and music from trace adkins. with cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, cheer up! here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: well, thank you. i'm jimmy, thank you for watching. thanks for making it out tonight. good to have you in my clutches. sit down. i'd like to talk to you guys about something. i need to -- and it's serious, too. it's very weird in here tonight, isn't it? did someone in the audience have a seizure or something before? well, will be. it's election season again. there seems to be more election seasons than seasons of "the bachelorette" now days. and some shocking results in the new york and delaware republican primaries last night, where well-known veteran politicians were upended by candidates affiliated by the tea party. it was especially shocking, because i've been to a lot of tea parties with my daughter, and most of the people there are stuffed animals, they're not even real, so -- it's not even tea. it's an imaginary liquid they pretend to pou

next to her is mark adkins, the president of the "san francisco chronicle." next to him is dr. xena ibrahim. lisa frazier is the publisher of "bay area citizens." paul connelly is the senior vice president of the tcc group and he manages the challenge fund for journalism, one of the largest sources of grants for journalism. now on the back row, crank aaron is the senior director of the free press, a group working to increase government funding for the media. frank frankle is a journalism professor at stanford university. next to him is ron dellens, the mayor of oakland. he has served 14 houseyears. next to him is a former writer and publisher. he and embed the publisher. next to him is david calloway, editor in chief of marketwatch.com. next to him, sandy close, the director of new american media. she is also my executive editor and i get to hold the microphone up to her. let's begin the discussion. >> thank you. let's start with a question that is on many people's mind. with cutbacks and technology shifts, what has that done to the quality of news, barry parr? >> when i worked

trace adkins, thank you very much. >> all right. it was my pleasure. >> really interesting guy. by the walker his new album is called "cowboys back in town." >>> programming note. last week when we were doing a segment on the koran burning, i said some of the victims were muslim because many were. i mentions some of those by name. one man in particular gary shamay was not muslim. his family called us and asked us to set the record straight. we learned a bit about gary in the process. he was at the world trade center workings a computer programmer when the planes hit. people close to him say he had an amazing heart and could make friends with almost anybody. his warmth, compassion and eagerness to learn is most missed by his surviving family, his dad, a brother and two half-brothers. to them and to you, we truly regret our error and i'm deeply, deeply sorry. >>> up next, worried about his, quote, criminal demon, those words in a letter from prison written by the -- one of the men accused of an unthinkable crime. a home invasion in connecticut. the details on this ahead. what we n

trace adkins, thank you very much. >> all right. it was my pleasure. >> really interesting guy. by the way, his new album is called "cowboys back in town." >>> programming note. last week when we were doing a segment on the koran burning, i said some of the victims in the attack on the world trade center were muslim, because many were. i mentions some of those by name. one man in particular gary shamay was not muslim. his family called us and asked us to set the record straight. we learned a bit about gary in the process. he was at the world trade center workings a computer programmer when the planes hit. people close to him say he had an amazing heart and could make friends with almost anybody. his warmth, compassion and eagerness to learn is most missed by his surviving family, his dad, a brother and two half-brothers. to them and to you, we truly regret our error and i'm deeply, deeply sorry. >>> up next, worried about his, quote, criminal demon, those words in a letter from prison written by the -- one of the men accused of an unthinkable crime. a home invasion in connecticu

trace adkins, thank you very much. >> all right. it was my pleasure. >> really interesting guy. by the way, his new album is called "cowboys back in town." >>> programming note. last week when we were doing a segment on the florida koran burning controversy, i said some of the victims in the attack on the world trade center were muslim, because many were. i mentioned some of those victims by name. it turns out one man in particular gary shamay was not muslim. his family called us and asked us to set the record straight. so we are. we learned a bit about gary in the process. he was at the world trade center working as a computer programmer when the planes hit. people close to him say he had an amazing heart and could make friends with almost anybody. his warmth, compassion and eagerness to learn is most missed by his surviving family, his dad, a brother and two half-brothers. to them and to you, we truly regret our error and i'm deeply, deeply sorry. >>> up next, worried about his, quote, criminal demon, those words in a letter from prison written by the -- one of the men accused

phil, nathan fillion, and music from trace adkins and usher. ben affleck will be here. with his new movie. excelle excellent. i'm not just saying that because we love each other. it really is. how you doing, guillermo? i bet you're going to be delicious tonight when you get home. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: our first guest tonight is an incredible man. he saved countless swimmers from certain death and survived a vicious roasting of his own last month on comedy central. starting one week from tonight, you can see him on the 11th season premiere of "dancing with the stars." please say hello to david hasselhoff. [ cheers and applause ] how's it going? >> wow. whatever you guys are on, i want some of it. [ cheers and applause ] what do you mean how's it going? i'm doing "dancing with the stars," it's horrible. >> jimmy: is it really horrible? >> i'm not -- i'm telling you, it's hard. >> jimmy: you have to practice a lot, don't you? >> yeah, yeah, it's mentally draining because it's not like just going up and doing "the producers" where you just put on a dress, hang out and do m

