let's go to brian. brian: it is her last day. she has to say goodbye to us.please make her feel welcome. a round of applause. [applause] i hope you learned a few things. you might even be joining us again. would you please tell us what is happening? >> absolutely. there are three guarantees in life. debts, taxes, and the u.s. soccer team not being able to win in mexico. the u.s. falls to mexico to-one in the world cup qualifier. the americans are now 0-23-11 played south of the border. the u.s. remains second in qualifying with 10 points. he is a three-time cy young award winner, but does pedro martinez have enough left to help the phillies win another world series. he strikes out five and only gives up three runs in a 12-5 win over the cubs. as a cubs fan tossed eight beer on a player as he tried to make a catch near the wall. the fans ejected. brian: do we have anything more? >> we do. the red sox athlete and the detroit pitcher get suspended for five games each for their role in the brawl. he was cited for charging the mound, throw in his helmet, and incit

she was right behind you yelling brian. brian: i said absolutely. gretchen: in brian's dreams.she was following 15,000 people. brian: following you on twitter. gretchen: while you continue to debate who is following whom. hurricane bill is still churning in the atlantic and could bring rip tides. it could get stronger. bermuda could see flooding. that's where president clinton is right now. brian: michael douglas does a bunch of stuff over there. europe would take six detainees. france scotland. portugal and spain are open to the idea with more countries considering it. two prisoners are set to be transferred to ireland. to two more to portugal. 22 prisoners remaining at gitmo and some are rumored to be going to michigan. peter? peter: thank you. the world health organization is urging countries arranged the world to step up swine flu prevention programs. it says in the fall cases will begin to double every four days. one case will turn into millions in the matter of months potentially. the threat is even more serious in developing countries, so far swine flu has killed 1800 pe

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brian?: steve, daniel schueler likely won't face any criminal charges his wife killed herself and seven others while driving drunk on the new york parkway. prosecutors say they would have tariff time proving schueler knew his wife was intoxicated before she got behind the wheel. now diane schueler had a blood alcohol level of .19 at the time of the crash. that is the equivalent of 10 shots of vodka. tests show she was also high on main marijuana. schueler still claims his wife didn't drink. three niece and three people in another car died in the crash. >> gretchen: the d.c. metro safety system has a history of failing. that's according to the national transportation safety board. another d.c. operator had to use his emergency brake to avoid hitting a train months before the deadly crash in june. metro's deadly officer insists the two incidents are not related. nine people killed in that june accident. more than 70 people hurt. steve: meanwhile, the state of hawaii bracing for tropical storm

brian: really?reds of brats with the folks from johnsonville, christine and wallace is here from johnsonville. and working the grill is john. it says here he's a grill master. can you see the guy's ambidextrous on the grill. he works with the left and the right. he's got mad skills. christine, tell me about this massive grill. folks out there watching can't tell how big it is because we don't have a wide angle lens right now, but this is the biggest grill i've ever seen in my life. >> it really is. it's a johnsonville big taste grill and it lives up to its name. we can grill 750brats at a time on this grill. dave: i imagine you don't do that for backyard parties what type of events does this thing cater? >> traveling throughout the country to all different festivals and fairs throughout the year. it helps raise money for charitable groups. a portion of the proceeds from the brats sold off the taste grill are donated to local charities. we've raised more than $3 million with the taste grill. dave: jo

brian: how about this?you comfortable with the insurance company deciding what kind of care you give your patient? i know you're not. >> i'm not comfortable with that either. that's another thing. i don't like the idea that we're demonizing everything. we're demonizing insurance companies. the government doesn't do a much better job with that. i don't like dealing with the insurance companies, but at least there it's on a case-by-case basis and i can argue my point. dave: we can't even get to the shortage of primary care doctors and what will happen. >> that's the biggest point of all. we captain think we're going to have -- can't think we're going to have the doctors to do this. they're going to quit. brian: don't you quit. straight ahead, imagine the unthinkable. terrorists take over your flight in mid air. gretchen: learn how you can take down the hijackers and survive. a former navy seal here with life-saving tips. dave: and the u.s. is putting illegal immigrants on planes and you're footing the bill to

brian: i heard. dora: apparently a lot of people, economists, would like to see ben bernanke say that it is over. he has not done so, but there have been indications lately that we have turned a corner on a recession that officially began at the beginning of 2007. steve: at the tiller the entire time has been ben bernanke. economists said today that he has done a really good job. well, maybe we are starting to creep out of this recession. when his term is up in january of next year, the president should reappoint him. brian: here is the status. 59% said that the recession is over, 41% said that it is not. they said that one of the key signs will be the growth in the economy next month, if earnings exceed the expectation of productivity. should ben bernanke get another four years given that the recession started in 2007, he took over in 2006, in he did not foresee the collapse in october? people say that his consistency is something that the market wants. put in a new woman or a guy in there, the mark

