veronica? >> tracie potts in washington, thank you. >>> last night on "hardball with chris matthews," chris asked transportation secretary ray la hood exactly how an agreement was reached to bring an end to the partial faa shutdown. >> we had meetings at the white house every day. the president was intimately involved. he cared a lot about these unemployed construction workers and faa workers. he instructed me, and he instructed his staff -- stay on this every day until you get it solved, until these people get back to work. so the president and senator reid, senator rockefeller, senator kay bailey hutchison, senator max bachus stepped up. there is an agreement so these people can go back to work on monday or as soon as the president signs the bill. they can have their -- workers will go back to work. it really was more about some member of congress letting their own agendas and their own egos get in the way of hard-working people right smack dab in the middle of the construction season. this i

>> reporter: hi, veronica. we're going to have two events here today in south carolina before rick perry ends up wrapping up his south carolina and his three state primary state tour. he has been in iowa, new hampshire, and now south carolina this week, and he is heading back to his hometown of austin this afternoon, and he will be having a welcome home reception there with his staff and with had some local voters in austin. >> in the meantime, carrie, there have been a couple of -- a couple of comments made about some of these comments that perry has been making. one being about evolution. has that caused a stir? what is the campaign saying about that? >> well, a voter asked him yesterday after an event that he was holding in columbia, south carolina, a supporter came up and asked him about a comment that he had made about evolution being a theory that is out there. this voter wanted to congratulate him saying i'm totally with you, i believe that creationism should be taught in schools, and there were a lot of

veronica? >> you're saying 6% ahead, so how is the mitt romney campaign reacting to these numbers, are they in panic mode? >> i wouldn't put it in panic mode, but we are seeing the romney campaign adjust somewhat. over the last several months since romney has got in the race he hasn't engaged with the other republicans, kept his focus on the economy and president obama. with rick perry, he's had to change focus, and we heard him yesterday take a little bit of a subtle swipe at mitt romney -- at rick perry, take a listen to that sound. >> now, i'm a conservative businessman. i spent most of my life outside politics dealing with real problems and the real economy. career politicians got us into this mess, and they simply don't know how to get us out. >> well, career politicians certainly is code for president obama, the other people in washington, but it's also code that rick perry spent most of his adult life, professional working life in government service as an elected official of the of cours

i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with up in the air. president obama turned up the heat on house speaker john boehner yesterday over a partisan standoff that caused a partial shutdown of the faa and put thousands of americans out of work while congress is on vacation. nbc's tracie potts joins us now from washington the latest. tracie, good morning to you. >> veronica, good morning. president obama got in touch with the house speaker yesterday and said you guys should come back to washington and work this out. they left after sealing the debt deal without securing a budget for the faa, a dispute over government subsidies to small airports. the bottom line, the president says this is a lose-lose-lose situation for everyone. of course, he's got other things on his mind, willic a rose garden birthday party. president obama is turning 50. while he's celebrating here today, last night there was a big fund-raiser and birthday dinner in chicago. about 100 people paid $35,000 a plate to dine with the president.

hello there. >> reporter: hi, veronica. >> what is the latest? perry will make his announcement tomorrow. what are the plans beyond that. >> reporter: he'll be here at the red state conference in south carolina, an event he had scheduled for several weeks, conference of conservative governors. he'll make that announcement and flying to primary state new hampshire where he'll be attending a house party. on sunday in waterloo, iowa. the hometown of michele bachmann and the place where she made her formal announcement earlier this year. and then he'll be in des moines on monday and he will be heading back to the granite state of new hampshire on wednesday for an event there. >> carrie dann following the perry campaign, carrie we appreciate it. thank you. >> reporter: thanks, veronica. >>> the wild stock market indices on wall street, the futures are rising after massive losses and gains much of this past week. the s&p 500 rose or fell more than 4% the past four days, only the third time since the great depression. the s&p has seen that kind of volat

>>> i'm veronica de la cruz. this is "early today" just the first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> thought to be lost forever the first half of an alfred hitchcock film from 1923 has been discovered by archivists in new zealand. the master of suspense was only an assistant director on the film "the white shadow" but he served as art director, writer and editor on the movie. it's a mellodrama about twin sisters, one good, the other evil. >>> a high flying daredevil broke a world record in the czech republic. over the course of three months the paraglider flew more than 5500 miles. at times he reached an altitude as high as 5,000 feet where temperatures fell under 60 degrees. on his record setting journey he also visited 17cc1: orphanages telling children all about his project. very nice. >>> a canadian performer mesmerized audiences in china with one bubbly extravaganza. he controls where bubbles float with his hands and can even put several volunteers inside of them. check that out. wow. it was an i

