she's molly shannon. this is overheard. ♪ >> smith: molly shannon, welcome. >> shannon: thank you. >> smith: it's really nice to have you here. >> shannon: well, it's so nice to be here. >> smith: congratulations on the book. >> shannon: thank you. >> smith: very exciting for you. >> shannon: thanks, yes, it is, it is exciting. >> smith: first book. >> shannon: mm hmm. >> smith: so not just first children's book, but first book, period. >> shannon: yeah, first book. >> smith: so why, why a book and why this book, specifically? >> shannon: well, i -- i did have in the back of my mind that i wanted to write a children's book, but i wanted to wait until i actually had kids, so i could -- >> smith: good idea. >> shannon: yeah good idea. >> smith: focus group. >> shannon: yeah, yeah. so i have a, excuse me, eight year old girl and a six and half year old boy, stella and nolan, and my husband and i read books to them every night before they're going to bed, but then sometimes they like when i make up stories. a

shannon? >> shannon: thank you.much momentum since his huge win in south carolina. despite a second place finish in nevada he says he will continue to campaign all the way to the gop convention in august. joining us to talk about the campaign continued push is newt gingrich supporter arizona congressman. thank you for joining us today. why is newt gingrich the best pick for republicans in 2012? >> i think somehow this man has a magical ability to be able to discern the fallacy in the left wing rhetoric and turn it back in a way that demonstrates to the whole world the principles and american and effective policies of the republicans and i think that this coming year's general election we are going to see a billion dollars spent by barack obama not to defend his own record, that is essentially impossible for him. the only thing he can try to do is distort the republican perspective and i think mr. gingrich is gifted in being able to cut through all of that and see the truth emerge. and i think that is one of his stro

shannon? >> shannon: casey stegall live in los angeles. thank you, casey.sey at the church where whitney houston's singing career began. >> this is where whitney houston launched her career. she started here at new hope baptist church in 1978 when she was under the direction of her mother a well known gospel singer cissy houston. it seems that whitney houston was surrounded by pop icons for p of her life in a lot of ways. 1960s singer dionne warwick was her cousin. the god daughter of aretha franklin and clive davis heard her sing at one of her mother's shows. out of all of this, some congregation members that we spoke with say she never foregot where she came from. >> i'm sad as i'm sure we all are. here and her family have one legends of newark starting with the drinkard sisters and her mom cissy houston. i'm here to support them at this time of sorrow. >> reporter: another young woman was shocked by whitney houston's death and said that whitney houston was her "american idol" before there was an american idol. a small make shift memorial set up with card

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i'm shannon bream. let's get right to steve centanni with the story. >> reporter: more violence with yet another attack this time seven u.s. military trainers wounded when a protest turned violent in the northern part of the country this latest incident in the city of kunduz protesters lobbed grenades at a united states base. in addition to the seven americans injured there were two afghans killed. violence erupted across afghanistan after it was learned that u.s. troops disgoesed of qur'ans accidentally in a fire pit used to burn trash. -- >> it is time now to return to calm and keep. and not to allow the enemies of the people of afghanistan, the enemies of peace and stability of the people of afghanistan, to use this from this time and bring danger to the properties of our people and our country. >> reporter: an estimated 30 people have been killed in a week of violence, including four americans, two gunned down yesterday in the afghan interior ministry in kabul. these two advisers were shot in the ba

what are you seeing and hearing, shannon? >> reporter: senator susan collins, republican of maine here is up on the podium right now and just after her we're expecting for charlie webster to take over at the podium and read those results, everybody here is pretty much just listening to collins right now, waiting for those results to come in as we are. we'll have it live, obviously, wolf. >> we're going to get back to you as soon as susan collins wraps up. charlie webster, republican party chairman will go to the microphone and make the formal announcement. they've already counted the ballots? >> reporter: i spoke with charlie webster a few moments ago. he was walking around with an envelope. he said these were the results. he wasn't revealing the numbers to anyone. he wants to wait for a few moments to reveal them to everybody, wolf. >> we'll get right back to you shannon as susan senator susan collins wraps up her pep talk to the supporters, republicans who have shown up in the caucus in maine. david gergen you're in maine y

