but you could have dinner with president obama and gary busey. >> that would be fantastic. >> busey wouldn't remember it. >> if it was at busey's house at some point he would start screaming, who are you, and why are you in my house? >> it is cheapening your intimacy with the president. it is like a three some. why put gary busey into it? >> i will go with it, why should it just be dinner? he needs to make some money. why not sweeten the pot? >> i am in favor of obama. i am just not in favor of dinner. it strikes me as desperate. is it reminds me of working at a magazine and then say we have to come up with a novel way to connect with the people. how can we use social media. what is next, the country decides who is president? >> so true. >>> gavin, what do you make of this? if you would have won who would you choose? >> if i had to choose say i won and i could choose a -- i want wadi from "exploited" or willow smith. i feel like i learned a lot about gay marriage and willow smith could be a fountain of information. we can all have our own senate where willow and obama and i solved a bunch of

. >>> and actor gary busey turns 68. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and more as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. a live report on david beckham, failing to make britain's olympic soccer game, did age finally catch up with the 37-year-old superstar? >>> and maroon 5 rocks the plaza for a full half hour in the "today's" summer concert series. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. the day, today on your nbc station. have a great weekend. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

busey a light at the end of the tunnel -- do you see a light at the end of the tunnel in getting the street lights didn't care so they are not falling apart, like some of our street lights -- getting taken care of so they are not falling apart, like some of our streets might actually are? or will be focused on pedestrians rather than just exclusively writing -- like team that roadway for cars. -- like in the roadway for cars. -- lighting the roadway for cars. but the amount of money that we could spend be to upgrade all of the roads over two years. the other thing would be to walk in and have 1¢ rate increases. that is now allowing us to do binding and that will find it street lights. the ability to do it will be better generally over time. we have the ability to do upgrades on the l.e.d. street lighting. we also have miscellaneous street light repairs and the bus rapid transit on van ness. those will go a long way to change the problem areas on street lights. about half of them are owned by just pg&e. the pedestrian lighting is a particular issue because the lights were often design

. >>> looking at who is celebrating a birthday today, oscar nominated actor gary busey is 68 years old. comedian and actor richard lewis is turning 65. love boat actor turned congressman turned dc radio host fred grandy is 64. he won nine prime time emmys for the sopranos. matthew weiner is 47. and this pussycat digital turns -- doll turns 34 today. happy birthday to you if it is your day today, too. >>> good morning, welcome back to 9news now, 5:45 on this friday morning. it is muggy, humid, sticky, it is ugly out there. olga breese has the rest of our morning weather. >> yes and we told you so. we knew it was inevitable. we watched all of this heat and humidity track across the nation and yes, it is now here, on our doorstep. we are looking at muggy conditions this morning. humidity is high, we have passing clouds at this hour. our forecast for today is definitely going to keep the heat around. we are going to dial it up more than what we have seen over the last company of days. we'll keep a little bit of sunshine through midday and early afternoon. we'll push quickly through the 90s

>> he beat matt lauer, charles osgood, and steve busey, in the category. >> elliot and harper didn't big daddy? >> girls, don't take it away from me. >> nothing? nothing about the big -- >> that's as good as it's going to get. >> it's all about a great cause. we can congratulate our george stephanopoulos. other winners include brad pitt, president obama and jimmy kimmel. that's "pop news," guys. >>> sam? sam, he's kissing the trophy. >> go, big daddy. go, big daddy. good morning, everybody. all right, carolina girls. what's your name? >> my name's karen. >> hailey. >> princeton. >> and? >> annie. >> all right. if you see these girls rolling through new york city, just be careful. let's show you what's happening outside your doors this morning. here we go. by the way, in florida, we have pretty strong rip currents. there's been more than 50 rescue operations in volusia, florida. new orleans, houston gets rain out of there. onshore flow, as well. be careful in those zones today. quick look at the rest of the country. oh, yeah. we have to talk about this. not only is the big heat making