willard developed post-traumatic stress disorder. you were driven to try to commit suicide? >> yes. >> reporter: how close did you get? >> a gun in my mouth in a bathtub. >> reporter: how do you get to that point? >> i don't know. you just feel like there's nothing left. >> reporter: before he pulled the trigger he picked up the phone and called a fellow cop who convinced him not to do it. despite these brushes with death, with willard says the baltimore police department never offered him any psychological help. >> the mentality in the police department is if you go see someone or you're stressed you're a weak person. so how do you go on your own to see someone and expose yourself to ridicule? >> it's a hidden enemy. we don't really know it. we don't really understand it. >> reporter: baltimore police spokesman anthony gugliemi says they don't track p.t.s.d. numbers but nationwide it's estimated as many as 18% of police are suffering from p.t.s.d. because of willard's case and others like it, in the last year baltimore started to dispatch mental health teams to evaluate an

willard tappan on his 100-foot yacht. ppan rents the temple of dendur for his daughter's debutantball. half the names of e businessman's hall of fame. your husband collt these? that man stole all our moy. it was the same year johnny loshis job. he was unemployed for 14onths. what's that? your mother-in-law's check to mr. kinsky for $3,000. you reallyave to see it from our point of view, jnny. you said you hadn't seen kopinsky for a while. but our wiess saw you go in... heard you shouting. you know tt phone call i just h? my partneround the check your mother wrote to kopinsky. it was in your jket pocket. how did it get there how did it get from kinsky's office to your apartmt? what, did it fly? come on, johnny. you found out kopinsky was fleecingour mother after he had already fleeced u and you got mad. hell, i would have gotten d. may i please call my wif as soon as we're finished here. let's just wrap this allp. so you went downtown to get your ther's money back. what happened? did kopinsky stall you? no. did he laugh at

here's fred willard, everybody! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> wow. she says why don't you go out and see a movie. [ laughter ] you know, you wouldn't talk about this. the adult -- the whole adult theater thing. i thought they were gone. and i see this one. it had such a polynesian exotic look to it. i said, maybe there's hula dancers in here. >> jimmy: yeah. >> maybe there's mai-tais. i went in and i realized i was the only one awake and sober and conscious. >> jimmy: and conscious in the theater. do you mind me asking about this? can i ask you about this? >> absolutely, yes. >> jimmy: all right, yes. >> but, anyway, it was like a trip down -- "alice in wonderland" down the rabbit hole. fire away, i think there's -- all right. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: well, the movie you went to see -- >> yes. >> jimmy: -- was it "the firm?" [ laughter ] >> no. >> jimmy: was it "free willy?" [ laughter ] >> no. >> jimmy: was it "anaconda?" [ laughter ] >> no, sadly it was "get shorty." [ laughter and applause ] wait a minute. >> jimmy: at the end of that movie so

tonight, billy crudup, fred willard, and music from grace potter & the nocturnals. with cleto and the klee tones. now, first of all, here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> jimmy: thank you for watching. i'm jimmy the host. thanks for all of you for coming. i have some major late breaking karaoke news for you. steven tyler announced a few hours ago he will not return to "american idol" for this fall season. he put out a statement today that said i strayed from my first lover aerosmith, i've got two fists in the air and i'm kicking the door open with my band. it sounds like he might be leaving "american idol" to take karate lessons. i'm surprised by this. i don't understand how anyone leaves that job. we'll give you $20 million a year to just sit at a table and go i just wasn't feeling it for 12 weeks. but he left. steven tyler will no longer be a judge on "american idol" and return to his true passion beb bebazdazzling women's pants. i wonder who they'll get to replace him. is there anybody left? i'll miss that old lady. i really am. i'll miss the steven t

i did not like willard to start. that shows meet the level of intelligence, or lack thereof, in the republican party. host: the convention heard from rick santorum last night. it all gets underway at 7:00 eastern. mitch mcconnell and senator rand paul kentucky will speak. you've it -- you will see a short tribute to ron paul, the former presidential candidate. senator john mccain of arizona, followed by senator john thune and rob portman of ohio. at 9:00, the porter regan governor, tim pawlenty, former republican presidential candidate, and mike huckabee, who ran in 2008. wrapping up this evening, condoleezza rice, the former secretary of state, former national security adviser to president bush, susana martinez, the governor of new mexico, and the vice presidential nominee, paul ryan, will wrap up the evening tonight. all that coming up live on pre convention coverage at 6:00, gavel-to-gavel coverage at 7:00, live from tampa. omar is on the independent line. caller: i just wanted to say, president obama talking to t

