my handle is@alex witt. i'll read tweets throughout the morning. >>> politics took the spotlight last night. all but mitt romney and jon huntsman attended the forum in des moines. they gave passionate pleas opposing gay marriage and a dorgs as well as sharing personal history. herman cain got choked up about his cancer diagnosis in the past and got a comforting hand from rick perry. >> i said i can do this. she said, we. [ applause ] >> i will fight to make -- >> rick son tore um fought become tears when talking about the disability his daughter was born with and he too got a consoling pat from rick perry. >>> newt gingrich got huge applause when he went after the occupy wall street movement. >> all the occupy movements start with the premise that we all owe them everything. that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying to them, go get a job right after you take a bath. >> mitt romney absence was d

welcome to "weekends with alex witt." we're going to go to our top story. coach mike mcquery will not be there. he witnessed an attack on one young boy and fired head coach joe paterno is not speaking about the scandal, on advice of his new attorney. ron mott is live. the corn huskers have arrived? >> reporter: the corn husbakers have arrived. this stadium holds about 107,000 at capacity. we don't think we'll have as many people in the stands today. it will be interesting to see what types of ceremonies they will give to the crowd before the game. of course, joe paterno will not lead his team with the traditional charge out on the field. tom broadly is the interim head coach. in talking to some of the students and alums this week, they want to play this football game. they want to come and cheer on this football game. it's senior day. it's the final home game of the season. they want to honor the seniors as they go out with their careers over penn state with a cloud hanging over them but they have earned an opportunity to play in front of the home crowd for

welcome to "weekends with alex witt." it's 10 a.m. in the east, 7 a.m. in the west. let's get to one of the most coveted endorsements in the presidential election. the new hampshire union leader is endorsing newt gingrich for president. the paper calls him an innovative and forward looking leader. we'll go there in a minute. >>> michele bachmann is taking on newt gingrich and his immigration policy. at a book signing in iowa saturday, the congresswoman cited a letter signed in 2004 by several republicans, including gingrich. supporting george w. bush's immigration plan. at the time conservatives called it amnesty. >> what the letter shows today is that he's fully in support of president bush's amnesty program. this is something that i have been against throughout my career. and i have always said that we need to uphold the laws of the land. >> during his own book signing in florida, gingrich responded to the ongoing attacks. >> i clearly did not call for amnesty tuesday night. i clearly did not suggest 11 people -- i'm happy to debate all of my friends in this race.

i'm alex witt. here's what's happening right now. oklahoma all shook up. an earthquake rattles nerves in the great plains. that wasn't all. we'll look at some of the damage done there. the mood of america, a new article looks at the political landscape exactly one year from the 2012 presidential election. how do you feel? >>> a new book from president clinton. some including advice for president obama. >>> that fire your bank protest the day after. how many people actually moved all their money. >>> welcome everyone to "weekends with alex witt." it's 10:00 a.m. eastern standard time. in case you didn't turn your clocks back this morning, that's the time. emergency crews are addressing the damage after what could be the strongest earthquake in that state's history. it was a magnitude of 5.. buckling roads and significantly damaging homes. we have more on the epicenter of the quake outside of oklahoma city. good morning, alex. >> good morning, alex. interesting time for the folks here in oklahoma. if you recall, yesterday morning there was a 4.8 magnitude qu

i'm alex witt. the death of a broadcasting legend. andy rooney's unique voice silenced this morning. we'll take a look at his most memorable moments. >>> the herman cain saga. a new wrinkle every day. we'll have the latest and more surprising numbers driving his campaign. >>> fire your bank day. if you don't like the high fees, move your money. details on how many people look to fight back. >>> new word on 2012 strategy for president obama this weekend. it is almost one year out from the election. we'll examine one unique assessment of what it's going to take for the president to win. >>> and hello again to all of you, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." it is now 9 a.m. on the east coast, 6 a.m. out west. we begin with the loss of a legendary tv commentator, andy rooney has passed away at the age of 92. it was just last month that rooney announced he would no longer appear regularly on "60 minutes." we have more on rooney's life and legacy. >> but i'm not retiring -- >> reporter: andy rooney's signoff on "60 minutes" was part thank

