information and we will update you on that information as our case progresses. there is a public information rumor control hot line that's been set up. the number is 954-get-info. that's 954-get-info. the public can call into that number and receive information as we make it available. i must emphasize at this time all of the children in the schools in pembroke pines and to my information throughout broward county are safe at this time, very well protected and there's no credible threat. the schools are all on lockdown as a precaution. that limits the movement of students in the schools and keeps the environment more safe. later today the school board will be releasing information concerning today's school dismissal. >> captain, was that call made by the -- >> what you're hearing is the update from officials in pembroke pine where is a threat originated. somebody called into the radio

station sent ant e-mail saying something big was going to happen. maybe a post office, maybe a school. out of caution here all schools are on lockdown in broward county. you heard the guy saying all the children are safe. we'll stay on top of the situation there. we're also watching breaking news from london right now. the latest pictures outside the headquarters of britain's ruling conservative party. in the last hour, protest there's have turned violent. at least nine people hurt, including several police officers. they were injured in scuffles with masked students. the protests started out as a peaceful demonstration against a plan to triple university tuition fees, but now as you can see, the building is under attack. it looks like the wasituation called somewhat. at one point, windows smashed, something set a fire year a clock tower and office workers were forced to flee. much more of this ahead in a live report from our correspondent on the scene in

london. as i said, it looks like the crowd is somewhat disbursing at this point. we're also looking at a developing situation coming from london's metropolitan police following an incident at east midland's airport on friday the 29th of october. they say they've examined that device that was on the midland plane and found that if it had been activated it would have gone off at about 10:30 -- that morning. that the device they say had actually not been activated. it says it was disrupted at the east midland airport by explosive officers during the initial examination. they removed that printer cartridge from the printer. the bomb discovered at east midland's airport on the u.p.s. airplane headed to the united states. it says that the forensic evidence shows that mail bomb would have exploded over the eastern part of the united states. we're watching a big story also developing here where some

3,300 passengers stuck stranded at sea waiting for word when they'll get back on dry land, an engine room fire took out the power. now those onboard the carnival cruise ship "splendor" are getting spammed. >> as of now the cruise ship is still disabled, dead in the water. >> reporter: passengers planned to party aboard the carnival "splendor" cruise ship thought they'ding munching on the all you can eat buffet, tossing back cocktails and winning money at the casino on their way to a fabulous vacation in the mexican riviera. instead, on a cruise to nowhere. >> the passengers are being monitored closely. they're in good care. they're doing very well, considering the circumstances. >> reporter: yeah. considering the time they spent without working toilets, air conditioning, hot meals, even briefly kicked out of their own cabins and, hey, spam and pop tarts aren't exactly tripiccal cruise fare, but that's what

passengers are getting from the navy supply choppers that delivered thousands of pounds of supplying to the crippled ship. >> right now it's like bread, there's cups, utensils. we've got frozen milk. canned goods. >> reporter: yesterday the coast guard planned to take the broken ship to ensenada, mexico and bus passengers through parts of mexico that have been torn by drug violence. >> is there any concern about their safety getting back into the united states by bus? >> ensenada is luckily somewhat more of a tourist-type town. therefore we'll analyze those issues when we get there. >> reporter: today the plan is a slow boat to san diego and given the spotty communication, families back home sit in limbo waiting. marcy james' daughter and son-in-law are among almost 3,300 passengers. >> and she wasn't one that wanted to go cruising. so she had to have her arm twisted to go. >> what a mess. david s.a.m.brono stranded on

the cruise ship and an affiliate in denver. david, thanks for joining us. your vacation has been severely disrupted. describe to me, if you will, what your life is like now on that cruise ship? >> thank you, contessa. it's interesting to say the least. i think the first couple ever days we were surviving on bread and sandwiches until they could get food onboard. once they got the toilet facility working on only a part of the ship ship. not the full ship. the part of the ship the lower levels, interior part have functioning toilets. they actually have to climb a number of stairs and levels to get to a place where there's a working poilt. toilet. other than that, it's tolerable. not critical, very tolerable and somebody people -- a lot of

