the only thing worse than a selfie is a guy selfie. >> that's weird. >> there are grown ass men posting selfies on instagram. >> the shirt off in the mirror and flexing. >> that is actually his twitter profile. >> my fellow rapper dudes. some of the hood rapper dudes, the tough rapper dudes and i'm on their twitter and i see them with their shirt off -- it is like i don't need to see that. just rap. >> geraldo. >> i tried to do it, but i can't -- i am so out of the loop to get the camera to work when i try to do a selfie i have this look of concentration on my face. >> the great one is when people try to pretend it is not a selfie so they try to make sure -- they are like this and they try to get it like this. oh my god i am being pulled. >> there is a generation of young girls with incredibly strong forearms. just one forearm from holding up the phone. >> distbussing. disgusting. people think they are better looking than they really r. when people take selfies they say i look good and you need to look good. they overestimate the amount of interest people have in your looks because they

that's a by selfie. >> do you happen to have jasper's selfie loaded?hink so. >> that was the best. >> i wasn't allowed. i wasn't allowed. no. >> i thought greg would like selfies more because then you're not bothered more by people wanting to take your picture. you go no! and walk away. >> the now what the runner-up words? selfie, one. twerk. that's a dumb one. showrooming. >> showrooming. >> bitcoin. >> and bingewatching. >> is that when you eat a lot of watches and then throw them up? a lot of college kids are doing that. >> you can really tell time well. >> ruins plumbing. >> i'm going to read this thing again. i started to earlier. today is a very special day in american history. president abraham lincoln delivered his gettysburg address exactly 150 years ago. but how much do our kids actually know about honest abe? we're going to tell you. >> that he wasn't honest. >> what political party did abraham lincoln belong to? >> you know -- >> oh, man, i don't know. >> maybe it doesn't matter. >> okay, there's more when "the five" returns. so i tried dep

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it's about the selfy. twitter has inspired a world of selfies. that's a picture that you take of yourself. today is a poignant moment for the selfy. oxford dictionary has picked selfy for word of the year. now stiff competition. it beat out the word twerk and bit coin and another worthy meaty words. our selfy posting madness has been legitimatized by the establishment, and whether or not you choose to invest money in twitter or facebook and other selfy enablers, at least honor them tonight with your own celebratory selfy. that's our show for wednesday. making driving safer by taking the driver out of the car. i'm ali velshi, thanks for joining us. >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy in new york. here are the top stories at this hour: texas anti-abortion advocates got a temporary victory. the u.s. supreme court agreed to keep tough abortion plans in place while they are being appeal. it requires to have abortion doctors to have admittance privilege in new by hospitals. >> voters in albuquerque rejected a band on late-term abortion.

that's another great selfy. i just posted a selfy of dr. ruth and i on instagram.t my account. becoming dr. ruth is her show. i'm going to go see it. it's been extended. mazeltov. it's great. >> i promise you i'll be there. we'll sit in the back and we'll do a talk offwards. >> sounds great. that does it for us. thanks to my panel. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. we'll see you tomorrow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ 8 front yards blinding ♪ 6 snowballs flying ♪ 5 packages addressed by toddlers ♪ ♪ that's a q ♪ 4 lightning bolts ♪ 3 creepy gnomes ♪ 2 angry geese ♪ and a giant blow-up snowman ♪ that kind of freaks me out [ beep ] [ female announcer ] no one delivers the holidays like the u.s. postal service. priority mail flat rate is more reliable than ever. and with improved tracking up to 11 scans, you can even watch us get it there. ♪ you can even watch us get it there. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know that when a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, it does make a sound

there is the selfie i tweeted, jaw agape, my point isn't about the ipo, it's about the selfie. twitter has inspired a world filled with selfies. today is the poignant moment. the oxford dictionary has many picked the selfie as word of the year. it beat out twerk, and i'm glad for that. our selfie has been legitimized by the establishment. whether you choose to invest money in twitter, and other selfies honorees, consider that tonight. thanks our check check >>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm jonathan betz with a look at the headlines. an important first step, that's what president obama is calling the deal to limit iran's nuclear capabilities. the agreement was reached late last night in geneva. >> afghan president hamid karzai will not sign the security plan approved by the council of elders until after the elections next year. the deal will keep american soldiers in afghanistan after 2015. >> honduras go to the polls today. among the candidate the wife of the man deposed in 1999. there was

