a master of the trade. >> and action. >> reporter: seth myers.737ear-old star of "saturday night live," who is very much in the middle of a moment. there he was emceeing the white house correspondents dinner. >> these are my birth certificate jokes. so, thank you for the timing on that, mr. president. >> reporter: and there he is as the solo anchor of "weekend update." after co-anchoring with amy pohler for two years. and luckily for the espys, the new hampshire native is also a huge sports fan. how much do you like the red sox? >> i like the red sox the most of any things i like. >> reporter: we spent the day with him behind the sceness as e prepared to ridicule some of his heroes. some of these guys are very big. >> right. >> reporter: are you afraid? >> i don't have any fear of getting beat up. i just have fear of, like -- i think they can just look at my sideways and i would melt with fear. >> brett favre was so old, he remembers the first brett favre is old joke. >> he kind of stone faced me in the audience. i made the mistake of looking at

international space station, and we will talk about that throughout the hour, and also over to chad myers at the weather complex, and chad, what is going on with the weather? the sun looks like it is starting to peek out? >> well, only one fly in the ointment, and there is a thick cumulus cloud there above the palm trees, and if that cumulus deck is more than 4500-feet thick, that means there might be rain drops in the deck. the shuttle cannot fly through rain, and why? because if it is wet and then two seconds later it is high in the sky at below zero, clearly the water will freeze on the shuttle and freeze underneath the ceramic tiles. and over to the left, you will get rid of the cumulus deck and have weather like this, and it could not be better, and that is spectacular weather. if the weather is moving in like

our report tonight from our senior investigative correspondent, lisa myers. >> reporter: bev arnold was shocked to find almost $300 in mysterious charges buried on her phone bills. one for her very own 800 number. >> i laughed because it was an 800 number, but then i was furious. >> reporter: the bogus charges were from companies she had never even heard of. >> it's called cramming, but it's really scamming. >> reporter: today at a hearing, senator j. rockefeller said that millions of americans have already been victimized, with phone companies profiting from the scheme. how do the phone companies make money on this practice? >> every time something shows up of a cramming nature on one of their bills, they will make $1 or $2. >> reporter: we went to florida to track down some of the companies suspected of cramming. their corporate headquarters, seemingly only a post office box. we also visited the firm that represents many of these companies named dedata. they say customers are only charged for items they authorize we found the company in this unmarked building. your lawyer has declined

nbc's chief investigative correspondent lisa myers explains. >> reporter: for almost four years, the mint has been churning out one dollar coins bearing the image of presidents. more than 2 billion coins minted so far. honoring 18 presidents. george washington through ulysses grant. but the coins haven't exactly caught fire with the public. >> how often do you use dollar coins? >> never. >> nobody's ever heard of them. >> you can't really put them in things like vending machines. >> reporter: there's so little interest in these coins that some have ended up here. at the federal reserve's coin vault in baltimore. in all more than a billion dollars in coins are now just sitting in vaults around the country. bags and bags of coins stacked from floor to ceiling. row after row after row. the cost to taxpayers? about $300 million so far. 32 cents to make each unwanted coin. plus $650,000 for a new vault for the fed to store them. that from a program which congress had claimed would save money by replacing paper dollar bills with sturdier coins. former congressman earl polmeroy was one of t

today, statt audittr bruce myers reeeased a 27-page aadit of the state highway administration....uncoverrd, what he believes, arr "potential a "lack of assurance" that the - contracts went to the most qualified firms. (9:32:27) (myers) "we don't ssa the state didn't receive services foo the monny but there are examplee where the purpose were used for different roved - purposes...." (9:48:20) auditing this aaency more than a year agoowhen a tip on the states fraud and abuse hotline alleged ther misuse of funds with two shaacontracts...." in one of those 16-million dollar contracts....1-and- a-half million dollars had been sed to cover other pxpenses....not spelled out in the cootract. (9:33:41) "if you're gonna change the scope of a project there'' a syssem in place to changeethe scooe of the project..." the audit also revvals how one company bidding ffr work here at tte s-h-a....was being solicited for charitable funds by an sha manager. and in anotherrcase, an sha a firm which he'd help procure a 16-million dollar project.. (9:51:38) "those two pmployees have eft....we want other

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chad myers here to answer some questions. i can't get over the pictures of all the dead fish. horrific it is there. talk to me about don. will they get the rain? >> texas is worse right now than the dust bowl. >> wow. >> know the pictures and all the old film of the dust bowl. will they get rain? yes. will they get a lot? no. why? because the storm is moving quite quickly. the storm is moving at 15 miles per hour. it's growing in size, 45 miles per hour. it's not forecast at all to be a hurricane, and that's good. there's not one model that i've looked at all day that forecasts it to become a hurricane but somewhere between corpus christi and probably brownsville that makes landfall late, late tomorrow night, after midnight friday night, early saturday morning. what's the problem? look at the deficit. look at how much rain austin needs just to get back to normal, 11 inches. san antonio 12 and houston 16, and we're not going to see that kind of rainfall because although it's a great little tropical storm, that's exactly what you need, the tropical storm is moving at 20 miles pe

