later our sunday 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 regrets he may have about the decision to go to war after 9/11. >> i was heavy hearted when i made the decision to both go into afghanistan and iraq. 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 kasie hunt is in west palm beach near the president's home there. good morning. >> good morning. president trump is already up and tweeting today about russia and the dnc hacks but the focus 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 first compared obama to nixon and watergate and took a moment to lash out at arnold schwarzenegger over the show's ratings. president trump didn't ask officials who would know about such wiretaps before he sent the tweets and president obama's spokesman released a statement saying "neither president obama or any white house official ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen. any suggestion otherwise is simply false." >> what president obama's statement doesn't say is there wasn't surveillance in trump tower. no one confirmed or >> reporter: the drama unfolding after jeff sessions recused himself from any investigations from the trump campaign. tense meetings in the oval office and mounting pressure on capitol hill. >> the obama administration went way out of line or some judge said there's something to the idea and either 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 ki kindclusion going on. >> i am here to support president trump and to show him he has our support. >> reporter: all of this is happening as two white house officials tell nbc news the president is planning to sign a revised version of the travel ban as early as monday. keep in mind, though, this has already beenep willie? >> kasie, hunt, thanks. jeremy bash is the national security analyst for nbc news. good to see you, good morning. >> good morning, willie. >> we'll revisit this premise that donald trump is on to something that president obama, as he claims, bugged trump tower in the lead up 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 these warrant applications from my time inside the intelligence community. they are voluminous filings that are done by career lawyers and presented to a federal judge and those federal judges are hard graders and they turn the justice department around all th more homework. bring me more evidence. >> we're throwing around the term fisa court, fisa warrant. as you suggested a response to domestic spying. what is a fisa court and how does it work? >> it's made up of judges from the federal courts who are appointed to serve on this special sppanel and they work wh the justice department and the justice department and the fbi go to them with a filing that says we suspect someone in the u.s. is a foreign power. that's a term you're going to hear a lot, willie. say working for the russians, for example. this is what is done against spies like robert hanson and we expect someone is an american working for a foreign power and the fbi and the justice department go to these and they get a warrant to actually listen to their phone calls and read their e-mails. >> so, let's walk through the potential of what these tweets mean. okay fbi legally wiretapped donald trump. what would that tell you, jeremy? >> well, that would tell me that a federal judge found probable cause, meaning enough evidence to believe that either there was criminal activity or that there was foreign espionage activity in trump tower. specifically, willie, i think what it means is that a federal judge found that people in trump's oorganization were colluding with the russians. >> so, if the nsa is possible listening to a foreign entity, say a russian and donald trump's conversations or those of his associates were swept up in that collection of data? >> yes, that is another possibility, willie. which is if the nsa was, for example, surveilling or listening to russians overseas and the overseas target 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 agency calls it inadvertent collection. th privacy is protected and basically the americans' names are blacked out. that's different than what the president suggested here. he suggested his office was the target of the surveillance. again, in that case, you would need a federal judge to approve that. >> 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. wednesday morning when the reviews of donald trump's speech came in of the joint session of congress, they were glowing. let's be honest. a lot of us said, let's pump the brakes and see what he does the next few days. woke up saturday morning and found out what he does. >> yep. this is exactly, the russia story in this situation is consuming his presidency early on. that's pretty clear at this point. they, this white house is not yet ready to embrace the need to figure out a way to better compartmentalize it. create distractions. it's clear what the saturday tweet storm was. at some point, though, i think that 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'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 those tweets. those tweets focused people on what may have happened and made it more likely an independent investigation, a special prosecutor. >> look, you 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. i have to tell you, i want to echo something that very powerful statement all weekend long. we have a crisis of trust in this country with so many of our institutions, whether it's 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've got to run down these allegations. >> yeah. 