i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with crisis averted. president obama signed lawmakers' pain staking budget bill keeping the u.s. out of default for now. tracy poths is live for us this morning on capitol hill. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. lawmakers were so wrapped up in recent weeks dealing with this debt crisis that they did not deal with the budget for the faa and, as a result, thousands of workers may be left without paychecks. after signing a deal to extend america's credit, president obama told congress to deal with the faa. >> congress needs to break that impasse now. >> reporter: nearly 250 airport construction projects are on hold. funding ran out last friday leaving 70,000 construction workers and 4,000 federal employees with no pay. >> i'm concerned with whether or not i'm going to be able to pay my mortgage. >> this is their bread and butter. to have 70,000 of these workers off is not fair. >> reporter: at issue is whether to cut thousands of dollars the government gives

i'm veronica de la . this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with a record breaking roller coaster ride. wall street saw yet another day of volatile trading on thursday, this time on the upside as investors and analysts try to come up with clues as to when it will all end and where the ultimate is headed. nbc's brian mooar reports. >> reporter: it was another wild ride on wall street with the dow recovering more than 420 points and climbing back over the 11,000 mark. >> is this a bottom in the market? >> i'd like to believe so, but i think it's way too early to tell. >> reporter: the market picked up on news that germany and france are meeting next week and italy is promising strict reforms in return for eu help. a better-than-expected report on u.s. jobless claims helped. but investors are still running scared. >> americans are looking at washington and europe and saying do these people know what they're doing? that's leading to the volatility. >> reporter: president obama was in michiga

i'm veronica de la cruz in for alex witt. here's what's happening. >>> when voter frustration growing over unemployment. there is new word on the economy this morning from president obama. in his weekly address the president says there are steps to be taken right now to create jobs. >> people who you elected serve, we need them to put aside their differences to get things done. we can cut payroll taxes again, so families have an extra $1,000 to spend. we can pass a road construction bill so construction crews who are now sitting idle can head back to the work site. >>> meanwhile, on the campaign trail texas governor rick perry is slamming the president's record on unemployment. this was perry speaking yesterday in florence, south carolina. >> this is the president of the united states that has killed more jobs in america than i think any president in the history certainly in my lifetime. i think the only job he cares about is the one he's got. >> the recession in the u.s. and the housing crisis has affected millions of americ

i'm veronica de la cruz. >>> today we begin with a record breaking roller coaster ride. wall street saw yet another day of volatile trading thursday, this time on the up side as investors and analysts scratch their heads trying to come up with clues as to when it will all end and where the market is ultimately headed. nbc's brian mooar reports. >> reporter: it was another wild ride on wall street with the dow recovering more than 420 points and climbing back over the 11,000 mark. >> i would like to believe so, but i think it's way too early to tell. >> reporter: the market picked up on news that germany and france are meeting next week, and italy is promising strict reforms in return for eu help. a better-than-expected report on u.s. jobless claims helped but investors are still rung scared. >> i think americans are looking at washington and looking at europe and saying does anyone really know what's going on? do these people know what they're doing? that's leading to the volatility. >> reporter: president ob

veronica? >> that's right, right. the governor there calling this a full-blown catastrophe. ron allen in vermont, we appreciate it. thank you. >>> right now, at least six people dead in north carolina. the massive cleanup is well under way as coastal residents return hoping to find their homes the way they left them. mark potter is live in duck, north carolina and joins us now. mark? >> reporter: well, hi, veronica. we are at a roadblock just south of the town of duck. if we turn the camera here, we can see these officers are checking the i.d.s of people coming in to make sure that only residents and business owners come in right now. the reason for the concern is that down this road here, there are problems still, part of the road was washed away by the back of the hurricane pushing water on to the road. there are some work crews down there. they expect to get the visitors in here tomorrow. right now, they are just making sure that only the residents an the business people and workers go in ri

i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with a budget breakthrough. president obama announced last night that lawmakers in washington have reached a last-minute agreement to raise the nation's debt ceiling before tuesday's deadline. nbc's tracie potts joins us with details. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. they've come up with a deal that would allow us to raise the debt ceiling, cut the deficit, begin to cut the deficit and deal with some of the tough questions before the 2012 elections. the white house and top democrats and republicans agreed on over $2 trillion in budget cuts, allowing the u.s. to borrow that much more. >> it will allow us to avoid default, allow us to pay our bills. it will allow us to start reducing our deficit in a responsible way. >> reporter: here's the deal. almost a trillion in cuts now, of of it from the military. another $1.5 trillion decided by a panel of democrats and republicans in the fall including tax reform and medicare. if they don't agree or if the government overspen

i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with the perfect storm. it hit wall street hard thursday as a variety of factors caused stocks to suffer their worst day

i'm veronica de la cruz. here's what's topping the news now. the dow industrials are up 233 points thanks to some encouraging news on the economy. after falling 520 points yesterday. the ninth largest point drop in history. >>> charla nash publicly showing herself after undergoing a full face transplant back in june and the results are remarkable. for the first time since a chimpanzee attacked her two years ago, she's eating and smelling again. >>> police in london are carrying out raids today looking for people involved in four days of violence in the city. london was mostly calm overnight but tensions remain high. in a special session of parliament today an angry david kcam ron issued a warning. >> i say this, we will track you down, we will find you, we will charge you, we will punish you, you will pay for what you have done. >>> well avenpple is already a dominant technology company, but now the giant is even bigger. apple has officially become the world's most valuable company, eclipsing exxonmobil. apple's rise to this spot looked impossi

