. >> string and a miss. 20 strikeouts for matt scherzer! >> scherzer's 20 strikeouts tied a major league record. three others, roger clemens, kerry wood, and randy johnson, have struck out 20 batters in nine innings. scherzer threw 119 pitches. 96 of them strikes. he gave up six hits, no walks. the nationals beat his former team, the detroit tigers, 3-2. >>> another historic performance for a pitcher last night. though this one came at the plate. mets pitcher noah syndergaard blasted the runs against the dodgers. he became only the second mets pitcher in history to hit two home runs. >>> coming up on the "cbs morning news," drama on unsettled boulevard. a man climbs a famous tower in a tense standoff with authorities. this is the "cbs morning news." (text tone) excuse me. (phone tone) again? be right back. always running to the bathroom because your bladder is calling the shots? (text tone) you may have oab. enough of this. we're going to the doctor. take charge and ask your doctor about myrbetriq. that's myr-be-triq, the first and only trea

matt scherzer makes history. 20 strikeouts in a single game. >> another one! swing and a miss. >> an incredible feat nearly two decades in the making "today," thursday, may 12th, 2016. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning. welcome to "today." 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. >> each team only gets 27 outs. he gets 20 of them on strikeouts. the nats win. matt scherzer is a force. >> nine hits throughout the innings. >> you read the box score. >> i did. i did my homework. >>> all eyes on the building right there. rnc headquarters on capitol hill inside donald trump and house speaker paul ryan are holding their big meeting. the presumptive republican nominee arrived just an hour ago. gave the cameras a wave before he headed inside. we'll talk about that meeting and more with former vice president dan quayle. let's start with peter alexander on the hill for us. good morning. >> good morning. the next several hours will be pivotal for the future of the republican part

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matt scherzer strikes out 20. fans on their feet. in the mound, 19 strikeouts so far. here number 20 against justin upton. that ties the record. scherzer, the first to strike out 20 batters since kerry wood in 1998. he thanks his former team for the inspiration. at the live desk, i'm carol maloney. >>> have you ever been ripped off by a contractor? we'll tell you how to get up to 20 grand back with the one thing you must do before you sign the contract or else. >> you are losing your protection. >> reporter: what does healthy really mean? a push for the fda to settle big argunts in the shopping aimesl shoppingor well, this is the time. and your ford dealer is the place to get into a new ford escape. escape leads the way with the convenience of a foot-activated rear liftgate. plus, the power and efficiency of ecoboost tenology. you'll find a full lineup of ford suvs designed to help you be unstoppable. right now you can drive a new escape and get 0% financing for 72 months plus $500 cash. hurry, this offer is for a limited time only. see your ford dealer today. >>> the

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matt scherzer struck out 20 batters last night. 20! this is an mlb record. time this is hs in history. before he came to d.c., he played for the tigers. >> the guys are unbelievable and they gave me a heck of a time tonight, but to be able to do it, it's a feather in the cap. >> last time a pitcher had 20 strikeouts in a single game was back in 2001. incredible. it really is. >> impressive. >> 20 strikeouts. you don't look that impressed before it's hard to impress aaron. nats play again tomorrow. p. >> i'm impressed. >> that's all right. >>> 4:37. we could see a break in the rain today, maybe. a closer look at that and whether the fog will burn off by the time the kids head to the bus stop at 4:41. >>> a bizarre story in the search for a driver behind a deadly hit and run. what police say the victidid just m mo >>> coming up on 4:41. weather and traffic on the 1s on this thursday. and a little bit of drizzle coming in this morning. splitzin xwchlt. >> is that a technical turn? in like when you water your orchids. >> orchids? >> it's a flower, you buy it at

