rochelle ritchie she is a political analyst and a former press secretary for house democrats and in st paul we cross to david schultz he is a hamlin university professor of political science all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it rochelle me go to you first in new york we know what the results of the election elections are but what are the lessons to be drawn from it i mean we both have the right we see the republicans and democrats claiming victory and they have their points but we still have the same kind of polarization and as i said in my introduction it looks like we're going to have doing investigations is this what the voters voted for go ahead rochelle in new york. well you know i had a lot of hope after the election that maybe the tide had turned in maybe that the divisiveness that we saw in our country would start to diminish but as you have seen that does not seem to be the case we have the president coming out and already calling some things take news we have you know we're porters fighting with the president and so

the situation at st paul and other big city hospitals is on the whole much better than in clinics in rural areas they tend to have far less medical equipment and that means more babies are at risk. now are chan is determined to change that. she founded mt ts together with her husband gregory. the company is located in a central district of hanoi and has one goal to make high quality affordable medical technology. these m.t.'s develops and builds devices from inexpensive parts that are made in vietnam for example the lights used in therapy for newborns. these units will be sent to east timor. the company's light therapy devices and warning systems are up to seventy percent cheaper than products sold by major foreign manufacturers the electronics are complicated it's always been their goal to develop simple yet effective solutions but development takes time it can take two to three years until a new product is brought to market. or this is really the device that here warms up the baby and the baby is just the temperature control where we like the sense of this like a patient connect th

they're opening offices in austin, texas, chicago, minneapolis-st. paul. they are looking for all those people. they're are people in silicon valley, seattle, moving to new york. they left the valley, moved to new york to stay with the companies they were already at. stuart: tax is very similar. california is very high-taxed state. new york city is very high-taxed city. not exactly a tradeoff. just exactly the same thing. that is about right, isn't it? >> right. right. 10, 15 years ago, my goodness new york is highly taxed, silicon valley, seattle, they have a lot of taxes as well. new york is desperate. you remember the silicon alley push, 10, 15 years ago, not just seen as media city, not just bringing other industries high-tech there. new york tried hard to bring the companies there. stuart: we talk to you about tesla. we'll do that today. they have named robin denham, as the company's new chair. will replace the ceo.

st. paul's and saint stephen's church on the northeast corner.l was to remove as many of the internal columns as we could within to maximize the impact of these views. in order to meet this challenge we provided a series of group -- a series of trusses at roof level that allowed us to remove 40 columns within the main area. this creates a huge amount of space. the tresses we used to support these columns along the pantry are 28 meters and span and three meters deep. this is massive bridge engineering on a huge scale, but the effect in the pantry and the views this creates are there for all to see. caroline: revolutionary engineering was also needed to fulfill the brief upbringing -- of bringing staff and visitors to the pantry level. >> people come in the building at the ground floor and they need to go directly to 6. it is a quite simple proposition. it doesn't matter who you are, where you sit in the building, whether you are a guest, an employee. everyone goes to 6. >> normally an elevator would run on an independent structure, but we wanted t

one or two people in st. paul who gets it because we have a created a system over deals to pass the omnibus bill. so i think we should simplify that and start removing some of the many mandates that state government has placed on our local school districts because i think our local folks can make better decisions about our kids and we should free up administrations and school boards to reward and promote the best teachers in their schools. we are tying their hands right now and nothing more important other than family rep. walz: i will agree with two of the three of those. understanding on the funding formula to not adjusted to inflation is a cut to those school districts which is white we are $600 behind per pupil. districtsum in some means a new football stadium with turf, a referendum in other areas means a leaky roof. administrators do have the capacity to do what they need with teachers, but you will not fire your way to a great education system. we compensate minnesota teachers fairly and give them the capac

so yeah they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission for a while under st paul's a proper practice is i don't think we'll have a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live out here in rural areas most of us depend on wells for. for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our homes if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. i was wrong a fraction job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and the other chemicals because they use as it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pumped out that off into ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it any kind of living organism of any kind it kills it because of one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and light and i disturb just swallow his hand we're bad because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is it's is wrong in the water. for this or it is as is the nobody drinks the water out of iron step