i'm veronica de la cruz with continuing conch of hurricane irene. the massive storm prompting evacuations up and down the east coast this weekend, but also cancellations. tomorrow's planned dedication of the newly opened martin luther king jr. memorial in washington, d.c. has been moved to september or october. the ceremony was expected to draw half a million people including president obama who was scheduled to speak at the event. in florida and south carolina officials have cancelled gambling cruises and fishing charters ahead of the storm. here in the northeast sports fans in several states will have to wait a little longer to cheer on their favorite teams. both the phillies and red sox are rescheduling home gam

i'm veronica de la cruz filling in for thomas roberts. the call is growing among nervous democrats for the president to do something major to boost the economy. right now the markets are in another big slide down triple digits. we're looking at 400 points. investors worry about the overall health of the economy and the gridlock over the debt. >>> in the meantime harry reid has announced his picks. three moderate senators, but will republicans also pick members willing to compromise. we have it all covered from the white house to the markets, to one of those critical battleground states the president will need for reelection. former new mexico governor bill richardson will join us shortly. let's begin with kristin walker. democrats want the president to do something to show he's on top of the economic crisis. they're looking for a grand gesture, if you will. >> that remains to be seen. one thing i can tell you is there's been rumblings, calls for the president to call congress back from the summer recess so they can tackle issues like new

veronica it's really winding up right now. we're feeling the initial impacts. we do expect the initial impact in the next hour or so. all the compute models keeping in as a category one storm. keeps on track for new york city and long island into tomorrow morning. we're going to have more updates. >> we'll check back with you. michelle franzen now at the jersey shore for us in asbury park. let's get to her. michelle, it's looking like it's starting to come down now in atlantic beach where we were just talking to kerry sanders. where you're at right now, things look relatively calm? >> reporter: they are relatively calm. certainly emergency crews don't want people to forget about that irene will be making an impact here. we're in one of the low lying areas of monomouth county that was evacuated for tourists and vacationers. other people are hunkering down in their homes. in the next hour we're going to tell you how people all throughout new jersey prepared for the storm and how they're scrambling to stay safe. >> michelle franzen in asbury park, new jersey. we'l

. >> les habla verÓnica del castillo muchÍsimas gracias por estar con nosotros. >> comenzamos con el dramÁtico llamado de padres de una niÑa hispana desaparecida en missouri. >> viviana estÁ con los detalles de los hechos. >> hasta 45 mil dÓlares de recompensa estÁn ofreciendo autoridades por quiÉn de informaciÓn acerca de la pequeÑa. >> desde hace seis dÍas la incertidumbre y angustia invade a estos padres hispanos que no saben a quiÉn acudir para dar con el paradero de la pequeÑa de 3 aÑos. >> mi noij se fue, alguien se la llevÓ. >> mi hija no anda, alguien la levantÓ y se la llevo. >> dÉse el 6 de agosto no hay rastros de quiÉn fue vista por Última vez montando su bicicleta al frente de su propia casa. >> yo no quiero pensar que le pasÓ algo malo. lo negativo es lo menos que queremos ahorita. >> sentimos que mi hija estÁ aquÍ. >> el fbi informÓ que encontraron artÍculos que podrÍan estar vinculados con la desapariciÓn de la niÑa. >> ahorita tienen las llantas de las niÑa. >> pero a ver si encontraban adn. >> autoridades tambiÉn estÁn tras la pista de un

y vamos ahora con verÓnica y que estÁ en vivo desde mÉxico con todos los detalles, verÓnica qÉe tal muy buenas tardes. >>> gracias, gracias bÁrbara la vÍctima venia en la caravana de inmigrante de centroamÉrica hacia mÉxico y su sueÑo americano que harÍa en boston se convirtiÓ en pesadilla mexicana porque su vida le costÓ 50 dÓlares a sus asesinos, aquÍ la triste historia. >>> fue encontrado cerca de la casa del inmigrante del estado de mÉxico el cuerpo de julio un guatemalteco de 19 aÑos con mÚltiples heridos en la cara y una her ada en el crÁneo. segÚn testigos su vida fue comprada por asesinos, a unos policÍas para despuÉs matarlo para vengarse por un supuesto asalto. >>> toda la cara, bien golpeada, el frente y atrÁs las piedras que encontraron se encontraron como a dos metros de lejos que tenÍan sangre por el lado de abajo. >>> el seis de agosto dos jÓvenes brios fueron asaltoados y pidieron ayuda a una pa frufrl detener al delincuente, un defensor del derechos humanos dice que la policÍa ato trop Á al joven equivocado porque los asaltados estaban brios y lo c

