. >> chuck todd, take it away. >> see you, chuck. >>> north by southeast. voters are voting, and by tonight we'll know if mark sanford's comeback quest is a success or if elizabeth colbert-busch is the state's pick to head to the house. >>> also this morning, will congress say yes to directly arming the rebels in syria. we're going to talk to the man leading that push, bob menendez. >>> and a steady stream of retirements is turning to a new generation. 40% turnover in the last five years. why are both parties having a hard time not just keeping senators but finding new top-notch candidates to replace them? >> good morning from huntington, new york. it's tuesday, may 7th, 2013. and this is "the daily rundown." happy nurses week! and now here is chuck todd. >> thanks to cara teal and the staff at huntington hospital and all the nurses across the country that have been sending in those good morning greetings. keep them up. anyway. any minute now, we'll go live to cleveland for an update from the police department there on those three women found alive who have

>> reporter: no indication, chuck. all that we are hearing from investigators is that the note itself was written by ariel castro in 2004. they wouldn't give us a lot of details about some of the evidence that was laid out other than to say castro said in a note he was a victim of abuse as a child. i want to introduce you to a fellow named ricky sanchez. ricky sanchez played in the same band as ariel castro. and i understand you went in that house and spent a fair amount of time with castro on a regular basis. is that right? >> that's right. we don't play in the same band. he's a bass player. i'm a bass player. >> you were in the house last thursday? >> i was in the house last thursday. >> what did you see? >> when i went inside the house, when i walked inside the house, just like a regular -- like any other day, you know, like a house, you know, like when i -- his tv, he has the equipment, his basses, about 45 minutes after we been playing, i saw little girl coming in. >> you sought 6-year-old. >> 6-year-old. he said

>> chuck, first, i want to applaud your instinct on this story.is easily the most socially or culturally unremarked millennimill enial milestone. if the dow hits a milestone and no one is around to hear it, does it matter? maybe around 1 1/2 to two in the second quarter as the sequester hits. the market may be looking through this, sees that job growth has held up. i don't think the economy is as exuberant as the market is making it out to be. you could definitely justify some of these numbers we've seen in the dow with some of the numbers we've had in the economy, chuck. >> i want toply a clip of what jack lew said to you with the sequester and the economic impact he believes it's having. here it is. >> i look at sequestration, which was a policy that was designed never to take effect, one of the things that has to be understood about it, it takes half or more percent out of our gdp, which translates into 17,500. to create 750,000 jobs, you would be a hero. >> so, obviously, we know this. the administration has said this. and even some republican

last month, the house appropriations committee called secretary of defense chuck chuck hagel. 7 hagel. you know, if he married katherine heigl he'd be chuck hagel heigl. serious. they called chuck haig toll ask since we're not building a new computerized system, which will the two existing systems, alta and vista, from d.o.d. and v.a. be able to fully talk to each other. >> what the congress instructed, what the congress funded was a seamless system. we'll have it shortly. can i tell you in a week or two we will have something decided within 30 days, i'll tell that you. >> jon: 30 days! a hard number. since that interview, 30 days ago he had our chuck hagel advent calendar. i have gone through the whole thing. it is day 30. i've been opening the doors. let's see what we've got in here a little bit of nice chocolate-- i'm explaining this because we have so many rabbis in the audience tonight. yeah. ( cheers and applause ) i'm trying to explain that christians give chocolate gifts and ( bleep ) for, like, 30 days straight, even when they're dealing with, like, the crucifixion. it's real

this week friends, family members and friends celebrated chuck brown's legacy. >> the days of the chuckwn go go concerts ended last year with his death. today the howard theater prepared to remember him with a concert of go go great that would include some of his children that came to talk with us today. >> he taught us to be strong. we have to be strong for the fans. >> with the fans supporting us throughout all this time -- >> a steady stream of fans came all day buying tickets for the show. >> chuck was a great man. >> and the children remember the great out pouring last year from the crowds that lined up to view his body to the thousands who attended the funeral the government sponsored. >> to see the streets flooded with people dancing and being grateful for my father. >> today they looked at his images and remembered and his 14-year-old grandson had his own point of view. >> it's great to here his music on the radio . >> it's going to be a performance for y'all to remember which we want everybody to come pumped up ready to party. >> seems like it happened yesterday. >> after a cou

