we are not done with the peacock yet. is outside that temporary home of the peacock this morning. elaine good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you erica and chris. this just in, that peacock leaped off of the ledge of the building behind me here just a short time ago, flew away, in a city where unusual sights aren't so unusual -- >> i've never seen a peacock on fifth avenue before. i didn't think peacock were flying birds. >> reporter: this was enough to make new yorkers' heads turn. >> you walk down the street look up, hey there's a peacock sitting up on the window sill. i hope it doesn't fall. >> reporter: outside a swanky new york park five stories up a peacock that escaped from a central park zoo enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the city. >> it's staying up there a long time, something about the view must be appealing. >> reporter: the 2-year-old peacock is not the first zoo animal to go rogue this year. in march, a cobra from the bronx zoo slithered away and evaded capture for days. now like the cobra before it, thi

peacock, we had our fun.down from there and get home safely. >> the peacock perched on the window ledge of a posh 5th avenue apartment. he fell asleep on the ledge at about 9:00. have a problem of escaped animals from zoos. in april, mia, the bronx zoo cobra escaped. one more clip we want to show you, paul ryan, how has he been keeping a level head during this debt fight? it turns out he is going deep, say back to 1984. the man keeps his ipod on and rocks out to grudge. here he is. >> before the vote you were rocking out in the lobby on your ipod. i was curious what you were playing. >> who was it? it was one of your cnbc guys who asked me. i was listening to filter. >> yeah? >> i listen to grunge. >> what do you think about your son -- not that one, but a different one. >> i'm not going to sing it for you. >> the boys over at squawkbox. filter's 1994 single right now, "hey man nice shot." that's what paul ryan is listening to while he's shaping the future of our country. >>> still ahead, your well-meaning tw

an escaped peacock causes quite >>> and flight of fancy. an escaped peacock causes quite a commotion in new york city. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and very good morning to you. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with crisis averted. president obama signed lawmakers' pain staking budget bill keeping the u.s. out of default for now. tracy poths is live for us this morning on capitol hill. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. lawmakers were so wrapped up in recent weeks dealing with this debt crisis that they did not deal with the budget for the faa and, as a result, thousands of workers may be left without paychecks. after signing a deal to extend america's credit, president obama told congress to deal with the faa. >> congress needs to break that impasse now. >> reporter: nearly 250 airport construction projects are on hold. funding ran out last friday leaving 70,000 construction workers and 4,000 federal employees with no pa

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the network of the peacock, that's us, doing a story about an escaped peacock.cided to leave u.s. central park zoo and take up residence on an apartment sill. it drew quite a crowd and a twitter account was each started up. officials say the peacock poses no threat to the public and probably will return to the zoo when it's good and ready. >> or rockefeller plaza. >> he needs a new office. >> this is not a publicity stunt, this is actually happening. >> yes, breaking news. >> thanks for joining us tonight. see you back tomorrow. >> jay leno is next.

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an escaped peacock causes quite a commotion in new york city. good morning to you. those stories and more straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morning with crisis averted. president obama signed lawmaker's painstaking budget compromise into law yesterday keeping the u.s. out of default for now, however lawmakers left some big business unfinished before breaking for the august recess. tracie potts has the details. >> reporter: lawmakers were so busy dealing with this debt crisis they failed to pass funding for the faa leaving almost 80,000 workers with no pay. after signing a deal to extend america's credit, president obama told congress to deal with the faa. >> congress needs to break that impasse now. >> reporter: nearly 250 airport construction projects are on hold. funding ran out last friday leaving 70,000 construction workers and 4,000 federal employees with no pay. >> i'm concerned with whether or not i'm going to be able to pay my mortgage. this is their bread and butter to have 70,000 of these workers off is not fair. >> reporter:

