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. >> rachel ray surprises a have fan in san francisco: the bay area mom says rachel inspired her to make a difference in the face of personal trying to mislead you about the effects of proposition 46. well here's the truth: 46 will save lives. it will save money too. i'm bob pack, and i'm fighting for prop 46 because i lost my two children to preventable medical errors and i don't want anyone else to lose theirs. the three provisions in 46 will reduce medical errors and protect patients. save money and save lives. yes on 46. >>> covering walnut creek, burlingame, campbell and all the bay area, this is abc7 news. >>> workers are putting the finishing towns to a rainbow crosswalk in san francisco's castro this morning part of an $8 million project to improve the neighborhood. the sidewalks are, widened and repaved and new lights are added and trees are planned loan the street. it will be the home of the rainbow honor walk with plaques from lesbian and gays and transgender heroins. >> your pant pocket could be bigger to accommodate the new iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus because they can end up

"unguarded" with rachel nichols starts now. >> tonight on "unguard" with rachel nichols. lebron james opens up abut his drastic weight loss. being a celebrity father. and what made him decide to to leave a warm paradise and return to his roots in the rust belt. >> why would he leave sunny, florida, to go back to the cold of ohio. >> tennis superstar, serena williams, discusses just how sunny stayed so good for so long. >> train for, for 30-something years is it is definitely not easy. a choice. you choose to do it or you don't. >>> welcome to "unguarded." the former miami house of superstar lebron james went on the market recently. and the $17 million listing describes an elevator, infinity pool, personal theater and a yacht dock. but it is not the details that have so man buzzing. it's that the house is for sale at all. further confirmation that lebron is really, truly, back in ohio to stay. now for those who don't understand why you would ever leave the house with a yacht dock, well next friday night, cnn will air the documentary "more than a game. "the movie chronicles

. >>> tonight on "unguarded with rachel nichols" from the floor of the u.s. senate to jon stewart to south park. the controversy over the redskins name is boiling. >> when it comes down to it a racial slur is a racial slur. >> derek jeter's career ended in spectacular fashion. what about the hole he left in baseball. what's next for the superstar. >> there is only one george stein brern, like to be as close to him as i could. >> one of the sport's, figure, ironman, cal ripken jr. addresses rumors he is headed back to baseball as a manager. >> i don't know how that is going to end up. i do know i have an inkling or need to test myself there. >> welcome to "unguard." tonight out of our l.a. studios. if you watch nfl games on tv and the numbers say that most of you do. this will affect you. the announcement that it is kidding banning television and radio stations from using the word redskins when referring to the washington, d.c. nfl team. this could be a landmark moment. owner daniel snyder has sworn to never change the nickname. it would be hard to see the nfl

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rachel's question. we in the sunshine state do have odd political characters that represent us. >> we're a state of weird o-os. it's like halloween 363 days a year. >> if you look at the united states it's tilted and the interests sentiment falls here. including us. what do you see in the race? it seems to be close issues. ? >> what i see is an incredibly close race. i quoted a democratic pollster who performed a poll showing rick scott is up by 2 or three-point. it's in today's miami herald. he said the polling right now relative to this stage of the race is about this close if not closer to the polling in the disputed presidential elections. we had 537 votes. it went on for 37 days. i said is it going to be a long tuesday night? he said it could be a long month. >> it could take forever to get it counted? >> we could be a margin of error. >> what about the absentee votes and the early voting that has been going on. >> glad you asked. so far we've had 2.6 million. >> that's a lot. >> probably will be a

