. >> and national affairs editor msnb chris political analyst john heileman. they're co-authors of "double down." we're going to begin on a somber note. the absolute devastation from a super typhoon in the philippines. overnight the first u.s. relief flight loaded with water and generators arrived in one of the harder hit areas. marines and sailors are also helping with the search and rescue operations. up to 10,000 people are feared dead in one province alone after one of the strongest storms on record.

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pictures on nbc "nightly news" and here on msnb last night as he wroed along with the last combat brigade. richard, terrific reporting. >> thank you very much. and i'm glad we gave time to really experience this moment, which has been so important for american families, for the troops themselves. we are here in kuwait, those strikers behind me were among those last strikers that crossed from iraq and are now here in kuwait. the soldiers themselves are just waiting to go home. they know they took part in something historic and they feel that they have achieved a great deal and are proud of what they have done. on a windless morning, already near 100 degrees before sunrise, the 30-ton strikers cross into kuwait. 440 soldiers in 68 stryker the last american combat troops leave iraq. >> good job, guys. good job. good job. >> reporter: just two american soldiers greet them as they cross the border an understated arrival. although the soldiers have been driving all night, some cheer. >> we're going home! >> reporter: or light cigars. we accompanied the strikers out of iraq, code name the last p

stern time, "andrea mitchell reports right here on msnb >>> the cros gathered on the west lawn of the.spitol for the annual capitol fourth ncert. d.c. cros re treated to performaes from arena franklin and barry manilow. 1 milln spectators in new york city and new jersey linin up on both sides of the hudson river to watch the macy's fireworks spectacular. wi more than 22 tons ofyro chniques themacy'sisplay is e country's largest. >>> a barge used in the macy's fireworks dispy caught fire. rescue cruise extinguied the flames. the use is under investigation. >>> president obama parts for russia ts evening and when we fz he could be in for a re reserved greeting. mick viqueira joins us live washington. the president wants to reset relations with russia. how does he intend to do that? >> reporter:here are problems that theresident has to ercome. firs there's a mind-set this administration and the president lieve is on the part of the russians who, think th because america might be strng that russ necessarily has to be weak and vice versa anded al adversarl relationsp they'll try ercome. the

good morning everyone, i'm lynn berry, this is "first look" on msnb msnbc. >>> and we are going to begin this morning with the republican nominee in what may be the most important speech of his political career, mitt romney accepted the gop presidential nomination in tampa last night, arguing he is the hope and change candidate, not president obama. msnbc's steve handelesman reports. >> reporter: more swagger, a more gravelly voice, but the message was about barack obama. >> when somebody doesn't do their job, we have to let them go. >> reporter: in the most important speech of his life, mitt romney tried to talk voters at home out of sticking with president obama. >> i wish he would have succeeded, we deserve better, my children, my family deserves better. my country deserves better. to the majority of americans who now believe that the future will not be better than the past, i can guarantee you this. if barack obama is re-elected, you will be right. president obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans, and to heal the planet. my promise to help you and your family. >> repo

this is fir"first look" on msnb. >>> we begin this morning with decision day. the pressure is on for washington lawmakers to get a budget deal done before tonight's midnight deadline that will shut down the federal government. despite government calls for fiscal responsibility after days of failed negotiations, some of the main sticking points remain, the party stances on planned parenthood and the environment. for the very latest, let's go to tracie potts. good morning. >> reporter: paige, good morning. good morning, veveryone. no more extensions. that's the word from the white house today. president obama says he's not wildly optimistic that lawmakers can strike a budget deal and avoid a government shutdown tonight. after a second night of failed negotiations, president obama made it clear. >> i expect an answer in the morning. >> reporter: just hours from now, he will have to notify federal workers to stay home monday. the hangup, we're told, are republican demands. >> thank you so much for being here. >> reporter: to limit abortions, cut funding for public

want to go straight out now to msnb miguel, he's live in anchorage. miguel, good morning. >> thomas, good morning. with survivors brought to local hospitals, the shift of the investigation is now focused on how and why that plane went down. investigators tell us it could take days, if not weeks, though, for them to reach the crash site because it is so remote and so very isolated. shrouded in fog, we are seeing the 1957 otter plane that carried all nine people aboard for the first time, although it slam under to the ground with tremendous force, the plane remains mostly in tact. as you know, five passengers including former senator ted stevens are among the dead and close friend sean o'keefe and his teenage son. the wreckage was first spotted late monday, some three plus hours after it took off bound for a fishing expedition. the amphibious ape went down south of dillingham. a group of responders responded but because of bad weather they had to wait 12 hours overnight for survivors to arrive the next morning. we spoke to am of those rescuers just a sh

