so no, bert and ernie will not marry. >> put the gay rumors to rest about bert and ernie, that's good. rientation. so no bert and ernie will not marry. >> put the gay rumors to rest about bert and ernie, that's good. >>> here are some stories to watch today on abc news. venezuela's president hugo chavez, who claims he is cancer-free, will have more chemotherapy today in a cuban hospital. chavez will not say when he will return home. >>> investigators in missouri want to know if bicycle training wheels they found will help lead them to 3-year-old breeann rodriguez. she disappeared saturday. >>> and president obama welcomes the green bay packers to the white house today. he's celebrating the team's super bowl victory. >> reminds me football's around the corner. i love this time of year. >> you're a football fan? >> let's go saints. >>> finally, los angeles is known to lead the way when it comes to restaurants. let's hope this latest trend catches on and heads east. >> so you can check it out. it is not the e cuisine rob is excited for, let's be clear. it's the fun and games they're serv

lieutenant ernie. when was the last gun buy back we had? >> approximately 2 months ago. >> how many more will we have? >> again. it's all a matter of putting together the resource. we do get a lot of resolvers. it's a matter of getting all the people together. >> what people are you talking about? who do you need to make it happen. it's a resource program. the police department needs officers to do the leg work and footwork. we need the community also. i always call san francisco a village not a city. people transverse so easy. east san jose and west jose. they are here. one shooting effects everybody in this room. i hate to talk statistic. one crime affects you. you. it doesn't matter who it is. >> why is it so hard to get people together? >> let's make it a priority >> can i say, i mentioned earlier. i think that it's beginning to happen. i don't want to negate those efforts are being made from the mayors office and d.c. yf. i think john osaki mentioned it before. getting people to come together for the betterment of the community not for

are bert and ernie more than friends? >>> overseas markets got off to a quick start before losing some steam. tokyo's nikkei average lost 18 points today. hong kong's hang seng is barely up in late trading and in london the ftse is down early. now, on wall street the dow gained 423 points yesterday. the nasdaq index gained 111 points. and this was the fourth day in a row that the dow moved more than 400 point, something that's never happened before and one big reason for the upswing was the positive jobless claims report. positive corporate earnings reports also helped out. >>> americans looking for more welcome economic news should watch the gas pumps. energy experts say gas prices could drop 50 cents a gallon over the next few weeks. oil prices have been sinking amid the market fluctuations dropping below $85 a barrel in overnight trading. >>> and the u.s. postal service is thinking about cutting 120,000 jobs. it also wants to make major changes to its retirement and health benefit plans. the moves would require congres

bert and ernie were created to teach preschoolers. people can be good friends with those different from themselves. as puppets they don't have any sexual orientation. >>> the phantom killers of the taliban. the cia downplaying the number killed by the drones. we'll talk about the controversy with a counterterrorism expert right after this. unmanned drone aircraft long been a major weapon in the u.s. battle against al qaeda and the taliban in pakistan. civilians have sometimes been killed by mistake. now a report by a british and pakistani journalist group says the civilian death toll has been far higher than the u.s. acknowledged. according to the london-based bureau for investigative journalism. thousands of people have been killed since 2004. of those, the report says 385 were civilians. a senior u.s. official tells cnn that report is way off the mark. he says that since 2001, 2,000 militants have been killed in drone attacks in pakistan and only 50 civilians have been killed. joining us from washington to talk more about this is br

though chances for a wedding for bert and ernie seem a wedding f and ernie still nil, but ernie may proclaim who he is true to, but the gay spoofs keep bubbling up. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> all right. well, keeping a close eye on the market and your bottom line, and others are thinking of ways to take advantage of the instability. we have top tips on how you can protect yourself. [ male announcer ] imagine all of your missed opportunities in one place. ♪ the front-row tickets you never bought. the lucrative investment you never made. the exotic vacation you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus rx. but only until september 6th. see your lexus dealer. >>> the roller coaster ride has many people in the stock market worried about the bottom line. and there are scammers out there ready to take full advantage of your vulnerability. alison kosik, what should we look out for and how do we know we will be scammed? >> the better business bureau is warning people you will find warning sca

