. >>> plus, will ferrell is in low-budget tv ads for old milwaukee beer and doing them for nothing. what's the story here? we'll show you the spots in a little bit. the news live at 5:30 a.m. the republican candidates for president gearing up for another debate tomorrow night in iowa as newt gingrich settles into his spot as the field's front-runner. with a rash of new polls showing gingrich with big leads in iowa, also in south carolina and florida, mitt romney is ramping up his attacks hoping to cast former house speaker asunelecta. in an e-mail obtained by nbc news they offer congressional supporters a list of anti-gingrich talking points in an effort to raise warning flags. in addition to highlighting the criticism of paul ryan's budget plan it aims to frame gingrich as a political insider saying gingrich creates theories mitt creates jobs. for now at least gingrich is brushing off the attacks from his opponents vowing to stay away from negative campaigning. >> i only have one opponent. that's barack obama, and i'm going to continue to run a positive solution-oriented campaign.

. >>> why is will ferrell pushing old milwaukee beer in low budget commercials?se ads when we go "down to the wire" in 20. >>> civil rights leaders are expecting people to march to the united nations tomorrow in response to dozens of tough new laws that make it harder for people to vote either by requiring i.d. or curtailing early voting. leading the charge is ben jealous, president of the naacp. what are you hoping to accomplish with this march? >> we want people across the you don't take note of the fact that their right to vote has been attack this year in a way we haven't seen in more than a century. >> give me some specifics. >> the state of florida pushed 500,000 people off the rolls because they had gone to -- because they had once been behind bars. this is something that jeb bush and charlie crist ten years ago said you know what? we're going to reinfranchise formerly incarcerated people. >> they paid their debt to society, they ought to be able to vote. >> exactly. and for the last ten years they could. and then this new republican governor comes in, sco

jeffrey summers he's an associate professor of political economy at the university of wisconsin milwaukee and in irvine we cross to mark divine he is professor of history at the university of california irvine all right gentlemen this is cross like you can jump in anytime you want but first let's have a look at some of the events that made this year's headlines. january fourteenth a spark of the unraveling of the arab spring the tunisian government falls after a month of increasingly violent protest president ben ali flees to saudi arabia after twenty three years in power. january twenty fourth a terrorist attack at moscow domodedovo airport kills thirty seven people and hundred eighty others russia's investigative committee a leader identifies the suicide bomber as a twenty year old male from the north caucasus region. march eleventh. fifteen thousand eight hundred. and another three thousand nine hundred twenty six . emergency declared nuclear power plants. march seventeenth the united nations security council. in the city of sirte with national transitional council. and. april twenty n

he's appearing in ads for old milwaukee beer. a great back story to why he did these ads.. >> doing a little hand fishing here in the mississippi. i haven't got any catfish yet, but i caught this little piece of america, old milwaukee. >> just doing a little hand fishing here in the old mississippi. this is fantastic. will ferrell actually approached the pabst brewing company that makes old milwaukee saying he wanted to do these commercials and he would do it on the condition athat, a, he was not paid for them. this is not some paid sponsorship, and second that he -- the commercials would run locally. they've gone viral thanks to beer blogs and other outlets. >> why is he doing this? for a new movie? >> a lot of people are saying it seems to have the hallmarks of those longer will ferrell movies. it sounds like that something could come out of "old school" type movie. a reference that means nothing to tamryn. >> talladega nights, i can recite the entire script. what do you have? >> coming up next, jay-z, a historic concert at carnegie hall. he's the first hip-hop artist to

