Tempesta. Yes. I would like to talk to you about the new show you have here, the weekend in vegas. Tell me about that. Honestly, its a dream come true. Ive been working on this two and a half years, looked back in the emails, sent the first email january 2014 about hosting a news program at the linq promenade. Its the perfect kind of space for a show like this. Guests, celebrity interviews, giveaways, prizes, we have a live band, house band that plays. Its great energy down there, the link is bustling. Its a great fit and going very well. Its really exciting. Its a couple of things, your show. Its a live show down in front of the link. Yeah which to me i want to call it the promenade. Yeah. Its an outdoor space, people can come down thursday nights and watch you tape. Yep. Its vegas and so you, but then its also on line and on tv. Right, two shows in one. We have this live show where its an experience to watch a taping. So when something goes wrong, i mess up, weve got to take it again, the audience is like, come on jeff its fun interaction. We do a 60second wedding live on stage, which is probably the most fun part. You have someone really if you know fun segment. Dennis rod man at least for now is our celebrity wedding correspondence. He was our first one and absolutely hysterical. If youre going to get married you should talk to dennis rodman. He found couples that want to get married live on the show. Its fun to watch the process, because the taping is several hours long and the show gets chopped down, chopped down, edited, put together and through a great 20minute show here on ktnv. I would like to bring you back a little bit, thats what you have going on now. Yeah. Back a few years ago when you were a young performer, you performed on a cruise ship for the first time. Jeff and i have mutual friends. Shawn hired cruise ship gig ever. Oh, my gosh, where did you find these . Incredible story. We have a short amounts of time, so tell us what happened. Im 17 years old im such dork. Im even dorkier then than i am now christmas break, and my mom said youre not going, i said there anyway, only if your brother comes. My brother was only three years older than me, much more responsible. I lost everything, flew to columbia, nothing was there. Together with our friend shawn cavanaugh,ou with various props by going into different rooms of the ship. Going to the galley, grabbing oranges to juggle you pulled it off because of shawn. Whoever found those cases in columbia were probably so disappointed, because they found uni cycles. Here were. Here we are, got a snap pick, coming up today, sip some vino and look at pets. And first step, clowning around tomorrow, helping a special causes. The zelda cause for las vegas is hosting a fun family show. Thats right, here with more about it is dan erickson, lance burton, magic magician. Jug there was going to be a juggler on the show dan, by the way, i talked to jeff before the show, he is going to come perform the kids at christmastime. Thats right. Dan, im fascinated by your hat thank you. This is quite a hat. I think its interesting, the shriners we all know about them, we see the buildings, we all know of the hat. In the community. We are a large, philanthropic, fraternal society. We support 22 hospitals across usa, one clinic in tijuana. We offer free orthopedic burn care and cleft palate repair. Your roll as a potentate. For one year, for 2016, i get to be in charge of this, fun, make all the visits, do the parades wear the hat. Wear the hat, next year its better, past potten tate. Thats my normal introduction. Ive got to say, can we do a quick time out here . Youre now not just master magician, but awardwinning film maker and master magician. The last time i was on the Morning Blend was to promote feature film that i just directed called billy master magician and we it as a fundraiser and some of the other organizations i work with and it was at the palm hotel and big success. We just made our festival promissory ear, i took the film to the wild rose, in des moines, iowa, we won six awards, including the award for best family film. Im so proud of my and the great job that theyve done on this film. Congratulations thank you and he just wanted to give because the Morning Blend was part of this, getting this film launched so im just now working on distribution so everybody can enjoy it. How exciting so master magician and now film maker. Retired master magician. Tell us about this event that we have coming up here. Yes, okay. About the Childrens Hospitals. This is why they do all the fundraising, there are 1200 kids right here in las vegas, right now that these guys are working with transporting to the Childrens Hospital in las vegas. So they have to pay for all this. This is where our fundraiser comes in tomorrow. Art mass ham concert hall, three performances, acrobat act, trained dog act, lion dance. I will be there at the 3 00 show to little magic. Fielding west comedy ma digs will be at the 11 00 show. Greg glees on, master illusion its will be at the 7 00 show. And the best part is you can bring your kids for 6. Where can you take a kid for 6. Dont look at me what does your show cost. Unbelievable. Well talk about it later. More than 6. That venue is amazing. Ive worked that venue before, terrific concert hall. Did you pull these performers together . No, they put it together and called me because ive worked with the shriners for 20 years now helping them with fundraising thing. So they called and said would you help us get the word out and do magic. I said absolutely. I