kris allen. and adam lambert.op of the cakeke. that's the car i built. look at that. isn't that nice? , no. >> no, no. >> i'm going to cut the cake. everody.ere's enough f whwants cake? >> there youou go.use ] >> here's my wish. >> small pieces, chris, because it's a big crowd. >> i have a very special wish. i can't tell you, or it doesn't come true. thank you very much. a great way to start my birthday. it's great to have you here. >> have a great weekend, it's great to have you here. >> have a great weekend, everybody. captions by vitac >> live and in hd, this is an abc 7 news update. >>> good morning. i am doug mckelway. let's get a look at traffic and weather. >> we have traffic along 270 northbound before old georgetown road. this car was engulfed in flames. it was quite dramatic northbound 270 after the exit 4 old georgetown road. they are still tending to the vehicle. onlyne lane getting a bite to the left. southbound is able to get by in all lanes. it's beautiful in virginia. have a nice vacation in case y

allen, do you agree with michael that it's better to know with regard to the market here? >> no question michael is right. this market probably would have opened up 1,000 points if the chairman wasn't relegislated. we do have good news out of case-shiller and consumer confidence, but bernanke at the helm is a good sign for the markets. we like it. and not only uds markets, but world markets also agree with this election. >> it's too easy to say that. can i be a little bit of a dissender and challenge you? all of in this incredible complacency. we knew about this. 80% in trade, 80% invest tore polls. the question is, michael kajeno, and you are dodging the question, so i have to ask you, is bernanke going to be helicopter ben, or is he going to be king dollar price stability ben? that's the question. i want you to make a bet. because the stock portfolio matters. >> i have concerns in the long term about the exit strategy. and his fundamental view toward monetary policy. i agree with you on that. the future is going to tell us where we go on that. i think for the moment, the

kris allen. and adam lambert. the top of the cake. that's the car i built. look at that. isn't that nice? no, no. >> no, no. >> i'm going to cut the cake. i think there's enough for everybody. who wants cake? [ cheers and applause ] >> there you go. >> here's my wish. >> small pieces, chris, because it's a big crowd. >> i have a very special wish. i can't tell you, or it doesn't come true. thank you very much. a great way to start my birthday. it's great to have you here. >> have a great weekend, it's great to have you here. >> have a great weekend, everybody. captions by vitac >>> rolling in through the morning temperatures bouncing off the bottom that were down into the 50s in some spots. 67 now westminster. 69 reisterstown, perry hall. we've got 71 on the thermometer in glen burnie. high clouds mixing in on the west side. overall, low, comfortable humidity. this is a band of clouds that comes through. we'll still wind one a mostly sunny day and much warmer temperatures that spill in over the weekend. otherwise,

allen, why wouldn't it, allen? that's what i don't understand. why wouldn't the private sector revive? >> it's how much revives and what drives profit in the future. it's a very different kind of recovery that we're going into, i think, steve. and it prs profile is very different than we've had before. we've never had one where the consumer fundamentals is so negative. that's 70% of the real economy. the average rate of growth of consumption in real terms in the last three years is .8 of a percentage point per year. historical trend was 3 1/2% per year. >> allen, we've got to leave it there. thank you very much. we must say good-bye now to allen sinai and martin. i guess the fish is starting to bite. that's why martin has to leave. steve liesman, david is going to stick around. >>> up next, more with our all-star jobs econ task force. plus, jane wells, firing and rehiring on small businesses. >>> and former electronic chairman and ceo and harvard o professor with seven ways to create sustainable jobs. and, of course, friday trade. a ton of econom

>> another chapter in the allen stanford saga.alleged fraudster heading to a courtroom where someone could be spilling the beans. "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good thursday morning. welcome back to "squawk" on cnbc. i'm carl quintanilla along with amanda drury. our guest host, rich bernstein, former merrill strategist, now cnbc contributor. and jim paulson, wells capital management chief strategist. a lot to talk about with these guys. a couple hours left to do it on a pretty interesting market day ahead. >>> first to mandy with some headlines. >> hi there. let's check in on some top stories. the fdic may need financial help itself. the agency will reveal today just how much is left in it's insurance fund which is running low because there have been so many bank collapses this year. now, if the fdic fund runs out of money it may have to borrow from the treasurepy. something that's only happened once. >>> elsewhere, microoff the is cutting the price of its high-end xbox 360. the new price at 300 bucks. sony recently cut $100

