and then there is the $1 million moment. i dabbled into witchcraft. i never joined a coven. she turned him into a newt! and there s hong kong animated news about her, and yes, that is her talking the kid out of choking a chicken. and mice brain video has been found. mice with fully functioning human brains. so after her, what s next for the tea party? repealing laws protecting gays and ending separation of church and state, what else? the bush recession, it ended june 2009, say economists. not really much comfort at this president s economic town hall today. i need you to the help us understand how you can regain the political center, because you re losing the war of sound bites. you re losing the media cycles. it s lady gaga versus mr. magoo over don t ask, don t tell. i m calling to ask the senator to vote with senators harry reid and carl levin to repeal don t ask, don t tell and oppose john mccain s shameless filibuster. and rudy giuliani goes to the most unfortunately named campaign venue of the year. all the news and commentary now on countdown ! gosh, you think we d learn. good evening from new york. last week to the values voters summit, she compared tea partiers to the followers of a character from the chronicles of narnia, the lion. and her next news story will about the wardrobe. in our fifth story, or maybe we re talking about the narnia sequel, the silver chair, and how christine o donnell improperly paid for it with campaign funds. the nonpartisan government ethics watchdog group this afternoon filing a complaint with the delaware attorney s office and the federal election commission. crew submitting as evidence the sworn affidavit of keegan. keegan, the second former o donnell campaign official to say so, alleging that she used campaign cash to pay her rent, as gas money, to pay for food, and for a bowling outing. crew was asking for an immediate criminal inquiry and a full audit from the fec. quote, christine donnell is clearly a criminal and like any crook, she should be prosecuted. meanwhile, the democratic senatorial candidate does not name its own candidate, chris coons, instead, they focus on what is considered to be o donnell s flawed fiscal resume. o donnell spends money she doesn t have, hires employees she didn t pay, stiffed businesses, didn t pay her taxes. one of christine o donnell s former employees summed it up. we were constantly trying to hold her back from spending. she was financially completely irresponsible. and of course, you may have heard something about this witchcraft, witch/satan stuff or the witchy leaks. never more neatly summarized when bob schieffer had to explain o donnell had canceled. we re going to play that tape in which she said she once dabbled in witchcraft. i m serious. that, of course, hbo s program, realtime. its host, bill maher, revealed the existence of the host. in october of 1999, as the leader of the anti-masturbation group, o donnell made an appearance on politically incorrect and revealed an experiment that even shocked co-panelist, jamie kennedy. i dabbled into witchcraft, i never joined a coven. wait a minute, wait a minute. you were a witch? i didn t join a coven. you used to be a witch? i dabbled into witchcraft. i hung around people who were doing these things. having fun? i m not making this stuff up. i know what they told me they do. what do they do? in one of my dates wait, wait, wait. i want to hear about this. one of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic alter and i didn t know it. there was a little blood there. your first date was a satanic alter? we went to a movie and had a little midnight picnic on a satanic alter. are you now or have you ever been a witch? mr. march says there s more where that came from. as for o donnell, after the clip aired wab scheduling conflict popped up and she was forced to cancel her sunday appearance on face the nation on cbs. the candidate was so exhausted, she couldn t even speak through fox news sunday, or something. late friday night, her campaign canceled. saying o donnell was exhausted and had to return to delaware. saturday morning, o donnell called me and said this. i got triple booked. i had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. i have to keep my priorities to delaware voters. national tv, picnic? picnic, national tv? so with no guest, fox news went in house. karl rove addressed the witch problem instead. in southern delaware, where there are a lot of church-going people, they re probably going to want to know, what was that all about? my view is, she can t simply ignore it. she s got to deal with it and explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on. sarah palin also tweeting in to help o donnell. see o donnell s strategy, times limited, use it to connect with local voters whom you ll be serving vs appeasing nat l media. maybe you ll remember this sermon. in the name of jesus, in the name of jesus, every form of witchcraft, in the name of jesus. and somewhere christine o donnell got a hangnail. back on sunday, it was o donnell s turn to rebuke every form of witchcraft herself. the candidate gave her excuse for dabbling. that witchcraft comment on bill maher, i was in high school! how many of you didn t hang out with questionable folks in high school? but, no, there s been no witchcraft since. if there was, karl rove would be a supporter now. so let s put that to rest. we all hung out with questionable witches in high school. what will not rest are the other comments and tapes of comments that have come to light. gregg sergeant pointing out her views on homosexuality in 2006. from the wilmington news journal, she said, people are created in god s image. homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. it s an identity disorder. and then there s the trouble with being a cable news pundit. they keep tapes of this stuff, you know. even this stuff, behold. a 2002 episode of donahue on msnbc. the salt is a christian organization, but i m biting my tongue. tell us what you want us to know. first of all, the abortion lobby and the gay rights lobby had a much greater influence over bill clinton than any conservatives have over bush yet critics weren t whining when whining about presidents catering to a base when the base was the @istic left, but when it doesn t meet their agenda, they do. second of all, about president bush s stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from aids. the centers for disease control have the opposite opinion, and of course, facts with which to back it up. finally, what once seemed so bizarre but now is almost an afterthought here, the missing tape of the o donnell statement then had been considered the most ludicrous to date. scientists having created mice with fully functioning human brains. someone has released a bootleg version of the tape, the o riley factor doesn t want you to see. they are doing that here in the united states. american scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. and guess who gets to follow that? alex wagner, the white house correspondent for politics daily. good to see you. good to see you too, keith. we ll start with the serious part about this. the ethics allegations made by crew. are they, indeed, serious and could they have anything to do with what we see in november? i think they re very serious. i think the timing on them is a little irrelevant. we re not going to see christine o donnell behind bars before november 2nd. but it says in plain language, christine o donnell is clearly a criminal. they call her crook, an embezzler. these are not things you want said about you six weeks before an election. you ve got crew, the democratic senatorial committee, karl rove, and now two members of her old campaign staff going after her on the subject of finances. how do voters even in the tea party era or year whistle past that graveyard? it s a fairly large tombstone. you know, we know from polling and well, if you ve been under a rock, then you don t know this, but the economy is the number one issue for voters going into this election season. the president spent hours today doing a town hall and talking about the economy. for a candidate who, at best, has had reckless spending in her history, who s never had held a steady job and who s financial record is spotty, i think these are this is dubious, for voters who care about the economy and who care about financial responsibility, i m not quite sure christine o donnell is their candidate. but given how willing people are to forgive when they want the candidate to be a success the sure. vitter, john ensign, whoever you want to name, anybody on the right, particularly, where it s like, oh, you don t do that anymore, we ll take your word for it. if she was just saying, i was doing what we all need to do in this economic crisis. creative means. pull yourself up by your britches kind of somebody would fall for that. well, i think crew is seizing this moment and say, it can t just be about the battle of rhetoric. we re going to bring justice into the equation. we re going to bring in an actual we re going to mount evidence, we have signed affidavits from former campaign staff. those are actual facts i mean, a criminal record is a very serious allegation. does she need the state gop at this point after the chairman now said that they ve endorsed her whether i like it or not with and jim demint s pac is going to say they re going to give her $250,000 to spend in delaware. has she circumrouted them and does that say something to all the republican state committees, like, you can be hijacked by the tea party, whether you like it or not? absolutely. but i think, you know, i don t know that she needs the money from the state gop, but i think she needs the veneer of acceptance. and i think, you know, that s the gop is kind of coming around to this slowly but surely, karl rove even gave her a donation and an endorsement. i think it s sort of, fall in line, gop, because we have to get behind her. okay, the witchcraft stuff. glenn beck called this admission creepy, and that s a man who knows his creepy. does this actually do any damage to her, or is rove wrong again? and once again, the forgiveness factor on the right, if you say, i m a recovering witchaholic, do they say, well, there s no zealot like a convert? well, halloween is coming up. it s sweet timing. look, i think sarah palin, as you showed, had dabbled in pentecostalism. so did john ashcroft. we ve had fringe religions in terms of candidates practicing them, but going on a first date to satanic alter with blood is definitely out there. this is a the tea party has a very solid christian base and we ll see if they accept, you know, wiccan practices. halloween could be one giant gift in kind if everyone dresses up as a witch. but even the wiches today are upset with o donnell, because they say they don t believe in satan. there would have been no blood on any alter connected with any real witch. she even got the witch stuff wrong? if she loses the witches, she s going to be dependent on the wizards. and as we all know, wizards don t show up at the polls in midterm elections. or at playoff times. alex wagner, the white house correspondent for politics daily, great thanks for bearing with us through all this. of course, christine o donnell s final seal of approval or something could only come from one place. apple daily animated news. the newspapers are in hong kong, the computers are in taiwan. warning, the following animation shows simulated scenes of simulated chickens being simulated choked. keep choking that chicken. having already counted their chickens, the kingmakers behind the nomination of miss o donnell and the other unspectacularly unqualified tea party candidates are moving on to their next conquest, like making homosexuality unconstitutional. in phillips colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. .and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that s the best part. i love your work. 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in our fourth story tonight, the pillars of gop moderation came out tonight against the tea partization of the gop, but as always, not in any way that might actually do something about it. senator jim demint, who helped both o donnell and fellow tea partier jim miller of alaska help upset mainstream members of congress in this year s primaries took his victory lap on cnn yesterday, and pointing out, correctly, that his party ran up the deficit the last time they were in power, he reiterated his decision that he would rather have a tea party minority in congress than the republican majority made up of mainstream republicans, like, you know, him. will you take any responsibility if the republicans don t take control of the senate? if, for instance, they should lose in delaware, someone you backed? i ll tell you this, the only reason we have a chance at a majority now is a large part for the candidates i ve been supporting. if the republican party in the senate was now characterized by arlen specter and charlie crist, we would not have the energy behind our candidates anywhere in the country. mr. bush s former political adviser, mr. rove, however, added to speculation that o donnell s primary win could cost the gop that seat in november by adding that in the case of alaska, demint s support of miller s victory over incumbent senator lisa murkowski has led murkowski to launch her write-in campaign which could, in turn, split republican voters, and thereby benefit the democrats. of course, some tea partiers want more than just tax cuts. they want right-wing victories on social issues as well. senator judd gregg telling the new york times that launching into social issues, quote, will be overplaying our hand. cue overplaying the hand. congressman joseph pitts telling the newspaper the hill, gop leaders have assured him abortion will be part of the republican wish list to be released later this month. social conservatives are pushing for anti-gay measures as well and more government endorsement of christian ty. let s bring in msnbc contributor, dave weigel, also political reporter for slate.com. dave, good evening. good evening. senator demint claims the energy that his candidates are going to bring will make up for whatever support they lose from the moderates and the independents. is there any evidence for or against that yet? well, you just presented some of the evidence against that. the thing that irritates some people about what demint s doing, and let s give him some credit, i mean, flip the script. how much happier how unhappy are democrats with joe lieberman? how unhappy would republicans be with a senator mike castle? the problem republicans have with demint is, they don t know how much research he put into these candidates and these states and these races before jumping in. in delaware, i know that he talked to christine o donnell a couple of times, but, you know, he didn t seem to understand or care about the reality on the ground there. and that s happened with the tea party express and demint, palin to a lesser extent have kind of dive-bombed into states without much regard for what voters there might actually want to elect. that s why some of these tea party candidates are doing well, but they re doing worse than the moderates they beat were doing. alaska s a great example. to that point, susan collins of maine told the times, it is a new and shocking development to have a member of our conference, and she means senator demint, opposing incumbent republicans. is it, in fact, shocking at this point, or is it mostly shocking to her, because now it might be hitting close to home? the shock should have come in may, when bob bennett went down to utah. that wasn t a secret. and that was a safer situation, though. republicans like her were not quite as worried about utah, because that didn t endanger their risk of taking the senate. someone like olympia snowe, someone like susan collins stand some chance of power in the new senate and they re going to lose it if delaware goes or alaska goes to murkowski and she caucuses the wrong away or if it goes to crist and he caucuses the wrong way. and it is unusual. i mean, democrats may be have a little bit for all their messiness, have a little bit more ideological discipline. the dnc spent a lot of money propping up ben nelson during the health care debate. they don t want to eat their young. they re going to spend a lot of money defending blue dog democrats. i think she s shocked at the way the republican party has shifted in the past few years, because she came out you know, she was elected, snowe, in the 94 sweep. she was elected as one of these candidates in that year that republicans thought they had to nominate to have a chance. she s not used to this new reality where you need to check out ten points on a list to be credible to these voters. what happens, both to him, and more generally to that side of the political football if senator demint is proved wrong? what if the tea party candidates, at least to a majority, take a shellacking in november? well, it doesn t look likely right now and they re riding on a big wave of optimism. ralph reid has tended to jump into the tea party movement. his organization, the faith and freedom coalition, maybe he s being optimistic, but he points out what demint points out. you get more excited voters, you re able to expand, possibly, the base of people who turn out. so as far as they re concerned, they might end up winning with all these people. the question is, what happens in the senate if they end up winning? if there s a slight democratic majority or a slight republican majority and really rock-solid republicans who don t want to compromise on anything, the senate s not really built for that. i mean, democrats discovered that. a 59-seat senate majority is not enough to get simple nominations through. and the country doesn t quite get that. i mean, some of these tea party candidates who would otherwise be losing are going to be elected by voters who just wish washington would work better. they want people to come to the table. they want stuff done. that s not what these ideological candidates are doing. i mean, it s blowing up the way the senate works in a really unprecedented way. yeah, but then again, tea party senators would work with the opposition, republican senators. dave weigel, msnbc contributor, also slate.com, of course, great thanks, dave. thank you. the president and the public on the economy and the aftermath of good economic news that does not immediately help anybody. and nice name for that campaign stop, rudy giuliani. there s no deposit slips or envelopes. you just take the check and psshht right in there. now chase atms take the worry out of making a deposit. so that s it? 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is the american dream dead for me? let s turn to msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe, and author of renegade: the making of a president. good evening. how do you run a political campaign in a country that seems to be polarized between, for god s sakes, stop, and for god s sakes, get going? that s a good question. and one thing you hear is, not just how tough the recession was, but how hard it can be to run politics after a recession. ask the first president bush, ask president clinton in the first few years of his term. it s the memory of the pain is so real that people don t see what s happened to the economy, how far it s traveled. what you have to do, in the start of your question, is how do you campaign not how do you govern in that situation. and there s a scenario that many of obama s supporters won t want to think about, but it is vel relevant here. but in 2004 president bush was faced with a very big decision. what did he do, he demonized the other side. he made john kerry absolutely incompatible with the american dream, the american spirit. he was unacceptable as an alternative and that s where some democrats are taking this midterm election now, saying the other side is totally unacceptable, even if you re unhappy with what you ve got right now. the president s own answer about his accomplishment, it amounted to, as it amounted to more than a year, i protected you from things that did not happen. this is something akin to someone walking away saying he keeps the tigers away and you should keep him on the job doing so. that approach works. ask president bush how he protected you from things that didn t happen. but even if he does keep the tigers away, if most americans never saw the tiger in the jungle or don t believe there was a tiger, how do you make that pitch? well, i think people actually saw the tigers. these weren t fake tigers, okay? these are real people who really lost their jobs. and i bet you that most of the people watching the show tonight will know of people who are unemployed, who have struggled between jobs, who cannot find work right now. so this is a real lived problem. it s not fake. it s not some threat that you never see. and what the administration hasn t done and what it likes to think it has done is tell the stories of the people who have been saved. and part of the problem is there s stimulus money that was spent, $800 billion, a huge amount of money was really devoted to people who were on the front lines, who saved their jobs in public schools, the firefighters, the police officers, the state governors are basking in the glory of that, or they re not telling the story at all, that the administration has not rolled out those people and said, these people would not be working were it not for our policies. there s no human face to this. there s a president who s talking about his policies in a rather abstract, intellectual way. and that s why it s not connecting. from the politics of it to the actual policy and the continuing attempt to resuscitate the economy to full strength, most americans don t have a grasp of how widespread the economic stagnation was during the bush administration. that was the first time in decades that the next generation actually was expected to be less well off than its predecessor. if this president can only claim to have stopped things from getting worse, does he have a chance now of not just making things better, but of starting to reverse that stagnation from the bush administration? it s going to take a very long time. and we have to realize that there are structural shifts in this economy that has been going on through western economies for many decades, and they ve finally caught up with us. so if you look at the administration s projections, high unemployment is here through the next election, and well into the president s term, should he get one. a second term, should he get one. so i hear a lot of revisionists from the bush people who say that things were a lot better than this situation. they sort of air brush out their own recessions, but when you look at it, look at the kind of hole that we got into here, it s going to take a very, very long time, keith. msnbc contributor, richard wolffe. as always, richard, great thank you. thank you, keith. lady gaga campaigns against don t ask, don t tell in a state with two wavering senators, one of whom tonight says she wants more debate and more time. governor jan brewer of arizona must now i apologize for that. governor jan brewer of arizona has now lies in interviews in two different languages. worst persons ahead. and when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, a look at what christine o donnell s website does not tell you. i hear bells. we need directions to go to. pearblossom highway? 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is a bird in the hand worth 2 in the bush? appraiser: well you rarely see them in this good of shape. appraiser: for example the fingers are perfect. appraiser: the bird is in mint condition. appraiser: and i would say if this were to go to auction today, appraiser: conservatively it would be worth 2 in the bush. woman: really? appraiser: it s just beautiful, thank you so much for bringing it in. woman: unbelievable anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. lady gaga tries to vince olympia snowe and susan collins to vote for the bill that also repeals don t ask, don t tell. senator snowe asks for more time. that s next. first, time for tonight s worst persons in the world. to whoever doing rudy giuliani s scheduling for him, he ll be appearing day after tomorrow with an upstate new york congressional candidate on castleton in hudson. the name of the place he ll be visiting, total tool. i mean, can t you try to make this difficult for me? the runner-up, republican and tea party new york gubernatorial candidate, carl mr. happy paladino. he sent democratic favorite andrew cuomo another letter today, challenging him to debates. it includes that memorable typo. you want to cut out the black candidate, the woman candidate, and i imagine you don t want the green party candidate their too. i m assuming he means t-h-e-r-e there and not t-h-e-i-r there. he also questions cuomo s cronies, so andrew, for the first time in your life, be a man. come out and debate like a man. because like a real man, he sends e-mail out with porno out in it, and pictures of dames mating with horses. but our winner, governor jan brewer of arizona. when you got a winner, stick with it. in an interview of jorge ramos, she continued to say a number of immigrants are drug mules. i think that it has increased, if you re coming across with the drug cartels and you re hauling drugs, then you are, and they re probably not doing it willingly. they are probably not doing it willingly. as to her other thigh slapper, that headless bodies were showing up in the desert, i did and i apologized for that. i apologized for that, and i did that immediately. 