lee cowen, nbc news, los angeles. >> yeah. that's the trick.mbering when you're around a hot microphone. >>> topping our hot shots, a florida man claims he bit off more than he chew last weekend when he found a screw in his cheese berger at a daytona beach checkers restaurant. >> went down and went, oh, spit it out and it clinked right out of my mouth. >> you can still see the cheese imbedded in the grooves if you look closely enough. he says he's been in kuch with the checkers corporation and an attorney. >>> the moment of impact between an amtrak train and fire truck. investigators say the truck had stopped to help with an earlier accident when the train came down the tracks. a police cruiser backed out of the way just in time. hey, by the way, nobody got seriously hurt here. >>> much more ahead in our next half hour. you know things are bad when the new york post and new york daily news can't decide on how many women tiger woods has slept one. now one says he owes her an apology. we'll tell you what facebook has to do with the spread of syph

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