because i don't think a lot of people realize that before we had nate parker the actor, we had nate parkerprogrammer. >> that is correct. >> how do you go from coding to acting? >> i was dating a girl who was a model and she had to go to dallas and a guy walks up to me and is like are you in the program. i'm like no, not at all. he's like we don't have many actors in hollywood and i would love to have you read this monologue. >> you believed him? >> i just didn't want to be a programmer. it was one of those things it was like i'll try it. why not? what's the worst can happen? i read these lines and try to be an actor and see what happens. i called home and said mom i think i'm going to try this. she's like you got your degree. >> what happened next sounds like an old fashioned hog wolly discovery. his first acting job in three months and one role that changed his life. >> it was my first big role. i had to do research. all of a sudden i started to -- i came in contact with my identity and who i was. the acting thing started to shrink and the activism thing started to grow. it was the momen

and sarah jessica parker remembers when it was her dream. in a dance studio. >> i was a little girl in cincinnati, ohio. i was 8 years old, walked down a corridor, and stood transfixed. >> a little girl that couldn't believe the skill before her. you talked about not having money for the extras. she got a scholarship to learn how to dance, and got acting jobs, sharing the money with her family. we should have worked together. >> if only we had known. >> she was on her way. do you still remember the moment you walked on to that stage as annie? bob hope introducing her. but now, she's fighting to preserve the new york city ballet. if you could just get them from times square, 20 blocks north. >> i would personally take them if i had the time. if i could get them there, if words were needed, i would say, trust me. take two hours out of your day. >> millions watched her every week on "sex and the city." and dance worked its way into the script. did you imagine that one of the bigge biggest scenes would be in mcdonald's? >> no. >> do you think th

steven parker is a weirdo, anyway. very weird.s why he stays locked up in the back. >> coming up -- >> i don't think there is any good way to have to take a life. the sidebar to that, of course, is the individual is being put to death took a life. >> inside alabama's only execution chamber. >>> this is the execution chamber of the holman correctional facility. in alabama, death row inmates are executed on this gurney. the sentences are always carried out at 6:00 in the evening. >> i was 16 when the crime happened. i was 18 years old when i was sentenced to death. i was charged with capital murder, which is, you know, four more deaths in one active scheme. i was sentenced to death by the jury and judge. the jury voted ten votes to two for death. i was living with my father. me and him couldn't get along. looking back, it's -- a lot of the trouble that me and him had was my fault. things kept escalating. we got into fights. it just got to the point where in my mind at that time, i didn't feel like i had any way out. the next time we

. >>> and no one stops traffic like sarah jessica parker. the american treasure she's fighting for tonight. and the other big reveal, right here. >>> good evening on this friday night. more on this frozen nation, and the new storm coming in right behind it in just a moment. >>> but first, reports of planes taking off from five locations. tracking cell phone data and locations. authorities saying it's for catching criminals, but are they tracking you, too? pierre thomas leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, new questions about whether the government is scooping up the personal cell phone data from thousands of innocent americans. an investigation by the "wall street journal" uncovered a secret program designed to track down fugitives, suspected killers, rapists, and other criminals. it allows u.s. marshals to pinpoint the location of your phone from the sky, without you knowing it's happening. here's how it works. the marshals launch a small plane carrying a device called a dirtbox, which acts like a mini cell tower. over a populated area, it p

and steven parker is one of those guys who must be separated.m controlled at all times. >> i guess i'm going to go crazy. i don't know. i guess i'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison and keep doing the same things i've been doing. i don't know what else to do. until somebody kills me, i guess. i don't know. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay" -- >> life on death row was a very traumatic experience. death was definitely next. >> eight years on death row can make any inmate question his sanity. >> i feel confused, went through a mental stage where i likened to lose my mind. >>> it's been one week since terry moore stabbed another inmate over a pair of sneakers. he said a mixture of fear and anger fueled his attack. >> if you take something like shoes, they took shoes, i know who it is. the other guys in the block, they know i know. so if i don't deal with it, then that's a weak spot on my point. so they can go, okay, he's weak and we can steal the rest of his stuff and that's what was coming next eventually. it's not my first stab, not t

