south carolina takes on 19th ranked wisconsin, iowa and lsu, the outback bowl and all of the action started at noon eastern, taxslayer.com gator bowl at noon eastern, nebraska taking on georgia, a great afternoon for football. i m looking forward to it. the remote control is busy today. from the tichen kitchen to the couch. also this morning that annual rose bowl parade taking place in pasadena, california, not just football but the parade, too, today is the 125th edition of the parade, starts in a couple of hours. cnn ireporter lloyd brown sent in these pictures of great floats being decorated this week. the grand marshal this year is the voice of the l.a. dodgers, vin sculley. exciting stuff. from the ball drop in new york city to year-end
an actual proposal from the american families association to prevent the building of any more mosques in this country. tonight s sanity break. in 1947, the first commercial television license on the west coast was awarded to ktla in los angeles. about an hour later they hired 24-year-old stan chambers. he s been there ever since, until today, his 87 birthday, when he retired. in his 63 years on channel 5, he s covered an estimated 20,000 different stories from the little girl in the well, kathy, to the riots to the rfk assassination to being the reporter who broke the rodney king story. he even survived working three years there with me and lasted long enough to see his own grandson join him as a news reporter at ktla. 63 years. makes vin sculley and queen elizabeth seem like newbies. the best part in a sentence that defined stan, quote, he still plans to do occasional stories
assignment. this has do be the easiest interview in the history of the world. there is one question. you have to memorize the number of the teams in the nba. larry king could do this interview as long as he remembers which sport lebron plays. did you think about the mets at all. did you think about the cubs. syracuse nationals. how close did you go to going to the philadelphia warriors. yeah. look, it is going to be some silences, some pensive looks, some you know, jim, i thought about that. that will take some time. i would bet that he s rehearsing as we speak. do you think jim could use some help? do you think vin sculley would be a good addition if we could free him up from the dodgers? vinny could tell some stories. i remember when orel hershiser