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. >>> al regresar ivy queen nos habla de su nuevo disco. >>> nos acompaÑa el pianista para presentargran manzana estÁ juan luis guerra y juan romeo santos. >>> vamos con tony y nos cuenta de lo que se trata. llegÓ el momento de lo que se trata. estÁ ahÍ, que elegante. adelante. >>> como debe ser. bueno, se trata de una producciÓn de coleccion, unieron sus voces a una verdadera leyenda de la mÚsica. van a valor de que se trata. >>> es una leyenda viviente, y para el privilegio de las nuevas generaciones, tony bennett une su voz para su nuevo disco, fuimos testigos cuanto juan luis guerra y romeo santos grababan dÚos. >>> una gran experiencia, un privilegio estar con Él y compartir una canciÓn. mientras cantabamos y Él hacia toma tras toma y cada toma la cantaba mejor, y me preguntaba cÓmo lo hace, como se mantiene, y me respondiÓ, con un abrazo y una sonrisa. >>> romeo santos es el mÁs joven de los que participan. >>> que se siente? >>> de verdad que es un honor ser parte de un proyecto tan grandioso, tan diferente, sobre todo como artista, no es mi mundo, pero me permite ofrecer a mi

. >>> getting into a ivy league school is one thing but listen ho sw thisdent got there. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." let's start with the good news. isaac has not strengthened over the warm water of the gulf. that's fantastic. the bad news is the forecast cone is starting to narrow in on new orleans and a path similar to this would almost be kind of a worst case scenario. as a cat 1 it would be significant area up through lake pontchartrain. that's the thing to watch for the next 36 hours until landfall new if you're watchingous nbc 4 in lancaster, ohio, watch appalachian strings. >> that looked like a piece of art, banjo. >>> here's an early look at headlines in entertainment news. lack of any real opposition left "expendables 2" in the driver's seat at the box office. sylvester stallone lost 50% of their audience. fortunately for them, there was no competition from new films, so $13 million was enough to make it -- >> that's all? >> yes. multiple sources have confirmed to "us weekly" after a couple months of casual dating john mayer

. >>> earning good grades to get into an ivy league school is one thing, but listen how this student got there. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." hope you had a wonderful weekend. we've been watching isaac all weekend passing through the florida straits by key west. looks like the final end of the journey of isaac will end somewhere in louisiana and mississippi. that's where it will move inland and weaken. the question is how long will it take to approach land area. we've still got about 36 hours to wait to see how strong isaac can get. hopefully it will be a low end category 1 and not any stronger. the weather in the west, still pretty warm in veg gans and phoenix. partly cloudy skies up in the northwest. most areas should be dry. if you're watching us on knbc 4, los angeles, california, see a sculpture modeled after a fast-paced city and speedy roadways at metropolis ii at the los angeles county museum of art. that was complex. >> have you seen it? >> i have. >> they use toy cars. kind of like a mockup of los angeles highways. it's cool. you should g

now, joining us right now we have mark ivy, a gold medal winning coach just coming back from london. what do you say, london or san francisco for sailing? >> san francisco for sure. the backdrop here is spectacular. >> that's the way to go. tell us about these conditions for today. we know it proved challenging for team oracle 59 one point. i thought i almost saw a capsize, one of the last fleet races. was it that tough out there? >> well, i think the fog burned off really early this morning. we had a lot of sunshine. you could tell it was going to be one of those windy days and also as the tide started to roll out, we had flatter water, but then when it left the bay today this afternoon, the waves started to build up, and that proved really tricky for the sailors. >> reporter: one last question. the thing that sailing that keeps the sailors going is the adrenaline but there's something new about the boats, right? >> as you pan out and look, this technology is the state of the art. it's a wing technology with carbon fiber foyles, and it looks very similar to an airplane wing. this is

when i first got to the atlantic, all my co-bloggers were ivy league graduates. not only was i not an ivy league graduate, i was a drop-out. the atlantic didn't care. they've never cared. they have no concerns about that at all. from the time i got there up until the present, i've always been spectacularly supported, spectacularly encouraged. i came to the atlantic with no reputation at all for anything, and just on a hunch, they gave me a shot to write for the magazine first and then to blog later. they've been really amazing about that. >> hinojosa: so in terms of the activism of your generation, what do you want to see from them? >> i want them to be critical thinkers, and i want them to interrogate themselves. michael irvin posed for the cover of out magazine and came out in favor of gay rights and talked about why he was for gay rights and everything. michael irvin was a wide receiver for the dallas cowboys in their heyday. ultimate jock, ultimate, you know, sort of macho dude. and here he is posing on the cover of a gay magazine and talking about his commit

