his story tonight from nbc's mike taibbi. >> how are you doing, gloria?porter: start with this, 27-year-old jared axon is a top-flight nurse at valencia's henry mayo hospital. but while all good nurses make their patients feel better in a setting that, by definition, is distressing and frightening, axon makes them smile. ♪ smile though your heart is aching ♪ ♪ smile even though it's breaking ♪ >> reporter: patients like marilyn, hospitalized after a series of seizures. how does he help you? >> his talent is wonderful and the love he has for people. >> reporter: and gloria, recovering from hip surgery. ♪ i'll be seeing you in all the familiar places ♪ >> reporter: and valentina, russian-born and with little english, forgetting her chest pains. ♪ amazing grace >> reporter: always a music lover, axon started singing like most of us. >> of course it always starts out in the shower. >> reporter: though his pure tenor's voice took him to a half dozen countries as a performer, he chose nursing as a career. but even there, he couldn't keep quiet. >> i would be pr

mike taibbi, nbc news. >>> that's our broadcast on a friday night.hank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. lester holt is here with you this weekend. we hope to see you back here on monday. in the meantime, have a good weekend. good night. >>> nbc bay area news begins with breaking news. >> that breaking news happening in san francisco. two women dead in a jewelry store shooting. what you're hoobing at is a live look at 9th and brannan. that is the bed bath and beyond. the street you're looking at is 9th, which is between brannan and that area right there is bryant, i should say. brannan and bryant. that's the way you go to get on the central freeway. it's jam-packed with people who have been stuck in this mess. good evening. >> we mentioned two women were found inside that victoga. the suspected killer opened fire on officers who were arriving at the scene. the suspect is now in police custody. it was a terrifying scene for employees and customers. the entire area was on lockdown while sfpd and the fbi searched for a possible second susp

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >>> still ahead, as we continue tonight, the fleecing of americallion weapons program, the most expensive in history, that critics say is not worth the astronomical cost. >>> and later the waiting game tonight in london. >>> we're back now with our series the fleecing of america, tracking waste, fraud and abuse in washington. despite deep across-the-board government budget cuts earlier this year, the pentagon's largest acquisition program ever, the f-35 joint strike fighter, has come through the budget process unscathed, despite delays and big cost overruns, outraging critics. we get more from our senior investigative correspondent lisa myers. >> reporter: the f-35 strike fighter was conceived as an affordable aircraft that could do everything. air-to-air combat, attack deep into enemy territory, hover up and down and side to side, even elevate and take off without a runway but today the program is seven years behind schedule, has almost doubled in cost and become the most expensive weapons program in history. price tag? a staggering $400 billion.

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >>> and that's nbc "nightly news" for this sunday.rian williams will be here tomorrow. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, good night. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [ kids cheering ] you're missing a good game over here. those kids wouldn't have lasted one day in our shoes. [ male announcer ] add a wireless receiver. call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. >>> good evening, i'm diane dwyer. terry mcsweeney is off tonight. we are following a story about a shooting at home depot while they were open and full of shoppers. kimberly joins us with the latest. >> this is where it happened right behind me in the

our report tonight from nbc's mike taibbi. >> reporter: atlanta is one of the country's most affluent cities, on par with seattle, for example. but given atlanta's spotty public transportation, struggle school system and geographic separation between economic classes, moving up in class is much tougher. sonia underwood, a single mom with three kids and no job after 11 years of hospital employment, knows how tough. >> i constantly ask my family for help. pray. i pray, because it can get a little stressful. >> reporter: now a study of millions of anonymous earnings records compiled by economists from harvard and the university of california at berkeley shows the odds of attaining the american dream by region and even city. in atlanta, the study shows there's about a 4% chance of climbing from the bottom fifth to the top fifth in income. >> in contrast, if you're in a city like salt lake city or san jose, that same probability is about 12%. >> reporter: the statistics show it's a slow climb in cities like atlanta, charlotte, memphis, indianapolis, cincinnati and columbus and a faster cli

nbc's mike taibbi has our report. ♪ living in a lonely world >> reporter: cory monteith was a likeabletar of a show so likeable that "glee" debuted in 2009. when he didn't check out of his van cure hotel room sunday, paramedics confirmed the death of the actor. police found no evidence of foul play. >> fab keys show him returning to his room by himself in the early morning hours and we believe he was alone when he died. >> reporter: monteith played finn on "glee," the quarterback turned singers. including real life girlfriend lea michele to unlikely star status. high school dropout himself, monteith wandered through menial jobs and struggled with substance abuse before winning the audition with "glee," with a drum solo using tupperware and pencils that he recreated on "el listen." there's speculation about whether the actor had kicked his addiction demons. he finished a second rehab stint in april but today fans searched to twitter to express their grief. zooey deschanel, and neil patrick harris "what a shame, he was a lovely, kind talented guy" and rihanna "may you fly with the angels

here's mike taibbi. >> reporter: through a wave of cheers, pastor rick warren in his trademark black t-shirt, walked out on the stage with his kind of kay, for the first time in four months to deliver his weekly sermon. >> love you, too. >> reporter: it was back in april when the warrens's 27-year-old son matthew beset with tragedy. the pastor spoke about the tragedy. >> we went over to his house, we couldn't get in and what i feared the most has happened. >> reporter: he talked about how his son's older siblings tried to help him. >> emmy and josh talked him off the ledge time after time. they are my heroes. >> reporter: rick warren's status in many withes as his generation's billy graham was built on a generation who made christianity accessible. a bet seller that sold millions. and when his son died other religious readers predicted that warren would eventually extract the message in his son's tragedy. >> using this opportunity to recognize, hey, we can do the best we can do and still fail. >> reporter: and that's what warren set out to do. >> i was kind of grieving, but i was als

