turns out he is a betting man.picture you see is turco apparently betting a canadian fan $5 that chicago would score during tuesday's game. they did and you see the fan paying off the bet with a note on the bill saying habs rule, aka canadiens. turco handed the fan a wad of fives saying turco rules. my guess, betting a fan during a game, probably against nhl rules. >>> in golf, the masters begins this weekend, defending champ phil mickelson is your favorite this year. luke donald won the par three contest. unfortunately, nobody has ever won the par three and the masters in the same year. that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm fred roggin. >>> is everyone's favorite fictional nbc executive leaving the air waves? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, we'll bring you the story of the ambitious young, really young, politician who took control of the new jersey statehouse, if just for a day. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this thursday. we talked abo

i bet you will grow up to be a mathematician. i will give you my address you will have to send me your first paycheck because i taught you this. at this point we would like to thank you very much for coming. if you have any questions. i don't know if we want to open it you will for questions. may be just a few? okay. yes. what's your question? >> how do we get in this program? that is a good question. >> it's an interesting question because the answer with the 3 of us is the same. wh

i bet -- i hate to admit this. i bet $5,000 that the bride wears a dress made of meat.he lady gaga. pays 1 billion to 1. as interested as we are in this wedding here in america, in england, they are going nuts. this guy decided to show his enthusiasm in an exceptionally unusual way. >> this is the grill of a british plumber. he payed 1,000 pounds to have a ten twist paint portraits of the royal couple on his teeth. >> jimmy: unbelievable. someone in england finally gets work done on their teeth, and that is it. even mike tyson was like, hey, that's a really bald idea for a tattoo. guillermo once did something like that. you remember that, guillermo? guillermo got a tattoo last year when lamar odom and khloe kardashian got married. is that still there? can you -- is there any way you can show it to us, guillermo? come on. give us a little smile. there it is. that's them. [ applause ] if they ever get divorced, we're going to have to get them pulled. you know, this is such a special day, not only for william and kate but for the whole country of england. we wanted to send

you can bet on anything. you can bet on if prince harry gonna drop the ring.ou can bet on whether the bride and groom will fluff their lines at the alter. you can bet if it will rang -- rain. you can bet on anything. >> the one i heard about was what color is queen's hat gonna be? i think yellow was most bet. >>> you can watch our live coverage, starting at 2:00 a.m. i did hear they are not taking bets on whether the marriage will last. >>> baseball apology what a brave coach is staying -- saying now. bree: sis, help me create my oasis. marcy: ok, romantic garden? bree: oh, is there a castle nearby? marcy: no, but there's a charming farmhouse. bree: right next to my posh castle! i'm sensing a theme here. well, i am the queen, dear sister. >>> a bay area company that went public on the nasdaq last month will ring the closing bell today. it's an energy efishcy company based in palo alto. the company develops high her -- high performance equipment that saves energy in building and cars. >>> the long-awaited apple iphone goes on sale today. but nasa not what the f

if you have decided to make a major proprietary bets against the market, not if you made that decision, as goldman did, in the next six months, you continue to sell to investors around the world the very kind of securities that you were a betting we're going to collapse or fail, you can do that, right, maybe that is like having two different thoughts in your mind at the same time, the definition of genius, but is that the right thing to do? i think at goldman sachs, they would disagree with me. in fact, i am sure they would disagree with me, but i think that is something they have to think hard about going forward. that tavis: there are some say that everybody in the industry did what goldman had done, we may be would not have had a crisis. >> i think that is adversely an astute observation, because do not forget, goldman sachs was the only wall street firm -- do not forget, there were other hedge fund managers and other people who saw this coming and put their money where their mouth is. goldman was the only wall street firm that saw this coming in the beginning of the summer of 2006,

