. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby. good to have you with us, this is america's news headquarters and we understand president obama is getting regular updates on the situation in libya. those rebels, eric was telling you about, 600 fighters set out for zawiya towards the capital of libya and, this is in tripoli and you can hear the gunfire as the rebels claim to have launched the first attack on tripoli with the help from nato and you know tripoli, is where muammar qaddafi's headquarters are, and, meanwhile, qaddafi's government is calling for an immediate cease-fire, saying it holds the u.s., the u.k. and french leaders all responsible for every person killed in the capital. fox news's producers is joining us by phone from tripoli, to tell us about the very latest. what are you seeing and hearing? >> caller: jamie, the chaotic events in tripoli last night just occurred, and, forces loyal to muammar qaddafi fought gunbattles across the city with sympathizers of the opposition in many districts and from our hotel we coul

jamie: leland, thanks. rick: elsewhere in the mideast, security forces opening fire in cities across syria including damascus. huge crowds calling for the resignation of president assad, their demands now echoed by leaders in the west including president obama. human rights groups claim that assad's forces have killed almost 2,000 people since mid march. joseph is a former counterterrorism adviser for the fbi. he has a new book out called "the honored dead." it's an inside look at the arab security apparatus, and there's the cover on your screen. thanks very much for coming in the. >> thank you, rick. rick: seems lik al assad is doubling down here. more killings today. what do you make of it? >> well, it's a big deal that thousands have been slaughtered, these kids keep coming out peacefully in mass numbers, they know they're going to be killed, and they keep doing it. it's dramatic and amazing, and it's significant that the white house has at last called on bashar assad to shep down. rick: what do you thin

welcome to america's news headquarters, i'm kelly wright. >> jamie: i'm jamie wright. this is a serious blow for the release. the judge handed down matching eight year sentences for both spying and unlawfully entering iran. julie banderas live in new york city with the disappointing news, jules, this is not what we wanted to hear. >> reporter: certainly not and imagine the mindset of the families right now holding out hope for years. the state department, which has repeatedly called for the release of the two men, released the following statement, just moments ago, which reads in part. we are working to confirm these reports and are in contact with the swiss protecting power to obtain, and shane and josh have been imprisoned too long and time to reunite them with their families. despite american calls for leniency, they've eached reportedly been sentenced to three years in prison for illegal he entry to the islamic republic of iran and five years in prison charges of espionage for the american intelligence agency. under islamic law, spying is punishable by death. the p

that's what jamie said as well. holdings are still valued at 63 billion dollars. >> jamie: because my money is on car less to earn it back. >> meanwhile, post-traumatic stress disorder is serious especially for men and women in uniform. but a drug held as a remedy may not be helping. our doctor wants you and family members of our servicemen and women to know about it. doctor, good to see you. sad day in afghanistan we lost a lot of troops. for those who come home they have issues to deal with, particularly this one. war the signs for family members or even the servicemen and women to know they have post traumatic stress? >> as you mentioned this is a serious health issue. ptsd or post-traumatic stress disorder is emotional, anxiety disorder. there are a lot of symptoms. it starts with the fact they want to an individual familiar places, people. they tried to avoid even their families. small s could be irritating them. they get angry easily. -- things that used to be fun and entertaining, they try to stay away. final

. >> good to see you, jamie. >> jamie: doug, preying on the fact that folks are not hopeful or happy.at the president's best and winning strategy? >> i think it's part of the overall strategy. he's going to decry partisanship all the while attacking the republican congress for effectively blocking his program and blaming george w. bush for getting us in the mess we're all in today. so, i think it's basically a deflect strategy and also, suggests that he had ideas that if only the republicans didn't block the country would be in better shape. >> before i go to david, which policies specifically would he say he wants to place, he got health care. >> sure he got health care and didn't get the deficit reduction package and didn't get the overall reforms and most of all tax increases that he wanted and it may not be popular, but his point is if we'd done balanced deficit reduction in extending the debt limit. i think his argument, we wouldn't have been downgraded by s & p and we'd be a more happy and nation. >> jamie: thank you, david role will the increase limit. downgrade. job situation

