you bet that flop? it was a 10-5-4, right? i could have missed it. >> you got 500 as a bet to take black now for $100,000. don't look. >> no. >> no? >> i'm gonna do it soon. >> no, we're off. you've got $1,000. >> no. >> for $50,000 or $100,000? >> $100,000. >> no. >>> three players in for $2,500 a man. flush draw for eli. >> was i on for doubles? >> he bets $4,000. >> last flop came two deuce, 10-5-3. >>> no callers, and he'll take another pot. eli is one of four players at the table to secure a $1 million tournament victory in his career. sharing in that distinction are patrik antonius, howard lederer, and phil ivey, who's done it twice. yet to accomplish the feat are tom dwan and ilary sahamies, but don't take anything away from them. they've won over $1 million in a cash game on plenty of occasions. >> raise to $2,200. >>> the big stack of tom dwan remaining active as he opens the pot with jack-7, suited. antonius calls to $2,200. he'll be heads-up and in position. patrik flops a broadway draw. no p

people are buy progress text on the etfs rather than making bets on individual names. >> one of the issues we talked about last week, we talked about one by two ratio spreads. i think people are looking to those etfs to hedge their portfolios. to both dan and mike's point, you're heading into earnings. earnings last season. you saw similar type of trading and you're also heading into october. this is just historically one of the more volatile months. i don't look at it as the sky is falling. i think it's looking at their positions. looking at their individual stocks saying what etf is the best hedge. what i think is one of the more interesting point is it's not just the xlf trading for people to protect their positions. regional bank etfs, they're buyers of the november puts. normally trades around 500 contracts. they're looking for etfs that are going to protect their portfolios. >> it's not just the qs that people are buying protection on, but it's like these smaller etfs out there. >> we've seen a number of etf and put buyers come in. we saw people do one by twos. i'm willing to get lon

you're betting on the consumer. that's a whole different bet.in fact, this stuff is more expensive than your run of the mill consumer stuff, rob. what's your bet? why do you go there? >> right now what we're doing is watching a trend. as the consumer getting more comfortable, they spend more money. as long as that trend continues to improve, we're in good shape. consumers talk to other consumers. the more comfortable they get, the more that comfort spreads from person to person and the stronger the recovery becomes. if they start going the other way, then we see that trend and then we would be much more conservative. but right now the consumer is actually feeling pretty good about things. that means the fourth quarter could be real powerful. >> brian, we've actually seen apple do amazingly well throughout this recession. a lot of analysts came on and said to me, this is a testament to the product. people even during a recession will still buy this product because they think it's a great product. can we separate the product from the overall econo

. >> so one of your biggest bets when we spoke last was betting on inflation going higher and bill gross was on with you, and he said, well, maybe we could go to 6% or 7%, and you said that would be conservative. what do you think now? >> well, i think if the chinese and japanese stop buying our bonds, we could easily see 15% to 20%, and i think that there are people -- where is the money going to come from? it's not a question of the economy. it's a question of who will lend us the money if they don't? imagine us getting ourselves in the situation where we totally depended on those two countries. it's crazy. >> do you think there's a real risk -- some people say if china stops and the u.s. fails, they fail, too, so it's this -- >> that is the general feeling. i think that is exactly the general feeling, and i don't think that the chinese do want to stop buying our bonds, but i do think there are circumstances that could cause them to have to. >> so if you had to say that the most important thing the united states could do to either stop borrowing or pay it back more quickly or just some

are you seeing any large bearish bets or bullish bets being placed right now? >> you know, the bets last week -- i didn't have a chance to check them today. last week certainly we saw december, 65, $55 puts trading. they moved up a lot in terms of volume and interest last week. >> are we coming back in line, addison, with what the real demand picture is? all yearlong we've been talking about how the price isn't justified and the demand is significantly lower. 10, 15% low is where oil would be. are we heading back to that kind of adjustment? >> i think so. again, i think the $60 level is going to be kind of an equilibrium level. going back to what you were talking about about steel. that's very telling. steel manufacturers are large users of energy. we know that steel prices have softened up. it's one thing out there telling us even though people keep talking about their economic recovery, we're really not outs of the woods yet. >> what do you think about the nasty here? it looks like a bottom in a couple of weeks. it wants to go higher. continue from here? >> i

