to him. he was going to come in today dressed to the nines. look at this. look at this. this hold on. this is dressed to the nines. look at barnicle. what s the matter? look at this collar. you re a mess. where s your tie. this is dressed to the nines. i couldn t do a tie this early in the morning. turn around. this man is a mess. seriously, you re not fit to be on television. sit down, i m calling your wife, we re going to dress you, okay. seriously. look at my jacket, too. i m one to talk. all right. willie. i thought that was a bold choice. it s a mess. joe, are you filling in for joe? no. i couldn t find my dago orange shirt this morning but i have one. look at the collar, willie. here s yesterday. uh-huh. blinded me. i saw white spots all day. and now look at you. this is a gq day. by your standards. no. no. i m going shopping. mika, last night, i did a book signing in new jersey. first question yeah. what was the deal with barnicle
another problem and believe they may have stumbled across a new cure for baldness today. yes! that was al roker. it s thursday, february 17th, that was al roker. it s thursday, february 17th, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m matt lauer. can you do the show alone? al and i have an appointment. tomorrow at this time, we will have thick, luxurious heads of hair. me and al sharpton, hanging out. i want to hear more about that. it grows hair on rats. i know that. oh! oh! oh, nice. you had to go down that road. we ll get to that story later on. okay also, serious news. armed troops and tanks are patrolling the streets of bahrain s capital of manama after that overnight clash in the city s main square. it is the latest violence in the region following the successful revolution in egypt. protesters have held antigovernment ral aelz since monday, but early this morning,
before dawn this morning, violence broke out in the island kingdom of bahrain. thousands of protesters had camped out overnight in pearl square in central manama. but if they had hoped bahrainian security forces would leave them alone they were disappointed. 2:45 in the morning, local time, riot police approached the square from several directions. they began firing tear gas and buckshot and rubber bullets. witnesses said the tear gas was so thick, that many people were vomiting from its affects. abc reporting miguel marques in the crowd. he and his crew were attacked and had their familiar rattan away. journalists! journalists! he said no! he said no! he said no! ah! reporter: marquez managed to escape and refleked on what happened later. ahead of protests on friday. reporter: first light the square had been cleared and security forces unrolled razor wire to prevent the protesters from returning. some of the regimes are now facing opposition are likely to use extre
coloring could cause cancer. we ll tell you just how safe your soda really is early this thursday morning, february 17th, your soda really is early this thursday morning, february 17th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show here on a thursday morning, i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. we re going to begin this morning in the northeast, with exclusive photos and video obtained by cbs news. the pictures that you re seeing them here right now, they re believed to show hosni mubarak s departure from cairo last friday. that is, of course, the day he stepped down as president, finally conceding to the thousands of pro-democracy protesters. the images appear to show mubarak waving good-bye. before leaving by helicopter with his family for the resort city of sharm el sheikh in egypt. now that, of course, was just six days ago. the shockwaves, however, from that uprising continue to be felt and felt strongly across
federal prison in butner, north carolina. no reporter had seen him since he entered the prison in july 2009, in shackles and a blue jump suit. reporter diana henriques noticed he looked noticeably slimmer and frail and a bit agitated. in the interview and a series of e-mails, madoff pointed the finger at unnamed banks and hedge funds he said were complicit, and had to know about his massive ponzi scheme. but the attitude, he said, was, if you re doing something wrong, we don t want to know. that s much the same claim the bankruptcy trustee has made in court filings against madoff s family and close associates. some of these people were in control or were absolutely in a position to understand what was going on. reporter: madoff s wife, ruth, who helped keep the books, has denied any knowledge of the scheme. and madoff, in the new york times interview, continued to protect his family. saying they were unaware of his crimes until the very end. madoff s most impassioned co