how was it to compete with barbara walters? >> that's the great thing about barbara walters.d be extremely competitive. if barbara was going after that interview and i was, i was probably going to lose. i mean, there was just no question in my mind i was up against the big mountain, the big one. and it was so hard because she would develop these personal relationships with people and make them feel so comfortable that you just couldn't fight it. >> right. >> and you would lose. but every once in a while when i did get one, she was so incredible. she would mom me even though she wasn't old enough to be my mother. she would write me these notes and i'd think, i'm her most favorite person and then i ran into katie couric one time and she said, you know, i think i'm her most favorite person. >> was that the magic of barbara walt ters, she made people feel big and -- >> and comfortable. she became your friend. i was barbered one time. >> barbaraed? >> yes. when we adopted a child -- by the way, before i get to that, there are so many parallels between barbara and me. her father lo

with me barbara walters and howard k. smith and we'll be here for how long it takes to determine exactly what happened tonight. >> she landed countless big interviews over the years with everyone from world leaders to celebrities. >> yes. >> do you drink too much? in our country, we read that you are unstable. we read that you are mad. what kind of a tree are you? because you think you are a tree now. >> everybody would like to be an oak tree. >> mr. president, your supporters say you saved the banking industry from collapse. you saved the automobile industry. you cut taxes for the middle class. if you did all of these things, why are you so unpopular? >> well, first of all, barbara, i'm not so -- >> first i gave you the compliment. >> i appreciate it. >> barbara walters told me she won't comment on what she calls rumors, but a source familiar with the situation confirms that the 83-year-old journalist will finally hang it up a year from this may. walters gave up her oscar specials a couple years ago. she told me on this

and so on. >> walter, you make me think about public policy right away. if these tests are so predictive of future behavior, if it appears that a kid who can delay gratification for those 15 minutes turns out to get better sat scores, to do better at a job later in life, even, how would ode people in the public be reassured that such a test has at such an early age wouldn't brand the kid for life. >> particularly the kid was don't do well. >> that's what i am thinking, the kid was don't do well. do we then have kind of self-fulfilling prophecies about these kids that will sort of trail them all through their lives. what reassurance would they have? >> so the idea of being frozen in the position on the measure is completely off. we're talking about corelations that are significant. we're not talking about a destiny for an individual. so i want to be very clear that branding would be completely missing the point, particularly since the most exciting findings about the marshmallow experiments are the ease with which it is possible to change an individual's a

walter's busy, and i'd advise you... walter's busy, and i'd advise you to take a walk before you get placed under arrest as well for conspiracy, okay? stratton: greg, bring his coat when you come. okay. brown: and then we're there inside the house and i'm sure you can hear the radios and stuff and a guy come knock on the window and asks for the suspect and asks to make a purchase for crack. trying to cop a bag while we're there. usually you get those calls and you say to yourself, "there's not much we can do" 'cause they say, "he's selling drugs from the apartment." we can't go in there. we just drive by and we have to observe something to give us probable cause to further investigate. we get there and the guy's like "please come in the house. "i don't know what's going on, but it ain't right. come in the house and look." that kind of cooperation is what you need. if the community wants their neighborhoods back that's how they do it. we can't do it ourselves. officer: kelta, griffin, lehigh donnelly... yeah. kenneth... y

reed army medical center to what's now known as the walter reed national medical center at bethesda. pretty challenging the cultures that exist there, you have cultures that exist here, you are speaking about cultural differences between the military and its hierarchy of command and control and the civilian command and control and figuring out the two greatest things you need in the chaos of disaster. no. 1, communications. no. 2, who's in charge. i dealt with a lot of cultural issues when i was combining the army and the navy medical forces between walter reed and bethesda. america's army is an amazingly heroic army. they have occupied valley forge , tokyo, berlin, danang and now it occupies bethesda, maryland, but we're working through that. how do we break those cultural barriers, how do we figure out supporting supporters, how do we do that before the next capacity goes on? so what have we done, what capabilities do we bring, where do we use them and how will they be playing a role here in the event of the most likely nightmare scenarios for this area? i grew up in the bay area,

