i want robin on my left.ere you go. see? that feels right. >> feels right. this feels right. >> i like having you back in the seat. >> you know what? i'm glad you did this. it does feel right. >> let's go a mock broadcast. >> and no holiday celebration would be complete without a reading of this christmas classic. 'twas the night before christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. not even a mouse. >> with a little old driver so lively and quick, i knew in a moment, it must be st. nick. >> yeah. >> happy christmas to all. >> and to all a good night. >> ho, ho, ho. >> we love you. >> you're blessed when your family are your friends and your friends are your family. that's when you know you're truly blessed. ♪ >> that was our christmas yesterday, right there. >> right there. >> that was terrific. >> that was amazing. >> we do want to point out, i wasn't actually carrying a real tree. boy, that would have broken my back. it had to be artificial because of robin's battle with her immune syste

love you, robin.your warm. >> arsenal! arsenal! >> i love that. >> it was a tennis racket. >> i love it. >> we still have to play. we still have to play. >> it's on. >> without cameras. >> from the very beginning you have always brought joy into my life. love you, robin. i love you, robin. >> i worked with sam the longest. 2006. >> oh, my gosh. >> this was our first trip together, the justin timberlake concert in memphis. >> i remember it. oh, my god, that's fantastic. >> reporter: robin reminded us when your friends are your family and your family are your friends, you are truly blessed. >> it is so, so good to see you. >> family. >> to family. >> cheers. >> merry christmas. >> to health and happiness in the new year. >> here's to 2013. bring it! >> bring it on! >> what is the next big milestone in your head? >> it's coming back to work. it is coming back and -- to my life. and i've never defined myself by my work. none of us have. we enjoy what we do. but it's the normalcy. when the alarm goes off a

love you, robin. i love you, robin. >> i worked with sam the longest. 2006.cert in memphis. >> i remember it. oh, my god, that's fantastic. >> reporter: robin reminded us when your friends are your family and your family are your friends, you are truly blessed. >> it is so, so good to see you. >> family. >> family. >> to health and happiness in the new year. >> here's to 2013. bring it! >> what is the next big milestone in your head? >> it's coming back to work. it is coming back and -- to my life. and i never define myself by my work. none of us have. we enjoy what we do. but it's the normalcy. when the alarm goes off at 3:45, i'm going to be happy. >> you'll know life is really normal the wednesday that wears off. and we can't wait for that day. zblik that phrase that someone gave me. i think about us. family, we may not have it all together, but together, we visit all. >> that's a great motto. >> it's true, it's true. [ cheers and applause ] >> christmas in the studio. i gotta tell you, elliott and i tried the angry birds. almost as addictive as the online

robin brought us this.piring story of a young man whose wedding dance with his bride is one you'll never, ever forget. >> happy holidays from afghanistan. i'm from tampa, florida. i want to say merry christmas to my life, lauren, my son, gabriel, my daughters case and brooke. and good morning, america. >> i want to say merry christmas to my wife and my two children. >> i'm corporal brett bass. i'm from seattle, washington. i want to say merry christmas, to my parents and my friends. and good morning, america. >> i'm from puerto rico and florida. i want to say merry christmas to my family in puerto rico. to my wife, my daughter. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] nothing gets you going quite like the power of quaker oats. today is going to be epic. quaker up. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only citi price rewind automatically searches for the lowest price. and if it finds one, you get refunded the differ

robin, george, lara, all off with their families.s great to have amy, paula and rachel here. >> all right. >>> and coming up next, our christiane amanpour on the trail of a real-life indiana jones quest. it's a trip back deep into history. beautiful images there. can't wait to get into that. >>> plus, tom cruise, maybe the world's most eligible bachelor. just six months after his high-profile divorce from katie holmes. is he dating again? sen is this young lass his new leading lady? we'll tell you about his reportedly hot night on the town. >>> also, it is the biggest party of the year. don't miss it. ryan seacrest live. so much going on. we're going to show you exactly what you need to do for the new year. and a little bit of miley cyrus. is she getting married? not getting married? >>> looking forward to all of that. first, let's get to the explosive family feud. a star student at college claimed her own mom and dad were stalking her. she went to court to get them to stop, a judge issuing a restraining order. >> reporter: typically

