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an ugly semifinals at the u.s. open. and snapshots of a miracle, a new exhibit puts never before seen pictures on display from the plane that landed in the hudson. a good morning everyone. i'm alex witt. this is "msnbc sunday." 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. 7:00 out west. remembering the wall street meltdown a year later. let's turn to the latest on the search for the missing yale graduate student annie le. police are analyzing the first evidence of a crime found in the very building where le was last seen. this is the sixth day that le has been missing, also the day she was to be married. mike taibbi is live in connecticut with the latest. mike, another good morning to you. let's get up to date. >> reporter: good morning, alex. there are actually some hornets here right now. last night yale vice president -- excuse me -- sent out an e-mail to the university community in which she called
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this the most perplexing mystery adding we don't know where annie le is or what happened to her. while there has been hope she might have been a nervous run away bride we did get a confirmation from a police source in new haven that bloody clothes and other evidence were found in the building behind me, the last place that annie le was seen tuesday, evidence that suggests a strong possibility of foul play. the search for evidence and witnesses has been intense. the fbi working with dozens of city, state and yale university police to determine what kind of missing persons case they have been probing. foul play or just cold feet. in a press conference late saturday, caution. >> we're not in a position today to conclude whether this is a missing persons case or whether criminality is involved. >> reporter: also a reference to newly discovered evidence. >> all i will say is that items that could potentially be evidence have been seized. none have yet been associated
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with annie le. the items seized are being examined to determine if there is any association to annie le. >> reporter: 24-year-old med school student annie le was last seen 10:00 a.m. last tuesday when a surveillance camera recorded her entering this building. three hours later. >> there was a fire alarm triggered, it wasn't planned. the building was evacuated. >> reporter: apparently done of the seven cameras saw le. >> reporter: hundreds of people similarly dressed could have left a building at the same time. >> reporter: lee was to be married today to columbia university grad student. she wrote on her facebook page, lucky i'm in love with my best friend. he has been helping to distribute flyer was not considered a suspect. medical school dean robert alfron stated the obvious. and students said the mystery was unsettling. >> you don't know what happened
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to her so that's a little scary. >> reporter: now scariest of all, the clear possibility that a student on this storied campus has been the victim of a terrible crime, whose details and author or authors are still not known. investigators have been poring over her life especially her electronic footprint. >> her computer, facebook account, who she has been twittering, her credit cards, any electronic signal that could have suggested how she was communicating to someone. >> reporter: after five days her disappearance has not been solved. >> we don't know where she is. we don't know what happened to her, we don't know if a crime was committed or not. >> reporter: this morning there have been yale and new haven police units who showed up to the building though it doesn't look as though there is the resumption of the search that continued all day or any questioning of people at the scene here in the $10,000 reward posted by the university for any information about this case is still in force. >> so mike, no suspects, no
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persons of interest, nothing like that that police are revealing? >> reporter: no, nothing yet. there were a number of rumors yesterday swirling around, all of them have been knocked down by investigators at the press conference. for example, no body was found, that rumor went around. and somebody had been brought in for questioning, was that a suspect or person of interest, again they are not suspects or regarded as suspects or even yet persons of interest though they continue to question people around the clock. >> mike, thank you for the live report from yale's campus there at new haven. the fbi set up a 24-hour tip line. if you have information about this case they ask you to call 1-877-503-1950. new this morning from meet the press, senator dick dishen says some republican senators agree that democrats health reform plans represent an historic opportunity but that being said democrats aren't going to wait around for republicans to come on board. >> in terms of the democratic
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side we're going to work closely with our members, too. they have to be satisfied this bill is going to help them, their state and this nation. the fact is we're not going to miss this opportunity. we invite the republicans to join us for this historic opportunity if they do not we are still going to go forward. >> i'm joined live from washington by mike vacaris. whether or not they are joined democrats are moving forward. is this coming as a surprise to republicans? >> reporter: sharp words from dick durbin. the democrat base have been wanting to hear that for some time. they are tired of what they consider to be the dithering of max baucus and other democratic leaders trying to negotiate with republicans for weeks behind closed doors with no apparent agreement in sight. baucus said that he is going to move forward this week he's going to reveal his intentions in terms of what he wants to do, with committee action for the week after. and after the president gave his big speech on wednesday night to