brian: brian doesn't look that old. great impersonation of him by taking his glasses off like that. these are the stories people want to hear. thank you very much, brian. another big story has president obama's stimulus done more to help convicted criminals than to boost our economy? that's what many are saying after a bombshell investigation revealing that over 4,000 prisoners nationwide have received stimulus checks. brian: a reporter with the "boston herald" broke the story and joins us now from boston. i was watching you last night with greta a little, laura. first off, how did you come on to this story? >> sure. we learned that there were some prisoners in the massachusetts corrections system that were getting the checks. we went to the department of correction, which runs the prison system here. they said that, in fact, 23 inmates in massachusetts had received the checks. brian: what criteria could possibly give them this money from us which, by way, we don't have? >> sure. so in the instance of five of the indivi

brian: straight ahead.next hour we will -- joining us live next hour will be gus himself to talk about his actions and what his life has been like since this happened. house speaker nancy pelosi not a fan of town hall protesters, calling them unamerican. quite a change from this mark. >> when franklin roosevelt died and i draw great inspiration from him because he was a disrupter and i'm a fan of disrupters, people who make -- brian: really? former white house press secretary dana perino won't be as disrupting. we asked her to come. best thing to ever happen to the g.o.p. vo: why spend $5 per person at the drive-thru, vo: when you can serve your family breakfast from walmart, vo: for a little over $2 a person. mom: just one breakfast a week and the savings really add up. save money. live better. walmart. come on. good girl.] mollie's never looked better. i really was amazed to see the change in her coat. people stop us when we're walking, and they'll say, "did you shine up her spots?" [ woman announcing ] j

right, brian? brian: absolutely, steve. you know him.hows us his favorite show in a moment of candor. nascar legend. leading the spring cup standings. owner -- tony stewart welcome back to "fox & friends." >> thank you, brian. brian: how do you handle it, being an owner and driver and leading on all accounts? >> it's been fun. it's a venture that everybody said i was crazy for leaving joe gibbs racing. i miss being there a lot. being able to come over to stewart house racing and have ryan newman has been a lot of fun. brian: your dad had to take out loans and spend own money and used to have to use used tires. he would say can i borrow those tires. race and deal with that take a look at your car and find out about your great program. number 14 car. why would this go fast? >> it's got 850-horsepower first of all. that's a big power. it's 3400-pound stock car, no interior so there is no airconditioning, no luxuries no, power seats, tilt wheel. our seats are small and contained. they go fast. this new co 2 car that nascar came out with is c

what does brian do? he puts his head in the shot. brian: by mistake. >> brian, you are fired.finally i'm human. alisyn: i'm in for gretchen today who is off this week. there is new development this morning on the health care reform bill. the most arguably incendiary part of it the one ha has gotten so much attention. some people have referred toes it at death panel provision. it's actually the end of life provision. that has been dropped as of late yesterday from the working senate finance committee. brian: victory tort town halls and sarap, perhaps who kept bringing it up over and over and over again. steve: yeah. in fact, the president himself used that term death panels during the town hall a couple of days ago in new hampshire he said, quote, death panels that will basically pull the blug plug on grandma. because all these people are showing up as the these town halls and they are asking questions about this. chuck grassley yesterday, he is one of the bipartisan negotiators. he said this is not going to work out. there had been -- that's not going to go forward in the sena

brian: so this is important to you. >> yes, it is. brian: cue the music. stephanie, go ahead. >> he's back. yes, brett favre is now officially returning to the nfl but this time he'll be a viking. the passing leader has signed a two-year, $25 million deal with minnesota. be sure to circle monday october 5 on your calendar. that's when the packers play favre and his new team for first time this upcoming season. lance armstrong brought traffic to a stand dses still after issuing a twitter invitation for psycforellists to join him. 200 bikers showed up, halting traffic and even delaying a funeral procession. after coming out of a three-year retirement, armstrong finished third in this year's tour de france. it's like a shot straight out of a michael jordan-larry bird mcdonald anesthesia commercial. he shoots it off the scoreboard, off the floor and hits nothing but net. it's now the latest and greatest sensation on youtube. brian: wow. unbelievable. he didn't even wear a shirt. it must be much harder like that stephanie, you're from new jersey. >> yes, i am.

