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debate in history probably or possibly even doubling the previous record. and no one is disputing that donald trump was the star of the show, but this morning, he's complaining that he got the toughest questions. >> i think my questions were, you know, somewhat unfair, but it's fine. i was okay with it. i'm not sure that fox is fair necessarily but maybe i should just keep it going. >> donald trump took the spotlight last night right from the start, when he refused to rule out a third party run. >> raise your hand now if you won't make that pledge tonight. mr. trump. so mr. trump -- [ booing ] to be clear, you're standing on a republican primary debate -- >> i fully understand. >> rand paul immediately pounced on trump's words. >> he's already hedging his bets because he's used to buying
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politicians. >> well i've given him plenty of money. >> trump also tangled with debate moderator starting when he was challenged about his disparaging remarks allegedly directed at women. >> you called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. i think the big problem this country has is being politically correct. >> and one of the nights sharpest exchanges, governor chris christie blasting senator rand paul for fighting to put limits on government surveillance. >> when you're sitting in a subcommittee blowing hot air about this, you can say things like that. >> i don't trust president obama with our records. i know you gave him a big hug and if you want to give him a big hug again to g right ahead. >> senator paul the hugs i remember are the hugs that i gave to the families who lost their people on september 11th. those are the hugs i remember. >> and another highlight, ohio
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governor john kasich's answer when he was asked how to explain his opposition to same-sex marriage to a son or daughter who was gay or lesbian. >> because somebody doesn't think the way i do, doesn't mean that i can't care about them or can't love them. so if one of my daughters happened to be that, of course i would love them and i would accept them. issues like that are planted to divide us. i think the simple fact of the matter is, and this is where i would agree with jeb and i've been saying it all along, we need to give everybody a chance, treat everybody with respect, and let them share in that great american dream. if they give me unconditional love i'll give it to my family and friends and the people around me. >> many of the republican candidates are moving from cleveland to the annual red state gathering of conservatives in atlanta. msnbc's benji sarlin joins us live from atlanta. let's talk about the line-up there and who is feeling the
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afterglow, benji. >> reporter: well chris christie just finished up his speech here. there's a conservative audience, not usually the most fertile territory for chris christie but he got a pretty good reception. he was talking a lot about his pro-life politics in new jersey, talking about how he defunded planned parenthood. he got in an unnamed dig at jeb bush, who over his gaffe this week talking about too much money for women's health issues by jeb bush later said he misspoke on that count. the big buzz is going to be around carly fiorina later today, when he was talking to people after the lower debate yesterday here there was a lot of interest in hers. she was seen as the clear winner in the first run. she got a lot of attacks against hillary clinton. people want to hear more what she has to say. >> it would be interesting if carly fiorina is the headline versus donald trump, one of the candidates who will spend some time or part of their weekend at this gathering, benji.
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>> reporter: that's right. fiorina is probably the big one today in terms of people having a lot of interest in seeing her and learning more about her but donald trump as always finishes big and knows how to get a lot of attention. tomorrow he's hosting a fail gate par tailgate party in atlanta to close out the event. i'm sure he'll make head lines no matter what. still a lot of room for trump to make noise especially in this conservative crowd, where there were a lot of people really cheering him on at the debate watch party last night. he definitely has a lot of friends here. >> benji, thank you very much. let me bring in our "news nation" political panel. former white house political director for president george w. bush, matt schlapp, now chairman of the american conservative union, "daily beast" senior politics editor jackie cue sin witch and senior reporter matt conroy. matt, benji talked about how the crowd there very excited, the conservatives regarding donald
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trump. the crowd at the debate not so much. did donald trump disappoint you or do you believe he stayed on track? >> look, the american conservative union had a watch party and you know, they love donald trump and really cheered aggressively for him. i was in the hall at the debate, and i think his first answer on saying he wouldn't necessarily support the republican nominee wasn't popular with the crowd, but he got back on his feet and had several answers that did connect. i still think the winner of the day both debates the whole day is carly fiorina. it's the story coming out of yesterday. >> is it the story for pundits and insiders like yourself or is it the story -- >> no. >> -- you think are people are waking up everywhere around the country talking about? i feel there's a push with pundits who keep bringing up carly fiorina and rightly so but i don't know if that's the same conversation someone is having today at the water cooler. >> let me give you an example. we had this debate watch party
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two blocks away for people who couldn't get tickets. carly fiorina showed up at the event, the room went crazy. informing apolling around the room, everyone felt she was the superior candidate of the day so i think this is a real grassroots movement and the pundits see that. >> jackie, let's talk about trump's complaint today that he received tougher questions than the other candidates on stage, combined with this new enthusiasm from some conservatives regarding carly fiorina and the questions fox chose to direct at donald trump. is there an effort to get rid of the guy, that it seems none of them really wanted around? >> i think all of these candidates had some pretty cuff questions, why you saw some of them not do as well as the others. if i could add something to what matt just said, you saw on google searches for carly fiorina went crazy last night, they surpassed even trump at one point. so it is real out there. that's not something that's just in washington. that's something that's a lot of different places. so there is that.