>> as long as your couch is in the casino you can bet on it. >> last time joe checked it was not.is of cantor gaming. we talked about this because you move into the sxas you're relying on the casinogoers to be there to place those bets. so what do you think of these casino stocks? >> dr. j's been on it for a while. we're going to move in las vegas sands. but then go back to september 16th. look at mgm and lvs. they both traded about 135 million shares. huge volume. shorts got squeezed out. they made basically the highs we've seen for the last year or so and then reversed and went lower. i think that was basically the high for a while. i'm saying get out. >> take a look at the bottom of your screen, we're flashing this, potash cutting its 2009 earnings guidance. i don't know if there's sort of volume in the after-hours action on potash. this is a name you'll want to follow come monday when the markets open and we do see the stock trading lower in the after-hours. again, reducing its 2009 guidance. would anybody buy potash -- >> we've been talking, dennis gartman, pete, we've all be

i think place a huge bet.et it ride and get a little bit higher, then you don't stick with boeing, you just stick with cramer. >>> this friday you don't have to wait until midnight for the night to start. catch cramer at 11:00 every nights of the week. take your double dose of "mad money" weeknights at 6:00 and money" weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 eastern on cnbc. trade, it a straightforward price. >>> let's do sol "mad mail." mr. kram e, if the government mandates health care, i believe it will have a $4,000 to $6,000 of household of consumer spending if a bill with a mandate passes should i move into more defensive stocks? thanks. i do not believe that obama has enough -- he doesn't have enough mote voets so i'm not as concerned. i also think it will be put off until after december. if what you describkriecribed h absolutely. that's one reason why i hedge my bets and i own a stock like a pepsi, why i own an altria, because i feel something like this could happen and the tacks will go up and they will slow the

in other words, if you bet the farm and you get it right, you get a big bonus, but if you bet the farmet your base pay? which on wall street is like 250 grand, not so bad and no penalty really. >> you can't combine prooiflt profit with public risk. the federal guarantees -- >> i got that. but i want to separate that out. let's drill into wall street. here's what i don't understand. you bet the farm, you win, you get a bonus. you bet the farm and lose, should you be forced to give the money back? >> how about if you bet the farm and lose, you go bankrupt? how's that? >> as an individual. me, i'm an individual. how do you make sure that person doesn't go hog wild because right now, if it's tails up, you win. tails down, you win. >> these are strange times. if a shareholder thought compensation was out of whack, they could sell the stock. now, since the government has intervened, it's the view of bureaucra bureaucrats. we ought to be auditing the federal reserve and how they were responsible. we're looking at the wrong -- >> liz, you never did answer his criticism, the federal reserve. >>

making bearish bets on best buy. but that's where the similarities end. in dan's case, he didn't want to spend too much on his trade. >> options prices are bid up little bit here. so i don't want to outright buy options. >> so instead he bought a one by two put spread. >> i want to look at the september 37-35 one by two put spread. >> hold on, what does that mean? it means dan bought one put and then to offset the cost sold not one but two lower-priced books at a lower strike. then to cut his costs, he sold two of the september 35 strike puts for 25 cents each. now his profits are limited to the difference between the 37.5 strike put that he bought and the two that he sold. but remember, dan thought best buy was headed lower, so why would he sell those two 35 strike puts, which is a bullish option strategy. while he thought best buy would fall, he didn't think the stock would go below that $35 level. so he cut his costs and still made a bearish bet. so let's do the math. dan paid 75 cents and collected 50 cents for selling two. total cost of the trade, 25

placing bearish bets in wells fargo in particular. now mike, how do you interpret this action? >> well, one of the things we keep talking about is volatility is coming out of the market a lit bit, but that doesn't necessarily mean as it continues to rally, everybody is completely complacent. that's not what we're seeing here. wells fargo hasn't really participated obviously compared to a name like goldman sachs. a bearish trade in a place where where there isn't that much activity, they bought 50,000 puts and sold 100,000 puts. they expire next week. the xlf will have to sell off 10% to make it pay off. >> if you see this put activity in volatility in general, how do you interpret that? maybe that's just putting on protection at a good price? >> that's a great point. this buyer of those puts is actually buying, you know, a wing here. this is almost a lottery ticket. you know, he paid 15 cents yesterday and 14 cents today for that september 14 put. that's not a lot of capital committed to that trade. so it catches headlines because you see 150,000 contract trade, but it's really

