>> 23 months he created jobs. but net loss since he's been president. that's a fact and you won't face it. >> spenning to the lowest levels since dwight eisenhower. two great books. >> fight it out on the road. >> sean: that's all of our time. greta's next. see you tomorrow night. >> greta: donald trump has big news. and it's a shocker. so what is donald trump's big surprise. it has too with the republican national convention in tampa bay. a local business is featured in a presidential campaign ad. isn't that good publicity isn't business owner says, no. and she's not happy with president obama. she is here to tell you what she wants the president to do. and small business owners from coast to coast are hoping mad. you guessed it. >> somebody helped to create this unbelievable american system that we have that allowed to you thrive. somebody invested in roads and bridges. if you have a business, that --

you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. >> greta: president obama insists he was stalking about building roads and bridges, but one small business owner isn't buying it. posting this sign in his store window, his defiant message is grabbing lots of attention. some are applauding him and others are yelling at home him and even hitting him. >> how are you? >> greta: i'm very well. obviously, the president's statement hit a nerve with you. did it not? >> it was the last nerve. he has been hitting nerves since he got elected. >> greta: all right. what do do you? first of all, did you hear his whole statement or just part of it and get mad? >> no. i was listening to the speech. by the time he finished it, i was fuming. >> greta: so what did you do? >> i went to work and i started thinking about it. i was listening to the talk

radio in my town. i heard that speech again. and i went up to my door. i locked it, ran to the printer's office. got my sign made up and stuck it in my window and i said, i'm mad and i am not going to take t. i am not going to stay quiet. i am tired of people telling me to shut up. i never get to say anything. being in a blue state, i can't vote for the president because it will go blue. so i saw my window as my opportunity to say, hey, i do not believe you. i will never believe you. i want you gone. >> greta: have you had two signs up. the first sign was taken down. why was it taken down? >> well, they got this big sign ordinance in lake oswego, where you can only use 25% of that for your window. i got this bigger sign, 3 "x" 7 and i put it above ift and

filled up the window. everything was going okay. but they started to get complaints and the police came over to try to take it down. it was inside my shop. so the police couldn't do it. so the code enforcement guy said he was going to fine me $150 a day until will the sign comes down. i said, i want to fight ow it. that's freedom of speech. he said, sorry, fine ordinance. you are going to get fined. what do you want to do? he said, use the 25% your window for your statement and we will be good. i don't care what you said. i thought about it, later on that night, i said, okay,il do t. i will take it down, after the rush hour and put up my new sign. that's -- that was going good. i still had my statement going. the rest is history. >> greta: so, i understand some people are supporting you. more not. let me start with the people who are not. what has been the reaction by those. tell me what they have done. >> i have been a racist.

ignorant, uneducated... believing the right-wing media. you know? like, they don't being i can think for myself, you know? and that's -- i am the last person you will tell that i don't think for myself. anybody that knows me knows i will say what's on my mind and i never let anybody cloud over my judgment. fithink it's wrong, i know it's wrong because, i mean, i saw the proof. >> greta: all right. the people that are supporting you, how did they indicate their support. >> god! it's been overwhelming. one after the other will come by and get in front of my shop, take their picture with the sign, stand in front of the sign, send it to all of their friends. they come in and shake my hand. it's been unreal. i mean, i have even had people around 18 years old come and go, "awesome sign, dude!" that was really cool. the young people are getting t.

you know? >> greta: you obviously are not going to vote for president obam a. that's pretty clear. i am curious, have you always been a republican? >> pretty much. i got to thinking about it. i started voting when jimmy carter and gerald ford ran. i voted for jimmy carter. i was 18 years old. you know? we were just going through the nixon watergate stuff and everybody was tired of it. jimmy carter's there in a field of grass with his happeneds on his knees saying, "i'm jimmy carter." i was in the south and i voted for him. the rest is history with that one and the rest has been conservatives. >> greta: has president obama done anything in particular that you happen to agree with? >> ummm... boy... no. not at all. >> greta: nothing. has he -- >> he said he was going to be

transparent. >> greta: has he done anything that has hurt your business or helped your business, directly. e >> in you know, greta, to know me is to understand that i will not let my business stand in the waive me getting angry and saying what's on my mind. i put my business at putting that sign up, but i was so fed up with obama, i was so fed up by not telling the people how i feel because everybody around here's too scared to talk if you are a conservative because of the liberal base. they are afraid your car's going to get keyed. your windows are going to get broken. some guy had a republican sign on his front porch and they burned it down -- somebody told me. i can't verify that. but i think you can find it. it's just ridiculous. if you are too scared to talk, i didn't think this was nazi germany. everybody has the right to

