. ♪ >> that puts the focus on ireland's rich tradition and award-winning irish singer, teaches irish dancing, and he hosts an irish radio show every saturday. as you can imagine the st. patrick's day is like a religious holiday for him. >> walmart defends the shirts by saying they want to give the customers choices. >> very nice. ♪ >> he thinks it is ridiculous command he is from ireland. bill: it's a religious holiday. that gets lost in this whole idea that we just want to go celebrate and drink. there are so many sides to this but i can appreciate the one side of it. what other group in you attack with the stereotype of drunkenness and get away with it. >> you can imagine. they miss the days when all sent to wanted to drink with some milk. >> ban band christmas and put everything away. >> at the same level of st. patrick's day. >> i don't see the mexicans up in arms about it. i had to identify more than americans. people want to get drunk. a going they going to do it anyway. bill: and they're we go. ♪ >> basically just a table where the table where commuters can club. >> go bac

you won't be in ireland wondering around like a tourist. get private tours of restaurants and guinness factory and jamison factory and staying at a beautiful five star hotel what do we have to do to qualify. >> go to kildares and sign up, fill out a form sign up have a great time with you. >> i love cottage pie. turf try this. it is always so good. it looks like it would be hard to make sure you have the mashed on top, make sure it is just right. >> i can show you how to do it. i brought the a piping bag and one without mashed potatoes. just a steady hand. >> real quick. >> thank you very much. >> yes, right there. i have a pastry bag with a tip. so it comes out fancy. if you make it a at home don't want to make it fancy just put it right on top. if you want time press people. >> it is like icing a cake. >> look at that. >> yes. >> that is nice. >> i will eat that whole bag, put that right in my mutt. >> well, thanks very much. >> yes, kill bear's irish pubs well see you on st. patrick's day. >> it is fox furs day, time to get decked out fo

. >> bob says he has some people from ireland. >> we have people right all the way over from irelandment tell me your name, what part of ireland are you from? >> constant, from dublin. >> and your name? >> mary from galway. >> just keep talking, they have that irish accent. >> enough smooching up to the laid ills. we have a dance off to take care. >> irish dance off. we had the best irish dancers here all day long. >> no, no, i have the best. >> no, i have the best irish dancers. >> no, my team. >> the irish school of dancing. >> okay? >> hi, jen ladies first. go ahead ladies first. >> ♪ ♪ >> what do you call that? what's that? >> okay, now you go now you go. >> hold my microphone. >> ♪ ♪ >> okay, you've seen irish dancing, right? >> yes. >> how embarrassing? >> bob kelly? >> oh, no. >> i know, i love it. >> bob is great. he could still and good dancer. >> he could be is the key. >> okay, looks like -- she said the worse dancer she's ever seen. >> oh, no. >> it is so loud in here you can't hear a word we're saying. ♪ ♪ we've been having fun. i'll tell you are we having fun he

and basically brought the story over in ireland, you can go find ton of them there. one in baltimore. >> and you're located where here in filly? >> 1600 arch street. >> does that mean if we drink this it would be useful? sign me up. >> good chance. after this, be running away. >> we won't know the difference. >> so what's the origin of it? >> if there is an old story couple of old stories story i'm telling you bob today is couple of american tourists came over to ireland, flew into shannon airport and it was a cold winter's december morning, and to warm them up having cup of coffee, they said they would the bartender said you know what, throw little whiskey in there just to make you, you know, feel good. >> and then, yes. and then turn into irish coffee. >> love it. >> tell you what, it is a cold march morning. >> yes, it is. >> how about we warm ourselves up little bit? >> let's do it. >> show us thousand goes. >> two free-made ones there. so what do you nut there? >> little irish white can i. >> we have an early -- >> this will warm you up for sure. >> okay. >> and

it looks like ireland for today. and temperatures are warming nicely. we're already at 63 in the tri-valley. 60 on the peninsula. and 60 degrees right here in the south bay. pretty day all across the board. more sunshine than yesterday. 73 degrees is the high for today in the tri-valley. dublin, 67 degrees for san francisco. and right around 74 degrees in the north bay. if you're headed out and about, rapid warming between noon right after this broadcast concloodz, and 4:00 p.m. we'll see the sunshine break through the clouds all across the board. not expecting much cloud cover to finish the day. that means once the temperatures start to drop off when the sun sets they will drop rapidly. the sun will set at 7:18. if you're headed to the city count on big crowds. a block happening in san francisco. a forecast for that in the next report. tell you what else is going on if you want to get out there and enjoy the holiday. but you know what? we have another big event happening when it comes to weather. we're going to kick off spring as we head throughout you

