i feel like i want to throw up. >> and we're expecting to hear from the governor of colorado. an entire region soaked by floodwaters with at least three people dead and more evacuations of thousands of people in the boulder area. and in afghanistan, the state department is condemning a taliban suicide car bombing outside the u.s. consulate that killed a police officer and security guard. a gun fight followed while american employees were in lockdown inside. we'll get some inside from msnbc military analyst and retired army general barry mccaffrey. we are expecting live events, again, in both of those domestic locations, in colorado and in new jersey and we will have live reports from the scene. but let's start overseas where taliban fighters launched a major assault on the u.s. consulate overnight. the state department says that no americans were killed, but according to nato, many afghan

civilians died in the attack. the taliban insurgents are believed to have used rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles and it appears some were wearing suicide vests. joining me now, barry mccaffrey, former commander in chief of u.s. forces in southern command and an msnbc military analyst. general, good morning. >> good morning, chris. >> all right. what does the attack tell you about the stability of afghanistan as the u.s. prepares its final withdrawal? >> well, of course this one incident is a minor event in a daily list of taliban atrocities across the country. the question at hand is what will happen when we're out next year? right now we still have 65,000 u.s., lots of nato allies there. we'll be gone within 18 months almost completely. can they hold it together. it's an open question. helmand in the south is going the wrong direction. the eastern provinces of the

taliban have made increasing success on the battlefield. it's hard to say what's going to happen. there's an election coming up. will karzai and his government be able to let the people vote. afghanistan is a mess. >> we wake up to the news not only about this attack, which obviously brings to mind things like benghazi and there was a similar attack in ankorra, but u.s. citizens who were working in the consulate were essentially in lockdown. they're hovering inside their offices while this gun battle is raging outside after the attack. and you do wonder if it makes people stop and think about syria. not a completely analogous situation except for this. do we want to get involved in another country where it's going to be so complicated and where the chances of success seem so far off? >> of course afghanistan we've got a lot of blood we've expending spendinged there, 20,000 u.s. casualties.

i think what's going to happen in afghanistan as the u.s. military forces come out, the combat troops, our ability to maintain a robust, diplomatic presence and u.s. contractors and small groups of advisers is going to start disappearing. it's going to be too dangerous minus the muscle of the u.s. army and marine corps. >> let's talk about syria. secretary kerry meeting today with the russian foreign minister and u.n. envoy for syria for the second round of negotiations. obviously the topic is assad giving up his chemical weapons. how does the military look at this alternative to air strikes? and could it accomplish the same goals? >> well, i think the good news here is that we're not conducting strikes right now, which probably would have worsened the situation. i think the other good news is that the president went to congress, because otherwise he would have been proceeding unilaterally with no legitimacy out of the u.n., nato, the arab league, no political support at home. so that's the good news.

kerry is now in geneva with no cards in his hand. we are in this unbelievable situation where we threatened a mass murderer, assad, with an unbelievably small military strike. i don't think that's ever happened in the history of warfare, to threaten somebody in that manner with limited duration and targeted. we're not after you or your senior people. so it's hard to know what's going to happen. we've diverted attention from a civil war that's murdered 117,000 people. now we're talking about chemical weapons. i think we gave assad another year of diplomatic maneuvering while he tries to finish off the rebellion. >> although we heard from secretary kerry and he said this is not open-ended. they need to give us an accounting of their chemical weapons quickly. and i know that you, general, have experience with these sort of negotiations. you were a liaison to the '93 chemical weapons convention that

established the current ban. so give us a sense of how difficult -- let's say we're able to move forward on this diplomatic front. how hard will it be to verify that syria has indeed given up control of its chemical weapons? >> i was taken by andrea mitchell's comments to chuck todd that this is arms control. i've done arms control for years. i've been to geneva dozens of times, hotel rooms until 3:00 in the morning going line by line over documents. we shouldn't expect that the diplomatic path would play out in less than a year. they just signed the cwc. in theory that gives them a month to start reporting data. they have to pass internal laws. the hard work of locating, verifying chemical weapons, supposedly they have four production facilities, as many as 30 different locations. joint chiefs of staff said 75,000 foreigners into the

