oil and water mix and they're mixing to day and they're going to mix a lot more. lightning and hail, a dangerous mix of weather to kick off this holiday weekend. where it's headed next. the forecast in minutes. benghazi again. why is john kerry now being called to testify about it and what can he offer since he wasn't secretary of state back then? the high price of the holiday. what the memorial day get away will cost you in three big money headlines. museum controversy. should there be a gift shop and cafe at the site of the 9/11 terror attacks? a live report ahead. good morning, everyone.

welcome to "weekends with alex witt." here's what's happening right now. we have a developing story overnight. seven people are dead, seven others wounded in drive-by shootings in southern california. it happened near the ile vista university on the santa barbara campus. the motive of the shootings are unclear. it happened around 9:30 west coast time and be continued at 9 different crime scene locations. no shots though were fired on the university's campus. >> the deputies approached the crashed vehicle and determined that the suspect within that vehicle was dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. a handgun was recovered from within that vehicle. >> again, this area is called isla vista. it is known for its parties that will turn into a spring bash that turned into a confrontation between police and the people that live in the community last

month. a rough start to holiday weather. this was the scene at charlotte, north carolina. hail appeared dropping golf ball size hale. in new york, flash floods. 1 to 2 inches of rain fell per hour and drivers were stranded in jersey city as a result there. in lower manhattan the same storm caused this lightning strike. dylan dreyer is here with the forecast. >> reporter: good morning, alex. it was a noisy night in the northeast and southeast. most of the activity is across the plains today. we are seeing scattered showers in the northeast. it will not be a washout in the northeast, but we will see a whole lot of clouds and scattered showers. nothing too heavy and severe. nothing like what we saw yesterday. we are going to see spotty showers and it is unsettled today. back through texas, that's where we have our heaviest rain and lots of lightning. we are looking at the chance of severe storms especially as we go a little bit later on into the morning and afternoon as

well. the threat in yellow, what you'll see is where we could see some of our strongest storms from parts of albuquerque, new mexico. across the country as we go through the day today, we are looking at fairly warm temperatures. we should warm into the 80ed across most of the middle of the country. we are going to see the chance of some pop-up showers and storms especially back through kansas city, denver, billings. isolated thunderstorm possible in the middle east. sunday we are looking still some scattered showers. it starts to dry up in the northeast. 77 in new york city, 82 in washington and parts of the area on memorial day itself should start to warm up nicely. 88 in washington, d.c., and scattered showers and storms. nothing too severe through the middle of the country. alex. >> dylan dreyer, thank you for that. also in the news, now in arizona firefighters have a raging wild fire 5% contained. the fire has burned more than 7500 acres.

it's near slide rock state park in northern arizona. officials are making some steady progress in containing the flames. crews prevented it from spreading towards populated areas. an area three miles long was evacuated but only as a precaution. an e-coli warning is having bottled water flying off the chef. the city has shut off all of its public fountains. as the nation gears up for a weekend of grilling, a massive beef recall is expanding. 11 people in four states have been hospitalized. here's part of a report by nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: just under 2 million pounds of ground beef products traced to wolverine packing are being recalled in 12 states suspected of being tainted with e-coli bacteria. >> consumers are asked to discard it immediately.

a second recall is underway for hum mel and dip. it was sold by target, giant eagle and trader joe's across the country. well, pope francis is in the middle east today. the pontiff just arrived in jordan kicking off his three-day visit to the holy land which will include stops in israel and the west bank. this is his first visit since becoming head of the roman catholic church. we are following the story. we're joined from jordan's capitol of aman. claudio, let's talk about how the pope is being received there today. >> reporter: well, alex, it was a bit of a low star -- low key start to a high level trip here. he landed in aman. he was received, as you may expect, by the guard of honor and then he had some tea as is customary in the middle east and jordan of course, and then he was whisked into his car which,