brian: right. example, "it's hard to imagine a situation that would have karl rove if he was still getting checks from a firm employed to draw from the drug lobby not being fierdz from the left if president bush was still president." huffington post a big cheerleader fo president obama, quoted a house republican conference statement saying "some may wonder whether the white house senior advisors earning millions of dollars paid for in part by the pharmaceutical industry represent the kind of change america can believe in." david axlerod's son works there. steve: exactly. here's the thing about it. the $24 million to buy the ads, that is being bankrolled by the pharmaceutical industry. $24 million from the pharmaceutical industry, pumping into our tv and radio bloodstream and what not, and stuff like that. now, wait just a minute. didn't the pharmaceutical industry strike a backdoor deal with the obama administration regarding health care? oh, yeah. that's why a lot of people are going, hmm. however

open kicks off today in new york and brian is with the brians. >> this is mike brian and bob brian.the best double players in the world right now. they just happen to be brothers. when did you realize that, mike, you were going to be carrying bob the rest of your career. >> whenever i was born. i came out of the womb two minutes earlier than bob i knew i was going to be carrying this guy. brian: this sex sighting for you carrying the back ever the sport. merged with the business channel for this u.s. open coverage first time ever. >> they have done a lot for tennis. especially doubles. we are excited they are carrying the open. biggest sporting event in the world and it's awesome. brian: can we do the rest of the interview when i play you in tennis? >> do it. come on. brian: to the brian brothers. shibani josie is going to be our ball girl in heels. it's part of the business channel's contribution over here. here we go. now, guys, here is the thing. everybody thinks doubles, they think of the jensons. >> what is this ball dead? how much do they resent your presence? >> the generalso

brian matusz is in the driver's seat.oregas, matusz and carroll, 9- 1-2 in the 6th inning. >> buck: what an outing for brian matusz. every pitch he throws has purpose and outstanding command. >> buck: you can see it in his body. he knows where it is going. >>> today like the other startings, flipping it up, wondering where it was going. >> buck: today he had a good idea of where it is going. but matusz, this is more what he did in the minor league, specially once he got the aa buoy, think of the pitch and execute it. he has done that all afternoon here. >> jim: 1-2, toregas. stays

>> great question, brian. we hear estimates it's a two-year problem, a five year problem, a ten or 20 year problem. my estimate is we are going to be there a long time and we are going to win and i don't know that we'll have the political will or the desires of the american public to lose lives. >> brian: there's a dual effort to secure the country side. we're looking for a guy, aren't we. >> we'd like somebody to step up. >> brian: i'm talking in the mountains of afghanistan. >> excuse me, looking for him and omar. we don't have the matching u.s. presence to do that that's focused more on intelligence gathering of one particular guy who may be in pakistan and afghanistan. >> brian: it's clearly important to the afghanis, why is this important to americans? >> america it's critical, brian, america cannot just walk away from afghanistan and pakistan, they have to look at the two countries together. if america walks away, it will create a huge vacuum and that vacuum is that part that is up by others followed up

brian has 1 one. halladay has 114. last time out against the yankees, he went 9 inning, gave up 10 hits and took the loss what you will see from halladay is the approach. >> jim: it puts it into perspective when halladay has as many cy young awards as matusz has wins. >> buck: he's going to watch roy halladay in his innings and see how he approaches it. but i like matusz's make-up. he is not going to get rattled. he will try to establish his fastball as he did against the tigers. >> jim: hey, it's raining in toronto but no problem. we just close the roof. line-ups and first pitch are next. (announcer on call) off the glass, centered in front... oh what a great move, another great move... he skates in on goal... he scores! unbelievable! it's all over! oh my... (announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness. . >> jim: orioles baseball brought to you by southwest airlines. book your next trip at southwest.com. and honda. the 2009 honda clearance is the

brian support to the mound.s 2-2, earned round average of 6.46 and acquired for boston in the victor martinez trade. masters with an earned run average of 4.7. tom davis with rick dempsey and a beautiful bright sunshiny afternoon in baltimore. the orioles try to go for the 4- game series with the cleveland indians. watching the game a bit. chris pitching and chad mullen took it, taking his hand and going like this and out there on the mound. very -- demon straightive in his effort to try to throw the ball low. tell us about catching it and what that is like and being that vocal behind the plate. >> tom what, he was trying to do is communicate with the pitcher on every pitch, something that you have to do, especially when you have a young pecking staff like the orioles have. you have to constantly remind them what you want them to do until they get capable of doing it themselves. you thought that mueller was back there trying to remind the piper every single pitch to stay in the zone and every thing he saw, wheth

