and i wanted to see tom hanks who i think is capable obviously of complex portraiture be allowed to act out those moments. we only had snippets of him sitting down and interviewing. i didn't get a sense from watching hanks how mechanicallery would have been. the other thing i didn't get from him and i'm not sure it's fault with hunger which might have been so immense. >> reporter: it had to be. switching from one paper to another was a great ambition and driving... >> i think hayes was making money like not before. >> charlie: very much alive today. had a personality that is, you know, larger than life. >> i guess he rather enjoys the portrait that is being presented up there. >> charlie: i think he'll be on the show maybe tomorrow. we'll talk more about this. i want you to see... obviously i knew mike and we lived in bellport and eddie lives there. and had talked to him. at different times in his life. here is one clip from an interview he did on this program. roll tape. >> usual be in one place. i am in one place. i'm happy now. and more quiet. because you know i nearly died in an acc

i think if tom hanks played jeffrey dahmer we'd root for him. in a way it makes i think aspects of mechanicallery were more powerful. >> charlie: you mean the overwhelming ambition. >> he's fun, tom hanks is, at the very beginning where he's going, hey, guys, here i am "and so forth. as it went on, he became the classic tom hanks every man i think. >> charlie: part of that is what he suffered in terms of the injury and going through the trial of... >> exactly. charlie: saying the wrong things about... >> yeah. he was chastened. when i was... in the advance pieces i had read that he was shown as being not terribly nice to his wife. i didn't get that from the play. >> charlie: not at all. sort of looked like a very good relationship. she was instrumental to keeping him... >> very placid relationship. she kept him grounded. >> charlie: this is nora talking on this program just three years ago or two-and-a-half years ago about her love of journalism. here it is. >> journalism was something that i was deeply in love with as anything i've ever been in

but tom hanks does not like people in your profession." (laughter) >> rose: she'd worked with tom a lot. they were good friends. tom spoke at her memorial with his wife rita wilson. >> it's been an odd experience for a lot of new york journalist and eddie, i'm sure as well because it's little splinters ouour lives. we're saying who are these people with our names and why are they singing these songs and i said this is what the von trapps must have felt like when they watched "the sound of music." >> every one of these people are exceptional, they made a huge difference in new york life, it's been a great pleasure to be around them. fabulous people. >> i want to talk about three or four things here and one of them is the time there is that and era that no longer exists? we still have to be lloyd journalism, we still have columnist ins. >> i'm read for you, charlie, i brought a show and tell. i knew you sked are tabloids still relevant and here is my little show and tell of the daily news where matt got his pulitzer and here is -- we have be

tom hanks. tom hanks? after me you're picking up tom hanks? i love him!i guess your hearing goes in and out, huh? yeah, i-- yes, it does. you know what i think? you made that whole thing up. no, no. i-- yeah, yeah, yeah. i know your type. you're too good to make conversation with someone like me. oh, god forbid you could discuss the jumbles! but to pretend you're almost deaf? that is truly disgusting, miss. and mr. tom hanks-- may i say he, too, would be disgusted by your behavior! excuse me. excuse me. oh, that's nice. that's right, ignore me. that's real polite. nobody's even talking to you. oh, you're a big lineswoman. like that's some kind of a cool job. you think you're too good for everyone. it's women like you-- what are you, deaf? bingo! you're saying she's deaf? i'm not saying she's deaf. she's deaf. can't hear a thing. can't hear a thing. you're dating? yeah. hey. hey. hi. i know sign language. really? when i was 8 a deaf cousin lived with us. i haven't been able to do it in a while. what is this about? i met this deaf lineswoman at the tennis m

. >>> tom hanks brings down the house. heidi klum comes to the rescue and a hugely embarrassing moment for the dancing judd. you're watching "early today." joo >>> welcome back to "early today." leave the umbrella behind, grab the sunglasses in cases. temperatures in the 70s in many cases. vegas at 84. phoenix at 91. then as we go into wednesday, much more of the same. the changes come three days from now. that's when a lot of people will break the umbrella back out from san francisco northward. a weak storm comes through providing light rain for many. that's three days from now. enjoy it until then. >> snow in some of the hills? what do you think? >> i don't know, too warm. >> i'm always thinking of springtime skiing, that's why. >>> now is your chance to own pieces of hollywood history. over 800 iconic hollywood props and costumes are hitting the auction block later this week. even marilyn monroe's bra from "some like it hot" is up for bidding at $88,000. >>> "dancing with the stars" had a bit of an awkward moment when l

