-lrb- cnn -rrb- from the giant sequoias of yosemite to the geysers of yellowstone , the united states ' national parks were made for you and me . and for saturday and sunday , they 're also free . though most of the national park service 's 407 sites are free year-round , the 128 parks that charge a fee -- like yellowstone and yosemite -- will be free those two days . it 's all part of national park week , happening april 18 through april 26 , and it 's hosted by the national park service and the national park foundation . check out night-time astronomy parties , daytime revolutionary war programs , earth day parties and family-friendly junior ranger activities at national park sites across the country . not sure how to start ? go to findyourpark.com to learn more about park sites near you . go to www.nationalparkweek.org for more ideas on how to explore . then the park service wants people to share their stories using the hashtag #findyourpark and at findyourpark.com . los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- conan o'brien 's return to tv monday night stuck close to the standard late night talk show format and set , but he could boast one innovation . `` i believe we 're the first talk show that has a view of the ocean , '' o'brien said . `` you can smell the salt air waft in . '' o'brien and announcer-sidekick andy richter demonstrated another new backdrop feature -- an over-sized moon they can move across the sky with a remote control . exclusive : watch conan 's opener . otherwise , the one-hour tbs show has the desk , couch , sidekick , band and a guest promoting a movie familiar to late night audiences for decades . o'brien 's requisite opening monologue made it clear that `` getting fired '' jokes are to conan what divorce jokes were for johnny carson . `` people ask me why i named the show ` conan , ' '' he said . `` i did it so i 'd be harder to replace . '' another chief source of humor for the debut show was his move from the big budget nbc `` tonight show '' on a broadcast network to the frugal world of basic cable . `` i 'm going to be honest , '' o'brien said . `` it 's not easy doing a late-night show on a channel without a lot of money and that viewers have trouble finding . so that 's why i left nbc . '' o'brien parodied his nbc firing in a pre-produced opening segment that included cameos by actor jon hamm on the `` mad men '' set and cnn 's larry king as conan 's guardian angel . o'brien wasted no time assuring team coco fans that despite the change of channel , they would see his trademark onstage antics and characters , including the infamous x-rated bear . the first official guest was arlene wagner , curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum . she was chosen online in what o'brien said was rigged voting . wagner strolled across the stage and out the side door into a studio parking lot , slowing down only to give o'brien a leprechaun nutcracker . second guest seth rogen stayed for a while to talk about his upcoming `` green hornet '' movie . `` i 'm so glad everyone more famous was busy , '' rogen said . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- my taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night . his name is william . he ate whale . melting world : mountainous icebergs in greeland 's sermilik fjord . `` delicious , '' he says , kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand , making the universal sign for good tasting food . william tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale . i 'm not sure how i feel about this . welcome to greenland . on this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting is allowed . this was just the memorable start to an extraordinary journey . cameraman neil bennett and i had traveled to the small town of tasiilaq in southeastern greenland to meet up with the arctic sunrise , a ship belonging to the environmental group greenpeace . read neil 's blog on filming in challenging conditions . the 34-year-old icebreaker and its crew are on a three month expedition around greenland 's coast . they say their mission is to help scientists working in the region and to publicize the environmental changes taking place here . we join the arctic sunrise as it moves slowly up sermilik fjord . this is simply the most beautiful place i 've ever seen . it 's an inky blue body of water thick with floating , ancient ice . some of the icebergs are mountainous . they all come from the greenland ice sheet , a vast mass of frozen fresh water , hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick . view the gallery of the stunning landscape '' over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly . we fly over and land on helheim glacier , a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade . we accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord . all this research , they say , points to sea levels rising beyond current predictions . there are still those who question humankind 's role in the warming of the earth 's climate , but these scientists are not among them . `` things could be very bad , '' glaciologist dr gordon hamilton tells me . `` if we do n't start to do something about it now we 'll very quickly reach a tipping point from which there 'll be no return . and the consequences for society as a whole would be catastrophic . '' joining greenpeace on this expedition was a difficult decision for cnn . does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue ? in my experience it 's no different to embedding with soldiers on one side of a military conflict . i 've traveled with american soldiers in iraq and russian soldiers in georgia . it enables journalists to access newsworthy locations and people that we could n't get to otherwise , either practically or safely . and the stories told can still be balanced and fair . traveling with greenpeace allowed us to record powerful images of greenland 's accelerating melt . and we met independent scientists who believe the world must act boldly to slow down change that science is struggling to keep pace with . ireport : what did you think of conan 's debut ? after interviewing `` glee '' star lea michele , conan strapped on a guitar to jam with music guest jack white and the house band -- `` jimmy vivino and the basic cable band . '' the debut show ended with conan promoting `` lopez tonight , '' which moved to midnight to make way for his 11 p.m. show . janet jackson was on with george lopez monday night . conan o'brien 's tuesday night guest will be tom hanks .
