you ever think about taking her to branson? you think she's branson good? well, hell, yeah. they got these fiddle contests there. i used to judge them till they found out i was taking bribes. boy, the best players in the world go to branson. you thinking what i'm thinking? ooh, could i wear a sun dress and play in my bare feet? and we could be your backup band: the dale gribble bluegrass experience. hmm. i like it. aw, no. i'm going to be in fort worthless that weekend auditioning for van boring. ah. well, that's a kick in the teeth. bobby! okay. ♪ blue moon of kentucky keep on shining ♪ ♪ shine on the one that's gone and left... ♪ ( kahn screams ) kahn jr., what is that noise you're making? it sounds like you're killing a seagull with a bagpipe. it's bluegrass, kahn. music made in america. and whether you like it or not your daughter's a natural. mm-hmm. and i'm having more fun than a dog up a bone tree. that's how you say it's fun in bluegrass. ( screaming ) that inbred music is designed so only people with six fingers can play it. your path is van cliburn camp to harvard

it is a brisk evening on the bay and thank you branson. let's head due east towards dublin where this is one of the warmest locations of the day topping off at 87 degrees. currently in the eastern portion of our bay area, it's in the low 80s. san francisco is at 60. santa rosa still mild 83 degrees. this is the scene looking towards the golden gate bridge and it was a little bit more ominous a few minutes ago with the return of the marine layer. 59 degrees cloudy and brisk westerly gusts at 24 miles an hour. what you experienced today is what you get again saturday and sunday. a repeat performance, very little change in the offering for the next seven full days. tonight overnight with a blanket of clouds temperatures in the 50s, last night we dipped down to 48 degrees in santa rosa so not as cool. but definitely a chill in the air. futurecast clouds are filling in at the coast. we'll be more extensive tonight overnight as we approach sun-up tomorrow morning in santa cruz, backing all the way through monterey bay:otherwise clouds will retre

now, "the daily mail" says that big tipper is none other than british billionaire sir richard bransont branson was in town to plan a conference. >> $1,000 each was left on small checks at a bar golf course. so far, no comment from branson. >> to have that much money. >> throw it around. >>> and finally, remember the spelling hint, i before e except after c. we remember that one. here's an example of someone not remembering it. >> that's a new tattoo on the hand of larry sanders. it was supposed to read receive. but it's been misspelled. good thing sanders just inked a $44 million contract with the team. plenty of money to have that tattoo fixed. plenty of money to have that tattoo fixed. >> yikes. r insurance companies say they'll save you by switching, you'd have like, a ton of dollars. but how're they saving you those dollars? a lot of companies might answer "um" or "no comment." then there's esurance. born online, raised by technology and majors in efficiency. so whatever they save, you save. hassle, time, paperwork, hair-tearing out, and yes, especially dollars. esurance. now back

you can have a drink with richard branson in there, odd. me, and it's been done before. you can see the scenery outside the window. i'd rather do that. melissa: could be cool, but terrifying. would you sign up? >> no, not for anything. the richard branson, though, image, is a pr genius. >> yes, he is, yeah. >> terrific pr genius. i think the way -- if the plane is flying low, then the glass bottom plane makes sense, but i'd be treen id. >> yows have to wear payments. melissa: you pay an extra $14 to sit -- if you sit between rows 21 and 25, you can't have kids. what about theperson who paid $14 to sit in row 21, and in 20 is three screaming kids? >> that ll be me. melissa: there's the problem. >> that would be absolutely me, but the plan is a good one, they just have not got it quite right. melissa: always the problem. people talk about, you know, as a parent, i don't want to be trapped on aplane with my own screaming child aike on a different plane, but, you know, if you're all in the same cabin, you know, it is a sphere where the echo bou

the only thing branson has that says come see dolly pardon and her big shirt. >> we had fans from branson the other day. >> you have to look at how coded it is. if you look at the top five unfriendly, newark, oakland, new haven, detroit. those are four. atlantic city. if you look at the friendliest it is like savannah and charleston. it is about what is hospitable. the best way to see newark is from a distance, preferably the space station. this is a dishonest way of presenting this. >> i don't think this is dishonest. >> they are saying don't go to the city. >> south carolina, north carolina, texas, mississippi, colorado. i don't know, pretty red states. unfriendliest, new jersey, california, michigan. >> liberal, liberal. >> go to mississippi for vacation. >> oakland is a beautiful city that is rotten. it is rotten because of liberal policy. >> i want to agree with my colleague here from wherever he is from. you are right. if you look at just the crime rates i would bet you the crime rates up against you would find a direct correlation. >> and economic freedom. if you look at a person's

