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>> jon: last week daily show host jon stewart said of plans the rally to restore sanity.in why. >> when i go out to real americans, plumbers and such, they tell me they don't feel represented by these system, like fox news and other things like that. they say the real voice of the people have been muted by extremists. that the loudest voices carry the day. what i am hearing they want to feel a catharsis that they are not alone. we are trying to find that slim sliver between pinheads and patriots, if you will. >> there is no denying that glenn beck and the tea party movement have given jon stewart all kinds of material to work with this year but his rally is raising eyebrows. he is moving closer to moving toward the establishment that he lamb poons. is he becoming a politician? >> i think he is a public figure and he is playing off being a public figure. there is no problem with it in my mind. i think he talks frequently and it's a legitimate gripe he has with the media, he feels it's too polarized and doesn't represent most people. >> five words, a face in the crowd, 1950

the rally to restore sanity.s of jon stewart who are probably progressives and probably young, but not everybody. stephen colbert is staging an opposing march. >> you may be asking -- you may be asking yourself right now, but am i the right type to have person to go to this rally. the fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question as opposed to just let's say jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on the diaper and pointing your car towards d.c., that means you just might be right for it. >> you're going get a three-day jump on this. he was a guest on colbert last night. willie geist -- there you are. you guys are stars of the new, hip culture, i understand. lawrence, are you going and then i'm going to ask willie, are you going and then i'm going to ask why. is it dangerous to take on glenn beck on a national, holy turf like this? >> oh, it's fantastic. i hope msnbc does wall to wall coverage of it every hour of the day that day. these guys are great. they really, y

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. >> and still ahead in the next half-hour, john stuart's rally to restore sanity. why the president is backing the latest mark on washington. >> live in the newsroom. the latest on yesterday's highway horror on bedbed -- bethesda. the latest coming up. >> and parts of our region have already seen over 2 1/2 inches of rain. tornado watch in effect until 1:00 p.m. this afternoon for a good part of the area. we'll take a look at the >> and straight ahead this half hour, we are on storm watch as mother nature dumps heavy rain and high water all across the metro region. good morning, washington. great to have you along with us on this thursday, september 30. i'm pamela brown. >> and i'm alison starling. in fact, parts of the region are under a tornado watch right now. others under a flash flood warning. now we have live team m coverage tracking the storm and all of itsal effects. so let's go to steve with the with whiches and warnings. this is outside our studios in rockland? >> yes. >> that tells the story. >> we're not stake talking periods of rain, we're talking sust

"the rally to restore sanity" he calls it. it's geared for fans of jon stewart who are probably progressives and probably young but not everybody and part of the theatrics jon stewart's buddy. marching to keep fear alive. here's stewart encouraging his followers to show up. >> you may be asking, you may be asking yourself right now sitting at home, but am i the right type of person to go to this ih÷$úkyyrally? the fact that you would even stop to askupcoming book "american freak show." there you are, willie. you guys are stars of the new hip culture, i understand. so i'm going to ask you this, lawrence, are you going, and then i'm going to ask willie, are you going and then ask why and what do you expect? is it dangerous to take on glenn beck on the national holy turf like this. >> oh it's fantastic. i couldn't miss it. i hope msnbc does wall-to-wall coverage of it. every hour of the day that day. yeah, these guys are great. they really you know find the vulnerability points in all of our politics. they find exactly where the

, full sanity that the victim had been deprived of. do you want to make any points on the subject of the future? >> i think it would be exciting to say we are able to invent drugs that can work a longer period of time. the complaint is that people will an srri that works and it will peter out and then they have to find a different one that works. >> it happens in a small minority of patients t doesn't happen often. >> and with benzodiazepines, people have to take more and more. they become less effective. >> that's not true, not for my patients f people are using these medications as they are indicated for medically -- in fact, my patients use of benzodiazepines goes down, because they get less anxious. they start saying i can do this. i don't need all this medicine. so the medicine use goes down. >> the economic implications of this. does insurance pay for the kinds of drugs we have been talking about here? >> yeah. >> they do? >> uh-huh. >> is that what is driving up the drug costs? >> i think what's interesting is that they will pay

