bob costas in the house! cheers and applause ] ♪ we love you, buddy. [ applause ] we love bob costas. >> i don't have enough to do during super bowl week. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, you have nothing to do. >> no. >> jimmy: thank you for coming. >> looking for some work. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, we already ran into each other. we've seen each other here in indianapolis. earlier in the week, we kidnapped you to try to get super bowl tickets. [ laughter ] >> how did -- how did that work out? i was eventually released. did you get the tickets? >> jimmy: no, you gave me the finger. do you remember that? yeah. [ laughter ] >> i said there was a bag over my head. it was a confusing set of circumstances. >> jimmy: this was very true. there was a bag over your head. take a look at what happened. ♪ i'm bob costas i'll you have killed ♪ ♪ then the graphics guy said did i say you could talk ♪ ♪ and he back hands bob with a vicious bitch slap ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> no stunt double either. >> jimmy: i'll have

call of the plan and just do the comedy bit and bob's like you two are going down ♪ ♪ for this i'm bob costas ♪ ♪ and he backhands bob with a vicious bitch slap ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ all of a sudden you see a cop car so the graphics guy puts a bag on bob's head it's the feds they'll never ♪ ♪ take me alive and he slams on the gas and now it's a car chase like something out of the movie ♪ ♪ fast and furious i thought vin diesel was great in fast five spoiler alert i haven't seen it yet ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ graphics guys says i think we lost that cop he pulls off the road into a parking garage ♪ ♪ but it's not a parking garage it's the indy 500 raceway ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ then marco andretti pulls up beside you hey little girl you lost or something ♪ ♪ he then challenges you to a drag race bob costas yells suck our tailpipe ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ and just like that the race is on and the graphics guy is doing 200 miles per hour and now you're ♪ ♪ freaking out cause if you crash you can't do head swap ♪ ♪ so you round some turns and see the checkered flag and you cross the fin

bob costa, is that fair?i think that's the exact interpretation p pi think that's where this race stands. on super tuts we'll probably see a push. newt will win the south, santorum the mitt wefd. romney's strong nationally in different pockets. this is a push. the race is not moving in any direction. it's still a big fight, big scramble. >> there's a story running late this evening that sheldon adelson, who is newt's casino las vegas financial backer is not committing any more money. trust me, that's the story. now, you may corroborate it or not, but that's it. if that is the case, isn't that a huge body blow to newt gingrich? >> it really is, larry. even before you mentioned that, i was going to say that, you know, it's a push unless newt really implodes, and if he starts losing in the south and santorum starts winning there, then you might see the sort of logjam we're in start to break up and you might see things start to go one way or the other. but i think that robert's right. it's really hard to say righ

you could get a great commentator, bob costas for $20,000 a year. wonder what bob is doing today. hello. >> just to his point, with the greatest game i played, afc championship game at the rca dome here in indianapolis. [ applause ] >> i can tell you this. not one person, no matter how much they paid for that ticket, would have not wanted to be at that game. that's a fact. >> thank you all very much. okay. we're far from finished here at indianapolis. john harbaugh, dick ver meal are up next. >>> still to come tonight, national football league commissioner roger goodell. live on stage for a one-on-one interview. and nbc's nfl analyst preview the super bowl. and up next, a panel of coaches joins bob costas to offer their thoughts on the game when we return to indianapolis. of these scoops chips? it was the 1990s. dips had become extreme. layers of intense ingredients. it was too much. no! [ sighs ] i was a broken chip, and i needed to change. but how? i wandered the world looking for answers. i looked at stuff. then it hit me. i'd change my shape. now i'm ready for any dip. even th

bob costa, is santorum overstepping on his culture war, religious war in the final, literally, 48 hours of this primary? >> santorum had a great economic op-ed in today's "wall street journal." but you're not hearing a lot about it on the campaign trail. instead you hear the culture wars, his fight against jfk's speech in 1960, contraception. it's not the closing message he needs in michigan. >> is this culture war assault which came over the weekend saturday and sunday, the jfk thing of course, is that aimed directly at the evangelicals, or is santorum just freelancing? whatever comes into his head? >> it's a mix of both. santorum knows that romney is strong in the detroit area. romney grew up there. santorum is looking to the evangelical voters in the rural and western parts of michigan. but it's also an example of his undisciplined nature. he is very ex-temp rainious on the trail. he is off the cuff and off message. >> and bob costas, finally, is mitt romney selling his economic plan? his 20% tax cut? and i ask you, because the latest rasmussen poll in effect showed an even tighter r