and later this week, maura tierney, nathan fillion and music from trace adkins and usher. ben affleck will be here. with his new movie. excellent. i'm not just saying that because we love each other. it really is. how you doing, guillermo? i bet you're going to be delicious tonight when you get home. >> oh, yeah. >> jimmy: our first guest tonight is an incredible man. he saved countless swimmers from certain death and survived a vicious roasting of his own last month on comedy central. starting one week from tonight, you can see him on the 11th season premiere of "dancing with the stars." please say hello to david hasselhoff. [ cheers and applause ] how's it going? >> wow. [ cheers and applause ] whatever you guys are on, i want some of it. [ cheers and applause ] what do you mean, how's it going? i'm doing "dancing with the stars," it's horrible. >> jimmy: is it really horrible? >> i'm not barishnikov. i'm telling you, it's hard. >> jimmy: you have to practice a lot, don't you? >> yeah, yeah, it's mentally draining because it's not like just going up and doing "the produc

apprentice, and he went on to do "america's got talent," and joan is going fantastically, and trace adkins is the number one country singer. when he went on "the apprentice," no one ever heard of him. >> larry: but do you think these people will get jobs out of this? >> the regular people do phenomenally well. one of the things we're doing, as people get fired, we've never done this before, this is new, we're introducing them to big ceos, like terry lundgren of macy's, who's a great guy and a great executive, and russell simmons and the folks at pvh, the great shirt company and dye company. and many of these people, kodak, we have such great sponsors. and many of these people are going to be interviewed by these great companies. >> larry: what do you think of that, phil? >> that's what i was saying. think about it, if you're an employer and you've got a guy sitting out in your lobby and you say, okay, here's what we know about this guy. he came through an army of tens of thousands of people and got into the final 16, distinguished himself enough to do that. that's a resume item that you do

we've have music from trace adkins, and it's mexico's 200th birthday, so feliz navidad. host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? was abe lincoln honest? mary: does this dress make my backside look big? abe: perhaps... host: could switching to geico really save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance? host: is having a snowball fight with pitching great randy johnson a bad idea? man: yeah, i'm thinking maybe this was a bad idea.

we've have music from trace adkins, and it's mexico's 200th birthday, so

we've have music from trace adkins, and it's mexico's 200th birthday, so feliz navidad.

phil will be here, nathan fillion will be here and music from trace adkins. thursday night, music from usher, maura tyranny and ben afleck, so, please join us for that. our first guest tonight is one of the funniest people around. you can see her life at davies hall in san francisco this saturday and sunday night and at the pe ch angae resort september 25th. her new book is available now available in paperback. please say hello to kathy griffin. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: what's happening? >> keep it going! >> jimmy: it god to have you here. >> it's jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: what is going on? what a beautiful ensemble you have here. you look very regal. >> say my name tonight. say it. my real name. >> jimmy: your real name? >> i'm wearing the outfit. you all saw the show yesterday when she took the audience to australia! >> jimmy: oh, you are wearing the outfit. wait a minute. i wish i had my captain -- i would have worn a pie lot's uniform had i known. >> all right, so, i have a little surprise for your audience, jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: i can't wait to

. >> brad paisley, keith urban and trace adkins will headline tonight's concert. >> rajai has his boots and spurs on. >> i like playoff baseball a little better. i do like country. garth brooks. everyone coming to the giants came tonight. it's a big one. notable changes. interesting for the giants. six games and six days. also, this hollywood celebrity in town. jeff ranieri. >>> it's only september, but retailers are stocking the aisles. the list of hottest toys for kids have been just released this year. that's one of them. at the top of the list, paper jams. a card board guitar that has sensors under the surface. two others, squinkis and thingamajigs. stores like sears will have ki os ks. this after i ran all over the east bay looking for those zuzu pets. >> this was last year. i wouldn't find them over the summer. >> under a drawer. nobody plays with them in more. >>> here's the bank we want to invest in. the fog bank. >> that would be a good one. the return is usually pretty good. today's highs, those records will be squashed shortly here with that fog building offshore. 105 in live

