shaquille o'neal is stopping by!ause ] you don't want to miss what he's going to do. [ applause ] it's pretty crazy. and later on, fitz and the tantrums are going to perform! [ cheers and applause ] it's a big show! >> jimmy: hey, guys, today's friday, and that's usually when i catch up on some personal stuff. i -- [ cheers and applause ] -- check my inbox, return some e-mails and, of course, i send out thank you notes. [ cheers and applause ] we're doing our show from indianapolis this week getting ready for the super bowl. i'm running a bit behind, so i thought if you guys wouldn't mind, i'd just like to write out my weekly "thank you notes" right now. do you guys mind? [ cheers and applause ] i appreciate it. james, can i get some thank you note writing music? ♪ [ laughter ] [ cheers ] [ laughter ] >> jimmy: happy birthday, by the way. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ laughter ] thank you, super bowl party food, or as paula deen calls it, "a healthy alternative to snacking." [ laughter and applause ] ♪ >>

i'll ask teri o'neal what this all means next. >>> ed, look five dwreerz from now. my prediction is the susan g. komen will not exist or it will be reduced to say between 10 and 20% of its current size. >> that was teri o'neal chairman of the national organization for women on this program last week speak being the susan g. komen foundation's initial decision to cut off funding to planned parenthood. in a moment teri will join us again. now the woman at the center of the controversy, karen handel, has resigned. she was thought to be a key player in the komen decision to stop funding breast exams for low income women. the public's outrage led komen to quickly reverse the decision. today after submitting a letter of resignation, handel went straight to fox news. >> i clearly acknowledge i was involved in the process, but to suggest i had the sole authority is just absurd. >> her statement contradicts what komen ceo nancy brinker said just last week. >> karen did not have anything to do with this decision. >> yet, sources from inside koim mendel the huffington post han

. >> i voted against ted kennedy, tip o'neal, and bill clinton. >> they were never on the same ballot together. >> we went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. >> no. and david shuster in michigan steve kornacki, and sam seeder. $20 million off of women's healthcare. not off of the price. off of the care. pushing to deny more women more health care even as alabama and virginia have to back off some of their preabortion transvaginal ultrasound demands. and where fox news gets it's quote, news. >> this could be the intent of the obama administration. >> and the latest from michigan too close to call and arizona, romney in a breeze. and the quote of the day. >> i'm not willing to light my hair on fire to try to get support. >> i'm sorry about that. that i would have paid to see. all of that and more now on "countdown." ♪ >> good evening, this is tuesday february 28th 253 days until the 2012 presidential election. republicans voting tonight except in michigan where one in ten is a democrat voting in the primary. the majority of michigan polling places closing as this new h

en la nba, los lakers de los Ángeles retirarán la playera de shaquille o'neal el jugador con más éxitosunivisión.com y buscan en primer impacto, encontrarán una entrevista súper excluva con gasol y mañana tenemos futl. y el domingo, la república reciones de méxico, todo el y domingo a las 10:5 hora del este, y ahora sí, por lo pronto, ya acabé con los deportes, seguimos con más de primer impacto >>> y tenemos hoy invitado de impacto, nos visita christopher, gracias por hablarnos y visitarnos, estás en estreno, muchos esperan tu regreso a la pantalla chica. >>> pues, súperontent ya este 19 de febrero trena la serie kadavra por galavisión, es una serie que te atrapa, es definitivamente muy adictiva, una serie que reune elementos del mundo real y sobrenatural. en mi caso lucas vive en una comunidad religiosa, protegido por sus padres que >>> qué te llamó más la atención? >>> definitivamente es un reto, porque detrás de lucas hay 3 universos diferentes, está el universo del astronauta que perdió el emeo, tienes a sacerdote que tiene 33 años y envejede más raipdo pido de lo normal y tienes a

along with jack wagner and ryan o'neal. they are rumored to be contestants' this season.le bachmann, and tim tebow declined. >> do you see a favorite on that list? >> pee-wee herman is rumored to be on the show. i think he would be fantastic. remember the dance? >> no, i do not. he will have to branch out more than that if he wants to win over america. >> we will find out on good morning america who exactly is going to make the cast of this season's dancing with the stars. >> we will see. he is multi-talented. it is 6:42. >> the temperature, 42 degrees. a sleeping pill more popular than ever, but the risks have never been greater. 7 is on your side with an eye opening study. >> a campaign game changer. politico joins us we want to protect the house. right. but... home security systems can be really expensive. to save money, we actually just adopted a rescue panther. i think i'm goin-... hh! we find that we don't needoo sleep that much. therers an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescript

