. >>> nbc's jeff rossen is on the scene. what do you have for us? >> reporter: law enforcement sources saying ten people shot, two people dead, including the gunman himself. police are investigating basically every inch. they're looking at this car to see if there's any bullet casings, or trying to figure out where the bullets went. as you alluded to and you've been reporting, law enforcement sources tell nbc news this appears to be a disgruntled employees, was coming back here today when apparently the security garr at the empire state building wouldn't let him in, so the nypd says he opened fire, started shooting here, and we are right in the shadow of the empire state building. started shootic right here on the street. in fact one of the victims was shot. can you can bear with us, right there on the other corner, bakley just feet away from the entrance, pales in comparison. if you've ever visited new york city, you know fifth avenue is a major thoroughfare, especially on a busy weekday morning. fifth avenue is now closed several blocks that way,

south of rossen avenue.ng allowed in as we see the ambulances continuing to move around, trying to get the victims out of that temple. so far, we are still waiting for official confirmation from law enforcement, but you can see the armored vehicle appears to be getting ready to move again, so we'll continue to keep an eye on it. abe? >> you are watching live coverage from our affiliate wisn out of milwaukee, wisconsin. the coverage of this shooting at a sikh temple in oak creek, which is just south of milwaukee. 're continuing to reach out to our sources and our affiliates to get more information. the police have been giving us some information, but we'll continue to give us more as we go throughout the afternoon. of course, we're working the phones here at cnn, and we hope to get some other people on the phone on the other side of this break. stay tuned. cnn's breaking news coverage of a sikh temple shooting just south of milwaukee. ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 ttd#: 1-800-345-2550 let's talk about market volatilit

jeff rossen from nbc news. why was your refrigeration unit off? >> i can't speak with you. >> reporter: his company told us the refrigerator was on when it left the warehouse and called it a mechanical problem. >> they save a few dollars here and there with us at risk. >> reporter: today indiana is one of the only states targeting the food trucks. believe it or not, there is little federal oversight. state police captain wayne andrews is boiling. >> the feds are not doing really their job. the states, it's been left to the states to fix the problem. >> reporter: in 2005, congress told the fda to come up with stricter guidelines for food trucks. almost seven years later the fda hasn't done it. congress even set a new deadline of july 2012, last month, and still nothing. the fda decline to go on camera, but sent us this e-mail. the rule-making process can take time and we are working dilig t diligently to strengthen and modernize our nation's food safety system. >> there is a serious risk here to health and public safety. if this doesn't make them a

nbc's jeff rossen puts diet desserts to the test. >> they promise all the satisfaction with none of the guilt. diet desserts from frozen yogurts to ice creams and treats boasting low calorie numbers dieters crave. >> they don't make me feel like overindulging. >> everybody wantsed ed ted to clum and be fabulous. >> it's front and center. buy measure, and you'll lose weight. >> nutritionist joy bayer says you buy these indict yet products because you couldn't calories. she wants the numbers to be as accurate as possible. after all, these are preportioned packaged foods. >> i'd like to see the calories right on the money, but if you had a little bit of wiggle room, i'd say no more than 10%. >> so it should be 10% off tops? >> tops 10%. >> we found claims that aren't even close to what's in the package. we went shopping buying nine individual diet desserts from popular brands. from ben and jerry's to weight watchers, skinny cow to the new sensation arctic zero ice cream, promising 150 calories for an entire pint. don't be so sure. we put each camp in specialized marked containers for our b

this morning on ""rossen reports."t deliver your food may be putting your health at risk. good morning, jeff. >> reporter: when we go to the grocery store and go to the restaurant, we assume the food is fresh. who would ever think it may have been spoiling in a hot and humid truck on the way to the store? i've been tracking the story for over a year. we found that last summer trucks carrying unsafe food bound for your breakfast table. now police say it's actually getting worse. we're on patrol with the indiana state police. no radar gun. we're going to pull him over right now. >> yes. >> reporter: instead officer kelly is armed with a food thermometer. >> i'm getting an initial temperature of 53 degrees in your trailer. this summer's been particularly bad. >> reporter: indiana. if you eat it, it was likely hauled through here pu but if the units are off, food can turn foul. on our first stop, trouble. police athis truck's refrigerator isn't working properly. by law the food should be at a cool 41 degrees. some of it wa

let's get more from the scene at the empire state building with nbc's jeff rossen. give us the latest. we know the president just spoke, got some -- sorry, not the president, the mayor just spoke. we got some details on the shooter, jeffrey johnson, 53, who was fired from his job a year ago. >> reporter: yeah, fired from his job here in this area, in midtown manhattan, from a company called hazen imports. the victim, the other woman who died, the innocent bystander was 41 years old. her next of kin is currently being notified so we don't have her name yet. nine others were injured in local hospitals. we are told they are not likely to die. we don't know their exact conditions but they are not likely to die. i want to show you the scene on fifth avenue. as people continue to gather behind the police barricades, and police over on this side, alex, continue to investigate the crime, they are focused on this car right here. that's one of the locations. they're also on the ground over there, the little yellow markings on the ground, they're the bullet casings as they cou

