that's because, listen to this, peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals, gave over 100 furs to homeless men and women. the animal rights group, most known for slashing paint on fur, decided to give donated animal coats to the needy. keeping with tradition, peta splattered white paint on the coats to remove their monetary value. >>> here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. that's an interesting idea. what are you going to do, throw them away? so you put them to good use. >> it's wisntertime. if they're homeless and outside, anything to keep them warm. >> speaking of freezing -- >> that's the only story out there. we don't have any big snowstorms to deal with. but temperature are cold and it takes a little while for your body to get used to the colder air. it's moved to the south. pretty much covering the country. no big storms on the weather map. we have a little snow ahead of this little front moving through chicago and through the ohio valley. it's a very light, fluffy snow but very cold air coming down out of canada. bitterly cold air mass.

that's because, listen to this, peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals, gave over 100 furs to homeless men and women. the animal rights group, most known for slashing paint on fur, decided to give donated animal coats to the needy. keeping with tradition, peta splattered white paint on the coats to remove their monetary value. >>> here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. good morning to you, bill. out there in california, west hollywood, they banned furs from being sold anywhere in that community. >> really? >> this is a big deal. now they found a solution. to do something with all of the furs. >> for the homeless people could not relocate there. >> it's california, they probably don't need a fur coat, anyway. >> good point. well good morning, everyone. although it's been a little chilly lately, we do need the winter coat in many areas once again. temperatures continue to be below freezing. chilly actually, medford, 22, one of the colder spots out there in the west. boise, you're at 19 and seattle is just below freezing and l.a. is 44 and ph

peta members will wear nothing but body paint.ey will hold a sign that reads "animal prints, not animal skin." they will be at the northeast corner of east pratt and south talbot street at noon today. >>> get a sense of the spirit tonight at the basilica. catholic charities hold an annual christmas concert. the benefit concert will be held at the historic national shrine of the basilica of the assumption of the blessed virgin mary. the proceeds of the program benefit the catholic charities senior housing communities. tickets are around $100. >>> time to check the forecast with lynette. >> all right, the weather pattern for today? well, we have some rain back to the west there. you can see it cutting through the ohio valley all the way into tennessee at this time. some of that will make it towards us as we go through the afternoon time frame but it won't be to the afternoon and evening that we start to get some of it in here and it won't be a lot. as you're heading out the door temperatures aren't really so bad. as we start to back

peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals, gave over 100 furs to homeless men and women. now, the animal rights group is most known for slashing paint on fur, but they decided to give donated animal coats to the needy. right? that's a good way to use them. keeping with tradition, peta splattered white paint on the coats to remove their monetary value. >>> well now here's a look at the national weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning, bill. >> a little chilly. >> fake fur. it's fine. works just as well. >> got to stay warm, right? >> wow, you are going to get so many angry letters. >> people just want to be warm. it doesn't matter how they do it. just insulate yourself. up there in the northern plains -- you know what i'm talking about, temperatures, feels like the middle of winter. we've entered a quiet tranquil period in weather which is night, a lot want to get their shopping done and looks like the weather won't cause you any problems. here's the big picture setup. right now we've watched the arctic jet stream dip

. >>> coming up, peta has a problem with janet jackson.hy the singer is named the group's grinch of the year. >>> and are you planning to pop a little bubbly on new year's eve? an expert will join us to talk about the best buys to ring in the new year. year.  >> all right, we're talking champagne for the now year. youso have to have it. -- for the new year. you have to have it. if you're not an expert, we're going to tell you how to go about doing this. joining me now is talk about champagne, what you need and don't need, how you can get the best and what is not the best is steve bellman, from paul's liquor. he's the co-owner with the brother. thank you for coming in and talking with us. talk about champagne. what do we have here? >> well. >> for a cheap guy like me what, do you do? >> inexpensive. >> right, inexpensive. >> and it's nice to be here. we're going start with sparkling wine. the difference between passenger -- sparkling wine and champagne. >> okay. >> all champagne is sparkling wine and all champagne is not sparkli

