stevie wonder. >> though stevie can't see, he is home for christmas. >> he has a santa claus hat. >> his own personal stocking. but the past few week for stevie and his owner belinda hadn't been so merry. >> it was hard to sleep. i was terrified that he would get hurt out there. >> stevie went missing after she said her landlord went to fix something in her home in late november and stevie accidentally got out. >> we looked for him. we hunted the whole nine acres. >> stevie had his collar but there was an outdated cell phone number on it. weeks. still no sign of stevie. the family even put up a lost dog ad on craze list. a high school teacher saw his picture. >> she felt that he was owned by somebody. he was too happy. and she asked acs to put us, it's called save a life hold on him. >> the teacher found the craigslist ad about the missing dog and the rest was history. gutierrez picked him up several days ago. >> i saw him. i got on the floor. he was kissing me through the fence. >> stevie is back to himself. still as lovable as ever. enjoying every bit of the attention. >> i know th

and stevie was one of the dogs that they posted.ow i saw him, i saw his picture on the web site. >> alisyn: you saw he had a tag, so you knew there must be an owner out there who is missing him. so you figured out that it was belinda. tell me about that phone call when you called her. >> yes. when i saw the collar and the tag, i figured that he belonged to someone, so i checked on craigslist and went to lost and found and put in lost blind dog and stevie popped up. and her contact information was in the post and so i sent her an e-mail as well as a telephone call, left her a message and he was reunited with her. >> alisyn: belinda, you must have been so heartened and shocked because your landlord had told you that stevie had actually been hit by a car. so what did you think when you got the phone call? >> well, i asked her, i said, are you sure? i was told something different. she said, well, the picture that she saw on the craigslist and stuff sure did look like stevie. so you text me over -- i got a picture from acs and i told my

[applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after.

is stevie wonder headed to "dancing with the stars"?now, talk about great, stevie wonder has been making noises about wanting to do "dancing with the stars" for a few years now. but it's something he just said to ellen degeneres on a so that everybody is saying, wait a minute, minute he'll do it. he started talking about how he's losing weight because ellen was pressuring him and saying, stevie, are you going to do it. he said i'm getting in shape and said when i get to where i feel like i'm going good enough, i'll do that. and he even predicted and said i'll look good in the beginning and even getter at the end. everybody loses weight when they're competing on "dancing with the stars." now, it's not a big deal just because somebody is impaired. let's not forget marlee matlin who is hearing impaired competed and came in seventh place during season six. just because he is blind does not mean that's going to get in his way. he may be 61 years old, but, hey, let's not forget florence henderson was 77 and she did really well. she didn't win

i think it would be a terrific move for the show and for stevie.lind contestant on "dancing with the stars." >> he sure would. the kennedy center honors were last night in d.c. president obama, he was in pretty good company. >> yeah, he was. it looked like a really fun night in washington, too. he had meryl streep, neil diamond, cellist yo-yo ma. sonny roll lins. one of the real highlights last night, i can't wait to see the highlights. rendition of sweet caroline led by smokey robinson. a crowd of boston red socks fans. caroline kennedy was singing along. it links back to her dad. kash row line is the name sake of that neil diamond classic. cbs will be broadcasting the entire show on december 27th. >> that sounds like fun. one of my favorite tunes, by the way, a.j. thanks so much. >>> you want any information on everything breaking in the entertainment world, a.j.'s got it every night. "showbiz tonight," 11:00 p.m. on hln. >>> is sexting out of control with teenagers? it happens far less than people think. we've got the details straight ahead. ♪ ♪

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started recording in 1961 when he was known as little stevie wonder. when he released an album he was billed as the 12-year-old genius. truth in advertising. he was indeed a genius. >> this lady is from new jersey. which cast member of "friends" danced with bruce springsteen in his "dancing in the dark" video? >> courtney cox. >> okay. this is ridiculous. let's see if we can go all the way with getting -- these aren't easy. courtney cox was in that video. where is she? >> yeah, yeah. >> she gets on stage? >> she gets on stage. classic video. classic bruce springsteen dance moves. she was about 20 at the time. this was like a decade before "friends." >> oh, my gosh. wow. >> this was actually shot at a real bruce springsteen concert. the bit where he pulls her on stage is totally staged. >> look how young he is, too. back across to kath. >> we were all young once, hoda. from florida, this lady. which artist had the greatest number of top 40 singles in the 1960s? elvis presley, the beach boys, the beatles or the four seasons? >> i'm going to have to say t

