they blame the python hysteria on politicians who did for pythons what j"jaws" did for sharks. >> abouts really perpetuated by politicians. politicians got ahold of that top end of that scale, which even the biologists who came up with that says, it's unrealistic. >> reporter: good for your business? >> well, yes and no. >> reporter: it got you the show. >> well, it wasn't good for our personal, our businesses dealing with reptile, both in the pet trade and conservation, because what they did was, they demonized, they used the python as a poster child for not releasing pets. >> reporter: the trio claimed the infestation started in a homestead hatchery in florida that was demolished by hurricane andrew. open season was declared on the criteriaers. some were permitted to shoot the snakes. and remember that bit about education? you want me to try to catch it? >> yeah. i tell you, i've seen a couple of people be able to do this. if you do get bit, freeze. >> reporter: see the sweat? now i'm sweating. >> this right here is what we do. we're going to take your fear and turn it into respect. >

>> python. >> python? >> you can only get this at the alameda county fair. >> all right. >> okay.hat's not my favorite. how do i get rid of that? all right, sorry i had to do that. i want some more funnel cake, guys. >> you're spitting on tv. >> i'm sorry, it wasn't good at all. we're going to go ahead and take another bite of this and then go to the weather maps. april, some great stuff out here. >> thank you. listen, everybody needs to come out. free concerts nightly. great food and if you don't like python, check out the corn dogs. we've got great corn dogs here. >> and a lot of other great contests happening too. let's get to those weather maps. that funnel cake helped wash that down. as we look at our weather headlines, we are expecting a little patchy fog there at the coastline and then temperatures staying in the low to mid-80s here as we head throughout the next 48 hours. and on the weekend, we're going to see some onshore flow continuing. that will keep the fog with us and temperatures in the 50s. we just had rattlesnake, didn't we? unbelievable. all right. then as we hea

. >> the alameda county fair is marking its 99th year with some unusual offering from python on a stick to bugs on a stick. >> if the leg breaks off, it's kind of strange. >> they can also sampled grilled meet, including kangaroo. one is hoping to break the record for a burger, a 600- pounder. it runs through july 10. >>> interesting things. mark joins us now. a big weekend in sonoma. >> yeah. they do a great job of promoting the stalk car weekend, nascar weekend. a special event with one driver, walking across the golden gate bridge but first, the oakland a's looking good in new york city. they are hot streak, hoping to continue. wearing the gold jerseys. look at this play. beautiful effort to get the out there. jason bay, look at it again, is the goner at first base. the a's just tied it up after they were trailing 1-0. a base hit here had the mets out in front 1-0 and it's a 1-1 game. the nascar weekend does continue as we talked about. a walk across the golden gate bridge this morning with clint boyer. this walk, of course, to promote heart health through great exercise. he was acco

inside of these giant plastic balls at the alameda county fair preview can find tasty snacks such as python on a stick or chocolate- covered scorpions. a day like today is the best time to go. >> 90s for today and we will continue to cool off for the weekend. right now we can show you that fog bank hugging a good portion of that bay area coastline. winds have been gusting to 28 miles per hour. you can see that big solid fog bank pushing man. we still have some heat to talk about right around fairfield and antioch. in san francisco only 65 degrees. still some coastal fog increasing and tomorrow more cooling. the weekend forecast, cool temperatures for the beaches and mainland in the upper 70s. temperatures dropping into the 50s for santa rosa and napa. we will continue to cool off because that fog bank is out there and the weather system is moving in. right around the bay those readings are in the lower 70s and the interior talking about some upper 80s out there. dense fog first thing tomorrow morning. we have a live camera in san francisco. increasing sunshine and then partly cloudy skies.

in case you missed it, i tasted python. >> you did bungee jumping. >> yes. 80 in santa rosa. tickets cheap. $10. you can see the seven day forecast, low 80s inland for the weekend. upper 60s in san francisco for all the activities happening. fabulous for sunday. >> how fantastic. >> yes. how spectacular. >> any more adjectives we can throw in. >> thanks. >> sure. >> going the distance. why this man is t iraracotrtryga crossn country in a gas powered wheelchair i want to crush more cars. i want to sell more tea cups. ♪ i need help selling bread. ♪ i want to sell more crabs. [ male announcer ] you know where you want to take your business. i want to design more buildings. [ male announcer ] in here, small business solutions from at&t can get you there. like the at&t all for less package, starting at just $70 per month, voice plus broadband. it's the at&t network. helping you do what you do... even better. >>> get ready for changes on twitter. there are reports the company is going to boost the level of advertising by making promoted tweets part of the mainstream updates. the mo