before we go it's been a little while since you've gotten to see me and dimitri and shannon go at it so let's do it today here's dimitri kovtun as our producer and shannon donahoe in the control room to talk about this angle on the eurozone crisis we've been talking about it today the fate of the euro and the eurozone nations well and i'm unemployed irish artist decided to build a house out of shredded euro's one point two billion dollars worth wonder where it got him you know the saying the euro is considered the house of cards by some now we have a house of euro's air go what happens now. i buy a house a euro. ticket if the big bad wolf is going to blow down the house of euro and this guy is going to be prophetic this irish unemployed artist you know i think my first reaction when i saw it was. i think it's funny but i think it's actually you wouldn't have seen something like this how many years ago where they would make a house out of the national currency there was more respect for the national currency i think it's telling of where we are today where people have such obviously t

that serve them well yeah shannon you want to. i mean obviously the economy is down so people are going to go to school but i mean you make a good point that the jobs that are out there the jobs that are available are ones that are going to be filled by these people who now have their masters in higher education and they're not going to get the pay raise that they would expect and that's the rationale exactly what you said the economy's bad not a lot of jobs people are going back to school but all i'm saying i'm not discouraging education at all i advocate great education i definitely am appreciative of mine all i'm saying is take a look at where the economy is going and where jobs are going to be maybe you can get one here because this is what's in the pipeline trump made it to pennsylvania avenue if we could go to the next story here in d.c. after all maybe not the white house but take a look at this. whether terry or terrific i think he'd be the best person because he's he's done so many other things i've watched his show donal

bret. >> bret: shannon bream live in georgia. thank you.ain paul has been campaigning in michigan and will hold his party tonight in virginia, ahead of that important super tuesday event where he is on the ballot. and mitt romney is on the ballot and as shannon mentioned, no one else is. pentagon officials say some partial remains of 9/11 victims were sent to a landfill. incinerated and unidentified remains from the people were killed during the attack on the pentagon and the crash of an airliner in shanksville, pennsylvania. the report comes from a committee looking into an alleged mismanagement at the military's mortuary at dover, delaware. interpoll says 25 suspected members of the loose knit anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across europe and south america, this is coming in in the past hour. arrests in argentina, chile, colombia and spain. and we'll talk about the importance of today's michigan and arizona primaries when the allstars join me after the break. they're all like, "hey, brother, doesn't it bother you t

think there's some interesting you know interesting real world analogies to that and no yeah yeah shannon you want to add anything before we move on. i mean major has also great stuff really understanding on law i can't i can't get anything. right well then we'll move on to something that we all have something to do ok we've all heard of linsanity by now of course is the new york knicks taiwanese american superstar now a new report coming out that nike is hoping to cash in on the popularity of him in a market that's responsible for two point three billion dollars of their sales over the last four quarters it's growing and it's china now if you think that's racial profiling well guess who's cashed in on it to take a look at this video from the harvard grad showing hey maybe he's ok with it. trip to the six thousand six. hundred thirty two. hundred. that's part of a video that he made so i don't know what do you make of the hulu special i would like to go on if you've been waiting all day to say that i just thought of it i don't remember the. oh does this guy is you know is pretty popular i

we'll get back to you, shannon travis on the scene for us in maine.t cpac straw poll that has just come out. on the one hand, it's only a beauty contest. on the other hand it shows who is the favorite of a critical part of the republican base. >> for you cpac attenders, the results are a little bit different. it is the same order of finish, but governor romney does a couple of points better. >> mitt romney got 38%. rick santorum 31%. newt gingrich 15%. ron paul 12%. dana bash is over there. you've been speaking to folks at this conference. blunt question, why did they choose mitt romney? >> reporter: well, for the most part, anecdotally, the people i talked to who said they support mitt romney did it because they say their number one goal is to beat barack obama and they feel he is the best to do that. i can tell you that this is no surprise, there is a relief in boston at romney headquarters that he won here. he's got to do everything he can to get his momentum back after such a bad week last week losing those three contests. when his win was announc

