slater just does it more often.tle an unheard of ten times. he was the youngest champion ever at age 20. and at 39, the oldest. he's won so many times, not even he can believe it. can you wrap your mind around that? >> i don't know. i don't know. it's almost like it happened to someone else. to be honest. i sort of hear it, it's baffling to me like, god, that's a lot of years. >> reporter: amazing. there's no one close. >> not right now, no. >> reporter: and maybe never. robert kelly slater was born in cocoa beach florida in 1972 and learned to surf almost as soon as he could walk. his life out of the water was far from ideal i can. >> my family life was a test. you know, my parents slit up when i was... by the time i was 11. my dad was drinking a lot. it was just a pretty tough, kind of a tough situation for us. >> reporter: but surfing was a constant. slater turned pro as a teen and earned a reputation as a winner. he made waves out of the water as well. as one of people magazine's 50 most beautiful people in 1991

his name is steven slater. well, he's been sentenced to a year of probation after completing a mental health treatment program. it was part of a plea deal he cut. slater must also pay jetblue $10,000 in restitution. >>> let's head to atlanta now and check in with reynolds wolf. is it still cold in the midwest? it's chilly here. >> it is, it is, indeed. absolutely. especially in the appalachians and deep south. we have temperatures a bit below normal at this time. we have potential delays. let's show what we have on the maps. as we do, you'll see a lot of places on the east coast and west coast where you might view backups. new york city, cleveland, boston, the wind and the low clouds may keep you with some delays, about an hour, maybe less in spots. and then to the west coast, low clouds in san francisco and los angeles. expect delays under an hour. the marine layer may be especially thick near l.a.x. i would expect as soon as we get to noontime or so, things will warm up, a lot of the marine layer will subside

richard wolff and richard slater on the plan billion airs love. workers in ohio and wisconsin against union-busting governors. former ohio governor ted strickland on the big pushback that's working. plus, guess who's leading the gop field? hint. he's not even running. "politics nation" starts right now. >>> welcome to "politics nation." i'm al sharpton. tonight's lead. republicans feeling the heat on the jobs debate because they are on the wrong side of this argument. >> i want you to tell your congress person the time for gridlock and games is over. the time for action is now. the time to create jobs is now. it's about giving the american people a win. it's about giving ohio a win. if you want construction workers rebuilding america, pass this bill. if you want teachers back in the classroom, pass this bill. if you want to cut taxes for middle class families, pass this bill. if any member of congress thinks there are no unemployed workers or no down on their luck neighborhoods in their district that would benefit from the proposals in the jobs bi

will steven slater now face jail time? >>> welcome back. it's 6:15. part of ohio no longer looks like a jungle. all of those exotic animals released earlier this week are now either dead or back in captivity. on tuesday, more than 50 wolves, monkeys, tigers and other wild animals were set free from a farm. the owner of the animals, terry thompson, was found dedz in his home. police believe he committed suicide. animal expert and zookeeper jack hannah says while it's upsetting that many of the animals had to die, the alternative would have been worse. >> if you had 18 bengal tigers running around these neighborhoods, you folks would not have wanted to seen what happened have happened. i know some animal rights folks are going to go nuts over this. that's fine. they can do all they want to. but the sheriff did the right thing. >> eight of the animals were rescued and taken to the zoo. >>> a teen driver has been found not guilty for her role in a deadly crash in upper marlboro. now the victim's widow is speaking out about that verdict. 19-year-old britta

wayne slater -- >> absolutely. >> -- senior political writer for "the dallas morning news. your living history of rick perry as a politician gets more and more valuable every day. thank you. >>> have you seen this today? you have definitely seen this today. >> we need you to get involved because together we could do this. we can take this country back. ♪ i am america >> of course, you've seen this today, right? republicans are great at creating buzz worthy if inexplicable political ads. democrats, oh, democrats, democrats, democrats. democrats generally have not been as good as republicans at campaign ads that are buzz worthy recently. democrats kind of sort of finally got a really good one together. something pretty effective about something really important. from democrats. seriously. coming up. small town pharmacist set out to create a different kind of cold remedy using powerful medicine and natural ingredients from around the world. he called it vicks vaporub. today, the vicks journey continues. introducing new vicks nature fusion cold & flu syrup. powerful multi-sympt

