Were going to show you some hope in our show today. It was kind of cool. If you were at home watching the voice last night, which was the finale, they started off with this really, really moving tribute. There have been a lot of terrific tributes, but this one was really striking, i think. All the coaches and the participants sang a beautiful song. Lets take a listen. I heard there was a secret chord that david played and it pleased the lord but you dont really care for music, do you and it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth the nine minor fourth the major left hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah i did my best and it wasnt much, i couldnt feel so i tried to touch i told the truth, i didnt try to fool you even though it all went wrong i stand before the lord with song nothing on my tongue but hallelujah just beautiful, wasnt it . Standing in for that person that was lost. Its really powerful. It was really beautiful. The finale has come down to three singers. Team cee lo as Nicholas David and team blake has two of them, Terry Mcdermott and cassadee po pope. Its going to come down to the final the other two dont have anybody in. No, they dont. Now, we are going to pick the winner, the two of us right now. Lets take a look. Lean on me when youre not strong and ill be your friend ill help you carry on i want to know what love is i want you to show me i want to feel what love is if you cry a little lie just a little and tell me youre feeling a little more pain okay. Weve already picked the winner. We have picked the winner. Now to tonight i said it weeks ago, and i havent even been watching the show. You were out in the front on this. We dont know. Well know tonight. We are going to guess that the winner is cassadee pope. Having not watched it, watching that first gentleman that was playing the piano and singing reminds me so much years and years ago there was a guy that i dated for a while named buster. Now, i dont remember his last name, but my daddy didnt like buster. Every time that buster would come, my daddy would sort of close the door on him and come in and go its buster at the door. Im thinking buster was such a sweet guy, but that guy looks like buster at the door. I know my mother my father had no idea what buster wanted with me, you know . All right. Im really actually kind of rooting for buster. There have been a lot of people who have been doing some really kind things lately, and were going to talk about some that have been as a result of the shooting, but there was also this Police Officer, and he was driving down the street, and he pulled a guy over whose registration had expired. License plates, right. He says to the guy, you know, your registration is expired. He said, look, i had to make a decision between getting my registration and for my kids and stuff. Feeding my family. The guy said im sorry im going to have to write you a ticket. He wrote the ticket anyway, and inside the Police Officer slipped 100 bill, and he handed him the ticket, and the guy opened up and saw the cash in there, and just felt like he was renewed, like somebody somebody helped him. He said he believed in god again because somebody had reached out in kindness. First of all, so many times all we hear about are the problems with our police, but my gosh, they are 90 or 99 of them, theyre amazing. They really are. They really are. Theyre certainly not in that business for the money, you know . No. They really serve the public, so im always happy when theres a great policeman story like that. Me too. The other nice thing that has happened is that they sent ten comfort dogs into newtown. I dont know if we have some video that we can go to. These are all german shepherds. I think they came 800 miles. Golden retrievers. Golden retrievers, thats right. Where from, hoda . Illinois. Theyre starting this up in more and more states because it works. They just are so loving and theyre a safe place for people. Really cool. Look at those faces. Ah. We were saying one of the problems with this there are a million problems with what happened in sandy hook, but people want to help and do something. We kept saying we know how frustrating it is because you dont its not like a hurricane where you can give clothes or money or help, pull out drywall or something, but people are starting to do this thing where theyre doing an act of kindness, and theres a thing going on on twitter and paying it forward. People are paying it forward, and a woman said she was in line at starbucks. She bought a coffee. She handed it to the guy behind her, and the man behind her said thank you, and she said im a teacher, and he hugged her, and she cried. Or another lady called the general store in newtown i think from california and said i want you to give a free cup of coffee to every Single Person who walks into the general store today on me, and so each person who walked in totally anonymous from california, and so i think everyone sometimes its a little thing. You do something small for someone, like one guy just wrote on twitter, i held the door. I know that should be a normal thing, but the person behind appreciates it, and i think its something so there is something you can do. Theres always something you can do. Like what can i do . You may not be able to change the world, but you can always change somebodys world. Always. Talk about some good news today, you guys. Yeah. Richard engel is an nbc he is our chief foreign correspondent. Brilliant reporter. He was snatched really in syria, i think it was on wednesday, so there have been several days where he had been missing, and i know his his camera crew and producer, right . Right. They kept it they were really trying to keep it sort of quiet so they could get this thing resolved. The good news was he was ultimately released, and what he went through sounded he and his crew sounded so harrowing. They were taken by who we think is Bashar Al Assads guys. They were blindfolded, and they were