. >> jack, there's a guy named allen stanford who has not gotten as much attention as bernie madoff, a texan now living in the virgin island whose was charged with running a massive ponzi scheme, sort of a junior bernie madoff. i was looking into this case, it's research for a book, and i discovered that allen stanford had hired a private intelligence firm, crowell, to do what they called in the trade self due diligence, ok? they asked them to -- he hired crowell to vet him for potential investors. the court records that i've looked at say that allen stanford paid crowell for this self-due diligence on this multibillion dollar fund, $15,000 for a full background check. so what kind of background check can you give someone for $15,000? >> again, let me round the question out for you a tiny bit. jules crowell took the magnum p.i. off the street and creating a professionalization of the p.i. investigative world. and formed the first company in -- it's well known in the industry. i've read the "vanity fair" article and i am a reader of"vanity fair," they have great articles in there, and

>> susan moss, new york, rene rockwell, atlanta, allen ripka, new york. let's get down to the brass tacks. yes, i'm worried about reality show contestants and their emotions when they get kicked off the show -- not. i'm more worried, susan moss, with someone with a history of abusing women, not being treated or put behind bars when they should be. what do you make of this mystery woman, susan moss? do you really think he acted alone? >> they found this pt cruiser by the sister, you know, around the sister of this loser. this must have been a family affair. the fact that this exact car, it appears from the description, and the alberta license plate, what else could it be. what else could lead us to think that he was getting help by his family and they should be prosecuted. >> rene rockwell, i'm wondering if an accomplice was not used back in l.a. i find it really hard to believe that he could dismember her, that he had the fortitude to dismember her in that manner all by himself. >> nancy, just the signature crime itself looks like it's something that he a

it's not coming this week. >> allen joe sted, autopsy results aside, when they're going to be released, fine. we knew they were going to be slow in releasing that and the toxicology reports. what i'm wondering are there going to be charges because thee are well healed educated doctors, pharmacy, famous celebrities hangers-on, nobody's going to do anything. >> well, nancy, as allen mentioned, we do know of about at least five searches. you've got dr. conrad murray's offices in houston, his offices in las vegas, and way back in the beginning of the investigation, lapd spokespenn said three different warrants served in los angeles. >> nancy: i want to thank you so much for all of your calls and e-mails about my book, "the eventh victim. kts it comes out august 11. of course after lucy pictured here who grabbed it first it's about a prosecutor who tries her best to give up criminal law and start a new life but when her friends are murdered one by one, the nypd hones in on her. it took me years to write this book. i started when i first left felony prosecution and i miss it so much. since t

allen is joining us exclusively. he's been jenkins' attorney for some time. he represented him, i understand, and you have an excellent reputation in your area, did you represent mr. jenkins in a 2005 assault case? >> caller: i did. it was completed in january of 2007. mr. hepner, it's my understanding that that was an assault on another young woman? >> caller: it was a girlfriend, that's correct. yeah. >> and not only was he, of course, brought to court on that. but he was also restrained from being anywhere near her, was that correct? >> that's part of the general probation orders dealing with domestic violence cases in canada. i think it's similar in the u.s. certainly he was given a discharge. once he completes probation that technically not convicted of the common assault charge. that's the charge to which he pleaded guilty. >> allen hepner represented ryan jenkins in an earlier case and managed to keep him out of jail. that's to your credit, mr. hepner. these are newly released photos of the young model, jasmine fiore. a lot of people have discounted he

let's bring in politico's chief political correspondent mike allen.t this the past ten year? how big of a division do you think there was? >> of course there was a big division from day one, as you know, ed, these two leaders took very different approaches. they had very different backgrounds, and she sure hope we'll be talking about it. they both have books coming out. >> how far do you think dick cheney will go? >> i think he will not criticize the former president. his book will make news. they say the statue of limitations is gone on some of the confidences, but we're seeing an overdramatization of very real differences. the president's team wishes that the vice president would pipe down a little bit. their view is until very recently you had an incredibly popular president. so they've been seeing things differently. what we saw in that story in "the washington post" was the suggestion from the vice president that the president had gone soft at the end, that he had not fought the good fight even when things were looking bleak. >> is he talking abo

