sit-down with former president george w. bush, talking about a new book of his paintings, that pays tribute to military veterans, weighing in on donald trump, and opening up about regrets he may have about the decision to go to war after 9/11. >> i was heavy hearted when i made the decision both going to afghanistan and iraq. because i knew that there would be some dire consequences. >> our two-part sunday sit-down with president george w. bush a bit later in the show. let's begin this morning with the president's weekend twitter storm during which he accused president obama of wiretapping his offices here in new york. nbc's casey hunt is live in west palm beach near the president's home there. good morning. >> reporter: willie, good morning. president trump is already up and tweeting today about russia and the dnc hacks, but the focus is is still on those accusations he made against former president obama, without any evidence. this morning, more fallout over those explosive allegations from president trump, without offering any evidence, the president claims president barack obama tapped his phones last fall, as the government investigated trump campaign contacts with russians during the election. >> this is what democracy looks like. >> reporter: in a series of early morning tweets saturday, he compared president obama to nixon in watergate and then took a moment to lash out at armnold schwarzenegger over the show's racings. president obama's spokesman released a statement saying, quote, neerng president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen, any suggest otherwise is simply false. >> what president obama's statement doesn't say is there wasn't any surveillance in trump tower. we don't know that. no one has confirmed or denied that. >> reporter: the drama unfolding after attorney general jeff sessions recused himself from any investigations of the trump campaign. late last week, tense meetings in the oval office, and mounting pressure on capitol hill. >> obama administration went way out of line or some judge somewhere said there is something to the idea of the trump/russia ties. either way, either of those two is pretty incredible. >> reporter: at some protests across the country, actual fighting. americans as divided as ever over donald trump. >> well, i think donald trump is trying to distract america's attention away from the fact that trump and putin have some kind of collusion going on. >> i'm here to support president trump. and to show him that he has our support. >> reporter: all of this is happening as two white house officials tell nbc news the president is preparing to sign a revised version of that travel ban as early as monday. keep in mind, though, this has already been repeatedly delayed. willie? >> casey hunt, thanks, casey. jeremy bash was the chief of staff at the defense department and the cia. now a national security analyst for nbc news. jeremy, good morning, good to see you. >> good morning, willie. >> let's assume for a moment and we'll revisit this premise in a second that donald trump is on to something, that president obama as he claims bugged trump tower in the leadup to the election. would president obama have the power to warrant surveillance of a private citizen? >> absolutely not. after watergate, after nixon, congress passed a law that said whenever the executive branch wants to engage in wiretapping or surveillance of people inside the united states, they have to go to a federal judge and get a specific warrant. and, willie, i have looked at the warrant applications from my time inside the intelligence community, they are voluminous filings, done by career lawyers, and they're presented to a federal judge and those federal judges are hard graders and they turn the justice department around all the time and say, go back and do more homework, bring me more evidence. >> throwing around the term fisa court, fisa warrant. the federal intelligence surveillance act, 1978, as you suggested, and in response to nixonian domestic spying, how does it work exactly? what is a fisa court and how does it work? >> the fisa court is made up of judges from the federal courts who are appointed to serve on this special panel. and they work with the justice department, the justice department and the fbi go to them with a filing that says, we suspect somebody in the u.s. is a foreign power, that's a term you'll hear a lot, a foreign power, say working for the russians for example, this is what's done against spies fi . sa, is it possible the nsa was listening to a foreign entity, say russians, and donald trump's conversations and those of his associates were swept up in that collection of data? >> that is another possibility, willie, which is that if the nsa was, for example, surveilling or listening to russians overseas, and the overseas targets were the target of the surveillance, and they happen to be talking to people in trump's office in new york, that could have been swept up, the intelligence community calls it inadvertent collection. when that happens, what happens, willie, is that americans privacy is protected, when those reports are disseminated, the americans' names are blacked out. but that's different than what the president suggested here. he suggested his office was the target of the surveillance, and, again, in that case, you need a federal judge to approve that. >> and then the last option is that president trump made the whole thing up. jeremy