country to do this work. i think that we're losing sight of a raging internal religious civil war and we're trying to carefully calibrate how much aid we provide the opposition. we need to bring assad down and his senior people, get them out of the country and then try and moderate the ensuing civil war which will then occur against the alawites, the christians, the kurds, et cetera. >> general mccaffrey, it's always good to see you, sir. thank you. >> good to be with you, chris. now let's go to the east coast where the jersey shore is once again facing the daunting task of rebuilding. just months after the shore got back on its feet from hurricane sandy, several blocks of the seaside park and seaside heights boardwalk have been obliterated by a massive wind-swept fire. look at these pictures. more than 50 businesses destroyed by the flames. it's believed to have started at a landmark frozen custard stand.

two firefighters did have minor injuries while trying to put out that fire. >> my heart goes out to them. that's why i'm here, to make sure that every resource is brought to bear to contain this problem. and listen, this is us, so, you know, as soon as this is over, we'll pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and get back to work. >> new jersey congressman frank palone represents the community and joins me on the phone. congressman, good morning. >> good morning, how are you doing? >> well, i'm doing okay. i guess the question is how are you folks doing? when you and i first spoke, which was just a couple of months ago, you were talking about how far the shore had come after hurricane sandy. tell us what you're seeing this morning. >> well, if you remember, around memorial day they had just completed the boardwalk here in seaside heights and park and everything was ready to go and we had a pretty good season, considering hurricane sandy. but now, of course, this fire has devastated a huge part of

seaside park and parts of seaside heights as well. i think the main thing is that we have to rebuild. the spirit is very strong here, that even though we've now faced two devastating disasters, that we can rebuild and get ready again for next season. some people have talked about possibly state and federal aid to help with the rebuilding of the boardwalk again. as you know, the boardwalk was largely destroyed in hurricane sandy and now large parts of the new boardwalk have been destroyed by fire. but, you know, we have to try by next season and next memorial day to be back again. i know that we have the spirit to do that, so we're going to work between the federal government and the state government to try to accomplish that goal by next season. >> well, of course the post-sandy aid wasn't all that easy. everyone from rand paul, marco rubio, tom coburn, pat toomey voted against that aid. and i wonder what you think

might be available in terms of help from the federal government and will there be members of congress who put up a fight? >> it's hard to say at this point. i mean i'm assuming that a lot of the businesses do have fire insurance. but again, the boardwalk is municipal, so they will need help. whether that can come from the fema sandy package that was passed or it means new appropriations from the federal or state government, i don't know. but we're certainly going to look into it. if i could represent on behalf of the whole congressional delegation of new jersey, that's certainly something that we're going to strive for. >> it is unbelievable to see these pictures, and i don't know anyone who when they heard that this fire was raging in a place that had just been rebuilt didn't feel, whether you've ever been there or live in new jersey or not didn't feel like they got punched in the guts, and i just wonder emotionally how everyone seems to be handling this. you say that people are already

talking about rebuilding. are they in shock? >> that's all right. it didn't -- i wasn't sure if it ended, but i guess -- >> can you still hear me, congressman? i think we unfortunately lost congressman frank pallone. we will keep you posted and just want to reiterate that there are investigators on the scene there. no word yet on what might have sparked that fire. just the location, apparently started in an iconic custard stand along the boardwalk. meantime, president obama has approved federal disaster assistance for colorado, where massive floods killed at least three people and is forcing thousands to evacuate their homes. governor john hickenlooper is expected to give a press conference any minute now. first joining me from boulder from the heart of the flood zone, the weather channel's mike seidel. mike, how are things looking right now? >> reporter: good morning, chris. things are getting better here in the front range. the rain has backed off

considerably through the overnight hours. we do have another batch coming at us right now but in boulder really no rain for the past four hours or so. look at boulder creek out here. listen to the roar of the creek. it's actually come down from an all-time crest of just under eight feet. normally this is a tranquil creek. but it's coming under the bridge. behind me a tree coming down boulder canyon, stuck under the bridge. debris across the river. this is about 30 yards across. a lot of photo ops out here because of 10, 12, 14 inches of rain that fell in the watershed up in the foothills and down here in the front range. north of here, the big thompson river now has gone across interstate 25. that's the major route between denver and cheyenne to hook up on i-80 to get east and west. that is now closed. the big thompson river has completely engulfed i-25 up there. we still have the flash flood watch until at least noon. the worst is over. going around town right now, some of the barricades are coming town and the water is