got some of my friends, greg and fielding. Its a problem saying no when people ask you to do nice things. I tell you what, i went to the Shriners Hospital in los angeles, took a tour of the hospital and met the staff and doctors and kids and i did magic for the kids, and some of them are in wheelchairs, some of them are in hospital beds, some of them are covered in bandages and im doing magic for them and to reactions. Once you do that, once you walk through the hospital and so what these shriners do, you cant say no. Any time these guys call me, its just an automatic yes, im there. Yes, because its in your heart, yeah. Its so people see these guys with the hat and the little cars and they think its just fun, these guys are having fun and drinking and partying theres that, too. There is some of that on. But when you go into the Shriners Hospital and see what these guys do, it just touches your heart and you want to be part of it thank you, lance, thank you, dan. Thank you both. Ive got a pin for you every year the potentate gets to commission a pen. What an honor. You are kind, sir. Picture of the hoover damon it. The velvet shine chapter is tomorrow at. Nlv, check it out, art mass are at 11 00, 3 00 and 7 00. Phone number is also available for more information about the group. Keep it here on the Morning Blend, more to come in minutes. This is Edward Cortez born in chihuahua, mexico, he immigrated to the u. S. And was proud to serve our country in world war ii. He settled in nevada, became a baker and raised a family. His story isnt unique. Its what america should still be today. Im Catherine Cortez masto, this is my grandfather, and im proud to approve this message. Nothing beats fresh seafood in the summer. Experience delicious dishes at red lobster. Heres more to crack open the details, charlie shippley. So good. Lets talk about what weve got going on here. Okay. Carry. It would be like the daddy of all crabs. That is the mack daddy crack there. Its very sweet, delicate, but a larger crab. Then right here is our snow crab, this would be the baby of the crabs. This is our most popular snow crab. So this would be the most popular that everybody comes in to eat. Whats the taste difference. Theyre both sweet, but this one is the sweeter of the and then this is our this is the one for a limited time, wild cod, brought in this year after last year it was so popular, this year we brought it in, this is even more sweeter than this and larger in size. What is your personal favorite . The bardi. You say brought in. Where is it brought in from. It is wall caught on the pacific ocean. Tells you about all of our species, sizes, texture, all of that. Before we get into cracking some of these can you tell us a little bit more about red lobster red lobster is in itself a great place for families. I brought them in since they were little and taught them how to open the crab legs. Its fun to get together. Tank, so you can bring your family in, we pull them out, let the kids see them, its exciting. Absolutely it is. Its kind of like an activity, i notice as im moving us toward the food. But its an activity, its a hands on activity and you have to learn how to do it, theres a technique do you have a technique . I am a total newbie at this. Wet napkin to clean yourselves up afterwards this is not big enough it may take more and we can give you as many as you need. Then also when you open your crab legs, we have a couple different ways of doing it. Sure. We break off the leg, ill show you this one first, its actually the easiest one. So go right here where it benldz and then pull and see the and then youll want to crack here, no, you dont need your crab crackers yet. And then you dont want to crack it too much, because youll break the meat inside. Charlie, youre good at this. And then of course if you want to get the rest of the meat out wheres the butter . Right there. I actually eat it with and without the butter because its really great. So you can just open it up and you get all the rest of that meat. Great. It takes a little work, youve got to earn your food, right i like it, i like it this is the trickier piece. Thats the claw, right. Mmhmm. So when you pull the pincher here, you pull one side. You pull the pincher off i thought you cracked it. Yeah, if you keep that inside, the cartilage that holds it together will not allow to pull the meat out easily. Who would have known . Can you talk about the journey of crab fess contest . Oh, you know what, its on redlobster. Com. Theres a lot of information on there, its different forever area, go to redlobster. Com. What is crab fest exactly . This is when we celebrate our crab throughout the year be. So we bring in the crab and try so we have our crab lovers dream over there, which has our king crab, snow crab crab lovers dream . If you love crab it is amazing it is. Is it one of the ultimate things on the menu. Yes, if you love crab, its the one to get. Whats the pasta. Its a crab alfred do, creamy linguini. The king and bardi are only seasonal for us, so we only have them at certain times of the year. Can jeff and i its a lobster fork. Is this a special kind this is the bardi, the seasonal we have more pictures. This is the crab lovers dream. And that one there is our alaskancaught. So our chesapeake corn. Beer on the side. We have lots of varieties at red lobster when it comes to our beer as well. What is the most popular dish . I would say our ultimate feast is our most popular in our restaurant. Depending on where you are at is where you would have favorite dishes. Youve got to