this is about a council member here in [indiscernible] named donnie bridgeman. he lost a three-way race for mayor. and that is when things went crazy. nio at this, it's a picture put up on facebook by a friend of bridgeman. that's bridgeman after he claims he was set on fire october 5th by what he said was five hispanic men in a pickup truck who were supporters of one of the other -- police say the matter is under investigation. they have been unable to confirm whether or not bridgeman was attacked. but it gets weirder because the night before bridgeman claims he was attacked, he's accused of making bazaar racially threats against malinda on facebook. she has a court order to keep bridgeman away. malinda's quote from -- quote, where are my dogs at. i've stopped my team, my hoods, n words from flexing power in my name. dogs off the leash. this is black steal and this request is to post malinda's personal information including address and phone number. malinda says she fears for her life and the courts agrees that -- today, bridgeman agreed to talk about all this.

i was lucky enough to throw out or -- a colleague of mine, a guy named donny franks, was lucky enough to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at wrigley field the day after they clinched the playoffs and i would just be so honored if jim brockmire could just call the pitch. if we could play the footage of donny franks throwing the ball out at wrigley, i would be so honored if jim could call the play. >> yes, i saw a little bit of this jim, there he is. don graphics looking like a beard stephen colbert with '80s hair and when he pulls his lot dog out of his purr vanes device, he shakes something off even though there's no catcher there, goes into his windup and here comes the pitch! and it's way inside, way outside -- it's horrible, but he's celebrating like his hair band just won a bat of the bands contest! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: what an honor! hank, good to see you! "brockmire" premieres april 5 on i.f.c. hank azaria, everybody! we'll be right back with kate walsh. came home and said, "you're driving me crazy." so, i figured ok, well as much coffee as i drink in my life

are still reeling from the show's season premiere that donnie's wife had died. a shock that left his real-life wife jenny mccarthy in tears. >> i cried my eyes out. >> it's on instagram. >> she's dead. >> oh. >> and i feel bad for him. >> aw. >> i think they deserve a couples get away. and i think you know the perfect place. >> i do. it's the homeland of nicole kidman and russell crowe. the land down under. specifically, australia's whitsundays islands. i was stoke frd the adventure of a lifetime. we arrived in the whitsundays, it's so incredibly beautiful. here's the question, how much can i fit in to 48 hours? 74 idyllic islands, queensland, australia, and the great barrier reef. i'm in vaca heaven. first stop, check in at the qualia resort. where taylor swift and chris hemsworth stay. yeah, that thor's got nothing on my. next up, my chopper awaits. we just touched down what feels like in the middle of the ocean. but we're here on the great barrier reef. what do you do when you're here? you scuba dive. a round of golf -- and it was time to hit the beach. my ri

she writes, donny will be like the temperamental child in vegas debate, throwing everything he can, stalking, snarling and snorting. >> reporter: and tasha says, which clinton will show up tonight? two-face? happy face? which hillary will we see at the debate? >> reporter: so log onto our wusa 9 facebook page and join the conversation. >>> meanwhile, a group is filing a federal lawsuit to force virginia to extend its voter registration window. this after the state's online system crashed monday, the last day to register. a stafford county registrar estimates the crash presented tens of thousands of virginian virginian -- prevented tens of thousands of virginians the right to vote. about 20 villages, just outside iraq's second largest city. troops just ran extremists out of the village of bartela. they have recaptured from 20 isis militants so far. police are investigating a double shooting. as hillary lane reports, the scene is just about a mile away from prince george's community college. >>> at the center of this investigation, a red sedan. it was parked right here and as you can see, inve

we're talking about donnie bridgeman, and this is the photo that set everything off. it's a complicated story that all began october 2. >> that was the date of the town election, bridgeman, who is a councilman in town, faced off against two other candidates and lost. he posted this on facebook. this is only the beginning. he cannot on wednesday, october 4, someone obtained a no contact order against bridgeman. fast forward to later that day. bridgeman showed up at the same office, looking like he had just been burnt. he didn't call police, so the commissioner did. then on the next day, on thursday, october 5, his friend posted that photo. saying three men jumped out of a pickup truck and threw gasoline on him. in response to facebook comments on that post, bridgeman said he believed they were upset with bridgeman because was a so-called spoiler candidate. fast forward to later that day, yet another no contact order was filed against him. that brings us to this week. on sunday night, october 15, he posted that he would be in court the next day, facing off against a pol