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. in fact, thought it was a sign of weakness. >> look, that is 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 attorney and roy cohn was always one that suggest deny, deny, deny, punch back. don't ever give an inch and donald trump has 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 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. >> he may have opened the door further with his tweets this weekend. chuck will dig deeper into the russian connection on "meet the press" and he'll be joined by marco rubio. we're talking to former president george w. bush a bit later this morning about his new book "portrait of courage" and the trump administration. i'd ask president bush what he would say if trump would call asking for advise. i know you don't want to criticize president trump, but called you, what advise would you give him? >> i'd say same advice i gave before. it's a really hard job and i wish you all the best. it depends on what he asked. of course i would answer his phone call. i want him to succeed. one piece of advice would be you picked some really good people and empower them. make sure that they're able to give you their unfedered advice. tillerson, mattis, mcmaster, these are all people i know and admire a lot. >> much more of my two-part interview with president bush including 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. they published mrs. pence's e-mail information in a story about pence's resistance to public record. the ap stands by it story but did information 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. he appeared in federal court saturday. he 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. all part of a celebration ahead of this week's international women's day. the crew flew a plane over the pacific from new delhi to san francisco and back over the atlantic says it has now applies for a guinness world record. a few nfl teams may be very excited for the draft. recent college players showed their stuff, university of washington wide receiver john ross ran the 40 yard dash in 4.2 at the combine. now, earlier in the week adidas offered to buy an island, yes, an island, for any player who managed to break the record in their shoes. but here's the sad part, ross will have to enjoy an island get away on his own dime, he was wearing nike's when he broke that record. keep in mind, this is actually below average for this time of year. been a strange season. it's not lasting long. expecting 60s above normal temperatures. that's a look at the big picture. here's the local weather. rights now, we're still in the teens and 20s across the area. 24 degrees in washington. 19 in rossville and 21 in rusin. you have beautiful sunshine. sunny throughout the day today. with a high so, this is what i was talk about. take a look at the people behind us. look how bundled up they are. it is freezing today. >> they have to get the t-shirts and shorts out in a couple days. thanks. the highs and lows of the week the the little boys running for their 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 the president's heavy burden of committing troops to war and more of his take on the early days of the trump administration. all that, plus harry smith. as we go to break, our 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? 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if you're a navy 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 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 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. 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 ♪ >> 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 this is a news 4 today news break. hi, good morning everybody, it is 8:26 on this sunday, march 5. prince georges county police say a man is on the run after gunfire with an officer. this is what we know so far. police say they responded to a call about a fight. a man was robbed. officers spotted the guy who matched the description of the robbery suspect and started to chase him. during that chase, shots were fired. officer not hurt and it's still unclear if the man was hit. call police if you have any information about the case. check on your sunday forecast is next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. all for $79.99 per month, for the first year with a two-year agreement. it's the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. plus get hbo for a year and free multi-room dvr service for two years. get the best. go to getfios.com well you're going to want to bring a good coat this morning. >> exactly. we're still in the teens and 20s across the area. 19 degrees in gaithersburg. and 25 and beautiful sunshine and will be sunny throughout the day today. with highs around 43 degrees. so very similar to yesterday. the weather despite the chill having a pretty low impact on your day. nice day to go skiing or snow boarding heading out and about, you want the warm jacket and still too soon for yard work. seeing a lot of plants impacted by the cold temperatures over the weekend. now duo warm back up tomorrow with high temperatures you can see here in the mid-50s. mid to upper 60s by tuesday with some rain later in the day. especially during the late afternoon and evening hours. windy and dry during the day on wednesday with highs around 60. mid-50s on thursday and then after that, angie, friday through next weekend and even beyond, many rain chances in the and at this point, we really need the rain. >> all right. sounds good. thanks. we are going to be back with more local news and weather at 9:00 a.m. we'll be live on facebook as well. >> 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 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 pastim 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 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 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. 