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WDBJ Sunday Morning January 31, 2016

Finally a woman in the boys club of late Night Television. Looks like she knows just what it takes to make it. The hair is kind of my look. But i just got all my haircut off. Trust me, it is very attractive. Samantha bees full frontal approach to comedy. After we finish our tea, merlot. The rock Group Coldplay is warming up for a very high profile performance next sunday night. And they are leaving nothing to chance as Anthony Mason will show us. On an la soundstage, coldplay has been rehearsing for next sundays super bowl halftime show. You basically create the stage the same size it is a super bowl stage . Yes, hopefully. Later on sunday morning the audience, a ga million son three. Watching coldplay get ready for the biggest gig of their career. Talk about a big break, actor bob odenkirk made the jump from a supporting role in breaking bad to the starring role in a series all its own. He talks about that transformation with lee cowan. I got a call from it is rare that a catchphrase becomes an entire show, and it is rarer still to have a spinoff that actually succeeds past one season. It is show time, folks. But bob odenkirk has both. Better call saul is an incredible role and i know it. How a former comedy sketch writer found his destiny in drama, later on sunday morning. Major garrett reports from the Campaign Front lines in iowa. Trustworthiness of political ads. Start, Steve Hartman goes to a town in search of a groundhog and more, but first the headlines for the sunday morning, the 31st of january, 2016. The Iowa Caucuses are tomorrow, a Des Moines Register poll released last night shows clinton with an edge over opponent person with any sanders. On the republican side donald trump has widened his lead over senator ted cruz. That poll has a history of uncanny accuracy. After more than a week on the run, two inmates who escaped from a Southern California prison have been arrested in san francisco. From a man who recognized a white man that Authorities Say he had stolen led to their capture. A third man turned himself in on friday. The pentagon has decided not to demote former army general and cia director David Petraeus for petraeus pleaded guilty last year and was given two years probation by a judge who called his action a serious lapse in judgment. The Screen Actors Guild award in los angeles last week, best cast in a movie, spotlight. No way. In television, actor jeffrey won for his performance in transparent. 59 years ago. For the weather, calm across the country except in a west where a storm will drop rain and snow, especially in california. And the week ahead, iowa caucus voters could contend with show tomorrow and the big sorry, storm could wake things up from arizona to michigan. Groundhogs beware. Coming up you know, the wild west coming out of my pocket. I move it. And later, bobby gets a makeover. donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Osgood for people in the Petroleum Business it has been a slippery slope, a plunge in oil prices that is a boon for most of us is a calamity for others. And it is not just producers overseas taking the hit. By martha teichner. Reporter hallelujah. It is great, you know, a lot less coming out of my pocket. I love it. Gas under 2 a gallon. I am thrilled. Under a dollar 50. Last year, pump prices put an extra 115 billion in americans pockets. The price of oil has dipped below 30 a barrel. It is all good, right . One big boost to the economy. What does this symbolize . The crash. Well, not so fast. In west texas, 30 a barrel oil means a deepening economic disaster. What is this . It is a drilling contractors yard. Now, during the boom, what would this have looked like . Empty. Completely empty. Rasco, this parking lot for drilling rigs symbolizes the american oil and gas industry going broke. In just the last year, more than 900 rigs were idled, the u. S. Total, down 60 percent. So each one of these rigs represents how many Unemployed People . I would say 1,000 each. Each one . Absolutely. And how many do you think are sitting here . We quit counting when they got into the 30s. On the road between midland and odessa, it is all there to see, the Collateral Damage caused by low price oil. The auction lots for heavy equipment no longer needed. For the repossessed cars and trucks of the people who have lost their jobs. The pump jacks that arent pumping. A gallon of water is worth more than a gallon of crude oil right now. Really . Yeah. Absolutely. That is north of town. Until he was laid off last spring, mike rasco made 17, 1,800 dollars a day overseeing company. Worldwide, the oil and gas industry has cut more than 275,000 jobs, since oil prices mid 2014. Why . For starters, demand for oil fell. In the past, opec has cut production in response. Not this time. Before the oil price collapsed, the assumption was that opec would underpin the oil price by cutting production, but the key Oil Producers in the gulf, saudi arabia a and the other gulf states said we wont cut unless other people cut. Daniel yergin is vice chairman of ihs, an company, and the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the prize, a history of oil. Saudi arabias basic strategy is to maintain its market share in a global oil market, and is actually a starting point for them. At the expense of everybody else . Yes. So began a huge game of chicken, with saudi arabia and its opec partners pumping full blast, russia too. And the United States. You heard of bracken pumping water into shale formations to free hard to get at oil and gas. Oil fracking, meant that the United States suddenly was producing a lot more oil. So much that for the first time in 40 years we are exporting it. U. S. Oil production went from 5 Million Barrels a day in 2008 to 9. 