so, when we found out that someone like gloria totten from the progressive majority or terri o'neal from the national organization of women were interested, too, and we have a whole wide group of other women leaders who are interested, who have fabulous bios, we said, well, let's put together this grass roots group as an advisory group, and we called them the leadership team. now, this is not a coalition of their organizations, but these are individuals, but wow! look at their bios, and you will see the wide expanse of organizations that they lead. thank you all so many of you for being here this morning, also. so this leads us to the question of why on earth would we do this? why would we go to all of this trouble? it is frankly, because we care. we care about the world. yes. we care about our country. that's why we are doing it. it is a grand experiment that we have undertaken. we have a lot of research around the world that says that if you increase the number of women in parliaments, you actually end with less funding for health and education and children and families and guess what?

sherri shepherd, gavin day egraw, ryan o'neal, pee-wee herman, kris jenner, and vince vince young.ext season kicks off on monday on abc 7. not get anrman did invitation to the oscars? >> maybe this could put him back on the list. >> still ahead, about a long day for nascar drivers. why it took 36 hours to ahhh. so soft. time out. sweet. [ female announcer ] with charmin ultra soft, you can get that cushiony feeling you love while still using less. charmin ultra soft is designed with extra cushion that are soft of and more absorbent and you can use four times less versus the leading value brand. ♪ ah. [ female announcer ] we all go. why not enjoy the go with charmin ultra soft. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities. siemens. answers. i don't know if i'd be safe. it's no

kobe bryant leaped over shaquille o'neal on the all-time scoring list but even that wasn't enough to knock off the sixers. kobe started the game just 24 points behind the big diesel, only fitting to reach the mark in his hometown of philadelphia. the black ma ma comes out firing. 14 points in the first quarter. then in the second, kobe makes history, drains a jumper to move past shaq and into fifth place on the all-time scoring list. he finished with 28. however, lou williams spoils kobe's big night and scoring 14 of his 24 down the stretch. the 76ers take the lead and beat the lakers 95-90. chris paul in orlando showing everyone why he is an all-star. 29 points and seven dimes. this one goes to overtime and when cp-iii ends the magic show and stops and pops for two. clippers rally from 15 down to win in o. . the knicks without amar'e stoudemi stoudemire. who would pick up the slack against the jazz? how about jeremy lynn? that is right paep the second-year player out of harvard had a career high 28 points in his first-ever start. knicks pull out all of the stops and win 99-88. the n

. >> how about shaquille o'neal when he was steel?d beat nobody in any of those hero forms. >> he was shazam. >> he had a movie also. >> there was one more thing but i think we're out of time. wanted to find something else. okay. that's it. there you go, john. that is the answer to your question. we learned something. if you have a question that you want answered -- oh, tucker must have picked this one out. >> that is from the iron man movie. >> this is ozzy. >> before he became a parody of himself. >> let's check in with lauren demarco to get the late your traffic. >> you guys are too much. i got say. want to see you guys in the capes or storm force. >> here is the thin with guys answering questions like that. somehow, it will all evolve down to superheroes. >> just inevitable. all right. we do have an accident to report. i want to tell you about that quickly. it is southbound bw parkway right near route 32. we have a traffic camera to look at. this it is not showing the accident in our camera. not sure how plane lanes are blocked. i

hats off to o'neal for creating that franchise. i think the show is entertaining.t and my friends watch it. my show brings something different to television. it doesn't make one show better than another. what's great about television there's a balance. there's something for everybody and every show you watch. >> when people were talking about basketball, they gave these reasons for why you don't want to be on the show, i'm glad you set the record straight, how do you handle rumors constantly as a celebrity. >> you know, you just, it comes with the territory and so it doesn't bother me. i'm so secure in who i am as a woman that i don't let that stuff bother me and most of it is not true anyway. when you're secure you can laugh at it and not feed into it. my family is fine. we're happy. >> there are a million girls out there, what kind of advice would you give them? >> work hard. i didn't wake up and be in this position. you know, it took a lot of hard work. i started to intern with ludacris at a radio show. we just con stisistently worked hard. >> what's the next bi