it's about the selfy. twitter has inspired a world of selfies. that's a picture that you take of yourself. today is a poignant moment for the selfy. oxford dictionary has picked selfy for word of the year. now stiff competition. it beat out the word twerk and bit coin and another worthy meaty words. our selfy posting madness has been legitimatized by the establishment, and whether or not you choose to invest money in twitter or facebook and other selfy enablers, at least honor them tonight with your own celebratory selfy. that's our show for wednesday. making driving safer by taking the driver out of the car. i'm ali velshi, thanks for joining us. >> the debate over restrictions on abortion at the local level. the critical city council vote in new mexico. >> hi, i'm lisa fletcher, and you're in "the stream." when a child is raised in a loving home with two loving parents, does gender matter in we'll hear from two raised by same-sex parents. >> all right, raj is bringing in all of your questions in the show. we have 600 lights on facebook right no

there is the selfie i tweeted, jaw agape, my point isn't about the ipo, it's about the selfie. twitter has inspired a world filled with selfies. today is the poignant moment. the oxford dictionary has many picked the selfie as word of the year. it beat out twerk, and i'm glad for that. our selfie has been legitimized by the establishment. whether you choose to invest money in twitter, and other selfies honorees, consider that tonight. thanks our

there is the selfie i tweeted, jaw agape, my point isn't about the ipo, it's about the selfie. twitter has inspired a world filled with selfies. today is the poignant moment. the oxford dictionary has many picked the selfie as word of the year. it beat out twerk, and i'm glad for that. our selfie has been legitimized by the establishment. whether you choose to invest money in twitter, and other selfies honorees, consider that tonight. thanks our show, i'm ali velshi, thanks for joining us. >> hello, i'm richard gizbert and you're watching a special edition of the listening post. every week on this program, we take a close critical look at the global news media. this time, we're doing something different. we're going to talk about a man who coined a phrase we often repeat but seldom stop to explain. you may have never heard of marshall mcluhan, a canadian professor of literature turned high priest of media theory, but you're probably familiar with his most widely quoted adage - 'the medium is the message'. in the 1960s, long before anybody had a facebook page, posted their where

of the word selfy skyrocketed 17,000% in the last year.y can be benign and rather suggest tentative say the least. one mr. anthony weiner comes to mind as one example. back with our panel, andrew sullivan, david gergen, angela davis and dr. ruth westheimer. her life is the subject of a one-woman show called "becoming dr. ruth" stars actress debra joe ruff. it's so great to have you here. >> thank you. i want to tell you something right away. the selfy phenomenon. i have nothing against you and me hugging and you and me holding hands. but please, make sure that everybody knows, nothing below your neck. >> no selfies below the neck. >> absolutely. i'm really worried about that. >> you are? why? >> it's not necessary. and i'm old-fashioned and a square. you know i talk about those things. >> you're not a square. >> who would call you that? >> i call myself a square. but please make sure selfy from whatever word you want to use, it's fine to show a picture above the neck. >> okay. >> dr. ruth says so. >> okay. there you go. >> interesting, mic

the dring selfy. not just dangerous. this could be deadly. >> cell phone are involved in about one outf every ten fatal crashes on the road. >> reporter: the cell phone self-ptrait often snapped while the car is in motio is so popular among some drivers original sites like instagram, more than 3 million pictures are filed under has tags lik driving selfy. driving to work and the ominous, i hope i d't crash. >> never text asked driven at the same time. >>eporter: 18-year-old ashley said she has never taken a selfy behind the wheel but she knows plenty who have. >> i think it very scary. they are not at throad anymor they have one hand on th wheel maybe. >> reporter: it turns out neay half of all high school studes say ty text behind the wheel even though most stes already ban any form ofistracted driving. in fact aording to the department of tranortation, some 3,300 americans die every yearecause of distracted drivin and taki a selfy may be worse than sending a tech because getting that picture just perft takes time. with

few can resist the lure of the selfie. defined by oxford dictionary in the online addiction -- edition as "a photograph one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media site." it was chosen as their word of the year after the use grew by 17,000% in 12 months. >> when we choose the word of the year, we discussed the various words we have another shortlisted we cannot decide which one we feel has summed up the year, or has particularly gained traction in the last 12 months. >> it used to be that if you wanted an instant self-portrait to share with your friends you had to go to one of these. they only take four or five pictures at a time, and they cost. what has given the selfie staying power is the internet. the first use of the word online is thought to be on this australian website back in 2002. someone posted a picture of injuries he got in a drunken accident. sorry about the photos, it is a selfie, he said. vanessa ellis has taken 10,000 pictures of herself posted next to th