bash, thank you so much. appreciate your time. let me turn to chuck todd, moderator of "meet the press." chuck, good morning. >> good morning. >> wednesday morning when the reviews of donald trump's speech came in, the joint session to congress, they were glowing. let's be honest. i think a lot of us said let's pump the brakes, we have been here before. we woke up saturday morning and found out what he does. >> this is exactly -- look, the russia story and this situation is consuming his presidency early on. that's pretty clear at this point. this white house is not yet ready to embrace the need to figure out a way to better compartmentalize it. he wants to deny, deny, deny, obfuscate, create distractions, clear what the saturday tweet storm was. at some point, though, i think we are headed for some sort of special commission, special prosecutor, some sort of independent investigation because the tweet storm on saturday, i think that he's going to be a bridge too far for too many republicans on capitol hill, willie. i think they need an escape hatch and they need one badly and i think they're going to be looking for an independent way out. >> that's the irony, people saying, yes, he's creating a distraction with these tweets. those tweets focused people on what may have happened and as you said, made it more likely that there will be an independent investigation, a special prosecutor. >> look, take him at his word, and this demands an immediate investigation. or don't take him at his word and it demands an immediate investigation because it -- either way it demands thorough and serious and a deep investigation. and i have to tell you, i want to echo something that ben sass sent out in a powerful statement all weekend long, we have a crisis of trust in this country with so many of our institutions, whether it is us, willie, in the press, or government institutions. and so to have our president make these allegations, we have to run them down at this point. it has to be run down. the government has to. so many of these folks on capitol hill, because if we're ever going to restore trust, we have got to run down these allegations. >> yeah, and, chuck, let's talk about the president's state of mind on saturday morning when he woke up and made these tweets reporting from bob costa, at the washington post today, that suggests donald trump was furious that attorney general sessions came out and recused himself, didn't think he should have done it, thought it was a sign of weakness. >> that's -- that's donald trump going all the way back to when he first began his businesses and his empire in new york. remember, his mentor in many ways was roy cone, an infamous attorney from the mccarthy era days and roy cone was one of those that always suggested -- deny, deny, deny, punch back, don't ever give an inch, and donald trump lived his business life, his public life, and his political life that way. and i'm not surprised that he is furious. i think he thinks now that by sessions doing what he did, that it opens the door for more problems and i think that's the way the president sees this and i think that's why he exploded at his staff. >> and may have opened the door further with his tweets this weekend, chuck todd, thank you as always. chuck will dive deeper on "meet the press" this morning where he'll be joined by senators chuck schumer and marco rubio. as i mentioned, we're talking to former president george w. bush a bit later this morning about his new book "portraits of courage" and the trump administration. i asked president bush what he would say if trump were to call asking for advice. i know you don't want to criticize president trump. if he picked up the phone and called you and said, president bush, how am i doing so far, what advice would you give him? >> i would say, same advice i gave before, really hard job and i wish you all the best. it depends what he would ask. of course i would answer his phone call. i want him to succeed. one bit of advice is you pick good people and empower them and make sure they're able to give you their unfettered advice. tillerson, mattis, these are all people i know and admire a lot. >> his take on immigration and the way the president talks about muslims in this country coming up in our next half hour. some other headlines this morning, vice president mike pence demanding an apology from the associated press for leaking his wife's private e-mail address, publishing it, actually. news service published mrs. pence's e-mail information in a story about pence's resistance to record requests while governor of indiana. it did remove the personal information, it says, as soon as it learned the e-mail account was still active. a new york man is being held without bail on terrorism charges after he allegedly tried to join isis in syria. elvis sapejik faces charges of attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group. federal prosecutors say he traveled repeatedly to the middle east and told police he planned to bring back an army with him. air india says this morning its airline has set a world record by flying around the world with an all female crew. it is all part of a celebration ahead of this week's international women's day. the crew which flew a plane over the pacific from new delhi to san francisco and back over the atlantic says it has now applied for a guinness world record. a few nfl teams may be excited this morning for next month's