brian? >> tom costello with the latest tonight. tom, thanks. >>> the economy is in the news tonight. it's not good. new claims for unemployment benefits up last week to half a million americans. that's the highest level in nine months, a clear sign employers are still cutting jobs. with us from chicago tonight, diane swonk with more on what may be behind the numbers. is this any one single incident that you're aware of? >> there were many factors that void the numbers, everything from later than usual auto closings to the census coming out and the veterans that have been coming back are not getting reemployed and reintegrated into the economy. in fact, applying for unemployment insurance. the real issue though is not only how high the numbers are -- 150,000 to 200,000 higher than they should be now -- but the sheer number of people who have been unemployed and reupping for extensions to unemployment insurance. that's up over 60% from a year ago. most of these people -- many of them d lost th

carl, good evening. >> brian, good evening to you.s you know, this neighborhood was a symbol of tragedy five years ago. so much so that tour buses now come through here. but rarely on streets like this. not the best, not the worst, mostly average. here's a home that was rebuilt beginning in 2007. the house has been in the family for generations. beautiful front door, the trash can ready for trash pickup. they've had trash pickup and mail delivery for years. but it's right next to this house, which is clearly abandoned. the neighbor says he has no idea if or when these folks are ever coming back. and there are lots where the home has been completely demolished. no idea what the plan is for this lot. these numbers, brian, spraypainted on the sidewalk are where the city officials write the house address to remind themselves of what address this actually is. one out of five people in the lower ninth are back. it's easy to see why. they're among the poorest. they're closest to the levees, we're really not that far. and there's not much in

this is our second one in a week, brian. now we are talking about something that instead of heading north and east is headed toward the united states with much bigger waves and potentially a wind field that will affect the united states whether it landfalls or not. we have to keep an eye on this. it's going to be a very dangerous situation. i think timeline is right as we head into the weekend. a lot of people thinking about that weekend. hopefully fresh in everyone's minds the rip currents that danielle produced as we worked our way last week. >> now as we talk about the timeline, there's thursday, friday, saturday on the graphic. anything that would change that? >> there really isn't. it's pretty much moving in a steady state now. so there's nothing that's going to change that. >> you're talking about a minimum winds, rip tides and -- >> right. >> -- high surf. >> just forget about danielle though it's a category four. people need to think about the 1944 hurricane, if they live up there, edouard. it came about 90 miles off

brian? >> anne thompson starting us off once again from venice, louisiana. anne, thanks. >>> breaking news from chicago tonight. as you may know, jurors who have been struggling with the fate of their former governor, rod blagojevich, have finally reached a verdict, the decision tonight in the corruption case that accuses him, among other things, of trying to sell a vacant u.s. senate seat. the seat vacated by barack obama. nbc's john yang with us from federal court in chicago tonight. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. when they arrested rod blagojevich in december 2008, u.s. attorney general fitzgerald said he was conducting a corruption crime spree that would make abraham lincoln spin in his grave. out of 24 charges against blagojevich, including racketeering, extortion, bribery, of those 24 charges they could only agree on one. they found him guilty of lying to the fbi. on the other 23 counts, a mistrial. this is clearly a big embarrassment for the prosecution, but it'

brian will host a special edition of "meet the press" tomorrow.is guests include senator mary landrieu and her brother mitch landrieu, mayor of new orleans. >>> up next, making a difference with the power of words. >>> finally tonight, back to new orleans for the story of a woman who has found a way to make a difference, especially for young people, by helping them turn feelings into words. nbc's kate snow has our report. >> it's so good to see you. >> reporter: renee watson hasn't seen the salom kids since the summer after katrina, 2006, when the new york writer donated her time to come here as a guest artist at their summer camp. >> part of what i do with young people all over is helping them cope with trauma using the arts. >> reporter: renee asked the kids to write stories, poetry and plays, a kind of therapy after all the trauma they'd just been through. >> writing it down helps you deal with how you feel. >> i just realized their stories were staying with me. i was thinking about these children all the time and wanted to honor their stories.

