. >> you betcha. and that's a nice way of saying it undermined my credibility with congress, and it did. and when i -- the last -- there's nothing worse than the last few weeks sitting there doing the things we felt we needed to do. because right up until the end we were making the loan. doing the b of a deal. and i knew that the american people were angry. and were unhappy with tarp. and the fact is, when there's crisis decision making, if the law is too prescriptive, it then becomes very difficult for decision makers to do what they need to do. >> david, how do you chart the course between that need for flexibility and then the after the fact argument, they were out of control? secretary paulson was king paulson, how do you make that work politically? >> this is what i was speaking to before, and i think this -- we're going to have presidents of different parties at some point and we're going to have different configurations. and we don't want to have this sort of spiral of mistrust so that oversigh

you betcha. dave from harrisburg, pennsylvania.nd boomer from she reeveport, louisiana. >> that's my favorite. >> put them all up. let's make our decisions. >>. >> a. >> c. >> we'll see who the winner is in the next half-hour. >> that is a tease. >> sure is. we'll pick. everybody loves their sunset. >> i think the "gma" choir is the best. >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- individual lan day jus. a woman kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, her family leaps into action. what happened when they tracked him down. >>> plus, an extraordinary comeback story this morning, after a devastating and public injury, kevin ware is back on the court and speaking exclusively to "good morning america." >>> and puppy love. they're here live in studio. wait to meet them. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater w

>> reporter: you betcha. route 7 behind me is busy with rush hour traffic, lots of rain on the road. if you are headed out, dress in layers, take your umbrella or hat. storm team 4 x 4, we have been in and around it all day. 38.9 degrees. a third inch of the rain since the 4:00 news started. the rainfall rate is beginning to increase. the one really nice thing, doug, is the wind, not an awful lot of wind just yet. as you have been talking, we better enjoy the wind free chilly rain. the northwest winds, they are going to be returning tomorrow. back to you, doug. >> blowing that hat off your head. winds upwards of 20 to 30 miles an hour. the windchills will come tumbling down again and that leads to thanksgiving. if you are traveling, get the latest weather conditions on your smartphone or tablet. search nbc washington weather. >> thanks, doug. the roads are a mess and it's only going to get worse as people continue their travels for thanksgiving. transportation reporter, adam tuss is out on i-95 in laurel righ

you betcha. how do you say you're running a city when you're a drunk and a drug addict. >> well, the way these things normally end -- kilpatrick's case in detroit was different. those are real financial abuses and abusing public funds. we don't know if that's the case here. but in a lot of these cases -- i covered my share of them -- what happens is there's a settlement reached to kick the guy out of office, and part of the settle. is we'll pay your legal fees, just get your ass out. >> for him to go on the air like that i thought main they gave him immunity from prosecutor in order to come out. but we see the sense of entitlement in elected officials. an aural a couple weeks ago in "the wall street journal" talking about how people with power, they get drunk with this power and think they're beyond reproach, and this is somebody people are supposed to look up to, and even if he entered rehab, how does the say i'm qualified to be mayor. you're telephoning us you have a problem that will take away

. >> you betcha, doug. now i want to remind everybody it's a good opportunity to have everybody download the stormteam 4 weather app. more on how we think this will play out over the next 24 hours and also your advanced 7 day forecast there as well. light rain and snow rapidly coming to an end. here's the way the next four days are shaping up. mostly sunny for a good part of the day. near 40 on friday. highs in the 40s. we'll talk about that. and a cool start to next week when i talk about that. >>> right now we want to take you live to the national mall. the festival of lights beguns at sundown and will be celebrated until the evening of december 5th. other estimates suggest it may happen in 2070. some folks are already calling this thanksgivikkah. i think you need a hash tag with that. >> sounds like it. baby panda getting plumper by the day. new pictures are coming up next. >>> plus, what is with the gian louis vuitton suitcase? >> and will another injury sideline >>> the russian authorities are orderin

