bill de blasio has a lovely family.y very proud of them and he should be. >> let me ask you, how do these words then go ahead to hurt the democrats? i was trying to get the speaker, you know, with the question to react to the fact that instead of talking about her campaign, she's got to come out and try to defend bill de blasio against mayor bloomberg. >> i'm not sure bloomberg realize what he had a gift he was giving bill de blasio with those comments. now bill de blasio gets to spend the final days talking about how much he loves his family and how proud he is of them. and the other candidates can not attack him for fear of a backlash. if i were bill de blasio, i'd be sending bloomberg a thank you card for this. but as far as the interview goes, there was a lot there in terms of bloomberg sort of fighting back or pushing back very strongly against perceived criticisms against him. there were some eyebrow-raising comments about how poor people have air conditioners and cars and also talked about if the city is -- if ne

bill de blasio! bill de blasio! >> something else, welcome back to "hardball."s bill de blasio with his family. he won over 40% of the vote, capturing any of his opponents to become new york's next mayor. the polls once had anthony weiner leading the pack of mayoral candidates back in june, not a hundred years ago. he had 25% to his closest rival. or what about eliot spitzer with a 19-point lead in august. well new york would be the laughingstock of the nation if that had come up. they rejected the daily double and instead chose a left turn you might say in the form of bill de blasio. now democrats outnumber republicans, new york has not elected a formal democrat since 1989. this represents a clean break from the bloomberg era and they said they are ready to try something else from bloomberg. we have amy davidson and steve kornacki host of nbc's "up." i like campaigns that matter. everybody's not asleep. they pay attention. they pick up the tabs. they get a sense of who the best person is. and they really do make a spontaneous, exciting, dynamic decision to go i

. >> i want to tell you a little bit about bill de blasio.is the only democrat with the guts to really break from the bloomberg years and he's the only one who will end a stop-and-frisk era that unfairly targets people of color. bill de blasio will be a mayor for every new yorker, no matter where they live or what they look like. and i'd say that even if he weren't my dad. >> bill de blasio has a multiracial family, and like every other candidate in the history of modern political campaigns, he has featured his family in campaign ads. somehow, that has offended michael bloomberg's sensibilities, de blasio has positioned himself as the anti-bloomberg candidate in the race, and it's clearly made the billionaire mayor a little defensive. in an interview with "new york magazine," bloomberg characterized the campaign as one fueled by class warfare and racist to boot. when asked to clarify what he meant by racist, the mayor tried to backtrack -- well, no, no, i mean he's using an appeal with his family to gain support. i think it's obvious to every

by de blasio.at separated bill de blasio, to the point he could run of this number. over christine quinn and bill thompson. >> combination of policing and issues, race, equality. plus housing, voters who cared most about housing, went for de blasio. we have a fairly large black electorate in the city. 28% of democrats who voted to define themselves. they split 42-42. that was not the case down ballot. spitzer did much better among african-american voters who remember his tenure, springer won. hou he is a billionaire. we don't hoeld it against them. comfortable with capitalism. he acted too much, like a billionaire. he want nude rulhe wanted new r. he went along with his orchestration to get an extra term. it is how rich people want special rules. and it hurt her. >> the idea of inequality. progressives often talk about. two cities or two americas, at a national level. that was huge for deblasio. some people outside new york may forget. a minority/majority city. more black, brown, asian people here

quinn, de blasio or 200 rats in a man suit? then good news for gun owners, or any kind of news you want. you're the one with the gun. and my guest is grammy award-winning acoustic ledgend john prin, after the colbert bump, maybe he'll have enough money to buy an electric guitar. happy rosh hashanah, which we all know is the jewish holiday of i have no idea. my riders all left early. this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: hey, welcome to the report. thank you for joining us ladies and gentlemen, i've got to say -- >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: what can i say. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. folks, folks, i want to thank you and thank you for letting me latch on to you like an emotional lamprey an suck the joy from your young vital bodies until they are as dry as a cro