the pope did a selfie. the idea of -- now the new thing is funeral selfies.eople go to funerals, stand in front of the dead body, i'm not kidding, take a picture. >> that's just disrespectful. >> it's about being the center of attention at all times. we are the most self-absorbed generation. i'm guilty. the reality shows affect us. we think we are kanye west or kim kardashian. it's so funny, we have to share it. >> is it about getting attention and notoriety in this cyber space world? >> i think it's oo big part of it. now you see photo bombing. someone else is the center of attention and someone jumps in the back of the picture to up stage them. so many people need to be the center of attention at all times and share it on twitter or facebook. this year, an actor walked through a wedding photo. >> unbelievable. >> part of it, it's troubling, but i hope there's a silver lining, ultimately, with this. >> hopefully, if you are watching, send us a selfie. i tweeted one because we did one while we were speaking. i don't know if you caught that. one of the things

you guessed it, it's selfie, it's a digital self portrait, a photo of one self using a smartphone andhe internet to share with friends and the dictionary said the term appeared on an online alls tral -- australia in 2002 and it spiked about 17,000% since this time last year and it's so popular that spin off terms such as shelfie taken in front of a bookshelf and it's not just humans taking selfies, the mars rover caught this showing late afternoon shadow on the red planet and of course not all pictures are created equal, check this one out by japanese astronaut, we see the sun, deep space and of course our planet. a mirror of humanity that could very well be the ultimate selfie. >> reporter: editor for oxford dictionary and live from oxford what is the criteria for a word being able to enter the oxford dictionary? >> well, and we use both our judgment and we use science and in order to decide which words should go into our dictionaries we collect huge databases of language and we use various databases particularly for the word of the year and analyze the oxford new monitor for which w

i tried it out and every selfie looked like justin bieber.ook like a gorgeous child. >> my wife says that too. >> quickly, andy. >> this is the dumbest, most pointless thing ever. it is idiotic and i predict it will be hugely successful. >> that is true. this is a delightful show. they need an app called ruin me and market it to kids. they take all of these horrible pictures. >> you can't get a job. >> isn't that what booze is? >> all right. joanne, gavin, joel, tv's andy levy. i'm greg gutfeld and i shall see you next time. goodbye, america. >> and canada. >> canada as well. housing. are we about to find that out with health care? tonight at 8:00, fbn. >> this is a fox news lart. moments ago they released the numbers for obamacare. they war numbers would be low. with regard to anything obama they are right. after a month of operations it is only a fraction of what they expected. as few as 106,000 people made it through the process. many of those enrollees haven't even paid a penny yet. also recalled by partisan ceo said they need 7 million p

selfies. >> there is ken wayne and bill ericson. you can check out a slide show we put together of all of the ktvu selfies. >> i need longer arms to take selfies. mark is here now. maybe steph curry can take selfies. >> it is just a reminder. we talk about the concussions in the nfl. it can happen in any sport including basketball. last night, a victory for the warriors up in utah, but it came at a price as you will watch steph curry take a nasty fall. and he landed on his head in the fourth quarter last night. his only symptom afterwards was a bad headache, but that has reportedly dispated. he is not going to play against memphis tomorrow night. a team that has beat tennessee warriors ten consecutive times. they are hoping to get andre iguodala to pick up some of the slack. >> one of the reasons we got him was his ability to make plays. his versatility. adds depth. makes guys around him better. so he is a tremendous luxury to have. >> absolutely. meantime, it is big game week here in the bay

so we hit the streets to see how many people really know how to selfie maybe you are new to be selfie if that's the case, you will want to be careful if you decide to post it to social media. kim kardashian and is doing was caught the duck face you'll want to avoid that. some famous self piece like this one with the beyoncÉ late in the back are cool. but here's my where she sticks her tongue out bell. people like ddt and m&m like to have the mona lisa in the background. the aware of your surroundings. this one with the pulp is popular. we all know what happened to the political career of winter after he took a self peak of his private parts and tweet it. the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. so you can finish the great american novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. so you can and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how di

we'll explore the cosmic significance of the selfie. >>> time for our digital download. the oxford dictionary picked its word of the year and refers to something many of you have indulged in, the selfie. >> millions are holding up their smartphones taking pictures of themselves sharing them with the world and we have a few right here for you to take a look at. first up, of course, the one who always seems to have hundreds of them is kim kardashian, usually with a lot less clothes on. >> she's wearing a lot of clothes there. >> next we have -- put it up and see what we have. >> hillary. >> hillary clinton with her daughter chelsea. >> next, vice president of the united states and julia louis-dreyfus who stars in "veep." all these selfies, oh, my god, howie kurt with the beautiful ladies of the makeup room. >> these are the women it takes me to get me on the air. >> that's pathetic. >> you don't want to see that. >> this looks like the real -- >> hey. let's get to that cosmic significance. >> yeah, i think part of the selfie generation is really the look at me generation,

