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ted williams went from homeless to a household name because of the voice of his. of "a golden voice." welcome. >> thank you so much for having me, mr. morgan. >> do you feel slightly surreal that your life has brought you now to a show like this? cnn, primetime talking about your life. given where you've come from. >> i think the overwhelming part of it all has lessened, but yes it still is like my god, when it is going to stop. i feel so grateful. >> you feel like you got a second chance. >> yes, a second chance is definitely what i've gotten. >> you've written this book "a golden voice." obvious title. i remember when i first heard that, you have mixed feelings about it when you watch it yourself. i want to set the scene really for what happened before that. because your life for a long time was pretty good. you know, you grew up in new york. you were born in brooklyn, happy childhood. you spent three years in the u.s. army. >> that's correct. >> you went to school for acting, voice acting. you fell in love with broadcasting. you got a job in radio. you worked y

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you may remember a reporter discovered ted williams on the side of the road in 2010.cently wrote a book about his rocky recovery and talked about it this morning on the "today" show. >> all through that journey i never stopped praying. i never lost hope, matt. i never did. i would ask god, please, let my mother and myself stay alive one more year, lord. please. let a life changing turn-around happen in my life so that my mother would not close her eyes saying i did a bad job raising this child. you know? and every year it would get more and more difficult to accept. as i mentioned to you a year ago that i was going to mark 2010 as another year wasted. but it actually was the year that i found christ in my life. >> williams admits he has had setbacks with drugs and alcohol since his bout with fame in 2010 but he says he has been clean and sober since may of last year. >> looks and sounds great. >> he sure does. >>> fans now have a chance to own a piece of the king of pop. michael jackson's costumes are going on a worldwide tour. >> clothing created by the jackson long-

an inspiring story comes along that resonates with people of all walks of life, like the one of ted williamsess drug addict living on the streets of columbus, ohio. that's when a local reporter saw him panhandling and posted this youtube video. >> ted's life changed dramatically. and now he's written about his life in a new book called "a golden voice." and it's so nice to see you again. >> hi. how are you both? >> it's been a little over a year. since he was with us before. >> yes, ma'am. >> a lot's happened. fill us in. >> a lot of things happened. i'm currently working for the new england cable news network, necn. i still have an ongoing relationship with kraft macaroni and cheese. >> of course you do! >> and the book. and then i have a website, tedthegoldenvoice.com where i'm doing personalized voicemails. >> but tell us what happened yesterday on mother's day. >> i went out with my mother for the first time in over 25 years. i hadn't even given her a card in those many years. and yesterday we went to church. we had a church service and we went to dinner. >> well, last we saw you and you

for example, this video made ted williams an overnight star last year.o what is the man with the golden voice up to now? ted williams will join us. an update on what's going on. he's written a book. that and much more as we start on a monday morning. back to you. >> it will be cool to see him. all right. see you in a bit. >> thank you very much. >>> 6:36. 64 degrees. another controversial magazine cover will have you doing a double take. >>> a news4 health alert. how the benefits of red wine could help stop an epidemic plaguing the country. >>> texting and walking is illegal and will cost you $85. >>> we'll see off and on showers today. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? upgrade to verizon fios tv, internet and phone for just $89.99 a month guaranteed for two years with a two-year agreement. this is a limited time offer, so don't wait. get fios at this great low price. act now and you'll get $250 back. but hurry. this incredible offer ends june 2nd. call 1.888.get.fios. fios. a network ahead. call the

after that, at bat, strasburg, now 7 for 17, batting .412 on the season, look out ted williams.t batter is espinoza, deep to left, major bomb off mike minor the pitcher. espinoza's fifth of the year, nats up 4-0. bottom of the fifth, strasburg facing uggla with a 4-2 lead. uggla, first hit against him today is -- just out of the reach of bryce harper, the two-run shot ties the game at four. you know he wants that bat. the team, they have his back. the team, the pinch hitting king here sends it deep to the gap in left center. ian desmond scores. nats retake the lead. but tracee, not good, comes up lame, forced to leave the game. right now, the nats lead 7-4 in the seven enth inning. >>> chris davis and the orioles looking to improve against the royals this season. scoreless in the bottom of the second. dav davis deep, drilled to left. the solo shot is chris's eighth homer of the season. orioles take a 1-0 lead. later in the inning, two on, two out for avery. he skies one high to left. alex gordon and jerryd dieson, look out. both went for it, collide, a very scary scene, both dow

ted williams once worked in radio but lost his family and home after years on drugs. you may remember a reporter discovered him on the side of the road back in 2010. williams recently wrote a book about his rocky recovery and talked about it this morning on the "today" show. >> all through that journey, i never stopped praying. i never lost hope, matt. i never did. i would ask, god, please, let my mother and myself stay alive one more year, lord, please. let a life changing turnaround happen in my life so that my mother would not close her eyes saying, i did a bad job raising this child. and every year it would get more and more difficult to accept, as i mentioned to you a year ago, that i was going to mark 2010 as another year wasted. but it actually was the year that i found christ in my life. >> that's some voice, isn't it? williams admits he had setbacks with drugs and alcohol. since his bout with fame in 2010, but says he's been clean and sober since may of last year. >>> 11:24 is the time now. coming up news 4 midday, he was one of the first people to to get a ca

the man with the golden voice, ted williams, will be live with an update on his life, which has gone from homelessness to fame and to rehab, and actor liam knee sen will be in studio to preview his latest action-packed thriller "battleship." >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. have a good one.