bill de blasio is doing class warfare. all right. how could that be?s family, it's an interracial marriage. >> i always found it interesting that people -- a lot of people call -- people say they do class warfare and things are talking about people describing the situation. and generally the people talking -- saying -- throwing these things out are the ones who perpetuated the situation. some of his policies and things he has done perpetuated class warfare and bill de blasio has described the problem that exists. so it's funny to me and almost just a bit hypocritical that he would say that to him just for putting his family out, just for describing the situation in new york city right now. >> is bloomberg saying the only reason black people would vote for bill de blasio because he's married to a black woman? >> i hope not. oh, he's not putting his family out, is he afraid. i don't know. i think bloomberg is terrified that things that were not correct in his administration are going to be exposed, and corrected. and so would it have to do to do with the

with that said let's go to the remarks he made about bill de blasio.radio this woman saying bill de blasio did not showcase his children and african-american wife, he would be accused of being ashamed of them and politicians across the board from local to national have their families with them at their side. >> yeah, that's right. bill de blasio, much to his credit, he ran citywide a few years ago. he has never been shy about using the same flyers with his black wife and by racial kids. he sends the same flyers to harlem as staten island. and you know, in the past, that would have been a bill no-no and most consultants would advice against that but maybe something changed in the age of obama. for whatever reason it is a plus and not a minus and it helps his kids are good looking and charismat charismatic. >> why is it exploitive, it's his family? >> in the sense that every family, think back to the kennedys, every member of the extended clan out shaking hands and sort of romancing the public and bill de blasio is no exception to that. >> thank you so m

quinn, de blasio or 200 rats in a man suit?hen good news for gun owners, or any kind of news you want. you're the one with the gun. and my guest is grammy award-winning acoustic ledgend john prin, after the colbert bump, maybe he'll have enough money to buy an electric guitar. happy rosh hashanah, which we all know is the jewish holiday of i have no idea. my riders all left early. this is the colbert report. (cheers and applause) captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: hey, welcome to the report. thank you for joining us ladies and gentlemen, i've got to say -- >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: what can i say. thank you so much, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. folks, folks, i want to thank you and thank you for letting me latch on to you like an emotional lamprey an suck the joy from your young vital bodies until they are as dry as a crout

with new comments about race and bill de blasio race.e'll discuss race just ahead. [ tires screech ] ♪ [ male announcer ] 1.21 gigawatts. today, that's easy. ge is revolutionizing power. supercharging turbines with advanced hardware and innovative software. using data predictively to help power entire cities. so the turbines of today... will power us all... into the future. ♪ i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. ready to plan for your future? we'll help you get there. >>> mayor michael bloomberg is once again in the catbird seat following comments made during a new york magazine interview in which he said democratic mayor front-runner bill de blasio was racist for creating campaign commercials that

de blasio. >> sometimes, from time to time. >> ms. quinn. >> once a week, yes. >> once a week and then i clean up after her when she's done. (laughter) >> jon: there's that charm that borders on the edge of dickishness. (laughter) anthony weiner, former congressman, turned amateur photographer-- (laughter) he's really about 10% man and 90% gristle at this point. [bleep] the mayorral campaign was designed as a humble bid for new york voters redemption and forgiveness but now it is somewhat noticeably curved a bit to the right a way from that premise. >> really? is it ambition, a hunger for the big job, the power? >> hard to take you seriously, a hunger for the big job. i have a feeling i stepped into a monty python bid. >> the parade gets under way. >> vote, vote, vote, vote! if i if i am from jamaica? >> jon: call me banaa, am i right, huh? cool runnings. ah, seriously, you people sound ridiculous, vote for me! for more of anthony weiner's alienation of voters we're joined by jessica williams in harlem. any sign of anthony weiner camp

