. >> power play, the epa's jena mccarthy joins me.ut the political battle is just heating up. >> critics claim your energy bills will skyrocket, they are wrong. should i say that again? they are wrong. thank you. >>> and triple threat, what do sarah palin and marco rubio and mitt romney have in common? find out in our mid-term election preview. >> and good monday morning, sergeant bowe bergdahl remains in an army medical facility today and the welcome that awaits him back in idaho. i'm joined by nbc's chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski and from idaho, janet shamlian. mik, first to you, the pentagon has been briefing on information regarding bowe bergdahl and his physical state. >> andrea, we got a briefing a few minutes ago from colonel steve warren, who said that the word from the military hospital, he is in stable condition but still requires treatment and hospitalization for what he called, dietary and nutritional needs, along with continuing psychological evaluation. now, warren stopped short of describing bowe bergdah

. >> that'sage jena davidson says her husband bought her the taser. >> he asked for the most powerful thing he could buy that wasn't a gun. they gave him this. >> she says she never wanted to use it but she fees she was forced to when a man threatened her outside her store, the sacred wheel at 51st and telegraph in oakland. >> went out and politely asked him to move. he had an open container of alcohol and was intoxicated. she said the man continued to be a nuisance and after she asked him to leave several times, he threatened to slap her. she called police. when they were slow to respond, the man then became aggressive. she felt she had no other choice but to tase him. >> when i hit him, i backed up and ran into my sign and caught my balance and he fell right here. >> davidson said police eventually came to her store 30 minutes later. >> i'm losing the instinct 0 call the police because i know generally nothing will be done about it. >> we stood outside the restaurant about an hour and didn't see a police car go by. something that's a concern to people like beverly potter who says sh

unfortunately nowadays in romania cases such as well in jena in andries are far from unusual this here is called the heart of wishers it's filled with notes from the children where they wrote their wishes and they were told that they would come true next year so all these notes are about parents for instance this one says i wish my mom would come back from london bring toys and then would go together to another countries another one here says i wish my mom would come back from italy and i wish my dad would find a job sure these kids haven't been abandoned by their parents in fact one of the main reasons they want to work abroad is to ensure a better life for them but the long distance relationship can be much harder on children then it may seem they feel isolated. might feel depressed they feel lengths. and they may be not having so much friends like this. according to official figures over eighty thousand remaining children have their parents working abroad but n.g.o.s are reporting much higher numbers reaching three hundred fifty thousand since most parents used to head off without n

also solicit comment on a somewhat less ambitious plan with a different timetable, but either way jenaccarthy said there's no other alternative but to act. >> this is about protecting our health, and it is about protecting our homes. this is about protecting local economies, and it's about protecting job. >> reporter: coal is clearly the target, because coal plants are the biggest emitters of carbon. that industry has been under challenge already. you're going to hear a lot of pushback from politicians, mitch mcconnell among them, as well as from industry, they came out saying this would cost the economy $50 billion a your. now the administration argues two things in response, one there will be jobs created in new renewable energies, and the consumer electric bills will go down in an offsetting way because of the energy efficiency, but they're also emphasizing the public health benefits of this in addition to the climate benefits. that's why president obama right now is on a conference call with the american lung association to try to tout the health benefits of this, guys. >> thank yo

. >> it is a, jena appreciation for nostalgia of your youth or pop culture appreciation.ry single one of us remembers our favorite tv show or cartoon, or comic, or toy. all of those element kind of tie in here. >> it is a chance to be closer to the characters i grew up with and i can love. >> you can meet famous people. you can buy cool collectibles. >> reporter: don't even think about coming here without some sort of a costume. >> this costume, i don't want to say how much but a pretty penny. >> it is so much continue to make your own costume and show it off, be proud, and admire all of the other awesome costumes. people do really, really, crazy cool stuff. >> being an attractive female does fall under a super hero, super power. >> reporter: do you ever get a little humid in there. >> a little bit. >> reporter: conventions get bigger, weirder, and more scary, each year, and that is okay with them. >> is being a geek kind of cool now. >> it the seems to be. >> the the biggest and bades super hero ever to walk the planet, incredible hulk, lou, what kind of super hero shoul