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congress, he's trying to keep the pressure on as well. yesterday traveling to minnesota to speak to an arena full of supporters, cheering supporters, largely reprising what he said wednesday and providing details on what he would like to see happen. meantime, back in washington, a counterprotest, really a tale of two rallies yesterday. the president with supporters yesterday in minneapolis, and yet yesterday as well on the west front of the capitol tens of thousands of protesters against what they consider to be too much government spending, too much government and all galvanized by the president's plan to reform health care and their opposition to it. alex. >> okay. and with regard to the president, he's got a busy schedule this -- like he's on the campaign trail again. >> reporter: it's a combination of the economy and health care. certainly on health care a big rally scheduled much like the one we saw yesterday for thursday, at the nearby university of maryland in college park, maryland. tomorrow he travels to wall street where he will give an
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address to the financial industry on the anniversary, the one-year anniversary, of the collapse of lehman brothers which precipitated a lot of the crisis that this country and this government have been dealing with and resulted in a lot of the legislation that people are fighting against. tuesday a trip to speak to the afl-cio in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> all right. thank you very much. see you again next hour. coming up this hour the fallout from yesterday's tea party rally on capitol hill, are the protests helping or hurting the republican party? we'll have a debate coming up for you. new word at this hour on the availability of swine flu vaccine shots, they could now be available but sooner than expected. that is according to health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. the shots could be available the first week of october. previous pli the vaccine was set for mid month in october. serena williams was wildly -- widely, rather, expected to be defending her title at the u.s. open but she's
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not. she lost that match yesterday after an outburst on the court. here's what happened. serena williams was called out for a rare double penalty. it's a foot fault leaving her one point away from losing the match. then she flipped out on the judge, screaming, cursing, threatening to sthuv the tennis ball down her throat. >> i didn't say i will kill you. are you serious? are you serious? i didn't say that. >> joining us now sportswriter dave zarin. good morning to you. i looked at your face watching that. was it shocking? >> yes. >> jonl mcenroe we know. >> it wasn't only shocking to me and viewers, it was shocking to john mcenroe. he said from the booth that he
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couldn't defend the indefensible. and serena williams has no reputation for these kinds of tantrums, and let's face it. tennis is a country club sport. the reason why we remember john mcenroe is because of those kinds of outbursts which are so out of step with the kind of genteel view of tennis. the tennis world is shocked. the shame i have to say is that the match was tremendous. anybody who watched that match last night knows that it was a match of the tournament and the call was horrible. you never make that call, the double foot fault, in a semifinal match and you certainly don't at the end of the match with the game on the line. i got to tell you, a lot of people online are saying that kim clijsters, this should be her moment right now, she played a tremendous match, people are saying kim clijsters should have refused it and said you know, i want to win this on the court. >> really. well, interesting perspective there. but in all honesty it felt like
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there is precedent for this. the foot faults, that's rare. yet having a player come back and say to the opponent say, well, you know -- isn't that rough for kim clijsters to be expected to do that? >> it is rough and kim clijsters, i mean, she's been through a lot. she used to be the number one player in the world, now aiming to be only the third mom in u.s. women's tennis history to win a grand slam match. she is very good friends with serena. maybe it helps that serena has beaten her seven out of eight times. serena was classy to kim after the match. it's almost like a switch turns on in serena. she has no reputation for this behavior. so you see her flip from being absolutely furious to extending her hand and going around the net to kim. that's interesting because the only other precedent i was thinking about this in the last hour, is this happened to jimmy connors about 15 years ago where he was called out for a penalty
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and then because of his cursing and arguing, they just called the match. and he stormed off the court. he didn't go back around and shake the hand of his opponent. >> when you look at, though, in all fairness, what serena -- how she reacted. let's take a look how she reacted in front of the podium and the microphones when she was questioned after the match. take a listen. >> i think she said i would kill you. i was like what? i had misheard. she never said that so that was just something -- it was like -- i was like whoa. wait a minute. let's not -- because i'm not that way, so. she's like no, i didn't say that. she said something else. i said oh, okay i get it. i used to have a real temper and i've gotten a lot better. i know you don't believe me but i used to be worse, yes, indeed.
