good thursday, i'm contessa brewer. the big story is the big storm, a massive system racing across several states, means flooding and travel delays and even the possibility of tornadoes. since sunday it has dumped 21 inches of rain in north carolina. rising water swallowed cars. several counties underwent flash flood warnings. the slick roads in maryland likely caused a bus accident that injured people. from washington to new york city, even maine, the storm is causing big problems at the airport. we have a live look at the faa website. philadelphia, new york, laguardia, all seeing delays. let's go to washington, d.c. and jeff morrow. doesn't look pretty there. >> reporter: it is just a nasty day, that's the only way to put it here. all through the mid-atlantic,

that includes right around the capital beltway and in downtown washington. heavy rain since late last night through the morning hours. it comes and goes, sometimes heavier, sometimes lighter like it is right now. there have been some sporadic road closures around d.c. but for the most part it's been business as unusual. the wind is turning some people's umbrellas inside-out but people are dealing the best they can. the ironic thing is that this area has been in a bit of a drought for quite some time. we're 7.5 inches below average for the year. we've gotten 2 to 3 inches of rain since that time. too much water in a short period of time, yeah that leads to flooding and we'll have to deal with that for the rest of today into the evening until things clear up. the carolina coast has been battered by the system. mike seidel is in north myrtle

beach. what are you seeing? >> reporter: we're done with the system. the wind and rain came to an end before sunrise this morning. people getting out on the beaches here. the waves are up too. they have 4 to 5 footers being cleaned up as the storm goes by to the north. the surfers have come out. not a bad turnaround after three to four days of rain. anywhere from 6 to 10 inches, up the coast to two counties up around wilmington, over 21 inches of rain. the rainiest four and five-day periods that i have seen on record, even more rain than they saw with hurricane floyd that shut down roadways up there. back here the sun is breaking through and we're going to have a quick turnaround in the weather for all of the carolinas and eventually the northeast. the storm won't stick around very long, even where you are, contessa. temperatures around 80 tomorrow. over the weekend 50s in the morning, 70s in the afternoon. this big cold high pressure coming in with frost in the

poconos and catskills is going to set up quite a bit of wind from here down to the florida east coast for the weekend and early part of next week. if you have east coast florida beach plans, it will be windy and nasty in the next week. let's check on the forecast, what millions of people along the east coast should expect. adam berg is tracking the system from atlanta. where is it moving to? >> it is going to be moving out of here. mike is right. it is not going to be a slow process. it will get out by friday. today will be the worst day across the mid-atlantic and northeast. into friday, you notice quickly it's pulling out of here. there's frosty air coming in behind this system like mike seidel was talking about. all of green you see across the great lakes, this is what we call lake-effect rain showers because of the kind of chilly air has going to be moving in over the lake. even though the last rainy day is going to be friday, you may be wishing for the rain with the

warmth. big time flooding is never good. check the temperatures out. friday not so bad. into saturday, this is with sunshine for most of us. syracuse, 55 degrees, that is it. as we go saturday and into sunday, struggling to get out of these 50s but at least the drier air will be moving back in. at least we have that. >> thanks, adam. appreciate that. if you have photos or video to share with us from the massive east coast storm, send your pictures from anywhere, i don't care where you live. you can do so through first person at msnbc.com or send them to me directly on my facebook page in a message or post them on twitter or send them in an e-mail. we have breaking news coming to us now that jimmy carter, the former president is going to be released from the hospital in cleveland, ohio within this next hour. we're expecting that to happen within an hour. he's been there for a couple of days and doctors believe it was probably a viral infection that gave the former president stomach problems.

he got sick during a flight on tuesday from atlanta to cleveland that forced him to miss several of his scheduled book appearances. he was doing to promote the new book about carter diaries. the family of a rutgers student who committed suicide has promised to cooperate with an investigation. tyler clementi took his own life after a private moment in his dorm room was secretly streamed on the internet for anyone to see. now his roommate and another student are facing charges. mike joins us. tell us how this unfolded. >> reporter: this is a sad story, it really is. the private moment which you referred to was a sexual encounter, allegedly a gay sexual encounter. two students are under arrest for privacy law violations. think about what one of suspects