commanding several hospitals, winning several awards and his most recent command was as the commander of walter reed, and i was so glad that he was here to hear the panel that we had with our medical peer to peer exercise. and he's going to talk to us now about navy medicine. with that, please help me welcome vice admiral matthew nathan. (applause). >> thank you, general, very much. well, it's a pleasure here and i'm honored to be able to speak in front of such a distinguished audience. secretary schultz, mrs. schultz, pleasure it see you and you lend tremendous gaffe tas to this program. general spees, distinguished flag officers, general officers and mostly everybody here who is in the readiness business, i am honored to be speaking to a group of people and that would include i think everybody in this hanger deck who is part of that cadre of individuals who when bad things happen and everybody runs out, your job is to run in. it doesn't get better than this coming out here. the a's are in, the giants are in. back in dc's the national's had the best -- who would have thunk it. and being on thi

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i'm walter mosley, you know. and any real relationship i have is walter mosley with someone else. a lot of people accept me. a lot of people know who i am. a lot of people want to hear what i have to say. and this is different groups of people. i don't necessarily identify with these groups. ii just--i just go there. my ideal is just to be with people who deal with you one-on-one, who you are, what you are, where you're going. i identify myself as a black man in america because that's how america identifies me. i was in beverly hills two days ago and i had three experiences i went to a jewelers with my mother because my mother needed to do something with a ring. i walked in and they looked at me and i said, 'who do i talk to?' and they said, 'what do you want?' it's a jewelry store. what else would i want? you know, but i--i got over that and we did this thing. and then i went into a bookstore, and a woman came up to me and says, 'what do you want?' so i said, 'it's a bookstore. what do i want?' and she followed me until i asked her could i sign my book? and then she stopped follo

the first american to accomplish this was henry walters of baltimore. walters made a fortune consolidating railways and was reputed to be the richest man in the south. well-educated, well-traveled, cultivated, walters, like morgan, had a taste for precious objects. nevertheless, he felt it was important to include a raphael in his collection. in 1901 walters acquired the madonna of the candelabra, believed to be at least partly by the master's own hand. scholars attribute the virgin and child to raphael and the angels to an assistant. walters proudly displayed his madonna in a gallery which he built adjacent to the family house in baltimore. owning a raphael had a significance beyond that of acquiring a beautiful work of art. he was the only artist whose prestige had endured all changes of taste and fashion. the next raphael acquisition marked the coming-of-age of america as a nation of collectors. the small cowper madonna, which mrs. gardner had coveted, was sold to the wideners in 1914 for the highest price that had ever been paid for a painting. outs

walter zimmerman is chief technical analyst at united icaps. walter, welcome.n you drop a headline like that, another financial crisis coming, a market crash, you need to be here to debate it and defend it. why do you think that's going to happen? >> well, for one thing, if you step back and look at the bigger picture with the s&p 500, it's been rallying since 2009, yes. but it's formed a big bearish rising wedge. as if to underline the ominous implications of that, you're now getting divergence, sell signals on daily and weekly charts. >> you're basically making a technical argument as to why the stock market is going to have a massive correction? >> yes. >> a lot of that might be lost on some people. you're also talking about sentiment. >> yes. >> momentum. >> yes. >> things that people can more easily identify with. you're saying sentiment's too bullish? momentum's been too fast? >> sentiment is definitely too bullish. in fact, you have to go back to 1997 to find a period of time where this many people were this bullish for this long. and at least the 1997,

we will see if walter agree is.[laughter] >> i took these from what you said last year. >> you changed your mind. >> foremost among the irony is the majority conclusion that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance or pay the penalty is a legitimate exercise of the congress power to tax during the legislative debate the president and his allies are adamant that the mandate was anything but and so with full and not. it'll certainly wouldn't have passed there were no votes to spare. so the supreme court saved the signature legislative achievement at the obama administration precisely because it was with the administration said it was not and was not with the administration said that it was. early in the litigation in the case the administration invoked the federal antiinjunction act which bars the suits for any tax the government then argued that it was a tax. the suit would be dead on arrival. but the supreme court held that the mandate was just what economists call it, a penalty and not a tax. it cannot c

yesterday on the show barbara walters set the record straight. let's take a look. >> we love elisabeth. i like her personally, and she's a wonderful person. but beyond that we value and appreciate her point of view, it's important to us, because elisabeth helps give the show perspective and balance. and believe me she's tougher than she looks. she has to be, she is here for decades and takes the guff and what we give her. we have no plans for elisabeth to leave the show. >> if you want an endorsement, barbara walters is the person to get it from. they say brooke shields will be the top replacement for joy behar. i believe in bill getty. keep it on track. >> all right. what else? >> we know the boy scouts of america instills values in young american boys. there are over 100 merit badges offered, everything from camping, archery, community service, this week the latest badge of merit was unveiled in gaming. an honor that requires scouts to compare different types of games including video games. they are also asked to design their own game and explo

it's interesting to hear him disclose the visit to walter reed and one of the survivors. took place on the first week of february before the first