. >> chuck todd with the second front at the white house today. chuck, thanks. >>> now to another developing story that broke in washington late today. word that the justice department secretly obtained two months worth of phone record of several reporters and editors and offices at the associated press. the a.p. is calling this a massive and unprecedented intrusion into their constitutional right to report the news. nbc's tom costello is standing by in our d.c. bureau with more on this. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. this is, in fact, a late-breaking story with the associated press moving this throughout the afternoon. it talks about the fact that this is an unprecedented breach and that it impacts the activities of the a.p., the primary news wire for the united states. this centers around an investigation into who leaked information to the a.p. in may of 2012 about a cia operative in yemen who helped prevent an al qaeda plot to bring down a u.s.-bound airliner with a bomb. the obama administration was furious about that leak,

i'm peter alexand aer, my friend chuck todd on assignment in arizona. he's out there for education nation. >>> we begin with developing new surprising numbers in the april's jobs report not to mention critical revisions from february and march. but, first, the numbers from this past month. 165,000 jobs were added in april. lowering the unemployment rate to 7.5%. that is the lowest level in more than four years. on top of that, we saw significant revisions over the last two months, according to the labor department. employers added 332,000 jobs in february. and 138,000 in march. that is a lot more than last month's estimates of roughly 268,000 for february and just about 88,000 for the month of march. so, when you put it altogether, the revisions add up to an additional 114,000 jobs. we're going to check in with the folks at moody's analytics in just a moment. but also tell you about another story making headlines today and that is syria with al assad's regime killing in a large-scale massacre in a coastal village. this is according to a british human ri

. >> storm team 4 meteorologist, chuck bell used to live in oklahoma. chuck you said these kinds of storms, this kind of weather happens this time of year. >> absolutely. memorial day weekend, week, one or two weeks either side of is tend to be about the most violent time of the year in oklahoma especially this time of the year. that is what is happening today. over the last four days, 750 reports of severe weather. more than 60. tornado reports. a big hit again across parts of the great plains. severe weather on the west sides of showing and severe weather moving to the north of st. louis. also, just down to the south kansas city. we actually have thundershowers, chances in our forecast as well. these are lifting northbound on the north side of interstate 95. already getting ready to rain steadily here in manassas, quantico, wood bridge. over the next 20 minutes. seven day coming up. >> messy accident that could keep some in northern virginia out of work for weeks. the damage is substantial. news 4s, darcy spencer says it is what leaked out of the semi

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chuck, benghazi doesn't seem to go away. there was this story and the president seemed to say, i don't know of that, but where is that point? >> well, i think they -- the white house continues to believe benghazi is simply just a political talking point for conservatives. they don't take this criticism very seriously and they believe that the more evidence that you come up with the more that backs up their version of events that there isn't some sort of hidden aspect to this, that there isn't a cover up, that what you see is what wit what you get which is s was a terror attack, some what planned, somewhat spontaneous, it is murky in the middle, but the interesting thing about the benghazi situation is that it does provide frankly a little bit of a caution flag, if you will, for the administration as it tries to deal with syria, you know, we got involved in libya, we came and decided that that was going to be, you know, that was something that was necessary/mess to do we had the united nations behind us and we had the arab le

chuck todd takes up conch. we will be here, obviously, all day and tomorrow and the rest of the week. thanks for being with us. >>> new pictures this morning of moore, oklahoma, where the devastation is overwhelming and heartbreaking. and one hour from now, president obama will speak about the tragedy and the rescue and recovery efforts that are underway. and we're expecting a press conference from moore, oklahoma. that will begin in a few minutes. we'll have that live for you right here. it's tuesday, may 21st, 2013. this is "the daily rundown," i'm chuck todd. we begin in the suburbs of oklahoma city where block after block has been leveled by a massive killer tornado that swept through monday afternoon. 51 killed, but the oklahoma city medical examiner now says that number may have included people counted twice, so the official number of dead may be only in the 20s, thankfully. 24 right now. nevertheless, there are concerns that whatever the death toll number is, it will go higher. the town of moore is in ru

great to see. >>> still spritzing out there, huh, chuck. >> little mist and drizzle for now. that's the story overnight tonight and in to tomorrow morning. be ready for that. if you need a little more rain for the garden don't worry. there's more rain on the way for your sunday. especially as we get to the upcoming week as it will feel more like summertime. hard to believe but a week from now is memorial day weekend, everybody. that's the unofficial beginning of summer for sure. full overcast over the nation's capitol tonight. a cool, misty drizzle as well. 61 is the current temperature. dew point temperatures in the upper 50s. overnight lows won't drop her that that. we will hover where we are. winds are light out of the northeast at 7 miles an hour. the wind will come to the south and southeast by later on tomorrow. upper 50s to around 60 for now. an again not much rain on the radar right now. storm showers will dot the landscape and highs tomorrow like today, upper 60s to around 70 degrees. historic half marathon, the marine corps half marathon i will be running it 7 a.m.