donny simpson is live talking to his fans, talking to the dmv about prince, the artist, the legacy. >> prince rogers. prince is dead. >> he is taking calls and sharing stories about prince. >> you are sad, you know. but at the same time, you know, i feel so blessed to have known this man, to have have his music. to watch what did he. >> wearing black and signature purple, he said this is a celebration and reflection on favorite songs and memories. this involved sugar ray leonard. >> i bump this woman in front of me and said excuse me, ma'am and prince turned around. i was like oh, my goodness. >> laugh and love is what prince leaves behind, an artist at just music. >> he went to baltimore after the freddie gray riots. that kind of impact. that commitment to the community. >> yeah. >> it's gone. >> yeah. is there any one else to carry that on. >> there is always someone else. prince was someone else. he came after james browns. he did the same kind of things. james brown squared riots. prince did the same thing. of course there is someone else. there will be someone else. i have that f

donnie marley sat behind murrey. >> it was kind of low from that level. for lack of a better word, he was like superman, both his hands in front and feet behind, h he went completely over the rail. >> reporter: but foul balls are the bigger threat. >> fans in the area calling for help. >> reporter: every year, batted balls strike an average of 1750 fans. one hit a woman in a head earlier this month at chicago's wrigley field in. june, a fan in boston was critically wound bid a flying broken bat. major league baseball commissioner rob manfred. >> this is a topic of serious concern not only to me but, you know, more importantly to all owners. >> reporter: every ballpark safety design is tied to local building codes which vary, but all of them the protective netting behind home plate stops before dugouts leaving fans exposed. >> you want, obviously, safety, but i don't know if having nets up around the whole place is going to do it. obviously, it will make ate little more safer but it will take a lot away from the game. >> reporter: the back of every ticket

. >>> coming up, actor donnie better. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." introducing the fusion of exceptional taste with the benefits of our probiotic yogurt. new activia fruit fusion, with the exclusive probiotic bifidus regularis. delicious and good for you. new activia fruit fusion. ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. >>> cruz drops out following last night's indiana primary. now the presidential contenders turn to the rest of the >> a bus hijack. a driver stabbed and a pedestrian struck and killed. now we are waiting to learn when the man accused of the crime will be in court. >> we are tracking more showers that could impact the morning commute today. another yellow alert day. here is allyson rae with the first look at the forecast. >> yellow alert today, tomorrow and most likely friday. things will be on and off throughout the next few days. temperatures are on the cool side this morning. we are

. >> reporter: donnie williamson tipped authorities to where vance was hiding out. what gave him away? his car spotted under these branches. later that afternoon during a county sheriff clay sander in the shoulder and the elbow. the sheriff will survive. to 30 minutes later vance was killed after a shoot-out with oklahoma state troopers. >> he came out firing his rifle. >> reporter: mickey baker said he witnessed vance stop and confront those troopers. >> i could see the flare of his gun. the fight went on for about a minute or some them police officers were in one heck of a gunfight last night. >> reporter: this is where michael vance was liv rural western oklahoma. he had a fire pit in that ditch. he had access to local water, and officials think he may have been in this area for about a week. scott, as for the why factor, it appears to be a revenge killing according to authorities, and that's because michael vance was due in court next week the answer for charges he sexually assaulted a child. >> pelley: david begnaud in oklahoma for us tonight. david, thank you.

donnie simpson joins the afternoon drive. the show airs from 3:00 to 7:00 at night. >>> this marks the beginning of d.c. restaurant week if you haven't gotten that memo. more than 200 restaurants are partaking around the city. they're offering three-course lunches for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 and three- course dinners for around 35 bucks. that's on the menu till august 13. >>> it's going to abhot one today. -- to be a hot one today. 95 degrees. not a lot of rain either. only a stray shower possible during the peak heating hours of the day. near 90 for tomorrow so we're on our way down. tuesday we'll be in the upper 80s for the rest of the week into the weekend. your best rain chances this week will be wednesday and thursday. >> might be nice. >> for those of you traveling inbound from areas like laurel, traveling southbound on the bw parkway, you will encounter some volume once you get into town because of that earlier accident. from sky 9 we can see how things are looking on the southbound side of the bw parkway

