game depending chon team you want to see, if you want to see the dallas cowboys it will cost a family of four about $700 or upwards. the average cost for a family of four in the overall n.f.l. itself is over $400. there's... none of the four major professional leagues can a family of four go to a game for under $200. you know, maybe it's time for fans to reassess why they're sort of spending like crack addicts on the four major sports when there are lots of other affordable, available things to watch for a lot less money that appreciate the fans perha a little bit better and who value the fan more properly. >> hunt: minor leag baseball for one. >> sure. >> hunt: let me ask you both. in these talks... either the n.f.l. or the n.b.a., we talk about the owners, are the differences with the owners. are there there hawks and doves and some who are wiser? >> there's a very much a haw and dove breakdown, particularly in the n.f.l. one of the things we've mean? reaching an agreement between the players and the oers, what's reall going on here is less a quarrel between the owners and the playe

>> well, we don't t ve a lot of chon sense here on capitol hill right now. and the public contributes to that by supporting people who are obstinate. >> so, jon, what happened today? any forward movement? >> reporter: there was a first glimmer of hope, diane. a bipartisan group of senators presented a plan, $3.7 trillion in deficit reduction, including a mix of revenue increases, deep spending cuts. 50 senators were there from bott parties. a lot of positive statements said about it. but don't bank on it, diane. i'm also hearing a lot of criticism of this plan, being looked at. leadership in either party seems to like it. >> those poll numbers and anger going to keep rising. thank you, jon karl. >>> and now, the two most dangerous terrorists on earth, about to join forces. u.s. officials tell abc news that top al qaeda leader ayman al zawahiri and american-born terror leader anwar al awlaki will soon announce what amounts to a terrorist merger. their joint targets, reportedly american sites abroad, easier to hit than the ones here at home. and we have just l

. >> thank you, christina. 6 chon 19. bay area schools could soon have the power to finish liker bullies. >> now we're getting a hook at numbers. we'll talk about it in tech today. >> we drive north out of pacifica, we see a nice smooth drive, the earlier significant alert, that cleared without incident. we're close to the reasons. i'll show you where and tell you why. >> check out nbc morning news on facebook. friend us even individual'd lovu we'd love .toear from you. >> welcome back. it is 6:23 now. we'll get a look at the maze. a couple of reasons for the slowdown. the increased traffic and the metering lights. about a minute after my last report they turned on the lights because of the volume of traffic. we see slowing. let's see how things are. the backup going past the 880 over crossing. the cash lanes catching up. the low clouds not an issue. you might get drizzle in parts of the bay area. a live look at 880. we saw traffic north past the coliseum. it's going through downtown and will hit the toll plaza. back to y

. >> 6 chon 02.he family of a missing nursing student is still hopeful she'll be found safe nearly a month and a half after she was last seen. christie smith is live in hayward where her family raised the reward money to $100,000. christie. >> reporter: yeah, that is an incredible number. good morning. this isn't easy for her family organizing all of these volunteer searches, walking the creeks and wooded areas. this morning they tell me they are going back to the niles canyon area and look for michelle. this is their sixth search. at 7:30 volunteers are going to start showing up at the community center behind the roll-up door that you see there. that's where volunteers will gather to look for the nursing student last seen from kaiser medical center. her family says they can't give up even though hayward police have classified this as a likely homicide. the fbi has involved along with a private investigator that the family is working with, there are many interviews but no arrests. and what happened t

. >> they are really chon but they are very small so they are about a millimeter long. >> morgan is ah.d. candidate at uc davis. she's done a lot of dipping in the last few years from mexico to oregon. while this was one of the warmer days she's about warming about the effects of global warming. >> we want to see if they evolve in response to climate change. >> and this species is especially well-suited, according to her advisor. >> it's significant in this case because these creatures are about the toughest little creatures we know in the sea. >> as creatures go, they are fairly benign, not a big part of the food change. as soon as they develop the male makes the scene and it doesn't get more fulfilling than that. five weeks from cradle to grave. >> this proved ideal for the experiment because they live in localized area and they adapt to temperature ranges in their pools of water. combine that with their short life spans and if any animal could evolve in time to keep pace with warming oceans, it would probably be them. >> back in the lab they are pushing and measuring their acts to

as much as 1,000 barrels spilled in the yellowstone river friday after chon-mobil pipe burst. hundreds have been told to evacuate as the 25-mile plume moves through their area. exxon-mobil says it regrets the release. >>> rick reichmuth is in the weather center to look at the holiday weekend forecast. how is it shaping up? >> not that bad really for anybody. no big severe weather. the heat has broken a little bit across the northern tier. where it has been so hot across the northern plain, back in the 70s or 80s or so. today we have problembes across the northeast. you can see the showers cutting across new england and the coast. we will se more this afternoon. tomorrow for fireworks and the parties for the fourth of july, across the east coast looking good. some of these showers will cause flooding. you can see the dots of blue popping up. moisture to make its way up to the four corns and fire we talked about, that is good news. we have want humidity levels up. a purr cursor of the monsoon -- precursor of the moon soon season about to get going here. we have wet weather acros