okay, they've got fried jelly beans, kangaroo burgers and python on the stick.ut the oddest in my book, de deep-friy eied butter. yuck! the fair continues until july 10th. thanks for choosing nbc news at 5:00. "nbc nightly news" is next. we leave you now with more from the pride frayparade in san francisco. enjoy. good night. >> just the freedom to be out and nobody cares. we can hug, hold hands, be like

plus we wade into the everglades with python hunters who say getting bitten is part of the fun. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. sf. >> 2 initial public offering announcements tonight. group on filed papers oakland base pandora closer to setting the opening share price. radio company hopes to raise 123 million dollars on the i p o. pandora expects to sell the stock in the 7 to 9 dollar range. >> many investors are anxious for on line coupon seller group on to jump into the i p o game. they took the first step forward today selling by filing paper with the sec. group on grew 22,000 percent last year and already matched that rate in the first quarter of this year. >>> hacker have hit the sony network system again for the second time since april hackers broke into a database this time the one for sony pictures.com. l they got ahold of unencripted password and personal information for 1 million customers. remember in april hackers got that sony play station network accessing 77 million accounts. >>> federal health officials here are ke

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jake is a five foot long albino python -- >> let's go with a cuter animal. she's sweet. >> oh, that's a porcupine mixed with wolverine. whoa. she gotta watch the pointy things -- on her back, right? she can hit you anywhere she wants to hit you. i know. i've seen that b>> oh, she got m >> oh, she got me. >> oh, my goodness. she's got a porcupine stuck in her arm. ah, where's that vodka? [ laughter ] >> there -- while she's over there. quick, get on. >> all right, all right. >> get on the couch. >> you're forcing me. >> oh, i'm sorry, sir. i'm sorry. >> got to happen naturally. >> let it happen. let it happen. go. >> your donations save lives. right alex? hey alex, hey. oh, look at the little porcupine. it's so nice. >> ron, this is our last animal, so if we can just do this one -- then we can move on, and we'll get you out of here. >> oh my, gosh, you've got to be kidding. you son of a -- all right, he's not real. you're not real! ah! ah! i'm not afraid of bears. ah. >> how's it going? >> going great. >> i'm cousin sal. >> oh, man. is this "jimmy kimmel?" >>

. >> monty python lovers, you're with me. >>> time now for "the skinny."gatives, yada yada. turns out one of his exes, denise richards is moving on. she's got good, happy news. she's going to be -- she is a mom again. >> that's right. this time she's adopting. >> she's adopted -- adopted a baby girl. she's 40 years old, denise richards. she looks good, doesn't she? 40's not old anymore. >> absolutely. >> she's adopted a baby girl and she already has two girls already. but this new baby, her name is eloise joanie richards. you might remember whehecharlie sheen had that big, crazy thing at the plaza hotel. >> oh, right. she was there with them, right? >> she and the girls were staying in the eloise room, a really fancy room, and the girls named the new baby. so that's probably what that's all about. >> interesting. >>> let's move on now to chris hansen. you might know him from "to catch a predator." they set up these sting operations to try to catch accused child molesters or guys trying to get together with teenage girls or boys. in any case, he apparently

. >> that is what she doesn't like but we had a python too. >> in live snakes here this morning.on't worry. >> let's get a look at traffic right now. >> a busy ride out there on the highways. we are talking 66 eastbound traffic flowing out of manassas and 7100 trying to work your way past fair oak and heading in towards vienna. a little busy right now crossing over the potomac river. we do find delays duke street to seminary road on 395. southbound 270, not so busy out of germantown at this point head for mva. # 10 at barry road in prim -- 210 at barry road in prince george's county. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. >>> our big story, former mayoral candidate sulaimon brown testifying in front of tease council. his goal is to to prove mayor vince gray paid him to verbally attack adrian fenty during the mayoral race. things it get -- did get heat at times. >> didn't you make those allegations? >> because they're true -- >> wait a minute. let me finish this. >> before you got hired? why at any time you macthem then you thought it would jeopardize the deal, right? >> tha