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myers was a pastor as saint raymond's catholic church.s put on leave after being accused of following a 17-year- old boy into a department store dressing room and striking up a conversation >> >> she was aquited of murder, see how the casey anthony case is prompting a call for a new law here in california >> >> chained restaurants make a pledge to ♪ ♪ free access to chase atm's wherever you are. that's a step forward. chase customers can avoid atm fees with over 16,000 nationwide. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> >> more now on the coast guard rescue on a bay area beach after high surf washed three people into the pacific ocean. it was a team effort as good samaritans and trained rescue teams came to the rescue. a wave knocked three people into the water at the tennessee valley beach. two made it out on their own. a third needed to be rescued, but so did one of the good samaritans that went in to help. amber leigh is live with more on what happened. >> reporter: frank, here in marine county, an outing for three friends turn

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some, he says, chad myers, some.k to me about how hot it will get, sir. >> today heat index is -- heat indices is about 120 in some spots. which means you can't sweat and lose that heat. that's what the sweat does. it wants to evaporate and cool you down. if it can't evaporate, you don't cool down whatsoever. yesterday in owensboro, kentucky, hottest spot on the entire map, 126 degrees. >> what do you do? just don't go outside. some people don't have the choice. that's the thing. >> correct. when i lived in buffalo 30 years ago, we didn't have air condition. i didn't know what it was. one person on the entire block had air condition, and they were the rich people. really, you have to make sure you have water, make sure the pets have water, a fan. if the fan is blowing 104 degree air on you, that's almost defeating the purpose, isn't it? >> absolutely. >> it's going the wrong way. it's even heating you back up. you need something, and typically it's a mall or maybe a movie that can help you out. right now the weather

myers who joined us and he helped to move here to. this. company made in korea was here and through this time to develop the main principles and basically team. loop created that elegant but today we have between ten companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera gun needed to get their business off the ground ensure equipment diodes don't grow on trees big growing every taxi all reactors able to rent top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory and the after gun team could set about generating the top quality samples that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done production starts with a thin model crystal lean sapphire wafer in a process known as. placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form a multi-layered structure under specific pressure and temperature conditions the gases cause chemical reactions leaving layers of gallium nitride indium nitride and aluminum nitride on the way for surface each wafer will pr

it looks like your beard is wearing a fake beard. [ laughter ] >>> myers was all over wilson tonight.ilson was in prime time exposure area right now. he loves the attention and he got a lot of it tonight. >> brian wilson loves attention? >> not that you don't like attention, brian "so it was great stuff. >> kuddos to alex morgan, number 13 on the women's team. everybody in the gym, everybody just cheered and united when she scored that amazing goal. >> sweden beat japan. >> what do we know about japan? >> they beat the swedes and -- so this sunday you have a world cup final. then the british open starts tomorrow. who are you taking. >> i took mickelson. >> i always go -- she went out on a limb. i went with rory. >> who do you like -- >> i'm going with steve stricker. you heard it here first. we will see you at 11:00 on cbs 5. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp direct

as i understand, my name is shawn myers, i'm here with my wife, sarah meyers. >> mr. meyers, speak into -- this is general comment regarding the police department. i know you're here for another matter and are free to talk about any matter. >> that was it. >> we recognized you. thank you, sir. any other general public comments? yes, ma'am. >> thank you. i'd like to thank the commission for allowing me to speak this evening. i had just a couple of questions and i understand that you're not obliged to answer me. i recently had to file a complaint with o.c.c. against a nsfpd officer. i had learned this officer who harassed and intimidated me had a record of violence. there was an earlier incident in which he beat a suspect who had already been detained so severely that an ambulance had to be called and i only know about this incident because it was reported in the "san francisco chronicle" because i had to file a complaint regarding this officer, i wanted to find out what had become of the alleged victim of this particular officer, particularly because one of the reporte

chad myers keeping a close on this.t. >>> plus this -- >> if you come in here and do something that's kind of out of the ordinary, i'm going to key on that. and that's pretty much what i the did with this kid. >> this kid is this guy, an awol muslim american soldier, and what he did and wanted to do, it's frightening. we're learning more about how his sordid plans to kill his fellow troops. stay here. at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness, man: good job. where your price won't increase due to your first accident. we also offer a hassle-free lifetime repair guarantee, where the repairs made on your car are guaranteed for life or they're on us. these are just two of the valuable features you can expect from liberty mutual. plus, when you insure both your home and car with us, it could save you time and money. at liberty mutual, we help you move on with your life. so get the insurance responsible drivers like you