matt scherzer also. >>> golden state warriors superstar steph curry hoisted his nba trophy before his team gave five -- game five matchup against portland. consider was his usual outstanding self-nailing a three-pointer at the end to put them up by two. >> he hit five three-pointe the missus was liking that included that one that steeled the game. the warriors won it by four and took the series, 4-1. they will face either oklahoma or san antonio in the western conference finals. >>> in case there was any doubt, whoo. >> he's good. he's got a future. >> i think so. >>> up next in "the pulse," a sneak attack. this man thought he was doing a good job fishing and then that happened. >>> 2,000 and counting. a 10-year-old girl beating a sit-up record. just like my moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and i was worried about joint damage. my doctor said joint pain from ra... can be a sign of existing joint damage... that could only get worse. he prescribed enbrel to help relieve pain and help stop further damage. enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal

matt scherzer struck out 20 batters against his ex-team, the detroit tigers. the 20 strikeouts tie an mlb record held by three other pitchers. he threw an astonishing 126 strikes on 119 pitches and the least amount of pitches and balls in a 20 strikeout game. after the game, which his nats won by the way, 3-2, scherzer said quote, strikeouts are sexy. and to punch out 20 is sexy. >>> all right. one way to put it and now to the nba. steph curry was awarded his trophy by adam silver. the mvp nails the triple to take the lead. in the fourth, under 30 seconds to go, up two, who do you think would get the ball? >> and curry behind the back. three point is up -- oh! curry! >> just ridiculous. as the warriors eliminate the trail blazers. >>> vice president joe biden attended the invictus games yesterday and he thanked the wounded service members for their sacrifice. american payne won a gold, silver and bronze medal. he lost both legs in battle and he was cheered on by the man who saved his life and elizabeth marx won gold medal on the day. in a touching contribute s

. >>> huge tonight for the nationals, matt scherzer, right-hander was balling, what do we mean by thathe had 20 strike outs. twenty strike outness one game. he only through 23 balls. that ties a major league record. the nationals winning the game three-two your final score. >>> union hosting l.a. galaxy, 63rd mink, union down two -one. rosenbury gets the goal. the at first you don't succeed, try, try again. the his first professional goal and union and galaxy play to a two-two tie. >> that is it for sports i'm don bell, have a great day. >>> is it too much of a good thing? possible new clue in the autism puzzle and important advice doctors have for women. >>> divine transformation we will give you an inside look at ambitious renovations at the divine lorraine hotel and impact the project is having on north broad street, stay with us. so i asked about adding once-daily namenda xr to her current treatment for moderate to severe alzheimer's. it works differently. when added to another alzheimer's treatment, it may improve overall function and cognition. and may slow the worsening of sympt

20 strikeouts for matt scherzer. >> to get a win and 20 points, man -- [ wild cheers ] >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." republican party heavyweights will try today to heal the rift with donald trump. the presidential nominee meets this morning with house speaker paul ryan. they plan to discuss the significant policy differences between them. >> the gap is so wide that a week ago ryan announced he is not ready to support trump in the election. major garrett is at republican headquarters in washington where the two will sit down. >> reporter: good morning. house speaker paul ryan represents a lot of constituencies, among them many skeptical of donald trump. those differences will be a part of today's topics. there will be another topic far more practical also on the table, money. donald trump and the republican national committee are nearing an agreement to raise more than $1 billion for the general election, many that's crucial for trump's campaign and ryan's hopes of protecting his house republican majority. >> i think we wanted to see if i represent a large group of people with ve

we'll show you exactly matt scherzer what a historic night.was bad day altogether. >> certainly does help. good stuff. >> still ahead a behind the scenes look at a recording station and i don't feel like anybody else. >> and the video we cannot stop but share. . >> and in the courtyard and cameras are rolling asthma ma duck led her babies to the river for the first time. don't they look like royalty. look at the school kids. >> fantastic. >> awe. >> it's like they're acknowledging people on either side. >> it's like hello like the royal parade through towns. >> if you watch tonight's epod loft shockers. tell me you didn't watch. we will not get spoilers tonight >> you tweeted and i read it. >> i didn't tweet anything. all right. what you saw tonight we can talk about was another original song. >> we're giving you behind the scenes look into the recording studio where actor and singer song hemmingway means to him. . >> don't date a writer you'll become a story line or lyric signature because you'll become a lyric a lyric >> we asked you about f