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the fund tracks a basket of futures contracts to bet against oil prices and it's got a big target painn the back of its head by the regulators. so the regulators might decide to increase position limits or impose restrictions on the number of future contracts. a fund can own. and now it really damage you if you own the dto and fin rod, the securities regulator, already said it's going to impose additional margin requirements on december 1st. another regulate or risk for the dto. what's the most worrisome issue here? >> i think it is the fund's pedigree. when the dto was first released. it was the dxo. earlier this month the dxo was shut down by its managers because it became so big it bumped up against regulate or limitations. when one. that pair goes down i start to worry about the other half the dto. i know these are all a mouthful but traded so actively, some brokerage firms, it's up to 35%. of their volume are the thanks i'm talking about. i'm not kidding that's why i'm warning you. the bottom line, a lot of bad etfs out there, toxic financial products that could blow up in your fa

that leads to the trade where you've got to be long things that are betting on lower dollar. why? you stay too long, you worry about inflation. if you then have the other side of that where you pull out too quickly, you take the training wheels off, you are looking at double-dip recession. this right now is a precarious position that we are in. we created ourselves, it is problematic. how we get out of it, that's the answer to where the market goes going forward. >> given that scenario, forget the double dip. i would rather leave those training wheels on. >> i'm with you on that one. that's why the dollar continues to decline. >>> let's look at oil, joe. oil, interesting dichotomy in terms of performance when you compare it to stocks. welcome to "the chart of the day." >>> coming into the july cold war, oil was training a little south of 70 bucks. you look now it's $2.50 lower. unless we get a dramatic rally tomorrow on the last day of the quarter, the oils future price will be lower than a quarter than all the other risky assets. it calls into question oil futures themselves. you

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scheme where is they would take out a bet against -- they would bet against the bet. then take out an insurance policy against both bets. it was just absolutely -- absolutely crazy, insane. and it has almost wrecked us. >> the statement a year ago was if we did not intervene, if we did not pour as much money in as we did to the banks, if we didn't get that money it meant another great depression. in retrospect, was there any truth to that? >> well, we'll never know. >> yeah. >> but they are masters at manipulating the fear in people. everyone had to act right away. you couldn't have any hearings. don't even read the bill. >> it's written on the back of somebody's cocktail napkin. >> it's about two and a half pages long, about $1 billion a word. just pass it. these guys are great at what they do. it was almost a replay -- because here it was six weeks, eight weeks before the election. you know, go back to 2002. six, eight weeks before the election, mushroom clouds, missile city london, et cetera, et cetera. you know, steel rods, balloo balloons -- glierds that could ma

. >>> delaware's new sports betting lottery starts this week and officials have released details.icials said yesterday that the sports lottery will have minimum wagers of $2, and maximum wagers of $3,000. for each wager, bidders must pick the correct outcomes of at least three national football league games in what is known as a multiple bet or parlay. it will use three types of parlay cards including different types of point spreads. gamblers will be allowed to bet off the board, which means they can go up to the sports book windows at the casinos, examine the latest odds and then place their parlay wagers. >>> when it comes to bringing slots to maryland, baltimore is rolling out the welcome mat while runlet county seems to be dragging its feet. the "washington post" reports that the project is on track in baltimore, but a divided anne arundel county council is continuing 20 delay a vote on zoning for casinos. and tonight, residents are expected to pack a state hearing to argue that the project is a bad pick for the family-oriented anne arundel mall. >>> well, a popular tv progra

