mike wilson got a kick out of that post and decided to organize a blog to counter the 99% blog. titled we are the 53%. so mike, what is the 53% mean? >> well, john, the 53% are the percentage of americans who actually pay federal income taxes in the country. a lot of people don't realize that almost half of the country doesn't contribute to the pool. what you have on the 99 is a lot of people who are saying look i went to school, i borrowed $100,000 and now i have to work three jobs to make end hes meet. guess what, that is america. the people who are posting pictures. >> not just america, that is life around the world. probably easier in america. >> much easier. here in america, you know, the 53% are the people who make enough money and work hard enough so that they do contribute. we have a very progressive tax system and a lot of people who make the more money that you make the more you pay. >> so 53% it is almost -- it is going down, right, we get to a point where more people don't pay any federal income tax. >> and then we are in trouble, i guess. >> let me push back because

mike wilson got a kick out of that post and decided to organize a blog to counter the 99% blog. his is titled we are the 53%. so mike, what is the 53% mean? >> well, john, the 53% are the percentage of americans who actually pay federal income taxes in the country. a lot of people don't realize that almost half of the country doesn't contribute to the pool. what you have on the 99 is a lot of people who are saying look i went to school, i borrowed $100,000 and now i have to work three jobs to make end hes meet. guess what, that is america. the people who are posting pictures. >> not just america, that is life around the world. probably easier in america. >> much easier. here in america, you know, the 53% are the people who make enough money and work hard enough so that they do contribute. we have a very progressive tax system and a lot of people who make the more money that you make the more you pay. >> so 53% it is almost -- it is going down, right, we get to a point where more people don't pay any federal income tax. >> and then we are in trouble, i guess. >> let me push back b

mike wilson got a kick out of that post and decided to organize a blog to counter the 99% blog. s is titled we are the 53%. so mike, what is the 53% mean? >> well, john, the 53% are the percentage of americans who actually pay federal income taxes in the country. a lot of people don't realize that almost half of the country doesn't contribute to the pool. what you have on the 99 is a lot of people who are saying look i went to school, i borrowed $100,000 and now i have to work three jobs to make end hes meet. guess what, that is america. the people who are posting pictures. >> not just america, that is life around the world. probably easier in america. >> much easier. here in america, you know, the 53% are the people who make enough money and work hard enough so that they do contribute. we have a very progressive tax system and a lot of people who make the more money that you make the more you pay. >> so 53% it is almost -- it is going down, right, we get to a point where more people don't pay any federal income tax. >> and then we are in trouble, i guess. >> let me push back bec

. >> reporter: mike wilson is running this hot dog stand, he must know something. i think it's much adieu about nothing. of course i hope it's much adieu about nothing, also. >> i have a couple of more things i'm preparing to do, i ordered tires and they are sitting in my living room. i'm going to get those put op my car next week. >> not ready for it. >> i'm ready. i've been ready since last year. >> reporter: let's check in with mike to see if he has tips for us. go about your duties as usual. nothing changes. no snow, forget about it. >> reporter: i'm not going to be unprepared i'm heading to the hardware store to stock up. >> they don't look like they were prepared for snow either. i will have to make do. looks like a snow shovel to me. grass seed. that can be my salt. there we go. ice scraper. i'm don harrison for abc2 news. >> don harrison, always so resourceful. tonight's top stories. a sheriff's deputy in northeast baltimore was involved in a bizarre shooting this morning, the sheriff's department says doherty was wielding a knife and jumped in to the deput

