great to have you here b.j.. >> thank you mike. >> mike: what a pleasure. you had such a long string of hits in the 60s and 70s. your voice always one that people recognized, they knew when they heard it. what is the biggest thrill you have had in this career that spans now about four decades? >> today ranks up there pretty high. >> mike: oh come on. not that it shouldn't of course, but -- >> it is hard to pick within. regarding in -- recording in memphis with the american studio group and recording with bacharach and david that butch cassidy thing was cool. >> mike: did you have any idea it was going to be that big? >> when you record you hope it is going to be a big record. this had everything going for it, paul new man, burt and hall. the song got terrible reviews. it was very slow getting started. when butch cassidy came out over the christmas holidays it took off. >> mike: it is not only a great song. i've downloaded dozens of about thomas songs on my ipad. you can get it at b.j. thomas.com from there you can link to itunes. lots of music this is one o

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my average donation, mike, was $45. and we try to be very careful of those donations so we're going to keep them in anticipation of the next election that is coming up, assuming that i run for the house again. and so, we have that money there. we've got a really good start and we're grateful. >> and i also want to talk to you about the fact that the tea party is going to be, i think, looked at very, very cautiously, one thing is, are you willing to compromise. people have never been in the government, don't understand you don't get everything you want and don't get it all the time. what will be the learning curve for many of the new members of congress who have never served in any form of government in recognizing that you sometimes have to go for, you know, a 12 yard run, rather than an 80 yard touchdown pass every time you get the ball. >> you're exactly right, mike. you've been governor, you know how it works and you're right you don't get absolutely everything. i've been married 32 years and we have five kids and ra

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mike another one of those guys lifelong giants fans. he lives it, he breathes it, and we're going to continue our parade coverage. >> we are, we're taking a short break. back with the world series fans in san francisco. ah, focus group. so what are we testing here? that's our new pastrami grilled sandwich. oh, great. hey, are they happy we got rid of the rye bread? totally. they love our grilled artisan bread. they say it's the perfect compliment to the classic hot pastrami, melting cheese, deli mustard and pickles. awesome. hey, um what are we testing in that room? oh! nothing we were just hazin' the intern. >>> welcome to this special edition of ktvu channel 2 news at noon. we're taking a look at a picture -- i don't think we've seen this. >> gasia and sal, we're looking at an incredible sight. you can say it's amazing. but when you stop and think about this, it's incredible how many people are there and i'm with mike mibach and some of the estimates have it at about 100,000 people. i think that number is gonna get pushed up a little

the company's headed by mike mellace and mike runyon, who were living good lives in the corporate world until one day fate intervened in the form of a simple snack. >> he buys these cinnamon almonds that come in a bag. you see them at a lot of the festivals. i had never seen them before. and they're real big out on the east coast. and so we started eating them. he givese some, i say, "oh, my goodness, these things are great." >> we went back, he bought a whole bunch, and so then we started talking about how cool it would be to have like a little thing on the side doing fairs and festivals to make a little extra money. >> they agreed on the idea, but not much else at first. with one mike from the west coast and the other from the east coast, they quickly realized they quite possibly could be the odd couple entrepreneurs of the food world. >> i'm a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. you know, he's from new york. our families are totally different, you know. but it works out good because we look--everyone thinks we're brothers. and literally today, we dressed just alike. i go, "hey, hey, i'm glad

. >> mike: the other way, you're in the locker room celebrating. smith is deep. and they'll go with the squib kick. to keep it away from him. and maryland will only get -- the tight end back to the 40 yard line. now for today's big picture brought to you by sony. nc state has to beat maryland next week to clinch the acc's atlantic division and go to the conference championship game. if nc state loses to maryland, florida state would go in. virginia tech earlier today clinched the acc coastal division. they're undefeated in the acc. and they will play for the title. how about the job frank beamer and his staff did after that 0-2 start and a loss to james madison? regrouped. >> craig: you're talking about a football team that's a couple snaps away from being undefeated. the most, one loss and a top team. >> mike: frank beamer has gotten it down brilliantly at virginia tech over the long haul and if anybody could pull 'em out of that early season disaster, it was him. >> craig: and for coach wilson, i mean, this whole conference has been one this season where you're

. >> susie: hi, diane, and hi, mike, how are you? >> good. >> hi, susie. >> susie: you heard our reports. let me begin with you, diane. do you think the fed's strategy will work? will it give a boost to the economy? >> nobody really knows. anybody who says they do know is lying. this is unchartered territory. i've listened to the smartest economists duke this out, among economists, and they're heated most of the time. i come down on the side of ben bernanke who says it is better to try and fail than not to try at all. the fed is the last game in town. it may not be the best game in town, but it is the last game in town. better to try and fail than to not try at all. >> susie: mike, we hear from so many economists who say interest rates are already low, the 30-year mortgage is historically low. it won't motivate consumers and businesses to borrow more and lend more. will this fed action really make a difference? >> by itself, simply lower rates, susie, the answer is, of course not. the logic is impeccable. having said that, we've alre

