i was in greenville. am i right? greenville.egislators were having a banquet and invited me to come down to speak. - and i sat next to a state representative i didn't know supported me back then so i said, would you support my campaign as president of the united states state and she looked me up and down and said you know, i'll give you my endorsement if you come to my hometown at green wood south carolina. i had a glass of wine so i said, right away, okay. let's shake on it ch. come to find out, green wood is about an hour and a half from every place else. so about a month later i fly in and i've been campaigning for two weeks straight. i'm exhausted and tired and get to the hotel room and i'm dragging my bag in about to go to bed and i get a tap on my should around the staff member said excuse me sir. i said what! say they'd said, you have to be in the car in the moshing at 6:30 in the morning. i said, why? he said you have to go to green wood like you promised. so the next day, i wake up and i feel worse than when i went to b

thing this morning, though, eastern north carolina, wilmington, and up towards raleigh, over to greenville. first thing this morning, few isolated showers and thunderstorms, could see one to two inches of rain there, but otherwise a cloudy start to the morning. 69 in atlanta and savannah, tallahassee waking up with temperatures into the mid-70s. lower 90s with storms, and some locatio here across the interior of florida, nashville storms and 81, 80 in atlanta with storms firing up again later on this afternoon. so bad news for the flood-prone areas. but in the northeast yet again, a few clouds and a beautiful day. highs in the mid-70s to lower 80s. that's a quick check of the forecast around the region. now a look at the forecast close to home. all right. if you're watching us in atlantic city, look for another great day, few late-day clouds, highs at 78. cincinnati, 79, partly cloudy skies, columbia, south carolina, 85, and chance of storms in tampa, highs at 91. lynn, first day of fall comes in here at about 5:18 eastern time. should be a mighty fine day across much of the east. >> as lo

but he wouldn't even take a visit to greenville. >> ray: you're going to have one, two, three guys only rush the passer. that means eight are dropping out on this one. and they've got everything covered. three deep across the top and then five underneath. that's max coverage and they still -- there was nowhere for pinkney to throw the football. >> pam: brings up a third and six. good throw. broken up. a flag is down. and it's against the pirates. >> referee: false start 66, offense. that's a five-yard penalty. >> ray: d.j. scott, i believe. >> pam: yep. >> ray: that's who they called it on. he's right here the big fellow right there. you're going to see him and he's going to move just a little bit early. so the snap didn't count. the good news for the pirates is they get another crack at third down here. >> pam: but it is third and 11. pinkney throws it. well short of the first down. completed to jamar bryant and that never had a chance. zach brown, a sophomore from columbia, maryland, made the stop only after a two-yard gain. >> ray: i think you kick a field goal here, pam. try to get

there's the heavier shower activity, just south of the richmond area towards the greenville area. down just east of rocky mount. also heavy shower and thunderstorm activity over the charlotte region. so, again, you can access it yourself the your convenience, your own computer, at abc2news.com. there 24/7, 365. our forecast for this evening, scattered showers, will remain around through tonight. also through the day tomorrow. then on friday things start to clear up a little bit. we'll see a little bit of sunshine, saturday looks to be a pretty decent day, sunday also looking pretty good. most of the heavy showers will stay back to the west of us in the ohio valley. here's your forecast for the overnight period. mostly cloudy, scattered showers, we'll see an overnight low of 63 degrees. tomorrow, during the day, it's going to be a mostly cloudy day, 67. scattered showers around. and the extended outlook, things start to clear up friday. saturday looking nice. sunday the nice weather should continue, high of 72 degrees. sunshine continues into monday, tuesday and wednesday, scattere

i was in greenville, am i right? greenville. and the legislators were having a little banquet and they invited me to come down and speak. and i sat next to a state representative. i had nobody supporting me back then. so i had to ask effort, i said, will you support my campaign for presidency of the united states? and this state rep looked me up and down and she said, you know, i will give you my endorsement if you come to my hometown at greenwood, south carolina. i had had a glass of wine so i said right away, okay. let's shake on it. come to find out that greenwood is about an hour and a half from every place else. so about a month later, i fly in, i've been campaigning for two weeks straight, haven't seen my family. i'm exhausted, i'm tired. get to the hotel room, i'm dragging my bag into my room, about to go to bed. i get a tap on my shoulder. it's my staff member. he said, excuse me, sir? i said, what? he said, you have to be in the car morning at 6:30 in the morning. i said, why? he said, because we got to go to greenwood

