virginia is an amazing campaign. elections in odd number years turns out to be the oddest thing of all. wall street's fears is causing billions in losses swle. plus the u.s. america's cup team has a comeback story for the ages. and sex trafficking in new york takes on a whole new initiative. president bush serves as witness at a same-sex wedding and a man grows a replacement nose on the top of his head. fascinating story. good morning, everybody. i'm betty nguyen. that defiant stand by senator ted cruz is now over but the threat of a government shutdown is still very real and if that

happens, democrats are already pinning the blame on that tea party senator. nbc's trac tracey potts is live washington. he doing a lot of talking to each other? >> it's a lot of ping-pong back and forth. four days before the deadline for the government shutdown monday, ted cruz talked and talked to prevent a vote that happened anyway and at the end of that vote it looks like democrats and republicans are still at odds. ted cruz finally sat down after 21 hours. >> this was all about elevating the debate in the public. >> it was a big waste of tile. >> reporter: now the senate's on track to pass a budget that will likely include money for at fordable care act, that's sure

to go nowhere in the house. democrats say they'll fight for it. >> anything that diminishes the affordable care act is not anything we want to support. >> we cannot rely on the commander in chief to negotiate. >> reporter: republicans are expected to count we are a budget that includes more things democrats don't like, like tax reform, the controversial keystone pipeline, or changes in medicare and social security. >> this is the attitude of my way or the highway doesn't get it. >> i don't think it's going to be pretty. >> reporter: it's up in the air where weather they can agree on a budget before monday's shutdown deadline. tuesday open enrollment for the health insurance exchanges. president obama talks about that at a community college in maryland today. for now it looks like the whole idea of paying for health funding may be put on the back burner. >> there's a lot of talk back and forth, tracie.

>> take a look at the numbers from the "new york times"/cbs poll. president obama's overall approval rating, 43%, upside down from his disapproval rating and when you look at health care his approval rating only 41%, more than half the nation disapproving in this poll on the deficit even lower, 35% so absolutely the president seems to be taking a hit as congress deals with the issues. >> tracie potts in washington thank you. an armed aaron alexic inside the navy shipyard, before he killed 12 people at random. you can see him armed with a shotgun and stalking through hallways crouched over september 16th. his shotgun had four messages

matched into it including "my elf weapon." it might return to extremely low frequency electromagnetic waves. he left a revealing message "ultralow frequency attack is what i've been subject to for the last three months and to be perfectly honest this thank is what has driven me to this." it is evidence of a man increasingly in the throes of paranoia and delusions. nra executive vice president wayne lapierre says aaron alexis "should have been committed" in a new op-ed for "usa today" he says "the second amendment has never been more relevant for more americans. firearms in the hands of good law-abiding people are essential for the safety of our families and our nation. now to one of the biggest comebacks in sports history at the america's cup, hopefully you saw it but if you didn't, here it is, nbc's kurt gregory has

the story on the finish that stunned the world. >> the stars and stripes say it all. >> reporter: the america's cup will stay in america. >> the comeback of 2013 is complete! >> skipper jimmy spithill of oracle team usa and his ten-man crew who a week ago trailed 8-1, mounted one of the greatest comebacks in sports history. >> it was a fantastic race. we wouldn't have had it any other way. >> they deserved to win and we had a good race, too, so we can hold our heads high with that. >> reporter: even before the start of the first race of the competition, oracle team usa was behind, penalized two race victories by the international jury for illegally modifying boats in warmup races. emirates team new zealand

outsailed and outsigned larry ellison's team race after race, until the u.s. team turned the tide in the 12th race, gaining time and momentum on the kiwi team. >> all the boys were just loose. they were positive. i mean, jimmy is a great leader and you have just the boatful of assassins. >> the most spectacular comeback inspect history of the america's cup. >> reporter: and wednesday, keeping the oldest trophy in international sports in the united states. kirk gregory, nbc news. >> love it. way to go, team usa. now for our first look at business, stocks, they closed lower for a fifth consecutive day over fears of a government shutdown. the dow fell 61 points, after years of delays the new $100 bills are rolling off the presses. new security feature also include color changing ink, a 3-d security ribbon and more

texture on benjamin franklin's collar. california governor jerry brown signed a bill raising the state's minimum wage to $10 an hour by 2016 and the post office you knew it was going to happen, plans to raise the cost of a first class stamp another three cents in january to 49 cents. the postal service lost $16 billion last year and it is expected to lose another $6 billion this year. on a side note the post office actually spending over a half million dollars on faith cop corn's brain reserve a futurist marketing consultant so they can study the future of stamps. maybe they can figure out how to lower the price. now for a look at the national weather we turn to nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> make it an even 50 cents. >> an extra penny, i'm about saving money here. >> that's annoying. who uses cash anymore, right? >> true.