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caught up at the 40 yard line by mike wallace. they hustle up to the line of scrimmage and snap it as fast as they can. >> cris: so much of this offense is built around that three wide receivers to one side and one receiver down here to the bottom in mike wallace and hines ward is sort of that move guy. hasn't been quite the same in there without him. >> al: and, again, wallace working that route to its max. first down at the 42 of new england. >> cris: mike wallace is starting to show some real patience. funny watching him in practice yesterday. ben roethlisberger overthrew him on a go. i looked back at him like he would be disappointed on that one. he was jumping up and down and he was so excited. he was excited he missed him because he overthrew it. >> al: seven catches thrown tonight for 103 yards and ben with a little shovel. moore. mewelde gets to the 33 yard line. down to 3:30 left to play. >> cris: well, a lot of sort of late yards here for the pittsburgh steelers which are going to skew the stats of this one, but this has

that, to me, it atomizes mike -- epitomizes mike. our community does not say go off to college and become a sacred man. our community just recognizes that when they see it. mike is that man. he never asked to be in the role he is in now, but the community has asked him. so it is with the greatest tumbled as, like i say, it is just an honor to be able to present him to you. but to me, he is a spiritual, special man. he will always say he is just an ordinary man, but he is, and he is my friend. [applause] >> please join us to be recognized, michael. let's give michael a round of applause. [applause] >> i was hoping that don would take up all my time. i want to thank everybody for coming out, sharing the day with us. thank you, kqed for giving me an opportunity to put a suit on because i hardly ever wear one. i also want to thank -- or actually congratulate mayor gavin newsom for getting elected to lieutenant governor and jerry brown and all those other people that ran. a couple of days ago, on november 2, a friend of mine was elected t

frances has some good news. >> yeah, mike. delay-free out there so that's great news for those of you getting ready to head to work. live shot of the san mateo bridge, traffic flowing well. eastbound for headlights moving into hayward. very light right now. just keep both hands on the wheel heading across the bay bridge. that's the only wind advisory we have at this point. the south bay the 101 and 880 interchange. headlights northbound 101. you see 880 right across your screen looking good. drive times as well as you make your way on 101 from the north bay from santa rosa down to novato, only 28 minutes. southbound 101 and northbound out of gilroy, highway 85 just 20 minutes right now. eric, kristen. >> frances, thank you. 5:09. >> they may be good for the environment but not for your health. the extra thing you may be carrying in those reusable grocery bags. >> the announcement expected today that could turn palo alto-based facebook.com into an instant e-mail giant. >> alarming news for women with stressful jobs. what a new

mike story loves working out. he may look tough. but he melts when he talks about his wife kelly. >> you get goose bumps. i mean it is emotional. i met her when we were kids. >> reporter: mike and kelly's life together raising their daughter carly seemed like a dream. until kelly was diagnosed with breast cancer at 46. >> we knew she probably had a less than five year survival rate because of the breast cancer in her body and where it was. >> reporter: mike supported the love of his life during her struggle which ended before her a 2nd birthday. and mike could never have imagined what was in store for him next. >> i felt a lump in my chest. simple as that. and i checked the other side of the chest, no lump. >> reporter: in the cruel twist of fate, less than a year after losing kelly, mike was diagnosed with stage four breast canser that had spread to his bones. >> never in a million years would i ever have imagined that my dad would have breast cancer. >> is he going to get the script today? >> now it is carly's turn to support her

>> reporter: good morning to you, mike. not only the giants are going to be in the parade but past former giant breaks, like willie mays, willie mccovey, steve perry. when they get here they'll be greeted by some of the people who are already here this morning. watch yourself there, rob. there's a couple of hundred -- a few hundred out here who are showing up early. probably a smart move because there will be a lot of people out here. you came from where? >> arizona. >> reporter: just for this? >> yeah. >> reporter: did you go to the game in texas or just came for the celebration? >> no. i go to arizona state. i was born and raised in the bay area. >> reporter: why was it important for you to make the trip? >> what was it, 54 years since they won the world series so i figured i had to be here for this. >> reporter: have a good time out here. what's going to happen is the team is going to be on the front steps of city hall. they have got risers set up there. they have got big screen tvs. if you don't have a good line of sigh

the offense they pieced together this year, let's go down to mike shumann. >>> put the mic as close to your mouth as you can. >> the last time the giants had a parade in 1954, there was only 48 and i tell you what, this reminds me, there was 48 states. there were 300,000 fans in 1982. this is a chance players can appreciate what they've been through and what it means to them. it's unbelievable and the players haven't even gotten here yet. these are all the employees. it's just phenomenal. >> i don't know if you can hear. i want to get your perspective you are one of the few people out of the hundreds and thousands who are out there who know what it's likes to be on the float side of a victory, your experience with the 49ers. the mind set of some of these players looking out at the fans? >> what it does, monday night they celebrated the world series as a team, yesterday they got back, they realized what they had done, today they are getting a feel of what it means to the city, to the fans and it it's just overwhelming i think for the players because when you are playing in the game you