. >> she was the one in distress, but when billionaire richard branson's caribbean estate went up in flames last summer t was winslet to the rescue, visiting she swooped up his 90-year-old mother and carried her to safety. >> i'm so glad branson's mom got out. he would have carried her himself but his back was occupied. (laughter) now folks with all these super star saviours i'm starting to think that people are putting themselves in danger just to meet celebrities. and i want in. now endangering my own life seems like the easiest way to do it. that is just-- the simplest solution is usually to slice your vein open with a razor and hope to get carried to the hospital by hugh jackman. i love you wolverine. (applause) so i got to say w that in mind coy sure go for some soda pop. i will be right back, folks. excuse me, right back, right back. help, help, somebody famous. >> don't worry, boss, i'll get you out. >> jay what are you doing, you're not a celebrity. >> in world of war craft i'm a level 80 -- >> go away. >> help. >> stephen, stephen colbert? >> matt damon, thank god you're her

branson did say. that it's a tough busess. this merger would just be too big there.ldn't be enough left. there wouldn't competition. >> david: steve? >> it's capital intensive industry it gets new entrants all the time because of the financiers and the plane manufacturers finance you. >> david: who is smarter, the government or fr market? >> or steve forbes. >> david: u.s. airways stock is grounded over this news. a whole group of stocks are set for take-off. find out which ones will put you in first class? that's coming next. >> david: we are back. informers are here to give you stocks ready to take off for the rest of the year. emac? >> it's up 30% over the last year. up a decent 10% over the last five years. solid blue chip names in there. cheap expenses. i like this one. >> david: you like this fund? >> i think it's a solid low-risk fund. you might get more bang for your buck to invest in the top foldings. >> david: huntington bank shares incorporated. >> this is a regional bank. customer service oriented. they pay a bankable dividends. gobs of insider banking. >

but i can't think of a major seriously taken, let's take richard branson out of the picture because he's not really feign that seriously. seriously taken male c.e.o. posing in a suit upside down for a magazine, i can't see it. >> it's different for us, sometimes we can set the standard for break the mold i think it's great because she is beautiful and lovely. her stock is beating google. >> i think women are redefining success. it can include women being sexy and glamorous. >> this is also "vogue" this is about fashion. fashion is about sensuality and you sell looking good, looking sexy, whether you're a man or woman. that's what it is. i. >> i get your point about the upside down thing and man going upside down. >> except for richard branson. >> you know, why not. maybe they should try that next month. >> actually she's pretty uptight. she is up here, virtually you can't see anything and she is -- >> what i see quite frankly in that picture, by the way, not that i -- paid a whole lot of attention although it got a lot of play in the news we decided to go with it. what i see is a pr, bat

branson did say. that it's a tough business. this merger would just be too big there.ldn't be enough left. there wouldn't competition. >> david: steve? >> it's capital intensive industry it gets new entrants all the time because of the financiers and the plane manufacturers finance you. >> david: who is smarter, the government or free market? >> or steve forbes. >> david: u.s. airways stock is grounded over this news. a whole group of stocks are set for take-off. find out which ones will put you in first class? that's coming next. mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004. 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 what it means to serve. the healthcare law gives us powerful tools to fight it... to investigate it... ...prosecute it... and stop criminals. o