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wi willard mitt romney. the soon to be for president of the united states. exactly who is he and just what does he stand for? >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. we need people bho recognize that pro-life is the way to go. >> people often say well who is the real mitt romney? >> i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> it's really all of those things. >> tonight, the making of a presidential candidate. his rise through business and politics. >> we took on an entrenched machine and we won. >> i live by my mormon faith. >> they're still right there beside him. that's everything you need to know about his character. >> i wish i had met that person. >> now, as his choice for vice president, what might a romney ryan administration look like? >> my belief is restoring economic freedom. and then champion shawl business, he will come across as by the few, for the few. everything he's done, he's been successful. >> there's the left-hand turn onto sunset boulevard. >> the year? 1994. in the news, the o.j. simpson case. the

. >> willard mitt romney. the soon-to-be republican nominee for president of the united states. exactly who is he? and just what does he stand for? >> i believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. we need people who recognize that pro-life is the way to go. >> people off ensay well, who is the real mitt romney, liberal, moderate, conservative? >> i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> it is really all of those things. >> tonight the making of a presidential candidate. his rise through business and politics. >> we took on an entrenched machine and we won. >> what forces have shaped the man? >> my dad was a huge presence in my life. i wish he were able to see what i'm up to right now. i believe in my mormon faith and i endeavor to live by it. >> all of these folks that worked with him throughout his life with still right there beside him. that just tells you everything you need to know about his character. >> there are people who know him personally and say he is a very warm, engaging person. wish i had met that person. >> and with wisconsin cong

he has so much -- >> fred willard was a great comedian and now they are pulling a fred willard. isn't this the legacy of the obama presidency? human beings replaced by avatars. jay she seems -- >> she seals a little one dimensional to me. she is a huge improvement over the people i normally deal with. and i fly a lot. i think she is cute. i think she has a lot of good answers. that would brighten my day. >> eventually these things will take away your job. >> i know this job right here. you won't know -- you won't need to worry about booking this end seat. >> we never worry about it. >> i want to see dude avatars. talk about warm weather we have to look at these gorgeous women at airports. >> bill, you will not be replaced by an a avatar is they won't want your job. >> the difference is i have feelings. it seems to me that all this girl is is doing what the former audio recording did, but it is more expensive. i don't noah lot about air travel, but i can't think of another example where they can better spend that money. can't think of one. let's make avatars, meanwhile look at th

and willard keeps going, i just want to explain it. no, you don't want that explained. what is the explanation? it was one thing to say i was pleasuring myself to porn. the other was to say i was there for the artistic value. that's disturbing. >> have i to take a break -- i have to take a break, and there is one side nobody talks about, this is an unusual neighborhood. the neighborhood where the theater is is residential. i don't think there is any businesses around this theater. that's why they put the cops. the cops go in there because the neighbors complain that there is stuff going on in there, and they want to get rid of the theater from the area. that's why they sent the cops in there. that's why that happened. >> you will not get rid of a theater by kicking out an old man. >> people won't go there anymore. why do i know this stuff? don't ask. >> don't think of leaving, we have so much pour. so much more. not really. maybe a little bit. >>> a new survey finds that 44% of women actually like pick up lines. my go to line is, hi, i am brett beir. and the survey foun

. >>> and fred willard may be look for a new job. abc pulled the plug on the two remaining episodes of the improv show trust us with your life. this is two weeks after his lewd conduct arrest in an adult movie theater e was let go from nare rating market warriors. -- narrating the market warriors. >>> a virginia man was working on his car when it fell on top of him. it turn out his 22-year-old daughter did what many would consider impossible. she moved the car that wade a ton and a half off his body. >> lifted it up here and kind of threw it like shoved my body into it as hard as i could and came back and dragged him out and started cpr. it is like oh my god i am going lose my dad. his eyes were opened and he wasn't responding. >> he was injured but is able to walk and you see him there. doctors say he is going to have no permanent damage from this. >>> you take a bite of a sandwich and usually like to know what it is you are about to eat. >> however stay with us this morning. there is the occasional surprise and what some say that h

