there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to find it for you right here at "mad money." i'm jim cramer. see you tomorr. this morning on "early today," the ryan factor. a new poll reveals how americans feel about mitt romney's choice for running mate. punch line. a surveillance camera is rolling as a tampa bus passenger suddenly snaps. and fire in the hole. dozens are hurt when aireworks display at a spanish festival dozens are hurt when aireworks display at a spanish festival goes awry. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation, including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with on the campaign trail. with the race for the white house taking center stage in the battleground state of iowa yesterday, it appears mitt romney's vice-presidential pick may be growing on some

americans. according to a new abc news/ washington post poll, 38% favor congressman paul ryan as mitt romney's running mate. that's up from 23% last week. 33% viewed ryan unfavorably. nbc's steve handelsman has more. >> reporter: his opponent got the weekend buzz by picking a running mate, but in drought-stricken iowa, president obama created his own buzz as only an incumbent can, ordering the federal government to buy $150 million worth of meat and fish from hard-hit farmers. >> we've got a lot of freezers. >> reporter: the president said the farm bill frozen on capitol hill would help more and singled out mitt romney's running mate for helping block it. >> so if you happen to see congressman ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to iowa and our rural communities. >> reporter: iowans are seeing ryan. he, too, went to that swing state. a chaotic event. his speech repeatedly disrupted. >> stop the war on the common

good! >> we don't want a welfare state. we don't want a debt crisis. we don't want to prolong this recession. >> reporter: romney's pick puts him in potential trouble in florida, a state full of people using medicare that ryan wants to shrink, but in st. augustine romney charged obama care did that. >> the president's idea, for instance, for medicare was to cut it by $700 billion. that's not the right answer. we want to make sure that we preserve and protect medicare. >> reporter: under obama health care, medicare payments to doctors and drug companies will drop, not the benefits to seniors. under ryan's proposal, seniors would get vouchers for private insurance, ending medicare as a government entitlement. >> he is an articulate spokesman for governor romney's vision, but the problem is that vision is one i fundamentally disagree with. >> reporter: i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. well, elsewhere in politics, new jersey governor chris

christie will be giving the keynote speech at the republican national convention. christie says he plans to make what he called an emphatic speech, making the case for electing mitt romney and paul ryan. christie told "usa today" he's grinding away on the fourth draft of his speech, and he says he'll be offering some, quote, very direct and hard truths to people in the country about the trouble that we're in. well, a policeman and two others are dead this morning after a gunman opened fire near texas a&m university on monday. the suspected gunman, 35-year-old thomas alton caffall was being served an eviction notice before he opened fire from inside a home. a county constable, a 43-year-old man, and the gunman were killed while three other officers were wounded in the shoot-out. a 55-year-old woman was in serious condition after surgery. authorities say the nearby texas a&m campus was mostly empty when the incident occurred.

well, in new york city police are investigating a stunning security breach at jfk airport. it happened over the weekend when a lost jet skier, who was stranded on the water, swam ashore, scaled a fence, d then walked right across two runways before entering a terminal, this despite a $100 million intrusion detection system. the new york port authority which runs the airport has called for an expedited review. the lost jet skier was charged with criminal trespassing. well, now here's an early look at some other stories making news early today in america. in florida a bus driver was attacked by a woman who just began punching and fighting with him after paying her fare. the driver, who suffered a concussion, can be seen pushing the woman back out of the bus. she has been since arrested. no word yet on what may have set her off. in indiana some scary moments at a state fair when a stagecoach flipped over, injuring five people.

among them, the state fair queen who was riding atop the buggy. it's not clear what went wrong. fortunately no one was seriously hurt, and the fair queen was back at work on monday. even in florida this counts as one mighty big snake. in fact, researchers at the university of florida say it's a record-breaker. the largest burmese python ever caught in the state. it is 17 feet, 7 inches tall -- long. it weighs more than 160 pounds and was carrying 87 eggs -- that's another record -- when it was captured in the everglades. timely, in new york city, firefighters aren't just known as the bravest. they're also known as quite the beefcakes. i voted for you. and some of the hunkiest heroes made their way to times square to sign their new 2013 calendars. the sales will help fund a fire department foundation. and now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is our resident hunk, nbc meteorologist bill karins.

it's a weather person calendar for charity. >> you would be january, february, march, april. just different places? >> i would be the editor. >> you're welcome, everyone. >> it's tough to find that many good looking weather guys. good morning, everyone. let's take a look at the forecast in the west. in the west it will look a lot like yesterday. the heat, another very hot day. all the red is 90s. pinkish shades are 100 plus. 109 in vegas, 115 phoenix. medford jumped up to 103. the only saving grace down here is we do have clouds and showers. unfortunately some pop-up thunderstorms is causing problems. santa rosa around tucson, three homes destroyed, 33 homes damaged. kind of a rare event for that severe monsoonal type flow situation. that's what we dealt with in california. we popped up showers and storms. here's how the radar looks. green dots. showers and storms.