. >> that is a tom hanks giddy and nervous, kenny chesnee is spreading the love. >> here is today's on the red carpet report. >> actress catherine jetta -- catherine zeta-jones is in a facility to treat herron going battle with bipolar disorder. a few years ago she checked into a similar facility. kenny chesnee started a fund for follow up therapy and donating proceeds from his new single saying quote, i want to give people as much as their lives back as possible. remind people there are more good people out there and it's up to us to spread the love. >> actor tom hanks made of a broadway debut. and won two oscars so i thought he knew what it would be like. the actor says it makes him giddy and nervous and could not be more special. russell -- for a list go to rachel smith in los angeles. >> still ahead at 4:00. >> our nation's capital people here in the bay area doing to help veterans get jobs. >> and abc news exclusive. jason collins talking about why he made the decision to become the first active pro in a major american sport to come out as gay. >> i'm michael finney. we team up wi

meeting tom hank was surreal and helped me realize when you're swerving your country, you don't tendthink about having civilians serve you. shows like "world news with diane sawyer" are helping veterans fulfill their dreams. abc news opened doors for me and for my daughter, as well. my name is staff sergeant gabriel posey, and this is my "world news" story. ♪ >>> all right, time to check "the pulse," stories people will be talking about beginning with president obama's less than stellar performance on the basketball court. >> he joined some children to shoot free throws but totally choked. only going 2 for 22 completely missing the first 18 shots. >> 18. oh, my goodness. >> which evoked some serious trash talking from the kids. got a nice jumper. good form. he just wasn't going down. it happens. happens to me in my driveway sometimes. >> surrounded by kids, expecting a lot from you. >> a little rotation on the ball. a good shot. >> he was nervous. >> hit that one, a little t two-footer. the white house got in on april fools' spirit posting this message on the president's website. >>

meeting tom hanks was surreal and helped me realize when you're serving your country you don't tend to think about civilians serving you. shows like "world news with diane sawyer" are helping veterans fulfill their dreams. abc news opened doors for me and my daughter as well. my name is staff sergeant gabriel posey and this is my "world news" story. ♪ >>> time now to check "the pulse," stories that we'll be talking about all day long and this one i think will be on the minds of everybody today. we begin with a controversial remark made by president obama about the california attorney general speaking about kamala harris, the president said she was by far the best-looking attorney general in the country. >> well, apparently the blog fear blew up with critics calling the remarks sexist and saying that the president needs some sensitivity training. reporters say president obama was just stating the obvious. >> she is pretty. >> she is pretty and in this day and age you got to watch what you say. probably best left unsaid. >> i agree. >>> when louisville takes the floor tomorrow night in a

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needlessly died in the drone wars and also they delivered coffins stacks of coffins in front of general tom hanks doorstep followed by a bunch of speakers a bunch of african american coalitions are protesting drones going into africa and also what i thought was really interesting the partnership for civil justice spawn a spokesperson from that was talking about the legality of drones in general and she was saying you know there's all these civil rights organizations across the country that are appealing to the obama administration in question in the gallery of these drones and she was saying we don't need to question of the galaxy we know there are legal at the time to act is now which i thought was a really powerful statement that she made absolutely i mean think of the number of countries that the united states is involved in these drone strikes with i mean we're talking this is not just afghanistan or or pakistan it's yemen and somalia it's mali it's just booty it's a number of different countries that are hosting these u.s. drone bases but which are now part of the american lilypad strategy i