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the rachel maddow show starts now with rachel live from denver. good evening, rachel. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are coming to you live tonight from the great state of colorado. we are at a global place called the view house in denver with a lot of very, very attractive people. so a funny thing happened on the way to re-election of obama. they held their election in 2008 in denver. when it came time for the election, candidate obama won the state of colorado pretty easily. he beat john mccain by like nine points. the private polling being done by the mitt romney campaign showed mitt romney winning colorado. that's why he is out here still doing colorado events three days before the election in 2012. the romney campaign was actually published by the new election by the american public, which is how we know this information. the secret poll on the saturday before election day showed that mitt romney was going to win the election 48-45. that was saturday. on sunday, they still thought mitt romney was going to win. but when the polling was over and

rachel called 911, but the operator didn't understand her. police laid tire spikes and once officers realized what was going on, they rushed the couple to the hospital, rachel delivered a healthy ten pound baby girl, police have not filed any charges. >> a man claims he woke up from a collin -- colonoscopy, wearing pink underwear. he is suing the hospital, but the court said he had a to say claim some kind of fungal impairment. >>> a race got weird all because of >> prominent rabbi in washington, d.c. has been arrested and charged with secretly recording women at his temple. else accused of setting up a hidden camera in the part of the synagogue where women took ritual batting. the rabbi victimized 6 people between june and september. he has been charged with voyeurism and suspended without pay.as been charged with >>> stephen collins is under investigation for supposing himself to a minor. detectives are working with them. an awed recording surface of a man who police believe is collins confessing to the crime. >> a local soccer player is th

good evening, lawrence. >> good evening, rachel.the senate might come down to that independent senate candidate in kansas who has never said how he will vote for majority leader. and we will also take a look tonight at the most likely way your digital security could be violated by someone you're living with. but first, three teenage american girls who may have run away from home to join the

how close were you, rachel? >> i was pretty close. i was a couple tables away actually from jaylen and we all -- most of us ran out the back door. we ran pretty far away from the scene and went to the church nearby. >> rachel, i know also that you knew jaylen, but you know one of the victims, a girl. can you tell me about her? >> yes, i do. . she's a very great person. she was very caring and she was always very comforting person and always loved the people around her. she was -- she was very supportive of all of her friends and very open to be there for her friends at all times. >> do you know anything about the relationship she had with jaylen fryberg? was this a relationship or do you have any senses to why he shot the people he shot? >> i don't. i know they were all pretty good friends, and i have no idea why he would go for those people at all. >> what do you know about him? the country is now hearing about a young man that ostensibly seemed happy, a young man that loved to be outside, a young man who was the homecoming prince. w

rachel's back.vision she's about to appear on your tv screen sitting where i'm sitting now talking about an amazing debate moment from the north carolina senate race this week. >> for the last year you've sat on the foreign affairs committee and you've missed half the meetings. can you explain to me what other commitments you had that you thought were more important than sitting in the committee? mainly interested in where were you and why were other commitments more important than sitting in that foreign affairs committee? >> well, let me clarify something, george. i am not on the foreign affairs committee. i serve on the armed services committee. >> i stand corrected. >> i could watch that over and over and over again. let me just clarify. this week we had debate night all across the country. all around the same time on tuesday night there were big important senate debates. virginia and west virginia and north carolina, georgia, colorado. five states, five debates all that same night. while most o

the rachel maddow show starts right now. >> thank for staying with us for the next hour. we're five days out for election day. steve kornacki here tonight to talk about the state of play and what might be a glimmer of hope for democrats in what's otherwise looking like a tough election democrats. we' got the latest on the battle for a quarantine for that defiant nurse in maine who returned to this country from treating ebola patients in sierra leon. she hes has no symptoms of ebola and does not appear to have the disease. she's fighting efforts to quarantine her now in maine. we're going to wrap up the show with a big correction that we have to make. there's a lot going on. there's a lot in tonight's show. we have to begin tonight with some breaking news out of pennsylvania. this is on the fbi's ten most wanted list. there they are. eric freen is accused of killing a pennsylvania state trooper and wounding another trooper with a sniper rifle last month in pike county, pennsylvania. the trooper who was killed was corporal brian k. dixon. he was 38 years old. since that sho