big payoff gamble in wall street is in foreign currency speculation that's when banks speculate or bet that a certain country let's say turkey's currency is going to collapse and if it does collapse the bankers make off with a ton of money a problem is once this process begins is little turkey can do to stop it with more and more banks there's bet the turkish currency will collapse and the credit agencies will start downgrading turkey's debt cause even more pressure on their economy until finally the turkish currency or their economy or both does indeed collapse it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy these guys are like vultures circling around a wounded animal trying to feast off what little they can before just the bones are left they sit around wait for a country that's in economic trouble and then dive in to make sure it does indeed collapse is what george soros did back in one thousand nine hundred seven in thailand they put of seven hundred million dollars bet that the thai baht would collapse as soon as that nation started getting to an economic trouble seen his move major u.s. b

conservatives and billionaires are betting that the time between now and the elections in november of next year that amount of time is long enough that we're going to forget what they've been up to and they're betting that most people are paying that much attention that more and more people are watching sports on news and that then news on t.v. or people are listening to music and politics on the radio and in the most americans they call themselves independents i call them low information voters really just make up their minds in the final weeks of a campaign based on the ads we see in t.v. and so these cons are betting that they can buy up all the air space saturate the ads carpet bomb us with television ads so no matter how terrible their pet republicans aved now they can get the real likelihood any year and a half let's hope it's a bet they lose. reason f.b.i. numbers show the two hundred forty seven people whose names are listed on the so-called terrorist watch list were allowed to buy guns last year in fact since two thousand and four i was fifteen hundred people on the terrorist

but i take a bet today in front of you, charlie. i bet that you will not have western boots on the ground. we will not be committed to that you americans and us french and for me there is no difference, we share the same values, we share the same creed that you americans... >> bullet me say this. are you prepared to put the boots on the ground if that is the only way to get rid of qaddafi? >> i tell you i was on... i was... i have my own boots on the ground a few days ago. >> did you go in? >> i might have them again in a few days, my own boots on the ground. >> rose: >> but what about western troops? >> i tell you my best is that we will not need that. the war will be much briefer than you believe. because he's not so strong. we always overestimate. >> rose: let me go back to ben. >> wait, you will see he's less strong than maybe we think. >> rose: ben, can the rebel forces win this war and topple qaddafi without the support of either boots on the ground or significant more support militarily than they're getting simply from air po

he's just not selling what he's got he's selling them short which means he's making a huge negative bet against him i just saw that jim rogers another you know big time world famous money manager extraordinary saying yeah i'm going to start selling u.s. treasury bonds when the cold globe gangs up and starts to sell short u.s. government treasury bonds forcing interest rates up five six percent five points in a matter of you know a couple of weeks then of course you know it'll be. america . so as that happens you see the precious metals and commodity prices shooting up but it's also the dollar collapsing you saw on the dollar index it's down below seventy four so instead of looking at that however people come up with this conspiracy theories like we see there had reporting on the theories silver surges over forty six twenty five per ounce as rumors of a short squeeze and cornering markets again creedence so apparently zurich and london are abuzz with rumors that a russian billionaire is buying up huge quantities of silver yury survey still in the russian billionaire they're all intereste

i bet you tell stories. did you tell a story today? >> yeah, i bet you did you went up to our friend and said, did you see that? your friend said, no, no he didn't. right? that's a story. so, i will tell you a story. in india, here we have super heroes like, tell me a hero. >> super man. we have super heroes in india. krishna. lifts mountains and throws them to the ocean to create bridges. i will tell you the story about a super hero. krishna as a little boy in the village where the trees blow and the water flows and the birds fly and the grass grows, in this village there are cows. and people and they go to the river and they go to get their water. and they go to the river and what do they see? an evil demon is polluting the river. callia. and they can't get water because it's killing the cows and the people. so, they go to krishna and say, please, do something about this this is not good. he says, he thinks about it and says, okay. he takes his friends to the river to play. they play ball. they play with the ball and then by accident

all right, well a bet is a bet so recently rob left his comfort zone of new york city, came out to theburbs and came out in a minivan. >> yes, we were burb'ing it up. >> how hard to take care of little beau and isabella just for a day? if this stuff gives you any idea here, everything here, it was a day like no other. take a look. >> my nanny is here! >> hello, baby. >> all right. mama needs a day off. >> i don't blame you. i'm ready to get started. >> come and meet beau and isabella. you will love them. my precious twins you'll be baby-sitting. you change them, feed them and sort of play with them for a little while and that's about it and probably take a nap and you'll be able to relax. >> you make it sound so easy. >> it's really easy. uh-oh, is he getting ready to cry? >> oh, no, don't be upset. >> all right, children, it is feeding time. here we go. for you, beau, isabella, there you go. a little bite for you, sweetheart. you know, you don't want some? you want to drink first? all right that's fine. isabella, come on now. take a little sip. that's the good milk, honey. it'll be al

