Page 13 - Half Back News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Welcome back to "first look." i'm lynn berry. for years, the new york yankees successfully closing a game with mariano rivera has become as inevitable as death and taxes. >> reporter: good morning. here's a 12-time all star, a five-time world series champ. now the yankees' mariano rivera is now the best closer to ever play the game. he pitched a perfect ninth inning, passing trevor hoffman for the most saves in history. rivera etches his names in the record books after a 6-4 win. for a brief moment, the rays were a game and a half back in the wild card race yesterday. baltimore won 6-5. howeve...

Mexico but paul morrison, chairman of the santa fe county republican committee says the state needs to draw a line. do you feel illegal immigrants who can't get legal status should go become to mexico? >> probably yes, on balance, although i would rather they got a legal way in. >> reporter: but most said they can't get it. what do you advise them to do? >> i don't know. i don't have an answer. >> reporter: we have heard the same story from many illegal immigrants, becoming legal isn't that easy. pedro says he paid an immigration lawyer to help him. you gave this lawyer $5,000 to see if he can...

Of one tim russert. >> oh. >> good to have somebody from john carroll representing. >> thank you. let's do another piece of trivia, justin byron "whizzer" white the only supreme court justice in this sport's hall of fame. which one is it? >> this is an easy one for some people out there including my friend at msnbc.com, vaughan. it is the college football hall of fame. earned his nickname "whizzer" as a half back for the university of colorado buffaloes, perhaps the last time the university of colorado buffaloes actually mattered in competitive college football. save your e-mails for my twee...

In other words, either, if you're going to see multi-year currency moves in one second, which we saw yesterday, if you're going to see a more than 1,000-point move in the dow industrial average, which is what happened yesterday, you either have a market which would reflect real pricing, that would be an atom bomb require the pricing you saw yesterday, or you don't actually have a stock market, you have a gigantic computer that is prone to these malfunctions, which is more evidence of the underlying heart disease, if you will, in our financial system. in other words, think about whether a stabl...

Should have been kept he had and a half back. that's a short. in