i'm jamie colby this is a new hour.rs are speaking out about the downgrade today and what needs to be done to get our economy back on track. steve centanni is live in washington. i know you are monitoring what they are saying this morning. a lot of finger-pointing, right? >> reporter: absolutely. one party blaming the other. a member of standard & poor's appeared and said no one party is to blame. >> this is really not about either political party. it is about the difficulty of all sides in finding a consensus around fiscal policy choices now and in the future. >> reporter: beers said congress and the white house are jointly responsible for our fiscal policy. >> jamie: i'm sure nobody in washington wants to deal with this. but it affects everybody the reputation and future not only of the president and the administration, but everybody in congress. how are they reacting this morning? defensive or optimistic that this is the right move for our future? >> reporter: as always, you have division on that. house budget commit

jamie. >> jamie: says with the support of his family, too, that's always important. jonathan thanks so much, great reporting on the ground for us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> kelly. >> while all of this politicking is going on and campaigning is going on. meantime, the economy is a topic that president obama tackled in his weekly address. says america is a great land of opportunity, but some lawmakers are standing in the way of progress. >> while there's nothing wrong with our country. there is something wrong with our politics and that's what we've got to fix. because we know there are things congress can do right now to get more money back in your pockets, get this economy growing faster and get our friends and neighbors back to work. we can't let partisan brinksmanship get in our way. the idea that making it through the next election is more important than making things right. that's what's holding us back, the fact that some in congress would rather see their opponents lose than see america win. >> kelly: but republican senator pat toomey disagrees and says the

presidential nomination and it could be a potential game changer for the g.o.p., i'm jamie colby. >> i'm kelly wright. welcome to a brand new hour, right now in charleston, south carolina, he's expected to speak, perry, a major supporter of the tea party movement, with backing from social conservatives for his opposition to abortion and gay rights. and he's also an evangelical christian and prodigious fundraiser, 61-year-old three-term governor is sure to cast a long shadow over the current g.o.p. field. >> jamie: and jonathan serry is joining us live from south carolina, good to see you, you're definitely where the action is this hour. what do you think we'll hear from governor perry in his first official campaign speech? >> well, late this morning, governor perry updated his official website, first of all, announcing, he is indeed an official candidate for president of the united states, but also, touting his record on fiscal conservativism and job creation, we're likely to hear more of that in his campaign speech. he's likely to go into detail about his record in texas, that state

dick cheney's a big story, which we'll get to in a minute, jamie.look at the presidential field and look at the gallup numbers this week. rick perry is at 29%. the texas governor. another texas governor storming his way forward. that metaphor's been used even by the romney people who said they were hunkering down as hurricane perry was coming over top. david brooks, what does his candidacy mean? >> it means he's the front-runner now and it means the republican party was waiting for this guy. if you looked at the 2008 electorate, romney would have been perfectly fine for that electorate right now, but the 2012 electorate is a different electorate. the country as a whole has moved to the right. the republican party has moved vehemently to the right. and what the core message is, we hate washington, we hate the quarter, all those folks who just got hit by the hurricane, but we also have a fear of national decline. the country's losing its vigor. we've got to get back to our hard, sort of pioneer virtues. rick perry personifies that. he's got tons of ba

jamie, thank you.more of jamie's exclusive interview with vice president dick cheney on a special edition of "dateline," monday, august 29th, at 10:00 p.m. eastern on your local nbc station. >>> checking back on the tense situation along the east coast, where hurricane irene is rapidly approaching. officials are warning people not to take this storm lightly. here's new york city mayor michael bloomberg, just a few minutes ago. >> unfortunately there is an element of unpredictability when it comes to the weather, and so we hope for the best, but we prepare for the worst. and that's why this city is i think ready for this weekend. >> nbc's al roker is live in north carolina. al, what sort of preparations are under way already there? >> reporter: well, they have mandatory evacuations for both tourists and for residents in ocracoke island. they have mandatory evacuations here along duck, kill devil hills for tourists. they will most likely be putting in mandatory evacuations if not today, certainly tomorro

