is over my head and it was mathematics and had a nice introduction by warren weaver from rockefeller university who had written about shannon four "scientific american." he himself was riding in a way that any of us could read to some extent. and then to say something that makes a bell go off and the bell says here is the modern world being born. the kind of thinking that leads to the way every computer scientist would say but the knowledge has filtered down to us when we understand recorded music on the laptop for ipad or ipod is the same species of fame as the words are recorded in the e book or a message sent through twitter all of these things are related to one another that is due to the book by shannon. by carried that around for awhile and wrote these other books and finally i guess you feel this is a book i was always trying to write. >> host: fascinating. the a idea of the information age which is typically referred to are considered the age that we live than, the idea our reality is defined by information and network and bindery forms of communication in the same way that a newton had

luckily it had a nice introduction by warren weaver then rockefeller university who had written shannon for scientific american. and shannon himself was riding in a way that is any of us can read to some extent if you're willing to skip the equations every so often he says something that makes a little bell go off in your head and the bell that goes off says here's the modern world being born. this is really the kind of thinking that leads to the way every computer scientist thinks today and not just computer scientists but all of us who use these machines. the knowledge is filtered down to us and when we understand recorded music on your laptop or your ipad is in a way the same species of things as the words recorded in an ebook or a message that is being sent over twitter of these things are related to one another that's due to this book by shannon. so i carried it around for awhile and wrote these other books and finally i guess it feels as though this is the book i was always trying to write. >> host: fascinating. so, the idea of the information age which is referred to the days tha

then rockefeller university who had written about shannon, scientific american. shannon himself was riding in no way that any of us could read to some extent. if you're willing to skip the equations every so often he says something that makes a little bell go off in your head. the bill that goes off says,, here is the modern world being born. this is really thinking that leads to the way every computer scientist thinks today. not just computer scientists, but all of us to use these machines. the knowledge is filtered down tests. when we understand the recorded music on your laptop or ipod is an away the same species of things as the words that are recorded in the book or a message that is being sent via twitter, all of these things are related to one another. that is due to this book. so, yeah, i carried it around for a while. i wrote these of the books. finally to my guesstimate feels as though this is the book was always trying to write. >> fascinating. so the idea of, you know, the information age which is typically referred to as considered the eighth set we

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> jimmy: thank you! ááÑ fallon. you guys are awesome already.>$ i'm very excited. [ cheers and applause ] it's gonna be a good show. it's gonna be big. some big news here in new york city, president obama went to a broadway show tonight, while justin bieber was only a few blocks away from macy's. it was a crazy scene, you had the most powerful man in the world, and then right down the street, president obama. [ laughter ] president obama was in new york today. there was one embarrassing moment when he saw the naked cowboy and was like, "please tell me you're not a democratic congressman." [ laughter ] thank goodness. [ cheers and applause ] because of the president's visit, there was major gridlock, traffic. it was really bad. instead of showing clips from nbc, the tv in my cab played the entire "lord of the rings" trilogy. [ laughter ] did you see this? sarah palin is denying reports her bus tour is canceled

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you very much. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." how are you guys feeling tonight? feeling good? [ cheers and applause ] well, it's official, turns out it was weiner's weiner. [ laughter ] that's right. at a press conference this afternoon, congressman anthony wiener admitted that he tweeted out that photo of his crotch. during the press conference, congressman wiener was choked up and got a lump in his throat. not as big as the lump in his underwear, but still a very emotional -- [ laughter ] it's been a tough week for him. i mean, he has lost so much support. he had to buy a second pair of underwear to -- [ laughter ] i'm just glad he had the balls to admit his mistake. [ audience ohs ] been a crazy few days. first, wiener admitted that he tweeted out that photo of his crotch and john edwards was indicted for covering up an affair. or as arnold schwarzenegger put it -- [ as schwarzene

