but it's a holiday in l.a., oh-oh ? in l.a., it's a holiday in l.a. ? ? and the sun never sets until we celebrate a holiday in l.a. ? oh-oh, a holiday in l.a. ? the lords of leaping down on venice beach ? there ain't a cloud in the sky jack frost nipping at his nose, melts them every time ? and singing with brian wilson, mistletoe in the dew ? ooh-ooh ? well, it's a holiday, oh-oh in l.a. ? it's a holiday, oh-oh, in l.a. ? when the sun never sets and we celebrate a holiday in l.a. ? oh-oh, a holiday in l.a. ? oh-oh, oh-oh, whew ? never raining, everybody's singing when you get that feeling ? then you'll know ? it's a holiday, oh-oh, in l.a. ? it's a holiday, oh-oh, in l.a. where the sun never sets ? and we always celebrate ? a holiday in l.a. ? holiday, oh-oh, in l.a. ? where the sun never sets and it's something we celebrate ? a holiday in l.a. ? oh-oh, oh-oh ? 0 holiday in l.a. snow oh-oh, oh-oh ? 0 holiday in l.a., oh-oh, oh-oh 0 holiday in l.a., oh-oh, oh-oh ? a holiday in l.a. ?? >> yes! that was awesome! >> band of merrymakers. >> y'all were great.

in l.a. we had the best, best time. thanks to anthony and mary and all the scottos. >> wondered if dylan and savannah were going to give birth right at the table. >> bow, did they -- spaghetti and meatballs. big day, everybody. this is the day, my great nephew shecky turns 2. in honor of shecky turning 2 i want to show you some -- no. he's not in the kitchen. >> we're applauding. >> i'm shecky. i'm 2 years old. >> i live for this kid. he is the funniest kid live. we're going to show pictures? oh, there. ♪ happy birthday to you >> he knows it's out of tune. ♪ happy birthday to you >> oh! [ laughter ] >> whoa! >> he is the most precious. so, and i want to wish his grandfather, bill a happy 80th birthday tomorrow. >> oh, tomorrow. wow. >> turning 80 tomorrow. >> and alicia keys son, you wonder if he'll catch on, musical talent, that swizz beatz has? original song called "superboy." ♪ i am the super boy, super boy ♪ i'm a super boy ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i am the super boy >> that kid's going to

he's an investigator with the l.a. county coroner, the first person allowed to examine the body lying in the water a few feet away. what happens to us if we die suddenly or violently? more likely than not, we'll be picked up by a coroner. everybody on this floor is waiting for people to die. >> you never know what the next phone call is going to be. we never know what is going to happen. >> it took me a year to get access, but for the next ten days, i'm embedding with the l.a. county coroner, the busiest under one roof in the nation and while i'll see things that shock me. oh, my gosh, i'm a little speechless. for the men and women that work here, dealing with the dead is business as usual. >> death is going to happen and seeing all the bodies, it's just part of my job. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> i've lived in l.a. for most of my life, and driven by this non-descript building countless times but had no idea what i would face when i finally got inside. >> coroner's office. >> this is the department of the los angeles county corone

0 holiday in l.a., oh-oh, oh-oh 0 holiday in l.a., oh-oh, oh-oh ? a holiday in l.a. ? [ applause ] that was awesome! >> band of merrymakers. >> y'all were great. thank you so much.?c you were awesome. so fun! >> thank you, ver yet. isn't? >> no! st, this is "today" on nbc. drive. what about day three? >> about to find out who today's generous donor is. drum roll, please. >> it is -- >> all: learning resources senior project manager tom. >> happy holidays. >> hi, tom. >> i come bearing gifts. >> what you do you in? >> $185,000 worth of them. >> translates to 12,000 individual educational toys and games in the hands of underprivileged children. >> so which is -- which -- sorry. >> wow! >> that is what we are all about. learn as you play. >> great because you play and learn at the same time. >> right. what especially this, part of our donation. this is a robot, education learning mouse. what you can do, introduce early coding skills, coding the language of the 21st essentially, what kids are learning, and this is great for them. >> tom, thanks for everything. next at noon

>>> at the l.a. county jail, inmates with the most severe psychiatric disorders are sent to a place next to men's central jail called twin towers. >> got him. wherever you want to sit, where there is not another person. twin towers was originally built to house maximum security inmates. but now it's filled almost entirely with mentally ill inmates. so most of these guys have a lot of severe conditions. we have a lot of restrictions on us. we can't take the cameras out because in the past cameras have set them off. with nearly 4,000 walking patients, the jail has become america's largest mental health institution. while the jail has an operating budget of almost $800 million, the cost at twin towers alone are astounding. the department spends about $70,000 a year per inmate, and nearly 2 million just on psychiatric medications. >> morning. >> the scale and complexity of the job wasn't what deputy medina expected when she signed up to work here. have you ever felt threatened by this population? >> on a

each bag represents one of l.a. county's nearly 20,000 inmates. >> clear. >> upon arrival, it can take up to 16 hours to process a single arrestee. >> clear. >> the first stop, the tank. given how tight it is in there, does stuff often go down in the tank? >> where you're from, where you live, once that happens, that's when you get into the mob mentality and riots and get them out before the connections happen and really concerned about the safety of the jail system. >> all right. everybody get up. find a wall. left shoulder on the wall. >> safety is a top priority. it makes sense. but how do you achieve it inside a jail? just a few years ago, this system went off the rails and it inspector general nitded a media firestorm. >> several former and current deputies with the los angeles sheriff department just arrested it's said they took part in plans to cover it all up. >> 2011 report revealed shocking stories of brutality. officers had formed their own gangs and assaulted inmates with impunity. >> 3,000 boys are just