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mary posted this selfy with her entire family. emmanuel used hash tag silly to describe this selfy.e is emily posing with a cat named lego. you can share yourselfies on facebook.com. >> still ahead, why milk may not do a body good for men z a 400 pound high school running back wowing college recruits. >> today's seven on your side q ask a is just ahead i'm still taking your questions on twitter and facebook. you can me at facebook.com/michael finney abc7 and on twitter. i'll answer your questions here live in just a moment. >> i'm spencer christian. looking at live doppler seven hd, we can see rainfall across parts of the east bay. looks like a slow, slippery evening commute. i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up. >> another live look at traffic. this is the bridge, you can see traffic is a sea of headlights. heading to the east bay. and it's pretty heavy, better and lighter on the right side of the skreevenlt back with more >>> a football player from washington is making a big impression. >> he's mass yichlt at 64, 400 pounds he's not only bigger than teammates, but bigger

in our selfies. that's a great selfie.o the oxford dictionary. >> these have gone up a staggering 17,000% since this time last year. but critics are saying it should have gone to twerk instead. i wonder what we would have done had the word -- >> oh, gosh. i would be twerking right now. >>> this is cool. the first-ever selfie. a self portrait of robert cornelius, taken back in 1839. >> you can't stop talking about how great his hair looks. >> he looks like mel gibson in "the patriot." >>> you may want to retire your library card. >> two belgian professors at the antwerp public library, included "fifty shades of grey," tested positive for the herpes virus and cocaine. >> average dollar bill has more germs on it than a page from the library book. >>> a new twist to a christmas classic, a sequel to "it's a wonderful life." it's in the work ps. >> the new film will be centered around george bailey's grandson. and it promises to retain the spirit of the original film, showing the world that every life is important, as long as yo

what won in selfie, so this is "selfie day" on the abc morning news. here is our team selfie.folks have been sending their selfie photos this is from phil. folks have been going to facebook, leaving commends, including a mother and daughter, and here is my favorite good morning bay area, you can do the same or tweet us. you have to have fun with this stuff is selfie being the "word of the year." >> folks, how are the weather gods? >> we have not had rain since september 21 but it is here. you can see the clouds are behind us and they are lowering as you look to the north and that is the wall of water that is coming our way. it will come in waves so we will have light rain intermittent and it will be moderate and by the afternoon hours, it will become steady but right now you can see it is in pockets with a lot of moisture in the column and i looked at our soundings and that is a verdict california profile -- vertical profile and the moisture in the air and we are solid, solid full of moisture up to 15,000 or 20,000 feet. we have radar returns around hercules and up to vallejo

it's selfy. a selfy is a digital self portrait.ry says the term first appeared in an online australian forum back in 2002. but its frequency has spiked about 17,000 percent. it's not just humans taking selfies, nasa's mars rover opportunity caught this, showing its late afternoon shadow on the red planet, and of course not all pictures are created equal. check this one out by a japanese ott r astronaut. we see the gun, deep space, and of course our planet. that could very well be the ultimate selfy. >> that's it for my selfy, bye for now. thanks for watching. ♪ >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we're covering for you. the government is set to reach a settlement with jpmorgan. >>> and president obama is set to meet with lawmakers on the issue of talks with iran. >>> and michael bloomberg making it so no one under the age of 21 can buy tobacco. ♪ >>> we begin with breaking news concerning jpmorgan chase. we're waiting for the ta

that's the thing people do with selfies, on. -- john. >> i'm not cool. >> selfy is a photograph thataken of one's self typically with a smartphone or web cam. you will see that on our twitter feed or instagram shortly. >> there you go. >>> have you ever quit your job or seen people who leave the nice letters, miss you all, thank you for the four years. the other side of you wants to blast everybody and say this place can, you know, anyway. a woman woman blasted it. she sent an e-mail on gawker that is funny. she quit her position at price waterhouse coopers and sent out an e-mail. here's the good ones. let's put up the graphic there. i strongly believe that auditors hate their lives and rationalize it is busy season or if everybody did the job they loved to do -- measly excuses to justify and pursue useless, meaningless careers. she says one other doozy. keep it real. partners are treated as if they are royalty. you are fake, important and you stink. there you go. somebody keepin' it real. >> love it. i will keep that handy. how lovely that is. >>> "50 shades of gray" immensely popul

here is amy selfie this morning from the oakland hills. can findable slide show -- find a slide show with other ktvu reporters joining in. >>> tonight at 5:00, our stormwatch continues as the first rain in months makes its way across the bay area. we're tracking the system and the problems it's causing today. >>> well, thank you for making ktvu your choice for news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. we're always here for you at ktvu.com. you can also follow us on twitter and facebook. have a good day. elizabeth: orlando, an exciting city, that's full of wild adventures. you won't believe the exciting stuff you can do here in florida. that's me, elizabeth, and today i'm exploring the other side of orlando with my friends, jimmy bennett and rob pinkston. we'll discover the magic of universal studios. drive atvs over miles of dirt track. now that... that was fun. that was fun. (chuckling) whoo! high five. elizabeth: chill out at the icebar. (powertool whirring) man: you're doing an excellent job! elizabeth: and so much more. (screaming