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. >> peta named them the most unfriendly animal people. label that crafts garments from mink. kim kardashian needs to divorce herself from fur and say i do to a kind and compassionate wardrobe. british rocker was named peta's uk person of the year for sports animal rights t-shirts on stage. not a list you want to be on. >> not a good one. >>> a gallup role ranks the most admired men and women in the country. >> president obama was the first man, george w. bush was second, bill clinton, billy graham. >> hillary clinton is the top woman followed by oprah, michelle obama and condoleezza rice. >> million dollar pads and celebrity parties are reasons you may or may not want to live next to a celebrity. >> a poll revealing who folks chose as the most and least wanted as celebrity neighbors. >> an athlete took the top. tim tebow scored the highest with 11% of the votes. he beat out angelina jolie and brad pitt with 10% of the votes. actress jennifer aniston and her boyfriend came in third followed by jennifer lopez. >> the very bronze cast of one

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i'm not proud of this, but we recently showed you a picture of me posing nude for peta, and by peta, i mean the organization, not the bread. this is the photo that i showed of me, and that obviously was photo shopped. this is what i really look like. yep. [laughter and applause] they have covered up the tattoo on my neck. my neck tattoo was -- let that be a lesson. images can be altered. don't believe everything you see. always remember the best things in life cannot be photo shopped. your mind, your heart, your integrity, your bank account. [laughter] and now for something that's always 100% real and never photo shopped, we shall dance. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> ellen: thank you very much. thank you very much. it feels good to be back. i'll tell you that. i was sick last week, and i feel so much better this week. >> feels good to have you back. >> ellen: feels good to be back. the land of the living. i was really -- [cheers and applause] so, tony, did you hear the verdict came in for the michael jackson case. >> yeah. it's all very sad. >> ellen: yeah. >> it i

. >>> lady gaga, justin bieber and george clooney topped dosomething.org as doing the most and peta named kim kardashian one of the grinches of yeert for wearing fur. >>> and in his finalized divorce settlement, not only does mel gibson have to pay his former wife after his current fortun de, $425 million but she gets half of his future residuals forever. >> i'm shocked he's half a billionaire. i guess he was directing money, too. he produced more than just acting. >> yeah. poor guy. kim kardashian is not having the best year. >> she's been in the headline, for good or bad. >>> this now comes to us from knbc nbc 4 in los angeles, california, where a clever ipad app stopped a suspected grinch from steal one family's christmas. kent woke up to a homeowner's nightmare when he saw a burglar near his bed. he got away with the ipad and the christmas gifts. a locator application on the device led the suspect to a nearby home where they arrested the thief and recovered all of the stolen items just in time for christmas. oh, my goodness. thank goodness, right? >>> veronica de la cruz, this is "ear

. >> this is from the peta play back. >> every time peta wants attention, a missing duck or whatever doing, be somebody, some model goes out and has no clothes on. so, i think we're almost used to this kind of stuff and you say? >> i say it's extremely effective here we are talking about it, but this one i actually think is a worthwhile cause. you know, 60 million or close to 2 million cases of skin cancer between 48 to 50 million americans. >> absolutely. my father died from mel nogno m skin cancer. the discussion comes when you're in your living room and watching whatever and your kids are there and pops up and then the parents go, oh, they make some-- >> and parents say, you know what this is an example of a metaphor. they're not naked, they want you to wear sun block. it's a metaphor for sun blocks. >> here is what i say, kids are seeing much more than this on after school program being. >> what program? >> all they have to do is turn on the television and see all kinds of steks and violence and this to me is innocuous and by the way it got my attention, i was wondering, what is

peta want to expose the industry. >> they want you to give up your leather shoes, too? >> all leather. >> you can wear your slippers. >> there you go. you can slide into work. >> bare skin. i get it. >> we got it. >>> a little bit of a shock today. 63 yesterday. in the 40s now. and i think we might see a flurry over the weekend. nothing to get worried about. >> you would love to get excited. >> i would love to get excited, but i'm not. let's start with the satellite picture. we'll zoom in and we talked about this storm all week. how it would slide to our south and it is. the cold air is marginal. we talked about this yesterday. didn't snow in places like chicago and detroit, minneapolis yesterday. there's no real cold air anywhere across the states. you'll see pockets of magenta and blue, but for the most part, this is a rainmaker. we'll zoom in a little bit. where you see the bright bands, the yellow and the reds is producing some sleet. bringing down some slightly colder air from the upper levels of the atmosphere and causing it to sleet. we are looking at rain, even