nate parker, everybody.line" is next, but first, their album is called "the story: the very best of spandau ballet." here with the song "true," spandau ballet. ♪ ha ha ha ha ha ♪ ♪ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha so true funny how it seems always in time but ♪ ♪ never in line for dreams head over heels u% when toe to toe this is the sound ♪ ♪ of my soul this is the sound i bought a ticket to the world ♪ ♪ but now i've come back again why do i find it hard to write ♪ ♪ the next line oh i want the truth to be said ♪ ♪ ha ha ha ha ha i know this much is true ha ha ha ha ha i know this much is true ♪ ♪ ♪ i bought a ticket to the world ♪ ♪ but now i've come back again why do i find it hard ♪ ♪ to write the next line oh i want the truth to be said ♪ ♪ ha ha ha ha ha i know this much is true ha ha ha ha ha ♪ ♪ i know this much is true this much is true oh this is much is true ♪ ♪ this much is true ♪ i know this much is true ♪ this much is true ♪ this much is true ♪ i know ♪ i know ♪ i know ♪ i know ♪ t

nate parker, everybody. we'll be right back with spandau ballet.ays, rita. (rita) thanks, joe! (man) what a great gift! (announcer) pennsylvania lottery tickets make great gifts, like the new $1 million peppermint payout. (joe) happy holidays! ♪and best wishes from the lottery♪ >> jimmy: thanks to keira knightley, nate parker. apologies to matt damon, we ran out of time for him. "nightline" is next, but first, their album is called "the story: the very best of spandau ballet." here with the song "true," spandau ballet. ♪ ha ha ha ha ha ♪ ♪ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha so true funny how it seems always in time but ♪ ♪ never in line for dreams head over heels u% when toe to toe this is the sound ♪ ♪ of my soul this is the sound i bought a ticket to the world ♪ ♪ but now i've come back again why do i find it hard to write ♪ ♪ the next line oh i want the truth to be said ♪ ♪ ha ha ha ha ha i know this much is true ha ha ha ha ha i know this much is true ♪ ♪ ♪ i bought a ticket to the world ♪ ♪ but now i've come back again why do i find

and steven parker is one of those guys who must be separated.oing to go crazy. i don't know. i guess i'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison and keep doing the same things i've been doing. i don't know what else to do. until somebody kills me, i guess. i don't know. >>> next on "lockup: extended stay" -- >> life on death row was a very traumatic experience. death was definitely next. >> eight years on death row can make any inmate question his sanity. >> i felt confused. went through a mental stage where i likened to lose my mind. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention. we did? of course. you're type e* well, i have been researching retirement strategies. well that's what type e*s do. welcome home. taking control of your retirement? e*trade gives you the tools and resources to get it right. are you type e*? ♪ ♪ ♪ woooooah. ♪ [ male announcer ] you're not just looking for a house. you're looking for a place for your life to happen. zillow. and you want to get an mba. but going back to school is hard. because yo

parker showed off his game. here he is on the break finishes with the two handed. wow. uh-oh.ight now the sixers have the lead 62 to 60 in the third quarter. >>> nate al schenn listed as questionable for sunday's game against the texans. he missed most of practice this week with that hamstring injury. >>> the birds defense will be tested by aryan foster. second in the league in rushing. last sunday he ran for 151 yards and scored three touchdowns. >> he can run through tackles but he's also a really good receiver coming out of the back field and i think he does a great job compliment wag they do with him in the run game but also the passing game. big physical guy. you got to get a lot of guys around him. i don't think one guy is going to take him down. >> we'll get you ready for the showdown in houston on sunday. kickoff at 11:30ly i'll be joined by lesley van arsdale and the voice of the eagles merrill reese over on our sister station cbs3. >>> the flyers with the night off. they are back on the ice tomorrow against the florida panthers. late last night they signed veteran fr

tony parker, 21 points, 7 assists. clay thompson, 29 for the warriors. but parker and leonard, just too much. leonard, 19 points, 6 rebounds. spurs win it 113 to 100. >>> long distance information. memphis, tennessee. that's where the fred bears were hosting the kobe bryants. under two minutes to go, lakers, he had 28. but there was a miscommunication in the final half minute that led to bryant not shooting the shot the lakers had to make. and a rebound they had to have. and memphis' zach randolph did. and the grizz, 107-102. >> that's us. 17 in a row for the grizzlies now at home. >> got any other facts you want to share? >> no. >> all right. >> back to you. >>> appreciate you, fellas, as always. >>> we have "the pulse" coming your way next. and the story for the people who just can't cut a rug. if you look like that when you dance, it might not be your fault. >>> and a new champion crowned, a multi-million dollar prize awarded overnight. strip and shut your mouth. ight cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it o

