green shoe studio out of east pea y peoria, illinois, had a singer/songwriter contest. >> it is a online singer/songwriter contest, and people are supposed to upload their video. but instead, we received a manila envelope. >> it is from 96-year-old fred. >> well, she was the prettiest girl i ever saw. she was real timid in life and i fell in love right there. >> as i am reading flu the letter, i began the realize that his wife had just passed away. >> she was a car hop at the a&w root beer stand in east peoria and she brought the trays to the car. that was in about 1938. >> that is 75 years together. so fred wrote a song about the love oflorraine, and these guys at green shoe studios decided to do is to produce the song with professional singers free. ♪ good lorraine, i wish we could live the good times all over again ♪ >> i am barely holding it together over here myself. >> it is touching. it is. eventually the song is done. ♪ oh sweet lorraine ♪ i wish we could do the sweet times over again ♪ ♪ sweet lorraine ♪ life only goes around one ♪ but never again ♪ the good times ♪ the good tim

there's a phrase in hospitals called the nephew from peoria, the relative who flies in long distance to was not involved at all in family care and balances that everything be done, everything be done for longer life even if the family member who is dying has his living will and said very clearly they don't want extraordinary measures so i have more compassion now for the difficult position we have put them in. >> changes in medicare reimbursement structure could help. some day medicare will offer us the choice of a plan covering two years of care in exchange for the willingness not to expect medicare to pay for last-ditch $35,000 to fibril later. >> i really think frankly we need a grass-roots movement of caregivers to try to inform how we approach end of life and reimbursed doctors so they can do the right thing rather than the wrong thing. >> is there such a movement afoot? >> there is something called the family caregiver alliance. groups groping towards this territory but not against some of the most powerful lobbies in washington, literally. medicine, finance and mental care and

green smu recording studio in east peoria, illinois, asking readers for youtube videos of their own songe winner would get their song produced. fred had no video, but he had that song. >> instead of a video, we received a manila envelope. it was from a 96-year-old man who said, i wrote a song for my wife. >> reporter: in his letter, fred wrote, i can't sing, i'm not a musician, but they loved his lyrics. to sweet lorraine. >> he began to cry and said, why would you do this for me? >> reporter: they told him they were going to record his song, and he tried to show them how it goes. ♪ sweet lorraine ♪ i wish we could do the good times over again ♪ >> reporter: they found a singer and went into the recording studio and told us today how nervous they were when they gave fred those headphones. >> tell me when you're ready. >> yeah, okay. ♪ sweet lorraine ♪ i wish we could do all the good times all over again ♪ >> reporter: overwhelmed. he still is tonight, hitting number five on itunes this week. his grandson telling us today, he asked the family who is this justin timberlake? i just passed h

there is a phrase and hospitals called the nephew from peoria this is the relative that flies live long distance not involved in the family care now insists that everything be done to prolong the life even if the family member has a living will that says very clearly did not want extraordinary measures. i have a lot more compassion out for the difficult position we have put them in. >> host: changes in medicare reimbursement structure could help perhaps someday will offer the choice covering up at two years of back home care in exchange for the willingness not to expect medicare to pay for the last ditch $35,000 a defibrillator, etc., etc. . .

hippies can just as easily get their bong rips in portland or peoria.and the look of tangier, what you see and hear when you lean out the window and take it all in, that's here to stay. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> today people are living longer than they ever have before. that's right. not only are we getting older, but our senior population is that's right. not only are we getting older, but our senior population is multiplying. during the next 35 years, the number of people over the age of

>> they met freshman year in peoria, illinois. they are with us via google plus hangout.> hi, you guys. >> hi! how are you? >> we're good. how are you guys? >> awesome. >> so are we. >> we're like twinsies. before we show you what you have won we want to show people a little bit of your submission. >> okay. >> just like you, we love animals, meet kermit. >> aah! >> we have our favorite things. >> we love music. ♪ >> we have different passions. >> i'm going to be a teacher! >> i'm going to work in corporate communications. those aren't real glasses. >> detention. >> we make absolute fools of ourselves. >> we love food. >> yeah! >> they are exactly like us. >> love it. >> we hear you call yourselves a frouple. so a couple of friend s. >> we're stealing that. we're going to steal that, kids. we're a frumpy frouple. >> you're beautiful. >> thank you, sweetheart. >> are you ready? pack your days for three days, two nights in san diego. >> can't we go with them, hody? >> the trip includes round trip airfare, dinner for two at the waterfront restaurant, complimentary parking. th