you guested it, it's selfy.ograph taken of oneself and then upload it on the internet. it has gotten such that its frequency has spiked about 17,000 percent since this time last year. it's so popular that even spin off terms such as selfy, and shelfy, taken in front of a bookshelf, and it's not just humans, nasa's rover captures this. and of course not all pictures are created equal. check this one out by a japanese astronaut. we see the sun, deep space, and of course our planet, a mirror of humanity that could very well be the ultimate selfy. >>> stay with us, another full bulletin is straight ahead. to keep up with us throughout the day go to our website, aljazeera.com. that's aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ >> al jazeera america brings you live coverage: typhoon haiyan. >> relief efforts are well underway here in cebu. >> we have a problem with no homes to go back to. >> clean water, food, medicine, all vitally required. >> the australian medical team arrived. >> this is a government warehouse that is preparing relief for

selfie is being done by everyone there. >> katie marzullo tweets and your arms may be too short but you can do yours, i did mine, it is posted on twitter, and we want to see yours, as well. >> you can make a lot of money inventing a device that allows you to extend your arms and take a selfie. >> as seen on tv. now a look if you are traveling today, especially north of 80 you will run into rain and maybe a little bit of snow but it is not really going to make it down to where most of us drive. if you are headed to the area you may want to make the change. temperatures are 58 in sacramento and 48 in tahoe and 51 in monterey and mid-to-upper 60's with clouds around san diego and los angeles and 76 in palm spring. the in three days in tahoe, rain at 47 degrees, a very warm system. snow will mix in thursday, maybe an inch of accumulation at lake level. look at sunshine: it will melt whatever falls and sticks on friday which is sunny and 41. leyla gulen? >> i found slowing for you headed into san francisco and this because of a project that will be watching up at action, as well, but, certai

. >>> our "instant index" tonight begins with a selfie. dictionary has named it word of the year thanks to selfies like these, beyonce, hillary clinton and meryl streep, the pope and an astronaut on the mars rover. tweet us a selfie tonight watching "world news" and keep them clean. >>> a milestone birthday tonight. tonight, the mccaughey septuplets. you remember them. tonight they are dating, driving, keeping their parents on their toes and one more portrait for the family album. >>> we remember a member of our own extended family tonight, a passing to note, walt diz knee's daughter has died at the age of 79. diane and her sister inspired disneyland, a place where a family can dream together. she was a great grandmother to one. ceo bob iger saying she'll be remembered for her grace and her work to preserve her father's legacy. our thoughts are with the disney family tonight. >>> talk about happy feet. there is a fake in this video right here. can you spot it? capturing images like we've never seen before and you'll see them right after th

even michelle obama and the pope took selfies this year.rs up include the work twerk and bingwatch. i wonder if that's related to food rather than drink. richard, do you have children? >> 15-year-old twins. >> they're selfies -- >> not twerking, as well, i hope. >> anyway, what do you think should be the word of the year? join the conversation on "worldwide exchange." get in touch with us. e-mail us, worldwide@cnbc.com. tweet @cnbcwex or direct to me @rosswestgate. take a picture of yourself and post it. that seems the be the thing to do. hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. >>> the oecd cuts its global forecast citing weakness in emerging markets. >>> stocks in europe fall with investors anxiously awaiting to hear from ben bernanke tonight. >>> and billionaire investor c

i'm talking about selfies, the new word of the year. you, for those of you not familiar. here's one. it's our team honoring the occasion with our own selfie this week. come on, because we had to. i love these guys. needless to say, longer arms are a plus in the art of self-snapping. what's a selfie if it's not immediately uploaded to social media? celebs love it but is the stream of selfie postings a good thing, particularly when we're talking about fragile self-esteem of our kids. my next guest says yes. kelly wallace, cnn digital correspondent and editor at large joins me now. and you are a mother. >> yes. >> tell me why this could be a good thing. >> thankfully my kids are not posting selfies just yet. i might have a different feeling if they were. but here's the thing, brooke. we did a recent story talking to a family about the conversations they're having about social media, and the mom of a 13-year-old said yes, most of the kids are posting selfies but she said what she was really taken by surprise were the comments. most of them