throw in the cheddar biscuits, ridiculous, those are yearround. You walk in the door and youre presented with them right of way. Its kind of like a dessert, an extra yummy this doesnt need butter, its so good. And thats unique, because the butter is good, to it is so good thank you so much. Delicious wow, be sure to head to crab forgets right now. Largest variety of crab. To find out more, head to the website on your screen and take the journey to crab fest yes. Still to come on the Morning Blend, wine tasting for a wonderful cause, how to make las vegas a great place for pets. Get the fuel for back to school. Thats right. Producer micah is standing by with what to pack the kids with us as they head back to class. Guys, thank you. All right, parents, its coming, lunch boxes and backpacks and send them back to class. As you know with busy mornings it can be hard to pack right food. Here with us today is registered dietician and awardwinning cookbook author liz weiss. Good morning to you. Good morning. That time of the year he again. What are some of those biggest meal time challenges for parents as back to scho well, the Biggest Challenges would be lack of time and lack of inspiration. And as i dietician, im all about good nutrition, so lets lets throw that into the mix, too. The goal should be to keep our kids well fueled and well fed on these busy back to school days ahead. So to that i have partnered with some great brands to help everybody achief that variety and nutrition theyre craving. Lunch think about protein. Thats a great way to start because protein will keep your kids energy eyed throughout the day. You want to grab convenient foods that are super in you tissues, chobani, kids and pouches and tubes. Theyre made with natural ingredients, nongmo. Moms can feel good about that. They come in some banana strawberry is the favorite with my boys. Fun characters on the packages. Weve got disney characters and Justice League characters. We can keep it healthy and nutrition of nutritious, but also playful. I love chobani. What about lunch. Before you think about what we wants to keep lunches fresh, keep them at a cold, safe temperature. One of the big trends were seeing this season are these containers. This is rubbermaid lunch blocks kids. They are colorful, bpafree. Theyve got these fun container shapes and the best tbout them is they snap into this blew ice tray. Thats what keeps the lunch cold. It also keeps it organized, so everything stays together and fits lunch box or lunch bag. We also like to shake things up as parents. You dont always have to think about the same old sandwich. You can try Something Different like a burrito, for example. You might be thinking, how am i going to make that on a busy School Morning . The brown rice from minute ready to serve rice is fully seconds to heat it up. So you can actually use the brown rice quina and mix that with fresh foot, yogurt, youve got a power breakfast. You can use the single serve containers or the family size so at dinner time you can have whole grain brown royce and stir fry that with vegetables. Lots of great ideas. I love it, sounds delicious. I love it, too. Even salads, i dont know if youve ever packed a your kids in the lunch box. Got a salad here, colorful, so kid friendsly, im using smithville any Time Favorites to add variety, flavorful, convenience, comes in a variety of cuts, for example, weve got the died or cubed ham. Wave weve got ham steaks, you to tacos. Lots of fun ideas when were heading back to school. Liz, we love these ideas and we will keep them in mind as we head to the new school year. Thanks for joining us this morning. Good to be here. For more ideas that liz brought to us head to any one of those website you see right there on your screen. She also has a website, mealmake overmoms. Com. Well also have this on our went. Thank you, still to come on the Morning Blend, game of thrones live concert experience. Next, weve the glass for a great cause. Do you know someone who truly makes a difference in the community, now recognize them with our p give back award. Head to our website, click on give back, one person will switch to centuryl of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844560link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan and autopay. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. Welcome back to the blend. Raise a glass for a great cause its time fort sill ver ton annual one drunk puppy wine tasting event. Here with more on this exciting event, director of communications from silverton hotel, kimiko peterson, as well as holly mchugh. Good morning, ladies good morning. Tell us more about the Animal Foundation, please the Animal Foundation is nevadas largest open air shelter. We take in 30,000 animals every year, pets like peter here, dogs, cats, really anything that comes through our doors. And found services, foster services. Lots and lots of services. Tell us about peter here. Peter is a 4yearold shitzu mix. Hes a little scared right now. He is so sweet, such a lap dog and cant wait to go home. He is up for adoption, right. He is up for adoption, through august 22nd, his adoption fees are only 235. What would make 25. What would make a great home for peter. Probably someone quieter, not looking to go jogging with. He needs a secure home. I have seen build boards for one drunk puppy all over town. How did the events start, kimiko. This is our 6th annual one drunk puppy event. Each year has gotten bigger and bigger. This is our second Year Foundation and we couldnt be happier about it. We