there are calls for better and ernie to get married. it's the brainchild of chicago man who says we're not asking that sesame street do anything crude or disrespectful. only that they allow better and ernie to marry or even add a transgender character to the show. evangelist lar evangelist. spongebob squarepants also targeted because they hold hands a lot. they, too, accused of sending the wrong message but according to the creator of the better and ernie petition to get married a same-sex marriage or gay character on television will teach tolerance. he says they're best friends. they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation. still, should there be gay characters on children's television. facebook.com/americanmorning. it's all on the front page of the "new york post." sesame wed furor. >> i always thought they were brothers. to find out they're friends, that's cleared up a little more for me. >> they can't possibly be brothers. they have different-shaped heads. >> i think what the chicago man is trying to point out. but can't

from sesame street to be married to you in case you're not familiar with bert and ernie let us remind you a little clip. what are you doing with cookies and cookies and just one group or choice sort of a few cookies before i went to sleep. those cookies while you're. wondering. you know there are actually some really dirty clips of mine when we are live here late in the day that people created just to play the burden or anything but whatever if you watch this in the street it's pretty obvious bernie are gay and i kind of think it's the first. i kind of think that it's a fun idea i don't know that it's not really where we're at what are you talking about ok will never forgive me first of all it's a roommate situation that they couldn't possibly film with a wall between the two beds otherwise you would have this repartee about eating cookies but they do i mean we hear it weird the homoerotic i have to write like i do you know me write them all the hokies was not the best example but i'm just saying on the show homoeroticism is fine why is this suddenly weird i mean but the main thing is

cnn's jeanne moos has that. >> reporter: do bert and ernie have a secret? are the "sesame street" muppets coming out of the closet? >> what if they are gay? what if they're neck deep in each other's clothes every night? >> reporter: the anywgay buzz h been around for years but now there's an online petition asking "sesame street" to let bert and ernie get married. the petition was dreamed up by gay activist blair scott. >> when i was 9 years old i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> reporter: there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> reporter: they take baths together. look at the photo on their wall. >> that's our picture. >> reporter: oh, sure, there are also counter insidecations. >> let's talk about bert's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a unibrow like that unplucked. if there's one things gays do, it's pluck. >> reporter: they've been together more than 41 years, and just as folks speculated that tinky winkie the purple telly tubby with the purse was gay, rumors have swirled around th

because i'm going to be curious what are the room tax dollars i didn't spend on bert and ernie and use the child to sleep or spending so much time on each array to worry about the stock market of course getting a lot of coughing because there's just so high stress and tense all the time yeah and maybe he got some time back today some socks i fear for our future. days some days not going to happen i got around. thanks for joining me this evening and for you thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday so the baby is using older rich men to help pay off their college loans they were all the rage in the media lately so we're going to speak to journalist melanie about her foray into the land of the free people and it means i'm going to get from the family a lot of your facebook to follow us on twitter you can catch everything on youtube dot com slash the alone a shelf and coming up next is adam versus the max. rachel martin here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture. wealthy british style in the stock. market find out. why not what's really

. >> reporter: do bert and ernie have a secret? are the sesame street muppets coming out of the closet? >> what if they are gay? what if they're neck deep in each other's fuzz every night. >> reporter: the gay buzz has been around for years but now there's an online petition asking sesame street to let bert and ernie get married. the petition was dreamed up by gay activist lair scott. >> when i was $9 year old i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> reporter: there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> reporter: they take baths together. look at the photo on the wall. >> that's our picture. >> reporter: sure there are counterindications. >> let's talk about bert's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a union i brow like that unplucked. if there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. >> reporter: they've been together more than 41 years and just as folks speculated that the purple telly tubby with the purse was gay, rumors have swirled around the roommate muppets. >> bert, not ga

back to you. >>> should bert and ernie get married? >> there is a petition started by a gay group which asked that question. apparently more than 900 people think they should. the petition echoes the message of the it gets better project. the puppet pair has long been rumored to be a representation of a gay couple. >>> a lot of people are excited about this. the oakland raiders open their preseason at home against the arizona cardinals. >> one guy lawrence karnow may be pumped up. the raiders first game under the new head coach hue jackson. the regular season game is september. 49ers first preseason game at new orleans tomorrow night catch all the action with dennis o'donnell and company right here on cbs 5. >> lawrence is not just excited. ers perky. >> giddy! >> they were 8-last year. they really improved and i think they are putting it together. they lost a couple of key players. they have to get past that but i think the raiders things are looking up. >> the new coach hue jackson. i think he has a lot of energy and that's wearing o

