houlihan's care. carrie hem has spent years piecing together evidence about what happened to her brother, army veteran craig farington. he died eight years ago hours after being released from tomah. what conclusion did you reach from all of this? what happened to your brother? >> they killed him. >> reporter: according to his death certificate signed by a county medical examiner, farington died from a poly medication overdose, a lethal mixture of prescription medications. the v.a. even paid the family $97,000 to settle its wrongful death claim. when you hear that there was a death that was so similar to your son's so many years earlier, how does that make you feel? >> sad. sick. i think, you know, if things would have -- if action would have been taken back then, i think there would have been -- my son probably would still be alive today. >> reporter: this spring, after scrutiny from whistleblowers, congress and the media, the v.a.'s secretary ordered a review of prescription practices at tomah. it fo

stephanie lee as hot lips houlihan. ♪ i can't give you anything but love baby ♪ >> reporter: and the vets, patients with spinal cord injuries starring as radar, hawkeye and the rest. >> when i say go, radar comes on with sir. >> sir! >> oh, for pete's sake, radar. >> sounds almost like the real thing. >> what are you doing here in officer's country. >> just delivering the mail, sir. >> reporter: a former stage actor and lee, who still does tv and filmwork are volunteers. stars of stage and screen would visit va hospitals, trying to lift the spirits of america's wounded warriors in the 1940s. >> it's getting people to do something that they never thought they were able to. it's 90 minutes of not what is, but what can be. >> reporter: they're not big named performers here on broadway or out in hollywood. over the years the network has dwindled to just a few dozen committed volunteers. making the vets stars is what makes these performances unique. backstage from the cast, rave reviews. >> it helps you look inside yourself to find what challenge you have to bring out. >> come in. >> majo

she and others, like democrat chrissie houlihan, running for congress outside philadelphia, are making gun control a central part of their campaigns. but so are many republicans fighting against it. >> i own guns that no one's taking away. >> reporter: a familiar message, and they believe a winning one. still, recent polls show the issue of guns is not one of the top motivating factors for most voters ahead of the midterms. >> as this plays out, tell us about this new announcement by the trump administration regarding the southern border. >> reporter: lester, 1,500 active-duty armed troops loaded with things like barbed wire will be deployed to the southwest border by the end of the week. 2,000 national guard members are already there, so this roughly puts the same number of troops on the border as in syria and iraq combined. the president in a new interview says deployment is the response to the caravan of central american migrants and refugees still 1,000 miles away. president trump's focus on that caravan has been blasted by his critics, who say it's an alarmist tactic meant to prov

. >> reporter: bruce houlihan directs orange county's crime lab, overseeing a staff of 150 people handling about 1,000 gun cases a year. his lab opted to use instead a system that competes with nibin. >> it gave us the ability toed dg cases with at a much lower cost. >> reporter: after atf pulled orange county's nibin system in 2012, the county turned to a technology developed in russia called evo finder. >> you would admit when you don't put all the data in things can be missed. >> sure. >> if your data's not in nibin there could be a correlation that's missed and therefore there's not a crime solved or a crime prevented. >> yeah. and we thought about that very deeply when we were actually considering this because that was a concern of ours. but considering the number of hits that we got nationally, almost non-existent -- swl it w wasn't enough knits hits to make it worth your while -- >> not at all. >> reporter: a former police officer turned federal atf agents ron nichols heldnibin. >> in these areas that aren't in network in california it means your communities are at much higher risk.

and i remember -- i was working at houlihan's in chicago as a a waiter and the hostess commented and said, "i really like that jacket." and i wore it every day for eight months after that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: liz claiborne jacket. oh, fantastic. that's good stuff. >> it was so nice. >> jimmy: i want to show everyone a clip of "despicable me 3." here's steve carell as gru. "despicable me 3." >> hello, gru, how's your transition coming? you know, from world's worst villain to world's worst agent? >> oh, that's hilarious. you should be on tv. >> oh, that's right, you were. but then you got canceled. >> ha, ha. >> what about that? what? oh, girls! >> dance fight. ♪ ♪ come on. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: it is great! it is great. >> thanks >> jimmy: i loved it. >> thanks. >> jimmy: steve carell, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] "despicable me 3" is in theaters everywhere on friday. check it out. when we come back, steve and i are playing "blow you mind. stick around. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ introducing the new moto z with moto mods. hello moto. ♪ ♪ (3-2

now, let's hash this out and grab a brewski at houlihan's!" like any president, biden has his strengths and weaknesses but clearly, one strength is his ability to give the nation a pep talk, and, in many his ways, his inaugural address was basically the half-time speech america needed >> at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. my whole soul is in it today, on this january day, my whole soul is in this. we can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. and today, we mark the swearing in of the first woman in american history elected to national office, vice president kamala harris. don't tell me things can't change and here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground it did not happen. it will never happen not today. not tomorrow not ever not ever [ cheers and applause >> seth: i mean, i don't know about you, but i thought that was pretty uplifting can we check in on bernie real quick and