the athlete is mike wilson. he is a cliff jumper.tion is from shreddy times, from lake tahoe, california. they film stuff like this all the time. they have a group of extreme athletes they follow. got invited to bermuda and this is what happens. >> oh! >> unreal. look at that. that guy is flipping right into the water. perfect landing. >> look how cool this is. >> i think he touched the side of the mountain. >> he's so close to the edge of the cliff. >> i have a feeling, if somebody invited me, hey if you want to go to bermuda to jump off top? i would be, like yeah. >> this one is so high up, you wonder, is this guy going to make it, we have the guy who commissioned the whole trip. evan on skype right now. >> my good friend and i have been making these videos for the past two years. we're thinking how can we one-off the previous year. >> you guys go down and investigate the water you're about to jump in before you launch off of some cliff, right? >> the bottom of the ocean is constantly changing with the sand and the tides, some days

joining us now, conservative filmmaker and one of the developers behind 53%, mike wilson. ike. >> good morning, gretchen. >> i know this idea of the 53% group sort of came about not from any real planning, right? how did it happen? >> well, it was about 3:00 in the morning and a guy named kevin had started a hash tag on twitter that said i'm the 53 and sort of explained what that meant and went over that. a friend of ours, eric erickson who runs redstate.com posted the first picture and held up a sign and explained that he had three jobs and told them to quit whining and i thought that was kind of funny so i'm sitting there up late at night. i own my own business and i'm working at 3:00 in the morning. i decided to do one. i posted it and then sent both eric and i a note and said wilson, why not start a tumbler account. i posted it. the next morning i woke up at about 8:00 and saw a whole bunch of people on twitter posted their own photos. i started posting them to the account. now it's huge. yesterday, it just exploded. we're adding more and more and more every time i chec

that vote will be taking place right here at the wilson building just after 11:00 a.m. mike? >> hotly debated once again. thanks kristin live in knot west washington this morning. >>> hearings begin today on a plan to hike the gas tax in maryland. if governor o'malleys his way the tax would jump 15 cents per gallon which would mean the state taxed 38.5 cents a gallon. the governor wants the new money to glow to a program to rehab roads and schools in the state. >>> the man suspected in the murder of a jermantown, maryland woman could return to our area at any time. curtis lopez waived his right to an extra hearing yesterday in a north carolina courtroom. he's accused in the murder of jane mcquain. her body was found last week. police are still searching for mcquain's son, 11-year-old william mcquain. teams have spent the last few days searching all over the county for the boy. police may find him alive. >>> children may take the stand today in the trial of this woman. susan lee burke. she's accused of choking and kicking and punching students in silver spring. at least seven

wilson. 2-0 st. louis. mike napoli off of chris carpenter. 2-2. a turning point in the sixth. allen craig. can he make the play? david freese scroes. -- sscores cores. orioles talk with a toronto assistant for their gm job. >> i was following your lead. thank you. six the three degrees on tv hill -- six the three degrees on tv hill. >> a man is arrested for allegedly soliciting two teenagers online -- 63 degrees on tv hill. >> the there's a connection between two bodies found in eight downtown dumpster -- in eight downtown dumpster -- in a downtown dumpster. >> we are decorating pumpkins. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i am stan stovall. >> i am jennifer franciotti. thank you for joining us this morning. i will take you cookies --i will bake you cookies is to get the rain and a fout of here. >> chocolate chip. >> 20% chance for a rain shower this morning. it will be 8 dry, windy day -- it will be a dry, windy day. >> a man is accused of the sexual solicitation of two baltimore county teen

wilson. cardinals out to a 2-0 lead and mike napoli ties the game with a two-run shot, only two he allowed.nnings striking out four before tony la russa went to the bull pen. la russa as allen craig come in to pinch hit on a one, two count he can't make the play and david freese scores easily. over the next two innings la raus see shows why he's one of the best in the game. la russa burns through his bull pen changes pitchers four times and the relievers hold them at bay in the ninth, a bit of controversy, adrian beltre at the plate with one out hits a grounder off his foot but the umpire rules it's a clean ground ball. he says it should have been ruled a foul. the replay shows it did, dine nick his foot and cardinals get a free one, cruz pops out to left center to end the game. cardinals take game one by the score of 3-2. game two back in st. louis tonight. >>> at the top of the hour on "morning joe." president obama finishes his bus tour selling the jobs bill. lust a new report in "the washington post" shows he is still the king of wall street campaign cash. and when we come back here we'