people spend time on the deck and sleep will. >> and have you been given anything other than, say, spam and pop tarts to eat? >> absolutely. i mean, yesterday for breakfast, they got crazyive with it. the chefs were working overnight. a lot of the crew members stayed overnight in stations to make sure people had what they need and especially people sleeping on the deck because they can't sleep in the rooms because they can't breathe. so they moved them. the crew stays out there and yesterday we had locks and bagels and this morning -- some kind of -- >> that's not so bad. what have you been told, david, about how long to expect before your feet reach dry land? >> they've been keeping communication with us constantly. they're making announcement, public address announcements. the cruise director has been gracious and kind to keep everyone informed as much as possible.

especially the fact we had drifted 60 miles when we were dead in the water. and they had to come out and get us. they sent tugboats. only one of them made it. they had to turn back. and then we are joined now with a tugboat, which is -- >> so you're making progress, although slow progress. the coast guard told me yesterday the ship may be towed at about four to five miles an hour. so this may be, as i said a slow boat back to san diego or wherever your final destination may be. david, sorry you're in this situation but i appreciate you giving us the update. i mentioned potty communication. you can hear it in the cell phone signal going in and out. that's why many families are waiting to hear from loved ones. so carnival says, at this point we'll give all of these folks back the money they paid for the cruise, reimburse them for travel they have to book at this

point and give them a voucher for a future free cruise. you know it free cruise or not, my big question today will any of those passengers want to risk another cruise in the future? i'd like to hear your thoughts about that. get me on twitter and facebook. my e-mail is contessa@msnbc.com. alaskan officials won't start counting write-in ballots for another hour. republican candidate joe miller is suing over the vote counting process. he wants officials to throw out ballots where voters misspelled opponent lisa murkowski's name. nbc's kristen welker is following the story from juno. anything in alaska election law about spelling? >> reporter: it's complicated, contessa. according to alaska election law, a write-in ballot should be counted as valid if it has the last name of the candidate or if it has the name of the candidate as it appears on the declaration of candidacy. so joe miller's camp is saying that means that any misspellings should be tossed out. pea lection officials are saying that they will be looking at

voter intent to determine whether or not the ballot should be accurate. either way, you said, the voting is getting underway in an hour. can you see behind me, people have actually already started arriving at their tables. no total, 15 teams ever 2. 15 tables like this of folks counting through about 90,000 ballots in total. so very exciting day here. we're actually at a warehouse just on the outskirts of juno. all of this is unfolding as the vote gap is narrowing. some absentee ballots were counted yesterday. as of right now republican candidate joe mill sir trailing the right-in title by about 11,000 votes compared to before the absentee ballots were counted when he was trailing by 13,000 votes. vort, lisa murkowski is the most well-known write-in candidate. if she wins, the first person to win as a write-in candidate since strom thurmond in 1954.

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elizabeth smart calls the time she spent in captivity, her nine months of hell. the 23-year-old testified six hours yesterday about being held, cabled to trees, repeatedly raped. nearly rescued only to see her safety disappeared again. when police finally found her she was so terrified she gave them a fake name. she says i was very scared. i knew the threats high been told for nine months and thought maybe at the same time that this is it. this is it. this is over. nbc's janet shamlian joins us

from salt lake city, utah covering the trial. set the scene for me. what does it look like in court while you have elizabeth smart testifying? >> reporter: hi, contessa. i just stepped out of the courtroom a few moments ago. the cross-examination has just started with the last 25 minutes. it's hard to see where they are going with this at this point. they are claiming mental illness and asking questions to elizabeth smart about that. i have to tell you, the gripping testimony came here yesterday as elizabeth detailed assault after assault, almost a rape every day for the entire months, nine months, that she was in captivity. she talked about the fact that she was forced to look at pornography, drink alcohol and submit to the sexual demands of her attacker, and she talked about that day she was found. the police stopped her and the suspect and his wife wanda barzee, aurz serving time and separated them and asked elizabeth smart, are you