. >>> a petition on change.org is calling on pgs to say better and ernie are gay. >>> finally, tv guide reports ashton kutcher taking over for charlie sheen on "two and a half men" is the highest paid actor. tmz says it's $800,000 to $900,000. regardless, that's still behind sheen's former salary of $1.2 million an episode. and they're all making peanuts compared to simon cowell who owns and appears on "the x factor." he's laughing all the way to the bank. >> it all kind of makes sense to me. better and ernie did share a room together. >>> this comes to us from news center 1 in rapid city, south dakota. where at mount rushmore a few locals took part in patriotic patchwork. a momento from one of america's darkest days recently arrived at the mount rushmore national memorial. the damaged flag is on a nationwide restoration tour. volunteers sfich together a selection of the flag adding their contribution to a symbolic repair job. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> a group of actors in hungary are really dedicated to their c

. >>> next, why some people think bert and ernie want to plan a weekend getaway to new york. stay with us. [ male announcer ] where'd you get that idea? how'd you learn to do that? what'd you use? every project we finish comes with a story built-in. it's how our rough ideas become "you did that yourself?" so when we can save more on the projects that let us fix, make, and do more... that just makes the stories even better. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. right now get this vanity and matching mirror for just $99. >>> come on. you know the thoughts crossed your mind. it's one of the longest standing pop culture conspiracy theories that muppets bert and ernie are more than just pals living together on "sesame street." for decades, viewers of the iconic children's show have pointed to what they say is subtle and not so subtle evidence of a love affair. you be the judge. ♪ i like you i like you ♪ ♪ though i'm not too crazy about your ruby ducky ♪ ♪ though i don't love pigeons we're awfully lucky ♪ ♪ because i like you >> now with same-se

, ernie and bert are gay. that's interesting. i'm pretty sure they don't have genitals. they're made of felt. indiana jones's' hat was made o felt. would indiana jones wear a gay hat? i don't think so. number two, let's talk about bert's eyebrow. if there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. they're an extremely plucky people. of that there is no doubt. horizontal stripes. not in my bathhouse, thank yoyo that's a fashion disaster. and yes, they bathe together, what roommates don't? it's called water conservation. try it some time. it's okay to wash your friends. here is the biggest question. what if they are guy? what is they're neck deep in each other's fuzz every night? why aren't we questioning bunsen and beaker? and what about dora the explorer? i believe what two muppets do in the privacy of their own home is between the two of them. as long as they use a rubber ducky. they're 6 years old. let's give them until they're 18 before they talk about getting married. in the meantime, let's keep an eye on these two.

. >> ernie. >> bert. >> who are you talking to? >> speaking of which, bert and ernie are not gay, there's an online campaign to get them to marry. and in an effort to ixnay that kind of talk around the kids, the folks of sesame workshop actually put out a statement saying they're just friends and reminding us, they're puppets after all and, quote, do not have a sexual orientation. as opposed to vladimir putin, the matthew mcconaughey of russian presidents who loves taking his shirt off and never misses a masculinity opportunity has been at it again, bending a frying pan and scuba diving, not that there's anything wrong with that. or with this, for that matter. ♪ i hear the train a comin' >> the technical name is boom chaka, boom chaka. the reason you know that's a johnny cash song was marshall grant, the bass player behind the man in black all those years. he died this week at 83. >>> and you know how every summer there's a song that we always associate with that summer? it's safe to say this year's song is "pumped up kicks" by f

. >>> a petition on change.org calls on pbs to acknowledge muppets bert and ernie are gray, to teach children and parents its acceptable and homo phobia is wrong. >>> and tv guide reports that ashton kucher taking over for charlie sheen on "two and a half men" is tv's highest-paid actor, earning $ 700,000 an episode. although tmz said it's $800,000. regardless, that's still behind sheen's former salary. they're making peanuts compared to simon cowell who is making $75 million for "the x factor." >> bert and ernie -- rubber ducky? the whole thing is getting a little -- >> let's wrap this up now. i'm lynn berry, this is "first look" on msnbc. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> the dow's wild pendulum swings back into red as the average drops 520 points with asia moving lower this morning as well. the markets concerned about the health of u.s. and european economies. the question is -- what can and should president barack obama and congress do now to stop this slide? >>> meanwhile the united states strikes back against the taliban fighters believed to have downed th

