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>> i would watch "american bandstand" and i would also watch every new years eve. dick clark was the one. >> oh, its the main memory of watching the new years eve, "new years rockin eve" and watching the ball drop and seeing him. even in the last couple of years post stroke, just his strength. i think that was really an amazing representation. >> it was like a ritual every year. "new years rockin eve," it made new years what it is. he will certainly be missed. >> well, on twitter immed...

watch every new years eve. dick clark was the one. >> oh, its the main memory of watching the new years eve, "new years rockin eve" and watching the ball drop and seeing him. even in the last couple of years post stroke, just his strength. i think that was really an amazing representation. >> it was like a ritual every year. "new years rockin eve," it made new years what it is. he will certainly be missed. >> well, on twitter immediately, dick clark became a trending topic. within just...

>> come on, girls, move! >> her take charge attitude inspired this scene from the 1958 film, "a night to remember." both made it to safety, but like many "titanic" survivors, another ordeal began. bucknell became withdrawn. and never sailed again. fare saw action in world war i, became a successful banker, but could never escape his survivors guilt, and at age 50, he took his life. 100 years after an iconic disaster with so much loss and suffering, kate and bob prefer instead to focus on somethi...

Than about justice and humannity. >> he remains my hero. >> so what! >> reporter: he grappled with rraks farrakhan. t. i think you should keep quiet! >> remain strong! >> reporter: and he interviewed n.lcolm x shortly before his assassination. e> i probably am a dead man inready. >> i came here with a belief. b> reporter: he was no stronger to the white house. interviewing his friends the reagans. >> why hasnt this job weighed as heavily on you as it has on some other occupants of this oval offi...

With the kennedys. mrs. kennedys schedule for that day in dallas, a sketch pad where she doodled drawings and her young son john john, did, too. >> i thought that was pretty good for a 2-year-old. that was his big thing, if he could get on a helicopter. he would even go on air force one if given the opportunity, but sometimes they had to say sorry, you have to go back to the white house now. >> mrs. kennedy suspected he wanted to be a pilot. >> yes, based on his interest in everything that flew....

A tow truck driver has his vehicle pulled over an icy cliff. it happened in norway. look again. you can see the driver jumping as the tractor trailer pulls the tow truck over the edge. the driver of the tractor trailer tumbled down the hill inside his truck, but incredibly suffered only a few broken bones. now, a way to reconnect with parents and grandparents. today the u.s. government posted online information from the 1940s census, a time when this song topped the charts. ♪ america was eme...

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Here on earth tornadoes top out at about 300 miles per hour. and a towering figure in music has died. do you remember this? ♪ because earl scruggs wrote it with lester flat. he came up with a new way of playing banjo that captivated people everywhere. >> i could get records at 33 rpm, and i would tune my banjo down and pick out the songs note by note and learn how to play them that way. >> even steve martin considered scruggs a hero. but scruggs was always modest, saying, im just a country b...

Dianas first tentative public address, partly in welsh. and of the queens. it has been extremely rare that we have heard kates voice at all. now this marks the start of what should be a long career representing and speaking for the royal family on her own. she has taken her place at the queens side. >> the queen is really taking her under her wing. >> and kate has relaxed. last week, field hockey, teaching prince charles to iron. and laughing with soldiers, one of whom couldnt bear the excitemen...

>> reporter: gerald zirnstein grinds his own hamburger these days. why? because this former usda scientist, now whistle-blower knows that 70% of the ground beef we buy at the supermarket, contains something that is called pink slime. beef trimmings, that were once only used in dog food and cooking oil, sprayed with ammonia to make it safe to eat. and added to most ground beef as a cheaper filler. it was zirnstein that coined the phrase, pink slime. and he wont buy it. >> its economic fraud. its ...