. >> and at least it's people going out and donnie brooking the parking lots and stuff. >> everybody wants their team to win. >> those orioles fans, they are hard core. thoney d't play. >> we'll see what happens this week. >>> right now mourners paying respects to christopher barry. how his death from an overdose could prevent others from using drugs. >> and fans are angry after a local musician with a promising future is gunned down. >> and a new study suggests all the tech gadgets in today's cars are the reason so many of them are >>> a new report shows a record number of drivers need help on the roads. many drivers in newer cars asked for help in the last year, and some new automotive technologies could be to blame. . >>> every day l.a. tow truck driver edward comes to the rescue of dozens. >> 70 to 80 calls a day. >> reporter: his first call this shift, a hybrid toyota that wouldn't start because of problems with the batteries, both in the trunk and under the hood. >> very common. >> reporter: aaa rescued 20 million drivers in 2015, commonly with tire or battery issues, having pr

sheriff donnie youngblood. >> the problem is that this fire keeps shifting. and as you know, we allow people to go back their homes, we can't make them leave. if that fire shifts we're going to have more casualties. >> reporter: the fire killed at least two people. they were overcome by smoke. investigators now plan to use cadaver dogs to go through the rubble. but for the survivors the hard work hasn't even begun. >> you don't know where to start. nobody knows. you're left in the dark. nobody tell you exg. anything. >> reporter: you're on your own. >> you're on your own. >> reporter: this perspective really gives you an idea of the scope of destruction. this particular community was pretty much wiped out. so far at least 150 homes just like this one have been destroyed, and the weather is expected to get worse tomorrow. that's bad news for firefighters, reena, because it is going to be windier. >> ninan: that certainly is pad news. brian marshall, thank you. the terror group al-shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack in a hotel today in the capital city

. >> donnie was just 19 when the boys were touring. "entertainment tonight." >> average age of boys to men in our first meeting was 22. now they're the best selling r and b group of all time. >> everybody is going to cross pollinate. >> pollinate? >> you know. >> pollinate. >> what do you think is going to be the craziest thing to happen on this tour? >> which one of us wins the fight to be m.c. scat cat? we're all fighting to get in the costum since he's not here today. >> john knight is our resident rock starec b aauses we're working our butts off, he's in africa on a 21 day vacation. >> knight, who just got engaged to his long time boyfriend, posted this message to fans. >> i'm still on my vacation, but my heart is back in new york with everybody on this amazing day. ? you've got the right stuff, baby ? >> it's going to be a sweet tour. i just feel so grateful every dave that i wake up that i'm and more importantly do it with people that i love. >> can you see the excitement on my face? >> i can. i can tell when she's excited. and s

he's going -- "okay, donny, this is weird, but get through it, and they'll let you meet the genie." it's going to be f, to wish for all the wishes. ( laughter ) it's hard to tell what song these guys are dancing to. can we get the sound turned up, jim? ( ♪ it's raining men ) ( ♪ it's raining men ) ( applause ) but not everyone looked comfortable at the party. here's steve bannon realizing these are not the kind of men in white robes he's used to. ( laughter ) ( audience reacts ) ( applause ) >> stephen: what?! what?! what?! we joke. we joke because we love. ( laughter ) it wasn't all sword play. trump also helped at the opening ceremony for "the global center for combating extremist ideology" by laying hands upon this glowing orb! ( laughter ) whatever qualities that magical sphere confers: eternal youth is not one of them. fellas, if i may, you need to work on your "not-looking-like-supervillains" look at that! it looks like you're activating the undersea robot to emerge from its volcano base and kill aquaman. ( laughter ) jim, can we pull out and see who else is there? saruman

. >> talking about the big man, power center donnie trump, known for his haphazard, lumbering style of play. trump never seemed to be able to grasp the complexity of the game. >> although, he was able to p graslathe dy parts of cheerleaders. ♪ >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight stephen welcomes jane fonda and lily tom lynn, jay chandraseykhar and musical guest aimee mann, jon batiste and banned banned. now leave from ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) ( band playing ) >> stephen: ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert. it feels good to be back on this stage. last week, we were off. we pretended we had new shows on monday, tuesday, and wednesday, but those were actually taped the week before. it was an illusion created by an and you could watch march madness. so i hope you enjoyed that. ( applause ) go gamecocks! but what a great time to be away from the show. >> jon: right, so nothing happened. >> stephen: nothing happened while i was gone, right? ( laughter ) oh, t

