gloria press in her backyard when she watched the bear jumped over fences. she held on to her dog who tried to run to the bear he left scratch marks on her arm. eventually after tranquilizer shots the bear wall-to-wall halt and lifted into a truck you can see him breathing as he goes to sleep and traveled back to the wild. lewis a hajj in glendale >>> the best way to beat the heat to hit the pool. maybe not like that. the annual belly flops splashdown in denver, college students participated and watch the smack down this weekend. how are they judged? a panel of four judges looks at creativity the sound of the flaw technique and the amount of water dispersed from the pool. the when scholarships. brian hackney here. >>> we do have a cool down and big time. we have fog and drizzle on the coast line an indication of things to come, numbers have cooled in the east bay concord 61 oakland has 57 san jose 63. we look for things to hit the big chill in the bay area tomorrow drizzle near the shore and a warm up not until thursday. in the meantime temperatures below av

bush press secretary, ari fleischer, and also joining us gloria borger. a lot of republicans think romney should release his tax returns and the campaign is saying fairly or unfairly, releasing more returns would be like handing more ammunition to the obama campaign. do you buy it? >> i absolutely buy that. i think it will be picked over, big things will be made. i don't think we're going to see anything new. i don't think any of the republicans calling for this think there is anything wrong that mitt romney has done. what we want is for the distraction to be over so we can get to the real issues, the big issues that the american people are interested in. this has become a ridiculous distraction and i do think it's taking a toll. again, i tell you i think there is absolutely nothing illegal or inappropriate that mitt romney has done. we're not going to learn anything new. he is a wealthy man who has been very successful. and he should embrace that. and we should get this over with, take the band aid off, let's move on and let's start talking about the eco

gloria just said expired. he would renew it. here today his press secretary is telling us the gun laws on the books today are sufficient. >> anderson, you can make the case for president obama that if he wants to consolidate his base, what he thought to do is extend the assault weapons ban. which he has not done. but he's worried about those independent voters, 55% of them say they care more about gun owners than curtailing gun ownership, right? so this is where he's living right now. to attract those independent voters. i would argue on a congressional level it's really important to congressional democrats in the south. but i think the president has a little bit more wiggle room here than he thinks. particularly if he's trying to consolidate his base. >> it is fascinating. not my job to take a position one way or the other. how neither side really wants to have this discussion. both sides are kind of wanting to move away and stay off it as much as possible. david gergen, gloria borger, jonk king, thanks. >>> a lot more to tell you tonight about the

join me and tom brokaw and gloria borjer for a tremendous round table. for a look coming up on "meet the press> good morning. coming up, a special edition of "meet the press." as president obama makes his way to aurora, colorado, to honor the victims of the tragedy there, we'll have the latest on the still developing situation. this morning i'll be joined live by the governor, john hickenlooper. what can we do to detect the threats that become national tragedies? joining me is michael chertoff. former police commissioner of new york and chief in los angeles, bill bratten, and gun control advocate carolyn mccarthy of new york. and plus the presidential campaign. it's all coming up this morning on "meet the press." and after the program, please stay tuned for press pass, our conversation today with slaughter, who argued in the atlantic magazine that women can't have it all. a discussion with her. only here on nbc4. >> david, thanks. >>> in the week ahead the department of transportation will announce major funding for hundreds of projects across the country. transportation secretary ray lahood w

stanton, and gloria steinham and rosa parks and all these great women who came before us to get us to this great place, but what does it mean to be an activist today? what are the pressing issues? what are the key issues that we must tackle today? what does activism mean? let's talk about one of the most recent issues where you saw our activism work, and that is just recently the affordable health care act being upheld, right? so we know, we did that, right. why? because when the president was running, we said we want health care. we want it to be fair. we want it to be equal, and we want to get rid of the discriminatory practices of health care in this country. that's what we want. we said it. we meant it, and the president said he would do it, and he did. so that's the first level of how our activism works. the second thing we did was when we got in we reminded him, don't forget, you remember, you promised us, health care, and he did it. and that's a form of activism, but the third thing is once it was under siege, and once we felt like it may not come through, we went to the supreme court. we rallied, we organized and we wrote, we blogged, we twittered, tweeted, excu