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but as you were talking about the questions, you know, i think trump has a thin skin. we saw that again, we saw how he has reacted to meghan kelly, some of the nasty things he said about women, some of the nasty things he's saying about meghan kelly. he can dish it out but last night he couldn't take it. >> that's not the question, though. listen, the questions were rightfully strong regarding donald trump and the push there, but scott i think the question for many people, did the other candidates get that same challenge that the viewers at home deserve to see? that's the question. scott? >> i think it's hard when there's ten candidates in fairness to the moderators and clearly you know, a lot of those questions especially the first one was directed at trump. so you know, i think to your point, i think that there was definitely a concerted effort it seemed to me at least to take him down a peg and a lot of pundits are saying that it "worked" but we've written donald trump's obituary several
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times before in this race. who knows how this is going to end up playing out in the end. >> absolutely. back to jackie what you were saying about carly fiorina. i want to play this great moment during the early point, she did to your point take on donald trump and make a name for herself on many ways on that first debate stage. let's play it. >> i didn't get a phone call from bill clinton before i jumped in the race. did any of you get a phone call from bill clinton. i didn't. maybe it's because i hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate campaign. since he has changed his mind on amnesty, on health care and on abortion, i would just ask what are the principles by which he will govern. >> jackie, i thought to myself watching what a shame she wasn't there on the main stage, going back to how fox really did have to determine who would make the main stage, since they've got so many candidates. >> i'm usually hesitant to make predictions but i think that carly fiorina might see a bump in the polls and she'll be in the next debate and we might see
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that face-off. you wonder if it's going to spill into the press. donald trump hasn't been shy about responding to something someone has said about him in another venue, so i wonder if you're going to see the two face off. i would not be surprised if we see carly fiorina facing off against donald trump on the main stage in a month. >> matt, let's talk about jeb bush in the opening of the show, he said who helped themselves, who hurt themselves and who just disappeared in donald trump's wake and carly fiorina's wake. that's the question some have about jeb bush. how would you grade his performance yesterday? >> i think he almost started offered a little tentative, but i think he got his footing as the debate went on. he had some really good answers on education, which for this crowd he really has to hit this what's the federal role of education, head often on and did a great job on the answer on the economy. i think he was tentative and almost seems he's hovering at a great spot where if trump
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implodes, he can step up, but i think a lot of his supporters really want to see jeb jump into these issues like planned parenthood and stuff a little more aggressively. >> let me play what jeb had to say when he was asked a question again about his family. let's play that. >> we're going to run hard, run with heart and run to win. i have to earn this. maybe the bar is even higher for me. that's fine. i've got a record in florida, i'm proud of my dad and certainly proud of my brother. i'm my own man. i governored as a conservative and i governored effectively. >> matt talked about him being tentative or hesitant, scott, how did you explain that or reconcile here is a career politician from a family with a huge political legacy, and he would be on a debate stage tentative or timid with someone like a donald trump who is never as brash and polled and all of the craze yiz things he might or might not be, he's never been on a national debate stage running for president. >> i think jeb is being very
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cautious not to act as if he thinks this is going to be a r coronation for him. in some ways he's trying to bring himself down a peg. kasich you can mark me down as someone thought he shined last night and i think if you look at a state like new hampshire, you know, where kasich has shown some movement in the polls even before the debate, he could really emerge as the most viable alternative to jeb i think, and you know, if you are sort of a mainstream right down the middle republican voter, the kinds of voters that really predominate in new hampshire as well as independents and you're interested in the candidate who can be president on day one who is not going to be too extreme but you're worried about what jeb was alluding to there, talking about the bush name. kasich could kind of be that guy that steps in that fold. it will be interesting to see how that plays out. >> a lot of too emhave the same reaction to scott kasich, particularly how he handled that question about same-sex marriage. >> the best answer of the night.