gets its arms around it. >> chuck todd at the white house tonight. chuck, thanks. >>> some folks are already calling the president's problems the curse of the second term. and yet, it's tough to know the staying power of any given scandal in the making along with the effect any of this might have on his overall planned agenda. that story tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: controversies on all sides. republicans and even some democrats at the gate and a president who often sounds more like observer than chief executive. >> i first learned about it from the same news reports that i think most people learn good this. >> reporter: there's already pressure for a special counsel to investigate the irs and unflattering comparisons to richard nixon. not watergate. >> if that were directed by the president or those directly under him and he was aware of that, now you're talking about a comparison that would be, in fact, valid. i don't think that's the case. >> reporter: but doesn't the buck stop in the oval office? >> americans are right to be a

chuck bell, you see him working the phones for us. we'll check in with him in just a bit. >>> overseas, british police just made two more arrests in connection with yesterday's knife attack near a military base in london. they are suspected of conspiracy. today authorities confirmed the victim was a 25-year-old active duty british soldier. one of the two suspects arrested right after the killing appeared in this amateur video while holding a knife. he boasted about the crime and even warned of more violence. police then shot and wounded them. today authorities said the men were investigated in the past as possible security threats. now they are trying to determine if they are part of a wider terror plot. police searched the scene and an apartment today looking for evidence. security near the scenery mains tight. children had to make their way through police tape to get to school this morning. >>> the massive zippisinkhole oh street isn't just causing traffic problems back here. we'll tell you how the hole in the road has become an int

did you know there used to be a street named after chuck norris? >> i did not. >> it had to be changed because -- >> nobody crosses chuck norris. >> he is so strong and intimidating how can you use in norris comes to the defense of jobless quarterback tim teen bo. he calls tebow the old clutch player noting similarities, who couldn't between tebow and himself, norris makes the case the jacksonville jaguars should sign tebow and even references martin luther king, jr. >> hone that chuck norris is helping tim tebow's case just fine. >> stoppage during the royals and angels game last night. yeah. >> i feel bad. >> he looks like he's -- >> all of america, listen, we don't want to encourage this. >> the fan hits the brakes. dekalb tries to hit the brakes. >> it doesn't end well. >> who got the best of this one? >> i'm sure after the cameras were off, he got his justice. >> you had a little rain yesterday, i heard? >> a lot of rain. >> a lot of people from d.c. northward, it was a washout of a thursday and friday is looking better, floomy in a little are

let me go to chuck todd on this. chuck, your view of what we watched tonight. the questions and answers. >> the big picture was this was the ides of may, may 15th. it will be known as damage control wednesday for the white house. the question is, is this the way they were able to put this behind them? benghazi, irs, and the a.p. and going after the phone records or is this going to be just the start of what is a long slog in battle that may get partisan back and for the with republicans on capitol him. as for benghazi, look. i think from 30,000 feet, this is a really ugly way of viewing how government works. the deputies are in charge. note how late in the process that the head of the cia is alerted of the talking points when they said, hey, we'd better let the director know what we've come up with. at the white house, deputies. at state, it was deputies. they're all doing all of the work. they're all putting this together waiting for final signoff. and it one of the more intriguing e-mail that i think raises questions is petraeus's reaction when he says, no me

you're kidding me. >> no, chuck is a man of his word. you see him getting geerd up and ready to go. >> going to jump out of that plane behind you? [ inaudible ] >> all right man. >> you can't drink milk while sky diving. you can't help alleviate the pepper pain while you're falling from a plane. >> here goes chuck out the hatch. pepper in mouth, arms crossed. he has the instructor guy on his back and -- i'm just thinking of the instructor having to deal with this guy eating a pepper. i'm thinking i'm going to get puke in my face. i don't want to go with that guy. >> somebody posed that same question on youtube but here they said and you didn't vomit. >> he said they told me if i did vomit i could cost extra to clean the parachute. so he was doing all he could to keep it down. ev land. >> nice job, brother. >> all right. >> how was that. >> awesome. >> a little hot. >> thanks for joining us everybody. that's going to do it for our show. we'll see you next time. >>> it's time to take a look at the best videos the web has to offer, right th

