. >> reporter: alisa calls sophie her miracle baby. was told she would never conceive but three years ago -- sophie was born. >> she was everything i wanted. >> reporter: whenever there's an earache, it is immediately off to the doctor for antibiotics if she needs it, i want to give it to her. >> reporter: it is the same with catch and a little catcher. at the first sign of any fever, she is on a mission to feed her son antibiotics. when he gets an ear infection, he goes to 104 fever and it is pretty scary and i'm not willing to wait it out. >> reporter: most kids get repeated ear infections, according to the international journal of obesity. 80% to 90% of toddlers up to age 3. and antibiotics is the most popular remedy. but dr. john morton says relying on antibiotics is risky. >> they've looked at kids who have gotten repeated antibiotic treatments versus kids that got the tubes. the kids with the antibiotics were the ones who ended up gaining more weight. >> reporter: mort object is the director of weight loss surgery at stanford. he

we have sophie and prince. i'm holding sophie. and these kittens belong to our producer katie. and she actually found these kittens outside a building when they were around two weeks or so. and she took them to the vet and had them checked out. and we have some photos of when they were first discovered. they were so itty bitty. they had their eyes open. and they are being fed. and now they are about five weeks. so they've clearly doubled inize. and they're very active and advocate call. and one of the things she is now struggling with is weaning them off the bottle. mama cat was not around and they've become dependent on the bottle. what's your advice? >> different kittens take a different amount of time. first just start mixing the formula in with the new food and changing the ratio. put it up to the nose and make sure they can smell. if they have congestion, that will interfere. otherwise, just go with the flow. they'll let you know when they're ready to eat off a plate. when they see the other cats do it. they'll eventually do it. it's going to be messy and they'll walk in i

[ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: meeting little sophie on ellen gave minaj a whole new perspective test for what's appropriate. >> we have a running joke. like, am i cool like when i do a song -- like can sophia sing that one? no? ♪ she writes her own lyrics. her rhythms are feminine yet fierce in a male-dominated industry that's criticized for being degrading to women, songs like "moment for life" could be an anthem for feminism. ♪ >> reporter: but there's also a girl-power flavor to it. >> yeah, it makes girls feel like they can do anything. i'm like, always be successful outside of a man. >> reporter: perhaps minaj herself tried not to rely on a man after watching her own mother suffer for years in an abusive marriage. nicki, born in trinidad, moved to a rough neighborhood in queens, new york at 5 years old. the whole family struggled with her dad's crack addiction. >> it was so devastating. it's like losing -- it's like someone dying. >> reporter: as a child, how much violence did you witness? >> oh, a lot. my father was abusive. we were afraid for her life. whenever he was hav

it is 3:30 in the morning when arthur hears her neighbor, 63-year-old sophie dickman calling for helpwindow. >> i came out my back door. i could hear in the distance a woman's voice calling my name. came over to the wall, reached over and asked her what's wrong? what happened? she said i have been robbed, raped and i'm handcuffed to my bed. it was something in the air, it was her voice and she said that he drove away. and i just -- i just instinctually knew it was him. what we found out later on in the morning is that after he left sophie's house, then he drove down the hill, went about a quarter mile, and broke into another lady's house and he killed her. >> 61-year-old joyce nelson becomes the night stalker's 11th murder victim. >> went out there, and not only do we see the avis footprint on the front porch of her house, there was one left on the side of her head where he stomped her to death. >> this guy was literally stylizing his work, his art of crime. it was changing and expanding every single time he was hitting. >> he would go into a residence, if there was a male there, he w

that includes "the sting" and "sophie's choice" and the one so many people remember him for, "the way we were." ♪ memories light the corners of my mind ♪ >> reporter: he was a musical genius as a boy, a genuine protege who started his training in julliard at the age of 7. he was driven as a young man prodded by his musician father to succeed and he did. in his own way he became a celebrity in his own right. he seemed to get a kick out of being famous while retaining the modest bearing of a dentist. that made him fair game on "saturday night live." >> i'm saving myself for my one true love, marvin hamlisch. >> oh, he's cute. >> he was a talk show regular who talked about his process. >> my brain, i can play it like a cassette machine and i literally put rules into the brain. one cassette goes in, what are the rules? number one the song has to further the action. we've got to not sit there and go i love him he loves me. you have to keep moving the plot along. >> he enjoyed great success on broadway notably with "a chorus line." ♪ one singular sensation >> he worked with streisand for de

