. >> i know jay leno has a bunch of them but i want just one. >> apparently you can get them but the upkeep, that will get you. i'm dan kloeffler. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [captioning made possible by constellation energy] >> top of this monday to you. hope you're ready to start another workweek. weather-wise, hope you're not complaining because we're going to see lower humidity than is typical for this time of the year. this is july and while we're going to see temperatures surge into the 80's today, we're not going to be too humid. the front made its way through yesterday and is hanging out over the delmarva peninsula. so it's warmer in ocean city and southern maryland this morning. not too bad downtown. 73. 65 b.w.i. marshall. only 55 right now in york where cooler air has filtered in. partly cloudy for today. 84-87. winds flow out of the north-northeast. that will keep the humidity and dew point levels lower than is typical. tonight in the lower 60's. >> 4:57. here's a look ahead to 11 news today. >> a popular catholic high

who is one of my heros in journalism and a lot of people's heros in journalism. >> speculation that leno might come to abc and take over your time slot. >> sure. abc has to make business decisions well beyond my peg rate. inheriting a legacy from ted, with the kind of team that we have, do a program that would bring views are in, hold viewers and bring new viewers in, and redefine "nightline" for this time. >> you have interviewed, among others, president obama, gordon brown, tim geithner and elvis costello. >> it is fun. it's great that way. i think what we have done with "nightline" is keep it on the news, keep that promise that ted made 30 years ago, there's a big story "nightline" has the last word. it's where you want to be. i think we do that extremely well. we also do hard news stuff. in the past week or so, the h1ni virus, sotomayor hearings, health care, and now more lighter fare. there are different things always i hope are on our better nights that are smart and different angle into trend stories or music stories or that kind of thing. >> i want to come back to the mix. big st

. >> it was a perfect bit for jay leno on the tonight show. you know what i'm talking about. >>> before you pay more than you have to at itself grocery store, wait till you see our cyberedge report tonight. we're showing you how to cut costs with online coupons. eyes to the sky tonight as well tomorrow. i'll have all the details after the break.  >>> some storms moved through the area tonight. some of you were undea thunderstorm warning. it was dropped by 8:00. we still have this line of storms over delmarva there is actually a squall line moving through and re behind here. we have plenty of rainfall. let's take a look at radar. our fox 5 live radar. you can see as far as the d.c. area is concerned, nothing happening now but there is another batch behind all this that we're going to have to watch as well as to the south we've got a little bit of wet weather that's lingering through. this had a lot of lightning in it. that's the one thing you do have to be careful about. let's go to our weather map. it was a hot, humid, swe

. >> i know jay leno has a bunch of them but i want just one. >> apparently you can get them but theupkeep, that will get you. i'm dan kloeffler. this is arly >>> 4:54 is our time right now, 72 degrees. a live look outside this morning. the washington monument all lit up. a monday morning here's in the nation's capital. july 13th, 2009. good morning. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm kimberly suiters. we want to start things off as we do always with a look at weather and traffic. >> meteorologist tom kierein has joined us here in the studio. tom, another nice weekend. >> a little taste of washington heat and humidity over the weekend. >> a little bit. >> but auasllyt' i gt'ng away, oirning less humid this morning. mo w. genge oi gnhi o t cireti ptaarpion t gioundhe re ten shmperur we 72 in .n wan ihenerpp u0sn i prie yonegeax fai arfndtgon mom estiun. farther to our west in the low 60s. he utsorn marylrdut neahe the ap es bchkeeaay, eastern shore, low and mid-70ke out of the mountain, cool upper 60or tea n 50eg drees onhi t s d aymo morning, ey 3tdah of ju. swe ou'l tigee hselhlo cudn is he

i was on the trip with him when we went to kosta mess sarks qualify, and then he went on the jay lenoshow. and the neck day the white house plentsed a tape to the iranian people and that got everybody talking. it was very, very, very deft the way they handled it. but you are seeing in the sense of the white house press corps, when i asked him buy follow-up questions, i think he's very good on his feet, but i think he does need to get a little bit better in news conferences because he's getting a lot more challenges now from the white house. chris: i watch guys like him and i watch guys like sam donaldsonnd lesley stahl and they were tough all the time, tough, hard-nosed, hard news, get it out of these guys, no b.s. that's what i'm saying. >> i think president obama has definitely gotten a bit of an easier ride from the white house press corps. i think that will change. >> helene created one of those things like bennifer. i thought she said axel-rahm. you know, he really does change position as president from when he was in candidacy. he's definitely going to the right on things like m