the day we actually saw it and i got a child learn that language on bert and ernie because i'm going to be very upset that our government tax dollars have been spent on britney which uses child as it would be if you're spending so much time on each way to worry about the stock market of course getting a lot of cussing together is just so high stress and tense all the time yeah maybe he got some time back today stocks bonds back i fear for future. me too. some days some days not very good i got around. thanks for joining me this evening add it for you and thanks for tuning in and make sure you come back on monday so the baby is using older rich men to help pay off their college loans they were all the rage in the media lately so we're going to speak to journalist melanie about her for a into the land of the people and it means i'm going to get me from the family a lot of our facebook followers on twitter you can catch everything on youtube dot com slash the alone a show and coming up next is adam versus the max. it used to be an ideal place for a holiday with a change in a moment. the

hancock early and out from phoenix arizona ernie thanks for being with us tonight my pleasure if you're covering the story ok so with this with this agency it's a public transportation agency under the government of california that actually own the cellphone towers in question that are in their underground system why don't they have a right to say you know for our purposes we're going to turn these off. you know it's a baby area rapid transit system otherwise known as borked and the one thing that was interesting is you have a gentleman named linton johnson spokesperson for them and he keeps saying our customers our customers are constant customers and he want to give you the impression that they are like a private business can do exercise their own individual rights as a private business in how they serve their customers but it's tax funded it's government so the one thing is you look at a couple of things whoa what if the people pay to ride the bart so technically aren't they customers or is it is it is really subsidized it's subsonic ok the front ok so you pay a poke in where the rig

ernie seneca from north carolina. thanks for helping us out. >> thank you very much. >> we, of course, will stay on all of the storm news throughout this hour, throughout the day, all day, all night right here on msnbc. >>> fresh fighting is now erupting in libya's capital today. rumors are flying about the location of moammar gadhafi. now one of the world's most wanted men. nbc's stephanie gosk is live in tripoli. stephanie, all these rumors. what is the best sense you have, the best ground troops on where gadhafi is? >> reporter: the truth is, andrea, i have no idea, and i don't think anyone really does. the rebels thought they had an idea earlier this afternoon in the neighborhood of abu salim. this is a neighborhood that's very close to gadhafi's compound, and the suspicion was that his officers and perhaps even gadhafi himself and his sons escaped through tunnels and actually found themselves in that neighborhood. there was a heavy gun battle there today, and there are rumors circling around that gadhafi himself

and actually as you saw in that clip, ernie shows ernie's character -- larry shows up in the pilot claiming to be fitz's conscience. he's a used cars salesman, of course: fitz is a bit of a charlie sheen character. it's a lot of drinking and hookers and blow. and there is a little bit of charlie in there. >> you and charlie ever per used together? >> back in the day, you know, i used to go down to charlie's house in malibu. this is going back 20, 22 years. i used to play poker down in malibu. yeah. >> i really feel like i missed out in life. there are two caps of men, those that party with charlie sheen and those who never did. >> well, you can count me in the former of those two camps. >> was it all i mentioned it would be? >> no. no. it wasn't -- maybe it wasn't in the later years, you know, i was there in the early years and i think it was a pretty dignified version of what it became later. i think i kind of missed out, too, as a matter of fact. >> we talked to the evil mistresses which led me neatly to shannen and tori and your other co-stars. have you stayed in touch with them or have

joining me on the phone ernie. busy morning for you folks. >> we are rolling along i tell you. the storm had us hopping and we are prepare ready to respond. >> how is it going so far? have people heeded the warnings that they are doing okay? >> a lot of people heeded the warningings and we had 81 shelters and more than 7500 evacuees were in them. and the area impacted, we are assessing that and as for what kind of calls that came in, i don't have an update on that, but i will tell you overnight, there were three possible tornados touching down in our counties and one of the counties, teril county there was minor injuries and several homes were damaged. we have also had three deaths, one in onslow county, an individual was trying to put plywood across the window and suffered a heart attack and a motorist this morning in pitt county driving and hit standing water and ran off the road and hit a tree and was killed and also an individual outside in a rural area in nash county today and a fallen limb fell and hit him. >> that third person is news to us, ernie. we heard of the first