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barbara walters to retire at 83.y, abc news, her representatives and the publicist for "the true" offer nothing comment. >> man face murder charges for a deadly house explosion is now accused of plotting to kill a witness in'll november investigators say a microwave on a timer ignited natural gas in the home. the blaze just blew up the whole neighborhood. killed two neighbors. destroyed dozens of other homes. prosecutors say the boyfriend and girlfriend who lived at the home, plus his brother, likely rigged the explosion for insurance money. the trio faces murder, arson, and conspiracy charges, and now the prosecution claims the boyfriend, this guy, took steps to get a witness killed. even trying to hire a hitman. trace gallagher has the rest of the story. >>> we're learning the plot was part of a sting operation from inside the jail? >> exactly right. investigators were using a source from the very same cell block as the suspect, mark leonard, in the source convince edlen understand he was in a biker game. and leano

walter wriston would always say, i've got the person. the person's name is bill rose, but she can't take him. you can only borrow and. and here was the fun part. the fun part was every once in a while bellerose would go on vacation and every time he went on vacation, it was walter wriston you had to call him and tell them please come back to new york right away. so the joke was, and it wasn't much of a joke. every time he started talking about vacation, people got because they knew something was coming. with all the lessons he has developed and learned and applied to in terms of debt crisis. this one person said there is in a debt crisis that bellerose doesn't like. so ladies and gentlemen, our retreat tonight is to be with bill rhodes. ladies and gentlemen, "banker to the world." [applause] >> thank you area match for your very kind comments. i should mention that title of the book was the idea of mcgraw-hill, the publisher, just to get that straight. and i want to thank the japan society for inviting me to talk about my book, "banker t

we'll see if walter agrees. >> i don't, but go ahead. [laughter] >> i took these from some of what you said last year. foremost is the majority's conclusion that the individual mandate to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty is a legitimate exercise of congress' power to tax. during the legislative debate, i think we all remember this, the president and his allies were adamant that the mandate was anything but, absolutely not a tax. had they marketed this provision as a tax, the bill would surely not have passed. there were no votes to spare. so the supreme court saved the signature legislative achievement of the obama administration precisely because it was what the administration said it was not, and it was not what the administration said that it was. early in the, early in the litigation in the case the administration invoked the federal antiinjunction act which restrains the collection of any tax. the government then argued it was a tax. the suit to enjoy the tax, the suit would be dead on arrival. but the supreme court held t

that hearing could have lead to a dismissal of charges. >>> and barbara walters was back on tv monday after a bout with chickenpox. the 83-year-old journalist said she contracted the disease after a midnight kiss from actor frank langella. >> the big question today? will the bulls continue to run? the dow crossed threshold tuesday stocks 10 of its stocks ran new highs. among the most, home depot, ibm, and mcdonald's. on the flip side, aluminum maker alcoa, bank of america and hewlett-packard have not fared as well. those three were the worst performers. >>> elsewhere on what could be an historic move, "the wall street journal" reports the bnsf railway plans to use natural gas to power its railroads. >>> troubles continue to mount at jcpenney. the stock plunged 10% tuesday after a major investor dumped 10 million of its shares. meanwhile, jcpenney is fighting macy's for the right to sell martha stewart home goods. the domestic maven testified tuesday that she was shocked macy objected so strongly with her product deal with j.c. penney, saying it boggles her mind to be sitting there. >>