anne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. resilient people of the gulf know how to survive a hurricane. they prepare, clean up and rebuild. four months later they are still struggling with this oil spill. through the prism of the oil spill, so much along the gulf coast remains uncertain. in louisiana's bay jimmy, there is still oil to clean up. workers use giant vacuum cleaners to get it out of the marsh and pull in boom soiled with crude and algae. this boat is filled with oil boom instead of oysters, up to 1,000 bags a day. he's filled with apprehension. >> i don't think the water's clean enough for us to get the oysters out of here. >> reporter: boom is being removed from mobile bay, alabama, a sign of progress. but that progress could also mean the end of paychecks for brian swindle from bp's vessels of opportunity program. he still doesn't know when he can resume making his living off the gulf. >> that's the big question. what's going to happen next year, next season? am i going to be able to fish or not. >> when is clea

brian? >> diana olick in one of those homes sitting on the market in chevy chase, maryland, outside washington tonight. thanks. >>> pessimism about the economy boiled over in public in the political arena today. with top republicans and democrats trading accusations over whose fault it is. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd with us from our washington newsroom. chuck, i'll say it with sarcasm, this is what people love about washington, isn't it? >> yeah, that's right. it is finger pointing time. john boehner is the house republican leader. and he gave a big speech on what he would do if he were speaker of the house, should republicans get control of the house in november. and here's what he had to say about the president's economic team. >> president obama should ask for and accept the resignations of the remaining members of his economic team starting with secretary geithner and larry somers, the head of the national economic council. >> reporter: well, vice president biden serv

second, we have brian finch, who is our hometown -- two brines today. i don't know -- brians today. i don't know how i'm going to handle it. he is from our center of legal and judicial studies. before joining heritage worked on contract with the department of homeland security working to integrate private sector organizations and government emergency preparedness and disaster response efforts at the federal, state and local levels from 2002 to 2005.

i don't have to perform. >> larry: are you brian? >> i am brian, yep. but yeah.nd is voiced by a very funny comedian that i went to college with. >> larry: do voices come easily to you? are you a mimic? >> yeah. i used to do impressions a lot as a kid and, you know, i was always kind of fascinated by dialects and whatnot. and there's -- >> larry: is the brian character you? >> in some ways, yes. in some ways. >> larry: some ways or more ways? >> yeah, yeah. he's -- >> larry: we have some tweet questions. i'll lay them on you. is baby stewie gay or bisexual? >> we haven't really decided. there was a bit of press that came out a while back in which stewie was outed as being gay. and it was kind of taken out of context. it was in reference to an episode we had thought we were going to do and then abandoned. but we haven't made that decision yet because we get a lot of comedic mileage out of both sides. >> larry: like the character that used to be on "saturday night live"? >> yeah. pat. >> larry: pat. >> yeah, yeah. >> larry: another question on our facebook page. wi

brian? >> anne thompson on captain james' boat in what was the once and, let's hope, future fishing capital of the world, venice, louisiana. anne, thanks. >>> again, all of this is happening as we approach the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina. in new orleans today, an historic marker was dedicated, placed on the very place where the 17th street canal floodwall gave way leading to the disaster. we'll report from the gulf beginning thursday night when we revisit people we met during the crisis. we'll have an exclusive interview with president obama that will air beginning sunday. and we almost hate to say this, but there is a new hurricane in the atlantic, believe it or not. danielle is still a category one, still closer to africa than america. projections only take us to about this coming saturday night, aiming vaguely at the atlantic coast with winds approaching 110, 115 miles an hour. there is a chance bermuda might be in its path. forecasters along with the rest of us, of course, hop

ann, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, brian. tonight, as you can see, the monsoon rains have begun yet again. imagine being flooded for 21 days and having no one come to your help. that is a fact of life for millions of people here, and many are losing patience. [ shouting, chanting ] >> reporter: fury now floods pakistan with millions without help three weeks after the epic floods began. today, protesters carrying sticks and stones set fires, stopped traffic. some even surrounded our car for a time. the unrest threatening to further destabilize the government of president zardari. today he was in russia. it was his second trip out of the country since the crisis began. pakistan is a key u.s. ally in this region. amid growing concern about the country's stability, senator john kerry arrived for a hastily

but it's not just the self-employed, like brian. self-employed, like brian. >> you want me to sign my name? >> sure. just like the front of the check. >> reporter: this couple of chicago both have good jobs. he's adentist, she's a teacher. it still took them three tries and a year and a half to refinance their home. refinance their home. >> there's a lot of paperwork you have to go in between. you have to go here, go there, pick this up and you need that stamped and it's like, oh, just a lot of other paper work just to get to this part of the process. >> reporter: in many cases, you can be the most squeaky clean borrower around. ba banks are shy after the free for all. >> the main thing is the abuses of three, four years ago have reverberate and 350e78 are tightening up too much. >> reporter: michael, owner of the lending economy equity now, says with lingering uncertainty about the economy, banks are quick to say no. >> i think it's only natural. they are basically looking at, they woke up from the bubble that happened two and a ha