this is fir"first look" on msnb. stay tuned.early" starts right now. >>> newt gingrich is a man on fire. double digits in iowa and showing leads of more than 20 points in south carolina and florida. will the lu romney crisis shadow cut into those numbers in the early conservative states? house republicans strike back on the payroll tax cut saying they will vote for it if the president includes the pipeline in the bill. the question is, what is president obama's answer to that offer? we'll tell you. >>> and just think, republicans. you could have had moments like this on the national stage if new jersey's governor would have responded to your love

on msnb. >>> here's a look at some of the stories also in the news today. >>> producers and crew on the film set of "transformers 3" got some unscripted action when the bumblebee got side swiped by a real police vehicle. some thought it was a scene from the movie. the wreck temporary halted production, but shooting will continue all week. >>> a florida woman is going to get some help from a problem that's been buzzing over her. a company that specializes in africanized bee also remove a huge beehive 30 feet high in her tree, after several others said they couldn't help. even the city refused because it was on private property. until it's down, she warns neighbors to stay inside. >>> the largest pumpkins are still rolling in. at a competition in california a gorgeous gourd tipped the scales at 1,435 pounds. this is the first time in 11 years that a home-grown pumpkin has taken the title. the winner's secret, you wonder? pumpkin seeds donated by a previous win perpendicular. >>> back in florida, ten little crocodiles cracked through their eggs one after another after another. they may be

this is fir"first look" on msnb. today we begin with a major gop victory. at a time when president obama can least afford it, republicans have scored an upset in a house race being called a referendum on the president's handling of the economy. last night retired media executive and political newcomer, bob turner, narrowly defeated david weprin, according to the associated press. democrats outnumber republicans three to one in new york's ninth congressional district, which hasn't sent a republican to congress in nearly 90 years. turner replaces congressman anthony weiner, a seven-term democrat who resigned in the wake of a sexting scandal in june. in nevada, former republican state senator mark amodei coasted to a victory in a district that's never elected a democrat. >>> meanwhile, as lawmakers on capitol hill spar over how to pay for president obama's american jobs act, the president is on the road working hard to sell his plan to the american people. tracie potts joins us more from washington. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. while the president'

i'm glad you are up with us watching on msnb or listening to us on xm radio. shoot us an e-mail or treat me @williegeist 1. or do what justin verlander will be doing tonight text the word awake by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes is your cram session for this monday, october 3rd. a lot going on today including john mccain's warning to chris christie about getting into the presidential race. plus 92-year-old andy rooney says good-bye to the "60 minutes" audience. and he goes out with one final sentiment to his viewers. leave me alone. cranky to the end, andy. we'll show you that clip later. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> the state department is issuing a worldwide travel alert for possible anti-american attacks after friday's deadly drone strike in al qaeda linked terrorists in yemen. significant blow to the terrorist organization. the attack killed anwar al awlaki, the u.s.-born chief of external operations for al qaeda's yemen branch. he had been tied to the deadly

glad you are watching us on msnb or listening live on xm radio. shoot me an e-mail or tweet me at williegoeiswilliegeist1 or d k. does and text your response to 622639. a lot to get to today, including a bloody week in syria, as the world considers what to do with the assad regime. and hillary clinton decides what to do about a streaker who photo bombed her shot. the reaction is priceless. >>> live at 30 rock in new york city, the center of the occupy wall street movement looks different this morning. new york city clamped down on months of live-in protests in manhattan sending police early in yesterday morning to tear down tents and temporarily evict the protesters while the park was cleaned. now a judge is siding with mayor michael bloomberg who argued camping in the park was not protected by the first amendment right to fee speech, still the court decision did not deter demonstrators. here is the latest from zuccotti park. >> reporter: the protesters remain here at zuccotti park. some are standing up, others are sitting down, a few laying down