with tom hanks. "splash," right? >> steve: right. well, yeah. >> jimmy: see?om atlantis? >> steve: with patrick duffy. >> with patrick duffy? >> it's the new hit show. it's sweeping america. >> jimmy: yeah, it's -- celebrity diving. >> the new celebrity diving show. >> oh! >> jimmy: you don't know at all. all right. >> okay. where am i going? [ screams ] >> i heard eight. oh, my god. okay. >> jimmy: that's not the attitude. >> okay, okay. >> jimmy: you got it! >> steve: you got it! >> jimmy: you can do this. >> okay. >> jimmy: come on, andy. we can do this. movie. >> okay. >> jimmy: two words. first word. [ laughter ] hop? spring. >> yes! >> jimmy: spring -- awakening. "spring break -- ers"! ♪ >> steve: "spring breakers," yeah! >> jimmy: all right, now, it's a showdown. we got the lead. 2-0. >> steve: okay. >> jimmy: whoever wins this wins the whole game. >> steve: okay. [ laughter ] >> are we playing all or nothing? >> jimmy: it's all or nothing, man. let's do it. >> this one right here, right? >> jimmy: yeah. >> i go. [ in unison ] >> we both go. oh, we both

the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play are, tom hanks, lucky guy, role laura metcalf,morton. >> okay. i'll pick up where you left off. the nominees for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical are, berti carville, fantana, rob mcclure, billy porter stark sands. >> that was good. >> thank you. i felt secure. the nominees for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical are bettina miller laura ozness. >> best revival of a play are "golden boy, orphans and virginia wolf. annie, pippen and rogers and hammerstein cinderella. >> the nominees for best musical are bring it on the musical. a christmas story, the musical. kinky boots, matilda, the musical. >> anything that surprised you? >> the most nominations for musical, kinky boots 13 over overover over matilda, which had 12. katie holmes wasn't nominated. alp alp al pacino was overlooked. >> it's so interesting that you have big names in hollywood that don't make it on broadway. i think a lot of people thought that bette midler was a shoe in for her performance. >> the

. >> tom hanks in "lucky guy." >> that opened just last week.a love letter to tabloid journalism and love letter to new york and a love letter to life and tom hanks is making his broadway debut with a really beautiful company of actors courtney vance and a beautiful company. >> and you have, also, coming out, the testament of mary. >> so "the testament of mary" is epic. fiona shaw. one-woman show. she is playing mary. mother of jesus mary telling her side of the story. and it is theater as only theater can do it. you sit in this house for 90 minutes and you know you are watching something you have never, ever experienced before. >> i love that. i don't know which one i want to see first. if i had to choose one -- >> "kinky boots" just opened so i would say come get your kinky on. >> oh, my. okay. >> and safe for your kids. okay. >> do you not believe me about the safety of the kids? feelings of mistrust. just because you brought your 7-year-old to mormon. >> i brought my kids to "book of mormon." they did love it, but the only young people in th

meeting tom hanks was surreal, and it helped me realize that when you're serving your country, you don'tend to think about having civilians serve you. shows like "world news with diane sawyer" are helping veterans fulfill their dreams. abc news opened doors for me and for my daughter, as well. my name is staff sergeant gabriel posey and this is my "world news" story. ♪ kentucky fried chicken we do chicken right ♪ >> oh, a blast from the past. kfc has been serving up its finger licking good fried chicken for more than 60 years using colonel sanders' secret recipe. now they're planning to have its biggest change ever so will fried chicken purists be calling foul? >> that was really bad. >> we'll tell you -- >> not good. >> what's in those greasy buckets. >> i want to start with an apology for bianna golodryga's bad puns. it was in the teleprompter. >>> this whole kentucky fried chicken thing is interesting, it's a generational shift. some of the young kids have grown up with chicken tenders and don't want to eat off the bone anymore. the colonel would not be happy with this. good morning,

he's right out of central casting, a mash-up of the mustache era tom hanks, mel gibson and nascar greatit looks like he's fixing a farm diesel, and then you realize that's on the space station. he's a space photographer. his twitter shows photos of staggering beauty, like a random collection of eight clouds over the sahara, the beaches of australia, boston at night because he's never forgotten what a staggering joy it is to circle the earth every hour and a half. in canada they have what they call the order of canada. it's a medal, a decoration for outstanding merit and distinguished service. recently three recipients were all on one snl together, paul schaefer, martin short and lorne michaels, all three crowd-deserving canadians. that got us thinking. so tonight, by the power vested in us, allow us please to nominate candidate chris hadfield, a future member of the order of canada, of the highest order. we will await official word from the government of canada. we trust they will do the right thing. >>> before we go here tonight, we wanted to give you a heads up on one of the stories i

