matt talks about sort of new entry. leaping metro during this time period when it was measured went from strong providers to pretty significant, you know, larger providers who are working to try to get a national footprint. during the same time period, clearwire jumped into the market and became a participant. cox decided that it was going to enter the wireless market. comcast worked with some other cable providers to purchase spectrum. so, you know, i look at this, and i say all of those things suggest that there is competition going on. are there barriers? certainly, there are barriers. one of them is that it's extremely capital intensive to enter this market. another one is you can't just make a decision and start. you need spectrum. we've been pushing hard for the last several years, um, the chairman, chairman genachowski, commissioners, the president of the united states mentioned the need to bring spectrum to market in his state of the union address, republicans and democrats in the house and in the senate all hav

i agree with matt. i would love the opportunity for everybody to get as much spectrum as they want and allow them all to compete without having to worry about infrastructure. that's key from our perspective, but i think if you want to pick and choose and want to find individual statistics within the report to raise concerns, that's a possibility, but i don't think when you look at the entirety of the report that there's any way to conclude that there is not effective competition. >> host: paul kirby, next question. >> guest: it allows cell sites to be connected back to the network, and that's a big concern of smaller carriers, their contention is that verizon and at&t have the backlog market locked up and say there's alternatives open to reaching agreements. the report talks about back hall and what is called special access and that's something to be addressed. give us a sense why you think the market is a problem and then if chris wants to address that as well. >> guest: again, we at free press and oth

over to you. >> thanks, matt.t old phrase, a funny thing happened on the way to the coronation? well, casey anthony gives us a funny thing happened on the way to the execution. most of america was virtually surrounding the courthouse holding pitchforks and nooses eager to take her straight from the holding cell to the electric chair so they could fry this supposed symbol of all that's gone wrong with the young generation that's so hot to live bella vita and so clueless about raising kids. the jury agreed in its heart casey a probably the reason why caylee died, but they knew they didn't hear anywhere near enough evidence to convict. they came back quickly because they didn't have much to argue about. it wasn't even close. so they acquitted her as they vomited about it. they're an exemplary jury and proof of the system working. you cannot convict because you feel someone's done wrong. you must have the evidence. we have plenty of examples of the system not working, like a police officer in san francisco being found

matt talks about new entry. the measurement went from very small regional providers to fairly significant, larger providers who are working to try to get a national footprint. during the same time, clear wire jumped into the market and became a participant. cox and comcast worked to purchase spectrum. i look at this and i say all of those things suggest there is competition going on. are there barriers? certainly. one of them is it is extremely capital intensive, this market. the other is you cannot just make a decision and start. you need to specter. we have been pushing hard the last several years. it -- you need spectrum. republicans and democrats and the house and the senate all have identified the need to bring more spectrum to market. i agree, i would love to have an opportunity for everyone to get as much spectrum as they want and allow them all to just compete without having to worry about infrastructure. that is key from our perspective. but if you want to pick and choose and find individual statistics

but mattes continues to report on suleiman. and after his third story, mattes says he gets a frightening phone call. >> in the middle of the night, i'm going to come get you. you're an insect. you better retract. >> mattes says threatening late-night calls to his personal cell phone become regular and frequent. >> all of the threats were directed at my reporting. all of the threats were directed at shutting me down. >> the now notorious mauling starts while mattes is interviewing this man, b.k. phillips, for a fourth story about a pair of previous run-ins with suleiman. >> this is our house. >> phillips lives next door to one of suleiman's buildings and he says, first, they have a neighborly squabble. and on a second occasion, as phillips walks through his neighborhood back to his home on a sunday afternoon, he says suleiman crosses the line. >> suleiman shows up out of nowhere, screeched up in his car, kicked open his car door, ran out and literally was posturing like i'm going to kick your butt, i'm going to beat your ass and

matt? >> i tell you, al, this represents this morning, the motorcade had to actually move these people out of the way. anyway, we'll get back to you in a couple of minutes. >>> meanwhile, there has been a major development in the ongoing budget negotiations. president obama suspended the talks for the today. we'll tell you why and we'll talk to one of the senators who has been inside the negotiating room all week long. >> that's right. and also casey anthony is going to be released this sunday. and -- from prison. authorities are becoming increasingly concerned for her safety and we're live at the jail this morning with details on that story. >>> remember the photo we showed you earlier this week of that massive 18-foot long crocodile, the saltwater croc? a lot of people thought this was a doctor'd photograph. you can believe it's real. we went in search of that beast and we found him. >>> let's begin with that breaking news over night in boston where two delta planes collided. nbc's tom co