draft. saturday at the nfl combine, where recent college players showed their stuff, university of washington wide receiver john ross ran the 40-yard dash in 4.2 seconds. that's the fastest time ever recorded at the combine. now, earlier in the week, adidas had offered to buy an island, yes, an island, for any player who managed to break the record in their shoes, but here is the sad part, ross left to enjoy an island getaway on his own dime, he wore nikes when he broke that record. now a check of the weather. if he's that fast, he may be able to buy his own island pretty soon. >> i'll say so. helps, right? notice how much everyone is bundled up today towards new york city, it is the coldest day of the entire season this morning. right now, 14 degrees. just look at this, boston 15. the windchill at zero. an hour or so ago you were below zero with the windchill. new york, 1 degree now at 15. windchill at 3 in philadelphia. oh, yeah. feels like 5 degrees right now. so here is what we're looking for as we go toward the afternoon. just 30s. this is actually below average for this time of year, even for us. but, yes, i think we know by now, strange season, right? so it is in the going to be lasting long, already expecting 60s. above normal tempe >> rain all across the bay area pushing through all the way from the north bay down towards the pence la, san francisco, and also down toward the south bay. here's a live look at that do lar radar. we are tracking some snow in the forecast you can see that falling along the sierra mountains. we are under a winter storm warning. we are expecting to see these showers stick around for the majority of your sunday with a chance of isolated thunderstorms into the evening. >> so this is what i was talking about. look at the people behind us. look how bundled up they are. they're freezing today. the studio never felt so warm. >> got to get the t-shirts and shorts out in a couple of days. who can keep up. the highs and lows of the week including the little girl wrestler so imposing her little boy opponents run for their lives. and the robot that soon will have the rest of us running for our lives. together, we'll study its incredible moves so we can be ready for the coming rise of the machines. plus, our sunday sit-down with president george w. bush on a project that highlights a president's heavy burden of committing troops to war and more on his take on the early days of the trump administration. all that and harry smith. as we go to break, the photo of the week, hollywood's biggest stars stunned when they learned of the best picture mix-up at the oscars. the valiant taste times of death, but once!! uh, excuse me, waiter. i ordered the soup... of course, ma'am. my apologies. c'mon, caesar. let's go. caesar on a caesar salad? surprising. excuse me, pardon me. what's not surprising? how much money matt saved by switching to geico. could i get my parking validated? fifteen minutes could save 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s.e.a.l. commander for 25 years, you get to work however you want to. >> takes his job very seriously. >> well done. our next low goes to the feeling when you meet the robot that will soon be your over. designed by the google team company, his 6'6" handle put on a terrifying show of skill and power. displaying agility and speed and picking up and carrying a 100-pound crate and showing off a vertical leap of 48 inches, which, by the way, the same of michael jordan's back in the day and eventually heading outside where he descended stairs and a snowy hill before it rolled through the parking lot presumably stealing up a car and meeting up with the other robots. should we just surrender now? >> completely terrifying. cool and then creepy. it's like this. >> let's put that one away for a while. the next high from the pennsylvania preschool wrestling circuit. a 4-year-old boy named isaiah going up against a 5-year-old girl and he wanted no part of her. the gladiator shaked hands but as soon as the referee blew the whistle isaiah takes off running in circles away from his opposing opponent. she even pauses here for a second to look over at the grown ups with a, what am i supposed to do here? after one more chase isaiah ran out of gas and the little girl pinned him and got her hard-earned victory. it's the first match of his life. he's like how does this work? >> i so hope they know each other when they're older so she can use that as ammo. our next low is the speed of one recent 60-meter dash that we'll loosely call a sprint but enthuse astically call awesome. rogers racing down the track against a young whippersnapper, 92-year-old dixon hemphill. it happened at the usa track and field masters championship. but in the end, it's the 99-year-old rogers with a burst of speed winning the race in a photo finish. the margin of victory, 0.05. if only he had leaned at the finish line, he thinks he would have won. we need to rematch that one. >> i think they are. it's a tight race. no excuses. hit the gym today, willie. >> if they're doing it at 99, we have to be there, too. 5-year-old best pals jax and reddy. jax was due for a hair cut and asked if he could play a trick on his preschoolteacher and get the same hair cut as reddy. figure they would pull one over on their teacher and see if she could know the difference between them if they had the same hair cut. she went along with it and pretended she was talking to jax. great work by the