he is still a viable candidate, gingrich has hinged his entire strategy on being able to win an entire nation, resulting in a so called hung convention. he has accepted a u.n. sponsored peace plan. but the u.s. is skeptical was seen on state tv touring the streets of the devastated city. a wild fire in colorado killed an elderly couple and burned more than 20 billinuildings. 900 homes have been evacuated and more than 700 firefighters are battling the flames. >> a puppy could set the world record for tine aniest dog. she's a survivor. >> a new report says prescription drug abuse now leads to more deaths in the united states than heroin and cocaine combined. a new prescription drug being used is a painkiller called opana. a drug company is making a new formula to make it harder to abuse by injection. for more information on this and other health stories, you can check out the health page at msnbc.com. the dow opens at 13,197. the s&p lost three-points, the nasdaq was down two. in tokyo, the nikkea just 72 points. a little wall street window dressing brightens up a slightly down day for markets

for now, an entire nation is waiting to see what will happen next. >> for the latest, we crossed over live now to our l us about thethere. suspect? we understand he is a radical solophist trained in afghanistan. >> that is right. he said not only would he try to kill another soldier today, apparently, according to the anti-terrorist judges we spoke to, but he would also killed two policemen as well. he apparently has a bit of a track record. ad nauseum before going to afghanistan to train with the government. tonight, we are still in a major stand off. this is 18 hours later, and he has already told the negotiators tonight that he is prepared to kill people, but he will not commit suicide. needless to say, the residents of that building have been evacuated, safely, apart from him, of course. 300 police officers beating the building right now, and there is no way he can escape. all he can do is give himself up or commit suicide, or expect him -- them to charge him. >> what else are police saying? do they think he was a lone gunman? did he have an outside support? where did he get his w

. >> an entire nation plunged into morning. television networks provided wall-to-wall coverage as details unfolded and anxious networks rushed to the primary schools -- anxious parents rushed to the schools to learn whether their children had been victims. >> we tried to call the emergency number. but they told us our god child was not aboard the bus. we have no idea what has become of them. >> on monday, some of the students posted messages on an internet blog, describing a fabulous vacation and lamented it would soon be over. and look at the wreckage is stark evidence of the sheer force of the crash. the accident occurred about 9:00 p.m. tuesday evening in this alpine tunnel. authorities say the bus hit a curve and smashed head-on into a concrete wall. it is still unclear what caused the accident. the tunnel has an excellent safety record, and there was no oncoming traffic on the four- lane highway. no other vehicles were involved. police have opened an investigation. the belgian prime minister has declared a day of national

since a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed over nine hundred thousand people devastating an entire nation. silence has been observed at the exact moment the quake hit last march that's nonie turn whole neighborhoods into the breach leaving hundreds of thousands homeless but also triggered the worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century after the cooling systems at the fukushima plant were knocked out our knowledge gunderson energy adviser at fairwinds associates said mary details about the crisis remain undisclosed with the contamination spreading well beyond the fiction area you know and. i think the government has been slow to disclose facts ever since the accident occurred there's clearly the cleanup is going to cost around a half a trillion dollars u.s. that's not just for the site but for the prefecture of fukushima as well but the contamination goes well beyond the appreciate your pick it up in tokyo and that's two hundred fifty kilometers away the entire north of the country as a public health hazard here because everyone is exposed to real actors you know radioactive stride and othe

a devastating earthquake and tsunami killed over it nineteen thousand people are devastating an entire nation from. a minute's silence has been observed at the exact moment the quake hit last march by the tsunami turned whole neighborhoods into leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless it also triggered the worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century after the cooling systems of the fukushima plant would knock out of more on the risks of contamination the plant poses today i'm now joined by dr robert jacobs a professor of nuclear history and culture at the hiroshima peace institute thank you for coming on our to today so one year on how has the government dealt with the nuclear crisis of effectively and what can you tell us what is the current situation on the ground. the government has been increased this note for a year and it remains in crisis knowledge at this point is simply trying to stop the entry of radioactive particles into the environment which is not successful there is still radiation coming into the sea into the ground why. water in some being released into the air so this