jena has insight. >> hey, so i gave my dad his first granddaughter so i'm fully in the clear.id ask dad to weigh in telling us what they want come sunday. here were your options. what do you really want come sunday? i said that. number one, a day of golfing. but golf, number two, more time with the family. this baby. three, a lone time with the remote on the couch. four, a store bought gift and five, not to be outdone the popular hand made gift from the kids. overwhelmingly, you guys said get ready for the aw factor. oh, let's go back one. let me tell you what you guys said. spending more time with the family, look at her doing her thing. followed by a day of golf, alone time with the remote and couch. the point is alone time with the family was your winner. we did get nice comments, though, if john gray's family is watching all he wants to watch the u.s. open all day. you go get them, dad. let us know on twitter using #orange room. alone time with the family. >> anybody asking for a fake baby? >> i know it's a doll but support the head, will you. >> one would think i didn't h

. >> just a jena appreciation for like nostalgia, your youth, pop culture and appreciation, every single one of us remembers our favorite tv show or cartoon or comic, or toy, all of those elements tie in here. >> wizard worldcom i canconn, runs through the weekend. >>> local middle school students are paying tribute to a classmate with cancer. they are dancing in the halls with a message of hope, how this video is touching lives coming up. the wonder of summer is that i never know what kind of adventure awaits. the days are longer, and the breeze feels a little sweeter. and, thanks to volvo, i'll pay nothing for repairs or maintenance for 5 years, nothing. they even cover my first month's payment. so, i'll be happy wherever the summer takes me. the wonder of summer event. the 2015 volvo s60 with complimentary first month's payment. starting at $329 a month. a fire breaks out in montgomery county forcing guests outside, we have got the the latest on the investigation. >>> and bankruptcy is, once again, in the cards for atlantic city's new casino when revel plans to close if no buyer is fo

. >>> just a jena appreciation of your youth, and every single one of us remembers our favoritetv show or cartoon or comic, or toy. all of those element kind of tie in here. >> go, go, power rangers. wizard world, comiccan goes through the the weekend. we have david gameanas in our studio yesterday. >>> ahead, funny or down right scary what do you think about this, give somebody a wink, wave, fancy cars and lamborghini all it takes for some to climb in with perfect strangers this is one guy's experiment he recorded it, and may have you shaking your head wait until you see how many of these young women climbed right in. >>> also urban outfitters men for pushing the envelope, but do they go way too far, look at what they were handing out these were pens and they look like needles, some say i love heroin, what the store, was actually promoting. good day in minutes. >>> it is unrevelling in atlantic city it is that big beautiful glassy, classy casino going to close. why don't you go there? tweet the me light there at mike at fox 29. why don't you end up going to the revel. >> everybody in

. >> jena bush. >> it must be nice. >> it is all about who you know. >> my first job i was a lay away. >> house of bargains on cheltenham avenue, number 546 and i went up on the ladder and got that. my parents didn't have any connections. >> you were grateful for it. >> very well. >> do you want to hear a bit of irony i was forced to take a job in high school because i crashed my buddy's job. so deductible in the time in the 80's was 500 bucks. my parents paid it to this guys parents. so i work it off during the summer. i got an auto supply delivery job. here's what i did, i crashed the delivery truck. >> my dad did that one time. >> three times. >> he was a floral delivery guy. it was a big long station wagon. wow try to go backwards, ape right into those big post is how old was he. >> he was young. >> sixteen year-old should not have driver's license. i know i should president shouldn't have. >> don't to that, chris. >> let me know when you're leaving and i'll wait a while. >> quincy, you have come so far from lay aways. >> look at you now. >> we love you. >> we love you all right,

tomorrow, president obama opening up to jena bush haggar. >> my dad would have a comment on this, being father of teenagers or president of the united states? >> well, as you know from experience you may have shaped under this a little bit, they do have a secret service detail, which i've joked the main reason i ran for re-election was to sustain that all the way through their high school years. you know, i don't worry too much about their social lives. they've got their heads on straight. >> again, jenna's exclusive interview with president obama tomorrow on todd. >> sasha turned 13. >> she went to a one direction concert. she's the youngest kid in the white house since j.f.k. >> teenagers now. >>> let us begin this half hour with the o.j. simpson saga 20 years later. the case trans fixed this nation with a brutal double murder, a famous suspect on the run and that dramatic trial. in a moment we'll talk exclusively to ron goldman's family and kato kaelin but first here's nbc's josh mankowicz. >> reporter: two horrific murders defined by just three words, the o.j. case. >> both victims