"sesame street" producers insisted all along that the speculation is not true.rom sesame workship cited in today's "new york daily news" addresses the latest controversy, quote, bert and ernie are best friends. they were created to teach pre-schoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves. even though the "sesame street" puppets possess many human characteristics and traits, they have no sexual orientation. the petition keeps racking up new supporters so while bert and ernie may be able to get married on wall street or park avenue or madison avenue, apparently "sesame street" will just have to wait. what do you think about bert and earny? just friends? let us know. follow martin and the show on twitt twitter@twitter.com/bashir live. i invite you to follow me on twitter @capehartinjury. >>> and coming up next, one magazine may benefit from michele bachmann's publicity stunt. stay with us. p your engine p your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exx

street off the air they make but i'm not i just think a fact that sesame street is governor excuse me politically contentious is. he would make it would make plenty of money on its own if it were private eyes show he would do fine and that's just privatized and then make the now forget it is now all right not a sale sale doctrine eating our children to raise not just the fact that paying for it's indoctrinating their children supposedly with taxpayer money. westboro baptist nothing about them not speaking of indoctrination exactly we're talking about them a lot on the show too but let's just show you a very minor again of what they like to go out. and say. but as soon. as march. those. are so these people are sick right i mean they often go they go and they protest. of soldiers because they think that the death of our soldiers a punishment for our acceptance of homosexuality in this country and now they're actually going to norway and they're going to protest at the funeral of the victims of the terrorist attack by anders breivik from last week which is this was horrible but there is

sesame wed furor. >> i always thought they were brothers. to find out they're friends, that's cleared up a little more for me. >> they can't possibly be brothers. they have different-shaped heads. >> i think what the chicago man is trying to point out. but can't, you know, children television be the last bastion of no sex, no gender? >> as abc put it, they have nothing below the waist anyway. >>> the pentagon conducting a test flight. the first 30 minutes went smoothly and then something went terribly wrong. >> a bull running free through the streets of new york. it was an escape attempt. he didn't want to become dinner. running bull video. today is an episode of -- speaking of the running bull video, there he is. we'll tell you how he is. >> that's a hartford though. >> oh, sorry. tiger woods. i was so enamored of the bull. tiger woods showing absolute brilliance. absolutely imploding. well-being. we're all striving for it. purina cat chow helps you nurture it in your cat with a full family of excellent nutrition and helpful resources. puri

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>> "sesame street" producers forced to take a stand. are bert and ernie more than friends? >>> overseas markets got off to a quick start before losing some steam. tokyo's nikkei average lost 18 points today. hong kong's hang seng is barely up in late trading and in london the ftse is down early. now, on wall street the dow gained 423 points yesterday. the nasdaq index gained 111 points. and this was the fourth day in a row that the dow moved more than 400 point, something that's never happened before and one big reason for the upswing was the positive jobless claims report. positive corporate earnings reports also helped out. >>> americans looking for more welcome economic news should watch the gas pumps. energy experts say gas prices could drop 50 cents a gallon over the next few weeks. oil prices have been sinking amid the market fluctuations dropping below $85 a barrel in overnight trading. >>> and the u.s. postal service is thinking about cutting 120,000 jobs. it also wants to make major changes to its retirement and health benefit plans. the moves would require congres

the creators of sesame street are not budging.ppets and do not have a sexual orientation him. the petition organizer new f five years of age that they wanted to be role models for other eight kids. >> well the reception be an oscars can. the case moves still keep coming up. >> leave the moppets alone >> a live look from our roof camera of downtown san francisco it's 5:00 a.m. and all eyes are on wall street to the stock got market was up for a matter in 23 points yesterday first time the dow had 04 orchestrate 400 point spot in movement. investors in the u.s. may react to a report of the economic growth has come to what all the while france is the marketing authority had short-selling on some stocks except it has been blamed in the market volatility hall, was up and 0.7% japan was downed by 2% and south korea was down 1.3% we are waiting for retells out since and we are also waiting for the opening bell >> another developing story a man has been charged with killing a three year-old child in oakland on monday this is a picture of