david, the floor is yours. >> thank you, matt.g has been painting america's public employees as leeches and villains. they say the government is the problem, and the hysteria is reaching a fever pitch this month as budget negotiations come down to the wire. well, i've decided to take it personally, as my dad approaches his 80th birthday this year. you see, my brilliant scientist father, who could have made millions starting his own companies or joining corporate boards has devoted his life to public service as a government employees. he run the va hospital research wing in ply hometown, using federal grands in the national institutes of health, he helped to develop a kind of medicine for high blood pressure that if you have high blood pressure you probably use to stay healthy. he's taken care of vet advance, saving countless lives in the process. he's taught generations of medical students at the university of wisconsin. he started free clinics for my grant farm workers and homeless throughout wisconsin. does that sound like the m

a good sweltering evening to you, matt. >> reporter: and to you, diane. this is camp shiloh, and like the rest of oklahoma city, it's staggering through its 23rd consecutive day of triple digit heat. but it feels hotter than that. check out this thermometer. it reads 125 degrees on the grass. and we heard it was so hot, that you could actually cook a steak on the dashboard of a car. so, we gave it a try, and in just a couple of moments, we'll show you what happened. the deadly heat that's batteteng the country's midsection has so far set or broken 1,000 records this month alone. it kicked up this towering dust storm in phoenix and left roads buckling on highways from texas all the way to minnesota. this camp is sweating through its 88th summer. c's chris bury spoke to its camp director. >> this is the hottest week on record here at the camp.

yeah, when matt and i were, like, 20, i said, "matt, how can we be honored someday for anything?" and we figured, "let's do a cartoon and go that route." so it's-- "how can i be in the same room with oliver stone-- and not at the playboy mansion?" [laughter] where would i be? norman lear was here earlier and talked about how much he enjoyed your show. and he sits down with a nephew, i guess, and he says the bonding experience-- and it was the highest praise. he said what he felt most positively by your show is that it's evocative and people talk about it afterwards. and he said that's all he ever hoped for with his programs. and that's the highest praise possible. yeah-- no, and it was really-- and coming from him, because we were definitely influenced by him as well. and when we saw-- you know, we grew up sort of more with sitcoms like diff'rent strokes and hello, larry and facts of life, 'cause that was supposed to be our comedy, and so it wasn't until a little bit later that we saw syndicated runs of all in the family. and we were, you know, really, like, "wow, this was-- what

matt, it is really difficult out here. somewhere, you go into an establishment and you hear people say, oh, and then they come back out. kind of the same thing, oh, it's a relief and it's the heat. it just comes and goes when you go in and out. you have a short memory when you're inside and get used to the nice air conditioning and go outside. each time it's -- you're like, oh, man, i can't believe it's this hot. absolutely amazing just how hot it is here. >> i'm impressed with that young man who was trying to avoid implicating his sister in whining until you dragged it out of him in ace journalistic fashion. when i lived in washington, going to museum to museum was the strategy or you would advise tourists on days like this, a way to stay cool most of the time. >> reporter: definitely. that is the best bet. you're right. we are in the town of politics. he was doing a great job of playing the politics. that is for sure. i popped into the museum over here, checked out some of that european art, a nice way to spend 20 minute

so, matt, the producer. i wanted to show you, matt, in the control room.on this one, matt. he sends me this. in other words, oh, my gosh, i found it. can i show you what he found? real jelly fish. >> it's really lighting up though. >> oh, well, we tried. okay, very good. that's a jelly fish, the grateful dead song. well, it's going to be a fine day. 89 at lunch and on the way to 91. take a bow on that one, man. i'm thinking today. >> do you want a band-aid for your finger? >> you didn't take a bow. >> take a bow, matt. this is our producer, matt simon. >> fellow bearded gentlemen. >> nice jelly fish. >> we tried. >> the temperature will be about 90 as a high. it won't be as comfortable as 90-degrees yesterday. let's go back to the graphic. it's going to be sunny all day long. hot, humid, and tolerable. 87 at dinner. fireworks in the low 80s. it will be a gorgeous, gorgeous evening. wjz is proud to be a sponsor, proud to be involved with the fireworks at the inner harbor. >> coming up, it's actor barry pepper on "true grit." they stayed true to the original