. >>> here in new york tonight, the city of concrete canyons is abuzz over a peacock that escaped from the central park zoo this afternoon, perched on a window sill at a swank fifth avenue apartment building and yes, that's our logo. we'll get to that in a moment. a crowd has gathered below the perch and zoo officials are urging everybody to leave the bird alone and hoping somehow he'll get back to the bronx on his own. this being 2011, of course, the peacock already has a twitter feed including a request to get in touch here with us at nbc and this alleged complaint from the bird, quote, they've been using my image without permission for too long now. mr. peacock we've had our fun just get down from there and get home safely. >>> and a lot of people consider this next story to say "take that" to all the waif thin models that are usually celebrated in womens' magazines and fashion publications. in a poll of 2,000 men and women asked to name the best body, helen mirren came in first and for good reason. and keep in mind here, she's 66 years old and she finished on the list above el macp

peacock is a male p phile, but the pretty feathers make for gender confusion among some humans.y event, his fifth avenue appearance is quite the diverse on an otherwise quiet august afternoon. >> you look up oh hey there's a big peacock sitting on the window sill. pretty awesome. i hope it doesn't fall. >> reporter: the zoo people warned new yorkers not to spook the bird. somehow he doesn't seem to be in a hurry. >> i think it's staying up there a long time so he must be enjoying it a little. something about the view must be appealing. >> that was lou young reporting this morning. >>> in oregon an injured hiker who had been missing for three days was found and rescued. 28-year-old pamela solano was lifted to safety yesterday. this morning she's in serious condition with a possible broken leg suffered when she fell off a cliff saturday. doctors expect her to make a full recovery. >>> scientists in uganda are showing off a newly discovered fossil of an ape 20 million, 20 million years old, calling it a highly important find, they say the creature was a tree climbing vegetarian unl

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. >> i am a peacock farmer and schoolteacher. i supplement my income as a peacock farmer.ck farm went away. i was going to add more people can keep everything in this state. if i support you, can you assure me that you'll make small businesses like mine better? >> i will not send you checks. i will not promise checks. >> i want to earn it. >> when politicians get on the public stage, they give a promise to the american people all sorts of free stuff. it is time in america to tell people the truth. we have to earn what we spend. we cannot spend more than we earn year after year. we cannot go to china and other nations and ask them to give us your money so we can spend more than we earn. i will make america the most attractive place in the world to start a business, grow a business, expand a business of any place in the world and i will do that by making sure that our corporate tax rates are the same as the corporate tax rates of other nations around us. right now, they are the highest in the world. i want them to be competitive. i want regulations to be competitive and mode

if the central park peacock is tweeting, i think it's time -- >> when i feel i have something worthy of peoples attention, i will --

do peacocks fly?d out pretty easy. >> no, whoever is living there. >> up to the fifth floor. >> he must, right? nl unless he got up on the elevator. >> honestly, i'm trying to remember. >> i've never seen one fly. i see they're all over the bronx zoo if you've been there, they're everywhere. they just walk freely among the people. one pecked my daughter on the forehead one time but i've never seen one fly. >> oh, my goodness. what do you -- help us out. we know there are some farmers out there who have peacocks. can the peacock fly? how did it get up on the windowsill? >> pea fowl. >> pea fowl is -- >> uh-huh. i need to be more up to speed on my peacocks. >> there you go. your pea fowl. in the meantime, at 29 minutes before the top of the hour, here's the other stories making news. chilling new video of the wife of the convicted kidnapper and rapist phillip, it shows her secretly taping a young girl who was lured into their van two years after they kidnapped jaycee dugard. directing the girl to do gym

this peacock isn't the first animal to break out. bronx cobra catapulted its way into fame after a week on the run. and in may a female peacock was also on the lam for a day. the central park zoo said in a statement, we ask everyone not to follow or harass the bird if they see him. we're hopeful he will either fly back to the zoo or we will retrieve him. but until they do, central peacock, according to its fictional twitter, is just trying to have some fun. perhaps it was a sign that lured him. it says love thy neighbor as thyself. they still can't figure out how it managed to escape. >> got hungry. >>> coming up, the big fight over casey anthony's fate with two titans going head-to-head over what should happen to her next. >>> the math wizards who figured out the lottery cashing in big time. >>> the sinatra on second avenue will be here. ♪ to touch your hand and walk with me ♪ from that oa. the shrimp, the fresh fish, the steaks. it locks in the flavor, it seals in the juices so that when you put the fork in it, it just goes through