once again, as he's done always on his trips abroad and especially also in brazil, his first international trip, is not a bullet proof or armored car, it's just a simple car which, of course, is making this trip even more difficult for the authorities as that may be a reason why you haven't seen many people line up the street and the route to the royal palace where he's right now where he's going to meet the king and queen and the heightened security might also be the reason why the pope will not be able to be in touch with his flock as he wants. they will probably be kept at an arm's length. he will have a number of opportunities where he will be meeting people in big groups while in a stadium like in the international aman stadium in two hours where he's holding his first mass, alex. >> claudio, may i ask, look, there are so many potential political and religious mine

fields in this region, does the pope plan to address any of them on this trip? >> well, before leaving he said he was expecting this to be a strictly religious pilgrimage. we are talking about the holy land is a land where politics and religion are so entwined that it will really -- he needs to perform a miracle to keep it strictly religious, alex. of course there are so many issues. the trip became political from the start. he hasn't even left rome and he said, for instance, tomorrow he's going to visit the state of palestine. something that has enraged the israelis. yes, probably he will be dealing with politics starting from today talking about the christian exodus from the middle east. >> thank you very much, claudio. let's go back to politics in the united states. john kerry is agreeing to appear

before the legislature. the hearing is set for june 12th. at the same time a state department spokesperson suggests kerry's appearance would eliminate the need for him to testify separately before the new select house committee. joining me now, washington bureau she have and chicago sun times lynn sweet and political reporter colby ikowicz. lynn, i'll begin with you. secretary of state kerry was not the secretary of state when the attack occurred in 2012. what does chairman issa expect to get to him since he wasn't even in the cabinet at the time? >> oh, i think he expects to get from him basically his due, to show how in depth this panel is doing to have even more questions. they always have more questions. if i sound a little skeptical, it's because the -- i think the -- what darrell issa really tried to do is to show he's leaving no stone unturned and to

beat to the punch the rival republican select committee that will be starting up its hearings soon. and just in case they had an idea of calling secretary of state kerry, he wanted to be the one to get there first. >> okay. colby, also this week as you know the house democrats, five of them, agreed to participate in that special committee investigating benghazi. why do you think the democrats decided to participate? you know there was talk of them boycotting altogether. what's the calculation here? >> i think with the mid terms coming up, the whole reason why they're bringing up benghazi again is to excite the base. there was a pew research pole that showed 70% of the republicans don't think the republican administration has been honest about benghazi. i think it allows them to be on the record ahead of the mid terms to not seem like they're not taking it seriously. as much as it ignites the republican base, it also ignites the liberals who think -- and

the democrats who think it's ridiculous we're litigating benghazi. >> switching gears, the comments by jay rock can he feel ler this we -- jay rockefeller's comments this week. he brought up barack obama's race. here's what they both said. >> it's very important to take a long view at what's going on here and i'll be able to dig up some e-mails that make part of the affordable care act that doesn't look goods, especially from people who have made up their mind that they don't want it to work because they don't like the president. maybe he's the wrong color, something of that sort. i've seen a lot of that and i know a lot of that to be true. it's not something you're meant to talk about in public but it's something that i'm talking p in public because it's true. >> it was regrettable and offensive since i'm the only one

talking about opposition that you would play the race card, that you would say opposition to obama care must stream from inherent racism. very offensive. >> lynn, what do you think is behind senator rockefeller's remarks? keep in mind this is a man who's in the senate for 30 years. he knows exactly what he's doing. what do you think the fallout will be? >> he knows what he's doing. alex, he's retiring so i think he wanted to get it off his chest. this is not something he wanted to walk away from. he repeated it later. he was talking about a notion that people usually -- you know, have -- have in the back of their minds up on capitol hill when people talk off the record why there may be opposition he have strong against the president's agenda. my guess is he thought as he winds down a senate career he is going to say what is on his mind. >> okay. i want to ask you, colby, about