tweeted as he was live streaming the video of his roommate having this sexual moment, this romantic moment. roommate asked for the room till midnight. i went to molly's room, that's the co-defendant and turned on the web cam, saw him making out with a dude, yay. that has gay rights groups calling for this to be prosecuted as a hate crime not just a civil rights violation. certainly as more than a privacy law violation case. right now the two suspects are home with their families. they've been released one on his own recognizance awaiting arraignment. the family is new york city waiting to identify a body pulled from the river. >> are the prosecutors weighing in at all at this point about whether they may proceed on a hate crime basis? >> reporter: not at all on that. i have long talks, background

talks with sources in the prosecutor's office who said this is the law that allows us to go forward with this is the privacy law violation which makes it a serious crime to record an act like this and to december sem nailt those recordings in any fashion. to bring it to the level of a negligent homicide, involuntary manslaughter, it just hasn't been done ever before and the lawyers i've spoken to said it's not likely to happen in this case. we'll see what happens on the other possibility of classifying it as a hate crime. >> it does bring up questions about bullying and questions about whether this could be classified as a hate crime. but is a bare minimum, have we become so voi you'ristic?

>> a candidate for new york governor plans to take out a reporter. carl paladino got into a heated exchange with new york post reporter, asking to prove paladino's accusation that his challenger, andrew kuomo had extra marital affairs. >> of course, i do. you'll get it at the appropriate time. you're not entitled to it. at the appropriate time you'll get it. >> you're his stalking horse. you're his bird dog. you send another goon to my daughter's house, you'll take me out. >> how are you going to do that? >> i've received a page and a half statement, let me read part of it. the new york post sent a photographer where his daughter

lives of the and attempted to follow the girl to a playground. we believe this conduct puts carl's daughter in harm's way and goes on to say that fred may be on the payroll of the new york post but the outrageous bias is demonstrated again through his coverage of his campaign. every political observer knows his bias. let me ask a political reporter, chris smith with new york magazine. what is fred dicker's representation in terms of his coverage in albany? >> bias towards juicy story. he's been a "post" story over 30 years, made enemies on both sides of the partisan aisle. he is a ten ashs tough, tabloid reporter going for the biggest headline. interestingly, fred was showing oel school journalistic

principles asking the candidate to provide evidence for a salacious allegation that paladino had made to politico, the website. and paladino can't back it up. he made this accusation against andrew cuomo. and fred, in his chest to chest style, was asking paladino to back it up. and paladino hasn't and gotten angry, which is the whole reason to exist apparently. >> i just encountered it myself this week, when you ask a politician running for election a tough question, instead of defending their stand or defending what they have said, they turn it around and attack the questioner. in this case, is this going to in any way affect the paladino campaign? >> it's generating more

attention. reporters in the media are not terribly popular. this is a year in which attacking the media -- i don't think it's calculated on paladino's part. he's a guy willing to say and do pretty much anything and attack whatever he sees as the establishment. >> he's had controversies here. there's accusations that he was forwarding racist, really shocking racist, sexist, pornographic e-mails and yet you got the polls, most show andrew cuomo with a lead then there was a poll that showed carl paladino within six points of cuomo. have you made head way on that? looks like an anomaly. >> it is a strange political year. anger is widespread and candidates who speak to the anger are getting nominations that you wouldn't have thought of in any normal state of

affairs. the thing that's weird about new york and about those polls and it's a risk for a candidate like cuomo who is a second generation political figure, turnout keeps going down and the folks who are angry, they've got paladino, the republican nomination in a year where everything is up in the air. >> chris, it's good to talk to you. i appreciate your perspective. an incredible demonstration on what could have happened if the alleged times square bomber was able to detonate the explosives. plus, dramatic delivery, a police officer above and beyond the call of duty, when a washington state mom couldn't quite make it to the hospital. you'll see it next. y, i'm a run. last year. (oof). i had a bum knee that needed surgery. but it got complicated, because i had an old injury. so i wanted a doctor who had done this before. and unitedhealthcare's database helped me find a surgeon.