7 million bears a day in u. S. Oil production almost doubled in a matter of just a few years. During the good years, midland and odessa texas same story in north dakota. Based on 100 a barrel oil, entrepreneurs borrowed billion dollars of dollars to buy into the bonanza. Workers knocked to the oil patch. I heard about all of this big money, so i thought i could get a little piece of that pie, i suppose. So many they had to live in trailer camps, on cots in church halls. Then the price crashed. Thanks in large part to chinas slowing economy. The saudis and their gulf state neighbors with their deep pockets and low Cost Oil Production kept pumping and competitors to flinch. If prices continue to be low, we would be able to withstand it for a long, long time. The chairman of aramco the saudi state owned oil Company Earlier this month. Feeling the pain in addition to the United States, russia and venezuela. And the saudis hope iran, about to come back into the oil market in a big way after the lifting of sanctions. The gulf countries are convinced that iran has a plot to encircle them and so this is really not just about oil that is going on but it is really about the future of the middle east. Meanwhile, every day the world is producing Something Like a million and a half more barrels of oil than it needs. There is an ocean of it out there. In massive storage tanks, and right now, at least 100 Million Barrels are sitting in tankers this past week, the price of crude rose to nearly 36 a barrel, on the merest possibility that the russians and saudis might talk about cutting production. But even if it happened, sopping up that surplus will take time, which Oil Field Consultant mike rasco knows only too well. You joke around here saying things are picking up, they are picking up the house, they are picking up the car, you know. It is everybody just, it hits everybody just as hard but maybe in different ways. What is your situation . They picked up the truck. What i do my business out of, my pickup, its gone. My wife is stressed, she has been hospitalized over all of this. Mike rasco just wants to hang on to his home. He never lived lavishly, even when he could have. So he could weather the bad times. Born and raised in west texas, this is the fourth bust he has he knows it will end. As he looks for work every day, he just wonders when. How hard is it to keep your morale up . It is over. I dont i dont have anymore value left. I am out of pride. I have a beautiful wife and two good babies to take care of. I do it because i want to be a good husband. I will be a good oilman when it comes back around. Ahead. Osgood and now a page from our sunday morning almanac, january 31st, 1961, 55 years ago today. The day a chimpanzee would before. For that was the dana is a loaded ham the chimp into a mercury capsule for a sub orbital rocket ride from cape canaveral. It was a trial run ahead of americas first manned space mission. The rocket lifted off just before noon, but within a minute began veering higher than intended. 115 miles, ham soared 157 miles up. The ground crew monitored his vital signs as he experienced both more weightlessness and stronger g forces than planned. In the end, hams capsule overshot the designated Atlantic Ocean landing spot as well, by more than 100 miles. But trooper that he was, ham was recovered in good physical shape, and the trail he blazed was followed within a months by russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin and american as electronought, alan shepard, as for ham, he became an instant simian celeb, and went on to enjoy a lengthy second career on solid ground at the national zoo in washington. He died in 1983, at the age of 26. Far from forgotten, a plaque marks hams grave at the new in alamogordo. Next for a political announcement. This portion of sunday morning is sponsored by prudential. Prudential, bring your challenges. Your body was made for Better Things than rheumatoid arthritis. Before you and your rheumatologist ask if xeljanz is right for you. Xeljanz is a small pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. Xeljanz can reduce joint pain and swelling in as little as two weeks, and help stop further joint damage. Xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. Serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma, and other cancers have happened. Dont start xeljanz if you have an infection. Tears in the stomach or intestines, low blood cell counts, and higher liver tests and cholesterol levels have happened. Your doctor should perform blood tests before you start and while taking xeljanz, and monitor certain liver tests. Tell your doctor if you were in a region where fungal infections are common, and if you have had tb, hepatitis b or c, or are prone to infections. Xeljanz can reduce the symptoms of ra, even without methotrexate. Ask your rheumatologist about xeljanz. Season, trust me is the message of every companys tv ad. Proposition dean reynoldss now puts it to the test. This election is about the essence of america, about all of us who feel out of place in our own country. I spent my life fighting for children, families and our country. There are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix the economy. If you are lucky enough to live in iowa or new hampshire, political ads like these are just about all you see on television now. Hippo. Crit. One bellows. One bellows malarkey. After a while they all begin to sound the same. Hi, i am Gil Fulbright and the people who bankroll my political career tell me i am running for president. So here i am. Wait, what was that . I may not be qualified to be president , but a dramatic camera age california make me look like a president. Honest Gil Fulbright isnt a real company, hes an actor and this is a satire that has been