speak. i wish they would get that through their thick skulls that they are not the only ones that get to protest. >> greta: you have been able to protest tonight. you have been able fospeak. thank you for joning us. >> thank you. >> greta: another message, deborah krause mcdonnell doesn't want president obam to use video of her store. he said her deli ended up in the ad without her permission. >> those ads, taking my words about the small business out of context, they are flat-out wrong. of course, americans build their own businesses. every day, hard-working people make sacrifice to make a payroll, creations and make america run. >> greta: why does she want her deli out of the ad? >> thank you. >> greta: go ahead. >> this -- this ad was... this ad was sprung on us.

we didn't know anything about it. my manager was told that... this gentleman was doing a survey on riot door, the security doors that come down around the store and encase it when he are closed. she didn't think much about it. a month later, i got a call from an employee who said, you are in an obama commercial. i thought, oh, no. this business has been nonpartisan for 16 years, greta. we have made it a policy not to talk politics with our customer base because that's wh not what we are selling. we are a small specialty cheese and meat store. it is not a political platform. >> greta: now, as i understand it, this footage of this store, it is stock footage, the campaign didn't shoot it. somebody else shot it and gave

it -- or sold it to the campaign. is that how you understand it? >> that's how i understand it. you know, quite honestly, i don't care if it is stock footage or any kind of footage, i feel as though we should have been contacted. and made clear what this was going to be used for. >> greta: the ad is no longer running, you know, anywhere as far as you know, right? >> right. it is now -- it has gone viral, it's on youtube. but the reason i was upset initially, we got reaction -- from the local -- the buyers -- the customers that come down regularly -- we got immediate reaction and that reaction was negative. so i really had to stey take a stance. i tried to reach out to the local dnc, to have them at least

tase out the name of my business so it wouldn't be a concern for my customers. >> greta: are you saying to me that if the stock video had been purchased, not by the obama campaign, but the romney campaign, would have had had the same objection? >> i would, greta. as i said, in the beginning, this is a nonpartisan business. we don't talk politics -- on either side. so, yes. i valid to say to say. i have to make that very clear to my customers because they don't believe that. they don't believe that this is nonpartisan. they believe that because i am objecting to this obama campaign with my name... plastered all over for 10 seconds, they now think i'm a romney supporter. i am really trying to stay neutral on this. i want to make it clear that my

manager was misled. the local dnc representative has called her, basically, a liar, in the cincinnati enquirer, and i want to come to her defense. she was not told that. she was misled, completely -- >> greta: except that, just so i understand it, it wasn't the dnc or the obama campaign, but an intermediary, somebody else shot the video and they bought it in order to do the ad. they didn't come to your store, the obama campaign and shoot that, right? >> no. this was just a general joe coming in the store saying, i am doing a survey on riot doors. do you mind if i -- and i have to make it clear that that is not one of my employees, opening up that door. that is one of his people. >> greta: if it's any consolation, a lot of --

[inaudible] are in ads. a lot of people feel likewise. deborah, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, too, greta. >> greta: there is no doubt about it. our economy is on shaky ground, at best. in october, 2008, the federal government authorized t.a.r.p. to stabilize our collapsing financial system, providing critical help to businesses, banks and homeowners, but four years later, taxpayers are owed more than $100 billion. is there any way out of this mess. the former inspector general of t.a.r.p. and the author of the book, bailout. i read the book and i was hoping you were going to say to the inspector general that it was going to protect us and we shouldn't worry. help is on the way. i read the book and it looks like you came to washington and you were scandalized by what you saw. is that a good start? >> i was shocked when i got to d.c., after 8 years as a federal prosecutor in manhattan to see

the degree of control a handful of wall street banks had over our economy and our institutions and getting involved in the inspector general community, and seeing they are like many other government agencies with the priorities of budget and appearances really oftentimes over the job of protecting the taxpayer, which was my job. >> greta: when i read your book and i hadn't realized it, but the inspector general office was createdue are the first one to hold it, with the creation of t.a.r.p. i am so struck by the fact that it seemed like everywhere you went, you were running your head into the wall, nobody wanted to cooperate. but basically the thinking was, you don't know the way of washington t. seemed like the fix was in on the other side of you? >> yeah. they threw up road blocks everywhere, every time we turned around. it took us 3 days to get garbage cans in our offices. they didn't roll out the red carpet.