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welcome to "weekends with alex witt."hinese president. mike vicqueara is at the white house for us. >> reporter: good morning. the president is wrapping up his meeting with the asia leaders. he went on to australia and now a meeting in bali, indonesia. in the south china sea, between chin narks the philippines, it's a tree trading route for ships. there's an oil field and close to military confrontations over the course of the last several years. this is an ongoing issue and the president has brought it up again with the chinese premier. we're told by senior administration officials where there were 18 leaders at present, including 16 of those leaders brought up the territorial issues with the south china sea. a number of those countries very frustrated with china there. this comes on the heels of president obama announcing while in australia that 2500 marines will be stationed in australia. that is seen as a shout across the diplomatic bought of china as well. the president bringing up with the chinese premier, chinese c

i'm alex witt.iversity's football team is playing its first football game since the sex abuse scandal surfaced. it is the first game since 1966 that joe paterno is not the head coach. >>> and the italian prime minister is expected to set down from his post shortly. he will resign after the parliament passes new austerity measures. i'm alex witt. i'll see you back here in one hour with more news. >>> i'm going to ask you a series of questions. okay? i'm trying to be nice, all right. what originally made you actually start coming over here? >> travis. >> what was it about travis that made you start hanging around? >> i thought he was a nice guy. >> i am a nice guy. i've been trying to be nice through this whole thing. >> she had a crush on travis. it was plain to see. easy to see she had a crush on travis. >> did he have a crush on her? >> no, no. >> travis had a variety of girls, i guess. girls kind of flocked to him. it's kind of nice. he was seeing sarah or christina and i think danielle might have

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i'm alex witt. more news later.one hour on msnbc. >>> it is early morning on a june day in the tiny texas town of iraan. 250 miles northwest of san antonio. inside a small tin-roofed house, a massive fire erupts. soaring flames begin consuming the structure within minutes. four people are inside. including 40-year-old oil field worker ernest ray willis and his cousin billy willis. elizabeth belue and another woman both in their mid 20s are also asleep in the house. the group are guests of the home tenants who are out for the night. following an evening of drinking, they've all decided to sleep over. the flames awaken ernest willis. >> i woke up in the early morning hours, i don't know, 4:00 or so. and the house was on fire. so i ran through the house trying to get to the back bedroom. i couldn't get there. so i run out the front door and around the side of the house and started breaking the windows and yelling for everybody to get out. >> his cousin, billy willis, makes a last-minute escape leaping out a bedroom win

i'm alex witt. of any criminal investigation is a "dark heart and the iron hand of justice." >> a young woman goes out on a date never to return. police eventually gather enough clues to find her body. along with prosecutors and her family, they believe they found brenda schaefer's killer. his trial is about to begin with authorities confident they have the evidence they need to get a conviction. the case rests largely on the testimony of one witness. does she have the motive to lie? here again is chris hansen. >> maryann shore's story of the torture and murder of brenda schaefer horrified all those who heard it. >> commonwealth of kentucky versus maryann shore. >> in return for her testimony against ignatow, prosecutors agreed to charge her only with tampering with evidence in her role in helping to bury the body. she was later sentenced to five years in prison. ignatow was in jail, too, awaiting trial. he turned to religion, claiming to be a born-again christian. he was also going broke, paying hi

i'm alex witt.penn state is playing its first game since 1966 without former coach joe paterno. paterno was one of several officials to lose their jobs amid a sex abuse scandal. he was reportedly at home today when people were seen outside kneeling and praying. fans walked by shouting things like, "we love you, coach." i'm alex witt. more news later. >>> in the summer of 2001, generosa ammon and her boyfriend danny pelosi were living the high life. each month, they would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on expensive home renovations and just plain indulgence. >> spend, spend, spend. casinos, vacations. he was giving the gifts, spreading money around. the prosecution believed that he was spreading money around because he was hiding it. he had never had this kind of money. this was his dream come true and he was living large. >> generosa's husband ted was well aware of his wife's boyfriend and how the new couple spent money like water. ammon's lawyers were offering to settle the divorce for $24