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it was the best answer. >> he owned that answer, he did not back away, it came off as authentic but still very true to who he is and he worded it just brilliantly i thought. i want to play marco rubio, he received a number of high marks from people regarding his performance last night. let's play it. >> if i'm our nominee, how is hillary clinton going to lecture me living paycheck to pay ch cp? how is she going to lecture me about student loans? i owed over $100,000 just four years ago. if i'm our nominee, we will be the party of the future. >> people believe rubio owned his lane there. >> that was another one of the great answers of the night. it draw ace contrast that some of these other republican candidates can't. when you talk about wealth, that's something that has been the last republican nominee was fighting trying to explain, so to have someone like marco rubio who has this relatable story
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particularly to young people and particularly about student loans i think that could really pay dividends for him going forward. >> it's interesting, a lot of people have said it's not necessarily debate that mattered, it's the clips being played today that people will, that will resonate with people and it's quite interesting to see which ones have been making the rounds. thank you all so much, we greatly appreciate you joining us. see you in september, that's debate number two here. can't wait. coming up, what debate moment was the most talked about moment online? we'll very veal that answer to you with nbc senior political editor mark murray in this morning's "first read" on politics. was senator chuck schumer using the gop debate to distract from his big news that he is not supporting the president's deal with iran? we'll take a look at the timing of the announcement and how the most influential jewish voice in congress could affect other democrats. and developing now, a possible tornado tears through a shopping mall in alabama, leaving behind major damage.
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death for holmes. the defense argued the death of a seriously mentally ill man is not justice. jurors must be unanimous in their decision, if just one opposes, holmes will be sentenced to life in prison without pa parole. we'll keep you up-to-date on the developments out of colorado now that the jury is tlib radeliber the case. turning to the other major story dominating headline this is morning. so far the white house has not responded to what many are calling a considerable blow to the iran nuclear agreement. new york senator chuck schumer's announcement that he will oppose it while traveling overseas this morning, secretary of state john kerry offered his reaction. >> i profoundly disagree with the judgment made. i would respectfully suggest that rejection is not a policy for the future. >> schumer, who the "new york times" describes as the most influential jewish voice in
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congress issued a lengthy essay last night just before the gop presidential debate. "i will vote to disapprove the agreement, not because i believe war is a viable or desirable option nor to challenge the path of diplomacy. it is because i believe iran will not change and under this agreement it will be able to achieve its dual goals of eliminating sanctions while ultimately retaining its nuclear and non-chnuclear power." chris jansing we heard the the brief remark from secretary kerry. >> reporter: not only did they know it was coming down, but nbc news has learned by someone who is close to all this that this was actually leaked by the white house last night. interesting timing, because it knocked it off the headlines in the newspaper in favor of course of the republican debate that was going on at the same time. we will see what the white house has to say about that. also, there were no events on the president's public schedule.
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he's headed to vacation one day earlier than was expected, and now there's a bill signing at 11:55. we'll have a chance to go in and see if if he'll make any comment on this and what it means for the prospects. look, the white house has felt confident all along, what they need is one-third of votes in both houses. they think they can sustain that for a veto, if there is, when he vetoes it that they can sustain that veto. having said that, i think the question that has yet to be answered is whether or not chuck schumer, who is so influential on this, emboldens other democrats who are sitting on the fence to go against the white house as well. tamr tamron? >> chris jansing live at the white house, thank you very much. coming up, concern is growing over the largest legionnaires outbreak in new york city history. ten people have now died, this as the city orders thousands of buildings to take new precautions. plus the epa admits it caused a chemical spill in a colorado river that turned the water orange.