southeasterly flow which tends to have moisture in the air. humidity and dew points. we will spark more showers and storms today in many areas of arizona and also a few spots here in interior california. once again, the heat's the story easily up into the 90s and 100s all the way up through the season. i don't see much in the way of that changing any time soon. take a look at tuesday. today is tuesday. tomorrow will be wednesday. >> where am i? what's happening. thank you, bill. coming up, stocks tank, google gobbles, and what's new in the dictionary. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. plus, in his first interview since kristen stewart's cheating scandal, just what did robert pattinson have to say? a playoff preview, remembering a red sox legend, and the worst penalty kick ever.

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good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. rebels in syria released a video that purports to show a warplane they claim to have shot down and captured the pilot of the plane. meanwhile foreign ministers at a meeting of the organization of islamic cooperation agreed yesterday to suspend syria from the group due to its violent suppression of descent. back in the u.s. a colorado judge has ordered most of the key documents in the case against accused movie theater gunman james holmes remain sealed. news organizations had requested the documents' release. helen gurley brown, the editor who made "cosmopolitan" magazine into a single girl's

handbook of sex and glamor has died at the age of 90 in new york. and an australian man has had his license taken away after driving his car and a travel trailer the wrong way on a highway in melbourne in february. the 81-year-old who drove more than seven miles, weaving through heavy head-on traffic, reportedly recently had suffered a stroke. in rome rockets went off in a bell tower. well, now here's a look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 13,169 after falling 38 points yesterday. the s&p was down a point, but the nasdaq gained one. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei rose 44 points, while in hong kong the hang seng shot up 210. well, global fears caught up

with wall street again on monday. the dow has fallen for ten of the past 11 mondays. yesterday it was weak growth in japan that snaed the s&p's longest winning streak since december 2010. after the bell groupon blamed europe's weak economy for its slow sales growth. shares tumbled in late trade, despite earnings that beat estimates. tesoro is shelling out $2.5 billion for one of bp's california plants, creating the nation's biggest pacific basin refining empire. google got a boost from plans to lay off 20% of motorola mobility's staff and news it's buying frommer's travel guides for $23 million. pfizer acquired future rights to sell a nonprescription version of astrazeneca's heartburn drug nexium, pending approval, the purple pill could show up over the counter by 2014. sears shot up on plans to spin off its hometown and outlet stores. new data find average credit

card debt is up 6% while late payments remain near an 18-year low. a new "associated press" tally finds landline phone companies collectively lost broadband subscribers for the first time last quarter, thanks to cable company's higher speed access. nbcuniversal, the parent company of this network, shattered its own record in london. more than 219 million viewers made the 2012 summer games the most watched tv event in u.s. history. and you can add f-bomb to the list of "f" words in the dictionary. other highlights from merriam-webster's annual update include flexitarian and obesogenic, which for the record we did have to look up. i'm not embarrassed to say that. coming up, a botched kick, a gotham grand slam, and the jays survive some gopher balls. plus, a comeback that nearly takes the head off one of the

boys in blue. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. unfortunately we're going to have another big warm-up in the middle of the country, but this time, it's not going to last. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today."

good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." and in sports last night a grand

slam catapulted the yankees past the texas rangers. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. good morning. it was a possible alcs preview. yankees and rangers in the big apple. pick it up in the third inning, texas up two. bases loaded for nick swisher, and he unloads. leaves the park in a hurry. a grand slam into the second deck. yanks up 4-2 and looking for more. eric chavez has been filling in nicely for a-rod. takes ryan dempster deep in the sixth inning. his third home run in four games. pinstripes jump all over dempster and go on to win, 8-2. white sox and blue jays, adam dunn doesn't hit much, but when he does, they go a long, long way. ties the game with a second home run in the ninth inning. that forces extra innings. blue jays take the lead for good in the 11th. runners on the corners for david cooper. he ends it with an rbi single. toronto beats the first place sox, 3-2 in eleven. to pittsburgh. when the dodgers acquired shane victorino, they knew they were

getting some speed, leadership, and a little bit of pop. his first home run with the blue crew, l.a. up, 4-2. play of the game turned in by randy choate. comebacker right at his face, randy flashes the leather. more self-defense than a catch. great reaction by choate. dodgers fend off the pirates, 5-4. sad news out of boston. red sox he legend johnny pesky passed away yesterday. he played ten years with the red sox and was part of the organization for over five decades. in 1948 he hit a game-winning home run that wrapped around the right field foul pole, which will forever be known as the pesky pole. johnny pesky was 92 years old. and, finally, a funny moment to show you from across the pond. red bull salzburg's jonathan soriano with the penalty shot. just him against the goalie. what could possibly go wrong? apparently a lot. soriano boots it a mile high. i don't know if that was a penalty shot or a field goal attempt. they're dubbing it the worst penalty kick in the world. i'll just call it hilarious. and that's your look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis.

well, coming up, a teamster's dramatic change of looks and an action star's confession of an affair nearly 20 years later. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. plus, weddings are normally a family affair, but five siblings married off all at once? you're watching "early today."