monday evening, kobe bryant looking to sur prasz shaquille o'neal. baseline "j," count it.ter on from the wing. kobe, what else did you expect? bottom of the notch. within one after hitting two from the long jumper. long jumper. that's good. fifth on the all-time list. history made. lakers up five. now let's get back to the game. kobe, driving, finishing. he finished with 28 points. under 2:00 left in the game, sixers up three. williams. he was everywhere he needed to be. the six irrs win this one, 95-90. >>> knicks hosting the jazz. there's jeremy lin. we'll tell you about him in a moment. carmelo anthony, on the floor, five minutes in. he would leave the game with a groin injury. check out espn.com for the latest on melo. back to drive to the drive to the lane, part of his big-time evening. we go in the fourth. more lin. how about i give this one back to you? that's the definition of friends helping friends. after lin hit his shots from there free-throw line. guess who? as time winds away, it's lin. a career high for him. knicks win, 99-88. >>> don't forget, for the lates

kobe bryant leaped over shaquille o'neal on the all-time scoring list, but even that wasn't enough to knock off the sixers. kobe started the game just 24 points behind the big diesel, only fitting to reach the mark in his hometown of philadelphia. the black ma baa comes out firing. 14 points in the first quarter. in the second, kobe makes history. drains a jumper to move past shaq and into fifth place ones all-time scoring list. he finished. 28. however, lou williams spoils ko kobe's big night. the 76ers take the lead and beat the lakers 95-90. l.a.'s other team fared much better. this one goes to overtime. that's when cp3 ends the magic show. stops and pops for two. clippers rally to win in o.t. >>> the knicks were already without amar'e stoudemire last night. then they lost carmelo anthony. he left in the first quart we are a groin pull. he's day to day. so who would pick up the slack against the jazz? how about jeremy lynn? that's right, the second year player out of harvard had his first ever start. knicks win 99-88. >>> the nation's still buzzing over the giants come-from-behind

. >>> and word is ryan o'neal might make it this time. >> robin roberts will be in hollywood.help out with the big unveiling today. season, what, 86? no, 14. be sure to tune in for that later today. >>> and also, interview magazine has done major makeover of pop star katy perry. we're used to seer her like this. >> now, watch. she's been given a chic new look. cat's eyes, sexy lingerie. looks like a cheerful amy winehouse. one magazine said, eat your heart out, russell brand. >>> the entire world can feast their eyes on one of the internet's cutest stars live. >> anyone that wants to watch this polar bear in action can watch his ever move. he's relaxing and romping at a danish wild leif park. explore.org to get the live stream two hours aday. what a cutie. >> the camera was set up yesterday to coincide international polar bear day. my second favorite holiday after free pancake day. >> "dancing with the stars" being unveiled. everything. >> a huge day. we'll get to it all. >>> for some of you, your local news is next. >>> for everybody else, so many of us talk about angelina jo

. >> reporter: doug o'neal drives his pickup truck a lot less now. >> i take my car that's less fuel efficient. we'll arrange to always have the highest mileage car available to make trips. >> reporter: the bay area price stands at $4.04, up 33-cents in a month and up 62-cents from a year ago today. with prices so high so early, headed for the $5 mark by summer, folks are already going back on vacation plans. >> there will be a lot of things we won't do because of the gas increase. we'll be staying at home. >> with the gas prices the way they are, it's getting ridiculous. >> i won't do driving vacations. >> too expensive. >> reporter: ironically, these higher prices could affect automobile sales. more opt to buy more fuel efficient sources and fuel alternative cars. >>> a charge may come from one of the game's lightning rod players. a new deal with manny ramirez was announced today. he must first serve a 50 game suspension for a positive drug test. on top of that, he served a minor league deal. he technically has to still make the team. if all goes as planned, he could be in the a's

sword that ryan o'neal who had to drop out last time, will make it this time. >> "gma" unveils the whole the show today. robin roberts will be in hollywood. she'll help out with the big unveiling today. season, what, 86? no, 14. be sure to tune in for that later today. >>> and also, "interview" magazine has done a major makeover of pop star katy perry. we're used to seeing her like this. >> now, watch. in a bootleg preview of the magazine's march issue, she's been given a chic new look. cat's eyes, sexy lingerie. looks like a cheerful amy winehouse. don't you think? as one blog said, eat your heart out, russell brand. >> she looks great. i wouldn't have recognized her right off the bat. i'm sure russell is at home thinking, man, i messed that up. >>> the entire world can feast their eyes on one of the internet's cutest stars live. >> anyone that wants to watch this polar bear in action can watch his every move. a web cam is catching every moment. he's relaxing and romping at a danish wild leif park. explore.org to get the live stream two hours a day. what a cutie. >> the camera was set u