robin, we love you. we want robin to come back and keep doing great things. >> amen to that. that's fantastic right there. now, they were part of the interview. you also got to talk about malia and sasha, as well. >> well, malia has gotten a cell phone. and the president said, one of the reasons that -- he says one of the reasons i'm glad that i was re-elected is, i have the secret service to keep an eye on the girls, especially now that malia is getting old enough for boys to be calling. they used to have to call through the white house. now, she has her own cell phone. >> that is a big step. how old is malia now? >> 14. by the time this term finishes, she will be 18, ready for college. and certainly ready for dating. so, you know, they talked a little about the changes in their lives. there's no ground rules about the cell phone. but mrs. obama says, she never knows when i'm going to walk into her room and see what she's texting. parents are parents, no matter what. >> no question about it. we can't wait to see all of it tonight. thank you, barbara, on "20/20." christmas at

wonderful "gma" audience. >> robin, just let me say, i love sitting in with your tv family. >> robin, high enough ♪ >> robin, are you there? >> yes. i am here. you have lifted my spirits. usually, i'm watching between my toes in bed. but you got me on my feet. ♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ ain't no river wide enough ♪ ♪ to keep me from getting to you ♪ >> if you thought this year was exciting, just you wait because, baby, there -- ♪ ain't no mountain high enough ♪ ♪ ain't no valley low enough ♪ ♪ to keep me from getting to you ♪ >> good morning, america. >> what a year. >> oh. good morning to you, robin. so great she buttoned that up like that. >> that's so nice. oh, my gosh. what a great year you guys have had. oh. george needs a kleenex. >> i do need a kleenex after all that. >> i can't believe that was all in one year. >> i love you guys. >> and we love everyone who helped out on this, as well. so many talented and creative people. let's give them a big shoutout. taylor, sabrina, and our production associate, matthew raynar. thank you. and thanks for a great year. >> yeah. indee

lim. >> a few weeks later, christy presented robin with her cnn hero award at cnn, all-star tribute. is it like being at the event? it is unlike any other awards show. >>> it is awesome. sort of that's the bar now that i hold awards shows too. >> oh, yeah? >> i watched it in the past and i was a big fan of the show because, i mean, truly, these are the people we should be selling. person after person that got on the stage, it is like everyone was an amazing person. and it became that much more like how does one choose just one? >> but at the end of the night, cnn virals did just that and ron and christy got some exciting news. >> the 2011 cnn hero of the year is robin lim! what was it like to see heroin? >> remarkable. i think she was truly shocked that she won. she is a real, like, chatty, opinionated person and for the first time, i don't think she knew what she was going to say but i think she took in that moment with such grace and we've gone on to continue to support robin and her work. >> you keep in touch with her? >> i heard from her last night totally co-incidently. i get an

robin left the show in the fall so she could undergo a bone marrow transplant. a source told tmz that roberts says it is too risky to return now because her immune system is not strong enough to handle it. she is keeping fans up to date with her progress the a herblock on facebook and twitter accounts. "the house at -- "the hobbit:"" hit $33 million over the weekend. for college 57, 29 degrees out. still ahead,-- 4:59, 29 degrees out.

george and robin celebrating at home with their families. christmas wrapping. >> why we're showing a bottle of wine and this stuff. >> i will tell you. >> it's down to the wire. and we're giving you ideas for gifts for people. >> we're gift-wrapping. a throwdown. >> a challenge. >> everybody here is wrapping gifts. >> you like them done. >> i'm not good at wrapping. i just wrap. >> you're good at buying. >> we know the real deal. >>> any way, becky worley will be here to tell us the secret places you find great deals, even tomorrow, if you're the ultimate procrastinator. >>> and a brand new take on a christmas classic. you may have heard it a thousand times before, you never heard it like this. our star-studded version of "'twas the night before christmas." >> some of the biggest names helping us out. >>> i will tell you, one of my favorite gifts of the year, being there when sam and rubem got married on friday night. just a beautiful moment. there's a shot. beautiful, intimate, heart-felt. and robin roberts looked so good. >> stunning in re