are featuring wine, craft beers and this year whiskey. Our partner is going to be providing youll these wonderful, unique wines that you cannot find anywhere else. Within silverton casino, we are featuring a wine dinner which celebrates Animal Foundation, pets were very excited about tomorrow. Tomorrow you can also bring your pet as well, i understand. No dogs allowed, unfortunately. Actually, you cannot bring your pets tomorrow. No dogs allowed. This is just for people, 21 plus, to have a great time. Its going to be a wonderful event, were going to have you can talk about the wine wall . She is speechless. Im taking care of peter here weve got all these bottles of wine, for 20 you can purchase a bottle and youre not sure which one its going to be, you get to pull out of a bowl and take one home. Do you drink wine . I love wine im a wine guy. You must have had a lot o its your sixth year. Yes. How can people get tickets if they want to go tickets are available on line at silvertoncasino. Com. Limited Tickets Available on line and at the event tomorrow. Holly, real quick before we roll, money is really important. How else can we get involved. If you cant come to the you can also volunteer, or foster an animal or always adopt a furry friend. Lots of ways to help. Like this little guy right here he would make a perfect friend for someone. Im tempted. I always committed to a shriner show on air. One drunk puppy, theres plenty of alcohol at this event, we want people to be safe. We heard youve partnered with lyft. We have, youll get 50 in free rides with the code silverton. We want everyone to be safe, have a great time and raise money for a great organization. Thanks to see you both. Thanks for bringing this guy get your tickets now for one drunk puppy happening tomorrow at the silverton. Where to score them is right on still to come on the Morning Blend, slap jack fundraiser is at your neighborhood grill. Where to fill your belly for a great cause. On ktnv. Com you can find Great Stories on what makes this valley a special place to live. Click under sections, check out whether youre going back to work or back to school, were getting it together here, our next guest has you covered with the seasons hottest fashions and accessories. Get this, jeff, theyre 08 08 off. 80 off. Natalie, youre running around i am. I want to make a correction, its usually up to 80 off. We do have a lot of deals, some things are 20, some are 50, some are 80, but you can score great deals on tempt brands. Great variety here. It is. We sell everything under the sun, men, women, kids, and a nice home department. Whatever you want, onestop shop. What would you like to show us first . Little bit of a back to school, back to work type of scene, so weve got everything under the sun. Maybe well start with this, Everyone Needs a new hand bag. Im into bags. Break it down. This is your latest collection, michael kor hand bag. Love it. Browns and neutral colors. This normally sells for 400. Youll get it from us for abo there are 250, 260. Wow anyway, cross body or as a tote, not too big, not too small, ready to bring you back to the office. Then we have some other stuff. You can access rise your michael kor bag with a beautiful skafr, all under 10. Im a big but i dont like the shoes. So premium yum for the shoes. When these are 700 and pay 500 for them, its still a steep price. This is the significance signature, the shoes. You walk around, not only are they beautiful, accessory, but the shoes to have. Theyre expensive. So the opportunity to get them at a steal is the best feeling in the world. I sunday. Some day, some day. You can buy them on our site. Then for you. Here we go. Mens apparel here. These are normally 200 on any website. We sell them for about 50. Wow a huge assortment of mens dress shirts on our site. So you can get anything under the sun. It would look great on you. That goes in my bag here and weve got back to school here as well. You have back to school, thats a herschel backpack. These bags are so popular. Everyone is did you notice this, jeff this is like the backpack. What makes them so popular. Very backpacks, very trend i, camel, all kinds of color. Vintage vibe going on there. It does. These 100, but youll get them 30, 40 off. You should have you have a calvin klein tie and what else can i get here . Im making out like a band it. U weve got sunglasses, those are always a fortune when you go to Expensive Stores to buy them. I think these are for me. These are for me. Yeah. Them on our site and not pay a premium. Oh, my gosh, i love these. You mentioned we could get them on your site. Tell us about the sight. Tempt brands. Com is pretty simple. Go online and shop the department you want, whether its womens fashion, mens fashion, sunglasses, nail polish, anything you want, you just order it and it ships within 24 hours. Oh, wow thats temptbrands. Com. You get a youll never pay full price for anything. The best part is it ships fast. Ships in 24 hours, i think thats the new standard. It is. No one wants to wait anymore. A week . Ill find another way. I love nail polish. And i see you have opi and essy. And those are 4 on our site. Usually 8, right . Exactly. If you use the code Morning Blend youll get 10 off your first purchase. You have no excuse now. No excuse, get anything you want, use that code, Morning Blend, 10 off. Can we talk about the uggs. We dont need them yet but we will. They are s dont you want to get inside that . I do. Thats sheep skin. Few more items. A few quick more items. Youve got another bag thats cool, laptop