he will be all right. >> baseball milwaukee brewers introduced aramis ramirez to the home town mediaason career playoff batting average .193 in 3 series 2 for 23, hopes for better luck in milwaukee >> i like playing in this ballpark just the chance of being on their winning team. winning situation. like i said a young ballclub a good young ball club. >> finally chris paul saga finally over a number of the los angeles clippers. magic in the meantime have taken dwight how ard of the trade market. >> that is the news is good night. the you shared time with us. 8o8gxo@úñ?ú@oó ó÷wo.v?f??k@múo:v@>é;÷çú?pnx/@n@?p?p÷ lupkpo@?@+ m@núnx@ux xóú?@óú?@ç0cprún@óp@úpíú[é=@=ú÷x?pw÷j@ó>múzxna@ñ@úo@po÷g@?uó?>po o xé@j@z÷wxg@w@np x]xçz=zz@ú ?@?ú70ó40o÷úl@w@pnp9úñpñxtp>úwxpuçúmúÑú]@@>xo@mxk@=ú?@çxú7oúu@wúopm@'8? ñúp@/úó w?pí Ñ.ñ,g>nnoúytoúwñwhwú/ú>÷óú=÷%@÷@wúg@t÷.pk wojypñnplx/÷o@çpó@k@> m=óopoú[@dw÷oún = @gp?úi [ bell tolls ] ah, agents i don't know if you've heard but our training organization was recently named the "best in the world." nice little pat on the back. ahhhh! [ chuckles ] ah...that's good

you can't be any more straightforward for that. >> this reporter covers braun's team, the milwaukee brewers. he cautions fans. >> we need the wait and see what the substance is that triggered the positive test. i think we need to see if the appeal is successful. >> fans may never forget, but they do seem to forgive. attendance at baseball games is robust. superstars like barry bonds and roger clemens have been linked to performance-enhancing drugs. slugger alex rodriguez admitted he used them. heavy hitter manny ramirez served a 50-game suspension after he tested positive and still fans crowd the ballpark, over 73 million last year. >> ryan braun has a very good image in major league baseball. he's not first or the second or down the line player who you expected to hear it about. >> bawn's appeal of the failed test is not expected to be heard until next year. if he loses he faces a 50-game suspension. tone eye -- tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> online shopping sales this holiday season started out strong and it appears they have stayed that way. the research firm com score says sales up

old milwaukee. yeah. i know you remember it, davenport. i sure do. yourself one while i go look for some more? >> got to love that man. he's going to bring old milwaukee back. >> bring iing it back. >>> one more thing on friday. we usually do the week in review but we're going to dedicate the entire thing to a man we lost, so to speak, last saturday. >> good call. >> herman cain. he left us. left the race anyway. a heartfelt good-bye to the h hermanator. >> i am herman cain and i am running for the president of the united states of america. ♪ i will remember you zblncht will you remember me ♪ >> my 9-9-9 plan. 9-9-9 doing fine. deep dish. ♪ ♪ imagine there's no pizza a real fence with barbed wiring, electrifying. >> i'm their brer from another mother. >> there's not a pizza deal. ♪ amazing grace will always be >> oh, shucky ducky, i feel pretty good today. ♪ imagine eating pizza ♪ america one voice united we stand ♪ let herman be herman, let mark be mark. let people be people. there's a difference between the flavor of the week and hagen das. stupid

only 18 points at halftime and milwaukee is pretty good that is ryan allen tony allen little brotherentering anybody's with a cab back to the way with jonathan toews and victor stalberg and kruger, sharp, and hossa making up the second line. chicago bears ready for kansas city tyler palko no interest and donovan mcnabb by the vikings today but defense interested in terrorizing the kansas city quarterback kyle orton now breathing down his neck tyler palko ed and all sounds good to the chicago bears far as i am concerned continuing to seek either the lefty we are getting and lefty >> we have to play better did not play well last week 25 points and field goals want to take away we have to play better not giving up some of the yards to many plays expecting to win every home game >> baseball winter meetings begin monday sox manager robin ventura expects danks when a bunch of games for that and carlos quentin provide field we will seek theo epstein is the priority given to starting pitching already upgraded to help with the side of david dejesus who met the media this morning at wrigley fi

the fact that blood was beginning to spread in his shirt front, and he said take me to the milwaukee auditorium, i have to deliver my speech! they said we got to get you to the hospital. you have been shot. i will go to the auditorium! showing all his 78 teeth. so they had to take him. one of these aides felt he had to step out on stage to warned the capacity audience, ladies and gentlemen, colonel roosevelt has been shot but he does wish to address you tonight. and here he is and t.r. -- comes out gray in the face and teetering slightly and he spoke for 90 minutes. when he took the speech out of his pocket and saw the perforations -- the photograph in my book--it still this -- that is when he realized the seriousness of what happened to him. whereupon being a naturally theatrical hand, he unbuttoned his coat, exposed the spreading blood stain and said it takes more than that to kill a bull moose! what writer can resist this kind of theatrical but genuine behavior? this kind of extraordinary drama? and the symbolism that it implies? this is my blood which was shed for you. this is my

