thank you very much, reena. >>> now to shonda rhimes's powerful message for working rents. the tv mastermind behind "scandal" and more revealing she is just like us and even she gets burned out. now in a new teded tal she's opening up about how she got her passion back at work with the help of her kids. abc's rebecca jarvis is here >> reporter: hey, amy. good morning. this is such a powerful message resonating with people of all walks of life. so, how did this titan of industry get her passion for life back? the answer may surprise you. >> shonda. >> reporter: she's the mastermind behind some of tv's biggest shows. "grey's anatomy," "scandal," "how to get away with murder." shonda rhimes, the woman who made a career about making up drama is revealing a real-life frustrating in a new ted talk. >> i have what most people call a dream job. i make television a great deal of television. i work a lot, very hard and i love it. reporter: rhimes calls that passion for her job the hum. >> the hum ismusic. the hum is light and air and when you have a hum like that you can't help but s

tisha: it is thank god it is thursday, or shonda rhimes night on abc. eyewitness news at 11:00 right here on abc 11. it is so important. she is such a cool woman. tisha: play with your kids. steve: absolutely. a good day to be outside, chris? chris: it gets better this weekend. you will have awesome weather. i would tell you about that coming up. temperatures in the 20's, mostly sunny, cool tomorrow, upper 40's, low 50's. a nice day. the weekend, temperatures soaring to the 60's, some clouds on sunday, and then a chance of rain comes back. after the weekend, there may be a light shower and western parts of the viewing area sunday late in the day, but the main chance later monday and tuesday and wednesday. downtown durham looking good. lanes, but high clouds, 48 degrees. the airport still holding onto 50 at 5:00. the dew point is 23. the bigger the difference between these two big numbers, the drier the air. 35% humidity, a dry air mass in place. 48 rocky mount wilson. 50 at smithville. fayetteville 52. 50 at clinton. around the northeast. chicago above

apply the 15-minute rule today. >> shonda once again inspiring in thank you. well-known fact that burgers -- oh, we're going to talk to that. we'll go to rob outside first. i wanted to talk about burgers. >> burgers are next. >> rob. >> lara is bringing burgers to us. awesome. what a great crowd out here trying to stay warm. abby and anthony. from where. >> syracuse. >> on the hand where is michigan? west of detroit i think that is. the wind across the west from southern california, northern california all the way up to the northern plains. good gust over 40 miles an hour in tahoe with snow and also over 50 miles an hour in the plains and red flag warnings there, could see fires pop out today. windy tomorrow in >> oh, yeah. everybody is fired up for lara to deliver hamburgers. you better deliver it, lara. back in to you. >> i feel pressure now. >> you can do it. >> no burgers but "pop news" and some, well, burger news, sort of. it is a fact that burgers go perfectly with a few brews and one fast food giant is hoping to capitalize on that. mcdonald's giving a t

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a fact not lost on the star or creator shonda rhymes. washington was recently in boston and revealed to me what goes on behind the scenes. >> kerry washington plays the fixer a v up hope, a character she knew she wanted to play. >> half of people want to be her , and half of people hate her. she is a complicated person. i love that. she makes people angry and inspires people in the same episode. reporter: gladiators will see a brighter olivia pope this season. >> it was written into the script she wears brighter colors. we met for a fitting. we don' t know what to do. this is not the olivia pope we know. >> i like that it is going with >> it is never fashion for fashion sake. reporter: shonda rimes is known for site -- showing diversity. quite she is not writing to teach or to preach or change the world. she is just writing reality as she knows it area it is easy when you are not part of a disenfranchised community people unlike you exist in the world but as a woman and a person of color she is aware of our differences and she values the

she revealed how dangerous it can get in shonda land. >> girl, i blew my back out. that was in the billy brown scene. he threw me up against the wall. i mean, look, all i can say is i was totally committed to the scene. >> her co-star billy brown is not sidelined. but a few months ago he told us they generate plenty of heat, those two. >> she brings it every single day we're on set. >> so your game just naturally goes up? >> oh, yeah. it's go time. >> i'm going to get back into it. it's shonda land. they're going to have me doing all kinds of stuff with all kinds of people. the scare that cause caused the crew to abort another local flight. >> we begin at 11 with a news gunned down three people in a factory at a plant that makes lawn mowers in hurricane hurricane ers hesston, near wichita. he started shooting people in the parking lot and then went inside and continued his rampage. one witness said he was going after everyone. he killed three people and wounded dozens before police shot him. the wife of another worker was just woashed worried about her husband. >> w

. >>> and now shonda rhymes is making up her own real life struggle >>> back to our breaking news story in center city philadelphia. we are live with chopper 6 hd where three vehicles collided at 15th and jfk during the height of lunch hour, a school bus, cab and black suv all involved in this. the black suv careened into a building there. that is a td bank. lets look at the live video from the ground and see a little bit closer as to exactly what happened. the two vehicles colliding, a school bus, no students on it, careening with the black suv and sending it into the front window of that td bank. we are trying to determine if there were any injuries. we are trying to determine if anyone was injured in this three vehicle mishap that sent the vehicle into the side of a build tlg. we are continuing to follow the story for you and you may want to avoid jfk in center city if at all possible as police and fire crews try to determine exactly what happened and clear away this mess. >>> more now on a big announcement from the white house, president obama is planning to make a historic visit to