backing off on the intersection of the streets. what we've seen around town are the heavy front-end loaders and the snow plows. they're using those to get the mud, debris, the stones and the boulders out of the way to start to clean up this mess here. big game tomorrow, boulder, uc boulder and fresno state. the game is still on. the stadium is higher up and was unaffected by this unprecedented flood. back to you. >> mike, thank you very much. we want to take you live to that news conference which has just gotten under way. this is governor john hickenlooper. >> trying to walk through -- to get from their car, walk through what looks like maybe a foot or two feet of water, it looks harmless. you've got to recognize that this water is filled with debris and sand and it is almost like liquid cement and it can -- even just a foot and a half of water can knock people over and you can be swept away. it's much, much different than normal water that you see going down a mountain stream. so we're asking people to be exceptionally careful and to if

at all possible stay off the roads. the colorado department of transportation has issued a essential traffic only restriction, and that's for jefferson, larimer, boulder and enclosure creek counties. we're having trouble getting the emergency management vehicles around. the congestion has been such, so we're trying to get people at least for a couple of hours to stay off the roads so that we can get help to where it most needs to be. i've got a bunch of our cabinet here, i don't know where they all snuck off to -- >> governor hickenlooper in spite of the fact that we just heard from mike seidel that at least the weather situation is improving. the danger continues in the boulder area and we'll keep our eye on that developing story as well. you know, there has been so much focus lately on syria. sometimes we forget about the other major battles that are looming on capitol hill. we've got health care, the debt ceiling, budget cuts. congressman charlie rangel will join me live in studio next. [ male announcer ] here's a word you should keep in mind. unbiased.

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battle lines are being drawn by the white house this morning, standing firm on a couple of major looming battles, insisting the administration will not negotiate over obama care, budget cuts or the debt ceiling. october 1st is starting to look like d-day. it's not only the day health care exchanges go online, it's also the deadline for congress to approve the spending bill to keep the government running. >> now americans face the prospect of another republican-manufactured crisis to shut down the government. >> there are a lot of discussions going on about how -- about how to deal with the cr and the issue of obama care and so we're continuing to work with our members.

>> i want to bring in our company, congressman charles rangel, democrat from new york, josh sparrow is the politics editor for the "business insider." good morning. >> good morning. >> house republicans are trying to tie all of this together with a bill that would only keep the government running if obama care gets defunded. is this here we go again? what's going on. >> maybe number 42 bill be the lucky charm in their attempts to repeal obama care. part of what came out in the new nbc/washington journal poll was numbers about people being very, very concerned about being able to afford health care. this is something they really care a lot about. i don't know exactly again where the republicans want to be coming from on defunding health care but this is a prime concern for americans when they look out at the economy and how it affects them today. >> and certainly a lot of democrats are starting to use this as a talking point as they move a little away from syria.

i thought steny hoyer was on fire when he was on ed schultz last night. let's take a listen. >> this crowd is obsessed. as you saw, we had the 41st vote on the repeal of the affordable care act, obama care, today. notwithstanding that, we didn't do anything else. that bill won't have any future and we did not do what we need to do, and that is ensure that the government doesn't shut down on october 1st. >> so here we are, five legislative days before government shutdown. conservative republicans are essentially in revolt. you've got john boehner again faced with kind of this choice, isn't he, josh? he can't get a deal without the support of the tea party or some democrats. what's the strategy? >> john boehner desperately wanted to avoid this fight. the republican leadership, their key goal is to keep all the spending cuts that were in sequestration that democrats would like to roll back some of. if they get caught up in this thing where they try to tie