news cycle because he always has something interesting to say shannon i think you should actually fix the post office if it's the old post office building and there is a post office in there maybe you should donate some money to the post office supposed to making a luxury hotel. bill because his religion will and the post office is broke and there's all sorts of ideas about what could happen out of that but let's talk about this because we've been dying to february is national tent time management month and though it isn't an officially standing holiday with government it was created maybe by super organized people like shannon to bring attention to productivity maybe it's not a national holiday because productivity is actually really high in this country because workers have to work harder because there's fewer jobs but we wanted to give you a sneak peek at our productivity. because what's what's going to have lines. on hold on a second this is. say oh. yeah that's how the magic happens the thing is that is so true you are true all i barely ever look at you is about to learn how to s

shannon is in maple grove, minnesota. what's the status of the procedure over there, shannon?r about to happen here as is happening at david mattingly's location. this room has just emptied out from all the caucus goers, split up into the individual caucus rooms. we will be going into one showing you the same process you just showed a lot of caucus goers evacuating for one candidate, some people undecided, trying to figure out who to caucus for. we'll take you inside to see will there be arguments or pretty much agreement who to coalesce around. that starts in a few minutes. they'll tally the votes in those rooms and come back here and announce results. we'll show you all of that as part of our democracy in action. >> we certainly hope so. sh shannon is also in minnesota, shakope. what's happening there? >> reporter: this is a very conservative district. the room you're looking at right n now. there are about 14 different classrooms around the building and each has a different precinct. each supporter made their speeches for their chosen candidate. they're right now doing a li

but within a minute, shannon is safe on the beach.y, but he knows it could have been much worse. >> this great white shark about four meters ten grabbed me and i was underneath the water looking at the shark face to face. >> despite his rendezvous with death, shannon still surfs. a rubber glove protects his fragile hand, a constant reminder of how fierce and fast these ocean creatures can be. >> quite scared to go out there. these ocean creatures can be. >> quite scared to go out there. i just feel very lucky to be alive right now. >> elbow reef, key largo, florida. a nurse shark gets cozy with a diver and sends him to the hospital. >> instantaneously it hurt. it was almost like a firecracker going off in my mouth. >> for more than a decade, diver dave marcel has been leading scuba tours for curious thrill seekers. >> working with wild animals in their natural habitat is something that most people only could dream of. >> the reef is teeming with life. fish of all shapes and sizes, beautiful coral, a rare chance to interact with some o

so far let's lighten it up a little bit let's bring in dimitri kofi anna right here in studio and shannon donahoe in the control room our producer is to talk about this which is actually kind of an alarming finding of a main street dot com just came out with a list of the u.s. is richest counties and just guess who dominates their standing the d.c. area take a look at the top three look at the median household incomes they are six figures in the top three counties all around washington d.c. . listen this man puts it pretty clearly as far as what this isn't like. in other parts of the country where people can speak consider locally rich someone here making one hundred thousand was just media. just media users right in there for making six figures all the top fifteen richest counties are in the d.c. area the top fifteen if you what more evidence do you need about the people sucking on the teat of government and that well yes courageous because the money gets redistributed to d.c. i think it's absurd i can't stand d.c. and i live here but when i was that thing i got this i don't i mean the f

point a front runner it's shannon anything to add on that. not really i kind of agree with lauren i don't understand why there is zero cases for the financial crisis as opposed to. realty that i think i mean she's got a good explanation for it now this is court has turned down an urgent appeal from the great lakes states to close chicago area shipping channels so that these fish you're not going to believe it can't make it to lake michigan michigan look at these fish take a look. the direct approach book people actually be good. for going out of the water rover boating. so those are asian carp they can grow up to four feet in length and weigh a hundred pounds reproduce rapidly outcompete less aggressive native fish and people are very worried that this is going to impede the economies of the great lakes region because to give you some figures the commercial fisheries and the sport fisheries are valued at four point five billion dollars annually now what do you think this story is really about dimitry or are these asian carp the problem or doe