esta lanzando el disco 27 de septiembre que lo describe como dirÍa yo el mÁs import de su carrera y verÓnica del castillo lo entrevistÓ y habla cosas interesÍntimas o no. >>> lo dices muy bien, fue una reveladora entrevista, que nos permitiÓ conocer un poco mÁs a este cantante, que asegura que su principal oficio es ser papÁ y la entrevista se tornÓ picante al hacer una pregunta. >>> en estricardo gracias por t tiempo para el pÚblico de primer impacto. >>> gracias a ti, verÓnica, nos pusimos serios estÁbamos muy ri sueÑos. >>> pueden irse...?. >>> oye, ricardo, estas de triple estreno nuevo disco nueva disquera y como papÁ. >>> sÍ, estoy muy ocupado, sÍ, arrancamos con un de nombre metamorfosis disquera inned pdependiente independiente, que formamos un grupo de personas, que creemos en esto, o te unes al gr po que se queja o te sales e intentas hacerlo. >>> inndependiente el primer disco que lanza bajo su nueva disquera. >>> nos arranÓo lÁgrimas el tema de mi novia se esta poniendo vieja. dÍnos quien es la novia. >>> no, no puedo, pero que se queden con el tÍtulo. >>> sor pr

veronica? >> tracy pie potts in washingto thank you. >>> this afternoon, andrea mitchell will be joined exclusively by house minority leader nancy pelosi. they will discuss the faa shutdown and what's next for congress. be sure to watch "andrea mitchell reports" today at 1:00 p.m. >>> last night on chris matthews, he asked steve israel what he thinks of the debt deal and how it will play out for congressional members returning to the homefront for the next month. >> is it a great deal? no. but it's a done deal. these members of congress are going home, going back to their districts, and we will hold them accountable. >> most of what goes on in the hill, not most, i shouldn't say that what goes on on the floor is transparent. i saw happy faces on the republican side. boehner looks relieved, you guys are hanging heads, you're bowed down. i don't see the physical manifestation of a happy democratic party. am i missing something? >> who can be happy when you are in negotiation with people who said

. >> reporter: veronica, good morning. the deal will raise debt ceiling and deal with most of the tough questions well before the 2012 elections. the white house and top democrats and republicans agreed on over $2 trillion in budget cuts, allowing the u.s. to borrow that much more. >> it will allow us to avoid default, it will allow us to pay our bills, it will allow us to start reducing our deficit in a responsible way. >> reporter: here's the deal. almost a trillion in cuts now, much of it from the military, another trillion and a half decided by a panel of democrats and republicans in the fall, including tax reform and medicare. if they don't agree or if the government overspends, automatic cuts kick in. >> the united states of america will not for the first time in our history default on its obligations. >> this agreement won't make every republican happy. it certainly won't make every democrat happy either. >> reporter: this morning leaders on both sides meet with their members to convince them to vote yes. some are r

love never dies. >> the youngest daughter, veronica, attended the school where the memorial was held. she was in fourth grade and her sister, samantha, was in seventh grade. >>> waiting to hear their fate. two uc berkeley students will likely find out this week whether they're guilty of spying in iran. josh fattal and shane bauer had their final day in court this morning. the two along with sarah shourd were arrested two years ago today when they allegedly crossed the iraqi border into iran. they argued they were hiking, not spying. the lawyer for the uc berkeley grads hopes if the court finds his clients guilty they will be sentenced to time already served and released. again, they should find out their fate sometime this coming week. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee is still mum on whether he will run for mayor in the next election. when lee was appointed back in january to finish out gavin newsom's term, you might remember lee said when it was over he wanted to return to his job as city administrator and not run for mayor again. fast forward f eight months and it seems lee might just

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impacto en las redes sociales, vamos con ricardo que tiene reacciones, adoran te. >>> asÍ es, como decia verÓnica hay muchas reacciones sobre el atentado que se vieron de inmediato en las redes sociales el presidente calderÓn dijo, con profunda consternaciÓn, expreso mi solidaridad con las vÍctimas de este acto de terror, pero hubo respuesta ahÍ mismo vamos a pasar al prÓximo esta que dice, y que calderÓn solo hace bla, bla, bla, hay crÍtica para calderÓn. en facebook, vamos a ver. en el facebook: y las redes se han visto inundadas de estos mensajes. >>> el fuego, el humo y las vÍctimas del casino de monterrey a pren las puertas para que muchos se desahoguen. >>> consternados, enojados y tristes, monterrey es por mucho mÁs de 6 malandros, no con debes todebes dormir dice alex y segÚn juan si usas drogas o novo tas el atentado de monterrey tambiÉn es tu culpa, para otros como luis hay frustraciÓn. y es que muchos le echan la culpa de la situaciÓn al presidente, doroteo dice que el presidente calderÓn llegarÁ repitiendo el discurso que comba ti ra al crimen cuando seÑor calderÓn,

