. >>> if you have something stuck in your chimney, you don't call a chimney sweep you call simon cowellf the wildlife foundation. that something stuck is a magpie. it's the resident of this home. the sweetest lady you met in your life. >> why are you shaking your head? >> she is so adorable. she is terrified of bird. >> i had him on my shoulder and he went -- there was blood everywhere. >> if you're scared of birds, you go ahead and protect yourself, get out of the room. i will take care of this. simon gets to work. this is the easiest rescue. there's the bird. the bird flew right out into this woman's living room. >> good thing she left the room. >> simon gets the magpie in the net and inspects the bird. the bird is not happy. >> that really hurt. >> he's bleeding. >> ow. >> look at this. now he can't tell if the bird's bleeding or if it's his blood. >> if the lady came back in the room she would see a black and white bird covered in blood. >> she does come out. simon has the magpie in hand. >> i'm fine. >> they go to the backyard and the cute adorable woman and they release the magpie

simon cowell welcomes a baby. ashton kutcher, scarlet johan son also bring home bundles of joy. the death of robin williams, one of the many sad losses in hollywood, the actor takes his life after a struggle with depression and recent diagnosis of parkinson's. joan rivers passes away days after she went into cardiac arrest during a minor procedure. her daughter is planning a multi million dollar lawsuit against the clinic where her mother had the procedure. we also said good-bye to philip seymour hoffman, shirley temple black, casey kasem, mike nichols, and designer to the stars oscar de la renta. it seems there are always stories about stars to tell. next year we have a positive one with the birth of the second royal baby to prince william and his wife kate due april 2015. in hollywood, adam housely, fox news. >>> today is the first day of the week on holiday quanza. a professor at california state university created it in 1966 as a nonreligious celebration of african-american families and social values. each day is dedicated to a principle and each night candle is lit. thank y

what are the fingerprints, what is it exactly that looks similar to previous dark simon cowell attacks? >> one of the things they were able to find was the code executed within sony's network. that code was specifically put together and compiled to attack sony. it had the name of specific servers and specific i.p. addresses. that code is very, very, very similar to an attack that happened in saudi arabia as well as another attack that had happened in south korea. so there seems to be quite a bit of similarity in the attack code itself. it wipes drives and causes all sorts of havoc. >> why hasn't sony better able to contain the data that was leaked and will we see more of it? >> that's really the problem is that once someone has collected your secrets, so to speak, you're relatively powerless to prevent them from releasing it. it is interesting the theatrical -- these attackers have gone. they have taken terabytes of data, and yet they only released 40 gigabytes of stuff. clearly they are trying to draw this out and embarrass sony as much as possible. >> i want to bring in jordan robins

. >> and of course boyle became a star when she sang i dream a cream, and shocked simon cowell and the the time, boyle said he had never been kissed. well, she just got that chance. >> we were talking about this earlier. she had on tough times. i think after the show there, she was in some controversiy what was it. >> if i remember correctly she kind of went through i don't want to say key pleased state but there was all this hype and hoopla with her winning the show, getting the recording deal. >> from object security to utter frame. >> thrust in the spotlight where everybody knew who she ways and everybody knew her name. she had been struggling i believe financially a little bit before this, you know, descended upon her. she struggled witt afterwards. now she's happy again. >> yes, she's got her groove back. >> she had to make some money. after it came out my mom wanted the ck. >> everybody did. >> her voice was amazing that cd sold well. >> it d i don't think she has done a lot instant then. >> okay. >> now she's getting her groove back. here's getting involved with a doctor, which

definitely happy to have met someone, boyle became a star when she sang i dream the dream and shocked simon cowell and the world for that matter. at the time boyle said she never had been kissed. >> she had on rough times have after the show, after the show. >> she should release an album. >> she's amazing. true cinderella story. >> how about this at 45:00 2a special surprise for a man never got welcome home he deserves. how the people in his new life came together to help him celebrate, his old >>> market street is adorned with those ice crystals there or snow flakes. >> yes,. >> modern technology in electricity. >>> residents of reading, pennsylvania pennsylvania showing some love, to the christmas tree. some had reject it. officials are planning a charlie brown day festival for december 20th. they plan to decorate the 50 for norwegian pine, some call this one ugly and pathetic but however it seems reading a has fallen in love with this charlie brown christmas tree. back on saturday officials say they will place a single red ornamental bulb just like in the peanuts holiday tail as you just heard

like simon cowell. one of the things i was striving for was to represent a broad politicallyt a correct spectrum but a broad spectrum. when you think of objects i was considering this caveat from russell baker, the former "new york times" columnist. he said "objects can be classified scientifically into three categories. those that do not work, those that break down, and those that get lost." not want the list to be skewed because the objects are simply those that managed to survive. there is aill said, limit to the number of stone ace buddhas you can include. the public for suggestions can skew the list to objects that people remember most or have developed nostalgia for. ny invitedr, the public when so americans to vote for the object that best to find its collection, what was most iconic in this smithsonian's collection. the winner turned out to be one year old. a baby, giant panda. in t nationalhe zoo. originalrs-up were the "star-spangled banner" woody guthrie's recording of "this land is your land

is anybody taking on the bad boy simon cowell per persona? >> no, i didn't think so.ay. i grew up in australia and harry grew up in new orleans and the kind of advice given to harry in a jazz world is different to the advice i got in the country world. i think we deliver that kind of way of giving hopefully constructive device to everyone. >> i've seen fun clips of the you as kind of a youngster actually sort of trying out for some of these very similar short of shows. do you like the coaching of it? >> i do. i feel familiar with it because i did at least four of these kinds of shows. the -- unfortunately, several of them -- several of them i can't find. i can't find them on youtube. it might be a good thing. >> some are there. >> i was 9 when i did my first one. between the ages of 9 and 12. i did three different shows as a contestant. i can -- i have a lot of empathy for that these guys and girls go through. >> what is it like without randy being part of the show? >> i just e-mailed him yesterday. i stay in touch with randy. for me he will always be part of it. that

simon cowell welcoming baby eric on vlad and kelly clarkson bringing daughter river rose into the worldjune. and they weren't the only ones. the death of comedy legend robin williams, one of the many sad losses in hollywood this year. the actor taking his own life after a long struggle with depression and the recent diagnosis of parkinson's disease. and show bizoy con joan rivers passing away days after she went into cardiac arrest during a procedure. her daughter planning a multi-million dollar wrongful death lawsuit. this year we don't know why. >> we are a little bit more relaxed. >>> nice weather. we got the fire burning. i love that. yeah. 10 degrees warmer on my side of the room than it is over there. >> you should come over. it feels good. let's talk about what is happening outside the doors this morning. mostly clear. it's a beautiful start to the day if you are looking out from a nice comfortable cozy couch. but you get outside and it's a nippy one. we have got this cool dry air moving in. on the back side of the system here that pushed through now bringing snow into areas righ