i'm glad you're up with us watching on msnb or listening live on xm radio. shoot me an e-mail at waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me and let me know what you're doing up now. or text the word awake by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, september 13th. a lot to tell you about today including the report out of bank of america that it will cut some 30,000 jobs. we'll tell you why. plus kurt cobane found his way into last night's republican debate. the reference, i fear, was lost on the tea party audience. we'll let you decide. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. president obama travels to ohio today, the homestate, by the way, of john boehner. the latest stop on a tour designed to sell his american jobs act to voters. the 155-page bill is now in the hands of congress, making remarks yesterday in the rose garden the president again urged the body to move quickly. >> this is a bill that will put people back to works for all across the cou

this is fir"first look" on msnb. today, we begin with fear over the economy. a slew of recent reports have renewed concerns on both wall street and main street over the state of the u.s. recovery. today, the nation awaits what could be a crucial monthly jobs report from the government. all this as the country's stellar credit rating may be in jeopardy. tracie potts joins us from washington with more on all of this. good morning. >> reporter: hi there, lynn. good morning, everyone. economists are predicting 100,000 jobs created last month. that's less than half the growth we saw from the month before. it raises the question is this temporary or is this the beginning of weakening of this recovery? home sales are down. manufacturing is sluggish. consumer spending is weak. car sales are down. president obama will be visiting a chrysler plant today in ohio and then summer is coming with thousands of pink slips for teachers. here in washington, critics, mainly republicans, say the increases in food prices and energy prices are making it much worse for americans. but

i'm glad you are up watching us on msnb or listening to us life on sirius radio. text the word awake by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes is your cram session for this friday, november 5th. a lot going on today including new jersey governor chris christy talking about his 2012 presidential prospects in suicidal terms. plus president obama is knocked from his perch as the most powerful man in the world. we'll tell you who slid the leader of the free world into second place. first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> world markets are climbing higher again this morning after u.s. stocks surged to their highest levels in two years on the federal reserve's decision to buy more government securities to stimulate the economy. the dow jumped 219 points yesterday reaching levels not seen since september of 2008, just before the collapse of lehman brothers. just under three hours the government also expected to report u.s. employers added jobs last month, but at such a slu

only on msnb, the place fmsnb. >>> on capitol hill last night, senate lawmakers watched a bill aimed at lowering prices at the pump by doing away in billions of dollars of tax breaks for the nation's five largest oil companies. three democrats joined all by two senate republicans to vote against bringing the repeal up for debate in a test vote that came up eight yeas shy of a total 60 needed to advance. republicans said the legislation would raise gas prices and increase dependent on foreign oil. while opponents believe oil companies believe it is wrong to subsidize gas companies when they are making record profits. >>> meanwhile, there are small but significant steps towards normalcy for long suffering residents of the flooded mississippi region. after shutting down a 15-mile stretch of the swollen river in natchez, mississippi, yesterday, the coast guard is now allowing vessels to pass through slowly, one at a time. traffic is being limited in an effort to minimize strain on the river's already stressed levees. >>> now here's your "first look" at other news making news today. a gay

. >> i'm veronica de la cruz this is "first look" on msnb. "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. have a great monday. >>> two debates within seven days. the first tomorrow as we come up now on three weeks until election day in a race that is as tight as a drum. the question is, can mitt romney get a winning electoral map if he loses the state of ohio? >>> felix baum ggarner goes to space but comes down on his own power

glad you are up with us watching on msnb or listening live on sirius xm radio. e-mail me or tweet me and let me know what you're doing now or do what the whole of egypt does and text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, august 3rd. a lot to tell you about, including 4,000 faa employees out of a job after the senate failed to come up with emergency pay for them. >>> and back to the breaking news of the pre-debt fight world, there was an escaped peacock on the loose on the upper east side of manhattan yesterday. complete team coverage later in the show. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> after months of negotiation and political rhetoric, and just hours before the midnight deadline, congress passed legislation to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. the senate voted to approve the deal 74-26 guaranteeing the u.s. will not default on its obligations allowing it to begin borrowing more money to pa

this is fir"first look" on msnb. >>> and we're going to begin this morning with another candidate's debate. with less than a week to go before the arizona and michigan primaries the remaining republican candidates will square off tonight. and rick santorum, who has surged in the polls, may get a lot of attention. tracie potts joins us with those details. tracie, good morning? >> reporter: good morning. while mitt romney is fighting to win his home state of michigan. santorum is trying to turn his success there into votes in arizona. rick santorum is the one to watch tonight. he soared ahead nationally and in michigan. he still trails mitt romney tonight in arizona where the debates happen. >> i will win in the states that matter to win this election. >> reporter: santorum's now under attack in a new ad from ron paul. >> is this dude serious? >> reporter: focusing on social issues worked for santorum. mitt romney is looking right meeting with the tea party and hammering president obama. >> unfortunately, perhaps because of the people the president hangs around with, their secular agenda, th