so we've been hearing these and now for somebody to be out at bethesda, or walter reed for six months, so this coming monday it will be six months is shocking. these are patriots, these are heros, but the congress does not know, and the person people do not know, so there is anable tkpwaeugs, and an obligation. the answer is to have a bipartisan group to look into this. there are so many things coming out months that of. jenna: you've had three things that obviously we haven't had on this incident. are you telling us that the fbi never mentioned to you over the last several months that there were survivors with what we hear could be extensive injuries at walter reed that you were never told that? >> i was told through some fbi people that there had been some people wounded but it was from telephone calls that i've had from people who were indirectly connected saying that there were a number of people out at bethesda, and one that i had a week ago said two months after the benghazi attack there were seven people, several seriously injured at walter reed and yet we have never heard anyt

new this morning, barbara walters is setting the record straight about the future of the "view" chopping down rumors that a co-host was being fired and denied she was being pushed off the show because of conservative views. barbara walters confirmed that joy will leave the show in august after 16 years. >> still ahead, americans are saying "i do" to more expense of weddings. >> how much couples are >> at 3:00, the chief operating officer of facebook is talking about her new book called "lean in" and at 4:00, the warning for parents to keep small reptiles and am filibuster -- amphibians away from children. new ads running on buses in san francisco that portray muslims in a negative light, shocking ads. that is at 4:00 and 5:00 today on abc7 news. >> brides and grandmothers are spending were more money to get married than in the past. wedding website shows that the acknowledge price of a wedding is at the highest point since 2008. >> so the recession is over, right? couples spending more than $ $28,000 for the big day. >> here in the bay area they spend over $5,000 -- 35,000. in manhattan,

this is damon walters and tim sheets.do some incredible stunts of strength and dexterity, with a weight bar in their hands. using all the weight equipment kind of in unique ways specific to parkours. it looks like a bunch of guys who don't know how to use the equipment. like who let these guys into the gym. using everything wrong. this is how they do it. >> they, of course, are goofing around with this stuff but what they're doing is incredibly impressive. throwing a huge medicine ball back and forth, doing backflips in the middle of it. doing a plank position while another guy does a hand stand and rolling the ball back and forth. it's intense. this is a backflip burppy tim calls it. they take their training outside of the weight room. >> that makes sense to me, jumping over the cushy blocks and on to mats for training that makes sense for parkour. >> when we see these guys jumping and flipping through the urban setting you wonder, do they get this strong just by doing these moves all the time? now we know. this is how -

the corrections officer claims that walter hit him.ording to the sheriff, cleveland never raised a hand at these guys. >> this guy is an accused child molester, if he did what he's accused of, it's awful. sure, fights happen within prisons. the difference here, it's not inmates ganging up on inmates. it's one of the guys supposed to be in charge of the prisoner's safe ift safety. >> the officer was a corrections officer for 15 years, he nothing on his record but is now on unpaid leave and out on bail. but he could soon be behind bars if they charge this guy. >> he's a crooked cop. he's a corrections officer who is criminal. >> they are all facing felony charges in relation to this inciden incident. >> steven, i have an inspirational ski video for you. in this video, you're watching him. him is covered with this yellow tarp. he actually has cerebral palsy. and is skiing on her spring break with her husband, eric on a biski. her husband is behind her guiding the biski. this is her first experience going down the slopes. >> that's awesome

barbara walters taking her place back on the couch at "the view." from chicken pox and a healthy barbara tweeting so nice to be back on "the view." thanks to all the surprise special guests to made my day even better. and regis telling a secret. >> you wish someone would wave a magic wand and you would have a full-time show again? >> in front of the abc president you're going to ask me that. is he looking at me right now? smiling? >> smiling. >> he's the only one in the whole company i like, you know. she knows that. >> and on abc, and are you doing another show? can we look forward to that? >> yeah, i think i will be doing another show. >> oh. (cheers) >> it hasn't been announced yet, so and everybody gets mad. >> go ahead. >> and is she looking? she closed her eyes for a minute. >> the new show? >> it hasn't been announced yet. >> well, announce it. >> tell us. >> oh, please, really? >> fox, fox is starting a sports channel. everybody is starting a sports channel now, where nothing, but 24 hours of sports. >> and espn has been dynamite, you know,