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>> in fact, venus is the one that used to have more of the tude going on. they are much beloved players. you think this is going to haunt serena or you think they'll move past? >> i got to think they will move past. women's tennis is not in the greatest financial shape. the williams sisters dominate the sport. and in a lot of ways they are too important to the sport. you know, long time williams watchers have said that the sisters trent both sides of their parents, richard and orastin. i think last night with serena we saw the raging ying and the sober yang. we hope she can move on. >> she has to be frustrated. that call, i mean, it's not 100% it was the right call. >> not only that. like i said before, this is like in the nba how they never call touch fouls in the finals. you don't make those kinds of
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calls with the game in the balance. you always let the players decide it on the court. >> well, thank you very much for weighing in, dave. good to see you. thanks. >> thank you. still ahead, back to court. the latest on the legal case against the man accused of holding a california girl captive for 18 years. also the miracle on the hudson like you've never seen it before. how one photographer was able to capture the aftermath here on msnbc sunday. getting an early flu shot is the best thing you can do... to protect you and your loved ones from the flu.
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msnbc is the place for politics. president obama is prepare forge a four-state swing as he fights for control of the health reform message. >> i'm not going to let people misrepresent what's in my plan.
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i will not accept the status quo. not this time. not now. >> i'm joined live from washington by associate editor and solist with the hill newspaper. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> the president had the crowd fired up. at this point in the debate is this you think the most effe effective way to try to rest control? >> i think the white house thinks it willen encouraging to democrats to see crowds to come to these rallies that the president is holding in support of reform. the truth is that the white house doesn't have the luxury of time in terms of trying to move public opinion polls in a campaign style push at this point. they need to move the members and they need to do it as soon as possible. for vice president biden said after the speech on wednesday night which did seem to
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consolidate support among democrats, in the house and senate, he said that they want to get something passed by thanksgiving. there is -- there are two gubernatorial elections, two states barack obama won that now seem the democratic party are poised -- it's poised to lose. i think that is a date that they should try to push something through by. i think if republicans win those seats in the first week of november, will be very tough to corral nervous centrist conservative and moderate democrats to the table. i think they need to get something going and get it out as soon as possible. >> okay. abe, in your part of the country there, activists fired up yesterday. tens of thousands gathering to protest the administration's handling of everything, basically, from health care to the auto, bank bailouts, all of
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it. were you surprised by this turnout? >> no, not at all. i think you can see in the town halls that we saw this summer, the tea party events in spring, all of the polling that shows americans are frustrated and really anxious about government intervention, the wall street bailout, the auto industry bailout, a stimulus package they aren't certain was so effective, now an expensive health care plan on the table, unemployment obviously going in the wrong direction and people still worried that our economy is not going to bounce back in time to help them, why is our government spending all of their taxpayer money to mix problems that doesn't seem to help them. i think the white house probably sees these protests as largely attended by conservative activists, they truly are conservative activists who are not pleased with the republican
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party, the frustration beginning in the bush era and bleeding into this period where we've seen so much deficit, and so much government intervention and now they are mad at president obama. but opposition to obama doesn't necessarily -- anger at the democrats doesn't necessarily help the republican parties. i think there will be tea party challengers to republicans so it's not necessarily a benefit to the republican party. >> i'm curious how you think the white house is viewing these challenges. are they dismissing them? if they are at what point does that hurt them? >> i think they are hoping that people who voted -- swing voters who may have supported george bush who voted for obama in the 2008 election are not yet, even if they are frustrated and opposed to the health care plan, let's say showing up in polling, that they are not attending these rallies. i think on this question the white house has a bit of time to see if they can turn things around with the economy by mid to late next year, turn things
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around on the perception of the health care reform effort and see if they can win voters back. they will watch the polls and not the attendees at the rallies. in swing states like ohio and indiana, north carolina, florida, that will be where they are looking at the math and not who is turning out at the rallies. >> a.b., we'll be looking for you next hour. thanks so much. still ahead, what's being done to mark the one-year anniversary of the collapse heard around the world. and jay leno gets ready for his prime time debut. is he ready? you're going to hear what he has to say next on "msnbc sunday."