. >> reporter: ernie has traveled to the ends of the earth recording the sound of individual animals. and studying the national symphonies animals create together in complex and intact eco systems. what's interesting about the -- the ways in which animals vocal ize they try to find channels to vocalize in which they can claim as acoustic turf. >> reporter: he calls the national symphonies biophonies and have patterns of human orchestras and choruses with animals singing harmoniously so each can be heard, communicating important messages for their survival. coincidentally, providing musical entertainment and education to people living close to nature. >> these groups of people use, still use, the natural soundscape as a karoke orchestra. in our hectic, noisy, urban world removed from wildlife many of us never hear nature's musical voice. ernie hopes his book, the great animal orchestra due out next year will encourage all of us to visit our parks, protected lands. slow down, tune in and enjoy the symphony of life. >> the natural world is providing a gift to us. this gift is free. and e

contributing to another great citing off to be american tied his career high round of sixty three on day one ernie els on his great approach efforts put this african in the group of four time for second place this chip setting him up for a birdie on the fifteenth leaving that big easy just three shots. russian three time mixed martial arts world champion raul has been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager in a moscow club the alleged incident occurring just outside moscow nightclub last weekend plenty approached by a moscow student who's reportedly made comments about science girlfriend it is claimed a profiler that the student. nineteen year old eve and i got phone off died four days leave her school is now facing criminal charges and could spend up to fifteen years in prison if found the. american football now where the falcons are yet to get off the ground during the n.f.l. preseason losing their second straight game the jacksonville jaguars clinching a fifteen thirteen win at home despite having their own struggles the teens trading field goals before ryan fired a picturesque pa

contributing to another free diving after the american tied his career high round of sixty three on day one ernie els on his great approach efforts put the south african in a group of four tied for second place this setting him up for a birdie on the fifteenth leaving the big easy just three shots. russian three time mixed martial arts world champion raul has been arrested in connection with the murder of a teenager in a mall school club the alleged incident occurring a night club last weekend partly approached by a student who reportedly made comments about girlfriend it's claimed the proof either the not the student all right nineteen year old i got falling off die four days later in hospital resign i have is now facing criminal charges i could spend up to fifty years in prison if found guilty. the russian rugby team could be in for a timely boost ahead of next month's world cup in new zealand melbourne rebels lock adam burns offering his services to the squad these trillions grandparents on his mother's side hill from richard from port fleet the scot free. burns could have been looking forward

what do you think about bert and ernie? just friends? let us know atcaptioning sponsoy comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by comedy central >> stephen: tonight, does god need to improve his image? after 6,000 years he could probably use a little freshen up. [laughter] then, campaign fundraisers have a new secret weapon: not being newt gingrich. [laughter] and my guest elliot ackerman has a website that matches voters with candidates who share their values. ugh, they're never as fiscally conservative as their picture. [laughter] chad ochocinco says he'll live with a fan for three weeks. wow, those nfl contract negotiations did not go well. [laughter] this is "the colbert report." ["the colbert report" theme music playing] [cheers and applause] thank you so much. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "stephen"] [cheers and applause] welcome to the report, good to have you with us. nation, the dow lost 519 points today. it's the single biggest drop since two days ago. [laughter] every

. >> reporter: that hunter was ernie sanders. it took rescuers about abhour to find him. >> one of the hunters had a cell phone, we were able to locate the patient. & he was transported to the hospital with numerous pig bites. >> reporter: his wife was by his side at the hospital and didn't want to talk about the attack. there is no criminal investigation into today's attack and the wild pig won't be attacking anyone else. >> apparently the pig was dispatched by someone else who was present. >> reporter: we learned that sanders is an experienced hunter and leads guided hunts. ktvu channel 2 news. >>> fisherman died after two boats slided on the water. ktvu's mike mibach is live in south san francisco where crews brought the victims to shore, mike? >> reporter: we are learning the two people who water tossed into the water, a father and son, that collision occurred, i want to show you the boat. the fire boat from the san francisco fire department that was involved in the initial emergency response. the coast guard said it was arou

[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. bit of love can do", ladies and gentlemen, jeff bridges. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ i know that you've been feeling down and blue but there ain't nothing really wrong with you ♪ ♪ you just need a little tending to let me show you what a little bit of love can do ♪ ♪ i can tell that someone needs a little help having trouble getting on with someone else ♪ i'm here toll tell you everything is gonna be fine ♪ yeah i know you're hurtin cause your heart is breaking ♪ note i think that i can alleviate the situation look in my eyes and listen to me, baby ♪ ♪ put your little hand in my mine ♪ note i know that you've been feeling down and blue but there ain't nothing really wrong with you ♪ ♪ you just need a little tending to ♪ ♪ let me show you what a little bit of love can do ♪ ♪ take your time listen to all i'm saying i got a hunch that loving you is worth the waiting ♪ i'm gonna prove it to you before this night