 >> absolutely. i love the jay leno move, and i will tell you why. for many years, all three broadcasters have been offering the same thing to the audience, dr dramdy, procedural dramas, complex dramas. and you know what the audience has done, they've gone to their dvrs and watched shows they have recorded. they've gone to cable. now the broadcaster, at least one broadcaster, us, nbc, is offering the viewer some alternative at 10:00. i think it will be good for all of broadcasting. i think abc and cbs will benefi a little bit for some viewers that want to watch scripted  content. but i think nbc can really benefit because we're providing a true alternative to the broadcast audience at that time. >> julia? >> you also oversee syndication of digital distribution. lately there's been a lot of talk about monetizing content online. do you have any thoughts or strategies in terms of how  you're going to try to create sort of what jeff zucker referred to as digital pennies or digital dimes and analog  dollars, to create a digital dollar revenue str

we have seen on everything from johnny carson and david letterman and jay leno. and finally not yet peaked out your career you are on my shelf. >> and what this man has folks, he has it national genuine harmony when he talks to people. doesn't really come across? i mean that. [ applause ] h@ment that book i wrote chris can confidential which we'll talk about some time. i read thoughts, i'm not a fortuneteller have to concentrate on something. >> mike: you if he does not a trick. >> take a book. if i -- just to give you an idea because i something special in the next segment, it might if i do this to say stop anytime. what's the first word on the page, tommy. >> mike: or does rock so you can see pure chance. i'm going to ask you now have a camera will not show what word you're looking at it say stop anytime you want. say stop anytime you want. >> mike: stop to look at the first word on the page. mike, not a big word, but a big word, right here at a small word >> mike: yes stand for letters. >> mike: for letters. >> this. >> mike: that's the word. [ applause ] spee

we were together, he heard on jay leno that i had a good chance to be on dancing with the stars."o he said to me, i want to teach you how to do the moon walk. he wanted me to get him in the best physical shape and wanted to teach me about dancing. the beauty about it, when he moved, the guy i would say it convinced me that he would make the biggest comeback in history. >> larry: how about his behavior? he was obviously, eccentric, a little bizarre. looked a little funny. how did you react to that? >> he wasn't like that with me because when he was with me, the mask came off, the glochb came off. it was just me and michael. we were alone together. he was just a real genuine guy. it was no bs. he was brilliant. but we just had fun. he was just like a regular guy like you and i talking. >> larry: did you work out with him at his house. >> yes, the last time. could not come to my facility because people followed him so i would go to his house. >> larry: did you work with weights. >> no, mostly the ball, rubber bands, a lot of core training and walking on the treadmill. he had a treadm

some of this year's big changes were his idea, including putting jay leno in prime time five nights acoming up, going to join us for a live interview on "power lunch," get to hear about the expanded role of jeff gas pin. >> thanks, julia. >>> tonight a cnbc special you can't miss. maria bartiromo hosts meeting of the minds on u.s. health care. here is a peek. >> the one part of medicine not regulated by the government or insurer and it is called cosmetic surgery. cosmetic surge very a direct transaction between the patient and the doctor, the fees are set, the negotiation occurs, it is not paid for. if you look at lasik surgery, technology has again up, the price has gone down. what this highlights is that we don't have a free market in health care. everybody says let the free market work there is no free market, regulated pricing that removes the negotiation between the patient and the doctor over the service. >> catch meeting of the minds health care on cnbc at 9 p.m. larvae going to be watching. >> we are going to be right become for the last call, you're watching cnbc and we are f

average, the show has lost up to 2 million people a night now that conan's hosting compared to jay leno, but "the new york times" says when you look at the people who are watching, they're median age is a decade younger. you know advertisers love that. they are willing to pay top dollar to get into that demographic, they call it, when younger people are watching. a cbs rep told the paper that o'brien's most loyal viewers are young men and the late show with david letterman is picking up some of the older viewers that may be switching away from conan and his younger style. i look watching him pop and down there. some restaurants are offering really good deals this summer. they are trying to get you in the door. they are in trouble. after 12 months of shrinking sales, but the deals for you, that is some good news in a bad economy. that's why you heard that sound. "the atlanta journal-constitution" dug up some of the deals. we'll tell you the fast food ones. arbys has freebies on wednesdays, some free coffee from mcdonalds on some mornings and popeyes is having deals from time to time. but

steve: that will teach them for squeezing jay leno out.d we are going to bring in conan. years later he is out and other guy is in. brian: we're going to get rid of o'reilly next. steve: i don't think so. you tell the king of cable. attorney general andrew cuomo maybe looking what's going on financially with big banks. he has discovered and these are startling numbers that of the nine big banks that got tarp money, effectively to keep them in business. they got on average $175 billion to keep -- of the $175 billion to keep america's financial green flowing, 33 billion of that money, a huge portion of it, went for bonuses. to keep the big guys happy. alisyn: that is shocking. alisyn: tarp funds were not supposed to pay out exorbitant bonuses. they were supposed to keep them from collapsing. goldman sachs in 2008 earned $2.3 billion. sounds good. until you remember that they paid out twice that 4.8 billion in bonuses. they are paying twice what they earned. and this is, of course, after they took 10 billion in tarp funds. how does this math