but the back story on this is chuck grew up in the portola. next to mclaren park and he spent his whole childhood there. and when he and she married, they wanted the same childhood experiences chuck had had, and even better ones. so, they have spent their time working on the play grounds and all the other aspects of the park. and they worked so well and collaboratively with all the other park groups that represent mclaren park. parks alliance and rec and park department. i know they want me to thank everybody who has been such an integral part of giving them this award and all the work we still have to do on mclaren park. so, thank you for chuck and trilsy. (applause) ♪ >> fantastic. easily one of the best views in san francisco, so, if you've never had the opportunity to visit mclaren park, i highly recommend it. it's like finding a whole new part of san francisco. and now it's time for our last award, which is an award that we felt was an important element of our vision for the neighborhood empower. ment network and that was to takethe oppor

chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. well, the president was very careful in what he said about how he would enforce that red line. of course, the red line is if it is proven that the syrian regime used chemical weapons. here's what he said, and listen to the careful nuance. >> there are options that are available to me that are on the shelf right now that we have not deployed, and that's a spectrum of options. as early as last year, i asked the pentagon, our military, our intelligence officials to prepare for me what options might be available. >> reporter: the options that he's considering right now, there already is either indirect or nonlethal assistance to the syrian opposition that's going on right now, almost $500 million that's been spent in humanitarian aid in this nonlethal assistance. what the president could consider in the next few weeks is direct military assistant to those opposition groups, brian, that the cia, our intelligence, on the ground determine are not potential threats to the united states in the

i'm chuck bell.up through the rest of your saturday afternoon. especially if you live south of the d.c. area. down towards prince williams county, fredericksburg, you folks will have the best chance for rain. lowest rain chances in the mason dixon line. mid-60s for the rest of your saturday morning. up near 70 for a brief time this afternoon. and that is the latest forecast. back over to lester and jenna. >> dylan, thank you very much. >>> a big year for beyonce, and has people talking again. jenna is here to tell us about that. >> beyonce loves to make a splash onscreen and offscreen. she famously debuted her baby bump two years ago at the mtv music awards. in the middle of a huge world tour. i know that rub. i know that rub real well. now in the middle of a huge world tour, the superstar may be taking a more subtle approach when it comes to announcing baby news. blue ivy is going to be a big sister. sources close to e news say that they are expecting baby number two. >> we have confirmed that beyon

chuck, thanks. we want to let you know there will be much more on all of this -- benghazi in particular -- on "meet the press" this sunday morning. david gregory's guests include darrell issa and dianne feinstein sunday on this nbc station. >>> in bangladesh an incredible ray of hope 17 days after a building collapse left more than a thousand garment workers dead. just about everybody had given up hope that anyone else would be found alive there. but today in the ruins of one of the worst industrial accidents in history, it happened. nbc's ian williams has our story. >> reporter: it was a stunning moment. a young woman pulled alive from the rubble after more than two weeks. the day began much differently with the grim work of recovering the dead. more than a thousand as of this morning. then workers heard tapping on a steel pipe and a faint cry. "i'm alive, please save me." bulldozers and heavy equipment were shut down. workers used hand saws and drilling equipment to cut through debris. a crowd gat

>> good day, i'm chuck todd, live in washington. and in today for andrea mitchell. president obama in a joint news conference with david cameron makes it known that the benghazi probe is nothing but filled with political motivations. >> who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down, for three days? so the whole thing defies logic and the fact that this keeps on getting churned out, frankly has a lot to do with political motivations we've had folks who have challenged hillary clinton's integrity, susan rice's integrity. mike mullen and tom pickering's integrity. it's a given that mine gets challenged by these same folks. >> joining me now for the daily fix, chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and managing editor of post politics.com and senior editor and kelly o'donnell. it was a defiant president obama today, let's see he used political circus, sideshow, and no "there" there. if there was any doubt about how the president feels about the benghazi probe coming from capitol hill, i think we now know. >> no question. chuck, contrast that to how he appr

chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it was quite a turn. the president, a scathing critique of the irs. then he got defensive over the criticisms of his administration on those benghazi attacks and what happened in the hours and days after the attack. the president was defiant at times and even called the republican-led investigation into his administration a political circus. a defiant president today responding after a weekend of criticism from republicans over his administration's handling of benghazi. >> the whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow. >> reporter: he was dismissive of republican critiques of how the white house, state department and cia edited talking points noting congress looked at key white house e-mails months ago. >> they reviewed them several months ago, concluded that, in fact, there was nothing afoul in terms of the process we had used and suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there is something new to the story. there's no there there. >> reporter: the presiden