more from the race in delaware and country music star trace adkins on the country's polarized political climate. that's at the top of the hour. now back to "larry king." >> larry: back with our panel, dr. drew pinsky, dr. daniel aman, psychologist and brain image specialist and psychologist dr. george pratt. what did you make of that study about the obesity study at west virginia. >> i think it's very interesting. and psychiatry and neurosurgeons are starting to work together again and planting these electrodes in the brainution imaging for things like resistant depression. for obsessive compulsive disorder and now for people who are morbidly obese. it's exciting, and going to be much better than the psycho surgery, you know in the 1940s and '50s. >> what do you think, kara? >> i think it's really interesting. and i think we're probably the research is limited is the problem of knowing why certain people eat or certain people abuse drugs. we like to put them all under an umbrella of, there's something wrong with their dopamine system or these people specifically don't get enough neurotr

researchers followed nearly 130,000 men and women if for about 25 years they found that being on the adkins die in significantly increased a person's overall risk of death from all causes such as heart disease and cancer. meanwhile the mortality rates decrease for those eating of a plan based diet that's low in animal protein and refined carbohydrates. if researchers to see the controversial high- protein high-fat actions i did get one thing right that cutting our the high in carbohydrates is good for your new study visit our whats on the tonights big stories in one big block of news more crews more stories right now our top story. >> in nevada two weeks after the first day of school dozens of kids are being told they have to leave the school that they have been attending and be moved to other schools. the school districts said that many of those schools are over enrolled and they must move about 40 students to different schools. reporting in a bottle kate thompson kron 4 news. if >> here in richmond the state of baja why is going to lead shipment to schools rest of the kansas city council

you've got trace adkins, keith urban, charlie daniels band, this is going to be a big sort of almost -- it's like a spiritual regeneration of the place. >> yeah, it really is. i've been a member of the opry the last five years and such a fan and of country music in general. i know so much of the history and there's always pictures you look back on and tonight will be one of those moments that people will look back on for years. there's a lot of people in town trying to be on the show tonight because it's going to be one of the most historic opry shows ever. watching them put the circle of wood back in the center of the stage and reopening the opry house. it's a big signal for country music and for nashville to be back on its feet and there's lots of fans across the world that will be excited about tuning in and checking out the show. >> mark, our guy chad myers was showing us what happens when things flood and what you're supposed to do about it. when you get that kind of water, you're going to get things growing, mold, a lot of -- you could get some structural damage. what was the w

blake shelton, and trace adkins. "i'm alive." kenny chesney. "till the end," alan jackson with leann womack. >> cool. what do you think about blake? >> pretty good. >> i got the nominees for female -- yeah. i have the nominees for female vocalist of the year. are -- miranda lambert. [ applause ] martina mcbride. reba mcentire. taylor swift. and carrie underwood. good company. >> i have male vocalist of the year. >> you better -- >> don't look. >> you better turn the paper. seriously. i cheated. you weren't actually on there. i just said it. >> great. >> brad paisley. blake shelton. george strait. keith urban. and dierks bentley. >> i saw my picture up there. >> i did it out of order. >> okay. the final one of the year. the nominees -- this is the big one. nominees for entertainer of the year are. stop looking. lady antebellum. miranda lambert. [ applause ] >> wow. >> brad paisley. keith urban. and the zac brown band. congratulations. >> congratulations to you. [ applause ] >> now, i'm going to tell on you guys just a little bit. during rehearsa

we have brad pacely, keith urban, martina mcbride, trace adkins. but you have something on them, right? you are the youngest person ever to be inducted into the grand ole opry hall of fame. >> i was. yeah. been five years now. it's an amazing feeling. we make our living on the road. i played all over the country. i played in more cities and states i think than any politician has ever stumped in. i've been to every town in this country. but to come back here and this is home for us and to be on this stage, i can't wait to be out here tomorrow night. it's a special room. keith urban, brad paysy and others, i think everybody wants to be part of the show. >> brian: i'm wondering, is there a song that you have in mind that maybe the three of us could show up and sing background vocals and not screw it up? we would love to do that and get in free. if we were performing that, would do it for us. >> i think you need to learn "the circle of the unbroken." the great carter song. >> steve: that's great. it's going to be great for you yourself, this has been v

. >> brad paisley, keith urban, trace adkins and many others will be taking the stage tonight. >> very nice. >> all right. meanwhile, let's take a look at what's going on in the weather and we've got another soaker, as you can see, throughout the northeast down through the mid atlantic. really heavy. you can see moving through portions of ohio this morning, right up through the great lake states. balance of the country is nice and dry. and it's going to be another hot one. look at that. l.a. already is at 74. but here in new york city, we've already got 71 degrees. a lot of 50's and 60's across the balance of the map. today in l.a., though, it's only going to be 84. yesterday, it was the hottest day on record in los angeles for any day of the calendar year which is incredible. meanwhile, in raleigh, it's going to be 80, 81 in memphis. the temperatures in the 70's and 80's across dixie land and across texas. northern plains, temperatures in the 60's. today, it's going to be 66 in chicago. home of da bears, brian. >> undefeated bears, i might add. monday night football ended a short whil