. >> i'm joined by wayne slater for the dallas morning news.for being with us today. >> great to be with you. >> you know, you gave us three take aways in last night's performance. the first thing you say, is he needed to make this a two-man show. what do you think? did he succeed at that? >> i think he did. basically in the last couple of debates, perry has disappointed and disappeared. that's not what happened last night. what perry has to do, what he wanted to do was to come away from this debate with the news clips like that one you just showed. that suggests it's mitt romney and rick perry in this race and everybody else are just people on the sideline. he did that. he basically engaged romney big time, he challenged romney, romney challenged perry. they're equals, at least in the visual narrative. that's where he wanted to be. >> but today, the news we're hearing, words like hot head say he was really aggressive. a lot of people debating whether he came off like a fighter or a bully. what are your thoughts? >> yeah, that is exactly right.

joining us now is wayne slater for the "dallas morning news." thanks for your time tonight. nice to see you. >> great to be with you, again, rachel. >> from what you have seen on the campaign trail of how mitt romney is approaching trying to win the nomination, how do you explain the about face/face plant on the union issue in ohio? denying his own position on the issue at a phone bank in ohio that was organized around that issue. >> yeah, i mean, it seems like that would have been a slam dunk republican primary, union issue, you vote against it, you've been against it, you say today you're against it. he didn't. the only way i think to understand this is to understand that mitt romney is not running in the republican primary. he is actually thinks he is running in the general election. and that realizing how unpopular this senate bill five is on the ballot, that he doesn't want to hurt his opportunities with independent voters including some moderate republican votes w ers who must be among the constituencies who are going to vote for this. the problem for romney, not only

and we're also joined by wayne slater. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us. here's a portion of that parade interview, "parade" magazine interview that ran this sunday, it's catching a lot of attention. in a q&a in the article, lynn sheer asks the governor some questions. governor, do you believe that president barack obama was born in the united states? perry responded, i have no reason to think otherwise. that's not a definitive, yes, i believe he -- rick perry, well, i don't have a definitive answer, because he's never seen my birth certificate. question, but you've seen his. perry, i don't know, have i? question, you don't believe what's been released? perry, i don't know. i had dinner with donald trump the other night. question, and? perry, that came up. question, and he said? perry, he doesn't think it's real. and you said? perry, i don't have any idea. it doesn't matter. he's the president of the united states and he's elected. it's a distractive issue. well, there we go. rick perry has ripped the scab off this issue by saying he doesn't really believe

i'm joined by wayne slater, senior political writer for the dallas morning news, co-author of "bush's we've been covering chris christie will announce that he is not going to be throwing his hat in the ring for this presidential bid. what does that do for the kerry campaign? is that going to give it a surge or a boost of confidence that it needs? >> i think the perry people are not worried anyway. they thought that chris christie was probably going to take more votes from mitt romney than they would from rick perry but i think ultimately this does give them more confidence. perry's strategy is to be the anti-perry. it's going to be -- the anti-romney that perry would be the candidate who would not be mitt romney in the race and right the ship of his campaign and it has been trouble in the last two or three weeks, if he can right that ship, bring back some of the christian conservatives and tea party members, have a good performance with a debate or two, then he can show himself to be the anti-romney. i think this field is about done. >> i was going to say he's had a few tough days her

it was examined on september eleventh three medical physiologists myself and a top loader slater's attended the ceremony killable along his body showed no signs of decomposition in your story there was a sense that he had just fallen asleep. besides his body was warm its temperature was thirty six point six degrees just there to trista frist. local scientists couldn't work out why the llama had not decomposed so the body was sent to moscow for further analysis. the findings of that investigation were unexpected and i get a check of the moscow scientists found no sign of surgery on the man's body after analyzing samples of hair and nails must course be richer they confirmed that both belonged to a living man but the drugs are which are like a. body was brought to evil. in a transparent sarcophagus. this unique footage was filmed a year later. after that journalists were not allowed to take pictures of the un decaying body. eventual cough only spent about half an hour face to face with the so-called imperishable lama but those thirty minutes changed his life forever. really i was there when t