de blasio?hout the count and we will break that 40% number. a lot of folks in the democratic party are calling for unity, which i appreciate. but the bottom line is we're going to keep talking to the people of this city about where we need to go, the changes we need to make, the break from the bloomberg years, the need for a progressive vision for new york city. i'm going to keep doing that until all of the numbers are resolved in the next few days. >> have you talked to bill thompson, you why closest opponent? >> on tuesday night we talked. it's someone i've known for many years. i have a lot of respect for. and he made clear he wanted to look at his options. and i respect that. >> you haven't talked since tuesday night? >> we have not. >> let me go to another opponent. if you are the nominee, as it appears, the republican nominee is mr. lhota, joe lhota. and he said today, and i'm quoting him, that your campaign divides people. how do you respond people? >> rev, i think it's divisive to not ta

would bill de blasio be allowed to come?f color seems so '60s or '70s. >> what i don't want to miss, as much as on the one hand there are issues that face communities and i want white candidates to speak to communities of color, that's why we wanted you here, there is something history making about identity, doesn't mean your candidacy would be better or worse for women or people of color but is different, something embodied in a candidate from those communities. >> no doubt about it. here in boston, people of color make up about 53% of the population. women are about 52% and probably the majority of the electorate. so i understand the historical significance of collecting a woman and a woman of color. that will be big in the city of boston. it's not just people of color or women excited about that notion. a lot of people, men and women and plaques and latinos and asians and whites are all excited about the notion we might be able to make history. the question is, this is a short race. if i'm successful i can write a book on

bill de blasio is married to a black woman and many ads features his biracial family. it is said that he is using his family to gain support. bill de blasio and his daughter responded during a campaign stop on saturday. >> 20 years ago my dad did not know he was running for mayor and did not seek to marry a black woman to put her on display. >> bill de blasio is leading in the polls, the prime ris are set to take place this tuesday. >> it is called the toughest team event in the world. nearly 500 athletes showed up for the annual dolomite race in the mountains. teams faced steep paths but had perfect wetherill day. competition includes running, paragliding and cycling. nfl week one is under way with big match ups. they are not all we have to look forward to. the nfl is enacting a tough policy this season. mike is standing by. tell us about the security measures people are going to be facing? >> i'll be glad to. here in east rutherford, new jersey, the jets and buccaneers will kick off. all the fans will be affected by the security and bag check policy. this will do two

de blasio shares many of the attributes as a campaigner. and not waiver from it. i wonder, do you think it's a fair comparison, susan? it makes me think that inevitability is a bad thing. >> well, i think it's really hard to compare christine quinn to hillary clinton or for that matter bill de blasio to president obama. that's a big stretch in itself. the other thing is, don't forget about the curse of the city council speaker. two previous city council speakers have tried to run. they have been very strong coming out of the box and then they just limp towards the end of the that being said, it is a race for second and it is extremely close and anything can happen. >> right now "new york" magazine is coming out, although these comments were out over the weekend that michael bloomberg had to clarify some things he said that led people to believe and the "new york" magazine is standing by the story that he called de blasio's campaign class warfare and racist. but, quote, i do not think he himself is a racist. it's comparable to me pointing ou

de blasio isn't doing anything out of the ordinary. maybe the only thing out of the ordinary is his wife is american and his children are bi-racial and his son has an afro i wish i could grow. >> that's why i'm so steamed. and a bi-racial person myself, and he worked on hillary clinton's campaign and i work owed on that campaign with him and we had conversations. and he asked me about growing uch bi-racial because he was thinking about issues for his children. been because he planned on running for mayor but because he loves his children. by the way, this is modern america. it is offensive that he would sulgt that showing his family is some kind of edge. >> it is not just modern america. this plan set getting browner and browner and bill de blasio's family is one example of that. it is interesting, the mayor walked this back immediately, even in the interview, he had to walk it back. but people make this mistake all the time, karen. which is the moment that a person of color talks about race, whether about their family or any construct

