. >> i'm mika brzezinski. filling in for lester who has taken the weekend off. >> this is like sleeping in for you. "morning joe" starts like yesterday, right? >> absolutely. >> this is good. >> you look rested, sound rested. >> i was on vacation, so it will catch up to me very soon. >> i'm glad she doesn't pick up on my sarcasm. >> i get it. >> we got a busy morning. let's get to it. the president, first lady michele and their daughter sasha spent much of saturday enjoying the short vacation in panama city, florida, but on a day of symbolism he also attempted to qualify statements he made on friday about muslims rights to build a mosque near new york's ground zero. >> the president reiterated the stand he took on friday, but emphasized it was not an endorsement. the question is what he backtracking? we're going to have more on the president's vacation and fallout from those remarks in just a moment. >> then, we're going to head to california where a crash at an off-road car race turned deadly. eight people de

mika makes his leave and makes him cocktails he's the barman at one of the patagonia's cafes on this trade the locals call broadway as a favor to a colleague he agreed to swap shifts and it just after four in the afternoon last tuesday he and astute what the change actually meant this is just a corollary and i were the newly frankly i didn't want to go to work that day so i was glad when it rained heavy rain i thought it would be cooler outside unless people in the cafe just said if the weather didn't change in the next hour we could all go home ten minutes later i was picking him from under the rubble of the cafe. it all happened quickly as if something really big moving at high speed foul from the sky a car stuffed with explosives parked near the cafe blew up leaving many people injured and a huge hole where mika's cafe wants to. go i don't pretend i was on the phone that's when my left ear is ok i started shouting because my is part i didn't have any thoughts until i got up and saw the current pieces then i turned back and saw no one where there should be people so as if on auto p

explosives parked near the cafe blew up leaving many people injured and a huge hole where mika's cafewants to. put it i was on the phone that's when my left ear is ok i started shouting because my is part i didn't have any thoughts until i got up and saw the current pieces then i turned back and saw no one where there should be people so as if on auto pilot i went to help them out that's it i had to return to the scene later to shut off the gas to prevent another explosion has just left hospital and returned to the scene he's reluctant to be alone and wants someone close to him while we talk this area still sealed by police has become a meeting point for the survivors see i've got bruises here in there and you're right i say ok i was sitting with my back to the chair i can get one dreadful moment of my mind there was a guy he lost one eye in the blast and they gave him a cloth he covered his face and then he wanted to look at the cloth and couldn't and panicked with these stories are stored in their memories for good lucky to be alive to friends a retelling affray detail of the day. i

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a very, very sweet chihuahua, and mika adopted these two cats. isn't that great?nk you very much. >>> and thank you all for making us part of your morning. football tonight, finally back. 5:00 right here on nbc bay area. that means our next newscast is 4:30 this afternoon. "meet the press" with david gregory is next. after that, "press here." have a terrific sunday. >> take care. [ male announcer ] when meg whitman arrived at ebay, they had 30 people and an idea. meg's job was to make it happen. it took leadership. focus. and the ability to bring people together. meg whitman delivered. named one of america's best ceo's by harvard business review, she grew ebay 15,000 strong and made small business dreams come true. now meg has a plan to create jobs. fix sacramento. and deliver results. meg whitman. for a new california.

. >> you talk about pressure, mika and ethan, you're both playing football.you don't know which end is up, is there pressure spoken or unspoken for you to get back in the game? >> no, our coaches -- if you're hurt, you're hurt. they're not going to pressure you to go back in. there are plenty of guys to go back in the game. if you're feeling bad, you're feeling sick, you're hurt, get out of the game. >> ethan, do they talk to you specifically about these kinds of injuries? do they talk to you about the dangers and risks of concussions? >> yeah. we take the test before and it just sort of goes through everything about concussions and everything so we know the symptoms. >> we talk about the nfl getting involved here and they're hanging their posters in their locker rooms saying other athletes are watching. they're talking about these guys right here and, by the way, a study today in the journal of "pediatrics" a huge jump not only in high school students, middle school, elementary school students suffering these concussions. are we going to make a change until

say hi to mika. take care. >> all right. thank you so much. >> that was fun. we've got to check the rest of the morning's top stories, however. we have carl quintanilla from cnbc subbing for me this morning. good morning. >> good to see you. good morning, everybody. >>> a huge relief effort is under way this morning in pakistan following flooding that has killed more than 1,100 people. more than 28,000 others have been trapped by floodwaters. the u.s. began delivering aid to the region on sunday. >>> a dramatic rescue in china where flooding has killed more than 50 people. crews were able to save one man who was stuck in the middle of floodwaters for more than 40 hours. >>> two young sisters are hospitalized this morning after they were stabbed over the weekend at a home in a very upscale suburb of new york city. nbc's jeff rossen joins us with that. jeff, good morning to you. >> reporter: hey, carl, good morning to you. this is just an awful story for any parent to hear. those sisters you mentioned just 7 and 9 years old. their parents over the weekend were a