the battle of the u.s. senate in the state of kentucky. mitch mcconnell and allyson lun der gren grimes. they both won on tuesday. here's grimes after her win. >> well, i'm here to tell you tonight, my fellow kentuckyians, i am not an empty dress, i am not a rubber stamp and i am not a cheerleader. i am a strong kentucky woman who is an independent thinker. >> how worried do you think senator mcconnell should be, colby? >> oh, i think he should be very worried. if you look at polls, they are neck in neck. they are not even -- i mean, it's one or two points. she is young, she's vibrant, she comes across as strong and she's going to paint him as out of touch as he's been there too long and that she's, you know, someone who's been in kentucky and can go to washington and really speak for the people of kentucky. she's going to try to paint the minority leader as someone who has just -- is just a washington

insider. >> this leader, lynn, who had some pretty choice words for his democratic opponent at his victory rally, let's take a listen to that. >> barack obama's candidates preach independence but they practice loyalty above all out. tonight i'm confident of this. kentuc kentuckyans are not going to be deceived. >> if that's his only strategy, to tie grimes to the president, is that a winning one, lynn? >> well, it has to be calculated that it will turn off more people than turn on. in the mid term election it's about turning out your base. those words have the potential to back fire, allyson, because all it may do is help the democrats organize, mobilize and register to get out to vote. all that grimes has to do is talk about something other than

obama. she is distancing herself from him. i'm sure the white house would rather have a democratic senator from kentucky so they will take that in stride. >> nice to see you both. thank you so much. >> thank you. more evidence that the accused boston bombers may not have acted alone. are there others out there ? under pressure. hear the new turn in the donald sterling scandal and a live look at the boardwalk this saturday morning. a live look from ocean city on this, the start of the holiday weekend.

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memorial day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer, and that means beach weather hopefully, at least if you can get to or at least live near the ocean. so what can we expect this long weekend at the nation's beaches and coastal areas. let's get to matt delucia from wcau. he's joining me from ocean city,

new jersey. i'm jealous. it looks beautiful out there. what's it like? >> reporter: well, alex, good morning. it's quiet right now. we're starting to see more people show up. they're taking their morning run. got the bikes out trying to get the exercise in before the big crowds show up. you can see some of that activity behind us. the businesses here on the right, they're all closed now for the morning. we're expecting them to open up in a short time. last night big crowds were out here and at other shore points for the unofficial start to the summer season. we've been talking with the business owners. they tell us this weekend really sets up the rest of the season. some tell us they expected more people last night. it is still early yet. plenty more time to enjoy the summer. of course, we cannot forget the true reason for this lolly day weekend. memorial day, of course, lots of events on the beach this weekend including one later on this morning. we just saw a boy scout troop come up on the beach. we're talking about the weather as well. a lot of people come out to enjoy the beach weather.

it's a little bit chilly and breezy. you see the flags whipping in the wind. overalthough not too bad. it's the second summer season, of course, since superstorm sandy came through the jersey area. this area wasn't affected too much. governor chris christie is planning a stop later on this afternoon. looking at the beach, not too many people out there right now. it is early of course. the crowds will be coming a few minutes from now we hope. that's the latest live in ocean city, alex. back to you. >> it does look beautiful. not quite bikini weather is what you're telling me? i'm seeing the flags whipping in the wind. most people have pants on instead of shorts. >> yeah. >> it's chilly. i'm going to feel better about you being there and me not being there with you just because it's chilly. that's all, matt delucia. thank you very much. we'll see you again. back to washington and president obama shuffling his cabinet by making key replacements. one is julian castro.