example, at the height of the campaign in october 1914, at the end of a long day of campaigning, milwaukeeonel roosevelt, as he liked to be called, was emerging from his hotel about 10 minutes to eight in the evening to give his last speech of the day in a milwaukee auditorium. he was exhausted after a long day of speaking, but he wanted to go through with his speech. he comes out, and in an uncanny degree shattering, foreshadowing of the assassination attempt on ronald reagan in march 1981, he stepped out of a hotel, his limousine was waiting for him, the door opened to receive him a secret service guys surrounded him, small crowd in the street cheering as he appeared. as he climbed into his limo, he waved at the crowd acknowledging their applause. and as he waved his arm up, a short, pale young man emerged from the crowd, shot him point blank in the chest. the bullet went through his thick overcoat, and threw his jacket, through his waistcoat pocket, through the steel rimmed spectacle case in that pocket, through the 50 page speech he was about to deliver, double voted so that makes 100

old milwaukee on a log. what could be more natural?mall towns. local spots. in terre haute, davenport. and they are getting picked up on youtube all over the place. because it's will ferrell and apparently he did these for free. >> really? >> yeah. although you wonder why. >> yeah. >> and old milwaukee is kind of maybe a hipster beer. it's kind of not that great and he is making fun of that. yeah. so they redesigned their website apparently a couple of articles have said and he has funnier website that does his viral videos all the time. >> i imagine if it was free he got at least a six-pack out of it, you would think. scott stein, thanks for joining us. >>> coming up, one of the world's hottest chefs, david bouley will dish about the changes in the culinary world since he first started as a 15-year-old dishwasher. >>> and hot chelle rae performs their new single and blockbuster "tonight, tonight." >>>ware back with dick cavett who was showing us how to do the moonwalk. >> if i'm lying, i'm dying. i do teach the moonwalk for a slight f

washington hopes to get its first win of the season in milwaukee. neat young is actually the team's leading scorer, coming off the bench and averaging 18.5 points per game, but under a black is underproducing. the team captain only had four points at a for your rebounds against atlanta pirie they need to put more points on the board and work as a team tonight against the bucks. >> let's go to the thunder versus mavericks. the thunder when 104-102. gotta love that. george mason plays the college of charleston tonight, and virginia to stop. am i i'm drinkin' dunkin' k-cup packs. it's my coffee when i want it. you press a button you have great dunkin' coffee. i got my coffee for the morning, i got my dunkin' k-cup packs for the rest of the day. only available at dunkin' donuts restaurants. america runs on dunkin' coffee. >>> a bit of a warm new year on the way. >> new year's eve and new year's day will be in the 50's, and tomorrow night, partly cloudy, mild and dry with temperatures falling to the mid-40's to about 40 or so when the midnight hour strik

abogados partidos y los donó a han perdido, vamos a ver qué pasa mañana cuando enfrenten a los de milwaukeeatro minutos abrió el marcador, y la manda el fondo de la red, de nuevo el buda blanco, vemos la repetición del gol hermoso, y allí nuevamente vemos alma la manda al fondo de la cancha, el tercero es anotación de alfredo, este marcador 3 x 0, ahora viene la copa mesoamericana, a chiapas quien venció al comunicaciones de guatemala, por su parte el comunicaciones empezó ganando con un gol, un regalo del arquero, y lo manda al fondo de la red, pero el empate llegó por intermedio de martínez, tremendo retraso, y jackson martínez nuevamente el colombiano la manda de taquito a la red, para colocar al tres por ser final, jackson martínez y de chilena, golazo entonces la finalísima será entre jaguares y el de chiapas hasta que la información deportiva. te cuento que ni mar hasta la cabeza como mejor jugador de américa, neynar va como favorito. >> carolina: cielos parcialmente nublados para mañana seguimos con temperaturas de 50, pero prepárese porque la próxima semana las cosas van a cambiar l