veronica bauers runs this avian hospital. she leads a team of volunteers that spends hours caring for the wounded and abandoned birds that arrive here. it's the only abandoned bird hospital in northern california. >> i found what i thought was a nest of baby cliff swallows: they weren't. i brought them to a local rehabilitation center and they were desperate for volunteers. >> fifteen years later. >> so we are 58 on the property. she has converted much of her two acre home into a hospital for injured birds. >> no water birds, no foul, just the song birds. >> they have big appetites too. they need to eat every 20 minutes. in fact, they will go through 200,000 meal worms a week. >> we have to pry their mouth open and put the food in. >> song birds come here from a variety of places. some have fallen from trees or lost habitat. others hit by cars or maybe run into windows. some of prey for other animals. >> over 50% of the 500 plus birds i take care of in a year are caughtpy a cat. >> she relies on a local vet for the more extre

family every night. >> veronica moses: after your practice, you come straight home. we have to raise our children. if we don't, someone else will... >> darrell moses: straight home. >> veronica moses: ...meaning the streets, drugs, gangs, you name it. >> stahl: do you think it's harder to raise a young black teenager? >> darrell moses: yeah. i grew up in the projects, and i watched my father go through a lot to hold onto his family. and one of the reasons why you see me here-- not just my wife, but you see me here also-- is because i vowed that i would walk this walk with them. they can turn around years from now and say, "my father was right there." >> ♪ how can anyone ever tell you... >> stahl: gospel for teens has a theme song, and vy says she chose it for a reason. >> higginsen: i actually weeped when i heard it. ♪ ♪ "don't let anybody ever tell you that you're anything less than beautiful." ( sighs ) >> rodriguez: ♪ ...that you're less than whole... >> stahl: what did it mean to you? >> rodriguez: it means, to me, that i feel actually kind of special, in

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. >> las declaraciones de un sicario que le atribuyen 600 muertes en mÉxico, vamos ahora vivo con verÓnica del castillo para quÉ nos amplia la informaciÓn mÁs reciente. >> gracias, buenas tardes, el perfil psicolÓgico de este ex marino que contaba con el apoyo de la policÍa municipal es verdaderamente el de un psicÓpata porque habla de las 600 personas que matÓ de manera natural, lo peor de todos que su grupo delictivo "la mano con ojo"sigue operando. aquÍ sus confesiones. >> la captura de oscar osvaldo garcÍa montoya, la mano con ojos, debilitÓ la organización criminal que sea mismo nombre, pero continÚa operando. >> el perfil de garcÍa montoya es de una persona de alta peligrosidad que nos encuentra arrepentido de las acciones delictivas que ha realizado. >> despuÉs de su traslado al penal de mÁxima seguridad, declarÓsurgir en diferencia con las tijeras ejecuciÓn que cometiÓ. >> ¿para su ejecuciÓnes has ordenado? >> mÁs de 300. >> ¡y cuantas ha realizado? >> otras 300. >> y descubriÓ frÍamente lo quehacia. >> ¿, los desarmaba? >> con manos, cuchillos, sierras. >>

gracias, veronica. llegaremos maÑana primer impacto -- con primer impacto a horario regular. que tengan una buena noche un buen dia. . >> (♪ ♪ ). >> >> qué tal muy buenas noches, les saluda maría leticia gómez. >> y alejandro mendoza, gracias por acompañarnos . >> frustrados por los embargos hipotecarios, un grupo de manifestantes llegó para protestar con una drastica decisión . >> después de una reunión en la que no quedaron conformes, llegaron a la central y cerraron las cuentas . >> eso no sin antes intercambiar palabras con los represemntantes de banco. >> vcartias personas cerraron las cuentas en el banco. >> porque esta tomando ventaja de las personas . >> ellos quieren un banco que coloque los intereses comunitarios primero. >> la empresa ha estado haciendco tantas cosas que dañan a la comunidad, ellos deben más de un millón de dólares a la ciudad, por todas las propiedades que ellos tienen abandonadas . >> la empresa no quiso hablar con la prensa, enviaron declaraciones . >> sabemos que familias tienen problemas por la economía, hemos trabajado con lo

veronica runs the hospital and she leads the team of volunteers that spend hours carrying for the wounded birds that arrive in. this is the only song bird rescue hospital in northern california. >> my story, i found a bird that fell off the eves of our house and they were desperate for volunteers. >> 15 years later. >> we have 8 on the property. >> she has converted much of her two acre home into a hospital for injured birds. >> no water birds but just the song birds. >> these little birds have big appetites. they need to eat every 20 minutes. they'll go through 200,000 meal worms a week. >> you put the food in. >> song birds come here from a very right of places, some have fallen from trees or lost habitat. others have been hit by cars or maybe run into windows. some are prey for other animals. >> over 50% of the 500 plus birds i take care of were caught by a cat. >> the rest are cared for by her home. >> funding for the hospital comes from the sonoma county wildlife rescue. >> all the song birds, these little birds. >> the rescue relies on the hospital to take care of birds that they ca