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. >>> and america's big bet, alternative energy. but you can't build electric cars to get rid of those foul emissions without rare metals. the problem is as "street signs" viewers know, china controls those metals. we found the one american company in the game. they're with us exclusively. that's our show, it starts now. let's show you the market trade. right now up about 31 points for the dow jones industrial average. obviously, the deal story related to food. kraft with his hostile bid for cadbury. cadbury says go take a hike. but nonetheless people are encouraged there could be active activity in the food sector for deals. we have two key speeches from president obama in just two days now that everyone is back to school. today is education. tomorrow a joint address to congress on health care. now, in health care obviously a lot of talk is going to be on the public option. we have the ceo of schering-plough. fred, i want to bring you in here just to give your throw, your take on a public option. as someone who has run several big

bet against the bet and then take out an insurance policy against both bets. and it was just absolutely, absolutely crazy, insane. and it has almost wrecked us. >> the statement a year ago at this time was, if we did not intervene, if we did not pour in as much money as necessary for the banks, the insurance industries and everything else, if we didn't give that money, it meant another great depression. in retrospect, was there any truth to that? >> well, we'll never know. >> yeah. >> but they are masters at manipulating the fear in people. i mean, it had -- everyone had to act right away. we couldn't have any hearings. you could -- don't even read the bill. >> no. first off, it's written on the back of somebody's cocktail napkin. >> right. two-and-a-half pages long, about a billion dollars a word. >> don't read the bill, just pass it. and i mean, these guys are -- boy, they're great at what they do, and it was almost a replay, because here it was six weeks, eight weeks before the election. you know, go back to 2002, six, eight weeks before the election, mushr

if it is a good bet they'll buy them on a risk adjusted basis. if not they won't and maybe they shouldn't be doing these programs. >> that's the problem. the investors can't buy it because the rating agencies have downgraded their ratings at such a significant level they're not able to buy them in the secondary markets. that's why the government is stepping in as a lender of last resort. >> what about the government tony put forward. should the government be involved in social policy such as this? isn't that what got us in trouble with the first place with the sub prime crisis? >> i think that's because government wasn't involved early enough in the process. secondly in the same way tony opposed t.a.r.p. -- >> i didn't oppose t.a.r.p. i'm a strong supporter of t.a.r.p. >> you should have. >> good for you that you did. in the same way many republicans opposed the government stepping in there, and many republicans opposed the economic recovery plan, these are temporary measures intended as bridge loans to get the economy out of the rut and people s

there are some things you can bet there will be talking about. we no vaccinations will likely not be ready until november. most folks would not be protected from the forest until around thanksgiving. the swine flu spreads via personal conduct. one of the things you can bet will be a part of their plan to deal with this is to inform folks until the vaccination is ready is to wash their hands. there'll be a lot of antibacterial material in schools like this. matt brock, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> you can get your seasonal flu shot in drugs grow -- in drug stores across the area. the campaign is starting earlier this year because they are anticipating greater demand. you should get the shots as soon as they are available. >> a lot of people will be coming down with psychosomatic symptoms. we have 57 degrees. >> when we return, a local student gets the gift of life. >> i can run. i can jump. i can swim. i can be normal. >> we will show you the amazing commission that made his new life possible. >> temperatures have dropped into the 40's in the sub

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south on." , your best bet is to go over to 355 and get on." south of the scene. >> thank you. >>> big developments in what has become an act of defiance. >> this move is testing the patience of the u.s. and its allies. john hendren has more. good morning. >> good morning. iran is facing intense scrutiny today amid they can become a nuclear power in as few as three years. in yet another move, iran tested missiles capable of striking israel and europe. this happened over the weekend and again this morning. there are reports of a secret nuclear facility. >> they have been building a covert in richmond facility for several years. >> ok'd -- ahmadinejad denied this had anything to do with nuclear weapons. >> happen may accuse us of engaging in an activity that did not take place. >> a weakened, but dead job is making a show of force. iran is believed to be five years away from making a nuclear weapon. >> ahmadinejad might be losing support of his own people. i think the clock is ticking and in our favor. >> the u.s. will hold its first diplomatic m

they are betting audiences will want to tune in to see a familiar face that's been bringing them laughs for the last 17 years. >> we'll see you in september. >> reporter: it was barely three months ago that jaily leno said farewell to the "tonight show." >> it seems like 10 years ago. >> reporter: maybe because there have been near constant reminders about his move to primetime. >> yeah i'm ready to go on. i think the nbc hype machine has done its job. >> reporter: jay leno show will replace nightly dramas with an hour stuffed with even more comedy than his old show. >> people like the monologue, headlines, jay-walking, that stuff. and we have added new things as well. >> reporter: like a massive new studio still being tweaked last week in rehearsals. >> hello. can you fix that. hang on, we're not getting feed. >> reporter: the first guest on the new set will be leno's long-time friend jerry seinfeld. >> he's an icon especially here on nbc. it should make the premier easy. >>reporter: music is also covered with jay-z, rihanna and can way west. >> if you put a combination of people toget

