wizards still trying to work out some kinks or a lot of kinks and get healthy with the season opener exactly one week away. bradly biel skipped today after tweaking his ankle. he hopes to play against the miami heat tomorrow night. head coach randy whitman not a big fan this time of year. >> you know, what if i could have a genie come out of the bottle. i'd skip these next two weeks. it's the worst part of my job. i don't like making decisions on guys' dreams. but it is what it is. >> coach kaye on hand to see fompler dukeshaye batting it in. lebron gets the steal and throws it up to harris. nice start for miami. next possession for the heat, harris ahead to chris bosh who passes it back to a cutle lebron james. lebron doing what he does. two-handed dunk. he had ten points and eight assists. the heat win it 98-92. by the way, no surprise here. the heat have been picked as the favorites to win the nba title this year. let's not forget about the lakers. they have a lot of new interesting twists in the nba inter[ male announcer ]he nba if barack obama is re-elected, what will the next f

i will call it seasonable but there's a little kink thrown in my forecast this morning. let's show you what's going on here we are seeing more clouds moving in here and all this is courtesy of a system that's down to the south. with that, that can hold temperatures down going into the afternoon. if we get more sunshine, temperatures will bump up a bit. i will show you that in a second. but this is what's going on at the surface. big system down to the south and with this it will slide up towards the north and the area of low pressure will stay to the west so with that we might not get a whole bunch of rain but we will get showers in here as we work our way into tonight also tomorrow. we will have the warm front that begins to push its way up through here overnight andtomorrow and the cold front will traverse the area by wednesday. we will feel cooler as we head no thursday. but right now we put the future trend on and this model is underdone. you are not seeing a bunch of rain. we are seeing monday evening a chance for showers work their way in here. but then as we go th

managers make the switch a year or so later in hopes the kinks will be worked out. ruben ramirez, "n.b.r.," new york. >> tom: if you get a social security check, you can look for a tiny increase next year. thanks to low inflation, the cost of living adjustment comes to 1.7%. for the average social security recipient, that means an additional $21 a month. it's one of its smallest increases since uncle sam started making the annual adjustments in 1975. >> susie: many student loan borrowers are facing some of the same troubles that have plagued mortgage borrowers in past years. that's what the consumer financial protection bureau said in its annual report on student loans that came out today. it outlined many of the problems borrowers face when they try to negotiate with their private student loan servicers. sylvia hall has more. >> reporter: college may be the gateway to success, but with high unemployment and low wages, paying for it can be a difficult balancing act. >> many borrowers feel that, you know, in this tough economy today, their student loan debt is like w

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i think any new business when it first opens, it has to get the kinks out and it sounds like the business has made some adjustments. whether it's a belt on the rooftop fan, whether it's adjusting music. so, to get things dialed in, i think we should give them a little bit of slack the first couple months. what's apparent to me, though, at least they notified the 300 foot radius. there is only complaints from one building, that's next door. i understand that. but from the police department there have been complaints that are made, but there is no to my knowledge any citations or violations from the police department which to me is tell tailing. you can call them. but if they haven't found anything that's illegal, that's something different. acoustic sound checks have been done. i agree with commissioner moore to ask for another round, i don't know if we need to hear that. it can be submitted in a memo to the department. but i think that's important. it sounds like the business owners are trying to be cooperative. the offer of the windows, whether it was offered one time or two times or sti

districts the program began to spread across the country in two thousand and four iran it has some kinks that the main one was that the government set insurance premiums at two dollars a year and that was too much for most rwandans to afford so then the program shifted to a progressive tax system for wealthy rwandans insurance premiums increased to eight dollars a year while premiums for the poor decreased to zero this is similar to what's in obamacare poor and low income americans get free medicaid and middle income americans get tax subsidies to purchase health insurance at little or no expense today the results of rwanda as universal health care system are remarkable now there is a massive massive network of community health workers and centers all across the country in both cities and villages eighty percent of aids patients in rwanda are getting the treatment that they need which is really critical in a nation with one of the highest aids infection rates in all of africa just ten years ago before the insurance program was put into place life expectancy was a meager forty eight years