performed to determine just how risky this new financial product is not only to investors but to an entire nation's economy as a whole it takes at least eight years eight long years for a new cancer drug to be approved but there's not even a process anymore since the reagan bush deregulation for new derivatives and you proved some banks are dreams that up and the next day it's on the market so why do we have so much trust in wall street bankers to do this especially now remember this guy babbitt was fab for greece to re a bank story goldman sachs was grilled last year by a senate subcommittee investigating the financial meltdown fab and other bank stories came up with a new financial product called timberwolf and sold it to investors all the while acknowledging to themselves that timberwolf was well what senator carl levin described. six hundred million dollars of timberwolf securities which you sold. for you sold this is what your sales team were telling to each other. that timberwolf was one do you can you imagine if a drug company was caught circulating e-mails before putting a new drug on the m

not only does joe bring together the 12-year-olds but inspires an entire nation to never give up hopeniversary of al's book club, we have a brand-new set of kids. also, joining us over skype, a special guest, jack from o-h-i-o. all right. this book is interesting. it's a historical novel that gives kids inspiration and teaches them about history. >> this book began at a family reunion of all things. my grandmother and aunt told me the story of my great grandfather, a kid who was a boxer and wanted to be just like joe lewis. he became my character and it takes place in the great depression. it's how the story began. it's historical. >> we have 11-year-old sara. what is your question? >> good morning. >> good morning. >> of the three main characters in the book, which do you think played the biggest role? >> i think otis played the biggest role. i say that because otis keeps laughing with his riddles. he keeps it light. why does the cookie go to the hospital? because it's so crumby. he keeps it light. i love otis. >> hold on, let me rite that one down. >> it's a good one. >> i like that

clashes between troops and militants in yemen left 34 soldiers and 15 insurgents dead today, an entire nationious about the future. officials blame the attacks on a group linked to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. three senior security officials accuse a military commander of handing over weapons to al qaeda fighters. the weapons allegedly include tanks and heavy artillery. we're going to go to russia where the votes are still being counted, but vladimir putin says he's won the election as president. at a huge moscow rally putin reclaims the office he held for two terms. he's currently prime minister but generally regarded as the power behind president medvedev. putin is getting more than enough votes to avoid a run off. >>> venezuela's president faces a knew round of radiation treatment for cancer. hugo chavez confirmed a doctors removed a tumor from his abdomen. he insists he'll run for re-election in october. doctors removed another tumor just last june. >>> rush limbaugh backpedaling and apologizing after alling a law school student a slu t. but is it too late. will cane, lz granderson

. >>> her killing captivated an entire nation.nd to this day, jonbenet ramsey's murder remains unsolved. >> now, her father is talking about his decision to let her participate in beauty pageants. >> the point is, you need to protect your children. >> more of my interview with john ramsey. what he has so say about today's pageants. and the one thing he's been m carrying around with him for 15 years. you're going to see it. you're watching "early start." >>> it is 29 minutes past 5:00 on the east coast. welcome back to "early start." time to check the stories making news this morning. >> two children were among three reportedly killed in toulouse, france. witnesses say a motorcyclist opened fire and took off. several other people injured, as well, by the gunman. security has been ordered tightened at jewish schools throughout france. this incident occurs just days after three soldiers were shot to death by a man on a scooter in the same part of france. but it's not clear if those shootings are connected. >>> and tomorrow's illinois

capacity that will support and improve governance, but it's not nation building in the sense that we're attempting to create an entirely new nation in afghanistan. we're just seeking to build the capacity and the capabilities within the afghan government that helps to sustain its stability. >> rose: do the afghan want us there? >> i believe they really do. president karzai convened something-- an assembly of 2,000 notable afghans from every walk of life across that great country. and he charged them with with making a recommendation to him as to whether the nation of afghanistan, the people of afghanistan, wanted to have a strategic relationship with the united states, specifically, and more broadly, a strategic relationship with the international community, a partnership. and they spoke very clearly in their desire to do that. when you go out to the villagees, when you talk to the afghan people and they think back across all of the progress that they have either witnessed or benefitted from in the last 10 years and in particular the last few years, they recognize that so much of that has been accomplished by the partn