to sell because guys immediately think it's going to lead to something for them yeah shannon do you want to weigh in here i think the newspapers are what's really missing out because newspaper sales are obviously declining and here ryan air bought advertising space and that you can is like no. no i know i agree it's bad for business all the way around when you look at all of the ads that they have pulled because they're too airbrushed in the case of makeup or because they're in you know skimpy outfits or whatever it just seems like legislating morality is a weird thing anyway and just really not conducive to business i agree a lot of great let's move on it is present day presidents day so in honor of the forty three men there yes. forty three grover cleveland served two terms president here is a bit of fun history on them so to start out the shortest president was james madison he was five foot four so that means that he was two inches taller than me and the same height as you i guess time to change that i guess times have changed a bit and to bring shannon in president obama can trace h

out a few of these stories that caught our eye i want to bring in dimitri kofi as our producer and shannon donahoe in the control room to talk about something that really drew my attention because we've seen so many of these images coming out of greece recently showing divisions between germany and greece coming up again you had angela merkel dressed in a nazi uniform in a greek tabloid i think we have a picture of that you can see it right there she's up in the corner and here is this video that we played others played it to of some protesters what they had to say about germany. ok we don't have that right now but basically we saw protesters burning a german flag we saw them holding up a nazi flag saying all the nazis must leave despite this a new report out today says hey maybe greeks are thinking if you can't beat em join em athens news is reporting they've seen a twenty percent uptick in young greeks looking to learn german to have a better chance in the job market dimitri i am very curious your reaction to that we've seen so many the divisions but now we see greeks that are just basic

shannon. i would feel really bad if i lived in one of those areas and the crowd went out yeah that way if you live there you're right goes up for that reason that would be a real bummer good time to leave your house then run it out to somebody else make a little dough that's all we have time for i'm only with that great idea you are one of our viewers in the u.k. thanks so much for tuning in feel free to follow me on twitter at lauren lyster give us feedback on this show at youtube dot com slash capital account and from everyone here thank you so much for watching come back tomorrow and have a great. publisher is the same of you are going to go if i can get one hundred of them or so because we're going to take your pick the ones with a mel b. in britain and argentina again sparring over the legal status and future of these islands is this disputed. download the official t. obligation to go on the phone called touch from the queues ups to. life on the go. video on demand. mind bold colors. and

in washington, shannon breen, fox news. >>> we're not the only ones getting a nasty blast of weather.olks in and around chicago are dealing with the biggest winter storm of the season, more than a half of the snow and a lot of accidents. air travel affected hundreds of flights in and out of o'hare and they were cancelled today. >>> and that is a mess. >> we have a mess ourselves and this afternoon. >> a lot of rain and i understand we had delays of an hour, hour and a half and the storms are out of here and there is a backup. >> yes. >> and a lot of congestion in the air and a bust for us in the temperature department. >> my legs were cold. >> and they were white and cold that is a double negative? >> that is a positive. >> we're winning there. i like that. you are looking at a beautiful sunset over the riverton shopping center. the rivertown shopping center in oxen hill, maryland, and can you see there is a bit of a break in the cloud cover and that is very little and the cold front is the is still to come, folks, we have had some showers and thunderstorms come on through and we're s

shannon, good morning to you. set the scene for us. people very excited up there in maine and the country, as well. >> you're right. the caucus goers are just getting started. you just had the pledge of allegiance and this is about to get under way. this is no ordinary contest like we've seen. this is a little different. for one, we're expecting mitt romney and ron paul to come here to this caucus site here in sanford, maine, around the same time. we expect them to be maybe about 45 minutes to an hour separated. they'll both be here talking to caucus goers. this is mitt romney's first time coming to a caucus site on voting day. he hasn't done this. he hasn't done that this entire election season. and in terms of another first, obviously, ron paul hopes to make this his first win. he's zero for eight right now in all of these contests. another interesting thing, ron paul essentially had this state all to himself, right, ted, while his other three opponents were in florida a few weeks ago. ron paul was here and i was here with him. he wa

