. >> i, andrew paul daniel engstrom -- >> do take melissa rene warren -- >> do take melissa rene warrento be my lawfully wedded wife. >> to be my waf -- lawfully -- >> the church erupts in laughter, including the 22-year-old bride, melissa warren. and just as things start to quiet down, she completely loses it. >> i just lost it. it was so funny. >> she starts to laugh, and then she just can't stop laughing. i know she's going to keep laughing. so i'm like, just give her a minute, folks. like i know the next one's coming. >> when the video hits the internet, it earns more than a million hits. >> melissa and andrew first met at seattle pacific university where they were both students. >> we lived in the same residents halls. i was a freshman. he was a junior. and we had a lot of mutual friends. spent some time together within groups, but it was after he graduated that we connected again. >> after graduating, andrew received some devastating news. >> my dad came down with lung cancer, like horrific tumors the size of grapefruits. >> deeply religious, andrew copes with his father's cancer

we need melissa. >> melissa. >> jimmy: melissa, come on out. melissa rivers, everybody!shared birthday. >> jimmy: oh, that's right. happy birthday. questlove. it's questlove's birthday today. happy birthday, quest. [ cheers and applause ] and melissa. welcome to the show. >> yeah, i'm so excited to be here. >> jimmy: happy to have you on. >> thrilled. >> jimmy: congrats on this. now, season two, this one -- explain what the show is about if you haven't seen it. >> the show is about -- the last season was about that my mother moved in with me. >> jimmy: yeah, which was a little bizarre. >> yeah. awkward. >> jimmy: yeah. doesn't make any -- >> and this season, apparently, according to my mother, it's all about my mother staying with me because it's only four days a week. so, apparently, there's a subtle difference between staying with me and living with me. >> jimmy: but coming from the daughter, is there a difference? >> four days a week. >> jimmy: yeah, there's no difference, is there? >> yeah. there's no difference whatsoever. >> jimmy: not at all, no. >> no. >> and i'm

>> at some point, i asked melissa, how's mom doing?aid well, she's not doing quite as well as you. they're working on her somewhere else. so you need to hang in there. didn't really mean too much to me. i think i was hallucinating an awful lot. at some point, somebody told me that she had died. >> in fact, for weeks and weeks, sutton drifted in and out of alertness, dependent on others to save him. >> of course, my son was there. a bunch of my friends were there because i had multiple surgeries in that hospital. >> as he lay in that bed, sedated, medicated, breathing through tubes, the thoughts, half a dream, terrified him. was the killer a hit man? was he coming to try again? >> i thought somebody was trying to kill me one night, so i raised hell. i said, you know, call the police. you know, everything i could say to get some assistance. >> he was wrong. there was no killer. still, christopher demanded the hospital take special precautions. >> i do recall him as very adamant that my dad be placed under john doe, so that whoever did th

in northeast washington, melissa mollet, news 4. thanks very much. >>> harry thomas isn't the only city leader under scrutiny right now. mayor vincent gray and council member kwame brown are both involved in their own federal investigations. the mayor is being investigated for allegedly giving campaign cash and a city job to a mayoral candidate in exchange for attacks on then mayor adrian fenty. brown is under investigation for how he spent campaign money back in 2008. d.c. residents say corruption just seems to be part of politics these days. >> and be sure to stay with us all morning long for coverage of the harry thomas court proceedings. he is due in court at 11:15. be sure to tune in to news 4 midday at 11:00 for updates from inside the courthouse and reaction to follow. >> let's take an out the door gander at the beautiful sky out there. getting ready to have a glorious sunrise this morning. here's tom for a look at our forecast. >> good day to ride the motorcycle maybe even put the top down on your car later. >>> starting off

. >> melissa harris-perry and dr. james peterson have reaction. >>> the fight for florida is ending with a flurry. >> conservatives will come together and decide they don't want a massachusetts liberal to be the republican nominee. >> the speaker has been attacking me all over the state in ways that are extraordinary. >> the latest with e.j. dionne. >> bill burton and joan walsh >> bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. >>> the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on today's big news for the buffet rule. >>> good to have you with us tonight, thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. he's been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind of red meat the conservative republican audience wants. >> something very, very important, something i want to take a minute to talk about. the obama administration is engaged in a war against religion. >> gingrich has no proof that president obama is