teacher. facebook post from his mom went viral. if this isn't proof that hate and prejudice is something that is taught, i don't know what is. the only difference jax sees in the two of them is hatheir hair >> the kids see the world the way it is supposed to be. >> have a soft spot for them. the last low goes to the guy who fled police in a stolen pickup and caught some dukes of hazard level hair. this is in webster parish, louisiana. before hitting a drainage ditch and creating a ramp for the 18-year-old neighbor who launched him into a parking lot. the person in the car it landed on both escaped without serious inju injury. let's go to the slow-mo replay here if we could. ♪ just a good old boy never meaning no harm ♪ ♪ >> story totally worth it just to get the "dukes of hazard" theme song. >> imagine if that was your car. coming up next, our sunday sit down with president george w. bush on his artistic tribute to the veterans who fought in iraq and afghanistan. and any second thoughts they gave him about decisions he made as commander in chief. then harry smith on a sports columnist so legendary the statue outside the arena is of him. you can head over take a live look outse poth >> gn morning. let's take a live look outside on your sunday morning, a cloudy san francisco out there rain in the forecast. i'm michelle roberts. you've been tracking weather and green on the radar. >> we are still seeing some rain and i few scatters showers pushing through parts of the bay area. overnight we saw some pretty heavy downpours in some areas. take some extra time. 48 degrees right now along the peninsula, south bay 47, 46 for the try valley and on your san francisco also waking up to the 40s in the forecast. we are still seeing the chance of those scatters showers carry through sunday, but what we're also seeing on the radar is snow in lower elevation areas, as low as 2,000 feet. and there is currently a winter storm warning that is expected to remain in effect through 4:00 p.m. tonight and that's because we're expecting over 30 inches of snow this weekend. so if you had plans to drive up there, i would say check the roads, it's probably not going to be the best commute. you could actually see some of that rain pushing through right now. the last two hours we saw some decent rainfall but it looks like as far as rain totals we're not expecting too much and i know we are keep a close eye on all of the reservoirs and the creeks as we always do during any type of weather. so i'll have a closer look at that timeline and how much we're expecting during the 7:00 a.m. hour. >> it would be a good idea not to drive up to the mountains today. >> that would be a good idea. >> with all that rain we've had the santa clara water district is keep a close eye on cite quote creek. it is just under 99% capacity right now so it's not currently spilling over. water officials don't expect cite quote creek to flood again. political attention boiled over in berkley as supporters of president trump clash with counterprotesters at the march for trump rally. police in berkley arrested ten people and about a half a dozen others were injured. supporters of president trump were outnumbered by anti trump demonstrators. fights broke out, police confiscated several weapons including metal pipes, bats, and two by fours. officers say they're not always able to make immediate arrests without inciting further violence or injuring peaceful bystanders however they will continue to work to identify suspects. trapped in the dark with no place to go. about 400 passengers in the east bay spent two hours stuck in a train and stopped in elevated tracks all caused by a dpier. the fire broke out just after 5:30 yesterday evening. it happened in an electrical substation just south of walnut creek. because so much electricity was surging through the substation, firefighters had to wait until electricians arrived before they were able to begin fighting the fire. the train finally rolled into the walnut creek station allowing people to get home after 7:00. coming up today on 7:00 in the bay big changes involving pat downs at the airport, the new rule that's about to be felt by millions of travelers. that plus all your top stories coming up at 7:00. back to the today show. >> i wish i could go back to the white house and see mr. trump. democrats want me to resign. i just got to prove to everybody that i don't have any ties to the russians whatsoever. >> this meeting never happened. >> i wasn't going to remember it anyway. "saturday night live" back after a couple weeks off with kate mckinnon playing jeff sessions and octavia spencer hosting. it's been 15 1/2 years since the terrorist attacks of september 11th that defined the presidency of george w. bush. the united states response to that day has claimed the lives of thousands of american servicemen and iraq and afghanistan and left many more permanently injured in conflicts that continue today. in the eight years since he left office, president bush has committed himself to helping the veterans of those wars. the 43rd president also picked up a pretty good painting habit in his post-presidency. in a new book called "portrait of courage" he tells his stories. i traveled with him where he was visiting wounded warriors. where did the painting come from? >> i was bored. i was pretty busy. i was working on the bush center at the programs we have there. i was exercising a lot, but it wasn't