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! hello! that's what i'm talking about. that's a great crowd. welcome. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. well, you guys, weiner-gate is still going on. [ scattered cheers ] i still find it hard to believe that a crotch photo was tweeted out by a guy named anthony weiner. [ laughter ] if you think that's bad, you should see the picture sent by his aide, gary butthole. [ laughter ] he's not admitting to anything yet. >> steve: but-thole >> jimmy: what's that? >> steve: it's but-thole. [ laughter ] you read that wrong. >> jimmy: i got a pizza delivery for gary butthole. >> steve: it's but-thole! >> jimmy: i'm sorry. great butthole. they spelled it wrong, sorry. [ laughter ] but-thole. i'm looking for harry pairatestes. is he a greek -- [ laughter ] >> steve: oh. now get out of here! >> jimmy: harry. >> steve: no, his first name's harry, like harold or -- and his last name's pairate

in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, everybody! what's going down? [ cheers and applause ] what a great crowd. thank you, guys. welcome. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." happy cinco de mayo, you guys! [ cheers and applause ] earlier tonight i drank eight coronas, six margaritas and four tequila shots. [ cheers and applause ] then someone told me it was cinco de mayo. i was like, "cool." [ laughter ] that's right. it's cinco de mayo, everybody. i celebrate it the way i do every year, by pressing "espanol" on the atm machine. [ laughter ] see if i can make it through, like, "uno, uno, tres, tres." listen to this. senate majority leader harry reid dislocated his shoulder. yeah, after his hand slipped on a parked car he was leaning on. [ light laughter ] so watch out, al qaeda. [ laughter ] what a lame story that is. everyone is still talking about osama bin laden. hillary clinton said that watching the raid on bin laden's com

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's a big new york city crowd. that's the best crowd in the world. welcome to "late night" with me, jimmy fallon, everybody. welcome. you guys feeling good? i love you. [ cheers and applause ] did you guys see this? in this week's republican debate, michele bachmann said that when it comes to balancing policy, the republican party needs to be a 3-legged stool. [ laughter ] which explains the new gop chairman, anthony weiner. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] you get it? >> higgins: oh, boy. >> jimmy: speaking of anthony weiner, his wife returned home today and their relationship might be on the rocks. [ laughter ] you can tell he's bummed. today he tweeted a photo of himself at half-mast. [ laughter ] [ singing taps ] ♪ this is surprising, you guys. a new survey found 87% of high school seniors are less than proficient in u.s. history. not me, i mean, in fact when i was a senior, i did a ten pag

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." that's a crowd right there. that's a great crowd. all right, a new york city crowd -- welcome, you guys. well, huge news -- it looks like congress just lost its weiner. [ laughter ] that's right. after two weeks of scandal, anthony weiner announced today that he is resigning from congress. that's right, one second he's in, the next he's out, typical weiner -- [ laughter ] typical weiner. [ laughter ] anthony weiner announced that he was stepping down at a press conference this afternoon. it wasn't good. in fact, the worst part was when he started to call on reporters without using his hands. that was -- he was like, "yes, what were you saying? [ laughter ] 'washington post,' back there, yes?" hey, congratulations to the boston bruins who won the stanley cup last night! [ cheers and applause ] it was crazy, though -- it was crazy. after the bruins beat th

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh, man! that's the type of energy you want! that was the best in the world. makes you feel so good! you, at home, too, welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon." so happy to be guys today. it's going to be a fun one. i can feel it. i can feel it. it's a special episode. you guys, get this. president obama was just ranked 108th in the new list from golf digest of the top 150 golfers in the political world. [ light laughter ] but i hear he's improving. last week in pakistan he shot two holes in one. [ laughter and applause ] i heard that. i heard that. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: yeah. i heard that. yeah. >> steve: he marked it with a tiny pencil. >> jimmy: did you hear about this? cbs was in patiently in talks with hugh grant replacing charlie sheen on "two and a half men." it would be a lot different. i mean, charlie sheen -- charlie sheen loves cocaine and prostitutes while hugh grant isn't really int

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about! [ cheers and applause ] a new york city crowd. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," you guys. show of hands. who's just here just for the air conditioning? [ cheers and applause ] man, this heat wave has been terrible. today, the temperature was 100 degrees here in new york. it was so hot, anthony weiner took off his pants just to stay cool. [ laughter ] no other reason. [ cheers and applause ] he took a picture while he was at it. he figured why not? i don't know. speaking of weiner -- [ laughter ] there are reports that anthony weiner's wife is pregnant. i can't keep up. first we hear about a big weiner, now we hear about a little weiner. it's like -- [ laughter ] the weiners are here. [ cheers and applause ] hey. young weiner. you look just like your dad. listen to this. i heard that prince william and kate middleton are looking to hire a housekeeper. as one guy