. >> seven, selfie is the chosen word of the year and we declare this selfie day.ake a selfie picture of yourself and tweet it to us. we could share it on air and on-line. >> today is 150 years since president lincoln gave one of the most famous stirring speeches in american history. thousands of people are flocking to gettysburg to recognize one of the greatest moments, the gettysburg dress the dedication if a new national cemetery in pennsylvania in november of 1863 fourscore and seven years arrest he gave the short speech to remind people that the war effort mist go on after the civil war. >> this morning, the los angeles police department is looking at a new approach to crackdown on car burglars. move over walking dead, the lapd northeast division has a new video starring zombies. it features zombie whose steal ipads and other items from parked cars. this year, 21,000 vehicles have been burglarized in los angeles. the department came up with the video to get everyone's attention about putting away valuables. >> and being a member of the living dead in californi

selfies. the word that describes them are more popular than ever. and. >> and word tonight the one of the most popular comic troops ever is planning a reunion. farmers presents: fifteen seconds of smart. so you want to drive more safely? stop eating. take deep breaths. avoid bad weather. [ whispers ] get eight hours. ♪ [ shouts over music ] turn it down! and, of course, talk to farmers. hi. hi. ♪ we are farmers bum - pa - dum, bum - bum - bum - bum ♪ >>> a thousands a gathered for a celebration commemorating one of the greatest speeches. the. 100 years ago today lincoln delivered the speech. attendees laid wreaths -- at site and observed a moment of silence. >>> and now trending, the word selfie. according to the dictionary it was first used in australia to define a photo someone trainings of themselves usually at arms length or in a mirror. and the use in the english language apparently increase 1000%. look for the slide somehow under our images tab. >>> python fans may say -- the comedy group plans to make an official nouns -- announcement thursda

now let's take a look at another one -- it was raining outside, and i tweeted does this selfy make mefat? [ laughter ] >> let's put another one up. that's [ technical difficulties ] >> i feel like you could have tweeted out, gosh, can't believe the twitter stock is this high early, but that moment on your face, it really gives people an incite into who you are, which i think is so great, because that's what people want from television personalities, celebrities, public figures now. theying don't want -- >> analysis. >> right. the reason people go to these social media accounts in the first place is because they want to know who you are. >> you still i hope have facebook stock. the stock is doing quite well. does it cost you to tell people to chill out on social media. >> i'm not telling people to unplug completely. >> sure. >> but i do think that we have gotten to this point where we're so expected to be connected 24/7, answering emails around the clock, we can't even enjoy a dinner with your friends without being in our phones half the time. so something has to change. the technology

choose words that i'm a fairly new but that asserted some kind of prominence in society the word selfie has been traced to spiral back in two thousand and two but it's grown more than seventeen thousand percent this year alone the statement goes on to say about southie if it's good enough for the obama's and the pope but it's good enough for a word of the year. another word they considered was binge watch the practice of watching a million episodes of a t.v. show in a row the risk. they also consider to show the room in a world of refers to the practice of going to a store to check out items and then going home to buy them online for less money thus screwing the store another word not many words to work that's all i'm going to say about that but. those words are all overused enough to qualify but i've really wanted to choose a word that truly reflected the state of our present culture and selfie was the perfect choice because if genuinely captures how self obsessed we're all becoming we've all got facebook pages for our hobbies we all have kickstarter is where we. ask our friends and fa

it's selfie. the formal definition is a photograph that you take of yourself typically using a smartphone or webcam and upload it to a social media website. twer can, was a contender as well as bitcoin. the decision for selfie was unanimous. i've taken a sellfy, myself. >> i took selfies 15 years ago but with a camera. >> with the big lens. >> let's turn things over to jeff ranieri. >> oh, man, yes, selfies with an auto timer. run back and take it. photo of the live radar. take a look across the north bay. areas of yellow, moderate to heavier pockets. right now we're tracking about a quarter of an inch per hour on this rainfall rate in some locati locations. it's definitely coming up at a pretty good clip here at this our. also, down here across portions of the east bay, you'll notice some light showers here across 680 and also 580. so, yes, we know it is not extremely heavy out there for a lot of the east bay and the south bay with a little bit of rain is making it dangerous a this point. we are

there was a site this morning, selfies at funeral. >> is it over the line to take a selfy at a funeralunder semi or caused some traffic. here is another one from donna, get off the phone. invest in a blue tooth and get over yourselves. >> stuck on stupid is moo i thought. >> a little while ago we had people on to talk about a segment where this woman has written a blog. 23-year-old girl. she wrote a blog. it went viral because she admitted that she goes on websites and meets guys specifically so they will take her to very nice places. she is a foodie from toronto. >> he is pompous. listen to her own blog post. this is erin. i've got a pretty face and a pretty extensive urban spoon wish list. you tag the restaurants you would like to eat at. we all know getting what you want in life can be tough. i decided to let someone else finance my dreams. my dream is to eat in pretty restaurants without costing me a penny. i've decided to let someone else finance my dreams. >> i wonder who she voted for in the last election. >> she is canadian. >> diane has a facebook post responding to this. it's

hey, gaga, how 'bout a selfie?ll, let's hip-hop on that double dutch bus right back into the '70s. hit it! [cheers and applause] hey! how's it going? what--hey, let's go. [cheers and applause]