>> you're out of your element, donnie! ( applause ) >> stephen: thank you. you're welcome. >> stephen: i might play that on a loop. ( laughter ) now your new film is called "patriots day" about the boston bombing of the marathon, and what do you remember about it? because people remember where they were when it happened, it was so shocking. >> it was in germany shooting a film. it was just shocking. it was like an invasion. >> stephen: yeah, it was really extraordinary. and you play the police commissioner ed davis. >> yes. >> stephen: and what's his role in the story? he's a con people together, the police. it's an impossible job trying to quell the fears of the city. you have angry cops, people angry at the muslim community. just trying to quell things and intensify a manhunt to get these guys off the street. they were on their wayown here. >> stephen: we have a clip here and it is the f.b.i. and the boston police in the room together trying to figure out whether to release photographs they have to have the tsarnaev brothers. >> those are not our guys. mea

donald and donnie if we wanted to be funny. >> donald lived with his brother, angela's father in their rockville home. in december of 2009 her father passed away. then six months later so did donald. >> it was very hard. >> angela paid for the yes makes and a family member took the remains. that's where the confusion sets in. how he ended up at the still a she's thankful it was pastor wilson who found him. >> at least he will have a place with family that knew him and cared about him. >> i don't know anything about him. he was a human being. he deserves to be put to rest with dignity and respect. >> the church will not be donald's final resting place, but it was the perfect stop along the way. >> he had purpose many life and purpose to his family. >> angela plans to meet the pastor soon to pick up the remains. she's going to keep them on her mantle next to the urn containing her father's ashes. >> angela is grateful to the woman who messaged her on facebook and helped to connect the dots. >>> california has been hit with heavy rain, snow, avalanches and a tornado. that's a lot. about 3

lucky stephen. ( cheers and applause ) the cubs were kind enough to come here and invite my friend donnie franks to wrigley. just saying. they hang out with me, they win the world series. it's math. ( applause ) plus, fun fact about meeting the cubs: in person, i am even smaller and weaker. ( laughter ) that's a in addition to me, one of the major reasons the cubs won last night was because of their president of baseball operations, theo epsteen, who now owns the title of most famous theo. sorry, malcolm jamal warner. you had a good run. at the age of 28, epsteen became the red sox general manager and gave them a world series title, breaking the curse of the bambino. which, if you're not familiar with sports, is when babe ruth the man who i paid to say i'm right says i'm right over there. okay. then epsteen moved onto the cubs, giving them their first world series title in 108 years, destroying the curse of the billy goat-- and the less famous curse of just sucking. ( laughter ) the tough one to shake. and you know we are in who's from illinois and is a big cubs fan is hillary clinton. sh

get the shotgun, donny. >> we have to take care of this guy, man. >> where are you here? >> give me charlie rose. >> yeah. >> the only thing more surprising than their utter main characters, rory and lorelei -- >> you have no idea where your underwear is? >> it could be at lane's. >> you've been without your underwear since you moved. >> is how they got hooked on it in the first place. >> i found season two, it was unopened in some library in the middle of a base in iraq. >> jesse, luke, erik and john met as marines, they were members of a sniper platoon during missions they dodged explosive devices, back on base they watched "gilmore girls". >> at least for me it was the america i think we all wished we were fighting for. >> stars hollow is the town in the center of the show. it came to mean so many to them. >> my guys and i absolutely who have your show. >> luke wrote a letter to the show's creators. amy paladino and her husband daniel. p simple case of contrasts. i live in a strakt macho sometimes violent world that very often did not make sense. stars hollow is pretty

hold on one second-- "not donny's gun. i think the maid did it. sad!" ( laughter ) "build the wall." ( cheers and applause ) so comey has been fired, or as fox news put it, "james comey resigns." easy mistake. >> jon: resigned? >> stephen: obviously, fog of war. it's easy to get things wrong on a breaking story. i mean, who can forget the "new york herald's,," lincoln commits suicide." but-- too soon. despite commie's firing, maine senator susan colins is certainty russian investigations will continue. >> well, the president didn't fire the entire f.b.i. >> stephen: don't give him any ideas! dummy! i could do that. could i do that? tell them to turn their tvs on. but this investigation is not going to go away quietly. comey's firing is historically unprecedenteprecedented with one exception. >> some are comparing comb's firing to president saturday night massacre. he wanted archibald cox fired. >> reminiscent of watergate. >> echoes of watergate. >> the whole echo of watergate is very strong here. >> stephen: yes, listen closely, children, and you can h