oh boy. >> matt, what is up with your book? >> it is next called "the next great bull market." know what i know about vibrators, just imagine if i can get you some money. >> actually i read the book and i thought it was interesting the only thing bernie madoff was guilty of was getting caught. i thought that was interesting. >> yes. >> courtney, finally doing the twitter thing? >> i joined a couple years ago, but i am officially tweeting now. i need a little chiron like you guys have. >> if you want people to tweet you put your phone number and home address along with it. >> and a picture of your foot. >> notes to friel. >> maybe don't tweet, courtney. >> awful. >> i tweeted you tonight. >> did you? i didn't see that. i will take a look. >> tweet me back. >> maybe i will. >> amazing conversation. >> yes, speaking of feet. >> it is like tennis between three-year-olds. >> bill, how is your foot? >> not good. it is pussy and i don't have my -- >> i just saw it. >> and courtney just looked at it. >> i thought i had a chance. also i am working on my business book called "it is more

i'm matt in tonight for bruce johnson. thanks for joining us. the holiday weekend turned deadly. three people are dead, another is fighting for her life after their car slammed into a tree in the 1300 block of mississippi avenue in southeast dc. police still don't know what happened and are trying to figure out if speed was a factor. armando trull has the very latest. >> reporter: matt, this deadly accident is still under investigation by the dc police department's major crash unit. this is what we know. the 2007 mitsubishi was traveling at a high rate of speed here on mississippi avenue and then it hit this speed bump and went flying out of control. the sedan rolled three times and as it did, three of the four people inside were tossed out of the car like rag dolls, including the driver. a rear seat passenger remains in the car as it crashed down an embankment into two large trees. a male passenger died on the scene. the second passenger and the driver died at the hospital. the only passenger not ejected is now in critical condition. >> and this deadly accident is one of the rea

i'm matt miller in today for dylan ratigan. dylan's hard at work on his upcoming book. >>> a sweltering heat wave grips the nation, the pressure is turned up on washington tore a debt ceiling with just 12 days to go. the white house calling out the "new york times" for sending out a bad alert that obama and boehner are close to a major budget deal. listen in. >> the breaking news, reports that you all have probably received is incorrect. there is no deal. we are not close to a deal. >> in the house, the s&p pulls freshmen republicans aside for waiting to act. holding out to the last minute when the markets tank and believe the ball will be in their tank because in political pro wrestling time means levera leverage. meantime, the cut, cap and balance amendment, demanding a vote because it doesn't have a chance of survival. senator reid trying to put on the pressure with speaker boehner firing right back. >> time is of the essence. when there are people who want to cause problems it takes a long time to get things done. unfortuna

>> matt gutman leading us off again tonight, matt, thank you. >>> i want to bring in abc's dr. richard besser and sam champion, our weather editor. rich, let's start with you. sleeping, as matt said. there's a reason why we are all lethargic. we're not sleeping as well. even when we thought we were. so, what do you do? >> reporter: that's right. a couple tips. one thing, before you go to bed, you can try a cool shower or a cool bath. that will help bring down your core body temperature. but the tip i heard today that i like the most, try putting your sheets in the freezer for a couple h hou before you go to bed. it will make your bed more comfortable, may help you get to that part of falling to sleep. >> just don't forget you left them there. and the sweating, you pointed this out before. when you stop sweating, it's problem. tonight, you sayayit's a proble, and quickly. >> reporter: this is really important. listen to this. in just 10 to 15 minutes, if you've stopped sweating, your body temperature can go up to 106 degrees or higher. than can be deadly. >> and lastly, looking

matt welch is certainly not a fan of that. and i always bring it back to my grandparents who left europe because they didn't want to be part of somebody else's national greatness plan. >> richard nixon -- you call him the "colossus of yorba linda." >> yes, well that's a reference to the iluminados trilogy by robert anton wilson and robert shea, where throughout it, it's a great parody book of a kind of conspiracy theory that came out in the early to mid-'70s, and throughout it a character is trying to raise money to build a stature in honor of nixon, they called the "colossus of yorba linda." >> what did you think of him? >> of nixon? >> yes. >> nixon is a -- i think he is a fascinating, psychological type and he was an odious personality, and in a lot of ways, i -- to call him a tragic figure is probably to offer too much grandeur to -- to simply a politician, but it's -- it's fascinating -- what -- what is most fascinating to me about richard nixon is that he couldn't enjoy his victories because he wasjust tormented by what