. >>> lady gaga, justin bieber and george clooney topped dosomething.org as doing the most and peta named kim kardashian one of the grinches of the year for wearing fur. >>> and in his finalized divorce settlement, not only does mel gibson have to pay his former wife half his current fortune, $425 million right now, she also gets half of his future residuals forever. >> every weekend when i watch "lethal weapon one" and "two," she guess a piece of that. >> cha-ching. that's the law in california. >> eddie murphy said that once in a comedy skit. >>> this now comes to us from knbc nbc 4 in los angeles, california, where a clever ipad app stopped a suspected grinch from steal one family's christmas. kent woke up to a homeowner's nightmare when he saw a burglar near his bed. he got away with the ipad and the christmas gifts. a locator application on the device led the suspect to a nearby home where they arrested the thief and recovered all of the stolen items just in time for christmas. oh, my goodness. don't mess with somebody with an ipad. >> if everything had that nobody would steal. >> yo

i can imagine peta, smoke coming out of their ears. i don't know if they would go along with that, but, hey -- >> maybe the dog likes it. >> may they want to be green. >> may they want to compare their tats. >>> good morning. on this tuesday, another busy morning. looks like we'll have a winter weather forecast coming up for the east coast, possible rain changing over to snow. this morning it's still very warm. wet weather is moving its way through much of upstate new york from buffalo to syracuse. the snow is up there in canada. you can see it up here in the white. just a rainy morning. areas like pittsburgh drizzly. we'll continue with the on and off rain, binghamton, syracuse north wards and we have more showery weather in the appalachians. looks like we'll dry it out today, areas of kentucky and most of tennessee. anywhere near the appalachians, that's where you'll see more in the way of rain. snowflakes through central missouri, may cause it to be a little slippery. plenty cold. east coast very warm and wet but behind that storm s

justin bieber and george clooney topped dosomething.org's list of the top most 20 giving stars, and petaed kim kardashian one of the grinches of the year for continuing to wear fur. >>> and in his finalized divorce settlement, not only does mel gibson have to pay his former wife half of his current fortune, $425 million, but she also gets half of his future residuals forever. ouch. and i've heard she's already worth $22 million herself. >> now she's worth a quarter billion. >> she's going to be living high on the hog. i guess that's california law, right? >> they were together a long time. >> i'm veronica de le cruz. stay tuned, because "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> six days until the voting begins in iowa, and mitt romney and newt gingrich which dropped all that negative campaigning, the question is who will emerge at the top of the field? we'll have the latest from iowa. >>> back in washington, ben nelson of nebraska announces he will not seek re-election, almost assuring his seat will go to a republican. >>> and a surreal scene in the streets of pyongyang, no

it's peta.would like to see a been on slaughter and export of horses, but since that's not likely to get done, funding inspections will at least make sure the horses are euthanized humanly and the meat is safe for us to eat. did congress make the right call on this one? if it's going to happen anyhow, shouldn't the government make sure it's done safely or the thought of killing black beauty or whoever just too much to let the slaughters happen here in the u.s.a.? send your thoughts to mcginty's mail bag. >>> well, looks like another chilly night on the way, but maybe you'll warm up for the weekend. topper will let us know in his forecast. but first, a father told to tear down his son's tree house takes his fight to the county zoning board. the commission's ruling coming up next. >>> it is not often that a county zoning board meeting gets some attention and it is rare that see a tree house at the center of the debate. but that is exactly what unfolded today out in fairfax county. now we first tol