wilson. texas draws even on by mike napoli.been hitting the ball deep off chris carpenter with a man on. we've got 2-2, momentum, going by way of the rangers until pujols, a great play with a man on third, it prevents a run, with carpenter. allen kraig, the kid out of cal, always looking for that local angle to right field. nelson cruz can't make the play. that turned out to be the game deciding run. 3-2 is the final. the cardinals leading 1-0 in this series. >> he's clutch. he knows exactly where the runner is, or the hitter is. the situation. he's so aware of how the game is being played. that's the best play of the game really for us. young is a good runner. carpenter at first base is the second part of that great play. >>> everybody wants a look at the new kid in town, and they may not have to wait too long. several national media sources claiming the raiders will start carson palmer, even though he just practiced with the team for the first time today. with the raiders, it's never easy to get the true story. of course they

wilson. texas draws even on by mike napoli.e has been hitting the ball deep off chris carpenter with a man on. we've got 2-2, momentum, going by way of the rangers until pujols, a great play with a man on third, it prevents a run, with carpenter. allen kraig, the kid out of cal, always looking for that local angle to right field. nelson cruz can't make the play. that turned out to be the game deciding run. 3-2 is the final. the cardinals leading 1-0 in this series. >> he's clutch. he knows exactly where the runner is, or the hitter is. the situation. he's so aware of how the game is being played. that's the best play of the game really for us. young is a good runner. carpenter at first base is the second part of that great play. >>> everybody wants a look at the new kid in town, and they may not have to wait too long. several national media sources claiming the raiders will start carson palmer, even though he just practiced with the team for the first time today. with the raiders, it's never easy to get the true story. of cours

here's the new carrollton area, we're looking fine into oxon hill and the wilson bridge, no problems to report right now. mike? >>> sounds good. see you then. making news now at 5:48. a mass will be held today at the national shrine of the immaculate conception to mark the 10th anniversary of the  deadly anthrax attacks. the first of two postal workers who suck qumeed to the attack -- succumbed to the attacks die on october 21st, 2001. they were blamed on fort detrick researcher. >>> the stafford county board of supervisors voted to give $60,000 each to a couple of homeowners affected by the landslides. the houses have been condemned and the homeowners' insurance company is refusing to pay. >>> virginia senator jim webb wants fema to explain why it rejected disaster aid requests for louisa county earthquake victims. the spokesman says fema is determined that federal help was not needed but will respond to mr. webb's letter. >> homes and schools that were damaged? i mean significant look. >>> all right, at 5:9. want the take another look at the question of the -- at 5:49. want to take another look at the que

if you go to what mike maddux told us about the rain delay and 60-minute rule for c.j. wilson going to bring him back after an hour, this is well over an hour for verlander. he was throwing underneath the stands here in a batting cage but it looks like it's it for him. >> chris: ken rosenthal, reporting from the tigers' dugout. we appreciate it. i don't want to look too far ahead in the series but verlander has thrown 82 pitches. he didn't throw under 104 in any regular season start this year. is there any possibility we see him start game four of the series? >> i don't think there is any way. the idea of verlander he has to get rest. if you bring him back in game four, only way you do that is if you are down 3-nothing. i'm not sure i do it anyhow, because you have to win with other guys. to me, verlander stays on regular rest. it's a 3-2 ballgame. we have opportunity to win this game. >> chris: that's what jim leyland told us. he won't pitch 1-4-7. he will go 1-5. >> a.j.: but things change and he only threw 82 pitches. if they need him, he will be back for game four. if the

