that epic core battle over michael jackson's death, the concert promoter hired the doctor but not responsible for him. the family gets nothing. >> how about explaining miley cyrus talking as she's front and center. hosting snl. they bounced milo. what are he going to do? >> this is way too early. it will be interesting to see how snl goes this saturday night. good morning everybody. i'm brian schactman. thursday, october 3rd. we have a lot on the docket today. we do mourn the loss of one of america's greatest fiction authors. a coaching debut for someone. a tesla car catches fire and torches the price. alas, we begin with the government shutdown. it was billed as a big meeting.

the first time top leaders would meet the president since the shutdown. in the end, speaker john boehner said their evening meeting at the white house amounted to little more than a polite conversation with zero headway. earlier in the day, president obama told cnbc's john harwood essex as operated even though he has tried to work with republicans. >> during the course of my presidency, i have bent over backwards to work with the republican party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. i think i'm pretty well-known nor being a calm guy. >> president obama has called for a clean continuing resolution to fund the government. one that does not try to strip obama care funding. in order to do so, just 17 house members would have to break ranks. that's assuming all 200 democrats will vote for it. right now according to the huffington post, that number of republicans stands at 20

conservative congressmen. devon nunez compared it to lemings with suicide vests. >> i don't understand the whole point. the whole strategy. most americans don't understand it. but look, i have supported it. i am support our leadership. because part of this problem in this whole group that i referred to, this has been ongoing for three years where they've continued to block our leadership for three years to get 218 votes. >> the leming caucus, you're talking about the tea party caucus. >> it's not the tea party caucus. it's guys twwho meet privately, conspiring. mostly just about power and gotten us nowhere. >> the house meanwhile passed two narrow spending bills funding only the national parks service and national institutes of health. senate majority leader harry reid's answer to a question about the plan raised a few eyebrows. >> you all talked about children

with cancer unable to go to clinical trials. the house is presumably going to pass a bill that funds at least the nih. given what you said, will you at least pass that and if not, aren't you playing the same political games that republicans are? >> what right do they have to pick and choose what part of governance can be funded? it's obvious what's going on here. you talk about reckless and irresponsible. wow. what this is all about is obama care. >> but if you can help one child who has cancer, why wouldn't you do it? >> listen -- >> one against the other. >> why would we want to do that? i have 1100 people at an air force base sitting home. nef a few problems of their own. this is -- to have someone of your intelligence to suggest such a thing -- >> i'm just asking a question. >> reid later tweeted republicans are in desperate

straits that they have resorted to accusing me of not caring about kids with cancer. shameful. the roll dwrout for the affordable care act has been far from flawless, but we have a look at how many people checked out the health exchange website. on tuesday, 4.7 million people visited health care.gov. about 190,000 people made calls to enrollment hot lines and 104,000 requests for live web chats. despite the number of visitors, the hhs has not announced how many people successfully enrolled in it. there are anecdotes going through the information and in the last page says you can't enroll. according to the census bureau, in 2012, 48 million americans did not have health insurance. the fbi has shut down the drug world's version of e-bay. it's an online drug bazaar where anonymous users can buy illegal drugs and even hire a hit man.

this man was behind what's called silk road. his online name allegedly dread pirate roberts, a reference to the prin did he say bride, albrecht is facing charges of narcotics trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy. he's also suspected of using the website to try and hire hitmen to silence two other users of about the website. this message is where people visiting the site will now find. it's believed the site had $1.2 billion in sales the last three years with 80 million going to albrecht. the fbi also seized $3.6 million in the bit coin digital currency. one of the suspects in the brutal case of road rage caught on camera in new york city has been officially charged. christopher cruz faced a judge faced with unlawful imprisonment. cruz's attorneys say his client had nothing at all to do with the attack.

>> never assaulted this man, never tried to in any way. he does not know any of the motorcyclist who is are involved in this beating. he looks forward to his day in court, he'll fight the case and i'm sure he will be successful. police announced they will not charge a second biker, allen williams who surrendered on his own to police. video shows him hitting a range rover but no evidence he took part in the actual assault. dozens of bikers held a vigil in support of a the biker who may be paralyzed after he was run over trying to escape the mob the motorcyclists. he's hired gloria allred to represent him. after five months of testimony, days of deliberation, a not guilty verdict in the wrongful death case. the jury found aeg was not liable for the superstar's death. jackson's mother sued aeg for between $1 billion to $2 billion arguing the company was liable

for hiring dr. conrad murray without properly checking his credentia credentials. the jury disagreed. he was competent to do the job of being a general practitioner. now that doesn't mean that we felt he was ethical and maybe had the word ethical been in the question, it could have been a different outcome. in 2011, murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection to jackson's death. he's expected to be released from prison later this month. a fiery wreck between a church bus, tractor-trailer and suv left people dead on interstate 40 in tennessee. the church bus was on route to north carolina. it blew a tire. crossed the median into oncoming traffic. the bus then clipped an suv before smashing into the tractor-trailer which then burst into flames. horrible story in tennessee. also want to tell you about a spying revelation by the nsa. the director has acknowledged. the nsa tracked cell phone locations and a secret test

