apparently brett favre is no exception. at least that's what some are saying about this favre look-alike who became an internet sensation after showing up to watch a green bay packers practice. he says he never had any intention of attracting so much attention, but he was just supporting his team. nevertheless, he did stick around. he actually signed autographs. >> he's the perfect candidate for getting favre's name back on the -- >> you think he looks a lot like him? >> yes. >> i agree. there were some people on the fence. but he should work that. >> he's single, i guess. >>> it's time for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. >>> attorney general eric holder will meet with family members of 9/11 victims following allegations that news corp reporters tufrd pay for the victim's phone records. a former police officer claims "news of the world" journalists contacted him to get those records. >>> american red cross and national weather service officials will be on hand during a faceb

churchill cup in june with the states coming out on top by seven points however given the huge chance favre faced during their tour of the u.k. the russians will be targeting bank game as big game to win which of them both lead on to new paltz wales. that's all small schools i think. discover is abusing. community with the wild. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. he's telling. me. dynamic. for a. month. today's news and the week's top stories colonel gadhafi reportedly offers talks with the rebels to arrange a transfer of power as the opposition to the fugitive leader after taking over the capital tripoli. the. capital. from tripoli in just a few seconds. in other news north korea will limit nuclear arms testing and production if international talks on security in the region resume a pledge made by the country's reclusive leader on a rare trip to russia. lack of progress space ship ferrying supplies to the international space station is it missing after crashing over siberia

has built quite a capable side and it's helped that the new a question will be playing and scott's favre remark cost rep for our team in st petersburg. not wraps up the sport for this hour the weather is next and dimitri is here with all the news at the top of the hour. the morning when the t.v. newsman was follow my valet. going past while the streets of the cafe. the turning point in russia's history. was a justified move forward. miming many years since the battle for democracy on our teeth. twenty years ago in the largest country in the world this two cases of the. us have been trying. to teach began a journey. where did it take the. wealthy british style sun holds a spot on. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the more out here and cause any as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli signal gadhafi school is approaching some reports from the suggest it's just part of nature's plans in place. and those storie

churchill cup in june with the states coming out on top by seven points however given the huge chance favre. tasting bachelor of u.k. a russian it taunting by game as big games a way in which i'm cold feet onto the new paltz wales. that's all this fall for the moment come up children as the weather update stay tuned. as you know song was sixteen years old when he committed these murders that's not to say that song so or should not be punished for his crimes so on is being honest no rational person can deny that song has been punished is being punished and will be punished. by sours must be executed for the brutal crime committed this is a punishment this is not even. imagine. saying. because you've been immersed know me whatsoever. how i didn't come here for justice. and here dave mercy. is convert a small. minority. and my thought is now. in the czech republic is available in just generally hotel a story of central hotel privilege. most of those stuck by you don't know much east in bosnia and herzegovina available in. the children of each tell a joke. about you know what you know created p

experience has built quite a capable side and it's helped that the new a question will be playing and favre remarked cos right for our team in st petersburg. that wraps up the sport for this our world weather is next then us here with all the news you need to know at the top of the hour. we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've got the future covered. for the full story we've got it for. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news maker. twenty years ago in largest country. disintegrates it's. been trying. to teach. where did it take. the main point of the attacks in tripoli. to break down the moral cause. as libya's rebels claim heavy gunfire and explosions in tripoli. is approaching some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato his plan to play havoc in the city. and other stories that shape the. in the middle east with fears that. might. state a new ground offensive. also. recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those just. but many governments disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent and the

experience has built quite a capable side and it's helped that they knew it was there will be playing and favre remonde cost rep for our team in st petersburg. to tell us where my dish up has shown have pedigree to make the cincinnati milestones decide to the russian saying often patrick and well not in the semifinal. in the first set however when i dove a dictated the play to win it six to ten a visit from coach tell my show hawks the same to provide great shot up of a brilliant shot choice from the force savings when i arrived all over the cold before dropping the course. more of the same thing the decider allowing shut up about to wrap up the two six six three and six three. and easy leonie young give it up next while the russian the serb taking care of german andre at that commission said of these other save me when i was taken to tiebreaker the first set which she effectively won before blitzing her yugoslav born opponent in the decider seven six six one gun creatures only beaten shot up over once before. in the men's side of the action world number one not a good joke of it remains well i