what he calls a rally to restore sanity. clearly his challenge, his latest one, to fox news and glenn beck. here's sharyn alfonsi. >> we will gather on the national mall in washington, d.c., a million moderate march. >> reporter: he's calling it the rally to restore sanity. >> but am i the right type of person to go to this rally? the fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question as opposed to just let's say jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy book, strapping on a diaper and just pointing your car towards d.c., that means i think you just might be right for it. >> reporter: is the rally just intended to poke fun at glenn beck? >> i mean, beck in many ways is the direct inspiration. >> reporter: chris smith wrote the cover story on stewart for this month's "new york" magazine. >> he sees this rally as theater. >> reporter: and fox news is clearly his favorite foil. >> that's not good. >> reporter: but beyond the jokes he's serious about holding fox news accountable. >> he's become a fact chec

john stuart is planning the rally to restore sanity. he wants to spread the message, quote, take it down a notch, america. and steven cobert is planning a rally to keep fear alive. now is the time for men to freak out for freedom. [ laughter ] >> they are planned for the 3 0g9 of october. >> stuart said a spot -- 30th of october. >> you get fear here and sanity. >> they have some crazy fans, you get them all together, look out. >>> a lot of fun. >>> in medical watch, effectiveness of some joint supplements. >> but the gift that todd stroger is giving an employee. >>> later a nice surprise inside this pasta. >>> and live at the cma group in chicago. >>> and the shareholder approved united and continental merger deal. 98% of shareholders voted in favor of the 3.2 billion dollars stock swap. it is being kept on negative watch. united is positive. s&p saying it needs to review the positive factors, cost savings and risk like higher labor costs under the merger. scheduled to close october 1. >>> at mc ton kwralds and foot traffic to the rest

i'm trying to reach back to sanity.youth i end up at the army mccarthy hearings -- >> you're wonder figure it existed. if rally is for fun and games and makes for good clips, will it be a lotdown? >> if -- a lotdown? >> if it turns out to not be funny? >> if it's funny but not have a larger point? >> that's a good point because it leads to that congressman who was opposed to this and opposed to colbert's brilliant appearance before the house by saying it would -- comedy would lower the tone of the house. can you imagine -- how do you lower something that's at bottom to begin with? like saying lower the tone of "hustler" magazine or something. ridiculous. i won't say his name, but it was steve cohen of tennessee. >> you let that slip. let's go to the sound bite of stephen colbert. this of an immigration hearing in the house of representatives. he was invited to be there. not all the congress persons -- they were not amused. let's roll it. >> this is america. i don't want a tomato picked by a mexican. i want it picked by

threat well i don't think anyone's going to point to sharron angle and call her a have bastion of sanity but you know it's interesting that you talk about the glenn becks of the world the people who are preaching every day that obama perhaps you know america's going to become a socialist country under him and yet you've gotten a lot of critiques from people who also call themselves liberals that are saying that you know in essence you're not doing anything that they aren't doing your finger pointing you're naming names and you know perhaps that that's just as dangerous what do you say to that. yeah there's a lot of progressive critics and to me these are people who want to hope that america can't sort of regress into the sort of world of violence that we see in the middle east but the fact of the matter is if you look issue by issue these american taliban share the same values they want the same it in the qualities they want the same tyranny of a majority of the white male dominant majority and we can't pretend that they do not exist because it is inconvenient or unpleasant or uncomforta

to restore reason sanity or whatever. here he is making the announcement. >> for tonight i announce the rally to restore sanity. it is happening, people. it is happening. it is happening, a real gathering. we will gather. we will gather on the national mall in washington, d.c., a million moderate march. >> that was a cute idea. not as cute as a gay bar near a mosque. but it is in appropriate response to the tea parties and glen beck's thing. it is the exact reason the bald nerdy guy with the glasses might attend and feel totally good about himself afterwards. which raises a question. would stewart have uh -- have announced his event if they were short of a tilt? short answer, no. long answer, no. which makes the jokey they wear off. what stewart is doing is not speaking truth to power, but poking fun of them. he is mocking people who are m while the tea party is a bottom up phenomenon stewart is on top looking down. here is proof, democrats complained that stewart's rally will hurt the democrats' chances. they are worried