78 days. she said it first on june 17th and apologized for it on september 3rd. immediately. if i completed this farce by saying governor brewer also told mr. ramos that she has many hispanic friends whom she loves from the bottom of her heart, you d probably think i was making it up, but i m not. she said that too. governor jan brewer of arizona, today s worst person in the world. 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because i thought this was an all you can eat buffet. this equality stuff, i thought equality meant everyone. here with us now, former special assistant to president bill clinton and the senior white house adviser on gay rights from 1997 to 1999, richard socrates. thank you for your time. what happens if the democrats don t get enough votes tomorrow? they re very close. this is the closest we ve ever been. we have 59 votes for repeal tomorrow, we need probably just one more. but the concern, of course, is that with the political dynamic so fluid and with the midterms coming up that if we don t get it through tomorrow, that the math will change and it will be much harder after the midterms, if not impossible and this law may be around for a lot longer than anybody had hoped. president clinton was for open service and don t ask, don t tell was considered a compromise. where did it go wrong? well, you re absolutely right. and he wanted open service and this was the compromise that he thought he could get with colin powell and with sam nunn. i think the problem was that the military didn t live up to their end of the bargain. the deal was that if you were private about your private life, you were going to be allowed to serve, even if you were gay or lesbian. and you know, i wasn t in the room, but reportedly, colin powell, who was then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told bill clinton that you could go to a gay rights rally and still serve in the military, as long as when you went to work, when you were in your service capacity, that you were private about your sexual orientation. and they didn t live up to that bargain. what they did instead was started these witch hunts against people. so if the pentagon support of the repeal is one of the predicates of getting the repeal, and it has been in the slow introduction of this process by president obama, once again, are the politicians relying on the promises of the warriors to do this correctly and to live up to their word on the subject? well, i think it s been a very delicate balance. i mean, you know, the thinking has been that secretary gates and admiral mullen actually do support a slow transition to open service. but right underneath them with the service chiefs and some of the other senior officers of the pentagon, these very entrenched interests have been fighting against this policy. and they know they can t win, because almost 80% of the public support repeal of this law. but i think the thinking has been, and they ve been very clever about this, if they stall, if they delay, if they wait to see if the political environment changes, if the composition of congress changes, that maybe they can stave this off. if they re able to accomplish this, it will be a horrific fraud on the american people, and really a massive failure of leadership at the pentagon, at congress, and even at the white house, because they waited too long. is it interesting to you, apart from any investment in this, that one place that there has not been a failure of leadership would be somebody who would entered into this as the least likely of public figures, not necessarily to take on this issue, but to be credible and forceful and obviously damned serious about it in lady gaga. i mean, it sounds in congress, but it seems to be, she really gets the a plus on the whole scoreboard. she does. and there s that line about president obama, where s our fierce advocate? because he said he would be a fierce advocate for gay rights and the advocate magazine wrote about her, we have found our fierce advocate. she has lent the power of her celebrity to this cause. i think americans, americans who care about this and her fans have been very grateful because i think she s made a difference. i understand she had a conversation with senator gillibrand this afternoon and does her pressure seem to have having any impact on particularly snowe and collins in maine? and senator gillibrand has been one of the leaders of repeal. she s been really terrific, really out there. washington is a strange place. i worked there for ten years, before that, i worked in the white house, and before that i worked in congress. it shines a light on what is happening. it shines a bright light, makes it much more transparent on what s happening. but collins and snowe, who say they re for repeal of don t ask, don t tell, will probably vote against repeal tomorrow so they can vote with their leadership. and that s what she s shining a light on, that s what she s exposing. this horrible fraud that s happening tomorrow that looks like it may happen tomorrow in the american public. so if they don t have the votes tomorrow, do you think the democrats would actually pull this out of the defense authorization act? is that where it s going to go? it s probably tomorrow is the last best chance for this. if it doesn t happen tomorrow, it s going to go away until after the election. we re going to see what the new composition of congress is. the president is president obama, since he was became president, has had the ability to stop these discharges by either d.o.d. regulation or by executive order, and i think if this does not go through tomorrow, the pressure on him will mount to do that before the election and i would urge him to do that. i think it s very important that we take that stand for nondiscrimination. 80% of the american public support it. most republicans support it. it s now getting lost in this procedural maneuvering leading up to the midterms. he might as well take it on himself. things aren t going to get any worse for him. it would him in the election. it probably would? richard socarides, thank you very much. it s the 299th day since
million moment. i dabbled into witchcraft. i never joined a coven. she turned him into a newt! and there s hong kong animated news about her, and yes, that is her talking the kid out of choking a chicken. and mice brain video has been found. mice with fully functioning human brains. so after her, what s next for the tea party? repealing laws protecting gays and ending separation of church and state, what else? the bush recession, it ended june 2009, say economists. not really much comfort at this president s economic town hall today. i need you to the help us understand how you can regain the political center, because you re losing the war of sound bites. you re losing the media cycles. it s lady gaga versus mr. magoo over don t ask, don t tell. i m calling to ask the senator to vote with senators harry reid and carl levin to repeal don t ask, don t tell and oppose john mccain s shameless filibuster. and rudy giuliani goes to the most unfortunately named campaign venue of the year. all the news and commentary now on countdown ! gosh, you think we d learn. good evening from new york. last week to the values voters summit, she compared tea partiers to the followers of a character from the chronicles of narnia, the lion. and her next news story will about the wardrobe. in our fifth story, or maybe we re talking about the narnia sequel, the silver chair, and how christine o donnell improperly paid for it with campaign funds. the nonpartisan government ethics watchdog group this afternoon filing a complaint with the delaware attorney s office and the federal election commission. crew submitting as evidence the sworn affidavit of keegan. keegan, the second former o donnell campaign official to say so, alleging that she used campaign cash to pay her rent, as gas money, to pay for food, and for a bowling outing. crew was asking for an immediate criminal inquiry and a full audit from the fec. quote, christine donnell is clearly a criminal and like any crook, she should be prosecuted. meanwhile, the democratic senatorial candidate does not name its own candidate, chris coons, instead, they focus on what is considered to be o donnell s flawed fiscal resume. o donnell spends money she doesn t have, hires employees she didn t pay, stiffed businesses, didn t pay her taxes. one of christine o donnell s former employees summed it up. we were constantly trying to hold her back from spending. she was financially completely irresponsible. and of course, you may have heard something about this witchcraft, witch/satan stuff or the witchy leaks. never more neatly summarized when bob schieffer had to explain o donnell had canceled. we re going to play that tape in which she said she once dabbled in witchcraft. i m serious. that, of course, hbo s program, realtime. its host, bill maher, revealed the existence of the tape. in october of 1999, as the leader of the anti-masturbation group, o donnell made an appearance on politically incorrect and revealed an experiment that even shocked co-panelist, jamie kennedy. i dabbled into witchcraft, i never joined a coven. wait a minute, wait a minute. you were a witch? i didn t join a coven. you used to be a witch? i dabbled into witchcraft. i hung around people who were doing these things. having fun? i m not making this stuff up. i know what they told me they do. what do they do? in one of my dates wait, wait, wait. i want to hear about this. one of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic alter and i didn t know it. there was a little blood there. your first date was a satanic altar? we went to a movie and had a little midnight picnic on a satanic alter. are you now or have you ever been a witch? mr. march says there s more where that came from. as for o donnell, after the clip aired wab scheduling conflict popped up and she was forced to cancel her sunday appearance on face the nation on cbs. the candidate was so exhausted, she couldn t even speak through fox news sunday, or something. late friday night, her campaign canceled. saying o donnell was exhausted and had to return to delaware. saturday morning, o donnell called me and said this. i got triple booked. i had been invited to go to church and then a picnic. i have to keep my priorities to delaware voters. national tv, picnic? picnic, national tv? so with no guest, fox news went in house. karl rove addressed the witch problem instead. in southern delaware, where there are a lot of church-going people, they re probably going to want to know, what was that all about? my view is, she can t simply ignore it. she s got to deal with it and explain it and put it in its most sympathetic light and move on. sarah palin also tweeting in to help o donnell. see o donnell s strategy, times limited, use it to connect with local voters whom you ll be serving vs appeasing nat l media. maybe you ll remember this sermon. in the name of jesus, in the name of jesus, every form of witchcraft, in the name of jesus. and somewhere christine o donnell got a hangnail. back on sunday, it was o donnell s turn to rebuke every form of witchcraft herself. the candidate gave her excuse for dabbling. that witchcraft comment on bill maher, i was in high school! how many of you didn t hang out with questionable folks in high school? but, no, there s been no witchcraft since. if there was, karl rove would be a supporter now. so let s put that to rest. we all hung out with questionable witches in high school. what will not rest are the other comments and tapes of comments that have come to light. gregg sergeant pointing out her views on homosexuality in 2006. from the wilmington news journal, she said, people are created in god s image. homosexuality is an identity adopted through societal factors. it s an identity disorder. and then there s the trouble with being a cable news pundit. they keep tapes of this stuff, you know. even this stuff, behold. a 2002 episode of donahue on msnbc. the salt is a christian organization, but i m biting my tongue. tell us what yowant us to know. first of all, the abortion lobby and the gay rights lobby had a much greater influence over bill clinton than any conservatives have over bush yet critics weren t whining when whining about presidents catering to a base when the base was the atheistic left, but when it doesn t meet their agenda, they do. second of all, about president bush s stand against condoms, condoms will not protect you from aids. the centers for disease control have the opposite opinion, and of course, facts with which to back it up. finally, what once seemed so bizarre but now is almost an afterthought here, the missing tape of the o donnell statement then had been considered the most ludicrous to date. scientists having created mice with fully functioning human brains. someone has released a bootleg version of the tape, the o riley factor doesn t want you to see. they are doing that here in the united states. american scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. and guess who gets to follow that? alex wagner, the white house correspondent for politics daily. good to see you. good to see you too, keith. we ll start with the serious part about this. the ethics allegations made by crew. are they, indeed, serious and could they have anything to do with what we see in november? i think they re very serious. i think the timing on them is a little irrelevant. we re not going to see christine o donnell behind bars before november 2nd. but it says in plain language, christine o donnell is clearly a criminal. they call her crook, an embezzler. these are not things you want said about you six weeks before an election. you ve got crew, the democratic senatorial committee, karl rove, and now two members of her old campaign staff going after her on the subject of finances. how do voters even in the tea party era or year whistle past that graveyard? it s a fairly large tombstone. you know, we know from polling and well, if you ve been under a rock, then you don t know this, but the economy is the number one issue for voters going into this election season. the president spent hours today doing a town hall and talking about the economy. for a candidate who, at best, has had reckless spending in her history, who s never had held a steady job and who s financial record is spotty, i think these are this is dubious, for voters who care about the economy and who care about financial responsibility, i m not quite sure christine o donnell is their candidate. but given how willing people are to forgive when they want the candidate to be a success the sure. vitter, john ensign, whoever you want to name, anybody on the right, particularly, where it s like, oh, you don t do that anymore, we ll take your word for it. if she was just saying, i was doing what we all need to do in this economic crisis. creative means. pull yourself up by your britches kind of somebody would fall for that. well, i think crew is seizing this moment and say, it can t just be about the battle of rhetoric. we re going to bring justice into the equation. we re going to bring in an actual we re going to mount evidence, we have signed affidavits from former campaign staff. those are actual facts i mean, a criminal record is a very serious allegation. does she need the state gop at this point after the chairman now said that they ve endorsed her whether i like it or not with and jim demint s pac is going to say they re going to give her $250,000 to spend in delaware. has she circumrouted them and does that say something to all the republican state committees, like, you can be hijacked by the tea party, whether you like it or not? absolutely. but i think, you know, i don t know that she needs the money from the state gop, but i think she needs the veneer of acceptance. and i think, you know, that s the gop is kind of coming around to this slowly but surely, karl rove even gave her a donation and an endorsement. i think it s sort of, fall in line, gop, because we have to get behind her. okay, the witchcraft stuff. glenn beck called this admission creepy, and that s a man who knows his creepy. does this actually do any damage to her, or is rove wrong again? and once again, the forgiveness factor on the right, if you say, i m a recovering witchaholic, do they say, well, there s no zealot like a convert? well, halloween is coming up. it s sweet timing. look, i think sarah palin, as you showed, had dabbled in pentecostalism. so did john ashcroft. we ve had fringe religions in terms of candidates practicing them, but going on a first date to satanic altar with blood is definitely out there. this is a the tea party has a very solid christian base and we ll see if they accept, you know, wiccan practices. halloween could be one giant gift in kind if everyone dresses up as a witch. but even the wiches today are upset with o donnell, because they say they don t believe in satan. there would have been no blood on any alter connected with any real witch. she even got the witch stuff wrong? if she loses the witches, she s going to be dependent on the wizards. and as we all know, wizards don t show up at the polls in midterm elections. or at playoff times. alex wagner, the white house correspondent for politics daily, great thanks for bearing with us through all this. of course, christine o donnell s final seal of approval or something could only come from one place. apple daily animated news. the newspapers are in hong kong, the computers are in taiwan. warning, the following animation shows simulated scenes of simulated chickens being simulated choked. keep choking that chicken. having already counted their chickens, the kingmakers behind the nomination of miss o donnell and the other unspectacularly unqualified tea party candidates are moving on to their next conquest, like making homosexuality unconstitutional. hi, i m tom kruse. if you re faced with losing your independence, hoveround can help. call us today! choose hoveround and stay in your own home. i did and so can you! call right now. call hoveround today and you ll receive a free mobility consultation, a free dvd information kit and free hoveround delivery to your home. go to hoveround.com or call the number on your screen. the president got the recession to end in june of 2009, which is not much helping the unemployed in september of 2010. it s gaga versus mccain over don t ask, don t tell. could they have found a better name for the place he s going to be campaigning on wednesday? and the kingmaker s quote, i think the slate of candidates we have for the senate is as representative of america as we ve seen in a long time. that would be an ex-witchcraft dabbler living off her campaign funds, the anti-civil rights nonboard certified ophthalmologist, the god will help the pregnant girl raped by her father candidate, and the dude with don johnson s 5:00 shadow. christine o donnell is the future of the republican party, what does the past of the republican party have to say about it? in our fourth story tonight, the pillars of gop moderation came out tonight against the tea partization of the gop, but as always, not in any way that might actually do something about it. senator jim demint, who helped both o donnell and fellow tea partier jim miller of alaska help upset mainstream members of congress in this year s primaries took his victory lap on cnn yesterday, and pointing out, correctly, that his party ran up the deficit the last time they were in power, he reiterated his decision that he would rather have a tea party minority in congress than the republican majority made up of mainstream republicans, like, you know, him. will you take any responsibility if the republicans don t take control of the senate? if, for instance, they should lose in delaware, someone you backed? i ll tell you this, the only reason we have a chance at a majority now is a large part for the candidates i ve been supporting. if the republican party in the senate was now characterized by arlen specter and charlie crist, we would not have the energy behind our candidates anywhere in the country. mr. bush s former political adviser, mr. rove, however, added to speculation that o donnell s primary win could cost the gop that seat in november by adding that in the case of alaska, demint s support of miller s victory over incumbent senator lisa murkowski has led murkowski to launch her write-in campaign which could, in turn, split republican voters, and thereby benefit the democrats. of course, some tea partiers want more than just tax cuts. they want right-wing victories on social issues as well. senator judd gregg telling the new york times that launching into social issues, quote, will be overplaying our hand. cue overplaying the hand. congressman joseph pitts telling the newspaper the hill, gop leaders have assured him abortion will be part of the republican wish list to be released later this month. social conservatives are pushing for anti-gay measures as well and more government endorsement of christianity. let s bring in msnbc contributor, dave weigel, also political reporter for slate.com. dave, good evening. good evening. senator demint claims the energy that his candidates are going to bring will make up for whatever support they lose from the moderates and the independents. is there any evidence for or against that yet? well, you just presented some of the evidence against that. the thing that irritates some people about what demint s doing, and let s give him some credit, i mean, flip the script. how much happier how unhappy are democrats with joe lieberman? how unhappy would republicans be with a senator mike castle? the problem republicans have with demint is, they don t know how much research he put into these candidates and these states and these races before jumping in. in delaware, i know that he talked to christine o donnell a couple of times, but, you know, he didn t seem to understand or care about the reality on the ground there. and that s happened with the tea party express and demint, palin to a lesser extent have kind of dive-bombed into states without much regard for what voters there might actually want to elect. that s why some of these tea party candidates are doing well, but they re doing worse than the moderates they beat were doing. alaska s a great example. to that point, susan collins of maine told the times, it is a new and shocking development to have a member of our conference, and she means senator demint, opposing incumbent republicans. is it, in fact, shocking at this point, or is it mostly shocking to her, because now it might be hitting close to home? the shock should have come in may, when bob bennett went down to utah. that wasn t a secret. and that was a safer situation, though. republicans like her were not quite as worried about utah, because that didn t endanger their risk of taking the senate. someone like olympia snowe, someone like susan collins stand some chance of power in the new senate and they re going to lose it if delaware goes or alaska goes to murkowski and she caucuses the wrong away or if it goes to crist and he caucuses the wrong way. and it is unusual. i mean, democrats may be have a little bit for all their messiness, have a little bit more ideological discipline. the dnc spent a lot of money propping up ben nelson during the health care debate. they don t want to eat their young. they re going to spend a lot of money defending blue dog democrats. i think she s shocked at the way the republican party has shifted in the past few years, because she came out you know, she was elected, snowe, in the 94 sweep. she was elected as one of these candidates in that year that republicans thought they had to nominate to have a chance. she s not used to this new reality where you need to check out ten points on a list to be credible to these voters. what happens, both to him, and more generally to that side of the political football if senator demint is proved wrong? what if the tea party candidates, at least to a majority, take a shellacking in november? well, it doesn t look likely right now and they re riding on a big wave of optimism. ralph reid has tended to jump into the tea party movement. his organization, the faith and freedom coalition, maybe he s being optimistic, but he points out what demint points out. you get more excited voters, you re able to expand, possibly, the base of people who turn out. so as far as they re concerned, they might end up winning with all these people. the question is, what happens in the senate if they end up winning? if there s a slight democratic majority or a slight republican majority and really rock-solid republicans who don t want to compromise on anything, the senate s not really built for that. i mean, democrats discovered that. a 59-seat senate majority