influence their elections just scratch the surface the truth is the codes have built an entire network around the nation to launder their fortunes through a variety of nonprofit organizations and spend millions of dollars writing conservative lawmakers without having the koch name ever pop up in the federal elections commission database joining me now to talk about how to coax pull us off his leap on investigative reporter with united republican republic report a great new endeavor and i encourage everybody to get over and subscribe for your daily briefing it's brilliant thank you and rather badly to be here tell us how the koch brothers managed to get all this money into elections to get republicans elected wrongly we're talking about all these republicans these tea partiers who have elected in two thousand and ten how do you manage to do this without showing up on federal election commission forms but we are two years out from the two thousand and ten midterm elections the first major election after citizens united and we're just figuring out how the koch brothers manipulated the election and elected

an entire weekend. wow. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is meteorologist bill karins with a look at the forecast. >> the tornadoes won't be until later today. an important point. let's see who is at concern now. potential for large hail. this is the warm front trying to lift to the north. warm front is coming up from arkansas into missouri and they are knocked down at the surface and higher up than most thunderstorms. hail is the threat and don't have to worry about tornadoes with these storms. a watch box that includes st. louis and all of central missouri. large hail is your threat. as far as breaking down the timing. this is the warm front that lifts north. the bright red, thunderstorms, hail possible up into the northern ohio valley and kentucky and ohio and indiana two rounds of storm. first one the warm front and hail potential and 3:00 p.m. on the cold front we see the tornado threat beginning here in areas of western kentucky, western tennessee, then by about 6:00 pc.m., we should be the midst of our possible tornado outbreak later today and through central tennessee

rush was back at it again today, only this time attack an entire organization of women. >> the nags, the nationalt name for the new gang. any way, the president of the n now gang was speaking to the nation, laughing about what i had done, they are not offended, folks. they are not outraged, they are not upset over the moral depravity of any of this, it, they are happy, clapping their hands a godsend. >> calling her and fellow women nags, giving them a pet name? this is outside appalling, joining me now is terry o'neill, president of the national organization of women. thanks for joining us. terry what is your response to rush limbaugh today? >> the fact is rush limbaugh appears to think he can somehow gain from continuing his relentless attacks on women and the reality is that what he is i in fact achieving is women are mobilize on on their own, through now chant hearse throughout the country, organizations with us, the feminist majority foundation urkt american association of university women, womens' groups around the country are sitting up and taking notice of his relentless attacks on women a

progress, we celebrate the ability to respond to the needs of a community with an entire partnership of commitment. we have the national hiv-aids strategy in the u.s. and the rolling out of that strategy, despite the enormous fiscal pressures the government faces, we have increased our spending in each budget year. we celebrate the commitment to an aids-free generation. we'll be looking at the scaleup of effective treatment. we'll be looking forward to the reauthorization of the pepfar program. and we'll be focusing on the translation of science to policy and policy to action. we'll be looking at new technologies, at microbes. we'll be looking at preexposure proflax sis and the impact of treatment or both incidence and death rates. i think there are very exciting possibilities. we know that treatment works as prevention between one individual and another. we're going to focus now on treatment as prevention on a population basis and document the impact of that. and optimize it so that we can do it as effectively as possible. we're also looking at the impact of pepfar and hiv programs on systems. not only has pepfar achi

humiliating because the guy sitting next to me can memorize the order of an entire deck of cards in 63 seconds. makes him the nationalpion. and here is the most amazing part. there is nothing troid about his brain. >> ace of hearts, 10 of clubs, ace of spades. >> reporter: do you have a photographic memory? >> it's just average. >> reporter: the began with his grandmother got alzheimers and he got scared. he stumbled in the world of memory competitions and he realized the athletes are ordinary people but they learned an ancient technique. enter once you have it down, you may be able to memize the zip codes of complete strangers. >> on 2719. >> give him a hand. >> reporter: the key to associate images with mundane names or numbers. my zip code is 10007. >> to me, 100 to me is 07 is james bond smoch i picture frankenstein sipping a martini. and i would stick that on a news anchor hair. i would picture frankenstein into your wave there. >> reporter: so point taken. back to dog brain. >> oprah winfrey giving me a ford festiva. behold. the jack of dild, the quin of quins and the king of clubs. >> pretty cool, right? >> re