there's a very vigorous investigation. >> it's been 41 days, allen. >> well, and there have been searches. we don't know when there might be charges brought. we do know that almost a week ago the los angeles district attorney met with the coroner and the detectives from the los angeles police department. at the end of that meeting the coroner emerged or a spokesman for the coroner emerged and said they have no idea when they're going to release the autopsy results. we confirmed today it's not coming this week. we're not going to hear that this week. >> ellie jostad, autopsy results aside, when they're going to be released, fine. we knew they were going to be slow in releasing that and the toxicology reports. what i'm wondering are there going to be charges? or because these are well-heeled, educated doctors, pharmacies, famous celebrity hangers-on, nobody's going to do anything. >> well, nancy, as allen mentioned, we do know of about at least five searches. you've got dr. conrad murray's offices in houston, his offices in las vegas, and way back in the beginning of the investigation, lapd

nbc news chief correspondent ron allen is in martha's vineyard. ron, good to see you. >> good to see you, carlos. how are you some. >> good. so no rest for the president and strong words in an early renomination of ben bernanke for a second term. because the president could have waited several months, correct? >> he could. the term doesn't expire until the end of january. this had been talked about for some time. it's our understanding they've had discussions going several weeks. they had a meeting in the white house last wednesday and the white house spokesman here today said after that meeting there was so much speculation about bernanke being reappointed that they wanteded to get this off the table and that is why they did that today. however, this is also a day where there are terribly economic numbers coming out. there are projections of 9 trillion dollar deficit the next ten years and economy expected to contract by 8.2% this year and higher than expected and unemployment expected to linger. so you might want to make the argument that the wh

sleeper and i was holding this box and woodi allen wain line with other patients. were a hold august a quite boxn our sou h beenextracted so the doctor came and said we will look at the shape of our souls. and so when woody allen's turn ce and he opened his box his so was just a little chick pea and so in the drm he very fij ety, nervous and up set about it. >>ose: and how much longer was there a movie in your head, how long diit take to have a movie. >> wel when iwoke up from the dream i thought sometimes yohave the dream that aren't ry narrative but jt impressions. but is one was stranly narrative and it d this absurd premise. >> rose:rom the beginning the character was lled paul giomatti. >> t idea what to have woody allen playing the role but justor, you kno, a few wes. and then i thought. >> -- >> unavailable. >> no, sometime --. >>ose: he wasn't making movies. >> i happene be availae. >> rose: you we at home watcng tv. exactly. >> rose: so she comeup to you in nantuct. >> yeah, she ought up, well. >> ros i have a movie named after you, are you available for t

mike allen. and susan molinari.o do with critical ton. >> he's a very valuable asset. >> certainly is today. >> they've finally begun to use him. hopefully this will diminish what you hear anecdotally, the resentment that the former president still carries i think in part toward president obama and the administration and what happened to his wife during the course of the campaign. >> mike allen, barack obama should be grateful to bill clinton today for getting this headache out of his way. >> of course he should. i think this is showing how quickly the campaign is fading. this is a great new chapter for president clinton. his wife had been ascendant. the democratic faithful have been going with this young new president. in direct mail pitches the president clinton has been drawing much less well than he had from either side. now he has pneumo jne new mojo. even though he doesn't work for a government or he's not a formal diplomat, he can do the job. >> susan molinari, do you think bill clinton exchanged e-mail addre

. >> reporter: rancher ted allen thought he had seen it all. >> woo. come on, girls. let's roll. >> reporter: then, his cows started disappearing. >> when you can't find them, and they can't fly, somebody had to help them. >> reporter: he's lo a dozen in the last year. now, he counts them every day. >> 15. 30. >> reporter: last year, more than 6,000 head of cattle were stolen in texas and oklahoma. that's triple the year before. >> primarily the economy because a lot of people are out of work. and it's just easy to steal cattle. >> reporter: at auction, rustlers can get full price for a stolen cow. off $1,000 a head. the buyer has no clue he just bought from a thief. special rangers watch for anything suspicious. >> had a case a couple years ago. a guy showed up in a exact. opened the trunk and pulled out two kids. that's kind of a clue they were stolen >> we're going to force them to cut the fence. we're patrolling the fences two and three times a day and every night. >> reporter: ted allen says he's prepared to do even more. >> i guard my stuff with smith & wesson.