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this is what could have happened in times square. the government blew up a bomb in a pennsylvania field, the same size as the one planted in times square. a video submitted by federal prosecutors yesterday. another video shows faisal shahzad announcing he met members of the pakistani taliban. a judge takes this into consideration when sentencing shahzad on tuesday. he could get life in prison. he's pled guilty to planting a car bomb in times square. roger krescy, the prosecutors are now saying that shahzad planned to set off another bomb two days later until he got caught. >> contessa, that's the real news. we had no prior information about him wanting to do subsequent bombing. what that demonstrates that shahzad wasn't committed to doing one attack and running

away but trying to be captured or killed and was hoping to bring as many americans with him in the process. >> he illustrates one of the worries that homeland security and the intelligence folks have about home grown terrorists, people who are here with no particular affiliation with al qaeda and yet they've got these plots going on. what about the european terror threat. are they worried about the same thing, them growing up and looking to connect with other terrorism outlets to try to attack their citizens? >> absolutely. the problem we have now is this nexus between bottom up terror threats, domestic radicalization inspired by but not directed by al qaeda. then the top down, where al qaeda central is still looking to plan to train and try to conduct attacks in the west. this current plot, threat in europe is the latter. it is a top-down approach. what it's using is using individuals from europe who have gone to pakistan and trained in the camps and now being sent

back. very similar to what shahzad did. he was a self-starter and went to pakistan and got the training and returned. the dynamic is challenging. >> the other thing is too, there may be more skeptical eyes if someone is coming from say, yemen or jordan. if someone has a german passport, do they get a different level of scrutiny coming through security checkpoints whether it's the united states or in paris? >> well, this is the lesson which is profiling does not work. racial profiling does not work because the evolution of the threat is such that al qaeda and its affiliates aren't stupid. they know they need to recruit individuals from the west with clean passports who don't fit the profile. german security services said there were at least 100 plus germans who have gone to pakistan and are individuals of concern. the british have a similar problem. we all in the west have to be eyeing potential operatives who don't fit the traditional profile and start understanding

what the motivations are before they end up in pakistan training for a terrorist operation. >> roger, good to see you today. thank you. >> you too. one of young men accusing eddie long claims the two had encounters on church grounds. also accuses the bishop of having sex with him in his home and in his car and office. long said he would fight the lawsuits against him but in church he didn't specifically deny the allegations. here's something you don't see every day on the side of the road. a woman giving birth. it happened in washington state, thanks to a police officer with recent off the job training, jessica howard delivered a healthy baby. >> about four months ago we had our first child and i had gone through birthing classes. they came in very handy.

cleared her air way with his finger. amy fisher is officially a porn star, releasing her first adult film today called deep inside amy fisher. oh, it's the first of eight movies. fisher shot her lover's wife in the face back in 1992 and served seven years in prison for attempted murder. and now on to a career as an adult film star. imagine a classroom where they are no black boards or books or pencils. a classroom designed with the latest technology in mind. hot on the web today, the heat in a vegas pool, gets at the new vdara hotel say the building reflects the rays and scientifically called the solar convergence, the staff calls it the death ray. they have gotten questions about

the temperature then offered to move the guests. nothing qualifies for hot on the web more than seal's new video for his song "secret" featuring himself and his wife heidi klum. they are kissing, it's beautiful and artsy. and in fact, some parts of are so hot we won't show it to you on cable television. it is getting a lot of play on the blogs here. children of the late 08's and early 90s, posting this video, all over facebook, mike tyson teaming up with brady for bobby brown's "every little step qult. bobby brown himself makes an appearance in the video as well. we'll be right back.

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all this week, nbc news has been looking at ways to fix america's school. in florida we found one school far ahead of the pack. where technology is everybody where and chalkboards and pencils seem to be obsolete. >>. >> reporter: in this high school, there are no blackboards or books or pencils. >> it's a whole new concept. we use computers to research and take notes on our computers. it's really nice. >> reporter: they learn with laptops, wireless internet and smart phones. and they can download their homework and class schedule on their own ipods. here the lessons are taught in this history case, they roll the dice to see who answers next the the school program was created by superintendent alberto. >> amazing.

it's their learning. >> the school was designed like a giant ipod and several small rooms where students take virtual classes through other states and countries. >> very possible they have a student taking science am miami, one in gainesville and one in u.k., anywhere around the world. >> reporter: casey applied because she was bored at her old school. >> you learn a lot more and faster. >> reporter: you feel you are learning more? >> been three weeks of school and i feel like i learned in the whole semester. >> reporter: they learn music by downloading their favorite songs from i tunes. their physical education structure is the wii. the most important thing is we are giving them the tools they need for the future. >> we're preparing to be successful outside of school. >> reporter: a way of learning