>> and it wasn't just south central l.a. large-scale violence broke out in the suburbs too. >> we went towards the edge of korea town and south central and just filmed people going in and out of the stores and coming out with television sets and stuff. >> a store overstocked for mother's day, nothing left. >> why? do you know? i don't know. >> they said, we're going shopping. >> it wasn't just african-americans. it was a lot of latinos. it was white people, lots of them. they were poor people. then suddenly the story wasn't a racial story. it was an economic story. >> looters of every race and color. just like their victims. >> that's not right! that's not right what y'all doing! i came from the ghetto too. >> by late morning, it was clear that if anything, the lawlessness was increasing. >> fbi agents have joined the search for a missing new jersey executive, sidney reso, president of the exxon international corporation, disappeared yesterday morning. >> on the second day, exxon received a phone call and the message of the

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as you know, l.a. has a football team, the rams are back, and there's a player on the team, william hayes, two interesting things. one, he believes in mermaids, and two, he doesn't believe in dinosaurs, for real, he thinks dinosaurs ar hoax cooked up by rascally archaeologists, i don't know. i decided to take williams on a field trip to the l.a. natural history museum where they have all sorts of dinosaur bones. here is my dinosaur day with william hayes. ? ? open on the door get on the floor ? >> jimmy: so how old were you when you realized you didn't believe in dinosaurs? >> jimmy, i don't really believe i ever did. >> jimmy: never? even as a kid, learning about dinosaurs, you didn't believe them? >> i don't have a big imagination. >> jimmy: i think skepticism is a good quality to have. i think we should challenge the things we're expected to believe. >> okay. >> jimmy: not necessarily to this extent. but let's take a look around, see look at that. this doesn't move you in any way? >> absolutely not.

first, sorry part of the show, l.a. has a football team, the rams are back, and there's a player on the team, william hayes, two interesting things. one, he believes in mermaids, and two, he doesn't believe in dinosaurs, thinks it's a hoax cooked up by rascal archaeologists. i don't know. i decided to take williams on a field trip to the l.a. natural history museum where there's all sorts of dinosaur bones issue ? ? >> so, how old were you when you realized you didn't believe in dinosaurs? >> i never really believed. >> never? even as a kid, learning about dinosaurs, you department believe them? >> i don't have a big imagination. >> lien we should challenge the things we're expected to believe. >> okay. >> not necessarily to this extent, but let's take a look around and see what you think. >> look at that. this doesn't move you in any way. >> absolutely not. [ laughter ] >> what do you think these are? >> [ bleep ] clay. >> maybe it is clay, i don't know. how are you doing? >> i'm daniel, an educator here for the natura

field trip to the l.a. natural history museum where there's all sorts of dinosaur bones issue and here's my dinosaur day with william hayes. ? ? h >> so, how old were you when you realized you didn't believe in dinosaurs? >> i never really believed. >> never? even as a kid, dinosaurs, you department believe them? >> i don't have a big imagination. >> listen, i think skepticism is a good quality to have. we should challenge the things we're expected to believe. >> okay. >> not necessarily to this extent, but let's take a look around and see what you think. >> look at that. this doesn't move you in any way. >> absolutely not. [ laughter ] >> what do you think these are? know. how are you doing? >> i'm daniel, an educator here for the natural history museum. >> we need you, dave. have you met people who don't believe in dinosaurs before? >> every now and then. >> dinosaurs are real? >> from my personal experiences. >> your personal experiences, as in? >> as in actually going out and digging for dinosaurs. >> y

today the l.a. county sheriff's department is on the scent of -- dodgy detergent. reportedly stolen speedboat, medical hardware and coffee pots -- buckets and buckets of apparently counterfeit tide. in the office, fake labels for fake gain? >> this might be the distribution center? >> it is. it is. >> reporter: tide in five-gallon buckets. why do we think it's fake? >> there's no such thing here. that's what's crazy. >> there is no such product? >> there's no such thing. they do not make this. five-gallon buckets. >> reporter: the alleged contraband is sent to the lab to find out what it is, if it ain't tide. >> without sounding scary the rifrgs are large. we just don't know. you don't know where it came from. like putting your family in a car that you had no idea who made it or where it came from. >> reporter: we'll follow that trail in a minute. counterfeiting they say is a nearly $500 billion a year business. >> hundreds and hundreds of labels. >> reporter: the proctor and gamble has helped identify and close 50 factories cranking out counterfeit goods. >> be co