thanks, branson. have a great weekend! other highs around the bay area today 60 in pacifica, 64 san francisco, three degrees below average for this time of the year. it was pretty spot on in san jose. oh, it was 9 degrees warmer today in livermore. and 84 in santa rosa. due east, looking out towards mount diablo, seamless blue skies. air temperature in livermore now at 80. low 80s to the north in santa rosa. 71 in san jose. mid-60s in oakland through berkeley into alameda. last night overnight boy chill was in the air. 45 degrees overnight in napa. otherwise tonight overnight 53. temperatures pretty much in the 50s uniform across the board. here's what you need know as we approach our weekend. tonight, becoming cloudy with the areas of low clouds and fog. otherwise tomorrow, pretty much what you saw today. we are going to get again on saturday and then on sunday. we're into the summertime doldrums right here in the bay area due to this. futurecast illustrates tonight we'll fill in a little bit more. that marine layer will

yeah i'm going to space with richard branson is he going to go on a flight. i think he's taking his family on the first flight and i'm in the lottery with eighty people to be on the first non branson isn't just going to go into orbit and come down is that yes i think we go just to the edge of space and come back and when i say in his in this tropical pad well you guys are they're going to hang out and they're. not your picture of necker provided while you're doing that. well i've had the good fortune in my life to actually be able to afford to do a lot of things and it's. sort of looked at all the things that you know when opportunity came up i kind of like twelve to five really fancy sports car or you know there's a lot of sort of material things that i could buy and there's a great book and i'm going to totally forget the name i'm totally going to forget the author but they actually wrote about happiness and that the true value happiness is actually based on the experiences that you have and since that of like pursing a material object to get this elusive h

you wonder if branson was on the cover of "gq" would we hear the same arguments. >> on this thursday morning, no double standard in the weather department. >> no red-flag warning or thunderstorms. we are trying to get everything back to normal. a marine layer is full of cloud cover but not fog and the visibility is at ten to the clouds are above the surface and causing the flight arrival delays into sfo so check out our flight traffic at bottom. beautiful picture from our roof camera this morning looking beyond the america's cup pavilion over to the richmond-san rafael bridge. it is a gray start. afternoon sunshine and mild temperatures today. briefly warmer tomorrow. and highs will pull back below am as we head through the weekend. we are going to be in the mid-to-upper 70's in the south bay with cupertino and san jose at 79 and mid-80's for los gatos and santa cruz is 74. 70 in millbrae to 77 in los altos and warmer southbound on the peninsula and mid-60's at the coast and to downtown san francisco and south san francisco a couple of degrees warmer at 68 and same with sausalito and

and at 333 branson street request for a larger authorization and large development authorizations. good afternoon >> i'm here with our environmental planning division. it's an office negotiation o authorization for the brandon street for the project is seeking modifications for permitted sfrit encroachment and the horizontal mass projects. and the new construction of a 6 foot story at all. the proposed project will empathize 1 hundred and 45 thousand square feet of office space and will include 12 bicycle parks spaces and 5 car share parking spaces speaker the prevention so is designed with one private court yard and one private. since the packets the department has received a total of 3 comments on the proposed project. one supported neither way and another comment was on the traffic analysis as well as on say rooftop equipment and a third member talked about the project design. copies of this correspondence has been provided to you. after analyzing all impact the department is consistent with the project in the overall quality to be surrounding with the character. within the mixe

. >>> and leave tight sir richard branson to shake up domestic flying. his virgin atlantic will be adding stand up comedian acts. >>> for american pet owners looking to hire someone to care for their pets, industry group pet sitters international recommends that you hire somebody who is fully insured, bonded and can provide strong references. >>> straight ahead, three big preseason nfl games to tell you about. a rare encounter caught on tape for surfers encountering whales. and when combines collide, who will be the last one standing? you're watching "early today." nest sports from betty nguyen. >> happy friday, mara. we begin with football. the raibing champions baltimore ravens blew out the tampa bay buccaneers 46-16. pierce dashes for a touchdown but comes up limping. yeah, right there. and later, a blocked punt in the end zone, recover for a touchdown by ravens brendan trawig. >>> next, the broncos playing it safe. payton manning and colin kaepernick each only playing one series in the game. colt mccoy came in for the niners, he had a beautiful, long

