this one tomorrow night in tampa, florida.peak live with republican strategist alex caste >>> republican presidential candidates meet face to face in another debate tomorrow night. it's the cnn tea party republican debate in tampa, florida. republican consultant and cnn political contributor alex castellanos is with us now from tampa. good to see you, alex. all right. so is a tea party backed candidate likely to fair better, feel more compelled to appeal to tea party supporters at this debate such as a michele bachmann, for instance? >> reporter: that's -- that's why they're here. this is the core of the republican party, the heart of it. these candidates are going home tonight. now, for rick perry, that's good news. he's very close to the tea party. he's -- he kind of represents their anger. for mitt romney, that's a little different. he's more of the establishment republican. for mitt romney it's an away game tonight. for rick perry it's a home game. >> perry and romney, they have not been seeing eye to eye as it pertains to

i'm wolf blitzer in tampa, florida. the site of monday's cnn tea party debate and you're in "the situation room." security sweeps and a frantic scramble now for more intelligence. a decade after 9/11, america once again faces a threat. precaution precautions were already ramped up, but new information is shifting those efforts into overdriel. the official is suspicious and credible apparently focused on new york city and washington, d.c. it may involve three people, including one u.s. citizen and it may involve a car bomb. let's go to susan candiotti on the scene for us. what's the latest? >> the latest information involves the chatter that's been on going leading out of plup to tenth anniversary. after lot of the chatter says this threat may be originating with the current leader of al qaeda who took over for osama bin laden, mr. alswa -- a al zawahiri. >> terrorism is a theatre. and this is probably the biggest stage. we have the president and two former presidents here. obviously a lot of high profile public official

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eating up here in tampa, florida. just three hours away from hearing eight presidential candidates go ahead it head. they will join me on cnn's first ever tea party republican presidential debate. can the texas governor rick perry maintain his growing lead in the polls despite a highly controversial stance on social security? or will mitt romney come from behind and once again, seize the top spot? >>> is it too late for michele bachmann? standing by with complete coverage and analysis. >>> meanwhile, in washington, president obama scrambling to defeat them all and save the ailing economy before time runs out. but there are new signs in congress his blueprint for recovery could be dead on arrival. i'm wolf blitzer in tampa, here in "the situation room." >>> we're just three hours away from what's going to be a critical potentially make or break moment for some of the republican can dates hoping to be the next president of the united states. meanwhile, the current president, president barack obama, is going everything h

in tampa.w york tonight, cnn contributor and political anchor for new york one, errol louis. let's talk about the tea party and the republican party. do you see much difference between the two and what are the goals going to be come tomorrow night? >> the tea party plan is to send a conservative to washington. this is a direct result of people being frustrated and angry with both political parties but especially the republican party. they have gotten away from the conservative values. so we want a conservative in washington. not necessarily a republican. >> but the people on stage obviously tomorrow night are all republicans. what is the tea party looking for them to say tomorrow night? >> we want to know who is going to turn this economy around. it's about jobs, jobs, jobs. that's what americans are concerned about now. >> what about candidates like john huntsman. he's trying to present himself to people as someone who is a viable candidate. what does he have to do? >> i think he has to move o

out here in tampa. politics is on the brain this morning. we're live at the florida state fairgrounds, carol and christine. the site of tonight's big tea party debate. this could be an early turning point in the race for the republican nominations. eight republican candidates will be onstage tonight, but many analysts are already calling this a two-person race, and last week the battle lines were drawn between texas governor rick perry and mitt romney over social security. something perry once called a ponzi scheme. now, a new cnn orc poll released just moments ago shows that rick perry is building an even bigger lead against his competitors. jim acosta is here with me now. he's following it very closely. jim, doesn't matter how you have the number, rick perry is coming out not only on top but on top by a lot. >> by a big margin, right, ali. this tea party comes as not every candidate son the tea party bandwagon. one candidate is in the driver's seat. texas governor rick perry ditched his cowboys boots,

the 4-3 final put the red sox at the mercy of the tampa bay rays. and about three minutes after that orioles victory, tampa bay clenched the wild card spot with a win over the yankees. evan longoria the deciding blow. an emotional 8-7 win for the rays that knocks out boston and moves tampa bay to the play offs again. they now have to regroup to face the rangers in texas tomorrow. >> that is so unthinkable to do what we did last night. and actually like i think some people said it. at the moment it happens what are you supposed to do? how do you react to this. >> reporter: the orioles have been calling the tampa bay rays the blueprint baltimore need to follow. the amazing race in the play offs for the first time in four years despite having the second lowest payroll in the majors. rays and rangers game one in texas coming up tomorrow. they should celebrate. i consider that team the greatest story in team sports in america now. it's amazing. >> yes, sir. >> all right, thank you mark. well it's a sweet lovers paradise. >> coming ,,,, i'm a curious seek