mike napoli. a fun night to be a catcher, no doubt. talk first about c.j. wilson.fter that first inning when he settled down and then through the rain delay. >> player: great for us. he bounced back pretty good from his last start. we needed that. he is our ace. he went out there tonight and threw well for us. >> ken: bullpen, 4-1/3 scoreless innings and seemed like one guy after another was really on. >> player: the bullpen is awesome. they set it up that way. when the guys come in, we expect them to do their job tonight. >> ken: how about the psychological advantage of beating verlander and beating the tigers in game one? >> player: it's huge. we knew we had to do whatever we can. and i thought we did a good job of making them throw a lot of pitches and have good at-bats against them. we scored enough against them. >> ken: thank you very much. joe, back to you. >> joe: thank you, kenny. thank you to mike napoli. we welcome you inside the booth. well, there you go, got one out of your belt and four hours, 51 minutes. >> terry: honor, good baseball to watch. >> joe

. >> mike: that's what you were suggesting and begging for, as was charlie wilson at the end of the soviets. had gone in with aid, we would not probably be there with military action now. >> this is not a long-term profit. in two years, we can strengthen the afghans to fight their own battle and they will. and the thing is, that nonprofits that are over there now are not going home. they are afghans, they're americans, who have trained the afghans to do these jobs and the troops come home and that's my doing, i'm fighting for our children. >> joe n king herring, great to see you. the book is called diamonds and diplomacy. we'll be right back. stay with us. (applause). [ male announcer ] this is coach parker... whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil no and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day free of pain. way to go, coach. ♪ today i own 165 wendy's restaurants. and i get my financing from ge capital. but i also get stuff that goes way beyond banking. we not only lend people money, we help them save it. [ junior ] ge engineers foun

wilson is the gentleman who helps mike huckabee win the iowa caucuses in 2008. we're heading into the final stretch run of this very long republican primary when you see staffing changes being announced. >> we'll follow it. we'll have your next political update in an hour. for all the latest political news go to our website. cnnpolitics.com. that does it for us, suzanne malveaux back in the hot seat. >> love it. >>> live from studio seven i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed for thursday, october 27th. dramatic video, this iraq war veteran is said to be fighting for his life in oakland, california. scott olson's skull was fractured when police forced occupy wall street protesters from a plaza at city hall. police fired tear gas canisters. it's not clear if that's what caused his wound. olson's injury prompted occupy wall street protesters in new york to rally in his support the movement continues to show life around the world. occupy protesters in pakistan marched on the world bank's offices in islamabad chanting down with capitalism. a deal made in

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if you go to what mike maddux told us about the rain delay and 60-minute rule for c.j. wilson going to bring him back after an hour, this is well over an hour for verlander. he was throwing underneath the stands here in a batting cage but it looks like it's it for him. >> chris: ken rosenthal, reporting from the tigers' dugout. we appreciate it. i don't want to look too far ahead in the series but verlander has thrown 82 pitches. he didn't throw under 104 in any regular season start this year. is there any possibility we see him start game four of the series? >> i don't think there is any way. the idea of verlander he has to get rest. if you bring him back in game four, only way you do that is if you are down 3-nothing. i'm not sure i do it anyhow, because you have to win with other guys. to me, verlander stays on regular rest. it's a 3-2 ballgame. we have opportunity to win this game. >> chris: that's what jim leyland told us. he won't pitch 1-4-7. he will go 1-5. >> a.j.: but things change and he only threw 82 pitches. if they need him, he will be back for game four. if the

wilson. she can't wait to see me later. with that, i'm going to send it to mike. >> fake girlfriend. nice.e are. look at that. there's the traffic map. the slowing is real accident to westbound 80 prepare for the slow drive smoothing out. 24 through lafayette. and slowdown through concord and bay point. and a live look out there. in patches around the bay area. that's causing slowing to you guys. >>> they are for real. they are 5-1 this year, handing the detroit lions the first loss of the season. the 49ers win 29-19. >> the real drama happened after the game. the nfl listening at this incident between the 49ers coach and the lions coach. he shakes hands, slaps him on the back after the win. schwartz doesn't like the manner. he chased him down. the number of players you see there in the middle. he says he went to congratulate him and got shoved out of the way. then he apparently said an obscenity, he said. later he said he was just very excited. what do you think? you've been on the field. >> he was just pumped up. i don't think anybody bad happened. it makes for good fodder for us, right?