enough. and, so, by chance someone suggested i read winston churchill's essay painting is a pastime. that old boy can paint, i can paint. i started painting. hired an instructor. painted a cube and then a waterdwate watermelon and then painted world leaders because a good artist said you should try that which really boosted my confidence and then somebody who knew i painted a world leader suggested i paint the faces that nobody knows. so, i decided that this would be a wonderful opportunity to honor those who served and to call attention to programs that work. >> "portraits of courage" is a collection of 66 paintings all by president bush. each one a tribute to a veteran of the wars he launched after 9/11. so, let's go through some of these paintings, if we could, mr. president. scott lily. this one is extraordinary because it's not just staff sergeant lily. >> i got to know lily as parents first. they were at the white house when i landed on marine one and i took to them immediately and they told me their son was in the hospital. went over to visit him and he was in a coma and he came to the white house a couple of times. was gradually getting somewhat better. but i was never really confident that he would be able to live a full life. about five years later, i see his name on the list of people who wanted to play in our golf tournament and i said is this the lily that i know? yeah. so lily came. much to my surprise. and during that period he said, i'd like to bring my daughter by to meet you. so, i painted lily and his daughter and lily's got a big scar on his head where they had to go inside his cranium and i was just struck by, you know, near death and then, you know, a beautiful little child. >> president bush painted fathers, mothers, friends and immigrants. specialist juan carlos hernandez. >> lost his leg. >> lost his leg and he has an extraordinary story. he came to america as an undocumented child. >> correct. his mom was seeking a better life, brought juan carlos and his brother across the border like a lot of other people had in our state of texas. decides he wants to pay back to the country that meant a lot to him and loses his leg. but the intrustieresting thing him is he became a sergeant in afghanistan. the vets who are not u.s. citizens, we should expedite their service. >> is he a good example his parents may have broken the law but could stay and contribute to society. >> i hope americans understand the contributions he made. this is a person who willingly said i want to volunteer. and went into combat all in the defense of the country. loses his leg. surely americans would be able to say this is the kind of person we want as a citizen. >> president bush failed to achieve the comprehensive immigration reform he sought while in office. but he still believes in it. including that so-called dreamers. children like specialist hernandez brought to the united states illegally by their parents should have a legal place in america. >> more broadly, though, do you think it's a good idea for dreamers to be allowed to stay here? >> i think somebody who has vested time and effort it could make a contribution to our country. be a really good citizen. it's, obviously, immigration is a very political issue. i tried to reform it. and one of my big regrets is i couldn't get congress to respond. but, and i think the plan i laid out ultimately was the plan that would be accepted. >> based on what you know about running the country and running the immigration system, do you think it's practical to go in and deport millions and millions of people who are here illegally? >> i don't see how that would work. and i'm not sure that is the intention of our government. i think people who, you know, who are charged with doing that, if that is the charge. i'm not sure it is. but say it's going to be hard to do. now, the idea of running out rapists and murderers, i think all americans can agree to that. i think it's very important for people to know that when i talk about freedom of the press or imgrasi immigration reform, i don't do so to criticize anybody. i understand how hard this job is. i do so because i want to share what i learned and what i've seen. >> president bush's loathe to criticize a sitting president directly, but he does offer reminders about what he thinks america should represent. i want to ask you about some comments you made less than a week after september 11th. you reached out and you said we have to reach out and talk to our muslim brothers and sisters in this country and embrace them. >> that's not what islam is all about. islam is peace. these terrorists don't represent peace. they represent evil and war. >> which is quite the opposite of the rhetoric we hear from the white house right now, including the executive order proposed by the president that would ban travel from seven countries that are predominantly m ll lly musl. why did you feel it was important to speak that way about muslims that day? >> freedom of religion is one of our bed rock principles. people should be allowed to worship without the government telling them how they should worship. we should honor people regardless of the religion they choose or honor them if they choose no religion. we're all equal. after 9/11 i read reports where some muslim women were being harassed and i also read reports where american women were walking, women of cover to grocery stores and, you know, it affected me because i didn't want us