rachel smith in for sara. rachel has this incredible story. and a reminder that we all need cpr training. >> good morning. this is an incredible story about a brave young girl. 11-year-old skylar barry. she thought she was attending a typical pool party celebrating her friend's 12th birthday party. but little did she now her attendance would save another friend's life. >> i think he had a seizure. >> right now? >> no, he's not breathing. >> reporter: this dramatic 911 call capturing the frantic moments after a little boy nearly drowned. his life on the line. >> you don't understand. i have panic attacks. >> that's okay. just tell me if he's okay. >> reporter: a fun birthday party by the pool turned into a terrifying emergency. >> he was gone right in front of all of our eyes. we lost a friend. >> i thought he wasn't going to make it. i thought there was going to be a death. >> reporter: one of birthday boy david's friends finding himself in deep water, lifeless at the bottom of the pool. >> they pulled him out and i checked his pulse. and i wa

the rachel maddow show starts now with rachel live from denver. good evening, rachel. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are coming to you live . >> good evening, thank you for joining us tonight. we are coming at you live from the great state of colorado. we are at a lovely place called the view house in denver with a lot of very, very attractive people. so. okay. a funny thing happened on the re-election of president obama. the democrats held their nominations in 2008 if denver. when it came time for the election in 2008, candidate obama won the state easily, he beat john mccain by 2009. vote. they had the polling up one, maybe two points if 2012. the private polling done by the mitt romney campaign showed mitt romney winning. that's why they had him out here doing colorado events three days before the election in 2012. the romney campaign was doing this private daily tracking and the private daily tracking polls were event wrally published after the new republic. the secret mitt romney colorado poll on the saturday before election day showed that mi

rachel, i love the fact that you're talking about candidates that skip debates. doesn't matter if you don't like it. just show up and debate. don't start worrying about sponsors and all of this stuff. i don't get the strategy, either. >> i've got to say, i've seen candidates make strange decisions and very contentious decisions about whether to be in debates. the rnc made it a big, institutional issue, how many primary debates there would be in the president contest or whatever. but one thing i vbt e haven't seen before is candidates not attending a debate even though it means the opponent will get the whole stage to themselves for an hour. is this just turning up the heat? >> i think it is the media turning up the heat a little bit. think about this. you have more and more local and regional all-news stations. so they feel more than comfortable being able to offer up the time. it's, like, okay, if they don't come, we'll do it empty-chair style. it's a way of calling a bluff and seeing if they'll show. and, as you see,some of these guys are calling the media's bl

rachel is now going to give us a behind-the-scenes look. what do the ferocious spartan battle scenes in "300," the heart-pounding hand-to-hand action in "the bourne legacy" and the impeccably choreographed fight sequences in "john wick," the new revenge thriller have in common? these guys. >> this is how most co-directors work. >> reporter: chad and david are hollywood's premiere fight choreographers and stunt coordinators. 8711, their one-stop shop, gym, stunt training shop and production company in los angeles is where the biggest action stars in hollywood go to learn how to kick butt from the best. who are some of the hollywood heavyweights? >> chris hemsworth. chris evans, the cast of -- >> the cast of "the avengers." michael fast bender. >> hugh jackman. >> hugh jackman has been here. >> reporter: they essentially story board and direct a stunt sequence choreographing a full scene to present to directors. >> we want the job, we want to do this movie. here's what you could have. it's like mini film school. >> oh, that's going to hurt. >

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i don't know what the guy believes. >> i want to get to rachel maddow's points.you find it interesting that panetta works as a senior counsel at beacon global strategy and the co-founder of that firm is expected to be a spokesperson for clinton should he run. >> it's very cozy crew. when people are out of government they have to hang out somewhere. there are these little think tanks and consulting firms. leon panetta found a very comfortable one. you're right it's the clinton campaign in exile. what do we expect. >> we're talking about if he little reines. what will we see next with this and with panetta and hillary situation. do you think this will go forward? >> here's what it's doing. it's going from a loose confederacy of people to something that is like an organized campaign. the timetable is getting shorter. the organization is getting bigger. they will be out there raising direct money pretty soon as soon as some papers are filed. hang on tight. the clinton campaign is coming and it's not going to be much longer. >> all right. so oscar winner jennifer lawr

