this is what nikki looks like in her 20s, her before picture.. >> typical. >> cute. >> little short set, little top. >> come on out, nikki. >> but not that sexy. >> let's see the new you. >> hello. >> so pretty. what a gorgeous color. >> it transforms, right? fabulous stretch lace hanky-panky. it's butter lace. it feels great on. she can transition from day to night in it. >> no one can wear boy shorts. i'm just saying. >> every woman can, i promise. >> really? >> and i don't have those shoes at home. >> you can just throw on a pair of jeans with this and go out. >> thank you, nikki. we've seen enough, sweetie. all right. now we have -- talking about women in their 30s, the comfy 30s. this is a before picture. >> here we really want to dump the sweat suit, as you said, the sweat pants, the cammi. >> come on out. come on. >> give her something a little more stylish. >> fun little cotton, little p.j. with a great bra. something fun, floral, makes you feel fresh even after a long day's work. >> and that's comfortable. >> easy to take it out. she lo

. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley, energetic. >> energetic. >> yeah. >> donald trump. >> huge. >> huge. rick santorum. >> press secretary. >> press secretary. >> one correction for governor romney, it's not huge, it's uge, you lose the "h." mitt romney is renovating his la jolla ocean side property, san diego area. politico had a new report. they got some plans from the city about a renovation he's doing on the place. $12 million expansion, which would triple the size of the property, includes a split-level, four-vehicle garage that comes with a car lift, an elevator for the cars, to transport vehicles between floors. the romney campaign got some criticism -- he's out of touch, he's got a car elevator, et cetera, et cetera. the campaign says it's simply a mechanism for storing cars in tight spaces, and we know how mitt romney loves cars. >> i love cars. i don't know, i mean, i grew up totally in love with cars. i drive a mustang and a chevy pickup truck. ann drives a couple cadillacs, actually. who, by

. >>> esteemed poet nikki giovanni and local students recently entertained passengers with poetry at reagan national airport. students competed in poetry slam at one of the airport's terminals. giovanni helped judge the competition along with a poet from alexandria, amy young and author vincent young. some very happy kids. >>> now to a huge opportunity for some very talented young musicians. some d.c. public school students got a chance to perform with jazz professionals who work with artists like wynton marsalis. as tracee wilkins reports, you put the two together, you get a very sweet sound. ♪ >> reporter: when victor going picked up the clarinet at age 8 in new orleans, it was purely for medicinal purposes. his mom thought it would help with his asthma. >> mother knows best and helped me throughout my life and still working today. >> reporter: eighth grader mikhail davis of hart middle school in southeast d.c. picked up the trombone two years ago, for different reasons. >> i wanted to learn new things -- learn a new instrument, so i saw this and i said, all right, i'm gonna try th

governor nikki haley. she is an indian. traction. her parents are u.s. entrepreneurs. and chris christie, the new jersey governor that endorsed romney a very popular republican in a democratic state. and daniel's rebuttal it be deemed clear, very persuasive and station man like. and other candidates, south dakota's senator, new hampshire's senator, and virginia governor bob mcdonald, and new mexico governor martinez. >> let's assume that the presidential primaries are protracted and they are decisive. what imperative does that impose on a presidential nominee when selecting a running mate? you understand the question? >> i do. >> do you want to answer the question? >> want to unite the property. and if you're mitt romney, there's not much enthusiasm for you, so you want to excite the party. who you foreclose do that is another question entirely. romney and the delegates that he needs are held by rick santorum, then we'll have a romney and rick santorum ticket. christy is a problem. would he light up the campaign trail initially and the question is would the tea party b

and with that said, i share this award with my fellow nominees, andrew and nikki.are amazing. please continue to do everything that you're doing right now. because you guys are an inspiration to us all at hyphen. somebody very important that i would like to thank as well, melissa hung who was sitting right over there, melissa, can you wave? [applause] she's actually the founder of hyphen magazine eight years ago, if melissa did not have the vision to create our very own asian-american publication, hyphen would not be here today. so thank you so much for that and for the opportunity to serve. and of course vincent pan from chinese affirmative action for giving us a space to do all of our work. there was a time when we were floating around. and carrying out boxes of magazines from garages to garages. our readers, donors and volunteers. just one thing that i would like to mention, i recently went to a documentary screening at the san francisco film festival. and it's here for another week so i hope some of you get to catch some of the wonderful films that are there. a

. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley? energetic. >> donald trump? santorum. >> press secretary. >> you know, i'm stumped. where did that one come from? >> i was thinking about this one. i'm a little bit stumped too. the only thing i can come up with is probably the most benign answer he could have given, considering how contentious this campaign is and the choice words these two men probably have for