today national investigative correspondent jeff rossen is here with more.ou're going to the beach this weekend. a lot of us. we'll be going to the store for sunscreen, it's confusing, 80, 100. i saw spf 110 the other day. the higher you go in many cases the more money they charge you. doctors say the sunscreen companies are misleading you, and they know it. ♪ i want to soak up the sun >> it's another hot one at the beach. the sun bathers are out, so are the kids. everywhere you turn, someone slathering on the sunscreen. >> we believe the higher the number, the more protection we'll get. >> you want to buy the best for your kids. >> the highest number. >> the sweat proof, the waterproof. >> reporter: hang on. some doctors call those ultrahigh spf numbers a misleading marketing ploy. buy spf 100 instead of spf 50, you might think you're getting double the protection but you're actually only getting 1% more, which doctors say doesn't make a real difference and the fda agrees. there's no evidence anything over spf 50 prekts you any better. yet the spf 70s, 80s,

we want to get back to jeff rossen who's actually at that scene. jeff, do you have any more information for us? >> reporter: yeah. police are still obviously fanned out and more are showing up by the carload. you can imagine, and matt just alluded to this, what this is doing to new york city traffic. i mean, this has brought the city to a standstill here in midtown. even just to get here, the street is closed at least seven blocks in both directions. we couldn't get down. we had to run down the street. there are literally hundreds of people standing behind police barricades just trying to get a look and, you know, crosstown traffic is an absolute mess at this point. and there's no traffic heading southbound on fifth avenue which, as you mentioned, is an incredibly important thoroughfare in the city at this time of day when this shooting happened. there are detectives showing up who i've worked with in the past who still don't know anything. there's a bit of chaos at the scene, controlled chaos, just trying to figure out what the motive could have b

. >> nbc's jeff rossen is live at the scene. jeff, you have been talking to some of the witnesses. >> reporter: yeah. the witnesses heard the shots and were coming down. what basically happened was they were pushed on to the street and back to these barricades like everybody else. one woman told us that she basically heard the pop, pop, pop, then looked out of her building window and saw that there was a man laying on the ground outside which is of course incredibly disturbing. i can tell you from the minute that i got here, first of all, police immediately shut down this area. that was the first thing they did today, when they didn't know what this was. there were counterterrorism investigators who came here. of course when you hear about a shooting at the empire state building, that's an initial reaction for a huge police department like the new york city police department. they quickly ruled that out and figured out what this was but in the meantime, fifth avenue remains closed. this is as you know, major thoroughfare in the

. >>> we're back at 7:47 this morning on rossen reports.nst the food industry. how accurate are the labels on the food you buy? "today" national investigative correspondent jeff rossen puts some popular diet deserts to the test. >> looking out for our girlish figures, goes right to the thighs. there's nothing better than binging on ice cream but who wants to gain the weight. a lot of us buy the lower calorie stuff trusting those labels. can you really believe them? this morning put down your spoon. we're getting the skinny on your favorite treats. they promise all the satisfaction with none of the guilt. diet deserts from frozen yogurts to ice cream and treats boasting lower calorie numbers dieters crave. >> they make me feel like i'm not overindulging. >> everybody wants to look like heidi column, skinny and fabulous. >> right there on the package. >> right there, front and center, buy me and you'll lose weight. >> reporter: nutritionist and nbc contributor joy bauer says you buy them because you're counting calories. she wants the numbers

correspondent jeff rossen here with this story. we all want a great deal. when booking a trip you go online and shop around for the best price, expedia, travelocity. now big accusations of price fixing at the travel website and biggest hotel chains are scheming together so you don't get a deal no matter how hard you look. >> price line negotiator. >> get the travelocity guarantee anywhere when you book with our new app. >> the kplergss are convincing. >> where you book matters, expedia. >> reporter: their promise, use our website and you'll get the best deal out there. from the travelocity guarantee to expedia's best price. and the orbitz hot hotel deals. >> when i go only, i'm looking for a bargain and a deal. >> obviously i care about the price because the cheaper it is, the better. >> but this new lawsuit claims you're wasting your time, accusing the biggest travel sites, the ones we all use, of conspiring with the country's most popular hotel chains to fix the prices of rooms so you can't get a lower rate online. attorney steve

this morning on rossen reports a hidden danger in your home.ntially collapse. national and investigative correspondent jeff rossen is here with how to protect your family. good morning. >> hey, matt. this is important information. we love our decks. you barbecue on them, invite people over, let the kids play and never worry about it, assuming they are safe. experts say people are getting hurt and killed because decks aren't built right, in danger of fall apart under your feet. this morning you're about to watch a collapse up close. it happens in a split second. you step onto your backyard deck, and it comes crashing down, no time to escape. no warning at all. >> if you're standing here taking a picture -- >> reporter: these teenagers in indiana were posing for their prom picture when suddenly the floor opened up. chaos. >> oh my gosh. >> reporter: they were okay and walked away. >> is everybody all right? >> i think so. >> reporter: not everyone is so lucky. >> the ambulance, what is the address of your emergency? >> reporter: in austin, texas,