i would like to thank the panel, rachel hubbard, dick pryor, and rick green. i would also like to thank the partnership of oeta tv, the oklahoma league of women voter and oklahoma state university for putting on this debate. it was a good debate. be sure to vote on november 4. good night. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] >> if you'd like to see this or any of the other debates we've covered this election season, they're available on our website at c-span -- at web web. here's some ads from the oklahoma's governor race. >> here i learn to stretch every doll lar, to support the second amendment and to value my education. >> as governor i'll improve schools by taking franchise tax revenue out of the hands of legislate lateors and using those funds for classroom instruction. i'm joe dorman, i will be a fiscally responsible pro-gun pro-education governor. >> the last 20 years have challenged us in ways we've never imagined. we've come through stronger, tougher, better. under the leadership of governor mary fallin, oklahoma has

rachel has been with me through our coverage. one of our correspondents who has been to this area of mojave desert and recently hosted a panel with sir richard branson and ceo of virgin galactic. i'm curious as we talk about the risks, certainly they were aware. >> certainly. i think any aerospace insider is very quick to point out that space travel is difficult. this is a very hard industry to be in. it's a hard industry to innovate in. this is an industry that's trying to emerge so a blow like this, a death like this, is just devastating to this industry. they hoped to send paying passengers into space in the next couple months. originally this was supposed to be in 2007. richard branson said it would be this winter. now on a late night talk show he said it would be in february or march of next year. he was going to bring his whole family. they would pay $250,000. over 700 people have signed up to go on these flights. the public's perception of the private's sector's ability to take on the responsibility of space travel and spa

it's rachel maddow this year. here's rachel. there she is right there. written her critique of the entire magazine, everything in it, including, including her take on this cover of penelope cruz as the sexiest woman alive. so you're going to have to buy esquire magazine or get it. if you read nothing else in this mag sign, you're going to want to read rachel's take on penelope cruz, sexiest woman alive. that i think is your greatest accomplishment is getting rachel to write about all of that. thank you for joining us. >>> coming up, a nfl wife will join me to talk about the nfl's problem with domestic violence and the problem she's lived with, with domestic violence. >>> and the ebola panic is making life very difficult for people from liberia who live here in the states, including right here in new york city. a 3d white smile has the power to captivate. that's why shakira uses... crest 3d white with whitelock technology. removing up to ninety percent of surface stains, and locking out future stains. so your smile always steals the show. crest 3d white.

ask your doctor about xarelto® today. >>> i'm rachel nicoles.tion quul at highlights of last season's playoffs, the most memorable moment didn't come on the court but a guy in a suit. remember kevin durant giving the acceptance speech thanking his mom. >> kevin is off the street. putting clothes on our back, food on the table. when you didn't eat, you made sure we ate you. went to sleep hungry. you are the real mvp. >> such an incredibly powerful moment. not just because it was so emotional. durant's entire speech was framed in kindness and gratit e gratitude. the exact opposite of the feeling often running through the world of sports and frankly our culture at large these days. we wanted to tackle the bigger issue. who better to bring in than kevin himself. kd start aid program, teaching kids to be a little nicer in the world a little more kind. i caught up with him earlier. take a listen. welcome, kef, before we get to everything else. i still have to ask you, months later, how often does some one come up to you and talk to you but that mvp sp

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rachel has the night off. back in the early days of then-senator barack obama's presidential candidacy, back when he was just starting to run for the nomination against hillary clinton, go all the way back to then, even then he could still pull in a crowd. early february 20 thousand 7, this was just before he even officially announced his campaign for president. a medium sized event at iowa state university in ames, but it had to be moved because of, quote, larger than expected interest. organizers thought that about a thousand people would show up at the event, and that's really a good crowd for most politicians. a thousand people if you can draw that, you're doing pretty well usually. but in the days leading up to that event for obama in 2007 the organizers recalculated and found that about five times as many people as that were going to be there or want to be there. they moved it to iowa state university's basketball arena, hilton coliseum they call it so they can accommodate the 5,000 people who were clamo