poison ivy, working in very hot conditions. what i am here to state to you -- some of you represent the unions, some of you have worked with the unions. when it comes to t all of you heads of departments can do nothing to stop the violence. this is serious. i have three members of the community response over here. whenever someone is shot and killed, they go and do the preliminary work. not the police. the police rely on them. that is where it stops. i am fortunate that the manager of the sfpuc and some others were capable of helping us, help us. they help us in directly. the time has come to help us directly. to give us jobs for 18 months or two months so that i can stop this violence -- a month or eightwo months. there is a feud between segments of the population. we just put a lid on the situation. if that situation air drops, it is on the city. it so happens -- erupts , it is on the city. please stand up to address this issue. police standout said they know who you are. +b7mé/k-- please stand up so tw who you are. thank yo

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as ivy league football teams go, that's pretty good.d i went to the university of texas, but i'll always claim harvard's research library as my own. >> i see. >> you get to claim it as your own? that sounds absolutely ridiculous. and the same thing at harvard, i loved lsu my whole life. come on. that's just absurd. >> the article is hilariously funny. thank you for talking to us about it. thank you. >>> ahead on "starting point," a massive shipment of those gorgeous red soled shoes stopped in their tracks. we'll tell you what they would have gone for if they'd hit the market. ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] ♪ [music plays] >>> welcome back to "starting point," everyone. a quick check of some of the stories we're following this morning. u.s. customs turns into a giant shoe closet after agents seize thousands of fake christian loub tan shoes in los angeles. the nearly 20,500 pairs of counterfeit red soled shoes could have brought in $18 million. that's a lot of money, if they had reached the underground market. >>> there was a wild ride t

oh ivy let's do the ceremony to end the blockade not as an end to the struggle for now but as a ceremony to thank god you are going to have both of you may he send us home safely especially the delegations from far away but overall. i have a day. now kiely she is safe at least for the moment. father matco is revered as a national hero. but not everyone is enamored with the farmers. and with the local media attacks marco and his activist organization graffiti days and the struggle of the bout began. there marco has troubles at home his reputation outside peru is growing. he attends the mine shareholder meeting in colorado. and thousand basters and the american press about the conflicts at yanacocha. then he's invited to canada and speaks in front of ontario's parliament and what just like in canada hundreds of farmers in peru and latin america are sent to jail for defending their right to a healthy life. then dmn people's struggle to defend their land and water continues. in two thousand and six yanacocha shut down by another blockade america was called in to mediate but this time a farme

hankers and needed an ivy. save the legs. campustom line is while over, the hard work continues. >> definitely good to get them season schedule. it has been a good camp. we have to take it to the season. >> dedication that the team has that well that everybody is g forth, we want to be a team. a great team. you can see it when we compete are out there getting after it. >> tam hightower continues to improve. roy missed time in the spring with a strained hamstring. need him on the field. this is disconcerting. i have had it in the past where i started feeling a last to thist it was nothing extreme. carry anythingo week.he next >> let's go to baseball. happeningspecial is baseball as the nationals roll.ue to last night exploded for 14 runs on 10 hits. this double was hit with the loaded. suzuki with three hits. danny espinoza hit four times runs not been. ryan's a merman still on fire. going on? -- ryan as the remnants still on fire. still on zimmerman fire. >> yet guys did a heck of a job. now we are ready to play. are grown up

he actually had an ivy, but all coming the team is nicely and thinking big. >> grew works hard everyay and understands that the way we finished last year is not enough. it is not good enough for us or for the fans. i feel like this team is going go fight hard every week. we will stay healthy and we will be a real team. >> tom benson met with roger earlier this morning to about his feelings. birthdayng tim tebow's today. >> are we all going to in honor of his birthday? >> you can. hope yoru arm -- your arm hurts. surrounding chocolate that you will probably like. chocolate that you will probably like. we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don't know where to start. glad you found us. start by test-driving nearly every make and model, all in one place. carmax. start here. in the people, businesses, and organizations that call greater washingtonn home. whether it's funding an organization that provides new citizens with job training, working with an anacostia school that promotes academic excellence, or supporting an organization that serves 5,000 meals a day across d.c., what's i