bag, tokyo laundry. Then youve got a nice sweatshirt over here from jack and then really cute if youre sending your toddler back to school, a pink pair of jeans with a you dont have to go this fancy, but i would totally go this fancy. Thank you so much. These are my pleasure. Hip items. Theyre great. Thanks for having me thank you. Go back to school or work in style this season, just go to temptbrands. Com to find the hottest fashions where everhi still to come on the Morning Blend, how to help the valley kids get set for the new school year. Next, grab your brown eyed girl for a date. Enjoy a short snack for a tall cause. Tomorrow from 8 00 a. M. At tickets are 10 and 100 of the proceeds are going to the. Wouldnt it be nice to take a piece of home when leaving the necessary and heading off college. Our next guest has ideas. Emmy award winner and Consumer Technology journalist Jennifer Jolly is here with tips. Hey, jen. Hey, jj, thats right. It is all about being coed connected these days and parents are expected to spend some there are 76 billion on back to school gadgets. Youre seeing here, this particular dormroom, i did what i always do to save myself time, money and hassle, went to amazon. Com. Ill just jump right in and start with this. I actually bought these as gifts for all the High School Graduates earlier this year who are heading off to column. I like to think of this as a smart, surrogate parent of sorts. Its really high end Bluetooth Speaker but you at that point the top, and it has an lexa enabled, smart personal assistant, at that point the tap the top, say alexa, whats the news, tell me your joke. That is around 130. Lots of deals going on, be sure to check that. And then, you know, i always parents, does my student need a laptop, smart phone. When you have Something Like this, this is the fire tablet. This starts at 50. So when you have a tablet like this, this is high quality for such a low price. Items easy to get them lined up with this, in addition to the other stuff they need. 7 inch display there. Super fast quad 4 process or for multitasking, rear and front facing the best part, stick all their textbooks in there, each outside in the bright day light on that one small tablet. It would be great for studying, but also downtime. I would like to have one of those. Absolutely. Really hard working college could coeds these days, their brain deserves a downtime. In really any television or monitor and it makes it a smart tv. So thats really fantastic for all kinds of streaming, offers a massive collection of tv shows, movies, amazon video, also comes alexaen tabled, so they can be hanging out alexa can help them this is a single serving coffee cup brewer. Its compact, fits in a crammed dormroom but can brew up more than 400 flavors of coffee and other hot beverages for fraction of going out to cover ecafe. Another things that coffee cafe. Pro web cam. This is a great way for students to feel like theyre back in the same room with parents, which im not sure that many students want as much as parents. Forever single thing im talking about here, you have to know about amazon prime student. A lot of parents and students dont know that that is a super simple way to save huge amounts of money, two day delivery, six months trial subscription, then students pay just 50 a year after that. Thats half the price of what we grown ups have to pay. So its a great resource for students out there. A lot of College Campuses these days have an amazon store right on campus. So you can order it online and jump into the store right next and pick your item up right there thats cool, too. You can find everything you see here at amazon. Com. Thank you. Everything is under 130 bucks. Affordable and helpful tips to make your College Students move a breeze. Well have this on our website. Jeff, back to you. Thank you, jj. Lots of exciting concerts coming to the valley. Heres a quick rundown. The music of g coming to the mgm garden arena. The show is march 25th. Van morrison is set to head line the column so yum. Friday and saturday, january 13th and 14th. Tickets for that go on sail today at 10 00 a. M. Head to the coliseum. Com to get yours. Finally Country Singer kellily concert at the pavillup. Tickets for that go on sale today at 10 00 a. M. Head to the website or call your number on the screen to get yours. Up next, get ready to laugh as weve got one heck of a surprise. Check out veganmorningblend. Com. Centurylink prism tv has all your favorite channels, tons of live sports, and more all in crystalclear hd. Watch when and where you want with advanced features like our wireless settop box, whole home dvr, and prism on the go. And choose from a variety of great packages to fit your home. Call. And get started with the prism essential tv bundle. 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In washington, has congressman joe heck been standing up for you . Heck voted ten times to defund planned parenthood. He even tried to shut down the federal government and hecks against a womans right to choose and supports overturning roe v wade which would allow states to criminalize abortion. Joe heck. Part of the problem in washington. The view starts right now. Its a fall preview of everything youll be obsessed with next season. From the hottest fashion trends to the coolest new gadgets. And a sneak peek of the movies, tunes, and tv shows you dont want to miss. It all starts now on the view with whoopi, joy behar, candace cameronbure, ravensymone, and paula faris. Now, lets get things started. [ cheers and applause ] . Whoo