back to don in tampa in a moment. top stories. >>> somber ceremonies marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. >> francis haroes. >> harvey l. harold. >> stephen -- >> the names of nearly 3,000 people who died that day were read aloud at the site when the twin towers once stood. the building's footprints now deep, beautiful fountains surrounded by names engraved in stone. observances also held today at the two other 9/11 sites. the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania. president obama was on hand to lay wreaths at both locations. >>> the swedish security services says it arrested three people overnight of plotting a terror attack in the second largest city. probable cause of preparing attacks. the head of the security service warned islamic terrorism is the biggest threat. sweden witnessed terrorism in the past. a suicide bomber wounded two people in the capital stockholm last december. we all remember that. >>> and the taliban isn't letting the 9/11 anniversary pass without reminding us what they're

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from tampa, florida. and the site of monday's republican debate and the site of the 2012 gop national convention. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> americans mark a somber anniversary. ceremonies are taking place across the country on this tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. the worst terror strikes ever on u.s. soil. in new york, events were centered at the new 9/11 memorial at ground zero. ♪ o say, can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ >> the names of the people who died in the world trade center attacks were read and moments of silence were held at the exact times the towers were hit and again when they fell. family members gathered at the memorial stone walls to touch the names of their loved ones. >>> president barack obama and former president george w. bush helped lead the commemoration there. in arlington, virginia, u.s. troops placed wreaths at the memorial for 9/11 victims at the pentagon. the 184 people killed when the hijacked american airlines jetliner struck the building are all

nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has the report. >> reporter: police in tampa, florida are accustomed to seeing drug dealers with fancy cars but they were stunned to find out where the money came from that bought cars like this ultraexpensive bentley. >> it was all purchased and basically paid for with cash. >> reporter: they have arrested 49 people charged with fraud and identity theft, accuses of receiving piles of cash by filing phony tax returns to get money from the irs. >> the money was raining down on these suspects, it was easy money and free money. >> reporter: investigators say identities complete with social security numbers were stolen from family tree websites. the scammers then used tax filing software to afly for refunds with the stolen names. money poured back from the irs sent on ready to use debit cards. during a year-long investigation, police watched suspects spend up to $20,000 at a time on shopping sprees for jewelry and clothes. tampa detective sal mageri told nbc affiliate wfla the scam was highly addictive, sweeping the streets like a drug epidemic.

i'm don lemon, live in tampa, florida. see you back here an hour from now. "the situation room" with mr. wolf blitzer begins right now. >>> a decade after 9/11, america is once again on alert. stepped up security in new york and washington, d.c., as authorities investigate a possible al qaeda terror plot tied to the anniversary. >>> desperate hours aboard air force one, circling over america, trying to find a safe place for president bush to land on 9/11. my interview with the pilot of air force one, he flew that critical mission. >>> president obama's new jobs plan, certain to be a hot topic when the republican hopefuls gather here in tampa. for monday night's presidential debate co-hosted by cnn and the tea party express. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." checkpoint searches and an urgent scramble for intelligence. america, once again, faces a terror threat. this time, authorities say they have credible and specific information about a possible al qaeda plot tied to t

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so they sent out corey wade, a man tampa had released earlier in the year. first two guys out, and then this. >> 2-2 again. johnson hits it down the right field line. that ball's going to be fair, and gone! >> so back in baltimore, two down, bottom of the ninth, two strikes, boston's jonathan giving up three straights hit. boston loses 4-3, and literally, 60 seconds later, south of the baltimore in tampa, in the bottom of the 7th, evan longoria steps to the plate. >> a line shot down the left field line, that ball, it's gone! and the rays win it! >> that was the end of boston's season, ladies and gentlemen. joy in tampa, silence in boston, silence in atlanta, and tomorrow the baseball playoffs begin, which will be enough of dylan as your sports reporter. now a little bit of, well, myself as your analyst. for all the fireworks last night, it is the boston red sox who have already made history for one of the longest dry spells as a team without a world series, who achieved truly the greatest comeback in baseball playoff history in 2004. well, last night the re