he's selected the san antonio mayor to be the next housing secretary. shaun donovan will run the white house budget office. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house for us. kristen, with a good saturday morning to you, what does this cabinet shuffle suggest? >> reporter: hey, alex. good morning. with this nomination president obama is doing a couple of things. he's elevating a rising star and giving a nod to the latino community when they are pressuring him to get more done to get immigration reform done. latinos are a crucial voting block as democrats fight to hold on. they say castro was a good choice because of his success in revitalizing san antonio. he rose to national promise when he delivered the keynote speech to the democratic national convention in 2012. we've continued to see his star power rise. there's buzz that he may be a

potential vice presidential pick. this certainly helps him get there if that is his goal. still, others argue that the position of hud secretary is not one of incredibly high prominence. shaun donovan will go to omb to replace sylvia bureau and she will replace kathleen sebelius. both castro and donovan are expected to be confirmed. >> we will confirm that with you when it happens, too. >> indeed. >> thanks, kristen. in big money headlines, new housing numbers. do they answer the question, rent or buy? marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips fiber good gummies. they're delicious, and an excellent source of fiber to help support regularity. wife: mmmm husband: these are good! marge: the tasty side of fiber. from phillips. i missed you, too.ou. hi buddy.

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how's it coming out? >> real estate, very interesting. mortgage rates at 4.1%, but i don't think that's the big driver, alex. you don't look at mortgage rates and say, today is the day. what it does do is it allows you to get more home, approved for a larger loan. you see the new construction over $275,000. for existing homes, over 200,000. the rent versus buy scenario comes into play in particularly hot markets. silicon anything. valley, alley, beach, new york, parts of new england where people are saying, boy, i feel like i've seen this movie before and it was 2006. i dare say if you went back to 2006 and bought at the height of the market as a lot of people learned the really hard way, they wish they had rented because imagine being able to buy in 2009? i'm sure you heard it as well, alex. people that earned homes that appreciated, boy, we should have

gotten out. people are weighing the decision, i can't afford for this to potentially go down and they're gets out. it's not a given anymore to just buy, buy, buy. >> yeah, absolutely. let's get to travel in time and what that means which i presume is plenty of spending, right? >> it does. memorial day is an interesting holiday. it's not a gift giving holiday. 40 million people expected to travel 50 miles or more. of course, we just saw the beaches. you need not have gone on too many family road trips to know that that's an economic event in and of itself. here we see the macro numbers. being even a little more confident in your personal finances plays out like this, $20 extra dollars in food, extra beverages, get the extra bottle water, sun tan lotion, beach chair, sweatshirt because it's chilly. that's $40 per person, 40 million people, $4.8 billion overall spending. you can see how even little increases per family add up.

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>> good morning, alex. a little cloudy. still some spotty showers in the northeast. we are going to see unsettled weather especially up in the northeast, new york city into boston into hartford. we are going to see the chance of just pop-up showers, nothing real stormy like we saw yesterday. now as we go into this afternoon especially across parts of northern texas where the thunderstorm activity is already underway, we are still looking at the threat of some isolated stronger storms, especially hail and damaging wind gusts. then as we go through the rest of the day today, temperatures will start to warm up nicely. we're looking at highs in the upper 70s in washington, d.c. mid 70s with scattered showers. sunday still looking at scattered showers and storms. still nothing too severe. we start to warm up in new york city up to 77. for memorial day itself, should be the pick of the weekend for the east coast. a little unsettled in boston. new york city should get back up to 84 degrees. alex? >> dylan, thanks much. let's go to boston and the

question there today, did they act alone? that's after newly released documents say they believe that tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev may have had help in the devices. we also now have the note that dzhokhar tsarnaev left in the boat where he was captured after four days of terror. joining me from boston is bill gavin, former fbi director of the are boston field office. these documents that we now have, they reveal that the tsarnaev's built the bombs using fine black powder from hundreds of fireworks. they built fuses and detonators from christmas tree lights and model car parts, so talk about the difficulty of building a bomb with those components. if y if you didn't have a lot of training or help. >> alex, this is not something that you just get in some book that's available on a shelf in the library.

