lawrence lessing from harvard university, good to have you. >> great to be here. tavis: up next, actress forns henderson. stay with us. please welcome florence henderson to this program. she's one of tv's all-time iconic moms. thanks to her role on the "brady bunch." she's out now with a new memoir from a poor childhood in indiana to stardom. it's called "life is not a stage" pr broadway by by to lovely lady and beyond. good to have you. >> i'm excited to be here. tavis: we were just talking before you came on camera about your life and my life. i grew up in indiana, like you. >> what town? tavis: kokomo. >> that was a big city. tavis: for you it was. kokomo, big city. they laugh at me right now, my mom is watching and laughing right now, in kokomo. grew up in indiana, one of 10 kids. i was just so -- i grew up watching you on "the brady bunch" and thinking that house, is nothing like my house. >> it wasn't anything like mine, either. tavis: i was so tickled when i got into the book, just about the interesting part of your life growing up in indiana, but the thing

. >>> lawrence, yesterday you were not impressed with the doppler radar. >> even less impressed today. >> oh, no. >> can you believe that? and i wasn't feeling good -- just haven't been able to get the storm track moving far enough south to bring us rain. looks like this is going to be a near miss. outside there's still some clouds that are headed our way but right now most of that energy hung up north of the bay area with the jet stream and that means it looks like we are going to stay dry as this system moves through so for tonight we'll see partly cloudy skies, some patchy fog in the valleys. tomorrow increasing clouds. but right now looks like we're going to stay dry. there's another chance of some possible showers a little later on in the week but otherwise, boy, not much. even that system not that i am pressive. out over the bay right now a quiet evening outside. looks like temperatures beginning to cool off. probably not as cold as last night. right now 57 in concord. 57 in oakland. 54 degrees in san jose. you know, if you are planning on traveling around the state you will run

let's check on traffic now with elizabeth. >> thank you, lawrence. fog an issue starting your morning commute. apparently visibility is less than a quarter of a mile on some bridges including on the richmond/san rafael bridge. you can see some of the fog in our golden gate bridge camera. so be extra careful as lawrence mentioned. it is still slick in spots. we have freezing fog out there this morning. all lanes open at northbound 87 at 101. for a while there was a traffic alert because two of three lanes were blocked because of an overturn injury crash. there were never major delays. they cancelled the earlier traffic alert. elsewhere 880 and 237 looks good for the silicon valley ride no issues out of milpitas towards san jose. you are in the clear and other bridges are moving nice and briskly, as well. this is westbound 92 in the commute direction. should be 13 or 14 minutes. looks like that's updating. sometimes around this time of the morning it is. but again this is the commute direction towards the high- rise. into the east bay that looks good,

that's less than an hour from now. he is just a few weeks from his second birthday >>> authorities in oregon plan to perform an autopsy today on a football player from oakland who died there this week. 19-year-old fred thompson was a scholarship player for oregon state university. he played high school football for oakland tech. he collapsed during a pickup basketball game wednesday night. investigators suspect he died from anner regular heartbeat. funeral arrangements are still pending. >>> san leandro police believe that they have identified a shooting. police consider 18-year-old qeron williams to be the dangerous man who did the shooting. two other suspects remain in custody in connection with that shooting. daquan watson surrendered to a s.w.a.t. team. tony phillips was captured just after that shooting. >>> sheriff police are looking for thieves who got away with 120 ipads at the best buy on industrial road. investigators say that the thieves pried open the front doors and dragged a steel lack pull of ipads and g

it's been less than a week since this accident. despite critical injuries, lawrence scruggs is walking, talking, and yesterday she looked in the mirror for the first time. and what she said afterwards gives us a glimpse of who this young woman is, and that her beauty isn't just skin deep. dirty. that was the word lawrence scruggs spoke after she took her first steps after that propeller accident. we're thinking, what does that mean? she said win walked 30 steps. >> reporter: 30 steps on what could be a long road to recovery. in a news conference thursday, scruggs parents say their daughter doesn't remember the accident. >> she doesn't know -- she can't remember any detail of it at all. >> reporter: it was last saturday night, scruggs boarded a private plane in the dallas area to look at christmas lights in the air. the 23-year-old had just climbed out of the single engine plane when she walked directly into the propeller. >> it was dark and we were thinking that lauren came back to thank the pilot and she didn't see that the propel

lawrence o'donnell, his show is failing, it's a disaster. they moved him out of the 8:00 slot because bill o'reilly was absolutely killing him. they gave him the less coveted 10:00 spot and he's dying at that. then you have rosie o'donnell, really interesting, the names are the same. maybe they should get married. but rosie just found a new mate, and i don't think she would find him attractive even if that were the way she goes. so rosie o'donnell's show is a disaster. it's a complete disaster. lawrence o'donnell's show is a complete and total disaster. moved from a coveted spot, now even at 10:00, it's a mess. so i have an idea. maybe rosie o'donnell and lawrence o'donnell, and they must be related somewhere along the line, they should get together, form a show, and they'll have the lowest rated show of all time. what a good idea. i'm a natural at television. >> shortly thereafter, rosie o'donnell responded to trump on twitter. how many billionaires sell ties and have crappy nonreality shows, none. go back to selling snake oil. bankrupt muc

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and then send your client, neil, and there's less and it comes to light. that contradicted the letter report. >> knowing what you know no how do you look back at this in detail the dates on which end why they gave him such a clean bill of health. >> cola can say is that having directed -- having looked at some of the things in that and the advice of the senior people inside, the company more recently that when the looked at that, a few of the company's, it was right to bring this to the attention of the police and go forward, and that opinion from the council was something that the company, you know, rests upon. it was the clear opinion of what review done around those records , and in addition, in conjunction with the police continuing to say that there was no new of a sense and no reason to open a new investigation, and in conjunction with the pcs he saying he had done their review and the inquiry in there was nothing new, it was view that was a settled matter. it was only really when new evidence emerged that those things began to be undermined. >> coul

thank you. >> thank you. >>> now time for my interview with lawrence o'donnell. i talked about his own mission to help kids get their. >> president obama gave us a glimpse into the focal point of his 2012 campaign when he was in kansas and used the word middle class 18 times in that speech. is that the path to re-election? >> oh, it's what it's all about. and i'm so glad you pulled it up. because that is a poll-driven phrase. whenever you find that, whenever you find a candidate, which the president is, a candidate out there, using a phrase repeatedly, i promise you they have found in their polling that that's the key words. >> so how do you analyze the president's handling of the economy? do you think he could have done things differently? could he have put an emphasis on it at times? >> this is the single funniest thing about american politics. it's the biggest lie in american politics, especially as told by republicans. republicans are the people who tell you that this is a great capitalist society. they tell you that there is no socialist in america, none. an

it's been less than a week since this awful accident. the type of accident that usually claims a life. despite critical injuries, lawrence scruggs is walking, talking, and when she looked in the mirror for the first time since the accident yesterday, what she said reminded everyone that her beauty is more than skin deep. 30. that was the word lauren scruggs spoke after she took her first steps after that propeller accident. >> we're thinking, what does that mean? she said, "i walked 30 steps. " >> reporter: 30 steps on what could be a long road to recovery. in a news conference thursday, scruggs' parents say their daughter doesn't remember the accident. >> she was in a bad accident. but she doesn't know -- she can't remember any detail of it at all. >> reporter: it was last saturday night, scruggs boarded a private plane in the dallas area to look at christmas lights from the air. the 23-year-old had just climbed out of the single engine plane when she walked directly into the still-spinning propeller. >> it was dark and we were thinking