a sí mismo como latino,con nosotros está hoy desde los Ángeles, señor eric garcetti, muchas gracias> es interesante que usted le llame mi comunidad a los hispanos, pero la controversia en los Ángeles dice que usted realmente no es hispano, sino que trata de sacar el origen mexicano de su abuelo para sacar el voto latino, usted se siente hispano. >>> sí, tengo mucho orgullo de mis raices, mis abuelos eran de méxico, de parral, de chihuahua, en méxico, pero soy cuarta generación angelino ,pero como nieto de inmigrantes tengo mucho orgullo de estos, y es parte integral de mi visión, de mi historia y mi trabajo, mi distrito como concejal es 60% latinos y la mayoría son inmigrantes y mi trabajo para mejorar las vidas de la comunidad, mi experiencia y mis raices, tan una perspectiva muy fuerte. >>> ahora, es interesante señor eric garcetti, porque esta idea de quién se considera latino o no latino, depende de cómo se perciba a uno mismo, pude hablar con mitt romney, a pesar que su padre nació en méxico, no se considera hispano, pero usted sí se considera hispano. >>> por supuesto, soy un

los angeles resident will ferrell endorsing city councilman eric garcetti for l.a.'s next mayor. g >> for years it was known if you me messed with eric, you messed with myself. years later, when i joined the air force to fly c1 cargo planes, it was eric who said why are you doing that? you're afraid of planes and 31 years old. good advice. eric was always there for me. now it's time for eric garcetti to be there for los angeles. >> it was good news last night for garcetti. the results of the primaries cast garcetti and wendy greuel as candidates for mayor. i will be covering this story closely. they will be duking it out. >> you're relocate together west coast? >> anything that happens on the west coast, i'm just there. >> nice. >> the weather is a lot better. >> thank you very much. >>> still ahead on "way too early," bill is my hero. >> did someone change the prompter on you? >> your tweets, texts and e-mails next. who did that? [ other merv ] welcome back to the cleaning games. let's get a recap, merv. [ merv ] thanks, other merv. mr. clean magic eraser extra power was three ti

councilman eric garcetti picked up 27%. wendy gruel was at 25%. third, radio host kevin james, the only true republican in race. along with scandal, this race also has a celebrity, because you know, it's l.a. >> eric was always the idea guy. when we were 8 years old, he had a crazy idea to start a break dancing crew and to dance battle other dancing cruise around town. what we lived together later became the basis the hit move, break in two, electric bugaloo. >> there's a measure that's on the ballot that would raise the sales tax to 9.5% to bring in $1 billion over the next five years to help close the city's shortfall. but it's unpopular. all the candidates for mayor came to oppose that ballot measure. they've spent money of their own, swapping accusations, the most bizarre being this video from the loan republican kevin james. >> as mayor of los angeles, i get not only showing where we can find the money and showing where the bodies are buried. when wendy gruel says she knows where the bodies are buried, believe her because she and eric garcetti

so, with me now, get to show this race, one of the two candidates in the runoff, eric garcetti, councilmantti, thanks for coming on. >> you bet. great to be with you, chuck. >> so, answer me that basic question, why isn't the city of los angeles that interested in this election? >> look if washington politics is the corvette, local government is the pickup truck. it might be as sexy, the daughter take off the lot but smug need a lot. there is no question that there was exhaustion, comes so quickly after the november elections, i think a lot of people, we came to their door or called them said, wait, there's another election just a few moments later. so, breaking through is a responsibility of the candidates, also of the coverage we get. i think we probably just weren't on msnbc enough and we will change it around. >> eric, the other thing hurricane the other critique out there is frankly neither you more wendy gruel said a lot, this has not been a campaign filled with big ideas not a campaign, little differences between the two of you what is your big idea that is going to, in eight years,

race, eric garcetti served as the co-chair of obama's california campaign. the race will be decided may 21st when gruel faces garcett ni a run-off. in while most 17s are thinking about the prom and college and whatever else they do, a young computer whiz in britain is thinking about what to do with the tens of millions of dollars he just earned by selling an app to yahoo!. nick delosio who works at the company now, reportedly sold his news reading app for as much as $30 million. the program called sumly condens long-form news stories into easy to read summaries for mobile devices. who wouldn't want to read a long winded mike barnacle essay. sorry. other early investors in the app included arbon kutcher, yoko ono and rupert murdoch's wife wendy. he doesn't have any immediate big plans for his paycheck except to have his parents help manage it. >>> as always, let us know why you are awake. shoot us an e-mail at way too early@msnbc.com. >>> still ahead on "way too early," tiger woods regains his status as world's number one golfer heading to augusta. highlights