enjoy tampa.st remientd everyone, we are hosting cnn tea party members co-hosting monday's republican debate. it will be the site of the 2012 national convention. keep that in mine, too. the republican debate monday night, 8:00 eastern. and as we mentioned, our own wolf blitzer will be moderating that one. coming up next, our pentagon correspondent barbara starr will forever remember her birthday. it was her birthday in 2001. >> there was a pentagon policeman coming from that direction, running down this hallway yelling get out, get out. everybody get out. we've been hit. >> barbara will share her 9/11 memories there from the pentagon .apentago pentagon. and the foreshadowing call placed from flight 93 that crashed in this field in pennsylvania. >> my husband was taking a routine business trip to california and our new baby was just 11 weeks old. so i went'7" to my parents' house to get help with the baby. i sat down to nurse the baby and i turned on the television and i saw a plane hit the world

the tampa bay rays, in particular, looked so far out of it. they've lost key players, including carl crawford, who went to boston and made the botched last play that ended the game for the red sox last night. they lost all these key players. they had one of the lower payrolls in baseball. red sox had one of the highest and they hung in there and found the way to do it. >> brown: now the real play-offs begin. >> we have four weeks of extraordinary baseball but i don't know how to top last night. >> brown: all right, john feinstein, thanks as always. >> thanks, jeff. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day: german lawmakers voted to beef up a european rescue fund easing investor fears around the world. supporters of the syrian government attacked the american ambassador robert ford with tomatoes and eggs. and to hari sreenivasan for what's on the "newshour" online. hari? >> sreenivasan: read a dispatch from the producer ofhe "raw opium" documentary. that's on the rundown blog and you can keep track of where the 2012 presidential ho

the debate at 8:00 p.m., live from here in tampa, site of the 2012 national convention.e. 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >>> at least one more member of the gadhafi family slipped the libyan border. >>> in texas, a new crop of wildfires has flared up. what is that? oh, we call it the bundler. let's say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online... [ whirring and beeping ] [ ding! ] and we give you a discount on both. great! did i mention no hands in the bundler? bundling and saving made easy. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> the war in afghanistan xwben less than a month after the 9/11 attacks. [ "taps" ] in that country today servicemen and women marked the tenth anniversary of the event that led our country to launch a war against the taliban. this was the scene at bagram airbase outside kabul. [ "taps" ]. >> while soldiers paused to reflect at one base, at another, there was a reminder that the battle is not over. cnn's richelle carey is in the studio with that and the day's other top stories. hello, richelle. >> don,

tampa bay tied it up with two outs and win it in the 12. 8-7 tampa bay.they move on to the american league championship series. the oakland a's open next season against -- in japan, versus seattle. and then the a's finish this season with a 2-0 win over seattle. miller hit a two run homer and gonzalez, worked eight innings, two hits. 11 strikeouts. bobbobbob wynns the final game. moving high school is ready to go sunday. he had a broken right hand early reports but it's just a deep bruise but he will start sunday. i know you were busy, jackie, that thing was great tonight? >> the game? >> yeah. yeah. >> my brother is screaming watching the game. [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] >> i will get you a tape. it was great. it was great. >>> good night everybody. jcpenney rewards credit card your reveal savings worth 15...20... or 30% extra off all apparel, shoes and accessories. no exclusions! go to jcp.com to see everything on sale. jcpenney. everytime you use your jcpenney rewards credit card reveal savings worth 15...20... or 30% extra off all appar

. >> at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, 24-year-old rookie deputy maurice pressey hasrned to deal with the intimidation factor of his job. >> first day by myself, i'd be lying if i didn't tell you i was nervy. it's 72 on one >> pressey who is unarmed during his shifts is the only deputy locked in a housing unit with 72 inmates. most are not convicted, but are in jail awaiting trial for charges including assault, robbery and murder. >> when you tell people what you do, they say, man, i don't see how you do it. 72 people, you know, all walks of life, that done all types of crime. >> at many jails officers monitor units like this secured control centers but at hillsborough county they spend their shifts on the floor in the open. it's a system known as direct supervision and proven to reduce violence in other problems by allowing deputies to build rapport. >> i love dealing with people that's why my degree is in sociology. >> but pressey and every other deputy in the jail knows that violence can erupt suddenly. as an incident two years earlier dramatically illustrated. a 6