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some say two of the sesame street's puppets may be gay.t weeks after new york has legalized same-sex marriages, some say time for a sesame street puppet marriage. >> reporter: do bert and ernie have a secret? are the sesame street muppets coming out of the closet? >> what if they are gay? what if they're neck deep in each other's fuzz every night. >> reporter: the gay buzz has been around for years but now there's an online petition asking sesame street to let bert and ernie get married. the petition was dreamed up by gay activist lair scott. >> when i was $9 year old i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> reporter: there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> reporter: they take baths together. look at the photo on the wall. >> that's our picture. >> reporter: sure there are counterindications. >> let's talk about bert's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a union i brow like that unplucked. if there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. >> reporter: they've been together more than 4

. >> and two of your favorite "sesame street" characters reveal something personal.d ernie coming up next in "the skinny." wo ♪ skinny so skinny >>> welcome back, everybody. time for the friday "skinny." >> yes, indeed. >> some of you may have seen this yesterday but we felt we needed to give it enough time. really some funny stuff so we wanted to give you a fuller taste of it today. apparerely john stamos and bob saget have teamed up for this extremely funny college humor video. john is teaching bob his cuddle techniques and things to do in bed to keep your special lady happy. take a listen. >> nothing brings you closer to your lady. if you sleep with your eyes open the stamos way you get to stare at her face all night long. you can caress her leg with your foot. you can nuzzle noses, butterfly kiki, blow on or gently nibble her ear. >> i will never look at "full house" the same way again. >> i love bob saget's facial expressions. >> he has such a squeaky clean image from "full house." he's actually a raunchy comedian. you see him on "entourage" he is incredibly dir

"sesame street" says they were created to show that two can be friends despite differences, and as pupdo not have sexual orientation. >>> and then a strict new curfew for teenagers. we will hear from the mayor next. >>> tonight is a night when a 9:00 p.m. curfew begins in downtown philadelphia for anybody under 18. it's a new city mandate announced this week after so-called flash mobs of violent young people attacked complete change juro strangers in the city. one gang included an 11-year-old boy. curfew extends to 10:00 p.m. weekdays for children under 13. philadelphia mayor says his city is forced to do what some parents are failing to do. >> we as a governor cannot raise peoples' children. you want to have children, you have to take care of them. we can help you. we provide services and support and all kinds of stuff, but we're not going to tolerate this kind of senseless, stupid, ignorant violent acts, and even episodically as they may occur on the streets of our city. >> that was mild. before announcing the curfew, the mayor spoke directly to young people and their parents in a sp

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police will not confirm if, in fact, it was sesame paste that was in that device. 1.50 a can, shep and widely available. >> shepard: guys who don't have much of a record who are not carrying anything that's really illegal but looks illegal test, right? >> yeah. that's the big concern here because terrorists have been using cell phones to detonate explosives for years. you talk to the police and they will tell you they are not buying food for a friend thing. we just got off the phone with a phoenix police department. they are saying and i quote here ever since 9/11 you talk about what you can bring to an airport, people should know the kind of items you can bring on a plane. and in the way this was packaged, it raised some concerns. we also talked to the phoenix d.a. he, too, has some questions about the motive in all of this. it appears these suspects may be in custody for a bit while longer, shep. >> shepard: trace gallagher in los angeles this afternoon. trace, thank you. a remarkable story now of a 12-year-old boy's recovery. last week rescuers plucked his lifel

. >>> bert earn nee getting a lot of attention for their relationship on "sesame street." there's an online petition to have the puppets have a gay marriage. they say it could be an opportunity to teach tolerance. "sesame street" is shooting down the idea. they're best friends. not friends with benefits. the show says they have no sexual orientation. really? ernie says rubber ducky's the one. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resou

same-sex marriage advocates starting an online campaign to tie the characters but "sesame street" saysle is strictly plutonic. "even though they're identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation. >>> another horrible day on the links for tiger woods who has suffered a major meltdown at the pga championship in georgia where he's tied for 129th place. his worst opening round in a major ever. tiger has not won a major tournament since george w. wash was president. there are some women saying karma but not me, just good luck to everybody at the pga championships. that wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." veronica de la cruz is up next. i'll see you this weekend covering the iowa poll. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn't run on your tax dollars. it's funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of t