why did bill de blasio do so well?ed us his family and who he is. dante was a giant factor. and i have to tell you, living in minnesota and being a giant paul wellstone person, when i was in the room last night at the victory party, i haven't felt the paul wellstone energy with any candidate until i did with bill de blasio last night. >> well, and having a young son who, by -- to the -- is african-american, makes the stop and frisk thing is very, very personal. and bill thompson, while he said he was going to change and adjust stop and frisk, came out against those two bills the city council passed. you can't be -- against stop and frisk but then against these bills that the city council passed to do something about it. the mayor vetoed the council then overrode the veto. that was deadly. >> could he win on stop and frisk alone? a big part of his campaign on that and get it done? >> yes. that for me was one of the big issues. and i think that was the opening he saw and smartly took advantage of, because it's not really

the big news last night was not syria, but there was new york's mayoral primary, bill de blasio won the night with his incredibly awesome family. >> they're blowing kisses through the crowd. a very photogenic family. >> jon: i rarely say this about the media, but you're underselling it. photogenic doesn't go anywhere near what these folks are. check this out. >> ladies and gentlemen, and now the smackdown. >> reporter: the entire family, including son dante and daughter kiara did a weird gymnastic move that brought huge cheers from the crowd. [applause] [laughter] >> jon: adopt me. yes, somehow after 12 years of captain soda narc, i think new york city might be ready for a charismatic biracial family with their own synchronized dance moves, that appear to have been beamed here from the 1970s music variety special. who is better than this family? nobody is better than this family. you've got kiara, the confident daughter. you've got dante, the son who is so charming and so charismatic. i mean, he is unbelievable. [laughter] [cheering] [applause] >> jon: how did he do that? [laughter] >>

then there's bill de blasio, who's become front-runner.in some way running a class warfare campaign. class warfare, racist. racist? >> well, no. i mean he's using his family to make an appeal for support. it's fairly obvious what reese doing. i do not think he's racist. it's comparable to me pointing out i'm jewish and attracting the jewish vote. your reaction and do you reject those comments i do. i think he's wrong. >> do you want to elaborate? >> nope. >> look, according to new york police commissioner ray kelly, as we approach the anniversary of september 11th, no may dsz oral candidate has asked for a briefing on terrorism. is this true and why haven't you if it is true? >> frankly the police commissioner and mayor have plit sized a lot of issues in this race. they say that the whole congregation of muslims represent terrorist threats and we are less safe because hundreds and thousands of young men of color are stopped for doing absolutely nothing wrong. i'm not sure how much credibility they have right now, given how eager they are t

bill de blasio has built a broad coalition.oing to appeal to blacks, latinos, asians, women? right now the group you are winning is white catholics. that's the group you have. that's the only grun you're leading in compared to de blasio. >> there's not a community i won't go into, first and foremost. you go to the communities, listen to them, talk to them. i'll talk to them about my agenda for growth, what i'll do about creating jobs, my vision for reforming the public school system, my vision on public safety. believe me, it wins today. last week i went to see the reverend sharpton. we agreed on more things than we disagreed on. >> do you think there's a measurable difference between your position on stop and frisk and bill de blasio's position? both of you said you'd keep some parts in place. >> there's no doubt, i don't want to get rid of stop and frisk. we need to do two things. one, we need to have better community relations. we need to go into the community and explain to them what the federal government, what the federal

bill de blasio, i got a question earlier in this program about him.rk which is a microcosm of the rest of the country. how big is this mayoral race for him to win this thing? >> i think it's huge. >> after bloomberg for 12 years. >> absolutely. i think it gives him chance to speak truth to the problems that reach us today. it's true. we're all going broke and watching wall street shower under record profits. i don't want to throw my body into the volcano to prove ian rand's message was right. >> what are you doing with the fast food situation? >> we need to fight for collective bargaining rights. if you're going to take away my right to live and my food stamps, you can't be outraged when i'm in the streets. >> will this have an impact? >> it absolutely must have an impact. in my opinion, we should double the minimum wage. minimum $10 an hour minimum wage. we should do everything we can to fight for working class americans. >> good to have you with us. that is "the ed show." "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good to have you.