who is in trouble here is brian bass not you wanter. and centerfield a base hit and the angels get the lead. four consecutive singles. hunter bounced it and couldn't glove testimony the angels have broken here in the 13th. >> he gets it he almost catches this ball. you can see just a little late. got to reach over. that is probably another one of those one to three to offer actually one to two to three double plays if he catches it. >> now, he has to try to minimize the damage with the orioles coming up in the bottom of the 13th. still nobody out. matt is get being loose behind him.   rivera morales and hunter thi to first. aybar nine runs on 199. here comes dave trembley. we are going to get a pitching change. he is going to go to matt albers to take over for brian bass. bases loaded none down, angels have the lead back 9-8 in the 13th. in the dark. no peanuts or nothin'. and then if your bag wants to bring one of its little bag friends for company, they charge another $25. that's just plain mean. why do

mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this may have been a year in the planning, a lonely bitter man brings a duffel bag stuffed with handguns and ammunition to a health club not to attack any one woman but shoot at a random group of women because of what he describes in a bitter, unusual blog, as decades are projection. 48-year-old had a job in a nice house in a quiet pittsburgh neighborhood. but he also had what police described as a building rage that exploded tuesday night. >> he just had a lot of hatred in him. gym members say he walked into an aerobics class at the l.a. fitness center some time around 8:15 tuesday night. one woman who was there told the today show he never said a word before pulling three of his four handguns out of his duffel bag. >> for a minute. and then a minute later, the lights go out. and then second later, you just hear shooting. and he is going, shooting all over the room. >> reporter: in all at least 36 shots were fired by a man who according to his own blog was determined to do this as lo

brian roberts is holding his brian roberts baseball bat.s will buy tickets, come into the zone, play games, have fun, have a chance to hang out with nod not only brian but other orioles as well and the proceeds with that event will go to the university of maryland children's hospital. brian has been giving to that hospital for many years now and now nick markakis, he and his wife, christina, have started the right side foundation. this is their first big event. tonight they will be holding over at patterson's market in canton a run and walk. that event is open to the public right now so people can register. we'll tell you how to do that in just a moment. but first, hear from both of these guys. >> it is such an amazing night. but for us, it is really the times that we get to go to the hospital and be can the wides. -- with the kids and be around those you really affect are the best times for us. i have been in the hospital, i have had open-heart surgery. i know a small bit of what they are going through. so to be able to kind of relate that

brian roberts will lead off. there's a strike. brian twice has grounded out to shortstop. starter armando gabino. foul wide of third. that will be back in the crowd. >> buck: i just get a sense that the orioles are going to need to tack on some more runs here tonight. it looks like the twins have their hitting shoes on. they've always been a very good offensive ball club now. it's up to philip humber to keep the orioles in check if he can do that. >> jim: orioles have had a base runner in each inning. that ball is pulled foul down the line. that ball was hit hard, but roberts pulls it foul.   roberts has 43 multihit gam markakis leads the orioles with 44. and roberts now has cracked into the top 10 in base hits off the strong road trip he's had he's had 146 hits which is tied for ninth in the league. and a called strike three. brian doesn't appear to agree with the call of gary darling and one away here in the oriole fourth inning. attention, youth sports team coaches and players, call the orioles today and get your team signed up for

let's go back to brian matusz. you have had nice conversations with him. >> the young man is easy to talk to and outspoken when you get him talking about pitching. i said, you know something, i have called a lot of guys that look just like you, left- handed. change of speed, good command of all of their pitches. before the season is over, you could with pitching in the big leagues. he didn't believe me but there he is. the first three or four starts, it was iffy, nervous, tense, over throwing with the body, but he said yesterday, rick, i feel something different about the way i threw my last bullpen. i haven't been relaxed enough, nice and easy going. i said tell me what it feels like when your behind, he says he released it out here. well, today he wasn't telling me a lie. he looked awesome out there today. he really had an ooutstanding game. so nice and relaxed. change up, everything looked like a fastball coming out of his hand. you could tell because cleveland had a tough time with him for 7 innings. >> the ori

. >>> good evening, brian. this jobs' number was really a test for both wall street and for main street. consumer confidence has been ticking up a little bit as of late. and stocks are up 50% from their lows in march. but all of that was based on hope that the recession is actually ending. >> reporter: with more than 14.5 million americans out of work, president obama is not ready to declare victory just yet. >> we have a lot further to go. as far as i'm concerned we will not have a true recovery as long as we are losing jobs. >> reporter: today's jobs report showed that at least the country is losing jobs more slowly. the average monthly job loss for three months was 331,000, roughly half the drop recorded in the previous six months. while manufacturers continue to struggle, laying off 52,000 workers in july, that's the smallest decline in a year. automobile manufacturing actually added 28,000 jobs as car makers reopened plants. another bright spot, health care. up 17,000. still, the drop in the unemployment r