and, brian, overall, that means 4.9 million barrels of oil flowed into the gulf. brian? >> continues to be an unbelievable disaster. anne thompson in venice, louisiana, tonight. we'll stay on it. >>> president obama spent part of this day speaking to a conference of the disabled american veterans about his plan to end the u.s. combat mission in iraq. the plan, he says, is on track, even as his approval numbers on the wars there and in afghanistan has taken a hit. this is happening with congressional elections coming up fast. we get the story tonight from our chief white house correspondent chuck todd. >> reporter: focusing on november today, an animated president obama urged supporters at an atlanta fund-raiser to ignore republican efforts to make this election about him. >> they don't have a single idea that's different from george bush's ideas, not one. they're bidding on amnesia. [ laughter ] >> that's what they're counting on. they're counting on that you all forgot. >> reporter: the president began the day addressing the annual convention of the disabled american ve

chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, the president planned a week of campaigning on his accomplishments, but words he used over the weekend have stepped on that message. president obama in wisconsin today launching a three-day cross-country campaign blitz. >> good to be back in the midwest. good to be out of washington once in a while. >> reporter: a trip intended for the president to showcase things like this -- a start-up advanced battery manufacturing plant that got off the ground thanks to money from mr. obama's $800 billion stimulus plan. over the weekend there was another firestorm. >> this is such a raw wound and they are just pouring salt into it. >> it was very unnecessary. he shouldn't have said what he said friday night. >> this wouldn't be a controversy if it was a proposal to build a synagogue or church. >> reporter: clouding his intended message on the campaign trail. this began friday night at a white house dinner marking the start of the muslim holiday ramadan. the president took it upon himself to

. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it was a day of startling numbers, numbers on the economy and the different ways it's affecting all of our lives. amid the towering peaks of wyoming, at an annual fed conference, a sobering assessment from fed chairman ben bernanke. economic growth is too slow and unemployment too high, but he said the fed is ready to act to keep the nation from slipping back into recession. >> the concern right now for the fed is that the labor market has been disappointing, and that means income is not going to be as high as expected. lower incomes, of course, translate into lower spending. >> reporter: consumer spending is key for small businessman like chuck schwartz. he owns two party supply stores where sales continue on a downward slope. >> we have been in a downturn since 2008. i don't know how much longer we can go through that. we have cut our expenses so that i think we can survive. >> reporter: so far this year, schwartz has closed one store, laid off five workers and cut both the pay and

but now that the ninth circuit court of appeals put gay marriage on hold again, brian has no use for that appointment and the clerk's office told him he can't get his money back. >> it's like this is same as if i go somewhere and i purchase a service. if i don't get the service or the ability or right to get the service, i don't know anybody who has the privilege or the ability to keep my money. >> reporter: it's still not clear how many same-sex couples made appointments for marriage licenses but the county clerk's office tells us today alone there are more than 405 appintments and at least half are for same-sex couples. >> none of them showed up. >> really. >> none of them showed up. >> reporter: they have been asking for refunds online. of course. >> reporter: the city clerk's website makes it clear, no refunds or credits for any reason. but it says something else too. >> under this same-sex marriage news, they have here basically the same-sex marriage refund information tag and when you click on that here is that order that was put up in 2004. >> reporter: brian says he was confu

was it from brian morel? >> the one that i was reading through was the one i got from brian, yes. >> all right. and did that procedure tell you that there was going to be a displacement with seawater down to roughly, something over eighty-three hundred feet? >> or under, under eight -- around 8,000 feet, wasn't it? >> well, my documents say -- >> 8,397 feet. >> i don't have them. you know, i don't have any documents, and i haven't had any since i was on the rig, so i'm going off of memory here with you. >> sure. but it was somewhere around 8,300, right? >> yes, yes. >> a lot deeper than you've probably seen before, right? >> yeah. >> all right. and also, this is the first time that you've seen a procedure that calls for displacement before setting down the lockdown sleeve, right? >> it stood out with me, but i have a little more interest in this one than i have before, and my concerns is, i don't want any possibly cause some sort of a problem with the setting of a lockdown sleeve. >> and what was it that you