and a lot of that was because of what our job was, which was to shine a light and bring transparents nea lot of areas that frankly, the government special wall street wanted to keep dark -- basically concepts like what happened to the t.a.r.p. mony? we hit huge, huge resistance. >> greta: the discussion of the bank bailout in the book is when you wanted to fwiend out what the banks were doing with the money, were they lending the money? and nobody wanted to get on the same page with and you find out. >> no. i mean, we had all of these repetitions of these arguements made by the banks themselves, that it couldn't be done t. wasn't possible. as i pushed this -- i consulted accountant friends and economists to demonstrate that it could be done. the push-back was amazing. i was told i was stupid. i was told if i punish pushed this, i would bring down the banking system. eventually, i was confronted by secretary geithner in a tirade when i suggested that not being

transparent was going to harm the reputation of the government and put a big black mark on the legacy of him and the president. it was relentless, the opposition that we faced. >> greta: at the end, you write, it's my own anger that compelled me to write this book. do you feel, you were a federal prosecutor for years, you have a long history of being an aggressive prosecutor -- do you walk away from washington thinking, this is basically hopeless and this is a mess? or do is there any light at the end of the tunnel with the economy and how to monitor where the money is going and getting paid back? >> if i thought it was hopeless, i wouldn't have bothered to write the book. but it is a grim situation. we have a country and a system that does not operate for the american people. i was told point blank in washington, because of my tone -- i had a harsh tone on wall street and the government, that if i didn't change, i was going to do real harm to myself and my family and my ability to

work in the future. but if i changed my tone and was more upbeat, great things could happen it me, a judgeship or a pot of gold. that's the same approach that is faced by every inspector general and regulator in washington. go along scpo to get along. we need to rethink the regulatory process so we can incentivize regulators to do their job, not to protect the banks or their own behind. >> greta: have the banks been gaming the rules? >> since there were rules, banks have been gaming the rules. part of the problem is that when we bail them out, we solidify the perception that they don't operate by the normal rules of capitalism that they are too big to fail. if they get in trouble, they are not going to be held to the same standard because of the fear that if we hold them accountable and indict them or something like that, we risk bringing them down and with them, the entire financial system. and they know that and the regulators know that. and that's why you see scandal

after scandal after scandal. >> greta: are there any heros in the t.a.r.p. money? as you thought, well, this person is really doing something, this person really know when is he's doing and has the right motive? >> there was a list of people. i worked with elizabeth warren, head of the congressional oversight panel. i was impressed with her ferocity and she was up for the job of the consumer protection bureau. i thought she really went after and eviscerated secretary geithner. i really admired her and thought she really put her job above her personal interest. she was definitely someone who impressed me. >> greta: at one point, you write the criminal justice system, as i have noted, you were a federal prosecutor for a long time, the criminal justice system has proven itself ill equipped to address the deep, fundamental problems at the heart of the financial crisis. let me ask you about that and fold in the news that d.o.j. and

the sec has decide there have we no prosecution of goldman sachs in connection with the financial meltdown. tell me what you think. >> i wish i could say i was shocked. but i am not. part of my job was with law enforcement agency to investigate and prosecute those who tried too steal from the t.a.r.p. program. 100 people have been charged. we have had great success. but i had to deal with the department of justice to get the cases charged. i consistently saw a timidity and a lack of sophistication. they were gun shy. they were afraid to bring the tough cases. it was remarkably frustrating. i recount the events in the book and the latest news on goldman is a stark reminder, here we are and there hasn't been a single major case against the financial executive or an institution that helped to lead into this financial crisis and this reaffirms that message that they are playing by a different set

of rules. >> greta: is it that the laws are not there? are the proscoordinates not sophisticated? or nobody cares? >> i think it might be a combination of all of those things. there are a lot of people that care. but, you know, the combination. we saw a huge diversion of law enforcement resources away from white-collar crime to counter terrorism, understandably after 9/11. and there is in an experience gap in complicated accounting fraud. i banged my head on the wall, trying to get the cases charged. i can't say i am surprised. >> greta: i read all about it in the book, bailout. it's a great book. but a little shocking. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> greta: straight ahead, the u.s. is facing crushing debt and the unemployment rate is above 8%. why isn't the economy getting any better, any faster isn't former barack obama counsel