i'm veronica de la cruz. a credit rating agency downgraded us to aa. the white house says s&p messed up the math and their analysis is off by about $2 trillion. >>> meanwhile, in north carolina at least one person is dead. another missing after heavy rains caused flash flooding near charlotte. i'm veronica de la cruz. let's get you back to "lockup." >> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. ♪ i aim to thrill and i flip torpedos like navy s.e.a.l.s ♪ ♪ you can call me bruce willis ♪ because i'm worth the kill and ♪ ♪ you better start running, the bullets coming real fast ♪ ♪ they going to catch you ha haters ♪ make you feel that with the brand new cap ♪ ♪ let my pants hang low cock the 0 cal back ♪ ♪ you never had to beef like this ♪ boat burn it really quick ♪ >> get down! get down! yeah. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> how did it go? >> it always go down when the cameras on the yard. ♪ i'm going to take off his neck ♪ ♪ might as well call me bin laden i'm

hundreds gathered in palo alto to remember little veronica, her sister samantha, their parents robert howard and wife ana maria dias. the family was killed in canada when a tractor-trailer crashed into their camper head on. >> our time together today is our modest human attempt to say there is no right or wrong way to grieve. love never dies. >> the youngest daughter in the family attended that school where the memorial was held. she was in fourth grade, her sister was in seventh grade. let's check in with rob. good morning. >> good morning to you, scott. in san jose, 61 degrees, we do have overcast skies, marine layer close to 2,000 feet. not getting in the way of the commute. the low clouds are high enough to give you a pretty clear view across the bay. 56 degrees in san francisco, 60 in hayward, 61 as you saw in san jose and a good strong sea breeze. with that pattern we're just not going to be warming up. we had thunder nearby, out to the sierra and south of monterey, cloud build-up for the weekend. sierra locations may see more thunder but for the bay area it's the strong sea bre

jordan kirkland, veronica brady , and the friends of bernal gardens who brought this burden to fruition. the department of public works is out there to hold hands and work with everyone. it is through their leadership that we are able to improve our neighborhoods. i would especially like to thank the staff of dpw who go out to all of these meetings and start these projects. i want to thank all of the bureau's at dpw who assisted in bringing supplies, and doing some work, or making sure that the project was built as planned. thank you very much. [applause] >> there are a lot of other people to think. you have been hearing a lot about this gentleman, julian, who is responsible for a lot of this. i used to live not far from here. i used to walk my dog upon the hill there. it is so great to see the transformation of this space. it is something i want to see in my neighborhood as well. it does not happen without the leadership of the grass-roots level. we're there to support it, but the leadership is not there from the community, it does not happen. it is my great pleasure to bring forth a g

. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz filling in for thomas roberts. american doom and gloom -- can america's leaders reverse this vote of no confidence? plus we'll talk to a woman who's fighting back against the banks getting 10,000 signatures to stop her foreclosure. and a guy who has bought a cup of starbucks on him. we'll see you at the top of the hour. chris? >>> we have been hearing a lot about bipartisanship and working together in washington, but a lot of people believe the system is broken. 78% are dissatisfied with how the system works. she is now president of the wood row wilson center for international center for scholars. you start by talking about the good old days when kennedy was nominated and you think the partisanship divide really started with newt gingrich in the '90s. what happened? >> the recent divide did. i really tell my story in that piece. i was a kid at the 1960 democratic convention in los angeles where i grew up and i saw the nomination of john kennedy and that's what inspired me to be in congress and 32 years later i ran

but this is really a key speech, veronica as you know unemployment continues to hov above 9%. we're just learning today that consumer confidence is at its lowest level since april of 2009. there's really a lot of pressure on the president to get this. >> absolutely. we can look for that plan to be unveiled after labor day. kristen welker t at the white house, thank you. >>> officials are getting a view of the damage caused by hurricane irene. some of the damage can't be assessed because the flooding is that bad. >>> former vice president dick cheney defends controversial decision made during his eight years in the white house in an nbc news ux collusive. that's coming up next. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. and i was a pack-a-day smoker for 25 years. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i'm like, "oh, promise mommy you'll n

he told his mother her name was veronica. he hands you the phone, which is something he does frequently, to talk to the girl who he's dating. and you ask her what she does for a living. >> she say, oh, i sing a little and i dance a little. >> what went through your mind when she said that? >> i thought, exotic dancer. ♪ open your heart to me >> well, almost. weeks later, brian brought veronica home. and did you recognize her immediately? >> no, not at all. but it was really the space between her two front teeth that somehow seemed familiar to me. >> and did you say, wait a minute, you're madonna? >> no. i smiled. she realized i had that moment of recognition. she smiled back. it was the first time in many years i had seen him act like a boy in love. >> the relationship with madonna ended a few months later. but even so, by the summer of '97, brian williams seemed to be getting his life on track. he got his pilot's license, bought a customized airplane, a piper saratoga 2. he had run with the bulls in pamplona, become a cert