philly is famous for, and, ireland. and we will pick one of her favorites to load up the news van and take the whole crew on st. patrick's day, and broadcast live from one of the pubs that is, select by the list there. welcome back. we are joined by irish stars, parker school of irish dance. we will get down the line here and ask everybody their name and how old they are. >> sandra and i'm 13 years old. >> i'm kara, i'm 13. >> i'm andy, ten years old. >> lucy, i'm ten years old. >> hand, i'm 18 years old. >> i will not ask you your age. >> now, tell us about the will school and you just want some great award recently. >> we are from the lehigh valley. we're here. but yes, our school, we just actually some students got back from our national championships where several of them, won the at award. >> and, looking very nice. >> our nationals was in las vegas this year. >> cool. >> now how many hours a week, and that is to be commended from all of you. >> do you get the day off from school today. >> yes yes yes. >> i have to

patrick is the patron saint of ireland. con, or as the irish call him, "me bae." [ laughter ] there you go. me bae. finally, pro, st. patrick's day means spring is just around the corner. con, so is a puddle of vomit, so be careful where you step. that is the pros and cons. we'll be right back with jennifer garner, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ [acoustic folk guitar] ♪robin hood and little john walkin' through the forest♪ ♪laughin' back and forth at what the other'ne has to say.♪ ♪ ♪reminiscin', this-'n'-thattin', havin' such a good time♪ ♪oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day.♪ ♪ ♪oo-de-lally, oo-de-lally, golly, what a day♪ ♪ and stomachs are growling. or is that just me? it's lobsterfest... ...red lobster's largest variety of lobster dishes all year. double up with dueling lobster tails. or make lobster lover's dream a delicious reality. but hurry this won't last long. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our first guest, oh, we love her. she's a golden globe award-winning ac

the anglican communion, especially the church of ireland. the eastern orthodox church and lutheran church. >> can we get to the question, please? >> and that the day commemorates st. patrick. and it's these sorts of traditions and customs that many would say bring not just irish people but people of all ethnicities, genders, races, and religious backgrounds together. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> so these annual practices -- hundreds upon -- >> thousands. >> -- hundreds. thousands upon thousands. even millions upon millions of young adults. older adults, old people. teenagers, children, toddlers, babies. smaller babies, and even smaller babies. so in keeping with the spirit of these traditions of these observances, to uphold these traditions year after year. so what i want to know is if you remember the significant aspects of the holiday. if we remember the color green's association with the flag used by the irish catholic confederation. if you remember the color's association with the irish nationalism. the phrase "wearing of the green" comes to

ireland is famous. we have lots of them in our area we ask to you go to my fox philly.com, click on the kelly's crawl page and select your favorite irish pub. we will tally the votes. one of your favorite pubs we will show up at your front door for st. patrick's day broadcast in the morning. >> have you noticed there is a certain pub in the lead. >> i have not tallied them yet. >> i like it. >> but you better be ready for us bright and early tuesday morning march 17th. >> bob, i will reward with you a picture of the lingerie mod that he will we found and getting tons of attention. she's a beautiful woman. she looks great in her lingerie. she has interesting phone in the shape of the bear. >> i'm glad you are noticing the phone. >> this 30 year-old is, eight months pregnant. she's being skinny shamed. many followers are wondering how a babe that i farrah long is actually growing in her womb. that los angeles based model says she follows a strict work out routine and diet. she eats chicken, spinach but ad

. >> maybe we'll have a bit of the luck of the irish on the stock market as they celebrate ireland day, the president of ireland and now over at the nasdaq as well a little confetti as business gets under way. >> a live look outside right now your weekend is getting under way within probably about 12 hours or so. today is friday, march the 13th. you are watching "today in the bay." good friday morning. thank you for joining us. i'm sam brock. >> i'm kris sanchez. laura garcia-cannon is off this morning. >>> happening today president obama traveling to phoenix to get an update on the status of va health care. the president gets an update on the status and visit the va facility which was ground zero in the scandal over falsified records of wait times for veterans seeking medical appointments. >> since then the va secretary has taken over and implemented some changes. >> we'll follow that. >>> another american health care worker infected with ebola arrived in the u.s. for treatment within the past couple of hours. overnight the patient was admitted to an isolation unit at the national ins