interior minister resigned on monday amid fears a renewed secretarial classes in the country after sophie religious sites were destroyed by armed salafist triggering mass on rest in the area leaving remains unstable ever since the popular uprising resulted in the ouster and death of its longtime leader muammar qadhafi last year as a key word the editor of pan african news claims the country's current rulers supervise the destruction of the mosques and unable to control the country. the fact of the matter that this mosque could be destroyed in such a centralized location with so-called security forces standing around observing it then ostensibly supervising the destruction of these religious sites clearly in the case that the former. rebel government which is now calls itself the general national council is not presiding over a lawful society in fact they are presiding over a lawless society we also have to keep in mind that there's a lot of consternation about the lack of services in the country the overall lack of security in libya and also the large scale unemployment and the economic d

enough good things about how they were planning to permit staff did on this, including emily and sophie need to get this through and pretty soon. if san francisco is ever going to adopt a housing policy for students other than craigslist, it is going to be this. is it ever going to try to reduce the very, very intense demand on our scarce rental stock, it is going to be this vehicle. we need to get it going, get it adopted, and see how the market will react to this. if we can start building the housing that we need. i should of this size that over the last two years, double- emphasize that over the last two years, we have stayed strictly away from a given the rental housing to student housing, i think that is absolutely is the right path to take. leave it alone. build new housing, which is what we implore you to facilitate here. please get this going. thanks. supervisor wiener: thank you. >> mr. chairman, supervisors, have been involved in this issue for five or six years with the housing action coalition and others. i was being done by former supervisor dufty in the legislation that he

to be marking the event with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks and sophie shrines so that the islamists were blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century sentry sectarian tensions in libya reached new levels after so few religious sites were destroyed by fits and government security forces this against a background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently of these twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties used heavy weaponry including anti-aircraft guns. and consultant peter thinks libya will own the center deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was of course regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again a force regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway groups because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways he brought back from the gold it was into great prosperity and the wrong government

his works included scores for a coreious line, sophie's choice and the sting. streisand calls him a true musical genius. >>> fears at the fair not from the rides but from the animal. a nationwide warning to be careful your children don't contact swine flu from contact with animals. tonight's healthwatch report is from the howard county fair. >> reporter: a recent string of swine flu cases in several states has helped leaders and county fair goers on alert. >> i'm nervous. >> reporter: the swine flu virus originates in pigs but can be transferred to humans. right now there are no cases in maryland, but according to the c.d.c., nationwide, 29 have been reported since last summer. 12 of which popped up in the last week of july. in ohio, indiana, and hawaii. [ pig noises ] >> reporter: all of those cases were linked to people who interacted with pigs at county fairs. >> touching the pigs, getting secretions from the pig on their hands and touching their eyes or nose and getting the flu that way. >> reporter: dr. peter belandson from the howard county health departm

. >> reporter: there were thousands more from the family drama ordinary people to the postwar sophie's choice. one of his biggest hit was his adaptation of chaplain's sting. marvin hamlish composed, conducted and arranged more than 40 film scores but one of his greatest successes was on stage. the long running musical a chorus line. hamlish was born in 1944 in new york city into a musical family. his first job was as a rehearsal pianist for barbara streisand's funny girl. marvin hamlish's work earned him every major entertainment award including three oscars, four emmy's and a tony plus a pulitzer surprise. and hamlish had the benefit of knowing that far after the curtains came up, people were humming his tunes. >> i have the chorus line cd in my car. i'm going to play it if his honor. >> how many times have you seen it? >> i've seen it at least 50 times. >> he would be proud. >>> spewing ash, a volcano erupts in new zealand how it's impacting flight traffic. >> and i'm here in the weather certain, i'll have the exclusive five day forecast. >>> here,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> you see them

resigned in protest to criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence is after sophie religious sites were destroyed by salafi islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the end of the eight month civil war that toppled colonel gadhafi the country is currently ruled by an elected general national congress. a drive by shooting by unknown gunmen has claimed the life of one activist in the second major city over one hundred protesters gathered in the city center demanding reforms after last year's toppling of. meanwhile five suspected al-qaeda members were arrested in the country's terror plagued southern region a crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on human intelligence headquarters that left twenty one dead last week. on a world update this hour a powerful tropical storm has hit the florida keys is now targeting the northern gulf coast of the united states a state of emergency was declared in four states and some fifty three thousand residents have been urged to evacuate tropical storm isaac is predicted to bring winds of over one hundred miles per hour by the

