chuck bell is in storm center 4. chuck, more heat coming and potential for more dangerous storms in the future? >> unfortunately, yes. thunderstorms up across parts of central pennsylvania headed towards philadelphia, and northeastern maryland. we'll keep a close eye on those. meanwhile, we're all blistered under the heat. 102 degree, that's the 6:00 temperature at national airport. still 100 in winchester, 100 in frederick, maryland, 102 in waldorf. and 105 officially at reagan national today. smashed the old record of 102 set just two years ago. baltimore, bwi airport, 103. dulles, 101. all records for the day. and this makes it one of the five hottest days ever. in washington. our hottest day since august of 1997. and only one degree shy of the 106 that we've only made twice before. the heat will be breaking soon. i'll give thaw in the seven-day forecast. jim. >> can't come soon enough, chuck. thank you. >>> that record-breaking heat could be felt everywhere. including in al sunexandria. quiet there today. some op

chuck has a condition called peripheral arterial disease or p.a.d.in 25 years he's gone at least 25 bypass surgeries just to keep the blood flowing to his lower leg. >> i'm at the point right now i cannot have any more bypasses. it's been so many bypasses done and they can't do anymore. >> reporter: like thousands of others chuck was running out of options and quickly coming to terms with the terrifying reality. >> 150,000 a year in the united states have to undergo amputation because of the condition. it's a result of blocked blood flow, blocked arteries feeding to the leg. >> reporter: dr. michael goe and team of researchers at ohio state university medical center are trying a new approach. a therapy that could have huge impact on chuck's life and to see if it works doctors keep a close eye on the small sore on his foot. >> a new idea is that we are investigating the use of a patient's own stem cells to stimulate the growth of the new healthy blood vessels we harvest stem cells from the patient's bone marrow. we isolate and purify them. then we inj

can you get us some in the meantime. >> sure, absolutely. >> thank you, chuck. >> thank you, chuck. >ic athletes from 50 different countries arrive in london, among them, the bulk of team usa with their families. >> about 16,000 will descend on the capital in the next few days. >> reporter: while it's been a busy day and a sort of milestone as well with much of the u.s. team and athletes from dozens of other nations arriving today, heathrow airport is expecting some 240,000 passengers over just a 24-hour period. now, that easily breaks the previous record of 234k at europe's largest airport. so far there's been no report of major losses of gear at least despite everything from horses to pole vaulting poles to mountain bikes and more. heathrow has put on an extra 1,300 volunteers, it says, to help athletes to get to where they're going. now, there has been one reported snafu. the u.s. 400 meters champion and also the defending silver med medalist tweeted from his bus that was supposed to take him and his team to the athletes' village. that's normally about an hour's drive but he said f

i'm chuck todd. here's what we know. the massacre took place at the century 16 movie complex in aurora, colorado, a suburb of denver. at this moment the local police chief says 12 people are dead. the nub fluctuated throughout the morning. at least 50 are wounded. here's how it happened. before 12:30 a.m. local time federal officials say a gunman armed with an assault rifle and two handguns came in through a theater exit. nbc confirmed that the suspect is 24-year-old james holmes. two witnesses that were inside the theater 9 described what happened next on nbc station kusa. >> he threw one gas -- like one teargas thing. >> landed in the row in front of us, hit the girl in front of us. then they exploded. >> he threw another one. >> yeah. >> i think that went to the right of us. >> did you see him starting to shoot people at that point? >> he actually waited. he looked so calm when he did it. it was, like, scary. he waited for the bombs both to explode before he even made any move. then after both of them exploded he bega

music legend chuck brown. known as chuck brown attributed day -- a tribute today.l feature performances and stories about the history of chuck brown. the advance our saturday, from until 5:30 p.m. on the national mall. folklife festival is free and wraps up on sunday. tomorrows celebration in the laurel, maryland is dedicated to fallen marine. lance corporal e.g. mills iii killed by conducting operations in afghanistan. this will include the american flag been lowered to half staff. this starts tomorrow morning. the city of david berg, maryland has rescheduled its -- in gaithersburg, itsland has rescheduled july 4 fireworks. it will be held one week from at the fairgrounds. gates open at 5:00 p.m.. the fireworks show will follow 9:25. >> a big honor for brian as his fraternity present him with an award. annual award is given to a leak baseball player who best exemplifies character to philanthropy and promise on the field. of thehe first member the honor.o receive a tremendous honor. is four-o'clock 56 and 78 degrees. >> still had, just when you had seen it all on-