brian well over .300. the difference, of course is that the not only do they hit well with runners in scoring positions but they also hit over .300 as a team. other night on friday they had one guy he was at .297. eight guys over .300 on their roster. >> jim: he pulls it deep and foul off the facade of the upper deck. >> jim: six doubles in his last four games. the only way you can hit that ball is to be short to him. it was a good 0-2 pitch up and in. boy that is the big difference i think if anybody remembers brian roberts when he came off that front shoulder kind of chicken wing late to the ball, boy has he made a great change with the help of terry crowley the hitting instructor. the swing is much more solid now. >> jim: ryan has 38 hits since the all-star break. orioles have played 28 games since the break. it is their 29th. he already has 38 base hits. 1 and 2 with andino at second. the orioles trying to get on the board against o'sullivan jim jim high fly ball deep right field. back it goesch it is

care, brian. we'll stay with the heat and the noise and all of it when we are back at this on monday. chuck todd from the white house on a friday night. chuck, thanks. >>> chuck mentioned this development. this morning around 9:45, president obama signed the bill giving that popular cash for clunkers car program an infusion of cash to keep it going. >>> also tonight, florida senator mel martinez, senator mel martinez, a republican, said today he is quitting his job, resigning from the senate for no particular reason, he says just his desire to move on. mind you he had already announced he wasn't running for re-election in 2010. apparently that wouldn't get him out of the place fast enough. florida's governor charlie christ, already running for the seat, now has to appoint a replacement. he said he would not maneuver to appoint himself. >>> word came last night the nted for years, believed to ve carried out several spectacular terrorist attacks. now he has been killed in a missile attack and one of

brian. north korea's state-run television made it official tonight saying that the two women have been given special pardons by kim jong-il. in response to that extraordinary visit to pyongyang by former president bill clinton. >> reporter: the former president and husband of the secretary of state shocked the world when he landed in pyongyang today. the obama administration called it a private mission, unmarked plane, no government officials at his side. it was dramatic. bill clinton was granted an audience with kim jong-il, reclusive leader rarely seen since a debilitating stroke last year. to make his appeal for the release of the women, unia lee and laura ling. >> our focus is on ensuring the safety of the two journalists there in north korea right now. >> reporter: officials told nbc news tonight's pardon had been engineered during months of secret negotiations with assurances the former president would not leave empty-handed. one involved said we can only do this once. he wouldn't go u

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and we start with brian. as they say, brian, it's the humidity, not the heat. or it's the heat, not the humidity. what is it they say? >> well, it's both. and we're not in arizona, so it's not a dry oven heat. but you feel it outside this morning with temperatures that are already 81. 81 right now downtown. 78 in falls church. 72 in brandywine. we're mild this morning with the humidity. as the day goes, temperatures are going to climb. 98 is the record at reagan national airport, and that record could be be tied, if not fall during the afternoon. there's an advisory. it's not the entire metro. let's show you the maps. and it's basically from prince william, fairfax, stafford eastward across the bay. not that it's not going to be hot in lou down or faquier, but maybe not the criteria. that means it will feel like 105. air temperature in the upper 90's, but it will feel about 105 degrees. big storm yesterday, but all of them going around us as high pressure across the southeast is just pumping in the heat and humid i had, basically thwart all that energy away. to

that was not brian's bag. it was berken.on't get that out, the whole complexion of the inning and the game could change right there. >> yes. >> dave trembley is joining us, the skipper here live in toronto. we don't mean take he is alive, we mean this is live. >> i know what you mean. >> skip, talk about berken. after having nine losses and nine decisions to come back and pitch tonight, a pretty gutty effort. >> especially after he gave up back-to-back home runs. he could have carefulled in and the team could have as well. he could have been here we go again. he didn't do it. i thought he pitched his best baseball in the fifth and sixth inning. he really showed us something in the fifth with stranding the runners and coming out and putting a zero up. he -- you know, he stepped up, and so did the guys behind him. we made some plays in the field. i thought robert' play is unsung getting over there and covering and obviously the play that nicky made and melvin made some very good plays at third. >> and you look at small, little

here is brian matusz. and rick kranitz reinforced what they have been able too accomplish in the game and execute. >> buck: brian matusz's execution is a real step. he was so confident coming into the start. the fact he was not high with the arm angle. he had it up all day along. the slider was good, the curve ball was good. his command of the fastball was exceptional. this was a little more like brian matusz pitched in the minor league. pig number. one walk, 8 strikeouts, that is a career high. those are the types of numbers you are looking for. >> jim: so, talking it over with rick kranitz. to put it in more perspective, coming into this game over the first five starts, he had allowed 18.3 base runners for 9 innings. 18.3. in this game he allowed 5. that is how you win. keep them off base. congratulations from the catcher. >> buck: boy, they were in sync today. >> jim: so brian matusz, a job well down, as we peer in from the bullpen picnic area. there is eddie out there, looking in other the bullpen. tha