this took some time, some patience, and a lot of training to be able to create a bomb using the fuses from the christmas tree lights. you know yourself, if you fool with those christmas tree lights, little, tiny small pieces, you have the initiator, trigger from a model car. this is not something just put together and you can easily find it on the internet as well. they had to have had some instruction and some help. that's a $64,000 question. who assisted them? number two, where did they actually make this bomb? they've never found any traces of the gun powder or anything else. >> that's the thing, the where part. do you know how volatile these kinds of bombs would be in transmission? when they went to their homes they found nothing of this fine powder and that would be next to impossible to have it completely clean after making something like this, right? >> particularly with the fine grain. whether or not they might have had unknown or still

investigation going on, whether or not they might have had a storage facility in some place. in 1993 in the bombing of the world trade center, they did exactly that. they built them in an apartment and other compartments in storage facilities. that investigation i know is still in full bloom. it's a very difficult question that has to be resolved. >> bill, based on your experience with dzhokhar tsarnaev saying steadfastly denying that no one else was involved in this plot, investigators are not saying if they're searching for anyone else. what do your instincts and experience tell you? >> i think they built them on their own. when ydzhokhar tsarnaev says none, maybe not here, but they needed some assistance. dzhokhar's brother went overseas for a little trip. that's where he got some assistance in creation of a bomb like this. >> do you have any information from your contacts that, indeed, there is a search underway

overseas or elsewhere for someone who may have helped? >> that's always an open-ended part of any investigation. when you reach a trail like this that isn't finished, the -- you will continue to look for whether or not there's anybody else that may be involved in the production of the bomb like this and who might have stimulated doing something like this. >> let's talk about the documents that were found. they were the notes that reveal what's tsarnaev left in the boat when he was captured. here's what he wrote in part, quote, god has a plan for each person. mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions. the u.s. government is killing our civilians. i can't stand to see such evil go unpunished. you hurt one, you hurt us all. does that message at all diminish the defenses that the brother was the real extremist and he was perhaps manipulated into joining him? >> i don't know if that does exactly that. you know, what he's doing is

kind of justifying his -- the fact that he didn't die as well. keep in mind, his brother died when he -- when dzhokhar ran over him with the car. that's what did it. and there's a little bit of guilty conscious going on there. he wanted to be shot at as well to see allah. he had pleasant bey of opportunity to destroy himself if that's what he wanted to do but he didn't, he decided to live in the boat. >> bill, when you listen to the language that he's written in the letter, does that tell you anything about his indoctrination? >> it shows me that there's a degree of sophistication there as to what the end result is and how to achieve that result or what the theory is, the philosophy of the would be terrorists, or in this case the actual terrorists. >> bill gavin, thank you very much for your insights. i appreciate them. >> my pleasure, alex. as millions of americans travel by air this holiday weekend, there's news of several mid-air collisions. nbc's tom costello searches for

the cause of these frightening close calls. >> reporter: the close calls involve air traffic controllers on each end of the country. may 9th in houston, united flight 601 was departing from vancouver on runway 9 as united flight 437 was leaving from mexico city on runway 15. the controller apparently made a serious mistake. >> 601, thank you, heading 340. >> instead of telling the vancouver flight to turn left he told him to turn right into the path of the other plane. the controller then quickly realized his mistake. united 601, stop your climbing and stop your turn, united 601. >> reporter: the planes came 400 feet vertically, .8 miles laterally. seconds away from disaster. arriving united 737 flew right over the top of a departing express jet regional flight that had been cleared for takeoff on an intersecting runway. >> do you have him in sight? maintain visual. >> oh, yeah, he's real close.