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about -- a great new york city crowd, welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," you guys. welcome, welcome, welcome. [ cheers and applause ] i am so excited. i am so excited, you guys. it's the first day of summer. that's right. this is the day with the most sunlight of the entire year. [ cheers ] or as i like to tell plants, eat up, you fat slobs! [ laughter ] some big economic news. yesterday, president obama urged more foreign countries to start investing in the u.s. economy. it was nice. mexico's president was like, "the people of mexico are with you. [ laughter ] literally, they're already there with you." this was scary. yesterday, a delta airlines flight made an emergency landing at a wildlife refuge in hawaii. when the lions saw the passengers, they were like, "can you believe this? delta is actually serving food. [ laughter ] can't believe this. [ cheers and applause

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about. welcome, everybody, to "late night with jimmy fallon." we're going to have fun tonight, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] this is pretty cool. this is pretty cool -- president obama will be in new york tomorrow night. for a fund-raiser at the broadway musical "sister act." meanwhile, sarah palin will be in town to do some hunting at the "lion king." it's just going to be -- [ laughter ] -- busy, tough, tough traffic. yeah. this is big. new york governor andrew cuomo will hold a special election on september 13 to replace anthony weiner. [ light laughter ] cuomo was like anyone interested in the job should e-mail me at -- actually, just better call. [ laughter ] it's better if you just call -- that's safer. you see this? during a speech last week, texas governor rick perry accidentally referred to twitter as tweeter. [ laughter ] perry apologized for the gaffe and asked e

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, everybody! oh, it's going to be a great night. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. hope you're feeling great. we're going to have fun tonight. [ cheers and applause ] it's going to be good. it's going to be a fun night. hey, guys, listen to this. one of sarah palin's supporters is about to release a documentary about her called "the undefeated." really? "the undefeated?" [ laughter ] that's like a documentary about arnold schwarzenegger called "the faithful." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] that's right. someone made a two-hour documentary about sarah palin's political life. in case you're interested in watching a movie that's longer than palin's actual political life. speaking of the palins, in a new interview, bristol palin says she doesn't plan on having more kids any time soon. but then she added, "but that never stopped me before." [ laughter ] i just saw this, preside

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very good. hey. welcome to "late night" -- welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. oh, man, what a great crowd already. yeah, i can feel it's going to be a good show, you guys. [ cheers and applause ] hey, guys, i just read that secretary of state hillary clinton is threatening to cut off military aid to pakistan. or as one guy put it -- [ imitating bill clinton ] "that's not the first time she's threatened to cut something off. [ laughter and applause ] and she'll do it. she will do it." darryl. some tech news -- there are reports that twitter will start putting ads in user's timelines. that's going to be weird. right? it's going to be like, "i'm so sad. last night, my grandma passed away quietly in her sleep. do the dew!" [ laughter ] check this out, a european aircraft company is building a high speed jet that can go from new york to london in an hour. seriously? how about a jet that

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >>> jimmy: fantastic. how you all feeling? it's going to be a good show tonight. oh, my gosh. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. welcome to the show. hey -- hey, did you see this? president obama and john boehner played golf against joe biden on saturday, and they won $2. [ laughter ] just, just seven trillion more rounds like this, and we'll pay off that deficit in no time. [ laughter and applause ] so looking good -- things are looking really good. that's right, joe biden's team lost a round of golf this weekend. and if you thought losing was rough, you should have seen biden when he found out the last hole wasn't a clown's mouth. he's like what is -- [ laughter ] what kind of golf is this? where is the windmill, damn it? [ laughter ] calm down, joe. listen to this -- in her new memoir, bristol palin reveals that she lost her virginity to levi johnston, in a tent while drunk on wine coolers

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! how you guys doing? that's what i'm talking about right there. welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. happy tuesday. [ cheers and applause ] welcome. it's gonna be a great show. i'm so excited, you guys. tonight we have elmo on the show. [ cheers and applause ] he tried to cancel on me last minute and i was like, "aw, hell-mo!" [ laughter ] some -- some political news. the white house opened a new round of budget talks this week with members of congress. i bet those talks are easier now. it's like, "i want my budget. you want yours. there's only one way to settle this. raise your hand if you found and killed osama bin laden. anyone? [ laughter ] oh yeah, that was me, so -- my budget it is. yeah, thanks." [ cheers and applause ] by the way -- yes, we did. did you see this? rush limbaugh said yesterday that obama never would have tracked down bin laden if it wasn't for george w. bush

