>> 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 lethal about it but it's official we can take

them out of the wild card standings and we'll tell you the connection between newark, new jersey, mayor cory booker and an oregon stripper and throw in a little vegan in there. i'm serious. we'll have that in a few minutes. we want to update you on the navy yard shooting. new surveillance video gives a chilling video into how aaron alexis carries out his assault. he t shows him arriving in a rental car at 7:53 a.m., 15 minutes later he walks into building 197 with a bag presumably carrying the shotgun he used. shortly after he comes out of the fourth floor bathroom and more angles show him on at least three floors wielding the shotgun with one angle, actually shows workers fleeing. federal officials declined to release some of the most graphic video from the attack. alexis has etched messages on

his shotgun, "not what you all say, better off this way" and the part that befuddled authorities initially "my elf weapon." >> alexis held a delusional belief that he was being controlled or influenced by extremely low frequency or elf, electromagnetic waves. >> his backpack still hanging in the fourth floor bathroom contained a note "ultralow frequency is tack is what i've been subject to for the last three months and to be perfectly honest that is what has driven me to this." let's go to washington politics. ted cruz's 21-hour plus "statement" on obama care and not a filibuster had little impact on his colleagues in the senate as the house approves stop gap measure moves one step closer to a final vote. in the end, the senators all voted to advance the piece of legislation saying that the real fight to defund obama care is

still to come. in fact every u.s. senator voted to advance the bill and yesterday several lawmakers questioned the merit of cruz's sort of kind of filibuster. >> we all admire the senator from texas for his wanting to ta talk, with all due respect, i'm not sure we learned anything knew. >> obviously we'd like to defund the law entirely. there's a math problem in the senate, there are 54 democrats and 46 republicans. >> if we're to shut down the government because we refuse to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government operating, obama care still gets funded. >> now majority leader harry reid will offer an amendment to strip the bill, the house bill of the language that defunds obama care, putting the priority on the nation's debt. lawmakers have just four days to strike a deal and void a government shutdown. however congress reportedly also considering a one-week extension to keep washington running into

october. so that's more kicking the can down the road. let's go from government shutdown to the possibility of default. the treasury department now has a date for when money gets really tight for this country. secretary jack lew wrote, speaker john boehner, urging him to raise the ceiling or risk defaulting on obligations on october the 17th. the national review online reports the house gop's wide ranging plan to deal with it would suspend the debt limit until the end of december 2014, delay the implementation of obama care by a year and lay out tax reform instructions based on paul ryan's plan and push republican energy initiatives including the keystone pipeline, coal regulations and justify shore drilling regulations and scale back health spending programs. let's turn to state politics where the virginia gubernatorial candidates squaring off for the first time in a prime time

debate. ku cucinelli and mcauliffe had a debate. >> he's pushed personhood legislation which would outlaw most forms of contraception, make the pill illegal in virginia. women are 50% of the workforce in the united states of america. you cannot grow an economy by putting walls up around virginia. >> the comparison here is someone who has told "the new york times" you help me, i help you, that's politics. talking about a case where he was an indicted coconspirator in a teamsters election money laundering case. if terry is elected governor we'll have to change the state motto to quid pro quo. >> according to an nbc 4/marrist poll mcauliffe currently leads

in the polls. they are conducting fingerprint dna and ballistic analysis to determine the identities of the al shah gab gunmen. kenya's foreign minister says as many as three of the attackers were americans. there's dramatic new video that shows the extent of the damage, that right there shows the carnage as part of the mall collapsed. kenya's government said it was the result of the militants setting fire to mattresses but the associated press is reporting kenyan soldiers fired rocket propelled grenades to distract the terrorists and rescue hostages, that caused part of the mall to come crashing down after hitting a support column. we can tell you two police officers were killed in an attack near the border and we don't have any more information on that at this hour. president aha soon rouhani made headlines when he distanced

himself from mahmoud ahmadinejad who for many years called the holocaust a myth. he acknowledged that the holocaust took place saying "the massacre by the nazis juan condemnable. we never want to sit side by side with the nazis. they committed a crime against jews which is a crime against christians, against muslims, against all of humanity. the nazis committed a crime in world war ii, as to the scale of the massacres and the numbers that my predecessor mentions, let's leave that to the historians." later today secretary of state john kerry meets with his iranian counterpart to begin a dialogue on nuclear weapons in iran, the highest level meeting between the two countries since the 1970s. of course we know newark mayor cory booker loves tweets and it included a stripper from oregon, first reported in february booker sent her a

