brokaw and his crew set up with a view of the unfolding scene. >> are we ready, cheryl?york senior producer cheryl gould races to prepare for the 6:30 broadcast. >> we had to put all this news into the allotted half hour. and that's stressful as it is. and then being ready at 6:29:59 so that when 6:30 comes and tom says "good evening" that you're ready. >> if the bird is up i can just throw it to him. >> with minutes to go until the broadcast the crowds and cheers reach a fever pitch. >> there's a guy coming across. cheryl. yeah. after you get done with segment 3, they're coming across the wall right here. >> i remember tom saying to me at one point, "cheryl. cheryl. they're coming over the wall!" and i still get goosebumps when i remember that. he was there to record this, to report on it. >> it's amazing. >> we didn't know if they would shoot them. with bullets. that had been the history of that wall. instead, they shot them with water cannons. and so people came over the wall drenched, wet with water cannon fire. they came over the wall with champagne bottles. and wes

and he said what did you know that you didn't tell tom brokaw and i said to my tell him everything.but we worked together on that to get started on this book and then we did, even though we did other stories together and there were others that he thought about and turned it down. but someone had to do it. and hopefully this is part of it. >> tell me about this background. because obviously you were there and nbc. >> when i met him, he was one of the individuals and he was not outgoing and i just knew it. and we talked and it was not anything special. we talked at howard johnson's where we talked about this and then it grew. >> i would love to give the viewer just a little bit of background. >> i started on nbc news on july 21, 1958 and i have been covering this since april. and so i was a veteran at that time since 1961. i wound up covering this and there's been 166 of them. i was fortunate enough if they look on the inside cover when he made the step on the moon and you can see him across the big television screen stepping off onto the surface of the moon and by then i knew somethi

he said what do you know that you didn't tell brokaw? i said i told brokaw everything.we worked together on that in all through in a couple of times wanted to get started on the book and never did. .. there was nothing special about it until that morning. the two children. >> right. >> then it grew. >> i, i would like to give the viewer just a little background. he started when? >> i started for nbc news 1958. ahead been covering the launch is that since april of 58. also, i was a veteran when alan shepard flew. 1961. i didn't set out to do it, but i wound up covering every flight by american astronauts. there have been 166 of them. was fortunate enough if the look on the inside, the cover of the book you'll see a picture of me on the air when kneele made the step of the month. you can see him across mission control stepping off on the surface of the moon. i knew some things. you know, he told me some things . even though he is passed on, will not break that confidence. we had a working agreement. being a reporter generally if i say to you, the discussion is not off the

tom brokaw first met the actress in california.his today on the "today" show. >> she was never, never not interesting, never, ever someone who had a big entourage of some kind. she was always betty bacall. >> known as betty, she is now joining me by phone is george steve stevens jr. and sally quinn, both friends of betty bacall. george, first to you, you are a producer, father of the statemefamous george stevens producer. were those first films with humphrey bogart what created lauren bacall? >> absolutely. when you think that she made her first film in 1944, she was 20 years old and she's really been part of american life for 70 years, a public life. and the first two, some would say they are the most memorable of all. but she maintained a career which isn't easy for an actress. really over a period of seven decades. >> and when we talk about her work, first there were those movies with humphrey bogart and then he died and she ended up marrying again. sally, you knew her in new york when she moved to new york. tell me about the be

to say. [ laughter ] [ imitating brokaw ] congratulations to rory mac-ill-roy. [ laughter and applauseatulations to rory mac-ill-rye. rory mac-hill-hi. rory -- [ muttering incoherently ] [ laughter ] >> steve: do you want some crack with that? [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm all ready at home. how is this guy still talking to me? >> steve: sorry, dude. >> jimmy: my phone's on! stop calling me! [ imitates phone ringing ] hello? >> steve: yeah, do you want some crack with that? >> jimmy: no, i don't! [ laughter ] "crack with that"? no, stop asking! >> steve: hey, whoa, whoa. we got the mcrib. >> jimmy: what? >> steve: your favorite's back. >> jimmy: but why are you calling me at home? >> steve: i just wanted to know if you wanted to have a mcrib. >> jimmy: what have you got for me? >> steve: i got a shamrock shake. >> jimmy: okay. >> steve: and a mcrib. >> jimmy: that's cool. >> steve: and three vials of crack. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i'm going to hang up. have a good night. [ laughter ] [ imitates phone ringing ] [ laughter ] i'm not going to pick it up. i'm not going to pick it up. [ imitate