>> mike: he picked the right game to bring his mom to. >> craig: you said it, mike. this ball could have gone 65. i mean, the height. great snap, great hold. drilled it! >> mike: like a golfer, he knew he had flushed that thing. >> craig: go back to the time-out jim fisher called. why is he doing that? because he went and told the quarterback, we will hope for pass interference to get us back to the middle of the field and one more ball that they throw in replacement of injured christian ponder. >> mike: that's why he's the coach and we're going, why did he do that? >> craig: he earned it there. >> mike: what a remarkable finish, considering the last two games for florida state, heartbreaking fashion. florida state has regained the lead by a half gain in the atlantic division, they will play at maryland next week, with a chance to knock off the terps and temp terps have the chance knock off florida state. nc state is this wild card. they control their own fate. >> craig: what do you say we go to that? >> mike: once again, florida state wins so long from tallahassee.

that, to me, it atomizes mike -- epitomizes mike. our community does not say go off to college and become a sacred man. our community just recognizes that when they see it. mike is that man. mike is that man. he never asked to be in the role

mike. >> two good things. food and football. >> mike was nice enough to volunteer his family recipe of the stuffing. that is my favorite part of thanksgiving. maybe secondtoo my mashed potatoes coming up. we sped up the process for television. >> we try to take stuffing to another level. a lot of us love the extra helpings of stuffing. you get extra zest. this has spicey sausage in it. you see chopped onions in here. celery and parsley. you will add chicken stock, dried cranberries and sausage. it will have a kick and good deep flavor. you put a stick of butter in that with the vegetables. you have to put a full cup of chicken stock in there. >> there we go. >> sautee the other stuff. add in the rest of the vegetables. start with those. >> i love the cranberries. that is a great idea. >> continue to sautee that in. we can add in the sausage. >> the sausage which is already browned. >> sausage has to be in stuffing. >> we are running out of time. one of the things you do is you can cut these up fresh or buy the

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a couple of winning streaks came to an end mike mike already. >> mike: they were ugly. ed the raiders' three game win streak came to an end in ♪ [ female announcer ] keurig has over 200 varieties of gourmet coffee and tea to choose from. ♪ keurig is the way to brew fresh, delicious coffee in under a minute. way to brew. [ female announcer ] so with keurig, every cup tastes like it's brewed just forou. ♪ because it is. choose. brew. enjoy. keurig. >> mike: the raiders' three game win streak came to a screeching halt in pittsburgh. second quarter, 3-0 raiders. first and gol, mendenhall powers his way in. 7-3 steelers. then pittsburgh on the move. roethlisberger rolling left. all sorts of room. stevey brown, right there, lungs to the end zone, 14-3 steelers. the rout is on. jason campbell to murphy, but murph fumblesle one of three oakland turnovers, sets up ben roethlisberger to sanders. 21-3. big ben threw for 2 270 yards and also did a little talking. richard see more takes evening, punches thrown, richard gets ejected. the quarterback switch to bruce. bruce picke

here's eric. >> mike, it's 4:48. a lame duck congress returns to work this morning following the midterm elections. for some members it's their final few weeks at the capital. the replacements sworn in in january are arriving. for current members there's a lot of legislation to consider in a very short amount of time. emily schmidt has more from washington. >> this monday morning means back to work for many in congress soon to be out of work after democrats lost dozens of seats in the midterm election. voters didn't give them a mandate for gridlock but there's plenty of division especially about tax cuts set to expire the end of next month. i don't think there's room to negotiate raising taxes particularly on smaller business. >> we moved it up to a million. everyone below a million dollars will get a tax cut but the millionaires and billionaires won't. >> other challenges, lifting the "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gay service members voting on a strategic russian missile deal. they're overwhelmingly republican.