the front-runner is bill de blasio, 39.4%.this is the end of the contest for the democratic nomination. he will have it. running second is bill thompson. at 26%. running third is christine quinn, at 15.4%. john lou, in at fourth. at fourth with 76% of the vote counted. counted here. he has 7.7%. joining me, hunter walker. reporter for "talking points memo" studiously covering the mayoral race. hunter, thank you very much for joining me tonight. bill de blasio within a hair of closing this up on the democratic nomination. what's your reaction to the numbers so far? >> well i think along the lines of what everybody expected. they're pretty close in, with the last bunch of polls. bill de blasio saying he always expected a run-off. a close call. on the edge of what he needs to avoid it. it is natural. they would say they're expecting it. they want to keep expectations low. natural that everyone else is saying they're expecting there will be a run-off. because they want to keep themselves alive. so, i think we will see what happens

new york fnt-runner bill de blasio has all but declared war on the rich. in spain millions' to form their own country. protesting governments that are handing out millions of their earning, craig, i'm glad you are on the show, one reason we brout upset weiing of spain -- situation of spain, any time you got 1.5 million people to protest anything let alone hold hands while protesting, we'reby talk about war of politics of envy, it boils down to something abou race. the fact that people all over world working hard to earn money had enough of government taking it from them. >> charles, you are so right. and you are also right about the coverage of what is going on in catalonia. these people are saying, we do not want to send our renue to other parts of the country where people are not working, that is about what we're dealing with, i got the sheet today request sheet, i starred thinking, i guess i'm considered one of the rich. charles, you know the type of taxes people pay over $250,000 over 31 years we paid millions in taxes and hired thousands of people giv

this time, bill thompson came in far behind bill de blasio.d have possibly force aid r forced a run-off if he challenged the vote count that had de blasio a hair above 40%. instead, bill thompson said this. >> bill de blasio and i want to move our city forward in the same direction. we share the fundamental same views and values. this is bigger than either one of us. and the best way to guarantee that we improve our schools, save our hospitals, create good jobs, protect our people, and their rights. is to come together. the path to getting there -- begins with bill de blasio walking through the doors as the next mayor of the city of new york. >> a classy last hooray. the rewrite is next! vietnam in 1972. [ all ] fort benning, georgia in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know

the front-runner is bill de blasio, 39.4%.atic nomination. he will have it. running second is bill thompson. at 26%. running third is christine quinn, at 15.4%. john lou, in at fourth. at fourth with 76% of the vote counted. counted here. he has 7.7%. joining me, hunter walker. reporter for "talking points memo" studiously covering the mayoral race. hunter, thank you very much for joining me tonight. bill de blasio within a hair of closing this up on the democratic nomination. what's your reaction to the numbers so far? >> well i think along the lines of what everybody expected. they're pretty close in, with the last bunch of polls. bill de blasio saying he always expected a run-off. a close call. on the edge of what he needs to avoid it. it is natural. they would say they're expecting it. they want to keep expectations low. natural that everyone else is saying they're expecting there will be a run-off. because they want to keep themselves alive. so, i think we will see what happens. >> well he has ticked up to 39.5%. you've m

this time, bill thompson came in far behind bill de blasio. could have possibly forced a run-off if he challenged the vote count that had de blasio a hair above 40%. instead, bill thompson said this. >> bill de blasio and i want to move our city forward in the same direction. we share the fundamental same views and values. this is bigger than either one of us. and the best way to guarantee that we improve our schools, save our hospitals, create good jobs, protect our people, and their rights. is to come together. the path to getting there -- begins with bill de blasio walking through the doors as the next mayor of the city of new york. >> a classy last hooray. the rewrite is next! but going back to school is hard... because you work. now, capella university offers a revolutionary new way to get your degree. it's called flexpath and it's the most direct path, leveraging what you've learned on the job and focusing on what you need to know so you can get a degree at your pace. and graduate at the speed of you. flexpath from capella university lea