. >>> plus, it looks like bash are walters is retiring. how will the most famous tv news woman in history h sign off? "early today" returns in a moment. >>> welcome back to "early today." let me take you through your entire weekend forecast. i mentioned sprinkles in oregon. the west is good. rainy oklahoma to missouri. through saturday, anyone doing travel through the airports such as st. louis, chicago, up to minneapolis may have to deal with rain. we can watch showers in the west, san francisco and north. northern california has a chance of cloudy skies and showers. not causing many travel implications. same forecast for easter sunday. it won't wash out your day. not bad. traveling, couldn't ask for much better. >> not bad, i like that. >>> g.i. joe hopes to be an american box office hero. g.i. joe redemption is the big release over easter weekend. other newcomers the host in tyler perry's "temptation" should do solid business but will fall short of "the croods." that looks like fun. a baby girl was welcomed by kristen bell and dax sheph

>> i grew up watching barbara walters.nice to see a strong woman with such a great -- such an accomplished career in the industry and it's sort of sad to see her go because of that. >> van? >> i had the honor to be on "the view" with her, watching her. she's one of the best ever. she's able to keep the empathy high but she asks the tough questions and i just think it's a moment in history. >> yeah. very sad day. it will be a great valedictory fly-by tour lasting a year. we wish her all the very best. you have been one of the great interviewers in television history. i for one will be glad you're gone because you get so many great bookings which i may now have a sniff at. thank you to my all-star panel. i really enjoyed this. we'll get you back soon. >>> coming next, franklin graham joins me to talk same sex marriage, politics and faith in america as we head to easter weekend. >>> we need to come together to pray, to pray for these families that have lost their children, their loved ones, and we need to pray that god will j

the barbara walters retirement report. that's next ... the first time you ask with the google voice search. the droid razr maxx hd by motorola. droid recognition. droid powerful. the longest 4g lte battery in a razr thin profile. with 32 hours of battery life that turns an all-nighter, into a two-nighter. the droid razr maxx hd by motorola. droid-endurance. droid-powerful. >> shepard: barbara walters is reportedly getting ready to call it quits. telling lots of media outletsz that barbara walters will announce her retirement within a matter of weeks and it will take effect next year. she is 83 now and an an absolute icon in television. her careers lasted more than five decades. she has interviewed everybody from jimmy carter to fidel castro to lady gaga. that was memorable. she is also a co-creator and co-host on "the view" on ar that network or walters have confirmed reports of her retirement. long lines in the troubled island nation that's been threatening the world's economy with its debt crisis. officials in cyprus tod

barbara walter is reportedly ready to retire. news broke today, multiple reports that she is likely to retire may of next year. abc, the place where she hosted "the view" since 1997 in addition to prime time specials isn't commenting officially. walters is 83 years old. she's had some recent health problems. she had heart surgery in 2010, took some time off earlier this year to recover from chickenpox and a concussion. let's talk about it with bill carter who covers the tv industry for the "new york times." bill, good to have you on again. this is truly the end of an era when she retires. any idea why she's reportedly doing this now? >> well, she hasn't said. i think she will say. i think she will explain it, but i think this news leaked a little early, obviously. i think they were planning on her doing it on her own terms, on the show, probably in may, to say it will be a year from now. but i think, you know, given her age and given her health situation, it's probably just come to her it's a good time for her to stop. >> does th

new this morning, barbara walters is setting the record straight about the future of the "view" choppingown rumors that a co-host was being fired and denied she was being pushed off the show because of conservative views. barbara walters confirmed that joy will leave the show in august after 16 years. >> still ahead, americans are saying "i do" to more expense of weddings. >> how much couples are spending for the big day. >> at 3:00, the chief operating officer of facebook is talking about her new book called "lean in" and at 4:00, the warning for parents to keep small reptiles and am filibuster -- amphibians away from children. new ads running on buses in san francisco that portray muslims in a negative light, shocking ads. that is at 4:00 and 5:00 today on abc7 news. >> brides and grandmothers are spending were more money to get married than in the past. wedding website shows that the acknowledge price of a wedding is at the highest point since 2008. >> so the recession is over, right? couples spending more than $ $28,000 for the big day. >> here in the bay area they spend over $5,000