. >> armed only with ivy league business and law degrees, and the mitt romney trailed blazes his way to a pioneering new boston firm, where he learned how to secrete money. from there, it was a series of personal triumphs, from single-handedly saving 2002 salt lake olympics to electing himself governor of massachusetts. but there is still one thing left for mitt romney to build, a presidency. as the elite east coast harvard educated creator of romney care started to run, in the most conservative republican field in history, romney realized that terrible truth. >> i am someone who is a moderate and my views are progressive. >> i will preserve and protect a women's right to choose. >> we also should keep weapons of -- to be on the street. >> he billed himself the wrong way. it would take a monumental feat of self reconstruction. >> i am pro-life. >> $122 billion. >> i don't happen to believe that america needs new gun laws. >> around the clock operations across 14 time zones until finally. >> i was a severely conservative republican governor. >> mitt romney had done it. all by himself.

and my gut instinct says there is an easy track that gets into an ivy league school. was valedictorian in my high school and top in my a.s.t. scores. you don't have to do that as a foreign exchange student. they are looking for diversity. that's an easy way to get into an ivy-league school. it changes the ballgame and levels the field. if they are looking for a guy from indonesia, but you are a good talker, good interviewer and you have a great, exotic story. >> sean: in the spirit of harry reid, you are saying what reid is saying to romney -- prove it. >> yeah. listen. i am being honest. but harry reid didn't make it predictions for a living. i smell clues. something doesn't smell right at columbia. if it's just grade, why not unseal your record? if it is something else, shouldn't the american people have a right to see that? >> sean: i have never been a birther, i thought delaying the release of the birth certificate was interesting. there you go -- are you voting for romney? [laughter] >> i'm a libertarian, so i'm a gary johnson guy -- [overlapping dialogue] >> i'm

he's an ivy league grad and he went to stanford and then he went on to harvard law school and he hasvery successful as mayor. his city was recognized as the top local economy last year by the milkin institute and by all accounts he's saying the right things, he has the right charisma and media savvy and he's not shy in front of the cameras and he has a right tone according to most analysts. >> and the first hispanic to be a keynote speaker, right? >> that's significant because as you mentioned before in 2004, barack obama, then a virtually unknown senator from illinois did the same thing and what many people are wondering are is this the beginning of a national career for julian castro. >> could he be the country's first hispanic president? if you look at what happened to barack obama. they have very similar back stories. >> that's right. probably too early to tell. he's only been the mayor and barack obama was a senator. maybe if he were to run for governor of texas and more political experience, that's a possibility. but it is definitely right. i mean, he's definitely seen as a ris

poison her ivy. - whoa. something's up. - guys, we've been boiler roomed.icorp was just a shell of a company. alice probably felt some heat from the feds, right? so she packed up in the middle of the night. that makes me vin diesel. - ooh, i'm giovanni ribisi. - oh, i'm like a scott cann- jamie kennedy combo doggie then. - jamie kennedy, maybe. i feel that experience. [cell phone rings] - hello? [whispers] it's alice. okay, let's talk. what's the vig to get in on your game? - why aren't you here yet? [snaps fingers] - why aren't we where yet? - oh, christ, you're at the old offices, aren't you? we moved offices over the weekend. it's all i've talked about for weeks. - guys, we moved offices. - oh, yeah, i totally forgot. - yeah, um, alice... - oh, wait, wait, let me-- hey, alice, so we're done with the old office, right? we're never going back? - yeah, never. now, get your asses over here and get to work, please. - okay, thanks, alice. you sound like you're looking good today. [pounding rock music] oh, yeah! [all shouting] - ♪ destroy ♪ destroy - i feel lik

trees and ivy that used to block out a lot of the light have already been removed. still to come, satisfying your need for speed without shoes, and this may be guilty ultimate camping experience for giants fans over at at&t park. and beating expectations, what investors say about the latest jobs report and the state of the economy? >> i'm lawrence karnow in,,,,,,, >> some good news in hiring, stocks rallied in a big way this morning. take a look at the big board, the dow up 233 ports. stocks of nearly 2 percent across the board as investors welcomed a stronger than expected july jobs report. but as alexis christoforous shows us, hiring was up but so was the number of people looking for jobs. >> u.s. employers added 163,000 jobs in july which was 63,000 more than expected. it was the biggest hiring wave since february but a government survey of households showed more people are actively looking for work. that pushed the unemployment rate up to 8.3%. the stock market was energized by the uptick in hiring and rose sharply in early trading. >> we have to keep in mind th