bound, and all this kind of stuff. Richard describes a little bit about what happened. Lets take a listen. They kept us blindfolded, bound. We werent physically beaten or tortured. There was a lot of psychological torture. Threats of being killed. They made us choose which one of us would be shot first, and when we refused, there were mock shootings. They pretended to shoot gazi several times when you were blindfolded, and then they fired the gun up in the air. It can be very traumatic experience. Who knows how this could have turned out. This is one of those unbelievable experiences where they just happened upon a there was a checkpoint, i think, and they were with the rebels. Rebel checkpoint. Apparently there was a shootout, and two of the guys who took richard and his crew captive were killed, richard said, and they just kind of made a run for it, and that was blindfolded and bound . Thats whats interesting. Well get the full story eventually but theres some good news. Theres some good news. So it is you know, it still is lets say it. It still is booze day tuesday. So we do have something for you to lighten somebody wanted us to do it again. Who are we to disappoint people . We dont like to do that. This is a wine sampler thats 24. 94. Dont misrepresent. 94 cents. 25. How about if i round up . So anyway each one is a pinot or something. Thats that is thats your thats white. Pinot noir. No, it isnt . Jerry. Here. Here it is. Jerry, have you been drinking on the job . Do you know how wrong that is . Oh, anyway have you no shame, jerry . Why are we doing this again . Because we want to. Coming up, this is a really funny movie. Its something for mothers and sons. Actor seth row began is rogan is going to open up about his movie guilt trip with barbra streisand. Look how cute he looks. Help me. Popular tv stars saying goodbye while others welcome a baby. Weve got all your hollywood buzz. Guess who is in town . Who . Wooohooo. Hahaahahaha oh. There you go. Wooohooo. Hahaahahaha im gonna stand up to her no youre not. I know. You know ronny folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. How happy are they jimmy . Happier than a witch in a broom factory. Get happy. Get geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating . Yeah. One Phillips Colon Health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. Approved [ Phillips Lady ] live the regular life. Phillips. Plays a key role throughout our lives. One a day mens 50 is a complete multivitamin designed for mens Health Concerns as we age. It has 7 antioxidants to support cell health. One a day mens 50 . In his new film funny man seth rogan hits the road with his unlikely partner barbara streisand, and they hit some bumps along the way. The guilt trip is about a motherson relationship that takes on an adventurous life of its own. Take a look. Do you want to come on my trip with me, mom . You want to drive crosscountry with me . Yeah. No. You know, we wont be gone long. Its only eight days in the car together. Wait a minute. I want to make sure that im hearing you correctly. You want to spend a week in a car with your mother. More than anything in the world. That was convincing. And he is with us. We feel like we see you have a new movie coming out every six weeks. Here you are. Yeah, im in les mis. I was good, and i sang live on set. No one knows that. First one ever to do that. How cool was this, seth, working with, first of all, such an icon . It was cool. Honestly. You had to wait for her, didnt you . She said no for a couple of years. You had to wait for her. She said no. She was kind of working on whether or not she wanted to star in another movie. Meanwhile, i made other movies. I think i literally made two movies while she was deciding whether or not to make this movie. And she wasnt sure she wanted to play yet another mother like she had with the fockers. She didnt know if she wanted to play another jewish mother, but i said i hate to say it, but thats kind of what youre playing. Thats what you got. Was she fun on the set . Whats it like . She was fun. She would feed me a lot. She would always look for excuses to eat in the scene. A scene with ice cream shed be talking about it for like three weeks. Oh, our ice cream day is coming. We eat ice cream all day. Yeah. Shes like a jewish mother. She feeds you a lot, and then she criticizes you for eating too much. Apparently because she is a real life jewish mother to her son jason gould, he was the one that talked her into it. They read the script together, and i guess he was recovering from some surgery. He had back surgery, so he couldnt escape, i guess, and she cornered him and sat down with him and made him read the script with her, and then, yeah, i think that was one of the things that was one of the deciding factors, i guess. What prompts your character into inviting his mother to go on this long road trip across country . Shes very overbearing and shes single in the movie. And i find out that theres this guy that she used to date before my father and who she was really in love with, and im trying to reunited her with this guy. Because shes widowed now. Im trying to reunite with her with the guy so some of the focus will not be on me anymore. It will be on this other dude. Pawn her off on someone. Pawn her off. Exactly. Was there any ad libbing . I know you do quite a bit of comedy yourself. Did you get to have some fun here . I did. I wasnt sure, you know you hear barbara is kind of specific in how she likes things done, so i wasnt sure how loose she would be, but she improvised all the time, and i have a terrible memory and cant remember things, so i just tend to improvise because i dont remember my lines. We had a very natural dynamic. Im a son. Shes a mother. She knows what its like to annoy people, and i know what its like to be annoyed by people. Now, is it true that she because she didnt particularly want to do this movie and had to be talked into it that she said there are things that im