>> dorothy parker, i don't think so. edna, she would have been in greenwich village at the same time as her in the teens. later on, she is in paris in the 1920's and in and out of the same circles as james joyce and ezra pound and other key figures of the period. >> tell us what you found in the archives at the library of congress. what is the "charm" collection right? >> i have had the whole set of "charm" at my desk. it has been wonderful. i discovered it's an ambitious magazine. for a department store magazine, they were trying to use this magazine as a professional tool to cultivate perhaps a particular audience for the store, but also to kind of of modernityair about it. it has modern typefaces, a slick layout. it is confident and bold. it used contemporary illustrators and photographers, mixing illustrations and photography. to look at it, it's modern. yet what is interesting about "charm," it has an equally confident civic, local focus on new jersey issues. it blends these issues of inernity with women living and

it's done courtesy of night parker. good to have you on the screen.k on this and the movie on the 14th. >> thanks. >> and valerie is a wrestler at the columbia. weaver -- we're honored to have you on the program. great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> that's the show for tonight. and as always, keep the faith. ♪ >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >>> join me next time for a conversation with smokey robinson about his latest c.d., "smokey and friends." see you next time. >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >> rose: welcome to the program. on this veteran's day, we begin with retired lieutenant general daniel bolger. his new book is called why we lost, a general's inside account of the iraq and afghanistan wars. >> we took that great military that we have, those greatzkodu d men and we misused it. our armed forces are built, the volunteer forces we build in kind of the ashes of the war of vietnam, defeated vietnam, they're built to short decisive violent exains

no one stops traffic here in new york city like sarah jessica parker. i saw it first-hand. >> "world news tonight with david muir" is coming up after this newscast at 5:30 on abc 7. >>> brace yourself. closures on the bay bridge begin at 8:00 p.m. tonight. the project to replace deteriorating joints in the upper deck of the western span will close four lanes up to 5:00 a.m. crews will work overnight for at least ten weeks monday through saturday. the job could take longer depending on the weather. >>> the grass is greener on stockton street right now. if it looks odd, maybe it is. city workers laid down a lot of sod on stockton street between geary and ellis, just about ground zero for the central subway project which has clogged the roadway with heavy equipment for months. the temporary pedestrian walkway is designed to boost foot traffic and perhaps [ inaudible ] during the holiday shopping season. >> that looks nice. >>> let's talk about the weekend weather forecast. >> we are all wondering if it will rain again. >> there is going to be at least a ch

it's done courtesy of night parker. good to have you on the screen.k on this and the movie on the 14th. >> thanks. >> and valerie is a wrestler at the columbia. weaver -- we're honored to have you on the program. great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> that's the show for tonight. and as always, keep the faith. ♪ >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. >>> join me next time for a conversation with smokey robinson about his latest c.d., "smokey and friends." see you next time. >>> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ announcer: "image makers" is made possible by the members of kqed. [ clock ticking ]

. >> elvis never complained that colonel tom parker got 51% and he got 49.nsel could the contract have been b nullified, i would say yes, but he was okay with it. if i was elvis, i would have been a son of a bitch. if i'm going all the work and all that stuff, manager, respectfully, would have gotten 10, no more than 20%. ♪ >> i saw him tell that, if you don't do these contracts, you won't do anything. so then here's what elvis has the choice. just walk around the rest of his life with a chip on his shoulder or is she just going to go through the motions. ♪ >> now married to priscilla, but with a career in tatters in 1968, elvis is down, but not out. he welcomes the arrival of lisa marie, his only child. then rejecting the advice of the colonel, he stages a remarkable comeback. the television concert. his first in seven years. clad in black lithuania, elvis is back. >> he's back, if anything can do it, he's back. >> i'll never forget, he introduced me to elvis presley. >> how in the world did you get past colonel tom parker, the most productive man in histor

trying to boost his own ego up. >> how would you describe steven parker? what kind of inmate is he?crazy. he's a nut. i mean, no more, no less. he's not a person that's very intelligent. >> culliver combats predatory behavior and other problems by knowing his inmates well and enforcing his rules. even the smaller ones, like being clean shaven. >> that's how you shave? >> see these bumps. >> i don't see no bumps. you know what, some of that comes from not shaving. if you would shave, the hair wouldn't turn back in. that's where it comes from. it turns from the hair turning back in. so if you would shave, it would not turn back in. >> no, it would not happen from shaving. >> i guess it's the razor's fault. we buy some cheap razors. if i see somebody with a beard or looking like they need to shave, i generally talk to them about that. you need to shave or go to hair care. one or the other. >> i been to hair care. >> culliver never hesitates to get involved in the seemingly endless array of disciplinary problems. our crew caught up with him on a monday morning as he was trying to resolv