i hope i can do it for a long time. >> reporter: for "today," mike taibbi nbc news los angeles. >> ons. from miley cyrus bearing it all to possible trouble for "american idol". >>> we have a lot to cover this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> nice to see you. let's start with miley cyrus who is baring it all for an antiskin cancer awareness ad. how does it set well with her fans? >> i think at this point, her fans are used to the new shocking things she's doing. i don't know if you saw the video she just shot. that was pretty wild. this, of course, she stripped all down. she has a little because she's doing it for charity. it's in the tradition of victoria beckham and other celebrities who have done that similar campaign for the marc jacobs skin cancer awareness. so, you know -- >> it's probably not going hurt her? is that what you're saying? >> i think any damage to her image may have already been done at this point. she's a long, long way from man hannah montana. >> i wonder how the tee shirts are selling. >>> "american idol" ten people are suing not just them, but the s

mike taibbi, nbc news, los angeles. >> we'll be right back. >>> china's first artificially bred sea lionce today. look, it's cute. it's been taken care of by its breeder since birth because the mom could not produce milk. we're told the sea lion is doing well and weighs about 33 pounds. it's become attached to what they're calling the new mom. it follows him from place to place as well in addition to all the folks hanging out with him there. hopefully he gets -- oh, he doesn't seem happy with that camera, does he? there he is. and i'm happy about the forecast. after we get through -- >> past wednesday. tomorrow morning you wake up and you head out to work or head off to any outdoor plans tomorrow. look at the temperatures inland. 70s, maybe low 80s into the first part. second half of the week as high pressure builds in, you'll see temperatures climbing up. 80s to low 90s approaching next weekend. we'll see the temperatures climbing up for inland locations. on the coast we'll see the numbers closer to 70 degrees. our weather looks quite nice. no reason to leave the bay area. but if you ha

mike taibbi has more. >> reporter: on the tonight show with jay leno, eliot spitzer tried to play ithat you do on the "tonight show." you brought down wall street and the bank, how could you be this stupid? >> reporter: the serious side couldn't be ignored. >> the fall from grace is incredibly painful. it is something from which you learn. hopefully you can move on. >> reporter: since spitzer announced he was returning for new york city comptroller, he's been apologizing as he did on "morning joe". >> what i did was wrong and a consequence of hugh brous and failure of self-endull jens. >> what has changed? >> a lot of pain. a lot of pain. >> that's it. >> yeah. you go through that pain and change. >> spitzer isn't the first to try for a cobbback after a sex scandal. san diego mayor is trying to hold on to his job in the wake of exyule harassment allegations. >> i am humble to admit i need help. >> mark sanford was driven from office and lost his marriage because of an adultery mess. new york congressman anthony weiner whose career crashed afterhe tweeted nude photos of himself now wa

>> mike taibbi following the story for us from los angeles. thank you, mike. >>> dozens of people are still missing after an oil train derailed and burst into flames in quebec this weekend. five people confirmed dead, the search on for 40 more people following saturday's accident. 30 buildings also destroyed. >>> the bodies of 19 firefighters who died while battling a wildfire last week are back home this morning. 19 hearses carried their bodies in phoenix, 125 miles back to prescott. hundreds of people lined the streets to honor the fallen firefighters. >>> further proof that auto racing is indeed a contact sport, even for the cameramen. take a look. this happened at a race in germany. the pit crew didn't get one of the tires on right there. the driver was waved out too soon and that wheel came flying off, bouncing down the pit lane and struck a cameraman square in the face. knocking him to the ground. he suffered a broken collarbone and broken ribs, but fortunately looks like otherwise will be all right. it is 7:14. you're up to date right no

nbc's mike taibbi looks back. >> reporter: the close-up look at the president at play that wouldn't bebeauty. and relaxing on the water, a motor yacht this tie, in swim trunks and shades with jackie nearby. and daughter caroline swimming and goofing around as children will. and returning repeatedly to her doeting father's side. >> in a way, one the last weekend's that a president could really relax without very much a forethought. none of that security. none of that enormous cordon between the president and the press and the public. >> reporter: at one point during the three-day weekend, the president does some business. in a suit and tie now. meeting with then british ambassador and to secretary of state. it was july. kennedy had just returned from germany where he'd given his famous speech at the berlin wall. america's involvement in vietnam was escalating. the u.s., the uk and the soviet union had just signed a break-through nuclear test ban treaty. >> this was close to being the zenith of his life and presidency. >> reporter: for those three days, the rarely seen images. the press

but as mike taibbi explains, fans of the restaurant and owner have fought back. >> good morning, savannahhall but you can fight in city hall and that's where the great bacon wars have been headed since may when the fat hit the fire over a restaurant called bacon bacon. >> reporter: san francisco's haight district still has some throw backs. it gives off the vibe that anything goes. anything except this. he decided he could build a menu and whole business around bacon. bacon in a variety of forms. in jams in bouquets, 300 pounds of bacon cooked each day but some neighbors started aiming formal complaints to city hall, questioning the restaurants permits but mostly complaining about the smell. >> the pungent acrid bacon smell. >> the campaign by one neighbor got ugly. >> he compared me to al capone and a bank robber. >> then it shut down. it got weird. more than 3,000 petition signatures supporting the restaurant. him complaining on youtube. facebook fans posting i love bacon, i miss the smell. bacon bacon shall rise again. then "saturday night live." >> a restaurant in san francisco called