it's hard to see now who bets him bus he's better organized than anyone. he's very strong in new hampshire. he's got legs and can afford to lose a state or two or three, and keep on going down the road. and i don't see anyone who is that far advanced -- >> you're saying that before he was beaten by huckaby in iowa? >> huckaby weight him in iowa. >> and he did not have the organization and money romney had. but there is so many unknowns. >> lost to huckaby and mccain in new hampshire. >> the whole race was full of surprises. mccain got the nomination, which people did not predict. but the poll on cnn showed huckaby and -- donald trump leading, and what -- >> romney is at 11, huckaby and trump at 19. is romney is the front-runner, he's the weakest republican front-runner we've ever seen, even weaker than john mccain. this health care thing is an albatross. there's no good way to explain it. has all the same aspects every obama care, mandate, subsidies, exchange. he has to work himself up to saying it's an experiment that failed, without being too explicit ab

i'm betting i've been trying it's a day to find someone to take my bet i'm trying to get some one hundred dollars that it goes over that sixty p. a market's in the war powers act i can't find anyone willing to bet me i would bet it goes for several years at least and if the us pulls out europe still might stay in the this is going to be a divided country this is going to be a stalemate and creating a martyr out of gadhafi won't change that there are interested parties on both sides of this war and violence is just not an obvious solution here or anywhere you know airstrikes haven't worked to avoid a stalemate which is what many i have a great a bit of coming to including admiral mike mullen so what makes anybody think that drones which are now remote control air strikes will be more effective and get out of a stalemate and past that. i'm not convinced that anyone thinks they will be effective but i think that a lot of people with good reason believe they will dissuade american hostility to the war because with american lives are not directly at risk. of other people just are not valued in

you bet. 4:51. time to look at the forecast. we have mist and drizzle. fog out there? >> fog going to be flight arrival delays at s.f.o. because of this. you can see it there. this morning, as we look from emeryville to san francisco. it's a moist, mild morning as the air mass is reminiscent of the south. it's tropical than it is up here. for this time of the year. take a look at the temperatures. it's 52 right now in santa rosa, half moon bay. everybody else in the mid-to-upper 50s to 60 at mountain view. around the monterey bay, inland, we have temperatures in the mid-to-upper 50s. so our highlights, afternoon sunshine. warmer today. so the clouds, the drizzle, the fog will all fade starting around 9:00. rain, we'll have some tomorrow. especially in the evening and overnight hours. lingering showers on thursday. dry this weekend with the temperatures close to average, which is where we'll be today. dublin at 69. the cool spot. over on the to the east bay shore. we have the mid-to-upper 60s. look at that, 69 today in castro valley. head to south bay. we have the tempe

really bad for russia and talking about the circus which will benefit from ruble strengthening your bets is definitely consumers and especially retailers so you will see further strengthening your frugal will be absolutely

. >> i think he is betting that they are going to vote for him anyway but being willing to vote is one thing. being able to raise money to get more people to vote is another. and in order for president obama to get re-elected, he needs both money and votes. >> reporter: now, during his west coast trip, a three-day trip, the president says he understands the frustrations with compromises with republicans but he says the budget issues can only be solved if the two parties work together. after san francisco, he is headed to sfo and then to reno for a few hours, and he will end up back in california by the end of the day. he will sleep tonight in the los angeles area. what a day, sydnie, for all the folks who think that they have a long day ahead of them. imagine that. that's why we pay him the big bucks. >> exactly. and he is going to make even more for his campaign and other things today. thanks, anne. anne makovec in san francisco. >>> it is 5:04 now. a man is being questioned by oakland police in connection with a series of sex crimes near lake merritt. the man matches the physical des