so it was an extraordinary bet that obama took and he won the bet, i think, for me, appealingly, because he was prepared to embrace the power of language. part of the atwater-rove assumption, which went along with assuming that americans were just turned off by politics, you know, and it turned out, what is it, 70 million people watched the first debate, that they were ready to listen to different kinds of language and obama came at them with an extraordinary movement. on the one hand, the language of our grandchildren, the language of the blog, the language of the web, which, you know, circumnavigated around the old tried and true campaign machinery of spin and on the other hand, the brand new contemporary street mobilizing of the kids and the students and mobilizing $10 at a time, a staggering amount of money for the campaign, and on the other hand, of course, what obama brought back into american public life was the beauty of public rhetoric. now, you all know that in the 19th century, you had to pass exams in rhetoric to get through high school in many states and in college. i actual

is this the time to place your bets on the delivery company. brian stuckland is president and trader at stutland equities. thanks for being here. >> thanks, scott. >> new money today to work on fed? >> i was looking at fedex today. i was looking at the option activity here. what you've seen is option traders taking bets maybe that you're going to see the stock a little range-bound the next few months. as i see the stock pull back toward that $75 level, that's probably where i start to get in on fedex. certainly this move is any indication they've made could be an indication the stock and transports themselves start to move higher going forward. >> how do you compare fedex to u.s.p.? do you like one better than the other and why? >> we've been advising my clients to stay in u.p.s. i like that a little bit better. it's a warren buffett favorite. the fundamentals are a little stronger. one caution placed today is 12,000 puts to the 55 strike were bet on. a buyer coming in today, maybe taking a protection to the down side that u.p.s. may not have t

they're betting on us and the world is betting on us. >> for now that certainly appears to be true. i want to throw up a screen to get you to react to it. he hit on something we've been talking a lot f we're issuing all this debt, why don't americans commit more to american debt. in 2007 americans net sold u.s. debt. in 2008 they bought. 2009 look at that huge increase. from 190 to $850 billion. is that indicative of americans committing to america or is that just we issued so much more, percent stayed the same. >> it's a bit of both. we're issuing a lot of debt. just to keep their share, they're going to buy more. americans are also saving more. it's a good thing. it's tough for the recovery, but in the long term we need to save more, and those numbers that jim had, that's an indication of americans finally saving more in a safe way. in attractive securities from the treasury. >> jim -- >> i was also going to say it's a risk reference. it's what american -- chinese investors want the safety of u.s. treasury bonds. american investors until this past year, they were interested in tak

michael moore, we made a bet, he claimed george w. bush would be impeached before serving eight years in office. listen to this. >> i'll bet you on that. ok. you're on. and we -- and then -- he says, well, what do i have to do if i lose? and i said, well, if you lose, sean, you're going to have to on your show one night wear a big button that says i love hillary. and then he said ok, and if you lose, you have to stand in front. white house with a sign that says sean hannity was right. >> you're on wull street. i give -- on wall street. >> i give you the chance. sean: sean hannity was right. we'll have more of that interview and our great american panel. the saga with david paterson and the white house continues. it was reported that president obama asked paterson not to seek re-election. not only is paterson ignoring the alleged request, from his party's leader, he's fighting back with strong words of his own. yesterday, he took a shot at the obama administration's record. he told reporters he is not surprised the white house is so co