melissa, what did you see in that episode?table reading of it is, here are two public officials arguing about a book, which could be actually a really exciting outcome. that's my charitable read. but the fact is, when i see that still, i cannot help but to be reminded of the still photograph that was captured in 1957 in little rock, arkansas, of the young woman hazel screaming at a young elizabeth eckford on her way -- trying to get into little rock high school, a central high school in little rock, arkansas. and the reason i bring up that image is because what we've come to know about hazel in the years later, hazel, the young who was screaming, was not herself sort of particularly full of racial animus or anything like that. but she was caught up in this moment of racial anxiety, of making this point against these people who are trying to come in and force their way into the school. and she sort of enjoyed the show of being able to yell at elizabeth eckford in this moment. but that captured the ugliness of the larger politic

is the santorum bubble, melissa, is your sense of it that it is going to have an expiration date likehe others, some two weeks or three weeks? or is this the one that can go? we've all been asking this question for a while but i ask it every day because every day there's a new sensation about this. >> and, look, this matters. it in fact matters in primary politics when your bubble hits. the problem is, even in a presidential election if you look over and over again, let's take the mccain-obama race. had that race been decided in late december, it's possible that john mccain and sarah palin would have beaten barack obama. it's only because it's november when that election happened. so timing absolutely matters and in this case, particularly in primaries, because momentum matters, it's so quick these early primaries, the fact is that santorum is benefiting from his timing. i don't think that poll is telling us people agree with the policies. i think what it tells us is people are paying attention to a candidate who they had not been paying attention to previously. >> howard fineman, i j

, melissa, can you wave?] she's actually the founder of hyphen magazine eight years ago, if melissa did not have the vision to create our very own asian-american publication, hyphen would not be here today. so thank you so much for that and for the opportunity to serve. and of course vincent pan from chinese affirmative action for giving us a space to do all of our work. there was a time when we were floating around. and carrying out boxes of magazines from garages to garages. our readers, donors and volunteers. just one thing that i would like to mention, i recently went to a documentary screening at the san francisco film festival. and it's here for another week so i hope some of you get to catch some of the wonderful films that are there. and i went to a documentary screening called crime after crime. i don't know how many of you guys were able to catch it. and the film maker showed up and did a q&a. and there he said that visibility doesn't equal change. and that's something that really resonated with me.

melissa mollet reporting live.and new hampshire is the next big test. the primary takes place there tuesday, january 10th. then come primaries in south carolina and florida on the 21st and 31st respectively. >> so the pace is picking up. >> that's right. >>> let's take a final look at school closings and delays before we leave you this morning. >> first to virginia, winchester and frederick county schools are closed. clarke county schools opening two hours late. >> in maryland garrett county schools also opening two hours late. in west virginia, hampshire, hardy, pendleton, and mineral county schools all opening two hours late. you can always find the closings and delays on our website, nbcwashington.com. check it out. >> cold weather. cold weather. tom, final out the door forecast. >>> those schools are delayed because of some of the potent snow showers yesterday. watch out for slick spots there. locally, we've got a dry sky, sunshine this morning, and then clouds this afternoon. highs only in the low 30s after th

please welcome melissa harris-perry. (cheers and applause) okay, madame, you are professor of political science at tulane. you have a new show on msnbc. >> not so black history month. >> stephen: not so black history month. dow get to go beyond black history month. >> maybe into march which is women's history month. >> stephen: and you're both of those. >> both. >> stephen: i don't see race, are you an african-american. >> most days. >> stephen: most days. >> yes. >> stephen: here's my problem with talking about race. doesn't it divide us by talking about our race. >> you know, i do think that experiencing racism tends to be a worse experience than actually talking about racism. >> stephen: uh-huh. >> so as a college professor i feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding rather than dividing us. it can be tough. it can be a little nauseating. we don't always have the right volk an lear to talk across our differences but the talking is always better than the ignoring. >> stephen: that could be a great tag

one of my favorite stars, melissa mccarthy.nd she is one of cbs's biggest stars, thanks to the success of "mike and molly." yesterday, she became an oscar nominee for "bridesmaids." and no one, no one was more surprised than melissa herself. >> i feel nuts, i feel nuts in the best possible way, if that's an option. >> reporter: melissa still can't believe it. she woke up for diaper duty, but found her husband watching this. >> melissa mccarthy, for bridesmaids. >> i sat kind of watching it. and he said, you have been nominated for academy award. and i said, no, i don't think so. i don't think so. i think it's for something else. and he's like, i don't think so. >> her husband ben did something, too. he was the air marshal in bridesmaids. their scene together in bloopers. >> i prefer a turn in relationships. [ laughter ] >> not fireman. you're not a fireman. >> sorry. i missed the wall. did you see that? >> 89 million retakes because one of us would laugh. to get to do that, at that level and still have that freedom to do what w