to lose our soul. i didn't want the attacks to cause us to change. >> we've got more of my conversation with president bush just ahead, including his answer to my question about regrets he may now have about the wars that put the men and women he painted in harm's way. but, first, let's get a look at the weather with indra pet petersons. >> i can't believe we're still talking about storms in the pacific northwest. a very unusual year. we're looking at a mix of rain and snow out towards portland and seattle. little bit colder as we get in through the day today. be looking out for that. the rest of you an inch or two. snowfall, this is a good thing. more snow to the sierra snow pack that is huge. keep in mind, california, you >> good morning we are wabing up to a number of showers across the bay area and also some slightly cooler temps in the 40s right now. peninsula 48,try valley 46 degrees right now and san francisco waking up to about 46 degrees. we did have that cold twhand swept in overnight and early cown see the do lar radar right now we are seeing plenty of rain, also seeing snow in the forecast. we're expecting to see isolated showers and thunderstorms into the overnight hour. note, right? we are talking about warmer temperatures in the northeast as we start monday. >> we'll take it, indra. next on "sunday today" part two of my conversation with president george w. bush where he shows a wounded vet his portrait for the first time and answers questions about his decision to go into iraq. for great skin, you don't have to 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going through his mind during night sweats. it is a pretty harsh painting in the sense that he looks very troubled. >> during his visit to macdill air force base he got a chance to reveal the portrait to todd. >> very good, mr. president. thank you very much. >> i had to paint you over and i painted a much less troubled person. >> thank you. >> don't you think. >> absolutely, mr. president. thank you. >> i was very amazed that he would say something like that to me because to hear it from somebody else besides somebody that i know personally on a day-to-day basis it was very inspiring. >> any part of you when you meet these men and women and you see their wounds and you see what war has done to their lives, even the internal wounds we can't see that has any regret about a decision you may have made to send them into battle? >> i think it was the right decision. i regret they got hurt. i was heavy hearted when i made the decision to both go into afghanistan and iraq. because i knew thatted there would be some dire consequences. i don't think i can be effective if i walk around full of regret. >> your brother jeb got the question on the campaign trail. knowing what you know now about iraq, do you still think it was a good idea to go in? >> absolutely. >> you still do? >> absolutely. i still do. not such a good idea to pull out before iraq had a chance to defend itself. one thing people need to understand is that al qaeda looked impregnable. they looked undefeatable until the surge. and our united states marines and our army and people on the ground who were sick and tired of being brutalized by al qaeda now called isis, even though there is a technical difference, questionable. and iraq was, you know, functioning democracy and relatively stable. you know, we created a vacuum and the void was filled by the bad dudes and, so, both my successors have declared that isis must be defeated and, you know, we showed they could be. >> so the mistake wasn't going in in the first place, it was getting out when president obama got out? >> it's easy to second guess all decisions. i'm absolutely confident that getting rid of saddam hussein made our country safer and gave people a chance of iraq of living in a free society where they decided the fate of their government, which was what was taking place. >> there are now close to 3 million veterans in the wars of iraq and afghanistan and president bush has committed his pos post-presidential life to honoring their service. i want to ask you, if you don't mind, mr. president, just to read one passage of the book. >> adam janke. in reviewing adam's biography for this project i was struck by a comment adam made. he said, i was proud that president bush was at the top echelon in charge of me when i was fighting and that he cared about me. adam's simple words stayed with me as i painted him. i hope he and his brothers and sisters in arms know that i care about them still and that i will until the day i die. i thank adam for that. it's -- there's no higher tribute in my judgment for a commander in chief to have somebody under his command, who was wounded, to say he had my back. >> the book, again, is "portraits of courage." the proceeds all go to the military service initiative at the george w. bush presidential center to help veterans. to hear what president bush thinks the government and the country can do to better help our vets, check out our web extras at today.com/sunday. and next week, something completely different. jon bon jovi the band is back on the road without the wing man. we'll talk to jbj about surviving the big hair '80s and enduring as one of the biggest acts of the world. coming up next here, harry smith with a story of a sports icon who's always the biggest star in the arena. ♪ ♪ good is in every blue diamond almond. and once good gets going, there's no stopping it. blue