you don'tee bill parker complaining. oh! bill parker! mr. "look at me! i'm ng of the carnival!" he's doing itfor the school. he's a good father. oh, what, he's a better father than me? is that that you're saying? i'm not a good father? you wanna be a good father? go help out in the child care room. i'll go. they got a tv in there? hey, barone, what happened? what are you doing? oh, i wa uh, doing this. hey, gimme that! i can do that, thank you veryuch. we're ready to finish the rest of the booth frames. i can use some muscle. let's rock! i'll be back to check on those, and they better be spot-free, ok? this isn't like home, where i let that stuff slide.

. >> julia parker: you want to touch the basket? you can touch a basket. how can you tell a story that most people coming into the valley are not really aware of? >> and josephine taylor in ink. this time on spark. [ ♪music ]

parker. dunc duncan. bucket and foul. guilty of the hack. 12 find. parker, 28. ginobli.ecord to the post season. they will have to do it without injured patrick pill is. the seven time all pro season is over as head to the injured reserve list with surgery coming on his own. the linebacker first suffered the injury in week six during the victory in in the louis. the injury got to the pin the where needed. >> i always ben a quiter. always been a competitor. i will start until i go. go any more. i thought. maybe give it couple. but unfortunately it any just i lez i need to duet for myself. with willis thyme. alden smith reinstated. after the suspension. get bean practicing well this week. against the new york giants. on the sunday. sharks continuing in florida. it was not pretty. first period. already, 1 -- 0. panthers from the cycle. barkof the last. and 3-0. and fleischmann. score on the defenseman. in front. 4-0. snimz former giants. matt williams. nl manager of year with the washington nationals. beats them out. more news coming up after the break. hey john, check it o

this year's second over all pick, gentleman bar i parker of the bucks. here we go. a hook shot, finished with 14 ponts, three blocks, that's pretty good. gentleman bar i parker showed off his game. take a look at him on the break. i believe he can fly. i think he just flew. he scored 11 points. the sixers went scoreless for the final eight minutes of the game and lost 93 to 81. the flyers equipment manager with the holiday spirit upon him taped a plastic snake inside a cooler. when the players reached in for a sports drink the fright night pang produced the desired effect cheering. ace. it is time for the friday football frenzy. take it away, beastly. thanks a lot to the yous tas cheerleaders. your kids on tv, the original friday football frenzy starts right now. delaware county christian school taking on california vair i christian academy. looking for the end zone and that's where he found say vast. christian won it 34-45. mitchell takes a swing to jeffrey davis, washington a winner, 21 to 8. moorestown visiting undefeated timber creek and before the game timber c

. >> talking about getting better, then you get to play charlie parker in "bird."lint eastwood directed that. you won best actor at cannes, again, before you are 30. nominated for golden globes. was it a heady time. did it go to your head? >> no. i mean, i think i was always so critical. i was just blown away, you know, by the experience. working with clint - i had never done publicity for a movie, and you are thrown into an arena where there are thousands of people. i took my brother and he said "i heard someone say you might win the award." i'm like, "really? no." know. >> you were a hard-working innocent kid. >> yes. >> you threw yourself into the role of charlie parker, you learnt to play the sax and lived a spartan existence, is that something that you have a reputation for, delving deeply into the characters you play? >> yes, i dived into that and lived the character most of the time. my interest in acting was to continue to explore how i was connected to other people. when i pull away the layers of a person's life to get to the core, at the very core there's

. >> his name is parker clark. dared him to climb to one of the highest branches in a tree at his grandmother's house. so parker got stuck 50 feet into the air. >> he was up there about an hour before a tree crew brought him back to the ground. he said he'd do it all over. if somebody dares you, you have to go. that's just a rule of being a kid, right? . >> you can't say no. >> we sound silly, don't we? >>> we've got "the mix" coming up. and we have a thief, a stupid one. the challenges of shoplifting when trying to steal a chainsaw. >>> also ahead, theater audience. theater audiences are falling in love with a serial killer. we'll go behind the scenes of a tony award-winning show to reveal some surprises. you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: "world news now" weather brought to you by colonial penn life insurance.