ross slater kicks off the news edge. >> reporter: police say thinks a growing new crime and the companies getting ripped off say it's like the wild, wild west out there for the first time in our region, two men have been arrested. >> it was here in the valley of the ballston commons mall that these two men jang of ox onshil and a man from new york city were caught handed trying to syphon used cooking oil. police are trying to determine if these suspects might be involved in a rash of similar theft. >> they can't just do this once. they have the equipment and they are going around to many different containment units and stealing more oil. >> reporter: the used oil is something of a liquid gold these day, fetching anywhere from 2 to $4 a gallon on the open market. steve blank enship is the manager of a fuel company. they have been hit by thieves repeatedly. >> we don't know for sure but we believe we are losing anywhere from 10 to 20,000 gallons a month in theft. that's happening all over the region. >> reporter: indeed, experts say it's happening all over the nation. the growing focus on r

anyway, thank you, wayne slater. as always, michael steele, thank you so much, gentleman >>> coming up, those protests on wall street beg the obvious question, why isn't there a tea party on the left? why aren't the people on the left, the passionate left, out there complaining about wall street and the economy in this country and the way it's going? an organized grassroots movement to help counter the dominance of the right and the political right is emerging. there it looks a bit comical, but it's not, it's for real. you're watching "hardball," only on msnbc. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they've been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. ♪ >>> well, a big worry for president o

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we'll be seeing the latest assault for the best three or four weeks this is probably twenty fifth slater's assault. in malaysia where the problem is this is that cluster of our two peak responsibility to protect was theoretically the reason for nato scream in each area an intervention in libya so if the good guys are being attacked by qaddafi forces are to be applied but if the bad guys are ensconced in seriously for instance showing we don't care if they're thousands of civilians in syria as well r two p. does not apply so in terms of a pocket you know this beats anything else in the market while lot of news was news there you see saying that north lot of civilians did stay in there a lot of skype and there are a lot of. locals there the media's been focusing primarily hasn't on the on the actions of the progress of the revolution before with intent. to take but now what about the human costs the deaths of innocent civilians are going to be some that don't seem to be largely ignored. absolutely because that the only coverage that you see in western mainstream media corporate media is abou

manager roberto mancini has advised also said the players statements following that match while mr slater the argentine previously stated who wanted to leave the club last year has since been courted by his former team corinthians before city turned down a fifty four million years dollar bet for the forwards in the meantime the team expects back on training on thursday. in turn as david ferrer of spain has booked this place in the season ending atypia world finals in london that stuff so rich in the quarter finals of the shanghai masters there of a competitor in the last sixteen he completely squandered the open a back claiming only one game there to lose it one six in the second. they spent it saved three match points to seal it sent five and level matter forcing a decider in the final third said farah finally found his game to win it six to the match. joining him in the last eight of the tournament andy roddick could beat another suspended nicolo margrove the american only two sets to send his opponent packing six three six four and it. to the world avengers now where cases stoner is lo

paula slater right there now let's talk to a. lawyer with a legal center for our brights in israel. thank you for coming on the program today this deal five years in the making over a thousand palestinians swapped for just one israeli soldier however the release of high profile prisoners something hamas has been pushing for not part of the deal tell tell us a who's winning here. it's not a matter of. from the point of view of this case. this is. actually on the one on the other hand the prisoners have been under the custody of the. service says. most of them. for. more than twenty years or even for ever so. the case is. there's one in this case so we can say. this side ok so you're saying it's one side having more. interrupting but it's not an issue as you say of one side winning here it's not a matter of what if it's a matter of if i if i may i do apologize for having been to separate ourselves away here when i was there but if i'm sorry hamas is saying that many of those held by israel in a sense something to something that you're alluding to at the moment as well as a lawyer you