they are smart ladies because they had some tickets two years ago and they have the kinks worked out and you don't want to be waiting in these lines. that is why we got here five hours early. >> what time did you get here this morning? >> 40 4:00 15:00 -- 4:15. >> what is your plan of attack, what will you do once you get to san francisco? >> bush for -- push through the clouds to get to the coffee bean >> reporter: is this an all day a fair? >> yes, we will make it an all day affairs. >> we hope we see some players. >> reporter: are you going to wait until you board a train or are you going to leave right now? >> we will board as soon as we can. >>> as you remember, the ticket machines were broken down because they were so filled with money. are you guys headed out to the parade? >> yeah. >> we have a lot of folks who are bright and early making their way on to bart so if you have not left yet, it's a good idea to do so. >>> the school distrust, -- district, what happened two years ago, why students say the district should have to pay. >>> san francisco giants, angel pagan is helpin

we'll work out the kinks. are a big part of the process and i thank you all so much. >> we don't usually start off the show apologizing. >> i am not going to do it today. when i do something wrong i will apologize. >> go ahead. you got it wrong. >> we talked about lindsay lohan yesterday and people didn't like it. >> she made news, is the problem. we don't want to have to talk about lindsay lohan. we wished we didn't have to. we wish this young woman and her mother would both go into rehab, get the help they need, go on to live wonderful, fruitful, beautiful lives, but as long as they keep making news, it behooves us at nbc news to report it. we don't want to. trust us. >> here is what happened. let's get into the juicy details. they got into a fight at the club. they went out to long island to the mom's house. there was a fight that ensued. so what happened was lindsay called her father, okay? >> this is unbelievable. >> what the father did after listening to this, i guess she said her mother is on cocaine, a

tigers took their licks in the batting cage practice session guy tyings a chance to work out kinks after a long plane ride. here's bochy's line-up: zito starts game one tonight. bumgarner game two then to detroit vogelsong will start saturday followed by cain game four sunday and lincecum will pitch as a reliever in the world series. >>> 6:03. this morning gas prices are falling from record highs we saw two weeks ago, prices are expected to keep dropping gallon costs 12 cents less than last week. gas was $5.55 at one menlo park station three weeks ago now $4 range some even less one station in concord $3.39 yesterday. we got a different perspective from one driver. >> ohio and right now i think ours is like $3.79. this is absolutely insane. >> somebody who works hard for every penny, i appreciate the prices going down. >> they could go down more. >> analysts say prices are plunging because refineries are back online demand down and winter blend is cheaper. some predict prices could drop to $3.75 by the end of the year. this morning in oakland, san jose and santa rosa $4.34. san francisco

practice session gave the tigers a chance to work out kinks after a long plane ride and a long time off. here's manager bochy's pitching line-up zito will start tonight. bumgarner fame two. series moves to detroit, vogelsong starts game three saturday followed by cain sunday lincecum will be pitching as a reliever in the world series. >>> good news and bad news at the gas pump this morning. news, prices are lower this week -- good news, prices are lower this week and may continue to fall through the end of the year bad news still $4 a gallon in most places to fill up. >> reporter: the price of oil is at a three machine low that translates to re-- three month low that translates to relief at the pump, 12 cents less than last week aaa says biggest deposit if gas in four years, three weeks ago gas was $5.55, in menlo park they ran out of fives and had to turn twos upside down many one station on willow pass road in concord was selling a gallon of regular for $3.39 yesterday. we asked drivers why they think prices are dropping so quickly? >> i don't know, but i'm loving it. filling up right

they had a good chance to take the senate until the kink of junk science opened his month. with the senate in the balance, let's talk about favorite senate races and surely what's going on in missouri never ceases to amuse me. the crazy uncle has been let out of the back room and into the party. he keeps talking and he keeps staying alive. he's only 3 points behind. missourians are saying we don't like either people. who do we like least, best, bad, worse. it's problematic both ways, but the gop has refunded to todd akin to supporting him, newt gingrich has endorsed him, rick santor santorum, i believe you like him, too. >> i do. >> they both endorse him. it seems that the gop once running from todd akin has said winning the senate at all costs is valuable. >> some in the gop, some. >> it's interesting, you know. missouri there's a mirror image situation in massachusetts. missouri is a red state that doesn't really like the republican candidate personally. you look at massachusetts, and another key senate race. this is a blue state that really likes the republican person, s