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all you fans of jay leno's comedy the wait is almost over. jay is ready for prime time. "the jay leno show" premiers tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern and as nbc's lee cowan reports it's the first daily comedy variety show in that time slot
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realm of talent. >> reporter: what's new, a team of young comics, correspondents he calls them, a jay leno ensemble cast. it may take getting used to like the new time stlot, and his new building. >> it smells of new carpeting. >> this is spinal tap. >> reporter: out that way is his new set. you have to wait to see that. it was in this studio, now a storage room on the nbc lot that jay leno kept "the tonight show" number one for 15 of the 17 years he was on it. he looks at the new time slot as saturday sort of the way you look at a new apartment. the scenery may be different but the comedy is still the same. >> this will be the last hour of the "today" show eventually. this is where they see this going, eventually it keeps getting -- exactly. >> reporter: lee cowan, nbc news, los angeles. all of you make sure to tune
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president obama is keeping the pressure on congress to pass sweeping health care legislation. he's heading to pittsburgh on tuesday to address the afl-cio convention. then on thursday the president will talk about his health care plan at a rallying call in maryland. the white house is working behind the scenes to finalize a deal with or without republican support. the question is how to pay for the bill. here is howard dean said on "meet the press." >> every other democracy in the world has a health care steam that covers everybody and we don't. of course we can do this. how ridiculous. >> dr. dean, you said run forment people have to understand that you got to pay for it. if you want that coverage you've got to pay for it.
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>> two-thirdses of the money that president obama talks about taking $500 million out of medicare. it's not taking it away from seniors. that's taking the waste the republicans have been talking about for years, the abuse, that the republicans have talked about for years, the stuff that the insurance companies are getting for profit over and above what services are. two-thirds of this bill is paid mor with savings. . if you don't think the savings are there how come we spent the 17% of our gross national product on health care and the british, the french, spend about 10%. there is so much fat in this system we can pay for it. >> you can watch meet the press when it re-airs at 2:00 p.m. here on msnbc, the place por politics. after a tea party protest drew tens of thousands, both democrats and republicans are trying to figure out whether their parties are helped or hurt by the demonstrations. i'm joined live from washington by democratic strategist richard
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goostine and brad flagman. richard, can the democrats in the white house afford to ignore this? it has been suggested earlier by another political analyst that the white house has been somewhat dismissive of these groups. kind of not really structured, just sort of random fringe elements coming in. >> it is fringe. i think it's a reminder that right wing has gotten slightly unhinged in this country, and the brass ring politically is the center. and you know, when you hear people talking about death panels and bringing guns to rallies and whether obama was born in the u.s., i mean, these people are not focused on things that matter. the things they talk about, taxes, guess what, the stimulus had the biggest middle class tax cut in history. government spending, these people were not out in the streets protesting when the wars went unpaid for under president
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bush, when his tax cuts for the rich went unpaid for, when the prescription drug bill went unpaid for. it's not -- there's got to be a sense of powerlessness that people feel. i think in that regard the democrats in the white house can't ignore it. they have to figure out why do they feel powerless. is there anything that right thinking people can do to address that. >> with saying it's a sense of feeling powerless, they were upset about a wide variety, there was government spending, climate, tax and cap and trade, tort reform, pro-lifers, birthers there. is it problem mat thak the message does not seem to be more cohesive? trying to get a message across. >> let me disagree with my friend richard. they don't feel powerless. this is buyer's remorse for supporting a president that was going to deliver change. let's face it. let's go back to when he was first inaugurated. what is the first act, passed a spending bill. $800 billion. that was a boondoggle.