george and robin both celebrating the holiday with their families. glad to have amy robach, paula faris here. >> thank you, everyone. we have so many stories to tell you this morning. including the surprising story of this woman. she's accused of being, we're not making this up, too sexy for her job. her boss said she was too distracting and was actually threatening his marriage. she's the one who lost her job, not him. >>> we have great news to share with everybody. the best news of all. sam champion, everybody, getting married over the weekend. >> thank you. >> to rubem robierb, now rubem robierb-champion. it was the most beautiful ceremony. and robin looks fantastic. >> how does your hand feel? heavier today in. >> it feels odd. you have to get used to it, right? it takes how long? >> 15 years. give or take a few. >> seriously, congratulations. >> congratulations, we love you, and we love rubem. >> it was a wonderful night. a wonderful night. thank you for having us. >>> we're going to start this morning talking about rough holiday travel. can we

robin is a certified firearms teacher. she's also once known as a survivalist who confirmed christian who's teaching her family how to survive the apocalypse helping situation like. that just as some are so that natural disasters happen because there's nothing we can do about that it's the way that people act towards other people when natural disasters happen we know that from all earthquakes and big hurricanes that people attack other survivors for resources i think that firearms are essential for people survival in many ways to say good bye to the barbie doll because target practice. this training seems to amuse the children a great deal. i don't know yet. but. oh. and their preparation doesn't stop with. the filter lottery. and how would you do that. you can get your share of. better last you want them to be and the panic but we also want to work together as a team and robin isn't only training her room children big huge disaster happened solar flares set electrical grids completely out i mean there's no gas stations th

it's a more than three kilometer deep maze this spot is for sale and robin is thinking about buying it for the construction of more underground shelters if somebody was to light a fire someone in here what about the ventilation with the smoke or something like that you probably would want to get yourself back in a small room with a fire or anything like that but when something like this we're close to an entrance there's a lot of here we're going to probably be all right ok. so it's a good survival it's like i do a cave like this week it easily howls a thousand or so people and me so it would be a great project a great resource to have a good base for robin it's the perfect place but her family seems a little less enthusiastic would you like to be going to cave like this. if it was like mandatory. but if choice. but according to robin the girls will surely not have the choice because according to her the end of the world science is already well and truly visible starting with the crumbling of christian values in our modern societies if you go one bookstore or one movie store friend's s

robin is a certified firearms teacher. she's also once known as a survivalist confirmed christian who's teaching her family how to survive the apocalypse sooting help you in this situation like. it just has some arse that natural disasters happen because there's nothing we can do about that it's the way that people act towards other people when natural disasters happen we know that from all earthquakes and big hurricanes that people attack other survivors for resources i think that firearms are essential for people survival in many ways to say good bye to the barbie doll because target practice. this training seems to amuse the children a great deal. i don't know yet. but the birds. and their preparation doesn't stop with firearms. i know what a filter water yeah yeah and how would you do that. you can lift your shirt and you know. you can tear it apart and you can like put it in a cup and. you know as for her older sister angelica she's learned how to find useful plants in the wild. but there's just no. stop bleeding and

robin, george, lara at home with their families. glad to have amy robach. great to have paula faris, and rachel smith, host of "on the red carpet" back with us this morning. >>> and we're back from the holidays. we're all thinking about returning the gifts, right? just kidding. there's people that are going to be in the return lines. becky worley is here with the scoop on how to score on both.

we'll hear their message, special message for robin. >>> let's get right to josh elliott for the pair of powerful earthquakes off the coast of california. >>> a powerful earthquaking rattling buildings and nerves in

countries around the around the world are doing it and we need to be doing it too so it's been called the robin hood tax it's been called the wall street tax whatever we need to do steve in spokane washington hey steve what's on your mind tonight hi just how are you doing for a while trying to just about here in about detroit and. work issues. prior to reagan there was a state and federal work program where counselors could now be. him. cantle employees to take it. once he was elected he he to. funding away from those programs. and you're absolutely right stephen i appreciate pointed out in fact that was just one little piece of it ronald reagan was the first president in the history of the united states to appoint as director of the labor department a man who was hostile to labor and he set a precedent for every republican administration that followed and it's one of the reasons why the middle class has been so taken apart since robin in is that potok by saying that right. ok great thank you for calling thank you thanks for watching and you want to talk about job outsourcing you know why can't