so it's increasing rapidly but television is sort of the 800 pound gorilla. >> ashley parker, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: and now to our signature segment. our original in-depth reports from around the nation and the world. you've probably seen portions of this statement that brittany maynard posted online nearly a month ago. >> i hope to enjoy however many days i have left on this beautiful earth and spend as much of it outside as i can surrounded by those i love. i hope to pass in peace. >> sreenivasan: maynard, of course, is the 29-year-old california woman who moved to oregon recently because that state permits assisted suicide. maynard wants to die before her malignant brain tumor leaves her completely incapacitated. her case, which has rekindled a national debate about assisted suicide, gives us the opportunity to take a look at how oregon's, assisted suicide law has been working. the newshour's stephen fee reports. >> reporter: like millions of americans, oregonian pam wald was riveted by the video of brittany maynard, a 29-year-old woman suffering from brain

put his jugular vein back together. >> our producer learned that the total debt owed to parker was $60e in snacks and toiletries purchased at the prison canteen since inmates are not allowed to carry cash. but behind bars, the true value of a tattoo can only be determined by the person who wears it. >> why would you want to get a swastika on your neck? >> because i just thought it would look cool. i like to -- i wanted to get two of them on each side like frankenstein bolts. big swastikas. just to let everybody know that, you know, i'm a racist son of a bitch, you know? >>> coming up -- >> i'm, like, the most popular one. they call me countess. the countess. above all. >> men who do their time while living as women. >> i'm the wife. he's the male. i got on my band and his. that's mine. that's his. yeah. got that right here. how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for

insulted and grossly wrong the, he said, by the savage epithets that were worthy of a crank, like parker pills bury, and lily edward pierce who wrote a four-volume biography of charles sumner told phillips, few public men of our time have in their discourses treated slavery as a wrong more logically and feelingly than abraham lincoln. his 1849 bill resembled legislation that had been drafted by john quincy adams earlier and by william henry seward. and pierce said, i think lincoln stands as well as seward and john quincy adams do on record. oh, and one of the surprising things about wendell phillips' attack on lincoln in 1860 is he said, william henry seward is much preferable to lincoln because in the fall of 1860 -- i mean, 1858 seward had given a speech in which he called the conflict between north and south over slavery, irrepressible conflict. phillips said, that took a lot of nerve. defenders of lincoln said, wait a minute, lincoln said virtually the same thing in the previous june, when he gave his house divided speech, that the house divided, it will -- it will either go -- the h

. >> steven parker is serving a life sentence for the murder of his stepmother. >> a lot of people, you know, they villainize me for that. i grew up with parents that didn't give a [ bleep ] about me. i'm not trying to excuse my behavior, you know what i mean? i take full responsibility. i pled guilty. >> parker claims to be a leader of the aryan brotherhood prison gang. >> i wasn't racist until i started landed in jails and prisons and kept getting jumped on over and over again. then i became racist. i wear it proudly. i got the swastikas and got the bolts. >> when we met him, he was serving his time in administrative segregation because his desire for another tattoo nearly turned deadly. >> about six months ago, i cut a dude's throat down in population. he was supposed to do some tattoos. i was going to get some swastikas tattooed on the side of my neck. he didn't want to run them. i said, well, you just need to give me my money back. he didn't want to do it. i pulled out a box cutter and i cut the side of his throat. and he went running away and tried to run behind an officer. like a

>> i don't think she was related to dorothy parker. paris in the is a 20's and in and out of the same circle than james joyce. figures of the period. >> tell us what you found here at the archive? >> i have had the whole charm to my desk, and lots of time go through it. discovered an ambitious magazine, the trent used this magazine as a promotional tool to cultivate a particular audience. they also wanted to cultivate an aura of modernity. it has modern time faces an can of confident bubble. mixes photography and illustration, with more modern journals of the period. you look at it, it is modern but what is a very interesting has an ime is that it equally confident local focus on new jersey issues. it blends, this kind of issues of modernity with women and working in new jersey. issues kind of local have you come across? >> women in politics. they commissioned him to write in umber of pieces, i read one of his memoirs that he was writing about new jersey. natural history, i suppose. coastline bout the and things like that. >> have you