gang of cartoon characters descending on state capitols after one too many jagerbombs at the local houlihan's democrats need to pursue major reforms to our institutions to ensure something like this can't happen in future otherwise, it will happen in the future republicans made it very clear if given the chance, they will do everything possible to steal an election through the courts, congress, or state legislatures. and the existence of the electoral college makes such an outcome much more likely even if republicans don't have - >> a thing called standing >> seth: this has been "a closer look." ♪ we'll be right back with amber ruffin ♪ >> announcer: for more of seth's "closer looks," be sure to subscribe to "late night" on youtube. students of color typically do not have access to high quality computer science and stem education. ♪ i joined amazon because i wanted to change education and i am impatient. amazon gives me the resources to change the world at a pace that i want to change it. ♪ we provide students stem scholarships and teachers with support. ♪ i'm a fighter and i'm figh

are fair because they are republicans talk about nonexistent voter fraud like the drunk guy at the houlihan's who ate too many spicy wings "damn it, guys the spicy wings made us all [ bleep ] our pants. we all need to go change our pants together." [ laughter ] as it turns out, that strategy backfired big time on republicans, and elder ultimately conceded after the polls closed last night. nonetheless, elder previously came there might be shenanigans in the election and republicans spent the campaign spreading the same old [ bleep ] conspiracy theories about supposed voting fraud. they have spread other states across the country for example, in sacramento county, the registrar of voters was accused of having two employees of election equipment make our dominion voting systems work for them the man who made the claim toured her offices and made the allegation while speaking at a conference sponsored by my pillow guy, mike lindell. of course. of course, lindell is somehow connected to this. the guy has inserted himself in every political story of the last two years it's like if forrest gump had

government, suddenly, you can't communicate, you can't fly on an airplane, you can't wear sandals to houlihan's and you can't park your bmw across two handicap spots, even though you're just running into the pharmacy real fast to get your cialis, and you can't go to red lobster and stuff buffet shrimp in your pockets, even though the all you can eat sign never specified when and where you could eat it. and when you skip out on the check and tell the waiter, you have a legal right to this shrimp based on the constitution, a document you have never read, he chases you down, and takes your license plate, and calls 911, and tells them you're a shrimp thief, and the cops come to the house, and confiscate the shrimp from your fridge, and embarrass you in front of your stepson and his friends while they play "tony hawk pro skater" on xbox, and laugh at you, and call you a shrimp dweeb, and you say, “stop calling me that, tyler.” and then he and his friends, they push you down the stairs. imagine that [ laughter ] oh, my god, are these people whiney, hysterical lunatics who never miss an opportunit

that's when they have $2 margs at houlihan's. what am i supposed to tell the girls in my qanon book club? we're going to look for secret satanic messages in the new danielle steel novel there's plenty!" on a different show, greene even expressed concern that the press would be allowed in the courtroom on friday. >> they are going to allow the press in the courtroom they're going to allow the whole thing to be videoed live out to go anywhere in the world they want to. and you know what that's going to look like the democrats and the nasty mainstream media, you know, the ones that lie about me constantly anyways, well, they're going to be able to twist and turn and clip out any little piece they want of the horrible things that these funded attorneys are going to try to say about me. >> seth: i'm sorry, but anyone who still says "videoed," much less "videoed live," in the year 2022, should be disqualified from congress. you sound like my grandmother trying to explain tiktok "these teens are all just videoing themselves, walking on

. >> let's move on to the pub style or grill, on the highnd you have houlihan's and on the low, hard rock cafe. why? >> houlihan's has improved their game in recent years. >> it's subdued. >> you want to talk about hard rock, a lot of people gave it bad marks for value. that pulled it down. and it was also considered it had worse servicing, more people complained about than any other restaurant. >> hard rock responded saying today's report doesn't align with our own independent research and isn't indicative of our recent business performance. let's move on to the family category. first watch was on the highnd and friend lip's on the low. >> if you've never heard of first watch, you should. they've topped the ratings for a long time. they're informal, great for kid, indestructible and you can be yourself. they generally lack when it comes to the quality of the food and the service. >> friendly's has been at the lower end of the ratings but they fell short, especially in the cleanliness area. >> let me give friendly's their say. they said as friendlies emerged from bankruptcy in januar

patches o' houlihan. i love that. is it necessary? is it necessary? we are looking at fog from the mid-atlantic to texas. there will be airport delays and this system is that will make its way across the country causing problems with snow in the rockies. look what happens tomorrow. blizzard conditions and the snow and changing to rain. mid-atlantic into the ohio riverer >>> well, this morning we're waking up to a good mix of sun and clouds. temperatures are chilly out there. definitely need that jacket. as we head through the day, showers and thunderstorms will develop, especially around lunchtime, anywhere from 11:00 this morning to 4:00 this evening. and the best chance for seeing those thunderstorms will be across the south bay, peninsula and tri-valley. san francisco, you'll get a few showers around lunchtime, and then we'll dry out toward the afternoon. north bay, dry conditions today. 65 degrees with a mix of sun and clouds there. >> and that's your latest weather. >> time for friendly competition. whether it's better to repair a broken item or