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In the northern great lakes. you could have scattered showers any time. the other significant weather event is in texas where we desperately need the rainfall, youre going to get it this weekend. hopefully it wont rain out too many fall plans. were watching that rain developing today and as we go into tonight and saturday. how much rain are we talking about? the most significant rains are to the south. looks like san antonio, houston, southward down through brownsville area and then by saturday,...

She is not just a republican, young and dynamic. she is brilliant. you cant bully her intellectually. this is how they have to do it, the lowest, most hateful form of bullying, because theyre not going to get her on brain power. the real deal. >> bob: who is they? one crazy person sends her racist material. i get thousands of those. >> kimberly: yours are well-deserved. lets see, the democratic -- >> andrea: black female. im sure we have jesse jackson and al sharpton protesting outside. its diff...

The question whether bebe netanyahu will try to placate the administration or set a clear, distinctive israeli line of his own. jenna: well watch for that. as always thank you for your insights. we appreciate it. well await the speech as well. thank you. >> thanks. jon: right now we are awaiting a news conference from the head of the nfl, roger goodell, the commissioner. he will be signaling touchdown when it comes to negotiations with the league referees. they have been locked out as you know o...

They didnt want to change their pension plans to 401(k). ill just imagine what the prompter looks like because they refuse to roll. the union has reached a tentative deal and will be back on the field tonight. our reporter has more from outside penn station. no rain? >> no rain, brian. look what im doing. im tebowing. >> brian: youre not happy. >> there are a lot of people tebowing this morning. let me tell you whats going on, this agreement was reached right around midnight our time right here ...

>> thank you for joining us. i have got to believe the call in seattle ruined the game for the packers that expedited the deal, did it not? >> it sure did. think about this for a second. this has been going on between the referees and the league since june or july. it took three days to bridge a gap between the owners and the referees and the commissioner and the referees that couldnt be bridged going back to june or july. in my eyes, thats embarrassment for the league and the commissioner and f...

Officials. thats the wrong thing to look at. its kind of obvious. people watch football games now, theyre saying, how many bad calls are the officials going to make? thats the problem right now. >> reporter: the nfl says there will be regular refs back on the field for browns/ravens game and sunday the rest of the refs will also take the field. and now, they will no longer be taken for granted. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> music to the ears of many football fans out there. joining us live ...

Directly but people have 401(k)s, increasingly, and like the nfl referees are going to have at some point along the way here, and that affects them directly. what it doesnt often get mentioned is how extraordinary the performance of the stock market has been during president obamas tenure. its more than doubled and its up about 14%, just this year so far. and so if you have some of your money in 401(k)s, in a mutual fund, you feel better. you feel wealthier, youre willing to spend. consumer spen...

And even briefly united president obama and republican v.p. candidate paul ryan. >> give me a break. >> reporter: it appears to be what finally brought the powerful nfl owners and referees union to this deal arrived at after a marathon negotiating session. the refs had been locked out since june in a dispute over both compensation and the power to bench bad referees. but the replacement refs brought in by the league, including one guy who had previously been fired by the women only lingerie foot...

Years, they get to keep their pensions. that was a big battle for them. and you can start asking the question -- what do the owners and commissioners really gain by making their league, you know, the butt of many jokes for the past several weeks. >> jason, as far as you can tell right now what was the main sticking point in terms of why the lockout began in the first place? we heard issues about obviously compensation, ability to bench the bad refs, what was the number one issue and how did they...

Around midnight and a lot of the people are talking about it. and you know what, monday night debacle if you will and arguably the worst call in nfl history that sped up the talk. and so midnight tuesday night, continued over to wednesday night and then the agreement reached around midnight or early thursday morning some of the terms of it one of the things they couldnt find agreement on but since have. are the pension plans and retirement benefits and salaries. that was another consideration . ...