if it's chuck and i, let's say, chuck asks a girl out and she's more interested in me, then go for ity date me. if i ask you out and you're interested in chuck, then don't do that. you stay with me. he's married. >> that's actually happened to me where a girl has come up to me at a bar and she got me drunk, just gave me a lot of drinchs, and then got me to give her my friend's number. that's how she did it. that's how i figured it out at the end. >> were you brokenhearted? >> sort of. >> did you feel used and abused? >> no. because i found somebody else. >> and you got free drinks. >> she got you drinks all night? >> don't go for the guy that you don't want. especially if he's going to be hanging around with the guy you like all the time. >> let's go back across to sarah. >> hi guys, elena from texas has a question about vacations. >> okay, so we're on vacation. girls are on vacation, wives are on vacation, and we left you in charge. why do you feel the need to micromanage or have us micromanage, texting and calling and asking us to schedule, when we're on vacation? it's your job. >>

chuck schumer telling ben bernanke to get to work.'t know with a chuck schumer is expecting ben bernanke to do? ben bernanke has his pedal to the metal and there's monetary creation and stimulus and i wish chuck schumer would tell the fellow democrats who tell the senate not to let us go off the fiscal cliff. tax-geddon. the ball is in their quart. i don't know there's a lot that bernanke can do. there's a lot that schumer and friends can do. >> congress has 21 days of work before the november election, by the way, give me that gig. 21 days and this guy is looking at bernanke and saying, speed it up. you've got to be kidding me. >> i think, neil, in their little world, as you can see from bernanke's smile, reaction, that was a little pat on the back and saying, i wish we were all doing better here. forget-- >> and come on, adam, i love you dearly. you know the smile on ben bernanke's face, i can't believe what an ass you are. (laughter) >> that's what the smile was. >> exactly right. exactly right. >> you know, it was like, here is th

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a chuck brown tribute concert on the national mall. it's all part of the smithsonian's folk life festival. luckily so far no heat related problems on the mall. ken molester yay joins us now with the -- ken molestina joins us with the reaction. >> reporter: you mix it with the triple digit temperatures we've been seeing and that's created a pretty steamy party out here on the national mall. ♪ the smithsonian anacostia museum brought the chuck brown tribute down to the national mall and although under a large tent make no mistake. the heat was being felt. people out in the mall tried the stay cool drinking lots of water and going to misting stations and taking in the air- conditioning at nearby museums. but for these go-go fans, the temperatures were no match for the heat they bought an stage and on -- brought on stage and on the dance floor. just and chuck's daughter kk. >> if my father was here he'd be out here. i have to do it for him and i appreciate it. the love especially in this heat. >> just blown away. the dance is so passionate

let's start with chuck bell with a look at the possibility of more storms tonight. chuck? >> yes, unfortunately, we will have a chance for more thunderstorms to roll into especially virginia starting late tonight. for now though, just another sizzling hot day. absolute misery if you don't have air-conditioning. current temperature in washington, 98 degrees. still 97 in ma sasses, 95 degrees also in frederick, maryland. doppler radar shows not a lot going on around our media, but you can get a sense there are showers and thunderstorms across parts of central and western ohio. these are also running in our direction. severe thunderstorm watches have been posted as late as 11:00 tonight for far western parts of west virginia and there's a chance some of those storms would be arriving in part of central virginia about midnight tonight. we'll talk about that coming up in a few minutes, but your sunday evening planner is a sizzler. temperatures, mid to upper 90s, then around the mid-80s by 11:00. another update and talk more about our storm chances coming up. >> we're already he