keeping the government open to defunding obama care, they're afraid whatever passes out of the house will look unserious and the democrats in the senate will be able to set the terms for how the government stays open and spend more money. so boehner and cantor came up with this gimmick where they pass a bill that says we defund obama care but it's separate from the continuing resolution so the senate could pass only the part that keeps the government open and tea partiers would get to say we voted again to defund obama care and that wouldn't be an issue holding us back. now i think conservatives are saying, no, we want to have this fight over obama care right now and republican leadership can't figure out a way to do this that isn't going to blow up in their faces. >> congressman, you are the insider here. how are you going to keep the government running? >> chris, i've been in congress for over 40 years and i never thought that keeping the government running, obama care, universal health care or continued resolution would be a blessing compared to avoiding one of the most contentious vote

i thought i would have to face, and that would be america going to war. so for me, this is a relief because i know what the problems are. the difficulty is how you resolve it. people talk about the republicans want to do this and the republicans want to do that. that is not so. there's a handful of republicans that made up their mind that they don't mind hurting the republican party, the congress and if we're talking about the debt ceiling, they don't mind hurting the united states of america. >> they hold a lot of sway, though, as you know, congressman. can the republican party or can democrats somehow help to maneuver so that this group of people who are dead set against a cr if there isn't obama care included in it don't get their way? >> they don't have sway, they have complete control over the republican party. they don't have sway. i think that boehner -- i know that boehner has said now it's up to the democrats to help him with the majority of republican

to pass a continued resolution that includes the gimmick, because there's no way to repeal obama care and they know it. they just want another opportunity to say i hate obama. i hate democrats and i hate obama care and this is the way to show it. so when you say republicans, boehner is a decent human being, but boehner wants to be speaker. without the tea party vote, he's not speaker. without the tea party vote, he can't get anything passed in the house of representatives. >> but these tea party activists, i'm sure you all saw it, had this big rally on tuesday. of course it was to defund obama care. ted cruz, mike lee, rand paul were all there. listen, because i think this is instructive, about this mindset to what ted cruz told the crowd. >> some house republicans are considering procedural tricks to let them vote on defunding obama

care and then to let harry reid strip it out and fund obama care. i want to ask you all a question. is an empty symbolic vote enough? >> no! >> are tricks and games acceptable? >> no! >> and then the government is going to run out of money on october 18th so you also have the whole debt ceiling fight, congressman. what is going to happen? what is going to change in the next five days? >> what i hope will happen and i haven't got any indication that it will is that the republican -- or strike that. the supporters of the congress financially and the political action groups ought to be able to say that the country, this great country is in trouble and we can't afford these deadlocks and these partisan fights when you're talking about the full

faith and credit of the united states. we owe $16.7 trillion and they won't let the president of the united states say that we're going to pay that? we owe that. and what could happen to us financially? do we hear from the corporate structure? do we hear from the business structure? no. and then when you see this attack on obama care, which is health care, have we heard from the religious community? no. we've heard from them on the question of birth control, same-sex marriage. but what about the sick kids, those with preconditions can't get insurance and the poor. as far as i'm concerned, these are not just democratic issues, they're moral issues. but unfortunately most people don't even know the names of their members of the house of representatives. >> let me ask you guys really quickly, because there's a deal that some conservative republicans are pushing. raise the debt ceiling for a year, delay the health care law for a year, give back some of the pentagon cuts.

give me your -- no? >> no. >> we had this fight just back in january. you had republicans saying we're going to make all these demands over the debt ceiling. when the white house has consistently kept saying no, we're not going to negotiate. no, we're not going to use gimmicks like the trillion dollar coin. you have to pass a clean debt ceiling or else. republicans blinked. the deal they got was that they raised the debt ceiling enough to cover through most of this year and the concession was that the democratic senate had to pass a budget. it didn't have to become law or reconciled with the house budget, it was a purely symbolic concession that republicans got because they knew they couldn't get more than that. i expect a similar outcome this time. >> similar outcome, you think, dafna? >> absolutely, yes. they're not going to have a deal to delay health care for a year. >> congressman rangel, dafna, josh, thank you all for coming in. have a great weekend. and i want to make one note. when we spoke with new jersey congressman frank pallone a short time ago, we said that he represented the seaside

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to politics where vice president joe biden is at it again. joe being joe called some republicans opposing the violence against women act kn neanderthals. >> last year we ran into this neanderthal crowd.