wilson who is winless in his last six postseason starts. two runs score. cardinals up 2-0. top of the fifth. runner on first. one out. mikeapoli deep to right off carpenter. that's a two-run blast. this thing, tied up. in the bottom of the sixth, alexei agan doe in relief. allen craig, the fly ball to right. cruz came up just short on the play. cardinals up 3-2. craig pumped. to the ninth now. jason motte pitching to adrian beltre. beltre grounds out to third. he's thrown out. he never ran to first. take another look. beltre may have hit the ball off his foot. he would argue. but to no avail. so, cruz batting next with two outs. he flies out to left to end it. cards take game one, 3-2. the game one winner has won 12 of the last 14 series. game two thursday night in st. louis. >>> remember, for all your highlights and scores, check out "the highlight express," starting every night at 11:00 eastern on espn news. >> thanks, sara. >>> the colors were as loud as thsughter, as hundred s clowns descended on mexico city. >> it was a laugh-a-thon, aimed at promoting world peace. for 15 minutes-straight, they laughed, chuckled and

wilson was a covert agent the cia put it in writing. wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mikes concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report. this week's top stories here on our t.v. the american spring spreads across the country with the u.s. government up in arms against the protesters despite washington supported revolutions over see. the u.s. led war in afghanistan enters its second decade with a victory over the taliban on the pulled out of foreign troops scarcely in sight also. something that the background here we. need to help but that's. not all and the tensions really be biting police and demonstrators clash on the streets of athens after the i.m.f. so to make them to the country cut or collapse. how the woman who western media reported was being butchered by bashar al assad's regime in syria says she's alive and well raising concerns that fabricated stories of big news in a bid to topple the country's leadership.

wilson building at 11:00 this morning. that's when this scheduled emergency hearing will be taking place. andrea, mike? >> all right, kristin fisher reporting live from downtown d. c., makes you wonder what other laws are on the books from the 1930s. >>> d. c. police are investigating a murder in northeast washington. a man was shot in the 1600 block of lincoln road a little after 8:00 last night. rescuers rushed to victim to the hospital but he died there. so far, police have not made any arrests in the case and we haven't received any information on a possible motive. >>> the gaithersburg man suspected in his travel companion's disappearance in aruba will stay in jail for now. a judge there denied gary giordano's appeal to be released. he's being held for 60 days as the suspect in the presumed death of robyn gardner from frederick, maryland. she vanished in early august. giordano claims she disappeared while snorkeling. police are still severalling for gardner's -- searching for gardner's body. >>> it happened yesterday afternoon as the boy's father was moving into the tanglewood apartments in silver

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mike yam. >>> a not-so-instant replay is new york city today, marking the 25th anniversary of one of the most memorable moments in baseball. >> that is for sure. former met, mookie wilsonand former red sox bill buckner are coming together to re-enact their jaw-dropping play. buckner blew it for boston when the slow ground ball went right between his legs, costing his team game six and possibly the 1986 world series. the event will raise money for the donald mcdonald house. baseball history, for sure. >> painful to do that. ouch. >>> coming up next, "the pulse." why everyone is talking about the return of a very popular sandwich at mcdonald's. >> oh, yeah. >>> and the couple who had to weather a storm to say the least on their breathtaking wedding day. my doctor showed me the novolog mix 70/30 flexpen. flexpen is discreet and comes pre-filled with my insulin. flexpen goes with me and doesn't need refrigeration. and it's covered by most insurance. if you're still using a vial and syringe, ask your healthcare provider about the benefits of flexpen. flexpen is a discreet, pre-filled, dial-a-dose insulin pen. you can dial the exact dose of insulin you need. and inject insul

