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. >> good evening, i'm amber shotts. >> i'm amber burgundy., too. >> are you married? >> no. >> i am, so don't get any ideas. >> there's also movember for mustaches. >> i'm familiar that. >> i wondered about that. >> how long did it take you to grow that? >> 20 minutes. >> impressive. >> you did a good job. i can't wait to do it for real. >> i guess it's funny because i don't need to see this because i see this every day. >> whoa. >> with? >> what time do you see this? >> the thing about this is the joke's on them. that's the funny thing. >> i thought it was very humorous. >> i love local news. i thought she was great. i thought she was hilarious. >> where's your sense of humorer? >> what about you? >> no problem going to north dakota. they have great anchor people everywhere. by the way, i meant to say when that kid was jumping up and down and screaming, he pulled that kid next to him on the floor. i didn't mean my sister's granddaughter got killed. >> we got it. >> wow. >> i'm excited to see it. i think he's super talented, funny and a hard

hmp shotts is a maximum security prison that houses more than 500 inmates who have also made their sharef bad decisions. many of them were young men in their 20s whose alcohol and drug addictions led them to commit an array of crimes, often involving knives. the weapon of choice in scotland. then we met the inmate they could very well become. jimmy reid. >> if you lock me up i'll burn my peter. >> burn your peter? >> yeah. >> all right. >> his disciplinary hearing for a night full of harassing correctional staff. it more memorable than most we've ever covered. >> i admit that. >> yeah. i've let that escalate. i escalated that. >> reid was serving an 11-year sentence. he had stabbed a friend during an argument, and the man died. but reid's personal demon had made him no stranger to prison. >> how long have you been in prison? >> most of my life. >> why? what was your life like out there before prison? >> just spun out of control through alcohol, you know. >> jimmy reid was probably one of the most forthright inmates i've ever interviewed. he just was completely uncensored. very self-effac

eric shott runs mt. sinai's institute for genome science in new york.r. >> we know every single mutation has occurred, what jean it has occurred in, the pathways that have been disrupted, the biological processes that have been disrupted. most oncologists today will get a very very tiny fraction onf the neverings we generated on stephanie will be available to them. >> now i have a team well over probably 10 15 people helping me with this fight. >> reporter: and a super computer. and a super computer. >> reporter: and thousands and thousands of tiny fruit flies with tumors that match hers. >> the fact we can reconstruct the colon cancer tumor of a human and a fly model gives us a lot of power to screen that human tumor against aulg the existing therapeutics. >> reporter: after testing every available drug on the flies they kamt up with a customized cocktail they believe will wipe out her tumor. >> it still hasn't hit me that what's going on could change the way cancer and other diseases can be treated in the future. it still hasn't hit me. >> reporter: b

. >> i'm amber shotts. >> i'm ron burgundy. thanks for joining me tonight. last time i saw you, you were a lot heavier. you lost like 50 pounds. amber, you look lovely tonight. >> thank you, ron. you too. >> are you married? >> well, i am, so don't get any ideas. it's a sure sign that the holiday season -- >> that is will ferrell co-anchoring a real newscast in his beloved ron burgundy character with the soon to be released the legend continues the news team says the hardest part was not laughing out loud. they got through the broadcast, held it together mostly. you can imagine as a broadcaster, that was the most nerve we'll be right backing, you don't know which way he is going to go or say. >> a lot of anchor banter. >> thank god there wasn't breaking news. >> right out of the chair. >> so fast. >> i like it. >> you got to love what he's doing, though, pushing his character. >> that man doesn't have a serious bone in his body. that's okay. >> he needs a new jacket. buy new coat. my advice to you. come here, try that. i'll smack you around. >> amazon will h

this morning fedex did release a statement saying it processed about 275 million packages during the shott> nbc's gabe gutierrez, thanks for that report. >>> retailers are rolling out deep discounts to entice shoppers as they return unwanted gifts and start redeeming gift cards today. eight in ten shoppers were expected to buy $30 billion worth of gift cards this holiday shopping season. cnbc's julia boorstin is at the grove mall in los angeles. >> reporter: nearly 80% of consumers said they plan to shop post-holiday sales according to retail me not and a lot of those sales started christmas day with target, nordstrom's and kohl's all slashing prices on the 25th while walmart and kohl's are opening earlier than ever at 5:00 a.m. this morning. that's good for consumers and it could potentially deal a blow to retailers' margins. many packages that were promised to arrive before christmas didn't show up. walmart and amazon had been promising those customers who didn't get their gifts in time for the holidays, gift certificates. many of use the gift certificates today. consumers will spend mor