there has been a further setback for the all blacks at the rugby world cup flyhalf collin slater meals many are now have been ruled out of the tournament they were injured in the quarter final victory over argentina slade who was brought in to replace the injured dan carter who it is growing all money on a broken shoulder stephen donald and jose gear have been called up replacement and will join the team on choose a day before facing a strike in the semi's at the weekend. the all blacks are threatening to skip the twenty fifteen world cup to be held in england claiming the international rugby board needs to address concerns about the tone its effects on test match revenues and sponsorships astray also supports a new zealand stand on a possible boycott the concerns were raised at a meeting of rugby's major nations on monday they also indorsed plans to play midweek the next tournament to increase the number of days between matches the second tier sides while england may have been knocked out of the rugby world cup but their players need to be dogged by controversy sent a man to largely j

not our personal problems in our household but that everybody shares these problems and you know we slater this is the criticism in the media that there is no leader there's so we still haven't seen this leader or merge and you think that you know with that that this process is able to stay strong without this kind of charismatic leader emerging and inspiring people to persist and to advance their interests we've seen in goodman's our leader i'm reminded of the u.s. army demanding a chief from american indians who didn't have one we don't need that we don't need that imposed on us we're working to avoid having a leader people who saw a politician like barack obama as a leader are very disillusioned right now and that's good they've got that right we don't need a leader we need an agenda and we thought that tax the rich and and the wars that empower the majority rather than the corporate elites you know it's quite simple it's you know it's anyone other than perhaps a c.n.n. producer can grasp it. right and you know it's obvious what the message as and what these people are excited about but

slater says he plans to write a memoir about his 20 years in the airline industry, as a tribute to overworked flight attendants. >>> a student accused of spying on his roommate. >> he turned down a plea deal that would have cut his prison time in half or even kept him out of jail altogether. he is charged with secret hemley filming 18-year-old tyler clemente while he was in the dorm room with another man. clemente killed himself days after the incident. >> trial is set to begin in february. >>> a family in iowa watched true love unfold over the past seven decades. gordon and norma yeager lived their romance. emily price has the unusual love story. for wjz. >> just loved being together. everybody argues once in a while. but he said, i have to stick around until -- i can't go until she does. because i gotta stay here for her. and she would say the same thing. >> reporter: it's almost as if they knew. >> last wednesday, they left home to go into town. somehow there was an accident there. >> reporter: at the intersection of highway 30 and jessop avenue, west of marshallstown, state troopers say g

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you know, christian slater was here, i don't know, a few months ago. he told a crazy story about -- he said that you convinced him to -- the two of you dressed as hobos and jumped on a freight train. >> jimmy, it was more of a sexual fantasy gone awry. >> jimmy: so this did happen? >> it did. >> jimmy: why? >> i do not know. >> jimmy: it was your idea, though? >> it was my idea. i had written and directed a movie for showtime and it got some traction and so people wanted to know what i was going to do next and i was writing a film about brothers that would jump on freight trains, like, in "deliver ranls" where they did the rafting trim to find themselves and they get more than they bargained for. >> jimmy: and they did. >> as they would have in this movie. so, christian, i wanted to cast in it, and so he went on my research trip with me. we went to central california, we're going to take this amazing journey all the way through the central california, to southern california, and by the time the train stopped in santa barbara, we were bored and we got o

francisco's cold, unpredictable waves are the perfect challenges for the surfers. 10-time champion kelly slater is expected to ride the waves to try to protect his title. [ crowd cheering ] >>> it was a big party in the streets of st. louis today as cardinal fans greeted their world champions. the cardinals defeated the texas rangers in game 7 of the world series. this is the cardinals' 11th championship. just a year ago, millions doing the same for the giants. >> there's always next year. >>> up next, we do to candle stick park, where the 49ers pulled off a win. sports wrap is next. [ rapid footsteps ] ow! [ male announcer ] when life happens, you need a plan you can count on. 3.4 million californians trust us with their health coverage needs. blue shield. [ smack! ] [ insects buzzing ] [ male announcer ] when life happens, you need a plan you can count on. 3.4 million californians trust us with their health coverage needs. blue shield. >>> good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us for our early sunday edition of sports wra. the 49ers were concerned about getting off to a slow start aft