here to mix it up, matt miller, washingtonpost.com columnist and host of npr's "left, right and centernd msnbc political contributor, jonathan alter. excited to have them here. john than the author of "the promise," a look at president obama's first year in office. mr. miller, when you hear the characterizations of our economy and the suggestion that the custody of our government has been managed for the benefit of the future and then you see the deficit and you see it, is there anything in there that resonates with truth for you? >> no. george bush is like a driver who is heading toward a cliff for eight years and because he sort of jumped out just as the thing was going over said everything was fine while i was behind the wheel. i mean, he set us up for a disaster in terms of the -- not just the deficits that he ran up by fighting two wars enacting a big new medicare plan and big tax cuts and not paying for any of that putting the full cost of that on our kids but allowing the bubbles to use that ended up bursting in ways this put us in fiasco that we have now. i think he will rank o

zach miller out with injuries. matt cassel. former cal bear tucker.is first career touchdown catch. 7-0 chiefs. 10-0 chiefs to start the second half. ford providing a huge spark for oakland. he gets a big block from rock cartwright. giving him the lane. 94 yards. ford jumps into radar nation and he was not done in this game. they are back in it. 13-7. kansas city. late in the 3rd. jason campbell. tackled. barnes. campbell had 229 yards and the lone touchdown. oakland would add another field goal to stretch their lead to four but matt cassel. touchdown midway through the 4th. kansas city has the lead back at 20-17. 22 seconds remaining. campbell to ford who fights brandon flowers for the ball. well within the range. 41. game tied at 20 and let's go to overtime. ford was the hero in overtime. campbell. back to pass. pick up of 47 yards. 148 in the football game. left and right. from 33. chip shot. game over. and the raiders pull it out. 23-20. >> we all felt all week that was a must win game. i did feel like early in the game we were probably pressing a

miller out with injuries. scoreless in the second quarter. mattastle, tucker, the first touchdown catch of his career. 7-0, chiefs. 10-0 to start the second half. ford, about a huge spark for oakland getting a big buck. that gets a big lane to the end zone. 94 yards for the touchdown. he was not done in this football game. 13-7 kansas city later in the 3rd. jason campbell. now, barns, raiders on top 14- 13, campbell. 229 yards and that lone touchdown and stretching the lead to 4. then, castle out. touchdown, kansas city gets the lead back at 20-17. 22 seconds remaining in the game. campbell to ford who fights flowers for the football. it brought the raiders down to 22 well within the range steve bas, on 41. game tied at 20 and into overtime we go. ford was the hero again in overtime. campbell, back to the pas. puts it on a rope to the rookie for a pick up of 47 yards. that set it up again. this time, for the victory from 20 -- from 33 yards out. the raiders win 23-20. >> we all felt it was a must- win game. i did feel early in the game we were pre

miller. 1-0 caps. later first, a nifty feed to matt bradley who doesn't get good wood on it but still manages to scorecond of the year. caps up 2-0 after one. caps built a 3-0 lead. final minute, derrick roy, denied by michael noiber, his 31st and final save. >>> wizards and bean town against the selt and no joe wall for a second straight game. gilbert arenas to mcghee. wizards down 37-34 but things deteriorate quickly. second half, rondo, kevin garnett, kg had 18 and celtics up 20. rondo, to pierce for two of his 23. wizards were pounded 114-83. they lose by 31. that's how many the redskins lost to the eagles on monday night. >>> american with its home opener against maryland eastern shore. vlad moldonado, first half, and later, boom, he hit six of seven from beyond the arc and more vlad. he had 31. american beats eastern to improve 3-0 and jeff jones getting it done at au. tony taylor led all players with a career high 23 as the colonials won 79-59. brian's back with more of the edge. have a good night. d [ man ] are you aware that verizon fios brings fiber optics to y

we did reach out to joe miller for an interview, but never heard back from his representative. matt? >> kristin welker out in alaska for thus morning. thank you very much. >>> and now let's get a check of the rest of the morning's top stories. good morning ann. nice to have you back. >> thanks a lot. good morning, everybody. >>> we begin with a developing story in haiti. tropical storm tomas is strengthening this morning and it could hit haiti's western tip early tomorrow morning. the island nation could get up to as much as 10 inches of rain which could be devastating given that nearly 1.5 million people are still living under tents in the wake of january's massive earthquake. >>> the federal reserve is taking on a bold plan to pump $600 billion into the banking system trying to jolt the economy with lower interest rates. we've got cnbc's melissa francis at the new york stock exchange with more on this. this plan sounds aggressive but what are the risks? >> well, the risk is definitely inflation. that's always the risk when you pump lots of money into the economy and that's why ben

matt? >> coming up, sarah palin blasts the media for allegedly making up stories about alaska candidate joe miller. she did not mince words. we'll have the details. but nbfit c.ths " on nbc. see this electionu as an unhappy choice between a longtime politician with no plan for the future and a billionaire with no government experience. well, let me tell you my story. my husband and i came here as newlyweds. we raised our family here and the california dream came true for me in ways i could never have imagined. now i'm running for governor to restore the california dream for everyone. i'm not a career politician or a hollywood star. i'm from silicon valley, where i created thousands of jobs at ebay. as governor, i'll do something that's been missing from california politics for far too long. i'll treat you like grownups, tell it to you straight, and offer a practical plan forward. these are scary times and i know that cleaning up sacramento won't be easy. our problems are tough, but so am i. if you want more of the same from sacramento, then vote for my opponent. but if you want to get california m

matt, thank you. as kelly o'donnell mentioned, alaska's still undecided senate race is getting more interesting. incumbent lisa murkowski ran as a write-in and appeared on track to win, but now challenger joe miller is saying, it isn't over yet. kristen welker has the latest. >> this race is not done until the ballots are counted. >> reporter: tea party candidate joe miller has a message for write-in candidate, lisa murkowski. >> her little victory speech that she gave several days ago may actually be premature. >> reporter: miller's hired a legal team to do battle in the alaska recount where he trails the the write-in ballots by 13,000 votes. >> frankly, i think we're going to pull ahead, at least not ahead in the 13,000 votes, but we're going to pull ahead of where we are now when those absentee ballots get counted. >> reporter: we spoke with the gop hopeful at a coffee shop in wasilla, alaska, the hometown of one of his biggest supporters, sarah palin. >> i'm excited because there are people that have been awakened, you know, obviously by sarah palin. but they've also been awakened just by common sense. >> do you think she would be a good presidential candidate? >> i think she would be. there'