>>jamie and tony, but you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the chief of naval operations talks about the use of unmanned drones and we will have live coverage beginning at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. on c-span, "washington journal" is next and later, republican presidential candidate and former new mexico governor gary johnson speaks of the national press club. we will have live coverage. in about 40 minutes, we will discuss china. will looked at india with a will looked at india with a

i'm jamie sire for nbc bay area. >> nice job jamie.e do have some good news for giants fans, buster posey is moving in the right direction. less than three months after suffering a season ending leg injury. pozzi is off crutches. in late may he had surgery to repair the ligaments and insert tw screws in his leg. the big guy seems to be in good spirits. >> it's one of those things where even a couple weeks after surgery, they were taking out and working on the range of motion. we've been doing stuff for a while now. i'm going to listen to what they say, our trainers have a plan. i think it's important not to deviate from that. >> could i probably push some things harder than i have? yes, but i think we risk a set back. i want this thing to be as good as new when i'm able to use it again. >> i tell you, diane, that is one tough catcher, expect him to be 100% by next season. everyone keeping their fingers crossed, here not just a great player, but a great guy. >> it's fun to see him back out at the ballpark. >> absolutely. and good to see

i'm jamie. i go to leadership high school. so my own personal opinion i believe that this park down at 17th and folsom is actually a really good investment to look at as an open space for families that live in the mission and also building the affordable housing because right now in the mission there's been a decrease in the number of latinos that are currently living there. the census that just recently came out showed that our number of latinos went down from 60% to 40% now. the people are the ones who keep the community together. what i mean by that, they keep the culture in the community. and with the demographic now changing to less latinos, a latino culture in the mission that made it popular to tourists is now going down. and for kids and the parks, basically having another park and definitely the mission is a great thing. there is a lot less green environment in southeast san francisco compared fought presidio, compared to sunset where there is golden gate park. most of the parks are in presidio as well. i want to say

i'm jamie. i go to leadership high school. so my own personal opinion i believe that this park down at 17th and folsom is actually a really good investment to look at as an open spac

i'm jamie. i go to leadership high school. so my own personal opinion i believe that this park down at 17th and folsom is actually a really good investment to look at as an open space for families that live in the mission and also building the affordable housing because right now in the mission there's been a decrease in the number of latinos that are

let me introduce senior housing inspectors patrick cars and jamie mckenzie, tomy mecca, councilor from the housing rights committee and in addition to that mr. joel panzer, president of the professional property management association. these individuals along with elaine wolf from the rent board, the executive director, dr. johnson ojo, the environmental house section of the department of public health, yvonne marrin from the city attorney code enforcement division and tom harvey. let's talk about tenants. obviously the first thing that we always ask when we get a call from an occupant of a building is have you talked with the property owner about those conditions? have you made them aware of what the situation is? and we always encourage you to do that, to communicate with the property owner, and also when a property owner undertakes it make those repairs to provide -- once you are provided with adequate notice under state law to make sure that you make the area accessible within a unit that you occupy so that those repairs can be done in a timely way. and if you find that that respon

reporting from at&t park, jamie seyer for nbc bay area. >> thank you, jamie. niners are back in the free agent business, hooking a huge target. former jets receiver braylon edwards agrees to a one-year, $3.5 million deal. he had more than 900 yards last season in new york and his new coach -- >> a big receiver, we were looking for that big receiver, and i think another experienced guy who is 17 yards a catch last year, and nfl pro receiver who is -- i think he's hungry and he wanted to be here. that was exciting for us. >> and a quick note from raiders train camp. darren mcfadden suffered an orbital bone injury and will u.you.im out two weeks.yo >> damon, thanks a lot. >> we'll be right back. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp director. just like that. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. w

jamie gangel, thanks.nd by the way, we're all curious to see the exclusive interview in its entirety on "dateline" tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central. and tomorrow morning on "today" former vice president cheney will be live with matt lauer. >>> we could use a little good news these days. in case you missed this joy in williamsport, pennsylvania yesterday, as a team of 11-year-olds from huntington beach, california, won the little league world series. nick pratto, whose dad is the manager, drove in the winning run for the 2-1 victory over the team from japan. the win brought the championship home to the u.s. after a japanese team won it all last year. always ends up in a pile of kids. >>> up next here for us tonight, beyonce shares some big news with the world, and sets a new modern day record for twitter traffic in the process. confidence. available in color. depend for women is now peach. looks and fits like underwear. same great protection. depend. good morning. great day. morning starts with arthritis pain