and music from matt nathanson. >> jimmy: here's what i don't understand about afghanistan. with all that opium laying around you'd think it would be a mellower place. >> dicky: "jimmy kimmel live can i eat heart healthy without giving up taste? a man can only try... and try...and try. i heard eating wle grain oats can help lower my cholesterol. it's gonna be tough...so tough. my wife and i want to lowe our cholesterol, but finding healthy food that tastes good is torturous. your father is suffering. [ male announc ] honey nut cheerios tastes great and can help lower cholesterol. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- molly shannon. denver broncos quarterback tim tebow. and music from matt nathanson. with cleto and the cletones. ♪ it's "jimmy kimmel live" >> dicky: and now, the moment we've been waiting for. here's jimmy kimmel! [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hi, everyone. i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for coming. i -- [ cheers and applause ] that's

josh groban and from "glee" matt morris. keeping things rocking and tonight's stars will be dancing. strutting their stuff on the capitol 4th stage. you saw them dancing. a lot of shaking going on. >> we threw that one together. >> came together in 2 minutes. >> that looked pretty good. >> thank you. >> way to make us all feel inadequate. in 2 minutes. i understand you have got some real special things going on later. can you give us a hint? beauty and beast. >> it is beauty and beast anniversary. so we are doing a ramba. >> it will be really beautiful. a latin thing going on. jordan sparks will be singing. >> reporter: that's the dress rehearsal 8 to 10:30 and the real deal is tomorrow. back to you. >> the fireworks show will begin at 20 after 9 p.m. tomorrow night and should last exactly 17 minutes. here now a few more things you need to know. no alcohol allowed on the national mall. also, glass bottles and tents have to stay home. best way is probably by public transportation and make sure to get their early so you can ge

all right, matt gutman leading us off tonight. matt, thank you. >>> we're going to turn next to that terrifying shark attack. a little girl in the hospital tonight. we learned she has been upgraded from critical condition after being attacks in just a foot and a half of water. it happened on ocracoke island, a very popular spot along north carolina's outer banks. especially in this heat wave. abc's steve osunsami is in north carolina tonight. >> reporter: it was late in the afternoon. the young girl, swimming with her father in just a foot and a half of water, was riding on a boogie board when witnesses say the shark struck, seriously wounding her leg. >> the mother yelled that a child had been apparently bit by what appeared to be a shark. >> reporter: the 6-year-old suffered wounds to her calf and foot. they were severe enough that emergency personnel air lifted her to the only trauma hospital in the area, nearly two hours away. if authorities confirm this is a shark attack, it will be the 13th in the u.s. so far this year. earl

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[laughter] you are back on -- come on up, matt. you are back on. >> but we do in every downtown fraud to a and we will be notified but a public hearing. the key difference is we are so -- assuming that the use in itself is a common data by the planning code and that we will no doubt on issues of design, there are criteria within an with design guidelines that are tailored to an incentive for 309 is the review process. community members working in community groups will be notified and will have an opportunity to weigh in as they consider each incumbent. supervisor cohen: good answer. this next question has to do with public benefits. how should the delivery be approved? >> mostly we have talked about the dedication of much of the land. technically it will the public

matt? >> all right. stephanie gosk in london this morning, stephanie, as always, thank you very much. michael wolff is the editorial director of "adweek" magazine. and martin bashir is host of "the martin bashir show" on msnbc. guys, good morning to both of you. >> good morning, matt. >> michael, let me start with you. yesterday you said you thought there was the potential for a complete meltdown on the part of rupert murdoch. you watched the testimony as everyone else did. did he help or hurt himself with members of parliament and shareholders in his company? >> he held a certain kind of ground here. and he did it in a very by-the-book way. what he and his son did was stonewall. they went up there. they said they knew nothing. it was everybody else's fault. they were apart from whatever went on. it was the classic legalistic defense. >> were they a good team? did they complement one another? at times rupert was at a loss for words. at other times he was banging his hand on the table, showi