i love chuck missler. he asked the russian guy is there hope for western civilization in the russian guy said you have to understand the difference between a optimist and a pessimist. the optimist believes the future is uncertain. the pessimist is always right. so it's our duty to be optimists but clearly the pessimist has more information. >> jon: because he's always right. >> i would rather have less information. >> jon: my favorite part about that, you said the word duty. iron man 3. just a couple of old guys talking. >> jon: that's our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. former senator kay bailey hutchinson will be here to discuss her role in iron man 3. here it is your moment of zen. >> now you can get your deadly jolt -- deadly. you can now get your daily dose captioning sponsored by comedy central captione

i love chuck missler. he asked the russian guy is there hope for western civilization in the russian guy said you have to understand the difference between a optimist and a pessimist. the optimist believes the future is uncertain. the pessimist is always right. so it's our duty to be optimists but clearly the pessimist has more information. >> jon: because he's always right. >> i would rather have less information. >> jon: my favorite part about that, you said the word duty. iron man 3. just a couple of old guys talking.

let me just say this, chuck, and be clear about it. an ig report from within is not going to be sufficient. it's not going to be sufficient for the administration to say there were administrative mistakes made. we need to change that. to me, this is part of a pattern of big government heavy handedness, of big government overreach an intimidation that not only is within the irs, but also the justice department, health and human services, going in and intimidating insurance companies to kick in a little money for advertising for obama care. intimidating insurance companies not to speak up for their concerns back when the legislation was being considered. i think it's part of a larger pattern, of this administration and i think the president and the people in the white house inner circle have to be responsible for this. >> let me ask you about the benghazi e-mails. when they were, when the white house released these e-mails, not publicly, but for the, for a select group of senators, in particular, senators who wanted to hold up the nomina

go ahead. >> chuck, it's mike murphy.th the stock price down 23 plus percent year to date, has there been talk or are you in the midst of a stock repurchase program? it looks like the numbers you put up during your quarter were pretty good across the board. if you take out what gold has done -- and i get the price of gold has corrected quite a bit and as you say recovered -- but it would seem with cash out there, it might be a great time to start buying back some stock. >> well, as i said, we are quite profitable at these levels. and we did have a good quarter. we are investing right now. we're building three new mines around the americas, and that's what drives that 70% growth profile that i talked about. and so for this year at current gold prices, we're not in an excess cash flow situation, but we expect free cash flow starting next year, 2014, and for several years thereafter. looking at how to allocate that excess cash is a critical issue for us. and whether that is in new projects, increasing our dividend, which we

chuck? >> and richard, you just outlined with the obama administration is a little bit acting like it's paralyzed now. they know there isn't a clean angle. thank you, richard. >>> the national rifle association claims it's larger than ever, 5 million members. over the weekend, 70,000 of those 5 million gathered in houston as the nra leadership spell brighted the defeat of gun legislation in the senate and looked ahead to what they say is the next battle in what they call an historic attack on the second amendment, the 2014 elections. >> we will never surrender our gun, never. >> we must never confuse winning a battle with winning the war. >> president obama demanded that his followers extract revenge. i can't remember a president ever publicly using that word against fellow americans. >> this parent flying in grieving parents on air force one, making them backdrops in his perpetual campaign-style press events. >> the governor, our good friend, rick perry. >> yes, that was governor perry ther

we got chuck reed, so take that, vegas. >>> facebook reporting its quarterly profits this afternoon, authoritily thereafter the company leaders will have a conference call with reporters and analysts. just in to our newsroom, the latest data from payroll processing company adp. adp said it saw 119,000 jobs added in the month of april, that is less than hoped. jon and laura, adp gives us a sneak peek each month about what the official jobs numbers may be on friday because they have access to people's paycheck. if you go to the intranet to check pay stubs, it's run by adp. they can give us the data early. >> not only printing up the numbers, but knowing the number behind it. >>> i'm still thinking about chuck reed in sequins. >>> the cool winds are helping bring down the fire. >> just brought up the hotness with chuck reed. the winds will calm down. that's the good news. once they do so, we'll see major improvement when it comes to our humidity recovery. you got the pacific ocean. typically this time of year, plenty of low cloud cover and fog to keep our sats fear moist. it has been dr