>> they met freshman year of bradley university in peoria, illinois. with us via google + hangout. >> hey, girls! >> hi, you guys! >> how are you? >> we're good. how are you guys? >> we're awesome. >> we're awesome! >> so are we. okay, before -- >> they are exactly like us -- >> twinsies. >> yeah. >> before we show what you've won, we want to show a little of your submission, okay? >> okay. >> okay. >> just like you -- >> we -- >> love animals -- >> meet kermit. >> ahh! >> we have our favorite things. >> we love music. ♪ >> we have different passions. >> i'm going to be a teacher. >> i'm going to work this corporate communications. those aren't real glasses. >> detention. >> we absolute fools of ourselves. we love food. >> hut -- >> hut! >> yay! >> in the end, we're best friends, too. >> i love it. >> they are exactly like us. >> twins. we love it. >> we hear you call yourselves a frouple. a couple of friends? >> yes. >> we might have to steal that. >> we're going to steal that, kids. >> we have a frumpy frouple. >> we are. >> no, you're beautiful. >>

a peoria county judge has ruled dna in his case should be tested.ory served 30 years behind bars for a double murder but has always maintained his innocence. >> i can't get no justice. justice is gone. justice is a preventative measure to stop injustice from taking place. i can't get that. but i can get the truth. >> witnesses in the case have all recanted their stories. savory hopes dna found in the physical evidence will prove him innocent once and for all. >> 40 negligence lawsuits are now filed against northwestern memorial hospital and the northwestern medical faculty foundation which owned and maintained a sperm bank that malfuncitoned last year. sperm samples were destroyed that were kept in a cryogenic tank. the plaintiffs suffered serious illness or were undergoing medical treatment would likely render them infertile in the future. freezing their sperm was the only real hope they had for having biological children. the suits claim northwestern should have known its equipoment failed. northwestern says it believes a number of samples may sti

interacted with the crew as they began their duty day in rockford, illinois, and as they made stopovers in peoriand louisville. we have consistent with that, we're in concert with that, we have interviewed the van driver who drove them out to the aircraft. in louisville. we know that they obtained keys for the sleep rooms in louisville. u.p.s. has sleep rooms available for their flight crew. we know they obtained crew, signed out keys for those rooms. we want to see if we can determine if they actually used those rooms. tomorrow we will be examining an ex-every lar u.p.s. and in the coming weeks we anticipate we will do a flight nest a u.p.s. a-300 to seep how this approach would be flown in that type of an aircraft and to learn more about u.p.s.'s instrument approach procedures. the aircraft. we have removed electronic yimt from the wreckage. electronic equipment that may have non-volatile memory that may be able to contain additional data on what this airplane was doing. we find oftentimes that the memory chips in some equipment still gives us a lot of data. for example, the engine control modu

there is actually a phrase in the hospital called the nephew from peoria and this is the relative who flies in who has been not involved at all with the family care and now says everything needs to be done to perv on -- prolong the life. even family members who are dying and have a living will be sick clearly they don't want extraordinary measures. i have more compassion now for what difficult position we have with them in. >> host: changes in medicare's rampersaud structure could help. perhaps one day medicare will offer a choice covering up to two years and palliative care and exchange for the willingness not to -- let's ditch $35,000 deferred to later etc.. >> guest: i really think frankly we need a grassroots movement of caregivers to transform how we approach the end of life and how we reimburse doctors so they can do the right thing rather than the wrong thing. >> host: is there such a movement afoot? >> guest: there is actually. there's something called the family caregiver alliance. there are groups that are moving towards this territory but we are up against some of the most

. >> caller: this is john from peoria, illinois. big boo-yah, buddy. >> what's going on? >> caller: not too much. i know that china is having a slow recovery. i need to know if you think that caterpillar stock is going to drift below $80 a share, and also case new holland outlook? >> let's go into these. i like agco, which did better than deere this morning. caterpillar really took a lot of the expectations out of the stock when it reported so i think it will have a hard time going below $80. it's not my favorite. i'm waiting for cummins to have a pull back. that cummins 12 liter natural gas engine is such a bargain. let's go to christopher in florida. >> caller: hey, jim. christopher from tampa, florida. how are you doing? >> good. how about you? >> caller: not too bad. but unfortunately, macy's didn't make my day. >> no. didn't make anybody's day. except maybe gimbel's. >> caller: exactly. retail seems to be doing that all over the place. my question is concerning sears. with regard to, you know, basically every retailer being hit, i decided to go the opposite way on th