matt newcomer. all right, matt, who is our second place winner in the amateur category?inner is the team from abc 7. >> abc 7 come and get it! couple of words? >> thank you so much. if you watch abc 7 at 3:00 p.m. um see this trophy on tv. >> ok, excellent. all right. and to announce the first place winner, mr. wes tyler of union square. wes? big mystery. who's the winner. >> by the process of elimination, it's koit! >> koit. mr. scotty bastopol for the third year in a row. love this city. thank you. >> runners up. the 47th not -- annual cable car bell ringing competition, no particular order, mr. trini whitaker. sullivan philips. ken lunardi. and joseph hsu. come up and get your trophies. thank the judges. [laughter] now it's time for what you've been waiting for, third place, ladies and gentlemen, mr. howard woo. howard woo. again, they're not booing you. all right. mr. ken mcdonald. chief of muni operations officer, please come forward to help me present the second place trophy. second place, ladies and gentlemen. mr. frank ware. and before we announce the winner i'm

i'm matt lauer. i just want to announced i'm wearing a container of johnson's baby powder under this suit. >> thank you so much for sharing that. that's right. i'm ann curry. we're in the channel gardens and outside because we're crazy this morning. the heat index is already 95 degrees this morning. it's supposed to be about 102 degrees in new york city, matt. >> we've been talking about this heat wave for a long time now. today the east coast is getting the worse of it. you're going to have a heat index of about 111 here in new york city, 118 down in washington, d.c., 107 up in boston. power grids struggling to keep up with all the demand. al is going to have the very latest on this situation coming up in just a couple of minutes. >> also coming up this morning we'll be talking about lindsay lohan. she's in court, was in court on thursday. she's saying she can't afford court-ordered psychiatric help. but shortly after that hearing the blogosphere noticed she showed up wearing thousand-dollar shoes.

matt, will it happen? >> i think the politicians are going to cut a deal and we're going to find out the world is not going to care and we're going to be downgraded anyway because we continue to live beyond our means. >> jamie: thanks, matt. chris? >> first, i think you put me and hath in a room and banged it out three weeks ago and playing golf by now. >> agreed. >> second, there will be a deal at 11:51 p.m. on monday night, mark my words. >> jamie: i suppose that's eight minutes before it needs-- >> eight minutes before midnight. >> jamie: thanks so much, gentlemen. thank you so much for being here. >> have a great saturday. >> jamie: thanks for following things so closely and giving your perspective. fair and balanced. great. >> kelly: let's talk about thunderstorm don, how it turned into a dud for dry texas. the storm so many had actually hoped for would fuelly bring them some much-needed rain to the parched state fizzling out, dropping less than an inch of rain. texas is suffering from an extreme drou

thank you, matt. and two hours, you said, to do it. thank you, matt gutman. >>> and now, you speak out. we are hearing it from every corner of the country and tonight, our new abc news poll drives it home. americans telling washington you are furious at the continued squabbling among politicians. 80% of you dissatisfied and angry with the federal government. and that's a 20-year high. republicans bearing the brunt of the blame. 67% disapprove of the way republicans in congress are handling the economy. 57% disapprove of the president. and that countdown clock shows the economic time bomb is still ticking towards default, two weeks from today. so, abc's jon karl took your messages straight to the lawmakers in the middle of the mess. jon? >> reporter: yes, diane. we have -- we went and talked to members of congress in both parties in both chambers, gave their reaction to what they're hearing in terms of the anger from the american people. a group of freshmen house republicans descended on the white house today demanding the president com

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matt gutman is at cape canaveral with the very latest. we're just 30 minutes away from history. and it seems like the weather is complying. we've seen a couple of sneak peeks of the sun after 24 hours of nearly torrential rain here. first, nasa gave the launch only a 30% chance of go. that seems to be improving. it was so bad at one point, that lightning struck very near the shuttle. now, no damage was done. everything was okay. the astronauts are now in the hatch. everytytng is closed. they're sitting on 3 1/2 million pounds of rocket fuel, ready to go, as are nearly 1 million people, watching from the roads, from beaches. they're packed in. they're cheek to jowl, old and young, all hopinin to catch a glimpse of history that will last them a lifetime. the mission is a 12-day mission to go up to the space station, take much-needed supplies and come back down with garbage. it's taken nasa 30 years to get to this point. there will be a lot of tears shed here when this is all over. and all of us are hoping it goes by safely. josh? >> matt gu