it 's national park week , and that means the parks are free april 18-19 . stargazing , revolutionary war programs and other fun happens this week .
-lrb- cnn -rrb- from the giant sequoias of yosemite to the geysers of yellowstone , the united states ' national parks were made for you and me . and for saturday and sunday , they 're also free . though most of the national park service 's 407 sites are free year-round , the 128 parks that charge a fee -- like yellowstone and yosemite -- will be free those two days . it 's all part of national park week , happening april 18 through april 26 , and it 's hosted by the national park service and the national park foundation . check out night-time astronomy parties , daytime revolutionary war programs , earth day parties and family-friendly junior ranger activities at national park sites across the country . not sure how to start ? go to findyourpark.com to learn more about park sites near you . go to www.nationalparkweek.org for more ideas on how to explore . then the park service wants people to share their stories using the hashtag #findyourpark and at findyourpark.com . los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- conan o'brien 's return to tv monday night stuck close to the standard late night talk show format and set , but he could boast one innovation . `` i believe we 're the first talk show that has a view of the ocean , '' o'brien said . `` you can smell the salt air waft in . '' o'brien and announcer-sidekick andy richter demonstrated another new backdrop feature wagner , curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum . she was chosen online in what o'brien said was rigged voting . wagner strolled across the stage and out the side door into a studio parking lot , slowing down only to give o'brien a leprechaun nutcracker . second guest seth rogen stayed for a while to talk about his upcoming `` green hornet '' movie . `` i 'm so glad everyone more famous was busy , '' rogen said . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- my taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night . his name is william . he ate whale . melting world : mountainous icebergs in greeland 's sermilik fjord . `` delicious , '' he says , kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand , making the universal sign for good tasting food . william tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale . i 'm not sure how i feel about this . welcome to greenland . on this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting is allowed . this was just the memorable start to an extraordinary journey . cameraman neil bennett and i had traveled to the small town of tasiilaq in southeastern greenland to meet up with the arctic sunrise , a ship belonging to the environmental group greenpeace . read neil 's blog on filming in challenging conditions . the 34-year-old icebreaker and its crew are on a three month expedition around greenland 's coast . they say their mission is to help scientists working in the region and to publicize the environmental changes taking place here . we join the arctic sunrise as it moves slowly up sermilik fjord . this is simply the most beautiful place i 've ever seen . it 's an inky blue body of water thick with floating , ancient ice . some of the icebergs are mountainous . they all come from the greenland ice sheet , a vast mass of frozen fresh water , hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick . view the gallery of the stunning landscape '' over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly . we fly over and land on helheim glacier , a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade . we accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord . all this research , they say , points to sea levels rising beyond current predictions . there are still those who question humankind 's role in the warming of the earth 's climate , but these scientists are not among them . `` things could be very bad , '' glaciologist dr gordon hamilton tells me . `` if we do n't start to do something about it now we 'll very quickly reach a tipping point from which there 'll be no return . and the consequences for society as a whole would be catastrophic . '' joining greenpeace on this expedition was a difficult decision for cnn . does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue ? in my experience it 's no different to embedding with soldiers on one side of a military conflict . i 've traveled with american soldiers in iraq and russian soldiers in georgia . it enables journalists to access newsworthy locations and people that we could n't get to otherwise , either practically or safely . and the stories told can still be balanced and fair . traveling with greenpeace allowed us to record powerful images of greenland 's accelerating melt . and we met independent scientists who believe the world must act boldly to slow down change that science is struggling to keep pace with . ireport : what did you think of conan 's debut ? after interviewing `` glee '' star lea michele , conan strapped on a guitar to jam with music guest jack white and the house band -- `` jimmy vivino and the basic cable band . '' the debut show ended with conan promoting `` lopez tonight , '' which moved to midnight to make way for his 11 p.m. show . janet jackson was on with george lopez monday night . conan o'brien 's tuesday night guest will be tom hanks .