i forgot what it is. >> rachel, the swag tonight is a minir rachel maddow mixer. >> these are very cheapby-sized cocktails. i have to introduce you to one other important person. it's our judge. he is the guy who puts the mad in maddow blog. steve bennett. he is sequestered in a bunker deep in the wilds of new england. but he knows everything and so his disembodied voice will be the one to tell you if you get a question right or wrong. so disembodied voice, say hello to shawnna. >> hello to both of you. >> here's your first question. monday's show. we discussed the modern washington, d.c. tradition of former high-level administration officials writing tell-all books about their former bosses. ronald reagan's former chief of staff john regan revealed in his tell-all book that president reagan consulted an astrology. do you remember all that? here's your question. what kinds of decisions did president reagan and his wife nancy console their astrologer about while president reagan was president. auz it a, the president's schedule, b, what meals to serve at state dinner, c, staffing decision

quote, hey, rachel, my mother has a set, too. we could use a matching set. rachel, if you don't have a use for those canisters, i would love to get them off your hands. they were exactly the ones i wanted when i was first married. then there are your tweets. look. quote, if by hideous you mean the most awesome canisters of all time, then you are correct. not only do quite a lot of you own a set of mushroom-themed canisters, some of your sets are twice the size of ours. some of you are still pining the mushroom canister sets long gone, complete with spoon rest, napkin holder and wall clock. it's been a 24 hours of mushroom canister love and appreciation. so much so that i have been aesthetically swayed. and so a correction. yes, i once believed those mushroom canisters were hideous in the context of threatening armed violence against government officials, a la sharon engle in nevada and joni ernst in iowa. i also still do kind of think they're hideous in my office. but in real life on your shelf, on your kitchen counter, in the recesses of your childhood memo

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rachel lavin has this story. >> 160 security officers have been mobilized. the students went missing after municipal police and unidentifies gunman attacked them in the southern city. six students were killed and eyewitnesses say local police arrested many, but nine have turned up in jails. authorities suspect that they may have been handed over to drug gangs who operate in the area. it's taken days for the government to organization these security forces, who admit they have little information to go on. >> these are members of the state police, they have been joins by the mexican military, they are stopped and decided they are going to start searching on foot, in the mountains that surround this area, for the missing students. >> for the first time they have joined by family members he has had no proof of life, only an anonymous threatening phone call. a day after his son vanishes. >> we know that organized crime operates here. we have discovered misgraffs so we have come here to discover any clues. >> neater the soldiers nor the police have any intelligenc

thank you, rachel. >> not like i get to bestow the hitle great american.big feel that he agreed to come on this show. i've impressed myself by the fact that we had him. we've got lots more tonight. stay with us. >>> this has brn a crazy news day. we're following the breaking news of another american being diagnosed with the disease. he's a 33-year-old american camera man working for nbc news with an nbc news crew in liberia. dr. nancy schneiderman and the rest of her crew in monrovia are in a self isolation condition and they're also become brought back to the united states. there's no signs that anybody else on that screw has any symptoms or that they've been exposed. but nbc is bringing them home out of an abundance of caution. on top of those breaking news stories tonight of, all week long, we've been following a string of block buster scoops about the failings of the secret service. partly because of that reporting, the director of the secret service offered her resignation. >>> a couple weeks ago, [coughing] dave, i'm sorry to interrupt... i gotta tak

there's no sara. >> oh. >> it's quiet here. >> welcome, rachel.ng. >>> good morning, everyone. in the news, we begin with the growing fears over ebola here in the u.s. u.s. health officials say they are prepared to fight the deadly virus here and overseas. this is the family of the liberian national, thomas duncan, who contracted ebola and the family was movied to an undisclosed location. >>> and vowing to kill american hostage peter kassig next. the video taped warning comes moments after the beheading of british aid worker alan henning. >>> and what a week for the closer for the royals. and that was the wild card on tuesday. after the game, flew to north carolina for the birth of his son. and rejoined the team for game one against the l.a. angels, getting the save and the win. and last night, did it again. his second-post-season save as the royals win for the second time. >>> and this bear who showed up to swim in a backyard pool in hanover township in pennsylvania. a drink or two, and then a long swim. the uninvited guest made him or herself, m

