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Pjs to work. well, guess what? now you guys can. pajama jeans are apparently catching on. searches are up 73% this month on yahoo! so dare i ask, has the trend hit you guys yet? >> dare i answer. >> you got your jeans on. i got my skinny suit on, which is a little too snug today. thats all right. >> coming up, really in our 19 years, we have another old friend of ours. >> barry mitchell is here to recapture the highlights and low lights of two decades on "world news now." low lights of two decad...

Call this toll-free number now. all week long we have been celebrating our 19th birthday. of course, on friday, the last day of the celebration, we had to bring the polka meister, barry mitchell here. >> yeah! >> i feel naked. i dont have the accordion on. its terrible. >> so many people, as you know, always write in about the polka, they love it. >> we can play it anyway. i appreciate it. >> a lot of people may not realize the origin of the polka is funny in the sense that lisa mccree, the firs...

Well have the latest on his condition. the world is waiting and watching to see what happens. and were celebrating 19 years of "world news now." that means 19 years of the one and only barry mitchell and the polka. wait until you see some of the old video, especially that one. whoa. thats from his personal video collection barry dug up. we begin with the big dig out after the latest monster storm to slam the northeast. >> as you can imagine, cars were stuck and abandoned from maryland up to ...

threats. karen travers is in washington with details. >> reporter: good morning. that color-coded system has been in place for nearly a decade but the department of homeland security says its time for a new one. in just a few months terror alerteds like this one will be a thing of the past. the department of homeland security unveiled a new way to inform americans about potential threats. one that doesnt include the much maligned color-coded terror alert system. >> under the new two-ti...

the next public face of the white house, a key move in his overall staff shakeup. he is jake carnay, a former journalist with "time" magazine. he is, of course, replacing robert gibbs who is stepping down as press secretary. gibbs will stay on as an adviser and serve on the presidents re-election campaign. former white house chief of staff rahm emanuel is back in the race for mayor of chicago. emanuel says hes relieved and he got a phone call of congrats from his old boss, president ...

Our very own juju chang. >> i miss my nates on "world news now." i remember we went to h&h bagels one time. we were doing a series on people who work all night. we decided to go live with night shift workers. we had taste tests of arguably the best bagels in new york and, the lights went out. and i think on the outside, i remained calm, but on the inside, it was sheer pandemonium. >> all right. lets not panic. >> but i think that ultimately, my favorite moment from "world news now" lives on in y...

...or visit us on the web at parenting dot org. >> i think the most important reason for optimism is that businesses are very profitable. >> reporter: in fact, corporate profits are at prerecession levels. google plans to hire more than 6200 workers this year. consumer confidence is up with major stock market indexes climbing to their highest levels since 2008. still, there are other factors working against a recovery. the case-shiller home price index showed housing prices fell in nov...

attempted conspiracy and attempted murder and could get a life sentence. still hes insisting as his own lawyer. our eating and smoking habits are putting americans behind other countries when it comes to living a longer life. new government figures show women in the u.s. can expect to live 80.8 years. the life expectancy for men is 75.6 years. thats less than the french and less than the japanese. smoking is a key factor but obesity may account for up to a third of the life expectanc...

likely the work of anarchists. two embassy workers were seriously injured when they opened the packages. miguel marquez reports from rome. >> reporter: the first bomb exploded around noon. an embassy employee opening a small package about the size of a video cassette. the bomb detonated in his hands, badly injuring him. the second bomb, a couple of hours later. a similar package, this time the chilean embassy. again, the only person injured, the mail room worker opening it. u.s. author...

jqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjqjx a throne for the tv... room for movies... your workout gear... non-stop football... its a man cave! the boys next door will never leave. who says we want them to? oprah: with jane fonda here, we just had to pull out an old favorite of ours. we put up a picture of a co-star--i can only do this with famous people like yourself--and you say the first thing that comes to your mind, ok? dont even think about it a lot. >> all right? oprah: ok? first picture. ...