those who were betting on nato, we now say to them that we're going to bet on sato. muammar qaddafi criticized the u.s. and other powers saying that they face terrorism, but they, themselves have create the phenomenon. they live in a state offer to roar result of the hatred they generate. >> it's always good advice to read the fine print. now there is a move underway to get your representatives here in washington to actually read the fine and not so fine print of the laws they vote on that govern your life. so why is this effort getting so much resistance? we report, you decide? here is chief washington correspondent jim angle. >> congress is wrestling with sweeping legislation, everything from changing the way we use energy to a fundamental reform of healthcare. now, some senators are asking a nagging question about the latest healthcare proposal, does anyone know what's in it? >> it is a 1,000-page bill. we at least ought to know what we're voting on and the american people ought to know. 72 hours posted beforehand is totally reasonable. >> last week, as the senate

you bet. thank you again. nancy, thank you. marcus. you bet. tammy, thank you. all righty. people, fast money. ok! when we come back, kim and zakiya are here. they got $18,000 in their bank account for fast money. let's see if we can write them a check. stay with us. john: welcome back to the "feud." well, the patterson family looked like they were gonna be swept off the board, but they took it all the way to victory across the finish line there. fast money now. they got $18,000 in their bank, and remember, you got one victory down. if you win 5 games, you go home in a brand-new car. good luck to you. now you got kim as your partner. she's offstage right now, where she can't see or hear any of your answers. i'm gonna ask you 5 questions over 20 seconds. give me the most popular answer if you can, and if you can't think of anything to say, simply say, "pass" and we'll come back to it if we have time. simple rules. you and kim together get 200 points, you empty your bank account, which stands at... >> 18,000. john: $18,000. here we go. >> whoo! whoo! john: all right. 20 secon

i think it is a good bet for the long term, a very good bet. >> what do you like, ben?> i like efa, that index fund for the developed countries, europe and country. i just don't think individual stocks can be picked by the individual investo

that's what you want to bet on. i still go back to jeff reez. richard handler, these guys were hiring when everybody else was firing. it's broken out above 24, probably heading to 29. they just released a product again. our little friend art hogan on the morning show was talking about it. i like jeffries. that's our street survivor. i'll say this because if i don't mention it i'll get a lot of e-mail. how can we not play lynyrd skynyrd music. i know where i was in 1978. i bet you don't. >> i have no idea. carey, what do you think about goldman sachs? do you think it's had its run so far? lloyd can be the smartest man in the room no matter what room he's in, but that doesn't make the stock go higher. >> i don't have a lot of money in this room, but i would not bet against it. would not short it, i mean. >> it is all about fixed incom , commodities. >>> final trade after this. could someone toss me an eleven sixteenths wrench over here? here you go. eleven sixteenths... (announcer) from designing some of the world's cleanest and most fuel-efficien

in fact, i bet the 9/11 attacks trirged more cost to our economy than the $1.5 trillion in losses the banks wrapped up in bad mortgages in the past two years. a trillion dollar war in afghanistan and iraq, untold billions more for new defense. beefed up homeland security, and something easily worth more than that -- the loss of the sense of our own vulnerability. that's priceless. yet our economy recovered and thrived. just as our economy will recover from the shock of the collapse that has racked wall street for the past year. we're going to be okay, i promise you. let's get to obulls and bears. a little pullback never hurt anybody. not much anyway. where was that september pullback i kept hearing about. are people underestimating the upside of what i'm calling the great recovery, bob? >> oh, abc lusolutely. the market is too far, too fast. but this market is a freight train. and to get in front of it and to think you're going to stop it, what we are literally seeing is the day goes by and if they can get it down a little bit, they get it down a little bit. but at 2:00, they hit the

you bet, yes, i did. >> this is not the way any candidate wants to become a party's nominee. and i'm well aware i was not the first choice to voters in the democratic primary. and it's with deep humility that i accept this nomination. it is a tremendous privilege to have the opportunity to continue my campaign for change in annapolis. >> reporter: cohen says his key issues are downtown business investment and reducing city spending. he'll face republican david cordall, a city alderman and law enforcement officer and chris fox a local bar owner. >> i think quite frankly this whole partisan infighting and all this fiasco in the party proves my point that this is something that we need to get rid of this city hall. >> reporter: changing the tone of the race a speaking point for cohen. >> for too long in annapolis our town has been torn apart by bickering and partisan rancor. i will governor the city with civility and respect. >> reporter: it will be an interesting race. election day is november 3rd. >>> the cleanup after last week's massive water main break in done dock still ki