i'm glad you are up with us watching on msnb or listening live on sirius xm radio. you can tell us why you're awake this morning by texting your response to 622639. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this friday, the very first day of july. a lot to talk about, including a response to reports yesterday that time geithner is headed out the door. we'll tell you what he had to say about those. and steven colbert goes to washington. he's now the proud owner of a super pack. so what does one do with his own super pack? we'll hear from mr. colbert. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> just in overnight, prosecutors in the sexual assault case against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn say the case could be on the verge of collapse as questions about the credibility of the accuser grow. for the latest on this, we bring in cnbc's scott kohn live outside the courthouse in manhatt manhattan. what's going on? >> reporter: this is a potentially stunning reversal for dominique strauss-kahn. late yesterday afternoon we

glad you are with up with watching on msnb or listening live on sirius xm radio. shoot me an e-mail, let me know what you're doing awake at 5:30 in the morning or earlier in some parts of the country, or text the word awake to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this friday, january 21st. a lot going on today. a shakeup at the top of google, brian williams roundtable conversation with the national security team that served under george h.w. bush and led the country into the first gulf war. and then there's this. remember the ventriloquist lady? ms. arkansas. she was on with dave last night. the good times kept rolling. we'll show you what happened there. let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> president obama is reportedly restructuring his economic advisory board to place a renewed focus on job creation. late their morning, mr. obama expected to name general electric ceo jeffrey immelt to head up the new board which will be focused on jump starting the private

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msnbs's richard louis. >> ron paul's youthful campaign is dead in online video. $3,200 spent says politicsnt. mitt romney is destroying the competition. the president doubles the entire gop field combined. iowa, new hampshire and florida. he was there on web video. politicians are following of all people someone that you have interviewed. i'm talking about the old spice guy. hundreds of millions of people gawked at that online campaign. the candidates can't ignore the whopping web ad worth. 30 seconds of online video and the mental impressions and sounds they leave is worth 900,000 words says forester saying all of those words would take you 83 hours if you tried it. that 30 second ad seems like a bargain. for next week supertuesday 10 million is being spent. exsect a chunk of that flooding the web waves. the wall street journal estimates 3 billion in tv ads. this election and they are expecting that much. that is 50%. let me show you the number here. that is 50% more barging into your tv sets than in 2008. how long will tv beat out the web? well, remember 1952. televised conventions were

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it's contessa on msnb. >>> "the washington post" is reporting the karzai government andlp taliban.nbc's mike viqueira joins us from the white house. mike, give me a sense of the meetings happening today between the government and the taliban. >> reporter: well, it's very interesting. two reports, one in "the washington post," one in "the wall street journal." the first time since 2008 when those saudi-sponsored talks broke down between the karzai and afghanistan. they are talking -- the administration, we asked robert gibbs about that today. they're aware these negotiations are going on. there are pre conditions as far as the american side is concerned with talks with the taliban, many in agreement with the taliban, specifically that the taliban renounce al qaeda and renounce violence in afghanistan and also operate under the rules of afghan law. the second report in "the wall street journal" relate and very interesting as well, contessa, says the report sent up to congress about pakistan and their cooperation with the fight on terrorism, this report says that pakistan is not engag

i'm alex sweand welcome to msnb sunday. police have finally caught the crafty teenaged fugitive known as the barefoot bandit. they followed him in a boat, and they made the arrest. colton harris moore has been on the run since escaping from a washington state halfway house back in 2008, but the case heated up last week when the police say the 19-year-old crash landed a stolen plane near the bahamas. now the cops have finally cat up with him. msnbc confirms he was arrested at 3:00 this morning. let's bring in pat brown, author of "the profiler," good morning to you. >> i'm smiling. >> you are. it's been a tough week. a week ago he crashed his plane right near the bahamas. he was arrested in the bahamas. he's being taken to nassau right now. you sort of predicted that the cops would finally catch up with him. why? >> he made a big mistake. he got really fancy. he envisions himself as a clever little thief like on television. that's where his mistake came in. before he was running around the united states and doing small crime