chuck bell wil i'm barack obama and i approve this message.ney singing]: oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesty, above the fruited plain, america, america, god shed his grace on thee, and crowned thy good, with brotherhood... >> we're getting our first glimpse of james holmes sitting in a courtroom in aurora, colorado, for a preliminary hearing. we'll listen in as the legal proceedings and they will be brief get underway. >> good morning. mr. holmes, this matter comes on for what we call an initial advisement pursuant to rule 5. deputy, if you could please step back. you have a right to remain silent. you make any statements they can and will be used against you and you have a right to be represented by an attorney. if you could not afford one amidst statutory guidelines, i would appoint one at no cost to yourself. any plea must be voluntarily. not the result of coercion. the -- typically you have a right to be advised of the charges. you have a right to be advised of the charges. the duty judg

but another chuck the mascot for the chuck e. cheese pizza chain has a new look.ns and carries a guitar. and his last movie rock of ages taifngd at the box office and third wife filed for divorce and he turned 50 but tom cruise is still the top paid actor in hollywood. forbes says he earned 75 million bucks in the past year. more than double anyone else. that's america's money. i am rob nelson. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> the work doesn't stop for bge crews. they are showing up for another day of work to get the powerback on. >> in a few hours a fireworks celebration for the 4th of july at the inner harbor. coming up, what local authorities are doing to keep you safe. story on air and online. >> what you need to know about the traffic enforcement beingbeefed up on this 4th of july and wonderful da

chuck, are you there? are you ready to go? is chuck todd there. >> i'm here. >> are we out early? >> you gave me 14 seconds. look at that. on the road again today president obama kicks off a two-day trip through the crucial states of ohio and pennsylvania. the romney camp is dispatching two veep wannabes. is it a penalty or a tax? mitt romney speaks out on the commotion sparked by his top adviser on our show monday but his answer raises even more questions. is romney trying to have it both ways? does this issue affirm what some conservatives fear about his candidacy from the get-go? >>> and a voting mess in harlem. congressman charlie rangel blasts his challenger for demanding a recount. but the vote margin has been shrinking and there are still more uncounted ballots out there. good morning from washington. it's thursday, july 5th. 2012. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. i had no idea this show would be as busy as it is today. let's get right to my first read of the morning. even if mitt romney runs the table winning every other battleground state he has no pat to 270

. >> not a raccoon, a wood chuck. they looked back at their cameras and find this wood chuck, believed to be the thief. you see in that picture, he's like chewing up the american flag. >> believe the police chief owes every teenager an apology. >> right. >> there might be a female who's having babies and needs bedding. >> either that or a patriotic groundhog. we reached out to the hudson police department to see if we could get the video. they said they're not releasing it at this time because the wood chuck requested an attorney. i'm ser they saious they said t us. i did not make that up. there has been talk about longer sticks to keep the wood chucks away. >>> how far will you go for your favorite treat. this is in australia and this is a challenge created by fantastic delights, a savory rice treat they like a lot over there. they put a kiosk in the middle of this busy area and said, if you push the button 100 times, you'll get a free boston delight. >> easy enough. >> that lady does it. no big deal. >> yeah! >> i'v

back to you. >> all right, chuck. see you then. metro officials are working around the clock trying to figure out what triggered the computer glitch that forced them to halt train service on two occasions over the weekend. the transit agency says no passengers were in danger. this evening lawmakers are speaking out about new federal regulations aimed at keeping riders safe. "news 4's" darcy spencer live with more. darcy? >> reporter: jim, yes. several officials admitted today they had no idea there was no oversight over the system after the 2009 metro crash. that's all about to change because of this new legislation, and all this is happening as metro is still trying to figure out the cause of that computer glitch. today members of congress announced that for the first time the federal government will have oversight of the area's metro system and others across the country. >> today's quite a day for every person who's fought to reform metro. >> reporter: the legislation recently signed by the president was in response to the 2009 c

chuck is there. it's time for chuck. take it away, chuck. >> thank you. no vacation for me yet. ready for another bruising showdown about tax fairness. and class warfare, president obama is challenging some say baiting republicans with a proposal to extend tax cuts only for the middle class. riling republicans, but the plan may not sit well with top democrats either. as the anemic jobs report breathes life into the romney campaign, team obama makes a fresh assault on romney's wealth as he spends sunday raising money on the hamptons. congress comes back after the july 4th recess. speaker boehner is making news saying it doesn't matter if voters love mitt romney or not. good morning from washington. it's monday july 9th, 2012. right to the first reads of the morning. president obama will stress the looming fiscal cliff for the first time when it calls for a one-year extension with people earning less than $250,000 a year. all the tax cuts are set to expire. the president will make the announcement surrounded by workers and families. they would benefit if the rates were extended. i