. >> bob costa, who does vote? is it going to help santorum or help romney?> i think it's going to help santorum. the demographics in michigan are very close to santorum's western pennsylvania base. he thinks if he can go in there and talk about reviving manufacturing, his message will win. >> do you think it was wise for romney to run an op-ed piece in the "detroit news" where the headline is "crony capitalism on a grand scale," meaning he opposed the bailout of detroit. do you think that's good politics for mitt or bad politics? >> these op-eds have been a -- he's known for the writing an op-ed saying "let detroit go bankrupt." romney is seen as the guy who has to go back and key defend it. >> it was a big, big mistake. you put that in the paper. >> and and trum has the same position but doesn't talk about it. >> that's right. why would you put up on something that was going to remind everybody exactly what you don't want to remind them. it's a huge blunder. and he does not many blunder. this is the sail of two fathers. romney talks about his dad. both are

what was mitt's major point to you, bob costa? he had a good weekend in maine and won the cpac poll and he has a real challenge coming up in michigan with santorum hot on his heels. >> it was a fascinating conversation, larry, one because romney acknowledged his challenge. for over a year he's been running in many ways a general election campaign against the president, but in his conversation with national review he said he has to return to his record in massachusetts and remind conservatives that he's one of them. so he hammered his record and hammered his conservative record in massachusetts and that was the theme. it wasn't so much policy ideas or looking ahead to november. it was recognizing that santorum was hot on his heels and he had to talk to them. >> how's that going to play in michigan? >> i hear you that he had a severely conservative speech. okay. i get that, but i'm not sure how severely conservative he's going to play in michigan running up against equally severely conservative rick santorum. romney's people are anx

that helps in the final closing hours. >> bob costa, thank you ever so much for the update.n david corn. he's mother jones' washington bureau chief. steve moore, the "wall street journal" editorial board, and author of "return to prosperity." and michael steele, former rnc chairman. steve moore, one of the things i read romney's speech, i don't care how many people were there and all this other garbage. he's using the language of supply-side conservatives. that's what interested me. unlike george bush, he's talking about putting more money in people's pockets, which is keynesian, demand side, romney talked about the extra dollar earned. it's an incentive model. is he going to convince conservatives now that he really understands the incentive model, the ronald reagan model? >> larry, if mitt romney becomes president, this will be the week that really made him. i think he's had a great week. he did a great job in the debate. and i think this tax policy change, because remember, mitt romney 1.0 wasn't something you or myself or the "wall street journal" editorial pages were ve

there was talk earlier with bob costa, if they ought to go hard after santorum. there are voters out there today that cannot tell you what the mitt romney economic plan is. he has the organizations to go out there with the message and would rather see him go out with the message. >> he needs a very clear message, slash spending, get the debt down and reform the tax code and destroy obama care does it come through? >> it doesn't. it not a clear message on tax policy and spending, but the pro growth message, how do we create more jobs in hthis economy. >> that is key. i want to ask you, how important this whole war between obama care and the catholic church and that goes to religious freedom and that goes to the culture war with evangelicals, how big a topic was that in rick santorum's victory last night? >> i think it was a big factor. i think that people who thinks this is a battle between catholics and the obama administration have it wrong. people of religious faith across the board see it as a violation of the first amendment's free expression of religion caus

bob costa's prompter. this is bob costa's prompter. that right there. for people who don't get it.ight, sit there in a chair on sunday morning and go, action. >> no. if there's a sunday morning play, we just come out sunday morning. no, we're here well in advance. you know, there's a huge setup and there's a lot at stake. >> reporter: they each have three super bowl broadcasts under their belt. they've been planning tomorrow night since august and come kick-off they'll have all of their xs and os covered. >> we have a high school team coming in on friday and they're going to rehearse as the giants and patriots and we'll put them in the forms that they would run so our camera people would get familiar with them. >> reporter: the voice behind the game is al michaels, calling his eighth super bowl game from the booth. does this game get you more excited than all the other big events probably do? >> probably so. but you don't want to go into the game feeling that way. you want to do what got you there. broadcasters are very much like players. all of a sudden, what is tom brady supposed