you guys, we have bill cosby, fred willard, and no doubt on the show tonight!backstage to say hi, gwen stefani was like, "shh, don't speak." [ laughter ] thought that was weird. some big international news, you guys. scotland announced that it will legalize gay marriage. [ cheers ] i don't know what's bigger news, that scotland did that or that a country where guys wear plaid skirts didn't already have gay marriage. i just don't -- [ laughter ] but it's good. >> steve: it's great. >> jimmy: yeah. what's that one -- you have that -- what's our one scottish friend? >> steve: william fitzpatrick. >> jimmy: yeah, and what -- what's his boyfriend's name? >> steve: patrick fitzwilliam. >> jimmy: well, that's good. [ laughter ] >> steve: they get along. they were made for each other. >> jimmy: hey, guys, in sports news, alex rodriguez could be on the disabled list for a month after he broke his left hand on tuesday night. that's right, a month where a-rod can't hit. or as it's usually known, the playoffs. [ laughter ] check this out you guys. germany has opened a new

so where's the love for willard? for months palin's had a lot to say about romney. won't say is endorsement. joining me now is jonathan allen reporter for politico. thank you both for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> sophia, why would palin's support matter to the romney campaign? >> i think reverend al, your introduction was on point. palin appeals to a small but energized section of the base. that's the ptea party. the 2010 election was for the democrats. and i think she has been strategic about how she's picked these races that she'll endorse, who she endorses. and i think in doing that, the romney campaign really needs someone like palin who is a conservative darling to say willard's okay. romney's okay. and i'm really supporting him versus the lukewarm response palin and gingrich and others have given to romney up to this point. >> jonathan, she really has made it pretty clear what she thinks about romney. not only hasn't she endorsed him, she kind of said things that make it clear where she's at in terms of her opinion of him. listen to these things. >> ble

thank god though for willard scott or i'd be the oldest person at the "today" show.lard, stay strong, stay tough, stay healthy. >> today is julia childs 100th birthday, a world famous chef. >> she would have turned 100 years old today. >> there's a funny thing they did. they used a bunch of her things and put it to a song. it's been auto tuned. take a look. ♪ look at this perfectly done chicken ♪ the rosemary and garlic rosemary rosemary ♪ >> rosemary ♪ feed me feed me ♪ don't let it cook too long ♪ beat it to soften ♪ feed me feed me ♪ soften it soften it >> i like it. >> i met her a few times. she was absolutely delightful. >> we don't have any cocktails, which is very strange. what we do have is a bell, i guess they fell somewhere. watch, hold them. >> hear one. it's called ring for drinks. >> gary's not here today but we have gerard. >> gerard and wait a second -- >> the kitchen cousins! >> hi, you guys. >> how are you? >> i haven't seen you in a while. >> look how cute they are. >> they are adorable. >> how good to see you. what a nice surprise. >> i didn't know

willard mitt romney, 28%. >> yeah.t's -- >> david corn and michelle cottle thank you for your time tonight. you had a response david. >> that's it in a nutshell there. this guy had any sort of connection and wasn't so opaque and secretive, i think a lot would say we gave barack obama a chance, ill give this guy a chance. but he's too far removed and secretive about too many aspects of his life and campaign. and then you throw it we didn't talk about the flip-flops and everything else. it's just a very hard sell at this point in time. >> michelle, you wanted to add something? >> i mean, again, it just all comes back to if he seemed comfortable with his story that he was telling, he could be more comfortable with it. voters could embrace it. but he just can't seem to find a narrative that even he can get behind. >> all right. i didn't want to cut you guys off, but michelle, i don't want to give david the last word. david corn and michelle cottle, thanks for your time tonight. >> thanks. >> thank you. >>> coming up, presi

willard ross lanham is the lawyer of the man who likes to party.asking for leniency this morning, because he fears for his daughter if left with his ex-wife, laura, a self-described cougar. >> a cougar really is a woman that's going out and meeting young guys. and i tend to click with people younger. >> reporter: call it the cougar defense. lanham, once a hot-shot consultant for the department of education, lived lavishly with his then-wife 15 years his junior. he even named their street after her, laura lane. >> it was normal. he was making money. i don't think anybody would say, where is this money coming from because it never was huge. >> reporter: in march, a jury found lanham guilty of fraud. he's now facing 20 years in prison. but lanham is asking for just four years, saying his 17-year-old daughter can't rely on his ex-wife, calling her emotionally unstable. in a letter to the court, his attorney write, laura is going through a highly os tan ttentac period of her life. conducting herself as a teenager and dating men in their 20s. >> i'm not

tomorrow night, billy crudup, fred willard and grace potter and the nocturnals.ames. it's a new fiber one chewy bar. chocolatey and delicious. fiber one chewy bar, huh? mmm. refueled space captain james. [ male announcer ] new fiber one chewy bars. great taste kids love plus calcium and fiber kids need. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. >> it started off small but got really big really quickly. i was scared. i was scared. >> it burned so close to the homes resident could feel the heat and need to get out of the way. good evening everyone. dan and carolyn have the night off. >> fire grew so fast homes might have been lost if not for the quick response of firefighters and already calling this suspicious. burned next to highway 85 in los gatos where lilli