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neil: i think 24 hours passed before chuck moved up to a microphone, chuck schumer blasting airlinesg fees, imagine what we would say to spirit ceo. >> we have a carry on bag fee, had we not imminented this there is no telling what people would try to put in an over had bin. neil: that is the head of the company, i admire that how many bosses have you had you want to stick them in an overhead bin, not here! can you think putting -- uputtingrupert? anyway i digress. >> we think that is misguided in a couple ways, it is misses a component of what airline business is about, a spillable product that seat is held but not paid for or changed. the abilitt to resell it goes away that say problem. and a almost, i hate to see this somewhat elitist, i like senator schumer. neil: you don't like him? really. >> almost like saaing i'm going to levee a tax on all consumers those who change their mind can do it for free. neil: i think he is saying, in prproportion to reality, does ts make sense, who'll have a $200 fee to change your reservations, when there is no way in heck it costs that much. >> i

how chuck hagel deals with this is going to be amazing to watch. >>> okay of the best new thing in the world today. i need one. all right, you ready? this is a mcdonald douglas dc-9. the tail number, if you care, is 73-1681. in 1975, this dc-9 was assigned to the 89th airlift wing of the united states air force. that is the combat-ready force responsible for shuttling government officials around the world. this particular dc-9 when it was in service was configured as sort of a short-haul flying machine, not necessarily long-haul flying machine. when it was used, it was used by the white house to fly all over the u.s. and central and south america. its passengers included on occasion the actual president of the united states. and that means that this dc-9 at some point was air force-freaking one. air force one isn't just one specific plane. air force one is what you call whatever air force plane the president happens to be on at that moment. so when a president was on this plane, and a president was sometimes on this plane, this was, technically, ai

chuck?he united states will not try to say much about who they prefer, but is it to say he's the guy that the united states was most likely able to have some sort of relationship versus ahmadinejad? >> he is the guy who was seen as a man who was educated at johns hopkins and very calm and pragmatic. the big thing is he's seen as someone who can revive the economy and do deals with the west and possibly get rid of the sanctions. he wants to open up commerce and wants just to be in the hands of business. he wants others to be involved which may open doors with the west and make it easier to negotiate. this is a guy who knows how to revive the economy and make oil sales go up. he was credited with bringing the country back after the war. tehran was in a terrible state and he got the city and country back on its feet. they are hoping he will be able to do as well as mending foreign fences. >> bureau chief, well done. switching from the camera to the phone. we did it almost seamlessly to have an

now here's chuck todd. >> i love this. thanks to the nurses from children's hospital in los angel angeles. great to see all the videos coming in from nurses all around the country this week. been hard to just pick one each day. we've got one more day to do it. before we get to my first read of the political day we want to go to cleveland. ariel castro, the man accused of holding three women hostage for more than a decade was arraigned in court just a few minutes ago. it was a pretty quick procedure. he faces four counts of kidnapping. that includes one for amanda berry's 6-year-old daughter. and three could wants of rape. bail was set at $8 million. prosecuting attorney brian murphy had this to say. >> the charges against mr. castro are based on premeditated decision to snatch three young ladies from cleveland's streets. to be used in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit. today the situation has turned, your honor. mr. castro stands before you ative, in captivity, a prisoner. the women are free to resume t

tim tebow, well, he's got another fan, chuck norris. this guy he never messes around. why he's the quarterback's no. 1 fan. >>> and it is prom season. there is a great shot at the commander-in-chief back from his prom night, did make a half hearted look for mine. but the mullet wasn't making the cut. i couldn't find it. we'll show that pick of the president. that and a check on weather when we come right back. >>> the four in the world trade center bombing were sentenced. the journal put them together plus.

chuck's seven-day forecast is coming up next. stay with us. >>> if you tap in to that experience, it should endow you with empathy. the understanding of what it's like to walk many somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes. >> president obama delivers inspiring words at morehouse college. he told graduates to focus on using their degree to improve people's lives rather than just to make money. the president received an honorary degree from the historically black all-male university. >>> lmplt we move on to the hardest-working man in the business. he runs races. he gets here. he forecasts for you. >> that's right. i will tell you it was niechlts i didn't get the morning off but instead of getting up at 3:45, i got up at 4:30 to drive to fredericksburg this morning. >> look at this beauty it is awesome. >> it is a very nice medal. you were asking if i ran in the race and the marines take handing out the medals seriously. and you have to congratulation after you cross the finish line. perfect running weather for mechl i like