john allen, american hero.hank you so much to all of our guests and for you for being with us tonight. good night from florida friends o the show, steven and devon who dreams of being a video game designer. tune into cnn right now, just minutes. see you tomorrow night. anderson cooper, nancy grace next on cnn. good night, everybody. >>> i'm vinny filling in for jane velez-mitchell. next on issues, incriminating evidence continues to pile up against dr. murray, man who authorities say regularly administered propofol to help keep michael jackson asleep. cops uncovered a secret stash of the powerful anesthetic in the doctor's closet. when he ran out, no problem. he had more shipped to him via fedex. is that legal? >>> a georgia woman screams don't take me while talking with her boyfriend. the phone call suddenly disconnects leaving the boyfriend speechless, to say the least. cops are crawling hands and knees frantically searching for any clues. a horrible story we can only hope ends with a family reunited. stay ri

the bbc correspondent allen little reported back on the disaster in 1988. he has returned to lockerbie now. >> the whole sky just lit up and it was like liquid fire started to rain down on the car. >> like an atom bomb going off. it was a terrific mushroom of flames. >> i lost my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law. >> it was mid winter, the longest night of the year. one hour into its flight. the pan am jumbo jet fell out of the cold sky, the biggest mass murder in british history. he was sentenced to life for planting the bomb is now likely to be released as early as next week on compassionate grounds. he has terminal prostate cancer. fate thrust this town into national notoriety it did not invite. it is a close-knit private page and does not like the intrusion of the world's press. its people carry what happened that night with them. walking through these streets after the crash was unforgettable. there was aviation fuel hanging in the air and it mixed with the black smoke from the fires and coated the back of your throat. you had to step over a chaotic jum

movie sleeper and i was holding this box and woodie allen was in line with other patients. were all hold august a quite box an our souls had been extracted so the doctor came and said we will look at the shape of our souls. and so when woody allen's turn came and he opened his box his soul was just a little chick pea and so in the dream he is very fij ety, nervous and up set about it. >> rose: and how much longer was there a movie in your head, how long did it take to have a movie. >> well, when i woke up from the dream i thought sometimes you have the dream that aren't very narrative but just impressions. but this one was strangely narrative and it had this absurd premise. >> rose: from the beginning the character was called paul giomatti. >> the idea what to have woody allen playing the role but just for, you know, a few weeks. and then i thought. >> -- >> unavailable. >> no, sometime --. >> rose: he wasn't making movies. >> i happened to be available. >> rose: you were at home watctcng tv. >> exactly. >> rose: so she comes up to you in nantucket. >> yeah, she brought up,

ron allen now with that part of the story. >> reporter: hurricane bill has been sending waves up to 20 feet crashing along the eastern seaboard causing dangerous rip current, closing beaches from delaware to new england, at least nine miles of new york city's public beaches, an area before six swim verse drowned in recent weeks, one of the deadliest summers in many years. >> the last thing we weren't it would to is close the beach on the a hot day in santiago, but the national advisory issued by the national weather service is pretty strong and pretty clear. >> reporter: the biggest fear is rip current, the deadliest hazard swimmerses face, pushing swimmers out to sea that are the reason for about 80% of all rescues and 100 drownings each year. when waves crash on a beach, the surf rushes back out forming narrow channel, strong flow of water pushing away from shore, often at a rate faster than an olympic sprinter. >> stronger rip currents going out into deeper water. >> reporter: some west palm beach, florida, recently, rip currents pulled a swimmer some 200 yards away from the beach,

ron allen, nbc news, new york. >>> turning now to the history that was made today in washington, d.c. america has a new supreme court justice tonight. justice sonia sotomayor was sworn in at the court this morning and at ceremony made history in more ways than one. nbc's justice correspondent pete williams joins us from the supreme court tonight. pete, good evening. >> lester, good evening. there's never anything quite like what we saw here today. how it happened where it took place, how it was covered, even when on a saturday. this was a day of firsts. >> good morning and welcome to the court. >> nearly everything about this sayceremony made history. as her mother salina held the bible and her brother juan stood by, chief justice john roberts led her through the oath. >> i sonia sotomayor do kohl let mely swear -- >> reporter: formally making her the first are hispanic supreme court justice. >> so help me god. >> congratulations and welcome to the court. >> friends and family members applauded and she hugged her mother who raised her as a single parent after her father died when she