[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. [ man ] i love you guys. [ laughs ] i mean, just, you know, the whole heist thing. just putting jewels in teddy bears. this guy's wearing a wire the whole time. right? look at that! he's wearing a wire! [ laughs ] all right, let's do this. all right? before my wife changes her mind. go. [ male announcer ] your favorite movies right when you want them. watch unlimited tv episodes and movies instantly through your game console or other devices, all for only 8 bucks a month from netflix. no sequel for that guy. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: that's it for the report. good night. [cheers and applause] captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org man: come out, come out, wherever you are! where is that little joker? breathe deep, mrs. dunne. that's it. that's it. push. push, that's it. keep pushing, you're doing great, mrs. dunne. you're doing great. okay, that's it. there's the head, i can see it no

contributing to another great outing off the american tied his career high sixty three during round one ernie els on his screen approaches put the south african in the group of four golfers tied for second this one setting up a birdie on the fifteenth for him and not put him just three shots behind. now the russian rugby team could be in for a timely boost ahead of next month's world cup in new zealand melbourne rebels lock album burns offering his services to the squad both his mother's parents hail from russia as richard from port three discovered. one of byrne's could have been looking forward to a nice holiday up to the end of summer head to sea is gruelling super fifteen competition however the twenty nine year old was called in sydney but decided to help russia to the upcoming world can't read about generally sear us or an article in a magazine calling up on players who have a say that could qualify for russia and i knew that was may so i got in touch with the coach of the time. and here we are burns' qualifies to play for the russians for his mom's parents who were both born man adam d

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the bromance between bert and ernie is strictly platonic, people. i just said that. can you believe it was a news story? "sesame street" has issued a statement clarifying that bert and ernie are just friends. they are not getting married. this comes after an internet petition urging the muppets to make it official, now that same-sex marriage is legal in new york. bert and ernie have been roommates since 1969, leading some to speculate that they might be a couple. but the show says they have don't have sexual orientation. as one of the puppeteers reminded people, they don't exist t low the waist. that is your "pop news heat index." >> i know. muppets are coming to the big screen. >> they are. and very, very good friends. >> they are. >>> and we want to welcome steve villanueva from wtnh, new haven, in for sam today. >> you guys ready for a good concert? fur first of all, let's get to the weather. we got the tropics starting to heat up. out in the atlantic a couple of tropical waves. now, there are two that have good potential of becoming tropical systems later on. and

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citracal. >>> we finally have an answer to one of the great mysteries, bert and ernie just friends. same-sex marriage advocates starting an online campaign to tie the characters but "sesame street" says the odd couple is strictly plutonic. "even though they're identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics they remain puppets and do not have a sexual orientation. >>> another horrible day on the links for tiger woods who has suffered a major meltdown at the pga championship in georgia where he's tied for 129th place. his worst opening round in a major ever. tiger has not won a major tournament since george w. wash was president. there are some women saying karma but not me, just good luck to everybody at the pga championships. that wraps up this hour of "jansing and company." veronica de la cruz is up next. i'll see you this weekend covering the iowa poll. that's about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service

out of after the american tied his career high round of sixty three on day one great approach whereby ernie els put the south african in the group of four tied for second that chip setting him up for a birdie on the fifteenth leaving the big easy just three shots behind gainey. and finally the russian rugby team could be in for a timely boost ahead of the next month's the world cup in new zealand melbourne rebels look at burns has offered his services to the scored for example of reports . of burns could have been looking forward to a nice holiday on t.v. and some industries reeling super fifteen competition with the twenty nine year old was born in sydney but decided to help russia run the upcoming. wrote about general this year at sword article magazine calling upon players from overseas that could qualify for russia and i knew that was may so i got in touch with the coach of the toy. qualifies to play for the russians for his mom's parents who were both born man adam didn't actually speak the language well when using his you know he gets on the plane to new zealand plenty of chance to pr

outing after the american tides korea high round of sixty three the day before great approach would by ernie els as well with a south african a group of four tied for second cheap sending him out for a birdie under fifteen leaving the big easy just three strokes behind the leads and . amy. finally there are a team could be in for a timely boost ahead of next month's world cup and now burn rebels lock at them burns has offered his services to this court. reports. out of burns could have been looking forward to a nice holiday to be end of summer have to see is grueling super fifteen competition however the twenty nine year old whose goal in sydney has decided to help russia to be upcoming world can't generate this year us or an article in the magazine. that could qualify for russia and i knew that was may so i got in touch with the coach of the time. and here we are burns' qualifies to play for the russians for his mom's parents who were both born man adam did actually speak the language well when news in his youth and he gets on the plane to new zealand there are plenty of chance to practice