-lrb- cnn -rrb- from the giant sequoias of yosemite to the geysers of yellowstone , the united states ' national parks were made for you and me . and for saturday and sunday , they 're also free . though most of the national park service 's 407 sites are free year-round , the 128 parks that charge a fee -- like yellowstone and yosemite -- will be free those two days . it 's all part of national park week , happening april 18 through april 26 , and it 's hosted by the national park service and the national park foundation . check out night-time astronomy parties , daytime revolutionary war programs , earth day parties and family-friendly junior ranger activities at national park sites across the country . not sure how to start ? go to findyourpark.com to learn more about park sites near you . go to www.nationalparkweek.org for more ideas on how to explore . then the park service wants people to share their stories using the hashtag #findyourpark and at findyourpark.com . los angeles , california -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- conan o'brien 's return to tv monday night stuck close to the standard late night talk show format and set , but he could boast one innovation . `` i believe we 're the first talk show that has a view of the ocean , '' o'brien said . `` you can smell the salt air waft in . '' o'brien and announcer-sidekick andy richter demonstrated another new backdrop feature wagner , curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum . she was chosen online in what o'brien said was rigged voting . wagner strolled across the stage and out the side door into a studio parking lot , slowing down only to give o'brien a leprechaun nutcracker . second guest seth rogen stayed for a while to talk about his upcoming `` green hornet '' movie . `` i 'm so glad everyone more famous was busy , '' rogen said . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- my taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night . his name is william . he ate whale . melting world : mountainous icebergs in greeland 's sermilik fjord . `` delicious , '' he says , kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand , making the universal sign for good tasting food . william tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale . i 'm not sure how i feel about this . welcome to greenland . on this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting is allowed . this was just the memorable start to an extraordinary journey . cameraman neil bennett and i had traveled to the small town of tasiilaq in southeastern greenland to meet up with the arctic sunrise , a ship belonging to the environmental group greenpeace . read neil 's blog on filming in challenging conditions . the 34-year-old icebreaker and its crew are on a three month expedition around greenland 's coast . they say their mission is to help scientists working in the region and to publicize the environmental changes taking place here . we join the arctic sunrise as it moves slowly up sermilik fjord . this is simply the most beautiful place i 've ever seen . it 's an inky blue body of water thick with floating , ancient ice . some of the icebergs are mountainous . they all come from the greenland ice sheet , a vast mass of frozen fresh water , hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick . view the gallery of the stunning landscape '' over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly . we fly over and land on helheim glacier , a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade . we accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord . all this research , they say , points to sea levels rising beyond current predictions . there are still those who question humankind 's role in the warming of the earth 's climate , but these scientists are not among them . `` things could be very bad , '' glaciologist dr gordon hamilton tells me . `` if we do n't start to do something about it now we 'll very quickly reach a tipping point from which there 'll be no return . and the consequences for society as a whole would be catastrophic . '' joining greenpeace on this expedition was a difficult decision for cnn . does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue ? in my experience it 's no different to embedding with soldiers on one side of a military conflict . i 've traveled with american soldiers in iraq and russian soldiers in georgia . it enables journalists to access newsworthy locations and people that we could n't get to otherwise , either practically or safely . and the stories told can still be balanced and fair . traveling with greenpeace allowed us to record powerful images of greenland 's accelerating melt . and we met independent scientists who believe the world must act boldly to slow down change that science is struggling to keep pace with . ireport : what did you think of conan 's debut ? after interviewing `` glee '' star lea michele , conan strapped on a guitar to jam with music guest jack white and the house band -- `` jimmy vivino and the basic cable band . '' the debut show ended with conan promoting `` lopez tonight , '' which moved to midnight to make way for his 11 p.m. show . janet jackson was on with george lopez monday night . conan o'brien 's tuesday night guest will be tom hanks .