. >> i am a peacock farmer and schoolteacher. i supplement my income as a peacock farmer. since the last election, my peacock farm went away. i was going to add more people can keep everything in this state. if i support you, can you assure me that you'll make small businesses like mine better? >> i will not send you checks. i will not promise checks. >> i want to earn it. >> when politicians get on the public stage, they give a promise to the american people all sorts of free stuff. it is time in america to tell people the truth. we have to earn what we spend. we cannot spend more than we earn year after year. we cannot go to china and other nations and ask them to give us your money so we can spend more than we earn. i will make america the most attractive place in the world to start a business, grow a business, expand a business of any place in the world and i will do that by making sure that our corporate tax rates are the same as the corporate tax rates of other nations around us. right now, they are the highest in the world. i want them to be competitive. i want regu

.  >>> a peacock is back at the central park zoo in manhattan after ruffling some feathers if you will, with the latest animal escape stunt. it spent tuesday night perched on top of an apartment across the street from a zoo where it attracted group of onlookers but this morning he woke up and decided to fly back to the zoo. earlier in year, cobra, the one at the end of the video spent a week on the run after escaping from zoo in may. peahen also escaped and strutted around before being fond a day later. maybe the peacock was looking for the peahen. >> tighten up security the zoo. >> isn't there a movie about animals breaking away and going to another place? >> disney movie probably. >> probably. >> are the clouds breaking up? >> they are breaking up, especially in the east bay valley. volmer peak to mount diablo. sunny and relatively warm day, but nothing too hot. as we look down from mount mount you can see -- mount tamalpais, you can see the clouds along the coast to try to stay in the bay. they are having a hard time thanks to a nice breeze up in about 2,000 or 3,000 feet o

. >>> and we left you hanging last night with the plight of the peacock who escaped from the central park zoo, sat on a window ledge on fifth avenue in new york for the longest time. our flying logo, as we refer to the bird, eventually got hungry, went back home because you can't beat the peacock menu at the central park zoo. >>> when we come back here tonight, if you don't think construction workers can be highly entertaining, you haven't met this construction worker. >>> finally tonight, every now and then something happens in the big city to surprise you. take new york. there is this massive construction project going on here in manhattan. they're building a new subway line on the east side. great for jobs, but the mess and the noise have made life difficult for the neighbors. but from this big dig, a hidden gem has emerged to cheer the local folks at the same time every day. his story tonight from nbc's anne thompson. >> reporter: it is four years and counting for this cacophonous assault on manhattan's genteel upper east side. >> walking down the street like this. >> reporter: a

the peacock is back, flying back to the zoo on its own. the first new york zoo animal to take a hike. back in march, you may remember a cobra escaped the bronx zoo. that snake set up a twitter account as well. two months after that a pea hen which jon scott told me is female version of the peacock escaped from the zoo and showed up at auto body shop. the animals are running wild. jon: i would rather find a peacock on my ledge than a cobra. >> reporter: good point. jon: rather this bird than that snake. rick, thank you. jenna: maybe some of the animals are twittering questions about jobs. this is big issue. america is asking about jobs and unemployment. new numbers offer a mixed picture about the labor market over all. take a look at this number. jobs in the private sector rising by 114,000 last month. that is according to the latest adp national employment report. most of the new jobs were created by the way by small and medium-sized companies. we'll talk about that in a second. another report showed planned layoffs in the private sector s

. >>> a peacock is back at the central park zoo in manhattan after ruffling some feathers if you willhere a movie about animals breaking away and going to another place? >> disney movie probably. >> probably. >> are the clouds breaking up? >> they are breaking up especially in the east bay valley. volmer peak to mount diablo. sunny and relatively warm day, but nothing too hot. as we look down from mount mount you can see -- mount tamalpais, you can see the clouds along the coast to try to stay in the bay. they are having a hard time thanks to a nice breeze up in about 2,000 or 3,000 feet over turning the atmosphere now. you can see it's coming down from the north more so today. that's why we see clearing along the north bay before anywhere else. as far as our coast goes tlment you go. clouds in the north bay and some around the monterey bay and dissipating from san pablo bay. temperatures responding. look at the 70s. fairfield, concord, livermore, los gatos. mid-to-upper 60s in the bay shore. low to mid-60s in the north bay. 57 in half moon bay. 58 in santa cruz. low to mid-60s for th