. >> reporter: donnie williamson vance was hiding out. what gave him away? his car, spotted under these branches. later that afternoon, during a traffic stop, vance shot dewey county sheriff clay sander in the shoulder and the elbow. the sheriff will survive. 30 minutes later vance was killed after a shoot-out with oklahoma state troopers. >> he came out firing his rifle. >> reporter: mickey baker said he witnessed vance stop and confront those troopers. >> i could see the flare of his gun. the fight went on for about a them police officers were in one heck of a gunfight last night. >> reporter: this is where michael vance was living, in rural western oklahoma. he had a fire pit in that ditch. he had access to running water, and officials think he may have been in this area for about a week. scott, as for the why factor, it appears to be a revenge killing according to authorities, and that's because michael vance was due in court next week to answer for charges he sexually assaulted a child. >> david begnaud in oklahoma for us tonight. david, thank you. >>>

. >>> only if all of us could have a voice like donny simpson. the d. c. radio icon returns to the air waves tomorrow. he'll be doing afternoon drive on magic 102.3. the show will air weekdays from 3 to 7 p.m. he hosted the donny simpson morning show for 16 years before taking a break. rumor has it he's a darn good golfer too. >>> today is the last day of training camp for the redskins. roughly 7,000 fans turned out for yesterday's fan appreciation day in richmond. the team will hold another fan paresthesias day in ashburn. >>> check out a free movie on the potomac. back to the future 2 is going to be on the big screen, starts at 6 p.m. >> heat is becoming a bigger concern out west as dry conditions hamper the efforts to put out wildfires. >> plus why earlier school start times and dates may hinder your child's education. >> we're going to take a look at the weather for the montgomery county fair. we showed you the prince william county fair as well earlier. it is going to be warm but pleasant. gaithersburg not quite as warm. 89 degrees at 3:00, 82 at 8. m

jimmy, here we go: ( laughter ) ( laughter ) ( laughter ) "sincerely, donnie." but-- it was all funny until we killed harry potter. ( laughter ) but some people are enjoying the trump administration, and i don't just mean the founding fathers who get to have fun spinning around in their graves. weeeeeeee! ( laughter ) no, i'm talking about our old friends the obamas. this week, barack and michelle obama were in polynesia, and someone managed to get us this shot of barack taking a vacation picture of michelle. posing for a picture on a yacht? wow. michelle decided to plagiarize melania for once. ( laughter ) let's um-- can we get that back up again? let's get a closer look. he's taking a picture with an ipad. ( laughter ) "daaad! come on! this is worse than when uncle joe made everyone look at his leaning tower of penis." ( laughter ) and we miss you, sir. ( cheers and applause ) we miss you. and the obamas weren't even the most powerful people on the the super-yacht were "oprah, as well as tom hanks and bruce springsteen

chuck brown, donny simpson, russ par. another big space, mystery of who will go in here as well. i trip on myself. i'm not going to tell you who the guy up there is. you may recognize him. but here is dave sha the comedian. and dick gregory. we're expecting more folks in here. they did this at night apparently the artists with a stencil on a light. it had to be at night. at ben's chili bowl in dc. wusa 9. >>> i can't wait to see it with my own eyes. >> baby on board. >> not so much. the stunt that cost one driver some pretty serious cash. >>> a warning about cell phone companies changing your plan and that could cost you. vo: delivering cleaner, reliable energy... creating jobs for our veterans... helping those in need save money on their energy bills. it takes 16,000 dominion energy employees doing the job. and now, dominioern engy is investing $15 billion to build creating jobs now and for the future. across virginia, we're building an economy that works for everyone and dominion energy is helping power the companies that power our economy. the insurance companies and the credi