i'm alex witt.oost this morning, he's gotten an endorsement from the "new hampshire union leader." >>> and occupy protestors in los angeles have received written orders to leave their encampment by midnight tonight. police say those who do not will be arrested. i'm alex witt. see you in an hour. >>> carlton pearson, the pentecostal bishop, would become a mega-preacher, a star, who had been invited to the center of influence, had staked it all, everything, on a change of heart. he'd stopped believing in hell. and so he stood up in that big church of his, in front of his thousands of worshipers, and let it all out. >> and for the first time in all of my life as being a christian, i really not only love god, i started liking god. >> he called it the gospel of inclusion because it included everybody, not just christians or evangelicals or fundamentalists. there would be conflicts of course, but surely, he, of all people, could convince his congregation and maybe the evangelical community to welcome his

i'm alex witt.leader" endorsed newt gingrich saying he has improved washington in the past and is the best bet to do it again. >>> russia's ruling party has nominated vladimir putin as president. he was president in 1998 until he stepped down, though he still retained great influence. i'm alex witt. more news later. >>> susan watson killed her mother in 1971. no one knew it was her, and she was never even a suspect. 27 years later the newly opened newark, new jersey, police department cold case unit reopened the case. they interrogated susan, and she confessed to the murder. susan was forced to grow up fast. she took care of her brothers, cooked and cleaned because her mother was always working. susan felt that every step of the way her mother was not there for her. she resented not being able to be a regular kid. she turned into a rebel. by the time susan made it to her early teens, she ran with a crowd that smoked cigarettes and played hooky from school. >> i ended up dating one of the boys. i bec

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i'm alex witt.nba players and owners have reached a tentative deal. they hope to kick off the season on christmas day with the celtics and knicks. and one retail group estimates sales increased 10% to 14% across the country. online spending was up 20% higher than last year, and monday is cyber monday. more news later. now back to msnbc undercover. >>> putting video and audio in a living and breathing drug house and turning the keys over to the gang when you wanted to turn them over, that had never been done before. >> it's 24 hours a day and you see how they live and how they operate their business in and among their personal lives. >> bradford was an enforcer, just a brooding hard case. the shooting at mcdonald's where he did shoot julio during the dinner time incident it was just brazen. >> from the beginning when i first joined the gang i was being somebody that i wasn't. i wasn't being bradford dodson. i was being the hustler, the one they wanted me to be. they didn't like bradford dodson. they

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i'm alex witt. a group of shoppers for a group at walmart. a customer sprayed her fellow shoppers with pepper spray as they rushed in for a deal on video games. we are live in los angeles. oh, come on. i can't believe this, good morning. >> good morning, alex. itis crazy. some of the victims were actually children that she sprayed. police now say she wasn't doing it to protect herself but to get preferred access to parts of the store. police and firefighters called to this los angeles walmart where one shopper had enough of the crowd. witnesses say customers were waiting in line for a sale on x boxes when people started pushing and shoving. a woman pulled out pepper spray and took aim at the crowd. >> caller: she wanted everybody to back off, so she came out with the pepper spray. >> reporter: they called her behavior competitive shopping. this video shows customers recovering moments after the incident. speaking by phone, shopper carman johnson said she waited in line behind the woman for two hours. >> it was crazy, trying to get games for x

right now it's time for a preview of "weekends with alex witt." what's coming up?emorable moments ahead. new word on 2012 strategy for president obama because it's almost one year out from the election. we'll take a look at what it will take for the president to win. iphone 4s, one of the most hyped aspect going down. left a lot of folks frustrated. what happened there? we'll take a look. back to you. >> thanks. what do we know now we didn't know last week? well, we know that 80,000 jobs were created in the month of october. and the unemployment rate dipped from 9.1% to 9%. we know that not only are members of congress insulated from the abysmal economy but much richer than average americans. we suspect this plays a crucial role in producing a legislative body, more specifically a republican party, that continues to ignore the jobs crisis. we know that at least three women have made allegations that herman cain sexually harassed them during his time running the national restaurant association. he know allegations aren't proof but 20 years after anita hill's testimo