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injuries. i suggest you go online and get a full list of those toys. mcdonald's calls the wall street journal report completely false that says mcdonald's may drop health insurance for 30,000 hourly workers because of the new health care law. we just got the statement from mcdonald's. these reports are purely speculative and misleading. mcdonald's is committed to competitive pay and benefits and strongest employee opportunities possible. what's the story here with mcdonald's looking for this health insurance exemption? >> that's right. basically the health care plans bans health care plans that spend more than 80% of the revenue from the premiums on you know, things like -- it spends more than 20% -- sorry, on the administrative fees. want it to go towards care. the many plans that mcdonald's and others have, like starbucks

and home depot, they are very close cost. you get up to $10,000 per year of care. they have high administrative costs. that's why the government is looking to ban these plans. a lot of of people have them, mcdonald's wants to keep them in place. i personally know someone who works at starbucks a few hours a week to qualify for one of these plans. it's a big controversy. mcdonald's is looking for waivers to keep operating the plans. >> one the unintended consequences, the government goes forward and look, you need to spend 85% of your premium dollars on the actual medical care, not on administrative costs. could unintended consequence be that places like mcdonald's drop all together instead of pay more money to have a plan that meets those requirements? >> that's where this article was going. the wall street journal was speculating they would go ahead and drop this plan. that may be what mcdonald's has

to do. they went ahead and applied for the waiver instead. there are a lot of people that would be upset about this. on the other hand you can see why in theory, it would make sense, 85% of your premium must go for the care. not all plans can work like that. >> and mcdonald's has such high employee turnover that it just costs more to administer the plan. melissa, did you survive the rain? >> just barely. i have knee-high rain boots on because i'm about to go back outside and hoping to not get washed away. >> probably looks awesome. good to see you. >> if you can afford it now is the best time in decades to buy a home. freddie mac says a 30-year fixed loan is down to 4.32%, the lowest on records dating back to 19 1. a 15-year mortgage fell to a record low 3.75%. another new report finds one in

every four homes sold in the second quarter were deeply discounted foreclosed homes. the mortgage rates and foreclosed home, it's great news if you can afford to buy. foreclosed homes about 26% cheaper than homes not in the foreclosure process. jobs, first time claims for unemployment benefits dropped last week for the third time in four weeks. silver lining. as for the overall economy, the final numbers are in and the economy grew by a very weak 1.7%. up slightly from the previous estimate of 1.6%. let's check on trading. wall street, the numbers have gone south after initially surging on the better than expected reports on jobs and gdp the dow jones off by 57 points. jim la camp is a senior vice president with macro portfolio advisers. how are investors interpreting the very weak growth with the gdp? >> melissa, when you look at how

investors react, sometimes bad news is good news. bernanke talked about how the economy was running at a low inflation rate and we might need more stimulus, the recovery is very, very slow and additional stimulus is what wall street is looking for. it means that interest rates will be held low and so investors like that the economy is not picking up too much steam too quickly. in terms of people who are looking for jobs, people that are trying to sell their homes, this economic recovery is painfully slow. so for investors and for individuals, we're looking at two sets of data here. >> let's talk about the housing market. you've got great news on the mortgage front that mortgage rates will stay slow. if you're trying to buy a house, that's great news or if you're trying to finance, great news. the problem is try going in and getting a loan or try to get in and get a refinance loan. it's really difficult. credit is extremely tight.

>> contessa, you're exactly right. even though we've seen record-low mortgage rates, mortgage demand has dropped. there's two or three things going on the underwriting standards are tight. they are too tight. out of every ten loans we see come through the system, we have about three that get approved. secondly, you pulled a lot of home buyers forward with the home buyer tax credit. what we've seen since the expieration of the credit is the demand has started to slip again. it's going to be very challenging to work off this massive inventory we have in the housing market. particularly the houses still on the books in these banks. >> jim, good to see you. >> good to see you, contessa. >> the post office can't charge more for stamps even though it lost 4 billion bucks last year. a panel denied the request to hike the price by two cents to 46 cents. the chairman of the panel told reporters the post office needs to address long-term structural