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today" on this tuesday. the amount of temperatures that have risen all the way through the inner mountain west have been very impressive. it's about to come crashing down. finally some cooler air coming down out of canada. billings, at 97 degrees. tomorrow they'll see temperatures dropping all the way down to 66 degrees as that cold front comes down the inner mountain west. unfortunately it won't help out many areas in california and nevada. if you're watching us on kn tv bay area news, in oakland explore an exhibit inspired by images of sun at the sub as art at the chabot art center. >> all right, bill. thanks. well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. already made his first tv appearance since his former girlfriend was caught cheating on him. robert pattinson did take the high road. good for him. he shared pints of ice cream on "the daily show" with jon

stewart, and they joked that they were just a couple of gals talking about a breakup and that pattinson was better off without former flame kristin stewart. pattinson never directly commented on stewart, saying only right now he needs a good publicist. well, returning to acting in "the expendables 2" after an eight-year break, arnold schwarzenegger admits it's tough staying in shape at 65, but insists the same food and exercise he relied on 50 years ago still works. admits the same food and exercises he relied on 50 years ago still works. >> he doesn't age much. >> he's still exercising. and meanwhile 20 years later "the expendables 2" co-star jean-claude van damme says he had an affair with kylie minogue while shooting the movie "street fighter" in thailand. why dig that up now? >> i don't know. and finally miley cyrus has yet another look to show off. look, thanks to the stylist who gave us jennifer aniston's "rachel" haircut. already-platinum blond cirus went super short, tweeting, quote, never felt more me in my

whole life. >> good for you. ve very. >> very supportive of this new haircut. and this comes to us from kpnx news 12 in phoenix, arizona, where in nearby mesa where it was "i do" times five. two brothers -- or three sisters and two brothers had planned to marry their sweethearts within months of each other, so dad had a really good idea. he suggested just one big wedding. the super-sized reception was held in an airplane hanger with five different themes and, of course, five different cakes. perhaps the most poignant moment was when all the brides joined in for their father/daughter dance. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station.

a new kind of orphanage opened itsoors in south africa. dedicated to adorable baby rhinos, it's a refuge that's the first of its kind in the world in its latest effort to combat poaching. the first resident is a 5-month-old black rhino who's believed to have been abandoned by his father. look at the guy imitating him. the yet-to-be-named youngster is doing great under the 24-watch of the staff. well, in france, one race was kind of a drag, at least for the competitors. around 80 from around the world took part in the 49th annual snail racing championship. this is a fact. >> this is what it's come to? >> this is what it's come to. snails are placed at the center of round tables, and the first to slime its way to the edge is crowned winner. racing for their lives, the contest is followed by a snail feast. only the winner is spared. lucky for him.

watch out! you might be getting a friend request from grandma. facebook for seniors class in new york introduces the social media site to elderly students. the 90-minute course explains the basics like how to start an account, deal with notifications, news feeds, timelines, privacy issues. the hands-on classes are popular for seniors of all ages. the eldest so far is 97. i think i taught the twitter class for you for our senior citizens over here. >> yes. >> you were a little slow. >> i'm a little behind some of the seniors, i admit that. >> thank you for admitting to that. >> but i'm gaining quickly. >> yes, you are. you're really becoming quite the, you know, internet junky. >> i put the tennis balls on my walker so i can go a little faster. >> that works. it's time for now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day on nbc. four states are holding primary elections for congressional seats that will be decided on in november. voters in wisconsin and connecticut will pick candidates for open seats being vacated by retiring senators herb kohl and

joseph lieberman. and in florida two-term senator bill nelson is facing a tough challenge. award-winning composer marvin hamlisch who died last week at the age of 68 will be laid to rest. he was known for his work on the films, "the way we were" and "the sting." happy birthday to actress halle berry. she turns 46 years old. all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and more as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. former presidential candidate newt gingrich speaks out in a live interview about what he thinks of paul ryan as mitt romney's running mate, and chart topping rapper nicki minaj performs live on the plaza. and now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. the day, today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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