is not enough to get simple nominations through. and the country doesn t quite get that. i mean, some of these tea party candidates who would otherwise be losing are going to be elected by voters who just wish washington would work better. they want people to come to the table. they want stuff done. that s not what these ideological candidates are doing. i mean, it s blowing up the way the senate works in a really unprecedented way. yeah, but then again, tea party senators would work with the opposition, republican senators. dave weigel, msnbc contributor, also slate.com, of course, great thanks, dave. thank you. the president and the public on the economy and the aftermath of good economic news that does not immediately help anybody. and nice name for that campaign stop, rudy giuliani. the good news, the bush recession ended in june of 09, the bad news, the unemployed are unemployed under this president and he had a town hall on cnbc this afternoon about it. first, the sanity break. and once again for the tweet of the day, we turn to carlton farmer, complete with illustration. christine o donnell, yes, wiccan. the wiccans, of course, are completely and correctly offended. still, it was that or another touch yourself joke. though she is getting quite a lot of buzz lately. let s play oddball. we begin in brussel, where over 100 waiters and waitresses who have gathered for the 23rd annual fastest waiter race. contestants had to run, or actually, walk at a strong pace over a mile and a half course. each was given three glasses of pinot to carry. the first person to finish with the glasses still full was the winner, and this year, just like last year, david bone finished first. he gets to take home the 380 euro prize plus tip. dateline, barion county, michigan. another guy who thinks they can outrun the police. i m not sure what kind of car this is, but the driver thinks it s a dodge ram. apparently once was not enough so this female driver pulls up and slams into the officer yet again. deciding not to stop and exchange insurance information. the driver then turns around and attempts to hit the cop car head-on. eventually, the chase continues with the wannabe demolition derby driver again ramming the police car, this time from the back. the perpette was eventually tracked down and captured. she ll have plenty of time to learn better defensive driving skills. yep, that s it. good night, everybody. in the big house! russia, hello! and we travel deep under the bike lake, where for some reason a group of divers a racing bikes underwater. they don t seem to be moving very quickly or even staying on the bikes, but they re still trying. and say hello to underwater skiing. i don t think this kind of skiing will become more popular than the surface version, but underwater biking is already the most popular form for people over the age of 12. and time marches on! verification that good economic news does not a good economic town hall make. and rudy giuliani shows you why you never, ever accept an you never, ever accept an invion to a campaign rally before hearing the name of the place first. the good news for president obama is that the great recession ended in june of 2009. the bad news for president obama is that the great recession has been over since june 2009. and that, in our third story tonight, was the quandary the president was wrestling with at today s town hall. the national bureau of economic research, the people who call the shots on these things, announced today its finding that the recession that started in december of 2007 did not come to an end until june of last year. at 18 months, it was the longest since world war ii. mr. obama s problem, of course, is that just as in the bush era, economic growth does not mean the middle class is growing too. unemployment continues to hover just below 10%. yesterday, obama endorser colin powell, bush s secretary of state, said the president had overwhelmed americans by trying to do too much. at his town hall today, the president defended his record by pointing out how much of what he has done protects americans from really being overwhelmed. if you have a mortgage or a credit card or any kind of financial dealings out there, as a consequence of the changes we made, the credit card companies can t increase your interest rate without notifying you, and they can t increase your rate on your previous balances. in terms of getting a mortgage, you can t have a mortgage broker steer you to a mortgage that ultimately is going to cost you more money, because maybe they re getting a financial incentive to do so. those things are now against the law. so there are a whole host of protections in there. you are a parent who has children. if your children, heaven forbid, had a pre-existing condition before i took office, you were out of luck in terms of being able to get health insurance for that child. now insurance companies have to give you health insurance for that child. and by the way, that health insurance company can t drop you if you get sick. so there are a whole host of things that we ve put in place that do make your life better. listening to the real people asking today questions at today s town hall, though, seemed to suggest that for many obama supporters, the problem is he hasn t done enough. i m one of your middle class americans, and quite frankly, i m exhausted. i m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that i voted for, and deeply disappointed with where we are right now. i have been told that i voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. i m one of those people, and i m waiting sir, i m waiting. i don t feel it yet. i was really inspired by you and your campaign and the message that you brought and that inspiration is dying away. it feels like the american dream is not attainable to a lot of us. and what i m really hoping to hear from you is several concrete steps that you re going to take moving forward that will be able to reignite my generation, reignite the youth who are beset by student loans. we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans area of our lives, but quite frankly, it s starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we re headed again. and mr. president, i need you to answer this honestly. is this my new reality? is the american dream dead for me? let s turn to msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe, and author of renegade: the making of a president. good evening. how do you run a political campaign in a country that seems to be polarized between, for god s sakes, stop, and for god s sakes, get going? that s a good question. and one thing you hear is, not just how tough the recession was, but how hard it can be to run politics after a recession. ask the first president bush, ask president clinton in the first few years of his term. it s the memory of the pain is so real that people don t see what s happened to the economy, how far it s traveled. what you have to do, in the start of your question, is how do you campaign not how do you govern in that situation. and there s a scenario that many of obama s supporters won t want to think about, but it is vel relevant here. but in 2004 president bush was faced with a very big decision. what did he do, he demonized the other side. he made john kerry absolutely incompatible with the american dream, the american spirit. he was unacceptable as an alternative and that s where some democrats are taking this midterm election now, saying the other side is totally unacceptable, even if you re unhappy with what you ve got right now. the president s own answer about his accomplishment, it amounted to, as it amounted to more than a year, i protected you from things that did not happen. this is something akin to someone walking away saying he keeps the tigers away and you should keep him on the job doing so. that approach works. ask president bush how he protected you from things that didn t happen. but even if he does keep the tigers away, if most americans never saw the tiger in the jungle or don t believe there was a tiger, how do you make that pitch? well, i think people actually saw the tigers. these weren t fake tigers, okay? these are real people who really lost their jobs. and i bet you that most of the people watching the show tonight will know of people who are unemployed, who have struggled between jobs, who cannot find work right now. so this is a real lived problem. it s not fake. it s not some threat that you never see. and what the administration hasn t done and what it likes to think it has done is tell the stories of the people who have been saved. and part of the problem is there s stimulus money that was spent, $800 billion, a huge amount of money was really devoted to people who were on the front lines, who saved their jobs in public schools, the firefighters, the police officers, the state governors are basking in the glory of that, or they re not telling the story at all, that the administration has not rolled out those people and said, these people would not be working were it not for our policies. there s no human face to this. there s a president who s talking about his policies in a rather abstract, intellectual way. and that s why it s not connecting. from the politics of it to the actual policy and the continuing attempt to resuscitate the economy to full strength, most americans don t have a grasp of how widespread the economic stagnation was during the bush administration. that was the first time in decades that the next generation actually was expected to be less well off than its predecessor. if this president can only claim to have stopped things from getting worse, does he have a chance now of not just making things better, but of starting to reverse that stagnation from the bush administration? it s going to take a very long time. and we have to realize that there are structural shifts in this economy that has been going on through western economies for many decades, and they ve finally caught up with us. so if you look at the administration s projections, high unemployment is here through the next election, and well into the president s term, should he get one. a second term, should he get one. so i hear a lot of revisionists from the bush people who say that things were a lot better than this situation. they sort of air brush out their own recessions, but when you look at it, look at the kind of hole that we got into here, it s going to take a very, very long time, keith. msnbc contributor, richard wolffe. as always, richard, great thank you. thank you, keith. lady gaga campaigns against don t ask, don t tell in a state with two wavering senators, one of whom tonight says she wants more debate and more time. governor jan brewer of arizona must now i apologize for that. governor jan brewer of arizona has now lies in interviews in two different languages. worst persons ahead. and when rachel joins you at the top of the hour, a look at what christine o donnell s website does not tell you. i hear bells. she now says she immediately apologized about her baseless paranoia about headless bodies in the arizona desert. and in serious political discourse, she gears up for the don t ask, don t tell fight on youtube, even referring to herself by her own name, ahead on countdown. lady gaga tries to vince olympia snowe and susan collins to vote for the bill that also repeals don t ask, don t tell. senator snowe asks for more time. that s next. first, time for tonight s worst persons in the world. to whoever doing rudy giuliani s scheduling for him, he ll be appearing day after tomorrow with an upstate new york congressional candidate on castleton in hudson. the name of the place he ll be visiting, total tool. i mean, can t you try to make this difficult for me? the runner-up, republican and tea party new york gubernatorial candidate, carl mr. happy paladino. he sent democratic favorite andrew cuomo another letter today, challenging him to debates. it includes that memorable typo. you want to cut out the black candidate, the woman candidate, and i imagine you don t want the green party candidate their too. i m assuming he means t-h-e-r-e there and not t-h-e-i-r there. he also questions cuomo s cronies, so andrew, for the first time in your life, be a man. come out and debate like a man. because like a real man, he sends e-mail out with porno out in it, and pictures of dames mating with horses. but our winner, governor jan brewer of arizona. when you got a winner, stick with it. in an interview of jorge ramos, she continued to say a number of immigrants are drug mules. i think that it has increased, if you re coming across with the drug cartels and you re hauling drugs, then you are, and they re probably not doing it willingly. they are probably not doing it willingly. as to her other thigh slapper, that headless bodies were showing up in the desert, i did and i apologized for that. i apologized for that, and i did that immediately. 78 days. she said it first on june 17th and apologized for it on september 3rd. immediately. if i completed this farce by saying governor brewer also told mr. ramos that she has many hispanic friends whom she loves from the bottom of her heart, you d probably think i was making it up, but i m not. she said that too. governor jan brewer of arizona, today s worst person in the world. check your email messages check the money in the bank check the gas in the tank check the flava from your shirt make sure your pits don t stank check the new hairdo, check the mic one two cause i m about to drop some knowledge right on top of you you check a lot of things already why not add one more that can help your situation for sure check your credit score free-credit-score-dot-com free-credit-score you won t regret it at all! check the legal y all. offer applies with enrollment in triple advantage.® > he had plenty of time to send a tweet to snooki over a federal tanning tax, but when asked by a decidedly more credible pop fixture to stand up against don t ask, don t tell, john mccain went silent. on the eve of a crucial senate vote, lady gaga takes her equality show on the road to maine, targeting two more republican senators to repeal the policy, which is folded into a larger defense authorization bill will go to the senate floor tomorrow for a vote. as of now, the democrats do not have the 60 votes need to begin debate, which is where senators collins and snowe come in. collins has not indicated how she will vote tomorrow. today senator snowe says she wants more time, echoing the senate from mcconnell, let s wait until the military releases its review of the policy, which just happens to be after the midterm elections. given that the law implementing the don t ask, don t tell policy has been in place for nearly 17 years, senator snowe said i agree it s overdue for a thorough review. the question is whether we should be voting on this issue before we have the benefit of the comprehensive review that president obama s secretary of defense ordered, which is where lady gaga come in. the singer has been drumming up support for the repeal, tweeting in support of majority leader reid s move to bring the bill for a vote and encouraging her fans to call their senators and urging them to vote for repeal. my name is stephanie joann angelina germanada, also known as lady gaga. i m asking senators to vote with harry reid and carl levin to repeal don t ask, don t tell. we re not asking you to agree with or approve the moral implications of homosexuality, we re asking you to do your job. to protect the constitution. like this afternoon, alongside the service members legal defense fund, gaga spoke at a rally in portland, maine, in an effort to pressure collins and snowe. she called them out, she called mccain out, and told soldiers who continue to serve with prejudice to go home. gaga explaining that equality is the prime rib of american and everyone should have the right to wear the same meat dress. if the senate and the president are not going to repeal this don t ask, don t tell policy, perhaps they should be more clear with us about who the military is fighting for. who our tax dollars are supporting. and ultimately, how much does the prime rib cost? because i thought this was an all you can eat buffet. this equality stuff, i thought equality meant everyone. here with us now, former special assistant to president bill clinton and the senior white house adviser on gay rights from 1997 to 1999, richard socrates. thank you for your time. what happens if the democrats don t get enough votes tomorrow? they re very close. this is the closest we ve ever been. we have 59 votes for repeal tomorrow, we need probably just one more. but the concern, of course, is that with the political dynamic so fluid and with the midterms coming up that if we don t get it through tomorrow, that the math will change and it will be much harder after the midterms, if not impossible and this law may be around for a lot longer than anybody had hoped. president clinton was for open service and don t ask, don t tell was considered a compromise. where did it go wrong? well, you re absolutely right. and he wanted open service and this was the compromise that he thought he could get with colin powell and with sam nunn. i think the problem was that the military didn t live up to their end of the bargain. the deal was that if you were private about your private life, you were going to be allowed to serve, even if you were gay or lesbian. and you know, i wasn t in the room, but reportedly, colin powell, who was then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, told bill clinton that you could go to a gay rights rally and still serve in the military, as long as when you went to work, when you were in your service capacity, that you were private about your sexual orientation. and they didn t live up to that bargain. what they did instead was started these witch hunts against people. so if the pentagon support of the repeal is one of the predicates of getting the repeal, and it has been in the slow introduction of this process by president obama, once again, are the politicians relying on the promises of the warriors to do this correctly and to live up to their word on the subject? well, i think it s been a very delicate balance. i mean, you know, the thinking has been that secretary gates and admiral mullen actually do support a slow transition to open service. but right underneath them with the service chiefs and some of the other senior officers of the pentagon, these very entrenched interests have been fighting against this policy. and they know they can t win, because almost 80% of the public support repeal of this law. but i think the thinking has been, and they ve been very clever about this, if they stall, if they delay, if they wait to see if the political environment changes, if the composition of congress changes, that maybe they can stave this off. if they re able to accomplish this, it will be a horrific fraud on the american people, and really a massive failure of leadership at the pentagon, at congress, and even at the white house, because they waited too long. is it interesting to you, apart from any investment in this, that one place that there has not been a failure of leadership would be somebody who would entered into this as the least likely of public figures, not necessarily to take on this issue, but to be credible and forceful and obviously damned serious about it in lady gaga. i mean, it sounds in congress, but it seems to be, she really gets the a plus on the whole scoreboard. she does. and there s that line about president obama, where s our fierce advocate? because he said he would be a fierce advocate for gay rights and the advocate magazine wrote about her, we have found our fierce advocate. she has lent the power of her celebrity to this cause. i think americans, americans who care about this and her fans have been very grateful because i think she s made a difference. i understand she had a conversation with senator gillibrand this afternoon and does her pressure seem to have having any impact on particularly snowe and collins in maine? and senator gillibrand has been one of the leaders of repeal. she s been really terrific, really out there. washington is a strange place. i worked there for ten years, before that, i worked in the white house, and before that i worked in congress. it shines a light on what is happening. it shines a bright light, makes it much more transparent on what s happening. but collins and snowe, who say they re for repeal of don t ask, don t tell, will probably vote against repeal tomorrow so they can vote with their leadership. and that s what she s shining a light on, that s what she s exposing. this horrible fraud that s happening tomorrow that looks like it may happen tomorrow in the american public. so if they don t have the votes tomorrow, do you think the democrats would actually pull this out of the defense authorization act? is that where it s going to go? it s probably tomorrow is the last best chance for this. if it doesn t happen tomorrow, it s going to go away until after the election. we re going to see what the new composition of congress is. the president is president obama, since he was became president, has had the ability to stop these discharges by either d.o.d. regulation or by executive order, and i think if this does not go through tomorrow, the pressure on him will mount to do that before the election and i would urge him t through tomorrow, the pressure on him to do that before the election, and i would urge him to do that. i think it s very important that we take that stand for nondiscrimination. 80% of americans support it. most republicans support it. it s now getting lost leading up to the midterms. things aren t going to get any worse for him. it would probably help him in the elections. thanks. that s september 20th. it s the 2699th day since president bush declared misch policed, the 154th day of the deep water horizon disaster