let's check in with chuck. >> hey angie and richard. rainy start for folks in the great state of maryland this morning. the showers are in central montgomery county headed northeast boun. the showers are coming your way. it's raining right along the 270 corridor up towards rockford, germantown all getting showers this morning. no severe weather expected. and rain across charles county and sprinkles out to the blue ridge as well. temperatures upper 60s and low 70s for now. we'll gradually reach into the midand upper 80s for today. a few folks might touch 90 degrees today. if you like hot weather and humidity, there's good news in the seven-day forecast. a taste of the heat coming back. for now, let's go back into the studio. >> vincent grey is not stepping out of view despite calls for his resignation. three council members have asked him to step down because of an investigation into his 2010 campaign. an aid pleaded guilty to running a $650,000 shadow campaign, but herb nathan says calls for the mayor to step down are premature. >> i kn

chuck e. cheese, kids love it.ld daughter insisted having her birthday party at chuck e. cheese. been around forever. 35 years. apparently they are changing chuck e. the whole mascot thing is changing. the new chuck comes clad in jeans, carrying the electric guitar, a hip -- chuck e. i don't know. i think he is scary looking. kids love the old chuck e. if it ain't broke? why? why? >> it's still a rat. >> she is -- hugging. hugging. does she look happy there? >> your beautiful little girl. >> she is at chuck e. don't think she will like the new chuck e. >> she is having a good time. those balls are filthy. let's be honest. >> breaking news. three hot dogs left. >> oh. and if you have not had your hot dog. everybody had three. >> he had three. >> the control room has not had any. they have been upstairs. you snooze, you lose. that's tough. i want to talk to you, jack, final thoughts as we end the holiday. you are a sports nut. >> we mentioned the big hot dog eating contest. i will not be watching that. i will probabl

ç eric fehrnstrom with chuck saying it was a penalty, not a tax.itt romney kind of correcting, saying it's a tax, trying to get on the right side of the issue. i think in general, we've seen over the last seven days the romney team caught a little bit by surprise on the ruling, not that the supreme court upheld the law but the way that they upheld the law, that they ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional under the commerce clause but said that congress's right to tax means it can stand. i think that caught the romney campaign by surprise it was not one of the likely scenarios that most of us had mapped out. i don't think it was one of the scenarios they had mapped out, and i think they're still trying to deal with that, playing little bit of defense and they made a pretty obvious mistake, eric to chuck earlier this week made a mistake that made things worse. >> chuck, what is your take now, a couple of days later? we see mitt romney still trying to explain it. this was mitt romney on cbs last night. >> i said that i agreed with the dissent,

. >>> chuck e.ing to launch a national ad campaign with the revamped image of chuck e. cheese as a hip guitar player. so a revamped chuck e. >> all right. want to start off with a check of maryland's most powerful radar. you can see the storms generally out to the west, popping up in central carroll county. frederick is sizzling, too. there's or robust storms further west as we take a look toward johns town. these are warned areas. we don't have the setup at left for the next hour to two hours to three. across most of the state it's not an issue at all. some of the issues, dundalk mixed with a few thin hazy clouds late in the day but bright, sunny hot conditions just about all day long. there's the hot hazy look on the afternoon sky. we had the same look in damascus today. wherever where you were today you found these type of conditions. 95 at bwi. hot steamy conditions with a pho storms north and west but all of this facing the heat across central maryland, the fell fill re-- philadelphia region. f

you found negative for romney, chuck. >> the obama campaign is winning the campaign.e air war in the swing states, they're attempting to define him as two things, one, that his business experience doesn't translate into economic growth. that was part of their first month-long ad campaign. and second that business experience might be a negative. they're pounding him on this. it's not just on bain. it's on -- they were using the fact he used similar language right before he game governor of massachusetts and using the massachusetts record. the fact is the political ad campaign, the ad war right now, the obama campaign is winning. >> next item is battleground polls that we go inside the states, which is so telling. i'll go through them quickly. new hampshire, a key state for lom kn romney. they're tied at this point. michigan, obama with the edge, the president with a four-point edge there. north carolina, also so important, the president has just a two-point edge there. rich lowry, all these under 50% which tells you how tight the race is. >> still very close. maybe the