there's steve allen. >> and then steve allen is the other guest.really don't even want to watch, but just run it. >> jimmy: here it is. we got to take a look at this clip. >> you are really '80s comedians. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> does that upset you? [ laughter ] >> the '80s were good, man. if it weren't for the '80s, i'd only be -- i'd be 13. >> they're over, adam. >> no, i was coming out with a punch line. it was my first thing, the '80s. i was trying to break the ice, man. be funny. [ laughter ] >> go ahead. no one is going to stop you. >> but you stepped on me, bill. >> oh, i'm sorry. do you know these two young whipper snappers here? you know most of the young comedians -- >> i saw him snapping the other's whipper backstage. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: he saw him snapping the other one's whipper. >> humiliated by a comedy legend. >> jimmy: that makes me laugh. >> what i like about that -- i don't know if you can say this on tv, but it's basically steve allen doing the handjob joke. >> jimmy: it really is. [ laughter ] i saw

ron allen, nbc news, new york. ♪ >>> that is our broadcast for this thursday evening.ry in for brian williams. for all of us here at nbc news, thank you. and good night. thank you. and good night. ♪ -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

john allen, american hero.hank you so much to all of our guests and you for being at home with us. good night from florida friends of the show, steven and 14-year-old devon who dreams of being a video game designer. see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern. tune into cnn right now, just minutes. we'll see you tomorrow night. anderson cooper, nancy grace next on cnn. next on cnn. good night, everybody. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> i'm lisa bloom in hollywood. this is a "showbiz tonight" news break. here's some of what we're covering for you on a special edition of "showbiz tonight" at the top of the hour. a "showbiz" special report, the life of michael jackson. how sweet-faced child stardom led to a lifetime of suffering. michael's painful confessions about his childhood and the abuse he said he couldn't put behind him. >>> also, the many faces of michael jackson, the turning point that sparked his shocking physical transformation and how his rise to stardom pushed him into dramatic darkness. >>> p

our report tonight from nbc's ron allen. >> hi, president obama!you, man. >> reporter: when president obama played golf today, he chose a course on the island in a town called oak bluffs. a community that's especially proud, and not surprised the first family chose to vacation here. >> we see him as one of us, and it's nice to know that he sees us as part of him. >> reporter: this is the polar bear club, mostly african-americans, who swim and exercise every summer morning at a beach called the ink well, a ritual dating back more than 60 years. ink well is so named in part because famous black writers like langston hughes and dorothy west found inspiration here. professor deloris elaine good of wesley university is a fourth generation islander. >> 1899 my great grandmother was a chamber maid in the wesley hotel. >> reporter: many blacks who came here as servants later bought property in one of the few places they legally could. now many of those colorful, ornate cottages line oak bluffs' streets. >> why we come is because of the camaraderie and the

our report tonight from nbc's ron allen. >> pull!> reporter: john anomi's classroom is the great outdoors. that's why he is at this gun range. a lesson about shooting, and patience and persistence and trying to inspire his students from class compass academy to dream big. >> i did it. >> there is an element of trying to give our kids the ability. [ gunfire ] to see something out outside of the box. and to participate in. >> reporter: that box is the inner city. and anomi tries to provide a way out with a camp that is a year-round academic and recreation program. sharing his passion for hunting and outdoor sports because he believes that made all t difference for him growing up in a troubled home. >> there was some abuse. you know, and i found critters. i found mother nature because i was trying to escape that abuse. i love the outdoors but i love my kids even more. the rule for classes here is what? >> reporter: skeptics told him he shouldn't be teaching inner city kids about guns. buanomi insists he gets positive results. >> good sh

ron allen, nbc news, philadelphia. >>> a big bank failure to report tonight. colonial bank group based in montgomery, alabama, being put into receivership by the fdic. its deposits and branches will be taken over by north carolina, based bb & t. colonial had $25 billion in assets making it the fifth largest bank failure in u.s. history. it is expected to cost the fdic insurance fund $2.8 billion. >>> the labor department said today consumer prices are falling this year at the fastest pace in 59 years. the consumer price index down 2.1% in july from a year ago, arsh 1e stntpemoop2 h dr since 1950. on wall street today, stocks lost groun>> but closed well off the lows of the day. the dow finishing down under 77 points. >>> when "nightly news" continues on this friday evening, are scientists getting closer to unlocking the secret of how much sleep we actually need? >>> later, making a difference, a team effort to help young people facing an uphill battle to get an education. ort to help young people facing an uphill battle to get an education. r-linking, blind-sp