and good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a monday morning, i m matt lauer. officials in bermuda are saying that they are still trying to assess the damage from hurricane igor. hurricane force winds and driving rain has led to extensive power outages. it looks pretty this morning. also ahead, former president jimmy cart is in the house and we ll be speaking toim about a number of topics including the rise of the tea party, those two american hikers still being detained in iran and what he seeses a his own place in history. on a different note, there are new problems for lindsay lohan. could the troubled actress be sent back to jai after she admitted that she failed a court ordered drug test. wel have the latest on that story as well. let s given with the damage caused by hurricane igor in bermuda overnight. jim cantore joins us from elbow beach in bermuda. reporter: we re just getting in breaking news, no reports of major injuries or loss of live here on the island, that is grt news, however there s lots of debris and trees all over the roads all across the island this morning. some 30,000 customers are report nothing power here. the highest wind gust reported at the airport was 93 miles an hour. and the big question is, what is the word on the airport? how did it make it through this storm? what type of shape is the cause way in that leads into the airport? that s the big question this morning. there was a tremendous aunt of beach erosion here, 15 to 30 feet of beach lost as a result of one of e largest storms in the atlantic basin history. al roker is tracking igor as well. good morning to you. good morning, it s 135 miles north of bermuda. winds 75 miles an hour. down to a cegory 1 storm. moving north/northeast at 17 miles an hour. for us, the big problem is going to be the rip rrents. we have got dangerous rip currents stretching from west palm beach all the way to cape cod. yesterday in florida, they had 30 beach rescues just there alone. and it s going to be even worse today. now the path of igor takes it way off, maybe brushing nova scotia, not a bick problem, but we re not out of the woods yet. we are watching a low presse area that could become a tropical depression and in the next few days could become tropical storm lisa, so we ll continue t track what s going on in the atlantic. > . now to politics, with the dterm elections just six weeks away, most candidates are having to deal with the impact of the pea party. the president s trying to help democrats hold on to a vulnerable senate seat in pennsylvania todatoday campaig and raisingoney there, while republicans have moreurmoil to deal with, one gop incumbent won t accept her defeat in a primary and there s more surprises about that newcomer who s certainly becoming a tempest in the tea party. reporter: delaware s republican senate candidate christine o donnell is stirring the pot. they call us wacky, they call us wing nuts, we call us, we the people. reporter: hours after she was cheered at a gathering for social conservatives in washington, d.c., an o clip of o donnell hit tv friday, this strange comment from 1999. i dabbled in witchcraft, i never joined a coven, but i did. reporter: comedian bill maher says unless she comes on his tv show again, he will release more. there s a little blood there and stuff like that. your first date was a satanic tar? and a movie. reporter: fighting schedule conflicts, o donnell backed out on two sunday morning shows. lateriday night, her campaign canceled. she canceled on us yesterday. reporter: instead o donnell campaigned at a picc in delaware where she made light of the wihcraft talk. how many of us didn t hg out with questionable folks in high school. but, no, there s been no witchcraft since, if there was, karl rove would be a supporter now. democrats worked their own magic with a new tv a hitting o donnell with past tv problems and an old debt with a 2008 campaign. she ll fit right in in washington, o donnell spends money she doesn t have. reporter: alaska senator lisa murkowski who lost her primary, just back in the race. she was narrowly defeated by tea party conservativeoe miller who was endorsed by sarah palin. we will not accept the extremist views of joe miller. reporter: murkowski is defying the leadership by conducting a write in campaign that will be tough to win. if youon t think we can fill in an oval and write in lisa murkowski, we can figure it out. reporter: trying to . tell them that the time for action is now. reporter: when asked about the influence of the tea party, former president bill cnton said that the voters responding to those candidates are showing go impulses because of the feels that are out there this year, but he s not sure what their agenda would be. and christine donnell s advisers, when i asked them again about this witchcraft thing reminded m of the kind of fun lines she gave there, that if she was really practicing witchcraft, then karl rove would be one of her supporters and not one of her critics. sarah shourd is back on american soil and speaking out about her ordeal in an iranian prison. nbc s ron allen is at the united nations with more on all of this. ron, good morning. reporter: good morning to you, ann, it is no convince dense that sarah shour is here in n york while world leaders are gattering at the u.n. including iran s president. she s on an emotional crusade pleading for the lease of her two companions. shane and josh do not deserve to be in prison one day longer than i was. we committed no crime. and we are not spies reporter: her voice sometimes wavered, but not her resolve. as sarah shourd gave theost detailed account yet of the confrontation along the iran-iraq border that led to her, her fiance and her friend to an iranian prison. i never in my worst nightmares thought i would be a prisoner. i never saw it coming. reporter: they said they never saw any sign of a border while hiking in iraq. they got engaged in prison, their engagement ring made of string. fattal, a college friend from uc berkeley was visiting. if we were indeed near the iraqborder, that border was entirely unmarked and indistinguishable. iran accuses the two men of spying and says they must stand trial. most cases involve allegations of violating u.s. sanctions against iran, adding another layer of tension to an already strained retionship. bauer and fattal s motr asked to meet iran s president in new york. i think the humanity, not just the words, but t face-to-face meeting with him will help us explain ourselves and ourchildren. when sarah was definitely released, it was a very bittersweet moment for me. the cold hard truth is shane and josh are still in prison and we want them home. reporter: shourd recalled the moment she lef that prison. and i stand before you today only one-third free. that was the last thing that josh said to me before i walked through the prison doors. josh and shane felt one-third free at that moment and so did i. reporter: she wldn t talk about conditions in the prison nor about how she was treated. there are reports she spent most of her time in solitary confinement. she was released for humanitarian rsons and health concerns including a lump in her breast. since leaving iran, she says she s been examined by doctors who tell her that in her words, she s doing well. ron allen in new york this morning. we are joined now by former president jimmy carter, his new book white house diary. never before seen diary entries he kept while in the white house. i just want to ask you about the story we just had about the t american hikers jailed in iraq. it seems like it might just be up your ally. might you get involved i don t think so, we don t get involved in the unite states government and the united nations. we kind of go to strange places where nobody else wants to go. i just got back from rth korea getting back aine young man from boston. he crossed the bder fromhina into north korea and they finally released him. so i hope the other two americans will be released. no one s reached out to you on this one. no, i don t think they need me. what strikes me as much as things change, the more they stay the sa. you talk about the political climate in this country when you were president, it s similar to what we re facing now, you had to deal with the economy and jobs and health care, and energy. fast forward, president obama dealing with the very same things, have we just not learned very many lessons? have we just not changed enough in these years? there were abo 40 things that i had to deal with that were troubles in some way, and some of them were the same as what s obama dealing th. the energy crisis, we pretty well make a lot of progress there. i was able to cut down oil imports from 8.5 million barrels a day, by about 50%, but now it s gone back up to about 11 million or 12 million barrels a day. dealing with the middle east peace process, i was able to bring peace to israel and egypt. now we re trying to bring peace all these years later. one of the things you write about is that there was this dissatisfaction or feeling that people had for their government, there was frustration, and it seems some of the ways that that frustration has shown itself now is the creation of the tea party movement, i don t know whether to call it movement or a political party. is it a viable party that can last into the future, or is it a passes moodhat will end when the economy gets better? i think it s going to be a transient thing. but it s going to be very important during the upcoming electi election. you have to remember they came in right after watergate, right after vietnam, right after the assassination of president kennedy and martin luther king. i think that the tea party is influenced, they could be merged with the republican party and i woul hope by 2012, their big influence is going to be dissated. one of the things president obama would put on one of his greatest accomplishments is health care reform. now here we are six weeks before midterm election and democrats are running in races all across the country and very, very few are talking about that accomplishment of health care reform. why? well, i think the republicans have been successful in projecting it in a very negative way. but the main thing i see in health care reform is it brings health care insurance to about 30 million people who didn t have it before and i tried the samehing when i was in office in june of 1979, we had comprehensive health care for about 60 million people who were uninsured to cover all catastrophic health needs and we also had a proposal there that was designed to be increased so that the full gamut of health care could go into effect in four years. we didn t success with that. all right. but i think that s something we need to expand in the fure. so total insurance for everybody in our country. univers health care? universal health care, but it s going to be phased in very slowly now. but the way it was a long confrontation has been used by the opponents to cast it in a gative light which it doesn t dew serving. you said this will be the last time for you to talk about your years in the white house. for someone who was born aft the jimmy carter presidency whose only experience of your presidency might be what he or she reads in this book. do you think they ll come away thinking your time in the white house was a success or a failure. we preserved the peace, we never nt to war, we negotiated peace between israel and it foremost challenger, the egyptians. we emphasized human rights. we did a lot of things that wer very important, but very controversial. i would say the most controversial one was dealing with the energy crisis. and the socialistic by the united states into like a five times greater service for the panama canal than when they changed it. so a lot of those things wer very controversial. the most important issue we had to face when i was in the white house domestically was the energy crisis. now it s come back to haunt us in a much more severe way. had all my reforms taken effect, we wouldn t be having this problem now. as a history lesson in the pages of this book, president carter, it s nice to have you here as always. the new book is called white house diaries. let s go over to tamron hall who s at the news desk. thousands of people were forced out of their homes during the night by wildfire near salt lake city. officials think the fire started during a nearby national guard artillery training session. several officials have now declared the bp well effectively dead, five years after the worst oil ill in u.s. history. area residents are likely to feel the impacts for years. the government says the number of people killed because of distcted drivers fell last year by about 6% fro the year before, but the department of transportation still calls distracted driving an epidemic. today president obama focuses on a town hall event. john, the economy is certainly a huge topic this election year? reporter: absolutely it is, tamron and i think because of the nature of our audience cnbc and the topic of this town hall meeting, about how to fix the economy, this is an impoant moment in the market. the economy is clearly in better shape than when he took office, but it s not growing rapidly enough, 15 million people are out of work and part of the ise for the president is going to be how do you lift confidence in theconomy, part of it is not the economy but psychology. the president here with a couple of hundred people, small business owners, people out of work is going to have a chance to talk very directly and intimately to talk about his plans for changing the economy at a time when many people are losing faith in the economy. all right, john, should be very inresting. you can catch that town hall event with president obama today today at noon eastern time. and big brother, what some are calling the manning bowl, and his brother eli. payton told his younger brother he loved m. and i saw an interview with archie manning who said he didn t set out to raise mvp qua quarterbacks, it just worked out that way. mr. roker, welcome back. let s see clear and cool around our region. good morning. right now temperatures are in the 60s from the shenandoah valley to the atlantic beaches. cooler in the mountains this morning. afternoon highs near 80. cooler in the mountains, lots of sun. tomorrow morning 40s throughout much of the region. afternoon highs upper 70s. it will be sunny again. then on wednesday, increasing clouds and warmer and there is a chance for much-needed rain perhaps wednesday night and off and on on thursday. then it looks dry friday into the weekend. now to extraordinary wildlife event. biologists thinks the sea mice melted early leaving the animals no oer place to rest. lee cowan is in alaska. good morning. reporter: we re about 300 miles above the arctic circle this morning and this is where the wals are gathering, some 20,000 of them at one point over the course of the summer and scientists are saying this is a gathering that is so large and so unusual that scientists are now worried about the walrus s safety. it s the end o summer along the north slope of alask and in the tiny village of point lay, they wait for the ice to return the tundra is usually already frozen by now. but instead, children are playing in the lagoon bare not. incently oblivious to what it all may mean. scientists tell us that there s global warming going on. reporter: do you believe them? yeah, i believe them. reporter: leo ferrera, the tribal president here isorried that the they worry about the most recent resident who is need the ice to survive. the pacific walrus, who normally rest on ice sheets floating out at sea. they re unable to find refuge even on a small piece of ice that melted early. what this is telling us is a continuing pattern of sea ice los in the arctic, we may be looking at summers with no sea ice at all, or little to speak of in 20 or perhaps 30 years. reporter: a new report out this month shows it s the third lowe arctic sea level in over 30 years. walruses need that ice to rest on in between feedings, unlike the pol bear, they can t swim forer. they have to commute from a astal rescue spot out to the foraging grounds, than what it would cost them simply to roll off the ice into the sea directly beneath them. reporter: with upwards of 20,000 crammed so tightly together, easily startled mothers can often stampede, crushing newborn calves as they hurtle to the water. anything can spook them from a polar bear, a dog, a man, a boat going by, an airplane going over. reporter: bill traceys port lay s fire chief. he says more than 100 walruses trampled each other to deh. so until the ice comes back, stct limits are now in place. this is about aslose as we can legally get to the walruses without disturbing them. from this point forward, the only pple allowed in are researchers. reporter: there s even a no fly zone over the beach, something residents here are happy to see. what we have todatoday, we to protect what s there. reporter: a way aft life for this villag a way life for a species. if all the ice is gone, does that mean all the animals are gone too? nbc s lee cowan. ill ahead, lindsay lohan fails aourt ordered drug test. why is travel these days about what you give up and not what you get? like electricity for gadget power at your seat. room to stretch your legs, and your wingspan, food when you re hungry, and taking off your shoes, only if you feel like it. these aren t luxuries, they re basics. get them back oacela. i really didn t see it coming. i dn t realize i was drifting into the other lane. 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we have got new details coming up. also ahead this morning, the highly anticipated new movie the social network facebook and alleges that mark zuckerberg stole the idea. we ll talk exclusively to twin brothers who say it was actually their idea. let s beginow this half hour with lindsay lohan s failed drug test. . reporter: today lindsay lohan made the anuncement on her twitter page. i would expect whatever i get, seriously. reporter: sometime soon lindsay lohan will be heading back to court to throw herself at the mercy of a judge who warned that he would not tolerate any substance abuse during her pro ba. lohan herself has now admitted that she has failed a court ordered drug test and after years of denying that she was addicted to drugs, lohan appeared to come clean saying this is certainly a set back for me but i m taking responsibility for my actions and i m prepared to face the consequences. the judge in this case recently told lindsay, if you have a failed drug te, you will go to jail for 30 days. a hearing has to be set, so now it s just a waiting game for lindsay to find out what s going to happen. reporter: lohan was released from jail last mth after violating parole for her conviction in the dui accident back in 2007. as a condition of probation, she had to submit to two random drug tests a week while attending psychothera psychotherapy. i am working hard to overcome it and i m taking positive steps. in order to gain control of her problem, experts say there are definite steps she needs to take. getting rid of the friends you used to have or hanging out where you used to do drugs. reporter: last week lindsay lohan made a cameo. take it from me, they don t. reporter: tha remains to be seen. if she s sent back to jail, that may affect her ability to star in her upcoming movie. the failed drug test definitely is going to send a chill throughout hollywood. for now it puts her career at worst in opardy, and at the very least, on hold. reporter: lohan also tweeted that she is a work in progress, there is no word yet on when a new court date will be scheduled. we have got dr. julie holland. wh do you read, d holland from this tweet of lindsay taking responsibility and being prepared for the consequences. a couple of intesting things, this is the fourth te we have talked to lindsay, and i am seeing something new, she is taking responsibility, it was always the cat ate my he work and those weren t my pant and those weren t my drugs. i m surprised that she unrstands maybe she s embracing more of a harm reduction model which is the idea that it s going to take a bunch of different steps and there s going to be relapses and remissions what consequces does she face as she tries to turn around this very big ship? she actually faces very big conseqnces, both legal consequences and career and image consequences. first of all, she s got to go before the judge this week who sentenced her to jail and who has and who set very strict probation standards for her. now she this judge can actually send her back to jail for much more tha 30 days. he can decide to do whatever he wants to do, whatever he thinks is appropriate, and he can send her back to rehab and he can keep her tied up i probation for an extended period of time which is going to make it very hard for her to restart her career. nd she looked so good at the mtv music awards, we actually hoped she woulde in the process of turning it all around. what prevents this young woman from getting it together. it s hard to get and stay sober for anybody and one of the things that gets in the way is denial, thinking you don t have a problem. but she s surrounded by people who say yes to her, offer her drugs, want to party with her. she really needs to change her lifestyle quite a bit. are we partf the problem, the media, focing on the problem, getting her this kind of attention we have doing. i do think she s fame addicted. but i don t think we can blame ourselves and i think her tweet was part of her fame addiction, she wants the world to know everything about her and she is addicted to the lifesle of partying, even though she s saying she wants to change and she has said that before, she has said that she s gotn the message, she s changing her life. she has been out many nights at a place where she s pared before and gotten into trouble befo. she went right back there right ter being released from rehab. i think a lot of us would like to see her get back and doing good movies. thank you so much. we good morning. sunny and cool around our region. high pressure moves in again with more dry weather on the way. temperatures in the 60s all around the region. 67 at national airport. low 50s in the mountains. later today climbing to upper 70s to near 80. lots of sun. sunny again tomorrow. a chilly morning, afternoon highs upper 70s. then wednesday, warmer on a southwesterly breeze. we ll warm into the upper 80s with increasing clouds. might get a shower wednesday night into thursday. highs thursday again upper 80s and we have got a 16th birthday. what is your name. sarah lindsay. and don t forget, you can get your weather any time of the day or night. coming up, we re going to talk to twin brothers who said facebook was their idea. this was my first time to use it. it s pretty cool. 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reporter: still it s the latest in an onslaught of pr. the movie facebook doesn t wan you to see. la year there was a public outcry when the site changed it s privacy settings. he allegedly mocke his users for submitting personal information saying, quote, they trust me and then calling them dumb. mark zuckerberg is absolutely known to be aloof and arrogant and avoids big public social situations and keeps to himself, he s pretty awkward. reporter: the man described as socially awkward is today s king of social media. facebook has 500 million users, one of every 14 users in the world. so far the bad press hasn t kept users from the site which means this social net work probably won t keep pple from this one. zuckerberg on face bock did not cooperate with the making ots movie. in a recent interview, zuckerberg says he does not plan to seet. cameron and tyler winklevoss are with us now. before we get to the ns and bolts of this, have you had an advanced screening of this movie? have you seen any of it? we have not seen it aside from the trailers that were on the inrnet. have you read the script? i have read the script. did you contribute information and materials to the makingf this movie. no, but we actually met with the actors after the filming and the little bit that we know is that they say we ll be happy with it. so when zuckerberg s people say it s fiction, you say it s in fact the truth? it s probably closer to the truth than they would like to believe. but we won t know until we see it. let me try and nail you down on this settlement. the settlement was reached in 2004. $65 million, are we in the right ballpark here. we can t comment directly. it s publicly it s been reported. it s batted around publicly. so so it s close? we can t really talk about it. there s going to be people right now who say you want to en this again, you say that s not enough, w didn t understand the value of this company and there are people who say, you signed a deal. they offered you a contract, nobody put a gun to your head back in 28 to take whatever, hoever many millions of dollars, why do these guys deserve a second viewing? there s actually two elements of bwhy we re challenging the agreement, and first of all the spirit of the agreement has not been upheld by their side, with respect to part of the settlement been the ek quit by. they misled us. you had some smart lawyers at the time, they had the rug pulled over their eyes? it s a situation where facebook has all the information on tir valuation and how they value their company and unless they provide that to us, which we believe they re obligated to, it s impossible to really tell what the value is other than at they represent. and what s the second element? you said there s two. the second element is that they sat on and hid elements of mark s electronic messages, and now it s going to be six years. so the information that we should have had when we entered into a mediation, such as his conversations to his friends that showed deliberate premeditation and sandbags that we didn t have at the time. mark zuckerberg is not without his critics, but you guys have your critics as well. they said your site was not more than a dating service and others say much of what you proposed was already out there and that you were lucky to get the $65 millionor whatever it was. how do you respond to that. what we had at harvard when we approached mark zuckerberg, it was a project that was well on its way to completion. it was identical to how facebook operate s today. that argument has mainly been advanced by facebook for obvious reasons. mark zuckerbe, i ll give you three terms, business whiz, genius, evil genius? which is more accurate. evil is a pretty strong word. i think a guy who was a team member and partner with us who did not want to play as a team member and took an idea and has run with it and sort of confident that you ll succeed in this latest effort? we re going to keep at it. we re certainly not going to back down, we ll do our best, for sure. tyler and cameron winklevoss, thank you for coming in. still ahead, has the traditional male become an endangered species, some say it may be time to rethink masculinity. words alone aren t engh. our job is to listen and find ways to help workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i m iris cross. we ll keep restoring the jo, tourist beacs, and businesses impacted by the spill. we ve paid over $400 million in claims anset up a $20 billion independently-run aims fund. i was born in new orleans. my family still lives here. i m gonna be here until we make th right. the plan we worked on for your retirement makes sense. just stay on track. what is. that s the guidance you get from fidelit thanks. stay on the line! whatever your destination, fidelity will help you get there. because when it comes to investing, you should never settle. fidelity investments. li m luke myers. if you want to be incredible, eat incredible. anncr vo: eggs. the incredible protein. because grandpa said that our name goes on everything we make. 