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: there you go! thank you very much. welcome, everybody, to "late night with jimmy fallon"! what a crowd. what a great new york city crowd out here tonight. i love it. [ cheers and applause ] ah, thank you. oh, man. well -- [ applause ] well, thank you so much, you guys. we've come to the end of weiner week here at "late night." [ laughter ] what a wonderful weiner week it's been. listen to this. it turns out that ten days before anthony weiner tweeted that explicit photo, congress published a report about the dangers of sexting. [ laughter ] yeah. weiner was going to read it, but something came up. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] have you heard about this? a new reported found that it cost $250,000 to raise a child born in 2010. or as one guy put it -- [ as schwarzenegger ] mildred, bring me the calculator now. [ cheers and applause ] this exciting, fantastic, exciting! mildred, get over here now!

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universal television -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: that's what i'm talking about right there! welcome to "late night" with jimmy fallon. you guys, thank you for being here tonight. congratulations to the dallas mavericks. they're the champs. congratulations to those guys. [ cheers and applause ] what a game. man, what a game between the mavs and the heat last night. i actually missed most of it, but then again, so did lebron, so -- [ laughter ] [ audience ohs ] on the bright side, it looks like lebron finally made cleveland fans happy so, that's -- that's good. [ cheers and applause ] took him long enough. you guys, it's been a week and the media continues to beat on weiner. [ laughter and applause ] this weekend, anthony weiner announced that he's taking a leave of absence but that he's leaving the door open. uh -- no word on what he's using for door stops. but he's -- apparently anthony weiner, he won't decide if he's resigning until his wife comes

rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] captions paid for by nbc-universalelevision -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey! that's what's i'm talking about. great new york city crowd right there! [ cheers and applause ] hey, guys. i'm so excited. welcome. welcome, everybody, to "late night with jimmy fallon." happy wednesday. well, you guys -- more big weiner news. [ laughter ] there's now growing pressure for -- [ laughter ] i just caught that now. >> steve: come on! >> jimmy: there's now growing pressure for congressman anthony weiner to resign. [ audience aws ] yeah. weiner is like "look, i'm not leaving, but i am packing." [ laughter ] so -- [ cheers and applause ] yeah. democrats in congress seem to be distancing themselves from the anthony weiner scandal. just to be safe, everybody's staying a good six to eight inches away at all times. [ laughter ] listen to this, a new study found that being bored can be good for your brain. which explains that new campaign slogan "mitt romney: i'm good for your brain." [ laught

captions paid for by nbc-universal television >> from nbc news this is "today" with kathie lee gifford ask hoda kotb. live from studio 1a in rockefellernd here. it's wines day wednesday, june 15th. half way through june already. >> what? >> stop it. >> the last few days have been icky, rainy and chilly, it doesn't feel like june. >> no. it's not even summer yet. >> no, it is not. i didn't have enough sleep. >> why, hoda? >> i wasn't feeling well. >> i was going go to the opening of "spider-man." but you saw "the voice." this is what i loved about it, we know how confusing it is with the judging and the voting and it seemed like a big mess at the time. >> at the time you thought it was a mistake now you don't think so. >> they started the show with christina aguilera's team of four. america saved one of the team of four. christina had to pick from among the three who she was going to pick. right there, she picked beverly. she's the bald rocker and so then christina had to pick from among the group and remember raquel? >> from long island. >> she picked frenchie. >> now it's frenchie and beverly are the two that she picked for her team.

♪ captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoet hoda kotb. >> live from studio 1a in rockefeller the days start to get a little bit shorter so wring out every bit of sunshine you have. >> so if you were home last night chances are pretty good that you were watching "the voice." yes. >> they're doing very well. >> the exciting thing about how they do "the voice" is they are cutting so deep. they're eliminating half of the:teams like that. half the team in the teams. it's not like you're losing someone, i'll watch next week. they're cutting the teams in half. >> down to bare bone. >> they are. >> so cee-lo. the two remaining members on his team are vicky and nekia. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all right. >> team adam had two left. now it's two left, too. >> javier is the guy with the sideways hat. >> america loved him. >> yes. >> adam chose a girl named casey. >> what happened to javier. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> beautiful. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all righty. those are good. >> good chops. good song to sing. it is so identified with whitney houston. you either have to make it totally different or you will be seen as so