thats what the stevie johnson game that we talked about on monday, had some fun with. >> sanchez wasrible except for the four touchdowns. >> he is one of the more overrated quarterbacks. sanchez, they're 6-5. they have been to the afc championship the last two jurors. you got to give them cede feat that. statistically, he is not great. his qb pass rating is only 08.9. it is not like -- only 80.9. rex and the boys have a chance to get him. there is steve you johnson last week and does the shoot himself in the leg. he will crash land the jet. >> you just love showing this. >> i really do. >> we're in the playing the bills. >> get stevie johnson off the screen. >> here is the defense. it is not as good and that is just a great play by brad smith there tipping the ball up. but i don't know that -- if you get him in single coverage, i think you've got a chance to make some plays. >> i think the skins will win. >> the jets are not a great road team. i'm taking the skins. >> i'll agree with one little asterisk. i think the skins defense wins the battle. the running game whips the bat. it wi

i remember my mom gave me michael jackson's "off the wall" and stevie wonder's, i think it was "hotterhan july." study these two and how they use their instruments. >> seems like michael jackson has been a big influence? >> definitely. >> i can almost say there would be no ne-yo if it weren't for michael jackson. he set the blueprint for what it was to be a serious artist. ♪ >> toward the latter part of michael jackson's life, you had the opportunity to work for him and write for him, right? >> yeah. we were in the process -- i was submitting songs to mike. i got a chance to meet him which was surreal. >> i got to ask you. that's the biggest question. what's it like to meet michael jackson? >> fis first words to me. do you know what your favorite song is? i stepped outside myself and said michael jackson has a favorite song of mine. he said it was "gone girl." ♪ >> he sang a piece of it. and i would have fainted, you know. were i less of a man, i would have fainted. >> there's a few peepgs you have exceptions, michael jackson, mohammed -- >> fan nattic out a little bit. but i kept it t

. >> to be invited by stevie wonder to sing for barack obama and michelle obama. it was just, it was awesome. we were very much involved in campaigning for them. so it was just awesome. and the awards and all those things, do you what come from your heart and what you enjoy, to be rewarded and applauded by people who are just wonderful. it is amazing. a blessing. >> what's so interesting about you two, you all finish each other's sentences. you seem more like sisters than two years apart. >> my mom says that we're twins born two years apart. >> when you say you do it your way, some secular influences in there. i've heard of people who say, i've heard of people who have been in clubs. and they hear some of your music sometimes. >> sure. we make music for the world. >> our perspective on christian life may be a little bit different. we moved into an urban neighborhood and my dad did a lot of prison ministry. and it was a lot of thugs and roughians in our neighborhood. my dad's position was to always share with them. with the nears weren't there, to instruct and enco

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famous friends appearing on the album include eric clapton and stevie wonder. that's your eye on entertainment. cbs news, hollywood. >> thank you for keeping your eye on us and watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. good morning. i'm andrea roane. >> good morning. i'm mike hydeck. >>> [ voices talking

around fifty trying to be positive with all the time consuming work on where the country mr michel stevie's one of the experts for believe that's why he should not only be supporting hospitals it's time to meet not long ago you can reach strict now seven million people to people all around the world that's a great success of education tolerance says pacific. fleet. the city didn't come to a show how i know how are your thank you thank you very much for being with us well well i know you are tired you had a pretty rough schedule so once again thanks for having the time it's my pleasure i do want to thank you well first of all i want to start with a compliment i'm not saying nice things to pay well for the last five years and i'm not. new cases of hiv infected people in more in their own thirty countries has dropped more than twenty five percent and aids connected mortality fell by twenty percent what contributed to these figures which is you know i have to just say that for two years the goal we have to remember that this disease was a disease a bar for stigma discrimination people were hims

. >>> in the nfl buffalo wide receiver stevie johnson is out 10 grand this morning. find him for this. his over the top touchdown celebration and last sunday's loss to the new york jets. johnson was mocking jets receiver plaxico burress but pretending to shoot himself in the thigh. burress did just that in a new york city nightclub in 2008 and later went to prison for illegal gun possession. >>> when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. >>> and the amazing new contact lenses that not only help you see, they fight disease. save up to 30% on select kong® products and save $6 on select iams® cat food. friday through sunday only. at petsmart®. -why? -why? -why? [ female announcer ] we all age differently. roc® multi-correxion 4 zone moisturizer with roc®retinol and antioxidants. lines, wrinkles, and sun damage will fade. roc multi-correxion. correct what ages you. roc multi-correxion. this was the gulf's best tourism season in years. all because so many people came to louisiana... they came to see us in florida... make that alabama... make that mississi