you betcha you do. you know, i have to tell you. i never thought i would get to the point where i was like, "retirement? really?" and it's like, "yeah, looks better every day as we get up here." so, if you were gonna look at your situation and really evaluate it, given that you want to retire in like, you know, six, seven years from now 'cause you're gonna retire -- you're husband's a little bit older than you, so he's gonna be able to retire a year of two before you, correct? >> yes. >> all right. if you've looked at that entire situation, what grade would you give yourself as to the question, "can you meet your goals and retire anywhere from five to seven years from now?" >> a "c"-plus. >> a "c"-plus. let's show everybody your finances. so, linda's 55. tom is 57. they have about $567,000 in retirement. they have about $60,000 in an emergency fund. $41,000 in investments. their home is worth $186,000. and i always love when i see this. there is zero mortgage debt. their consumer debt -- they have about $21,000 there. so you now hav

as a matter of fact, i think even further, and i betcha take away the filibuster foreeverything out itolutely necessary here. the government could not go forward with the -- >> here's the thing. let me tell you the reason. the reasons, it's the second, the d.c. circuit, which is the judges that the -- the president obama was trying to put on the d.c. circuit, are the ones who decide his regulations, and his promulgations and all that stuff. thach that why it was important. >> why couldn't he appoint those judges? >> i don't know why he couldn't apoint the judges. >> there you go. >> this is nothing new. federal judgments and appointments have been opposed by opposing parties from the beginning of time. >> and the d.c. circuit gets the least amount of case work. it's not like it's the 9th or 7th circuit court. little case work oos a whole as a d.c. court. >> shouldn't have been objections. we cannot get past the point that no other president has faced these kind of objections and obstructions to his appointments that president obama has. it's unprecedented, the type of obstructionism he

>> you betcha. >> you've been flying for a long time. >> you bet, yep. i can't wait two years. getting too old to wait. >> thanks to a nationwide fund-raising effort, bill launches brand-new smokey balloon in 2005, less than a year after the accident. and in 2009, bill is back in albuquerque to help celebrate smokey bear's 65th anniversary. but no one involved will forget that fateful day in october when a pilot and his passengers were lucky to escape with their lives. >> you know, with ballooning, the takeoff is optional. landing is a must. and so we just had a landing we didn't expect. >>> all of the people we've met in this hour have been changed by their experiences in ways, large and small, and whether they were saved by others or they found a way to save themselves, they feel lucky to be alive. if you have a video you'd like to send to us, logon to our website, caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera. >>> good morning. coming up on "first look," thanksgiving get away week is being met with cold temperatures and hundr

. >> you betcha. anything for you, liz and adam. on a ticket of progress sieve reform and picked up the occupy wall street momentum for the summer. before last night's big win for deblasio he was on fox closing he will.y down to the he his response one business doing overseas. >> they have to ask themselves a question and make money in america and have a real customer base here or do business in iran? they have to have a choice. they are not going to be able to do both. liz: >> he was talking to you. business in iran is different than china and india. looks like deblasio is not beginning his term as mayor as a best friend of business, but there is still a bit of a question mark about what his leadership is going to meet for wall street in particular. current mayor and billionaire michael bloomberg always seemed to have a hospitable relationship with the major banks. as you mentioned he wants to raise the income tax on new yorkers making more than $500,000 a year. that is certainly fair. that would include many in the c-suite and man

you betcha. dave from harrisburg, pennsylvania. and boomer from shreveport, louisiana. >> oh!> that's my favorite. >> so, put them all up. let's see. let's make our decisions. >> i'm going "d." >> i go "c." >> i'm going with "a." >> "c." >> it looks fakey. >> cgi? >> we'll see who the winner is in the next half-hour. >> oh, wow that is a tease. >> it sure is. #sunsetsunday. that's the new game. we will pick. everybody loves their sunset. they're all the same, we all look west to see them. some do look prettier. >> i think the "gma" choir is the best. thanks, ginger. >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- vigilante justice. when a woman kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend, her family leaps into action. what happened when they tracked him down. and what police are saying about it this morning. >>> plus, an extraordinary comeback story this morning, after a devastating and very public injury, kevin ware is back on the court and speaking exclusively to "gma." >>> and puppy love. the hopeless romantic who used cute pugs to get his gal to say i do. they're here live in studio. wait to