stewart is calling his rally, rally to restore sanity.d colbert's rally is named, march to sanity. >>> we go outside, here's the system i'm tracking. it's unusual, still summer. we're still in the weekend, the last weekend of the summer. we have a system like this, the main part of it is going to be in the northern part of the state. we'll see drizzle perhaps tomorrow and then sprinkles on saturday. so here's how it breaks out. today was humid, it was warm. check out concord 83, santa rosa 81. despite the drizzle, it was warm. tomorrow it's going to be warm as well. and this system, will spread clouds over the area. it'll also keep things humid around here and there might be some drizzle. tomorrow is not a bad day. you'll get stuff done tomorrow. i think tomorrow will be a lot like today actually. sunday is the day when the showers get in here. here's saturday. looks good. partly to mostly cloudy ahead of this. as this system moves through, for the bulk of the bay area right through the heart of it, santa rosa maybe 3/4 of an -- not .25,

-- sanity? where is the justice for our kids. we can look forward to federal funding. thank you, congress. thank you for the hard work. now what's? hopefully, we can bring back the laid off professionals, the laid-off classroom teachers and other support personnel, who we desperately need in this district. we have been struggling for a long time. on page 84, you will see a list of people who have been brought back, but as i look at the lives of people we hired, -- at the list of people we hired, i see many of our talented young teachers have resigned. we have lost a great deal of talent. i hope the government will respond. we have to solve this entire process. there is something really wrong with the whole thing. >> this is just public comment on our consent item. i am not sure if i made this clear. i am not quite sure if those were addressed. we do have another consent calendar item. >> you would think i learned the first time. i am going to speak brief about item k-14, which is the new teacher project. today i got a phone call from the examiner about why our test sco

. >> for tonight i announce the rally to restore sanity. we will gather! we will gather on the national mall in washington, d.c.! 1 million moderate march where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says, we are here! we're only here, though, until 6:00, because we have a sitter. a call for rationality. >> well, not to be outdone, stephen colbert then called on all freedom-loving patriots to march on the same day at the same time for his "keep fear alive" rally. and, of course, cnn, equals politics, we'll be breaking down the big political stories of the day with our senior editor mark preston. >> and some of the biggest are right there. >>> some other stories this morning. it should be over another couple of days. drilling on a relief well. bp can now proceed with the bottom kill. that's the process where they're going to dump that heavy drilling mud and cement from the new well into the bottom part of the original well permanently sealing it. officials expect that to be completed by sunday. >>> well, the moth

still ahead, the rally to restore sanity is striking a chord. there is outrage today after local police shoot a family pet. it is a story you'll see first burda. >> the first full day of fall will feel more like s ♪ storyteller: the itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout. down came the rain and clogged the gutter system creating a leak in the roof. luckily, the spider recently had geico help him with homeowners insurance. water completely destroyed his swedish foam mattress. he got full replacement. and now owns the sleep number bed. his sleep number is 25. call geico and see how much you could save on homeowners insurance. >> welcome back. it is time for traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> a harvest sunset is giving rise to a harvest moon. beautiful. what about that? it is really nice to see. >> it is a rare occasion what happened. it is rare coincide with a full moon. you get that mixture of light on the menu. if looks really big on the horizon. we will not have a harvest moon until 2029. i hope you had a chance to see it. there is abo

steven colbert's march to keep sanity alive rally. these are going to be held, we think, october 30th. both comedy central hosts got fired up about the rallies last night. take a look at this. >> tonight i announce the rally to restore sanity. [ cheers and applause ] it is happening, people! it is happening! it is happening! a real gathering! we will gather. we will gather on the national mall in washington, d.c., a million moderate march, where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says, we are here! we're only here, though, until 6:00, because we have a sitter! >> ladies and gentlemen, it is on. october 30th, on the mall. because now is not the time to take it down a notch. now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom! >> which rally will you be at? you know, these two guys are still not sure here if these rallies are going to take place. we did get wordrk service todayt both camps have, in fact, submitted applications, but no final decision has been made just yet. the annou