i'm in tampa.tea party debate here in tampa, but only one needed a flak jacket. the front-runner. texas governor rick perry came under attack from his gop rival it's. chief among them, mitt romney. joining us now, eric ferdstrum a senior adviser to the romney campaign. welcome. you get any sleep? >> i did. a little bit. >> all right. this was an interesting debate last night. it was very clear that much of the focus was on rick perry. he was get attacked from all sides, including from mitt romney. it did look, though, that mitt romney wasn't the front-runner in this one. something that the polls are also indicating. amongst the larger republican crowd, our polling is showing mitt romney's close to rick perry. amongst this crowd last night, the tea party crowd, there seemed to be a big distance between them. how are you feeling about where mitt romney is and what his performance was like last night? >> we think mitt did a prifk job last night. he think he demonstrated that he is the person with the

louis and tampa did,w deserves some real recognition.y >> absolutely. they both played very good baseball. they didn't give up when itou would have been very easy toat give up, given how far behind they were. they kept grinding which is whau you have to do in baseball. it's such a marathon, 162 gamesa in the regular season. you start in april when it's cold. you play through the heat ofay summer, and then you come back around to october when it's cold again. there's no sport like it that way. they kept grinding., the tampa bay rays, in particular, looked so far out of it. they've lost key players, including carl crawford, who went to boston and made the botched last play that ended the game for the red sox last nighte they lost all these key players. they had one of the lower payrolls in baseball. red sox had one of the highest and they hung in there and found the way to do it.l >> brown: now the real play-offs begin. >> we have four weeks of extraordinary baseball but i don't know how to top last night. >> brown: all right, johnj feinstein, thanks as a

ali velshi with me here in tampa. nothing new there from the president. >> correct. >> talking about job creation, i was struck at the end. you have seen the independent analysis. some say 500,000 jobs or a million or 1.9 million. >> that's right. >> you would think the president would say this pass this because -- gun shy about the numbers. >> i don't know if you get the president or the administration to talk about the number of jobs of anything to create because they're burned by the fact and dana mentioned it. this administration said that stimulus, the reinvestment act will bring the unemployment rate down below 8%. we are at 9%. we didn't get close. this is the problem. we have the unemployment rate is a lagging indicator. it's very hard to have an impact on that in the near future and very hard even if this -- what the president proposes passes in some form and succeeds. may be a year, 18 months before we start to see this. we are in a dire situation. you made that comment when he said it. he's not going anywhe

. >> at the hillsborough county jail in tampa, florida, 24-year-old rookie deputy maurice pressey hasearned to deal with the intimidation factor of his job. >> first day by myself, i'd be lying if i didn't tell you i was nervous. it's 72 on one. >> pressey who is unarmed during his shifts is the only deputy locked in a housing unit with 72 inmates. most are not convicted, but are in jail awaiting trial for charges including assault, robbery and murder. >> when you tell people what you do, they say, man, i don't see how you do it. 72 people, you know, all walks of life, that done all types of crime. >> at many jails, officers monitor units like this from secured control centers, but at hillsborough county they spend their shifts on the floor in the open. it's a system known as direct supervision and it has been proven to reduce violence and other problems by allowing deputies to build rapport. >> i love dealing with people that's why my degree is in sociology. >> but pressey and every other deputy in the jail knows that violence can erupt suddenly. as an incident two years earlier dram

tampa's rays pull off a triple play against the yankees. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> and the wild card teams not the only ones feeling the heat. many waking up to a muggy start to the day. we'll talk about that in your forecast. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports heading into baseball season's last day, the wild card races in both leagues are as close as they possibly could be. here's nbc's fred roggin with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. after 161 games, both the a.l. and n.l. wild card races will come down to the final day of the season. we'll start in baltimore, the red sox needed a change and they turn to rookie ryan lavarnway. he responded. first career homer, a three-run blast. sox up 5-3 after fourth. to the eighth, and guess who? lavarnway again, a solo shot. third string catcher did it all and the red sox held on to beat the orioles. >>> boston did well and so did tampa. sacks full and martin ground

. >>> i'm don lemon in tampa, florida. the next hour of the "cnn newsroom" begins right now. >>> all right. straight ahead we're going to talk about the cnn debate, the tea party republican debate. we'll talk a little bit later about this this hour. >>> but first we want to let you know that the president of the united states is expected to speak in just a few minutes on this, the tenth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. you're looking live now at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. this is going to be a concert for hope in washington and as soon as this gets under way when the president makes his remarks we're going to bring that event, in part, to you live right here on cnn so don't go anywhere. >>> but before that, i want to tell you about a developing story. it is about the war in afghanistan. it began less than a month after 9/11 and today a reminder that tens of thousands of americans remain in harm's way there. a suicide bombing at a base in eastern afghanistan has wounded as many as 77 american

