning. >> we are watching at the tens of hot spot for interstate 580 in the westbound commute from the optima pas

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selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960's went first lady jacqueline kennedy created in nutcracker themed christmas for her daughter caroline. in -- this year's theme is joy to all. it celebrates the joy of giving and service to others. the joy of sharing our blessings with one another and of course the joy of welcoming our friends and family as guests into our homes over the -- over these next several weeks. we have continued the tradition of decorating trees throughout the house. we have 54 trees in the white house. that is a lot of trees. they reflect the theme, including four trees in the grand foyer, the area out here, trimmed with ornaments paying tribute to the holiday legacies ladiesformer prr first dating back to jackie kennedy. some of them are replicas but there are a few that are original ornaments and they are tagged. some of them are mine, some of and the laura bushs's key is sense of what christmas felt like in other administrations. of course keeping with past holiday traditions, we have our annual white house gingerbread house. have you guys seen that yet? our exec

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the past month or so and this is monte carlo spreading some christmas cheer, i hear a lot of the nutcracker this time of year because my little one is a ballerina. we will have a short day with all the businesses coming up. >>> welcome to the ktvu channel 2 morning news, i am brian flores, dave clark has the morning off. >>> and we are following news out of marin county where search and rescue teams are waiting to search for a man who went missing overnight. out there with more on what happened just moments before he disappeared, very strange story, alex. >> reporter: yes, the man they were looking for was wanted for drunk driving and at a staff stop he jumped into the creek. they will set up a command post here and they will continue searching for this man in the water once daylight comes. the man jumped into a creek which is actually up a ways from where we are and the area where water is rushing quickly. police have spent the past few hours looking for this man and authorities used a boat to search the banks over the creek. the search began when police made a dui stop and he got out of t

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but the curtain went up on the nutcracker 120 years ago today. now you know the news for this tuesday, december 18. dad's birthday, 85. still kicking. happy birthday, pop. i'll see you back here tomorrow from studio b at 3 eastern and fox report right before mr. bill o'reilley >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on. tonight -- >> the assault weapon is developed for military purposes to kill in close combat. >> bill: as we predicted, semiautomatic weapons are now under fire. pardon the pun. will congress ban them? charles krauthammer and i will discuss it. >> he is not a gun runner and you know. he should be released immediately. >> bill: with seven days until christmas, will the mexican government release marine corporal jon hammer from prison? this is a terrible miscarriage of justice. and president obama should get involved. we'll have the latest from the corporal's parents. >> i know what you're thinking. did he fire six shots or only five? ask yourself one question, do i feel lucky? >> bill: do you recall tradition violent movies and video game

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night that obama was -- gave his wonderful speech in newtown was the night that malia was in the nutcracker suite, and he wasn't able to see it. so he went over to the school in the afternoon to watch the last dress rehearsal. and there's a wonderful picture of him sitting by himself and looking out and also taking notes and working on his speech for that night. >> my god, you look at that picture, and you know, just like you knew when he held the press conference, that when he gave that press conference and giving it as the president of the united states, he was giving it as the father of two young girls. >> right. >> and it touched all of us so much. and your cover this week, actually, a dork like jon meacham and myself will recognize, it's different than other person of the year photos. >> yes. >> covers. and it seems to reflect the time that we're in right now. >> yes. i mean, it's a somber and resolute president. it's a darkish picture. we used a silver border, a silver logo. we have four internal covers so that we thought that silver made it seem even more special. it's actually avail

talking, jenna, we showed a picture of president obama watching his daughter practicing for the nutcrackert newtown. we just -- you just forget unless you've lived it and experienced it. like everybody in your family who's been president of the united states, the rest of us forget sometimes about the humans that are in there. you had to go back to your dad and your mom and after 9/11 and during the wars and everything else. how did they keep everything in perspective? your dad always seemed to keep everything in great perspective. >> that's so true. they're families first. everyone. the obamas and their kids. that's what's most important is spending time with families. and for us, i mean one of the things i like about this special is that it shows real historical perspective from the kennedys through september 11th and actually the tours after september 11th really came to a stop because it was only several months afterwards. so people were still really scared. my mom talks about even her friends who would normally come up for the white house christmas party didn't come because they were s

. >> sampras's go ballet production of the nutcracker is set in our own north bay.this holiday season you can experience the beauty of the ballet company. this has been a san francisco tradition since 1940 for its stars to this weekend and placed december 28th. this will be on van ness ave. the tickets start as low as $8 and some of them started $35. this is your casting call for the 2012 dance along. this new show follows as the holiday is hauled off. you and your support in cash and only as are the stars. you may find yourself with the stars like judy garland and marilyn monroe. you should bring your kids to a daytime show or just treat yourself to a red carpet premier. this is only this weekend and the gala and close a red carpet premier with cocktails and this is tomorrow at 7:00 p.m.. the tickets are $50. >> in the east bay zoo lights officially turns on the holiday cheer. this is the biggest anti d holiday display. this has a lot of animal theme displays. the santa sleigh also arrives for fall ops. zoo lights is every night through december 31st. you cannot do