i must have just seen "sophie's choice" or something.orked. >> jimmy: that is a good strategy. g guillermo has been using that strategy. you and your husband have been posting videos on youtube. >> shameless self-promotion. we are so boring. what else can we do. >> jimmy: one, i noticed a synchronized diving event. and the divers, kevin and your dog. >> that is right. this is in honor of the olympics. >> jimmy: do you mind -- show it, show it. >> we are going to attempt a dual dive. ready? >> jimmy: it looked like you did well. according to the judges. it's a good sport. that's -- >> that is so great. >> jimmy: that was your mom sitting at the end -- >> that is my mom. >> jimmy: you told us a story about her. she is quite a character. >> yeah, i actually posted another photo of her, a vintage photo. do you have that picture? >> jimmy: i don't know if we do. >> yeah, she is a fan -- >> jimmy: of cocktails? >> yeah, in moderation of course. she is a fan of the bloody mary. she always orders a bloody mary and the other day, it was 9:00 in t

. >> there were dozens more from the family drama ordinary people to the postwar sophies choice. >>>e of his biggest adaptations of chaplain. marvin hamlish composed and arranged 40 film scores but one of his greatest successes was on stage. the long running musical a chorus line. hamlish was born into a musical family. his first job was as a rehearsal pianist for funny girls. marvin hamlish's work earned him three oscars, four elmies, three emmy's and a tony. hamlish had the satisfaction of knowing that long after the lights went up, audiences were humming the tunes he wrote. >> hamlish was working on a score for a new musical when he passed away. >> he made it look so easy didn't. >> he's just a master. >>> bob sheaffer ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a look outside at the sun sets on a beautiful day in august. bernadette woods has more on what we can expect tomorrow, bernadette. >> there still are some thunderstorms across the south. there will be again tomorrow night. tonight what we're expecting for the most part sunshine throughout the day. as we head throughout the afternoon, some of tha

and i like sierra vista, arizona where sophie oreszak lives. happy birthday, sophie.ay, florida, 103 years old. says his best advice, tell your wife you love her every single day. and at night, whisper sweet nothings in her ear, like, honey, would you get me a sandwich. mary dubowchik, 100 years old today. enjoys playing bingo with her many friends. i used to love to play bingo. i haven't played bingo in years. kate price, we love her. lives in alabama, athens, alabama. 100 years old today. owned and operate add restaurant. her special salad dressing was the talk of the town. a very tough thing to do. really good. and we have lucilla ervin doctor durham, north carolina, 105. enjoys going to church with her family. that's nice, too. harry hoffman. you know harry, he likes to play jokes. onawa, iowa, 100 years old. a practical joker. he likes to play it on people younger. with him anybody is younger than him. >> willard, thank you. still looking dapper. >>> up next, last minute labor day travel deals. first this is "today" on nbc. >>> back now at 8:37. this morning on t

there were dozens more, from the family drama ordinary people, to the post war sew any's choice -- sophie'shoice. one of his biggest hits was scott joplin's music for the sting. in a career of more than four decades, marvin hamlish composed, conducted and arranged more than 40 film scores. one of his greatest successes was on stage, the long running musical a chorus line. he was born in 1944 in new york city into a musical family. his first job was a a rehearsal pianoist for funny girl. marvin's work earned him every major entertainment award, including three oscars, four semis, four grammy's and a tony. he had the satisfaction of knowing that long after the life came up audiences were still humming the tune he wrote. >> could listen to it all day long. when he passed away he was working on the score for a new musical. >>> after nasa successfully sends a rover to mars we're getting a look at the first imagines. the pictures show cure i don't i don't say tay -- curiosity's decent to mars. it touched down late sunday. the go of the 2 year mission is to find evidence the red planet once had th