look at those, 18-inch python biceps. >> exactly, yeah. >> reynolds, you're a good sport. >> somethingshow, we have brought in one model to model something and that has been reynolds wolf. >> reynolds always a good sport. he could probably stick around if you'd like for your show. >> we definitely want him to try the robe on. but this time, put on the little ears that come with it. he didn't check the pockets. >> i'm sure those are in there. deborah feyerick in this weekend in for fredricka. on loan from new york. what you got coming up? you have the legal guys? >> we have the legal guys. we have great stuff to talk about with our legal guys. you look at some of these trials that are going on. one of them obviously casey anthony. we're going to be looking at that really hard. they're testifying today, the murder trial. everyone's watching it. but there's another case that you may not have heard of. this is a very creative defense. the man says that he suffocated his father because he was exhausted and the exhaustion combined with an energy drink made him lose consciousness. he did it b

policemen attitude of life of the importance somehow of containing within impossibly broken massively python-like in their -- in the appetite of the sentence to engorge itself with more pictures and words. dickens did all of that and my father, who was a super abundant figure himself in many he enjoyed it but he believed the english had this extraordinary kind of -- i don't want to mix my snake metaphors here but a civil serpentine arabesque quality. it's actually been commented that english art that there's been essay-length book now derided as utterly and intellectually and morally bankrupt of the great do ien of the architect of the 1950s and 1960s called the englishness of english art. there was one point at least that was made and that was he got it at looking at grotesques on english architecture and in carves and, you know, those men who sometimes are on the bosses of supporting columns who have vegetation coming out of their puffed cheeks and from that he quite rightly, i think, thought of when what might be called sort of some strange of vernacular art representation emerged which can't

dickens, it's a plenitude of life of the importance of containing within the possibly broken, massively python like in the appetite to engeorge itself or get more matter and picture and words. dickens who did all of that. and my father who was super abundant figure in many ways rejoiced in that. it maybe believed that english had the extraordinary kind of -- i don't want to -- mix my snake measures here. but the civil serpent, it's often been commented actually that english art, it was a little essay length book now derived at utterly bankrupt. neither which is truth, by nicholas, who was the great description in the 1950s and early '60s, it's the englishness of english art. it was berated for being middle england or about that. there was one point that he made. he got it from looking at grotesque on english and cathedral architecture. and in carvings, the men on the bosses of supporters columns and have huge cheeks. and from that, he quite radically thought of when -- what might be called some strain of vernacular english art representation emerged which can't be earlier than hogarth, i think

oh, look at those 18-inch python biceps -- nice!ood sport. >> something like that. >> since i have worked on this show we have brought in one model to model something and that has been reynolds wofrl. reynolds, we appreciate that. some good stuff and everybody getting ready for dad next weekend. reynolds, thanks. quick break, folks. we'll reset here for the top of the hour on "cnn saturday morning." rooer right back. [ male announcer ] this is lara. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that's a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. the two trains and a bus rider. the "i'll sleep when it's done" academic. for 80 years, we've been inspired by you. and we've bee

. >> we're learning how to use python, which is basically programming.ever, you're not learning a new language like you would for java. instead you're just using english but making it so that computers understand it. >> reporter: the goal is not programming. programming is to get -- say i want to build an application that makes kids happy. i want to build an application that secures the computer so we can protect people from identity theft. >> reporter: the lesson is to show kids how far a little knowledge can take them and the variety of opportunities that knowledge opens up. >> well, i'm not too sure. i'm hoping something in computer science because i think it's really interesting, but you never know. why not get an idea, maybe a feel for it and so i think that this course is great for that. >> reporter: because you never know how what you learn in here will help you when you get out here. in san francisco, kent wilhoit, nbc bay area news. >> some smart young ladies. >>> ahead at 6:00, a close call. amazing video involving a shark and a surfer who didn