de blasio who has used his own family as part of his complain artillery? the mayor is trying to do is clean it up in what he said in the statement that you read just a second ago. look, i think if he had to do it over again, i think the mayor is probably trying to say racial appeal as opposed to -- de blasio's campaign was making a racial appeal as opposed to racist. >> but snlts that exactly what mr. bloomberg did? >> what i was going to say is, but so what? bill de blassio is guilty of doing something that mayor bloomberg did in his first campaign for mayor. i put in the piece i wrote today, his own mother, beloved late mother, was in campaign literature, campaigned at least one senior center in 2001. so de blasio is doing what politicians all over the country do all of the time. work with their families, use their families to help humanize them. >> right. so mr. bloomberg is a racist by his own terms. he also condemned de blasio's assessment of new york as being a tale of two cities. but when mr. bloomberg says we should be glad that billionaire russian

lhota now moves on to the general election where he's likely facing democratic candidate bill de blasio, a man so libry, he won the gay vote against a lesbian. ( cheers and applause ) ( laughter ) of course-- ( applause ) of course, that's just in the polls. and by definition, lesbians don't go for polls. ( laughter ) folks, deblawzio, i believe-- and i mean this, de blawzio must be stopped. this mad man wants to raise taxes on thoal making more than half a million dollars a year, costing guys like me about $973. $973? i'll have to stop buying nigh yearly pair of gucci pyrotechnicon loafers. how will i know it's spring? even worse, beblasio tricked voters by running this heartwarming ad featuring his biracial family, a cynical strategy that bloomberg rightly called racist. yes, what is more racist than falling in love with a black woman and fatherrering a child just so you can claim you're against stop and frisk? ( laughter ) and-- and, folks, for the record, i would definitely frisk that kid. i mean, think about it. he could be hiding anything in that 'fro. did we learn nothing from th

i'm not surprised that bill de blasio won without sending any mail.t spot for political mail. i collect it. and i covet the collections of others. this week, knowing i would be talking about this subject, i jumped to the chance to borrow this piece of mail from the rachel maddow show. this is from carl paladino, the republican candidate for governor of new york in the last race. it was sent out to more than 200,000 people. it was the key here, garbage scented mailers, designed to smell like trash. and, by the way, it still smells like trash because he wanted voters to know on a visceral level that new york state capital stinks. but three years later, they still haven't managed to get the stench out of it. even when they don't give off noxious fumes, campaign mailers serve as great records of political history. before he was a four-time president, franklin d. roosevelt was a vice presidential running mate to ohio governor james cox in 1920, documented by this amazing postcard. seven decades late, the republican party in massachusetts tried to turn vote

bill de blasio will face republican candidate joe lhota. those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. 13 people died when a former navy reservist opened fire on a naval base and washington, d.c. on monday, killing 12 people and wounding several others before dying in a shootout with police. the gunman had been identified as aaron alexis, 34-year-old who have been arrested at least twice in the past for shooting related incidents. he got security grants danger the washington navy yard. he was discharged from the navy reserve in 2011, following what officials termed a pattern of misbehavior. the associated press has just reported alexis was treated by the va for serious mental illness him including hearing voices. >> to talk more about the shooting, we are owing by matt apuzzo and adam goldman, they cowrote the new book, "enemies within: inside the nypd's secret spying unit and bin laden's final plo