the mc seth myers had a field day when the show started. >> welcome, the millions watching at people millions more much whatting from inside brian wilson's beard. that's a great outfit but i have one question for you, what have you done with batman? you look like the -- it be lees like your beard is wearing a fake beard. i'm sorry to tease you brian, it's obvious you hate attention. >> of all the things i have serious. >> goodness gracious. opening statements started today in the clemens perjury trial. prosecutors say needles used to inject him tested positive for his dna. the defense of course claims the evidence was faked. >>> british open tees off, in just a few hours. here is our pick. i'm going is stricker, ken takes mickelson. >> i play to win. >> the guy on the right. take a shot at control room. that's our director wayne and he goes with frederick. . >> he is waving. >> he keeps the show on track. he is going with frederick. we will be,,,,,,,, ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] say hello to the new mango pineapple real fruit smoothies from mccafé, bursting with fresh flavors and blen

lisa myers, nbc news, washington. >>> well, the emmy nominations are out, and plus major cast membersf "glee" see you later. and let's get the scoop from courtney hazlett, and the emmys. >> yes, the emmys are a big news today and before we get to the nitty-gritty of the good and the bad, i want to show you the clip of the announcement of who is being nominated and the most sweetest and tender moment i have seen in a long time. it is melissa mccarthy and take a look. >> laura linney, the big sea, and melissa mccarthy, "mike and molly," -- >> oh, my god. yikes. keep it together. oh, the nominees for lead actor in a comedy series are -- >> that was so sweet. she is nominated while she is standing there for "mike and molly" and has to announce the next round of nominees and can barely keep it together, and orders herself to keep it together, and you see so many contrived things. >> she is a softy. don't let that out. >> a fun moment, and melissa mccarthy with a great moment with the "bridesmaid" as well. and two things surprising but not surprising that "batman" is nominated for many cate

, june pending homes sales and second- quarter earnings from drug giants astra-zeneca and bristol- myers squibb, and dow components dupont and exxon-mobil. also tomorrow, our "kids and cash" series looks at ways to help your children make the connection between role-playing and earning a living. the department of justice is reportedly investigating allegations that wells fargo discriminated against black borrowers. according to the huffington post, the bank is trying to negotiate a settlement to avoid a trial. the allegations mirror those made last week by the federal reserve and a separate lawsuit filed by the city of baltimore. in response to the article, wells fargo says it "has a strong commitment to serving all customers along the credit spectrum." another banking giant, u.b.s., has been sued by u.s. regulators. the swiss bank is accused of misleading fannie mae and freddie mac into buying mortgage debt that resulted in more than $900 million in losses. the lawsuit by the federal housing finance agency alleges that when u.b.s. sold more than $4.5 billion in residential mortgage-back

myers, you are dr. frankenstein, so get up here and get acting! >> with pleasure, dee!t let me set the loop, and here i come! (yells) (screaming) >> oh, whoops. that's not... >> i am shattered to pieces! >> are you acting right now? >> no, i'm not acting, you bitch! i think i've broke my hip. why is this damn stage so slippery? (groans) >> all: charlie! charlie! >> hey, there he is! charlie boy! >> this floor is slippery, man. >> old school slippery 'cause i waxed it real good with this awesome power waxer that the school provided me. i did this whole place in, like, two hours. >> oh, nice. >> whoa, that's impressive. >> yeah. >> dee inspired me. she said, "you're an awesome "janitor, charlie. "you can make this whole school slippery." i said, "sure, i'll give it my best shot." then she's, like, "let's be best friends." and i was, like, "sure, i'll give that my best shot, too." so we're best friends now. >> yeah, that's quite a conversation you had with her, isn't it? >> mm-hmm. what do you guys want? >> oh, well, we, uh, we came to ya because we wanted to tell you that

let me bring in chad myers keeping a close eye on the weather for us. we were told 30% chance the that the weather would allow. did we get a lucky break right around launch time or did things change during the day for the weather? >> no, we got pretty lucky around launch time. right now we would be back in condition red. red all morning until 10:30, greened up for a brief moment, and then some clouds rolled back in, and they were concerned about the reland. if it had to be the emergency landing they didn't have enough clearance, didn't have enough ceiling for this thing to land on the runway that's here at cape carve ral. beautiful skies, way high. we lost the shuttle after 30 seconds worth of flight we lost it but this is what we have over here. take a look at this. here's the sky that we're looking at. with that sky, we would be red again because you can't fly through cumulus clouds. that's because you can't get water in those tiles or in cracks between those tiles because all of a sudden if you fly through rain or if you through through a cumulus clo