. ♪ >>> do you have a kink in your neck or something? what is wrong with you? hour, this week, the week, monday, 15 days until the presidential election. now just 11. lot of math majors on staff. >> plenty of politics, complete of an epic fall from grace and some would say a completely nonsensical commercial. all part of our friday rewind. >> our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. >> well, governor we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. >> he's been reduced to try to defend characters on "sesame street" and word games of various kinds. the truth is that attacks on me are not an agenda. >> we joke about romnesia, but you know what? this is something important. this is about trust. you know, there's no more serious issue in a presidential campaign than trust. >> i believe that life begins at conception. i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> we heard a loud shriek. >> i saw the girl coming out from the salon. she was bleeding

in the breeze and every time this thing swings out and swings back, its fatiguing the metal at the kink and more it fatigues that metal, the higher the risk of that actually falling to the ground. so buildings around it have been evacuated. all the way down at the surface, you see the wide shot of it, down at the surface, the fire department has it completely cordoned off, nobody in the area. what i'm concerned about if it really gets clipped by a 100 knot wind because it's way up there, this is an 80-story building so the winds will definitely be higher up there than down at the surface, it could literally fly in the air for a couple of blocks where our first responders are down there trying to take care of everybody else. >> chad, appreciate that. we will continue to check in with chad. let's check in with ashleigh banfield in lower manhattan. >> reporter: i was just listening to you and chad talking about that midtown crane problem. let me tell you, that caused a lot of problems for the surrounding buildings and the entire parker-meridien hotel, all the people who were there and evac

. >> jimmy: the next debate is on october 16th, so they still have some time to work out the kinks, rightjimmy: anyways, yeah, it was an interesting debate last night. hey, you guys, it's time for "late night hashtags." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ hashtags, hashtags hashtags, hashtags hashtags ♪ >> jimmy: guys, these are lists on twitter where we give you the topic and you send in the tweets. so, because of all the fact-checking going on in the presidential debates, i went on twitter and started a hashtag called "fact check." and i asked you guys at home to tweet out something funny or weird that someone you know has said that can't possibly be true. we got thousands of tweets. in fact, within ten minutes, it was a trending topic in the united states, which is awesome. so, thank you for those tweets, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] now, i thought i'd share some of my favorite "fact check" tweets from you guys. here we go. this first tweet is from @4733reddirt. he says, "my cousin believes that if you whistle on your food, it cools off faster than just blowing on it." [ laught

the provisional ballots might put a kink on election day.ers who requested an absentee ballot and later decided on going to the polls and filling out a provisional ballot. cincinnati is where we're expecting mitt romney to speak any moment from now. >>> so what about ohio and how important is it really when it comes down to the all-important path to 270? nbc's political editor domenico joins us with those numbers. the key to the buckeye state for the obama campaign is what? >> so let's take a look here. here's our election map and you see on this map, we have nevada as a toss-up just for our purposes because when we go inside the numbers here, look at these states. these are the states that are the ones in play. if we give nevada to the president, you'll see he's at 243. you can give him new hampshire where he's leading in a lot of polls and he needs one more of iowa and wisconsin. let's give him iowa, let's say for right now and then you add in ohio and look at that. now we're at 271. romney's at 206. he would need some combination, even if