our report tonight from nbc's ron allen. >> how are you? >> reporter: hours before president obama's vacation ended, he treated his girls to ice cream and candy. >> you decided to get some gum after all. >> reporter: the kind of family time the president said he had in mind for the week on martha's vineyard. a chance, friends say, to renew himself. >> it's a very tough time. he's a very tired person, even at 48 years old. >> reporter: while the president attendeded fun ralg of senator edward kennedy who had called health care the cause of his life, opponents already were launching fresh attacks on the president's health care plan. in a weekly radio and internet address, a key republican senator showed little hint of compromise. >> the democrats are trying to rush a bill through the process that will actually make our nation's finances sicker without saving you money. >> reporter: the president leaves martha's vineyard to continue the health care fight at a time when his approval rating is at its lowest point of his presidency, and falling f

former republican senator from wyoming allen simpson. senator simpson, thank you for joining us from your wonderful reman tick trip to europe with annie, your wife. what do you want to say about ted kennedy, your old pal? >> well, chris, it's nice of you to call because ann and i feel very sorrowful we can't get back. we're on a cruise. it's our 55th wedding anniversary. we planned it for about a year. let me tell you, ted kennedy was a dear friend of mine. you don't have to agree with him, didn't have to judge him. we had a lot of fun together and we did a lot of work together because he was a master legislator. he believed in the 80/20 rule. if you can't get everything, get 80%. let the other 20% go over the hill and let them fight over that, but we had some wonderful times, and i grieve, i really do because -- and i think you know me well enough to know how much i cared about him. i kept sending him marvelous notes and messages filled with earthy commentary and he loved it. i know he did because vicki would wrote and say he just threw

ask george allen or anybody.do we want to weed these people out with the pricks here and there whether on youtube or a blog. it's something to think about. ted kennedy recovered. >> do we leave space for redemption stories. >> we don't. to your point about the bipartisan response, president george w. bush put out a statement, in a life filled with trials, he never gave into self-pity and despair. he went on to talk about how he worked closely on things like no child left behind and immigration reform. president george h.w. bush speaking out sending condolences and wishes. tony blare, we have heard from him and governor arnold schwarzenegger as well. >> pat buchanan as conservatives like you and me say kind things about ted kennedy, it might be surprising to those outside of washington d.c. who see political figures on their tv and read their quotes in newspapers but ted kennedy was different. like you are different in the fact people that know you in washington, d.c., republicans or democrats, conservatives or li

ike allen conducted the interview with the former governor last night.e, i guess you need to be careful when you ask about someone's personal life. she's right here. what did she say seriously about these divorce rumors? obviously not relevant to her political -- i guess it would be relevant to her political future but she's annoyed by rumors out there. >> she is. and it's in her interest to keep up a battle with the media. she has a book coming out in the spring and wants to be battling with the media. this call took me by surprise. in fact, sarah palin woke me up. >> she called you and woke you up. >> i had been to a going away party fand i came home and it ws about 10:45. i don't sleep a lot. when i do, i crash. i somehow woke up to my phone and it was one of her aides who said if we put governor palin on the phone, will you only ask her two questions. i said sure. so i was so sleepy, that after she answered the one about the divorce, i for got what the other thing was i was allowed to ask her. she said go ahead, ask me anything you want. i said would

allen smith is here with perfect ways to turn your patch of earth into a magical place this fall.e talking about this already. >> i know. >> but now's the time to start cleaning things out, right? >> time to look forward. >> all right. >> we have 2 to 2 1/2 months of opportunity, and you should look at your garden now. anything that is dead, damaged or diseased, rip it out. or if there's something -- >> my whole garden is gone. >> i don't believe that. or anything you didn't like. >> right. >> just get rid of it and begin to think how do i upgrade it from fall? because we have a season coming on. it's rained so much this year, a lot of people didn't get out in the garden early. there's still an opportunity to make it look like a gorgeous place. >> and these next couple of months are actually the third growing season, right? >> they are, indeed. and lovely things, like this george kale, peppers, traditional things like mums and untraditional things like the superbells. they really perform beautifully. they're like little tiny petunias. >> is now the time to buy plants, though? >> t