elizabeth smart? she gave the excuse and false name she was told to. the police then put her in handcuffs and she said she knew she was in chains at that point, but also knew she was free. a short time later, taken to a reunion with her parents. amazing 20 watch her go through this. talking to a panel of strangers, talking about these rapes with her mom and dad sitting there in the front proep she's 23 years old now, but she was 14 when this happened. and the composure that she is showing in this courtroom is having this impact on this jury. you can clearly see it, contessa. >> so sad is when i was reading about her testimony saying that shortly after she was taken, she was in a public place in a veil, and a deputy suspected 2 was her. came up, started questioning her and she says, her testimony, i felt like hope was walking out the door. i was mad at myself for just not taking the chance that i just felt like it was so close and i was just so -- i felt terrible. how did it happen that that day

she wasn't saved? >> reporter: women that was actually about mid-way through captivity. not the day she was saved. she was in the library. the defendant searching for new places to go. they went to look in the library to research cities in california. a detective came up to them and said i am looking for elizabeth smart. take off this young woman's veil. the defendant said absolutely not. only her husband can see under her veil. so the detective walked away and elizabeth said, i myself didn't say anything. that was the quote of the day yesterday. i saw hope walking out the door. what a moment. >> janet shamlian, thank you for keeping tabs on it. be careful what you post on facebook. it could get you fired. we'll explain ahead. plus, a look at what's hot on the webisode. a lot of people are reading on aol.com about a smart pill that might keep track of how and when medicine is taken. are you ready for this? a company in california unveil add tiny sensor inserted into your medication about the sizes

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you know, college kids are often warned watch what you post on facebook or write on twitter. it could affect the job you get. many adult workers should get that alert too. fired after posting criticism of her supervisor on her facebook page. then the national labor relations board got involved filing a complaint against the ambulance company, america medical response of connecticut. the facebook post is protected by law. jonathan is a regional director of the national labor relations board in hartford. good to see you today, jonathan. what, in your view, did the company do wrong? >> well, the basic right that employees have under the national labor relations act in vistens 75 years is that they have the right to act in a concerted matter and talk to

each other about their terms and kisses of employment. that includes the right to talk about their supervisors, to vitt size supervisors and to address complaints they have about their supervisors with management. and that's basically what happened here. the only difference is that she did it over the internet. over facebook. now, the company also has very restrictive rules concerning the employee's right to talk about these kinds of subjects on their own time, on their own computer. and that's another problem with the case when employees are on their own time, away from the workplace or even on their own time at workplace, they have the right to talk to each other and address their terms and conditions of their employment, including their supervision. >> the back story here is that susan needed to respond to a customer complaint and she complained on facebook that her supervisor wouldn't let her union representative help her

prepare the response and was questioning what the company's priorities were. here's the response from american medical response of connecticut. the employee in question was discharged based on multiple, serious complaints about her behavior. so how do you go about making the case that she was fired for what she posted on facebook? >> unfortunately, that statement is not accurate, because they he is was specifically discharged in part because of the comments she made on her facebook page. it's right in the dismissal letter. >> all right. let me, jonathan, thanks a lot. let me get the response from the company. johns bars a spokesperson for american medical response. good to see you. >> contessa, nice see you. >> was there language in the dismissal letter that talked about dawn marie posting on facebook her criticism of her supervisor? >> just to be very clear she was terminated because the company received five different written complaints from doctors, nurses, patients and parents' families

about her discourteous and rude behavior. in the course of investigating these complaints, they asked her to write down her side of the story. she refused, and she went home and put on her facebook page i can even say the words -- can't say the words on tv, called her supervisor the used condom, a slang for a used condom, a slang for the male part of an anatomy. doesn't put anything on the facebook how she wanted union representation. when the company finds out about it. go ahead. i'm sorry. >> i'm curious. when she was fired was that criticism on facebook included in part of the reason why she was dismissed from your company? >> in the termination letter the company first talks about, the five different complaints, then the company says we've become aware because clients and customers have come up to us about this facebook posting in which what she did, became evasive and said, oh, no, no. it wasn't about my supervisor.

