mary lou was there. she steered me in the right direction and i told this story three years ago -- she came up to me after and said " it was me." i thought that was cool so every year now, here you are. she is down in atlanta now but here's the rest of the story -- last year mike son was redeploying from afghanistan through atlanta. guess who he met? marilou austin. [applause] last thing i want to say before i bow off the stage and we will get the chiefs appear to recognize the wonderful young men and women who are honored here tonight is i want to mention -- the army on many tonight has a special connection to me. i don't even think he knows it. my son was class of 2000 from west point and had a best friend by the name of tom kennedy. tom kennedy was killed just about two years ago now in afghanistan. in that incident, there was a suicide bomber with a suicide vest. among the folks who made the situation less catastrophic than it could have been was sergeant andrew mahoney who happens to be the army nom

. >> let's see it mary lou retton, i like it.u is five years old and works out every day. >> gets mental stimulation and exercise. and it will keep him from chewing up the couch. >> reporter: ace is an agility competitor and a little bit of a show-off. >> i have no backyard. so it's fun for us to come here and practice. say hi to jenna. >> reporter: feels really one-sided. maybe it doesn't come across that way. and like people some dogs just like going to the gym to socialize. >> he loves it. very mindful of their safety. >> reporter: what's next? cat gyms, turtle gyms, goat gyms. >> dogs have the right desire to please. >> reporter: so for now this canine craze is all theirs. jenna wolfe, nbc news, alexandria, virginia. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. don't forget to set your clocks back by one hour later tonight for daylight saving time. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today" and right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> nbc bay area flus starts now >>> new inf

mary lou was there. she steered me in the right direction and i told this story three years ago -- she came up to me after and said " it was me." i thought that was cool so every year now, here you are. she is down in atlanta now but here's the rest of the story -- last year, my son was redeploying from afghanistan through atlanta. guess who he met? marilou austin. [applause] last thing i want to say before i bow off the stage and we will get the chiefs up here to recognize the wonderful young men and women who are honored here tonight is i want to mention -- the army on many tonight has a special connection to me. i don't even think he knows it. my son was class of 2000 from west point and had a best friend by the name of tom kennedy. tom kennedy was killed just about two years ago now in afghanistan. in that incident, there was a suicide bomber with a suicide vest. among the folks who made the situation less catastrophic than it could have been was sergeant andrew mahoney who happens to be the army nom

one of them is 54-year-old mary lou. >> you both are at the age when a lot of people think about retirementu are doing physical work and braving the elements, and, you know, out here doing what people might consider a man's job. >> yes, definitely. and they're proud that we're out there, and it lightens their day, and they just get to see men all day and all of a sudden, wow, there's a girl. and i'm not even five foot tall. i think women can perform very well here, even though we're limited in size and strength, and i'm proof of it. >> you both have had pretty substantial careers, have owned homes, and here you are living in this townhouse with a few other women. it kind of feels like college again, doesn't it? [ laughter ] >> it does. but if we could just hang out together, we're so busy working. >> you're a single woman now. are you getting asked out by a lot of younger men? >> um, yes. [ laughter ] >> what's the youngest you've gone out with? >> 25. >> what! dang, girl, 25. you're my idol. >> and he's 6'5" and 280 pounds, and he's beautiful. i mean, oh, my god. this couldn't be a better

mary lou was there. she steered me in the right direction and i told this story three years ago -- she came up to me after and said " it was me." i thought that was cool so every year now, here you are. she is down in atlanta now but here's the rest of the story -- last year mike son was redeploying from afghanistan through atlanta. guess who he met? marilou austin. [applause] last thing i want to say before i bow off the stage and we will get the chiefs appear to recognize the wonderful young men and women who are honored here tonight is i want to mention -- the army on many tonight has a special connection to me. i don't even think he knows it. my son was class of 2000 from west point and had a best friend by the name of tom kennedy. tom kennedy was killed just about two years ago now in afghanistan. incident, there was a suicide bomber with a suicide vest. among the folks who made the situation less catastrophic than it could have been was sergeant andrew mahoney who happens to be the army nominee ton