>> the restore sanity rally? i love it.ou know, i've long dreamed about the day when people would yell "be reasonable." it is a good pushback and colbert's competing rally is called "keep fear alive" which is inspired. we are living in a time where sometimes satire is the only way to tell the truth about our politics because the spin cycle is so insidious and extreme. it also does speak to the way that media is playing a dominant role and driving the conversation. so this is just another step in that direction. and from my point of view, an independent point of view, that's a hopeful sign because we do need to restore some sanity. >> you can look at people like christine o'donnell and the early beginnings of the tea party movement and what glenn beck did and what's happening with jon stewart and steven colbert, you can call them outsiders. do outsiders have more power than in the past? >> absolutely. we are in a time when people are energized about politics, they are engaged and anxious, because of the economy. and that's g

there will be a front in our the sanity. -- in our vicinity. then, we will be really cool saturday. >> thank you for java and the. >> loss tonight at 5, what, -- with donna hamilton and stan stovall. >> follow breaking news and weather any time at wbaltv.com weather any time at wbaltv.com and stay connected bob ehrlich pretends to be for the working guy... but he's not on our side. i thought i knew bob ehrlich, but then i found out... he raised property taxes on every maryland family... and business. he increased college tuition... by 40%. 40%. and i thought i knew bob ehrlich. he was against raising the minimum wage. made $2.5 million... working for a lobbying firm. $2.5 million? he's not really on my side. with this tough economy, we really need a governor on our side.

first, the tweet of the day on the sanity break. less sanity, more break. from john mccain. honored to receive the guardian of small business award from the nfib. wait a minute, nfib? the trade group representing small businesses that haven't small at all is called nfib? paging dr. freud, stat! let's play "oddball." >>> china, 12 lucky contestants have arrived to see who will become a panda ambassador. this is their version of "the apprentice" which features a former "countdown" intern. these 12 were selected from more than 60,000 applicants and will spend the next week feeding and cleaning the animals. whoever wins will spend a full month tracking pandas in the wild. the ultimate goal is to spread panda awareness and then launch the spin-off, "who wants to marry a panda." >>> finally to bern, switzerland. someone has a serious case of the giggles. it's the finance minister. he's reading a speech about the importing of spiced meat. [ speaking foreign language ] >>> the minister claims he found the bureaucratic writing style in which the spiced meat bill was written was incre

restore sanity. the world would be so boring if we tried to restore sanity. what would we do, you and i? >> great stuff with chrissie hind. >> took us both back to the '80s. >> elementary school, i was just a babe. have a great weekend. >>> live from studio 7 at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i'm don lemon. >>> banged up new yorkers have some cleaning up to do. a freak but fast storm rolls over the city with very destructive force. >>> the government revoking a breast cancer drug. studies question whether it works. >> i couldn't say that avastin is the reason i lived longer than i expected. i say it's a combination of a lot of things. >>> mens forced to work in factories and mines under brutal conditions. american p.o.w.s return to japan looking for an apology. >> our needs are simple. >> we'll update you on that story. >>> good morning, i'm don lemon. tony is off today. those stories and your comments right here, right now in the cnn newsroom. we start with this story. who is this woman? and why is she about to have a big influence over your finances