days after the story broke, nbc's bob costas asked sandusky about that confrontation. >> in 1998 a mother confronts you about taking a shower with her son and inappropriately touching him. two detectives eavesdrop on a conversation with you and you admit that maybe your private parts touched her son. what happened there? >> well, i can't exactly recall what was said there. in terms of what i did say was that, if he felt that way, then i was wrong. >> reporter: it seemed sandusky was confessing to something wrong, but that's not how bob buehner sees it. >> people have characterized sandusky's statements as being a confession. we call it under the law an admission. but it has to be an admission to a crime. hugging in and of itself, even a child under the age of 12, is not necessarily a crime, unless you can show sexual gratification. that's the key. >> reporter: was that statement at least grounds for further investigation? have you tried to get into ray gricar's head and to understand what his thinking may have been when this allegation was presented to his office? >> it's easy for me with

. >> bob costa, please stay with us. >> no more mr. nice guy.his is rick santorum and he's out attacking the, quote, gotcha politics of mitt romney. that happened today. take a listen. he's not interested in talking about the issues. he's interested in trying to pander and make political sauce when there's real substantive issues about how we'll change the government and he's on the wrong side of them. >> all right. more than a few conservatives are always taking swings. first, let's stay with gotcha politics from mr. santorum and distinguished panel, kevin madden he's the 2008 senior adviser and he's helping the campaign this year. matt louis and robert costa is still with us. let me go to you. you heard the santorum clip. what's your reaction to that? >> i disagree with senator santorum. i think this is part of the scrutiny that he's going to endure now as we look at the contest starting to crystallize between he and governor romney. the criticism that's been lobbed at senator santorum has been one that when we're looking at a party that doesn

in a new interview with bob costas madonna pull it is curtain back slightly on her set list. >> can wethe single off the new album. >> yes. >> when springsteen did the show there was all kinds of speculation. he's got to do this one, that one. >> uh-huh. >> if you don't do "like a virgin," "express yourself," something that is from the all time madonna songbook a lot of people will be disappointed. >> i won't disappoint them. ♪ >> for me, this is what i do. it's a great adrenaline rush. >> reporter: ricky kirshner is the producer of the halftime show and says nearly 2,000 people have been working to make the 12 1/2-minute show possible. >> this year is more of an art piece. the music is the soundtrack to visuals, different dance styles, visual styles. and then a few special guests thrown in for fun. ♪ >> reporter: he provided insight into the selection process for the halftime show performer, especially given that madonna's fan base is largely female. >> i think the selection process is mostly driven by the nfl. my only input is can this act be a great halftime show and obviously in th

reporting here from 680 northbound in contra costa county, bob redell, nbc bay area news. >>> it may not sound like a huge celebration but we did manage to find a few places in the bay area that are still selling gas under $4 a gallon. of course we didn't include places like costco which require a paid membership. santa clara arco $3.94. martinez, five star, it's three cents less. it's $3.99 per gallon at the arco in redwood. the chevron at california and steiner in san francisco also. >>> the rising prices are impacting air travel. american, delta, jetblue, united, continental, us airways and southwest all of those have raised prices this month to cover fuel costs. this is in addition to new government regulations forcing airlines to disclose government taxes and fees in ticket prices. there have been four fare hikes this year. it costs between $4 and $10 round trip every time they raise prices. >>> speaking of flights, those into and out of chicago being canceled and delayed this morning by of course snow. it's that time of year snowflakes falling all over chicago roads. just a lit