viewed more than 3 million times on social media. Ideas, policies, these are things i dont need, what i need is 2 billion. It makes you chuckle, but there is a serious point to his pitch. He is just shine ago light on how politicians are routinely being bribed by special interest lobbyists, and swaying their votes in their favor, and the people who are left out are we, the American People. Josh silver is the director of represent us, the Grass Roots Organization behind Gil Fulbright that is working to pass laws combating the influence of moneyed interests in american politics. To be successful you would need to have these guys in Congress Vote against thayer well thats why we are doing what we are doing. He is talking about the advantage to end run washington and begin by focusing on local government, building a movement from the ground up. We know that washington is not going to fix this problem any time soon. They dont fix anything any time soon these days. The only place that there is a bright light right now is in the cities and states. From its office in florence, massachusetts, represent us brought together an unlikely alliance. The groups advisors include republicans, democrats, prominent members of occupy wall street and the tea party, even disgraced lobbyist jack abramoff, who served several years in federal prison after being convicted of conspiracy to bribe members of congress. Dan crass never is the political director of represent us. I am a republican and conservatives are fed up with the amount of corruption, the fraud, the waste and abuse in government. We are all essentially paying a corruption tax because of those problems in government. So we want reform. Represent us wants to stop elected officials taking money from special interests they regulate. Bar them from taking jobs as lobbyists after leaving office, at least for several years, limit their donations from lobbyists, and force organizations which fund political advertising to disclose their donors. We know that politicians are spending most of their time raising money, listening to donors, they need to listen to us. In november, represent us backed reforms passed in maine, seattle and san francisco, and there are plans for more Ballot Initiatives this year. Hi. Honest gil is not actually running and you cant actually the 2014 Kentucky Senate race. I have a deepseated love for kentucky that is directly proportion malto the amount of 25 percent. [ applause ] but he was so successful back then as a fundraising vehicle for the represent us cause, that time. I am running for president , sure, why not. I am running for president. Politics is easy to parody. Jimmy seagull has been making political ads for more than a decade, he was behind one of Hillary Clintons most memorable ads in 2008. I am looking out for you. And he said he is genuinely impress bid honest gil. Hi, i am Gil Fulbright and i approve whatever it is my wife is about to read off this the acting, okay . Convincing . Yeah, i mean, actually id like to have him as a company. I think there are places in the country he could win. This president ial election is expected to be the most expensive in history. There are predictions the process will cost more than 10 billion. 10 billion. Gil fulbright will be reminding us of that for the next year. And thats a promise he intends to keep. I promise that i will work every day to misdirect that anger so my big money donors can continue to rip you off. Please go out there and talk to do a little crowd work. Yes, maybe. Still to come, a very busy samantha bee. Lets do it. And later these are mileposts in which a makeover for barbie. Barbie, you are beautiful. Some 57 years after her slim and trim debut mattel says it is now about to offer barbie in three additional new body types, curvy, tall, and petite. She is also being offered in seven different skin tones, 22 eye colors, and 24 hairstyles. The makeover is a response to criticism that the original barbie doesnt look like a lot of little girls these days. The change also appears to be a response to declining sales found, down every year since 2012. Even so, some barbie critics already are saying the new socalled fashionista line still puts too much emphasis on fashion and appearance. So will the new fashions as we say in the news biz, only have you had your picture taken with a black person yet . Well, i dont think so, but i wouldnt mind doing it. Thats something you would be willing to try. Why, certainly. Do you have any of them up in montana. You know, we dont. It is sunday morning and here again is charles osgood. Osgood she is a busy bee, samantha bee, the former is a hairraising prospect some might say. Altschul tracks her down. Here she comes. Here comes the beauty shot, oh, yes. To promote her day debut as one of the few women on late might tv oh, my gosh. That looks so good. Former daily show correspondent samantha bee had to become one of the boys. Finally, a woman in the boys club of late Night Television, just one thing. Whats that . It is my hair, it is my look. I just got all my haircut off. Trust me, it is attractive. And conan obrien had a the network tbs. Come here, me. Come here, baby. Just about a week from now, samantha bee launches her monday night program. Full frontal. Do you talk to the audience and do crowd work . Yes, maybe, maybe. Tvs only female late night host takes on her show note feature interviews are comedy sketches are, it is not a talk show, that said the focus is satire. She is powerful, is he is regal but i dont want her overtly sexual. You wouldnt her to give away the store. And she will have the usual target but with her own twist. And facebook responded. Oh, very fake, very fake. Well, you got me. I am so sorry. Heres the original footage. Ted c

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