one of them is 54-year-old mary lou. >> you both are at the age when a lot of people think about retirementare doing physical work and braving the elements, and, you know, out here doing what people might consider a man's job. >> yes, definitely. and they're proud that we're out there, and it lightens their day, and they just get to see men all day and all of a sudden, wow, there's a girl. and i'm not even five foot tall. i think women can perform very well here, even though we're limited in size and strength, and i'm proof of it. >> you both have had pretty substantial careers, have owned homes, and here you are living in this townhouse with a few other women. it kind of feels like college again, doesn't it? [ laughter ] >> it does. but if we could just hang out together, we're so busy working. >> you're a single woman now. are you getting asked out by a lot of younger men? >> um, yes. [ laughter ] >> what's the youngest you've gone out with? >> 25. >> what! dang, girl, 25. you're my idol. >> and he's 6'5" and 280 pounds, and he's beautiful. i mean, oh, my god. this couldn't be a better pl

mary landrew from lou has convinced to have a vote on the proposal. how much did that help here? what's at play here? it doesn't go to her state. it's an issue she has been behind for quite awhile. i don't think personally that the politics in that state and in her run-off on december 9th have anything to do with kye stone. when you see landrieu talking about this, it's to try to get other voters understanding that she is fighting for the jobs that it may create in louisiana. en that's up tore for debate. this doesn't touch her state. this is an issue that is more about, you know, getting oil and getting the people that back her in that state. people who have backed her in the past who came away from her and supported other candidates in the december -- i mean, the november 4th election to come back to her side and say, look, i am fighting for energy and whether or not we are -- we are not going to be in the majority. we are going to be in the minority but you need me on that energy and natural resources committee because we need to be able to represents louisiana's interests in

here to explain is mary lou wesselhof, third generation farmer and owner of the oh cheesy creamery.nk you for joining us this morning. let me try to explain this and see if i understand this. you're talking about your skim milk. in skim milk, when you remove all of the cream off the top it doesn't generally have that much vitamin d in it. is that correct? >> it doesn't have as much vitamin a left in it. >> vitamin a. most places that sell skim milk with vitamin a in it, they add the vitamin a back in it as a fortified product; right? >> that is correct, they do add the vitamin a back in it. >> you guys have been doing this for 25 years without adding artificial or additives in it, just selling your skim milk. now suddenly the florida state regulations are wanting you to change your naming to this. tell us about how this happened. >> we were selling our milk for three years. we just started bottling our milk five years ago. before that we were part of a dairy cooperative. we had everything approved by the department of agriculture with the labeling. we were selling our skim milk and

it shouldn't be part of a ploy to get mary landrieu reelected? louagine if we had done it six years ago. neil: opportunistic, but very good. >> low oil prices will cure themselves. iea is saying that oil prices can be expected to go up. we need to get ahead of that and get that thing filled. >> good leadership and we haven't seen that. so don't expect logic to play in this game here at all. it's all about the president and his environmental movement, and i think he'll play to them in the end. >> can i make a quick prediction, president bush in 2006, you can see the fatigue, he sort of put a pass in rebutting his critics. i think barack obama will play the fourth quarter very hard. neil: on this and other issues. i think you're right the about this. you can find us on facebook.com. facebook will be big like twitter. in the meantime, that will do it it here. we'll be monitoring these committee assignments coming out of washington for for the senate. it will be a very different world. and we'll spell it out for you tomorrow. in t meantime, stay well. st

lou dobbs tonight." neil cavuto covering it all at 8:00 p.m. eastern. keep it right here. mary landrieu may want to look to see if there's a mercy rule. just two days after failing in her efforts to pass the keystone pipeline bill in the senate, a new political ad taking on the revelations she improperly used taxpayer dollars to fund private jets to political fundraisers. >> your tax dollars pay for roads, and schools and bridges. they also paid for mary landrieu to fly to campaign events. forty-two times since 2002, 43 times -- lou: i think we get it a new poll showing the republican congressman bill cassidy is crushing landrieu by at least 11 points in their runoff race that is just two weeks away. the four major networks all refusing to air the president's big amnesty announcement tonight. we'll show you why the lack of credibility might have -- well, might be a contributing factor in their factor in their decisi how can power consumption in china, factor in their decisi impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in t