program from 2010 to 2011. here's the catch. the test program was used on phones of people who were not suspected of any wrongdoing. the nsa has since stopped the practice but democratic senator ron widen, a critic of the nsa says it's still not being honest about the extent of the surveillance program. congress currently considering reforms to the nsa and surveillance laws. let's go to politics on the national level, actually from the city level to go to the national level. cory booker, celebrity-like status appears to have given the new york mayor an edge on his bid. booker raised nearly $2.9 million between july and september. that's compared to republican steve lon began who raised just over $1 million. a recent mom h. monmouth poll has lonegan beating him nearly 50%. the numbers are tighter than a

month ago. now to markets. investors more concerned over the federal government shutdown also yesterday several wall street ceos met with president obama to discuss the looming threat of default. steve sedgwick live in lon dan. good morning, steve. well it's interesting. you've got the president saying on cnbc that wall street should be worried about it and wall street, goldman sachs, brian moynahan at bank of america and deutsche saying they're worried about it. this recovery we've had so far is not necessarily sustainable. it's not well-established. it's vulnerable and is open to being destroyed by the concerns over the shutdown and concerns over the debt ceiling as well. it seems mutual that wall street and the president understands the gravitas of the situation. tesla models, the electric car company, they've had a good run. a fire in one of their model s sedans. the fact is that the company is

saying yes, there was a fire. but it was caused by the fire hitting a large object. the shares fell 6%. don't worry too much. you have had a rally of 440% this year if you've held them throughout the year. brian? >> microsoft, it's interesting. steve bomber will step down and bill gates maybe leaving the chairman role? >> bill gates is very tied up with the bill and melinda gates foundation at the moment. they're saying we need a new direction. balmer has gone to the consumer, the $7 billion deal with nokia last month. only three representing 5% of the shares. we want to go for an enterprise focused business rather than looking at the consumer. they think it's time for a change of the old guard. back to you. >> thank you very much, steve. we'll see you tomorrow. quick business nugget for you. the billionaire creator of

beanie babies pleaded guilty to tax evasion. not so much focused on the court case but the beanie babies themselves. made us nostalgic. >> i want to know what your favorite childhood toy was. it's a tough one. think about it. i actually couldn't think of many toys that i had. not like i didn't have a lot of toys. only one came to mind. i'll share that with you a little later. the hash tag is way too nostalgic. my yogurt is peach. she likes the pineapple better. they don't have 0%. i like the pineapple. i don't love pomegranate, but i love the yogurt, the crunchy seeds. i know nobody else cares except for mickey. but i wanted to respond. some of the best beach reads. the man behind jack ryan, tom clancy has died. clancy was working as an insurance salesman and writing on the side when he attracted attention with a cold war

thriller manuscript. it became his first book, the hunt for red october, which became an awesome movie as well. it's been called one of the greatest genre novels ever written. he wrote 17 novels not on "the new york times" best sellers list but the top of the list. 100 million copies of his work are currently in print. ryan was portrayed in classic action movies by some of hollywood's biggest stars. >> you must be the dr. ryan who has done such interesting research on me. >> you know how wrong you were that i had many girlfriends in college. i met my wife and -- have not looked at another woman since. >> i was referring to the first two years. >> if i go down, you're going with me. >> wrong again. i have an autographed get out of jail free card. >> somebody got to go out there and make contact to find what his intentions realry. >> okay. when do you leave? >> this is nothing.

>> get down! i don't give a [ bleep ] whether you did it or not. neither will anyone else. but i will put such a stranglehold on your gun money, you'll be out on the streets throwing rocks. >> great stuff. by the way, alex baldwin looked really young there. tom clancy died in baltimore where he grew up. his next book, command authority, set to come out in december. very young and tragic. 66 years old. still ahead, on way too early, baseball lay ploplayoffs. stephen colbert and washington dysfunction. >> obama can give some concessions and the republicans can accept his concessions. [ laughter ] >> it's a two-way street. >> up next, a check on weather when "way too early" comes right back.

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just another way allstate is changing car insurance for good. time for sports. mike up karins. third night in a row of winner take all baseball. cleveland raising indians in the wildcard game. third inning, delmon young crushes it. that's his ninth home run in 29 playoff games. unbelievable. 1-0 lead. the next inning, the ray rs continue to roll. jennings a double to left, scores two. 3-0 rays. alex cobb, 6 2/3 scoreless innings. the rays win it. the indians are out.