brian has 6 strike out in the ball game. no run, 3 hits two left on base. 5-1 angels. there's an app for that. or, you'd like to figure out the metro, there's an app for that. or you'd like to send a postcard home, there's an app for that too, because there's an app for just about anything. only on the iphone. round of miller lite. (announcer on call) ...here it comes... watch this now... got it! my goodness! now you have seen it all. (announcer) that's what greatness tastes like. triple hops brewed. great pilsner taste. miller lite. taste greatness.  56 if of a session, dave trembley had a g and a session. he was asked if he bass satisfied with the season in nobody can be happy with the record, that's not why we're in the game. i think the individually the performances of our young group, you saw tillman last night, you will see matusz tonight, the way that nolan and matt wieters performed. felix aglimmers and at his ability. i am satisfied with the environment. >> gary: interesting comment at the end that you heard.

. >> reporter: brian, good evening. this fire is so active, so aggressive, people are conducting what they call rolling evacuations, and aas you can see here, not every homemade it through the fire. it's a movie monster, the station fire devours ridge after ridge across los angeles county. more than 105,000 acres swallowed by flames. >> get up high. >> reporter: the blaze doubled in size last night, an unstoppable force that has firefighters on their heels and neighborhoods on the run. >> if the winds come up, the fires come down and any threat at all, i'm out of here. >> reporter: 6,600 have been forced to evacuate. hundreds more are ordered out each day, some refuse to leave. this as the fire marches on, breaking into different pieces, moving in multiple directions. several los angeles suburbs sit in its path. more than 12,000 homes remained threatened. >> it's like a war zone. >> reporter: for dozens of homeowners, it's too late. the fire moved so quickly, the true extent of the damage remains unclear. but for financ

brian, it's a hot one, isn't it? >> it's really sticky this morning. 80 in the city, 70's in the suburbs. we're shooting for upper 90's. record at reagan national, 98. we could tie or possibly beat that. look at the other numbers. 72 in marshall. 75 in faiaxrf.. axows ieit iho a it is hot andug mtgy, and it's going to continue to be that way through the afternoon. low 90's at lunchtime, upper 90's before the day is done. can't rule out a stray thunderstorm, especially in the mountains. but it will feel like 105. heat advisory goes into effect at noon today. any aisories on the way in, jim? >> we're looking at southbound 355 just south of cedar lane in the bethesda area. a police incident blocking the right side. there are calls for an injured person. expect to find a b ouhbutnd d southboundea 355 hding into bethesda. we had an accident on 95 northbound near dale city. that nn oweere beacld. southbound, there was aork d arne being cle spotsylvania, the route 1 ice rgederbuks. that, too, should be gone shortly. let's g

. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well from the outside the stage did appear set out here for the president to face some really tough critics. just like these members of congress are facing. but that wasn't the case on the inside. >> reporter: divided only by a street and a few of portsmouth's finest. >> obama! obama! >> reporter: supporters and detractors of president obama's health care plan spent plenty of time, banging drums and yelling. as they waited for a chance to cheer or jeer, the president's motorcade. but the president skirted the crowd taking a back way. before emerging in a high school gym to a very friendly audience. still, the president found himself spending much of his time saying what his plan is not going to do. >> this is not about putting the government in charge of your health insurance. so i just want to assure we are not taing about cutting medicare benefits. i am not promoting a single pay plan. >> he used humor to push back on some of the wilder accusations. >> the rumor that has been circul

brian bass has pitched well. he has gone 2 2/3 since taking over for brian matusz. not allow add run, only two singles since bass came on for toronto. there is a weak ground ball to third. that's foul. matusz went just 2 2/3, all five runs charged to brian matusz on 7 hits. three of the hit home runs. blue jays have had a change stream hiball this year. they are ly%- hmrogers center than they do on their road game. ey if you can hit the paul out of the ballpark as they have -- the ball out of the ballpark as they have done in this llall five runs coming off home runs, you can score in a hurry. markakisthree home runs hit by toronto, they now have 77 at home to 53 on the rod. yet, they average higher runs per game on the road than they do at home. usually, it's the opposite but not so with them. >> buck: they are not really perfectly suited for this ballpark if that they don't have a lot of speed, taking advantage of the surface. cito gaston has changed his approach somewhat and has been an asset to some of these young hitters notice line-up, trying to get them to