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in 1964 you get your big break, i can't explain, you said you were list chening to the kinks roger tellslater in the book, at the end of the book you have roger going to you, you know, isn't this tour great? and you're like, take it or leave it. you guys always seem to love to torture each other. it's a fascinating relationship. >> we are closer now than we've ever been and now i realize that it's the neighborhood. we're from the neighborhood. we came from a neighborhood and we were polar open sits of the neighborhood and certainly from the same neighborhood. you know, roger portrays himself as working class but he's not really working class. someone sleeping ten to a room, i knew what it was like and these were my customers. >> yeah. >> as a songwriter. i wanted to reach them and touch their hearts but roger always felt he didn't need to go through that process because he was one of them. >> right. >> all hi to do was get a song for him that he liked and then i realized i was one step closer to pleasing the audience because he was a filter. and we did argue a lot in the early days but n

sprint didn't realize the kinks in the system until they rolled it out and popular names will go fastd, a vanity phone number. >> really! >> bill: mitt romney will have one. >> bill: the morning after the debate, what a contrast between the first debate and the second presidential debate. covering it for current tv part of the great team and post debate covering, eliot spitzer host of "viewpoint" on current tv every night at 8:00 p.m. joining us this morning. hey, eliot, good morning. >> good morning how are you doing. >> bill: we're not going to rub it in that the yankees are behind. >> maybe you and i should go out for drinks and commiserate. the yankees would have been a better team, but that's all right. >> bill: president obama came out of the box swinging, what a contrast. >> his inner id came out last night. he was an amazing wwf type of competition, coming out slugging swinging, each scored some points. it was the sort of contrast intellectually factually that served democracy well. it was a superb debate? when you think mitt romney in effect told the president to shut up, i'm

. >> can someone work out the kinks, with a bunch of new smart phones hitting the market, there are old problems you can sll encounter. >> and the latest computer scam involves hackers hol >> with a new line of smart phones hitting the market, there are old yet important problems you can still encounter with smart phones, problems for which no one's come up with solutions yet. >> two huge drawbacks remain as prevalent today as they did when we first started using smartphone. number one, the money we are paying to use them. >> 46% of those surveyed actually pay $100 or more each month on their phone bill. >> a survey by jackie warwick's couponcabin.com found some would rather stay connected than eat. >> 21% of those surveyed spend more on their mobile plan each month than they do on groceries. >> she says smart use of smart phones means to closely examine each bill each month, which leads to issue number two, as more americans go mobile, so are hackers and thieves. >> while mobile threats have been fairly small historically, we are seeing cyber crimes shift to the mobile world. >> dave c

by the way, this is what the kinks wore in 1965. >> it's also a little bit like vintage bob novak. >> bob novak? >> he wore the vests. >> did he? >> i think it's rather satorial. >> you know what else i don't get? i don't get why donny deutsch came on the show before. talking about the debates. they're not going to change anything. >> let's become a student of history. if you say there are 5% -- >> here we go. >> no, no, no. >> you know what? nobody's ever been more wrong than donny deutsch. >> i'll explain why it won't change anything. >> could we introduce everybody first? >> with us on set, "time" magazine political analyst mark halperin and the chairman of deutsche incorporated who is also a student of history. >> yes. >> donny deutsch. >> 1 for 1. >> let's go to what the kids will be talking about all weekend. >> i'm still curious, though, about what everybody is waiting for in those first debates. i don't want to be cynical. i'm not quite sure what's going to happen there that's going to flip the switch. we've seen these guys. i know we haven't seen them together -- give me a sc

you could argue when you like or don't like health reform, but there's a lot of kinks in the system because of that. and i think you've got the same issue now. i think we almost have of to have a strong executive. maybe we need another alexander hamilton. we need -- you know, who made a few enemies along the way. but we really need to have some very powerfully-constructed plans. i think that's one of the things we were lucky about in tax reform is we were able to, you can argue whether it's the staff at treasury that does it, we were able internally to take a set of proposals and reframe the debate. so i think it's not just compromising, it's reframing the debate so people say, okay, i really don't like all the changes you're suggesting, but you know what? that new world you're suggesting is better than the old world, you know? the old world is just falling apart, and i'm willing to accept a compromise at that level. i think that's almost what we have to go through now. i don't know, and my colleagues may disagree here, i don't know that you could just do a 1990, '93 let's get everybody tog