patrick's day, you know what it is it is a religious celebration along this patron saint of ireland. >> look at you dropping jewels on us this morning. >> emeralds, they are green. >>> don't forget our empire viewing party on wednesday night. >> party kicks off at 7:00 o'clock at miss tootsie escobar and restaurant on south street. you have to be here early because i hear there will be big crowd expected. get a good seat. i hope i can find a good seat to watch empire. do you realize you will not be watching empire because everybody will be talking to you. >> yes, we are watching. >> when you think of mitt romney you think of cuff links, rich guy right. >> politics. >> oh, yeah. >> you think of him in the boxing ring. >> not at all. >> how about this, he is going to take on evander holyfield are you kidding me? this is all to raise money for charity vision, a group that provides medical equipment to the poorest areas of the world. so that is great. they will face off at union pacific depot in salt lake city on may 15th but will they really throw punches. there is no way. >> here's the

great part about this year's celebrations, the hills are actually green, so very reminiscent of dublin, ireland. 78 degrees in the south bay today, 79 degrees in the tri valley and 78 degrees in the north bay. make sure you've got your green out for next tuesday. we might have some grieb out on the radar as we get into next tuesday, expecting some on sunday. more on that in moments. here's mike and your drive. >> also looking for the shamrock shakes, seasonal. the dumbarton bridge look out for this, westbound your commute direction, you don't see a lot of slowing but i did get reports of a disabled delivery truck mid span. slowing toward that, east palo alto side. we'll get more details but so far you're all right across 84 to the peninsula. the south bay shows a little build northbound through san jose, typical for a friday. the rest of the bay slowing for the tri valley and the bay bridge toll plaza right behind me. back to you. >> mike, thank you. >>> a successful outing for will ferrell. >> batting fifth, number 19 at short stop, will ferrell. >> so the actor accomplished his goal of playin

>> if you're in cold ireland, you have to warm up. this is the perfect dish for the job. >> i've silenced you. it's fantastic! i didn't think it was possible. >> and i'll just keep eating. >> come this way. i'll never get a job again. we'll move on to our cupcakes. we have beautiful guinness cupcakes. these are very simple to make. into our melted butter, we have cocoa powder. these come together easily and beautifully. the key ingredient is a little bit of guinness. it gives richness, darkness and a wonderful moistness into the cupcakes as well. >> you're not allowed to say moist -- >> is that a banned word? >> it is. >> we have our lovely mixture. we have sugar and a little bit of baking soda. we have our eggs, sour cream -- all this goes straight in. it's a bit of a dump-and-stir sort of recipe. straight in there with our sour cream. and don't you get that richness? it's lovely. i love that you're helping me, hoda. this is exactly what happened the last time i ran out of time. once you get this batter nicely mixed through you have

they serve the only stout brought in ireland, celtic, and it is down that alley basically. such a cool setting, the the oldest bar in america. >> i walk past but never been inside. >> you have to go inside, just covered in in memorabilia. basically if you go down 13th and take a right, down that alley, that will alley, it is sansom, no off of sansom. alley between sansom and chestnut. >> you know where it is. >> i know exactly where it is. >> cool place. >> between 13th and juniper that is what it is. one of the best movie dance scenes of all time you have to include this grease lightening. >> go grease lightening. >> wait. >> we will reinact this morning. >> pick a movie and you reinact a dance good will do you one. >> i will do one, quincy will do within. >> lets get some of these pictures back from the day. thinks candac e from philly sebastian getting ready for school. >>> and kathy, i love this, olde city's own little irish dapper. what a cute outfit this woman, eva murray, happy birthday her 21st birthday and she watches all the time. >> happy first birthday for this

everything in this pub has been brought in from ireland. even the stone around that pillar. so saint decklen believes to have proceeded st. patrick. he was from ardmore, yes, ardmore in waterford county. look at the food. they made his dishes. the shepherd's a pie. >> i love it. >> hello. >> turkey club, i have been back every day since. that is one of our spots, and here's what i want to you do. go to my fox philly.com, click on the count down to st. patrick's day and tell me your favorite irish pub or restaurant. there is a whole list there. we will pick one of your favorites and take the whole gang and broadcast live, on st. patrick's day. >> sounds good to me. >> that looked good. >> i love shepherd's pie. >> oh, man. >>> a maryland's boy dream came true this week after he got to meet maroon five. >> this is a story about how he was able to make a memory of the lifetime with the band he loves. >> he is ten year-old christopher warner. he has down syndrome. but like many of of us he loves his favorite band. he showed his love for a ban in the special video on you tube. >>