Honk, Honk Stall Out; Buy A Dish, Get a Gun
VELSHI: That looks beautiful! New York City. Sunny, 32 degrees right now. Getting up to -- I need to take my shirt off and bask in Central Park, 46 degrees later on today. That is Central Park you're looking at.</s>ROMANS: It's pretty.</s>CHETRY: And we may get lucky. We may get lucky. We may hit 50 sometime before June.</s>CHETRY: Yes, exactly.</s>ROMANS: Sun is regular --</s>VELSHI: You're talking about getting warmer, getting lucky by getting warmer.</s>CHETRY: Yes.</s>CHETRY: I didn't mean anything else by it, I swear. Meanwhile, how about this one? If you're driving through the streets and have you a Jetta, don't honk, you might stall out. Yes, that's right. Volkswagen is recalling about 71,000 2011 Jettas, right, because of the rising issue? That could cause the car to short-circuit and turn off when drivers honk the horn. Volkswagen is not aware of any accidents or injuries because of the problem.</s>VELSHI: Just a little embarrassment.</s>CHETRY: Probably yes.</s>VELSHI: All right. This may be one of my favorite stories today. Buy a dish, get a gun for free. A RadioShack in Hamilton, Montana, with a promotion that got our attention. If you sign up for two years of the dish network, they give you a gun, for free. You don't actually walk out of the store with a gun. You get a gift certificate to a local gun shop. The store says the promotion has nothing to do with the RadioShack Franchise. It is an independently owned store. The owner says RadioShack is concerned about some negative attention. Guess what? You should be!</s>CHETRY: Yes. They said they didn't realize it was going to go to the national level. So, they said --</s>VELSHI: What part?</s>CHETRY: This is a part they said that were -- they claim, at least the store owner said that the average person in the town has, like, 24 guns, so this would just be adding to the collection.</s>VELSHI: I see how it sounds normal that RadioShack is an international company which, by the way, has a remarkable history of bad judgment, so not a big surprise.</s>ROMANS: Varying cultures and what do you call that --</s>VELSHI: That's fair, but RadioShack has nothing to do with a gun, though.</s>CHETRY: It's a Montana thing.</s>VELSHI: Yes.</s>ROMANS: OK. Ali, set your TV hours. Send out the party invites. Oprah Winfrey has announced when -- Ali was actually a guest on Oprah Winfrey --</s>CHETRY: Wow (ph).</s>ROMANS: He was the guest</s>CHETRY: And can you imagine being able to say to somebody, your grandkids, I was the last guest on Oprah?</s>VELSHI: Maybe they'll invite people to come on, like, to come and just be in the audience. She has an electric personality. OK. How does melting water from the arctic icecaps affect the earth's weather patterns? Coming up next, Philippe Cousteau, grandson of the legendary explorer, Jack Cousteau, joins us live just outside the North Pole where he is conducting scientific experiments. It's 25 minutes after the hour.