. >>> some on-the-field sports news in the nfl, buffalo receiver stevie johnson said he's done performinglatest earned him a $10,000 fine and widespread criticism. the league punished johnson for mocking jets receiver plaxico burress by pretending to shoot himself in the thigh. johnson would not discuss the fine. he did post a picture on twitter of an envelope he found waiting from the nfl, in his locker. >>> johnson says he apologized to burress for the incident and is now focused on the bills' sunday game against the titans. plaxico said immediately after the game, he thought it was funny and it's water under the bridge. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, newt gingrich lays out his case as a real conservative in the republican race, a case he says includes his defeat of communism. >>> and when we come back, we'll huddle around the water cooler to watch brian williams confront jon stewart in the daily show kitchen, with a bullhorn. "way too early" coming right back. [ elevator bell dings ] ugh, great. you may be going up, but those roots are bringing you down! try root touch-up by nic

kurzweil has patented over two dozen inventions, includint the first music synthesizer, which he sold to stevie wonder. president clinton awarded him the national medal of technology, and few have more faith in technology than ray kurzweil. >> computers are already better than humans at logical thinking. it is our emotional intelligence, the ability to be funny, to get the joke- that is the cutting edge of human intelligence. that's the most sophisticated, complicated thing we do, and that's exactly the heart of my prediction that these computers will match us in emotional intelligence, which includes our whole moral system. >> if the entire realm of the spirit is reducible to electrical synapse, then we can reproduce it eventually in a machine, because electricity is at the basis of the machine. i deny that premise. i think that there is more to human beings than reducible to measurable stimuli, and in that regard i don't think that machines are ever going to be able to be human. >> reporter: undaunted by his critics and skeptics, kurzweil is so convinced that artificial intelligence will one

forty two year old was well in eight years afterwards but instead he did he love the five years of stevie heavyweight champion to make it next. football match to city keep their unbeaten run going in the english premier league they thrashed norge five one of the stadium to remain five points clear of manchester united. toure a ballot tally and johnson all on target in the demolition of steve morrison with a consolation to the canaries manchester united states second after one the victory at villa park phil jones with the winner of their strong get heavy handed and for several weeks after damaging ankle ligaments and elsewhere in the third green or victory over ten man bolton chelsea returned to winning ways with a premier win over newcastle and therefore while arsenal moved up to fifth after their four nil wins at wigan scored all of black wins gold in their fourteen when i respond to that p.p. on west brom three one one so as for who will win. title is still anyone's according to spurs boss harry redknapp. we were in good form but are just poor just think you've got to keep winning becau

i was influenced early at the age of seven i met stevie ray vaughn ... his drummer has been in the band with us for years we have a stellar lineup we're really excited to be here and the new cd is doing really well it came out in august the fans really dig it it has been the first studio record we've done in a few years and many are saying it's our best we are going to do our first single off this new album ... [music "never lookin' back" by kenny wayne shepherd] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] light up your season with a brighter, whiter smile. with crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. it penetrates below the enamel surface to whiten as well as a $500 dentist treatment. the secret's in the strip. for a smile that's sure to stand out. crest 3d white professional effects whitestrips. use these products together for a whiter smile in 1 day. life opens up when you do. we are happy to have that grain moving nonrain moving on >>there were over 3 in. in the southern suburbs and here in chicago we ended up with a respectable inch and a half of accumula

and i'm like, "well, i just finished doing the opening act for stevie wonder, and there were at least 10,000 people there. i don't know, it was dark, or whatever." and they were all just laughing at me. i'm like, "why are they laughing at me?" >> hinojosa: and you had also opened for menudo, right? >> yes, i did. >> hinojosa: menudo in manila. >> yeah, they were huge. >> ming: and you were the opening act. >> they were huge. everybody my age and maybe a few years older or younger will remember who they are. that's, like, the original boy band. and they were huge, so huge. and they were beautiful, and so nice. >> hinojosa: so you met ricky martin? >> of course i got to meet ricky martin. and i remember him being really... just really sweet and adorable. he grew up to be really handsome, and he was really, really great looking even back then, when he was, like, 13. >> hinojosa: did these guys know, kind of, when they saw you, who you were, and the fact that you had this background, or did they just think, "wow, we have just discovered, like, an amazing talent here." >> hinojosa: at the

statements and creates diplomatic incidents whenever he opens his mouth that's a good point you know stevie you know i mean i know that in america being american but being american myself i know foreign policy doesn't always play a big role but at the same time personality does is this the kind of thing that you know even you think republicans are going to buy into as we go to the primaries because that's just walking into a room and pulling a pin on a hand grenade and throwing it you know randomly. well you know what came out today peter is that back in one thousand nine hundred three after the oslo accords you have newt gingrich embracing yasser arafat and his aides at the time are saying that gingrich said to arafat i've got some great ideas on how you can quickly bring a palestinian state into being and now you have this radical flip flop where he's saying he's entered the palestinians and i think i think what this speaks to you talked about personality peter i think what this speaks to is gingrich really supports whatever seems to be the best for newt gingrich at that moment in terms o