it spread a little more into the mississippi river valley, so places like memphis, little rock, greenvillessissippi are going to see that tomorrow. the pacific northwest is going to see cooler, wet conditions. highs tomorrow in the 60s in seattle. we might see the mountain snow, believe it or not. snow levels could drop 6,000 feet. not going to be a great weekend. the heat suppressing a bit in the southwest. it's great news for the fire areas. nice and comfortable in dallas. 83 in minneapolis. boston, 69. washington, d.c., one of the best locations, high of 83 and lots of sunshine. hey, you know, we have had a lot of business going on with the tropics the last couple weeks. tropical storm erica ripped apart by strong winds. it could be because of el nino. >> el nino is back. >> and it could be a rough winter for folks today. >> thank you so much. >>> the battle of the sexes heats up in the bedroom when we ask the question, who gets more sleep? men or women? ng better with advair... i can enjoy the zoo with my grandkids. (announcer) for people with copd including chronic bronchitis, emphyse

i went down to greenville for a -- for a legislative dinner, and i was sitting next to a state representativeobody supported me at the time. so, i said, madam representative, i need your endorsement. she said, i will give you my endorsement if you come to my hometown, greenwood, south carolina. and i said -- i'd had a glass of wine. i said fine. i'm coming. come to find out that greenwood is an hour and a half from everyplace else. it's in the middle of nowhere. so, about a month later, i fly back into greenville, and i'm tired, i'm sleepy, you know, i've been campaigning for two weeks straight. i'm dragging my bags to my hotel room, and suddenly i get a tap on my shoulder. it's my staff person. i said what? they said, we got to be in the car at 6:30 tomorrow morning. i said what? 6:30, why? because we've got to go to greenwood like you promised. so, the next morning i wake up, and i feel terrible. dragging out of bed. feel like a college student. i feel -- i feel like i'm back in college and don't want to wake up. i feel like i've been staying up late doing who knows what. i know, i remember

birmingham, greenville mississippi. more rain. those will come up the appalachians, but i think you can also get an idea, as they are moving up from the southeast, they are beginning to die out a little bit. so i think all what we'll be seeing here is some scattered, lighter showers. look at marietta, georgia, for the month, more than 17 inches of rain. birmingham, alabama, just in the last couple of days, over four inches of rain. meanwhile out in the atlantic, things are reasonable quiet. there you can see in the great true. space as we're heading toward autumn, they're heading towards springtime in south america but all caught in this but look here off of africa, there's hardly anything in the way of clouds because of the big dust storm. this is the great picture from the terrace satellite. look at how we are 400 miles out of the atlantic ocean. that's dust from the sahara and not only dust but not a cloud underneath that. that is part of the reason, in part, because of those duststorms and the dust that gets carried across the

joining us from greenville, south carolina, dean allen, running for general of the south carolina national guard. dean, good to see you today. 3. >> good afternoon, ma'am. >> okay. explain to me this very unusual idea for a fund-raiser. >> well, the idea may seem very unusual but the thought behind it is very usual and important. we want to show solidarity with the second amendment to the constitution. the most important right people have is the right to keep and bear arms. one of my concerns is our state guard is not properly trained and equipped and i intend to see that they are and i was told, well, there's a possible of liability if you arm the state guard. we're out here running civilians through a fund-raiser having fun on a saturday afternoon. we give them a ten-minute safety briefing, put live ammo in their hands. nobody gets hurt. people were coming up with pretty good targets and having me autograph their targets for them. it's not a safety issue, and all of our rights including the first amendment to be here and talk to are predicated on supporting the second amendment. that's w

locker to >> in 1941 the original dough's eat place open in greenville, mississippi. 58 year later diek fan jim and his son nelson opened up a spot in fayetteville, maintaining the same dough's tradition of serving delta style hand-wrapped tamales and awesome steaks cut fresh daily from whole beef loins and specialty is two and a half pound porterhouse, each selection cooked unique top broiler and drippings saved, strained and served back on top. welcome home. >> wait a minute. >> brad: two and a half pounds? >> todd: yeah. >> brad: did you eat the whole thing? >> todd: i did. >> brad: i couldn't see your plate. >> todd: you had kiddie filet. they told me that was special so that's why i had to order it. i wish i could have taken the bone home for my dog. that was a nice bone. >> brad: food was awesome. service was even better, everybody's so friendly. we had a blast there. >> todd: a lot of energy and atmosphere, cheerleaders and tusk came down while we were eating. a good scene >> brad: at our table and they came by with the big bus with tusk ii down in the inside with the cheerleade

