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end of the week. the transportation secretary says you have nothing to worry about when you fly. i'll be speaking to him later on "american morning." president obama turns 50 today. he qualifies for a free scoop at baskin-robbins. and he got a surprise in chicago ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ happy birthday -- >> jennifer hudson much better singer than rahm emanuel. 26 seconds of the president's comedic stylings. >> it's true, that i turn 50 tomorrow. which means by the time i wake up i'll have an e-mail from aarp. asking me to call president obama and t...

this is not confirmed, it's not a confirmed sighting as of now, but instead authorities are acting on what eyewitness accounts have directed them on. we have kelsey hiter who's on the phone with us, she was the managing editor of collegiate times at virginia tech. so kelsey, what more can you tell us about what is believed to have taken place on campus. >> i'm on the south end of campus closest to our main sbras on our main road over here, there's a lot of cop cars here, i haven't heard any sirens there,'s no reports of an actual gunshot sound. we are on an official lockdown, doors a...

we begin with up in the air. president obama turned up the heat on house speaker john boehner yesterday over a partisan standoff that's caused a partial shutdown of the faa and thousands of americans out of work while congress is on vacation. nbc's tracie potts joining us from washington with the details. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. the president's message to boehner was that congress need it is to cut short that vacation, come back to washington and deal with the situation that has left 74,000 workers most of them airport construction workers without a ...

at least one person has died, dozens more have been sickened by eating the tainted turkey sold under various labels. jay dow is in washington with more. jay, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, terrell. cargill is one of the nation's biggest meat processors and says it first began looking into possible salmonella contamination at one of its plants five months ago. that internal investigation led to what's being called as you said one of the largest meat recalls ever. grocery stores nationwide are pulling millions of pounds of possibly tainted ground turkey off store shelves....

captions paid for by nbc-universal television right about now the anger of the american people toward their elected representatives in washington is at a modern day high. in a down economy, people don't see the debate we have all witnessed as relevant to their lives. we just watched congress finish their business on the debt ceiling increase, heaving a sigh of relief, but as we have been reporting, they left washington without resolving in a standoff that resulted in thousands of american workers being thrown off the job. this has to do with the faa, the folks in charge of our air tr...