no, i mean it. no, i'm serious. when you think about it, did you ever think we'd be fighting over, you know, 17 years, 18 years later to reauthorize this? >> biden made the remarks at an event marking the law's 19th anniversary. check out this instagram photo, first lady with eva long goria. they were kicking off the first lady's campaign to encourage kids to drink more water. >> water is also good for us old folks. i don't know about you, but i still try to work out. i'm going to be 50 in january. 50! and to the extent that i'm still hanging in there, it's because i exercise, eat right and i drink a ton of water. >> 50 looks good on her. another obama, well, sort of, is thinking about a run for office. his name is milton wolf, he's a republican and president obama's second cousin once removed. politico reports he's thinking about a challenge, by

the way, to senator pat roberts. and hillary clinton just keeps getting accolades and academic offers. she'll receive an honorary degree at st. andrews university in scotland, best known here, perhaps, as the place prince william met kate. hillary will return to the states with an invitation to teach at harvard. if you read only one thing this morning, an environmental organization you probably never heard of, the ugly animal preservation society, has just named its mascot and earned the title ugliest animal in the world. i actually think it's kind of cute. we got into a big battle about this in the jansing & co.newsroom. this is very cute. my producers are saying it scares them, they can't look it in the eye. let me know what you think, it's on our facebook page. spicy buffo wheat thins. who's gonna take your wheat thins? i don't know. an intruder, the dog, bigfoot. could you get the light?

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governor chris christie who any moment will hold a press conference, maybe get some fresh information about the devastating fire that ripped through the seaside heights area of the jersey shore. of course that area was just recently rebuilt, and it came not without some difficult political prices. there was a vote on funding, on federal funding that caused quite a problem within congress, although eventually it got up and running. we've heard that they had a pretty decent season. now again, they're faced with the task of rebuilding. here's governor christie. >> good morning. it was a long day and night for the communities of seaside park and seaside heights last night. since yesterday at 2:30 in the afternoon, over 400 firefighters have been battling a fire that grew rapidly and spread quickly because of high winds. today the fire is 95% contained

and the good news is that there were only several minor injuries sustained. at approximately 11:00 last night, the firefighters on the ground brought this fire under control after putting up a stand at lincoln and ocean avenues. it was a result of hours of hard work, tearing up part of the boardwalk and ultimately prevented the fire from spreading even further. the damage extends from lincoln to stockton, about a four-block radius of the boardwalk. businesses have been destroyed, but the damage has been contained to commercial properties only. the only exception was a fire that started on a roof of a condominium complex that was very quickly put out. while today the most important part of the job is done, and that is the containment of the fire, it is not finished. the team on the ground is tackling this one step at a time to ensure that this site is

secured and safe. today's job is focused solely on putting out the smoldering that is taking place in small pockets along the boardwalk, and that may continue for days, as these buildings collapsed, it sometimes hides what's called hot pockets underneath the debris. as the debris begins to remove, those hot spots can flare. so for the next number of days we'll have to be vigilant on that. it's a slow and deliberate process as a result. the objective is to ensure that no one is put in harm's way and that we methodically put out these smoldering pockets. that's the job for today. as part of the process, the folks on the ground are working side by side -- >> governor christie talking about the brooavery of the 400 firefighters who did the amazing work to get that fire under control, now 95% contained. you can see the four blocks along the jersey shore absolutely devastated. they will start to talk about the rebuilding as they look for

a cause with investigators on the scene. we'll keep you posted if any news breaks out of what the governor has to say. meantime, we want to tell you about some new findings in a poll that are absolutely chilling. this is from gallup. it finds one out of every five americans did not have enough money at some point in the last year to buy food for themselves and their families. for the millions of americans on food stamps, their struggle could become even harder. next week congress is expected to vote on a bill that would cut funding for food stamp biy $40 million over the text four years. joining me is president and ceo of the food bank for new york city. thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having us. >> let's talk specific numbers. what's the impact if these cuts go through. >> well, the impact is multi layered. for new york city alone, we're talking about a loss of about 76 million meals. that's more meals than we, the food bank, largest food bank in the country, distributed in a year. there's no way to make that up.