. >>> police in milwaukee, wisconsin said an attack on a bus could have been worse if not for other passengersuting. he gets up, grabs her and hits her face against the window. another passenger took him to the front of the bussments the driver -- bus. the driver sent a silent alarm. the man was arrested. >>> sunny and mild but snowy in arizona. five inches of snow fell in flagstaff. the storm forced the closure of major interstates. by the time the snow is falling, they'll have over a foot of snow. no thank you. >>> is this finally a strong sign of an economic turnaround. the big drop in unemployment numbers. sounds like good news, right? >>> being socially smart while socializing over the holidays. chances are you'll post a picture of your favorite gift. we have a warning before you hit share. >>> today marked the best week for the stock market. the dow jones industrial average closed over 12,000. the nasdaq 2600 and the s&p 500 1244. >>> economists were predicting no change before the numbers were released. now that we note percent of unemployed americans have dropped, we have or on whether

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good luck as you work together in milwaukee. thank you. >> thank you for having me. >>> ahead, the fight for jobs and justice. we're in 25 cities tonight rallying for the fight for middle class. >>> plus, willard wants to destroy medicare. newt wants poor kids to be janitors. how will president obama run against the extreme? >>> and trump gives dump. and now he's on the attack. you won't believe what he said about michele bachmann today. you're watching "politics nation" on msnbc. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] yes, it is. i joined the navy when i was nineteen. i spent four years in the military and i served a tour in iraq. all the skills that i learned in the military are very transferable into the corporate and real w

even as far north as milwaukee, wisconsin, a mix of rain and snow showers. of course, new year's eve/new year's day forecast coming up. >>> coming up, home sales jump. verizon charges more. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> she's drawing questions over her tweets. >>> a homecoming, a barn burner and a buzzer-beater. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. president obama remembered victims of pearl harbor thursday, laying a wreath at the "uss arizona" memorial in hawaii. the president and first lady michelle obama also dropped flower petals into the water beneath the memorial. >>> fire burned a russian nuclear submarine docked at a shipyard for repairs. authorities say there's no radiation threat because the missiles normally on board had been removed. while the fire is out, russian military says some crew members are still on board. >>> chinese officials say they've launched 19 rockets this year, putting them second behind

. >>> a rash of recent attacks like this one on a mom with her child has forced milwaukee police to assign officers to ride on troubled bus routes. police will ride the buses and patrol bus stops in an effort to keep rising number of incidents under control. >>> a couple of stranded teens were rescued from a steep canyon near phoenix. they became lost after venturing off from one of the boy's mother. a responding rescue crew used long ropes to pull the boys to safety. >>> and finally, this is heartwarming for the holidays, a pennsylvania man's tradition of decorating his home continued this year. it was all thanks to his neighbor. when back and heart surgery kept charles from putting up his usual lights and other ornaments, jim stepped in. he spent over nine hours turning the yard into an especially festive christmas display. well done, jim. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. good morning. >> good morning. blizzard conditions continue. some people will have a white christmas. it's going to be diffic

but milwaukee leads with 22. the box down the wizards 102- 81. i>>> the virginia-towson game tonight had a david-goliath field. towson has yet to win a game this season, but never underestimate an opponent. first half, virginia with the look from deep, long range. it drains the 3 0-9 towson early. final seconds of the first half the cavs move the ball around. passes up the shot, harris beat the buzzer. virginia survived a scare from towson 57-50. >>> george mason at the college of charleston, and the seniors on fire, 35 points, 14 rebounds, george mason cruises over charleston, 84-76. >>> interesting finish to the armed forces bowl, be why-byu trailed tossup, he fakes like he's going to spike it, and and talk instead tax with cody hoffman. byu falls. >>> university of virginia head football coach mike london got a contract extension through 2016 and will receive a salary increase $2.1 million preparing to cavs for their first bowl game since 2007, facing all burned tomorrow in the aaa ball. >> you may doug hill happy talking about towson. >> he w

it is 27 in milwaukee. and 20 in detroit. went up by one degree. south for sure. 22 in nashville at this hour. and it's just above freezing in atlanta, georgia. let's take you live outside our studios and show you what it looks like in atlanta. centennial park, the lights are on. there's a little traffic. well, there was a car earlier. there it is. another one. it's early here. it's 34 degrees. it's been pretty chilly in the overnight period. we'll see a nice warmup to about low 50s. wet weather in texas. i'll tell you, that's beneficial. the rain that's moving in there is so needed. we'll take what we can get. the deficit has been pretty high. it's the ninth driest period on record for san antonio. the third driest ever for austin. unfortunately it's going to take a while to catch up with the wet weather. we're also looking at freezing fog in texas. that's going to lower visibility. be careful of a little glaze on the roads, as well. most of the country, though, faring nicely for this sunday in december. some scattered showers on the east coast of