tom brokaw asked her what the men in her life had in common? >> i would say talent was the big thing. and they all were just a little off-beat. all a little troubled. [ laughter ] >> do you seek that out in a man? >> god, i must. some of me must. but then no one ever said it was easy. >> reporter: she wasn't easy. with a smoky voice that could both purr and roar. after two tonys and an honorary oscar, she still objected to those who called her a legend. the word legend, she said, was for the dead. but tonight we hope even she would permit us to use the word. betty bacall was a legend. cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >>> that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm lester holt. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. . >>> nbc bay area news starts now. of >>> so people were able to communicate about it and go, hey, let's find this guy. >> right now at 6:00, arming themselves with technology, neighbors going digital to stay safe. >> thank you for joining us. i'm peggy bunker in for

tom brokaw anchored the 11:00. we learned jess marlow died today. he was on the air in l.a. for 37 years. long enough to qualify for a star on the hollywood walk of fame. he died from complications of alzheimer's. he was 84 years old. >>> well you've heard of a diamond in the rough. that's exactly what happened at the firestone country club in akron. sergio garcia's tee shot on the third hole at the bridgestone invitational went wide. it landed on a woman's engagement ring, dislodged the diamond. for a time he helped in the search. he felt awful about it happening and while he needed to play through, the loose stone was later found through a thorough search of the underbrush. >>> the video of the day comes from far northeastern uk near the border with scotland. two friends surfing when out of nowhere they were joined by a third friend. the seal stayed with them for about an hour, getting on the board, falling off. getting back on, riding the waves into shore. perfectly content hanging out with its human companions. >>> when we come back, jim kelly, opening up about the fight

brokaw, why you think the situation is not that much out of hand yet? >> i can only refer you to the circumstances and the decision of president nixon in august of 1971. that was a decision he made under quite different circumstances. we are in totally different circumstances today. we have gone through a three-year period, more or less. i think we have learned a few economic lessons that wage and price controls in the current circumstances didn't work, probably created more dislocations and inequities. i see no justification today, regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the decision in 1971, to reimpose wage and price controls today. >> mr. president, you are still working with the same team of economic advisers who advised your predecessor. as a matter of putting your own stamp on your own administration, perhaps spurring confidence, do you plan to change the cast of characters? >> there is one significant change, just within the last 48 hours. herb stein, who did a superb job for president nixon, is going back to the university of virginia, and

tom brokaw remembered him today as, quote, a first-rate journalist. >>> sunset boulevard near ucla is back open today, days after a massive water main break created a giant sink hole. parts of the boulevard were closed so crews could fix the pipe and repave the road. about 20 million gallons of water damaged the campus and underground parking garages. about 400 cars were also damaged. >>> up next, lego and a girl's complaint. [ heart beating ] [ female announcer ] the internet gets more exciting the faster it goes. that's why, coming soon, xfinity will double the internet speed on two of our most popular plans. xfinity continues to innovate, bringing you the fastest, most reliable internet, period. [ heart beating ] xfinity internet from comcast. double the speed. [ heart beats ] >>> we'll be back in half an hour. coming up at 6:00, uber getting rid of one of its drivers. >>> one little girl is a believer of the old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword. she loves playing with legos but was upset when she realized there was more lego boys than girls, so she wrote a letter to t

important points they came out of choosing is meeting in minsk at the top of the next hour and what brokaw saying the foreign ministers q. and a in full live on r.t. dot com stay with us. for scott becoming independent schools a nation that nations should be self-governing to govern the feels better than allowed someone else to do it for look. but. i would like to know did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy shrek albus. role. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers once told us i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem of trucks rational debate and a real discussion that critical issues facing america find a job ready to join the movement then walk a little bit make. me think of w

extensively about the middle east thank you i know we have we're getting new information right now brokaw's from open space way to russian cosmonauts carrying out a spacewalk they are launching on a go no said i did created by students from russia and the room now the device is called tusky which means korea in the language of to reveal an indian's student spend three designing its satellite weighs just one kilo its memory contains information about human civilization including things like children's drawings that will be launched into altus wave as a message to anyone who finds that twenty two but that's not. all be monitored from the earth every day for half a year because we're not launching it will spend around six hours outside the international space station they will also carry out a number of scientific talks before returning to their colleagues and there you're watching footage live of that happening right now. moving on to other stories and people have used the last day of a temporary ceasefire to call on israel to renew not to renew rather its military offensive but also true as

british politician and brokaw so george galloway was taken to hospital after being attacked in broad daylight in central london the m.p. spokesman said his rib and joel may have been broken as marina kossovo with more on the incident. when he was posing for photographs with people in central london apparently a man started shouting something related to the holocaust and then he proceeded to partnership george galloway's suspect the suspects have suffered a broken jaw a broken rib severe bruising to his face and head now because that man was shot in something related to the holocaust it led the spokesperson to believe that this is related to george galloway's controversial statements about israel of course he's in the avapro palestine supporter and he has said that he doesn't recognize the state of israel and doesn't debate with israelis in fact this is not the first time has been attacked in two thousand and three he was accused of racism when he walked out of the university debate because he found out that his opponent was israeli then in two thousand and eight a man that was arrest