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very tough challenge on the capital beltway, crawling inner loop sprangd field up to 66. earlier there were two separate accidents that were clred but we re still suffering the consequences. outer loop delays begin before route 1 in college park all the way aound to silver spring. jerry, thanks. we ll have more news, weather and traffic in 25 minutes. now we ll go back to the today show after a short break. we re back now, 8:00 on a monday morning, it s the 20th day of september, 2010. we have got some people swaying because we re playing the song misery and at s o way of reminding you tt tomorrow right here on today, an indoor concert, great music and we encourage everybody to come on down as we do every day. i m matt lauer, along with ann curry. mr. roker returning back from two days off. thank you. did you have a good time? i had a fantastic time. coming up, we ll have more information on a tragic story that occurred just friy night. can you believe this? it was a star quarterback. he had just thrown a touchdown when he collapsed right after that. and we ll be talking live with the young man s mother. on a much, much lighter note, some people are questioning whether the traditional role, or male role ofmasculinity, macho role is endangered? is it going to be a thing of the past? some say the economy may be playing a role in that, we re going to explore that in just a couple of minutes. i m not sure i m sad about that. are you sad about that? i never did have a macho side. i m a lumberjack and m okay. all right, lots to get to, but before we go forward, we have tamron hall at the news desk. hurricane igor is heading nor north today after thrasng bermuda overnight. most of the island lost electricity during the storm. the airport was shut down and beach erosion is severe. strong winds and rainfall continueoday, but there were no reports of any major damage. hurricane karl dumped more than nine inches of rain over the weekend. flood watches are still in effect and classes were canceled today at many corpus christi schools. at least two house were destroyed and 1,400 others evacuated because of a wildfire in salt lake city. the american hiker released from an iranian prison last week is now on american shores. she said they had no idea they had crossed into iran when they were arrested 14 months ago. she says they were not spies and did not commit any crime. a spokesman for afghanisn s president says it s too early toudge the quality of weekend parliamentary elections, despite low turnout, taliban attacks and widespread complaints of fraud. preliminary turnouts are in effect for the next few days. the world s tallest man met the world s smallest woman on sunday. both are from turkey, both are in their 20s, but she s just 2 4 and he is 8 3 anstill growing. now let s get another check of the weather fr cool an clear on this monday morning. goodmorning. i m meteorologist tom kierein for this september 20th. we ll have temperatures climbing out of the 60s into the upper 70s and near 80 by mid-afternoon. lots of sunshine, clear, 60s for the evening. 40s much of the region tomorrow morning. afternoon hghs upper 70 tomorrow with lots of sun. then on wednesday, increasing clouds, highs in the upper 80s. might get a passing shower wednesday night and perhaps on thursday. into the 80s again thursday and friday. then over the weekend a bit cooler. rtly cloudy saturday and these are my wife s sisters, say hi, everybody. you see the brother-in-law doing the nice thing. thank you very much. up next t tragic death of a high school quarterback, he collapseded after throwing a touchdown pass, we re going to talk to his mom, but first these messages. it was always. 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really i really don t know what to say or what happened but i was here at the football game and was en route to the restroom when i was flagged by his cousin brandon ricard saying tha it s reggie, i could read his lips en route to the restroom and the first thing i could do was just get to the field to see. and when i got to the field, he was already out. such a beautiful and talented young man. and besides this one seizure when he was 3 years old as a result of this very high fever, was there any other indication of any kind of physical issue that might have put his life in jeopardy, joanne? no. no. had a physical last year in port arthur with his doctor here in orange, no signs of any health conditi whatsoever. coach, what do you want to say about that? do you see any indication in reggie of any signs of illness at all? he was top in physical condition, he never showed any signs of a health problem, it was just out of the blue. it shocked everybody. was there anything that happened on this friday night that happened on other friday nights, coach? he was smiling and ran off the field and i was trying to get the special teams out there and i looked around and he was having problems on the sideline. joanne, he was celebrated just before he passed. yes. does that give you just so proud of him. just so proud of him of what he accomplished. he s the kind of kid that you couldn t say anything bad about and that s rare because he was super. thank you so much, and our deepest condolences, i m sure many people watching. let s bring in dr. nancy snyderman. no indication from either the coh or the mother. can this fever at 3 years old the seizure because of high fever at 3 years old be an indicar. probably not. this seizure could have followed any little virus, getting a baby shot, and sometimes when babies have high fevers they get seizures and they re not indicative of anything down the line. the real question will be with the autopsy, to look at the heart, whether there might have been a blood clot or a heart attack. sometimes you can have a seizure and there sothing or you can have the electrical conduction, the heart sends out a long message and so there s nothing to be seen. so sometimes an autopsy still leaves linger questions and doesn t answer as many questions as people would like. is there any test, is there any way for parents to know ahead of time or is it true that the kind of test that we have available todatoday of a youngt or a young brain is just not adequate? big cases like this will cost people, they ll say i want kids screened for anything. the problem is screening a heart at rest with an ekg, isn t the same thing as screening a body at exertion so i don t believe that massive screening other than being honest aboutour family history, being honest about illicit drug use, being honest about any symptoms you might have had, you think oh, my gosh, maybe the coa won t let me on the team, if you have been feeling feint, if your heart has been beating funny, those are the things you needo talk about. otherwise the routine check in the summer should be enough to find out which kids play and which kids n t. this is tragic, but they re not necessarily related issues. we ll be right back after these messages. come on, people, now smile on your brother everybo get together try to love one another right now [ female announcer ] the time has come to get a diaper thateally works, withouthe really high prices the time has come for luvs. say yes to ultra leak protection, no to pricey diapers. it s time for luvs with the luvs money back guarantee. sometimes i would get rewards, sometimes i wouldn t. this one card i had there were all these rules. rules and restrictions. oh, and limits. 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because i don t know whether i should be bummed out as a guy or is it much adieu about nothing. the story is n about men becoming more like women, guys can still be guys, they can dreslike guys, they can do what guys do, b there are changes forces in the economy and at home and they need to expand their definition of masculity. so we can no longer have simplistic views about what a man s job is and men s role is. men have to expand their horizons and be a little bit more open minded. the economy is going to add 15 million new jobs over the next ten years, it may not seem like it right now. where are they come ing. they re field that tradionally employ a lot of women. home health aid, customer service representative. so you re asking people to at least consider a new definition for the word macho. we want to define masculinity in terms of usefulness. men can dre however they want and act however they want. but what they do with their hours, how to contribute to the home and how to contribute at work. the home is a natural place to start this shift. and we make recommendations in the piece, one great example is paternity leave for men. getting out there and taking paternity leave? one of the paradoxes we discovered in researching this piece is although most american homeare dual income, women continue t do four times the child care, even when mom and. i think that now we re looking at the fruits i think of the 60s when the women s liberation movement was we want equal everything. it looked like equal money and we have gotten equal money in many instances, this is showing that maybe it s on the ride. but the-quality i think was desired that . a guy who s willing to apt and do anything he can to support and contribute to his family. that s macho. what s more masculine, a guy who is unemployed and a deadbeat dad who s still strong and silent or a guy who s doing everything he can to be a good da who would come to mind? who s the new macho guy? part of the problem is tre aren t good examples ithe u.s. david cameron is in new macho. he just took off two weeks to bond with his newborn daughter. he co-parents, he co-bread wins with angelina, with a nanny s help. it s when you don t have a nanny and you really have to pitch in, then what happens? we want to see the definition of manly, let s hope that men embrace it. thank you to all of you, we re back after your local news. good morning. our time right now is 8:26. 68 degrees. beautiful sunshine here in the nation s capital. od morning to you. i m joe krebs. in theews for today, a law student and green party candidate for the u.s. senate in maryland remains in critical condition after a hit-and-run accident. natasha pedigrew was riding her bike with 5:30 yesterday morning when she was run over by a woman in a cadillac escalade. she suffered head trauma, broken ribs and lost a kidney. the driver, who has not been charged, claims she did not know sh hit anyone until she got home and found the bicycle stuck under her suv. maryland state police seized the bike d the cadillac. they say alcohol was not a factor. we ll take a break and come back and look at our weather forecast and check out the rush hour too. s good morning. here s your four-day forecast. sunny and mild today and tomorrow. warmer wednesday and thursday. jerry, how s the traffic. we are loaded up at each of the an costa bridges but no accidents. the road work in place southbound 95 as y head from newington and it is jammed. we ll have more news, weather and traffic in 25 minutes. it s 8:30 now on a monday morning, it s the 20th day of september 2010. it s a magnificent day here in the northeast. although there s some wind in the air, moving around pretty good. 51 degrees. might feel a little colder than that. i think we ne a group hug. matt ler is filling in for meredith, al roker is here and tamron hall. let me know when to stop. we re going to talk to the author of a book that s being hailed as the first inside look at the workings of the obama administtion. it s written by a guy who used to be president obama s car czar. we re going to find out much more about and talk to the author in just a couple of weeks. and a sure sign that fall is arriving, which by the way comes on september 21 at 11:0 a.m. and one of our chefs is goi to be here, he s going to be sharing a savory recipe for baked apples. he always makes food fun. watch your fingers there. also coming up, we re going to meet jason leonard. he s an incredibly talented actor. he s going to be in this new show on nbc called the event. so he s very excited. we ll talk to him coming up. another big debut on nbc tonight. it s chase. starring kelly mcginnis. thank you very much, niceo see all of you all. every promo i see, you re kirking someone s butt. you ve got someone in a head lock, you re taking someone down. i m so proud, i wear my badges of honor. it s great getting up in the morning knowing you re going to be on the roof of a semigoing 60-mile-per-hour and the cameraman is in a helicopter. what other things can you do? your job is a u.s. marshall? yes, these are such gooden and women, catching the bad guys so all of us can lay our heads on the pillow at night. if only i had a little more stimulating. now you re from geora, and it s usually pretty darn hot. it s so nice not to be on the sound stage in new york or in l.a. and to be able to run and we showed theet and it s just a big texas sky. aim parable to texas. i m from there. are you? how surreal is this for you? all those production values right there. it is a blue sky monday morning. good morning, i m meteorologist tom kierein. a live view from our sky watcher camera, hi pressure over the region bringing more dry weather. cool temperatures now, in the 60s, climbing into the upper 70s to near 80 by mid-afternoon. ots of sunshine. clear tonight, 60s through the evening. 40s tomorrow morning throughout much of the region. afternoon highs upper 70s and sunny tomorrow. increasing clouds wednesday. upper 80s during the afternoon. might get a shower wednesday night and thursday. up. warm is what we need. don t forget, check your weather any time of the day or night, oweather.com online. in case you didn t know. coming up, we ll be talking abouthe first inside look a the obama administration. but first, this is today on nbc. back at 8:37, it was one of the most rigorous restructures in history. in the new book overhaul an insidersccount out of breath here, of the obama administration s emergency rescue othe auto industry. stephen, good morning, i apologize, i was running. running is good for you. running innd out. why did you write this book? because i thought this was an enormous accomplishment by the obama administration. a singular accomplishment for which there was a beginning, a middlend almost an end and i thought the country deserved to understand. you re a guy who does not need the money, you do not need the attention, you don t need trouble and you know tha you have talked about se of the things in this book that are going to capture some headlines and as a smart guy, you knew those would capture attention. did you think about it? i thought people would take a look at the book in its entirety. it was not some effort to telltales or talk out of school. but youo include some anecdotes of some interactions that you had with some key members of the administration. rahm emanuel denies some of the things tha you say he said in the book, but one thing in particular you talk about buy it was important to bail out gm is that there were thousands of union jobs. and you say heaid blank the s. when you were surprised that this would make headlines, that s the title of that chapter. you don t use the word black, but the title of that chapter wasuas. what rahm was really saying is that there was not going to be any political cows. and i have heard you describe this after the controversy, you said that s not the context that i describe in the book. however when you call a chapter, blank the uauas. what do you think was the greatest lesson learned from this entire chapter in our history of diving in and saving these companies? and first of all, is it a finished story? do we know the full result even though we think these companies are back on track. there s two questions actually, we don t know the finished result, we think the companies are back on track. general motors has had t quarters of positive income. both companies are ahead of plan. but the broader lesson to take away from this is that i m as recalcitrant as anybody about big government in the private sector. this is a capitalist country, it should be run that way, but markets fail to perform and in 2009 the markets failed to perform. you worked closely with larry sumner and tim any geithner, those whore trying to figure out how to run this economy. we were talking about what happens within a presidency and oftentimes it s not the expected that defines a presidency, it s the unexpected. things like the bp oil spill and the economy and the job loss that nobody saw coming. does president oma in your opinion have the two right people in those positions to lead us out of this? i believe that 100%. i have known larry summersor 15 years, i have known tim geithner almost as long, these are battle hardened, experienced guys. i could not imagine the president taking these tasks on without those two guys and those jobs. in the booyou allude to your own problems. a guy named hank morris who s been indicted for accepting million doar payments to do business with new york state pension funds, you say, quote, nothing in my entire professional life have been as painful as that episode. you left your job as the car czar after six months. did youeave because the job was done or because of pressure within the administration over an investigation surrounding you. the job was effectively done, we had turned these over to the private sect, we said they re your companies, you guys go run it. between that and my workload dropping off and it would have been hard under those circumstances to take another high profile job within the administration, it seemed like the right time to take a break. and the status surrounding you right now is what as you understand it? unresolved. and for the foreseeable future? i hope so, but i cannot predict. the book is called overhaul it comes out today. back now at 8:45, with a mysterious global conspiracy. the event, a new series premiers toght on nbc. and let s just say everything isn t always as it seems. it s not too late, but we haveo act now. open the door! i m an air marshal, i m not going to ask twice, do it now! jason, good morning. that s what it looks like, but you have to watch the whole episode. your character s name is shaun walker. when you say you have got to watch the whole episode, y don t even know do you know what the event is? i don t know what the actual event is. the writers know what it is, and some of the actors foe what it is. but we were all given these little character dossiers that show what our characters know and we weren t allowed to share them with the other actors. what s it like to not know what the other characters know? the writer had been creating this story for the last four years. i knew that he had the entire back story in his mind. so as long as i know that someone has the plan, i m going to follow along. but you know that you re the star, at least for the first episode. yes, exactly. and so as you re going in this role then, as it s unfolding for you, is that frustrating? is it exciting? how does that affectour work? it s really exciting. i mean, you know, i think generally, we go through life not knowing at s around the next corner and certainly it s a lot of fun in a show like this, where there s a conspiracy and you don t kw who to trust. but it s nice to do a scene with an actor and not know if he s going to be a bad guy in a scene down the road. in all reports, you are fantastic, because we obviously are going to be seeing? premier coming up. a lot of us love your dad. oh, thank you. and i m wondering if your dad had a big influence on your decision to become a actor. yeah, i mean both my parents did, they both were actors and, you know, just being around it andeeing how much fun they had and also knowing how muchork goes into it, it seems like something that i wanted to try my hand at. well, john ritter, i m he would be very proud of you. you have been working on this show since may, you haven t seen it all come together, i m guessing. i haven t seen it all. but there s a big premier tonight, are you butterflies? how are you going toee this thing. tonight all the cast is going to the show and we re all going to watch it and keep our fingers crossed. get some popcorn or something. how do you know when things are good or bad? what do you wait for? do you go to sleep? wh happens. you go to sleep and then wait, i guess tomorrow morning i ll wait for somebody to tell me good or bad news. already we have been hearing the new york times calls it nbc s highest new card, the most valuable. because of the reactions so far at least with international research audiences. the stuff that those networks do. it s very exciting. that is very exciting. that is a good sign that people seem really excited about the show and are ready to give another show like this a chance and follow along with the ride. jason, pleasure. you too. cute a button. anyway you can catch the series premiere tonight at 9:00, 8:00 central here on nbc. i m done with all these lists. and driving all over town. i want one list. for one store. 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[ female announcer ] at safeway, that s our promise. that s ingredients for life. ? this morning on today s kitchen, bakedpples. he s the chef of minibar in washington, d.c. and by the way will be teaching part of the science and cooking class at harvard university this fall. professor, good morning, nice to see you. no professor. that s impressive. good to see you. we re goingo do some apple dishes here, when you re eating an apple versus cooking an apple. do you like a different variety? the ones that my votersove. do they all cook wellr some better than others? when they are very sour and they re hard, they re going to be very firm, even if you cook them for a long time. when they re sweeter, they have more sugar, the apples they are going to break. so you re the one that chooses which one you want. we re cooking stuffed baked apples. you start wh bread, right. here we are all bread crumbs. you don t want to throw them in the garbage, you mix them with some milk. you put it right here with the meat. so this is just ground beef. ground beef, ground chicken, use your favorite ground meet. and some pork. weut some parsley, we put some onions, we put some garlic, some cinnamon, some salt. you make thathole thing very well. and then you sta coring the apples. you don t core it all the way through, because you don t want it t come apart at the bottom, right? you know your recipe. so you make like, you know, you can do this with a holer, you make the hole in the top, eyou use the baller, you make a big hole. and you don teel these and zblls don t peel it? buy because if you pedon t peel it, it prevents the apple from becoming dry. don t you also put a little lemon on the outside of them? is that so they don t brown? what happens is i m so quick, that they don t even have time to brown. but the recipe also will tell you you have a different recipe here? put some less than mon on so they don t become brown. pop them in the oven. for how long? for as long as you think the apples are ready. 30, 40 minutes, 350 degrees. you want the meat to be brown, you want the apple to be kind of ft. the meet is going to be perfect. it s kind of like a meat loaf in an apple. how do you garnish this. ou put some fresh thyme. spinach, i put this right before we began, and now they ar beautiful and brown. you see this one? you smell the smell. you cannot see the ell. the smell is good. you re going to be able to see it. you see this is smelling good. you re smelling this delicious swee flavor. you put some pineapple. you put some raisins, you do all the work. they don t understand. we love your english. here you have the beautif spinach. tell us quickly, what s that dish on the end? some apples, sliced, a great olive oil from spain. blue cheese, you put some almonds on top and you have an unbelievable apple salad. professor jose andres. 8:56 is our time right now. 68 degrees here in the nation capital. beautiful, bright sunshine for a september day. good morning to you. i m joe krs. students at three schools can enjoy an unexpected day off today. chesapeake middle school, chesapeake high school and the folger mick kenzy elementary school are closed because of a water main break. the broken pipe has been fixed but there is not enough water to open the schools today. classes will be in session tomorrow. we ll take a break right now and come back and look at our weather forecast and check out the rush hour too. stay with us. hey, ove, i m gonna need a bank. any ideas? capital one bank. they re everywhere. yeah, you re right! 