she was a car hop at a & w root beer stand in east peoria. trays to the car. >> reporter: the year was 1938. >> well, she was the prettiest girl i ever saw. i just fell in love with her right there. >> reporter: he read an ad in the newspaper about a contest green shoe recording studio in east peoria, illinois, asking readers for videos of their own songs. fred had no video but he had that song. >> instead of a video, we received a large manila envelope. a letter from a 96-year-old man who said i've written a song for my wife. >> reporter: they told him they were going to record his song and he tried to show them how it goes. they found a singer went into the recording studio and told us how nervous they were when they gave fred those headphones. >> tell me when you're ready. >> yeah. okay. ♪ oh sweet loraine ♪ i wish we could do the good times over again ♪ >> reporter: fred was overwhelmed, fred's song has now been viewed more than 9 million times. ♪ all the good times all over again ♪ >> wonderful. just wonderful. >> good. i'm glad you like

oklahoma city, up into peoria, illinois, half an inch up to an inch of ice.ible for perhaps several thousand power outages. out ahead of this system, the potential of seeing very strong storms from ohio, texas. and in red across western kentucky, louisiana, isolated storms too. damaging wind gusts from some of these thunderstorms as they develop this morning and this afternoon. 65 today in washington, d.c. tomorrow we should top out in the lower 70s. even new york city eventually seeing storms with a high of 66. eventually the ice turns to snow. even minneapolis, three to six inches. for everyone traveling around this weekend getting where they need to go it is going to be very dangerous, especially through the plains. alex? >> thank you so much, dylan for that. >> is a military conflict between china and japan a possibility? there is some saber rattling. >>> but "first look" at all these people in the santa hats. you likely know them without that little disguise. they will reveal their favorite holidays movies, as will i. [ mom ] hey guys. guys... [ female a

will it work in des moines and peor peoria? >> no, it will not.of the subtleties of the republican presidential process issubtleties of the republican presidential process is that, first off, it begins very, very early. it begins about now. and secondly, people shuffle. they move their preferences. and for somebody like chris christie, if he moves into iowa or south carolina, and starts making lists and deciding who's on his side and who isn't, that is an incredibly destructive way of going at it for him. because as candidates drop out, as they get in, people move from camp to camp, you don't burn your bridges and you don't let people know that you're mad at them early on if you expect to close the deal in 2016. >> matt katz, one person's bully is another person's decisive leader. maybe there's a yearning for this sort of leadership in the heartland. >> i think there might be. i mean, the knock against the president right now is that he doesn't know how to work and maneuver the levers of power. and chris christie has managed to do that. i mean, wh

. >>> la policÍa internacional sostiene la peoria que caro quintero que fuera lÍder del cartel de guadalajara paÍs es un hombre que a pesar de estar tantos aÑos en la cÁrcel. nunca perdiÓ la capacidad econÓmica, que le rodeaba. y que tiene los cursos en este momento para vivir en cualquier parte del mundo. ¿no?. >>> la policÍa internacional criminal, seÑala en la ficha las caracterÍsticas fisicas, mÁs le cientos de caro quintero ojos caso tallo. cono flexiÓn media y la cara llena de viruela. la interpol solicitÓ la cooperaciÓn pÚblica para tener informaciÓn sobre su paradero por el email. >>> lo que estÁ pidiendo bractmente que no lo considerado ten, ¿no? creo que estÁ bastante claro, que ningÚn campo de narcotrÁfico mexicano, o de cualquier otro paÍs. quiere ir a parar a una cÁrcel de estados unidos. >>> las autoridades mexicanas, no desechan la posibilidad que rafael caro quintero puede ser uno de los 7 pasajeros que viajaban en el aviÓn. procedente de mÉxico y que el gobierno de venezuela asegura haber destruido en tierra hace algunos dÍas desde ciudad de mÉxico. univisiÓn. >>> un juez de

freezing rain and already moved into the peoria area and to the north up to foot of snow is expected.eather could cause problems for those heading out of town for the holidays, there was a steady flow of passengers at the oakland airport today. but outside of a few delays, most of the travelers had no issues with their flights. >> i think everything went smooth. it wasn't too hard getting here. on the freeways. and there aren't long lines so that's good. >> aaa estimates starting today, nearly 95 million americans will travel at least 50 miles from home for christmas. >>> well, it will be a cinch traveling in the next few days because there's nothing but dry weather as far as the eye can see. right now unusually balmy readings for mid-december. right now concord at 51 degrees and here in the city, 53 degrees. and in san jose it's 51. with clear skies, we'll be looking for temperatures to cool right down into the low 50s and upper 40s inland by 8:00 tonight. so if you're heading out, bundle up it will be a little bit chilly out there. tomorrow numbers recover nicely. to 64 degrees arou