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>> greta: president obama has made lots of promises about the economy. he promised to cut the deficit in half and keep the unemployment rate below 8%. but right now, the unemployment rate is 8.3% and the country is facing crushing debt. >> great to see you, greta. >> greta: okay, austin. what would you do? how do we rev up the economy to get it more aggressive? more what would you like to do? >> what we have to do as an economy -- and it is not something that is driven by washington, it is driven by the private sector, we have to shift from building houses and consuming more than we are earning, which is what drove the growth in the 2000s, we have to have more manufacturing, investments and investment, stuff that's sustainable.

there are a number of policies in each of those areas that you pursue. but anybody who has to shift what they are doing, it's a long, tough process. now, we did know that -- i mean, if you look at the forecast made by the cea in the fall of 2009, after the initial really beginning of what could have been a depression, after we got through that, the forecast 3 years ago for what the un unemployment rate would be now is 8.2%. you know, that's for the fall of 2012. i mean, we are progressing at about the speed that was expected 3 years ago. it's just that is a slow pullout of a deep downturn. >> greta: so i am not going to quibble with you. i know that people quibble with the president and with you and everything on these policies. i am concerned about how we get to the next step and do better. let me identify manufacturing. how do we improve or increasing

manufacturing in light of the fact that you can buy things cheaper other places? how do you -- how do you reconcile that? why would anyone want to build anything here, if you can buy it cheaper somewhere else? >> look. i think that's a great question. the thing that is not well understood by people when they look and say, somebody in china makes $5 a day or something, why are they going to ever make something in the u.s.? have you to remember, our workers are the most productive in the world, by far. the u.s.'s problem has never been a problem of quality. our problem has been other countries had half the productivity we had, but at one-fifth the price. so what has happened, number 1, we got more productive. a lot of those places have come up from the really basement floor of wages they used to have and number 3, we have good rule of law and enforcible property rights on intellectual property,

so you don't have to worry about people stealing your blueprints and your stuff. so have you seen in the last 2 years, although the job market's been pretty tough overall, manufacturing's at its best 2 years in several decades. so i think, we are heading the right way in a lot of sector, they are recovering, it is just that it's a tough process shifting the direction of what the economy's doing. that is not primarily driven by washington, d.c. i mean, that has to be driven by the private sector. >> greta: except that it's more complicated than that. but the private sector has the freedom to be the private sector without being overregulated. there are other questions about that t. does require washington leadership. but let me go back to the manufacturing thing and the simple question. it still remains a problem, if you can buy it cheaper somewhere else, you are not going to build it here. that's a fact --

>> ask yourself, what if it's worse -- it's cheaper, they ship it over, but it's no good. the fact is, we have a pretty high level of demand. our exports have been growing on a path to double about every 5 to 6 years, over the last couple of years here. it's what we should have been doing in the 2000s, when a lot of nations we compete against were doing, growing their exports and their investments. and we weren't. so we had a shift to doing that. >> greta: okay. let me go to germany, the most robust economy in europe. germany is beginning to feel the pain from its relationship with all the other countries. even a successful manufacturing country is feeling the pain. what is germany going to do in light of its problems because their problems are going to infect them? >> you are on to something here, greta. the problems of europe are

really deep seeded and they really go back to the formation of the euro itself. so they're locked in a currency that i think germany is going to have to choose either they are going to subsidize and hold the thing together or else it's going to blow itself apart. now, the ironic thing is that as much as we are struggling to get out of the doldrums in the u.s., we actually have the highest growth rate of all the advanced world. so for people saying they think it has to do with policy or anything specific to the united states, why the growth rate isn't higher, i think the challenge for those people is to explain why is the modest growth rate in the u.s. above the growth rate in germany and the u.k. and japan and a bunch of places where they are following policies that are totally different. >> greta: and our growth rate, the last quarter is 1.5%. we don't have any bragging rights on ours. austin, i hope you will come

back. it's very complicated. thank you. >> we midwesterners have to stick together, greta. >> greta: indeed. coming up, you know california is not good with its money. but this may be the dumbest thing we have ever heard. we will tell you and you can decide. and washington, d.c. man orders a tsp online. but that's want what is delivered. what was in the box when he opened it? it's shocking, have you to see this. [ female announcer ] for everything your face has to face. face it with puffs facial tissues. puffs has air-fluffed pillows for 40% more cushiony thickness. face every day with puffs softness. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye.