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pretty tough in a couple of spots. there was an accident on the beltway, inner loop at ritchie marlborough road, it s crling. road work set up and it is just a mess. 95 southbound, you can see the construction zones as you head south from lorton all the way down. thanks very much. we ll have more news, weather and traffic in 25 minutes. for now we ll head back to the we re back now on a monday morning, september 20, 2010. thank you for stopping by and spending part of it with us. it s always nice to have imrtant and distinguished people in our area as well. we just had a once over the barricade, to be with some of our fans out there. some of these families are worried about their nnl. let s get a check of the news from msnbc s tamron hall. hey, tamron. good morning, matt. hi winds and pounding waves. jim cantore is there. reporter: this is still breaking this morning. the best news we can give everybody is there s been no reports of major injury or death. they re very happy and they re very much priding themselves in that. power is down from 30,000 to 28,700 as there s been considerable damage to the power system grid out here. fist responders are clearing out. we re doing pretty good, the sun s coming back out. flood watches are in effect today in corpus risti, texas. more rain is expected throughout the day. freed american sarah shourd is back in the u.s. calling her arrest in iran 14 months ago a huge misunderstanding and saying she s no spy, with two other americans still held in iran, she says she feels only one-third free. the american government says that 5,400 people were killed in traffic accidents blamed on distracted driving. officialsay the problem is still an epidemic. a crash of a freight train in ctral india killed four people and injured several others. federal officials have now declared the bp well in the gulf of mexico effectily dead, five months after the worst oil spill in u.s. history. president obama calls the permanent sealing of the well an importt milestone, but area residents are likely to feel the impact for years. and movie goers went to town over the weekend, a new ben affleck film taking in more than $23 million according to early estimates. easy a was second and devil the third. back to matt and ann. go ben affleck. let s get a check of the weather, mr. roker standing by. what is your name. shaun patrick. a beautiful royal blue sky on this monday morning captured live by and that s your latest weather. we re joined now by the one and only shila buff who star of the movie wall street . we re excited for you. were you even born when wall street came out? i was just a year old maybe, 1986, it came out? was it an important part of your research to study that movie and dissect it? i watched it on oliver. and he s big on updates. i watched it many times before i came in. the director is oliver stone and he s an interesting director in that he gets inside your head. but as an actor, with him in charge, it s interesting. he s orsonells and the easter bunny. why do you say that? he knows what he wants and he demands a lot, but he s got a soft touch. he doesn t berate you, but he expects a lot. there s a lot happening in the economy between the time the first one came out and this. you know, the greed is still there, even now, after having made it, they re bundling life insurance policies grim reaper styl it did get worse, less sex, drugs and rock n roll on the streets. i think all the characters have a little bit of good in them and then a good streak of evil in them as well. it s a bunch of sharks trying to eat each other alive. but if there is a good guy in this movie, it s jake. you know, i was their conduit to michael douglas. i was the introduction to superman. you rub my backnd help me get some coin. so i have really good bargaining chips. i read one review in the paper, five stars. pretty good stuff. you re a real talent. and wall street money never sleeps, opens this friday. friday. let s go inside, tamron, take it away. lindsay lohan is back in the headlines after failing a court ordered drug test last week a violation of a probation that puts her back in court to face a judge. more now from amy robach. reporter: i respectfully lohan seemed to come clean, tweeting to her fans, this was certainly a set back for me, but i am taking responsibility for my actions. and i m prepared to face the consequences. and the consequences could mean more jail time for the troubled actress. if you have a failed drug test, you will go to jail for 30 days. a hearing has to be set. so now, it s just a waiting game to find out what s going to happen. lohan was released last month after violating her parole. as a condition of her probation, she had to submit to two random drug tests while attending psychotherapy sessions and participating in an outpatient substance program. she tweeted substance abuse is a disease that unfortunately doesn t go away overnight. i m working hard to overcome it. experts say there are definite steps she needs to take. getting rid of the friendships, the places you hang out or the things you used to do for fun because they re all tied to that drug life. do you think anyone can work with a drunk? take it from me, the don t. reporter: if she goes back to jail, that may affect her ability to star as linda lovelass. this failed drug test is definitely going to send a chill throughout hollywood, for now puts her career at worst in jeopardy and at the very least on hold. that was amy robach reporting. bonnie fuller is from hollywood life.com. bonnie, good morning. it s hard to talk about lindsay s career when you know that her healtnd her well-being is in jeopardy. but let me ask you,s this a huge set back for her in a town that seems to give so many chances to somebody who messed up? just when people were beginning to think tt maybe this time she was finally turning a page and she understood that she had a problem, she has now given a major incation that she s not ready to get back to work, to resume her career and to get serious about tackling her drug problem. it s intesting, she sent signals that she was getting ready to get back started on the right foot. she was on mtv, some thought a little too soon to be joking about rehab. what signals did she send that she was on the right track? the thing is she didn t send the right signals, she sends all the wrong signals. she immediately went out and began to party again, she immediately went back to the scene of her many earlier antics that involve drugs and alcohol. and just on a friday night even, even after she knew she failed the drug test she went out partying again with friends to a well known restaurant. some of the experts say what she needs to do is clean house, getting rid o people around her who are enabling her. maybe even take a break from her family. to talk with spun who s neutral who can help her out. she hasn tiven that indication, she seems to be hanging out with the same crowd, going to the same haunts, doing the same things and suspending her mother, not her father, but her mother, who seems to be very much in denial about the situation and has n been supportive of her getting the help she needs. she needs to go back to rehab. a serious extended stay at rehab where she truly canurn her life around. bonnie fuller, thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. up next, avoiding some common money mistakes. and later, competition between you and your spouse. but first, these messages. dannon light & fit gives hope. we are sisters, daughters, wives, mothers. and together, we can help fight breast cancer. go online, enter the code from your ligh& fit lid, and we ll make a 10 cent donation. give hope with every cup of light &it. when pain keeps you up, nothing is pron to help you fall asleep faster than advil pm liqui-gels. rushing real liquid relief to ease you to sleep fast. for nighttime pain, make advil pmour #1 choice. rushing real liquid relief to ease you to sleep fast. there s more than one way to bheard. say it like you mean it. outspoken by fergie. exclusively for avon. call your avon representative now. with technology of t future. it s liquid-plumr foaming pipe snake. clears slow drains, cleans pipe walls. liquid-plumr foaming pipe sna. there s a full serving of vegetables in every manwich. announcer: surprise. every manwich has a full serving of wholesome vegetables. manwich. meat your vegetables pancakes! from dawn til sunset, i ll never walk away blueberry pancakes are so good [ male announcer ] bisquick. pancakeovers unite. there are some lifelong investment lessons youan learn. even though we have got these mistakes that we make, it seems to be mistakes that we make over and over again. going forward, hopefully things will begin to improve. but there are lessons that you just want to take at all times, no matter what the market s doing. first following the herd. you re watchin a these things when things are a little bit bumpy in the market, and they say the market is up or it s down and people tend to llow that investment and do whatever they say. instead you don t want to do that. you probably want to end up buying when prices arep and selling when they re lois the opposite you want to do. basically you want to look at what your individual goals are. exactly, look at your portfolio, set up aumatic investing. you can consider target date mutual funds. they reset automatically as you approach your retirement date, so if you tend to be somebody that follows the herd, that might b good for you because your money is somhere else and somebody else is taking care of it. what about asset allocation? a lot of people put all their money bonds because they re losing all this money. you want to have some sort of inflatio protection and stocks tend to do that over time. then you s continue to own and buy stocks? you want to continue to buy stocks, and if you ve got bonds in your portfolio, a lot of people went to long-term bonds, and that can be a problem depending on what inflation does. big mistakes people make are unexpecting expecting unrealistic returns. a lot of people when they hear of past performance over e years, they have earned 9%, 10% a year. in sometimes it can go just the opposite direction. and sometimes, in some periods, you can earn a lot less, a lot of people say over the next decade, it will be like 4% t 6%. kind of a coral larry to that is overpaying for past performance. this is for the following the herd people. they want to invest in a mutual fund where someone s done well. everybody s already gotten there and you might be paying high management fees for past performance so you want to do as we said before, set your portfolio up the way it should be and that s the way wh index funds, very low cost funds. and one of the things you also say, bad timing can be a big mistake when you ve got your money tied up in a cd. people tend to switch in and out of mutual funds, you don t want to do that with money you think you going to want to use in the next five years. you want to keep that money out of the stock market and into things like money market fund fo online high yield accounts. and you don t want to put too much faith in your broker? they re in business, so they might do trading a little more than there it for themselves? they re in it to make money. and if you re somebody who doesn t watch your broker or a not involved with your investments, they may do more trading or something that may yield them a nice commissio but might not be so good for you. so you want to watch what theye doing, or go to a family financial planner who just charge by the hour. and a lot of people make a big investment. a lot of people make the mistake of saying myouse is going to be my retirement. in fact, historically homes only make about half a percentage point a year, taking inflation into account. some years ago, housing prices go up more and sometimes as we have seen they go down more. so you don t want to do that, you want to have a manageable portfolio instead. we re going to tell you one of the secrets to a happy marriage. long summer days, and not enough sleep. what i wouldn t do for a do-over. 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adam. meantime coming up in this half hour, who knew that taking out the garbage could lead to a happier marriage. who knew? i think everybody knew that. we re talking about the chore wars, from doing laundry and prepping meals to taking out the garbage, sometimes one partner feels like they re taking on a larger role and so we re going to tell you why it s important to pitch in to keep the peace. and a little bit later on, my book club for kids is in session. we re reviewing ninth ward, about a 1year-old girl and her fiercely loving caretaker who had visions of an upcoming storm which turns out to be hurricane katrina. also ahead in today s kitchen, a party and healthy one dish dinner. turkey and meatballs. we ll see how that works out. but al, first, good morning. around the metro area now near 70 as well as near the bay. elsewhere still in the 60s. we should climb into the 70s to near 80 later today. cooler in the mountains wit lots of sunshine. then tomorrow morning quite chilly. most locations in the 40s. afternoon highs in the upper 70s and enty of sunshine. then on wednesday, increasing clouds, warmer weather on a southerly breeze into the upper 80s and then wednesday night into thursday we might get a passing shower. after that it looks le dry weather returns with cooler weather friday into the weekend. and that s yo latest weather. thank you very much. up next, why the opposite sex has opposite ideas when it comes to household chores right after this. well, kids need to eat well. and eating well means tting enough whole grain and calcium. and general mills big g kid cereals can hel did you know it s thonly leading line of kid cereals with at least 8 grams of whole grain and a good source of calcium? 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[ male announcer ] the opportunity to worry less about fraud with the zero liability guarantee from bank of america. no menu needed. have you heard about our never ending pasta bowl? wait a minute. announcer: the never ending pasta bowl! with new sauces like our creamy parmen portobello. choose all the sau and pasta combinatns you want for just $8.95. at olive garden. dannon light & fit gives hope. we are sisters, daughters, wives, mothers. and together, wean help fight breast cancer. go online, enter the code from your light & fit lid, and we ll make a 10 cent donation. give hope with every cup of light & fit. this morning on today s relationships, the chore wars. there s a new survey that founds that one out of every five americans admits to fighting over house work with their spouse every month. so how do you end this battle of the sexes. robbie ludwick has some advice. this is a universal problem, a lot of couples can relate to this and the svey was very telling. clr did a survey, and they were the first to look at this problem, how are men and women different when it comes to this problem, who cleans more and how do women really feel about it? 69% of women feel that they did all ofhe hou work or most of it and 53% of the men said no, i disagree, i really feel like i pull my weight. was that surprising? no, because i think men are doing a lot more than they ever did before, so to them, taking out the garbage and maybe pickg up after the kids feels like they are doing half the work, but women are working outside the home, so there is this kind of ide shift that s going on. and these little fights can seem trivial, but they can actually be damaging to a marriage? they can. because what the study also showed that women who felt that they were overburdened and taking on most of the responsibility really were angry with their husbands and not feeling as good about their marriages. t on the up side, women who felt that their husbands were helping and that things were fair and square really felt good about their rationship and this is something that comes up on a regular basis, one out of five couples on a monthly basis argue about it. it reality. so one of the things you should do is assign appropriate assignments. right. so what you want to do is don go against the grain. if your hband likes doing the laundry, let him do the laundry, if you like cleaning the dishes, separate it along the lines where people are actually good consider complements. were? you should all be complementing. nagging didn t work, if your partner really lets say one day cleans up the table, say thank you, that rlly meant a lot to me. success builds on success. and that really helps people do more of what you want them to do. is overwhelming to clean house en nobody wants to do it. do it in five minute intervals it s amazing what can get done in five-minute intervals. and you get the kids involved? i did this this summer. if you make it a family activity, you can burn calories, it s something everybody does together and then y reward yourself after the fact with movies or a ce dinner out. but get everyone involved. everybody s messing up so everybody should clean up. i m saying to my mom, we should get a dishwasher, she said i ve got six of them already. and one of the things you say, just do it. yore not going to like cleaning all the time. clr also studied that cleaning the toil is the least popular thing to do. rely? big surprise there. but sometimes you just have to do it. a clean home has a better chance of being a happier home so you have to do things in life you don t want to do all the time, so just make yours do it. and it sounds like you should also come up with a plan for these thin so that everyone knows up front what they re doing. don t surprise me with an assignment. don t do i did this, you do that. we have a personality quiz that you can get on clr chore wars.com, it s also on the todayshow.com size. so you can find out what is your cleaning personality and find way to make that work in your house. mine is a can do. i took the quiz, i m a can do. are you a honey do or are you are a canada? i m avoiding you as a possibility. i miding in the closet. avoidance is not the solution. you can take that cleaning personality quiz on our website. i m a neat freak, i m a can do. up ne aren t you sick of these airline credit cards that advertise flights for 25,000 miles? but when you call. let me check. oh fudge, nothing without a big miles upcharge. it s either pay their miles upcharges or connect through mooseneck! 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[ whispering ] now with whole grain pasta. shh. good morning. on al s book club for ki. 12-year-old lanisha is mama sees a great storm coming, which turns out to be hurricane katrina. it would destroy her home and ravage new orleans. lanisha is forced to use her inner strength tourvive the storm against all odds. this is the last meaning of this particular group of our book club kids, so we want to say hello one more time to ava thornton, sabrina fernandez and spencer carl otto. good morning to everybody. before we get to our book club kids, i want to ask you, you re an award winning adult book writer and author. and you decided to write a book for kids on hurricane katrina. why? i have wanted to write a book for children since i was in the third grade. and hurricane katrina worried me so much, i felt devastated for the children. so i wanted to write about a character that showed how strong and ho wondeul they were. so lanisha really takes tragedy and turns it into a triumph. first of all, let s talk to eva. what s your qution. , well, there s a certain supernatural element to the story that i like and i wanted to know what made y want to include this trait in the characters of molly yaya and lanisha? i wanted to create a sense that there was mysteries and wonders in the world and things you couldn t see, and that was to eourage lanisha to call on her inner wisdom and instincts. all right, miles i know you re kind of leaning forward. jewel, now in the book you particularly talked about mama yaya, did you have the same relationship with your grandmother as lanisha didith mama yaya because i know i have a very special relationship with my grandmother. my grandmother was the prototype for mama yaya and if it had. been for my grandmother, i wouldn t have become a writer. that s a great influence. claire williams from loudens borrow, alabama. claire, you have been rding along with the group, what is your question? my question is, i was just wondering, do you have any personal ties to new orleans, the setting of your book? no, i don t. i think it s kind of magical that i m drawn to new orleans, i have been since i was a child an i think i must have lived there in another life. wow. kind of a little more supernatural. oh, yeah. thanks so much for your question, claire. now we have got sabrina fernand fernandez. what s your question? hello, jewel, m question is, it was a terrible disaster for hurricane katrina, so it took a lot of lives, of so manyeople and so many different communities so and in new orleans, how and why did you change the ninth ward? ninth ward was the area that was most devastated. that was the area where the levees firstroke and right now you ll go visit the ninth ward and it s still just slowly rebuilding, so i wt to the worsplace to write about. but i wanted to go to a community where people loved each other so much and i wanted to show what was lost. andast but not least, spencer, what is your question? at the end of the book, something was holding lanish in the water, what was it? i like to think that it was a tree that was holding her dow and almost drowning her. that s when her mother the ghost comes and talks with her and everything is already. and lanis hrklanisha bursts up once again the strong child. one to five stars, five being the highest, ninth ward gets four stars. thank you. jewel parker wrote it. thank you so much, and thanks to you guys, you re a terrific grou we really loved having you guys. if you have a child that would want to join us who lives in the tri-state area, go to our website for more information. let s go to the next book, it s a whole other story by dr. comfort soup. and next today s kitchen with pamela anderson. t first, this is today on nbc. that pamela anderson. this flu season, what would you pick for your flu vaccine? a shot in the arm? or a spray in the nose? i pick my nose. i pi my nose. i pick my nose gracefully. flumist. it s the only flu vaccine that starts fighting the flu in the nose, where you usually catch it. in a study of kids 2 to 5 years of age, flumist cut the risk of getting the flu in half compared to the flu shot. i picked my nose. she said i could. flumist maynot protect ever. flumist is not for people allergic to eggs i could. or other vaccine ingredients or for children and teens taking aspirin or products containing aspirin, or for anyone who s had life-threatening reactions to flu vaccines. health conditions including guillian-barré syndrome, a weakened immune system,g diabetes, pregnancy,cines. or heart, kidney, or lung disease may exclude you from getting flumist. your doctowill decide if flumist is right for you. common side effects include runny nose or nasal congestion, sore throat, and fever. talk to your doctor to find out if flumist is right for your family. and visit flumist.com. sure is nice to have a choice. this morning on today s kitchen, hot chef pam anderson has expressed frustration about coordinating an entire meal, she was inspired to create a cookbook filled with simple recipes. the result, her one dish dinners. good morning. i m sure you did it a lot. i do. what are you making today ? and i m stunned that it s one dish. it is. because you think, okay, we need this is essentially spaghetti and meatballs, you need one pan skillet for t meatballs, and a pan for the pasta. these are meatballs that are lean and delicious and we re adding toasted garlic, i like using toastal garlic because it gives it the real garlic flavor without the bitterness. we re going to add other flavorful things which you re going to mix in here, cracker crumbs and also fettuccine cheese. these are actually called meat drums. you mix all this together? and the reason i call them meat drums and meat mallets because it s tough to brown a meat ball. if you just form it in a tropicdrum shape,ou ve got two sides to totally brown. you can took everything in one batch. you don t he to do any batch cooking. and you re not rolling the beat malls around, you re just flipping them over to brown them out. exactly. and the double surface means you re not cooking we have got some delicious garlic here. we re going to add some flavor. because this sauce is not going to cook for hours and hours. it s only going to cook in about 10 or 15 minutes. we have got our sauce, we re going to add our meatballs back in. the double surface means the sauce is going to cook more quickly in this roasting pan. so we have got this in here, now we re going to add pasta. nd this is different, because normally you would boil your pasta? exactly. this should simmer for about 10 or 15 minutes. does this allow the flavor to soak in even more? it does. so now we re going to add the pasta and six cups of water. now because the cooking time is so short, ds it allow all the flavor to get into that sauce? it does, because we have added the garlicnd the red wine which really bumps up the flavor. and we have got the finished product nearby? and this rsting pan also doubles as your serving dish. you don t even have to so this is meant for the i am a real cook a these are my solutions. you add a little fettuccine. and that s it. tell me about the kooky. this is a show about weight. perfect timing. the age and all the numbers nobody wants to admit to. it s the cookies. i love to make cookies, but i don t have time to make four dozen, just make one big one. an then you just take it to the tabland cuit off. i m doing it. we re about to reveal some very, very distressing numbers on our show. weight and age on these buttons. our real weight and our real age. real weight and real age. al are you going to do it? 