. >> stephen: the fate now lay in the hands of its frightening commissioner claude branson, jimmy sloan, and joel cotton coons. has cummings gotten to them? >> the ordinance passed easily 3 to 1 which made us the smallest town in the nation to pass an ordinance like this. >> stephen: mayor gayer won and small town america lost. >> heterosexual men discussed and debated and passed this ordinance, it made me very proud to be a gay man in eastern kentucky. >> stephen: explain yourself one of those four heterosexual man. >> i did vote for the ordinance. i didn't see no big deal in it. >> stephen: oh, no. tell him, pastor. >> i've seen it. in some of the cities how they come in and just take over one place and then they say that's a gay bar now. >> stephen: yes. this is a gay bar now. wait. what do you know about gay bars? >> i've been to a gay bar in dallas texas. >> stephen: wait, what? and i was very familiar with what goes on in a gay bar. >> stephen: what were you doing in a gay bar? >> i was tt gay bar to get a beer. i just walked into the place. i was just making... >> stephen: friend

branson, missouri, 10 inches of rain or more in the past 24 hour. branson at 8 inches of rain, 6.5 in madison. flash flood warnings for nashville. rain continues here and it going to continue for much of the day. could see flooding in parts of georgia, missouri. it's a stationary front like a stationary bike, doesn't move. same rain showers, same places. >> chad, say it with me. if you're driving and up see water on the road ahead of you, what do we do? >> stop. >> don't drive. >> you think the road is still there but this flooding has been so bad for so long, the roadway actually may not even be there. there may just be water and you're going to drive off into the creek that's now a new creek and get pushed down and you're going to be in trouble and rescuers are going to have to come. >> so dangerous. chad myers, keep an eye on it for us. thank you. >> a fast moving wildfire burning unchecked in california. look at these pictures. 10,000 acres now engulfed in riverside county. that's west of los angeles. there are mandatory evacuations in effect fo

cbs reporter serene branson tells us his van was found in a remote area of mendocino county weeks ago. crews are back there now digging for clues. >> i want people to know who he is. i want them to recognize if they see him. >> reporter: samantha lambert is hopeful searchers will find her husband eric. >> they are also going to examine the rail line all the outbuildings, their logging roads. >> reporter: today dozens of search and rescuers went through the rugged terrain inment seen no county about -- in mendocino county 15 miles where the car was found june 1. dogs picked up a scent and searchers will head back next week. she says it's an area where an owl caller heard a man screaming. >> when he described the screaming, i thought, that could so easily be eric given that he was very paranoid when he went up there and given the screams i had heard down here. >> reporter: eric graduated from usc. eight years after they married and after their first child was born he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. it's gotten worse after his father died two years ago. he was headed to northern cal

yesterday it was branson, missouri with over a foot of rain. had to exit their homes quickly. once again this morning, mon rain is heading for this same area, so we're going to be talking about flash flooding all morning. this batch of heavy rain all throughout oklahoma. i mentioned the heavy rain, we already have heavy rain in northern jersey, all the way into now connecticut, the hudson valley, across massachusetts, it's going to be a very soggy commute in new england. we could pick up about one to two inches of rain, one batch this morning and another this afternoon. so a possibility of over an inch and a half of rain in new york city, the airports of course will be a mess with this. the weekend forecasts does improve, it gets much better, a nice weekend in new england after really a gloomy frayed. >> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," another embassy shut down and more drone strikes in the middle east. the latest developments as the terror threat remains in effect. the sharknado sequel has wings. it starts with little things

branson picked up 8 inches of rainfall in 12 hours.s is what we are looking for adros parts of nashville, atlanta, huntsville, maybe chattanooga. what's wrong with the storms today and the past couple days is their speed. we just got warned from the national weather service here in atlanta that these storms will move at 5 miles per hour today. so when it rains, and it starts to rain hard, it is going to rain for a long time. all the way from gwinnett county to alabama, that's where the line of weather is right now. it isn't going to move. if it is raining where you are, it will be raining. here is a live shot outside the studios, not raining here and you go three miles to the north, there is already water in the streets. so that's what you have to watch out for, storms that will not move. >> thank you, chad. want to go to stephanie out of southern california. opposite problem we're having here, a wildfire threatening several communities, so tell us what people are dealing with here. >> we have some updates for you, suzanne. we can tell

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