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joining me is melissa harris perry. soon to be crowned with her own show on msnbc.capehart along with republican strategyist tray harden. good afternoon to all of you. what will mitt need out of polls today to consider new hampshire a victory? what percentage will he sneneed? >> i think he just needs to win by 10%. >> he was 41 a few days ago. >> i think the campaign writes off ron paul. they sees whatever percent as not real. i think they see that as their vote. >> jonathan, melissa says just 10% more. what do you think? >> i think he needs to do as well but definitely better than he did inç 2008, which was 32%. otherwise, it will be iowa all over again. the same percentage he got in iowa last week is pretty much identical to the percentage he got in 2008. from the romney campaign perspective. i think they will take 32%. they will take winning by 1% over the next person to just make it through this. >> what about you, trey? >> i agree. a win is a win for any of these races. 30% is the number. he's got to stay above 30%. if he gets below 30% it's going to change th

melissa, stay on the line with me, okay? do you hear police? [ screaming ] >> you got to get in there! >> police! >> get off that bed! get off that bed right now! >> he has a knife! >> police catch deric allen. melissa and her baby daughter are both safe. >> she could have been killed. i mean, without question. if she didn't stay on that phone, absolutely, she could have been killed. >> when melissa's dad first hears the 911 call, he's overwhelmed with emotion. >> i've never heard anything like that in my life. i picture her laying on that bed, with this maniac on top of her. you can only assume what might have been happened, but it wasn't going to be anything good. >> in the courtroom, margalia says allen appears to have no remorse, and hearing his daughter's voice on that heart-wrenching 911 call again is too much. >> i just said, the hell with it. and i tried to reach him. and unfortunately, i didn't. i came within probably a foot or so, and got tackled by this middle linebacker bailiff there. he hit me around the waist and i fell to the gro

melissa? >> but here is what iowa does. i agree with you, i think he is a blip. i don't think this was sort of a santorum choice or something. and i think the one thing i disagree with there's not this libertarian resurgence. there was a three-way here. santorum, romney and paul. and although iowa doesn't necessarily pick winners, it does often tell us what the agenda will be in terms of the issues going forward and so i look at those three and see the libertarian strain, the kind of small government train that we saw as part of the initial impetus of the tea party. i see this very traditional evangelical christian strain that kept trying to find its place and ended up on santorum and orderly republican establishment. that is what will be fought out. it may not be the personals. one great thing about the santorum birth control stance, of course, there's really only one kind of sexual contact that almost never leads to reproduction and that is same-sex contact so there should be a kind of obvious support for the rights of gay and lesbian individuals who after all

melissa? on what david said and challenge him on, the question of who's at fault for this, how does this happen? how do we get on the other side of this? i, too, am a big believer in democracy and in certain ways we get the country we vote for. i do think there's a little bit of this of den irigraion that people will take it all. what i appreciated about what david said, look. there is no creation of wealth without the realities of a society that your workers drive to work on roads paid by your government and you educate your workers in the public schools. i think part of what needs to happen in this presidential election year, even beyond the intricacies of the tax discussion is revive discussion about the value of public good. >> david k. johnson, pulitzer prize winning tax reporter, the two books you have written on taxes are two of the best i've read and certainly the best tax books i've ever read. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> the best thing i read this week, right after this

joan and melissa rivers.res tomorrow on w.e. with the least favorite red carpet looks, times to buckle up. hi, ladies. >> you look so cute. >> the gray memo? >> the only one that didn't get it was josh. >> i want to talk to you about the season, in looks at the notes, ewe letting it all hang out, for example, melissa, you and your boyfriend broke up and you found out in a not very comfortable way. >> yes, because our show is very real. it was interesting to watch our crew and producers suddenly go into almost ducking mode. it happened in realtime. we were going through fertility treatments and all of this stuff. apparently, he was living a double life. i found with technology, it's a new frontier in how you can find these things out. >> did you find him communicating with another woman? >> i found him having a lot of webcam relationships. >> wow. >> so i'm just going to leave it at that. an interesting -- not interesting -- horrible to watch it unfold in real life. it was very hard on my son. >> thank god we