. >> let's go to meteorologist chuck bell. he's in the storm 4 weather center with details now. >> good morning to both of you. good sunday morning, everybody. yesterday goes down as one of the five hottest days ever in washington. as long as we have been keeping records and that goes back to 1874. right now, there's a picture of the rising sun and a gunky and hazy air mass in place. yesterday's high, 105 here in washington. we have only done that twice before and we have had two days warmer than that. but those date back to 1918 and 1930. 106. right now, it is still 87 degrees at 6:00 in the morning in annapolis. 75 in manassas. not much showing up on doppler right now. there wi be ortunity for strong or severe thunderstorms today. those storms in central pennsylvania right now are associated with a weather front inching its way into our direction. the bad news, it will bring thunderstorms with it. the good news, we might not be 100 today and might not make 90 tomorrow. we'll talk about that in the seven day coming up. back t

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it's all about the go go music and a part of the tribute to chuck brown. the festival will go on 11 a.m. through 5:30 p.m. i think that's when the heat advisory is happening, too. it's all part of the free smithsonian folklife festival going through sunday. if you'll remember, chuck brown died in may, 75 years old, beloved by all. a lot of folks will be at the mall and the heat will be blasting. that's why we're under an excessive heat warning and the 9 news now weather team issued a severe weather alert tomorrow. there's good reason. i don't know if this is the time too go down to the mall or not, man. >> it's going to be a tough one to be out there. >> 100 degrees? >> you got to be a huge fan to deal with that kind of heat tomorrow and factor in that high humidity, it will feel like 110 at times and some locations if you absolutely must go, make sure you bring out the sunscreen, lot of water, pack that cooler with plenty of fluid and pack your patience. you got to take it easy. let's look at our heat alert for tomorrow. this is the highest height alert f

chuck, is this the issue from here on out until november? >> well, it is. certainly the mitt romney campaign believes it is the issue and it believes that the stagnating economy is why romney will end up in the white house. we'll see. but it was a reminder today. you know, for the last week, kate, what have we been talking about in politics? anything but the economy. been talking about health care, all of these things. but these numbers are a reminder that front and center what voters care about is this economy. it's what the romney campaign thinks is their ticket to the white house. >> chuck todd, steve liesman, thanks so much for the perspective tonight. >>> the jobs report sent stocks down today. the dow fell nearly 125 points. nasdaq down 39. the s&p down almost 13. the record-setting heat is the other big story tonight. moving east now but not before baking the midwest again today. and we're learning now just how deadly the heat has been. nbc's john yang joins us again tonight from chicago where the temperature hit 100 for the third day in a row. john?

chuck, good evening. >> good evening, brian. as you know, this campaign in the month of july has taken an especially nasty turn. and perhaps it was only a matter of time that voters would express their frustration. that's the biggest takeaway from our nbc news/wall street journal poll. the fundamental issues haven't changed all that much. the president still leads 43/39 in this survey. the negative campaign has taken a toll on how voters view both the president and mitt romney. from columbus, ohio to orlando, florida, denver, colorado and richmond, virginia, americans living in battleground states are being subjected to an unusually early flurry of negative tv ads. >> when a president doesn't tell the truth, how can we trust him to lead? ♪ america america >> reporter: and when president obama and mitt romney have campaigned at live events, they've been just as negative and direct. >> governor romney was at it again, knowingly twisting my words around. >> it's a very strange and in some respects foreign to the american experience