. >> georgetown cupcake sisters katherine kallnis and sophie kallnis are the stars of tlc's "d.c. with sports theme ideas. hi, guys. how are you? >> this is a lifetime love affair with cupcakes. >> we are sisters and started a bakery. we grew up baking with grandma. we are now expanding. we have one in new york city in soho. >> awesome. >> we are making our baseball cupcakes. it's cool. we just wrapped an episode of d.c. cupcakes we worked with bernie williams of the yankees. he helped sell cupcakes in our bakery. these are kind of inspired because of him. we'll start by making the ganac ganache. all you need to do is fill a saucepan halfway through, come to a rolling boil. you're going to fill a glass full of two cups of semisweet chocolate chips and add -- >> heavy cream. >> i would love to add it. >> it is the easiest icing you can make. two to one. >> you can pour it on your ice cream, too. keep mixing it till it becomes nice and glossy and shiny. >> we'll separate our sandwich cookies. we separate them and remove the middles. >> i like how you call them sandwich cookies. we k

he's compositions graced movies like the way we were, three men and a baby and sophie's choice. oscars and a tony. we should mention that broadway will be dimming its lights tomorrow for a full minute to remember him. >>> just in, the new york police department announcing a major move involving twitter and a threat against broadway. the nypd says it will is the social giant. we're gathering the facts and we'll have that for you, next. [ annie ] this is the story of a girl named annie who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew and she flew, into the sky and beyond. my name is annie and i'm the girl who dreamed she could fly. powered by intel core processors. ♪ four course seafood feast, just $14.99 start with soup salad and cheddar bay biscuits then choose one of 7 entrees plus dessert! four courses, $14.99. offer ends soon. come into red lobster and sea food differently. high up in the atlas mountains of morocco. have you seen this road we're g

sophie's choice and ordinary people and comedies including bananas and three men and a baby. here in new york city and was the youngest student ever at the prestigious july art july arrested school of music. julie arrested four gram mys, four emmys and a tony, three golden globes and a pulitzer. short illness, he was 68 years old. male spirit present.trong it's the priceline negotiator. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no. he's over here. >>in the refrigerator? >> in free lunch, right? actually there is. nationally funded program for kids under 18 on the backs of the u.s. taxpayers. organizers say it's really to help struggling families during the summer months but the critics are pointing out there is actually no income requirement for these kids. in other words, any child can show up for a free meal. claudia cowan live in our san francisco newsroom. is there eviden

globe winner, composed music for movies like the sting on broadway for a chorus line, the movie sophie'se of. he won a pulitzer for a chorus line. >> he is one of only 12 people to have been award the ammy, grammy, oscar, tony and one of only two to win all of those plus the pulitzer. >> wow. >> so quite an accomplishment. >> he was a fixture with the success of the sting, he became a fixture on talk shows and variety shows in the 1970s. '70s and '80s were his heyday and performed -- in fact i saw him with barbra streisand here in washington on one occasion. so a very big talent and someone we'll hear about in the days ahead, again marvin hamlisch died at the age of 68 years old. >> really is young. quite a legacy he leaves behind. >> a the although of good music. >>> still -- >> a lot of good music. >>> still ahead, the "little shop of horrors" this morning, holly is hanging out with the cast and crew. she is no stranger to the stage. the show is coming to the local stage. we are going to check in with holly next. >> plus, singer nathan pacheco is winning over fans. his songs are a mix

is a film people are going to hear and whatever, then -- and as the film you loved doing, i mean, sophie'shoice, which i adored doing, then you feel like you have really done something really wonderful and extra, and it meaning to you, if a film comes along and you kill yourself and do it and just opens and closes i mean, open, over, then the problem is, not so much you don't think you have done a good job but you realize it is gone, it is like who is going to go up and say excuse me i want to hear music from a film that -- it is all very different. >> rose: can you give us something from good-bye girl? >> sure. this is a stopping toward the end of the piece. this is a song toward the end of the piece. ♪ .. >> rose: marvin hamlisch, dead at age 68. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

sophie, one of my five children.nd when i came to my senses, in other words, when i started thinking again, i was on the hood of his car trying to kick his windshield in. i had jumped from the car, out of the door, back to this, you know -- name any expletive you want, and i was kicking on his windshield. i went, "holy moly." i mean, this is weird. and i didn't for a moment think, so i wasn't dealing with it. all this stuff started happening. and then finally i figured out that, "oh, something has to be done." >> what did you learn in combat about heroism? you were a brave man. >> yeah, i got medals. and, they're medals that i can go into any navy base or marine base and get free drinks with. they're that good. and -- two things. the first is how do you deal with the fact that you get such a high medal? navy cross is the highest medal that the marines can hand out. a congressional medal of honor is handed out by congress. it's like being the halfback on the football team. if you're a little narcissistic, you actually