what is peoria? yes. map quest for $600. antelope island, oddly home to a herd of wild buffalo,

i was in peoria, illinois, a couple months ago. i went by caterpillar, and i stood next to the largest truck they build which is a 40-ton truck. and they've now sold 24 of them as self-driving trucks to a mine in western australia which is saving a million dollars a year per truck. because it goes down into the

snow falling in peoria, illinois, last night, causing several accidents. no serious injuries reported. the snow now heading into the northeast. parts of new england, they say, may get more than a foot of snow this weekend. it's causing some big problems for everybody who's trying to travel and setting up to shop for the christmas season. >> this could be a problem for a lot of the businesses who are relying on one of these last weekends for shopping. areas around the great lakes still dealing with winter storm warnings. they've expired in illinois. the storm has moved past. but this is where we're going to be seeing this intensify over the next couple of hours. this is the broader storm. it's very heavy rain down to the south of this. we could be seeing some severe weather, in towards parts of georgia and the carolinas. then we've got this snow. you see it tapering off west to east but still very heavy across northern indiana where spots have seen up to 7 inches of snow. it's lighter across parts of new england and into the northeast. but there is a coasta

>> please join me in welcoming our 44th president to peoria. >> president obama visited caterpillar to promote the stimulus package. but jim owens said that even with the stimulus, he may have to lay off more workers before seeing a turnaround. and he told us any gain from domestic spending may not be enough if "buy american" triggers a global trade war. what happens if all these countries that sell steel to us-- china, russia, brazil-- say, "okay, well, we're just not going to buy caterpillar products; we're not going to take in john deere products; we're not going to take in g.e. products"? >> the only trade war that's going on is being waged on us. and when you don't hold people accountable for playing by the rules they agreed to, that have access to your market, you're basically saying anything goes. that's garbage. that's baloney. and the american people won't stand for it. >> the "buy american" provision in the 2009 economic stimulus package requires the use of american-made steel unless that violates u.s. trade agreements. so steel from canada and europe can be used, but steel f

i was in peoria illinois and i went by caterpillar, and i stood next to the largest truck the build which is authority ton truck. and they've now sold 24 of them as self driving trucks to a mine in western australia that is saving a million dollars a year per truck because it goes down incoming gets filled up drops off the material, goes back down. the truck meadows 24/7 mine linus the maintenance and filling up with diesel fuel. the army is actually in oshkosh wisconsin working with a manufacturer to the sign army trucks that would be self driving because then if you have and ied or roadside bomb you wouldn't hurt anybody and it is one more effort to try to figure out how can we risk fewer americans on the battlefield. but these things are coming down the road. on energy of course with the breakthrough in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling new to a place like north dakota that went from 800 million barrels in 2002 to over 24 billion today and rising. north dakota has such a high employment rate the wages have gone up 50% in the last 80 years. mcdonald's now pays a bonus if you

. >> barbara is in peoria. >> i would love to know whether it is true that theodore roosevelt asked booker. washington as a guest to dinner, and if so, was that a first? >> in 1902, theodore roosevelt did invite booker t. washington, the leader of the tuskegee institute and a very important figure in african-american history. he was recognized as an important educator but also dealt with political patronage for the republican party. edith and tr had him to dinner. frederick douglass would come to the white house and talk to lincoln, but i don't think a dinner was involved. it is not the first time an african-american came, but it came to be an advisor, but it may be the first dinner. >> it could be. people threatened to kill tr. they said they should put a bomb under his chair because he advocated social equality to blacks and whites. you have to remember in african- american history, after reconstruction, this is the nadir, the low point of legal segregation, and african- americans in the south were treated very badly. it was very controversial to cross the color line socially. >> in one

i was in peoria, illinois, a couple months ago. i went by caterpillar, and i stood next to the largest truck they build which is a 40-ton truck. and they've now sold 24 of them as self-driving trucks to a mine in western australia which is saving a million dollars a year per truck. because it goes down into the mine, gets filled up, goes up, drops the material off, goes back into the mine. the truck does 24/7 minus maintenance and filling it up with diesel fuel. different world. the army's actually in oshkosh, wisconsin, working with a manufacturer to design army trucks that would be self-of driving because then if you have a roadside bomb, you don't hurt anybody. and it's just one more effort to try to figure out how can we risk fewer americans on the battlefield. but these things are coming down the road. on energy, of course, with the breakthrough in hydraulic temporarying and in horizontal drilling, you take a place like north dakota which went from 800 million barrels of reserve in 2002 to over 24 billion today and rising. nor