this does not seem to be in keeping with leno about him.. she did not go to the authorities. she is alleging she discussed this with the head of security. why not call the police? why not go to the hospital? martha: maybe, like a lot of rape victims, she was scared. she says that she went to her employer and they said she was basically crazy. >> with respect to his reputation, a lot of these guys have great reputations until they do something bad. martha: he is hardly pac-man jones. there's no basis for any prior understanding about this. >> sometimes there's a first time for everything. she did report this the very next day. she went to the authorities, the authorities at the hotel. did she possibly used bad judgment in not calling 911? possibly, but maybe she was out to protect her own reputation and her career, which was threatened by the same people she reported the incident to martha. martha: it sounds like she has a good lawsuit against h arrah's. >> if this were to go to the court, there are too many holes in this story. if she had s

i researched very carefully the law and found a theory called law leno -- malleneaux. if you can show a pattern that can establish a person's identity -- i am simplifying this, by the way, but then you can try different cases together. this was not a conspiracy that said he acted alone. i had to find a different theory to bring his acts together. it was a different application of the law, but i was strong on the principles and arguing those principles to the judge, the judge permitted the joint trial of his activities. in the end, carefully developing the facts in the case, making my record, i should say our record, complete, we convinced the judge that our theory was supported by the law. this harkens back to my earlier answer, which is that that is what being a trial judge teaches you. >> so, you see it from both ends uc theories brought by prosecutors and defense, and you must make a decision based on those. the easy answer being that you do, do you not? >> it is important to remember that as a judge, i do not make the law. the test for me as a judge is not for me t

it was on the jay leno show he made the comment about special olympics. again, he was warming to his theme. if you look at the transcript of the press conference you'll see the amount of laughter and hamming he was doing in telling the gates story. he got carried away, having a good time. he was relieved not to be talking about health care, which to me the underlying theme was he didn't like the health care conference, felt he wasn't offering clarity, which he really wasn't, for this enormously articulate person. it wasn't good and he wanted the room back. >> he made a speech in the white house briefing room, urged everybody to tone down the volume and step back from what he did earlier. >> he had to walk it back, dial it back. by coming out again, he had to dial it back again. he couldn't let that sit out there, the comment about the cop. frankly it gave it another day's length and another day's length and here we are debating on it thursday. it's going to reach a climax at the white house. we're now debating the beer. >> it's a big distraction on someth

. >> i think because of all the overnight workers use us at their jay leno. they watch us and then go to bed. >>> you have to see this road side sign, hackers were able to change it to say "caution zombie strippers." it's happening all over the country. this sign was put up. it was all night long until road officials finally turned it off. >> that one is clever. i like that. it would make me slow down. no doubt about it. not really my fetish. it would make me slow down. >> you're like, i don't care if she's a zombie. >> as long as she's got a head, who cares? >>> president obama sat down for a chat with a professor and the cop who arrested him. the president said he hopes to turn this into a teachable moment. what do you think about the so-called beer summit? here are some of your fellow viewers' reactions. >>> i think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry. number two, the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. >> remember that comment by president obama a we

chatted with leno, danced with ellen degeneres, and now my name has been dropped in a new rap song.e beastie boys have a brand-new sipg l entitled "too many rappers." late in the track, if you listen very, very closely, well -- just listen. ♪ >> i hope you got that. something about a hologram with wolf blitzer. >> i got it. i got it. how did you find out about that? >> i can't tell you how many people love the beasty boys, and they were so excited. your name. they mentioned your name in a new song. >> do you listen to their music? >> no. beasty boys, i'm not big on. i do like lady gaga, though. >> i'm sure you do. the question this hour, should congress remain in session until it completes the health care legislation? it's not going to happen, but it's fun to dream, isn't it? phil and georgy, they ought to stay in session. they're on a roll. nothing is a greater motivator than vacation being delayed until the bills are passed. the perfect time is now for health care, and we're going to need everyone to do their part in order to make it over the finish line. jerry in georgia, "no, co

just as he did, remember, when he was on the on the show with jay leno, and he said this. >> i bowledood, mr. president. >> looked like the special olympics or something. >> the reference to the special olympics. and he wasted no time calling maria shriver and others who have been involved in the special olympics to say you know what, i'm sorry, i screwed up, which i think the american public can relate. we all awl say things that we regret saying. the thing is not to dig down and say, you know what i'm going to resist that. he's got to admit the mistake and move on. >> pretty human reactions that we see him -- i mean, he's as regular a guy, a president, as we've ever had, and i think people like that about him. they see him as someone who has emotion about issues he cares about. let's be real. he's not wrong about the 14,000 people who are losing health insurance every day. he doesn't make gaffes about, you know, capitals of country where is he has to work with foreign leaders. we're talking for personality, jokes. you know, this is a president we can count on intellectually. >> i th