although it clearly was, the company didn't believe her. >> or your employee ace loyed by company policy to complain about the workplace or supervisors on facebook or twitter? >> the employees have all been allowed and amr supports their rights under the labor act to talk about employers. in a separate conversation she's talking about her benefits at the company. that's completely fair game. the sbord trying to change lawsuit here and basically make supervisors subject to grotesque and slanderous statements online with no recourse whatsoever. >> an administrative law judge will hear the case. in the meantime, is your company reviewing its internal policies in terms of employee communication and making sure they don't violate their protected speech? >> oh, absolutely. the company is always reviewing its policies to make sure it's

always in if you compliance with the law. it thinks its policy is in compliance with the law and has never been used to terminate or discipline any employee who's actually used their various methods of talking about terms and conditions of employment. this is a completely separate case, and defending the right of employees to call people used condoms, we don't think that's what the law says. >> we'll watch for the progress of this case to see how it turns out both for you and your former employee. thanks for your time today. >> thank you. former president george w. bu bush, known for what people call bushisms. apparently he has a sense ever humor about it. >> i know full well it will come as shock to some people. a lot of people didn't think i could read, much less write. >> why th handshake with the first lady is raising eyebrows and looking for a high-paying job? hey, try the federal government, everybody.

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he's considering a hire office. this time, president of the united states. he's already inquired about the cost to file his nomination. good luck. in south florida, schools in broward county are on lockdown right now. just as a precaution, police say somebody call aed a radio stati and said her husband was going to school to start shooting. no police say no credible threat and all schools are safe. they're taking it as precaution to keep everybody safe. there's no movement inside the schools. breaking news from london. watching a violent, volatile situation unfolding there. it appears to be disbursing somewhat. students and lecturers surrounding conservative party headquarters protesting a plan to hike tuition fees to $14,500 a year. jim maceda is in london watching developments. why does this have people so fired up, jim? >> reporter: hi there.

it seems to be winding down. it's getting darker, colder out there. tensions seem to have eased. why this is happening? you're going to start seeing a lot of this in great britain as the social net which is really generations old is cashed in, as it will. this government, of course, the building that these protesters went for, was not by accidents. it is the headquarters of the ruling party conservative whose want to slash. they're going to slash education just as they will everything else. high education, free education and free health care were two pillars of the society for a long time. now the gravy train has ended an the students are saying, wait a second. why are we paying for the mistakes made by this government and previous governments? in terms of this ongoing standoff, we don't know what's going to happen. obviously. it does look like it is winding down. we understand that there have so far been nine minor injuries

reported on both sides. protesters and police. for a few hours it did look extremely tense and that anything could happen, but now, again, it seems little by little the police, not the bobbys overwhelmed, but the riot police came in to reinforce them have taken control both inside and outside that building. >> jim maceda, thank you for the update there. president obama is now in south korea where he'll attend the g-20 economic summit. it's the third stop on his ten-day asian tour. it stands in contrast with his visit to indonesia where he spent four years as a young boy. nbc's mike viqueira at the white house. i understand there is friction expected at the south korean summit? >> reporter: that's right. a down time now, the middle of the night in south korea. everybody presumably asleep but the president greeted there by an international backlash about something the federal reserve did the president really didn't have anything technically to do with himself. nor did the u.s. government or the executive branch of the u.s.