mike napoli got the big hit. a 3-run homer in the 6th inning. tonight's game will be a rematch of the opener. chris carter will face c.j. wilson. you can see this evening's game right here. on ktvu. >> then there was the raiders. kind of a bad sunday for the silver and black. >> kansas city chiefs destroyed the raiders. sorry dave mora, spoiled the debut of carson. and after replacing kyle boller, who also through three interceptions, it is the biggest road win over the raiders since 1966. 49ers didn't play. they had a bye week this weekend. >>> it is 5:16. we will head out to sal castaneda. >> yes, enough of that. >> good morning, everybody. let's go out and take a look at the commute now. traffic is moving along well. highway four. and passed the grade. no problems here. off to a nice start here. and 880 this morning. >> the traffic is moving well near the coliseum. >> if you are driving on interstate 80, that traffic looks pretty good. across the bay. marin county. off to a nice start and no problems on the richmond bridge. we will go to steve. >> couple of those were not carson's fault. >> yes, i know. >> in tomb. they will

tigers scored twice when wilson had a wild pitch to score jackson and after 13 minutes the grounds crew got a chance to do its thing again and this time a 69 game delay and mikeonzales on the mounds and ended by getting village to ground to second and more than 2 hour delay and finish it out for texas and lion rayburn to end it and the rangers take a 3-2 win and game two tomorrow after football. >>> winning on the road is not something that earthquakes had done for nine straight games but broke it today with a win over new england. coach clinsman looking for his first win. shay with a pass here and dempsey with the fancy football and escobar, the u.s. hangs on and the u.s. is now 1, 2 and 1 since clinsman took over for bradly. >>> there is good feelings to championship the jim harbaugh area and the tampa bay pucks come here and one of the big differences of the play of alex smith. he had four touchdown passes and one interception and with a quarterback rating of 97.7 and he is well chronicled and this year trying a new approach. >>> trying to do less. i feel like i was pressing too hard and trying to make too many plays instead of letting them come to me and

committee heading the woodrow wilson center has called for release of a justice department memo that gave the legal justification for the killing of al awlaki. alex in. >> okay. mike, thank you very much for that heads-up. something to be vigilant about today. >>> protesters on wall street are accusing the nypd of tricking them into breaking the law. several hundred were arrested as demonstrators marched over the brooklyn bridge. the protests blocked traffic and jammed up traffic for miles. michelle franzen is joining me us. good morning. how did they get tricked? >> they're thinking they were lured there. they're saying the nypd lured them to this area. the protesters have been camping out the past two weeks at this park a few blocks from wall street. yesterday, their numbers swelled during that march across the brooklyn bridge. they were supposed to stay on the pedestrian path but spilled over on to the rote and closed off traffic as mentioned. nypd arrested some 700 protesters criticizing police for using excessive force yesterday and several incidents over the past two weeks. >> it was civil disobedience. it's still disobedience. but we were being peaceful. we

mike naply ties it up with one big swing off carpenter. tied at 20 2*. drive down the line. cruz can't come up with the diving catch. 3-2 cardinals. their own version of brian wilsond all closes it out in the ninth. three up and three down as the cardinals take game one 3-2. game two is tomorrow night. >>> all signs pointing to carson palmer starting this sunday for the raiders against the chiefs. palmer, of course, just acquired yesterday so he is getting a crash course in the raider playbook. offensive coordinator al saunders told a kansas city radio station palmer will start as long as he is breathing. saunders was obviously joking at the time but he split reps with kyle boller in practice today. they want to get him ready if they can get him ready. pollehead coach hugh jackson it ready yet to announce sunday's starter. >> i'm going take my time and see where we are and how fast he picks up the system and gets in line with his teammates and we will go from there. >> i would much prefer to be a starter. i don't have a problem being a backup. obviously everybody's goal is to be a starter. you get to practice during the week and get into a rhythm. >> sunday is a l