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and in an effort to ixnay that kind of talk around the kids, the folks of sesame workshop actually put out a statement saying they're just friends and reminding us, they're puppets after all and, quote, do not have a sexual orientation. as opposed to vladimir putin, the matthew mcconaughey of russian presidents who loves taking his shirt off and never misses a masculinity opportunity has been at it again, bending a frying pan and scuba diving, not that there's anything wrong with that. or with this, for that matter. ♪ i hear the train a comin' >> the technical name is boom chaka, boom chaka. the reason you know that's a johnny cash song was marshall grant, the bass player behind the man in black all those years. he died this week at 83. >>> and you know how every summer there's a song that we always associate with that summer? it's safe to say this year's song is "pumped up kicks" by foster the people. it's a surfy california style delivery system for a gritty underlying message. >>> and then there's the french, while fighting off bank failure this week, they have somehow found a way t

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what sesame street is being thrown into the battle over gay rights. >> plus a jilted ex-girlfriend and two underaged hit men. the alleged murder-for-hire plot exposed right here in the bay area. >> and the murder of a 3-year- old boy has people outraged all over the bay area. a person of interest has been detained but no murder charges filed. we'll give you the latest on the case coming up. >>> and we are nearing a bear market after stocks plunged once again yesterday. a new poll even shows americans continue to lose faith in where our economy is headed. the details on that and how the global markets did coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> safe to say we're all hoping for a bill comeback this morning on wall street. but the roller coaster ride is far from over. the new signs americans are angrier than ever. >>> new details about the gang war which killed a 3-year-old boy in oakland. the evidence police hope will close this case. >>> good morning. it's thursday, august

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the economy is so bad, everybody on "sesame street" is living in a trash can.t's how bad it is. >> the new debt ceiling thing is going to affect us all, and in washington those effects are already in place. do you know what i'm talking about? well, look at this. see, look. abe lincoln. >> those poor pomegranate trees. >> i know. whatever is he going to do without them? >> thanks for watching, everyone. have a good one.

. >>> most of us grew up with muppets and sesame street gang.amily of the creator is putting a new adult puppet show on stage. don sanchez says, the show at curran theater is puppets behaving badly. >> they sure look like part of the muppets family. they should, stuffed and unstrung is the muppets done adult. jim henson's show. >> it's what we did when the cameras weren't rolling. >> it's unpredictable and adults. the puppets are comedians and the show is improv are suggestions from the audience. >> you are the smarter one in the relationship. >> they have 80 puppets standing by. >> every night, you can pick up any puppet and give it a completely different personality. >> seeing how they create movements on stage while watching it on video casino. they play to a tv camera. >> we're watching a monitor that shows what the camera is seeing. that is way we work the puppet. we just think about what we see on the tv screen. >> make me cry! [ laughter ] >> this is first time they appeared together. >> what was done with this show we have mixed all of t

. >>> most of us grew up with the muppets and sesame street gang and now a new adult puppet show.nd unstrung at the curran theater is puppets behaving badly. >> they sure look like part of the muppet family. they should. it's the muppets done adult. >> basically they are getting to do a show like what we did when the cameras aren't rolling. >> it's unpredictable and adult. they are comedians and the show is improv. so no two shows are alike. >> you are smarter one in the relationship. [ laughter ] >> they have 80 puppets standing by. >> any night, they can pick up any puppet and give it a completely different personality >> seeing how they create movement on stage and watching it on the video stream like you would its home. henson puppets plays to a tv camera. >> we're watching a monitor that shows us what the camera is seeing. that is way we look at the puppet. we just think about what we see on the tv screen. >> make me cry. [ laughter ] >> this is the first time the puppets have appeared together? >> what was done with this show, we have mixed them altogether. >> it comes from