matt, are you giving a speech this weekend? >> people are coming to hear me talk. the american association of individual investors. it may be six people, but i am flying to l.a. to hang ow. more importantly i want to wish a happy birthday to the girl who woke up in my bed this morning. it was her birthday. >> remember the name. >> that was not a girl. thank you, though. >> unbelievable. back to you, greg. >> thank you, andy. >> you are welcome. >> anne, always a pleasure. matt,

abc's matt gutman here in new york, this city now sweltering, too. matt? >> reporter: thanks, david. that's right. new york city today, 104 degrees. deadly heat. now, i've been following this heat wave for five days now, all the way from dallas. haven't felt anything quite like this. it's been so hot here that they closed the crown of the statue of liberty for the second straight day. so hot, people are cranking up their air conditioning and pushing utility companies to the very limit. utilities from montana to new york including the nation's largest, which oversees 13 states, set new records for power use today. here in new york, con-ed blew past its previous record by 1:00 p.m. and are unsure how much the system can take. >> on the one hand, it's really exciting. on the other hand, it's kind of scary. so, yeah, we're in unchartered territory. >> reporter: that's partly because even as the heat in mega-cities like new york subsides, energy use rises. >> especially in cities, the concrete and steel and asphalt really retain that heat and just carry it for

i'm ann curry. >> and i'm matt lauer. and this case in brooklyn has shaken the murder of this 8-year-old boy. >> it's shaken anyone thinking about this as a parent. the victim just eight years out, begged his parents to be allowed to walk home from summer camp by himself. they finally agreed. police say it was happensubstance he asked a man for help who would wind up killing him. >>> a new arrest tied to the tabloid phone hacking scandal in britain. lawmakers here at home in the u.s. are calling for their own investigation. we're going to have details on that. do you know how to secure your cell phone to prevent people from hacking it? we're going to run through four things you need to know to keep hackers at bay. >> also this morning, daniel radcliffe will be here, the star, of course of the wildly successful "harry potter" franchise and the final film is opening tomorrow. it has already set the record for advanced ticket sales and he'll be opening up about the series as it comes to an end and a personal issue that he st

matt? >> al, thank you ry >> and that's your latest weather. matt? >> hope is all, but lost today upon finding three hikers alive who were swept over a waterfall at california's yosemite national park. nbc's george lewis is there this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, matt. it was a traumatic experience for family members and friends watching the three victims disappear into the waterfall and down to the rapids below. park officials say it was a tragic chain reaction, a dozen or so people had entered the river above vernal fall posing for pick thes urs. denise garcia watched it unfold. >> they started jumping from rock to rock. when the guy jumped from one rock to the other rock, he slipped and he slipped and started going down and then the girl, she started slipping and so the guy that was taking the pictures put the camera down and went after them and they all three went over the waterfall. >> to go over the precipice at vernal fall is not survivable and so they are presumed dead at this time. we have not recovered their bodies.

p, there are, -- matt indications of blood on it, so it is an authentic map. skated on our website. a patron wants to look at it, it is readily available. whether you live in the u.s., or beijing or moscow or london. >> others just wanted it all to go away. >> the papers of president coolidge, he was often called silent cal. and there are good reasons for that. he was reticent in his public speaking. and he followed that in his papers as well. it is with an era when presidential papers were personal property and he could do whatever it he wanted with them that he pleased. what pleased him when he left the white house was to burn almost all of them. what we have are from some pride -- filing cabinets that were in the basement of the white house that were overlooked. and when he left, they were discovered in the note early 1930's. he wrote a letter requesting the president's permission to go get them. he thought this would be the opening of a long and lengthy time of negotiations. instead, he got back a letter 10 days later that were termed sentences. essentiall

matt, thank you so much. >> all right. we will put the 211 number up but it's easy to remember. here is job fairs coming up in san jose and south san francisco. we'll be right back.qqqqqq beth! hi. looking good! you've lost some weight. thanks! you noticed! you know these clothes are too big now, so i'm donating them. nogoing back the again. good for you! how'd you do i eating right, whole grain. whole grain? whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't... multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories per serving... more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. >>> welcome back. i'm cheryl jennings, we're talking about unemployment and programs to help you find a job. here is another sign that the bay area economy is improving. and auto dealership was looking to hire three dozen positions, they are offering 39 job openings at june job fair. that is not isolated blip on the radar. they say san jose has seen the best job growth rated of the ten largest cities. >> the economy is defin