correspondent and political director chuck todd, the new co-he is of the "today" show and chief legal correspondent savannah guthrie, editor of "the national review," rich lowry, and columnist for "the washington post" eugene robinson. >>> good morning. you can imagine health care is all anyone's talking about in washington. well, that was the case until late friday night when this ferocious storm came through so suddenly in the mid-atlantic area, the ohio valley, west virginia, and it has reached so much havoc throughout the region, 2 million people without power, so much damage in neighborhoods up and down the coast. as i say in the ohio valley as well. we're monitoring that as so many people are still without power. meantime, health care is going to reverberate beyond this weekend as we get closer into the campaign, and that's why we want to dedicate the hour to it. on friday i sat down with the top democrat in the house, nancy pelosi, about what's ahead. leader pelosi, welcome to "meet the press." >> welcome to the capitol. >> thank you for having us here. >> thank you. >> we are

oh, yeah, chuck todd. chuck, are you there? are you ready to go?>> i'm here. >> are we out early? >> you gave me 14 seconds. look at that. on the road again today president obama kicks off a two-day trip through the crucial states of ohio and pennsylvania. the romney camp is dispatching two veep wannabes. is it a penalty or a tax? mitt romney speaks out on the commotion sparked by his top adviser on our show monday but his answer raises even more questions. is romney trying to have it both ways? does this issue affirm what some conservatives fear about his candidacy from the get-go? >>> and a voting mess in harlem. congressman charlie rangel blasts his challenger for demanding a recount. but the vote margin has been shrinking and there are still more uncounted ballots out there. good morning from washington. it's thursday, july 5th. 2012. this is "theaily rundown." i'm chuck todd. i had no idea this show would be as busy as it is today. let's get right to my first read of the morning. even if mitt romney runs the table winning every other battlegro

when i was at kusa tv i covered a massacre at a chuck e.heese where a gunman killed three kids and an adult. there was a massacre in 2001 where a gunman walked into a christian missionary type of school and opened fire and killed people. now this one. i must say i'm asking this as a coloradoan. i think we have to ask ourselves, is there something about our state that, you know, tends to -- i don't know if it's the old west. i don't know if it's a sense of isolation among certain young men. i don't know if it's a gun culture in parts of the state. we have had a disproportionate number of mass murders. i think a lot of people will be asking why us again. it's just sickening and revolting. >> tom, heartfelt comments from you. kelly, you covered columbine. it shook the entire state. shook the nation at the time. this one, you're probably having flashbacks. >> absolutely. first thing i thought of. there is a multiplier effect. when you get beyond the immediate families going through the crisis, there are so many other people affected. we'll lear

meteorologist chuck bell joins us with the latest. hi, chuck. you can't wait to get out there. what are we in for today? >> another steam bath unfortunately for us today. the good news, i think the thunderstorm threat is fairly low today. it's not zero, but it's fairly low. i didn't put a chance of a pop of rain on the forecast. but with the intense humidity around, a bubble up thunderstorm cannot be completely ruled out. it's a balmy and steamy start, 79 now in annapolis, 77 downtown. a little bit of relief out across the western suburbs where winchester and hagerstown are in the low 70s. you can't rule out a few spritzes and drops this morning. but there's another round out there towards cincinnati, we'll be keeping a close eye on that. i think the better rain chances today will be down to the south and southwest of the immediate metropolitan area. rain chances are not zero. and with all of the intense heat cooking up we can't rule out a chance for a stronger thunderstorm. there's your sunday planner bathed in darkness. but temperatures in the mid to upper 90s. dangerously ho

chuck, what's on the way? >> severe thunderstorm watch for the entire area until 10:00 and two active thunderstorm warnings, one for southern fairfax county and the other out towards annapolis. you can see the warnings will the bright yellow highlighted areas. southern fairfax, central parts of prince william county. these are capable of producing some 50 to 60-mile-per-hour winds and small hail. you can see a lot of lightning along route 50, out on the bay bring and that thunderstorm is headed out towards the mt. vernon section of fairfax county. storms are moving off to the east at 20 to 30 miles per hour and a larger line in southern pennsylvania we'll be keeping an eye on that would be arriving around 8:00. >> all right. thank you. >>> now to a developing story in arlington. a jeweller murdered inside his shop and police think this man might be the killer. take a good look, if you can. the suspect wearing a neon traffic vest. darcy has more on the search for the man police are calling dangerous tonight. >>