>> want no part and a half pitching staff. i'm not a big fan much playing the rays. i'll be honest. the tigers against the a's. >> who is going first? lester. john lester. the nl division series, pirates play the cardinals. 5:07 eastern time. still room on the pirates bandwagon, few seats left. they take on the dodgers at 8:37 eastern time. hockey now. the avalanche beat up on the ducks. jamie mcginn had two goals. 6-1 victory over anaheim. little extracurricular activities, patrick waugh, the new coach. he's ready to fight. pretty consistent with his personality as a player. he is a fiery guy. >> that cameraman in the middle doing his job. >> welcome to coaching. finally, one nfl player could be joining the ranks of metta world peace and chad

ochocinco. dante whitner wants to change his name for a hit last thursday on a st. louis receiver. whitner is considering legally dropping the w on his name to become hitner. i'll just say it will probably be as good an idea as metta world peace and ochocinco, which would be a bad idea. >> prince didn't do very well either. >> straight symbol. how do you do that? >> what's up bill? >> two big things going on. as we go into saturday, we'll have a tropical storm meeting landfall in the north. kind of a rare double play here. as far as the storm goes, this is developing. we thought it would. but it's not supposed to be a big bad storm. it's going to do a lot of destruction. this would likely be tropical storm karen. it will het in order wards to the panhandle of florida, bringing heavy rain, possibility of minor

texas, you look safe from the storm. the winter will be serious. the snowfall predictions, talking 12 to 24 inches from casper to rapid city. not a lot of travel concerns with airports out there. but for early season snow, we could see significant power outages. oh, yeah, by the way, brian, going to be another day today of 87 in d.c. again. 80 degrees in new york city. so it looks -- it won't get cooler probably until next week. >> we used air conditioning yesterday. it was unbelievable. >> i refused. >> you did not? >> i did. >> thanks for sweating in bed. >> they were sweating it out at the karins household because he's mean as a snake. coming up on morning joe, president obama hosts congressional leaders from both parties at the white house. but do republicans even know what they are fighting for? joe, mika and willie have the latest from washington. we'll have around the cooler when we come back. miley, jumps off the wrecking ball to explain her recent behavior. i can't look at it. we'll be right back. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.

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at the top of the show we talked about the verdict in the michael jackson wrongful death trial. if you want to sound smart, tell people his estate is worth $6 million now.

it includes had cd's, his movie, this is it and two cirque du soleil shows. he was more than $400 million in debt when he died and assets of only 7 milli$7 million. let's go toulouse in the cooler. >> miley cyrus raised a lot of eyebrows at the vmas this year. now she's addressing her behavior while pro moetding her snl gig. >> i'll be the host and musical guest on snl. >> that vmas perform arns, how could you? >> the children. >> what was i wearing? >> don't forget about the children. >> the children. >> do you mind me asking why you're always sticking out your tongue? >> it's how i smell. >> we'll see how that turns out this saturday. i'm not hopeful. turning to stephen colbert. focused on the strategy adopted during negotiations with the president. don't blink. >> ted cruz sent out a tweet tonight that just said #don't

blink. >> i'm not blinking or flinching. >> we're not ready to blink. we're not blinking. >> we're taking no doze. >> that's right. not blinking. in fact, -- [ applause ] in fact, michele bachmann has been training her entire life for this. >> now, going to england, this woman is luck that i she didn't blink. a cyclist narrowly avoids death after slamming on her brakes stopping inches away from a speeding train. you see her there. she's clearly shaken up. the driver of the train used the emergency brakes and police are looking for the woman to make sure that she's okay. i think i'd go get a drink or two after that. might take me months to recover. >> yeah. hey, louis, will you come see me, please? >> sure.

>> coming up on morning joe, a meeting at the white house between president obama and leaders of congress ends with more finger pointing. the president tells speaker boehner that he's not negotiating over obama care and the list of republicans angry at ted cruz continues to grow. we'll tell you what grover norquist had to say about the junior senator from texas straight ahead. also, senator claire mccaskill will be joining us along with republican chair of the services committee, jeb hensarling. >> andrea mitchell, didi myers, willie has walked in. how are you feeling? >> great. >> donnie is next to you today. >> willie was doing pre-game stretching. >> i was. >> he was doing a little prep work in the back there. >> that was in my peripheral vision. >> willie geist. >> still ahead, a trip down memory lane from kol or forms to shrink i dings.

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so the creator of beanie babies pleads guilty to tax evasion. we were focus on that. we want to hear your favorite childhood we had one in blue, i think. my favorite was my big wheel. i tried to run away in that sucker, i think, in 178. i didn't get far. that's why i'm here. "morning joe" starts now. ♪ i am kpat appreciated with the -- exasperated with the idea that unless i say to 20 million people you can't have health insurance, these folks will not re-open the government. that is irresponsible. we have a group of folks who thth