here's matt. >> ann, thanks very much.now to washington and the heat that president obama and congressional leaders are under to reach a deal on slashing the budget deficit. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house with the latest on this. good morning. good to see you. >> good morning. good to see you, too. president obama will meet with congressional leaders again today. the two sides still very much deadlocked. and the clock is ticking. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: with the deadline looming, president obama and congressional leaders met monday for a third time but they're still struggling to find common ground on the debt ceiling. >> this is the same shot you had yesterday except we're wearing ties today. >> reporter: those familiar with monday's talk, republicans and democrats, seemed to be gaining no ground, agreeing to only about $1.5 trillion in cuts to things like defense spending, medicare, medicaid. but that's far short of the estimated $2.4 trillion needed to get a deal done past 20 12, and the preside

matt, what do you think that means for mccotter? does that help him?ink you have to look at these early polls with a degree of curiosity. they don't really tell us that much. it is a name. game now. romney lead -- it is a name id game now. romney leads because he ran across the country for the nomination last time. some of the other candidates like bachmann, santorum, less well-known. one of the interesting things about this field for the republicans is that it is truly anybody's race right now. one of these candidates that we would consider almost a tier two candidate could catch fire. anything could happen with the interesting political times in which we live. >> don, polls show that president obama a generic republican, he comes out winning. put him a specific time and not so much. do you think this is something -- is this the type of candidate that will maybe scare the democrats a little bit? somebody that can be -- is he somebody that can be considered a serious contender? >> i think the white house welcomes his entry because it shows the field is

matt, come on now, what happened? >> this is my "magnum p.i."tume. >> and then we have got tinker bell, right? >> in all my winged glory. what's going on there? you guys are having way too much fun up there. >> we're here at come ic con, is now turned into one of the biggest pop culture events of the year, some big news coming from some of the hollywood panels that are here, we have heard that robert rodriguez has announced that there will be a sin city 2, he's also announced sequels to machetti. >> it's not just movies, which is what makes it so fun, there's also some tv news, which matt was really surprised about. >> the game panel -- there was a huge line for that, hundreds of people waiting to get n that show's really taken off and really the core audience is here at the convention and hollywood and the networks really used the convention to kind of get the word out with the superfans and it trickles out and it helps bring interest out. >> and we got to see peter, and both on a tv and a movie level, we're all weirded out. >> let's talk movie

matt? >> al, thanks very much. >>> this morning the fbi is joining the investigation into a series of sexual assaults in ann arbor, michigan, pretd t ti close to university of michigan campus. nbc's ron allen has the details on that. ron, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. yes, there have been six attacks in 12 days, and they have stunned this prominent, progressive academic community. one woman was groped walking down the street. another was sexually assaulted in a parking garage. we were able to talk to one woman who came forward to report her story of a horrible crime. >> i just felt extremely violated. >> reporter: two weeks ago, this young student was walking alone near her off-campus house when she was attacked. >> a man ran up from between some house, ran up behind me, and he lifted up my dress above my hips and started grabbing at me. >> reporter: her assailant fled when an eyewitness ran to help her. the victim does not want her identity revealed, fearful of the assaila

i'm matt lauer. >> i'm ann curry. you're about to see the townhouse where dominique strauss-khan is living under house arrest right now. but that could change, matt, when he appears in court later this morning. >> it certainly could. this is a man who was in charge of one of the world's most powerful financial institutions, and he was also considered a strong contender the french presidency but that all changed when he was accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper here in new york. now that case appears to be in serious jeopardy as the accuser's credibility has been called into question. did she make a false claim about a rape in the past? we'll get the latest details straight ahead. >> pretty dramatic story. >>> also this morning, matt, did a hazing ritual lead to a tragic death of an ivy league student. the mother of a cornell university sophomore who died of alcohol poisoning is now suing her son's fraternity for $25 million. coming up, she'll speak out in a live exclusive interview. >>> a little later on, on a

matt? >> mike viqueira, thanks, as always, for giving us at least the shape of the table or the multiple tables that exist now. you'll be watching this every day as we get to this next sunday meeting. >>> joining me now, top economist in many of the negotiations. laura tyson, ran the council of economic advisers understand e president clinton and teaches at berkeley and serves the president's council of competitiveness and joins us from sunny california. welcome. >> thank you, matt. >> before we get to the substance of this, laura, talk about the process. you've been in these rooms and big meeting when the summit's take place as wey proech these deadlines. is there a free discussion, or is their just fear in the room people are going to leak and it's more of a staged kabuki conversation? give folk as sense of that. >> i think at this point in the discussion, there must be a real negotiation going on. people are going into that room with a pretty good idea of the places they might be able to