private message "and the east coast loves you and by the east coast i mean me." lee wrote back well now i am blushing with a smiley face. booker replied, it's only fair. lee says she first met booker when that he period together in the twitter movie "follow friday." interesting to note lindsay lee works at a strip called called casa diablo, said to be the first vegan strip club in the world. spokesman says "the mayor talks with people from all walks of life on twitter. the most shocking part of the story was learning that there is a vegan strip club in portland." as far as official statement goes that's spot on. who would have thunk it? california has made a major commitment to raise the minimum wage from its current rate of $8 an hour to $9 by july of 2014 next summer and by $10 by january 2016, that's well above

the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. republican lawmakers object saying increased wages will encourage businesses to cut jobs and automate but govern brown stood his ground killing the bill an overview piece of legislation that will help working class families. ten bucks as we crunch the numbers it is not enough to live a good life with a family. the cash strapped u.s. postal service wants to increase the price of first class stamps for one once letters from 46 cents to 49 cents in january, that's a 6.5% increase. those forever stamps were a good purchase. i got a bunch of them two, three years ago. the i never use them by the way. they're sitting there. the cost for each additional oubs will go up a penny to 21 cents. post cards as well so all of your children can pay more to send notes home. and the postal service says the

plan will generate about $2 billion in new revenue. the agency lost nearly $16 billion last year. let's get to business now, where investors are hoping to end a losing streak in the s&p 500 now going on five days. stocks ended lower yesterday. the dow, s&p and the nasdaq all to the downside. jitters over what's going on in washington, d.c., sort of the leading sentiment to the downside. cnbc is jeff coton is live in london. >> good morning to you. it's that woozy feeling that the market has at the moment that this debt ceiling story is important, but they can't help but think the politicians ultimately get this one resolved. right now we've got a standoff, we've got markets that are trading lower because at the moment they don't see any resolution and october 17th is when the u.s. government will run out of money if congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling here. if there is any kind of government closedown that's going to improve, we're talking

about a short term close down that will be 0.2% according to moody's, if it is three to four weeks it could be 1.4% off growth. it does matter. we'll wait and watch. we know print media is under pressure at the moment. "usa today" some talk they may go beyond a pay wall 12% decline in reader numbers over the last quarter and they are facing a big hike in the news stand price from $1 to $2. will they be able to take that business mind the pay wall and make more? brian we know this has been a difficult way of trying to push up your revenue and your viewership. >> i go by my own consumer habits. if i can't get it for free unless it's premium i'm not going to pay for it. it's interesting to see how a massive publication deals with that. two of my favorite things, jeff, football and twitter and now i can get them together in a little sandwich.

>> for a minute i thought you were back on the vegan strip club thing. let's talk about the sport if you want to go there. nfl and twitter thinking about tying up a deal here which would give obviously nfl fans access to a lot of material on twitter. i think if you want premier league soccer you can find that on a twitter account here in the uk but i think this nfl twitter deal would be a more comprehensive arrangement where you can get access to interviews and footage. >> my black bean burger at the strip club tweeting while the nfl is on the tv. >> doesn't that sound like bliss? do any man want more in life. >> jeff, have a great day. see you tomorrow. let's go to twitter and it's not about football. kurt russell 62 years old joining the cast for "fast and furious 7." i have not seen until this morning when i was looking through clips, which actually looked kind of cool, i have no idea why people like these

movies. it's be inning/universal films as well as. why do you like the movies? #waytoofast. everyone wants to be in them now. we'll put the best answers on the air later in the show. still ahead some are saying it's the greatest comeback in sports history. you be the judge. the drama from the america's cup. and tina fey ramping up for here hosting gig at "snl." that story and weather when "way too early" comes back. paul newman died at his home in connecticut friday after a battle with cancer. this morning flowers were placed on his star in the hollywood walk of fame as tributes began to pour in from friends and fellow actors. paul new juan was 83. ♪ ho ho ho

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with baseball. tigers and twins, first inning, detroit's austin jackson that would be a leadoff standup triple, which you don't see every day. torrey hunter the 1-0 lead the final. detroit clinches the a.l. value for the third consecutive year. carlos gomez in atlanta goes the yard and doing the macho prance off of pitcher paul ma home. people are watching him, chatterboxes with everybody around the bases. finally brian mccann, right in the baseline saying hold on a second. he's done this a lot, "what are you doing?" they start and the benches start clearing and i don't like you. i don't like you either. the bottom line there was a precedent, he was hit by maholm in june and said it was on purpose and that was the only way he could pay it back. the whole macho thing, afterward he apologized, i don't blame the braves for getting mad.