in the new york city mayor's race, it appeared democrat bill de blasio avoided a runoff by a whisker, pending a count of absentee ballots. republicans nominated joe lhota. on wall street, blue chip stocks shot up again, as jitters over syria eased. the dow jones industrial average gained 135 points to close at 15,326. the nasdaq slid four points to close at 3,725, after apple dropped 5%. the tech giant's loss came as investors registered disappointment with the new iphone lineup announced yesterday. >> woodruff: still ahead on the "newshour," mccain and brzezinski on syria; how mayor bloomberg transformed new york; egypt's prime minister on calming a political crisis and the evolving role of the internet in international adoptions. >> ifill: the president's speech has delayed but not diminished the syria debate on the international stage and on capitol hill. even some who support pursuing both military action and diplomacy still have more questions than answers. one of those is republican senator john mccain of arizona. senator mccain, thank you for joining us. so assuming that the pr

and according to the latest polling, when it counts most, it's bill de blasio leading the pack with 39%the vote he hopes, of course, to top 40. so as to avoid a runoff with bill thompson or christine quinn, who are battling it out for second place. and with just 6% of the vote, it's our self proclaimed future two-term mayor of new york, anthony weiner. meanwhile, eliot spitzer continues his attempt at a political comeback after a sizeable lead over opponent scott stringer early in the race. spitzer now finds himself neck and neck, if not trailing, according to some polls. we're also told there is apparently some sort of republican primary race for mayor going on today, as well. more on that coming up. but first, with the nation gripped with tough questions over syria, leave it to the tea party all-stars to go completely off-road. >> anybody here want to wait in line for their gallbladder to come out? ♪ i saw the sign ♪ it opened up my eyes i saw the sign life is demanding ♪ >>> time for your business entrepreneurs of the week. elaine, tammy and brian are a few of the small business owne

gain support only racist years male mayor bloomberg for thinking that what de blasio is doing is any different than what all other politicians do because the bigger bosses. his wife happens to be black and that is just very very ugly. crazy alert captain america and batman save a kidney for a burning house no really batman and superman saved a kitten from a burning house it all happened over the weekend and not in west virginia at the u.c.h. as t.v. out of west virginia has the story of. john buckland into a markham were both think costume and event at the nearby american legion post they teach positive lessons to chill during the interview. but the lesson became real life they spring into action rushing towards the flames checking to see if anyone was inside a couple living here was out of town their cat couldn't get out it was trapped and had to be resuscitated by a real life superhero first hollywood screenwriters could have written a better speed of hollywood warner brothers has taken a lot of flak for tapping ben affleck to play the dark knight in the next batman movie as one co

de blasio has won a smart campaign.to his chief rivals. >> looking at -- first of all, what do you think the likelihood of him clearing the 42% on tuesday and winning on the spot and if he doesn't, who do you think the opponent is most likely to be for the runoff? >> i have -- you know, the numbers say that he's got a real crack at it. he might. that would require both christine quinn and bill thompson to do shockingly badly. so that's tough. i think the thompson campaign makes an argument, it's spin but it's compelling spin, the polls are underpredicting his support because there's a history of that happening to him in particular and also to credible african-american candidates we don't need to go into that but i think there's a very good chance that he could do better than what the polls are showing which would be a crushing disappointment for him. quinn has had structural problems for a while. high negatives surprisingly high negatives and uncommitted support. at the same time, we shouldn't forget the reason that peo

in a de blasio ad he shows his african-american wife and 16-year-old son. he responded calling bloomberg's comments, quote, inappropriate." according to an nbc for new york, "wall street journal" and mar marist poll he is ahead. >>> the third largest wildfire in the history of california burning through funds and no end in sight. it cost more than $89 million to fight. the price tag could increase by up to 30 times more once the fire is put out. that's a lot of money. now in its fourth week the fire about 80% contained, there are more than 3,400 people still fighting the fire. >>> well, pretty much every parent's nightmare came true at a connecticut festival. 13 children were injured at the norwalk oyster festival when a carnival ride at a fair in southern connecticut malfunctioned sending a group of kids literally straight to the ground. the swing ride apparently lost power while the children were airborne in their swings. the ride continued spinning even as the breakdown occurred. we can tell you most of the injured at the scene were treated and released