government. the fed last week printed $600 billion in currency, in dollars, to try to ease the affects of the recession, stimulate the recovery, but u.s. allies and a number of other western and east asian nation sas this amounts to currency manipulation. in effect an enron around the standard protocols of international economics. the u.s. is simply trying to make its exports cheaper so people overseas will buy our goods and their goods in turn more expensive coming here. the united states has a $700 billion trade deficit. runs every year, contessa. many suspect the white house or at least the united states government in the form of the federal reserve is sort of making an end run here without the consideration or cooperation among many other governments or central banks around the world. that's the controversy that president obama faces when he gets up this morning in seoul. >> that's a happy welcome. isn't it? mike viqueira, thank you. the handshake seen around

the world. first lady michelle obama's handshake with the information minister upon her arrival in jakarta yesterday. it's landed him in the crip of controversy, criticized by fellow conservative muslims because the strict form of muslim he practices and dictates he avoid any physical contact with women who aren't related to him. the minister insists he tried to avoid that handshake, but says mrs. obama held out her hands, they were too far towards him to actually, for them to avoid grasping her hand. the thing is when you look at the video it appears he was the one eagerly reaching out and grasping her hand. other reporters now say, well we hope that the policy changes and in the future when you try to shake his hand, he'll shake our hand. back in washington, drama continues to unfold after republicans captured control of the nous last week's midterm elections. john boehner is expected to take over as house speaker. he just spoke at the capitol and

announced he would fly commercial rather than take the military planes nancy pelosi has used to get back and forth to california and talk about the transition and reiterated republican priorities. >> when you look at our plans, to reduce spending, to get the economy going again and to repeal the health care law that frankly gets in the way of job creation, you can see that we've got an awful lot of work to do. >> this morning we saw house speaky nancy pelosi at one of her first public events she announcing last week she'd seek to become minority leader in january. that decision touched out of a contentious conversation. luke russert is on capitol hill now. luke, a battle to become the minority whip in the next conference. we're hearing nancy pelosi trying to broker a deal before the current leader steny hoyer and the majority whip, james

clyburn? >> reporter: what nancy pelosi doing, the last few days, in continuous contact with steny hoyer and jim clyburn, she doesn't want to lose the caucus. talk about having every bump down because she would become minority leader. that hasn't worked out. john larson announce head wants to run for his position again. what you're seeing now is a divide between hoyer and jim clyburn a divide that a lot of folks with the democratic party do not want to see go public. yesterday jim clyburn was critical of hoyer questioning his decision to roll out public endor endorsements practicing a numbers game essentially undercutting clyburn's campaign. clyburn responded showing off endorsement of the black caucus over 40 members. you see right now a typical washington horse race election, which democrats feel really illustrated divisions with their caucus and going forward peel a

unified front against republicans about to take over. >> luke, thanks. a professor at the university ever central florida is asking 200 students to come clean today after a cheating scandal that sent "a knife to his heart." a professor says he believes his students received advanced copies ever his mid-term exam because the students scored a grade and a half higher than they'd ever scored before. his fears were confirmed by an anonymous tip. each of those 200 students will retake that midterm this week. the price of higher learning set to dramatically drop for a select group of students in connecticut. yale university's announced the new haven promise. an offer of free tuition to the city's public high school graduates to attend any public or private college in the state. the qualify, a 3.0 gpa, 90% attendance rate and complete 40 hours ever community service. it's been a while since former president george w. bush

provided material for late-night laughs. now the new commander in chief has a book out and opened up a new chapter for chuckles. >> quite candid in the book. how he and dick cheney often clashed because of different styles. bush likes to shoot from the hip and cheney likes to shoot people in the face. so two different -- two different ways of -- >> bush will appear on "the tonight show" with jay leno next thursday. tina fey received the 13th annual mark twain award last night. fellow cast members from "30 rock" and "saturday night live" were ontloond present the award. fae is 40 years old, the youngest person to receive the award. >> i'm so proud to represent american humor. i'm proud to be american. i'm proud to make my home in the not real america. and i am most proud that even during trying times, like an orange alert or a bad economy or contentious election that we as