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we are back with developing news. suspected tornado touched down in southeast alabama, five people were injured after a tornado-like storm ripped through a local walmart and sports outlet late last night. the storm flipped multiple trucks and tractor trailers. the city says all of the injuries reported thankfully have been minor injuries. now to new york city where a tenth person has died from legionnaire's disease. 1 hub people have been diagnosed with the bacterial infection. health officials say the outbreak was caused by contaminated water droplets from air cooling towers. the new york city health commissioner is taking city wide precautions requiring all building owners with cooling
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towers to have those towers inspected and disinfected. joining me now director of national institute of allergy and infectious disease, dr. anthony fauci. thank you for joining us again. >> good to be with you. >> for a lot of people they hear legionnaires and think about philadelphia 1976, i believe some 29 people died at that time and here we are 20150 ten people have lost their lives due to this legionnaires outbreak. >> indeed it's a serious problem with which the city is addressing now as you mentioned correctly it's an invirn mental source of the bacteria. it tends to like to grow in warm water that is part of the cooling systems on the water towers over some of the big buildings and the officials have identified five of those cooling towers which are contaminated with the legionella bacteria.
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they decontaminated them now and hopefully that will be the end of it but to make doubly sure what they're doing now is essentially having inspections on all of the cooling towers in new york, just in case there are other incidents going on that have not yet been detected, but so far right now, it looks like they have control over it, but you don't want to call it over until it's really over and that's the reason why they're pursuing inspection of other towers. >> how is this different from what we saw as i mentioned in philadelphia in the '70s and for note, as we know the cdc did not start calling this disease legionnaires until 1977. how is this different from what played out then and what we're seeing now? >> it isn't really much different at all. the fundamental principles are the same. it's contamination usually of water-related mechanisms that could be air conditioners, that could be cooling systems, because the bacteria spread in the mist that comes out of these water containing facilities.
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that's exactly what happened in 1976 in philadelphia at the american legion convention at the bellevue stratford hotel in philadelphia, which is where they got the name, as you mentioned, the legionnaires disease. there fundamentally is really no difference. by the way i think who people don't appreciate, this is not a rare occurrence. there are between 8,000 and 18,000 hospitalizations each year in the united states from legionnaires disease, so this is something that's a persistent problem that tends to come in little clusters when you get something as dramatic as 100 people as we're seeing now in new york city, then it becomes something that gets to the attention of the general public everywhere. >> and just quickly here, those who are most susceptible apparently the elderly or people with preexisting medical conditions. >> indeed that's the case, people who have chronic lung disease, recently disease, heart disease, particularly people who
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smoke and people on medications that are suppressing their immune system. >> we'll keep our audience up to date on this. dr. fauci great to have your insight and knowledge on our show, thank you very much. >> good to be with you. coming up, two people including a child at yosemite national park die from a disease not talked about in modern times, the plague. what's being blamed for spreading this disease, it is one of the stories we are updating this morning around "news nation." netflix was praised for its unlimited parental leave policy. now not owl employees will be affected. it is one of the things we thought you should know. and the most talked about moment online for the debate, what do you think it was? tweet the @newsnation team. give it your best shot. with mark murray, we will have the big reveal, part of this morning's "first head." en the kg of the campus on day one. but you're armed with a roomy new jansport backpack,
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we are back with your first read on politics this morning. 20 million according to our social media team that's the number of posted comments and other interactions about the gop debate on facebook. on top of that, more than 7 million people tweeted about the debate, and it was quite an event. we've never seen a debate quite like that, especially for a first primary season debate. we'll get to the reason why, first some of the most buzzed about moments. >> if hillary clinton is the person that would be a dream come true. >> i think god has blessed us, he's blessed the republican party with some very good candidates, the democrats can't even find one. >> the first thing i intend to do is to rescind every illegal and unconstitutional executive
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action taken by barack obama. >> i think you're on the rwrong side of this if you're still arguing single pay per. >> i don't think you heard. you're having a hard time tonight. >> the purpose of the military is doing great things. >> i went to a wedding of a friend of mine who happens to be gay. because somebody doesn't think the way i do doesn't mean i can't care about them or love them. >> i'm talking about searches without warrants indiscrimina indiscriminately all americans records and that's what i fought to end. i don't trust president obama with your records. i know you gave him a big hug and if you want to give him a big hug again go right ahead. >> the hugs i remember are the ugz i gave to the families who lost their people on september 11th. those are the hugs i remember. >> joining me live nbc news senior political editor mark -- i don't know if it was the music, i was getting goose bumps all again.