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appropriate out of respect for clients' beliefs our legal panel is here, jim hammer an attorney and ted williamswhat do you think this woman showing up dressed like this and asking all the other women. >> have you ever heard the word clown. i am saddened we had a lawyer involved in this legal process acting in a manner that was just totally inappropriate. she acted like a clown. i'm upset that the judge didn't take control of this courtroom. what i would have done is held her in contempt. she would have addressed and she was not appropriately dressed. from what she says, she was doing this because these guys were going to be looking at the women and turned on by the women in short dresses. this is utterly ridiculous and embarrassing for a lawyer. >> yeah, let me put it into context on ted's last point. i love the irony. these men are responsible allegedly for the murders of 2976 people but they don't want to look at women dressed in skirts because they will be committing sin. what about what happened on 9/11. those weren't sin that has happened. the whole thing for me is nauseous. you take it a

ted williams never batted .1000.ean, my credibility is only as good as the latest program that i'm administering. and you can't do these projects worried about what people are going to think. >> but is your most powerful weapon your reputation? >> definitely not. my most powerful weapon are the checks going out. that's all that matters here. >> show me the money. >> show me the money. show me the money. >> and he did. by january of 2012, kenneth feinberg had paid out nearly $6 billion to over 200,000 claimants. but not everyone wanted to make a deal. tens of thousands of others have decided to sue bp. and coming up, trapped chilean miners consider desperate measures. >> [speaking spanish] >> male translator: i had to think about which miner was gonna collapse first. and then i started thinking about how i was gonna eat him. >> the 33 when 60 minutes on cnbc returns. almost every day i walk into the office and somebody asks me a question about the volt. what really blows them away is when i tell them i almost never go

[ light laughter ] i'm watching the one on ted williams, the baseball player.ry of baseball. at the peak of his career, signs up for world war ii, becomes the most decorated fighter pilot in that war. goes to back into baseball. he's the last guy to hit 400. sleeps with every woman in the country 20 times. signs up for the korean war, gets five more medals. and then, the show ends, right? i look at the shelf above my tv. there's a picture of me in fifth grade, holding a three-inch sunfish. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you get a little bummed out. you get a little bummed out. >> so this is -- >> jimmy: how is -- how is artie lange doing? how is he doing? >> artie -- artie lange, folks. is there anybody -- [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he's one of the funniest humans. >> jimmy. >> jimmy: as well as you, but he's great. >> he's like a good athlete. he makes you better, you know? like a good point guard makes the team better? >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. >> he's just brilliantly funny. and i watch him eat three submarine sandwiches in under six minutes. >> jimmy: yeah, y

make this point in your book, jim, that clark gable, jimmy stewart, glenn miller, joe dimaggio, ted williamsrved. the notion that anybody in public life would go to war is am anathema to the country at this point. >> david, there is not a national focus on veterans, veterans fairs, health. you know, the sacrifices that they have made. do you sense that you know, as the president and the first lady have made more of a push to bring veterans' issues to the forefront that has changed attitudes at all? >> i don't think it's changed attitudes. americans are very proud of their military. they want to quol them home. they want to honor them. people don't know how. there's such a gulf of experience between veterans who are coming home with three, four, five combat tours and the rest of us who you know, we never go to those places. and we don't share those really searing experiences. i see this in airports all the time. here comes a gi in his combat fatigues and somebody goes up and says, usually an older person and says thank you for your service and welcome home. the guy says thank you very much. t

. >>> and this video made ted williams on overnight star last year.t is the man with the golden voice up to now? he'll join us in our studio. we've got that and much more ahead as we get started on a monday morning right here on "today." >>> a tornado put on quite a show in new mexico. take a look at this in central new mexico on sunday afternoon. the storm caught all on camera, didn't injure anyone surprisingly or cause any damage. national weather service says it wasn't too strong, but it may have been an ef-1. looks strong enough to me. stay away. >>> we have breaking news we've been talking about the police taking over the camp there in the garden plot in albany. occupy protesters have been there taking over that land since earth day when protesters set up that camp on a plot of land owned by u.c. berkeley. you can see the police lined up in formation. last week they were preventing any occupiers from going in. they were letting people out, but now they have invaded that camp, going to start breaking it up. all seems calm at this point, be they ar

talk to say it almost -- >> there is an untouchable number hit --00 and pretty much everybody, ted williams was the last to do it. pretty much everybody said that it would be more likely that somebody would hit 400 than hit -- 6 straight. not that it's so easy to hit 400 certainly. >> rose: so what was it like for dimaggio. >> it was an incredibly intense time. he was only 26 years old. we think of him as this fully formed icon. he came into our consciousness having had songs about him on the radio and of course married marilyn monroe and all of this. he was a living icon. and at this time he is a 26-year-old kid, a baseball star but people didn't know him before this. people in new york and san francisco or his sons certainly did. but throughout the course of the hitting streak it became partly because of the time we were in, just before world war ii and sort of fragile summer. became a really captivating thing throughout the country. and suddenly your grandmother was saying hey, did joe get a hit today. and joe was aware waf was happening. he was clearly aware of it and it weighed heavy o