that, plus i head to downtown l.a. with my dad so we can see how small businesses have revived an area close to our hometown. small business saturday is our day to get out and shop small. a day to support our community and show some love for the people we love. and the places we love. the stuff we can't get anywhere else and food that tastes like home. because the money we spend here can help keep our town growing. on small business saturday, let's shop small for our neighborhood, our town, our home. on november 26th, get up, (all) get together and shop small. >>> small business saturday is definitely gaining momentum. and we're trying to do our best to make it unique and fun because i think people want to do their holiday shopping and do it in a fun way where they actually make great memories with their friends and family and it's not this crazy mad dash to some finish line. >> on small business saturday, we celebrate what small businesses bring to our communities. over the years, we have profiled main streets across

>> i used to live down near the l.a. area and it's just about as bad here. >> reporter: the intersection of highway 280 and 680 in downtown san jose is a prime example of the problem. the study found about half the commuters to silicon valley come from outside the area from places like san francisco, alameda and san joaquin counties, this, of course, one of the primary ways out of the valley at the end of the day. >> it's pretty bad between 3:00 and let's say 8:00 you can't get anywhere. >> reporter: the study was conducted by joint venture silicon valley, a regional think tank of public, private and academic leaders. any commute over 90 minutes one way is considered a mega commute. more than 5% of drivers in silicon valley face that each and every day. that's nearly a full percentage point more than in l.a. the group says a lack of affordable housing is the predriver of the problem, -- the real driver of the problem, more so than the freeway infrastructure, but drivers say they feel the l.a. style commuting pain. >> it'

a 47- year- old officer set >>> two l.a. police officers are making a relay run from l.a. to sacramento to honor fallen comrades around the country. a 47-year-old officer set off today on the first leg. he'll alternate every 20 miles with a female colleague who is an ultra marathon runner. on each leg they will carry 35 pounds of equipment including vests and guns. they hope to raise $10,000 for families of officers who died. >>> a treasure trove of military medals found discarded in a texas dumpster. a small box claimed evidence of years of service. another army veteran is on the hunt to find its rightful owner. >> we want to be able to give this back to the family so that way they can have it and still cherish these stories that grand father, great grandfather. >> gary reached out to several organizations and possible families but what. heard back yet. i want to know how that ends. >> hopefully he does. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,

>> not in l.a. >> people know me with my mohawk. at school i just wear a hat. >> reporter: hair by bah, moves by miranda. ? >> i'm so blessed. >> how many hours do you practice? >> four to five hours a day. >> reporter: bear in mind it's about 10:00 still kicking it. >> i just take a bunch of classes and i get tired and sleep in the car. ? >> why put all this blood, sweat and tears, hours of practice, into dance? >> it's all i do. there's nothing else for me. this is all i'm going to do for the rest of my life. whether it's teaching, dancing, choreographing, creative it's all going to have dance involved. that's what i do. that's what i live and breathe for. >> reporter: me too. i'm nick watt for "nightline" in los angeles. >>> when we come back, a military bomb tech who lost his legs in afghanistan and found a fitting that we end this election week on veterans day. a reminder that while our democracy can be messy, we can all agree on honoring those americans willing to put their lives on the line to defend it. here's abc's michael

the entertainment capital of l.a. of president clinton since the election. >> we're checking out all the glamour. >>> megyn kelly making headlines today. her colleague bill o'reilly is stepping out to defend their network. >> the powerful boss she setds sexually harassed her and others. >> i now know the number disturbing. >> bill o'reilly takes a stand. >> i've had enough of it, it's a good place to work, all right? >> new photo, megyn all smiles heading into gma getting serious about the incident she claims happened with roger ailes a year after she started at fox news. >> he tried to kiss me three times, so i rejected that, and when i rejected that, he asked me when my contract was up. as soon as i left an office, i her memoir. >> i avoided roger for six months, after my supervisor suggested that was the proper course to pursue. we went on too have a a working relationship. >> have you read it? >> no, i have not read it. it's not a dis, it just came out. i'm not interested in making my network look bad at all. that

that's nearly a full percentage point than in l.a. drivers say they feel the l.a. style commuting pain. >> it's very bad especially down the 101 corridor, 87, 280. but there's no respite. everywhere you go, there's traffic. >> the study comes as voters in santa clara county are considering a half cent sales tax increase to pay for transportation improvements. >>> time now 4:42. are the problems for samsung worse than originally thought? the lawsuit just filed. seven" phones. as k-p-i-x five's betty yu a lawyer says >>> samsung is experiencing more fallout from troubles that forced it to recall its galaxy note 7 phones. as betty yu reports, a california lawyer says that there arish additional problems the company needs to address. >> reporter: this is what's left of a samsung s6 with its battery badly damaged and here's another example of an s6 that blew up. >> at one point, my colleague put down the phone said, you know, this is actually too hot to hold against my head. owe put it down, plugged it in and it caught fire on the desk, his home desk. and he knocked it