. ♪ >>> hey, there, everyone, i am alex witt.second day of unrest. protesters later returned to the square. earlier this morning the president returned from his nine-day trip overseas and turned his focus to the super committee in a phone call he urged leaders to agree on a deal that they have until tomorrow to get done. see you in one hour. >>> so, why do they do it? what are they thinking? why would anyone sacrifice so much time, effort, money and pain -- >> you want to turn your arm the other way? >> -- to get covered in ink? they've heard all the arm chair analysis before. they did it out of suppressed anger or rebellion, out of narcissism, insecurity or the need for attention, and then there's the need to express individuality. never has that been more apropos than in today's high-tech world. >> you have, i don't know, how many credit cart numbers. you have a cell phone number. you have a home telephone number. you have a passport number. you have a social security number. as people start to feel almost helpless, tattooing b

. ♪ >>> msnbc now, i'm alex witt. three protesters at occupy wall street in washington, d.c.d. witnesses say the pedestrians either ran toward or jumped in front of the vehicle. protesters clashed with police in france. two people were injured. and andy rooney has died. he was 92 years old. more news later. i'll see you in one hour. >>> trinidad, colorado, population, 10,000. this dusty frontier town, set between two mountain peaks on the santa fe trail, is an unlikely candidate to become the country's sex-change capital. but it has. and it is. >> this is trinidad, colorado. where men are men and women are, too. >> reporter: how did this one-time mining town become a sex-change mecca? it all starts back in 1969, when a beloved family practitioner in trinidad performs the procedure on a colleague. soon, others come for sexual reassignment surgery. and before long, it's a cottage industry. 5,000 patients later, at age 80, the doctor hand picks a successor, an obgyn from seattle, marci bowers. he died in 2006. >> marci, godsend. we're standing in front of a church. and god is ta

i'm alex witt. deaths of two dozen soldiers in northwestern pakistan. pakistan says those soldiers were killed when nato helicopters fired on two army checkpoints saturday. >>> nasa launched a rover to mars this morning. it will search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to life and could be in the future. more news later. but now back to the elizabeth smart story here on mbs. >>> on february 3rd, 2003, eight months after their daughter was snatched from her bedroom, ed and lois smart take a gamble. they hold a press conference to release the composite sketch of the man elizabeth's sister believes is the kidnapper. ed shares what he remembers of his encounter with the man in question. >> talked with him about where he was from, what he was doing. he indicated to me that he was from all over, that he was going about the country from homeless shelter to homeless shelter. preaching born-again christianity. >> america's most wanted. >> a little over a week later the television sho

. >>> hey, everyone, i'm alex witt, and here's what's happening. the u.s.nfirms all charges have been dropped against three americans arrested in taking part in anti-government protests there. it's not clear when they'll be heading home. >>> the holiday shopping season officially underway. toys r us, walmart, target, and best buy have opened their doors to black friday shoppers. industry experts predict more than 150 million people are going to shop this weekend, which is up 10% from last year. back to "morning joe." >>> showing our bias with the music coming in a little bit. big weekend ahead in college football, and it begins today. joining us now from washington, the host of comcast sports net washington post live. ivan carter. good to see you. >> good to be here. great weekend working this food off with great college football. >> absolutely. it's incredible when you look at these bcs standings. three teams not only from the same conference, but from the same division of the same conference. lsu number one, alabama number two, arkansas number three. it's