joining us from greenville, south carolina, jeffrey south, chief investment strategist with raymond james the cboe, dan deming, stuckland equities trader. he trades from the cbov vix options. dan, what's going on with volatility? >> well, i think, you know, what mark we're seeing is decline in volatility, seeing more confidence coming back in the market. we're seeing tremendous demand for stocks and other commodities, that any drop in the market, there's so much money in the fixed income, any drop, we're seeing huge demand on the market. that's keeping volatility under pressure. the vix now trading down in the 23 handle. historically around 20. normalized situation in volatility. similar to small craft advisory being create by more boats or smaller or medium size boats are willing to go it of the hasher and calmer waters and explore for opportunities. >> jeff do, you agree that it's a good, not a bad sign? >> yeah, i do. i think there's more at work than that as well. i think that there's still enough money on the sidelines in zero maturity funds, if you will, mzm, and the underinvested a

and finally, ellen roberts, greenville, south carolina, one of the nicest, cleanest nuns in the worldod faith. that's what she says, that's her secret. now back to matt. >> all right, willard. and as you talk about birthdays, we've got a bunch of hot chicks here celebrating their 40th birthday. happy birthday to you ladies. and when we come back, martha stewart and her daughter alexis heat things up in our kitchen. but first, this is "today" on nbc. >> announcer: "martha on today" is brought to you by macy's. the martha stewart collection is now available only at macy's and on macys.com. >>> this morning on "martha on today," salt and pepper. martha stewart is here with recipes from the october issue of "martha stewart living" that takes season to taste to a whole new level. and she's brought along her daughter alexis. and so good to see you. >> great to have you both here. >> and you're cover girls, on the cover of "body & soul" magazine. >> what's the matter with you? >> nothing, i'm giggling -- >> just because you kicked me in the groin before the last segment. >> i meant to do tha

this is mississippi and parts of western tennessee and north and east of greenville in through the interstatearea, you'll notice that these aren't moving all that much. that becomes an issue. and this area from birmingham to atlanta will probably fill in over to the western parts of the carolinas, all the way to the coastline is where we're having issues. so the expanse of this continues and where it does pop up as far as thunderstorms, it comes down in a hurry and saturated grounds, so flooding is going to be an issue for a good chunk of real estate. 75 in atlanta, 75 as well in new york city, and 77 degrees up there in new york. 87 in houston and 85 degrees in los angeles. all right. that's the latest from here. heidi, back over to you. >> all right, great. thank you, rob. >>> health care in america, passions run high, divisions run deep. and with seemingly everybody screaming at everybody else, is anybody else still listening? (voice 1) traffic's off the chart... (voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise guy

host: greendale, south carolina -- greenville.: i used to live in the northeast corridor in maryland. the situations are relatively similar here in north carolina. there is not a park in the area. business leaders in the area because regulatory and taxation laws are so difficult they cannot make a profit. if you give them incentive and means lowering taxes, then you get the structure back up and running. detroit is a prime example, so is toledo. that is high taxes and driving out of business. host: justin hollander? guest: there are a lot of factors that contribute to decisions by companies whether to stay or go. in this project i was trying to accomplish managing the impacts of that dislocation. to understand what cities are doing well, or not. there is no doubt there is a way for a community to make it more palatable for new development. when you have a site for which nothing is happening, that is causing blood, what did you do? host: next up, on the line for independents -- causing blight. caller: thanks for your research. this