the answer may surprise you. >> shonda. >> reporter: she's the e of tv's biggest shows. "grey's anatomy," "scandal," "how to get away with himes, the woman who made a career about making up frustrating in a new ted talk. >> i have what most people call a dream job. i make television a great. i work a lot, very hard and i love it. >> reporter: rhimes calls that passion for her job the music. the hum is light and air and when you have a hum like that you can't help but strive for greatness. >> reporter: but that hum, that spark just plain g so many women face in their lives. >> the hum of the engine died. i stopped loving work. i couldn't restart the engine. if you make -- if you work, what you do, if you know what the hum feels like, when the hum stops, who are you? >> reporter: how did she recharge her batteries? her toddler helped her find the . >> a toddler refers to honey as though she's a southern waitress. honey, i'm going to need some milk for my sippy cup. she says, momma, wanna play? and i'm just about to say no when i realize my southern call me honey. when did

they're like, yes. my mom thought something had happened to me. shonda's world. she's got all these shows and they're all so popular and so good. now that you've been on the inside of the world, why is it so special? >> yeah, i think it's -- she's really a powerhouse. coming. i don't know if you know. she's got her book and just does everything. she's really also personal in her relationships. really passionate about what she does. i think it trickles down to everyone in the show. everyone just does their job with passion and with love because she does. it's kind of -- i think that is sort of part of it. >> we have a game to play with you called "how to get away with." walk us through scenarios, how you'd handle the situations. how would you get away with a speeding ticket? was just looking at that poor boy over there. and i was just -- and i would start crying. or i would be mexican. like i'm so sorry. i'm here on vacation. please don't do this to me. they'd be like, okay. >> nice. >> very good. >> how would you get away with forgetting somebody's name? >> i wou

i thank shonda rhimes for taking me out of that awesome process. >> is it constant auditions? >> constant rejection, living out of your car, trying to change. going from playing a mother to suddenly, you're playing, you know, a prostitute. then you're playing, you know, a law student. second. >> what was it like when you get the yes, you're on board, and it's shonda and viola davis? >> we didn't know when i got the part that it was going to be viola davis. that was a plus afterwards. i was crying so hard in the car when my agent, manager, called and said, you booked it. i've never heard that word, you booked it. i was like, what does that mean? they're like, you got the part, i started crying and said, give me a second. i'm not cool enough for you guys but this means a lot to me. does this mean i can stop auditioning? they're like, yes. i got home and i was crying and my mom thought something had happened to me. >> we hear so much about shonda's world. she's got all these shows and they're all so popular and so good. now that you've been on the inside of the world, why is it s

interesting, on shonda rhimes' shows on "scandal," "how to get away with murder," pretty much everyone in the cast live tweets through the episode. you didn't even have twitter. or maybe you do. which would be -- >> you know, i'm saving it up. getting all the material. i'm going to blast you guys with the good stuff. >> jimmy: how did you get away with that? >> you know what, i didn't have it going in. and alfred enoch didn't have it. viola didn't have it. >> jimmy: but she got it. >> number one on the call sheet, shonda. >> jimmy: right, she had to do it. >> get the followers up. number nine on the call sheet, i work two days a week. i mean, they don't even know i'm there. a couple of love scenes and i'm out. >> jimmy: you do have a lot of love scenes on the show. [ cheers and applause ] how many love scenes have you done on the show? they love to get you naked on >> always. >> everything but the baby oil. yeah. >> jimmy: viola said that she -- i think she had never done a love scene before the love scene she did with you. >> no, in fact, in the pilot she'd never done one. i show up t

i mean, i can say -- oh god, see, shonda rhimes i really don't want to get in trouble.s shonda rhimes and have me in trouble. >> yeah, cause we would both get in trouble. >> seth: we'd both be in trouble.nn, there's a lot of, there's a lot of power walking going on for quinn. >> seth: oh, gotcha. power walking. >> like there's a lot. a spoiler, like come on, you guys, like. >> seth: now, i'm actually -- >> that's a lot of info. >> seth: i'm actually glad you brought up power walking, because i saw a promo for "scandal." >> oh, god. can't take, but it felt like they were really focusing on, hey this upcoming "scandal," like, a lot of people will be confidentially walking. can we scause i want to ask some questions. >> oh, my god. >> seth: here's a promo for scandal. >> that's amazing. >> seth: walking. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: down. hallways. >> it's like, so, it's really crazy, because you shoot it all 's no music playing, there's no gladiator screaming. >> seth: right. and you're not in slow motion. >> no, you're walking regularly, and then like, the camera's ur face and you'

she realizes a little nudge from shonda. >> jimmy: right, she had to do it. >> get the followers up. number nine on the call sheet, i work two days a week. i mean, they don't even know i'm there. a couple of love scenes and i'm out. >> jimmy: you do have a lot of love scenes on the show. [ cheers and applause ] how many love scenes have you done on the show? they love to get you naked on that show, don't they? >> always. >> jimmy: right. >> everything but the baby oil. yeah. >> jimmy: viola said that she -- i think she had never done a love scene before the love scene she did with you. >> no, in fact, in the pilot she'd never done one. i show up to the meeting with the director and creator of the show, pete norwalk, with a turkey sandwich, protein shake, water, backpack, no shirt, it's 19 degrees outside. she's nervous. hot hell's this guy? >> jimmy: a bike messenger. >> i'm on broadway, i'm with denzel, who's this character? two days later we're in a carport and filming with the wind howling and it's like 19 degrees. 10 at night. dress is up, panties getting >> jimmy: yours or hers?