. >> host: david in peoria please go ahead with your question or comment. >> guest: thank you for beinghere, dr. carson. if you believe anything that has happened since 1900 has helped the human race as far as voting, fair wages, anything? >> host: david, what is your answer to that question? david? turn down your tv. what is your answer to that question that he just asked? >> caller: i am flabbergasted that he is able to sit here and deny that progressives have not had a hand in helping the human cause throughout history. we all want the help of to succeed, and i just think that when he is slightly 90 when he thinks about people doing their best. dr. person? >> guest: i don't recall they were not important and helpful, but that you may be diluting to the fact that i talk about agendas and certain progressives have come a people that want to take dhaka out of our society and take the principles out of our society and substitute for that their own principles. those people are perfectly willing and welcome to be here as far as i am concerned. but what i don't like is when they try to fore

. >> reporter: fred first met lorraine in 1938 at an a&w restaurant in peoria illinois. >> well she wasstory carried on for 73 years until lorraine passed away in april. grif-stricken, fred sat down and began to write. >> it just come write to me almost. i just kept humming it. >> reporter: he called the song oh sweet lorraine but fred doesn't play an instrument and he doesn't sing. with only lyrics, he ran across an ad for a song-writing contest. contestants had to submit their entries via youtube. >> at 96 just a little past the youtube generation, fred took a different approach. >> we received a very large manila envelope entitled singer songwriter contest. the entry stood out to jacob colegren, a producer for the studio. even though he didn't win, he was offered something far more special. >> we decided to take his lyrics and bring them to life. we are going to record your song and have professionals do this. we are going to do all this for free. >> oh, sweet lorraine i wish we could do the good times all over again. >> reporter: weeks later, the song was ready for fred to hear. >>

my friend saw this, and it was on a tv station in peoria, illinois whenever it was. and the young lady reading the tell prompter referred -- talking about it to world war 11. [laughter] and which suggested to me that maybe we're not teaching history very well. [laughter] but also we're not teaching latin a lot you would think that after all of the super bowl we would know something about the roman numeral. apparently not. [laughter] anyway, what i've tried to do in these two books is look at what happened as opposed to what is in most of the textbooks that are out there. one reason this was possible is that the truth about all of the stuff for years was covered up in to some degree it still is; however, with the passage of time, we have had access to the files of the federal bureau of investigations. who were tracking the bad guys who were trying to do us harm back in the '40s and '50s. this was all covered up at the time, and to some extent still is. now we have a pretty good picture of what went on. to capsulated, very briefly, time is limited, especially -- essent

. >> host: david in peoria, illinois, go ahead. >> caller: well, i just -- believe that anything that happened since 1900 has helped the human race as far as voting, fair wages, anything? >> host: david, what's your answer to that question? >> host: david? >> caller: yes. >> host: turn down your tv and what is your answer to that question you just asked? >> caller: i am flabbergasted that dr. carson is able to sit here and deny that progressives have not had a hand in helping the human cause throughout history. and we all want help up to succeed, and i just think that carson is slightly naive when he sits around and talks about people just doing their best and helping themselves out. >> host: thank you, david. dr. carson? >> guest: first of all i don't recall having said that anyone was not important and helpful. what you may be eluding to is the fact that i talk about agendas that certain progressives have. people who want to take god out of our society, take godly principles out of our society, and substitute for it their own principles. those people are perfectly welcome to be here

. >>> lois yontz from peoria heights, illinois.y. we wish her a happy birthday. columbia, missouri, one of the great towns in america. he is 100 years old today and he enjoys, loves to talk politics. don't get too, you know, you can get fired up over that. especially with family get togethers. you might deck somebody. that's our birthday group today. now back to new york city where they always have fun. >> willard, thank you very much. up next, we will reveal the book pick for today's book club and we'll meet the promising author but first, this is "today" on nbc. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one