. >> nikki haley? >> nikki haley? energetic. >> donald trump? santorum. >> press secretary. >> you know, i'm stumped. where did that one come from? >> i was thinking about this one. i'm a little bit stumped too. the only thing i can come up with is probably the most benign answer he could have given, considering how contentious this campaign is and the choice words these two men probably have for each other in private. so i don't know, maybe he was just talking to his press secretary before he went on. it would be a tough thing, though. you know what, you would be very good at that. you're very quick like that. >> the staff needs to play a little word association with their candidate to get a little better at that game. that's all for us. you have a great night. we'll see you right b

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what's the deal, nikki? >> anything is possible. i mean, depends how i'm feeling tomorrow.ut felt good out there today, too. so we'll see. >> not sure if that cleared anything up. however, no shortage of drama last night in the shootout against boston. alexander had the score to extend it. he beat thomas and brooks, could he win it? he did. another gorgeous back hander and while the capitals celebrate their victory, he fell down in disgust or maybe he is clumsy. a big two points for the caps. tonight at rfk stadium, ben olsen and d.c. united return home for the first time since their season opener. they mustered one in the first three games, but the defense has been solid, helping d.c. after ending in a scoreless tie at vancouver. joined dave ross to discuss that home field advantage. >> how important is it for you guys, like you said the first three games didn't go exactly how you wanted it to go? >> it's very important because one of our goals starting off the year was to take back rfk and make it to play. and so we lost the first game there and tomorrow is a great point

but motley crue's nikki sixx tells us they are up to the challenge.hen started production....its just fantastic fantastic just antastic fantasticproduction....its working with the production....its just fantastic fantastic the tour will actually kick off in northern virginia at jiffy lube live in july.nikki sixx saysshe's looking forward to spending a little down time touring the region. nikkiisays: we're reelly excited.... in the area. chat 3 the tour of 2012 with motley crue and kiss... will kick off at jiffy lube live onnjuly 7pm.youucan get into the show for free.live natioo sent s passes to the show.the 4th and 5th callers right now at 410-481-4545 in! coming up in our 7 o'clock hourr.. there's no loyalty... among cell phonn customers.the biggess reason many peeple ditch their plans right after theeccntracts are up.you're watching fox 45 morninn news.. all local.. all morning. ((break 8)) d97 as outrage grows ovvr the shooting death of trayvon martin... rallies are being held all overrtheecountry. where people are gatheriig today in ballimore. th

concerned about jobs and these governors scott walker john case in ohio the ones in the south to my friend nikki haley who might be indicted shortly here in south carolina they all came in promising to create jobs i don't know how you create jobs and cut government which equals cutting government jobs at the same time and on top of that a lot of them came in and cut taxes they cut corporate taxes some of them cut taxes on the wealthy they're doing these things then you throw in some of these really invasive anti-woman laws these ultrasound laws that somebody has to pay for these voter id regulations that somebody has to pay for and they're actually increasing the size of government and the control of government and those two fronts and then there are people who you know needed this paycheck to continue to spend money make a living pay rent to pay the bills. and so what you're getting is a worse economy in the states which really should have been pretty obvious i want to kind of round this all out with something interesting that is i mean you said that the occupy movement would not have happened

south carolina's governor under nikki haley is looking to get their law approved. the lawsuit comes with an estimated cost of at least $1 million in legal fees, billable to the south carolina taxpayer. it's tempting to think of it as southern thing but it's a republican thing. south carolina, alabama, mississippi are some of the dominated states that passed laws to make voting harder since the last election. another state is wisconsin. but judges in the state courts there have put that voting restriction bill on hold as well. on thursday, the bill was temporarily blocked bay madison judge after he heard testimony that more than 200,000 wisconsin residents who are otherwise legally qualified to vote could not under the restrictions of the new law. yesterday that temporary injunction against the law was replaced by a permanent one after another madison judge reviewed the law. scott walker's administration is appealing and they are raising money off of the issue. but it all puts in doubt whether wisconsin's new make it harder to vote law will be in effect for november

. >> nikki haley? >> energetic. >> energetic. >> donald trump? >> huge, huge. >> rick santorum. >> press secretary. >> wow. was that meaning his press secretary? >> pressure is on. can you image playing that game. you have to think about every word. >> he was quick on his feet right there. >> speaking of quick on your feet. maria molina is here with a weather update. a lot of eyes on colorado as the out of control wildfire keeps ongoing. >> the one good thing about that area is we are looking at the winds diminishing. we are not expecting winds that are that strong to help spread wildfire. we are not looking at any rainfall out there a lot of sunshine it will stay dry through saturday. we have rainfall through the latter half of the weekend and starting next weeks. fingers crossed we will get moisture through southwest denver colorado and jefferson county for the wildfire. current temperatures in the upper 60s for texas. and a much warmer day today across the northeast as we head out this morning. current temperature 45 over in new york city we w