about a month later, i am back in greenville. i am tired and sleepy. i had been campaigning for two weeks straight. then i get a tap on my shoulder. my staff says we have to be in the car at 6:30 a.m. tomorrow morning. i said, why? because we have to go to green would like you promised. -- greenwood like you promised. the next morning, i felt terrible. i was dragging. i felt like a college student. [laughter] [cheers and applause] i felt like i was back in college and do not want to wake up. i felt like i was staying up late doing who knows what. [laughter] i know. i remember how you all are. i feel -- i am exhausted. i go to the curtains to get some sunlight. it is pouring outside. it was miserable. i open up a newspaper and there is a bad story about me in the new york times. i go downstairs and my umbrella busts open. by the time i get in the car, i am wet and sleepy and mad. and we started driving. and we're driving and we're driving and we are driving a and then i realize we have to drive an hour and a half back. finally the lead affected greenwoo

i get into greenville, south carolina, about midnight, a hotel about 1:00.gging into the hotel, carrying my bags, ready to hit the pillow and suddenly, my staff says, sir -- and i say, what? [laughter] they say, sir, you have to be in the carç at 6:30 a.m. and i said, why is that? and they said, you have got to go to greenwood, like you promised. [laughter] the next morning i wake up and i feel awful, terrible, i am exhausted. i stagger over to the window to buffalo and the blind and it is pouring down rain outside, a terrible day -- to pull open the blind and it is pouring down rain outside, a terrible day. i go get some coffee and a newspaper. there is a bad story about in the "new york times." [laughter] i pack up, go downstairs supply of raw light blows open. i get drenched. -- go downstairs, and my umbrella blows open. i get drenched. i get in the car and i am sleepy and i am mad. [laughter] we drive and we drive. hour and a half, and we just keep on writing. finally, we get to greenwood. although, you do not know you are there right away. [laughter] a

i was in greenville. the legislators were having a banquet and invited me to come to speak. i sat next to a state representative. i had nobody supporting me, so i asked everybody. i asked, will you support my campaign? this represented a said, "i will give you my endorsement is to come to my home town of greenwood, south carolina pier " i said ok. let's shake on it. come to find out that greenwood is about an hour and half from everywhere else. about a month later i fly in, have been campaigning for two weeks straight. i get to the hotel, i am dragging my bags into the room, i get attack on my shoulder. my staff member said, excuse me, sir, they said, you have to be in the court tomorrow at 6:30 in the morning. why? because we got to go to greenwood like you promised. the next day, i wake up, and i feel worse than when i went to bed. i stagger over to the window, opened the blinds, it is pouring down the rain, an ugly day. i go out, get my newspaper, open it up, there is a bad story about me in the "the new york times. i pack up my stuff, my umbrella breaks, and i get soaked

greenville, south carolina, cliff, hi. >> caller: good morning. how are you guys? quick question and analogy n. this country, we spend more on education than any other developed nation in the world and cost keep increasing, yet the democrats claim we don't spend enough on education. governor controls most of the education, too. now they tell us we spend too much on healthcare and want to take over the other 50% to control cost and increase union coverage. which really unions create a deficit in our educational system and diminishing the quality and wanting to decrease who can go out and go into the private sector in the competition. my point is if they think educational problem deserves spending more money and tossing more money at it it all the time. healthcare is important. we spend too much on it and we ought to cut it. the two seem totally in opposite of each other and i think what we will end up with is clear in rationing. >> host: david hawkings? >> guest: it it is interesting, the caller represents minority view that most americans think there is a lot of un

several spots, particularly prince george's county and the outer loop of the beltway from andrews to greenvilleseries of accidents are gone the. the delays are still with us. else we are, over the american legion bridge, an earlier accident is gone. delays, 270, jammed, germantown all the way to the capital beltway. >>> tonight a 5:00, celebrating curves, a local fashion designer is >>> 8:00 now on a wednesday morning. it's the 16th day of september, 2009. oops on the weather here. it's gotten cloudy, starting to drizzle. temperatures in the 60s. and al says actually we're probably not going to warm up much from what it is now. >> exactly. we're staying right where we are. >> good to know. out to the plaza i'm matt lauer along with meredith vieira who's back from a couple of days off. >> took my son to college. >> how'd that go? >> he, fine, me, not so much. >> a wreck? >> yeah, but it's fine. >> one more at home? >> one more at home. one left, yep. >> good for david. >> thank you. >> good for gabe. >>> coming up in this half hour, we'll talk about the touching memoir patrick swayze was working