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>> the "restore sanity" rally? i love it. long dreamed about the day when people take to the streets and yell "be reasonable." we are living in a time where sometimes satire is the only way to tell the truth about our politics because the spin cycle is so insidious, so extreme. it speaks to the way that media is playing a dominant role in our politics. it is informing the conversation. it is driving the conversation. this is just another step in that direction and from my point of view, a centrist point of view, independent point of view, that's a hopeful sign because we do nies need to restore sanity in our politicals. >> you can look at christine o'donnell, the early beginnings of the tea party movement, what glenn beck did, what's happening now with jon stewart and steven colbert, you can call them outsiders. do outsiders have more power than in the past? >> absolutely. we are in a time when people are energized about politics. they are engaged and they are anxious because of the economy and that's good to the extent that

and keep fear alive. >> tonight, i announce the rally to restore sanity.le. >> to fight jon stewart's creeping reasonableness, to restore truthyness. >> my fellow americans, on october 30th, 2010, i am calling for the nation to join me on the washington mall for the march to keep fear alive. >> i love these guys. okay. the two are hoping to take their message to the streets. there's an excellent chance they can turn out more people than any democrat could. the event rs in response to glenn beck's rally. jane, can they bring out more people than a democrat could is this. >> it's possible. they haven't got a permit yet, but i think it's great. they're sort of countering the psychout that this is glenn beck nation. it's not. the two of them have a lot larger fan base and a lot more message, quite frankly, so i'm excited about it. >> armstrong, i think you were at glenn beck's event. are you going to go to stewart and colbert's, too? >> let me just say this in response to jane. i think colbert should be -- i thought i was attending another martin luther king i

>>> do you want to restore sanity? or perhaps do you want to keep fear alive?so, on either count, you are definitely not alone. the nional park service now expects 60000 people to attend john stewart's rally to restore sanity and stephen colbert's rival "march to keep fear alive." that's more than twice the estimates. they amended the number of their peit application. that permit has not been approved yet. and t park says no deadline has been set for finalizing it. >>> you won't have to wait until those rallies for some big laughs, thoh. tonight is the season premiere of nbc thursday's comedy lineup. >> what is it exactly that separates man from animal? >> divorce. >> reporter: the season premiere of "community" shows a side of betty white we haven't seen befo. >> her character is the sweetest, most dangerous person on our campus. >> reporter: she's also the greendale gang's new anthropology teacher. and talk about teaching a lesson. >> i respect you. >> i hope your children never have to take class from her because she's a little weird. >> reporter: it's almos

and then rally to restore sanity. well, let's talk about the hard feelings. three decades after ted kennedy challenged carter for the democratic nomination, carter said we could have had comprehensive health care reform in the 1970s, but kennedy wanted to deny carter success. >>> and then palin. answer the question, please, let's start with the brave new republican party. let's go to our analysts. here is mitt romney trying to talk like a tea partier in today's value voter's summit. >> if only he had been in fact transparent and uniting as he pledged in his campaign, then perhaps he could have delivered in his promise of yes, we can. instead we know all too well that no, he didn't. >> oh, my god. richard wolf? >> well, it's so sad. >> he is a smart guy. business guy. a good family man. trying to act like somebody he clearly is not. he is not a raging rebel against the system. >> if he has a new persona, he will be in trouble again. he has to stick to who he really is. economic issues, and that's his number one thing. >> he said he was multiple choice. you can

he is promoting a rally to restore sanity on october 30. steven cober is promoting an opposing rally called march to keep fear alive. cober hosts comedy central's the report, national park service officials say the men have filed for a permit, but that permit has not been approved yet. >>> coming up next, a child wanders out on to a busy highway while his mother is sleeping. you'll see exactly. >> it's the end of the world as soap opera fans know it. >> i was absolutely furious. >>> there were some nail biting moments when a curious baby crawled out on to a busy highway. the little boy was taking a nap outside with his mother when he decided to wander into traffic. a truck driver noticed the child and alerted other drivers to slow down. the child was not injured. >>> metro transit is considering a suicide prevention program. suicides on metro rail surged last year to 11. that's a 50% increase from 2008. so far this year, there have been four suicides. the program will educate employees and the public about the signs of someone who may be th