man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different fr

. >> reporter: willard ross lanham convicted of bilking schools out of almost $2 million is asking fory because he fears for his daughter if left with his ex-wife laura, a self-described cougar. >> a cougar really is a woman going out and meeting younger guys and i tend to click with people younger. >> reporter: that's right -- call it the cougar defense. lanham once a hot shot consultant for the new york city department of education lived lavishly in his mansion with his wife, 15 years his junior. he named the street after her -- laura lane. >> it seemed normal. i knew he was making money. i don't think anybody would sit there and say where is this money coming from because it just never was huge. >> reporter: a jury found lanham guilty of fraud, and he's now facing 20 years in prison. lanham is asking for four years saying his 17-year-old daughter can't rely on his ex-wife who he called "emotionally unstable." in a letter to the court his attorney writes, laura is going through a highly ostentatious mid-life crisis and conduct s herself largely as a teenager, attending nightclubs and

>> it was [ inaudible ] for some reason willard gets on chris matthew's last nerve.t least not that blatantly. i have been talking about the new book "it's even worse than it looks," but basically it argues that the core of washington's dysfunction lies with the republican party, and you talk about poor tom brokaw here, despite his attempts to cut the thing to death, he knows good and well which party latched on to the right side of those events. >> yeah, the fact remains -- i read a quote somewhere saying given the democratics of this country, this is probably going to be the last time they can use this argument. >> stephanie: yeah, you said what we have in this campaign is the joining of old republican money and straight out of the swamps of the wallace campaign 50 years ago. it's an unholy mess. you are exactly right. >> yeah they are talking a lot down here about tempering the celebration because of what is going on in new orleans. i don't think they can do it. chris christie is not here to give a moderate sober-side speech. he is here to stir up the crowd. >> st

now back to new york where they do what they do. >> willard, thank you very much.. >> announcer: toyota concert series on "today," brought to you by toyota. >> it's time to kick off our friday concert in rockefeller concert. without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, train. ♪ hey hey hey your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains ♪ ♪ i knew i wouldn't forget you and so i went and let you blow my mind your sweet moonbeam ♪ ♪ the smell of you in every single dream i dream ♪ ♪ i knew when we collided you're the one i have decided who's one of my kind ♪ ♪ hey soul sister ain't that mister mister on the radio, stereo ♪ ♪ the way you move ain't fair you know ♪ ♪ hey soul sister, i don't wanna miss a single thing you do tonight ♪ ♪ hey hey hey just in time, i'm so glad you have a one track mind like me ♪ ♪ you gave my life direction a game show love connection we can't deny ♪ ♪ i'm so obsessed my heart is bound to beat right out my untrimmed chest ♪ ♪ i believe in you like a virgin, you're madonna and i'm always gonna wanna blow your mind ♪ ♪ hey soul s

willard shepard has the story. >> reporter: here in this airport surveillance video, the victim is seens she arrives at the airport terminal. two miami tsa officers, whose faces can't be seen on television, told us they detected something was wrong with her. >> when she came closer, i realized she was black and blue on both sides of her face, her forehead. i noticed her shoulder looked like she had a big rug burn. later on i found out from her they dragged her across the floor. >> reporter: please say the fear came from a beating she took inside a fifth-floor room in this hotel. the woman came here with a group on vacation, but it turned into a nightmare when one woman accused the victim of having an intimate relationship with her boyfriend. police say the woman was then beaten and kidnapped. the officers report indicates the victim, in fear for her safety, made an attempt to run out of the room, where she was dragged back in by the defendant. officers say the victim was forced to go to the bank and withdraw funds, threatened and taken to the airport for a flight back to new jersey. tha

we're going to send it down to willard with some birthdays. we danced on the night we were we had. floyd and francis, aren't they a beautiful couple? they have been married for 75 years. salem, indiana. they love each other very, very much. they like to hold hands. their 70-year-old kid. just threw that in. happy birthday as our jam jar spins. rosemary jones in columbia, south carolina, 100 years old. enjoys volunteering in her church and community. she's loved by everybody. here is james curly, 100 years old. a retired nypd detective. he can find anything including the ice box. and thomazina forester, riviera beach, florida, 106 years old. her favorite thing is cooking for her grandchildren. loves them with all her heart. and from new palestine in the great states of indiana, hans schultz, 104. tloufs play poker. he likes to fish and drink beer. sometimes at the same time. how about him. josephine rovito from sag harbor, new york, one of the prettiest places. 104 years old, she loves to work with children. that's it for now. back to you. >> c