>> walter, what's your nickname?s on this case. >> what's her nickname? >> i have no idea. >> good man. >> come on. foxy knoxy. >> joe klein from the bleachers. >> what is it? >> foxy knoxy. >> that's her nickname? >> well, i changed my opinion on guilt and innocence. >> walter isaacson, thanks so much for being with us. >> i sent the check. >>> up next, another casualty of america's long wars, the backlog many service members face applying for disability benefits. we'll shine a light on it with joe klein and the founder efou. >>> no veteran should have to wait for claims. if there's anybody impatient here, i am that individual and we're pushing hard. we have put in place a robust plan to end the backlog in 2015. that's been our commitment. and we have today an automation tool that we didn't have two years ago. and it is called the veterans benefit management system. fielded to 20 of our regional offices. we have an inventory of about 875,000, you know we're taking care of business. >> that was the secretary of veter

my friend and former colleague barbara walters from abc news.e're just learning this afternoon her storied career is likely coming to an end soon. the "new york times" says she plans to retire next spring. barbara was the first female cohost of the "today" show, the first woman co-anchor on network evening news. she was an inspiration to colleagues not just women journalists but male journalists as well including myself and she has continued to land huge interviews with newsmakers and world leaders into her 80s including one with syrian president bashir al assad as the arab spring was erupting around him. there are also of course her interviews with presidents and the white house intern named monica lewinsky, which drew about 74 million viewers. here to talk more about it, my guest from the huffington post. jack, why now? >> i think that she is almost 84 years old. she's been on television for over 50 years. she's had a couple recent health scares. i think she is probably just deciding that it's time to step down. you know, she's had a legendary

soledad, this really isn't a surprise that the 83-year-old walters retiring.h to imagine television without barbara walters. the reporting is that she will make this announcement in may and that will let abc celebrate her career for a year with the specials and retro specials. we'll see some of the older barbara walters specials and ten most fascinating people. a lot to remember, because she had such an impressive career. we'll have our own really retro speculative. a timeline of barbara walters' career, a reporter, writer and panel member on "today" in 1961. and then promoted to co-host in '74. and hired away by abc in '76. she began the barbara walters specials and those became a regular program, and in '84, a host and correspondent for abc news magazine show "20/20." if you are an important person, chances are you were interviewed by barbara walters. it's interesting to see what happens with the daytime program "the view" going forward. >> thank you, nischelle. >>> still ahead on "starting point," several homes are still in danger of being destroyed by a la

you're watching "world news now." >>> "world >>> after more than a month away, our own barbara waltersback on the air at "the view. ". >> she is opening about her medical struggle. >>> our own barbara walters is back on air at "the view." >> abc's david muir has more. >> reporter: after six weeks off the air, barbara walters is back. >> you were treating me like, be careful, don't walk too fast. i am fine. >> reporter: when this all began, barbara had no idea she had come down with the chickenpox. she travelled to washington not knowing. there, she felt in her words woozy and fell, leading to that severe concussion. >> today i am fine and healthy. >> reporter: backstage at "the view," we learned a lot more. welcome back. >> do you want me to kiss you? or do you think i'm still contagious. >> reporter: only if we're rolling. barbara hoping to inform others, first on the chickenpox. the cdc estimating just 1 in 10,000 adults gets it every year. >> i hugged a friend who had shingles and from the shingles i got the chickenpox, because you can get that if you never had it. i didn't know. i

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that hearing could have lead to a dismissal. >>> and barbara walters was back on tv monday after a bouthickenpox. the 83-year-old journalist said she contracted the disease after a midnight kiss from actor frank langella. kissing and telling. >>> the big question today, will the bulls continue to run? as the dow crossed a new threshold on tuesday, 10 of its 30 stocks hit new highs. among the blue chips to gain the most since the dow's last record in 2007, home depot, ibm and mcdonald. alcoa, bank of america and hewlett-packard have not fared as well. they've been the worst performers. >>> elsewhere on what could be an historic move, "the wall street journal" reports the bnsf railway plans to test using natural gas to power its locomotives. >>> troubles continue to mount at jcpenney. the stock plunged 10% tuesday after a major investor dumped 10 million of its shares. meanwhile, jcpenney is fighting macy's for the right to sell martha stewart home goods. the domestic maven testified tuesday that she was shocked macy's had objected so strongly with her product deal with jcpenney, saying i