>> i think it's a much bigger than than allen a suggesting.'t think it's about second amend rights or health care. the future is coming, chris, and many people are scared of the future. this is one of those pivotal moments in our history when you can sense that something is happening, something is going to change, and many people get very frightened by that. some people can hire lobbyist to push back against that change. other people who don't have that capacity do things like carry guns around. allen is quite right, the only real reason to carry a loaded handgun or assault-style rifle anywhere, hunting, target practice, or you intend to kill someone in self-defense. now, they're not going hunting. they're not going for target practice. so who is it they think they might have to kill. they're holding up signs talking about the tree of liberty needing to be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots. maybe that gives us a little hint there. >> what are the rules of engagement, mr. gottlieb, for the people who bring guns. under what circumst

ron allen, thank you. we will be returning to talk to you as we get closer to the president's town hall. the president will be speaking there in an hour. we saw the president boarding air force one moments ago. >>> now that today's provocative daily topic. it's august. the president's poll numbers are about to be tumbling. he is greeted by a number of protesters and one guy with a gun. we take a look at four presidential tipping points. aurie, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i can't get to your tipping points until we talk about the guy with a gun in new hampshire. we saw pictures of him. what do you make of that? >> i think it's really odd. when i traveled on senator obama's campaign plane there were tremendous clearinghouse service. we would go in hours before and everything would be sniffed by dogs and they had tremendous authority as far as i could tell being there that secret service working with local authorities to sweep, to clear and remove people. forget holding a gun. the service would wo

allen blinder, let me go to you, sir. good to see you again. if you look at the feds' balance sheet, which has not risen in about seven months after the initial stimulus last fall, allen, to some extent, as the emergency loans go down, it looks like they have started an exit strategy. is that possible? >> well, it depends on terminology. they've -- the banks have started an exit strategy by demanding less credit from these facilities and the fed's attitude was always to be kind of passive about the amounts on these lending facilities to make sure the banks were liquid enough. of as the banks think they need a little less, these facilities will naturally be drawn down, so you can call that an exit strategy, but it's not any action by the federal reserve. >> yeah. >> rick and steve, i mean, my concern is that loose money is kind of how we got here in the first place. now, i'm not saying they should raise rates now, but that is always on the back burner. do you think the fed is concerned about that, or is it too far off in the future, steve? >> i

. >>> john allen huhammed will remain on death row. he and a teenager killed 10 people in four states in 2002, sending terror throughout the metro region. >>> today, he went to get his money and ended up writing the school system a check. we're live in northwest washington with the details. >> we promised to track and update this story, and we went to headquarters with this teacher. he says the check was short $3,000. he has been waiting more than two months for his money. history teacher dr. nelson wasn't happy when he walked into the public school headquarters today. he says he wasn't paid for two months while teaching summer school at roosevelt high in northwest. >> i and $3,486 short. >> he is one of six teachers that worked all summer for various reasons. they said today they would receive all of their money. the bills keep piling up. at the gas company sent a shot off notice. he has been borrowing money from friends. >> i see a mortgage company about three possess my house. >> over the summer, officials told them that there were

he asked hollywood doctor, allen me metsker for the powerful drug, diprivan. he refused. they think another doctor, dr. conrad murray, gave him the drug 24 hours before he died. a coroner's inquest has been postponed indefinitely. >>> pretty powerful stuff. did you see and hear that? well, a florida man was videotaping an incoming storm thursday when that happened, a bolt of lightning struck right next door. everyone was fine but if you can imagine, the guy taping it said it gave him a good scare. >>> we've been talking about the wild weather in and around boston but is there a chance for more severe weather today? august 1st. that's the question. we go to meteorologist reynolds wolf. hi, reynolds. >> there will be a chance of severe weather. don't think it will be in boston today. as we look at the central plains, you'll see the frontal boundary extending to oklahoma city and the east of amarillo at this hour. later on in the day, we can expect the chance of storms in st. louis and memphis and little rock, arkansas before all is said and done. of course, dallas, if you'r