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mary katharine ham. i'm matt welch, thank you for watching "the independents" tonight and good night. lou dob. lou: good evening, everybody. the cold war has resumed. russia is not only ratcheting up its cold war rhetoric, but dispatching troops and scores of tanks and advanced weaponry into eastern ukraine to further advance vladimir putin's unchecked and so far unchallenged expansionist ambitions. nato's top commander general philip breedlaw says russia is invading ukraine from the east. >> we have seen russian equipment, primarily russian tanks, russian artillery, russian air-defense systems and russian combat troops entering into ukraine, forces, money, support, flies, weapons are flowing back and forth across this border, completely at will, and that is not a good situation. >> as general breedlove says, not a good situation, and a situation that is deteriorating quickly. general breedlove also said russian forces already deployed in crimea are being reinforced, that russia is sending what he called nuclear capable troops into the disputed territory with heavy weaponry. the general made i

lou: and there it is. then, the keystone pipeline. with senate democrats now on board for sometime early next week. senator mary landrieu using the issue to drum up support in her december 6 runoff to keep her seat. she claims she has 60 votes in the senate for the bill. enough to avoid filibuster. and now, the white house is already telling her don't bother. >> we have indicated that the president's senior advisers at the white house indicate he veto legislation like that. i haven't rude the specific details discussed in the congress overnight. it's fair to say our dim view of the proposals has not changed. lou: the president's planned amnesty fiat and refusal to approve the keystone pipeline evidence of his unilateral occasional inclination. the president ordering, demanding, that the federal communications commission begin to strenuously regulate the internet. and in so doing, he broke with hand picked fcc chairman on net neutrality. but as of today, fcc chairman tom wheeler is back on message. his tail firmly between his legs. and the president tuesday unilaterally announced a cut in u.s. carbon output over

lou dobbs. we're now 79 hours from the first polls opening in the midterm congressional elections and vulnerable democrats are showing signs of desperation. incumbent senator mary landrieu blaming the president's unpopularity in the south on his race. incumbent arkansas senator mark pryor admitting that president obama is dragging him down in the polls. and although essay virtual lock to be reelected to his 23rd term in the house, democrat charlie rangel opening could you seeing republicans of racism. >> everything we believe in. everything we believe in, they hate. they don't disagree. they hate. they think if you didn't come from europe 30 years ago, we shouldn't have immigration. some of them believe that slavery isn't over and that they won the civil war. >> okay. these controversial statements all coming as the washington post upped the republicans odds of winning to 95 percent. we'll take it all up here tonight. also this evening, another disaster for the commercial space industry. spaceship two exploding in the sky o in the ma jav desert during the a test today. >> space is hard and today was a tough day. (?) we are going to be supporting the investigati

mary higgins still emotional even 63 years later. 1951 was the last time anyone heard from her brother-in-law corporal robert higgins just 20 years ago fighting in the korean war. >> my husband enlisted and lou other brother enlisted. our army, navy and marines. >> three brothers all serving their country but it was robert who never came home. bob he went by the thoughtful son regularly writing to his mom february 9, 1951 telling her everything was okay he was in fairly high spirits but it wasn't the last. four days after writing this letter robert fighting in one of the most gruesome battles of the war was captured. there was still hope, though, thanks to a letter from another pow who wrote that corporal higgins weeks later was still in good health. >> he saw bob. gnaw a battle and he was okay when he saw him. >> reporter: but then the leads dried up. >> we didn't hear anything at all. nothing. >> reporter: nothing for six decades until a few days ago. thanks to bob's nephew fred who himself served during vietnam recently sent the army a dna sample and prayers were an. >> that's how they were able to match my brother fred's dna with uncle bob's bone, his remains 60 years later plus,. >> it'

lou dobbs. we're now 79 hours from the first polls opening in the midterm congressional elections and vulnerable democrats are showing signs of desperation. incumbent senator marythe south on his race. incumbent arkansas senator mark pryor admitting that president obama is dragging him down in the polls. and although essay virtual lock to be reelected to his 23rd term in the house, democrat charlie rangel opening could you seeing republicans of racism. >> everything we believe

lou: well, all the nice-nice was made. the house wasting no time setting a vote tomorrow on keystone pipeline bill that will be named after republican congressman bill cassidy, challenging mary landrieu in the louisiana senate runoff next month. the senate expected to follow suit next week. >>> world health officials announcing the death toll from the west african ebola outbreak has passed 5,000 people. guinea and liberia making headway but spreading rabbitly in sierra leone. because of progress in liberia, u.s. military troops sent there will top out at 3,000 troops, not the 4,000 expected and approved. >>> here at home, the family of ebola patient zeros, thomas eric duncan, has settled with the dallas hospital that sent him home despite having a high fever, terms of the settlement not disclosed. texas does cap malpractice awards against hospitals at $250,000. >>> obama administration officials facing considerable skepticism about a 6.2 billion dollar emergency funding request to fight ebola. at an appropriations committee hearing, the ranking republican, senator richard shelby criticized the confusing white house response to the crisis. >> instead of an effective response,