not going to agree to. Yeah. Im not going to travel, even though this is a crosscountry trip. The crosscountry road trip movie. Im only going 45 minutes away. It was shot in malibu. Literally the whole movie was shot in malibu. The grand canyon, thats topanga canyon. Its remarkable what they can do if you dont want to leave malibu. Yeah. Its like really amazing. We wish you great luck with this movie, seth. Thank you. It opens, i believe, tomorrow. Yes, wednesday. In theaters everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere. Have a good holiday. I will. Thank you so much. Coming up next, a brave young girl whose wish list for santa is fulfilling the dream of little kids just like her. Right after this. [ male announcer ] years ago, when the inventors of twix unveiled their bar, the tension between them reached a breaking point, literally. So they divided the production between two separate factories. Each factory took a vastly different approach. Left twix flowed caramel on cookie, while right twix cascaded caramel on cookie. Left twix bathed in chocolate, while right twix cloaked in chocolate. Both bars as different as the vastly distinct men who invented them. To this day, sharing nothing but a wrapper and an illdesigned driveway. Try both and pick a side. 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Yes, virginia, there is a santa claus, and hes going to be really, really busy this year sorting through all that mail and granting wishes. All thanks to a 9yearold girl named gabriella miller. What do you want for christmas . Iphone 5. I want a new camera. Reporter its an operation even the elves at the north pole would be proud of. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer reporter a Santa Letter Writing Campaign designed to help make the wish of one little girl come true. Im trying to help out gabriella. Thats 9yearold gabriella miller, a small girl with some big ideas. It should be stubborn. Shes a good kid. Shes bright and always thinking about others. Reporter recently gabriella and her parents mark and ellen faced some difficult news. Gabriella was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. How is she feeling . The effects of the radiation are accumulative. She gets tired. But shes doing well. Shes just got this amazing spirit. Reporter the family was told gabriella was eligible to participate in make a wish. Her dream . To visit paris. Something the family plans to do this spring. Reporter that wasnt enough for gabriella. She also learned that macys was making a pledge to make a wish. They would donate 1 for every letter written to santa claus up to 1 million. Gabriella went to her mom. If we write letters for santa, macys will give money to make a wish. She called and said how do we do this . I said we can do 10,000 letters. Reporter family friend Christina Cole got the word out on facebook, and make a wish for gabriella was born. Soon letters were pouring in from across the country. I heard she gets really excited when certain letters come in from different places. If shes tired or something, then it makes her feel good to know that other people are thinking about her. Reporter but its gabriella who is thinking of others hoping more letters will mean more wishes granted for kids like her. A lot of children are writing letters saying, dear santa, i have everything i need. Just please cure cancer for christmas. Thats all i want. Reporter one week into their campaign, they blew past their first goal. Oh, my god. 21,000 letters. Thats when we said lets do 50,000. Just a few days ago they passed 50,000 letters. Its just the sweetness and the innocence of these children writing something down not about santa per se. Its about expressing their needs and their desires and their wishes. Santa is merely a figure head, but you guys dont even celebrate christmas. Right. One of the holidays is that you celebrate. Its just goodness and pure and what can we do to be kind to other people . You dont have to thank them for generosity and writing letters. Its overwhelming, and its amazing, and we are so very filled with gratitude. Gabriellas elves were up late counting the latest batch of santa letters, and why number two weeks theyve collected, drum roll, please, 76,330 letters. Just amazing. So when the folks at macys heard about her efforts, they said they would donate an extra 10,000 to make a wish in her name, more than enough to corps one more childs wish. You can read about gabriellas campaign at at make a wish with gabriella. Thats so beautiful. All righty. All right. Keeping with the giving spirit, we have tips on tipping. Yeah, and how to keep its important information. Were also going to keep you healthy during the flu season. The hollywood couple expecting their first baby in the buzz. It started with a whisper we are back with more of today on this tuesday, and its time for todays buzz, catching you up with all of the things in and around hollywood. From one hot new dadtobe to wedding bells for Kelly Clarkson. Weve got all the scoop here to dish it all is our friend naughty but nice columnist for huffington post, rob. Congrats to channing tatum. He is expecting a baby. We dont know the sex yet. He and his wife have confirmed a little one is on the way. He is the sexiest man alive. From People Magazine and everybody else. He is one of the sweetest guys in the world. He is so polite. I didnt he is not just a goodlooking guy. He is the real deal. He is madly in love with his wife. Theyre expecting a little one in the new year, im sure. That child was conceived in love. Kate middleton. Yes. We have been wondering how shes been. Whats the latest . The first outing last night in britain. She turned up to present an award for the bbc sports person of the year. It sounds a little bit of a stretch, but thats another reason she probably went. The lovely David Beckham was there. He is so little. She looked smashing in that dress. Shes an ambassador for the British Olympic Team and the paralymp