it will also impact jobs. i mean this is the grocery industry. i am hoping that some day they're going to speak a little louder about this. food stamps impact families and specifically children. >> how many of these -- the recipients of food stamps are children? >> more than half. 80% of recipients of food stamps are mothers and their children. largest number being the kids. so when they talk about, oh, people shouldn't be reliant on food stamps, the issue is that children rely on their parents to feed them. when hard times come, food stamps actually make up a great resource. >> you know, margaret, what the argument is on the republican side. they say, look, the program is out of control. it's gotten too large. the cost has doubled since 2008. the annual budget now almost $80 billion. they say, look, the bottom line is this is not sustainable. what do you say to them? >> i say that it would be

wonderful if we could wipe out a little thing called recession from our history, our very near history, but we cannot. unfortunately, food stamp usage goes right along with where our economy is. we can't talk about able-bodied people going to get jobs when we know that there still are not jobs in many communities. the average new person who comes onto food stamps is only on the program for ten months or less. which happens to be the time it now takes to find a new job. >> so what about this other potential impact of the bill. it would mean that adults without children can only get a full year of food stamp benefits if they're either employed or enrolled in a job training program. does that make sense to you? >> it would make more sense if they put some funding for job training programs. most people who are receiving food stamps are the working poor. 91% of recipients are actually people who there's an income but they are living below the poverty line. so it's not that they are

sitting just enjoying this wonderful luxurious life that comes with food stamps, they are having trouble having the ends actually meet and that's it. >> margaret purvis from the bood bank in new york city, the largest in the country, as we follow this vote in the coming days. thanks so much. checking the news feed this morning, crews are cleaning up thousands of dead fish and other sea life in honolulu harbor. suffocated after a massive molasses spill. yes, molasses. on monday 233,000 gallons spilled out of a pipeline running from storage tank to ships. researchers say molasses into toxic, but it's thrown off the ecosystem and that is what's killing the fish. new parents prince william and the dutchess of cambridge were out on the town last night, stunning on the red carpet. the couple attending a charity event in london for an african conservation society. in case you're wondering, kate's dress reportedly by jenny packham. their appearance comes about two months after the birth of their son.

check out this real-life version of the movie "up." not quite the little man from the film but 39-year-old jonathan trapp is using more than 300 helium-filled balloons to try to cross the atlantic. trapp says he landed in newfoundland, canada, where he spent the night. he could up from anywhere from africa to norway in the next six days. good luck with that. i didn't realize it until my team actually pointed it out. today is friday the 13th so we have some fun facts for you. there's actually a term for the fear of friday the 13th. look at your screen. fr frigatriskaideka phobia. and 12 months in a year, 12 hours, half a day, 12 zodiac signs, 12 apostles. fidel castro and butch cassidy were both born on friday the

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christie had to say just moments ago. >> we'll make new memories for our families because that's what we do. so we stand ready as the state of new jersey to assist in every way possible and i'm available to take a few questions. >> there are still a couple of hot spots there and so they are working to get those under control. meantime, have you seen the headlines? i'm looking at the newspapers. look at the front page of the "new york post." everybody all atwitter about twitter's plan to go public. i think it's on the front page of "usa today." mandy drury is here with what's moving your money. i'm telling you, people going crazy over this. >> yeah, we haven't seen this much since facebook, remember that? you know, they tweeted it out. this is what they tweeted. we've confidentially submitted an s-1 to the s.e.c. for a planned ipo. this does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. following that initial announcement, twitter's official

account sent out another tweet, chris, saying now, back to work. obviously a lot of us use twitter, we love twitter. you're probably wondering how can i get in on this action as well. we have to wait and see. we don't know if there are any shares for us, the individual investor, because we have very few details at this stage. we're in the dark about how many shares of the social media company will be offered, the timing of the offering, the price of the shares. typically ipos of these big much awaited ipos are doled out by the investment bankers to their favored clients and long-standing customers so us, the individual, usually has to purchase them in the open market once the trade begins. however, some are thinking that twitter may likely follow the lead that was set by facebook and some other recent ipos that hold back some shares, maybe about 20%, for us, the individual investor. as i say, we've just got to wait for the details. >> meantime, there was this tweet from the a.p. that caught our attention. united airlines website glitch