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you saw people taking to the streets, first in the tea parties, then in the summertime over health care, and back again on spending and health care in the fall. this is going to continue. and these are not fringe people. >> can i ask you, are these the folks that bought into barack obama doesn't strike me as they were. >> a lot of them are, alex. look at the polling. a vast majority of americans are not for the kind of spending not only in our annual budget, increasing our deficits and health care, universal, single payer health care, the holy grail for the democrats, they are not for that. these are not just republicans. as a matter of fact, if the democrats had a plan that they could themselves agree on, they have the votes in the house and the senate. why aren't they doing it? because even the democrats can't sport it. >> richard, what does this tell you about the climate going into the midterms next year? does this represent as well some real momentum on the gop side? >> here's what we don't know. what we don't know is how many people these protesters
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represent. but here's what we know from national polls. it cannot be very many. because when you were asked if the public is asked do you rather have president obama make decisions important to you or the republicans and congress. obama wins that going away. when you are asked favorable, unfavorable, the republicans in congress are getting in the low 20s, so these people hitting the streets were representative of anything that kind of really was cross cutting, we'd see different numbers. i would say finally, in 2010 it's going to be the economy, the economy, the economy. the republican strategy is going to be collected amnesia for the american public, you know, when obama had the baton passed by bush all the forecasts were plus 10% unemployment in 2010. and maybe coming out of recession a year from now. the fact is it appears we're coming out now, not next year and the fact the trend lines are coming up. the democrats i think have a formidable record to run on, but again, comes down to things that
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right now they are doing everything they can. the stimulus not with standing what brad said is getting high marks from economists as being what the country needed at the right time. so, i think the record is going to be pretty positive. >> brad, i'll give you the final word. >> the republicans stand to make tremendous gains in the midterms. look, we have millions of people out of work. this is a grand diversion on health care when we should be focused like a laser on the economy. losing millions of jobs. richard, you can be proud of a national unemployment rate of 10% but it's even higher in the inner cities, 16%. what good is affordable health care if you don't have a job to pay for it. it's going to be the economy and the republicans are going to be able to trump the democrats in the midterm elections. >> guys, we'll have at it again. thank you. you can head to our website for more on health care reform. check out the interactive feature called "your daily dose of reality."
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it's all there for you at msnbc.com. an autopsy is planned today for a former adviser and fundraiser for rob blagojevich. christopher kelly's death is investigated as a suicide. he was supposed to start a three-year prison sentence for tax fraud. he pleaded guilty taking part 18 fraud against two airlines with hangars at chicago's o'hare airport and charged with plotting with blagojevich to squeeze money from people and companies seeking illinois state business. kelly pleaded not guilty the charges connected with blagojevich. now new developments in the desperate search for missing student annie le. bloody clothing and other evidence were found saturday at the building where annie was last seen. authorities aren't saying what kind of missing persons case they are dealing with. >> we are not in the position today to conclude whether this is a missing persons case or whether criminality is involved.