if you bet a dollar on tom delay to win, you will lose a dollar.n starts i pick one contestant to win. then i bet on it. this started -- i think in season four. i predicted that ian ziering would win. he did not. the next season i picked helio castroneves and he did win. in season six i chose kristi yamaguchi and i was right again on that one. season seven i picked lance bass. he did not win, but he did come in third, which is pretty good. and then last season i went with an unknown, giles marini and he did not win, but came in second. i picked him before i even seen him dance. why am i proud of this? anyway, who do i believe will win season nine of "dancing with the stars"? on which celebrity will i wager $1,000 cash? >> hold it, hold it. [ laughter ] >> donny osmond, that's right! donny osmond will win "dancing with the stars." and more importantly, i will win $7,000. i hope. i figure he'll get 10,000 votes from his family alone. congratulations and don't screw this up for me. the president of iran, an all around good guy, mahmoud our members onl

>> oh, you bet. sure, it is.hanged demographically but as virulent as it was. >> president clinton says no way the 2010 mid-term election could resemble those in 1994 when the republicans took the house and senate two years into his first term. >> zazi's father is set to appear at a denver courtroom today accused of lying to federal agents during an investigation into a plan to detonate bombs on u.s. soil. this as new details are surfacing about 24-year-old najibullah sglasy's transformation into an alleged terror mastermind of his kind. michael wilson is a metro reporter with "the new york times" joins us now. thanks for joining us. this is interesting information coming out about najibullah including here he is a guy with a cart. people remember him and remembering their coffee that they wanted, if they wanted sweetener or milk. just a normal guy. >> exactly. as you know, i mean, there is no more normal there everyday guy than a coffee cart guy in new york city. >> this is a person you see every day. the questi

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you bet, yes, i did. >> reporter: this is the first time the state capital has selected an african-american democrat in the primary but she will not get the chance to become the first black mayor. >> we like xena a lot. she had her mistake. she talked about them. in her judgment and we didn't push her one way or the other. in her judgment it would have been difficult for her to continue. >> reporter: now the voters of this historic city will have three choices on election day. one is a republican. the second is an interest party candidate and the third will be whomever the democratic party picks on friday. >> i haven't been any part of any smear campaign or negative campaigning. this doesn't change my strategy. >> reporter: will it likely be one of the folks who was in the primary? >> good question >> but i will be back stronger. >> reporter: i did you tell put calls in with the republican candidate as well as the two democrats who placed second and third in the primary and none returned my phone calls. reporting live, kellye lynn, wjz, eyewitness news. >> the democrats will pick the replac

in tennessee, family members tried to save a man who bet $5 with friends and relatives that he could swim across the rapids. he was swept away when he could no longer hold on to a garden hose. >>> flood waters also ravaged parts of missouri and north carolina forcing hundreds of families to evacuate. as the struggle against the flood waters continues, there's more disturbing news. forecasters in the region expect at least one more day of heavy rains. jay gray, nbc news. >>> and today, president obama is making his debut with the united nations in new york city. from environmental issues to the mideast peace process, there >> first of all, i think it's important to realize that i was actually black before the election. so -- so -- >> really? >> this is true. this is true. >> how long have you been a black man? >> well, yesterday's appearance caps off the president's weekend media blitz aimed at building support for his administration's health care overall. >>> and now, here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. >>> in florida, video from a drug bust shows

vegas casinos have seen a decrease in betting in the past few months. casino owners blame the economy for the downturn, of course. >>> after two days of hoping for break in the weather the space shuttle discovery landed at edwards air force base earlier this evening. the landing while not unusual drew hundreds of eager space enthusiasts, here's gene gleason with the wrap-up. >> reporter: discovery came thundering in. after two days waiting for the weather to clear in florida, nasa gave the go-ahead to land in florida. >> main gear touchdown. >> reporter: for space enthusiasts, a shuttle landing here is not uncommon but it's still something to see. >> not very often that it comes and hey, if the kids get to watch it come down, why not? >> i wanted to see it land for many, many years. >> reporter: discovery's two week mission was an eclectic one. it dropped off supplies and equipment for the space station and carried a treadmill named after stephen colbert. >> so hit the combined load bearing but remember to stretch out first because in space, no one can