the big question, will we see brian westbrook on the field? he was added to the roster earlier this week. he is a game-time decision tomorrow night. no matter when he plays, his qb excited to have him onboard. >> i think he is a nice mix. look at our running back corps and there is a lot of versatility and a lot of guys who can do different things. >> it is the moment bay area soccer fans have been waiting for. the addition of a player with just one name. the giovanni era begin. the brazilian midfielder becomes one in the mls, joined the team just yesterday and played the final few minutes today against the galaxy. the only score in the fourth minute, eighth goal of the year, 1-0 quakes. a huge win for them. they beat the galaxy and they have giovanni now so anything is possible. >> keeping our fingers cross for timmy lincecum. >>> still to come at 5:00 -- what happens when five san francis cans vow to beat t joey chestnut at his own game? we'll show you. j >>> come ppetitive eating champ joey chestnut took on a team of five san francisco chal

in glasgow we go to brian mcknight our he's a professor of journalism and communication at the university of strathclyde and we go to london to study moloch she's a lecturer of media and communications of burnell university and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect but first i'd like to make a few comments about some of the research i did making this program because i am i do not actually watch reality t.v. programs quote this is what i found some my research reality t.v. makes us feel dirty and cheap and if we didn't we probably wouldn't bother turning turn tuning into it never have so many watch t.v. with so little good to say about it and also critics call it gutter t.v. and humiliation t.v. reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth rather than virtue and humility so if i go to you brian why do people watch reality t.v. programs. i think that reality t.v. gives people in and say into us as banal as ordinary and put it doesn't shed a light on the ordinary and it makes the ordinary so more extraordinary we all live or

brian? >> thanh, we'll see you down there. we'll be in new orleans with extensive coverage of the anniversary beginning tomorrow night live in new orleans for this broadcast. >>> on friday night, our msnbc documentary airs. it's about what we saw during those first awful days. then on sunday, we'll have a special edition of "meet the e press" from new orleans. after that, president obama agreed to sit down with us for an exclusive interview which we'll air on "nightly news" sunday from there. >>> an update on hurricane season now, the current one. hurricane danielle continues to churn in the eastern atlantic. 85 mile an hour winds. danielle could brush past bermuda on sunday. look at this graphic. three systems out there. there is a new tropical storm on the map today. earl, expected to become a hurricane. the last one they are calling a disturbance off the african coast. we'll keep an eye on all three. >>> now to that drama playing out deep underground in chile where 33 miners found trapped but alive are huddled in a small sp

reflects a culture that worships vanity and wealth rather than virtue and humility so if i go to you brian why do people watch reality t.v. programmes. i think reality t.v. gives people an unsafe and yes as banal as ordinary but what it does is shed a light on the ordinary and it makes the ordinary so more extraordinary we all we all live ordinary way of. we really get an opportunity on mainstream t.v. to watch interpersonal dynamics personalities developing all of it done in a relatively spontaneous manner and i think it's genuinely fascinating you know we are human beings we're interested in other human beings this kind of form of t.v. always was access to one dimension of human experience that we rarely actually experience it was of our own families of course it was of our own friendships so this isn't a place of value but it is of lawyers and i think it's quite healthy and reflects human nature ok stephen you think it's healthy being a voyeur. i don't know how much boyer. is involved in reality t.v. i have a little bit of a different take on it go right ahead in the research that ok in

. >>> brian sabbian making two trades to help the giants down the stretch. welcome to the rivalry pat burrell. going down to the wire. coming up next in sports. ,,,,,,,,,, with my friends we'll do almost anything. out for drinks, eats. i have very well fitting dentures. i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so you're more comfortable and confident while you eat. a lot of things going on in my life and the last thing i want to be thinking about is my dentures. [ charlie ] try super poligrip free. the team made two moves before the trade deadline, but both >>> brian sabbian is hoping the giants offense can duplicate its performance in july. the team made two moves with the trade deadline but both were to strengthen the bull pen. heading to pittsburgh in exchange for left handed specialist javier lopez. brian sabbian didn't sto

and brian katulis, a senior fellow at the center for american progress. he was on the staff of the national security council during the clinton administration. his lieutenant colonel nagel we've had back-to-back days of heavy casualtys in afghanistan. is that rise in casualties similar to the one we experienced in iraq during the surge? >> i think there are some similaritys in that we have forces moving into places they haven't about in before. we have more forces on the ground than we've ever had before. but i think it's important to point out that grievous as these losses were over the weekend, the total casualties, u.s. casualties for afghanistan in august to date are 49. we lost 66 last month in july. so this has been a particularly bad weekend but not a particularly bad month in what is shaping up to be a very difficult year as u.s. forces ramp up. >> suarez: is this similar to the way we were told, brian katulis, during the iraq surge that things would get worse before they get beter? >> i think it is. and i think the people that the u.s. forces are