. >>> a rash of recent attacks like this one on a mom with her child has forced milwaukee police to assign officers to ride on troubled bus routes. police will ride the buses and patrol bus stops in an effort to keep rising number of incidents under control. >>> a couple of stranded teens were rescued from a steep canyon near phoenix. they became lost after venturing off from one of the boy's mothers. a responding rescue crew used long ropes to pull the boys to safety. >>> and finfinally, good news o the day. a pennsylvania man's tradition of decorating his home continued this year. it was all thanks to his neighbor. when back and heart surgery kept charles from putting up his usual lights and other ornaments, jim stepped in. he spent over nine hours turning the yard into an especially festive christmas display. did a great job there. very thoughtful. >>> bill karins has been tracking the blizzard. good morning. >> i've been tracking it. didn't do something quite as nice as setting up my neighbor's christmas. >> doing your job. we appreciate that. >> this job and a little more. set the bar

we've had on and off rain from milwaukee to chicago, now spread to indianapolis and beginning to move through ohio. it's a large storm system. it's spread out. the storm system is located still back over new mexico and arizona. out ahead of that with the southerly flow, there is a little wintry mix up here in northern wisconsin but that's about it. we're not going to see any flooding concerns. about 1 inch of rain will cover areas near chicago, even dallas later today could get an additional batch of heavy rain, maybe storms. there's not many areas below freezing. even the rockies and areas to the north. that's it. as far as today's forecast goes, wet weather in the middle of the country, maybe storms. east coast, you look nice and a will be a period this afternoon with chance of storms. denver, not bad at 43 degrees. this rainy system will slowly slide to the east tomorrow. i'll give you the updated forecast. >> good. bill, thanks. >>> the fed does nothing and wall street whines. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, stop me if you've heard this before -

a secure victory for milwaukee. wide open for the three. the capitals are faring far better tonight. first periods, all going well. alex into the net. second period, no luck. washington is a winner. three-one. please stay with us. our forecast is coming up right after this. >> enjoyed this weather while it last? >> it will be like this for about 48 hours. and in the cold comes again. we have not had any arctic shot so far this winter. it had to catch up to us eventually. new year's is going to be fine. tomorrow night, no problem. next week it will be called, and you will notice the difference. >> that is all for us. we will see you back here tomorrow n >> announcer: it's "the tonight

it is the action out over milwaukee and chicago that is going to set the stage for a very seasonal and frankly very pretty weekend leading us into christmas week. let's take a look at a graphic. a mild flow today but talking but a boundary coming into the region with showers on thursday. indeed that is going to happen. be hinged it on friday, yeah, breezy if not windy, temperatures start to fall but by the weekend the weather is going to turn around and be absolutely lovely with a generous amount of sunshine but colder. how much colder? meteorologist tim williams is going to have those details shortly. now we throw it back inside. >> thank you very much, marty. >>> a temporary reprieve for the 10 baltimore area post offices scheduled to close. the postal service will delay the closing of those 10 and 4000 others around the country until mid-may, the hope is congress will come up with more funding by then. >>> the mayor is supporting the plan to allow private companies to take over six rec centers around the city. earlier today the board delayed a vote saying it still needs fine tuning.

. >> braun in milwaukee tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.be suspended five games next season. the heisman trophy coming up but we won't have it live. >> you want to call it before? >> i'm pulling for andrew luck. that's all i can say. we'll have that for you at 11:00. the republican debate is more important. >> thank you so much. how do you top a neighbor who goes over the top with his christmas lights? alright, so we have $10. you could get two things for $4 and one for $2. or five things for $2. or one for $6 and two for $2. [ male announcer ] with denny's 2-4-6-8 value menu, we're open to all new ways to save you money. [ imitates explosion ] [ male announcer ] denny's. -dad, why e you getting that? -thatis there a prize in there? oh, there's prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are the great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. stickers? uh-uh. a perhero? ♪ kinda. [ male anno