diamond almonds. get your good going. intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. it. it's not 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tomorrow night in minneapolis sid hartman will be in the building to cover the game. he's been on the sport beat for more than 30 years and hasn't slowed down since 1975. harry smith visited a sports icon for our "sunday closer." >> a 96-year-old man makes his way into the target center in minneapolis. he's not a former player or an old coach, he's a sports writer. his name is sid hartman, a living legend. there is a statue of him outside the arena. >> i don't know if i'm a big deal. i'll be honest, i can't walk down the street without somebody identifying me. they hear me on the radio or read my column. this is a job. it's fun for me. >> the fun really started for sid in the 1940s. he was running the minneapolis lakers, a team that would come to dominate the early days of the nba. about the same time, he started writing for the "minneapolis star tribune." he's still in the paper three times a week, four times a week during football season and on sundays a double column. he's got the drive of a reporter half his age. now, make that a quarter of his age. >> i'm tough on myself. i think if i miss out on a big story, i'm not very happy. >> sid's son, chad. >> every bit as dogged today as he was when he first walked into the "star tribune" in the '50s. he wakes up every day and thinks competition is what it is all about. that has changed zero and that's what it is all about. >> sid's office walls are plastered with photos sports hall of famers and people who are just plain famous. sid gets to know people and when he does, they talk. glenn taylor is the owner of the minneapolis timberwolves and also the owner of "the star tribune." so you're his boss. >> i am. yeah, let's laugh at that. i own the paper that he works for, but i tell everybody he's my boss. >> because when sid calls, you call him back. >> he has no problems of calling me four times in the evening if he says, i have a deadline i need the story. and he repeats that over and he expects you to call him back. and i usually do. >> sid broke his hip a month or so ago. he's not happy about it. it's getting in the way of him doing his job. >> i got a nurse here that bothers me and drives me nuts. >> with the help of jeff day, sid keeps cranking out the columns. he says he'd like to work until he's 100. have you ever thought about retiring? >> no, no interest. i'd go crazy if i retired. as long as i'm healthy enough to do what i'm doing right now. i'm going to keep on doing it. >> this week we highlight another life well lived. >> so, let's find out what happens in this radio run around as the litigants tell it to the judge. >> i know you have been sworn and i read your complaint, ma'am. you claim the defendant owes you for three tickets for something called a boogie man bash at the hotel coronado. >> that's true, your honor. >> would you explain what you mean? >> presided over "the people's court" settling american's small claims before a television audience of millions. whopner's no nonsense delivery made him one of the biggest stars of the time and far more recognizable polls showed than any sitting supreme court justice. but he was a real life judge long before he was in our living rooms. in 1961 elected presiding judge of the massive superior court system of los angeles. he spent nearly 20 years on the bench in california's municipal and superior courts. he grew up in l.a. attending hollywood high school where he dated the future movie star lana turner. he served in world war ii in the pacific theater where he was hit by sniper fire later receiving the purple heart and the bronze star. judge joseph e moment you realize how could there possible be this many blues. don't worry but lowe's we guarantee you'll always love your paint or we replace it. hurry to lowe's where you find new lower prices like paint & primer now starting at only $17.98 you may be muddling through allergies.oned with... try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. 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because we men can sometimes be helpless dopes. the 45th iditarod sled dog race. 72 mushers and their teams of extraordinary dogs will travel just under 1,000 miles from fairbanks to nome, alaska. a trip that will take about nine days. the iditarod losing streak will continue this year for one infamous musher. that musher, you guessed it, gary busey. let down, again, by his team of toy poodles and bringing up the rear in nome. thank you superspendifor sp take a live look outse at oakland. badge . good morning. let's take a live look outside at oakland where we're under a microclimate weather alert this morning. heavy rain moved into the bay area overnight and this is a lock at our doppler radar. lots of green moving in. also the cold temperatures means even more snow up in the mountains. good morning and thanks for joining us. i'm michelle roberts this morning. you've been watching this all morning long, a lot going on out there. >> we did see as you mentioned that cold front moving in overnight and a lot of people in you were on the roads you got caught in that heavy rain. >> you could hear it. >> yeah. this morning still "x" expecting the scattered showers and we are under a microclimate weather alert and that's because

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