-lrb- cnn from the giant sequoias yosemite yellowstone, the united states ' national parks were made you and for saturday and, they 're also free. though most the national park service 's 407 sites free year, the 128 parks charge -- like yellowstone yosemite those two. it 's all part national park week, happening april 18 through 26 hosted check night-time astronomy parties, daytime revolutionary war programs earth day parties family-friendly junior ranger activities at national park sites across not sure start? go findyourpark.com to learn park sites near. go www.nationalparkweek.org more ideas explore. then the park service wants people share using at. los angeles, california -lrb- cnn -- conan o'brien 's return tv monday stuck close the standard late night talk show format and set, but he could boast one innovation. `` i believe 're the first talk show a view the ocean, '' o'brien. `` you smell the salt air waft in. '' o'brien and announcer-sidekick andy richter demonstrated another new backdrop feature -- an over-sized moon they can move. exclusive : watch conan 's opener. otherwise, the one-hour tbs show has the desk, couch sidekick band and a guest promoting familiar late night audiences for o'brien 's requisite opening monologue made `` getting fired '' jokes to conan what divorce jokes johnny carson `` people ask i named the show ` conan, ' '' he. `` i did so 'd harder replace. '' another chief source humor the debut show was his move the big budget nbc `` tonight show on a broadcast network the frugal world basic cable. `` i 'm honest, '' o'brien said. `` it 's easy doing a channel without that viewers trouble. so that 's why left nbc. '' o'brien parodied his nbc firing a pre-produced opening segment that cameos actor jon hamm on the `` mad men set cnn 's larry king as conan 's guardian angel. o'brien wasted assuring team coco fans despite the change channel, see his trademark onstage antics characters, the infamous x-rated bear. the first official guest was arlene wagner curator the leavenworth nutcracker museum. she chosen online in what o'brien rigged voting. wagner strolled across out, slowing only give o'brien a leprechaun nutcracker second guest seth rogen stayed his upcoming `` green hornet '' movie. `` i 'm so everyone more famous was busy, '' rogen said. -lrb- cnn -- my taxi driver telling about his meal last. his name william. he ate whale. melting world : mountainous icebergs in greeland 's sermilik. `` delicious, '', kissing the tips, making the universal sign good tasting food william tells went a shot the whale. i '. welcome greenland. on this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting allowed. this just the memorable start an extraordinary journey. cameraman neil bennett and i had traveled tasiilaq southeastern greenland the arctic sunrise, ship belonging the environmental group greenpeace read neil 's blog on filming challenging conditions. the 34-year-old icebreaker and on around greenland 's coast. they say their mission scientists working the region publicize the environmental changes taking here. we join the arctic sunrise it moves slowly sermilik fjord. this simply '. it 's an inky blue body thick floating, ancient ice. some the icebergs mountainous. they all come the greenland ice sheet, a vast mass frozen fresh water, hundreds up two view the gallery the stunning landscape '' over we observe independent scientists why so. we fly over and land helheim glacier, a major outlet which sped dramatically. we accompany oceanographers inflatable boats as collect the warming water currents. all this research, they say points sea levels beyond current predictions there still those question humankind 's role the warming, these scientists among `` things could very, '' glaciologist dr gordon hamilton tells. `` if do n't start now 'll very reach from there. and the consequences society would. '' joining greenpeace on this expedition cnn. does compromise our editorial independence on what can still? in my experience 's no embedding with soldiers a military conflict. i 've traveled with american soldiers iraq russian soldiers. it enables journalists access newsworthy locations people that we could n't otherwise, either practically safely and the stories told can still balanced fair. traveling greenpeace allowed record powerful images greenland 's accelerating melt. and we met independent scientists believe must act boldly slow change that science struggling keep. ireport : what did conan 's debut? after interviewing `` glee '' star lea michele conan strapped a guitar jam music guest jack white the house band -- jimmy vivino the basic cable band. '' the debut show ended conan promoting lopez tonight, which moved midnight to make. janet jackson was on with george lopez monday. conan o'brien 's tuesday night guest will tom hanks