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>> greta: here's a pop quiz for you. if you borrowed $105 million, how much do you think it would cost to you pay it back? it you said double, or $210 million, you would be dead wrong. so how much? brace yourself. lis mcdonald is here. liz, who is borrowing $105 million? and what's the payment schedule? >> poway school district, north of san diego, they are borrowing $1 billion to -- basically to get $105 million up front. what they are doing here, they are so desperate to get the cash right now, they told the taxpayers, look, you are not going to pay property taxes, but they have decided to take out a 40-year loan, essentially. and the first 20 years, there won't be any payment, no principle. but at the end of the 40 years, the school direct is will owe nearly $1 billion, also a

separate school district in the area, san diego unified, made a similar deal and we are finding copycat deals breaking out in the area of san diego. we found four so far. >> greta: all right. this is actually, if you being about it -- is it not a bad deal for some people. most people won't be living when it comes due. so it's very irsomeone to the next generation. who wouldn't want to borrow $105 million if you don't have to pay it back? am i right? grossly irresponsible. >> grossly irresponsible. they are pushing the borrowing costs to children who are not even born yet. the school district is saying weerk have to modernize our school, but they are using the money to pay for laptop computers and the wifi that will be obsolete. it's like a christmas tree, green building materials, outdoor dining. i have to tell you, it is shocking because the 24 schools in the one district that will be modernized, it costs the

taxpayers $63 million each to modernize them. >> greta: you know what? here's another thought. at least i think this, who would be so dumb to lend the mon tote school district that can pay 35 or 40 years? because the way that california's going to go, they are not going to make the next budget in june. why would you lend this money to california? i think if you are smart enough to get a loan that you don't have to pay back because you will be dead and if you are stupid enough to lend the money and wait for payment for 25 or 30 years when the state will be in the ocean financially, there are some real smart people and some real dumb ones. >> that's interesting. historically, cities and towns don't default, school districts will not default. so instead, they will hit property taxes down the road. i have to tell you -- >> greta: but some cities are going bankrupt. we are seeing this. we have seen a couple in california. you know, this is a real fear. >> yeah, but those towns won't

get into the borrowing market for a long time, as we saw with orange county. it is a dangerous move to go bankrupt. but in this area, school administrators get $227,000. this is a portrait of the school boards across the country. this is a school district that historically has only spent a fraction on building maintenance and spent 85% of the budget to go to compensation for the administrators and their teachers. you know, the problem is, there is no way to track this. voters are sold a bill of goods and they don't know what they are voting for when they approve the bond deals. there is no reality show that says, the school district or ncis school district. you know? you have to pay attention. >> greta: at the risk of getting sued, would you say this is insane? >> i will say it! first amendment, it is insane and corrupt and it's incompetence. >> greta: inside joke. thank you. >> sure. >> greta: coming up, the big

secret, who is it? who is governor mitt romney's runningmate? everybody is trying to put the puzzle pieces together. wait until you see what we are going to show you. you will, coming up. in two minutes, donald trump is full of surprises. what is he planning for the republican national convention? he has big news. hear that news from donald himself 2 minutes away. it

>> greta: big surprises from donald trump. what is he up to? he tushed down an offer to deliver a prime-time speech at the republican national convention. that's right. he was over offered a major speaking role in prime time, but he says no. he said he would rather help the romney campaign in other ways and he has been asked to give a big surprise at the tampa convention. that goes along with what trump told us earlier this week, right here "on the record." >> they do want me to do something very major at the convention. >> greta: all right. something very major. now you have certainly teased us.

what's the very major? can you give us a hint? >> i can't. i'm not allowed to say. but it's very, very major. >> greta: ah, very, very major. what could continue? we want to hear from you. what do you think donald trump will be doing at the republican national convention? tell us right now. [ female announcer ] think a thick cream is the only way to firm skin? challenge the need for such heavy measures with olay. regenerist micro-sculpting serum for firmer skin in 5 days. pretty heavy lifting for such a lightweight. [ female announcer ] olay regenerist.

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postcard from mars. this time, it's a flee 60-degree color panorama which looks like the california desert. it raised its mast, containing high resolution and navigational cameras, giving scientists a better view of the red planet. they will spend 2 years, deciding whether mars ever could support life. back to "on the record." >> greta: everyone is looking for clues, but no one can solve the mystery. who will be mitt romney's pick for vice-president? governor romney has managed to keep his choice under wraps, but that isn't stopping all of us from playing the veep stakes. >> reporter: the countdown is on. who will mitt romney pick? some have been fiercely campaigning for him. here's the short list of folk who is might be willing to answer the call.