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what's going on, matt? your side of the aisle here. >> i don't think so.art of democra democracy. i think it will cut cap and balance. if the senate passes it, he will see if barack obama vetoes raising the debt limit. if the senate rejects it, i think both sides in a way will benefit. both sides appease their base and they can compromise. i don't think any compromise will involve raising taxes but i do think there may be middle ground and hopefully we can raise the debt ceiling and also cut spending which i think is the perfect solution. >> dr. dyson, people are out looking at us right now, worried about their social security. worried about their medical care, with medicaid and medicare. i mean, while we're going through owl of these appeasing different political sides, what about the people and where will this end up at the end of the day in terms of the real needs of the american citizens? that's the question. >> that's a great point, reverend sharpton. and people are acting as if they are oblivious to the concern of the masses. as you have said, let th

plaza. >> i'm ann curry. >> i'm matt lauer. rupert murdoch says he's humbled, forced to answer difficult, difficult questions about his tabloid. >> you're watching a live picture of murdoch and his son. they've been testifying for just under half an hour now. murdoch said he was misled about what happened and this tabloid was a very small part of his media empire. we're going to head over to london with the latest in a moment. >> so, so much at stake in that committee room. >>> also a tragedy out of florida, a teenage accused of killing his parents and having a party in his house while their bodies were hiding inside. >> talking about pumping iron, doctors say it's good for adults, but what about kids still growing? the business of kids' gyms memberships and lifting too much weight too son, matt. >> we want to begin with rupert murdoch testifying right now on the british tabloid hacking scandal. stephanie in london. good morning to you. >> reporter: father and son set side by side. james murdoch asked if they could read a state

matt jablow is following this incredible story and he's following us live with all of the details. matt. >> reporter: derek, there are twists of fate and then there are twists of fate that are twisted like a pretzel. this story is one of those. >> i was introduced. >> reporter: for years, the dc government did everything it could to uphold the city's ban on handguns. then three years ago the u.s. supreme court overturned the ban, ruling that dc residents have a constitutionally right to bear arms. now they may propose that the city itself become a firearms dealer. an irony some would call cruel, others ridiculous. >> no way. >> reporter: here is the deal. because right now there are no licensed gun dealers in the city or anybody licensed to transfer out of state guns, the city could very well be violating resident's right to bear arm an could be exposed to lawsuits. >> i'm flabbergasted. >> reporter: so phil is said to be considering proposing making the district itself a licensed firearms dealer for the purpose of transfering out of state guns. >> no thank you. >> reporter: dc res

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matt, thank you. the commander of the flight, christopher ferguson, said the shutting was a reflection of what a great nation can do when it dares to be bold. abc's john donvan tonight on fearlessness and the last frontier. >> reporter: a spark in the clouds this afternoon, "atlantis" going out of sight. and with that, we say good-bye. to all this. to a certain age of american adventure, when the goal was always clear, to explore by sending people up, not that space exploration is over. we still have robots out there and more coming. but it's different. bots probe, while humans voyage. when jfk told us w were going to the moon, he gave this reason. >> because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills. >> reporter: back then, of course, getting to the moon seemed farfetched. a dream. and yet, as a nation, we had the guts and we found the money to do it. and it was we. >> the eagle has landed. >> reporter: it was we, the species, that walked around up there. >> one

1-a, i'm matt lauer along with ann curry. a 6-year-old little girl attacked by a shark in north carolina just last week. she nearly lost her leg. this morning she will open up about her terrifying day at the deech. >>> also ahead this morning, unusual decision by the accuser in the dominique strauss-kahn case to come forward and speak out. will it help or hurt her case and her credibility? we're going to get details on that coming up. >>> also, we're going to catch up with actress denise richards. she is a busy mom of three having recently adopted another baby. she will talk about her memoir including her marriage to charlie sheen and what was going through her mind as that whole tiger blood winning thing was playing out earlier this year. >>> let's begin with that shark attack victim in north carolina and how she's doing now. we're going to talk to her and her parents in just a moment, but first, nbc is in greenville, north carolina, with the latest this morning. lillia, good morning. >> good morning to you, ann.