and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. i love politics.i'm saying? i see the katrina response. i see people talking about fema. i read about president bush and his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's discovered a captive audience for his brand of political punditry. >> i have a subscription to "usa today" and i have a line. i let everybody read it. i write little comments. you'd be surprised, we discuss things in here. everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? >> he tried out some spin in response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his cell. >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. most of them come out of "xxl" magazine. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." but sided toward the hip hop minority community. get tired of looking at gray walls all day. they're not nude, they're all clothed, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic,

and i see your colleague, tom brokaw. that's what i wanted to get into. you know what i'm saying?atrina response. his budget cuts. that gets my juices going. >> and in prison, he's today" and i have a line. you'd be surprised, we discuss everything in prison is not just violence or gangs. we discuss issues. people are surprised the conversations we have in here, you know what i'm saying? response to an unexpected line of questioning from our producer on the pin-ups decorating his >> are these all your girlfriends? >> in another lifetime. magazine. king, black mens. minority based magazines. kind of like "maxim." but sided toward the hip hop they're not nude, they're all clothed, albeit scantily. >> they're very artistic, marcus. very artistic. about women. not so nice about women. >> it's a bit misogynist. i'm going on 11 years, right, and all i dealt with is men, so this is an escape so to speak. it's blunt, you know what i'm personally, i read a lot of stuff to keep my mind -- if i got another chance out there, i'm going to respect a woman. i'm not going to just objectify >> i'm

of me there as sybrina fulton, the mother of trayvon martin, as well as her husband, expected tom brokaw showed up a while ago, expected to be here to show support for michael brown's parents, the father of jordan davis, whose high-profile shooting captured headlines in 2012, jim, there when he was show in the a gas station in jacksonville. but really the main focus of today is michael brown and hearing what his parents have to tell those folks here that have shown up to show their support for him, jim. >> i so he that michael brown's father has called on the protest to be peaceful, both today and tomorrow, as the fine al takes place. are you feeling that's likely? are folks there concerned about folks taking a turn for the worse again tomorrow? >> reporter: when i first got here, i spent time in the community, where michael brown was shot and got the sense it was very tense. the smallest thing could set anyone off. though largely, since i've been here, things have been calm, things have really, as stephanie elam reported earlier, things have calibrated on either side, seen police checki

cameras weren't rolling dead on imitations of everyone from presidents of the united states to tom brokaw. through all the years david has been true to the traditions of this program and nbc news. >> if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >> on thursday david tweeted, i leave nbc as i came, humbled and grateful. i love journalism, he wrote, and serving as moderator of "meet the press" was the highest honor there is. i have great respect for my colleagues at nbc news and wish them all well. to the viewers, i say thank you. as david leaves nbc news for his next adventure, i will miss him as a daily colleague, but i know he will always be a friend. we'll be back with more right after this. don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. ♪ [ female announcer ] when the pressure's on... only secret offers clinical strength invisible solid and clear gel with 100% odor protection. secret clinical strength. >>> here now, a special edition of "images to remember" looking back over the extraordinary life of robin williams. ♪ >> robin williams was a force of n

we're going to be speaking to tom brokaw who was good friends with her. share some of the stories of her over the years. >>> let's start with the top story. that is the dangerous flooding from some very potent storms that have dumped more than a foot of rain in some parts of the east coast. take a look at this. that's the southern state parkway in nassau county in long island. probably less than an hour's drive from where we're sitting. cars stranded there as you can see. dylan has the latest on this storm. >> that's not driving into flood waters. that's driving and downpours coming at such a rate there's nowhere to go. the water came down. 5 inches in islip, new york. that came down in one hour. that's the scene we've seen up and down the east coast. yesterday in maryland, we ended up with about 10.5 inches of rain in a 24-hour period. that's enough rain for two month's worth. we are seeing a deluge of rain coming down. the atmosphere is holding about as much water as it can. because of that we are seeing flooding like this. this stretches all the way do