let's go to chad myers right now. what have you found out?ke, a 7.8, a significant shake here, but it is about 30 miles deep into the ocean. that means 30 miles of padding. when we had the big tsunami in japan, that was just a couple of miles deep, so the entire bottom of the earth shook, so the water moved a lot. here's australia right here and there's a big fault line right through here. and that point, right there on that fault line north of new zealand right there is where the shake happened. i'll get rid of this and get you into the fault lines itself, and where australia is, a big country right through here. along the fault line here, here's new zealand, wellington here, the northern island here. this is a subduction zone, two pieces of land, one going under another. the two plates, you know the plates we call them, one plate going under another. all of a sudden one shook, and really almost the exact type of shake and quake that they had in japan with the big tsunami there. but being deeper than the one here, we don't think there'll be

the former liverpool and england striker moving from australia in club perth glory paolo the fort myers scoring being this premier league is regarded as the most heralded signing in thai football history thirty six year old will and some seven hundred thousand dollars for half a year's work when the twenty eleven season this starts later this month long phone are too narrow tyler champions. think over the years. with the. themes of. the move from the bar. and all the p.g.a. tour's district is showing a mazing consistency of the john deere classic when his third consecutive title in service led from overnight and had a good start to the final round before dropping down on the back nine stricker fell behind drew kyle stanley following two on the fifteenth and sixteenth however the american rediscovered his form and trailing stanley by one of the last older lined up a twenty five food birdie par to secure the title. stylee finished second bot qualified for the open championship in the process. now its legs and a soft power won the men's one hundred meters at the ninth diamond league meetin

cnn's john zarrella and chad myers are there. john, let's start with you. nasa say they are a go for the launch right now, right? >> reporter: yeah. for now. you know, what would a shuttle launch be, kyra, if it wasn't for a weather issue, right? i recall back in 1988 on the first flight after the "challenger" accident, the flight of "discovery," we were here. it looked like this. no way they were going to go. right before launch, the skies parted. it was clear blue. and "discovery" took off and then 30 minutes later, it was all cloudy again. i think nasa is saying, look. we are going to count this down. we think we've got an opportunity to get off the ground. that's what they are saying. and that is what they are going to go ahead and do. the crew is on board. all four astronauts are seated on the shuttle. they are ready to go. the vehicle is ready to go. there are no issues, at least not with the vehicle. the only thing they are watching right now, kyra, the weather. >> yeah. what are the costs of scrubbing this thing, john? >> reporter: well, you know, a

two my friends and classmates from university and myself and played on earth myers who joined us and he helped to move from plug on here to door companies to sell it is she'll put sells and made the company a media creation was he important and through this time developed the main principles and basically came to the final product we created it and we didn't include a we are between ten top companies on the level of performance so what exactly was it that opera guy needed to get there early did business off the ground ensure equipment light emitting diodes don't grow on trees big growing every tax your reactors are able to read top quality equipment at affordable rates and the m.s.t. factory in jordan after gun team could set about generating the top quality samples that made them an attractive investment to set up a full scale production here's how it's done. l.e.d. production starts with a thin model crystal leans sapphire wafer in a process known as epitaph. placed inside a special chamber the wafer is bombarded with various gases to form a multi-layered structure under specific p

this year's winner of the coveted golden george award is the movie the waves directed by alberto myers it's a spanish movie the second year in a row that a spanish language movie has won the top prize here at the moscow international film festival last year it was the turn of. brothers this year though it's gone to the waves a movie set in the against the backdrop of the spanish civil war it's not the only prize not movies picks up carlos out of it is also taken the best x. surprise at this year's festival so two awards going to the spanish movie the waves the top prize for best film and also the best actor prize now there's also been plenty of other awards up for grabs and one person who's picked up one of those awards this isn't a stranger to collecting gongs she's already got is three golden globes for emmys amongst others including an academy award for best actress dame helen mirren the british actress has picked up the stanislaus he award for acting excellence i'm immensely on it you know the name shyness ascii of speech to our house our sack this is of every enormous importance y

hotel security ultimately stopped woman lucinda myers. she is now awaiting arraignment. >>> a parolee once accused of the bryan stow beating is trying to get out of jail. lawyers for giovanni ramirez asked a judge to let him go. the times reports the attorney accused police chief charles beck of rushing to judgment when he announced ramirez was the person who attacked stow about a month ago after two other suspects were arrested last week. beck said ramirez wasn't involved. >>> walnut creek arrested a man suspected of stealing a car that contained baseball memorabilia and a lot of it. they were linked to former san francisco giants slugger the hall of famer willie mccoverville. the car was found yesterday and a transient was arrested. this is surveillance video outside mcdonald's in walnut creek. you see the suspect there. much of the memorabilia was recovered. but not all of it. >>> two suspects are in police custody this after a high-speed chase. they are not murder suspects though as police first thought. the pursuit started in fremont