. >>> from tickling the ivories to tickling the ballroom floor stevie wonder says he wants to competeson's "dancing with the stars." he is busy losing weight. when he reaches his goal, he will compete on the show. he would be the first blind celebrity to do so. >> i have just heard everything. >> he is capable of doing it. >> we do not know what his technique will be. >> gordon peterson is live with a look ahead. >> very interesting week in politics. herman cain is out suspending. newt gingrich is going up. we'll take a look at how the former speaker of the house is trying to get himself into an even better position. the occupy protest in washington will be swelling in the next day or two. they will get some help from the midwest. that is coming up at 6:00. >>> we have some rain moving into the area. >> a few showers overnight. especially for the day on wednesday. let's start with our storm sedan. there is a cold front through the tennessee valley. a lot of rain ahead and behind it. it is going to be a slowly evolving process. areas of low pressure are moving beyond the front. it will

in an interview in parade magazine caroline described stevie smith as her adversary this hall is maimed for. if asked if she was always the heroine of course, would you want to go bed knowing stevie smith triumphed over you. [laughter] >> we'll open with a brief introduction from the triumphant horse woman in our mist and our panel will include michael described by "newsweek" as the leading presidential historian who wrote the introduction to this new book as well as its extensive annotations. and richard k. donahue, a member of the kennedy administration, the vice chair of the kennedy library foundation board of directors who knew and worked with jacqueline kennedy in the white house, here in massachusetts and during the 1960 campaign. we're delighted to have ted widow mr. a former speechwriter for president bill clinton and now the director of brown university as the evening's moderator. toward the end of the program we'll take written questions from the audience. there are index cards available and staff will collect them from here. we have vicki kennedy, katherine kennedy townsend,

generates at the media level i think it's it's a little bit more vague i think it's that the can stevie center the acceptable versus not excess not acceptable continuum has been so defined as being a warmongering neo conservative for so long that anybody who's outside or saying something different than that is almost reflexively below as unpalatable and unacceptable no matter what the polls actually say about where americans are on that issue so i think when you hear bill o'reilly saying that i don't necessarily think go riley's thinking about the military industrial complex and enriching them i think he's basically saying look for ever since i've been in the media i've been rewarded for it and militarist presidential candidates and politicians as acceptable and good and people who indict war and question militarism as bad and so i think it's just that sort of reflexive this that anybody who questions the orthodoxy is seen as apostasy. and so we talk about young voters specifically because we know the ron paul does have a dedicated lead in the young voters that follow him that are colle

near- record crowds of people packing nightclubs to see the kardashians, the black eyed peas, and stevie wonder. a major rebound las vegas has experienced this year. the three major u.s. stock indexes up. indicating a slightly higher open at the moment. sam's is offering free health screenings for members. this is designed to highlight its stop smoking program that includes a free smoking cessation consultation as it competes with other drugstore chains. free help the snacks are also involved. claude and bloomberg headquarters in new york, linda bell reporting for abc 7 news. happy new year. >> same to you. >> sounds like those events could be fun. let's go to indiana. >>> it is 37 >>> you don't have to be a bookworm to appreciate this. a toledo library has a copy of a book first printed in london in 1756. the title is a mouthful. "historical account of the expedition against ohio indians. " >> you could say the phoenix zoo is going ape over a couple college bowl games. >> and orangutan orangutan chose between footballs with the logos of each team. she has oklahoma beating iowa and stanf

las vegas expecting near record clouds as people plan clubs to see stevie wonder and the car- kardashians. stocks rebounded yesterday. stanley black & decker helping the bloomberg maryland index yesterday. verizon among yesterday's gainers afterward its wireless unit will start charging $2 every time people pay the monthly bill online or over the phone. some freebies -- sam's club offering free screenings to check for things like cholesterol and body mass index. have a new smoking cessation program which includes a free consultation. free snacks are also involved. i'm jane king for wbal-tv 11 news. >> could you imagine going to a party to see the kar dashian? fumbles and high scores. everything a good blwoowl game should have. >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. how do you plan to ring in the new year? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. luck.od >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus toge