and peta recently named janet jackson enemy of the year for her fur fashions. >>> and two of the mostrful people on the planet, once again the most popular. president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton once again top the list of the world's most admired people. mrs. clinton's 16th time on the usa today gallup poll list is the president's fourth. oprah winfrey, michelle obama, sarah palin and condoleezza rice round out the top five most admired women. list for the guys includes president george w. bush, president bill clinton, reverend billy graham and warren buffett, they round out the top five. >>> on the football, according to a survey you want tim tebow to be your next door neighbor. the denver broncos quarterback who doesn't shy away from talking about his faith is the most desirable celebrity for a neighbor in 2012. the same company says jolie and pitt were runners up. aniston was number three but tebow tops the list as the most desired celebrity neighbor. justin berk, what about you? >> something tells me if i'm living in tim tebow's neighborhood i'm doing pretty well

. >>> janet jackson not exactly on the christmas card list of peta. they named her grinch of 2011.et. they made reference to the infamous wardrobe malfunction during the super bowl. they said the flesh exposed was at least natural and volunteevoy as opposed to the furs she wears now. >> low blow, peta. low blow. >> a little bit. it's a message that will stick. yeah. i wouldn't necessarily hold out for a fruit cake of forgiveness. >> i agree. >>> well, how about who had the most influential hair of 2011? you have got good hair. >> thank you. >> i like yours. >> most of it is real. coming from you it is beautiful. that's a beautiful thing. >> justin bieber and emma watson had the most influential hair of 2011. i imagined it would be justin bieber. we know the biebster. people love his whole frontal 'do. surprised by emma watson. maybe the pixie. >> i did a deep analysis, had long curly hair, now pixie cut. i think what's fascinating -- she can pull off long and short. a lot of women necessarily can't do that, right? >> that's a good point. >> am i digging too much into this? is it le

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is a cost of elements for us let's cross over to him lifestyle peta ross says elections have been an issue not just here with russia have they but all across the world and now we have these new statements a coming from the russian prime minister. heard from prime minister vladimir putin on thursday he was saying that the opposition do have the constitutional right to demonstrate and to protest against what they see. as infringements in the electoral procedure involving sunday's parliamentary elections he did say though that those demonstrations must remain within the law now the prime minister also expressed a willingness to sit down and talk with the leaders of the opposition to see if they can hammer out their grievances. divide you do d. sorry but i think people should have the freedom of expression provided the act according to the law and anyone should have the right to demonstrate a lot of people break the law the law enforcers have every right to legally demand the law be upheld some of the demonstrators out there are acting according to a well known scenario and are pursuing

allows thousands of foreign criminals to stay in the country convicted rapists murderers and peta files use it to skate just punishment and. you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow it's eleven am here on marina joshie egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest ever in the country quote since the pharaohs and the announcement follows a two day delay in publishing the and the result still failed to pay a full picture well the vast majority of candidates now set to go into iran off well it's now crossed to be your who's in egypt is following the story for us there so paula the turnout has been announced but not the results so when can we expect to know more. well we've learned from the military council that the results will be announced today saturday but this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those election results will surface post to be given on the wednesday we are also now hearing from the election commission that the votes are not they gave that stood at sixty two percent which suggested tha

comes from leah cabrera and she predicts that john kors sign is acquitted on all counts of financial peta feel well financial paedophilia is a new statute that was first revealed here yeah we talked about it a couple of years ago actually and we had a scholar a legal scholar talking about the introduction of financial pornography and paedophilia as a classification of financial crime as a deterrent and he should be brought up on financial paedophilia any will get off because jamie done. we'll just make a call to whoever he needs to make a call to and he'll get off scot free but let's move on to the other big prediction a lot of people a lot of banks a lot of bloggers are making this one the chinese economic miracle falters too many u.s. t. bills timing it to post-industrial western economies is part of the reason but in fact they say that the most serious economic damage will come to australia who's basically gone long all in on this bet china sustaining their economy and their housing market bubble yeah this is interesting because a couple years ago the theory was decoupling the china's