restaurant that nobody can make enough money to go buy the stuff to to it you're absolutely right robin thank you for raising that issue i very much appreciate your calling and raising it here's the deal. when nancy pelosi was speaker of the house three years ago. almost four years ago when and suppose he was speaker of the house the the democrats in the house of representatives put together legislation the said you know it's crazy that we give tax breaks to companies like bain capital and mitt romney when they take apart factories like they did was inside in ohio just last month when they literally took apart a factory piece by piece and shipped it off to another country where they reassembled it and everything was done with cheap labor and the company actually got a tax break for this and then they also got preferential treatment on the money that they made overseas and and when they sell the products back to themselves or the united states they could be just determine the price so they can figure out where they want to keep their profits so palosi said this is nuts we're going to do

but robin has it. >> it's my honor to represent cfn hero, robin lim. >> christy presented her with hernn award. >> what was it like being at the heroes event? it's unlike any award show. >> it's awesome. that's the bar now that i hold awards shows to. i watched it in the past and truly these are the people that we should be celebrating. person after person that got on stage, everyone was amazing and it was that much more like how does one choose just one? >> and at the end of the night, cn viewers just that and they got exciting news. the 2011 cnn hero of the year is -- >> what was it like the to see her win? >> remarkable. i think she was truly shocked that she won. she is a real like chatty, opinionated person and for the first time i think she did not know what to say. but i think she took in that moment with with such grace and we have gone on to continue to support robin and her work. >> so you kept in touch with her? >> yes, i heard from her last night. i get an e-mail from her every now and again. >> with maternal health, christy team seems to have found her calling. >> it's hum

according to robin the girls will surely not have the choice because according to her the end of the world science is already well and truly visible starting with the crumbling of christian values in our modern societies if you go one bookstore or one movie store friend's sense how many of those books and how many of those movies do you think that jesus christ himself could watch. and that'll tell you how many things are going to get burned those things need to be cleansed out of the world for him to be a part of it again so he's going to come back there's going to be a cleansing process the millennium for so that tells you how bad the world could possibly be. living quarters for a large family in a bunker being sold up to two million euros. to meet the demand real estate projects like these are sprouting up all over the united states. just a few months ago larry hall was building skyscrapers but today in the middle of the kansas plains in a spot he means to keep secret this businessman has decided to devote his time to a project worthy of the fairy.

george, robin, lara home with their families. amy, paula and rachel here. >>> we're going to switch gears and talk about a love triangle case that may have ended in murder. a 19-year-old biology major vanished. we'll explain the details. >>> also ahead, janet jackson. she is planning to say i do for the third time. she's engaged to her billionaire boyfriend. we're going to tell you who he is and why she's not wearing an incredibly expensive and beautiful ring. we're going to talk about the wedding that is already being planned in a very elaborate affair. >> maybe because it takes a crane and a semi to move said ring. >>> big, big, big news today in the world of the news that pops. rachel has it all for you. jennifer aniston's romantic holiday getaway. breaking overnight, kate winslet's surprise wedding. we have photos. and mcdreamy brewing up a big, new project. rachel has all of that. >> oh, yes. >>> a lot to get to. but first, the love triangle that may have ended in murder. a teenage girl is spending the holiday in jail after

robin, that fog will last. however, it will be on the cool side today we will be dry for most of the sunday with a storm on the way that will arrive late. possibly 1 in. rainfall not a lot of more wet weather on the way. it could linger so give yourself some extra time. tomorrow however, today it shalshould look pretty decent. there is more wet weather on the way. here is a look at the satellite and radar. the cool front over northern california premiere rain and snowfall. this is what your sunday morning will look like with a lot of fog coverage. this is left over from the storm yesterday with pop up showers possibly this afternoon. when that second storm moves in. by midnight, we will see light /moderate rainfall in the northern portions. and by 5:00 p.m., your commute could be light and even moderate rainfall again. a bit stronger than what we saw yesterday but by 3:00 some breaks of rainfall. it could work its way out of the rain. 50s all of from the bay. and a winter weather advisory for the sierras. if yo