. >> now on "extra" -- barbara walters retiring?reaking news today on her exit plan and the clues she just dropped on "extra." >> no plans of leaving anytime soon? >> plus, is this the end of "the view"? leno back on his network bashing bandwagon. >> this is the season of miracles. we're number two. >> new details on his secret cries meeting. -- crisis meeting. >> new video, angelina talks for the first time about the rumors she and brad are secretly married. >> is that a wedding ring you're wearing? >> john edwards' daughter cate breaks her silence about her father's career-ending affair. >> rielle hunt are, have you ver met? >> now trending 2-year-old j.f.k. jr. playing in a cockpit, the mesmerizing lost photos. the breakout star of "the bible," tv's jesus on the headlines calling him -- >> hot jesus. >> then live with michael and maria. >> steal my heart. >> could i feel it again? i couldn't tell. >> maria's crazy backstage video diary as she fills in for kelly. plus steve harvey on being called the next oprah. >> there you go. h

walters is co-executive and co-creative director of the view. was absent from the show for six weeks recently with a concussion and the chicken pox. >>> and who knew the underappreciated cheese variety could have such value. yes, muenster cheese has its own black market. new jersey police arrested this guy, driving a truck with 21 tomes of cheese, he allegedly stole it from wisconsin? are you punking me? he was on his way to texas to sell it oen the black market. those 21 tons of cheese, we're told, are now headed to a charity. that's a lot of grilled muenster cheese. i don't believe that story for a second and you shouldn't either. >>> still ahead on "way too early," why are you awake? your texts, tweets, and e-mails are next. it's friday. "morning joe" now just moments away. [ female announcer ] made just a little sweeter... because all these whole grains aren't healthy unless you actually eat them ♪ multigrain cheerios. also available in delicious peanut butter. healthy never tasted so sweet. like other precious things that start off white, i

barbara walters is a bad girl. sit, barbara walters sit.inking what we would name our next dogs. maybe jim lehrer, come here. >> that's a good one. >> hal: i would do -- just call it -- you don't want to rub his nose in it like that. that's not right. >> oh! [ ♪ "world news tonight" ♪ ] >> stephanie: kids. "l.a. times." it will be a long, dull summer without jon stewart unless you're watching stephanie miller on the current television network. i'm behind bill maher and stephen colbert. thank you "l.a. times." you can see hal and john and i live at the chicago theatre april 13th. we were talking about this weekend, you can fly now with hockey sticks and novelty bats. in addition to knives. >> i'm so happy about. >> stephanie: you were telling me a story about your friend. >> i heard you talking about that earlier my friend, his last name is mafia. he used to drive around in his car with a hockey stick in the back. if someone cut him off, he would put it in his hand and be like having a bad day there chief? >> get out with a hockey stick and

now, barbara walters is reportedly calling it quits.s" is reporting the host of "the view" has just one more year on our screens. she's set to retire in may of next year. joining me now, bill carter with "the new york times." bill, i know you'll just confirm this here. the big question i have off the top of my head is, why now? >> i think barbara's, obviously, feeling like this is a good time. she's 83. she had some health problems this year. this gives her a full year to do kind of retrospective, do a farewell tour, and wrap up her career. >> you mentioned her health problems. recently, she talked about her chickenpox that she had. she took a pretty tough fall. do either of those, or either of those for health factoring into the timing of this decision, do you know? >> well, i don't know for sure, but i would imagine it has to be a factor. two years ago she had heart bypass surgery, so she's a person who's getting up in years and is looking for a way to slow down probably a little bit. listen, barbara's always been incredibly energetic

welcome baby lincoln. >>> veteran abc news personality barbara walters is reportedly set to retire in14 with an official announcement coming in the next three weeks. the 83-year-old has suffered from some health problems this year, taking her to take some time off from "the view." >>> british boy band one direction is cashing in while they can, smart kids. as the one-d tour opened its doors, fans freaked over those cardboard cutouts, and anything that featured the band. >>> "america's most wanted," the tv show credited with catching over 1,000 fugitives is going off the air yet again. and yahoo!'s song includes the fresh prince of belaire, and the golden girls, which is my pick. >>> and from crazy car crashes to stunning shark encounters, let's take a quick look at the week that was. it didn't feel much like spring early this week, snowstorms and fierce winds sweeping through parts of the country. in d.c., hundreds braved the almosts outside the supreme court, hoping to get inside same-sex marriage hearings. >> support for gay marriage is surging like ryan gosling in my dreams. knock