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and i need to stress that. >> still no -- the 24-year-old grad student on this the day that was to be her wedding day. joining me is clint van zandt, a former fbi profiler, also an msnbc analyst. clint, you know, i want to pick up quickly before we go to the evidence reported by found. this was supposed to be her wedding day. you and i have talked about the runaway brides before. is it seeming less and less likely that might be a viable reason for this disappearance? >> yeah. i think so. i think at this point although it cannot be washed out, the family would love that to be the reason why. i think it's becoming much more ominous at this time. there's a lot of challenges, it was just thursday, just three days ago a 61-year-old former employee at yale campus was arrested carrying a gun and ammunition making some type of protest because he didn't get benefits. now, that has not been connected
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to this case. but you know, there are a lot of separate worlds and issues going on on that campus at the same time. >> i want to get your read on the news conference. we heard part of it. no major announcements. why not? they found something. >> yeah. they have something. i think they have got you know, the bloody clothing that's been found hidden in a false ceiling. is this her clothing? at 4'11" and 90 pounds if it's size zero it's probably her clothing. but i think the authorities want to make sure the dna, hair, fibers, whatever else is linked to her. and if she was a victim of a crime, there could be other trace evidence that is associated with her assailant so i think the fbi and other agencies want to make sure of what they got before they go public with it. >> what about all of the wild rumors, reports of a body out there. where are those coming from? what can be done about that? >> one of the cable networks started floating the story yesterday that a body had been found t. the fbi stood up in
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front of the world and said that didn't happen. we don't have a body. so we take their word at that right now. we know many times you hold back evidence because you know the bad guy's watching, he's trying to learn what's going on and you want to -- if in fact she was a victim of foul play, you want to make sure the bad guy doesn't know more than we do. so i give it to the fbi to release information as they think it's appropriate because one, we want to find the victim, hopefully alive and two f there's evidence that can link a crime to an offender we want to make sure that's not compromised so let the authority dues their job. but realize there's hundreds and thousands of yale students and faculty members and otherwise sitting there worried if she was the victim of foul play is there a killer walking among them. >> frightening thought. clint van zandt, thanks so much. a busy day for firefighters in san francisco. lightning strikes from a thunderstorm sparked a series of fires in the bay area. a transformer exploded and those
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president obama is looking to give his health care plan momentum and is gearing up for travel reminiscent of time on the campaign trail. i'm joined live from washington by athena jones who spent time on the campaign trail. good morning to you. what will we see from the president this week? >> reporter: good morning. i think you're going to see a lot of what you saw yesterday in minneapolis and of course on the campaign trail. the president likes to get out of washington, get out of the beltway, talk to the american people. the kind of people who are not
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concerned about the politics so much as about their bottom line and what his health care plan will do to them or for them. the white house feels that this week on wednesday he went a long way toward allaying some of the fears of the 160 to 180 million americans who get health care from employers. he is saying we're going to improve your health care coverage. we're not going to reduce it. so he says to those people, don't worry, we're going to help you out. and he says the people who don't have insurance who can't afford it that we're going to give you affordable insurance and we're going to lower costs for everyone. so the idea now is to get out on the campaign trail sort of, so to speak, and talk directly to people and hammer home the main points so people know what's going on. what's interesting we saw in minneapolis and expect to see at his rally later this week in college park, maryland on thursday when he talks about health care again, he's bringing people in as he did on the campaign, would say hey, i want you to have the facts so you can
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go out and set the record straight. if you hear your family or neighbors or friends, they have misconceptions, not clear about the plan, talking around the water cooler here are the main bullet points you need to share. let them know what this plan will do and won't do so people are informed. >> i'm curious to whom is he directing? is it lawmakers on capitol hill, the average citizen or galvanizing his base so they have a cohesive unit? >> reporter: i think it's all three. as i mentioned last week they had moderate democrats over to the white house. we're going to see more conversations with aides, with the president with members of congress to put pressure on them. and when this bill comes out of senate finance committee they are going to step it up. the president said the time for talking is coming to an end. the idea is to continue to put pressure on his base but also if he's got the citizens behind him, sort of as on the campaign, go out, talk to your congressmen, friends and family, get behind this bill, change comes from the bottom up, that sort of thing he hopes that can
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put pressure on lawmakers as well. >> thank you from the white house, athena jones. coming up in the next hour, will the president's campaign for health reform shed new light on the debate or the message be more of the same? we'll ask our panel to weigh in on that coming up shortly. let's go now to never before seen images of a headline making miracle. you remember this because we're getting an inside look at the the miracle on the hudson. of course the u.s. airways plane that ditched into the hudson river in january. the new york city exhibit is called "brace for impact." joining us live to talk is steven mallon. you told me you named this exhibit after the words that the captain said. how did you get access to this plane? how did they give it to you? >> the relationship started from a working relationship with the crane company commissioned me to
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do a documentary about the salvage. when the plane was there on the barge i asked if it would be okay if i could go in and i got permission, and ntsb was fine with it. >> what has been the reaction to your photos? and have you had to show the ntsb? have they looked that the as part of their investigation? >> it was part of i think the justification why i was able to be there and photograph it. i knew i was doing a detail of the salvage so they have the files, i believe they did use them for a couple of days during the presentation. >> so, you see, first of all, the plane. i know we'll pull up the shot with the plane actually being pulled up out of the river. it was the first -- there it is there. our first look at it. you were there. what did you think when you looked at that plane? >> it looked like a wounded animal to me. there was a very strong organic sense, especially the -- she looks like she's staring at you.