chuck's forecast is still to come. >>> and tonight a looks like a chat site for children, but it ♪ ♪ male announcer ] virtual wallet can help you be that person who's good with money. see what's free to spend. move money with a slide. save with a shake. feel good about your decisions. >>> the international aids kimpbs conference begins tonight. the wy clef john headed up the concert. it was organized by the aids health care foundation as a way to raise awareness about the disease. they are calling for universal access to testing and also want a spotlight on the high cost of drugs used to treat aids. >>> chuck is here now. the sun came back but without the 98 degree temperatures. >> today's forecast right on the mark. no doubt about it. we woke up with full overcast, and as advertised, just after lunchtime the sun started to appear. and about 3:00, the sun even broke through here in good old washington, d.c. you can see the sky now. plenty of clouds still remain. the sunshine has helped temperatures today climb back above the 80-degree mark. we're now 82 at national airport. dew point

but the point is, and chuck's points are good ones, i think when you look at the polling, chuck is makinglike this needs to be another hail mary pass. it doesn't. this thing is neck and neck. it's likely to stay neck and neck all the way to the first week of november. and i don't think that the romney campaign needs to have a surprise pick. i think they need to pick somebody who can further the overall campaign theme of competence and somebody like portman does that. when you get elected, you need confidence. >> romney needs to change the message. >> if you look at the polls, if you look at the national polls or state polls, all of this stuff that you and i talk about 15 times a day doesn't appear to be happening or it doesn't appear to have allowed the president to get any separation from romney. >> chuck, does it matter when he makes this announcement? >> as soon as he can take this bain story off the front page, the better it is for mitt romney. i talked to voters in battleground states through the work i do every day. let's take my sister, for example in, florida. she's in a housing c

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>> we at least expect four, chuck. yesterday when they voted on the rule which is the rules for debate today. power democrats joined with republicans that was born mcintyre and kissel, three of those guys. essentially are voting to say we are not in favor of the president's health care law. we probably won't see that many more, i heard maybe as many as ten and we are most likely not expecting any from the republican side either. talking to a lot of folks on the gop side, why are you having this vote. it is now over 30 times we had some variation of this vote. and the reasoning is that i spoke to folks had a involved in the gop leadership say look, we want every single independent out there, if you look at the polling, a lot of independents are very much split on the health care law or are against it. we want every single independent out there in the united states to know republicans are the part in favor of a -- all-out repeal of the health care law. we want to imprint that in people's minds. that's why we have done it

chuck todd, what's the deal on this?next to donny, it's a real, this is not like since felix and oscar, between the differences in dress. i mean, you know, i assume donny -- what donny has on just with his coat is probably more expensive than your wardrobe. >> it is. what you don't know is that donny is wearing no pants today. >> today as opposed t any other day? >> well put, chuck. >> what's interesting about all of this, it was sort of to me the big story of last week that )áuásv you say that and you roll your eyes, health care was a gigantic story. but the development and it was our poll that saw this, i think first and then you sort of got tacit acknowledgement by the romney campaign or they wouldn't be putting up a negative to beat up a negative which is the obama negative campaign is working. ad campaign in the swing states is working. $25 million in june. this is second month in a row. in fact, this ad campaign from the obama folksç started in ma and in $25 million in may, $25 million in june. two months in a row

meteorologist, chuck beshlgs ll will the showers arrive? >> i think sol me of us will ge wet before monday is through. sunday night turning into early monday morning now. clear skies over washington. 79 downtown. look at the low and mid 60s across valley. ground clutter on storm 4. quiet through the overnight hours. off to a sunny start tomorrow. temperatures in the low to mid 70s. up to near 90 tomorrow. showers brewing before your monday is through. how long will they last? the seven-day coming up in ape f -- a few minutes. >> day two of the london olympics. shocker for the u.s. team. jordyn weiber will not get an all-around medal. current world champion didn't qualify for the final. only the top two move on. weiber third behind gabby douglas and aly raisman. a ticket scandal of sorts under way. many were told popular olympic events were sold out. television coverage showed rows of empty seats. now, olympic organizers are giving trfree tickets to milita, students, teachers. they're trying to figure out who is responsible for the no-shows.

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