. >> joining us live now from washington, shannon travis. shannon, what's behind this recurring battle over religion? >> reporter: it's hard to say if this is part of a strategy for rick santorum. i mean obviously he denies, fred, that this is. but lead's say a few things that we know for sure. okay. in this republican race, each one of these four remaining candidates are trying to stake their claims. newt gingrich did a lot of it at debates, attacking the media a lot of times. that helped him out. mitt romney is obviously playing up his business experience in the private sector. rick santorum has unabashedly been the man of faith, the man of faith, the catholic of faith, right? so these kind of issues have helped him playing to talking about religion, playing to some of these red meat issues that evangelicals particularly like. it's helped propel him in national polls. so, again, he denies he's questioning president obama's christianity, but this kind of talk does carry favor with a lot of evangelicals. you'll remember just last month rick

cnn's shannon travis is live in sanford, maichblt shannon, mitt romney is visiting caucus sooits on voting day. that's new for him. what does this mean? >> reporter: yeah. i mean this could be a possibly tweak to his strategy here. as you mentioned, he lost those three races on tuesday, missouri, colorado, and minnesota. this will be the first contest after those races. and he's a favorite son of new england. he was the governor of massachusetts. he's campaigned heavily in republican circles for many, many years. this will be an embarrassing loss for him if he did lose the main caucuses. is that part of the reason why he came here last night into portland, maine, and campaigned, and he came here today to this caucus site and addressed caucus voters, something he hasn't done before this cycle, coming to an actually caucus site? could be. but the campaign tells me this was always on the agenda for them. they plan donald here. they sent over profile surrogates but you can believe this is an absolute attempt to deny ron paul a chance to win this. take a listen to an 11th hour appeal here, if y

we've also done work in indiana countries, shannon county, south dakota. we've done work in new mexico for voters who are speaking native american languages and recently we did work in cuyahoga county, metropolitan cleveland as well as lorain county, ohio for voters who are spanish-speaking puerto rican voters. the census bureau as you know released the new determinations of language minority coverage of section 203 of the voting rights act. th they did so in 2011. one of the very strong messages you delivered a year ago was to try and get those determinations out as early as possible so that jurisdictions can have the time to prepare. and we heard you and i hope we have given you the requisite time that you need to get the job done. because i know it's an important job. i know there are transitions. i was a local elected official. i remember in my county the year i ran for office was the first year they were subject to the bilingual ballots, provisions and there was undeniably a lot of transition involved in that effort. and so we heard you and we worked

shannon bream is live in washington with the rest of this story. hi, shannon. >> hi, shep.ills itself as nonprofit progressive research center with the goal of, quote, correcting conservative misinformation in the media investigative report by the daily caller there is much more to the story. the daily caller cites sources current and former media personnel number of mainstream writers and executives like the "l.a. times" work together with media matters to promote viewpoint and specific stories. one sources quoted as saying greg sergeant he quote will write anything you give him. msnbc were eager to use our stuff. they would have it on the air that night of verbatim. neither sarjent and top sources at nbc or msnbc responded to our comment. media matters sometimes pitches me stories just as fox news sometimes does. when i mention media matters in the newspaper 12 times since 2007, i identify it as a liberal group. we did also find instances in which he referred to them as progressives. daily caller also reported a number of links between media matters and the obama administ

the united states right now and there's three engines of the united states in asia pacific so our shannon is some balancing act. so easy this one of the many important matters that china wish to engage bret is over and so. well we always love it when you get involved with us here at odds here if you just go to our web site r.t. dot com you can give us your opinion on the possible results of chancellor merkel's visit with china becoming numbers from our web site so far this hour forty three percent think the visit will help germany get access to markets almost a third of it is believed beijing will extend a helping hand to a week in europe now sixteen percent say that china will move closer to the western position on iran just a minority this hour i believe the meeting will end up with the chinese support for a u.n. security council resolution on syria to head over to r.t. dot com to cast your vote but for now let's head over to the business desk casey hello. i'm going to be talking about gold which is now advance to the highest level in eight weeks on the sign a commodity is forecast to c