south carolina's governor under nikki haley is looking to get their law approved. the lawsuit comes with an estimated cost of at least $1 million in legal fees, billable to the south carolina taxpayer. it's tempting to think of it as southern thing but it's a republican thing. south carolina, alabama, mississippi are some of the dominated states that passed laws to make voting harder since the last election. another state is wisconsin. but judges in the state courts there have put that voting restriction bill on hold as well. on thursday, the bill was temporarily blocked bay madison judge after he heard testimony that more than 200,000 wisconsin residents who are otherwise legally qualified to vote could not under the restrictions of the new law. yesterday that temporary injunction against the law was replaced by a permanent one after another madison judge reviewed the law. scott walker's administration is appealing and they are raising money off of the issue. but it all puts in doubt whether wisconsin's new make it harder to vote law will be in effect for november

anyway, nikki king took that picture. thank you. >> from our monitor we couldn't see.e have a guest on today that's bound to cause a little stir. >> yeah, some controversy. the french are known for a lot of things, great wines, terrific foods, things like that. there's a mom from the u.s. that moved to france who says french moms seem to be better at parenting than moms in the u.s. because they have a different technique. >> yes. >> than we do here. >> they completely approach it very, very differently. and it's going to be fascinating. but she basically thinks they're superior to us in the way they do. you know, we allow our children basally to run the home. >> yeah. >> and she says in france it's the opposite way. the children's toys are not all over the house. they're in one designated area. mother doesn't get off the phone because the child does not come over and say mama, mama. they just -- they seem to be able to compartmentalize. >> she talked about how, this is interesting, when your child is crying in bed and, you know, just kind of getting out of the sleep, t

. >> nikki hayley. >> nikki haley. >> energetic. >> donald trump. >> huge. >> rick santorum. >> presstary. >> press secretary. martha: he had a pretty good night on the jay leno show. a pretty good comic time. a new poll has raised a few concerns perhaps for romney supporters out there. it questions his match up against the president, approval ratings lagging. 50% expressing an unfavorable opinion of mitt romney. the senior writer for the weekly standard and a fox news contributor joins me now. steve moore, thanksteve joins me. how did he do. >> he seemed more more relax relaxed. i think he probably did himself some good. martha: this is one poll. it shows rising unfavorability ratings for mitt romney and increasingly better numbers for president obama. >> it does those and it shows those across the board. there are two areas of concern for mitt romney. on the one hand he lags behind president obama among independent voters with obama having a 50% favorability to 46% unfavorable. romney is down to 35 higher won favorable. he is lacking in enthusiasm and intensity from republicans. you

. >> nikki haley? >> energetic. >> donald trump? >> huge. >> huge. >> rick santorum?etary. >> all right. i have no idea what he meant. he was asked to give one-word answers. press secretary. >> former press secretary, that's like an insult. >> is that an insult? >> i think it had to be a little bit of a jab at santorum. >> a tiny pit. paul ryan, hesitated there. >> later he said he could see santorum as his running mate. fagan will be running mate with mitt romney before -- >> i thought it was interesting because he seemed to defend santorum a little more than normal. he didn't pile on. >> this is romney trying to secure the base, trying to be the leader of the party and bring everybody together. >> shameless plug. >> go kansas in the final four. >> all right. that's a good one. jamal? >> tomorrow the naacp, urban league, labor, a bunch of groups going down to the organization to protest on some of these gun laws and how to get a program and things like that. >> great piece in the "weekly standard" by adam white. for those of us politico junkies who don't understand t

nikki haley and governor martinez could help with the hispanic vote.y vice presidential candidate to get a complete and thorough background check the next question -- george, i sense the supreme court is making an effort to influence the presidential election with the timing of some of the cases this summer? cases on affirmative action and president obama's health care law. i don't agree. i think it's the fact that cases are bubbling up from lower courts. there's no question that their decision especially on obama care could really shape the playing field for november and finally dave will at 200 who do you like for baseball this year? the same team i have liked ever since 1969 and the miracle mets. i'll be rooting for them. if you got a question send it on facebook or twitter. that's all for us tonight. "world news" with david muir has the latest headlines. i'll see you tomorrow on "good morning america." ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about how some companies like to get between ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 you and your money. ttd#: 1-8

then we elected sandoval, martinez, nikki haley. we have a lot of work to do, but we're doing the work. >> your thoughts? >> you can't count midterms. younger voters, minorities, these are the growing future electorate. >> thanks to all three of you. i appreciate your time this morning. we'll have live coverage of the president's first fund raising speech in chicago. that's at 1:20 eastern time here on msnbc. so it's an issue that keeps dogging mitt romney. dogging him. the family road trip with his dog strapped to the roof if a crate for 12 hours. will it have an impact with the real voters out there? i want to fix up old houses. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to start a band. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done growing. thanks, mom. i just want to get my car back. [ female announcer ] discover what's next in your life. get this free travel bag when you join at aarp.org/jointoday. get th