wagner , curator of the leavenworth nutcracker museum . she was chosen online in what o'brien said was rigged voting . wagner strolled across the stage and out the side door into a studio parking lot , slowing down only to give o'brien a leprechaun nutcracker . second guest seth rogen stayed for a while to talk about his upcoming `` green hornet '' movie . `` i 'm so glad everyone more famous was busy , '' rogen said . -lrb- cnn -rrb- -- my taxi driver is telling me about his meal last night . his name is william . he ate whale . melting world : mountainous icebergs in greeland 's sermilik fjord . `` delicious , '' he says , kissing the tips of his fingers on one hand , making the universal sign for good tasting food . william tells me he went out on a boat with some friends a few days ago and shot the whale . i 'm not sure how i feel about this . welcome to greenland . on this remote but enormous island subsistence whale hunting is allowed . this was just the memorable start to an extraordinary journey . cameraman neil bennett and i had traveled to the small town of tasiilaq in southeastern greenland to meet up with the arctic sunrise , a ship belonging to the environmental group greenpeace . read neil 's blog on filming in challenging conditions . the 34-year-old icebreaker and its crew are on a three month expedition around greenland 's coast . they say their mission is to help scientists working in the region and to publicize the environmental changes taking place here . we join the arctic sunrise as it moves slowly up sermilik fjord . this is simply the most beautiful place i 've ever seen . it 's an inky blue body of water thick with floating , ancient ice . some of the icebergs are mountainous . they all come from the greenland ice sheet , a vast mass of frozen fresh water , hundreds of miles across and up to two miles thick . view the gallery of the stunning landscape '' over the next four days we observe independent scientists working to understand why the ice sheet is melting so rapidly . we fly over and land on helheim glacier , a major outlet for the ice sheet which has sped up dramatically in the last decade . we accompany oceanographers in inflatable boats as they collect data on the warming water currents in the fjord . all this research , they say , points to sea levels rising beyond current predictions . there are still those who question humankind 's role in the warming of the earth 's climate , but these scientists are not among them . `` things could be very bad , '' glaciologist dr gordon hamilton tells me . `` if we do n't start to do something about it now we 'll very quickly reach a tipping point from which there 'll be no return . and the consequences for society as a whole would be catastrophic . '' joining greenpeace on this expedition was a difficult decision for cnn . does it compromise our editorial independence on what can still be a highly divisive issue ? in my experience it 's no different to embedding with soldiers on one side of a military conflict . i 've traveled with american soldiers in iraq and russian soldiers in georgia . it enables journalists to access newsworthy locations and people that we could n't get to otherwise , either practically or safely . and the stories told can still be balanced and fair . traveling with greenpeace allowed us to record powerful images of greenland 's accelerating melt . and we met independent scientists who believe the world must act boldly to slow down change that science is struggling to keep pace with . ireport : what did you think of conan 's debut ? after interviewing `` glee '' star lea michele , conan strapped on a guitar to jam with music guest jack white and the house band -- `` jimmy vivino and the basic cable band . '' the debut show ended with conan promoting `` lopez tonight , '' which moved to midnight to make way for his 11 p.m. show . janet jackson was on with george lopez monday night . conan o'brien 's tuesday night guest will be tom hanks .
 The text describes William Wagner, a curator at the Leavenworth Nutcracker Museum, who is passionate about his work and has traveled extensively to learn more about nutcrackers. He has curated an exhibit featuring over 5,000 nutcrackers from around the world. The exhibit showcases the diversity of nutcrackers and highlights their importance in different cultures. Wagner's enthusiasm for nutcrackers is contagious, and he hopes to inspire others to appreciate these often-overlooked objects.