was it from brian morel? >> the one that i was reading through was the one i got from brian, yes. >> all right. and did that procedure tell you that there was going to be a displacement with seawater down to roughly, something over eighty-three hundred feet? >> or under, under eight -- around 8,000 feet, wasn't it? >> well, my documents say -- >> 8,397 feet. >> i don't have them. you know, i don't have any documents, and i haven't had any since i was on the rig, so i'm going off of memory here with you. >> sure. but it was somewhere around 8,300, right? >> yes, yes. >> a lot deeper than you've probably seen before, right? >> yeah. >> all right. and also, this is the first time that you've seen a procedure that calls for displacement before setting down the lockdown sleeve, right? >> it stood out with me, but i have a little more interest in this one than i have before, and my concerns is, i don't want any possibly cause some sort of a problem with the setting of a lockdown sleeve. >> and what was it that you

brian ricker sham told us about a problem he was having with the clerk's office.ulie watts looked into it. . >> when he thought there was a chance gay marriage might resume brian wicker sam wanted to be ready. >> i thought if i waited it could be another six years. >> reporter: so he went online to the san francisco city clerk's office, paid the $95 fee plus $5 processing and booked an appointment to get the marriage license. now he has no use for that appointment and the clerk's office told him he can't get his money back. >> same as if i go somewhere and i purchase a service. if i don't get the service or the ability or the right to get the service i don't know anybody who has the privilege or the ability to keep my money. >> reporter: it's still not clear how many same-sex couples made appointments for marriage licenses but the county clerk's office tells us today alone there are more than 40 appointments and at least half are for same-sex couples. >> none of them showed up. >> no one showed up? >> no one showed up or they have been asking for refunds online. >

in for brian williams, i'm ann curry. for all of us here at nbc news, curry. all of us here at nbc news, thank you and good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> some breaking news to start off this evening. an earthquake located near watsonville according to the usgs. a 4.0 erm quake on the san andreas fault. >> we have had people who called the newsroom to say they felt it. this is near the san andreas fault, whether there is a link is premature. we'll find out from the usgs

tonight, brian williams will host a special "dateline" broadcast. his own reflections immediately after returning from new orleans where he reported on those first chaotic days after katrina hit. >> the point of katrina is that because of the natural disaster, one, and because of the government response or lack of it, two, human behavior degraded. already thousands of people roam the streets in a mass migration looking for food. water, help or just a way out. >> all right, now. >> if you want to be rescued, go to the superdome. all of a sudden now they're telling us, go to the bridge. we have very few resources, what are we supposed to do. >> i remember seeing wild eyes that day. desperation, the inability to feed yourself or your family. the common-sense switch gets clicked off, and we don't become recognizable to ourselves or our families any more. the government couldn't tell us that things were okay. we were there, standing next to the things that were not okay. >> do we have regular insulin? >> remember bodily functions all human hygiene came t

i think it's really interesting what brian saying and i think one of the things that we directed and it's we're trying to do is read try and sort of historic reality t.v. look at the ways it's changed in the last decade and it's definitely been tonal shifts one might argue that actually now sort of post in the u.k. the celebrity big brother race around there's been a shift in some of the sort of manifestations of some of the talent shows and some kind of cruelty has actually changed and we've seen a kind of more gentle approach towards the public so the ways in which reality television itself is changing the nuances is really the way we should be approaching it rather than talking about a decline in values per se and i would also want to say it's an area that i'm interesting researching is actually some of the social good that potentially has come out of reality television and i'm thinking specifically about the way in which reality television more than any other shown on television has actually platform the range of social types and in many ways can be seen as being responsible for.