20 strikeouts for matt scherzer! >> our content producer sam nassau was there, he said that was amazing, he was watching history literally. max scherzer tied a major league baseball record by striking out 20 batters last night. so let me give you a little bit of context here. that has only happened four other times ever in a nine-inning game. after the game scherzer actually said winning a world series was more important to him and the team. scherzer and the nats get the day off today and the team is back at nats park tomorrow scherzer won't pitch again until wednesday. >> all right. it's football but not exactly the way most of us know it. when we say it's played inside, we're not talking about a stadium with a dome. this is the afl, arena football, and it's played on a 68-yard field, about half the distance of your standard gridiron. on a field of that size, higher pace, higher scoring game and it's on its way to washington. here is the man who will be directing the action for washington's brand new arena team. it'

. >> amazing, his information rig, matt scherzer struck out 20 batters in last night's game.to scherzer struck out 20 batters in last night's game. drop the glove, walk off the field. >> what else can he do? >> is this onl league history. the last guy did it in 2001. he and the nats have the day off today. they will be back at nats park tomorrow fight. in wh in. >> what a feat. >> that was good, but i still have to keep working. he says this is not the end. >>> there is a good chance you didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night. story of my life. how closing your eyes just for a few minutes at the office could help make up for the shortfall. >>> and a soggy and foggy start to your thursday as you look live into the district of columbia this morning. what you can expect on your way to work with your commuter forecast. >>> plus making the grade. the changes being put in place at one local school district that could improve your child's report card. vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program doe

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matt scherzer sure makes his act a tough one to follow.ave to feel a little sorry for geo gonzalez. he is last time didn't good so well. gave up season high-five hundreds against the cups. marlins has been a thorn in the side this year. note the key to the series is limited miami's giancarlo stanton. >> these guys, when stanton has been on it, the big boys can carry you just like harve did us in april. if the guys are hot in the middle of the lineup then they got a good clans it win. and so even though big guys are hot you have it keep the little guys off the bases. >> maryland men's and women's basketball teams coming off of impress you've seasons. but that's nothing compared to the men and women number one seed for upcoming ncaa tournament. men fresh off victory. tournamt 14-2. getting things started sunday against quinnipiac. mareland men haven't won a national title since 1975. not the case for women bp two-time defending champions. finishing 19-0. heavy favorites no matter who they play. >> they are winning all the time, every year. i

oh, but still wins the game, washington beats detroit three-two, behind matt scherzer. st. louis, dallas, ken hitchcock, former flyers coach, st. louis, blows them away three-nothing after one period on what was soft goal. they win the series, win the game six-one, over dallas. that's sports in a minute. i'm howard eskin. >> that word practice will always be associated with nba hall every famer allen iverson. >> and to honor the former sixer's play, a shoe has been made in his honor. >> everybody tease me about it, former teammates, family members, friends, whatever. you know what i mean, so general conversation with somebody about basketball and i'll be like i saw him practice, and then they'll come back, practice, practice, you know, so everybody tease me about it. i'm okay with it now, back then it just hurt me so bad, because i just love my friends. >> ya, that was taken out of context, his friends had just passed a kim of days before this, he was kind of in a emotional state, saying to the reporters seriously, all you want to talk about is practice. because that far 20