>> they met freshman year in peoria, illinois. they are with us via google plus hangout.our submission. >> okay. >> just like you, we love animals, meet kermit. >> aah! >> we have our favorite things. >> we love music. ♪ >> we have different passions. >> i'm going to be a teacher! >> i'm going to work in corporate communications. those aren't real glasses. >> detention. >> we make absolute fools of ourselves. >> we love food. >> yeah! >> they are exactly like us. >> love it. >> we hear you call yourselves a frouple. so a couple of oh friefriend s. >> we're stealing that. >> we are a frumpy frouple. >> you're beautiful. >> thank you, sweetheart. >> are you ready? pack your days for three days, two nights in san diego. >> can't we ego? >> the trip includes round trip airfare, dinner for two at the waterfront restaurant, complimentary parking. what do you think? >> i'm so excited! >> oh, my gosh. >> stay out of trouble. we don't want to see a mug shot of you down there. >> happy graduation to us. >> thank you so much! >> sweet kids. >> so young. >> get out the tissues. some

to we yore ya -- peoria or wherever you were going. all of a sudden they said, well, you know, we're going to take away something and only because we want to give you choice. guess what? have any of you seen the air fares going down? no. and when you hear the story about, oh, it's such a great bargain, you know, they forget to tell you a that, you know, you can buy computers now for 10% of what they used to cost. a eye lot used to only be with able to fly maybe 25-50 people in the old twa constellations. today that same pilot can spread the cost over 300 and something people in larger aircraft. so that kind of an argument about the cost of travel still being low really doesn't ring true unless you really look at it across the board and all the efficiencies which have come into the system so far. so when we debate this stuff and we talk about different issues, my single focus is on getting consumers to be able to know what the total price of their ticket is. there's no reason why we have to go one place and buy the air fare, go somewher

he's in peoria.in together, so we've known each other for 20-plus years, and rick and i -- >> we do play dates and our kids are the same age. >> me and sean were at rival high schools, so i met you through sean. >> and i met stone years ago, and we're all close friends. >> so did you ever think you'd grow up to be raising children at home? >> no. >> i didn't think i would have kids myself, but here we are. >> quick answer, no. >> we heard so much during the economic downturns of all these stay-at-home dads and that this was the new economy. men were staying home and women were going back to the secretarial jobs and this is what the country was facing and you guys are living proof. >> i've got four kids and it's gotten tougher for us, and you know, when the economic downturn came around. >> when you watch mr. mom, does it bother you? are you offended? it's that stereotype, oh, the bumbling father and -- yes, do we make mistakes? of course, we do, but we're good at what we do and we love what we do and

. >> i'm just going to close by saying went to peoria illinois which is a basic midwestern mid-sized city where they are dealing with crime by covering all of the probation and parole for face-to-face meetings to say we know you are out there and we are also telling you here is a person who helped you get the training and education and job you need and here is her cell phone number. so it has had a dramatic impact. we are going the opposite direction putting fewer people in those capacities to try to find transition life, transition opportunities for people who really need an alternative in their lives at this moment. so i'm troubled by what it means in terms of the crime rates and a little way and around the nation. thank you all for your testimony. senator coons, thank you for holding the hearing. >> thank you for the broad experience and commitment to this issue and so many others facing us as we wrestle with the budget challenges and the challenges that face our country. how we solve our budget challenges has a real implication for how we also continue to deliver on the fundament

my friend saw this, and was on a tv station in peoria, illinois, or wherever it was, and the young ladyading the teleprompter referred to -- talk about this -- to world war i 1. -- world war 11, which suggested to me that maybe we're not teaching history very well. and also not teaching latin. although you would think that every all these super bowls, we would know something about roman numerals but apparently not. anyway, what i've tried to do in these two books is to look at what actually happened as opposed to what is in most of the textbooks out there, and one reason that this was possible is that the truth about all this stuff for years was covered up, and to some degree it still is. however, with the passage of time, we have had access to the files of the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, who were tracking the bad guys, who were trying to do us harm back in the '40s and '50s. this was all covered up at the time but now we have a pretty good picture of what went on. and captured essentially what was going on -- how many of you are seen these bourne movies, matt damon, and -

i was watching booktv station in peoria illinois in the lady reading the teleprompter referred to it as world war e. levin. [laughter] that shows they're not teaching history very well also not teaching latin all you think after all of the super bowl you would know something. [laughter] . .