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is quite a capable side and it's helped that they knew it was the shins will be playing and scott's favre remark cost rep for our team in st petersburg. never mind previewing the favorites for next season's can challenge title that is all your sport whether sext. hungry for the full story we've got it sussed the biggest issues get a human voice ceased to face with the news makers. he's telling. me. dynamic. for a. month. the main point of the attacks in tripoli which are sporadic is to break down the moral here and cause panic. as libya's rebels claim heavy explosions in tripoli signal is approaching some reports from there suggest it's just part of nato plan to play havoc in the city. and all the stories that shape the surge of violence in the middle east with fears a deadly exchange of fire between israel and gaza might need to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. britain fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those who just thought about taking the government's disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent. the collective econo

has built quite a capable side and it's helped that the new a question will be playing and scott's favre remark cos rep for our team in st petersburg. staying with hawk and to time guy in cup win as i began their campaign all september the ninth against all out favorites sky men have recently been invented has been lost to oblongs prices and it has a gorski takes a look at them preparations. ugh bars are getting used to life with the dino was relinquished his club duties to manage the national t.v. . crew can all of those should command the respect of the players. the former defenseman led team russia to bronze at the two thousand and five world championships and help moscow win the russian championship the same year beloved enough not too far from the action though taking the time to scope out potential prospects for international duty laura's darren's english was acquired from the off season i and the latvian international is already feeling the pressure of the finals with the season yet to start. the goal is. a game of the season. and if not it's all it's all a disappointment. and esp

saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favre favorably to the fact that standard and poor's did downgrade america's credit for the first time ever in history well later we visit one american city that highlights the devastating consequences of an investor retreat once a buzzing urban suburban area is now an abandoned with more than half of the population running away from national despair. asian markets have been hammered amid fears the u.s. is heading for a recession but india has real. acted with optimism saying it's ready to implement a reforms to encourage domestic consumption and withstand the economic struggles are bringing us the latest on the financial situation in asia from new delhi. asian markets have been tumbling in reaction to the latest news of the aston p. downgrading of the u.s. economy but actually many politicians and many analysts in india think that this country will only be affected in the short term by what's happening in that they're actually better equipped than many western countries especially your p.

saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favre favorably to the fact that standard and poor's did downgrade america's credit for the first time ever in history. on a more positive note asian markets recovered some of the early losses suffered due to uncertainty over what's happening on wall street and india's finance minister expressed confidence in his country that big country can broker the economic storm and attract investors economic professor cheap. potential why did the price of commodities could actually work in india's favor. part of the initial sell off was was panic and i think the panic responded to the downgrade in credit worthiness of u.s. treasury bills after the initial panic his has outlasted i think investors realize that emerging markets like india have strong fundamentals they have strong structural reasons going into the future such as a positive demographic trend high savings in investment rates the medium term growth outlook for india looks robust it's in the eight point two to eight point five percentage ran

saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favre favorably to the fact that standard and poor's did downgrade america's credit for the first time ever in history. with the global economy still moving deeper into uncertain can you look at all the latest developments at our web site argue dot com here's what's going to be you today more voices join you at home for a review of america's our yardies telling leaders to put in five world supremacy and feed their people instead. and look at how the financial despair in the us is true. some thriving industrial centers into ghost towns. so more international news for you in grief this hour the head of libya's rebel movement has sacked the entire executive committee which functions as a cabinet is probably the assassination of the commander of opposition forces last month members of the national transitional council i would struggle of already supported the reshuffle saying they hope any crisis in their ranks. the hotel maid who accused them in the extracts kong of sexually assaulting her tha

they will get one more chance-for seven years- >> and any chance that brett favre? is the deal. and i do not want to make excuses but a lot of these guys to not know what they're going to do. if all have you done is to play sports. and most people kiss your rear end? if you all of a sudden have to be with your loved one all the time? or just off the record. an email from gwen is saying that gary was drunk on the air >> because you have a personality you are accused of being drunk? [laughter] the way that it is been going with the giants sanchez. this guy has to change the scenery. and if every day you go to work and say that we get ripped off signing you. you need a change of scenery i guess that it would be o.k. but if there knocked out. or if there are games where they are behind. i do not think there in the situations like that. >> what is your favorite sport event? >> i would say that when i was in college might to great champions were heavyweight championship fight. for younger people they do not know what we're talking about. lee frazier is still one of the be

that said look you guys are really good shape economically you know bailout guess what this is a team favre we had a right we had at the i.m.f. you want to be want to be favorable to you at least you can do is not at peace rick take groups of trying to have their sort of activists who deterrable say their fists or pay a term now president call you pirate. pirates for peace is i always preferred the living human a doubter i don't know but i look at this will suppose the story you're actually decided to try this despite you have information oil are you what you would ask for clearance been denied by authorities in greece well actually we had it was good to go at the end of june ok we had inspections had very thing going good for us and then two of the other ships got sabotaged we don't know by right i was reading about this really weird stuff like how missing propellers our eyes miss exactly the same one i had is trying. to drop a bomb on you point so we had all our ice and your money i. had a we had a bogus complaint that we were at sea worthy trees to israeli boat. yes the station so the he

saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favre favorably to the fact that standard and poor's did downgrade america's credit for the first time ever in history. asian stocks of their ground have to steep drops earlier in the day amid fears the u.s. is heading for recession and india is claiming it's ready to implement fast track reforms to encourage domestic consumption in order to overcome the economic struggles. has the latest on the financial situation in asia from new delhi. asian markets have been tumbling in reaction to the latest news of the after and p. downgrading of the u.s. economy but actually many politicians and many analysts in india think that this country will only be affected in the short term by what's happening in that they're actually better equipped than many western countries especially your pm countries to handle what's going on in the united states we have india finance minister pranab mukherjee coming out and saying that this is only going to be really a short term impact analysts are thing that the bric