so they will take that on the corn of seventh and brian. can't see it as you ride down seventh street. you can only see it when you are in front of it. >> the skull -- sculpture is one of the tpeufirst pieces commissioned by the arts commission after the advent of the 1969 art enrichment ordinance so it is quite significant that we are planning to treat it as part of the art care program. art care has plans to take care of several other pieces in the collection including man lin choi's sculpture the monument to the korean community. it has been in the park over 0 years and has become a magnet for vandalism. we are looking at several henry march sculptures. one in front of the symphony building that needs to be treated. we are looking at the yin and yang. a much loved piece but as a resu result. it was launched may 20, 2010. ruth was celebrated with a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to and influence of the bay area community. the award is embarrassing to me like mad but i have to learn to accept it. and good things are heard

i certainly agree with brian that you don't want to create a sense of dependency. but if you are going to have a deadline you don't make it based on the american political calendar. you make it based on the reality on the ground in iraq or in afghanistan. you ask before what will it take for iraqis to make a decision. well, in the fast whenever there has been a deadline, they went behind closed doors two days before the deadline, they smoked. they drank lots of tee and-- tea and perhaps other things and emerged 24 hours after that deadline with a government. the problem right now is there is not that external pressure and we're about to remove even more external pressure allowing them to delay their decision. >> michael rubin of the american enterprise institute, brian katulis, at the centre for american progress, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> still to come on the newshour, >> woodruff: still to come on the newshour, the oil spill seen from a ship at the center of the containment efforts; secretary sebelius on health care reform; the deadly fl

substituting today, brian williams. >> august 29, 2005. hurrane katrina touches down on the louisiana coast. the city's levees fail. the next morning nearly 80% of new orleans is under water. a botched government response, a poor local evacuation plan. thousands are left without food, water, shelter or safety, trapped for days as the city is looted and its people suffer. 41,000 people were heroically rescued by u.s. armed forces, many of them brave coast guard pilots, but almost 1800 people are dead, and the storm has left an estimated $75 billion in damages throughout the gulf coast. five years later, what's changed and what hasn't? what lessons were learned? is this city's recovery moving in the right direction? joining us, two of the area's notable political leaders, louisiana senator mary landrieu and her brother, the newly elected mayor of new orleans, rich landrieu. then my interview with actor brad pitt, founder of the make it right foundation, in an effort to repair the devastated city. plus our special discussion with three men wh

don't miss brian williams broadcasting live from new orleans on "nbc nightly news." brian hosts a special edition from new orleans and his guest brad pitt and the work he's doing down there. sunday on "nightly news," an exclusive interview with president obama in new orleans. >>> former president jimmy carter on the way back to the u.s. after winning the release of an american released in nokz. he secured a special pardon from the man sentenced to eight years of hard labor for illegally entering the communist nation back in january. according to state-run media, carter's trips included talks with north korea's number two leader and relayed his country's interest in six-party nuclear disarmament talks. >>> well, federal health officials say contaminated chicken feed is likely to believe for a salmonella outbreak that has sickened some 1700 people across the country. at a news conference yesterday, government investigators said that the tainted chicken feed had only gone to two iowa farms and had not been distributed in the country elsewhere. those two farms recalled h

was tara's friend. >> brian? >> brian. unbelievable. he's a teacher. did you know that?alking to me about, like, the budget cuts happening right now. well, across the board, there is no money for anything. there's no music classes. there's no arts classes. they're volunteering their time to do all of this after school. they're educating our kids, you know. >> i think you'd make a great teacher, honey. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you take off there. >> there's a -- there's a little tension -- a little tension in the relationship at the moment. he's not so reliable and so she decides to go eat in italy. >> jimmy: and then pray in bali. >> and prays in -- no, she prays in india, dude. go back to the book. >> jimmy: no, that's what i meant, she prays in india and then she goes to bali for love. >> that's right. for love, exactly. i don't know what they would call -- my -- 'cause, i'm not in the eat, pray, or the love part. >> jimmy: no. you're like the preface. [ laughter ] >> you know, my agent didn't pose it like that. >> jimmy: hey, you guys, "eat, pra

brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >>> the nation of chile celebrated sunday after discovering 33 men trapped deep in a copper and gold mine for 17 days are now alive and have taken refuge in an emergency shelter. holding a note sent to the surface by the miner, chile's president welcomed the news saying, quote, today all the country is crying from happiness. still rescuers say it could take another four months to actually dig the men out. until then, authorities will pass the miners food, water, oxygen and communication equipment through a narrow drilling hole. >>> iranian president ahmadinejad unveiled his country's first domestically built unmanned bomber yesterday according to state tv, the aircraft can reportedly carry up to four crew missiles and has a change of 620 miles. not far enough to reach israel. in a television interview, he offered his friendship to america, but quickly adding he doesn't fear an attack by the u.s. because it couldn't even defeat a small army in iraq. >>> a disgruntled former policeman is holding 16 people hostage on a bus in the philippines demanding h