that's matt scherzer. he's good. he was real good.outs, had 20, that ties the record, four other times that's happened. going for two; which would be the record. he still wins the game, washington beats detroit three-two, behind matt. game seven st. louis, dallas, ken hitchcock, former flyers coach, blows them away three-nothing, what was soft call. they win the series, win six-one over dallas. that's sports in a minute. i'm howards eskin. >> look at this, this headline. so the braves stock up on left-handed pitching because the phillies can't seem to hit lefthanders. so that's the new strategy against the phillies, if the preditors win their hockey game tonight it will be ken hitchcock versus peter lavalette, two former coaches for the flyers going against each other. >> sue? >> all right, so -- >> not yet. >> oh, all right. >> or kathy orr? >> dave, your turn. >> well there is fear of social media driven pay back here in wilmington after the death of amy joyner francis and charges in that case, how community leaders are responding a

the record night for nats pitcher matt scherzer. but first, chuck spell hbell out-the-door forecast. >> good morning. fog and cloudiness here this morning. we will see brightening of the skies and maybe a few slivers of sunshine before more rain chances come back tonight. stormy weather likely for friday and potentially saturday, as well. i'm optimistic that sunday may be the end of the streak of consecutive rainy days. thick fog in spots this morning. advise alwavisibility only a ha winchester. next 24 hours cloud, fog, upper 50s thousanow. by 7:00, clouds moving back in and showers on the way. around 60 degrees tomorrow morning. a complete check of the weekend at 6:21. >>> so right now looking nice and dry here top of the beltway. inner loop and out are loop here at connecticut avenue, no worries there here this morning. 270 south headed out of frederick, just a little slow pretty normal going about 29 miles per hour this morning. also taking a look at 66, again slow spo t

he signed a free agent deal with the tigers and pitch against matt scherzer.oo you won't hear the capitals say then the penguins right where they want them. they are down 3-2. now capitals travel to pittsburgh for game six hey there's help on the way. brooks orpik is back from a three game suspension. caps lost two games without him. 1-2 when he missed time in the flyers series because of injury. now he's ready blue line and spoil the party in pittsburgh where he played for 11 seasons. >> it's the week i didn't think i would miss. so try to stay sharp in practice that i had and guys did a really good job and pushed to it six. we have an opportunity tomorrow to keep the season long. >> a lot of guys are willing to do a lot for each other. if we play our best we're a pretty tough team to beat. >> this is the way to travel. kentucky derby winner nyquist touching down in baltimore less than 48 hours after winning the run for the roses and to borrow an election term, he arrives at pimco as the presumptive winner. i'm disappointed suddenbreakingnews didn't win. >> t

to make a move for power bat, you know, before -- >> well, to put it in perspective right now, matt scherzert the plate with his at any time 250 average, regular starters on the nats, so, got to do would work at the plate. want to talk about the nba. calves are running away with everything right now, in that conference at least. nba draft, dime stone, tremble, first round. what do you guys think? >> mellow tremble -- >> i think trim belly don't think will get date dollars at all. >> if mellow was smart woe come back, article about it in the washington post this morning, if you want to check that out. we have been talking about it for the last two weeks or so. just casino after betweener, hamstring issues, shooting percentages are down, didn't play well at the combine. best thing for him to do come back, play in the big ten, enjoy that experience, become an icon there, then see what happens, maybe next year, but right now, by most account, if mellow entered the draft he would end up un drafted. >> all about timing. if he had come out after freshman year might have snuck into the first round,

washington nationals pitcher matt scherzer joining a pretty prestigious mlb club.uck out 20 batters last night. >> the british company sound leisure said it plans to start changing out vinyl -- >> pizza hut is delivering to mt. kilimanjaro. >> after saying he the only candidate not looking for donations, donald trump is ramping up his fund-raising in a big way. his first scheduled event at the home of a former business partner set to take place in los angeles at the end of this month. trace gallagher with this huge story. >> it's estimated that trump has spent upwards of $40 million of his own money on the primaries but to beat the democrats in the general election, it appears trump will need to raise anywhere between $1 billion and $2 billion. and they are well behind the eight ball because they don't have a structure. it appears the gop will rely heavily on the fund-raising apparatus of the republican national committee. trump did hold a fund-raiser on new york's long island last night but the big kickoff to generate the cash will happen with a series of finance