>> reporter: they missed each other by just 400 feet. the faa has since ordered changes to the runway layout. >> the air traffic controller is talking nonstop. you're having to do a choreographed dance with all of these airplanes coming and going into the airports. >> april 25th, northeast of kona hawaii. u.s. airways 757. flying 33,000 feet, 600 miles per hour when the collision avoidance alarms went off. the united plane dove 600 feet to avoid a head on. the ntsb says controllers mistakenly put both planes at the same altitude. investigators were looking at the role veteran or new controllers played in each close call. >> if the humans are making the same kinds of errors over and over again, then we need to look and see is there a procedure problem. >> 2012, the most recent year on record, there were 40 high risk close calls. despite the fact that controllers were involved in the most recent cases, the faa says it sees no similarities but it

is looking at whether the recent high number of controllers is in any way a factor. tom costello, washington. an alarming report of the long term effects of climate change spells trouble for this country's monuments and historic sites. the report called national monuments at risk details 30 of them, including the statue of liberty, may be irrepresent ran bli damaged or lost forever. >> there will be places that we will no longer be able to visit in the future unless we do something about this. >> the "huffington post" is joining us. welcome, kate and good morning. this threat has so far been ignored in the world of climate change assessment. do you think this gives the problem a whole new perspective knowing that there's a large sweep of literally our american history that could be lost? >> right. i think that's why this report is really significant, because it connects with places that people in the u.s. can visualize, they may have visited it, they know why it's important

to our history. i think that sort of adds a new level of understanding. a lot of times when we talk about climate change it's in a different place or distant in the future. people will recognize that and i think it's important. i'm going to put up a full screen that shows some of the national landscapes. can you explain how the change in climate will affects them differently. it's not just the rising sea levels that affects the harriette tubman underground national railroad, but what are some of the problems in some places? >> you're right. the sea level rise among the coastal sites. you look at the state of california, the caesar chavez monume monument. you look at places like in colorado and new mexico, there's pueblo roouns that auins that a

in national monuments. those are threatened by wildfires and flooding. there are a variety of impacts across the country. they're all either caused by or exacerbated by climate change. >> kate, what can the government do, if anything, to protect the sites? >> when you think about climate change, there's always a best case scenario and worst case scenario. if we look to the end of the century, we could see something like two feet of sea level rise or something like six feet of sea level rise. that depends on what trajectory we get in terms of emissions. if we lower our emissions hopefully we can control the level in the next century. >> i'm curious with regard to specifically say hurricane sandy and its effect on the statue of liberty. did we see a cause and effect there? >> well, you know, there's still a lot of scientific debate and research happening not the fact that the storm is affected by

climate change, whether that made the storm bigger or changed the way it happened, but what we do know is that the sea levels are already higher than they were historically because of climate change. when there is a flood or storm surge, it's much higher than it was or would have been previously. >> all right. well, from the "huffington post", kate shepard, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you. donald sterling may have come up with an exit strategy in its battle with the nba. what does the league's top star think about it? will you help us find a new house for you and your brother?

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players, owners, no need for it. the quicker it gets done. the nba will forcibly terminate their ownership. let's go now to the newly opened september 11 museum at the center of a controversy. some families are outraged at the gift shop as well as plans for a restaurant and a black tyree sepgs. kristen dahlgren is joining us. what's this all about? >> as you can imagine, emotions are running high. some families say the museum is violating a burial ground. >> reporter: for the families of 9/11 victims like firefighter jimmy riches, ground zero is sacred. >> this is a place where 3,000 americans were murdered and they died there that day. >> reporter: so when a dad, jim, heard that a black tie reception was held there to thank sponsors --

>> i couldn't believe they did such a thing. these people are down there partying over my son's dead body and i think that's a disgrace. >> reporter: the reception attended by former mayor michael bloomberg and donors sparked outrage among many family members, already angered that they're charging a $24 admission fee charging things like coffee cups and rescue dogs. it has a cafe serving food in a relaxing and comfortable environment. >> i don't know how anyone can go through an emotional day looking at 3,000 faces and wanting to go eat. >> reporter: in a statement the museum president said we get no operating assistance from washington, until we do, we will have to raise money to run the museum, and it is absolutely appropriate to thank donors who gave hundreds of millions of dollars. he pointed out similar museums, like the holocaust museum, and pearl harbor also have cafes and