. >> and most of us grew up with the muppets and sesame street gang.the family of the creator is putting on an adult puppet show, on stage. don sanchez says stuffed and unstrung is puppets behaving badly. >> they sure look like part of the muppet family. they should. it's the muppets gone adult. a show from jim henceon's son, brian. >> we're getting to do a show like is kind of like what my dad and his friends did when cameras weren't rolling. >> it means it's unpredictable and yes, adult. the puppeteers are comedian and the show is all improv with the audience. there are 80 puppets stand big to appear in the show. >> every night, any puppet can pick up any puppet and give it a different personality. >> it's like going on a set of a tv show, or watching it on a video screen like at home. the puppet technique plays to a tv camera. >> we're watching what the camera is seeing. that is the way we work the puppet. we just think about what we see on the tv screen. >> this is the first time they've appeared together. >> what is done with this show is we've mi

uh oh, sesame stir fry from lucky dynasty. oh, me too!cer ] lean cuisine has 90 dishes with no preservatives and quality ingredients like farm-picked broccoli and tender white meat chicken. lean cuisine. >>> it is the stuff of movies, dropping a wotle in the ocean. it's a tale of friendship, for two young kids. cbs news contributor priya david cl cl clemens explains. >> thomas was enjoying a summer, but that changed with an e-mail from out of the blue. >> i'm in disbelief kind of but it happened to me. >> what was happening began over a year before. thomas was on an annual fishing vacation with his family off the coast of central oregon when he found this odd shaped bottle. he was inspired to scribble a note, slip it inside and toss it into the sea. the bottle began a 2,000 mile journey, riding the ocean currents from winchester bay to the shores of hawaii's big island. that's where 9-year-old trinity valesteros found it floating in a tide pool. her father helped her open it and together they read "my name is thomas and i live in oregon.

it turned out to be sesame paste with a cell phone attached to it.ho wanted her to deliver it to someone in iowa. well, it turned out the man that gave it to her was also arrested. he admitted he gave it to the woman, but he said he got it from another man. so the third suspect was also arrested. and he admitted putting the cell phone on the sesame paste in a jailhouse interview. one of the suspects said we were just trying to get food to a friend. listen. >> in the airport illegal, and i don't know that kind of thing are illegal, and i get arrested -- >> now, all three of these suspects are from eritrea, africa. this is a country that has been under suspicion of helping islamic radicals. now, terror groups have long been known, megyn, to use cell phones to blow things up. that's why this is such a concern, and we also touched on the fact that 9/11, ten-year anniversary is coming up. these three are still being held while police investigate exactly what their motive was. they're not quite buying this whole food for a friend thing with the cell phone

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. >> he guest starred on the "sesame street" as the letter a.a-hole. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: i didn't know that. >> i mean, 15 -- 15 years of friendship. >> jimmy: why would he do -- and he does that on national television. >> 15 years of friendship on national television. >> jimmy: well, that was perfect. because we have a new segment on our show called "things you don't know about jason bateman." >> oh. [ cheers ] ♪ things you don't know about jason bateman ♪ >> jimmy: there you go. >> yeah. jimmy, i happen to have a list, too. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: very, very nice. >> let's see here. this is "several things that you don't know about jason bateman" by his good pal, ryan reynolds. [ cheers ] okay, oh, we got eight here. okay, so -- number 8, jason is the go-to guy for guilt-free low carb dessert recipes. >> jimmy: hey, i didn't know that. >> no, i didn't either. [ laughter ] number 7, jason bateman has only 11% body fat and it's all in his balls. [ laughter ] number 6, jason makes all of his clothing by hand and calls them the bate

kids who didn't grow up with elmo but they know who he is, and the most famous muppet to come off of sesameelmo. >> well, thomas, one of the things about elmo is that he is so popular with young children, and he sis meaningful to them, and what we had elmo do, thomas, so to demonstrate how to sequence cups, and we compared him to a character who did, department of educatidodo who was popular in taiwan, and we saw children sequence cups which is an early math skill. >> well, they cite stats from 2006 watching tv among toddlers and says that 80% of the kids, toddlers watch video programs on average of two hours ov s of sc time a day elmo or not, and there are parents who should be concerned about too much television? >> well, you have to look at the media diet, and there is a quantity and quality issue, and so if you look at quality, any time your child is exposed to media, you want to be sure they are looking at the right program and content, and that they have the early teachers and just like we had the early teachers we learned from, and some of the teachers can be on the airwaves. >> it i