. >> bob costa, paul krugman says those who say we are fundamentally conservative country are wrong.g a good point. if conservatives are going to articulate a platform for entitlement reform, they better back it up. i think this election is going to be a major test. going to have that paul ryan line, talking about reforming social security and medicaid, if they believe in it, they should do it, but this election will be a test to see if they can back up with they say. >> is this a center right country as we hear so often? >> i think it is a center right country, at least from what i see as a reporter out on the trail. this is a conservative country, but krugman writes having an electorate that is more tethered to the federal government. i think the values are more conservative, but in a fiscal way it is probably getting closer to the federal government than a lot of the conservatives like to admit. >> wes? center right? >> i don't know if i think this country is center right. i think this country believes in the long-term hope and financial stability and safety of the country. so in

bob. 5:04. the former commander of the contra costa county drug squad accused of corruption will tell his side of the story on the dr. phil show. federal judge gave 50-year-old norman welsh permission to travel to los angeles for the taping. he is currently on bail for conspiracy, drug sales, theft and extortion charges. his attorney blames stress for his alleged crime. his appearance is intended to reach out to officers facing similar circumstances and encourage them to seek professional help. >> san francisco mayor ed lee will sign legislation today designed to make the city streets a little nicer. the $248 million road repair and street safety bond passed in november. this will eliminate pot holes throughout the city, hopefully, and seismically strength at any street, overpasses and staircases. the money will also be used to improve bicycle safety and flow on local streets. >> cyclists better watch their speed over the golden gate bridge. there are new digital sensors on the sidewalks to let cyclists know how fast they are going. the bridge district tells the san francisco examiner that the si

bob redell, nbc bay area news. >>> this morning, another packed house in walnut creek, people protest plans for a megachurch to be built right in their own backyard. right now the contra costa county board of soup earn visors in the middle of a special meeting in walnut creek to consider the plan. a religious group wants to blood 66,000-square-foot sanctuary for its 350 members in the sarah nap community outside of walnut creek that is roughly half the size of the average target super store. critics wonder why such a small religious group needs such a large space but supporters say they are not willing to change the size of their church. >> it's like any neighborhood project. there are people that are opposed and not in my backyard and they want to show up and voice their concern and that's what happened last week. and today, the board will make a final decision. so, i'm very confident and very excited that we are gonna get our sanctuary. >> this is calculated and what we are looking at here is -- >> the construction plan calls for a large central dome encircled by 12 smaller domes. classrooms, a book store and a cafe will be built underground. >>> coming up, put it on your

bob at the san francisco flower mart says the east bay used to produce a lot of roses. >> probably about 25 years ago, in alameda and contra costaare feet of hybrid tea rose production so basically roses grown in greenhouses. quite a few square feet. today, nothing. they're gone. >> reporter: suburban sprawl and ever escalating operating costs pushed growers out. but the vast majority of cut flowers grown in the united states still comes from california but they come from the central coast. the internet and the economy have driven down the percentage of flowers grown in california. still, not everyone wants an online deal. >> me, locally grown. i prefer locally grown because i want to support people that live here even though i like the exotic flowers. >> do women really want flowers on valentine's? one retail website says 32% of men intend to show up with flowers today while only 27% of women want them. my advice? don't take a chance. [ laughter ] >>> if you have a story idea, log on to cbssf.com. it's just better that way. click "connect" and scroll down to closer look and send me an email. it's starting to look more like wint

bob redell will be out there coming up. let's check your drive. >> careful. crazy. we're looking here to 680 where we have a construction crew going on. between al costave traffic heading north. to the other part of 680 southbound with the taillights and over the hill into fremont. a smooth drive as things move through this area. back to the happens i think i misfiled this. nobody of that dublin interchange up to al costa. the southbound side, you know it's friday, i don't blame folks, so now the crews are going to clear from the scene. we see the slowing now for highway 4 kicking in. we have speeds in the 20s. the 33 at l street, approaching for highway 4. back to you. >> it is 5:37 now a. chilling discovery in the valley after a tip from a man on death row. >> taking on the issue of pension costs. >> reporter: we're live at the pebble beach pro. this is where tiger woods is making news. live to the monterey peninsula coming up. >> a live look, that is sfo early in the morning. probably gearing up ta fly to town to have a good time on this friday. we'll keep you posted on the weather and the traffic. >> may want to stay in town. check the latest. [ f