. >> melissa harris perry is host of a new show debuting next month and professor at tu lane universitys with the manship school of communications at louisiana state university and the author of daisy petals and mushroom clouds. good morning to both of you. sorry about the lsu loss. we won't go there. let's talk about the ads. voters in south carolina have seen, listen to this number. 5500 presidential campaign ads. that's nearly twice as many as in the entirety of new hampshire. all the candidates except huntsman are running ads. add in the super packs, on and on and on. are we in oversaturation? are we going to be oversaturated? >> we are at a point of oversaturation. part of what happens in this bombardment, especially when it's negative, we shrink it. the findings, when it gets this ugly and there's this much commercial activity, they feel everyone is lying. the system feels broken rather than thinking you can go pick the one person who is honest. >> let me show you what the campaigns and their supper packs have spend. pro-gingrich, $3.6 million. how does this change campaign strate

to tell us about the themes is melissa alexander. tell us about some of the previous themes we have had. >> we have had sex ploration, sugar, red, blue. many things. >> what is the theme tonight? >> rock, paper, scissors. we are having a tournament tonight, but we have also used as a jumping off point to explore lots of different ideas. you can find out about rock, paper, scissors as a game as a reproductive strategy. you can interact with a piece of art created by lucky dragon. you can get your hair cut from a cool place called the public barber's salon. they use scissors only. you can find out about local geology, too. >> that sounds like fun. let's check it out. >> this is the most common rock on the surface of the earth. interesting thing is, most of this rock is covered over by the ocean. >> error congested a cool presentation on plate tectonics. tell us about what we just saw. >> we wrapped up a section of a lesson on a plate tectonics, here at the exploratory and -- exploritorium. >> are you excited to see people here having f

>>> i'm melissa lee. here are tonight's top three trades. amazon plunging after-hours. a reason to be cautious on the american consumer. plus ralph nader. now he's turning his focus on cisco systems and what they should do with their cash. and can twitter help you be a better trader? we've got a guest that tracks social media sentiment to help make trading decisions. find out what he's watching rite now. live from the nasdaq market site. this is "fast money." the results of amazon sending shares sharply lower in the after-hours. it's also the guidance that is trading below forecasts in terms of revenue also could post an operating loss for the current quarter. >> amazon is a phenomenal company. i love the product. it's the valuation. it almost doesn't matter what they put out there. the valuation to me is so stretched they can't possibly grow into it in time sort of to have this work out. so i think that -- you know, down 15 or 20 bucks, i still wouldn't touch it. the valuation is still crazy even though i think they do so many things right. but they have to sort of ign

>> melissa mollet reporting live from the news room. thanks very much, melissa. >>> there are two debates coming up this weekend. the first debate is saturday in manchester, new hampshire, at 9:00 p.m. second in concord, new hampshire, at 9:00 a.m. on sunday. you can watch that on nbc 4. the new hampshire prime ary is monday, followed by the primary in south carolina. florida's primary will be held on january 31st. >>> district leaders will head to congress to make their plea that d.c. should become the 51st state. district leaders plan to testify to support the measure. stay with news 4 and nbcwashington.com throughout the morning for more on the outcome of the iowa caucuses. what the candidates are saying. and we'll also have the run-up to the next contest in new hampshire next tuesday. >>> today president obama will hit the road. he will be in cleveland to talk about the economy with voters. the president spent last night appealing to democrats in iowa while republicans were in their caucus. in a live video conference from washington

back to you. >> melissa mollet reporting live. melissa, thanks very much. >> here's a look at thomas' political career. he was elected to the ward 5 council chair in 2006 with 85% of the vote. his father occupied the same seat from 1987 to 1999. he was reelected in 2010. in june of last year, the d.c. attorney general released a report accusing thomas of misspending more than $350,000 in city funds on a luxury suv, travel, and rounds of golf. in december the fbi and irs agents raided his home. yesterday thomas resigned just a few hours after federal prosecutors charged him with embezzlement and filing false tax returns. other city leaders say they're disappointed with thomas over his actions. our team coverage continues now with megan mcgrath, who is live outside the federal courthouse in northwest washington. megan, good morning to you. >> reporter: well, good morning, eun. several of thomas' colleagues on the council have been calling for him to step down for quite some time, saying the allegations against him are a distraction