the story that's been getting some buzz over the last 24 hours, tom brokaw, executives at nbc news are the comments of deborah you are the miswho had to apologize after announcing the network news organization had been asleep for 15 years. she dropped the clanger in a new york times interview saying, quote: nbc news hasn't kept up with the times in all sorts of ways for maybe 15 years. i think the organization had gone to sleep. the new york post told tom brokaw, managing editor and anchor and others from nbc news and jeff zucker now at cnn were apoplectic over her remarks and saying she is making enemies. her asleep comments is incredibly disrespectful to many of nbc's top journalists. our next call is elizabeth from south carolina. mitt romney in 2016, what's your take on this? >> caller: i think romney is too honest to win an election. i think his principles are honorable. i love the way he goes about business, and the last few callers have really hit the nail on the head. .. someone who operates under a no holds barred, you know, he's an honest man. but honesty is what we need. hos

he worked with tom brokaw who called marlow first rate.t an unique in canada. it's staffed with deaf waiters and waitresses. it's solid sign. there are cheat sheets to help. the owners said he wanted to give job opportunities to the hearing-impaired community. business is booming. >>> "the new york times" says that keke palmer will be the first black woman to portray cinderella on broadway. she makes her broadway debut september 9th. palmer says she's thankful for this opportunity. >>> new york daily news shows us the latest words added to the dictionary. selfie, bromance and hash tag. the revised dictionary comes out monday. >> schnitz made the list. >>> michael phelps is calling it quits after the 2012 games in london, but this week he's jumping out of retirement and into the pool for the u.s. national championship. everyone's waiting to see if he gives the olympics another shot in 2016. phelps said he's helpier this time around since he's swimming on his own terms without outside pressure. >>> and politico says after two terms a tiny mi

the brokaw not mugging night and forced the evacuation. the blaze did distraite eight buildings is 30 percent contained renault. >>: since then the to rein in atlanta have been shut down. since then as it and see all lanes are open there. the to write and lance of 880 south lawn at industrial are now cleared. the chp has not yet open up the west bound industrial parkway becauon ramp that will be opened shortly and it looks like. however the damage has been done to the mimics freeway is backed up into san leandro on 80 southbound and there was a visual hazard that is affected the north on ride of interstate 880. with that has been is took the pressure off the san mateo bridge in will show you that in just a moment. there's a new hot spot affecting the bride and sunnyvale. >>: george: its backing up the traffic of the way to the mimics freeway. so were once again looking at a really slow ride here. it's all the way out to nearly a way 101. tracking year ride at the bay bridge west bound commute is solid backed up into the mcarthur maze . it'

>> well, you know, tom brokaw said to me that you wrote a great report, an important recommendations. but i think the reason the american people embraced you was it was the first important bipartisan thing that had been done to this town in a long, long time, and it was unanimous. that's got to be an important part of our legacy. the idea that republicans and democrats can come together. i mean, the idea when i first learned about lee and the idea that he'd. working with republicans and democrats. my history was -- i was speaker of a legislature in new jersey that had no majority. and i had to maneuver that into making some pretty good accomplishments. i was governor of a state as a republican that didn't have a democratic legislature. and had to learn to work with them. out of all that, i got, as lee did, a deep respect for a number of people in the other party and the idea that their views were legitimate, that they were part of a constituency, and it was better to work with them than against them. i don't know if we lost that in this town. the idea that people who come to washingto

tom brokaw, executives at nbc news fuming over the comments of debra tunnis. our next call on this is elizabeth from anderson, south carolina. mitt room any in 2016, what's your take on this? caller: i think that romney is too honest to win an election. i think his principles are honorables. i love the way he goes about business, and the last few callers have really hit the nail on the head. but in a competition with someone who operates under a no holds barred, you know, he's an honest man. but honesty is what we need. host: who did you support in 2012? caller: i voted for romney. host: do you think the party would support him in a contested primary? caller: i believe they would. i think we seen a lot, and i think that our experience has shown us that we really -- we need an honest man, but it is difficult to win an election being honest. host: okay. elizabeth, thanks very much for the call from anderson, south carolina. you can continue the conversation jorgenson line. one other headline we want to share with you, the director of the budget office, from the

because i talked to tom brokaw, he wrote that great book "the greatest generation."the greasest generation in baseball? the greatest decade in baseball. and he said positively. i'll tell you the reason why. joe dimaggio's 56-game hitting street, ted williams batting over .400. you had all of these good players going to war. above all that, jackie robinson in 1947 breaks the color barrier. that has to be the greatest. it was very, very important to our society and to baseball. >> you know, you talk about baseball, though. i really do mark so many moments of my life. 1975 obviously what happened in game six, but i will forever remember being in dalton, georgia, at my grandmom's house on april 8, 1974, when al downing pitched that pitch to hank aaron. i mean there are just -- these are the moments that mark our lives, right? >> really. it's how baseball explains america. you know, it's so important. and that moment when hank broke that record, that has to stand. and the fact that there was somebody that had peds that helped go above that record -- the records are so sac