have a rally for sanity and yet colbert contributed to the insanity. we have the voter confidence index. tell us about it. >> we are trying to measure the anger we have seen out there. we are taking the average of poll questions at the major polls and averaged them together. we came up with a number. negative is bad. positive is good. president obama started with very high ratings. he's now down to negative 38. we have taken that and looked at how the numbers stacked up historically to other elections. now, the president and his party are about the same level as bill clinton was in 1994. a little bit better shape, in fact. they are worse than where president bush was in 2006. we are not trying to be predictive. we are trying to give people a look at what's going on and what it could mean for the mid-term elections. >> it's like the dow jones ticker. vaughn and john. john has a front row seat and can use boxing cliches to cover a senate rasz and mean it. anyway, thank you both. >> coming up, the latest poll numbers and the gop pledge to america. liberal

stewart hosts the daily show and he is promoting a rally to restore sanity on october 30th october 30thstephen colbert is promoting an opposing rally called march to keep fear alive. >>> gambling enthusiasts get ready, maryland's first slots casino is on track to open by the end of the month. a company says it is working to open a 1500-machine casino in perryville on september 30th. perryville is 70 miles from the dc beltway. by the way, a trial run casino night for charity has been scheduled for this weekend. >>> coming up next, howard and the forecast. >>> j.c., first full day of autumn and we are going to the 80s. we will talk about the threat of thunderstorms when i come back and we will talk about how cool it will get and the allergy update for the day. it's come in. the mold spores and weed poll reason moderate. weeds and grasses are low. a lot coming up on the other side of the break. is >>> it looked like a scene from a horror movie. a sea of stink bugs marching across a frederick county home. these annoying insects aren't just infesting maryland. they are all over from the dist

. >>> do you want to restore sanity or perhaps do you want to ep fear alive? if so, on either count, you're definitely not alone. the natiol park service now expects some 60,000 people to attend jon stewart's rally to restore sanity and stephen colbert's rival march keep fear alive. that's more than twice the origin estimate. the rally's organizers amended the number of their -- on their permit applications. that permit has not been approved just y and the park service says no deadlines have been set for finalizing it. 6:26 is the time now. dire warning from terrorist oups this morning. what is now our biggest threat. >> the first wave of changes from the new health care law start today. we'll tell you what you need to know. >> and it won't feel anything like late september outside today. your weather and traffic together on the 1s think about the internet. growing, evolving, literally transforming our lives. now imagine the possibilities of what tomorrow could bring. at at&t, we support a core set of standards that will guide the internet into the future... t

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she will met vin sanity gray. >> people feel like they have been marginal lized. >> reporter: in a town heavily democratic, gray is all but certain of winning the general election and that he and rhee will part company at some point. >> montgomery county superintendent would he be a candidate. cheney losing his job in newark, would be economy candidate. >> no. he has been here before and weiss has done a good job but he will be connected to the more traditional approaches to education. i will look for a person that brings quality of education reform but somebody who can work with people. >> reporter: rhee supporters will be watching. the fear is that gray's version of reform will look different, slower than rhee. one big area of disagreement are some of the teachers fired by rhee who cited a budget crunch at the time. the fenty administration had no plans for allowing the reduction and force teachers to reapply for their jobs but gray has a different take. >> these are teachers that were not fired because of performance. they were fired because they didn't have the money. >> you wouldn'

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>> couric: stewart calls his event "the rally to restore sanity."colbert's is called "the march to keep fear alive." now back in the '70s there were 19 soap operas on t.v. come monday, there will be just six. >> and now for the next 30 minutes, "as the world turns." >> couric: the first half hour soap began on cbs in 1956 with actress helen wagner saying "good morning, dear." today after 13,858 episodes, "as the world turns" ended its amazing run. >> good night. >> couric: wagner, by the way, earned a place in the guinness record book for playing the same character for 54 years. ,, aware of... a year ago... next >> couric: finally tonight, people are endlessly fascinated by records and achievements-- the stranger the better. so to want jim axelrod raises a glass to the latest from guinness. >> this is pretty much about 43 inches. >> reporter: at three and a half feet from paws to shoulder and seven feet three inches long, giant george is the world's largest dog-- at least for now, say the people at guinness records. >> a new tallest dog could come t