. >> cory rossen showed us how. when he scans a winning ticket, a special screen pops up, telling him how much the customer won. >> in this case, it is, in fact, a winning ticket of $500. it was a $2 ticket called the ring of cash. wheth when validated it will pay the customer $500. >> it acquires the clerk to push a button, acknowledging it's a winner. >> if it's a winning ticket, it will push through a verification with a prize amount. >> it also has a time stamp and the ticket number printed on it. it even admits a lottery alert. >> winner, winner. >> an onscreen notice that cannot be ignored. a printed receipt and even a cheer. >> winner, winner! >> so it's almost error proof for us as a teller. >> the investigators move down the row. next stop, columbus. >> going to be going into bushman's with winning rings of cash tickets. a $500 winner. >> at this store, called bushman's market, he instruct the investigators to up the ante and take in a $7,500 winning ticket and two losers. >> man, going to be hot again toda

jeff rossen from nbc news h we are doing a story about these carnival games. edges experts say some of these games are rigged. >> you know about that i know mine ain't. >> reporter: he says just before we walked up, this boyz won. people won every once in a while, but what shape are those rims? >> they are oval. >>> that doesn't seem fair for a round ball to get into an oval ring, does it? >> if it goes over, guess what, every person that shot would win. >> but there's another secret, too. balls are often over-inflated and so springy they bounce right off the rim. and there goes your stellar shooting average. but of all the games we've played, experts say this is the trickiest shoot out the star. he could hit a nickel-sized target with ease. we brought him to the hidway. so he forks over $5. and loses. then he forks over another $5 and our sure shot loses again. >> is this game winnable? >> yeah. >> those are all winners from this year? my buddy is a special forces sniper and he tried it and he can't win. >> i've had a lot of shooters come over here and can't

of the hour new york city mayor michael bloomberg, and right now on the scene we have nbc's jeff rossen, who arrived there a short time ago. jeff, what can you tell us? >> reporter: hey, chris, we're here at the corner of 33rd and 5th, about one block away. if we pan both pays there are hundreds of people. fifth avenue is closed. several blocks up, several blocks down, according to a law enforcement sort, ten people shot, at least two are dead, including the suspect here, and again the motive is still unclear, but we are hearing from fbi and the nypd, does not appear to be terrorism related. this looks like a workedplace dispute. so we're hearing from the law enforcement source that the shooting itself happened on 5th between 33st and 34th streets. it's wide open. traffic has come to a standstill. police are all over investigating, trying to figure out exactly where the indicatesings went, where people were shot, but once again, when there is a shooting in the busy morning out on 5th avenue. ten people shot, at least two dead, that's what we're hearing right now. >> and again we are exp

. >> jeff rossen on this. >> keep it going, yeah. >> it is a mystery. >> it could mean disaster. >> mr. roker, what's going on? >> we've got unfortunately some severe weather to talk about right now, that risk area stretching from the northeast all the way into the midwest and the lower mississippi river valley. hail, damaging winds, torrential downpours, can't rule out a tornado or two. live on the radar, we're seeing stuff firing up central indiana. rainfall amounts from green bay to cincinnati, anywhere from three to five inches of rain. that's what's going on around the >> 7:20 on a thursday morning. we are getting a little bit of a marine layer but it's burning off quickly. you can see the top of the buildings in san francisco, but this will keep your coastal communities and bayside communities nice and cool today. comparison to what we expect in the east bay. triple-digit heat. 55 to start in san francisco. spare the air day with unhealthy air quality, air pollution levels in the east bay, monitor your outdoor activity and stay indoor you have asthma. we get even hotter tomorrow.

clay rossen and all of the people in the documentary unit. who is successful in turning around publiclyy funded schools . we hear the bad news. america is not number one in literacy and science and math. we know it. get to the positive and solution and we went to arizona . we found a school that is work test scores are going up. we went to a small school district in north carolina. this is morrisville . home much nascar. it goes from middling to tied for second. hey, look at that. it is the same idea. they are using technology and they gave kids lap stops. and talk to former governor bush and one of the ways he got teachers inspired, giving them more technology. >> steve: we have a clip from jeb bush. >> please. >> it is focused on accountability and the way we do that. we grade ab, cdor f. politicians don't know anything about education. most of the this is not dictating what teachers do, it is setting expectations of the results. >> gretchen: so much of the talk is about the unions. is that part of the focus of the special as well? >> no. i