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military helicopter saturday, killing 38, including 22 favre very seals, from the same unite -- 22 navy seals from the same unit that took down bin laden. >> reporter: this is a devastating blow to the small tight-knit community of special operations forces in afghanistan. the single deadliest day for american troops since the war started 10 years ago. taliban were quick to claim responsible. saying they shot it down with a rocket propelled grenade. details are sketchy. it appears the for was beginning to launch a raid southwest of kabul when a taliban rocket did take this helicopter down. in recent months the u.s. military in kabul has been fond of saying they wrestled the momentum from the taliban this attack is all the more evidence that the taliban are still capable of launching attacks against u.s. and afghan forces. chris, this war is nowhere near being over. >> chris: conor powell reporting from kabul, thanks for that. >> now the u.s. economy. standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. credit rating friday night for the first time ever from aaa to aa+. that means treasury bonds are no

military helicopter saturday, killing 38, including 22 favre very seals, from the same unite -- 22 navy seals from the same unit that took down bin laden. >> reporter: this is a devastating blow to the small tight-knit community of special operations forces in afghanistan. the single deadliest day for american troops since the war started 10 years ago. taliban were quick to claim responsible. saying they shot it down with a rocket propelled grenade. details are sketchy. it appears the for was beginning to launch a raid southwest of kabul when a taliban rocket did take this helicopter down. in recent months the u.s. military in kabul has been fond of saying they wrestled the momentum from the taliban this attack is all the more evidence that the taliban are still capable of launching attacks against u.s. and afghan forces. chris, this war is nowhere near being over. >> chris: conor powell reporting from kabul, thanks for that. >> now the u.s. economy. standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. credit rating friday night for the first time ever from aaa to aa+. that means treasury bonds are no

. >> in his time was he as well known as a michael vick or a brett favre did a? >> more. much, much more because he was this multisport athlete but he did football, baseball, track and field. he won gold medals in the 1912 olympics. he could do all that is one of the reasons he still retains this dad's as chris multisport athlete because they don't allow athletes to play multiple sports like that anymore. so in his day and beyond, one of the main reasons i wrote the book, he loomed so large. people revered him and talked about him long after he stopped plowing spent what was the significance of his native american heritage? >> huge. the playing of games as a young child that i go into that in the book. kind of a crosstraining almost. he sort of ran free and played free on the oklahoma plains. and learned strength, concentration, stamina, quickness, agility. and also this respect for physical, and the competitive games that the sac and fox drive would engaging in oklahoma. that was a huge influence i was a spirit who were disparate? >> is parents were hiram thorpe who is h

we have these pictures so favre 12 of them. we want to show you these photos. i know some of you have questions about why we show these. we'd like to show you who we are welcoming home today. our thoughts are with their families. we'll have more on the story a little later in the hour. jon: such a sad, sad event. texas governor rick perry is looking more like a presidential con tkepbd rear right now, he's heading to two key primary states this weekend. so how might a perry candidacy change the political landscape on the republican side? a live report on that next. also, it's the city of brotherly love, and it's taking a tough, new stance in the fight against violence. flash mobs, what the mayor of philadelphia is doing. jenna: we continue to watch the dow after yesterday's plunge, rick has more at the.com wall. >> reporter: a rally going on. will it stick? we want you to go to the chat room, go to it there and click on america's asking. i want to take the next couple of minutes and ask you guys to go online and pose your questions or your comments about the eco

. >> favre let's move around the world. let's start with afghanistan. -- let's move from the world. 35 americans lost their lives last week. there are a lot of americans that say that with this loss, it is this worth it? are we prevailing? and should we stay? what is your response to that? how do you view what is happening in afghanistan and the trajectory? >> it was tragic what happened last week. we lost 4500 in afghanistan. we have lost many more. we have seen a lot more that have been wounded. there are a lot of our men and women that have put our lives -- their lives on the line on the mission that we are involved with their. and we cannot forget the mission. the mission it, as the president said, is that we have to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al qaeda. and make sure that it never again find a safe haven in afghanistan, from which to launch attacks to this country. i think we made good progress on that. i just talked with general allan this morning. i think we are making very good progress in terms of security, part