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[ female announcer ] luncbles turkey & cheddar sub made with 100% turkey breast and bread made with whole grain. there s power in a great lunch. it doesn t get better than this good morning. it s 9:55 in the nation s capital on this monday. sunshine and blue skies and a bit of a breeze out there today. tom will tell us what the day holds when we check in with him in just a moment. in the news first, students at three anne arundel county schools can enjoy an unexpected day off. chesapeake middle school, esapeake high school and folger mckinsey elementary are closed because of a broken water main break. the pipe has been fixed but there isn t enoughwater to open school today. classes will be back in session tomorrow. tom, september weather doesn t get any better than this. just gorgeous. we need rain. not much in the foreseeable future. maybe wednesday night into thursday and all the way between now and through the weekend that s the only chance. right now we reear 70. it ought to make it near 80 by mid-afternoon. lots of sunshine, bit of a blustery northwest wind. chilly in the morni in the 40s, afternoon highs in the upper 70s with lots of sun and then feeling like summertime on wednesday, the last day of astronomical summer. we have the equinox arriving wednesday evening. maybe the chance of a shower wednesday night and thuday. how s the traffic, jer 270 southbound, late accident just reported near route 28. delays reaching back to gaithersburg. one more stop, we ll see how we re doing on the beltway of virginia. the inner loop still jammed from springfield around the bend toward 66, although it looks a lile bit better. pat. thank you, jerry. a reminder, yocan get all from nbc new, this is a special numbers education, live from studio 1 a in rockefeller plaza. i just want to say that s why we call it fundy, ptember 20th. she gets 36-24-36 if only that wer true. i get 46. well, i m about to make it up to you, because, yes, we re bowing to tell you special numbers today. it s a special edition of the today show. we went without makeup a few months ago, just to be i don t know why did that. i sorrye did that. but today we are going to reveal as most of you know our ages. we are what we are. the idea is, you are you can e about it and you know who you are, but the truth is, i am 57 and a month already. you just turned 26 early in august. later how do you feel wearing the button? it s one thing to say it out loud. it goes away and some people missed it. what do you think about wearing it, continuing i m so over this kind of stuff. i m just grateful to be alive. and healthy. i do think, though, it s funny, i put this on facebook and twitter last night to let people know we were going to do it. ost people said i have no problem revealing my age. but are sensitive revealing their weight. we just asked joy behar, she wears like 2 bounds i will, if you don t put on the thing that says wt you weigh. we re aking guests to wear buttons that say their weight or age or both. it s interesting, some people are uomfortle. i get it, who would want to blab it on national tv. it lives forever in cyberspace. the other thing, too, this is established in time. you are your age, but your weight is something that fluctuates. here s my frustration, okay. i was 104 when i got married. that was 24 years ago next month, right? we were out in the hamptons for our friend wedding ov the weekend. a of tse memories come back you to. i realize i ve gained more than one pound every year since i got marry. i weigh more than i was when i was nine months pregnant with cody. no you don t. yes, i do. you weighed 10 i remember distinctly being in sixth grade. everyone was in their 80s and 90s do we have a picture of that? no! i distinctly remember when they weigh you for t presidential thing, i was 101. when you re offer 100 in sixth grade, that s when there s trouble. everyone go, you re 100? nobody cares about your height. you re over 100. that s big. so i think of you being 104. i remember 100 from sixth grade. at s it. i don t remember ever seeing it. a lot of it is bone structure. and my mother used to say as she got old, you know as we get older, we lose so etch weight in our face. i said mother let s forget about the fae. okay? you got to take care of both, if you know what i m saying. i was my heaviest again, we are going to reveal our weight just not right now. we want you to hang in with us. we promise that we will. i remember weighing, i think it was my second job, maybe, i think i weighed close to or more than about 180 170. you re 5 9 hoda. it s a little bloat but that was and at the time, i didn t realize i guess, i don t know, maybe i wasn t as self-conscious. you are in the best shape of your life. we ve been talking about this. here s what i ve done. it s almost one year. after you turn 50, nhing is the same. last year, i gave up all threbr. all sweets you never see me eat sweets, and then about four months ago. i gave up dairy, and my beloved wine, i drink spitzers now. what the heck is left? and yet i gained 4 pounds since yeah. you know what is funny been b th aboutthat? nothing. notng is funny aboutthat. you can eat a bunch of crackers or eat almost nothing, or eat a little. and the next day you gined weight? i m watching and thinking, how is that possible? today i ate almost nothing, i stood on the scale and i gained weight. i don t know abt you, you are 46. after 50, it s all about hormones and you can t control them very much. we want to do a little math. it is just a number. when frank turned 80. he wasn t want to hear about this. when i look like frank when i m 80, he looks unbelievable. i figured if i had frank at 80, i could trade him in for two 40-year-olds, right? that s sweet. then i thought, why uld i want to do that, when i canlso trade him for four 20-year-olds. yes, really? beyond that it gets gross and probably illegal. i thought that would be an interesting thing to think about. let s see what we are up to. do you want to do me first? yeah. what does 46 look like in. what does 46 look like? here they come. come on in, everybody, this is what 46 looks like. oh, look how cute. two 21-year-olds and a 4. you re an adult twice over, hoda. with a 4 yearly. what s her name? this is lilly. hi, lilly. it s nice to see it like that. little more depressing. shall i do me? adds up to 57? oh, no! hello, there. what is your name? look at them. i m not taking them home. look what y could have? you know wha say hello to frank. he can kick your butt. we ll make frank an honorary chip n dale. are you a live chipchippende? absolutely. what is your busize? that s where all of my weight is now. and it seems that you have the same problem, right? a little bit maybe sometimes. yeah, you guys work out how many hours a day actually not that long. >you guys, thank you. thank you really so much. thanks for having us. we deaf lit a appreciate it you know what, this isn t such a bad day atall. no. so far, 36-24-36 and 46. twokids, two 21 yearlies. everybody feels sorry for me. i m the oldest person at the today ow except for willard scott and we ll both be on smukers, you know what i m saying? we ll reveal our weight because we re not scared. we have ourbutton and a marker, we wanted to weigh ourselves in the morning so we have the right weight, we didn t want to give it to them friday, because it may have fluctuated. i went to my friend lauren s wedding, she has been together for 24 years, and they have a baby girl. we see more and more of those weddings. if you were going to buy one pair of workout pan, these are pricey, you put them in the washer, they lok like new, they are $98, they they last forever. and they fit just they fit the body in a great way. they fit you your rear end no. anyway, it s 98 bucks at lulu lemon.com. i ve heard so many things about different sweeteners th scare you. there are a lot of chemicals in that sort of thing. i also switched to trivia. almost no grocery score, no calories at all. yet much, much healthier for you. yeah, yeah, yeah. but i really pretty much i ve given up everything in life about about you, hoda. there s nothing left for me. what joy is there in life, except for friendships? i have dear friends vis iing from hland, michigan. you know my dear, dear friend. ovethere with all of her friends. they wouldn t get on th scale, by the way. they refused to do their age and weight. maybe by the end of the show we ll get them to admit it. are wgoing to sarah? hi, guys. first of all i love lulu lemon pants my brother calls them my uniform. this is the complexion concealer mary uses. it looks great. it s on me every day. it s about $8 at your drug store or whatever. you re probably wearing 33, huh? yes, so are my shoe, 33. i think i got someone else s button. they didn t have any more 25s. you re probably wearing their buttons. we ll talk field, menopause and weight gain with all of the experts. first here s what one woman had to say about her ight. we ll be back after this. 152 i flukctuate five pounds. we ll just say that. and when we re sitting in traffic, i worry i ll have an accident. be right back. so today i m finally going to talk to my doctor about overactive bladder. 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[ male announcer ] of all the things that happen on your wooden sfaces, disinfecting has to be one of them. clorox disinfecting wipes. safe on wood. hard on germs. go-gurt is specially me to freeze and thaw by lunch time? so kids can have their favori yogurt in their lunch box go-gurt. freeze it. thaw it. eat it up. i hatemy weight. but i do it for myself, because i want to eat. 193. that s less than 200. whoo! an she did it with her shoes off. you know what, we re back with our special numbers show, while you may feel there s many numbers to define you, the ones that seem to bother the women most are their ages and weight. whichis why most women lie about it on their drivers licenses. how can they dothat? you can t. plus size super model. we adore. contributing nutritionist. other own joy bauer is with us. this is my mother s age. my mother us to say i m an 18-year-old woman trapped in a 53 yearly mom s body. do you feel that way well? yes. we are going to say. why do you have your age on? why do you choose i don t have to do anything. i m definitely in my 40s but my mom, god rest her soul, said you never talk about your age. it s just one of those things. it s not a big deal. the whole show is about i m not a number. not defined by it. this is what you said, you feel like you so much younger. you feel like insight. mostly, i feel like i m 100 mtly. really in the verb life, i feel like i m in my 20s. yeah. we re talking about age and weight. one thing we talk about a lot is how frustrating it is. older you get, how difficult it is to take off even a single pound. i mean, it drives us in sane. as we get older, i d like to say that the numbers matter a little bit less. i think that we feel more secure in our bodies, and it s less about the scale and it s more about how we look and about how we feel. do you think? i hve a little problem with that, because a lot of women don t want to get on the scale when they come to see me. and they say it doesn t matter. and it sneaks away from you. you know, a lot of time, i have someone who has been my patient for 20 years. they gain a pound or two aware of it, they are not aware of it. suddenly they re 20 pounds heavier. that s the problem. if someone comes in, they are 30 pounds up. they re well, i m working out. truth is, they are kidding themselves. they are increasing their risk for diabetes,eart disease or certain cancers. uterine ganser is the number one cancer and the numbers are going straight up and the risk factor is obesity. do you find a lot of women go into your office completely unaware of what an eating disorder might be. playg with their food. not eating enough or eating too much. there s not too many female doctors that are knowledgeable about these issues. we had this discussion all of the time. what i learned over the year, i had to be specific. not enough to say, are you eating healthy? what did you have for breakfast? i m not eating breakfast because i m on a diet. everybody enjoys fit club, joy. one thing women say, they skip breakfast, that are overweight. you know what happen, that s a bad cycle. you don t eat breakfast in the morning to save calorie, then you re starving by the afternoon and you eat all into the evening and you wake up. you feel bloated and heavy the bagel, high protein i m thenly one, problem a little over 50. did you have that trouble when you hit 50 that nothing was the same? absolutely. the biggest thing that i t, women come in and say, i m gaining weight because i m menopausal. and this whole idea that when your estrogen go down, weight goes up. that s not why women gain weight. i ll tell you. the reason why frst of all what happens in menopause, weight doesn t change it gets redistributed. it goes right to the mid section. your weight will stay the same, your body changes. what happens at mid-life. metabolism changes. your life style changes. instead of making healthy food for the kids, you re going out to kinner having bread and wine every night. y re not theary ro air robics instructor, you re the secretary if i ate like this in my 20s we have to change the system. you re coming bac we ll get some questions from people aoss the street brave enough to wear their buttons. but they could be lying, you know what i m saying? 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(announcer) general mills makes getting whole grain an easy choice. just look for the white check. searching for a hit-and-run driver. a local law student is struck while riding her bike and left for dead. this morning her mother is pleading for someone to come forward. good monday morning. i m pat lawson muse. also coming up today on news 4 midday details about a new bike-sharing program that starts up in washington today. we ll have details. do you plan to do a littl i don t want what i never had i want what i had before god knows i m not asking for more all right. i am. i am. isn t tha a nice little tune? that s from the musical hats. a long called i don t want. a woman turned 50. that was our own kathie lee gifford ng issing i dot want. a songshe wrote for hats. didn t i just say that? can we move it along here? we started off earlier revealing now we ll reveal the second digit no, the third. not the second. so don t get all yes, we do bring it, bring it. okay. there s a blank in between. okay, ready? flip it, flip it. we don t have all day. what is yours? liar. no, it s not. you know it s a little more than that. so we ll reveal the middle digit thank you. okay. thank you very much. how much do you weigh in how old are you? 53. uh-huh, right. i don t think so. okay. now we got that over. it s time to talk about, yes, age. we took to the streets to find out how people react when they re asked to fess up to their age. how old am i? what s nt, weight? what do you think in. you don t tell that. 75. it s over 40. i know it s surprising. come on. i have to tell the truth? 52. okay. 59. i m 36. how old am i? 60. no lie. 27. i forgot. well, i d rather be 60 with a 45-year-old body. i would never tell you my age, ever. it s m secret. like emmy, some people choose. it s their own business and they certainly have a right. now we re joined by a panel of women each represent a different decade from 20 to 60. we have michelle moore. she s a mere 25. i don t know why she s here and 34-year-old ann sachs. next is susan shapiro. she s 56 and she s the author of you re grounded forever but first let s go shopping. last but not least mary jane foster age 60. welcome, brave women. now, was it were you intimidated when we asked you to wear the button? raise your hand when you thought, i really don t want to do that. i think you cringe when you think of your age. that s the problem. i came on, because i think we re bold to do this. the right thing to do. there s still the stigma, isn t there? as far as everything, as far as we come, there still isn t there s still this stigma. do you think so? absolutely. i felt fine about my age. everybody knows i m 60. until i got to thinking about what other people might have limited my opportunities, going forward? so everybody is, so, i had no idea you were 60. that s why emmy chose not she said i make my living as a model. i don t want my age to be an image a problem. i changed careers so many time, and i may agai i don t want someone to say you can t do that, you re too old. when you re 25 like michelle. it s funny, i remember 25as moment momentus. i remember thinking i felt i was getting older at that time. how does 25 fit on you? i am aware of 25. i am embarring on my second half of 20s, going 30. you re a quarter of a century old. do you know that? so old. but i m aware. i know i m young, but i m aware of every year that i get older. and, are you thinking about 40 when you re 34. is that going through you or no? definitely. i m about to move to the other side. karel if, sweetheart. the other side? dark side. i m going to be clos to 40 than i am 30. do you feel like you ve achieved what you want to achieve at the age of 34? i think i d b really sad if i achieved what i wanted to achieve at 34. i would have to go home and sit on the so fa. no, there s moreo achieve. stephanie, at 43, i know you ll tell the truth. so actually, on th side these or the other side. it s the other side of young is actually an amazing place to be in my experience and experience of women whowrite on my blog. i m thrilled to be here. i feel it s a privilege to get older. i feel more confident. happier, more signature, i feel i have more power than i had when i looked sort of objectively closer to hot. it s a different kind of hot that women from this side on. no that you re not hod. get to be. menopausal hot. its i confidence is what you when you re on this sde of the room. if you re through divorce, or with children with addictions, wheryou feel you re failed as a parent. you feel you have your shot, and i blew it. i think you have to be a model for your children. you re building a career and have interesting. my daughters told me i needed to be photo shopped bcause they re in it. for my book photo. they are 23 and 30 years old. i did. they are not photo shopped in the picture, just me. now you look like sisters. that s so nice. we have a lot of people across the street who want to ask you questions about age and weight too and all of that stuff. all of that is coming up. we ll continue our conversation and maybe give you that last digit. don t know, i m still thinking about it. first here what these ladies have to say about i hate my age. i hate being 41. i hate geing older, i hate getting fatter. i believe my age is a refl z reflection of who i am. i have a lot of love in my heart. so we customized a pro-v system that in test, outlasts the flop. the results? 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message cloud and clear they want a change. vincent gray wins the democratic primary against mayor fenty. and will now likely become the city s next mayor. with 90% of the precincts reporting, gray has received 53% of the vote to fenty s 46%. we re told the mayor called gray this morning to concede the race. matt acland is live at the board of election headquarters in northwest with the latest. good morning, matt. reporter: good morning tony and allison. you can believe it was over. it was a long night last night and this mayor race is what everyone is talking about this morning, whether they wanted the mayor to win or they are so excited that the chairman has won. it s on the minds of so many people. we should update you with the information we have. we are told that chairman gray is expected to hold a press conference to make some kind of speech at noon today at the same hotel where he was early this morning. in fact we have some video to show you. this is right around 2:00 this morning. it was a very long night waiting for those votes to come in. but chairman gray stood up in front of his supporters and talked to them about how now he wants to focus on the city and for everyone to come together. but people were upset because it did take so long for the votes to come in. the polls stopped at 8:00, we thought we were going to get some results in the next couple of hours but it wasn t really late. and just a little while ago i had a chance to talk the executive director of the board of elections and ethics. here is what he had to say about all of that. i understand their concern. i ve done a lot of campaign work before i became an election administrator and i ve been on the other side so i know exactly what they are going through when they are looking for results but we are concerned about accuracy and with everything going on with all of the problems that happened in 2008 and with the issues with poll workers in the morning, we wanted to make sure everything was done properly. reporter: and are you still looking into what happened yesterday morning with some of the issues that you had? the issues that we had yesterday morning were typical of a new rollout of equipment. if you look at any jurisdiction across the country that rolls out new equipment, what happened yesterday happens across the country. it was nothing different. we ll fix our training and tweak a few things and be a lot better in november. reporter: it sounds like everything will be working well in november for the general election. we ll have to wait and see. just a recaat this point we know that chairman gray will speak to the media at noon today. we are going to be there. as far as mayor fenty, we ve been trying to reach his folks but so far we don t know when he will speak to the media about this devastating loss last night. we ll keep you updated throughout the day. back to you. it was a tough race for the two candidates, including mayor fenty who faced accusations of being detached and not focused. karen gray houston has been covering this race. she joins us to talk about it. thank you for coming in. it was a late night. yes. at 2:30. you were with the fenty camp last night and give me a sense of what they were feeling last night? do they have a sense of why things turned out the way they did? if you watched who was at the campaign headquarters, it was young campaign volunteers and workers. they were the average age was 25 or less. and so it was really i ve covered a lot of the primary elections and general elections and you normally see people attached to your administration, there were a few of those there. people from outside of the government, civic groups, church and union leaders and none of those people were there. so that was a little bit unusual. did they get why it happened? i think what happened is people want to like their mayor and it had gotten to the point where he was not as likeable and they were used to. he had a couple of terms as a city counsel person who was mr. constituent. if you needed something, he would show up and try to get it for you. and all of a sudden he wasn t as responsive. there were little old black ladies that said i tried to help him, i was there when he needed me and now he s turned his back on me and we used to joke about it in the media. if you throw a rock out the window, adrian fenty will show up and then all of a sudden he wasn t there any more. leading up to it, because when you talk about things like that it seems like sort of vague or this isn t a popularity contest, this is an election and based on these results, some say he should have been re-elected. was there a sense that, wow, this is coming down to this and we might not be in power? i think it came if they that had sense, i m not sure. or we they were they too young to grasp? i don t know. people who covered the government and couldn t get answers to phone calls or e- mails got it. they were young. and they were trying to do things. i think it happened over time. there was the thing with the baseball ticket and that seemed small tickets and why would you let that go on for a long time. there were allegations of the cronyism and there is an investigation still going on about how wrong that was. and so little things that happened and oh, the teachers were fired. people wanted the reform of the school system. and they got a lot of the reform, but they don t like the way it happened. maybe it s too soon to ask this question, but do we have any indication of what mayor fenty might do from here? there was talk before, not from him, but there was talk about maybe he ll be a write-in candidate, did we have any sense of where he would go from here. and i did ask him if he would be a write-in candidate and he said he won t answer until after this election was over. that s a possibility. and we asked last night if he would look ahead and he refused to and he was not in the mood last night to concede the race. all right. karen gray houston. when you look back six months ago, this is certainly a startling turn of events. thank you very much. appreciate it. your welcome. in prince george s county, baker is the winner. he beat out michael jackson. he won with 44%. michael jackson got 33% of the vote and samuel dean had 13%. we got more from stacy cohan live in upper marlborough. stacy, good morning. reporter: well good morning. and this race is let startling than what happened in washington, d.c. but it s original in its own way. you have rash earn baker three times, and i asked him why you would run three times. and he was determined. and now he beat out michael jackson, the sheriff for two terms. jackson has been