i am alex witt.ed with the way the government is working and one-third say they are angry. and a crew is assessing the damage in oklahoma after the strongest quake ever measured there. it buckled roads and crumbled chimneys. more news later. we'll see you in an hour. >>> dominique digiorgio, a self-purported cattle baron and businessman from italy, living whiz new wife, jean, in mesquite, nevada, a casino town an hour outside las vegas. he convinced dalea wilds to move to mesquite as well so as to better let him manage her career. >>, but the grandiose facade of the suave italian was beginning to crack. you called your bank? >> yeah. he went through everything. >> he had been borrowing a lot of money from his new wife, and his credit as manager with dalea's parents was running low. >> we knew that he lied, and whenever somebody lied, you get skeptical very fast. >> more lies. >> yeah. >> but unbeknownst to both jean and the wilds, dominique had the support of some secret admirers. >> it's nice to be

i am alex witt.mittee charged with finding a way to cut the deficit will miss its deadline. committee members are blaming each other for the impasse. automatic budget cuts will kick in if there's not a deal by monday. >> narrator: bea smith is now at a career crossroads. after many weeks of training she placed only 12th at the nationals. female professional bodybuilders who place well at competitions rarely make any money at all, but their costs to compete can run into the tens of thousands of dollars a year. in short, it's no way to make a living. >> i'm tired of not having money to go to the mall. i'm tired of not having money to say, oh, you know, i'm going to buy groceries this week even though in my heart there's nothing more i want to do than get ready for another show. >> narrator: bea tried to walk away from the sport after her poor showing at the nationals. she lasted just two months. >> i'm disappointing droves of people because i can't be a grownup and take an 8:00 to 5:00 job because i wa

i'm alex witt. a libyan militia commander says saif gadhafi was captured today.the last of the sons to be apprehended. and tense negotiations are undergoing as the super committee is still trying to come up with $1.2 trillion in cuts. >>> how are you doing? >> good. how are you this morning? >> charles manson was responsible for the murders of nine innocent people. he became a terrifying cultural icon. >> how you do? how you do? we've invited former fbi profiler candice delong to watch manson's 1987 "today" show interview and shed some light on one of america's most notorious killers. what produced the violence? what was the point? >> well, i think where the violence comes in is the psychopathic or antisocial, if you will, nature of charles manson. this is a man who had a, to say the least, troubled, undisciplined, abusive childhood, and neglected and did not have good parental supervision. it just was chaotic. a chaotic life. >> charles manson was born "no name maddox" on november 12th, 1934, in cincinnati, ohio. to 16-year-old kathleen maddox. kathleen was a ha

. >>> hey, everyone, i'm alex witt. the holiday shopping season is officially underway.almart, target, and best buy have opened their doors to black friday shoppers, and an estimated 152 million people are expected to shop this weekend. >>> and chicago's mourning the loss of maggie daly. she died last night at the age of 68 nine years after being diagnosed with breast cancer. now back to "morning joe." >>> showing our bias with the music coming in a little bit. big weekend ahead in college football, and it begins today. joining us now from washington, the host of comcast sports net washington post live. good to see you. >> good to be here. great weekend working this food off with great college football. >> absolutely. it's incredible when you look at these bcs standings. three teams not only from the same conference, but from the same division of the same conference. lsu number one, alabama number two, arkansas number three. it's been a long time since we've seen anything like that. >> yeah, it's kind of historical. and for those of us like myself who really, really want

right now it's time for a preview of "weekends with alex witt." >> it's an outcry and an investigatione will talk to the congressman whose district includes that park. >>> and then the gop, surprising moments that brought tears to two of the candidates. plus the changing retail landscape and black friday. and then we will look at how we celebrate thanksgiving. that's all ahead at 10:00 eastern. >> thank you. >>> what should you know as we head into the week. well, total spending in washington has gone up from $1.4 billion to $3.5 billion, and no matter what anybody else you the exploding growth of the economy of influence represents a huge cancer on the democracy. the super committee will not come to an agreement and all things considered that's better than the alternative. and republicans will go into pivot to unlock the deal they made. and then you should know boumice bachma bachmann's book will be released this week. and while banks continue to go unpunished and prosecuted, those worrying of american justice should know about the mother of two being sentenced to three years for the