as soon as that bet was taken, they closed betting on it. so they have a pretty good idea that that comes from pretty good information that she may be wearing that tiara that day. >> wow. we'll find out. >> we'll be watching. charlie, thanks very much. charlie d'agata live in london covering the royal wedding and again we apologize because there is about a four-second delay between us and charlie. >>> time for weather. we have great news in the weather department. christie has sun balls across the board. >> we have sunshine for sure today and the rest of the week. they can move the royal wedding here and it would be gorgeous this weekend. that trend starts today. mostly clear conditions out the door. temperatures in the 30s to the 50s. into the afternoon only going to warm up and see more sunshine although it will be breezy along the bay shores and at the coastline. a low will bring us more cloud cover in the next couple of days but for today nice weather that's actually more spring- like than recent weeks. 61 in half moon bay and pacifica.

we'll show it to you. >> betting on britain's royal wedding. how people are hoping to cash in on william and kate. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back. bp suing the owner of the oil rig that exploded in the gulf of mexico. suing them for $40 billion. bp says the transocean and the maker of the device that failed to stop the massive spill were negligent and helped cause the disaster. in turn, transocean filed its own suit yesterday looking for bp to pay them $13 million to help them make up for the money lost when the rig sank. >>> the faa says from now on air traffic supervisors will handle flights carrying the first lady or the vice president. the change follows an incident monday when a plane carrying mrs. obama and the vice president's wife had to abort a landing after it got too close to a military cargo plane. >>> in another move by the faa, two air traffic controllers have been fired for sleeping on duty. agency announced the firings last night. one controller worked in miami. the other at knoxville, tennessee. other cases of sleeping contro

page report the report says the goldman sachs misled clients about com and congress about the firm's bets on securities tied to the housing market all in order to profit off of the brewing financial crisis and levin says that he's now going to recommend the goldman executives including chairman and chief executive told lloyd blankfein be referred to the justice department for criminal prosecution it sounds promising and it will be american people are craving but doesn't really have any chance of coming to light joining me from our studio in new york is michael hudson staff writer with the center for public integrity and author of the monster how a gang of predatory lenders and wall street bankers fleeced america and spawned a global crisis michael thanks so much for joining us tonight i must say it's rather exciting to have congress finally pointing fingers finally saying that they're going to work for some people to the justice department for prosecutions but what are the chances we're really going to see lloyd blankfein be put on trial . well i don't know about lloyd blankfein. the chan

on bets on bets on those tend to cancel each other out it really was the housing no if you took all that other stuff away in all you had was the overvaluation of house prices that we had we'd be looking at a very similar situation would be maybe quite as bad but it would be very very the worst recession we've had was very much like the housing project twenty seven if you will it's bigger it's the biggest housing bill we've ever had but i mean in terms of use we saw a massive increase in asset prices when a five twenty seven really twenty eight that popped and then everybody moved into the stock market the market exploded and then that popped right here and went early other way we had the stock market bubble first then the housing bubble so that's the main thing you know i don't see any kind of imminent collapse here and of course the the federal that is just a distraction i mean that's not anything that we should be worried about at this time we really should be worried about unemployment that's the big thing and it will that that's something that i want to get back to the federal d

i bet we will give about the same number of reductions this year as we did last year. it will not be that much different. >> [inaudible] >> anybody that was reviewed -- everybody in san francisco got a letter from us in july. they were told what their assessed value was. there were told that they got a reduction. if they got a reduction based on the letter, they don't need to reapply. what people do is we will review applicants. the deadline is march 31. all 17,000 who got reductions will be reviewed automatically. everyone will get notified again in july. we will not talk to anybody prior to that. everyone else will be getting the standard notification in july. >> [inaudible] you review these every year. >> every year. the reductions we review every year. as the market appreciates, we may take their assessments up based on what the market value is. they may go all the way back up to the factor value. it may go up partially higher. obviously, that is what he would see. you would see a step over the years to include the appreciation based on what the market is feeling.