. >>> shannon jackson has made -- janet jackson has made peta's naughty list. it has launched a campaign slamming her for wearing fur. >> what do emma watts and justin bieber have in common? the most influential hair cuts of 2011. >> i do not know how we did not make that list. there were the most sought after hairstylist. it also said it marks a change because short hair has not been trendy since the 1990's and men may feel sheepish about asking for the bieber cut. >> it will be scandalous when he changes that. >> we will be right back. >>> straight ahead, still looking into what happened involving a deadly clash with the metrobus in bethesda. we will

there's much more of that with peta the rest the cross talk team at nineteen thirty g.m.t. tonight. security forces opened fire on anti realty protesters in cairo killing at least three egypt's health ministry says the total number of casualties following days of renewed violence now stands of fourteen with seven hundred reported a good job reece is a political activist from the british based stop the war coalition he told us the news the military using in there were provided by the west. the government is continuing the mubarak era regime policy and that couldn't be clearer with the current crackdown and the extreme violence now being used against the protesters i think what many people believe is that no elections that take place no could be described as free and fair when they're taking place against this background the west has been complicit in backing the skaf regime since mubarak fell as it was in backing the mubarak regime when he was in power there is still one point three billion pounds of u.s. military aid given to the egyptian military you will have seen the videos of th

and aside from the elections peta whatever main points were taught about. well the prime minister was taking questions on foreign policy regarding the united states. and said that russia wanted to improve their relationship with america and work together with the u.s. however it was the united states side which really didn't want to take their relationship any further that they don't want didn't want to deal with sovereign nations like russia that they had their own type of partner they wanted to work with. a so you think you know they made up their mind on afghanistan understand but did they discuss the mission with their own eyes in advance but i don't know that they carried out their strike and we've been started pulling in other forces saying whoever is not with us is against us think it's we'd like to be allies with the united states but what i see now is not partnership sometimes i think america doesn't need allies it needs service in the west. well staying stateside prime minister putin also heard some comments for us senator john mccain john mccain

his dog cage with the dog inside it to the top of his car during a twelve hour road trip you know peta has not been my stand over the years and they're not happy that my dog likes fresh air. i think he's a pick up truck i think it is. thank you both for being with us thank you. after the break a special interview with governor don siegelman i wear he stands in his fight for innocence and the truth. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it's already been made who can you trust no one who is your own view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. all right we have the latest news on the ongoing saga of former alabama governor don siegelman as a democrat siegelman was a political force in alabama he was the only man in history to hold the four top seats in the alabama government government serving as the secretary of state attorney general the lieutenant governor and finally as the governor from one thousand nine hundred nine u

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carney did not asked when asked again and said let's get to something more serious peta wrote we werently addressed the recently approved repeal of the military ban on bestiality. with respect, this is no laug laughing matter. >>> and oops after the president of mexico floundered for three minutes when asked about three books that influenced him. he was able to only say one. saying he read part of the bible. >>> something that may have happened in the 2008 contest is still not settled. senior correspondent eric shawn looks in whether president obama was legally qualified to be on one state's primary ballot. >> in indiana, campaign are collecting signatures to put candidates on the 2012 presidential primary ballot. but they are doing so as the authorities in st. joseph county investigate alleged fraud in the 2008 democratic primary petition. >> is that your signature? >> that is not. >> did you sign the petition for obama? >> no. >> charity was stunned to see her name on obama petition. robert was, too. >> i did not sign for barack obama. >> some one forged this this >> correct. that i

>> well, the man accused of a string of robberies remains behind bars tonight. 29-year-old richard peta charged with five counts of armed robbery for robbing a number of good will stores in baltimore county. police say he used to work at the pedonia good will in cockeys victim. and he targeted the store because he knew how it operated. >>> millions of dollars in business deals, from maryland firms. alex demetrick reports, it's a foreign market that has been rapidly growing and shows no sign of slowing down. >> my traveling partner, how are you doing? >> reporter: actually, it was more than just one traveling partner. a couple dozen of the 100 maryland businesses, educators and government agencies that took a trip to india tallied up the take of a trade mission. >> we signed nearly $60 million in business deals. for our state. and there are several additional deals worth millions more that we are still working on and still coming in. >> reporter: while in india, eight maryland firms signed deals with government agencies and private businesses. >> reporter: and what india is buying from m