briefly allows customers to buy ticket for a few dollars. i guess maybe even in some cases free. what happened? >> well, for about 15 minutes yesterday tickets on united airlines were basically free because someone there apparently entered wrong fare info into their system. >> a former employee maybe now? >> maybe a former employee. so on a lot of the routes the price of a ticket was either zero, obviously plus some fees, there are always fees. for example a flight to orlando just $3.20. to washington, just $5. las vegas $6. as i say some were actually 0. >> mandy drury, cnbc, have a good weekend, thank you. >> you too, chris. today's tweet of the day, a rebuttal from nancy pelosi to vladimir putin. she says hopefully when president putin says we must not forget that god created us equal, he includes gays and lesbians in russia.

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very soon the president is expected to announce his choice to replace ben bernanke as federal reserve chairman. the fed and the fifth anniversary of the financial meltdown are the focus of a new documentary opening today here in new york. money for nothing, inside the federal reserve. >> one of the president's most important appointments is chairman of the federal reserve. the fed is the symbol of the integrity of our financial system. and the decisions of the fed affects the lives and livelihoods of all americans. >> everybody wants to go back and say things are fine now. look, we solved our problem. we're just asking for another crisis. >> this is an experiment. we've never done this before. we've never been here before. the federal reserve is really operating by the seat of their pants. >> i'm joined now by jim bruce, the producer, director, wroirt and editor of the film. busy guy. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> no car chases, no buildings blow up, the apocalypse doesn't

happen in this movie. what would make people go to see it. >> i think the reason people come down is because i think the general population has an idea that the federal reserve is an incredibly powerful institution. >> but they don't really get it. >> and that's the idea is to welcome people in to have an opinion about the fed, to learn about the fed and to see the impact of fed policies on their lives. and we hope that if people understand more the fed's impact, that it might send a message back to the fed to give us better policies. >> what's the one thing you think people might walk away from this movie thinking, oh, my god, i had no idea. >> i think it might be how much the economy we're in right now is based on federal reserve policy. how much the fed is really balancing the world on its shoulders. and it's certainly something the fed had to do in the depths of the crisis in '08 or '09. but you could argue that it's a tenuous position the fed is in right now with all the promises they seem to have made to wall street, for example, to keep the stock market going.

>> well, cheap money and that's something that you sort of lay out the criticism in the movie. let me play a little clip about that topic in particular. >> somebody is paying the price for low interest rates. it's you and me who have money market accounts, which are earning 0.27%. which, by the way, punishes the elderly and people on a fixed salary. i mean i worked to save that money. and now in one swoop, the fed decides i get nothing for that money in order to bail out the banks. that to me is outrageous. >> if people come to the conclusion that it's outrageous, should they think that the new fed chairman is going to change things or that anything will change things? >> you know, honestly there really isn't change on the schedule right now. but that's the goal of the film is to get people talking about the fed, to get people questioning who's really benefitting from fed policies. i think you can argue they're very regressive in the sense that they direct -- the fed

supports the financial markets when it takes action and that's what they're able to do as a central bank. but the benefits tend to go to the wealthiest members of our society. and the question is, is it trickling down to the rest of us and i think the answer so far is not really. >> jim bruce, good luck with the movie and thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> that's going to wrap up this hour of "jansing and company." thomas roberts is up next. i'll see you back here on monday. designed for men's health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men's 50+. ♪ [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds. ♪ ♪ others are designed to leave them behind.

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dead and the danger -- well, it's not over yet. >> it's got to be the largest storm that i can imagine in the state's history. >> it was 20 feet tall and crashing and boulders. >> you could see the water coming up and then we moved to higher ground. >> it's back on the east coast where it's a heart-breaking scene for those who have spent many a summer days on the jersey shore. firefighters remain on the site of a fire that left a boardwalk looking like a bomb went off. >> we have endured and begun to come back from the devastation of sandy. we will not let these fires destroy those efforts. >> and this is happening not far from a stretch of boardwalk that had to be rebuilt after superstorm sandy. >> coming over the bridge was -- it looked like -- it appeared like the whole town was on fire, it was that bad. >> nbc's kristen dahlgren joins me liv