give us the brilliance of judy richardson and charlie cobb and sophie carmichael and john lewis is sailed into battle knowing there was activism that helped change the world. a month ago john lewis stood up in congress. did you see that? someone from georgia talking about trying to pass something and change something and he was john lewis again. he was not just the congressperson. i sat next to him this last weekend and walked into the room and had him and said thank you for being there. thank you for having that first year history. thank you for the activism. you would not change something we worked so hard for. young people have got to understand history. we cannot go and study it. we can't go walking across the bridge and say i participated in this. you walked across the bridge. but make your own bridges to walk across. they need to be walked across. you got to hear what i am saying. we should have been out all of us on wall street. that is a bridge we have to walk across. we need to walk into these churches when someone is up there talking about gay people and lesbians. you know what

so the day after this i went to school and on the fringes, you know, on television you would see sophie carmichael and h.r. brown and bobby seale and you renew when in the news described them black militants and of course talking about the power. i want to back up a little and talk about because all of my lessons in black history i do what you think it was over dinner table with books spread out. paul was a working man and he was what they call in those days the race man. so a lot of them would be as simple as we'd be watching television, the old black-and-white tv and a tarzan movie would, on. johnny wipe the fly across the screen and to speak his language and the monkeys would go here and pa would you looking at that and after five minutes he would go what the is that? last night you tell me how a little cracker may be consolidate the airplane, grow up and speak everything. boy, change the channel. it was living history. then i would switch and i remember this come in the first time seen a job very reisner giving some editorial. i think it was about the space program. and he was going

sophie charged her blackberry.... and it worked.o play games on his cell phone so he always loses his battery power.he tested the goal zone and in the sun.. and it worked for him too.the goal zone so far isstwo for tww. then we met michelle. she loves to hike and she knoos the pain of being out in the woods and nnt having a way to charge your cell phone or camera... so she was excited wwen we asked her to try it &pout.first.. we tried her phon. anddit's charging! charging!then she useddthe up her camera... and they worked too.so would our testers buy the goal zero? i guess its a deal dealfor me it would be a deal go a lot more places not wwrry about outlets. 3 outlets.totally yes it works awe awesomethe goal zero retails for 130-dollars... dollars...to purchase the goal zero guiie 10 mooile kit.. go to our website... foxbaltimore dot com slash newslinks. commng up in our 8 o'clock hour.. she's back on the talk show sccne...ricki lake will be live in our studio.. talking about her new show..you can catch on the c-w. you're watching f

when harlow says for a minute, my daughters sophie and miles say what do you do for a living, dad, iionel richie, we'll let you do the singing and dancing. take it away. good to talk to you. >> here we go. ♪ i know it sounds funny but i just can't stand the pain ♪ girl i'm leaving you tomorrow, seems to me girl you know i've done all i can ♪ yeah, that's why i'm easy, i'm easy like sunday morning, yeah ♪ i feel so easy, yeah, i'm easy like sunday morning ♪ >> sounds good out there, guys. ♪ why in the world would anybody put chains on me ♪ i've paid my dues to make ends ♪ everybody wants me to be what they want me to be ♪ i'm not happy when i try to fake it, oh, no ♪ that's why i'm easy, i'm easy like sunday morning, yeah ♪ i feel so easy, yeah, i'm easy like sunday morning ♪ i want to be high, so high, i want to be free to know the things i do are right ♪ i want to be free, just me, oh baby ♪ that's why i'm easy, baby, well, i'm easy like sunday morning ♪ i feel so easy, so easy, yeah, well, i'm easy like sunday morning ♪ come on, that's why i'm easy, so easy, yeah ♪ i'm easy like su

i beat you to her, named -- >> sophie. >> so sweet to start it out there.ng strikes around that area already. up near chattham, new jersey, allentown, pennsylvania, more than two >> heaviest of the showers the day. a few showers remain. account -- amount much more during the morning hours. 88 degrees. we could see shunned china into afternoon. the strongest of the showers across maryland. 70s.ht 65 to lower >> great crowd out here. can't wait for you to get out here and feel the energy. >> us, too, ginger. >>> here's what we have coming up on our "gma morning menu." miley's edgy, new do. she has the cut named after her. now, we're going to give stylist tabitha coffee a chance to do the miley. >>> and sylvester stallone speaking out for the first time since the death of his son. >>> and two stars of the olympics, where do they come? here, live, on "gma." all that and more coming up in a moment. i love cash back. with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, we earn more cash back for the things we buy most. 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 2% on groce

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