tampa rallies to score seven runs and force extra innings. meantime in baltimore, the red sox were on their way to a 3-2 win when they completely collapsed. nolan reimold ties it with a ground-rule double. in comes kyle hudson, andino with a shot to left. carl crawford can't make the catch. reimold hustling to score the winning run. red sox fall apart one final time. they lose 4-3. now back to tampa, literally three minutes after the boston collapse, this happens. evan longoria with a walk-off home run to send the rays into the playoffs. what a finish, what a turn of events. tampa punching their ticket to the postseason. >>> to the national league, no drama between the cards and astros. albert pujols getting things done with an rbi single. st. louis scores five in the first inning. from there it was all chris carpenter, a complete game shutout. cards do their job. they win 8-0. so can atlanta win and force a one-game playoff with st. louis? unfortunately for them, no. phillies forcing extra innings with a sac fly in the ninth. then in the 13t

it's going to be boston baltimore, tampa bay and the yankees.he philadelphia phillies, they tie a franchise record with 101 wins for this season. more importantly, the atlanta braves continue to sag hunter pence hit a two-run homer. braves are caught by the st. louis cardinals who are down at 1.6 to 1, ryan shoots one in the gap. rose all the way, tony's team, they were at 11 games back at end of august. they have come all the way back, 13-6, cardinals. one game remaining. cardinals in houston tomorrow. the giants, their last night game of the season, mr. bennett gibbson, seventh inning stretch wash little god bless america. this is the guy's first major league home run. connor grist my, there it goes. into the gap, he rolls. all the way around, he's heading for home here, heading for home, here he comes. falls down, gets up, and scores. his first major league home run. goes seven inning for the win. 13-13, finish the year, 7-0, giants over the rockies. and the oakland a's, they're finishing up strong also. 7-0 win. josh, three-run hoper, 29th o

jim accosta is in tampa. and let's begin with word of a new endorsement we're hearing about this morning. >> reporter: that's right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark to help his campaign, he may have gotten it this morning. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has announced that he is getting behind the former massachusetts governor. so that is good news for mitt romney. but this debate comes this evening, kyra, as a new cnn/orc poll shows that there is a big lead for rick perry. the race is basically boiling down to rick perry and whoever can keep up. texas governor rick perry has ditched his cowboy boots for his running shoes, staying far ahead of the republican pack. the latest poll cnn/orc poll finds perry way in front with 30%. nearest rival mitt romney at 18%. with the rest of the field looking to play catchup, the tea party debate in florida could be crucial. >> it is a ponzi scheme to tell our kids that are 25 or 30 years old today you're paying into a program that's going to be there. >> repo

let's go to gloria live for us from tampa.we pointed out, a month ago today, governor perry wasn't even in this race. >> right. >> does this rocket to the top say more about him gloria, or does it speak more about republican voters feelings about the rest of the candidates? >> i think it is a little bit of each, brooke. look, this was real oe unsettled field. i would still argue it could still be unsettled. but it was clear that voters were looking, republicans were looking for somebody other than mitt romney. don't forget, mitt romney's been to this rodeo before. he didn't do so well in 2008. there is still some concerns, residual concerns, about him, about his authenticity and about whether he's the person to take the fight to barack obama. because more than anything else, brooke, republicans want to win. so they are looking at rick perry and right now, rick perry's biggest competitor is rick perry. because he's got to introduce himself to the american people. he's using these debates to do so. and so, republicans and the re

she's coming to tampa and needs to try to get back.perry took away all that tea party support that would propel her candidacy. >> people are now saying it's a two-person race, rick perry who got in the race three and a half weeks ago and mitt romney. they are i guess being pitted against each other and social security is the issue. >> and could very well be the issue here in tampa on monday night. romney is going after rick perry on his comments regarding social security saying it was a ponzi scheme. let's look at this quickly that mitt romney's campaign is distributing here in florida as we speak to try to take perry down a little bit. look what it says there. the two candidates, only one will protect what's important to you. no subtle message there, especially in a state like florida where social security is so important to seniors. >> it's targeted to the people who they think that it affects most, i'm sure. >> no question. >> what do the other candidates have to do on monday night to come off looking like -- what do everyone beside