. >> ivy? >> john this is a first round draft pick. >> was he a member of that firm? >> they are principally out of philadelphia. >> the he argued the case before the supreme court that overturned the gun laws in the district of columbia. he's got an impressive resume and what i would hope is that he represents maybe a maturing of the tea party movement that if he gets elected, which he most probably will, that he will come to washington and not just want to be a bomb thrower, that he will work to be a legitimate legislator. i mean the guy is brilliant, he's got a terrific resume, a nice presentation, he is low key and he is graceful. it is the whole package. but is he going to be so right wing that he will be discredited in washington? >> no. >> are you softening on the tea party? >> i'm hoping that he can turn the tea party into something more. >> you sound so knowledgeable. >> i hope it is. >> he's got the whole package john, i mean we have got a fighting pop husband from harvard yard. it is tough to beat that. here is someone i really think given his credentials,

this fall, she will begin her second year at a prestigious ivy league university. yet, jessica remains undocumented in america and could be deported at any time. this has been one of her biggest fears, despite all that she's accomplished here. >> in terms of being able to access jobs i never thought i could access, i think it gives you a sense of security, too just because there's always that threat of deportation, lingering behind. >> reporter: obama's new policy has renewed hope among young, undocumented immigrants for eventual perm residency. but immigration policy is a contentious issue in the was is likely to be a focal point in the run-up to current elections. corinne schneider. for an update on the weather forecast, mai shoji. mai? one is the typhoon moving suddenly closer toward the southern okinawa islands. it will be maintaining its strength as a typhoon as it makes landfall over taiwan. the rainfall amounts, could be staggering amounts when they accumulate. 300 to 350 millimeters could be possibly in and around the regions. it will be engulfing much of t

this fall, she will begin her second year at a prestigious ivy league university, yet yessica remains undocumented in america and could be deported at any time. this has been one of her biggest fears, despite all that she's accomplished here. >> in terms of being able to access jobs that i never thought i could access. i think it also gives you a sense of security, too, just because there's always that threat of deportation kind of lingering behind. >> reporter: obama's new policy has renewed hope among young, undocumented immigrants for eventual permanent residency, but immigration is likely to be a focal point in the run up to the presidential elections. corrinne snyder, nhk world, new york. >>> a group of about 90 japanese athletes and officials are on their way to the paralympic games in london. medal hopefuls in wheelchair tennis and other sports left tokyo on wednesday. a total squad of 135 japanese athletes will take part in 17 events in london. they'll try to top the nation's haul of 27 medals won at the beijing games four years ago. a wheelchair tennis player is gunning for h

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the young business tycoon had it his way he would have started in the united states where he got his ivy league qualifications but paul had no choice despite his eagerness to start a firm and create jobs america's searching on employment saw immigration authorities deny more and more visas for foreigners when your resume gets rejected you pretty much have to go back that is annoying there's no recourse us such and i think that was disappointing maybe we would have started something in the u.s. had we gotten. my visa but then you know it doesn't matter experts say it's no coincidence that the rising rejection rates occurred as america's economy tanked but acting on the perceived fear that immigrants were taking american jobs has had the opposite effect it's unfortunate. denials are being made that are justified because what happens if it ends up being an incentive to u.s. companies to locate more resources outside the country in some ways in ways that might. well u.s. immigration authorities have increased the rejection rate of temporary work visas for citizens of all countries india has

that romney's economic team includes some pretty heavy hitters from business and academia, including ivyprofessors, hedge fund managers. there's a former president of the world bank and former merrill lynch ceo. tell us more about how they made it into romney's economic inner circle. >> one of the big questions that we've all had about romney's campaign almost from the beginning is what specifically are his plans to fix the economy. he's been accused by his critics of being big on grand gestures and short on details. and so what weather we found out about this economic policy steering group, we felt that it might give us some clues into what his -- what his policies actually will be. this is a -- if you look at the group as a whole, there's 19 members, five former chairs of the presidential council of economic advisers. as you mentioned, a former president of the world bank. a couple hedge fund managers, a lot of professors. i mean, all in all, i think the way -- think about the group as a whole is that this is a -- a group of establishment republican establishment figures. and my sense