means so much to -- watching steve martin, chevy chase, martin short, candace bergen, dan aykroyd, tom hanks. >> jimmy: and you. if that couldn't get cooler right there, you did a sketch and brought back -- >> right! yeah. >> jimmy: d-in-the-box guy. >> wild and crazy guys. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: and wild and crazy guys. look at this -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: the festrunk brothers. wild and crazy guys. and then 2:30 a.m. -- [ laughter ] who we know as d-in-the-box. >> yeah that's 2:30 a.m.'s first live television appearance -- you know, in person. >> jimmy: yeah, cause andy -- >> no one's seen them since their trilogy of debauchery. >> jimmy: i mean, they really are. i mean, because you had d-in-the-box, you had mother lover. >> right. >> jimmy: and you had -- >> and then we put -- then lady gaga 2:30 a.m. sandwich. >> jimmy: not gay if it's in a three way. yeah. >> there's nowhere else for us to go, by the way. >> jimmy: no -- >> i don't know how much more wrong we can get. so putting these guys in the -- >> jimmy: did they have names these guys? >> i forget what andy -- we just call

meeting tom hanks was surreal.g about having the things for you. shows like "world news" with diane sawyer are helping veterans to achieve their dreams. i'm gabriel posey. this is my "world news" story. >> now from abc7 news. it has been a windy morning in the bay area with winds knock out power and trees. a tree fell on a car in san francisco and on muni lines at portrero avenue at 3:00 a.m. another toppled tree blocked part of geary boulevard at 48th. on the great highway, the wind blow over street markers. it has closed the great highway because of blowing sand on the roadway. leyla gulen is here with a look at the traffic. >> san jose is looking slow along northbound 280 coming away from 17. the drive from downtown san jose to cupertino will be delayed but i have good news. sig-alert has canceled along highway 84 between skyline boulevard and here everything is open but the great hour is closed along the coast due to the sand blowing in 9 did >> good morning, here is how it looks at mount tamalpais with the gre

tom hanks, you know?lays a legendary newsman named mike mcilhery. it's a testament to tom's ability. because the lead character as written in the play was a pretty self-absorbed, kind of a jerk and so ambitious that he broke a lot of promises, he said he would keep secrets and he didn't keep. who knows how much of it is totally accurate. you've been a reporter for a long, long time and you certainly saw this. >> i was into it. it's so cool, it's kind of a little about the tabloid wars and the lengths you'll go to get the story and stick by it. it's a great, great, great show. >> amazing ensemble cast. laura tierney plays his wife and peter scolari is in it and courtney vance, a fantastic actress. and you're looking at people going, oh, i know you, i know you. you can tell he surrounded himself by people that he likes very much that are also very talented. it's there for a short, it closes on june 16th so see it now, if you can. >> we had a nice little lunch prior to that with some people who work across t

. >> excited for tom hanks.>> the play was nominated. >> very excited. >> nominations mean a lot. movie reviews are here. theater reviews are here. they really matter. if you're a theater and your show closes, you could sleep in central park within a couple weeks. there's not a lot of money. >> you have the passion. >> yeah. exactly. which makes it worth it. >> so, mo, what would you recommend to go see? i want to see "matilda." it's not adorable. it's about the little girl with bad parents. point of view of crucifixion from mary's point of view and i should point out that "matilda" would have met the nominations but couldn't because there are four women in the lead role. >> you can watch the 67th annual tony awards on sunday, june 9th, here on cbs. >>> mark cuban is with us in studio. we'll get his reaction to the big story in sports this morning. the announcement by jaceson collins. >> let's get reaction to the tony's as well. >>> how can something deadly be good for you? we'll look at the benefits of snake ve