how did rachel's law change the way informants are used in florida? >> rachel's law provides minimum standards for all law enforcement agencies across the state to follow, but there is no tracking requirement. we don't know how many confidential informants are used in the state. we don't know how many deaths or injuries ever occurred to confidential informants, so the standards are really minimum safeguards, but they certainly don't go far enough, and there's a lot more information that the public needs to have in order to determine whether or not using confidential informants is a worthwhile practice. >> we should remind our audience that rachel became an informant after marijuana and ecstasy were found in her apartment, relatively minor offenses. was she strong armed into becoming an informant. >> absolutely. i mean, rachel was told that if she didn't agree to be a confidential informant and do drug deals for the police department that she was facing prison time, so she didn't want her parents to know, just a typical college student, who was put in

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thanks, rachel. >> why do presidents typically appoint a czar or somebody like this? are there particular problems that presidents liking to throw solutions liking this at? >> usually there's a crisis and what the president does is says the federal government can do some things well and maybe not a lot of things but some things, and when a crisis comes along there is conflict between agencies, and they don't focus and get distracted, and that's where the presidents in history have appointed a czar. franklin roosevelt who pop liesed all of this during world war ii, he hired a guy, a famous ship builder and said this is the number of ships i want you to over see and make sure they get built, and kaiser came in and that was done. >> hiring a ship building guy in order to get more ships built, that seems right on the nose. there is criticism that this guy is not a doctor and this is a medical matter, and is subject matter direct personal expertise always what presidents go for? >> president nixon in 1973 in the time of the energy crisis appointed william simon as our firs

i really appreciate it. >> thanks, rachel.d to be here. >> so what can you tell us about the interim director? there has been some anonymous response to learn that he be taken over at least in short run. >> yes, most of the people that i have spoken with and trust have said joe clancy, you can't find a person in this service who doesn't like him. genteel. his nickname was "father joe" because of a brief stint he did in seminary, grew up in philadelphia, played football. all around good guy. he's kind of anticonflict. and that sounds like a good thing to be if you're going to be the temporary sort of place holder until a permanent, outside person comes in to do the real reforms and shake-up. most of people i've talked to said this is not the person who's going to lead any reform, but he certainly will be warmly received and trusted by many of the agents, especially the ones that he worked with. >> the white house says that they're not going to name a permanent director until december 15th, which is when an independent panel of

i'll ask rachel. what do we know about the company that launched this unmanned rocket, rachel? >> reporter: so orbital sciences is one of two private companies contracted by nasa to ferry cargo missions back and forth in the international space station. space x being the other one. orbital sciences contracted with nasa is worth $1.9 billion, and this was the third of eight missions that navy contracted them to run to the international space station. and space x's contract is worth $1.6 billion. these are just cargo missions, though. nasa recently awarded both boeing and space x contracts worth $6.8 billion in terms of, for boeing, and $4.2 billion for -- i'm sorry. $2. billion for space x. $4.2 for boeing. now, those are set to carry manned missions to the international space station. >> right. >> reporter: so we don't know yet how the public's perception of the private sector's ability to carry these missions to the international space station -- >> raging crane, thank you for your reporting. miles o'brien, both of you stick around. when we come back, much more on that rocket.

the rachel maddow show starts now with rachel live from denver. good evening, rachel. [ cheers and applause ] >> we are coming to you live . >> good evening, thank you for joining us tonight. we are coming at you live from the great state of colorado. we are at a lovely place called the view house in denver with a lot of very, very attractive people. so. okay. a funny thing happened on the re-election of president obama. the democrats held their nominations in 2008 if denver. when it came time for the election in 2008, candidate obama won the state easily, he beat john