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like that, we as human beings don't always choose the right words, and that's why i'm -- >> he seems to have regret. what's your reaction? >> i appreciate that. it wasn't just kanye west who was talking like that during katrina. i cited him answer example. i cited others as an example as well, and -- you know, i appreciate that. >> you called his comment a low point and one of the things you and i have spoken a lot about, our conversations over the past couple of weeks is your faith. does your faith allow to you forgive kanye west? >> absolutely. of course it does. i'm not a hater. i didn't hate kanye west but i was talking about an environment in which people are willing to say things that hurt. >> well, kanye west was not happy about the way the "today" show went. his feelings were hurt that video of him interrupted taylor swift at an awards show last

year was played during the segment. president bush is a humorous take how to get this tax cuts pushed through again. >> there's a heated debate right now over whether we should continue in this country with your tax policies. >> yeah. >> they call them the bush tax cuts. give me your best argument for continuing those tax cuts. >> first of all, too bad they call them the bush tax cuts. they might have a better chance extend fundamental they were the lauer tax come. >> probably not going to happen. >> they might want to try it, though. the president also talked why he won't get involved in controversial topiced and what he missed most about being president. >> if i listen to what you're trying to rope me into, you're trying to get me to talk about this mosque issue. >> which is fair. >> again -- >> i tried the other day. why wouldn't you speak out? there's a lot of rhetoric. >> there's a lot events and opportunities for me to speak out over the next years and i

have chosen not to. the reason i've chosen not to is i don't want to intrude upon my successor's ability to get the job done. inevitably, if were you able to get me to answer this question, they will compare that answer to what president obama or other presidents might say. >> there are people in, around this country who are walking around wearing t-shirts of president bush and have a picture of you on the t-shirt and the words, "miss me yet?" >> there used to be people walking around in america saying, we don't miss you. >> what do you miss most about the presidency? >> i miss being the commander in chief. that was an easy question to answer. i love our military, and i'm going to do a veterans' day event with people in the military. laura and i had moms who lost a child in combat over to the house the other day. and i was inspired by them, and i -- i love the military.

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in florida, a mother and daughter accused of trying to sell the daughter's baby. stephanie bigby fleming already behind bars on unrelated charges. police say she agreed to her mother's plan to sell her own 8 week old baby boy.

the plot was foiled when the buyers they met turned out to be undercover agents. also arrested the baby's grandmother patti bigby. investigators say she negotiated the price ever $30,000 but told her daughter they were only getting $10,000. a jersey girl managed to achieve something fishermen in their 70s and 80s have been angling for their whole lives. this 13-year-old landed a 58 pound striped bass. it might have broken a world record. she's been fishing since she was 5 and now it could take months for her to verify if her fishtail is truly record breaking. the international game fish association notified and the friends of the family ate the big bass. she told nbc news, "i don't like fish." "i only like sushi." darling -- sushi is fish. maybe she should have just eaten the bass raw. we're watching the progress of that stranded cruise ship

carnival's "splendor." the plan now, tow it into san diego. a coast guard official says one of the two boats pulling the ship lost power and was forced to turn back to shore. the cruise line at this point says it's going to reimburse all the passengers fully for this failed trip and give them a future cruise for free. think any of them will cruise again? eric watson writes, of course. the passengers will want to cruise again. especially if the future cruise is a free one. this incident was freak accident that could voe kurred at any time at any location. lynn reiser responds, i personally would not go on a cruise if it were totally free. between the illness, pirates, horror stories, why take a chance? marty conroy writes, the whole idea of a cruise is that you're stranded on a boat with a bunch of strangers eating whatever food they give you. so what's the difference here? just because they have no cell phones or internet -- gilligan didn't have a cell phone.

♪ three-hour tour." if you'd like to reach me, can you do so. there's my twitter, facebook and e-mail address. basically, i'm on an electronic leash. that wraps up this hour for me. i'm contessa brewer. tlaunks for watching. see you back here tomorrow, noon eastern, 9:00 a.m. out west. up next, "andrea mitchell reports" talking with actor kevin spacey about his new movie "casino jack." be right back.

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