listen to willard. >> every indication is the economic policies adopted and pursued by this presidentre creating jobs at a very high pace. and so the people of america have to ask do you want to stay with a president who is rebuilding the economy, who is creating jobs, or do you want to stop midstream and find someone new? >> i think that's a good question today, don't you? >> i think it's an excellent question. interestingly, if you take those kinds of graphs you were showing. you were showing payroll job changes over the last few years. you could do the same thing with gdp. just the overall growth in the economy. and you draw a line where the president not just took office, but where some of the key interventions took place. think about the recovery act. what you'll see is the rate of job loss began to diminish. the rate of gdp shrink an began to diminish. that the economy was expanding so starting in 2010 we were adding jobs. you're right. it's not a fast enough clip. the president has suggested ideas to help make things faster and he's run into gridlock. i think the point that --

tomorrow night, from the movie "the watch," billy crudup will be here, as will the great fred willardve music from grace potter & the nocturnals. so, join us for that tomorrow. our first guest is a very funny and easily-annoyed, emmy-winning writer and performer. you know from her work on "curb your enthusiasm" and many other things. you can hear her now as the voice of a sloth in "ice age: continental drift." it opens in 3d this friday. please welcome wanda sykes. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how you doing? >> i'm good, how are you? >> jimmy: i'm doing all right, thank you for asking. has summer been going well for you? do you like the summer? >> it's too damn hot, jimmy. >> jimmy: it was hot. it was hot today and yesterday, really hot. >> yeah, yeah. it was hot yesterday and -- i went on a hike yesterday up at runyan, which means i have white friends -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: why do you say that? >> black people don't do stuff like that. >> jimmy: they don't? >> you know what? i mean, it was -- what? it was like, what, like, africa hot. it was like -- [ laughter ] it was, lik

no problems on pennsylvania avenue near the willard hotel. back over to our maps.s time we'll head to the south side of town. looking good on route 4, route 5, 301 and 210 out of accokeek up toward oxon hill. a live look there right now as you travel on the beltway at 210 traveling to the wilson bridge you're okay. this is new york avenue at bladensburg road in northeast d.c. i'll be back with more traffic at 6:42. >>> they were talking about it this morning. of course you can't turn on espn or sports radio these days without hearing about the nationals, especially the decision to shut down stephen strasburg. >> our partners in new york are focusing on a team other than the yankees for once. anthony mason of cbs this morning are talking nats today. good morning. >> hold on a second, mike and andrea. i'm a mets fan so i'm doing all the suffering around here. good morning. a lot of people are talking about those first place nationals and stephen strasburg. we'll talk to the national g.m. mike rizzo about his decision to pull strasburg off the mound even though it wil

and later this week wanda sykes, fred willard, music from serj tankian, grace potter and the nocturnalsest tonight is the artist formerly and currently known as peewee, you can hear him now giving voice to the evil base commander in the animated series "tron: uprising" watch it thursdays at 8:00 on disney. please welcome paul reubens! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very good to see you. >> thank you, thanks for having me. >> jimmy: how's your summer going so far? >> my summer's going great. it's halfway over. >> jimmy: it is half over. i hate that it's half over. >> me, too. >> jimmy: what have you been doing this summer? >> i spent a lot of time on "tron." which i'm here to promote. i've been in my storage unit pulling items from peewee's playhouse to show at the museum of modern art. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow, that's a big deal. >> yeah, there's a show called century of the child, 1900s to 2000, 100 years of influence on children. design influence. >> jimmy: wow, that's a pretty big deal. what items? >> many hundreds of thousands of items that have nothing to do with

the one down on pennsylvania by the -- the willard. they were sitting down at the willard hotel. we had thomas jefferson and george washington sitting at the willard. they decreebed the senate, jefferson was -- washington described the senate, jefferson was the smart guy but washington was describing to jefferson what that saucer is. it's the -- it's where the simmering of the coffee takes place. that's what the senate is. that was a great vision put forth by our framers, mr. speaker. but there comes a time on some important issues where we need to streamline operations. expedite procedures. and that what we're doing. we're saying, my friend from rochester said it, we need to bring the comprehensive tax reform. i iagree with that. now let's get it done. we put forth some guidelines, we say two rates, no more than 10% or 25%. let's deal with the globalization issue by shifting from a worldwide to a territorial tax system. let's do what we can to obliterate the alternative minimum tax which we all know has impact sod many of our federal working americans who are -- fellow working a