brian roberts a two run homer double and steal. figgins four for seven with three doubles three rbi and three lungs scored. the angels have won two out of the first and the series obviously will don't tomorrow night here at baltimore's camden yards. rick dempsey is faking this loss very hard as he would as a player i think at this point. when you look at it, how difficult of a game when you think back and recap it in your own mind is it to lose after you battle back and tie it twice? >> i was talking about it in the 13th inning it will be a lot more difficult for the orioles because they actually did come back. rick talked about the deficits you have down 4-0. brian roberts hits the homerun. then you get the nick markakis homerun to tie it up 6-6. at the end of the day, you had a guy you hoped sooner or later is go going to start pitching well. the orioles take advantage of the  ♪  ♪ tell me who's watching. (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebody's watching me. ♪ it's the mo

brian, let me begin with just a personal bit of background on myself. i am a nationally syndicated radio show host. >> guest: yes you are indeed and a good one. >> host: thank you very much. i will take the complement. i know people are increasingly alarmed, people in the industry, talk radio by when you write about and that is the threat to the first amendment right to free speech. >> guest: it has been going on now more than two decades actually even before president reagan lifted the fairness doctrine in 1987. but when he did, conservative talk radio came out of the gates like wildfire. it was amazing to watch. i was there at the time. i worked 20 years under the fairness doctrine, i worked 20 years outside of the fairness doctrine and i can tell you that there was a night and day difference in what we could do on the nation's airwaves. for the first time we had stations accepting talk radio as a true format. proof of the putting so to speak is that in 1987 there were only 125 radio stations doing talk radio in america. now there are over 2,000 so yo

or with brian jennings and monica crowley in a minute. >>> "after words" with brian jennings and p.jay crowley continues. >> host: i am monica crowley back with brian jennings whose new book is outstanding. it is called "censorship the threat to silence talk radio the new fairness doctrine exposed." brian, when we left off we were talking about the marketplace of ideas and how the left seems to think based on their behavior here that their ideas cannot compete, their ideas might be weak or fall a marble or perhaps because we still remain a center-right nation could not survive without all of the protections they are trying to build and to the system's one of which is to try to silence conservative points of view. what has been the track record of liberal or progressive talk in america? >> guest: from an organized standpoint, dismal. there are successful liberal talk stations in america. there is one and san francisco, kgo was considered liberal, and others. air america for instance was a dismal failure. its first time around they are trying to reorganize -- >> host: it went into ban

brian matusz ready to go. figgins takes the first, we're underway. >> jim: he said he was going to try to establish the fastball. you're aware of what a team can do at a major legal level. he will try to stay to his strength. >> gary: figgins will take the pitch away for a ball. a switch hitter at .221 right- handed and .339 left handed and the 3 home run that he hit have come from the left side of the plate. they have him turned away how you want him. fouled away, 1-2. >> matusz against the tigers and the win gave a run on 6 hits on 5. against toronto gave up 5 runs, all 5 of the runs came on 3 home runs that he surrendered in the game. ball breaking away got him. >> i think his game plan, you can see chris tillman at 21, he won his fist major league game. establish the fastball early. on thats what tillman did last night. here's a perfect example. a couple fastballs away. you can see figgins way out in front on the curveball. >> gary: that will bring up aybar. aybar had an 0 for 4 in the ball game last night

jim, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. u.s. officials are confident tonight that taliban leader batuhla massoud is dead. one senior official tells nbc news it is believed that massoud was killed in a missile strike in south waziristan, pakistan, yesterday. but so far there is just no way that they can confirm it. now, massoud among the most notorious taliban leaders accused in assassination of pakistan's benazir bhutto, of terrorist attacks throughout pakistan and on attacks against u.s. forces in afghanistan. if massoud is in fact dead this would give a huge boost to u.s. and pakistan efforts to take out his taliban network. according to one official tonight, if it is true that he has been killed, quote, that would be great. brian. >> jim miklaszewski on duty at the pentagon for us. jim, thanks. >>> news on the economic and job situation in this country as we ait tomorrow's report on o tf oyme f mor theon july. bear with us here, these numbers la r fost week, fewer people filed new claims for unemployment benefits down r 38,00