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>> you take these photos, what is your overwhelming sense when you look back on what you documented? >> i really am thrilled with the edit and the exhibition. i think there is a nice broad coverage between like journalism, photography documenting the salvage to abstract moments to some personal unique touches. >> personal touches, tell everyone about last night, the opening of the gallery. there theibility and there you had one of the passengers on the plane. >> we got a phone call, the gallery got a call saying there was a passenger in town and she was going to be able to make so it she came by at the beginning and it was a cheer tearful moment at the beginning. we were a little nervous, cautious, and but she loved it. she was very touched by the images. she's debating which ones she's going to take. >> best of luck. the exhibit opened last night. in brooklyn. >> 147 robling at front room
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phil garrido will be back in court tomorrow. garrido and his wife are set to appear before a judge in a california courtroom on monday morning. let's bring in lisa green, legal analyst and nbc news producer. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> bail hearing, that's what this is all about? they have been held without bail. >> correct. let's do bail 101. what's going to happen tomorrow, typical in criminal cases, they have a chance to talk to the judge and say we'd like to have bail set. and the reason the judge will say no is that there are two
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reasons you set bail. one to make sure the defendants show up and the other is to protect the community from a defendant should they pose a risk. in this case let's be honest. the garridos look like pretty high risk defendants. i'm guessing they won't visit a bail bondsman soon. >> what about snefd. >> what we may get is additional clues about the prosecution's case. since we've last talked about the garridos, prosecutors, authorities have been hard at work gathering evidence in this case. i predict at some point we'll see a new complaint with additional charges against the couple. >> among the things, bone fragments in the neighboring back yard. when will we know if, as reported, they are human bone fragments? >> very interesting. it's going to take weeks and what authorities have warned is that this used to be incredibly a burial site for native americans. these are possibly unrelated but are there alternatives that are
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ominous. we won't know. >> after this hearing, 29 counts again the garridos, all of which they pled not guilty to. include rape, kidnapping, pretty heinous charges. where does this case go after this hearing? >> both defendants have pleaded not guilty so prosecutors have to push forward and gather evidence. an interesting thought, will jaycee or her daughters be asked to testify in court. should we get that far. will there be additional charges that relate to jaycee's daughters. there are lots of possibilities, we're really early in the prosecutorial process. obviously the case looks like a tough case for defense lawyers now. >> the girls, 11 and 15 or 14, they are minors. can they be forced to testify? >> you know, theoretically you would want first-person testimony from anyone who has been the victim of a crime. as you and i know minors present a special case. you have to see if prosecutors have enough evidence. remember, they need -- their goal line is to convict, prove
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to aure beyond a reasonable doubt they are guilty. they need their best evidence. >> quickly do phillip and nancy garrido go forward as a team or split up? >> i think they are likely to split up and likely that mrs. garrido will say i was brain washed. >> lisa green, thank you. still ahead the clues uncovered in the case of the missing yale student. we have a live report at the top of the hour. my doctor told me i should've been... doing more for my high cholesterol. what was i thinking? but now i trust my heart to lipitor. when diet and exercise are not enough, adding lipitor may help. unlike some other cholesterol lowering medications, lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk... of heart attack, stroke, and certain kinds of heart surgeries... if you have several common risk factors... or heart disease. lipitor has been extensively studied... with over 16 years of research. lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems...
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