. >> we are talking about the "word of the year," selfie. we got in on the fun, we snapped this selfie a few minutes ago and posted it on twitter. you can see the team. can you show yourselfy with us. ones, look at this. so [dramatic music] ♪ >> oh! hey! what up, buddy? what's up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what up, what's up? >> hi. >> how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> come on out here. yeah, baby! hello, and welcome to millionaire. our first contestant is so obsessed with star trek that she's taking the money that she wins today and transforming her basement into an exact replica of the starship enterprise. from iowa city, iowa, y'all give it up for jessica franklin. >> live long and prosper. [laughs] >> what's up, jessica? you've got to explain this. so you've got a--you're just obsessed with star trek. >> yes, my husband got me into it. he's been a trekkie ever since birth, and when we started dating, he got me watching it,

never mind being encouraged to honor selfie, word of the year.on't know if it is a publicity stunt. every time they pick it, it is terrible. i wondered what the story is. i invited a spokesman for oxford english dictionary to stop by and explain it to us. he flew here from london. welcome alfred potter. alfred? [ applause ] >> thank you. the word of the year, as it is designateds a word or an expression that is attracted a great deal of attention during that year to date. words like, twerk, bit coin, and who could forget, candidates for the word are judged to best reflect the ethos, mood and preoccupation of said year. that one is then chosen. this year, selfie was declared the oxford dictionary word of 2013. and now if you will excuse me i have to go back to my hotel room and swallow poison. but if you could send my sincerest wishes and happy birthday to larry king. >> jimmy: yes, i will do that. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> jimmy: i didn't know they called it that over there. here is some festive holiday news. "variety" reporting there

>> cyrus almost all covered up in super-tight leather pants and crop tops posing for selfie after selfiegnoring questions about her light up. >>> bruce jenner's first words on his first red carpet since his split from kris. >> everything is good. yeah. >> bruce with "extra" only minutes before his reunion with kris. the mrs. presenting bruce -- >> my best friend and kendall's dad. >> the legendary athlete award of last night's all-sports film festival in l.a. bruce giving her a kiss before launching this dish. >> 23 years together and she has to read it off a piece of paper. >>> this is how a superstar should act. oscar winner jennifer lawrence caught on youtube helping remove barricades that separated her from a young fan in a wheelchair, taking time to sign an autograph and snap her pic with the little girl at the uk hunger games premiere. >> i love me some jennifer lawrence so cool. made that little girl's day. takes time to sign autographs and pose for pictures. what it's all b >>> let's head to new york for a new interview with another star who's all abou h fans, or should i say, li

as you can imagine, selfie is trending now. also trending, patriots. frank? panthers [ indiscernible ] >> no kidding. >> 20-24. >> that was a tough game. >> walmart one store in ohio is holding a food drive for its own workers. smoking age, new york city is set to ban tobacco sales to anyone under 21 today. brittany murphy is also trending citing a new toxicology report the father of the late actress claims his daughter was killed by rat poison. you can follow us on twitter at #cbssf. . >>> our "kcbs traffic" alert continues in milpitas. northbound 680, it is a slow crawl. we have been waiting to get a new eto from chp for when they are going to be able to re-open the off-ramp but obviously it remains blocked northbound 680 that montague expressway off- ramp remains closed. traffic is jammed into san jose. it's right on the milpitas-san jose border where the accident happened. a big rig slammed into the guardrail and the sound wall and you can see investigators are out there now. it did a lot of damage and there's debris on the road taking so long to clean up

selfies coming up! coming up. >> pam: >> pam: the in-game injury.at knocked a warriors star player out of the game. then. i love watching tv outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the important part is that you're happy now. and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. (male announcer): this is the bay area news station, kron 4 news starts now. >> pam: declined stems from this incident that you see on the screen which happened last friday in the mission district. caught on camera. >> reporter: pam just a moment ago a huge group of people holding signs and chanting against police brutality march down here on buoyancy up. valencia. >> reporter: i am not at exactly sure of

a new jaget called hash tag the selfie perfect gift for the selfie center. the hash tag is included in the product's name hash tag the selfie plugs into the head phone socket of your iphone and uses remote shutter to take your picture. are you looking to add even more of a twinkle to your eye in the cut tweeting here is a hot new trend surgically implanted jewelry for your eyeball. the procedure has been performed in europe and of course los angeles. and is now making its way to the east coast. a new york woman recently implanted a $3,000 platinum heart in her eye. now we don't make this stuff up. but it is your turn to hash it out with us. #greta on tweets and post. news about who is signing up for obamacare and not good news. that's next. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood. that's when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blood tests... showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% testosterone gel. the