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the picture of detroit schools is abysmal. only 3% of fourth graders meet the national standards for math. its adults argue so much that big money from philanthropists disappear, according to "fort tune." some ambitious folks believe detroit schools can be saved. carol goss, "fortune" magazine

calls you detroit's schools last best friend. tell me what you're doing to change the story. >> in detroit we are making a difference in schools and we have a lot of reasons to be hopeful. we have put together a coalition of leaders from all kinds of diverse sectors and come up with a really robust plan that we believe will allow for 90% of our kids to graduate, 90% to go to college and 90% will not need remediation and this can happen by 2020. and to do that, we have to be more accountable and have local accountability. we have to close failing schools and open high performing schools. every child deserves an excellent school. we have to have the best teachers and school leaders that we can do. >> what are the obstacles in

pursuing that three-prong approach? what are the big challenges? >> there are a couple that really cause us to work as hard as we can. first of all, this is a cultural thing. people in our city, in our community have got to begin to value and lift up education. everywhere in every sector, people have to say education is important. we have to reduce the high school dropout rate. we have to focus on that population of kids that really aren't getting all of the basics that they need. our community has to face the brutal facts. we're way behind, education is important. so that's amajor barrier. >> fortune writes, the disfunction among the adults

became so bad re-detroit refused an offer to donate $200 million to build charter schools. do they realize how much is at risk and how much needs to change in terms of their willingness to embrace nontraditional ideas? >> well, more and more we are seeing adults stepping up from all sectors and all walks of life. certainly there are still some adults who are more concerned about adult issues. but this -- this week we announced the opening of four new schools. there are parents that are stepping up and standing up for children and demanding that schools do better. so it's getting better -- >> but for instance on the count day, detroit gave away gift cards and pizza parties and cash to make sure they had as many students in their seat taking

attendance roll as possible. is that necessary at this point? do you have to buy off kids on the value of education? >> well, i think the school district sees that those incentives that those encourage parents to make sure the kids are there, no matter what happens or how -- no matter what distractions there might be. we have to realize we have really high poverty in our city. and families really are challen challenged. so the school often becomes the hub where lots of other resources can take place for kids to support both the child and their learning and support the family. so these incentives that were available, it did help get those kids in school and maybe a connection between those children and their teacher and the principal could take place that would mean they would continue. >> i know that model has worked

for harlem children's zone making sure the whole community has bought in early. i hope it works for detroit as well. thank you for being with me today. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me. tomorrow as our education nation series continues. do you know what schools are serving kids for lunch? we'll talk to the director of an eye opening directory. you've heard of take-home tests, how about take-home advertising. salem news reports tee body massachusetts schools are selling ad space on permission slips and other notes kids bring home, hoping to raise as much as $24,000 a year. we've been talking about rutgers student recording an intimate moment who then committed suicide. we question whether we have been

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breaking news, it's been confirmed by rahm emanuel will resign tomorrow and begin his campaign for mayor of chicago. john decker is live at the white house. the note i'm getting here, john says pete raus will be named as the successor. >> pete has been with president obama for a few years now. right now serves as senior adviser to the president. prior to that, he was the essentially the first staffer hired by then senator barack obama when he came to washington serving as the junior senator from illinois. served in that position until the president ran for higher office. and prior to that, pete rouse was the chief of staff to then majority leader tom daschle. he was often referred to as the 101st senator, reason being because of his intimate knowledge of congress and personal relationships he

developed with the other senators on the hill of both parties. the white house believes this is a really good fit, not only because of the president's comfort level with pete rouse but also because of his intimate knowledge of congress. >> rahm got the reputation as being the bulldog there of the west wing, being able to strong arm legislators in supporting the president's agenda. >> and he was very successful at that. after all it was rahm with the help of people like pete rouse who helped pass health care reform, the major domestic accomplishment for president obama. what it means right now if pete prous does indeed fall into this new role, you'll have a kinder, gentler voice coming from the white house and of course, pete rouse's relationships in his prior career working on the hill will help the president move his agenda along. >> it looks like your tent it having the same problems as the tent in education nation with

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right now on "andrea mitchell reports", it's official, rahm emanuel is heading back to chicago to run for mayor. the white house is about to get a new chief of staff. how badly divided is congress these days? one hint, last night they couldn't agree on whether to adjourn without an unusual tie-breaking vote from the speaker of the house. warked away on the east coast we're facing more flooding and high winds from the remnants of tropical storm