is if rob portman, the two-time cabit member under george w. bush, six-time congressman and senator from the battleground state of ohio, sounding a lot like the runningmate. >> he gave the ball to barack obama because he promised he was going to turn things around and bring people together to solve big problems. we gave him the ball and he fumbled the ball. it's time to give that ball to mitt romney. >> reporter: or tim pawlenty, a fellow primary candidate who bowed out early and threw his support behind governor mitt romney. he has been vetted for the job before. >> you know, it's an honor to be considered. certainly an honor for anybody to be considered. but i have some deja vu quality because i have been through it before. the main issue is not the v.p. process. the main issue is what do we do to get this country moving again? >> reporter: how about paul

ryan, the man with the budget plan? a rising star in the republican ranks and already the powerful chairman of the house budget committee. >> if the nominee of the party, whoever it turns out to be, comes to you, next august and says, paul, your budget is the budget. i want you to be the point man for getting this through, will you be my runningmate? >> i am the point guy in the house? who knows about that. i don't know the answer to your question, chris. it is want a bridge i would come close to crossing. it is a decision that somebody makes a long time from now. i i am focused on my job in congress. >> reporter: don't count out florida senator, marco rubio with a compelling biography and he's popular in a critical state that could decide the election. >> i don't want to talk about the process. it's governor romney's process. i want to be respectful of that. i think all of us involved in politics should be respectful of this process. he has an important choice. he will make a great choice. i am confident of that.

>> reporter: and then there is virginia's governor, bob macdonald. your name is on the short list. [laughter] >> reporter: if asked, would you accept the job and what would you bring to the ticket? >> mitt romney -- it's only his list that matters. >> reporter: and last but not least, the brash, outspoken governor of new jersey, chris christie. >> in the end, nobody votes for vice-president. they vote for president. no matter who governor romney picks, if the people of the united states are not convinced that he's the right man to be president of the united states, no matter who he picks, we are not voting for him and by the same token, that went for president obama four years ago. do you think that the people in the united states say, i am not sure about the obama guy, but i live -- love biden. >> reporter: but anything can happen. in 20 are 08, john mccain picked sarah palin. so don't be surprised if we see a surprise.

for that list, we look at -- louisiana governor, bobby jindal, new hampshire senator, kelley ayot. or condoleezza rice. >> if asked, would you agree to be on the ticket with mitt romney? if asked? >> i shouldn't be asked because i don't want to run for office. >> reporter: then again, there is the chance that it's someone who hasn't made anyone's short list yet t. all comes down to one man. >> greta: have you made up your mind yet. >> i have not. >> greta: are you 90, 40, 50. >> no percentages. sorry. >> greta: no percentage. >> nothing for you on the v.p. front. >> greta: i tried. straight ahead, a man expecting a new tv gets a really big surprise. something very different was shipped to his home, instead. wait until you see why he was so freaked out. a scare in the air.

what do the passengers see when they look out an airplane window. you will not believe this one. and a bear on the loose. where did this 21 turn up? caught on camera. that's next.

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stories, but here's the best of the rest. a washington, d.c. man gettings a huge surprise. he ordered a television online, but ned, when he opened the box, he found a ready-to-fire assault rifle. that's right. a lethal weapon instead of the flat tv he ordered. he called the police and they took the gun. but how did this happen? somewhere in the transit, the label fell off and it was mistakenly put on the box with the gun. the rifle was shipped by a florida gun dealer to go to a pennsylvania gun shop. a bizarre incident rattles nerves on an alaska airlines jet. it started when a passenger looked out a window and saw a message on the plane's wing. the wing appeared to be damaged and the message said, we know about this. the frightening note was in magic marker. some passengers got alarmed. but mechanics wrote the message to notify the crew they were aware of the damage. the airline said the plane was perfectly safe to fly and they

did apologize to the passengers. >> four, two, three, zero... they started out with high hopes, but this is not the ending that nasa hoped for. in an engine test -- test, the unmanned moon lander morpheus crashed and burned. nasa hopes tell one day deliver cargo to the moon. they are working on building another one. we advise them to change something. a texas couple has completed a long journey. they finished their mission to visit every what-a-burger in the united states. the last one was in dallas. the company rewarded them and gave the couple a brand-new van. they put on more than 20,000 miles on the old van. and the tour ended on the anniversary of the opening of the first what-a-burger, 62

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>> greta: 11:00 is almost here. flash studio lights it's time for last call. a florida goat is skating into history. yes. happen yeet goat rides a skateboard. she's just earned a place in the guiness book of records. the record for the farthest