. >> this is going to go through the python and inflation will drop off very much next year-- next yea >> rose: . >> temporary bulge in inflation because of commodity inflation it is to the going to last. >> i support t these aggressive monetary actions strongly. i think it's the key to trying to reduce some of the debt. even getting inflation up quite a bit higher than they imagined. but i got to tell you the pushback from the rest of the world was just incredible the chinese are lding a lot of dollars, the russians, the middle east and we just got so much hostility about it i'm sure lot of people were calling ben bernanke and complaining. it's really unfounate. and i would say at the same time the rollout of this policy emphasized too much how it was going to help the stock maet which i don't think is what it should be about at all. so unfortunately, it's very hard to do more with monetary policy. >> i kind of agree with ken up to a point. i mean i think that we should do another round as paul suggested of quantitative easing but i'm not sure how much it would do. the price oforrowin

i know that sounds a bit bizarre like a sketch and monty python. actually that in a way i tell you this story because i didn't know the representative of the spirit with which the book was written. the publisher of blooms for usa describes this book as a lighthearted book with a serious problem. in that same playful way in which we came up with a title the book has a lot of kind of jokes and satire and things like that to the extent one of the reviewers described the book as the general theory rewritten. [laughter] actually meant as a criticism but i took it as a praise because i love it and it's the kind of crucial dalia laogai wanted attached to the book. it is interesting sometimes bizarre. let me tell you a few things about this book. the book tells a lot of things you thought you knew about capitalism as best partial truth and at worst downright myth. now in the book the chapters are called things so thing one, finger to and thing three. dr. seuss, do you remember cat in the hat? thing one and thing to come he had only two things but i of 23 o

those monty python guys didn't even need the stick. >> you're using coconuts. >> what?two coconuts and you're banging them together. >> so. >> reporter: stick horses have been used in contests to cut cows from a herd. they've been used to imitate famous routines. okay. you may never see a stick horse commemorated by a statue but at least with a stick pony you get to pick out a horse that matches your outfit. ♪ happy trails to you >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. ♪ till we meet again >> reporter: new york. >>> it is 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. and a very busy morning in the cnn newsroom. good morning to you, i'm carol costello sitting in for kyra phillips. right now at the white house, the federal debt comes front and center president obama about to meet with republicans. all of them. right now feds are announcing a crackdown on the knuckleheads who shine lasers into aircraft cockpits. safety experts say they can blind pilots and jeopardize landings. last year there were 2,800 cases, nearly double from the year before. new federal penalties will inclu

in is the python found near the dumpster in his restaurant.ame in asking for a large cardboard box. that's when he found out it was needed to safely cap europe to a giant snake. >> now i'm glad that i watched so many episodes of the crocodile hunter. i've handled wild animals before, but this guy was rather sluggish. >> the snake was pinned down until police could box it up and remove it from the area. they say the snake was big enough to have strangled an adult and they're lucky it was found. >>> a man accused of heading. a marijuana trafficking ring. who he allegedly recruited to sell the drug. and you are taking a live look at sfo. look at that line outside! passengers of united still dealing with travel problems on this father's day weekend. we'll get a live report on the glitch that caused it and how long it will take to fix it. >>> united airlines passengers are still dealing with the impact from a computer glitch on the airline yesterday. coming up we'll show what you it looked like at sf organizations this morning. a search for a missi

it looks like that python.t one of each. >> right. >> if you go log on right now. >> erica downstairs -- >> you're outing her right now. all right, jill martin, again, thank you so much. and let's take a look and remind you. sarongs, the stud earrings by saya. hair products by kim vo. the sports bras by breeze comfort. and leather purses by maxine couture. head to our website at "today".com offering exclusive bargains. if you go to our website, as well, there's a link to jill's twitter account. if you have a question, she'll answer questions? >> for the next 24 hours, i'll be answering questions. >> and that's it. don't abuse the privileges. thanks. >>> meanwhile, coming up, the nickelodeon star who doesn't want to grow up, drake bell is here. from "drake and josh". we'll talk to him about his mo e,vimo ae, a fairly odd project. first these messages. very well . i like to eat a lot of fruits. love them all. the seal i get with the super poligrip free keeps the seeds from getting up underneath. even well-fitting

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> and now, for something completely different, to " monty python. our next speaker is a professor at university school of law [unintelligible] the only other person that has an acronym for their title that i could think of is potus. he graduated from new york law school in 1995. i cannot believe that. is that right? my god. he has won about 98% of the criminal convictions that have fallen out of the crisis. >> a good place to start would be to ask you what your brief was tarp where you were -- at tarp. were you responsible for -- >> we had a very broad mandate. the government regard the $700 billion of taxpayer money to bail out institutions. several things were created. one of them was placed in the executive branch tarp. the mandate that congress gave us was really brought. we really had two different missions. the first with law enforcement. we became the country's newly created law enforcement agency. we have full enforcement powers. guns, badges. we did a search warrant, raid jackets, arrested people. we were given jurisdiction to arrest peopl