into the foothills of north carolina, here is the radar picture as it sweeps around out of the greenville area. i-85 stretching in to charlotte right now. these were severe a half hour ago. so far they're not severe. we're looking at this thing to die down a touch. the thunderstorms are out there. look at the rain around philadelphia in to new york, showers at d.c. as well. that's a morning event for you in new york. i think philadelphia, d.c., you hold on to the rain probably through the mid to late afternoon hours and then down to the south of miami, onshore flow coming in. thunderstorms are out there. they stretch all the way down the keys into key west. it's going to be off and on. heavy downpours early. northern parts of oklahoma, parts of missouri, too. zero in to the wichita radar and you have one batch of thundershowers go by yesterday. another one still going on this morning and still one back to the west. let me show you some video from yesterday afternoon looking at the doppler radar, estimates from yesterday. five inches plus around the wichita area. the rain continues to fall

i get into greenville, south carolina, about midnight. i get to my hotel about 1:00.e pillow. and suddenly my staff says, "sir." i said, "what "they said," sir, you have to be in the car at 6:30 tomorrow in the morning. "the. [laughter] >> i said, "why is that?" and "because you've got to go to greenwood like you promised." next morning i wake up and i feel awful, i feel terrible. i'm exhausted. and i stagger over to the window to pull open the blind. and it's pouring down rain outside. terrible day. and i go out and i get some coffee and open up the newspaper. bad story about me in the "new york times." [laughter] >> i pack up, i go downstairs. and i'm walking to the car my umbrella blows open. [laughter] >> and i get drenched. by the time i'm in the car i'm wet and i'm sleepy and i'm mad. [laughter] >> and i drive. and we drive and we drive and we drive. a hour and a half. we just keep on driving. finally we get to greenwood. although you don't know that you're in greenwood right away. [laughter] >> no, it's not like minneapolis. [laughter] >> so there's a little fi

who were with us who went down to the fort worth area on the 31st of august, we stopped off in greenville, texas, and visited the l-3 factory there where the secretary saw them putting the final touches on the first mc-12 which is basically a beach craft, i think king air is what it is, that will be deployed to afghanistan. so we're buying 51 of these aircraft, i think, the majority of those will be going over to afghanistan to increase our eyes in the sky that help our commanders, you know, study patterns of life among terrorists, among i.e.d. emplacers and dissect them and ultimately dismantle them, destroy them. ok? let's go to tony. >> is it possible that the secretary will make some news tomorrow on the tanker program in terms of a way forward? >> i think if you're interested in the tanker program you should probably cover the speech tomorrow. >> the second engine in this long running saga, you know, there was a failure friday of the prat engine in durable testing. does that raise cautions within the pentagon here that their approach to stressing just the single engine might not be t

[laughter] i was in greenville. am i right? legislators were having a banquet and they invited me to come down and speak. i sat next to a state rep. i had no one supporting me back then. i said, "will support my campaign for the presidency of the united states?" look me up and down and said, "i will give you my endorsement if you come to mind hometown of greenwood, south carolina."daut i had had a glass of wine and i said ok. let's shake on it. [applause] come to find out that greenwood is about 1.5 hours from everywhere else. a month later, i flight in and i have been campaigning for two weeks straight, i am exhausted. i am dragging my bag into the hotel room. i get it have on the salt rigid on my shoulder. excuse me, sir. you have to be in the car tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. why? because we have to go degree would like you promised. -- we have to go to greenwood. the next day, i wake up and i feel worse than when i went to bed. i stagger over to the window, open the lines, and it is pouring down -- open the blinds. there's a bad st

the first is from ken, a recent rhode island college graduate from greenville, rhode island.ken worked hard, dreaming that he would be e first in his family to achieve a college degree. now a year after graduation,en has that college degree, but he can't find a full-time job with health insurance benefits. in this difficult economy, he works two part-time jobs at minimum wage and he has no health benefits. ken wasn't looking to make a six-figure salary after graduation, but he was looking to be able to get by. on his current inbome, ken has difficulty making ends meet with his day-to-day expense and says at this rate it will take him years to pay off his student loans. the presiding officer: the senator's time has spyder. mr. whitehouse: may i have five minutes longer? the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: on his current income he has difficulty mack ends meet day to day. and it'll take him years to pay off his student loans. on such a limited income and in his situation, health insurance is simply not an option for ken. he's discouraged and he's frustrate