gift shops. now it's important to note that not all families are upset. rich's father told me he doesn't have a problem with the museum, he called it powerful. he and other family members plan to offer a rally to move the remains out of the museum's basement and to use more sensitivity towards the families in the future. >> as we were discussing, it is kind of uncomfortable to see the faces, names of people that have passed and to go to eat. there's something awkward about that. i can see what the clamor is. >> it's a hard situation. >> absolutely. thank you so much. kristen dahlgren. up next, office politics. my conversation with nbc's jenna wolf. that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪

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opening. i hon i honestly figured how hard could it be to learn sports? i asked if i could do it and they loved me there. it was the same thing. i came in and i signed up to do this gig. and if i tell you i studied for at the time way i would study for mid terms and finals. i subscribed to every sports magazine and read every sports section and watching espn 24 hours a day. i basically learned the craft as i was doing the craft which is so hard to do. >> you have a predisposition against athletic. >> i came in out of the womb doing push-ups in the incubator. i was always very athletic and always played sports. i wanted to be on tv. this was a really good marriage of the two being on tv and talking about sports. i honestly believe i worked as hard, if not harder than most of these people in the business to make sure i was always correct. >> i believe you.

i had a dream about doing sports. i'm from los angeles. i know about osmosis l.a. sports history. when i moved to new york and gave it a try briefly, i was too many strikes against me. don't know all of the history here. i'm from california and i'm blond. i'll get one strike and i'm out. >> when i started, there weren't that many women doing it. there was the first wave. i came in probably in the second wave. >> was that philadelphia? you were the first there, right? >> yes. on broadcast tv but i started in binghamton. i'll never forget one time the end of a binghamton mets game, the mets aa team and a man coming out saying a woman in the locker room. the men in first and five minutes later i was allowed in. you don't get that today. today, when those doors open, male, female are let in. i came to new york at msg the all sports network here and wabc

channel 7 and "today" show called but it was on call waiting and i didn't pick up but they called the next day and was awesome and they wanted to bring me over. >> was it an easy decision for you? did you think you had gotten enough of sports? >> by the time i left sports, i felt like i had honestly covered everything there was to cover. >> do you have a favorite sport you like? >> football to watch. always second place, not pro. i didn't go to a big school and something about an nfl sunday. my ideal day is like, i don't know. the third week in december, you wake up early in the morning. you go for a hard workout. hard. you come back and shower and put on super comfortable clothes and think what you're doing for lunch and you get ready for that 1:00 game and at halftime you place your order. the order comes at the end of the 1:00 and at 4:00 you sit in front of the tv and watch as you eat your amazing tv because you just worked out and you marinate and coast the rest of the day.

>> how often does that happen? >> last year, it happened zero times last year. >> i'm sorry. barry manilow. >> obsessed. i grew up in haiti. no real american music down there so my parents played only three albums looped for ten years. neil diamond, barbra streisand and barry manilow. i know all of those songs inside and out. i even know the songs not released. i did a story on him and at the end of the story, i was able to meet him. the girl that never stops talking had nothing to say. it was, of course, so appropriate. >> he rendered you speechless? >> he did. i love that guy! ridiculously in an unhealthy way. >> can you tell what a fun interview that was? more of our conversation at noon when we talk about her role as mom to 9-month-old daughter harper and the devastating haiti earthquake. that is it for this hour.

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the democrats are joining the benghazi committee, so now what? good morning. thanks for getting us with us this memorial day day weekend. four hours on thursday, soldiers with the 3rd u.s. infantry regiment placed small american flags at every grave at arlington national cemetery. all 220,000 of them. a ritual that has been bone ahead of every memorial day since the end of the civil war for those who have given their lives to this country. that is what this weekend is supposed to be, not trips to the beach. two americans were killed in 2012 in