. >> reporter: it follows ahmadinejad's visit in january of nikki haley, cuba and ecuador. >> i would be at all surprised that anti-americannism and anti-semitism, sometimes in the overt form, sometimes in the form of the anti-zionism is going to be very much the mainstay. >> reporter: the head of the u.s.-based opposition network, channel 1 says that his-span should raise red flags. >> you shouldn't ask me. ask the western societies, why aren't they stopping the financial relations between iran and other countries? >> reporter: the iranians run six international channels in 25 languages, including press tv in english. its propaganda led the british to revoke its license n. los angeles, fox news. >> bret: a major earthquake rumbled through parts of mexico today, buildings shook and workers fled into the streets of mexico city. at least 60 homes collapsed near the epicenter. the u.s. geological survey says the 7.4 magnitude quake struck 26 miles east of acapulco. still hearksd the federal government gets involved in the shooting of an unarmed african-american teenager. first, the fight

would like to say president obama is as inincumbent, he was strong enough to keep the jeb bush, the nikkit of the race. they said my bet is we're not going to put up a nominee who can beat the president. in four years it will be an open seat race. joe biden looks like an easy target. i'll take him on. this is certainly in part about the party. it's as much about the strength of president obama's ability to keep these sort of reasonable candidates out of the race. >> the party is in disarray because the boss of the republican party is rush limbaugh. and you showed earlier the outrageous things that he said today. and i fully believe, and not one republican running for president will have the courage to say, rush, you went too far there. >> a couple years ago, one would try it. within the news cycle, they would retract the anti-rush statement. now they don't say a word. >> give them four years. part of it is you just kind of wait. you see if he destroys himself in the course of the next four years. >> melissa harris perry airs saturday and sunday mornings. i know exactly when. from 10:00 a.

. >> laura: well, women like nikki haley, does she count? women like meg whitman who was referred to by jerry brown what about saying she is a w word? i don't even want to say it? how about people referring to jerry thompson, fred thompson's wife she belongs on a stripper pole in things that have been said about michelle malkin. >> i'm saying any offensive talk that is inappropriate. >> laura: right, jennifer. >> we're going back in time. >> laura: i understand your point and point of view. my question is, if what a radio host said on his show is evidence of a, quote, war on women, then where was the commentary about the war on women being waged over the last several years when very derogatory things were said by left wing people i don't condone that on my radio show and other places rush limbaugh is a dear friend of mine and wonderful person. i think he made a mistake and wishes he didn't say thand think he is really story for what he said. the war on women narrative was never raised when think of these things were said by liberals, ever. >

>> everybody loves nikki menage. her album comes out next tuesday. we've already got the album. we got it. you know? anyway, we want to give it to you. go to 93.9.com and figure out how to get that and we want to send you a secret location so you can go see her in concert. >> really. >> no, jim. you have to work. >> mm-hmm. okay. >> no hints. >> all righty. thanks, georgia. >> thank you all. >> 93.9 fm. >>> up next on news 4 at 4:00 who is that lady now promoting weight watchers? how about a former star athlete? >> also the viral video of the day. a child falls asleep standing in his skis? >> how does that happen? for all your news be sure to follow us online. just search nbc washington. we're on facebook and twitter, too. i was shocked to find out how many couples don't sleep in the same bedroom. but in the sleep number store, we hear it all the time. nine out of ten couples disagree on the firmness they want in a mattress. i sleep on the couch. with our bed, the sleep number setting represents the firmness that you like on your half of the mattress. you can have it your way an

. >> how about governor nikki haley. >> has she been governor long enough?co would be great. what about jeb bush or mike huckabee? >> that doesn't help with the gender gap. here is the problem with the gender gap. right now the president is running with a larger gender gap. >> let's put it up. i want people to see it. among men, the president has a 10% lead, among women, 60% to 37%. >> by the way, if he takes that margin into november, every congressional swing seat in this country is a toss up for women voters. however, they're still going to be on the wrong side of the issue for women. still on the wrong side of contraception, still on the wrong side, supporting the blunt thing. still on the wrong side on environmental issues like clean air and clean water that are awfully important to women. >> i think contraceptive, that's more of a religious issue. if you're talking about profiling for governor romney, women, black people, hispanics, where is a vice president that's going to profile that well, evangelicals? >> here is the interesting thing about mitt ro