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the moment between chris christie and rand paul was the moment that got all the social media traction. >> the reason why it was the most potential. we saw back and forth especially with donald trump getting tough questions and gave just as much back but chris christie with rand paul, it continues a fight that was occurring when rand paul's father ron was running for president back in 2008, instead of chris christie it was rudy giuliani, the same fight where chris christie representing the hawks, rand paul representing more of the doves just playing out similarly to 2007 and 2008. >> i also think it's the topic. the people most likely to be on social media are people who are engaged regarding technology and thus i think interested in surveillance and how it plays a life in all of our lives and
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privacy. that could account for some of the social media traffic. i'm just guessing. nevertheless, the numbers are in, mark, and it's preliminary numbers and shows this could be the highest rated debate for gop primary, which means then obviously the next house of the debate want donald trump after that and after that. >> last night's debate was so much about donald trump. many people tuning in were more than just your regular republican primary goers and iowa caucus goers. they wanted to see the spectacle of donald trump and so many people had the question, how long can this go on? what is he going to say next? that curiosity fueled a lot of the viewership last night and a lot of the anticipation. what really struck me about donald trump he got some tough questions from the moderators. of course all the candidates got tough questions but donald trump got the most and certainly leading off the debate on who would he do with the republican party launch an independent
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third party bid, and what was fascinating to me was that donald trump just gave back. he ended up, he did not retreat. he stayed being donald trump, and what we ended up seeing was some excellent tv. >> i think by the numbers it was around 11 minutes of speaking time, he got, compared to jeb bush, eight minutes, and you do wonder with even republicans admitting that it was not a great night from jeb bush, kind of questions as you pointed out donald trump how would he have held up. i want to talk about the focus group they had right after the debate, let me play a little bit of what that group had to say. >> when you walked in here, how many of you had a positive opinion of donald trump, raise your hand, overall. how many of you have a positive opinion of him now? who is negative towards trump when you walked in here? who is negative now? what happened? you were a trump supporter when you walked in. >> yes, frank. you know what happened, i liked him when i came in here because
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he wasn't a politician, but right now he skirted around questions better than a lifelong politician ever had. >> okay so donald trump tweeted out, frank luntz is a low class slob who came to my office looking for consulting work and i had zero interest. now he picks anti-trump panel. do you think that panel reflects trump's supporters and their feelings? >> it's hard to know and of course some debate panels, it might not be a huge representative sample of republicans or all the people who were trump supporters but what i can tell you, there is an interesting divide when it comes to donald trump among your republican party types, these are the most that people who were in the audience last night, the people who attend and people i'm going to vote for the republican party no matter what against the democrats and where donald trump, some of his other supporters aren't necessarily the die-hard republicans but people who were frustrated with the withhold system. in fact sometimes some people
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who were frustrated with the republican party itself, and it still has been unclear that donald trump is somebody who is going to be able to get the republican nomination, just given the opposition from some republicans, but he is being able to get traction with a segment of voters and people who aren't big fans of the republican party, fox news, or anyone else. >> he lives to see another day here and we'll see if it the polling shows a dip in his numbers, but he's not going anywhere any time soon. >> not until the next debate for sure. >> not until september, thank you very much, great to have you on. have a great weekend. >> you, too. donald trump once again the subject of the gut check. yesterday we asked you if you thought trump would help or hurt himself? it was split down the middle. 50/50, we don't often that. now we've seen the debate, what does your gut tell you? did trump's performance last night help or hurt his chances? go to msnbc.com to cast that vote. coming up, the new clue in the half billion-dollar heist from a boston museum that
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happened 25 years ago, a break in the case. it is one of the stories we are updating around the "news nation." nearly ten years after hurricane katrina, is private policing a solution to the crime problem that still hovers over new orleans? the city is recovered in so many ways ten years later but crime continues to be a problem particularly in the french quarter. i'll talk live with the new orleans entrepreneur who created a new crime reporting app and assembled its own high-tech police force. some critics do not like the idea. we'll talk with them live about it. first there say lot going on this morning, here are some things we thought you should know. russia has launched a sophisticated cyber attack on the pentagon's joint staff unclassified e-mail system. the pentagon is taking the system justify line for nearly two weeks. the hack affected nearly 4,000 military and civilian personnel.