books. >> 20 strikeouts for matt scherzer! >> in the nation's capitols history has been made. he had the most strikeouts in a game. the fans and the announcers were electric. >> goosebumps. did they bring it up? >> i don't know. >> and so was scherzer. the 31-year-old ace is now on johnson and carey wood, the only other pitchers to show strikeouts in nine innings. kerry wood tweeted saying, welcome to the club. #filthy. he led the nats to a 3-2 victory over the detroit tigers. >> game over. >> we got a win and man, that's a great, great feeling. >> reporter: a feeling that nats fans aren't likely to forget. >> again, a win at 3-2. scherzer also scattered six hits, as savannah said at the top of the show. >> and in that moment used all my baseball language. dylan dryer is in acadia national park. we're celebrating 100 years of dylan, good morning. >> it's this nice in . >> good morning, i'm meteorologist chuck bell. we have thick fog from northern montgomery county out to loudoun county, visibility under a mile. low beams on, r

washington nationals pitcher matt scherzer, struck south 20 batters last night, tying in with randy johnson, kerry woods, fosh the most strikeouts in a single game. >> yes, here 21 right here. oh,. >> and here is the amazing part. he used to play, i don't know if you heard of this school, mike, university of miss youry? >> how do you spell miss youry? mizzou? >> no, the college affectionately callings it mizzou. trending yesterday, mizzou with the 20k's. >> if you want to celebrate one of our rivals, one of the -- >> oh, don't pull this. >> from washington, go ahead. >> i'm sorry in the final four, weren't you cheering for kansas so far villanova? that work out well, didn't it? >> , no never did that. >> so moving on, ya. >> ahead, be a kansas city fan all you want. >> cher cher. >> they're not trash. before you throw your old phones, check what they are area worth. how much some old apple products are being sold for on line. >> even if they're used? >> well -- >> oh. >> and the future of transportation will be close to reality. how this experiment, look at this, look at this, it is basical

in the third, the bases-loaded, scherzer facing matt holliday, 1-0 st. louis. next batter, this is where gets bad, stephen bisciotti -- launches thisty one, grand salami. maryland women's lacrosse in the hunt for their third straight national title, semi final action against syracuse tonight. nch with the goal, her third of the half. the terps led 10-3 at the break. taylor cummings had a huge game, four goals. this one puts the terps up 16-6. maryland wins 19-9. they will face north carolina on the finals -- in the final on sunday. nba finals, lebron with a chance to close it out against the raptors. great ball movement by cleveland, jr s don't use the head fake, never works. the cavs close it out. lebron james going to the nba finals now for the sixth 3-87.ght time, 11 wizards guard bradley beal maybe getting big money. to giverds are expected him the max contract that he has been asking for. as soon as the free-agent negotiation period begins july 1. instead of "you like that," it is "you think that." tok cousins is teaming up launch financial football, inter

matt: let's take a look at some of the stocks. fiat chrysler gets an upgrade from moody's on its debt, but the scherzer falling anyway.e upgrades are likely. munis rates the automaker at be-a three. it does not matter what good news comes out for carmakers or how good they do, investors say it will always get worse, so you might as well sell the stock. analyst vincent king check -- discover shares are up over 4% this year, well above the andstry giants, visa mastercard. ross stores is the latest victim of a slow shopping culture. the stock has been downgraded to underweight from neutral. we can consumer environment is being blamed for the cut. seaworld shares could fall much further after credit suisse doubled -- double downgraded the shares from form to outperform. there ischaikin says little possibility for them to raise prices. jon: i extent a thank you to ed hammond. he is busy man at the moment. up next on "bloomberg ," futures are soft through much of the session. the s&p 500 futures, negative four. the market open next on "bloomberg ." ♪ ♪ jonathan: let's get you up to speed with the global financial sc