this is alison parker from wdbj in roanoke. it's pretty. >> reporter: it is.s such a beautiful sight and what you're seeing right now started out as heavy rain, very early this morning, but clearly a different picture. the roads pretty much pure slush. we've seen the virginia department of transportation plows going back and forth up here on top of bent mountain in roanoke county in virginia and all emergency responders are encouraging drivers to be careful if they're heading down the mountain, just from driving up and down, we have' seen cars heading into up to with snow and ice on top of their cars and it's spilling off, so definitely something to be aware of if you are hitting the roads. if you're looking at the this parking lot right now, we had a crew come through here, plow it off, clear off this parking lot because this fire department obviously needs a clear parking lot to get out and respond so any situation. this was an hour ago and right now you can't tell they were out here. the snow is coming down. carol? >> all right, everyone be careful, please,

host: incredibly colonel parker treats barbra streisand offer with contempt. >> before you say anything of the picture, top billing. says colonel, i'm a pretty big star too, we will see you later. >> in his heart he was marlon brando, no doubt about it. host: creative disappointments and enough dope to kill a horse, the volkswagen golf was just named motor trend's 2015 car of the year. so was the 100% electric e-golf, and the 45 highway mpg tdi clean diesel. and last but not least, the high performance gti. looks like we're gonna need a bigger podium. the volkswagen golf family. motor trend's 2015 "cars" of the year. what you're doing now, janice. blogging. your blog is just pictures of you in the mirror. it's called a fashion blog, todd. well, i've been helping people save money with progressive's discounts. flo, can you get janice a job? [ laughs ] you should've stuck to softball! i was so much better at softball than janice, dad. where's your wife, todd? vacation. discounts like homeowners', multi-policy -- i got a discount on this ham. i've got the meat sweats. this is good ham, dia

. >>> april parker vanished on tuesday, she battles bipolar disorder and manic aggression. she requires medication. she is known to frequent the 1200 block of market street. parker is 5'5" and was wearing a gray jacket and dark pants. >>> call police if you have any tips. >>> take a look at this video, police in haddonfield township, camden county police are asking for help identifying the suspect vandalizing a school bus. it happened at 5:00 in the parking area near the department of public works. >>> a university of pittsburgh researcher has been convicted of poisoning his wife with cyanide. he now faces a mandatory whrief whrief -- life sentence. he concocted the plan to kill his wife autumn after she wanted to have a second child. >>> delaware county could be getting a major economic shot in the arm. it's planning 50-mile pipeline from western pennsylvania that means jobs and lots of them. chad perdelli has the details. >> reporter: business owners in the heart of marcus hook are struggling. andre owns urban denim and hopes the pipeline project will surge sales. >> it's

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season five of "gold rush" on discovery, we have 20-year-old, i'm going to say that again, 20-year-old parker skype right this minute. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> this is an exciting season. $2.5 million worth of gold. can you pull that much out of the ground? >> it's out there. it's a matter of getting it, right. >> how? >> we work as hard as we can and smart as we can and burn as much fuel as we can. see if we can do it. >> how much of all of this gold you are finding do you get to keep? >> i'm not going to tell you that. >> how much of it is sort of like guesswork and how much of it is instinct and how much is education? >> a lot comes from experience and making a lot of bad decisions in the past and learning from them. there is a little bit of luck. thing about gold mining and that is why there is such an appeal for the show, gold is where you find it. >> what excitement can we expect in season five? >> we've gotten to is going to try to disassemble and put pit you the back together. we are going for $2.5 million. it's a big undertaking. go big or go home. >> airs

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april parker vanished from ludlow street in philadelphia. parker battles bipolar disorder a manic depression. she requires treatment. she is 5'5" and was last seen wearing a gray jacket and dark panels. call police if you have any tips. >>> delaware county could be getting a major economic shot in the arm thanks to an announcement from sunoco plans to launch a mariner east ii. 50-mile pipeline from western pennsylvania. that means jobs, lots of them. chad perdelli has the details. >> reporter: business owners here in the heart of marcus hook are struggling. andre owns urban denim and hopes the pipeline project will spur a surge in sales. >> it's hard for a lot of small businesses down here, we could use that help. >> reporter: the project is called mariner east ii. it basically allows for the expansion of existing pipelines and movement of the natural gas liquids from eastern ohio and west virginia and western pennsylvania to marcus hook. here it will be processed and be distributed in the u.s. and across the world. >> this means not only th