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. >>> i'm chris jansing live from msnb world headquarters in new york and the baseball world has been rocked. george steinbrenner, the lo long-time owner of the new york yankees has died after a massive heart attack. this statement just in from the yankees. they say he was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. he took a great, but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again. i'm joined on the phone now by filmmaker ken burns. good to see you. thanks very much. a lot of times when you see statements at a time like this, but calling steinbrenner a visionary is no exaggeration, is it? >> not at all. his influence in the game of baseball has been central and, obviously, we extend our deeper condolences to the family but this is really the passing of an age. this is an utterly american character. we've seen his type stride across our stage in many of our eras but last 30, 40 years of baseball can be, in some ways, considered steinbrenner here. this is an american born on the fourth of july that is really almost better suited to running a football team than a baseball

let's bring in the washington editor of the nation afrnd msnb contributor chris hayes.rty editor. the tea party is not in washington. >> i'm in washington but not of washington. >> a michelle bachmann type when it comes to washington. >> that's right. >> this a good day for the republican party. is it a new caucus with 36 members and the rest of the caucus worried about whether they should be in it? >> it is interesting. it's calling a bluff in a certain way. it's labels and optics. i think one thing to remember is the house of the republican caucus is already that it's extremely, extremely i'd logically far right. that's been looked at. it's moved to the right. the smaller it's gotten, the more it shifted to the right. you put a name on what is been the case. that is that the far right of the republican party is the center of gravity in the house. >> grover nowherquist's anti-ta movement has to sign a pledge, it's an agreement. the tea party now strikes me as a certification that republicans can get to prove their pure right winged necessary. it's a problem for the tea

i'm thomas roberts live from msnb world headquarters in new york. we get right to it in california. gay marriage advocates are celebrating while opponents are vowing to appeal a federal judge's ruling. chief u.s. district judge has overturned the law. they are praising the landmark ruling. >> quality is something that our nation has always been about. this decision today brings paul and i and so many others like us closer to that equality, too. >> our family is just as loving, just as real and just as valid as everyone else's. >> the case against proposition 8 was argued by attorneys david boies and ted olsen who faced off against each other in bush versus gore back in 2000. >> this is not a republican or democratic issue. not a conservative, not a liberal issue. it's a human rights, it's a civil rights issue. this was a great victory for our gays and lesbians and the children that they raise. >> but opponents of same-sex marriage are vowing to appeal the case. >> the judge has dealt a terrible blow to natural marriage, the voters' rights, the constitution and this republic we call

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joining us from the newsroom, msnb contributor, jonathan capehart, you have got mike murphy saying amateur night at the apollo, others saying not so fast. sounds like almost like an afghanistan strategy if they had intelligence saying it was a good shot here but what's going on with this team? i mean, it seems that so much is left to the popularity of the president and his popularity, as a result is taking a hit. >> look, the negotiations, the back room dealmaking, if you want to call it that, in terms of figuring out who is going to get the 2016 olympic games a messy affair, as we have seen, learned in the aftermath, the united states olympic committee isn't exactly held in high regard. you have to question the intelligence, i don't think we should criticize the president for trying to -- to try to bring jobs and, you know, another international event to the united states. >> which is what we are looking at, jonathan. not just about the olympics it is about handling the jobs and getting the message out, health care and what we watched happened in the month of august, the argument get away

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. >> i'm joined now livey msnb politicalanalyst pat buchanan and democratic strategistrris green. greato have you bo. >> good morning, alex. >> pat, w is the esident comingut against a sond stimulus? >> well, i think h realizes that he' in tub politicall on the issuef spending. th deficit. and economic issues like that. andfrankly, i n't think he could get a stimulus package through, and i think probably there's a real backlash to it among e public given the enormous bats of wall stree and the banks and general motors and aig and all the rest. the president's got a real problem here, alex. the stimulus package was rrly crafted. only 10% of the money is out the door in the first six months. that's not a stimulupackage. and now you've got the unemployment is continuing to ri. the president isight when he says it's a lag indicator. th problem is, the lead indicars, like the stock maet in the last month, are inting down again. hmm, yeah. morris, i'm cious, do any democratnt a secd stimulus package? is this gop strategy? >> absolutely not. there's no political will and the americaneopl

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