you can bet whole thing was caught on tape.hile police searched for the spurnghts the store is starting the fund-raising from scratch. >> comments about special education students has a school nurse looking for a new job. marilyn snyder said quote all special ed students need to be euthanized and wiped off the earth. the school board voted unanimously to fire her. snyder said it was a bad choice of words and her heart is broken. >> it's been a year since president obama signed the affordable care law into law. now what's next. >>> a group of people returned home to their families. those stories and a lot more coming up brand-new at 6:00. now a preview of what's ahead on world news at 6:30. >> tonight we'll have all the big breaking news and you have to meet our person of the week. she's only 5'2" but the inspiration of a thousand meant you'll see why. >>> an indiana community is calling a liz officer a hero after pulling a woman out of a burning house. he was a couple blocks away when he heard the 911 calls. the 84-year-old was

the best bet would be on the coast. uncreaseing clouds tonight, we're seeing that. here comes the system, it's very weak, it's that time of year -- if this was last month, this is a very weak system. might be some snow flurries in the mountains. the computer model somehow clouds. 11:00 tonight mostly cloudy. then here's the bag end of the front. still no rain. this is where, right at the front typically where you will have the strongest dynamics. at this point the model says that's not going to many what. i suspect right along the coast you will get that kind of drizzle. weekend is fine, maybe sprinkles tomorrow morning, sunday is the best day on the weekend. late in the day on saturday itscellar mostly sunny as well. forecast highs tomorrow, still warm, 60s and 70s. no record warmth but heck of a nice weekend over all. it's been a really nice run. it is amazing that it was a week ago is that we had flood warnings. and here we are this week with record warmth. >> we were just showing pictures from capa as well. what a difference a week makes. would you donate a kidn

defense contracts are funding at least two wars and those are just the official once so you know i bet tea partiers are not going to be too happy when they hear about this teeny tiny cost cutting measure out are all they are about government spending right cutting government spending but yet again the g.o.p. seems to be too afraid to touch anything that has a d o d label on it no matter how expensive or unnecessary it may be and speaking of government spending let's move on to our next story. the budget battle on capitol hill keeps growing and it's getting fierce your butt hole compromise that thirty three billion dollars last week that was supposedly reached yeah that went out the window and the g.o.p. has prepared another stopgap truck for twelve billion which the president were to it today and to add more fuel to the fire paul ryan released his budget for two thousand and twelve today and ryan laid out as planned he says would cut six point two trillion dollars in spending over the next ten years bringing spending below twenty percent of g.d.p. and reducing the deficit by four point

together and how it worked was if you were an investor if you bought pieces of this deal you were betting that pools of subprime mortgages were going to do well what goldman sachs didn't tell the investors was is they were stocking these pools with toxic waste loans that were almost doomed to fail and they were betting against these pools themselves in the end goldman sachs made one point three billion dollars at the expense of the best hers investors lost a lot of money when one group of investors that had put up a million dollars got back two and a half cents on the dollar so that's a pretty neat trick to turn a million dollars into two hundred. twenty five thousand dollars. so you know and that's just one example these kind of deals were going on on a regular basis on wall street sort of throughout the boom years and then especially if at the end as the market as it was clear that the market was starting to melt down or was going to melt down there was a real rush record in the senate report from from goldman and other players to offload these assets you know to find investors who woul

vicki: you could bet on just about anything these days even the royal wedding. from the color of kate stress to whether the couple will live happily ever after. as of this morning the odds were in favor of them still being together on their 10th anniversary. the wedding is days away, april 29th. as kate middleton will soon be britain's next princess fever is spreading across the country. we take a look at this pro-business boom. > (music) >>reporter: recovery may be for a child and the economic health uncertain, but one thing is for sure of the wedding industry is gearing up for a huge year. the reason? all royal wedding to attract millions maybe even hundreds of millions. this will dictate the trend for a generation. many viewers bringing fond memories of the last royal wedding to garner global attention. >> this will be different than diana's wedding. hers was puffy and bacon huge. this one will be much more elegant, slam and something with more than a line, let's a beautiful hand embellishments. >>reporter: the u.k. with the market is worth $9 billion in tota