actor and actress nominations go to some hollywood stars including tom hanks and cicely tyson.e way. over just this past weekend, high school students in cordele penned a new chapter in history after persuading the local school board to break with tradition they partied down at wilkose county high school for the first ever integrated prom. >> it's about time. it's about time. with the elementary school together and the middle school together they went through high school together and why can't we have our prom together? they came to the board with the idea. we did a resolution saying we agree with it and here we are. >> they realized, okay. even though my parents probably don't stand for this why don't i take a stand for what i believe in? people here are changing. they're really approving the hearts of people and minds are growing and all of us being together is just amazing. >> it really meant a lot because i didn't really think it would happen. i thought of previous proms they didn't have integrated so i felt good about it. >> this is really a great feeling to know we're par

aol was once ubiquitous that you've got mail was a movie starring tom hanks and meg ryan. that went away like the dodo bird. do you dream of getting that back? >> socom one thing i would just say is, you know, with still attends events the people who use aol mail. with aol mail. we attended as a people who use the homepage. i think aol is one of the most important brands of our time period. if you think about what aol did for the world, aol took something that was not very usable from a human perspective, put a human interface on it, scaled it out to the world. when i travel around passionate where aol has had brain issues has been a journalist space, the immediate space and the technology space, and a 99% of that has been related to the time warner merger. when i go out and i travel around a lot consumers can people do use aol, they love it. my guess is the amount of brand power that aol has over a longer time, that we will be able to resurrect. i do know if we'll be able to get back to the point where people are making moody's about it, but i think, i am pro aol, i am pr

it used to be -- i remember when tom hanks won his oscar for philadelphia, people said we'll guy a straight that. >> stephanie: yeah. >> hot is hot to young people. you know what i mean? i think they don't really care about their sexual orientation. they are so used to it as -- the generation of kids today and the statistics are something like 81% support gay marriage. could you ever watch "will & grace" or modern family and with afraid of a gay person again? >> stephanie: yeah exactly. it's like applauding a straight actor -- they are actors for god's sake. see goernny weaver is not really blue. >> wait, she is not? >> stephanie: the showers, people seemed to be inordinately focused on the showers, and i think that is probably one of the things that is good, i have been showering with gay guys for years. right? >> yeah, and one of my clients used to say that he thought the -- the fear of straight men of showering with gay men was inversely proportional to their attractiveness, okay? yeah, it is silly. >> stephanie: it is always the guys that no gay guy would want to go near. >> what are yo

. >> tom hanks is pretty good.is lines. >> this kid has a future. >> on to the news now. mark sanford one step closer to reclaiming his former congressional seat in south carolina last my. he easily defeated curtis bostic by claiming 57% of the vote. the former governor addressed people during his victory speech outside of charleston. >> i want to thank my god. you know, i used to cringe when somebody would say, okay, i want to thank my god. it was at that point, this is getting uncomfortable. but once you've really received god's grace and seen it reflected in others, you cannot stop and stop for a moment and publicly acknowledge that grace and the difference he has made in my life and he is making in so many lives across this state, across this nation and certainly in this campaign. and while god may be a god of second chances, at times, voters are a little bit less forgiving. >> sanford now faces democrat elizabeth coburn bush in the general election that takes place on may 7th. we will speak with mark sanford c

. >> aol was once so ubiquitous that you've got mail was the subject of a movie with tom hanks and megyan. that went away like the dodo bird. do you dream of getting it back? >> i would say we still have tens of millions of people who use aol mail. tens of millions use the homepage. i think it is one of the most important brands of our time. if you think about what a welded for the world, they did something that was not very usable, put a human inference -- interface on it and scaled it to the world. when i travel, where aol has had brand issues in the journalist in space, the space, the technology space, and the 99% has been related to the time warner merger. when i travel and i meet consumers, and people that use aol, they love it. my guess is the amount of brand power aol has over a long time, we will be able to resurrected. i do not know if people will make movies about it, but i am pro-aol. i think it is one of the most powerful brands on the planet. it needs work. >> how can you do that with the perception being that it is older people? >> people with money? i joke about that. ao