are you doing a selfie? >> a selfie. morning, we're cooking up delicious dishes to make your feast mouth-watering. >> thank you, gamercy tavern. thank you. >>> let's get to the milestone for the mccaughey septuplets. they made headlines when they were born. already celebrating the sweet 16. bianna golodryga went to iowa to check in with them. >> reporter: walking into the mccaughey house in iowa, is walking into the land of teenagers. seven of them turn 16 today. the famous mccaughey septuplets. who made history in 1997, when they became the first set of septuplets to survive infancy. those seven babies came home to mom, dad and big sister, mckayla. and settled into seven-times the diapers. seven-times the bottles. seven-times the birthday cake. >> 16 years have gone by really fast. there's been some hard moments. and good, typical times seven. >> reporter: there's kenny. alexis. natalie. kelsey. nathan, brandon and joel. two of them, nathan and alexis, have cerebral palsy. all are spitfires. young adults who can't imagi

the word selfie beat out others.t got its start on instagram and twitter before become being mainstream. i'm serious. it gives me the willies. celebrities, world politicians getting in on the fun. martin o'malley shared his selfie with julia dreyfuse. and brett michaels on a tour bus with the donald. what a country we live in. just lowering the bar. still ahead on "way too early" the strangest thing you've seen during your commute and we have some pretty interesting ones. use the #waytooweird. "morning joe" just moments away. clay. mom? come in here. come in where? welcome to my mom cave. wow. sit down. you need some campbell's chunky soup before today's big game, new chunky cheeseburger. mmm. i love cheeseburgers. i know you do. when did you get this place? when i negotiated your new contract, it was part of the deal. cool. [ male announcer ] campbell's chunky soup. it fills you up right. you give them the giggles. tylenol cold® helps relieve your worst cold and flu symptoms. but for everything we do, we know you do

never to encourage, selfie as a word of the year. i don't know if they do this as a publicity stunt. i invited a spokesman to explain this. he flew in fromic land. please welcome alfred potter. alfred. >> thank you, mr. kimmel. the word of the year -- as it is designated is a word or expression that is attracting a great deal of attention during that year to date. words like twerk, big coin, who could forget -- candidates for the word are -- judged to best reflect the mood and preoccupation of said year. and this year, selfie was declared the oxford dictionary, word of 2013. now i have to go back to my hotel room and swallow poison. if you could send my best wishes to larry king. >> jimmy: i didn't know they called it a sharknado over there. and a sequel to the classic "it is a wonderful life" in the works, slated to be released in 2015, and will revolve around george bailey's grandson, and learned a lesson from the angel of george bailey's daughter. they team up to save the bank from zombies and have sex on a bus. it is a sequel to

i know you have taken a selfie. we all have. now for your "first look" at business we turn to cnbc. >> let's take a look at those markets. futures right now higher after stocks lost steam on monday's session. traders focusing on comments from karl icahn and stocks could be in for a big drop but hard to predict short term moves. jpmorgan and the government is expected to announce terms of the mortgage settlement. $4 billion will go to consumers and to demolish homes in blighted neighborhoods. hyundai plans on selling a suv powered by a hydrogen fuel cell next year. it will be the first mass-produced hydrogen vehicle sold in the u.s. back to you. >>> good morning. thank you so much. just ahead we'll break down the new poll numbers on obama care. did jfk assassin lee harvey oswald act "today" lone? find out what current administration officials think next. k all the sweet things your family loves with 0-calorie monk fruit in the raw. ♪ welcome back [ male announcer ] it's made with the natural, vine-ripened sweetness of fruit, so y

president obama's daughter has taken selfies and so has the pope. can add my name to the list to selfy in the newsroom. ♪ >> well good evening again we are looking at a much different situation across parts of the midwest and now the northeast. the storm system has moved out and quite quickly. you can see the frontal boundary is out here in the atlantic. what are we dealing with right now? some lake effect snow up here in the north the temperatures that are replacing the outbreak are quite cool. we'll see lake-effect snow i will show you how cold things have gotten since 24 hours chicago has gotten town t down . and we are going to see temperatures below freezing we are talking about the mid 20s for parts of northern indiana and as well as illinois. that is going to be an issue. >> tomorrow we expect to see those temperatures to rise back up. and anywhere the high in the mid 40s. it's going to be cloud free and rain free. >> up toward the northeast you see the still t system pushing . we had windy conditions and those are starting to minimize. we ar