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 pi 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 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 we are still talking about storms in the pacific northwest once again log at a mix between rain and snow between portland and seattle. watching out for that. the rest of you only looking about an inch or two into northern california. snowfall, this is a good thing. we're adding more snow to the sierra snow pack. you do still have drought conditions. anything to add will look. here's a look at local weather. and we also need rain in our area, most of metro area now considered under a severe drought and we would need about six to nine inches over a month's time to relieve that drought. today, it's completely dry. and right now, we're in the teens and 20s. 24 degrees in the district with a high today around 43. now tomorrow we're warmer, highs in the mid-50s and on tuesday, mid to upper 60s. and will have some rain later in the day. especially during the late afternoon and evening hours and then windy and dry on wednesday. and the good news, willie, we have to end on a high 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 go to a spa... ...just go to bed. new aveeno®... ...positively radiant® overnight facial. get the benefits of a spa facial... aveeno® naturally beautiful results® everyone wants to be (cthe cadbury bunny because only he brings delicious cadbury creme eggs. while others may keep trying, nobunny knows easter better than cadbury. is whatever makess you feel beautiful. wear that shade. wear that shade. throw shade. nice. no makeup monday or definitely makeup... it's monday. go natural. go big. go bold. ladies, don't let anybody tell you what makes you beautiful. at walgreens, we've got the beauty products to help you be you. walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. now buy two cosmetics or nail products and get the third free. in stores and online. ♪ ♪ i had a wonderful time tonight. me too! call me tomorrow? i'm gonna send a vague text in a couple of days, that leaves you confused about my level of interest. i'll wait a full two days before responding. perfect! we're never gonna see each other again, will we? no-no. wouldn't it be great if everyone said what they meant? the citi double cash card does. it lets you earn double cash back. 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. the citi double cash card. double means double. president george w. bush ma made, president bush intends to keep that policy with president trump. but as you heard in the first part of our interview, he does break with the current president on some of the big issues moment. more now of our sunday sit down with president bush at macdill air force base where he was meeting with vets and sharing his new book "portraits of courage." >> i have never seen the picture yet. >> in "portraits of courage" he paints the wounds we can see and those we can't. retired staff sergeant todd struggled with post-traumatic stress and depression after an ied attack in iraq. >> todd for a while suffered from night sweats. and so when i was painting todd i was thinking about, you know, what was 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. on 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 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 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. when the nba minnesota timberwolves take the court 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 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 >> 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 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. there possible be this manye hod blues. don't worry but lowe's we guarantee 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®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec®. muddle no more®. ♪usic: 'the best things in life are free' by sam cooke ♪ ♪ ♪ let's close this morning as we always do with predictions for the week ahead-on tuesday, the white house will reopen to public tours after a pause of nearly seven weeks. the president's home and the american people's home usually closes briefly during the transition to a new administration. but this stretch has been particularly long. we predict with a couple of thousand of positions still unstaffed in the new administration, the first ten tourists in the day every day get free white house salt and pepper shakers and a state department. rallies and marches planned around the world and a strike called a day without a woman. organizers asking women to take the day off work and shop at small women-owned businesses. hillary clinton expected to make an appearance at one rally. the world will briefly fall apart on wednesday 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 news 4 today starts now. heading into the 9:00 hour on news 4 today and right now an officer-involved shooting and a gunman on the run. the dangerous chase and the hunt for the man responsible. major redskins move, the move for jay gruden. bitter cold start, but hang in thereby storm team 4 wild ride on the thermometer. 70s? back up to 70s. >> the roller coaster continues. >> wild temperature swings. hope you're having a good sunday morning. >> we want to get straight to our storm team 4 meteorologist who has more on this whacky weather, hey. >> hey. very cold start this morning. we're in the teens and 20s across the area. 26 degrees here in washington. and here's what you can expect for the midday and afternoon hours. plenty of sunshine and lighter winds than yesterday. by 2:00 p.m., we're around 40 degrees and hit the high today of 43 right around 4:00 this afternoon. now here's the latest on the cherry blossoms, this is the current stage they're in at the title basin. stage two of five before they hit peek bloom. and that's forecast to be by the national park service between the 14th and 17th of this month. these extremely cold temperatures have had an impact on plants across the area. seeing that on twitter. you can head to my page and check it out. >> thank you. we are staying on top of the developing story out of capital heights this morning. prince george's county police say a man is on the run after apparently robbing someone along kayak avenue, then exchanging gunfire with an officer. here's what we know so far. police say before 9:00 last night they responded to a call about a fight. when they got there, man told them he had been robbed. now

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