ball raising money for the alzheimer s association. so a very good cause and we talk to her. that s exciting. cirque du soleil is going on through the beginning of may. so, coming in we have the director of wardrobe what wardrobe and costume are great and what goes with the performance and how they do it. and do it perfectly with every performance. and jeanne moos looks at donald trump which could be the next president. coming up. people doesn t know if he isserious yet. she will tell us all about it. time for our hot topic on this thursday morning. it involves plastic surgery. as a parent, how far would you go to protect your child from bullying? would you let them have plastic surgery? people have been going under the knife look like hollywood celebrities many now there s a trend among young people and we are talking really young. plastic surgery to look like characters from star trek or lord of the rings and people are trying to have their ears lock like and it s
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larry king live starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight, can we come back from the dead? people who have been there say yes. it s very peaceful. it s very serene. it s extremely, extremely bright. i mean, it is bright. modern day medicine and 21st century technology have made it possible. what about other near-death experiences, the ones science can t explain? can those who have passed away return to human form in someone else s body? it s a life and death hour next. on larry king live. good evening, i m jeff prox from survivor sitting in for larry. tonight we re talking about survivors in a different context. medicine and technology are bringing people back from death. there are those who have died but have lived to share their experience. you ll hear from some of those and about some of those stories later in the hour. according to the near death experience research foundation, yes, there is one, nearly 800 near-death experiences happened eve
us know what s in their area, and we ll look it. we definitely want to increase our service and try to help people. thanks, shannon. good to talk to you again. thanks for helping out. joins us from florence, south carolina. let s go to the situation room with suzanne malveaux. happening know, the senate moves up its big vote on health care reform. and whether americans have hope for the new year. and why the holidays can be debtly. why you are more likely to have a heart attack this friday than any other day in the year. wolf blitzer is office. you ve in the situation room. oak. so maybe senators didn t want to work late on christmas eve. we learned a short while ago that their vote has been scheduled for 8:00 a.m. on thursday. there had been some talk it would happen later in the evening. another hurdle toward reform that has been cleared. dana bash, she s been covering this story almost 24/7. when we heard the news the vote was going to move up, there was a ch
nation s capitol, nice shot and even down into washington, d.c., 16 inches of reagan national. there were places west of the city into virginia up into the 24-inch-of-snow total. this is wednesday and thursday, not to be the bearer of bad news, the east coast does not get the snow event this time. the jet stream turns farther to the north like this, rather than like this over the weekend. the snow and ice, there will be a bigger ice event from milwaukee down through chicago and all the way down maybe even into kansas city with snow on the back side of it. called the conveyor belt. think about putting your bags on the airplane and the conveyor belt takes the bags up to the plane, the conveyor belt is taking warm air from the gulf of mexico, taking it over the front and goings up, up, up, so up above let s say 5,000 feet in the sky, your true is going to be 40 degrees, but down at the surface, it might be 28. think about that. rain and 28. that s never a good mix. no. that