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jamie diamond but as you point out all they do over there j.p. morgan is they take the risks on their. books and they stick it on the federal government's books that worked beautifully for years as long as america had a aaa repeating but now that america has a double a plus rating and interest rates are going to by definition creep higher that is going to be a huge wall of arbitrage agency arbitrage cock the nightmare bamboozlement that will no longer serve j.p. morgan in their quest to hide losses and that starts going down like a pile of bricks short j.p. morgan some of the facts sell it short make it in fact a better naked short at this at this time would have been bank for america if you follow this next head by max bank of america getting smashed as a i.g. johnson to the lawsuit fray and a big way so sure it american international group is expected to sue bank of america what might be the largest mortgage security related action filed by a single investor the suit seeks to recover more than ten billion dollars in losses on twenty eight billi

jamie what are we up against actually just a mechanical question and probably off with very quickly. why don't the canadians just refine their own dam and if they want to sell this gasoline bring it down here and trucks right one one of the things about these canadian tar sands thankfully he said up until now they've still been landlocked and so the canadians are desperately trying to get this oil in market and so it is an environmental disaster that is affecting indigenous people in canada right now affecting people that live in alberta. and beginning to move it's way out and so one of the i think the goals of this protest is to avoid the type of disaster that we've seen elsewhere but if you know people in eighteen's trying to avoid it in the situation we've got cancer alley down in texas well there and i mean because of the refineries the refinery process blows all of the stuff in the air that is that what you have is trying to avoid well i mean canada doesn't have the refining capacity for this oil so they're trying to get it down to that massive are going to try to go filled with

jamie gangel. you can catch more of jamie's exclusive interview with vice president cheney tonight on a special edition of "dateline" 10:00 p.m. eastern on your local nbc station. and then tomorrow matt lauer will interview vice president cheney live on the "today" show. it'll be interesting to see what cheney thinks of colin powell's criticism. >>> the opening bell will ring on time today. wall street escapes the worst of irene. we'll get a preview of the market. but first, today's trivia question. name the three most recent president who is played varsity sports in college. lettered -- not intramural sports, but sports. first correct answer wins. to a little girl who lived through it, this is more than a teddy bear. it's a step towards normal. it's why allstate catastrophe teams not only have hot coffee and help for grownups... they've also handed out more than twelve thousand teddy bears to kids. people come first... everything else is second. that's allstate's stand. are you in good hands? i'm

gentlemen jamie daigle thank you both very creative and. these dealers live over ted nugent there's a new republican rock star republicans have a new x. wheeler to rock the vote and it's mike huckabee as again it is to send out iowa for a big weekend huckabee will be on hand as well to lend his musical talents to the field. first i can do will be jamming with gospel singer herman cain a duet that came to spur described as and historic event then huckabee will go on stage with rick santorum later in the week before playing one last gig at an event for temple and he's busy with the bottle or has a huckabee plans to release his i would jams in an album soon titled the dark side of the g.o.p. jamming with those homophobes and of course the mr rogers the republican party tim polanski. it's the good the bad and the very tenderly ugly good lucene up yesterday now a single mother from st louis had a message for wall street you're all fired that's right when banks tears looked up at the sky yesterday in manhattan they saw a plane flying overhead wit

butter on the stick wow that was great thank you very much jamie dana great to have you with us. coming up did the bush administration cia withhold vital information that could have prevented the september eleventh attacks i'll speak with a journalist who's been following the story very closely as reporting a shocking new development on the tragedy of nine eleven. let's not forget that we had an apartheid regime right here and. i think the bombings beautiful and funny well. whenever the government says they're going to keep you safe get ready because you give them your freedom. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lack of sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't. charge welcomes a big picture. for .

i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment. >> jamie, what about it? does the vice president believe he took shots at former colleagues like powell or former secretary of state condoleezza rice? >> for the record, he's going to say that was not about score settling. i think other people are going to disagree. that said he and colin powell have barely been on speaking terms for quite a long time. i don't think general powell was frankly surprised at what was in the book. i don't think former vice president cheney is going to be surprised at what powell had to say. i think what will be more interesting is frankly what former president bush has to say because he does reveal these private conversations, differences with the president. he says that the differences in the book are that he gave greater detail. but i think it's going to reignite the question of -- it's not who was running things, it's how much president bush was relying on vice president cheney. >> i know in your interview you compared some of the president bush's accounts of certain events wi