he has higher points for the first five games than kobe bryant, than shaquille o'neal, lebron james,chael jordan. >> the numbers speak for themselves. let me read you a tweet from boxer floyd mayweather. jeremy lin is a good player but all the hype is because he is asian. black players do what he does every night and don't get the same praise. what's your reaction to that? >> i think floyd mayweather is the heavy weight champion of insensitive remarks. remember, he is the one said boxing champion monty pecal should make sushi, cook rice. i think that not only is he insensitive, but he is also ignorant. i would like to inform him that filipinos are not japanese americans who make sushi. also, he is totally ignoring the true record of jeremy lin and the fact that has already developed a record that has outstripped many people, like kobe, shaq, and michael jordan. >> let me ask you finally, you know there are people that will say after the firing and all what's the big deal. so tell me about your nephew, if you will, harry lu. >> yes. harry lu was in the marines, and he was hazed for th

continued on, and everybody is correct, people will recall, where were they in the fight for lynch and o'nealurke? and they never did get it solved. because people were still mad much, much later. and they never, ever would stop that. >> you think they were still mad about 1980 or so. >> i had high hopes of talking about other things, but it really is fun talking about onionsburg. there is a fascinating what-if in the story, michael. there was a hint that the opening of china was anticipated in the mid-'60s and the quoting of mao and the trip to russia. did that strike you as a surprise? >> i suspect it was the first time we really had more solid evidence from the prime witness. john kennedy essentially was beginning to plan his second term, and two wof the things tht he planned to do was go to the soviet union. that would be the first time a president had been there, believe it or not, and also an opening to china, which, in retrospect, given what our world is like today, was an enormous oppression. he used to say in private, face it, those are subjects for the term after reelection. >> and

kobe bryant leaped over shaquille o'neal on the all-time scoring list but even that wasn't enough to off the sixers. kobe started the game just 24 points behind the big diesel, only fitting to reach the mark in his hometown of philadelphia. the black ma ma comes out firing. 14 points in the first quarter. then in the second, kobe makes history, drains a jumper to move past shaq and into fifth place on the all-time scoring list. he finished with 28. however, lou williams spoils kobe's big night and scoring 14 of his 24 down the stretch. the 76ers take the lead and beat the lakers 95-90. chris paul in orlando showing everyone why he is an all-star. 29 points and seven dimes. this one goes to overtime and when cp-iii ends the magic show and stops and pops for two. clippers rally from 15 down to win in ot. the knicks without amar'e stoudemire. who would pick up the slack against the jazz? how about jeremy lynn? that is right. the second-year player out of harvard had a career high 28 points in his first-ever start. knicks pull out all of the stops and win 99-88. the nation's still buzzin

passing former teammate shaquille o'neal.illiams had the hot hand for philadelphia and helped spoil kobe's big night. the sixers take down the lakers, 95-90. >>> and in england some fur was flying during a soccer game, the four-legged kind, that is. a cat ran out on the field and delayed the match for a couple of minutes. eventually it was picked up by a steward and it didn't take long before the feline intruder had several twitter ages, one with over 14,000 followers. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories, and parent outrage at a los angeles elementary school where the entire staff will be replaced amid a teacher abuse investigation. vestigation. maybe you can be there; maybe you can't. when you have migraines with fifteen or more headache days a month, you miss out on your life. you may have chronic migraine. go to mychronicmigraine.com to find a headache specialist. and don't live a maybe life. is another way to look at the bean. another way that reveals the lighter, mellower side of our roast. bei

>>gary: nba history in philadelphia, called the bryan surpassed shaquille o'neal for fifth place all- time in scoring. a day after the super bowl the raiders made it a little bit of news. there are very used to coach for the 49ers, he is our new defensive coordinator. he has a master's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. >> the ball was right there. i just have to make the plague. it is a play i have made a thousand times. i let the team down. >> he is a hell of a player. i will keep throwing the ball and for as long as i can. he is a phenomenal player and team me. brady's wife is a part of today's conversation. desmid bishops joined us earlier. >>gary: let's start with his wife. my husband cannot throw the ball and catch the ball at the same time. i cannot believe the drop the ball so many times. would you want your woman talking like that? >> absolutely not. we are the ones out there playing. i do not think it was right of her to say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion. >> we are a better team but the better team does not always win. >>gary: bob dorfman joint as