veronica because runs this hospital. she loads a team of volunteers that spends hours caring for the wounded and abandoned birds that arrive here. it's the only abandon byrd hospital in northern california. >> i found what i thought was a nest of baby cliff swallows: they weren't. i brought them to a local rehabilitation center and they were desperate for volunteers. >> 8 years later. she has converted much of her two acre home into a hospital for injured birds. >> no water birds, no foul, justify the song birds. >> they have big appear fireworks too. they need to eat every 20 minutes. in fact, they will go through 200,000 meal worms a week. >> we have to pry their mouth open and put the food in. >> song birds come here from a variety of plays. some have fallen from trees or other habitat. others hit by cars or maybe run into windows. some of prey for other animals. >> over 50% of the 500 plus birds atake away are there. >> she relies on a local vet for the more extreme cases. the rest of cared for by hand at her home. f

i'm veronica de la cruz. here's what's happening. president obama says he and congressional leaders have come to an agreement on what to do about the national debt. the president says the spending cuts will amount to over $2 trillion over ten years. >>> two parents in texas are under arrest after leaving their kids alone in a hot car. police say the parents were nearby donating plasma. i'm veronica de la cruz. let's get you back to our program. >>> doing time in boston's suffolk county jail is a world away from the colleges or ivy league university located just miles away. but once a week those two worlds intersect when students from harvard university and boston college come to the jail to help inmates earn their geds. >> for them to come in and do it for us little convicts, i should say, that's a good thing. looking out for us. showing us, you know, there is a world out there. there is help out there. people want to help you. >> girard cohen has been teamed with alexander, a harvard sophomore. >> so it's ju

. >> reporter: we talked to veronica cummings at the university of california's d.c. program via skype. >> if you watch any type of national news you would think that the washington, d.c., is in a rubble of buildings. >> being an intern from california, we both automatically got unconcerned. >> reporter: being from contracosta, they knew what to do. others did the exact wrong thing. >> they were running outside trying to evacuate the building. >> californians from the second grade on learned to drop, cover and hold on. running outside is the wrong thing to do. "i watched some of the videos of people reacting and sorry to say, they were pretty darn funny" wrote rob chapman. even snooky of "jersey shore" tweeted "2012 is near, i knew it, i hope everyone's okay" referencing the prediction of the world's end. mike sugarman, cbs 5. >>> the quake wasn't all serious business back here on the east coast. for one it made the late night comics' job a whole lot easier especially for david letterman. >> they traced the epicenter of the earthquake to governor chris christie's aero

. >>> i'm veronica de la cruz. an meed karzai saying 31 u.s. troops and seven afghan soldiers killed in a chocher crash west of kabul. it is the largest number of casualties in the ten-year history of the afghan war. we'll bring you a live report from afghanistan at the top of the hour. >>> back in the u.s., standard & poor's downgraded america's credit rating from aaa to aa status. a new deficit plan doesn't go far enough they say and the political plan in washington is lowering confidence in america's ability to pay down the debt. the white house is blasting the move saying the analysis is off by trillions of dollars. >>> employers added 117,000 jobs in july, bringing the unem polite rate down to 9.1%. friday's modest gains for the dow were not enough to save the markets from their worst week in more than two years. i'm veronica de la cruz and now back to our program. >>> barton corbin had been indicted for murdering his girlfriend back in 1990 and his wife in 2004. to mount his defense, he hired top legal talent who argued both deaths were,

y nos acompaÑa la gran actriz lorena meritano y verÓnica bastos. >> hace excelente trabajo. se sale con la suya. debe tener mucho quÉ contar. >> informaciÓn de primera mano. en la cuarta hora. pero esta es la segunda hora de despierta amÉrica. [risas] >> pero las noticias las da sacha y fÉlix! >> cuÁl es el problema de karla con el tobogÁn? [risas] >> son buenÍsimos. >> ir al parque con los niÑos al tobogÁn es lo máximo. >> el gobierno federal de mÉxico gastÓ en el primer semestre de este aÑo mÁs de 1075 millones de pesos en publicidad. la mayorÍa de la suma fue destinada a la imagen de la secretarÍa de turismo y hacienda. >> sicila ha logrado movilizar a la sociedad mexicana con marchas y mesas de diÁlogo para pedirle al presidente felipe calderÓn que haga mÁs. estamos en comucaciÓn con el poeta sicilia, poeta, ¡muy buenos dÍas! poeta, me escucha. nos escucha pero nosotros no lo podemos escuchar, lo que pasÓ ayer es que una serie de intelectuales acompaÑado por el poeta sicilia, actores entre los que estaba diego luna pidieron a estados unidos que ha