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. >> alisyn: hers was the nutcracker. >> and repeated by hillary and barbara bush. >> alisyn: nancy reagan. t came to the white house and pity the fool that year, santa for christmas and just funny photo, a phone moment in time and had larry hagman and one year her own husband, the president surprised her with santa. >> alisyn: great stuff. so barbara bush, what did she do. >> barbara bush had her cause of literacy, a story book christmas and took actual books on hung them on the tree and nutcracker, and needle point and one year everything was needle pointed. >> alisyn: and laura bush. >> one of my favorites, so elegant and timeless, she did a red white and blue christmas for their last christmas in office and borrowed her mother-in-law's theme and a story book christmas, she was a librarian. >> alisyn: and the theme was home for the holidays. >> that applies to everyone. >> alisyn: in 2001, home for the holidays right after 9/11, the theme. the theme was picked prior to 9/11, but that year made it even more special and we were thinking about what is important to us. >> alisyn: what an un

i do not have the hilary nutcracker yet.nie: everybody hold your jokes. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: john travolta collects hot chocolate. he collects various kinds of hot coco from around the world. he said it represents winter wonderland and christmas. he went on to explain how people should handle hot coco. he said never blow on it. never ever blow it changes the quality of the chocolate. >> that's the gayest thing i have ever heard. >> if you have a gay sex scandal with three different masseurs. don't have an album cover to handle your gay panic scandal, because he is wearing a hot toddy, and is wearing [ inaudible ]. >> stephanie: speaking of christmas, wow wee! [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: in texas don't they teach, i don't know creationism, and god knows what all else that dinosaurs walks with jesus -- >> yes, that jesus had a dinosaur pet. >> stephanie: teacher ruins christmas telling her five-year-old students by telling them santa isn't true. >> and i cooked the easter bunny and

kennedy and first lady jackie kennedy in front of the nutcracker theme.k about why this photo is important. >> this is important because jackie was the first first lady who said, if we're having all these people for the holidays, let's have a theme. let's think about it. let's put some thought into it. ever since jackie kennedy's first year as first lady, we've had a christmas theme. >> and the theme this year? >> joy to all. >> wonderful. >> mrs. obama loves the themes that really reflect what's important. >> i want to look at another photo of nancy reagan with mr. t. >> that's a good one. >> dressed as santa. i love it. and she really loved the idea of bringing celebrity santas to the white house, right? >> mr. t and nancy reagan, what's more '80s? >> and shoulder pads. >> larry hagman was a celebrity santa. and one year the president dressed up and surprised her, and he was the celebrity santa. >> also want to talk about laura bush because this was the year you were there in 2008. >> yes. >> i want to look at that photo and also talk about your experie

selecting an official holiday theme began in the 1960's went first lady jacqueline kennedy created in nutcrackerchristmas for her daughter caroline. in -- this year's theme is joy to all. it celebrates the joy of giving and service to others. the joy of sharing our blessings with one another and of course the joy of welcoming our friends and family as guests into our homes over the -- over these next several weeks. we have continued the tradition of decorating trees throughout the house. we have 54 trees in the white house. that is a lot of trees. they reflect the theme, including four trees in the grand foyer, the area out here, trimmed with ornaments paying tribute to the holiday legacies of the former first ladies dating back to jackie kennedy. some of them are replicas but there are a few that are original ornaments and they are tagged. some of them are mine, some of them are laura bushs's and the key is sense of what christmas felt like in other administrations. of course keeping with past holiday traditions, we have our annual white house gingerbread house. have you guys seen that yet? our

when it becomes cultural criticism, it is telling you what opera to go to or whether "the nutcracker" is good. it turns out we know from surveys that people read a great deal more about health than they used to. people are reading the newspaper to find out how to take care when your elderly parents -- what happens when your foot falls asleep, if you go to a place 15,000 feet high you should take pills because somebody might drop dead, which happens to one of my colleagues. people are reading more for that. that is what they call value added journalism -- i call it how to live journalism. one thing about these extra sesections -- to sell something other than the record. -- the "times" used to have one page a week. one page a week. now think about the "times" and what it is -- it is highly different. the other thing they're doing better -- cultural criticism. i talked about with one member of the audience -- cultural criticism used to be really what might be called culture in new york. now it is every kind of culture -- they do hip-hop and ethnic culture, things like that. one of my son