>> as far as the forecast goes it's rather quiet but our friends in armon johnson aren't saying that. much of the nation is beautiful but armon johnson it is snowing in butte, montana, 32 degrees, windchill in the upper dwen20s in the east we're not looking at too many problems, shower activity off the south carolina coast and light sprinkles in virginia. the weather will be improving so the mid-atlantic you can't call it picture perfect because you have the clouds and a few showers but temperature, mild toward the middle of the country. this is as warm as it gets for this time of year, late september in the low 80s in minneapolis, that's beautiful weather betty and the northeast after another chilly start it will be a good afternoon for no airport problems at all. >> what a great day, soak it up. thank you, bill. let eight guess the latest from alex witt.

>> always think of the snow and skiing coming up. that's a different sport because we'll get into baseball. days after metallica performed mario rivera's entrance song, hard rocca fay will announce he's retiring the song from all hard rock restaurants, casinos and hotels in honor of rivera. for just the second time in a staggering 19 years though yanks are missing the playoffs. >> oh, no. >> look at that. yanks lost to the rays, that's one score there, it was 8-3. the rockies showered retiring first baseman "today" helton with a variety of gifts including this tobiano horse. you have to be a three-time world champion, for a pony to be given to helton, that happened before his final appearance at coors field and during the game he blasts a homer moments after a standing "o" from more than 47,000 before his first at-bat,

must have been his way of saying thanks. >> put some horsepower behind that. >> arizona's cardinals safety rashard johnson lost of tip of his middle finger sunday. since it can't be reattached the cardinals are showing their support, here's how, check out this prototype of a foam hand minus a fingertip with his name on it. >> does that make him feel good for b or bad? >> i don't know. a high school football coach in utah suspended every player on his team. >> the entire team in. >> this is coach matt lebron. he wants to teach them after dmf academic issues and heard there was bullying as well.

teach them a lesson. there is a free keek between german league teams, indecision on who kicks stalling the defense, one player steps up and scores. >> he snuck that in. >> that left the game 2-2. you can get second chances in live, top of the fourth a foul ball bounces off the shoulder of a fan. its disappointed fans catches that foul ball later in the fourth. sweet. >> he got two shots at it, lucky man. should play the lottery. coming up a dish of scrambled politics and what the bush sons think about their dad attending a same-sex wedding. that's next. [ female announcer ] we lowered her fever.

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here's your first look morning look at politics. the latest "new york times" asks the question is threatening a government shutdown an acceptable way to negotiate? 80% of the people surveyed said absolutely not with a big no and only 16% said yes.

during the august recess lawmakers in congress took a total of 130 trips and those trips which were gifts from non-profits groups were worth a total of $1.6 million, the largest monthly total in two years. representative steve scalese of louisiana reported ly receiving a trip to ireland which included his spouse. former president george h.b. bush attended a same-sex marriage. and bush's son jeb says gay marriage is an issue that should be decided by the states. spokesman for george w. bush declined to comment. nancy pelosi tweeted congrats to team usa for winning the america's cup race with a photo of her sitting on the floor watching the exciting race. it was riveting and texas senator ted cruz got a lot of

attention in his marathon senate speech for reading green eggs and ham. you remember that. on "the daily show" jon stewart reacted using a parity of "the lorax" which he called the borax. >> join me now as i read one of my favorite sections. in the land of d.c. in the senate of snooze lived the showboatist blab whose name was ted cruz. >> leave it to jon stewart. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. joining me for our first look at politics is david nakamura of "the washington post." >> good morning, betty. >> the government shutdown is

affecting wall street, where stocks have dropped for five straight days. >> a lot of people are hoping congress will turn its attention to the next fight, delaying this a couple of weeks and looking at the debt ceiling fight but i think republicans are now saying hey if the senate's going to strip out our effort to defund obama care from the budget fight, maybe we can avert the shutdown by adding some of that same kind of language to the debt ceiling fight. i think that's the hope that could come as early as the senate moving saturday to pass the budget out of the senate without the effort to defund obama care but it's not 100% clear how it's going to do that. the house will present that plan this week to its members and try to move that bike down the road a little bit. >> we've seen it over and over again. obama's approval rating are they dropping all on this? what can he do to get the upper hand on the shutdown showzmoun.