. >> he guest starred on the "sesame street" as the letter "a."acing his face in an a-hole. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: i didn't know that. >> let me tell you something else you don't know about ryan reynolds. [ laughter ] this is number two. ryan found out that santa claus wasn't real only after spending 45 minutes with him in the back of his panel van. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, see, yeah. i did know that, weirdly. >> you were at the same mall. >> jimmy: yes we were. yeah. >> the number one thing you guys did not know about ryan reynolds -- [ drumroll ] -- stars in "green lantern." [ laughter ] ♪ >> jimmy: did you see he's on tomorrow? he's going to get you back. >> he's coming here tomorrow? >> jimmy: he's coming here tomorrow. >> oh no. >> jimmy: yeah, he's going to get you back. [ cheers and applause ] yeah, yeah, yeah it's going to be good. you guys we have a very funny clip from the change-up, here's jason bateman playing -- well it's ryan reynolds playing -- it's jason bateman playing -- >> much easier if you just buy a tic

. >>> and from main street to sesame street, and is elmo the best teaching tool that our kids have had grade with the muppets. i will see yout the top of the hour. >>> thank you, thomas. the push is on in iowa with the campaigning getting more intense, but candidates may be looking over their shoulder for republican governor from texas rick perry. politico is saying that perry is going to compete for air time and making it official in south carolina thae sht he is going t declare that he is going to run for president. and we are joined by the political reporter for the "des moines register" for 34 years, and good morning to you, david, and you, cheryl. and david, even when you move, we make you talk to us. so what are you looking for in iowa, because nobody knows the presidential politic stage better than you? >> well, the straw poll does have an impact on the race, and it does replace the caucus themselves in term of the impact. the straw poll does one of two things or both. one, elevate somebody out of obscurity and we have seen that in the past with people like mike huckabee, and se

plus are those wedding bells we hear on sesame street. >>> a close call for passengers on tour. sight-seeing and then this. >> oh, my god. >> insane. big chunks of ice start breaking off and falling into the water nearly taking out the people on the ship. a 60-year-old woman broke her leg during this ordeal because she fell down after the wave rocked the boat. kevin cohen videotaped the glacier crash and joins me now from los angeles. thanks for joining us. >> how you doing? >> i should call you steady hands. i don't know how you were able to keep that together, man. getting that video. when did you know you were in trouble? >> well, i was actually more afraid of the wave after that big tower of ice fell down, but, you know, i never really felt in trouble until i really started seeing the big chunks flying at us, but, you know, the adrenaline got pumping, and it was -- it was pretty insane. >> it has to be. i mean, you're looking at the video and you start to see the movement there of the glacier, and i'm sure you thought oh, that's pretty cool and then the wave, us a pointed ou

leadership, leadership -- look, if you're going laugh -- i suggest you go -- i suggest you go watch sesametreet, okay? let me give josh something to laugh at. let me show you what bill crystal wrote in the weekly standard in april 2011. this is bill crystal, very well respected conservative in the "kweekly standard." he says, how do you defeat leader from the front? all those republicans have to do is nominate a real leader a work horse not a show horse. a steady hand. a man or woman with strength he j and confidence in defense of liberty at home or abroad. a week later obama got bin laden. every time you laugh, president obama comes back and does something to show that maybe the joke is on you guys that are laughing. >> yeah and then his poll numbers drop right after that. >> now you are going back it that. >> look, look, get your head together. you just dismissed the poll. then you went right back to the poll. >> no, i didn't dismiss the poll. i acknowledge the poll is correct. but that's a subject change. if we are talking about the president, the poll numbers for the president is terri