the reason i'm here in tampa. know, presidential candidate ron paul goes after fellow texan governor rick perry. could feuding rivals hurt their presidential hopes? we'll tell you. >>> and a new orleans mom on a mission fighting for the rights of special needs kids. stems from the struggles she went through helping her own son. and cnn's education contributor, steve perry, has her story in tonight's "perry's principles." >> reporter: when karen harper-royal's oldest son, chris, started kindergarten 20 years ago, she got an ear frl teachers who didn't understand his behavior was masking adhd. >> he's getting put out of class, punished. they're giving all these negative messages. at some point that kid's going explode. >> reporter: things got so bad the new orleans mom felt she had to take drastic action. you were at the point where you thought you'd have to quit your job? >> to be there. >> really? >> yes. >> reporter: your plan is to quit your job,ing to into the school with your child? >> i went -- i was at schoo

i'm joined here in tampa by david gurden and our chief, political analyst, gloria borger.art with the president. he gave the speech thursday night, surrounded by teachers, firefighters, policeman, people he says would be helped by his jobs act. construction workers. the president in the rose garden and his case to the american people is, help me, and in part, he says republicans should like most of what's in my plan. he thinks they oppose it simply because passing it might help him politically. >> the notion that there are folks who would say, we're not going to try to do what's right for the american people, because we don't think it's convenient for our politics, we've been seeing that too much around here. and that's exactly what folks are tired of. >> is that what this is? or is it just a legitimate policy difference? >> there are genuine philosophical differences between the parties on this. just as they have been on how you cut the deficits. and john, i think, politically, there have been two surprises since the president's speech. the president was all fired up for

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this is happening on monday in tampa.he audience will ask questions to tea party members in ohio, virginia. our political director is in tampa. significance of this debate. they had a lot of republican debateser yes on. this is significant? i guess this is romney-perry round two? >> reporter: it is going to be romney-perry round two. no doubt about that. we saw it play out in california on wednesday night. as you're saying, this is a tea party debate. a 2 1/2-year-old tea party event. it was extremely influential in the primaries and midterm elections. it was important to the success of the republicans taking control of the house of representatives. that has changed the dynamics in washington and has effects on everybody across the country, you, me, everybody. that's why this debate may be a little different. it is focusing on the tea party and its activists. >> we know we'll hear about the economy a lot in the debates and on jobs. this is an issue that's going to be around for some time. also social security might get a

police in tampa say they're cracking down hard, still puzzled about how they became the capital of tax refund fraud. pete williams, nbc news, washington. >>> when "nightly news" continues, in just a moment, man versus wild, on the hunt for a killer in yellowstone. >>> and later, neighbors helping neighbors, pulling together after a disaster, making a difference in vermont. ld, on th killer in yellowstone. heartburn, right ? you have t yeah, it flares up a few days a week. well, we're the two active ingredients in zegerid otc.

three minute separation between this horrible loss in baltimore and the great victory for the rays in tampa. three minutes later. >> reporter: the rays comeback so soon after even more incredible. they were down seven runs in the eighth inning. teams do not come back from those deficits. the rays did. >> a line shot down the left field shrine.

tampa won it 5-2.h boston for the wild card. >>> to the n.l., braves in a similar situation as red sox. like boston, they lost. raul ibanez put philly on top in the sixth, that's all they needed. the phils won it 4-2. cards with a chance to pull even in the wild card but they couldn't beat the astros. in the tenth, man on third, sanchez lays down the bunt, octavio dotel couldn't make the play. cards remain a game back. >>> according to sources, ozzie guillen has managed his last game for the white sox. chicago released him from his contract yesterday. he'll likely be the manager of the florida marlins. >>> good old-fashioned nfc grudge match. cowboys/redskins, rex grossman to a wide open tim hightower. dallas turned to an unlikely source for points, dan bailey hit six field goals. this 40-yarder gave them the lead. the defense did the rest. final minute, grossman scrambled and anthony spencer stripped him from behind. the cowboys recovered and without scoring a touchdown, beat the skins 18-16. that's y

many-- >> jim: you noted tampa specifically. >> tampa has really collapsed.a lot of its growth was predicated on housing. and it built out more and more housing. people took out home equity loans, and now what you see is a shrunken economy. tampa doesn't have a particularly high base of human capital. fewer highly productive industries than many cities. and in the ex-burbs of tampa particularly, you really see a lot of pain, a lot of disappointment. >> brown: and the other aspec aspect, i mean, sort of looking at this longer term, the provocative side of this, i think you refer to as a cultural segregation, the long-term implications of what this could mean for a large segment of our population culturally. >> that's right. you know, when you-- when you look at the cultural habits and family structure as well of people with high school degrees in the u.s., you know, their families, their outlooks-- in the 1970s-- closely resembled those of college graduates. today the families of high school graduates closely resemble those of high school dropouts in terms of