police are searching for the suspects in a home-invasion robbery which happened on the 500 block of parker avenue in the roxborough section around 43:30 a.m. one man was armed with a rifle. they stole cell cell cell phonee were to injuries reported. >>> jessica padgett of white hall township was the first to find her, one of the first people to step in to find her was her stepfather, but he was the killer. gregory graff to the body yesterday. he shot her in the head and buried her body behind a she had in the property. >> the motive was a sexual assault motive. there's a sex angle to this crime. that is still being developed in terms of of the particular nature of it. based on what the investigators learned there's a motive that involves a sexual assault i would call it or attempted assault on this victim. >> the 33-year-old victim was the mother of 3 and recently gotten married. investigators expect the autopsy to give them more details on her death. >> police in south jersey are hoping you can help them find the people behind two cases of credit card fraud. the people committed the fraud

. >> elvis never complained that colonel tom parker got 51% and he got 49.e individual council? could the contract have been nullified? i would say yes, but he was okay with it. if i was elvis, i would have been a son of a -- if i'm doing all the work and doing that stuff, manager, respectfully would have gotten 10 -- no more than 20%. >> i saw them tell him if you don't do these contracts, you won't do anything. so now here's where elvis has a choice. is he going to walk around the rest of his life with a chip on his shoulder, or is he just going to go through the motions? >> now married to priscilla but with a career in tatters, elvis is down but not out. welcomes the arrival of lisa marie, his only child. then rejecting the advice of the colonel, he stages a remarkable comeback. his first in seven years. clad in black leather, elvis is back. >> he's back, man. he's back. >> i'll never forget he introduced me to elvis presley. >> superagent jerry winethrop. >> how did you get -- the most protected manager in history to get to elvis? >> just gave us a milli

. >>> and sarah jessica parker, the american treasure she's fighting for tonight. >>> good evenings onfriday

a career firefighter named billy parker.ng of the murrah federal building in oklahoma city, billy realized there was no training facility for that particular circumstance and a whole lot of others. since then, billy has been on the front lines of some of the country's biggest disasters, from 9/11 to hurricane katrina. >> tell me what just happened down there. >> well, we were simulating a bombing in a parking garage, like the '93 world trade center bombing. >> right. >> disaster city is a complex to use the urban search and rescue program. >> billy also has parkinson's disease. he comes to work anyway, every day. >> you can see several different buildings that were collapsed to simulate real world experiences. the collapse over here simulating the 1985 earthquake in mexico city. >> this is amazing. really amazing. so are you guys all firefighters or paramedics or both or -- >> some of both. we're staff here. full-time. >> full-time staff. >> we help bring in the instructors from around the country that teach the classes here

. >>> "hocus pocus 2," sarah jessica parker and bette midler and kathy nah jimmy may be in for a see the crystal ball is not clear on this one yet. >> howard, the phone is ringing! >> howard's mom on "the big bang theory" has sadly been silenced. actress carol ann susi died on tuesday after a battle with cancer. the veteran actress was praised by the show's executive producers for her immense talent and comedic timing. >>> rock star bret michaels had to have surgery this week. the lead singer of poison was hospitalized for kidney-related issues. he ultimately went in for surgery to resolve the issue. >>> sharon osbourne announced the series "the osbournes" is making a comeback. ozzy wants people to see him clean and sober. ozzie being ozzie, clean and sober, crazy fun. >> you think entertaining enough? >> i think so. the family is so endearingly whacked. >> half of the fun of watching the first show was trying to figure out what he was saying. >> it will make it funny either way. i'm francis rivera. this is "early today." we hope this is just your first stop of the day here on nbc. >

charlie parker, one of the most important improvisors in jazz, created melodies which were so strong which influenced so many people that they've become cliches of the language. for example, [plays sample] you would never want to play a whole improvisation with that, with that one idea, and in fact, most improvisations i play don't have that idea in them, but they may make reference in some way to that idea. the language of jazz is not just melodic cliches, it's also the harmonies that we use in jazz and the way the melodies that we use relate to the harmonies. for example, if i kind of outline a certain chord [ascending notes of a chord played individually] that chord wants to go somewhere else. it wants to go here. [descending notes of the same chord] now, if i'm going to improvise over those chords, i'm going to try to create a melody which fits with those harmonies. so you have to have not only a knowledge of the language, a sensitivity to what everyone else is playing, but also a sense of where you are, where you've been, and where you're going. that's tough. it's hard, but it a