>> yes. >> and you can catch jamie gangel's sole interview with former vice president dick cheney tonight on a special "dateline" at 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on your nbc station. >>> and now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. the california wildfire ignited from an exploding propane tank continues to spread outside yosemite national park over the weekend. evacuation orders have kept nearby residents out on the streets as firefighters battle to increase containment of the fire. so far the fire has scorched 4700 acres and is only 35% contained. >>> in chicago, graffiti was discovered scrawled on one of the legs of a giant 26-foot statue despikting marilyn monroe's iconic pose from the film "the seven year itch." the black markings appear to be the modern equivalent of a couple's name carved into a tree. no arrests have been made. >>> tributes to the king of pop kicked off a day before his birthday in hollywood. for the second year in a row, a flash mob surprised bystanders with a choreographed performance to michael jackson's songs, "thriller"

he's jamie merisotis, president and c.e.o. of the lumina foundation. >> have you ever wondered if the person sitting next to you at work, doing the same exact thing, makes more money than you do? a new report tries to get at the heart of that question by first showing that, yes, there are wide income disparities in what people make for doing the same job. tomorrow, georgetown university's center on education and the workforce will release research that shows these pay differences are due mostly to education. for example, an elementary or middle school teacher with a bachelors degree can expect to make $1.8 million dollars over a lifetime, compared with $2.2 million for a teacher with a masters degree. an accountant with a high school diploma will make about $1.5 million, compared with an accountant with a bachelors degree, who will make $2.4 million. the higher the level of education, the higher the payoff. what's more, the gap is widening, with an 84% lifetime income premium for a four-year degree over a high school diploma.

. >> speaking of that, nbc news jamie gangel had an exclusive interview with vice president cheney. here she asks him about torture. let's have a listen. >> in your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? >> yes. >> no regrets? >> no regrets. >> should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? >> i would strongly support using it again is if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk. >> even though so many people condemned it, people call it torture, you think it should still be a tool? >> yes. >> he never backs off that. we don't expect him to. people know my feelings about this pretty surely, he's a war criminal. torture is a crime, and this is a guy who can't travel to europe anymore for fear of ending up in the hague. does he deal with that, do you suppose, in the book? >> well, i can't say how he deals with it in the book in detail. just from reports that have come out. i think in real life he probably is avoiding trips to europe, i imagine, like henry kissinger and others on the lam from that branc

he's jamie merisotis, president and c.e.o. of the lumina foundation. >> have you ever wondered if the person sitting next to you at work, doing the same exact thing, makes more money than you do? a new report tries to get at the heart of that question by first showing that, yes, there are wide income disparities in what people make for doing the same job. tomorrow, georgetown university's center on education and the workforce will release research that shows these pay differences are due mostly to education. for example, an elementary or middle school teacher with a bachelors degree can expect to make $1.8 million dollars over a lifetime, compared with $2.2 million for a teacher with a masters degree. an accountant with a high school diploma will make about $1.5 million, compared with an accountant with a bachelors degree, who will make $2.4 million. the higher the level of education, the higher the payoff. what's more, the gap is widening, with an 84% lifetime income premium for a four-year degree over a high school diploma.

. >> jamie: a new poll shows rick perry taking the top . . >> jamie: a new poll shows rick perry taking top tier along with presidential hopefuls and mitt romney and congresswoman michele bachmann. many donors are on the sidelines perhaps waiting for a late comer to jump into the race. is the field set or is there room for one or two more? so, jason, who is the front runner now, coming out of iowa where bachman won narrowly over ron paul and knocked tim pawlenty out of the race? >> i think that romney remains the front runner, but also remains the weak front runner, up until now he's been able to run a general election campaign, ignoring his rivals, now that perry is in the race he can't do that. he has to take on perry. at the same time his strength is his electability and when you look at president obama's poll numbers falling high 30's, federal reserve saying we're going to keep easing money going for a while and unemployment is probably going to be around where it is 15 months from now on election day. wow, maybe electability is the not enough to go with romney. >> paul: anyone who