. >>> saturada estÁ la mor ue en acapulco porque cada vez son mÁs los crÍmenes vamos con verÓnica y los detalles adelante. >>> en efecto, pamela la violencia en acapulco se ha desbordado que el nÚmero de muertos es mÁs grande que la capacidad del servicio o mÉdico forense actualmente tien n capacidad para sÓlo 25 cuerpos. >>> se han visto re basados porque nos rebasa a todos a violencia en el paÍs, lo sentimos especialmente aquÍ que no baja de 7 muertos diarios. >>> y bien los diarios. estado de putrefacciÓn se estÁn no son reclamados por sus familiares, segÚn autoridades por lo que el gobierno de guerrero planea construir otro centro forense para 2012, es mejor que bajen el nÚmero de muertos desde mÉxico es todo por mi parte regreso contigo bÁrbara a estudios. >>> gracias por la informaciÓn desde mÉ xico. (gritos y exclamaciones). bueno un video que circula en internet, en Él aparece dos mujeres in es usted el tangsul internet, en Él aparece dos mujeres in es usted el tangsutÍ en mÉxico, una de ellas se defendiÓ en redes sociales alegÁndo que los oficiales la habÍa

veronica? >> tracie potts in washington. thank you. >>> although the debt bill made it through the house, it still didn't sit well with 161 lawmakers. barney frank voted no and he explained why. >> the bill puts caps on military spending and caps on domestic spending, but it exempts any cap at all spending in iraq and afghanistan. that's well over $100 billion. i can't vote to give a blank check for spending in afghanistan and then cut important programs for police and fire on the streets of the cities i represent. it also said, look, when we go forward, we'll have a 50/50 split in cuts. i was for that. but when i receipt tad the spec the split was only for the first two years. for the next eight year, this was no guarantee the military wouldn't overdo it. finally we did in the health care bill put some cost savings in medicare. this bill would cut 2% from medicare off of providers. they're already off at the margins so you're cutting access to individuals who may not be able to get a doctor. >> the lard wos week nights at 8

. >> the youngest daughter veronica attended the school where the memorial was held. she was in fourth grade, and her sister samantha was in seventh grade. >>> waiting to hear their fate two. uc berkeley graduates will likely find out this week whether they will get to go home or stay behind bars in iran. josh fattal and shane bauer had their day in court earlier this morning. it's the first time the public has seen the two in many months. they both appeared healthy. the two, along with sarah shourd were arrested two years ago today when they allegedly crossed the iraqi border into iran. they had hoped the judge would rule to free the two today, partly because it is the start of ramadan, and muslim tradition often allows for compassion and the release of prisoners during this time that did not happen. the judge instead said he would decide a verdict by the end of the week, and the two men went back to prison in the meantime. >>> a journal from world war ii was returned to its rightful home today almost after seven decades. and the rightful owners didn't even know it r

host: veronica, a democrat from slidell, louisiana. caller: i have a question. i would really like to know where all these republicans and tea party and people when the republicans ran up the deficit? they are the ones -- they are the reason we are in this situation dick cheney argued that ragan improved deficits do matter and use that argument to help run up this deficit. host: let's take the last point that deficits do not matter. guest:, to talk about who ran them up of. you look at the six years in which the white house and congress were controlled by republicans, 2001-2007, they did a poor job. they averaged $300 billion per year in deficits, and part about was the fighting of two wars as a result of 9/11. let's look at what happened since pelosi became the house leader and harry reid became the senate majority leader in the next four years, we averaged $1.20 trillion deficits and then the democrats controlled the white house. they were four times worse than the republicans. yes, the republicans and not do their job, but what does that say about leadership

>> my mother, her name was veronica moore. she passed away in 2002. a wonderful, great mother to have. i write about her in the book. my dad is still with us. he is turning 90 this summer. his name is frank moore. gerlach on the east side of land, both my parents irish catholic families, and my mom's family actually was pioneers in the area. they came during the 1830's and michigan, which was all wilderness them. and my dad's family, you know, they all went to the factories of flint and all that, so they've both been great influence on me and i'm a very fortunate to have them. >> how often you get back to flint? >> i'm there every month. i live north of flint in northern michigan. my dad still lives and flint and i am down there once or twice a month spending in number of days with him. so he still drives and goes to mass every day, goes to the gym, you know, clearly i didn't obey him on that level. [laughter] but no, nan flint quite a bit. of course all i friends are still there. >> politically active family? >> i wouldn't say politically active, pol

. >>> una balacera dejÓ un saldo de un muerto y 4 heridos, verÓnica estÁ en vivo con los detalles. adelante, buenas tardes. >>> gracias, pamela. y el terror y la desesperaciÓn se apoderaron de los padres. aquÍ la informaciÓn. >>> los estruendos de las armas sembraron terror en la escuela un comando armado que viajaba en dos autos atacÓ a dos hombres en ciudad juÁrez minutos antes que salieran de clases, este joven fue ejecutado, tres mujeres tambiÉn resultaron heridas. y se supo que el blanco era una persona que se resguardÓ en una papelerÍa que estaba al frente. >>> no fue en contra del plantel, sino que el blanco de estos hechos era josÉ castro de 20 a Ños, la falleciÓ. >>> y las tres mujeres eran clientes del negocio. mÁs el hermano del muerto. >>> y despuÉs que la policÍ interceptÓ un vehÍculo similar con las caracterÍsticas de los agresores. otro hecho estallÓ cuando una patrulla detectÓ a un grupo de hombres armados persiguieron hasta una cancha de fÚtbol, confiscaron armas y municiones. y un periodista resultÓ vÍctim del crimen organizado en sinaloa, fu