and why there is a push for bert and ernie from sesame okay, kids, we can record one more show. who should get it? i really love jennifer. yeah, she's great. yeah. yeah. kyle's got that thick head of hair. and that should be rewarded. okay, moment of truth. on "three," say which kid you love the most. ooh, fun, yeah. one, two, three. jennifer. jennifer. whoa. wow. she's so pretty. yeah. or we give it to kyle. it's really all he's got. [ male announcer ] switch to at&t u-verse and record four shows all at the same time. just $29 a month for 6 months. at&t. >> the is targeting copper and other metal. thieves targeting copper and other metal. this is what they are after. >> this is what metal thieves are going after, the heavy brass caps on the fire hose connection of who they are missing from this apartment building. that could hamper the firefighters ability to fight a price. >> worst-case scenario we are not able to pump water to this location if we would have to take additional steps and measures to bring the water up through the window and then come from the street reverses' p

protected land in sonoma county, a little way from the noisy city and highways, just the kind of place ernie krauss urges us to visit anytime we can, to slow down, listen carefully and to enjoy the free musical concerts that nature puts on here every day. >> the animals long ago taught us to sing and dance. they taught us our musical form. >> reporter: bernie's traveled to the ends of the earth, recording the sounds of individual animals and studying the natural symphonies animals create together in complex and intact eco-systems. >> what's interesting about the ways in which animals vocalize is they all try to find channels to vocalize in which they can claim as acoustic turf. >> reporter:ow he calls these natural symphonies biophonies and they have the distinct pattern of orchestras with te animals singing harmoniously while each be heard while sending messages. bernie hopes his book the great an man orchestra due out next year will help all of us want to slow down, tune in, and enjoy the symphony of life. >> the natural world is providing a gift to us. this gift is free. and everybody has

and if not aside from the russian capital spartak needed to fly back twice to ernie to enjoy polish out of their way gills no meaning there no mention lies with the muscovites well second to club a line if our life hard on their travels to its fish akasha easing to a free meal when it held in this one. the biggest game of the early english premier league season savant takes place and sounds as a also has a little with both sides still awaiting the f.s.h. of the season runs manage a can of dalglish though not buying into the hype that the gunness have been weakened by the sale of some stop play as recently. it's not going to get easier for those of us for because some of. those are big. changes that were good who are being promoted and those that with. the. fumes even worse you're going to be in. for the weekend because there who are going to go for those. it's a new song for a big team and while the republican bottom captain on the counter is record goalscorer heading west from tottenham to los angeles galaxy again seen there with his wife loads in touching down in l.a. it's settled and

[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. [ female announcer ] do you know what a difference dove nourishment can make? only dove body wash has nutrium moisture and a breakthrough formula that nourishes deep down, like no other. dove body wash. proven effective natural nourishment. >>> a >>> a massachusetts boy has earned the honor of catching what is possibly the biggest blue shark in state waters. 15-year-old jeffrey ledge landed a 12-foot, 458 pounder off gloucester. he used about ten feet of line to do it and a lot of muscle for about a half hour. boy, that's some catch. >>> from hybrid cars to light bulbs, going green is a great way to help the environment and save money. as bill whitaker reports one city in california has discovered there's nothing more green than goats. >> reporter: in the blue collar town of lemon grove, california, residents are doing a double take. >> this is a lot of goats. >> reporter: 150 goats, to be exact, hauled into this vacant downtown lot on official ci

[ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves cann with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. >>> now a look ahead at the stories we'll be watching this friday. following the worldwide stock sell-off i iestors will be watching the monthly jobs report. analysts expect the unemployment rateteo stay at 9.2%. the economy adding 90,000 jobs. that's not nearly enough to bring the unemployment rate down. >>> also today, the u.s. will be looking to confirm reports overnight that one of libyan leader moammar gadhafi's sons has been killele in a nato air strike. it would be a significant development because gadhafi's son leads the special forces unit that's been vital for gadhafi as he tries to hold on to power. >>> newly discovered dna from serial killer ted bundy is entered into a national database. investigators are hoping to genetically link bundy to a number of unsolved murders involving young women over the past decades. >>> a smithsonian exhibit on the chilean miners opens a year after their mining accident trapped 33 men for 69 days. some th