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should bert and ernie of "sesame street" get married.today the program made a clear answer and said no. almost 9,000 people signed an online petition organized by change.org as a way to change tolerance but although the puppets are identified as male characters and have many human characteristics, they don't have a sexual orientation and will not be getting married. >> and they are just buddies. >> yeah, just good friends. >> our good friend, our chief meteorologist jeff ranieri, somewhere among the people in campbell and the food. jeff, take it away. >> oh, yes, it's looking peachy out here tonight in campbell. the city of campbell, known for its canning industry in the past, but it's also known for its music in the park when it comes to summer. we're going to listen to some of these summer jams and we're going to talk campbell culture coming up with my very comfortable seven-day forecast in just minutes. >>> that all sounds good. not so good news for outfielder carlos beltran. plus the a's have liftoff north of the border. sports comin

would love to know what happened for you that makes you want to, as you say, you know, try to engage sesamein more practical economics, more educated populace in beijing. it and then the other question i had was -- i would get the bookr perspective on, like, the level of 11. and guess that's a broad question, but i'm just kind of grappling with this kind of rhetoric that has been emerging about the need of investing in women. it feels as if it has such a capitalist agenda behind it. women could be more productive workers in the workforce. you know, the j.p. morgan analyst pete multinational corporations have these, you know, efforts to bring women into business schools. i don't know. they seem to be very suspect about it. so if you could adjust as things. and the last thing is wisconsin to what you think about what is happening in wisconsin. >> well, no. i am grateful that you appreciate my effort to communicate with the general public. it is a bit worrying. some of my colleagues did worried. so, yes. i do not want to suggest even for a second that what i am doing here such as we don't need

been launched to pressure the producers of the tv show spes mi street in having -- sees mi street -- sesamet in having better and ernie get married. the nonprofit said they're just friends. more than 900 people have signed the petition on change.org along with asking that they get married and asking for producers to add a transgender character. >>> we want to check in with sal. any problems, sal? >> it seems busy in the east bay. i want to show you 880 southbound at industrial parkway. there's an injury accident involving a motorcycle. you can see how chloe the -- slow the traffic is with the road sensors turning red. if you want to use the dumbarton bridge, it looks good. let's go to 237. that does not look good because of a crash. 237 westbound at north street. we showed you the dumbarton bridge. i know it's $6. driving up to the tunnel that traffic looks very nice. let's go to steve. >> $6? that's an outrage. everything is pointing towards a significant cooldown. in fact our 10-day outlooks are on the cool side. you can see some of the fog, the visible satellite starting to show up. it's

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"sesame street" has issued a statement clarifying that bert and ernie are just friends.s comes after an internet petition urging the muppets to make it official, now that same-sex marriage is legal in new york. bert and ernie have been roommates since 1969, leading some to speculate that they might be a couple. but the show says they have don't have sexual orientation. as one of the puppeteers reminded people, they don't exist t low the waist. that is your "pop news heat index." >> i know. muppets are coming to the big screen. >> they are. and very, very good friends. >> they are. >>> and we want to welcome steve villanueva from wtnh, new haven, in for sam today. >> you guys ready for a good concert? fur first of all, let's get to the weather. we got the tropics starting to heat up. out in the atlantic a couple of tropical waves. now, there are two that have good potential of becoming tropical systems later on. and if they do, they will be frederick and gert. the outlook for the rest of the country for the weekend looks like this. mild towards portland. some violent stor

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we -- sesame street has been on the air for 41 years because it reinvent itself and thinks about how children are learning. how do we take the power of what we can accomplish, in terms of helping children to develop basic skills and employ that in a way that gives kids and opportunity to test the skills they are learning. it is a much more engaged education process. we are the no. 1 destination for kids on line for video. we strained an average of 110 million streams a month. kids spend 45 minutes a session. that is an average of 45 minutes a session. that is the ultimate stickiness. we are reaching a lot of people and making sure that when they are interacting with us, they are not clicking away on television or the internet. the holistic approach of thinking about kids is to find time. what the news hour has done is bring together the journalism of what they present on air and what they are able to produce on a line, it really creates -- newshour is distributed in many places around the country as a radio broadcast. a much greater opportunity of connecting to people as they want it

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