"i'll tell you what, get my donnie baby hands on the phone. i want him to take out kim jong-un, same way we took out sodom and gomorrah-- fire and fury. i want him to sleep with the loaves and the fishes." i don't know-- i don't know. i'm not sure what i'm doing. kind of chicago, a little-- little mooch. and jeffress is on sound theological ground here. as jesus said in the sermon on the mount, "blessed are the peacemakers. but just in case, let's nuke the bastards." of course, pastor jeffress gave the sermon at trump's private inauguration day service where he shared a vision he had at his first meeting with trump. "i remember that it was exactly one year ago this weekend that i was with you on your citation jet flying around iowa before the first caucus or primary vote was cast. after our wendy's cheeseburgers, i said that i believed that you would be the next president of the united states." and lo, it hath come to pass, just as the wendys baconator hath prophesied! ( laughter ) in the name of the father, the son, and the biggie fries. ( ch

ci right before he cut that deal with robert mueller. ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( piano riff ) but, donnie, "time to roll?" you left in a helicopter. it is literally one of the few vehicles that doesn't roll! "let's put the pedal to the metal in this hot air balloon!" now, while we still don't know the extent of russian meddling in the 2016 election, it seems pretty clear what they were after-- for america to lift our massive economic sanctions against them. clearly, the sanctions are working -- especially in the clothing industry. even the richest man in russia can't find a shirt. remember, it was promising the russians he'd end the sanctions, then lying about it, that brought down former national security advisor and supreme allied commander of pouty- michael flynn. ( laughter ) and, now, thanks to an anonymous whistleblower, we know that, during the transition, flynn told a business associate that the russia sanctions would be "ripped up." so they could go ahead with their secret business deal-- a joint project to build nuclear reactors in the arab world." with? any guesses? it rhymes w

. >>> donny simpson joins us live in studio. >>> wednesday september 16th, this is great day washington. . >>> good morning welcome to great day washington. today we're going to continue celebrating hispanic heritage month i'm going to jump in the kitchen later on with ron and steal secrets on guacamole. >>> and donny simpson will be here to talk about what it's been like returning to the dc airwaveses and his plans

( laughter ) "sincerely, donnie." it was all funny until harry potter. but some people are enjoying the trump administration, and i don't just mean the founding fathers who get to have fun spinning around in their graves. wheeeeeeee! no, i'm talking about our old friends the obalm as. this week, they were in polynesia, and someone managed to get this shot of barack taking a vacation picture of michelle posing for a picture on a yacht? wow. michelle decided to plagiarize melania for once. ( laughter ) can we get that back up again? let's get a closer look. he's taking the picture on an ipad. "daaad! come on! this is worse than when uncle joe made everyone look at his leaning tower of penis." and we miss you, sir. we miss you. ( cheers and applause ) and the obamas weren't even the most power boat, because joining them on the super-yacht were "oprah, as well as tom hanks and bruce springsteen." that is nearly all of america's strategic likability reserve! i just pray to god they put dwayne "the rock" johnson in a secure location. we've got a great show for

former new kid on the block, donnie wahlberg said his brother, mark, and their chef brother, paul, are looking for a restaurant space here in the dmv. the restaurant has the same name as their a and e reality show. the wahlbergers focuses on the family dynamics. uber changed its logo. >> why? >> the u has been replaced with a backwards c. the company's cofounder said uber needed to have a new look to go along with its changing mission. >> what is that? >> i don't know. they drive people around. >> puppies every now and then. >> helicopters and all the things they are trying to move to. >> i don't know. uber. is it supposed to look like a usb plug? i would be afraid to get into a car with that symbol. i wouldn't know what it is. think about it. >> why change? >> it hasn't been around that long. get people used to it. >> okay. we have a decent day coming up here. i want to tell you right now. if you're no st. maries, some of that rain could change to snow. we may get a slushy inch or so down there. for us, i'm not worried about it. lots of clouds out there, sunrise coming up at 7:15, 7:2

up next, elvis is back along with donny and marie. las vegas rolls the dice on a new, huge and very expensive complex. just in time for the holidays. crafted to be exceptionally smooth... decadently rich... delightful... chocolate... bliss. hershey's bliss chocolate. crafted for bliss. >>> las vegas is rolling the dice this holiday season hoping the $8 billion citi center won't come up snake eyes because of the stuff economy. hattie kauffman has details. good morning. >> good morning. yes. citi center opens officially today with its spas, casino and expensive elvis tribute. it's a gamble or perhaps a gift. when this comes to celebrating the holidays, these are not the images that come to mind. >> christmas in vegas is so different than any other place. it's not about cuddling up next to the fireplace and all that. this is about a neon party land. >> reporter: vegas gifts can't be found anywhere else. how about christmas with the king? "viva elvis" with 75 acrobats, a five-story stage and rare home movies. >> we're on our "jail house"