let me mention just as robin when stand mentioned i was crossing the bay bridge. as i was driving across the bay bridge. the wind was howling and moving the vehicles left and right to and with the slippery road to are quick to want to drive careful. under 45 m.p.h.. you are going to want to drive slowly. take a look at the embarcadero. i shot this video of people walking up and down. with umbrellas people wearing jackets, boots, anything to keep warm. and they all are familiar with these moist and reconditions. certainly, the weather is not keeping people inside totally i think that this would be totally deserted but that was not the case. we also saw some trees swaying along the embarcadero in the howling wind. it is going to be a busy night. i do not know what portion of the storm i.m. and but the rainfall was just a light drizzle. certainly, coming down harder, earlier. be prepared. reporting live, phillipe djegal, kron 4 news. >> continuing our team coverage... a flood warning has been issued in the sonoma county. kron4's jeff bush spoke to residents at guernv

one of them is robin williams.003 williams entertained and mingled with servicemen in the war zone. reporter sean caleb was there. >> reporter: this is one guy who really had them at hello. >> good morning >> reporter: in robin williams quest for laughs he found a target. men and women who spend a lot of time in aircrafts. >> i love spiraling in. nothing like that to have your colon go, fire in the hole. >> reporter: troops were happy that williams played. >> the way he presented himself to everybody was real nice. come out real nice. all the sports here gave them a show. >> reporter: the king of improv did not miss a beat. >> thank you, i feel like i'm at a golf tournament. we'll be in the third hole in afghanistan. >> reporter: it was a good time to openly laugh, snap some pictures and for a few moments forget how much they missed their families. i remembered these are red blooded troops,. >> i'm for spraying your girl, don't go oprah on me. the man sprayed me. >> reporter: for those who have been getting by with

he was in the middle of filming another rat pack movie robin and the 7 hoods which costarred barbaraush who also happens to be my mother. >> how do you do? >> do you know my name. >> quite. >> i what was it like there on the set working with frankcy that trace gallagher. >> he loved dean martin and those two were so funny together. dean not only wasn't in tim intimidated by frank at all. >> for the sinatra family, a three day nightmare after crossing paths with an judge employed 23-year-old stockbroker. down on his luck, keenan calculated he needed $240,000. in today's money around $1.7 million to get his once thriving career back on track. >> so i was trying to think of anything. kidnapping came up. >> kidnapping. in keenan's twisted mind it made perfect sense. grab a celebrity kid and hold them for ransom. they would have the means to pay big bucks to get the child back and he believed he would later pay back the ransom money with interest. >> in your head this was going be a loan. >> exactly. i started making a list of people that i had gone to school with. very original. which in

if you read the robin hood story, robin hood was taking money back from the tax collectors and returning it to the people. so he was 700 years before the tea party even existed. nancy pelosi is not relevant. to be fair, there is a big automatic tax increase that happens january 1. john boehner is -- gerri: i don't think all americans have their arms around this situation. what would be the real change when these ax hikes going to affect? >> we are focusing a lot on these rate hikes going on. you are also looking at something that hasn't gotten a lot of attention, which is a slew of obamacare that are hitting on january 1. a lot of others are taxes that are going to get americans when they can least afford it. there a lot of tax increases are going to hit this economy hard. we need to be talking about what we can do. >> be one it looks like we will be in a recession. last night, fox news reported that a republican named mike kelly yelled into a microphone at an emergency meeting on plan b last night. he said really, we can't support our speaker. what is going on here? the big question is

>> sam and josh and robin in riverside park. and robin looks fantastic. to see her. we've seen her with the surgical mask. it was great to that it was off. she can be out. she can be around people. it's walking with the queen of new york city yesterday on the streets. >> absolutely. people are yelling from cars. >> cars stopping in the middle of the street. >> craziness. but -- but don't come up to robin and give her a hug just yet, as everybody wants to. just kind of keep a little distance and tell her that you love her. >> be careful. >> still very careful. >> indeed. robin, it was so, so good to see you. it was so good to see you. we know you're watching. >>> you're going to start us off with the news, right? >>> two big headlines. citi group is cutting 11,000 jobs and closing 44 branches. second, starbucks is expanding. opening 1500 new locations in the u.s., boosting the number of locations nationwide by 13%. >>> the president of egypt has returned to his palace today after angry demonstrators swarmed the palace on tuesday. they say the constitution