for example, steve from peoria, arizona, looking at a premium for his policy through his employer. it's going to go up in response to obamacare nearly 20%. in addition, his employer told him to brace for more impacts like raising prices. all customers are going to get this. and falling salaries for new hires as well. leeanne from eager, arizona, is facing what she calls sky-high rates now thanks to obamacare. if this isn't bad enough, it looks like she and her husband will have to put off buying their parents out of their business, their family business t. looks like leeanne's parents will have to keep working for awhile. christian from flagstaff, a young husband and father who has a young boy, says he might see his premiums actually decrease marginally. however, thanks to obamacare and thanks to changes his employer is making in response to obamacare, he's looking at higher co-pays, higher deductible and a decrease in the level of coverage. he's looking at -- quote -- "a large increase in my responsible portion of my medical bills." obamacare is far from ideal for those in the wor

. >> 80% who are in company plans, a number of people have done better and 3 peorias to 5% have donee. jon: we'll continue to cover the debate. alan colmes, jim pinkerton, thank you both. jenna: new movement in the debate on the use of marijuana. state of colorado is now seeing an influx of families seeking a marijuana based treatment for children suffering from epilepsy so why colorado? federal law prohibits the drug's manufacturer from shipping out of state. here is more. >> hi, jenna. to be clear this is not medical marijuana but this does come from the plant and because of it, folks are picking up their families and moving to colorado. >> i do believe in miracles. yes, i do. >> more than a year ago, heather jackson's 10-year-old son suffered an average 250 epileptic seizures a day. 17 different pharmaceuticals failed to help. >> it feels very good to have been able to steer his course and it happened to be the right direction. >> his miracle came from inside marijuana plants, from a gren house in central colorado. >> if someone were to try to steal all of this, they could smoke i

i was heartened to learn recently that the peoria-based arbitrarilyy national guard unit is expected to come -- army national guard unit is expected to come home before the holidays. this will surely be an early christmas present for those across the country. i looked for to helping welcome them home. all of our service members deserve our full support year-round, but let us please take that holiday season as an opportunity to thank them for their sacrifices that they have given to their families and to our country. let us be there for them now, because they are there for us. thank you, mr. speaker, and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? ms. kaptur: i rise to address the house for one minute, please. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, as we end this particular legislative session, i just wanted to rise and say that on the one hand, we voted, the vast majority of members voted to run the government of the united states prudently and within

from peoria, illinois, we have the former u.s. transportation secretary, ray lahood.ou on. thank you for being on the show this morning. >> ray, what's going on here in this metro north line. this is the second -- >> when were your first thoughts. >> what's wrong with our train system in new york? >> well, sear thing that's wrong with all of our infrastructure in america, joe and mika, we haven't made investments. we tried for 4 1/2 years to put out some big bold plans but the problem is we're not first in infrastructure any more. we're 14th in the world and at one time we were first in infrastructure. even in very bad times we were building the golden state bridge, the hoover dam, the interstate system, our freight rail system and we just have not made the investments. and it's going to be up to congress, it's going to be up to the administration, it's going to be up to the people to decide that they are sick and tired of driving on crumbling roads, driving on bad bridges, dangerous bridge, and driving and riding on 50-year-old transit systems that are in very bad ne

in the northern plains, we'll see the snow start out across chicago, down toward peoria, illinois.in cold all week long. across the west, get ready in southern california. santa ana wind event brewing. we'll see the threat for fire conditions down there tucker, we'll send it to you inside. >> thanks, rick. shopping days until christmas are running out fast. if you still need to buy something special for someone special, why not give them the gift of the perfectly grilled steak? here is the fifth generation family owner of omaha steaks, which is really in omaha and a genuinely cool company. >> it's great to be here. i wanted to show you a little about tips for perfect grilling. i've got a steak here. we'll blot it dry and cover it with a little olive oil. we'll season it to taste. this is the omaha seasoning. the big trick is to know how long to cook it for. if you go tole our website or app, you get perfect grilling time. this is 1 1/4 inch thick and will take about ten minutes. six minutes on the first side and four minutes on the second side. we turn it once with the tongs. never