>> when you have this gridlock and fight everybody's approval ratings go down. the white house is saying we're not going to negotiate. health care is moving forward. even in the government shutdown we'll move forward with obama care so the republicans can attack it all they want. obama is looking at the long game, if things do not work out we'll blame republicans in 2014 and try to win back some seats so i think the white house is aware of these approval ratings but not too concerned now. there's a lot more to play out in this thing. they're saying let's move forward, we'll debate this but not going to negotiate over these things. >> played out in a little amount of time. david nakamura, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. >> absolutely, thanks. a major admission from iran's leadber the holocaust and the jury in the michael jackson wrongful death trial could be deliberating today. [ male announcer ] let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money.

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iran's president surprised reporters wednesday when he said the nazis "carried out a massacre that cannot be denied especially against the jewish people." this is in sharp contrast from former president mahmoud ahmadinejad who strongly denied that the holocaust ever happened. special courts are being set up in new york state to exclusively handle prostitution and sex trafficking cases so instead of being treated as criminals, prostitutes will be given access to services to help them escape the violence and

exploitation that goes with sex trafficking. a man who had blue skin due to treatment of a skin condition has actually died at the age of 2. he suffered a heart attack and stroke on monday. neither caused by his skin condition. the attorney for aeg live made closing arguments wednesday in the michael jackson wrongful death lawsuit saying the company never knew about jackson's health issues. >> simply stated, aeg live never would have agreed to finance this tour if it knew mr. jackson was playing russian roulette every night in his bedroom. >> here's what you're going to be talking about today, this is one of the strangest stories, a nose job like you have never seen before. chinese doctors have actually grown a nose on the forehead of a man whose original nose was infected after a traffic accident. surgeons say the new nose will be ready for transplant soon. that is just freakish.

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time for our first buzz with alex witt and bill karins. alex you have something that shines brightly and not just your personality >> that's cute. diamonds are betty and alex's best friend. >> what about me? >> you don't want to wear this. it is pink and about 60 carats large. >> i'll wear it. >> we have to show you a video, this is what is going on sale in geneva, the largest flawless pink diamond in history called

the pink star, november 13 it goes on auction by sotheby's, $60 million they're expected, about a 60 carat wing. can i show you, found this in the bottom of my purse, it's close. >> very close. >> but not that much money. i know someone who might be interested in a ring like that. there is a woman who has been making sandwiches for her, she hopes to be her fiance looking to get that ring and he said to her once you make me 300 sandwiches you'll get an engagement ring. once she heard that she went to the kitchen and is making them and she's 124 sandwiches away from an engagement ring. some say you're setting us back 50 years and others are good with it. bill you have something rema remarkable. >> kanye west purchased two

armored cars, these cost $1.2 million each, these are the iron diamonds they call these and there's actually a company in texas now that says they'll put electric counter measures on the handles and the doors to give an electric shock to scare away the paparazzi if necessary so look out. >> being the test guy, i mean -- >> i know. >> wow. >> who wants to go behind the bullet proof glass. >> does that mean you can survive any accident? >> they make a case in a chemical attack they seal themselves and have their own air. if you want to spend money there's someone that will build something for you. >> if the paparazzi touch this car, don't they get a little shock or something? >> exactly. non-lethal though. >> and how much is it again? >> $1.2 million. >> oh, is that all? >> that's it. >> get two of them. >> the ring, this is a steal.

i'm talking about this thing all day. you did the sandwiches. >> i'm sure kanye can purchase that if he wants to. >> i'm betty nguyen. stay tuned because "would too early" starts now. cruz ended up voting the same way the other senators voted so his speech didn't accomplish anything but it was a big event for see pan. so big they're planning to run it again as a special again over the weekend. tomorrow on c-span, 21 hours of uncorrupted ted, trcruz apalooz. >> some time ago i tweeted a speech that ashton kutcher gave. >> all of the bad impressions. >> mike lee, i am your father. >> and inside info you won't get anywhere else. >> i'm a big fan of eating white castle burgers.

>> cruzapalooza, tomorrow followed by the senate's 50 greatest gavel bangs on the sea. >> the failed filibuster followed by a unanimous vote and dates for when the united states might run out of the states. maybe congress should settle things like they do in baseball, they're similar. lot of talk but no real punches thrown. we'll tell you what set off this major league melee and why it dates back to june. first bono doing a great bill clinton and bubba takes a shot impersonating the great front man. you can see what you think. this is "way too early." good morning everybody. brian shactman here, thursday september 26th. the yankees are officially done. it's not like i'm lethalbo