an entire. just one of the skills that makes nelson dellis the reigning national thmemory champion. there is nothing extraordinary about his brain. >> ten of clubs, ace of spalds, three of spades, six of diamonds. >> reporter: you have a photographic memory naturally? >> no, my memory is just average. >> reporter: it all began when his grandmother got alz him ears. and he got scared. >> i was really kind of concerned for myself and what that might mean for me. >> reporter: so in searching for mental drills on the internet, he stumbled into the world of memory competition. >> you may begin. >> reporter: and realized that all of the meaathletes are of average brain, too. it's all because of ancient techniques. you too may be able to memorize the zip colds of a few dozen complete strangers. >> how about this guy? >> 02694? 06787. 02719. >> reporter: give him a hand! >> thank you. >> reporter: i remember that the blond is denmark. is that right? yes! the key is to associate mental images with mundane names or numbers. the more bizarre, the better. >> so my name is bill weir, my zip code

i also believe the entire world depends on a strong andat the fs nation, our principles change the world. that declaration of independence was an inspiration to the entire world. our constitution as the blueprint for the way forward. we have a president who says he wants to fundamentally transform america, to turn us into sending we are not. i did not want to become like europe. europe does not work in europe. it is not going to work here. [applause] i want to restore to america at the principles that made america the nation we are, and i happen to believe that despite the challenges we have, that if we have a leader and leaders who will tell the truth at a live with integrity and who know how to lead because they have actually led before that we can overcome any challenges. i intend to be the leader with your help. get out and vote on tuesday. thank you so much. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] ♪ >> candidates spending a lot of time in ohio even though there is a vote today on washington state. a victory in washington can be fleeting as

humiliating because the guy sitting next to me can memorize the order of an entire deck of cards in 63 secs. it makes nelson the reigning nationaln. it began when his grandmother got alzheimer's and he got scared. he stumbled into the world of memory competition. all these people are order people with order brains. they've all learned the ancient but simple technique. once you have it down, you, too, might be able to memorize the zip codes of a few dozen complete strangers. >> 02718, 02719. >> give him a hand. >> reporter: the key is to associate vivid images. my zip code is 10007. >> 100 is frankenstein. 07 is james bond. i picture frankenstein sip marg teeny. >> so how would you -- >> you have anchor hair. oprah winfrey giving me a ford festiva. jack of diamonds. queen of diamonds. >> mm-hmm. >> and king of clubs. >> there you go. >> look at that! >>

nation, this entire campaign people have dismissed mitt romney as an out of touch superwealthy 1%er who can't connect with the average american. but he puts his pants on like everybody else. one leg at a time, right after consulting with a pant strategist. but mitt has finally found a way to comment to the common man. humor. on a recent conference call with wisconsin supporters, he trotted out a favorite shaggy dog story and this time it doesn't involve strapping the shaggy dog to the roof of his car. jim? >> you may remember that my father george romney was president of an automobile company called american motors. and they had a factory in michigan. he decided to close the victory in michigan and move all the production to wisconsin. now later he decided to run for governor of michigan. and i recall at one parade where he was going down the streets. he was lead by a band, that did not know how to play the michigan fight song it only knew how to play the wisconsin fight song. so every time they would start playing on wisconsin, on wisconsin, my dad's political people would jump up and

what that's like to be in that situation seen through the eyes of an individual who has never been on the national stage in her entire life which makes for an extremely dramatic story. and i think it's what drew us to this story. >> rose: she is not buying that. >> it's true. >> let's be clear -- >> the vast majority of the critics those few that have been critical that have made a lot of noise in the last couple weeks haven't seen the movie. >> people don't want to fight but they wanted to see a brilliantly produced entertaining adequately written movie. [laughter] >> rose: -- compared to the book. >> -- that would be -- >> people shouldn't approach it as a partisan thing. >> rose: how should they approach it as a good story. >> good story well told about american history. >> it's about our political process. >> rose: the questions to ask are. >> is every contest a win at all costs situation, are there actually people say country first but you know, is it country first that takes such big risks rush that back do it so much in secret you can't figure out everything you need to know about a candidate. is the process s