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on tuesday, netflix announce aid major change to their parental leave policy, giving employees unlimited leave for new parents. the new policy however is not for all of the employees who work at netflix. the parental leave only applies to salaried employees who work in the streaming decision, which leaves several -- division, which leaves several hundred employees without the policy. while americans are turning into the gop debate hillary clinton was doing her own stumping with the kardashians. hillary clinton spoke to a sold out house hosted by mega manager scooter braun, who represents justin bieber and a couple of people. anyway, chris jenner and kim and kanye got their pics with the presidential candidate and of course there was a selfie involved. those are the things we just thought you should know. stay cheese.
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you know i tried to do a good thing, and let you do some bits for us, and then we can go through and get -- [ cheers and applause ] -- and get some -- actually -- i should -- hey, trevor. >> what's up? >> could you give me like 20 more minutes? >> oh, i'm so sorry. >> it's cool. great to see you. you're going to be great, i'm so excited for you. >> what a night, the unofficial handoff of "the daily show" to trevor noah. jon stewart signed off in a star-studded final episode. this morning more than 100,000 tweets featuring #jonvoi yanlg. president obama tweeting out "you've been a great gift to the country" and many were alums of the show were star attendants. we have more on the surprise cameos and more poignant moments.
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>> i've got big news. this is it! this is the final episode! >> reporter: jon stewart's "daily show" curtain call. >> even though this t is our last night on the air -- [ audience "awww" ]. -- yet we all still remain alive. >> saying good-bye with a cavalcade of cameos. ♪ it's wonderful to see you >> reporter: from the politicians and pundits stew part made frequent punchlines. >> i'll never forget you, but i'll try. >> have fun feeding your rabbits quitter. >> and just when i'm running for president, what a bummer. >> so long, jackass. >> reporter: to the comedians who launched their career as "daily show" correspondents like hbo's john oliver. >> working here meant the world to me. >> reporter: "office" boss steve carell. >> for me it's touching that you'd come back. after 12 years, and do this. >> i never left, jon.
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becoming an international superstar is something i did while waiting for my next assignment. >> reporter: and stephen colbert. >> you said to me and many other people years ago never to thank you because we owe you nothing. >> thanks. that's right. >> it is one of the few times you to be dead wrong and we are better people for having known you. >> reporter: fighting back tears -- >> this is the most beautiful place i've ever been and i'll never have that again. >> reporter: thanking his family. >> i want to thank my wife, tracy, and my kids, nate and maggie. [ cheers and applause ] i'm not going to look over there, for teaching me what joy looks like. >> reporter: and his audience. >> rather than saying good-bye or good night, i'm just going to say i'm going to get a drink, and i'm sure i'll see you guys before i leave. >> reporter: giving them one last piece of advice. >> the best defense against [ bleep ] is vigilance. so if you smell something, say something. >> reporter: before one final moment of zen.
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♪ thanks for everything jon, we wish you happy and safe travels ♪ >> reporter: courtesy of the boss. ♪ meet me in atlanta for a drink ♪ >> that was carson daly reporting. trevor noah officially take over "the daily show" september 28th. breaking news to msnbc and "news nation." our affiliate in buffalo is reporting that patrick kane, a star of the nhl's stanley cup winning chicago blackhawks is being investigated for rape allegations in his offseason hometown near buffalo, new york. nbc news has not independently confirmed this allegation, but the hamburg police chief gregory wickett confirmed the department was investigating an incident that allegedly occurred at kane's home last week gathering evidence and awaiting form sick results. they waited for questions and to
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provide more details. the blackhawks and nhl said in statements this week they were aware of the case but they did not comment further so at this point our local affiliate in buffalo, new york, confirming that there is an investigation involving patrick kane, one of the stars of the chicago blackhawks. of course they won the stanley cup this season and right now there's this investigation involving another star athlete. we'll continue to follow the developments on that story. meanwhile, recent cases of a disease not normally associated with modern times tops our look at stories around the news nation this morning. the california department of public health announced that a child contracted the plague after camping at yosemite national park, this comes after an infected adult in colorado died earlier in the week. the disease is transmitted when humans come in contact with rodents carrying infected fleas. an average of seven cases of human plague are reported each year nationwide and is treatable with antibiotics if caught in time. officials are assessing the
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damage of a mine waste spill that sent 1 million gallons of orange colored wastewater into a kohl cool river. the epa confirms it accidentally triggered the spill while investigating pollutants at a nearby mines. it contained zinc and iron and it is unclear if the spill is harmful to humans. we'll be right back. [ school bell rings ] ♪ [ female announcer ] everything kids touch at school sticks with them. make sure the germs they bring home don't stick around. use clorox disinfecting products. you handle life;