endorsed by jack johnson. that was not enough to put him over the top. and indeed baker, in talking casually last night thanked his supports and said he knew he had a big job ahead. we feel good about where we are right now. the campaign came through. but the most important thing, and we talked about this probably ad nauseam, was our education system and creating jobs and that s what i want to do with county executives. i have some great partners and i m happy to party with the people that made it happen. reporter: when the party is over, the county office building is behind me and this is where the county executive and county council do their general business. and in fact today, baker will hold a press conference and i imagine we ll hear more about all of this. stacy cohan, fox 5 news. our coverage of the primary results continues a little later this morning. it was a big night for the tea party. the latest on that story coming up at 9:30. and for all of your primary election results head to your website, myfoxdc.com. well most parents know that prescription drugs can be used by teens to get high but did you know the over the count counter could have syrup can cough searup could be tainted. much more ahead. we re back after the break. right now it s 9:09. a fox 5 health alert. a food and drug administration panel have decided over-the- counter cough medicines should stay that way and not be moved behind the counter. the group was considering requiring the move because doctor are reporting liver failure and even death among mostly teen-agers and preteens who use the products to get high. an fda report said emergency room visits related to cough medication abuse shot up 73% from 2004 to 2008. if you are a parent who have never heard of this problem, you re not alone. joining us this morning, dr. kirsten hawkins from georgetown university hospital. also assistant professor of pediatrics medical center. dr. hawkins, thank you for being with us. thank you for having me. and so what is your reaction to this and in the medical world. the fda was asked to review it in 2007 by the dea because the teens using the over-the- counter cough syrups and as well as tablets and cap lets. it s been a trend that started in the 80s and with the event of the internet it s taken off. you can see clips on you tube using dexa dorfin. and at the expected dosage that is recommended by the manufacture, it s a safe medication. but when abused as 10-20% times the correct dosage you get a euphoria, similar to pcp or ketamine. and when it s 2:00 notice morning and your running in to grab cough syrup. you don t want to know its prescription only. do you think it s because most people don t abuse it. a lot of people don t recognize that it does have an abuse potential. but unfortunately it is well- known among the teenage population that it s an easy high. as a parent, what are we looking out for. how do you know since this is still available. one is knowing your chin and know the side effects and often the cost preparations contain other things like acetaminophen and that can cause death taking in too much. and you have seen this i d. i did. i saw a person sick from acetaminophen. and is it safe? in regular dosages over the age of four. they are not recommended for younger children. but for younger teens and adults they are a safe medication. so we do know that studies show there are things just as good for honey, like even honey. and some of the mixtures are being used with other drugs? sure. it s a huge problem in and of themself. they can get high from it. teens can purchase the powder form which is frightening because they can get higher quickly compared to drinking one or two bottles of the searup. and it s worse when they inhale it or inject the powder. so literally, taking a pea spoon is hard sometimes. you re talking about a whole bottle. correct. it depends on their weight and how much they need to get high. that s unbelievable, actually. well they ve been around for a long time and so just from word of mouth, and it s a problem in the u.s. and europe an asia. it s a worldwide phenomenon. we saw some medications used to be available and some of the other allergy medicines, is this effected by that. is anything coming to the counter now? no. anything linked to abuse potential with crystal meth in particular, those are still available behind the counter. so you have to show the product. and not necessarily make those prescriptions, or put them behind the counter, but do the one extra step. it s most abused between the teens and preteens. thank you, doctor. thank you so much. tony, over to you. now to those tainted eggs that came from an iowa farm. congressional investigators say records show wright county egg knew it had problems with salmonella before the outbreak. investigators say the form had more than 400 positive test results of salmonella. they have sickened more than 1500 people. consumer reports is still not impressed with apple s iphone 4. they say the solution for the wantenna problem antenna problem says it is not sufficient with us. but they want a permanent fix for the design flaw. a pilot yanked off a plane in amsterdam bound for newark. where authorities there say he was not fit to fly. plus holly is working on her acrobatic career this morning. reporter: if i was doing what she was doing, i would be in need of special attention. and we are live at national harbor and coming up we ll see firsthand why the show is so amazingly impressive. look mom, one hand. that is amazing. as we go to break, here is a look at the a few of the results from last night s primaries. you can see all of these listed on myfoxdc.com. it s 9:19 and we re back in a moment. a hostage situation in forestville, maryland, is now over. suspect shot himself in the head and has been taken to the hospital. the 37-year-old walked into a home in the 8600 block of richieboro road in forestville last night and got into an argument with a woman and held her at gunpoint. a nine hour standoff ensued. investigators say the woman is an acquaintance and she was not hurt. an accused drunk driver could soon be facing involuntary manslaughter charges. the woman julia bach lightner passed away yesterday after a six-day fight to survive. she and her friend were run over last week at the intersection of florida and u. in adams morgan. the driver crashed into a restaurant. police arrested 23-year-old shammicca adams. both girls had just started a new semester at johns hopkins. johns hopkins has a great place with counselors available so we ve been able to hold some open forum sessions if students wanted to come and talk about their situation and their feelings. the classmate is still recovering but has been released from the hospital. the driver of the car was ordered into a high intensity supervision program and is not allowed to drink any alcohol but all of these conditions change if new charges are filed today. a frightening robbery in virginia caught on camera. police release this surveillance video, hoping for a tip that leads them to the suspect. it happened yesterday afternoon at the hair cutter inashburn, virginia. keep an eye on the man in the hat. he walks into the salon pretending to shop but when the employee opens the register, he pulls a knife on her. the suspect got away with all of the cash in the register. fortunately no one was hurt. florida police are looking for the clues of an alexandria businessman. samuel dell brocko was found dead in his apartment over the weekend. he lived there parttime and was the ceo of cpi communications and police confirm it was a homicide. a delta airlines pilot accused of trying to fly while intoxicated. the 52-year-old was pulled from the cockpit before he could take off from amsterdam to new jersey. he had been pulled away from the gate or he had already pulled away from the grate when police stopped the plane. a breathalyzer test found he had a blood alcohol level aboth the netherlands legal limit and faa standards. dutch prosecutors fined him $910. he is suspended from flying pending the investigation. the last big night of primaries is over. i m doug luzader in washington. wel have more on the results just ahead. and you 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[ male announcer ] perdue perfect portions. ready when you are. never one to shy away from the media. clinton portis has thrust himself into the tv reporter harassment controversy. this all started when she went to cover the jets practice and tweeted she felt uncomfortable and the victim of cat calls and whistles from flyers and players and coaches. he chided during an interview about female journalists in the locker room. you put women reporters in the locker room in the position to see guys walking around naked and you share the locker room with 53 guys and all of a sudden you see a nice woman in the locker room, and i think it isn t going to [ inaudible ] you say something to that woman. you give a woman with a choice of 53 athletes someone is going to [ inaudible ] and she s going to want somebody. what kind of woman won t. that took a different direction. redskins spokesperson tony wyley released a statement saying that the washington redskins have a clear and unambiguous policy and will take the necessary steps to remind everyone about it. as the entire league is doing right now just to make sure everyone is on the same page. interesting. that is true. yes. the weather looks great for sunday afternoon. stay away from that. yeah. a big redskin game this sunday. it will be good-looking weather. and appropriate weather. and very appropriate weather, yes. not too hot, not too cold. exactly. anything you want to add, tony? nope. let s get to it and talk temperatures. 70 degrees at reagan national. 64 in gaithersburg. a nice, cool start to the day. 50s off to the north and west this morning. well into the 60s. and we ll jump in the low 80s this afternoon. and going to feel great. 64 in martinsberg. 70 in fredericksberg. a lot of sunshine in the forecast. lighter winds than yesterday. it s going to be a great couple of days around here. and that includes most of tomorrow. we re going to cloud up a little bit later during the day tomorrow and increasing chance of showers thursday night and into friday. but you can see right now, we have a little northwest flow out there and a lot of clear skies out to the west. so today will be fine and tonight will be fine and then we cloud up during the day tomorrow as this area of storminess will track to the region. area of low pressure tracking north and west of us, but driving a cold front through here. so thursday night and friday is our next best chance for rain. and the good news is it will be out of here by friday afternoon and we ll quiet it down for the weekend. one place it is not quiet. atlantic basin. this is our third active storm now. this is tropical storm karl, maximum winds 65 miles per hour. it is pushing into the yucatan as we speak and we have tropical watches and warnings posted there. that will re-emerge and likely to become a hurricane. this is hurricane karl, still a category four with winds of about 145 miles per hour and gusts over 160. this will track off out to the west moving north, northeast and could make a direct impact with bermuda into sunday or sunday night. we ll see how close the eye wall tracks to bermuda. that could be a problem. out to the east, hurricane julia. but none of these likely to impact the eastern seaboard over the next week or so. our forecast a a good one. 83 degrees and winds out of the north and west at 5 miles per hour. and another cool, comfortable overnight and winds nice and light out of the northeast at 5 miles per hour. could be late showers on thursday night and friday. and you can see right now as you have out door plans for the weekend, couldn t be better. saturday and sunday with a lot of sunshine. that will do it for the forecast. back to you. it looks like a rematch alley and bob ehrlich in the governor s race in maryland. o malley handling the two challengers with 83% of the vote. on the republican side, former governor ehrlich beat challenger brian murphy 76% to 24%. a big night for the tea party movement before the november election. the results have shaken up the republican party. doug luzader has more on the final numbers from capitol hill. reporter: a kind of a mixed night for republicans. plenty of enthusiasm out there but the tea party movement could be difficult to contain. republican christine donnell is backed by the tea party express, she bested the moderate mike cassel, a fixture in the state s republican party which fought tooth and nail to make sure o donnell wouldn t win. and if those same people who fought against me worked just as hard for me, we will win. [ cheering and applause ] i would like to thank the republican party for its support. reporter: cassel conceded but the republican party says it will not help o connell in november s general election where most give her little chance of beating chris coons. tea party helped to beat rick hasyo. if we ve learned anything tonight it s that new yorkers are mad as well. reporter: but it wasn t all bad. charlie rangel ended up easily winning his primary despite facing a slew of ethics charges. but so far this has been a season for the underdogs. largely uncontested candidates who look forward to even bigger challenges in november. and the great unknown in all of this, is how will the tea party backed candidates do in a general election where independent voters play a much larger role. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. you may have seen the hope diamond at the smithsonian. well now you can own a little piece of smithsonian jewelry. not the hope diamond itself. is it real? the hope diamond or that? what you can own? no. we ll talk about the move to help raise money and give you a little shimmer. it s great stuff. it s the kind of car every guy wants to drive. and now this classic car it s a classic car. is auction-block bound. but how much will this ride cost you? we ll have that for you next. and as we go to break, here is a look at some of the results from last night s primaries. you can see all of them at our website at myfoxdc.com. stay with us. it s 9:36. what s all this? big news! we have another way to help you save. oh, really? how? by bundling. if you get your homeowners and auto insurance together, we give you even more savings. ooh! big bundle. [ chuckling ] home and auto together. it s like peanut butter and jelly. oh, or like burgers and fries. or pickles and ice cream. unicorns and glitter! no? bundling to save you more. now, that s progressive! call or click today. you re going to want to see this. a new collection of gems is on display at the smithsonian. now fans can own a piece of the history. the smithsonian is partnering with qvc to sell a new line of jewelry based on the collection. the designers work with curators to make re creations. some of the favorites are an edwardian diamond and pearl ring going for just $154. they are replicas. some turquoise earrings based on a wedding gift from napoleon to marie louis. this is a chance to show off the pieces we have in our collection and tell the story about the collection and a lot of the work we do here at the smithsonian. so we re excited for a lot of reasons. there are 23 pieces in the first sale. a second is planned for december. and proceeds will help fund the museum. for more information go to myfoxdc.com and click on the money tab. and qvc has done this before, when i was in some of the remote places i used to work, you watch a lot of tv at night and at 4:00 in the morning and they did a hollywood collection. and you can have a replica of a marilyn monroe ring. it s a creative way of trying to get some extra money. and get people involved in history. one of the most famous cars in the world is now on the market. this is the 1964 astin martin db 5 driven by 007 james bond. shawn connery slipped behind the wheel of the car in gold finger and thunder ball. the car is on display at sutherbys in new york this week. it will go on auction in london next month. it is expected to bring in $5 million. get this, the original owner paid $12,000 for it in 1969. beautiful, pristine condition. that is wow. that would be great to have. well it s the transportation of the future. and there is another competitor in the electric car industry. and you might not even be able to tell there is anything different about this car. we re getting a closer look next. and there is a new cirque du soleil show in town and holly has a front-row seat. she s up next. and taking a look at the last night results in our area. it s 9:41 and we ll be right back. don t forget american idol is coming on in jan. j lo is the new judge. and if you take a closer look you ll see what make this is different from any other saidan. sarah simmons is out on the fox lot with 100% electric car that you could see here in our area soon. tell us about it. reporter: it is called cota, if you couldn t tell by the hood here, and with us today is the ceo of cota automotive. his name is kevin zinger and he s here to tell us how the 100% electric car works. one of the few in the country. no gas whatsoever? it s on a no-liquid diet and it s manufactured in california and coming out this year. and here by 2011 sometime. in the washington, d.c. area, the end of 2011, the start of 2012. reporter: so she me under the hood. this will look different than your normal vehicle. this has a motor, as you call it. yes. this is all electronic. there is virtually no oil running through this, no small explosions from gasoline happening. it s really very, very few moving parts, which need very little maintenance. and the result of what is under the hood here coupled to a very advanced battery system means that you can meet all of your daily driving needs without using an ounce of oil and having zero tailpipe emissions. reporter: how fast can this go? are we talking upwards of 100 miles per hour? how fast does it go? it is designed to meet on or off the highway roads. we ve limited it to 85 miles per hour to make sure you are getting the maximum range while commuting and we believe the minimum range you need to get to feel comfortable that you can get anywhere in your daily driving and getting home is about 100 miles. and so we ve limited that. but no one is supposed to be going over 85 miles per hour and the car has a lot of pep. well if you could pop the area, which actually looks like a gas tank, tony and allison, where you would possibly put your gasoline. and this is where you plug in the car. what do you need to get this charged and how long does it hold a charge? our belief is that for the initial electric cars in the modern era, people are going to use the home as their filling station. so in order to charge this car, you can plug into your normal 110-volt wall outlet, but what we suggest is that you put in your garage or somewhere outside of your home the equivalent of a automotive drier plug. it will be like the outlet that you have for your drier in your home. and so if you come home with this car and it s nighttime and you plug it in the garage and the car charges in a couple of hours, if you ve done a typical 40-50-mile drive and then ready to go the next morning. you unplug-and-play. reporter: how far can you go on one charge? is it more of a commuter car? the range is 90-120 miles. and we re being conservative with that range. so if you drive very, very aggressively and have the air- conditioning on and on the highway, it will be 90-100 miles. the reality that people find out is on average in california, people are driving total weekdays each day is about 35 miles. so this gives them a lot of additional range over that. and we feel that the most important thing is if your home is your charging station, you can get home? so on the screen in the car it will say here is how many miles you have left and here is how far you are from home. reporter: now how much of an environmental gain are you getting by doing this 100% electric? it has to be significant. very significant. there are zero tailpipe emissions coming out of the car. and if you look, even if the cars were from 100% coal-fired power, you would still have substantial reduction in green house gases. but more importantly this allows your car to be something for the energy for it is sources locally. we re not bringing in foreign oil to power the cars, we re using, for our own economic benefit, in america, locally generated electricity and we feel that s also key. kevin zinger with cota automotive. what does it stand for? truth, justice and the american way. it signals the end of a large piece of music and the start of something new, so we re the start of a new era. reporter: well we appreciate bringing your new cota automobile by here today, kevin, and we ll be looking for it sometime next year in the washington area. it will be out in california first. thank you for coming by. thank you, sarah. very cool. thank you, sarah. one day, we ll be living cleaner. i look forward to it. well aerial acts, dancing, acrobatics are some of the things you can see at the national hor bore now through october 24th. this morning holly morris is out there to learn more about the cirque du soleil show called ovo. holly, it looks incredible, like all of their shows are. reporter: i think it s unfair to say it s just aerial artists or acrobats but when we talk about obo, we re talking about death-defying butterflies and ants and con for shunnist contortionists. and clearly she can t have any bones, right? the performers here are absolutely spectacular. there are 54 performers in this show alone. it just hurts me watching here. they are from 16 different countries. and they are here to entertain and entertain and wow you. and it doesn t stop there. that is just one of the very talented performers out there. karl lickay is a trap lien performer or more simply, a cricket. i m one of the 12 crickets in the show. reporter: and we have some video. and tell me about what your act does? it is the finale of the show, we re doing trapelline, a little bit like floor gymnastics and it s a mix of acrobats. it is people running up walls, kept weather and so it s slipping. reporter: that s very brazilian. and that s cool. we ve featured that before a time or two. but you have to do all of the stunts yet be a bug. yes. we have to stay as a cricket while flipping and we re keeping the angle position in the arms instead of having nice line like competition, you have to do it. reporter: you can do the bug form for me? yes. and so if you do that, you have bended elbows and knees and so you can jump on the side or jump down. or if you want to go upside down like other bugs do. so like that. that s another bug position. reporter: all in a day s work at cirque du soleil. so this is where you guys keep trained and in tune on this rockwall back here. we warm up our body and our hands because doing rock climbing all of the time is hard on your hands. reporter: clearly it takes a lot of strength, but you were telling me before it s about your core? it s about the core, the strength and flexibility so you can move your center point close to the wall to keep balance on the rock. reporter: that s pretty cool. did you grow up thinking i m going to be a cirque du soleil performer some day? yes and no. i have been doing tram poline since i was 8 years old. reporter: you seem so young. so do even you guys get amazed at what the other acts can do? all of the time. we get impressed with the other ones. if you take the ants, they re foot juglers. that was the first time we ve seen that. or someone like islama, she s bendy. she s the rubber lady. reporter: and you had opening night last thursday and how have things been so far? washington is good. they have a lot of noise and a lot of clapping. it s helping to give them a good show. and we can give them as much energy as asked. reporter: i was on my seat at the end of the show on friday night. it was great. and the crickets were my favorite. the spiders were my favorite. no, all of the bugs were my favorite. here through october 24th. myfoxdc.com is our website. we have a link so cirque du soleil. they have shows every day of the week except monday. they have multiple shows on friday, saturday and sunday and they ve added a few showers for shows for thursday. and check it out so you can come out and be wowed yourself. that guy on that rockwall is like spider pan. he performs at night and is a superhero at night. your mask is slipping. we know who you are. a final check of your forecast is coming up after the break. also, something more. yes. well i read what i was supposed to read. if you have a question you would like to know the answer to, well head to myfoxdc.com and click on the morning tab to a link to ask allison. i will talk about anything you want to talk about. let s talk. hey. i said let s talk. we do it friday during fox 5 morning news. we ll be right back. ring ring. progresso. everyday i eat your soups, i save a lot of money. that s great. so, your rich and hearty soups have made me, rich and hearty. that s funny. i m hearty because of your juicy steak, your potatoes. you re really, rich and happy. 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