good to stand up for their pitcher. he did apologize after the game. nobody got hurt. new york, yankees already eliminated from the post season after the indians won 7-2 to the white sox, but the rays added insult to injury. l l longoria and dejesus hit home runs in the ninth. >> look at the frowns of the people there. you already paid for the tickets, might as well stay. >> mariano second time in the 19 years the yankees have missed the playoffs. some are calling this the greatest comeback in sports history. it's not a sport we focused on a lot. i watched this a ton as a kid. emirates team new zealand had an 8-1 lead in the america's cup and one win away from the championship and the u.s. team won eight straight to take the whole thing and there was one race where new zealand won but

didn't finish in town so it wasn't counted so team usa wins the america's cup winning eight straight races. i remember these boats being a single hull sailboat with like captain steubing and now they have the special jackets with the safety things if they get stranded. >> they're catamarans now. >> they go flying. >> you know the winter olympics are a little over four months away from the start? >> i'm fired up and i'm going. >> are you going? >> yes. >> good for you, big time. >> i don't know what big time is. i'm going to russia for a month. >> sochi here we come. i'll be in brazil or jamaica. you go to sochi. tomorrow state of emergency in sochi, russia, because of heavy rain and mud slides, right where all of the festivities are supposed to take place, raising concerns how prepared they are for the start of the winter games. f this is their last prep and this is what they're looking at going

and seeing the last prep so hopefully, they have four months to get under control. seems like every year we have the stories people trying to get everything together in the last seconds. london was the same way. it's quiet across the country, the exception in montana where it's 33 degrees in butte, montana, and it is snowing this morning. so a little sign of winter in the northern rockies. wyoming will get it in some of higher elevations. yellow stone will get snow in the next 24 hours and the white on the map the first snows of the season up here in some of the high country. the rest of the country beautiful. what a stretch of weather. there are some spots on the east coast that hasn't rained in about four or five days. we could go another week in the northeast and mid-atlantic with no rain. >> i'll take it. we'll have a harsh winter now. >> don't jinx us. coming up at the top of the hour, ted cruz's stand is over but the bill to fund the government is moving forward. the unintended consequences of cruz's display and how likely we are to see the government shutdown next week.

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bathroom. should i say have. should i say had? all right that's my time. >> if you're silly enough at the top of the show, we talked about ted cruz's 21-hour speech on the floor. the record holder is strom thurmond, he made it 24 hours and 18 minutes without a break. that's not how it happened. short enclave allowed him to take a break and in the days leading up he took steam baths to dehydrate himself so he trained for his filibuster. tina fey, let's go to the cooler, tina fey pretty sight to be hosting the is season premie of "saturday night live" and making her forgetful. >> i'm tina fey. >> there will be no more

wardrobe malfunctions like the emmys. >> no. >> unless you want do it. >> no, keenan. it's not going to happen. it's under control, not going to happen again. i forgot my shirt. >> wow. she looks okay from what i saw. the 39th season premieres this weekend. sorry, that's completely inappropriate. jon stewart pointed out a glaring irony in one of cruz's more infamous points. >> surely you can do better, maybe cite a study or a book. >> dr. seuss's "green eggs and ham." i do not like them sam i am, i do not like green eggs and ham. >> so to express your opposition to obama care, you go with a book about a stubborn jerk who decides he hates something before he's tried it. and when he finally does get a taste, he has to admit after tasting it, this is pretty

[ bleep ] good. >> twitter picked this up and casey hunt for nbcnews.com talked about it the irony of choosing that story was not lost on a lot of people. yesterday we brought you bo no doing his best bill clinton, last night the 42nd president returns the favor. >> when i first met bono, he walked then into the oval office and actually i thought it was a member of his own road crew. he wasn't really dressed right. actually i felt like the rock star on that occasion. >> i must be really easy to make fun of. >> well i'm irish, you know. and we irish, we can imitate anybody. but alas, i've been singing so long, and screaming lou ining l these concerts that i'm hoarse, so i got to be careful with my

voice. that's why all my charities only have three-letter names. red, one, and even that's more effort than u2. >> t.j. said it's clint eastwood. i give advantage to bono. kurt russell will be in "fast and furious 7." why do you like it? i don't get it. ♪

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