. >> i think he is betting they will vote for him any which but being able to raise money to vote isor him to get reelected he needs votes and money. >> reporter: the president not done yet. he has a breakfast tomorrow and apparently all three of the events were sold out so they adan event. that witness is for the breakfast. it's coffee with the president and costs that 35, 8hundred price tag that we talked about earlier and apparently there was a waiting list so they say don't worry the president is coming back. dana. >> i can't believe we are talking about it already. we will be able to track all these events for quite a while before we go for the election. >> thank you. >> little earlier in the day the president held a town hall at facebook in palo alto. when he talked about reducing the deficit. in part by raising taxes on the wealthy. >> then what we have said is let's take another trillon of that lets people like me and frankly you mark, for paying a little more in taxes. >> i'm cool with that. >> i know you are. > the billionaire said he was cool with its plan. the president t

placing bets, huge bets, and placing secret bets against the very securities that they were selling to their clients. and then making big money when the house burned down. senator coburn and his staff, chris barkley, working with me, excuse me, with me, elise bean and her staff have produced an in-depth anatomy of the financial collapse which has affected every american. and i want to thank senator coburn and his staff as well as my own staff for their extraordinary commitment, participation and contribution to this report. it makes all the difference in the world when a action like this is a bipartisan action. it deserves bipartisan support, it has received it from both senator coburn, dr. coburn, myself and our staffs, and it's been a real pleasure to work with dr. coburn and his staff. now let me turn this over to senator coburn for his opening, and then i'm going to return with a much longer statement, and he's going to then have to leave. dr. coburn. >> carl, senator levin, thank you. i'd make four points, two of them are really duplicative of what senator levin made. the first is

. >> we're taking bets on prince phillip to fall asleep during the service and also taking bets on whetherilliam will wear suspect spectacles and also whether kate will jilt william on the alter. >> you don't have to go far to see everything kate and will. you can get your mask here, things like official tea towels and probably not officially sanctioned by the palace shot glasses, so a little bit of everything. it all does add up, though, to a huge boost to the british economy. they're expecting some 600,000 tourists here over the next few days, just for the wedding. so really going to be huge approximate back to you. >> i expect you to come back with some of those pez dispensers for all of us back here. i know it's been wonderful, really sunny, but now rain is expected. is there a backup plan for what will happen to all of those thousands of people out there? >> reporter: well, not for the thousands of people, they do have a backup plan for kate and william if they do have rain on their processional route, they're going to be in a glass-topped carriage so everybody will still get to see t

i bet you it's the size of your big toe.nce. >> just to keep his balance, baby. >> jimmy: hey i want to tell everyone to follow you on twitter right now. because you're in a competition, you're in a race with a roy l. watson. >> please -- all right, everybody, please follow me at twitter, @andersonanthony. it's my name backwards. two reasons, the first between to 20,000 followers between me and my partner, we're giving away an ipad 2, and then when we reach 100,000 followers, or when i reach 100,000 followers we're incorporating all 100,000 people into this film we're producing at the end of the year. >> jimmy: what do you mean, how? >> we have no idea. [ laughter ] names -- we don't know. names, cameos, characters, names of cities and streets. we will incorporate all 100,000 people and when we get to half a million followers @andersonanthony, we're going to give away a car. yeah. [ cheers ] >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. we're going to give away car. >> jimmy: that sounds like fun. that's awesome. follow @andersonanthony? >> ye

they were betting against the deal. they were going short. that was secret. but their marketing materials said that our interests are aligned. if you buy this security, that we have the same interest financially in it as you do. no, it was the opposite interest. >> let me ask you, you are going to recommend that your committee make a referral to the department of justice. i just want to be very clear s that going to have specific recommendations of criminal charges against mr. blankfein and other goldman executives? >> we don't it that way. we would send the report to the department of justice and to the securities and exchange commission and for their review. we don't make the decision as to whether or not there should be either liability by the-- enforced by the securities and exchange commission, the ask ec or whether there should be criminal liability against any of the people who factually we've identify as misleading people or engaging in deception or doing the other kind of improper activities that we lay out in this 600 page report that is not our job