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. we are just three weeks away from the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina. tour rich is bus ling. after losing some 500 police officers in the wake of the storm, the city has not been able to get a strong grip on crime. one new orleans businessman decided to take matters into his own hands after his home was burglarized in a recent spike in crime. sydney torres created his own high-tech police force called the french quarter task force. it is made up of off-duty police officers who patrol parts of the
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quarter on specially modified atvs. when they see something suspicious they pull up an app and file a report. "the new york times" just ran a lengthy piece on the operation titled" who runs the streets of new orleans qult. sydney torres joins us now. such a great pleasure to have you here with us. this started as challenge between you and the mayor in a sense that you called out mayor landrieu regarding crime, and he said what to you? >> well, it started at after katrina i started a garbage company that cleaned up the french quarter. i was very involved for seven years until i saw sold that company. basically, i know the french quarter like the back of my hand and i live down there. my home got robbed. and at first i didn't want to just come out and say anything or do anything about it because it was around christmastime and i wanted to learn more about what was going on at new orleans. right next door to me a few days later, my bar gets robbed. my mother was walking by, i was
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like, you know, this is enough. i produced a 30-second spot and i said -- called out the mayor and said, listen, this is what the deal is. he's the one who is responsible. the administration needs to do something about it. it's only 13 x 6 blocks, one of the largest revenue generators for the state and for the city. you need to do something. i ran that commercial through the whole state. i started doing testimonials with people who live in the quarter and basically the mayor's brother called me and said, would you please -- would you meet with him, my brother. >> what did he ask you to do? >> he said are you guys on the same team, you both care about the new orleans. the mayor does. his heart is in the right place. he's hugely popular and doing a great job. we sat down and he said, before we sat down he said put your money where your mouth is. he's made millions upon millions of dollars in the french quarter and like "the new york times" said, a schoolboy threat. i took that. went to meet with him. and he said, what's your ideas? that's how the whole app thing came out. >> your idea of putting your money where your mouth is as
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mayor landrieu put it was to start this police force, for lack of better description. >> yes. i had no plans of starting a force and coming up with this app idea. basically what happened was when i sat with the mayor i said, listen, why can't we use officers on their off time, pay them $50 an hour rate and basically put them on atv vehicles and i designed an app similar to uber. goes directly to the officers. >> obviously kernsz and "new york times" note that critics argue a plan undermines traditional police departments and heightens the fragile socioeconomic and racial tensions that already plague urban policing. they say you look at the french quarter which is more affluent and you have others like the former police chief of philadelphia who worries about privatizing police because then you have over s.e.a.l. use people who might take action into their own hands. >> tamron, listen, results show. okay? crimes down 30% to 40% in the
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french quarter. >> you think it's -- >> i don't think, i know. i mean, working with the state police, working with our force, i know. i get realtime data. i created this app myself. i drew it on a napkin. bourbon street, royal street, the cross streets, aggressive solicitation, prostitution. all the things the broken window theory you want to address it before it gets worse. our response time is between four to eight minutes. it's unbelievable what we've done in four months. >> what about the concern that, yes, to your point the numbers are improving in the french quarter but what about other parts of the city still suffering? >> i love my city. >> i know you do. >> believe me, i got a phone call last night they were having a meeting at lake view and trying to figure out how to deal with the crime. police chief was there. i wasn't able to go. i can tell you right now that the reason it went to the french quarter is because i know it, i know how to get it clean. it's only 13 x 6 blocks, largest revenue generator for the city and state. once we get that cleaned up and keep it safe, it's easy to put this task force in other areas.
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i'm already meeting with people in atlanta who want to roll this out in atlanta with the app and the task force. and other places. so it's really working out great. >> i'm so appreciative that you came here. you flew here to talk to us. we all love new orleans. great city. great city. we're happy that every day it's fighting back. that does it for this edition of "newsnation." have a great weekend. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. when i started at the shelter, i noticed benny right away. i just had to adopt him. he's older so he needs my help all day. when my back pain flared up we both felt it i took tylenol at first but i had to take 6 pills to get through the day. then my friend said "try aleve". just two pills, all day. and now, i'm back for my best bud! aleve. all day strong and try aleve pm, now with an easy open cap. i built my business with passion.
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