mike, rob? >> thanks, diana. >>> president obama leaves the meeting of world economic leaders today in seoul, south korea, and after some pretty intense negotiations the g-20 leaders have agreed to monitor currency fluctuations that can manipulate the world economy. that had been a serious sticking point between the u.s. and china. experts say currency imbalances can lele to the loss of millions of jobs here in the u.s. >>> and ththpresident wraps up his tour of asia with a stop in japan. america's most important ally in that region. he's attending the asia-pacific summit in yokohama later today and spending the weekend in economic meetings to discuss regional free trade before finally returning to the white house sunday. >>> iraq's new government is already facing tough times days ahead of a deal that helped create it. some sunni lawmakers walked out of a parliamentary meeting when prime minister nuri al maliki was chosen for a second term. they say he's had his chance and has failed to unite i

you need to feed those people, mike. >> mike, mike, mike, mike! [ laughter ] >> allen, come over if you are hungry. >> if there are leftovers. >> mike sugerman, best to you and your family. >>> this week we have covered do turkeys make you sleepy and how do you carve a turkey? tonight something different. are turkeys really as stupid as some people think? ken bastida with tonight's stupid -- i mean good question. >> reporter: all right. tonight we're talking turkeys. come here, turkeys! [ gobble gobble ] >> reporter: all right. we have all heard the stories about how stupid turkeys are, how if they stand out in a rain, they can actually drown from looking up. is that true or false? >> the truth is that they get saturated with water and into their feathers and that will -- they will get pneumonia and die so they don't recover from that. >> reporter: so there is another saying that they are not smart enough to come in out of the rain? >> right. that's right. >> true. >> reporter: that's true. >> reporter: the general manager at santa rosa willie bir

mike? >> warmer than average today but not the record-setting temperatures we dealt with the last couple days. good morning. one of the reasons why. look how much lower our temperatures are this morning. only san francisco and 61. a lot of 40s out there menlo park, half moon bay, concourt, the entire north bay and that's why we're going to have a hard time reaching those levels from yesterday. the reason we're cooler. look at the calm conditions. still the wind overturning the atmosphere not allowing the coldest air to sink in our valleys and the warmest air to climb our canyon walls. that's what happened this morning unlike yesterday. still a very pleasant day done outside. sunshine, low to mid-70s except the coast will have mid-60s at half moon bay. around the monterey bay, looking at low to mid-70s even inland. the cool spot will be monterey at 68. we'll see these temperatures slowly slide all the way to the weekend when the system drops down from alaska, brings us a chance of scattered

hi, amy. >> thank you, rob and mike. black friday shoppers will be encountering rain, snow, ice and cold. that's the case in the northeast. our latest storm system sweeps on through. that means soaking rain in the morning hours, from d.c., up the i-95 corridor. and the northern edge of this, we're talking a wintry mix, from western pennsylvania up into cities like burlington, vermont, and northern parts of maine. if we follow the cold front southward, we're calling for thunderstorm activity from the atlantic seaboard, all the way down to the i-10 corridor. atlanta and charlotte, you're under the gun for stormy weather. the big story here, what's coming in behind the front. very chilly air. that's the case across the lone star state. cities like dallas, houston a enbrownsville, are in the 50s. that's noticeably cooler across the region. our latest storm moves in. that means heavy rain along the coast. and also, heavy, mountain snow for the cascades. as for the southwest, a very chilly start to your black friday. now, back

he sets up mike to nibble -- mike knuble. then in the third period, it is matt hendrix with the go-ahead goal. hendrix gets the gold. the caps finish it off 5-3. they win against the rangers. auburn quarterback looks positively unstoppable on the field, but they continue to have to navigate a lot of land mines off the field. he faced expulsion from the university of florida two years ago for cheating three times on tests. he did transfer to a junior college last year before enrolling at auburn this year. a former mississippi state players said someone representing his family requested money when he was recruited out of high school. the quarterback says he will not admit or deny he cheated on tests at florida because he does not want to beat a dead horse.

that, to me, it atomizes mike -- epitomizes mike. our community does not say go off to college and become a sacred man. our community just recognizes that when they see it. mike is that man. he never asked to be in the role he is in now, but the community has asked him. so it is with the greatest tumbled as, like i say, it is just an honor to be able to present him to you. but to me, he is

andrea and mike? >>> thank you, howard. 5:10 making news this morning. >> i'll go ahead and take it from there real quickly. 267 traveling eastbound finding lanes wide open from the dulles green way towards the toll plaza. coming up in your next traffic report more on your virginia roadways at 5:17. now back to mike and andrea. >>> now at 5:10 authorities in new zealand are saying 29 miners trapped since friday may have died. >>> toxic gases have prevented rescuers from entering the mine and there has been no contact with the missing miners. it's feared they may have died in the initial explosion. rescue crews are drilling holes in preparation to send a robot in the mine to take pictures. >>> the taliban is reacting to nato's plan to withdraw combat troops from afghanistan by 2014. a five-point statement from the taliban calling nato's plan quote irrational. the statement reiterated a taliban demand for foreign troops to leave afghanistan immediately or risk more bloodshed. >>> a slew of reaction to r