>> well, senator kennedy requested a simple ceremony, brian. you will not see the horse- drawn cason that many people have become familiar w especially since john f. kennedy's funeral and most recently when ronald reagan's funeral services were here in washington. instead, a black hearse will bring the senator's casket into the cemetery. there will be a joint honor guard, a firing party, a u.s. army chaplain and a bugler. remarks will be delivered by someone who is quite familiar to folks in the washington area, the former catholic archbishop of washington, retired cardinal theodore mccarrick will be delivers the only remarks, we understand. >> the nation, fitzs familiar with the kennedy name there. what about the staff? any personal remembrances of senator kennedy? >> reporter: indeed, brian. 4million people visit arlington national cemetery here and unlike a lot of them, senator edward kennedy was a familiar face. the senator would visit and whenever he attended the funeral services of a massachusetts veteran, he would turn up many times unan

brian on deck. let's get a look at the southwest airlines starting line-up force the finale of this three-game series.    >>> now a i time blackburn. fastball, curveball, slider and change-up. 0-4 is this record in the second half. and he's having a lot of trouble with left-handed hitters. they've been on him, hitting well over .300. he'll have to make and i a justment if he hopes to contribute to this pennant race here in minnesota. they need to have starting pitching consistency if they're going to get back in it. he's got to improve upon that. >> the orioles to have certain left-handed swingers in their line-up tonight. the only available bat from the left side on the ben such matt wieters, a switch hitter, and robbers fouls it back, and we're under way. >> jim: blackburn, his best secondary pitch is his curveball. got that over fairly consistently in the latter stages of his last start. >> jim: buck mentioned the long winless drought for blackburn. his last win was july 1

what is this, brian? >> probably a nuisance. the equivalent historically is putting williams jennings bryant charge of the fed, he would have canceled the gold standard and flooded money into farms so we have more inflation. that's the worrisome thing, lots of people that think a little bit of inflation, 5, 6, 7% is good for our economy. i'm afraid that's been the position of the labor unions a long time. >> joe b., i have more work to do. joe, let me come back to your budget topic, very very important. we will cover it in detail later in this program, i want to ask you, as spending government spending goes from roughly 20 to 25% of gdp, that's a huge number for this country, as our borrowing, public borrowing goes from about 40% to 80% of gdp, what is the impact on the american economy, in your judgment? >> in my judgment, you ultimately crowd out the private sector. my judgment, you distort pricing for all asset classes, which is not good and lastly, you reduce american competitiveness and rates of return on investment here wh

and brian roberts takes it.aseman marte, what he is trying to do is give himself a chance on a ground ball to not be caught behind the runner, so he plays off the bag so he can move over to the left-handed hitter to cover up the hole better and not go behind him. it could make him a little tougher obviously if the ball is hit hard. 3-2 delivery on the way. it is called strike three. so after a 3-0 count and three consecutive strikes. brian had a pretty good look at it and it caught the outside corner. he didn't think it did. he rings him up. >> gary: now they're going to play the first baseman behind marte, they're not even going to hold. roberts a three strikeout night. felix pie. ty wigginton and pie is hurt. well pie came in really upset about the fact that he fell down in the outfield. he saved the ballgame, and on that single obviously it he is going to be coming out of the game. >> buck: and grabbed the back of his left leg as if to suggest he has a hamstring problem. he comes out of the becomes and grabs

brian roberts covering the bag.ng to have a pinch runner. >> gary: bobby crosby will come on for everidge as the pinch runner at first base. crosby represents the potential tying run in the ninth inning. ryan sweeney 0-3 in the ballgame. johnson, that one fouled off. hit off his foot and a one strike count on ryan sweeney. looking for that double play ground ball here. albers came on and worked a third of an inning, gave up a walk. baez came on, he got the three outs in the 8th inning. trying to preserve the win for david hernandez. trevor cahill, the starter for oakland, 6-11 on the season. another one chopped foul. >> jim: of course sweeney is trying to look for a ball he can ground into right field and maybe get crosby all the way to third. it's one of the difficult things when you're pitching, you know you have a left-handed hitter, brian roberts is in a couple of steps. the last thing i want is the ball by him. i'd rather have one out than get the ball into right field. >> gary: inside to him. the orioles are 3

what did you see from brian?hree home runs undid him a little bit i yeah, leaving the pitch up there, playing in the big leagues, you pay. but he learns from that. he is a good guy, good pitcher. >> back to halladay, seems like you have faced some very tough pitchers on this road trip. seems like every day, you face a good one. >> yes. definitely. that's playing in the american league east. but you go out and play your game. >> tom: izturis with a .267 average with two home runs and 10 rbis. >> go out there and get only ins, you know, but i started to struggle a little bit but we got him out of there. i was fortunate to go out and get some innings. >> were you surprise that had brian was removed when he was? it was still early in the game. manager makes the call, you were ready. i don't know. that's my job to go out there. you never know if somebody is going to get hurt or take a line drive. we just go out there and prepare to go out and pitch early in the game. >> that's a unique role to be ready to fill at any