not currently, but was for years, a guy by the name of tip o'neal. he used to say our politics are local. and i firmly believe that, but all disasters are local as well. and it's important to remember that. and it's important to remember that as each incident happens, people who are at the local level, the city level know that. sometimes just once in a while, some of the feds might forget that. but it's important to remind people of that. so if you look and you have federal government with all sorts or local and state government. very impressive team. very impressive team. can do a lot. but by no means, the team. about this much is government. can do a lot, should do a lot. but needs to bring in the private sector. as we heard not a new concept near san francisco. wasn't a new concept in boston. but let me tell you for a lot of places that is a new concept. to bring in the private sector as a key member of the team. what they can bring to the table, what they have brought to the table and what they will bring to the table. i was a little surprised wh

that's more than michael jordan, it's more than shaq o'neal. so people are making a lot of fuss about this guy. as i say, lin-sanity is what they're talking about, and he's been speaking about how it's been affecting him. >> i want to be the same person before and after. and, you know, that's where i want to be. i don't want to let anything affect me or this team and i think playing in new york is a big stage, and that's obviously a temptation and the danger. >> he sounds grounded. what is his background? >> he's been billed as the american chinese-american star, so he's home grown. he thinks he would have been a better path to the path if not his background. but he's breaking boundaries, and new york is the place to do it. they love him there. >> absolutely. living the dream. good on him. thanks very much. let's move on now. the ugandan parliament is considering a bill that proposes harsh penalties for gay people. homosexuality is illegal in uganda, but increasing levels of homophobia have caused some people to flee the country. here's our eas

sherri shepherd, gavin degraw, ryan o'neal, pee-wee herman, kris jenner, and vince young.he next season kicks off on monday on abc 7. i am predicting murray of the aria menounous will be on the show. >> there's also talk that maybe one of the younger kardashian sisters will be on the season. there probably will be one of them. let's check in with adam caskey to find out what to expect in the weather today. >> cooler than yesterday. >> it was beautiful. >> we will have sunshine today but not as mild. but it will not be as windy. back to where we should be in terms of temperatures this afternoon. look at the numbers right now. not a bad start. near freezing in a few locations. above freezing for the most part. cumberland and hagerstown at freezing. 43 degrees in the district. 48 in quantico. normally about the metro area we would be in a new low 30's. but not the case today. we are running a little above average. in the 40's in southern maryland and south down 95. clear skies overhead. a lot of sunshine today. high pressure will provide the sunshine. keeping an eye on an are

being hammered on the new rule s the administration looking to compromise joining me now is terry o'neal the program. >> hey, alex, how are you? >> i'm great, a lot of buzz words, war on religion, abortive pills, they are trying make it a wedge issue, do you you think they can do so to the extent that the white house will change its position on contraseption >> no, the ones that will be in trouble in 2012 will be the ones that try to restrict birth control, that is different than the abortion debate. 98% of sexually active women that includes 98% of catholic sexually active women use birth control at some point, a vast majority of people in the country think that if an employer is going to offer health care, that that health care should include birth control. it's a winning issue for all the candidates that support birth control and a loser for those like mitt romney that wants to restrict birth control. >> i want to open this up to the panel, what is surprising to me how the abortion debate has become conflicted with the birth control. they are apples and oranges. >> they are but in the

joining us now, bill o'neal with logic advisers and from the cme group is scott shellady., guys. >> good to be here. >> bill, i'm going to start with you. you pointed this out to me in an e-mail the other day. you think the net long positions, bullish positions in commodity contracts is at a high that indicates to you maybe we're at maybe a near-term top, short-term top? >> it indicates overheating -- as you know, i'm a cyclical commodity bull. a little contrary to my long-term view. but the reality is those positions are at a level that tells me maybe we need a little bit of a correction. last week alone, crude oil was up over 11%, gold, 10% in the cftc commitments data. tells me there was a little bit too much of a rush into the markets. par of it relates to, we're out of that negative money flow period from mf global and the fund redemptions. >> scott, it seems to indicate, as bill is pointing out, that commodities are back in vogue as a legitimate asset class as we were several years ago. but how do you feel about the performance near term? what would you do in this ma

that is because bill o'neal sent me a note.t metal. >> and the viewers chart, we call it the power tweet. they say i'm watching xhb on the new deal