counsel maun eric garcetti and wendy greuel appear to be facing off trying to beat anthony villaraigosa. >>> shimmering lights illuminating the bay bridge. it marked the start of the so-called bay lights, the largest l.e.d. sculpture featuring 25,000 lights strung along 5 miles of the suspension cables. you can see it every night for the next two years. gorgeous sight. >>> coming up, wall street is soaring, but will the happy times last? >>> plus, imagine a world without the iphone. apple had alternative names for the revolutionary gadget. those names now just being made public. >>> barbara walters is revealing the famous actor who gave her the chicken pox. the answer later on in "the pulse." >>> welcome back. there is a new record on wall street. the dow jones industrial average soared to its highest close ever yesterday. it's a key milestone in the economic recovery. the dow gained 126 points to close 89 points above the previous record. that was set in october of 2007 just before the recession started. this is a sign of the improving economy. >>> and it's good news for you and for me

last night's vote in los angeles, city controller wendy gruel made it into a run-off in may with eric garcettity councilman there, and the winner will be the next mayor of l.a. the polls show she finished about three points behind him. this is going to be a very rough race. let's take a look at. this is not the only major woman candidate in a major city here. new york, the front runner for now is christine quinn. she's leading flow democrats. she's just shy of the 40% she needs to avoid a run-off by the way. she's cresting atop republicans by 44 points. never before had any women held a top post in a city like new york or l.a. let alone both. and let me just show you here. it is amazing at how few women hold the spot for mayor. here's the top ten american cities here. just one woman holds the mayorship. it's anise parker in houston, texas. most are men. what's interesting about mayor parker, she won, she was openly gay, first lesbian to head a major american second. there was a houston chronicle poll that found a significant majority of people said it was a non-factor. and a recent quinnipiac

the los angeles mayoral race is headed for a run off as eric garcetti and city comptroller were ableo capture a majority. tea party republican texas congressman is responding to the cancellation of public white house tours by proposing an amendment to the continuing resolution that prevents the government to pay for the president's golf trips. citing supports by the media of what the trips cost. he made the announcement on the house floor. >> none of the funds made available by a division of this act may be used to transport the president to or from a golf course and tours of the white house resume. that way we will both work together so the president will not be able to take a golf outing that causes 341 more federal officials to be furloughed and lose their job at least temporarily. >> and senate minority letter mitch mcconnell trying to shape up a race with a new viral video. watch as the stand in along with the staffers and volunteers take on the harlem shake. hello! how sharp is your business security? can it help protect your people and property, while keeping out threats to yo

we're going to hear more about that in the runoff coming up, which we know will be between eric garcetti. >>> tau about outgoing outgoing mayor villaraigosa, who is term limited here. he was a game player, but also plagued by personal scandals which "los angeles times" is covering, such as the affair with a tv anchor. does he have a future in national politics? >> i think we'll have to wait and see. he's been very coy saying what he wants to do next. he had a very mixed term with the scandals that you mentioned, but he's been effective in getting some of the rail projects going forward, a lot of work on transportation issues. he was discussed as a potential pick for obama's cabinet on the transportation front. there's a lot of opportunities coming up here. obviously after jerry brown finishes his run as governor, there's potential po villaraigosa to run. we have some upcoming stars here, the attorney general kamela harris is very popular. also hilda solis, obama's labor secretary, who has come back and is looking at her political options. we'll just have to see whether he can stand up to

wendy greuel, eric garcetti. relationship between president obama and his former secretary of state. five years later you have these obama/hillary clinton proxy wars popping up. this is the latest example. >> this is also an example, a remind per bill clinton is willing to get even into a mayoral race and larger statewide races and maybe even a presidency soon. >> well, right. he has played key roles in 2010 primaries, 2012 ones, as well as this mayoral contest in los angeles. so this is perhaps yet another sign. of course, we don't know what hillary clinton's presidential ambitions are and her intentions. we have a long way to go. this is another sign of the clintons still being involved and playing politics and doing the little thing you might want to do to have perhaps the endorsement and support of the future mayor of los angeles. that's never a bad thing. >> never a bad thing. if she wins, she would be l.a.'s first female mayor. that certainly is not a fact that should be lost, especially again, if you're lo

it didn't help the opponent, eric garcetti, a big supporter of barack obama in 2008 against hillary clintonk bill noticed. the clintons have long memories. this is not the first time bill backed the democrat in a tough primary with bill or hillary ties. for example, in recent congressional primary races, he endorsed mark kritz in pennsylvania, bill pascerll in new jersey. endorsed former clinton white house staffer sean patrick maloney in new york. the race for pennsylvania attorney general he endorsed clinton supporter kathleen kane over obama endorser patrick murphy. he's rewarding old friends and punishing old rivals. >> we have to have more loyalty in politics. he is supporting the people who helped him. >> to what effect? >> in a lot of cases he's winning. even if he's not winning he's sending a signal. >> why is he doing this? >> because he cares. he cares about -- >> he's setting up the battle. >> he's setting up the battle for hillary in about 18 months or less. he's making sure that everyone understands exactly they're coming prepared and the thing about the clintons, they don't fo