shannon bream on the possibility of a brokered convention. to alicia acuna live from phoenix with more on this race. alyssia, tomorrow all four candidates are going to be on the same stage which has been kind of rare of late. >> that's right, shep. it will be the first televised debate between the candidates in more than a month. santorum arrived in phoenix as the ron paul put up a new ad attacking the former senator on spending. santorum hit back calling the ad inaccurate and continuing to define himself. listen. >> i'm not a manager. i'm not a visionary. i'm a guy from a steel town who grew up understanding what made this country great and for the years that i have been involved in public life. >> santorum also knocked the national media for what he says tearing down the candidates. shep? >> shepard: santorum now leading in michigan. that's mitt romney's home state. it looks as if mitt romney is ready to fire back. >> he is trying. we got word from the romney camp today that he is going to unveil a new tax plan this week. but just one week

. >>> thank you, so much and we want to say good morning to shannon from alexander, virginia.o see julie tease tucker more often. she said, it's cute when he squirms. if you would like to be the fan of the day, go to our facebook page and post a comment under shannon's photo.  >>> the aquarium is rolling out the reptile day. >> reporter: we're supposed to keep this door closed, i'm ready to jet if this guy gets out of hand. this is the albino alligator. jay bradley joins me now. he's about to feed her. jay, i understand she's 3 years old? >> yes. >> reporter: is that like a tween? >> well, it's like they're about 4 feet long. they'll become mature when they're about six feet long, that's about 6 to 10 years old. >> repwe talk about this alligator, tell us about the event. you have a big day coming up. >> this saturday, the 25th. we have reptile amphibian day. we're celebrating the reptiles and amphibians. people can be afraid of reptiles, we're trying to help people understand them better. hopefully, you know, they'll like to love them like we do. >> reporter: m

to that maneuver their bikes around the bus without getting his by a car on shannon road so parentsly concerned about the location of this actual bus stop for those google employees. it turns out that a win-win situation for everybody. they noticed that this bus was creating a hazard for those local kids. they couldn't jump their bikes on to the sidewalk because the google employees were there lined up ready to board the bus. so local police convinced the presbyterian church of los gatos, which is right in front of the bus stop, to let google use its parking lot for the pick-ups and the church said yes. parents and neighbors applaud the agreement and say they're not against google. >> in general i think it is a really good idea. but we've been pressuring them for a while. they've been doing it for about a month and they're parking on the street and blocking the traffic and bike lane. what we've been trying to get them to do is come into the parking lot and load and unload there. >> reporter: it seems like google was convinced. local police say they'll monitor the pick-ups to make su

shannon bream is with the news. of west georgia in carrollton, tonight. shannon, speaker gingrich admits he has no chance of winning tonight. tell us about his strategy for super tuesday. >> it's all about looking ahead to super tuesday. you mentioned georgia is an important win for him. there are 76 delegates at stake. all along he has said that each candidate must win his home state in order to continue on and be taken seriously. here is how he rallied supporters earlier today. >> with your help, we can win next tuesday. winning next tuesday moves us towards tampa. georgia is the biggest group of delegates up on super tuesday. this is a big deal and it really really matters. >> shep, has he got some challenges on super tuesday as well he didn't make it on to the ballot in virginia where he lives now. only romney and paul are on that ballot. a group sending out blast emails asking folks to go out and vote ron paul. block the number of delegates romney may win in virginia. shep. >> shepard: several of his advisors t

that puts them right in the middle of shannon road which is a busy road.couldn't go on the sidewalk because that's where employees were lining up to board that bus. we did have a problem. the issue had parents worried for several weeks. bus stop was added in early january. the bus is intended to get google employees out of their cars and into a bus that runs on biodiesel fuel. but a safety concern arose. parents started complaining to the local schools about the issue. since the bus stop is right in front of the presbyterian church here on shannon road, police asked the church if it minded having the bus pull into their parking lot for the pick-up. and in the name of child safety, the church said yes and it seems like everyone is now happy here in los gatos. the first bus arrives at about 7:25. we will wait and see. live in the south bay, i'm damian trujillo, "today in the bay." >>> 80 oakland city employees will get layoff notices today. the city was threatening to lay off many more after losing $28 million in redevelopment funds. but last night the total