. >> a chipotle restaurant in st. paul, minnesota is under fire for asking several black men to pay for their meal first. usually, chipotle makes your meal first and then you pay. but in this video posted by a user named massoud ali the manager is telling them they have to pay first because they don't have money when they normally come into the restaurant. that manager was fired and apparently the manager thought it was the same group of men who were unable to pay for their meal days before. but after that tweet and this video went viral twitter users began to post old tweets believed to be from the same person who posted this. they and his frien at past without paying. >>> new at hottest wedding trend that has many couples flouting federalla in states where recreational marijuana is now legal, newlyweds are choosing to add pot to their parties. with weed legal in nine states now it's a whole new business model for some wedding planners. >> it's not just that people smoke marijuana at a wedding like this. you're talking ab

. >> yeah, the home in a neighborhood in st. paul, minnesota, leveled in an explosion.inesses next store badly damaged. abc's marci gonzalez joins us with more on what may have sparked it. marci, good morning. >> referee: hi, guys. good morning. we're told the cause is still under investigation, but some neighbors say they did smell gas just moments before. people there in that neighborhood say the blast was so powerful, it felt like a car crashing through their house and describe it as all feeling surreal like something out of a movie. this morning, investigators on the scene after this massive explosion demolished a home in st. paul, minnesota. surveillance video from a nearby store capturing the moment that ball of fire and debris rocketed into the sky. >> it's completely leveled. we're looking for victims. >> reporter: one man inside injured. a crater left where the home he was in once stood. rescuers finding his feet sticking out of the rubble rushing him to a hospital. the blast rattling the neighborhood blowing windows out of nearby homes. at least two of them no

the windows out in neighboring homes and the whole thing caught on security cameras at a deli in st. paulminnesota. heow fireball erupting from down the street. >> neighborsay they felt vibrating. they saw the debris flying through the air. >> get this. somewhere in all of this rubble, rescuers fnd a man and rushed him to the hospital. he's expected to recover. his house, though, completely destroyed. this was most likely a natural gas explosion, we're told. but thetigation there continues. >> really bad news for that neighborhood. that means there's n g service. >> we're going to run into cold temperatures a freezing rain across the ea we're going to talk about the winter weather advisory as we talk about that. freezing ral. it wil start to make its move acrossur area and starts overnight tonight and continue into tomorro morning. details in a moment. outside right now, the temperatures in the 30s. as isaid, basically if you're traveling from 270 into hagerstown to the west. under that advisory and will be from about 6:00 a.m. dawn to about noon tomorrow. that brighter shade here to the

this is in st paul intended to make the city of frankfurt and more. and this is the artist philip shaffer. leaving the conventional behind away from normality changing perspective and seeing things in a new light that's what you could call the essence of my art. for years now philip shaffer has been quite successful as a gorilla as he calls himself here he's making final preparations before he heads out for his next stop to stick undertaking. right now i'm cutting out the stencils from my latest manhole cover work. this is the head of a cheetah or a panther. and there's a manhole cover near the train station that resembles a cage. and it's now being transformed the boring manhole cover nobody previously noticed and suddenly acquires a new meaning the action takes about twenty minutes and shaffer has the big cat in its cage. i have a huge database at home often i get an idea and need to find a suitable manhole cover but in this case i saw the cover and knew right away this has to go there. shafer calls this project she works he adds a lighthearted and

. >>> we turn now to an explosion that rocked a neighborhood in st. paul, minnesota this morning. surveillance video on the street captured the moment a house exploded, sending flames and debris into the air. the house was destroyed and nearby homes were damaged. officials say the cause appears to be a gas leak. one person was injured. >>> now to the black friday bonanza. tens of millions packing stores or deals from the comfort of their couch. you know which one as nbc's jo ling kent reports, the bargain hunters are just getting started. >> reporter: black friday rushed in from california to chile, new york. >> i'm wearing everything in three layers. undled up to kick off the holiday shopping season. >> pretty good deals, i really like them this year. >> i have saved more than what i expected. >> reporter: but experts and shoppers say on the ground, black friday felt quieter this year. >> i thought it would be packed, lines everywhere. it's not. >> reporter: but thanks to soaring consumer confidence, this black friday is on track to be one of the strongest in years. on thanksgivi

>> reporter: a manager at chipotle quickly fired after she asked a group of men in st. paul to prove they could pay for their meals before taking their order. >> yeah. >> y'all basically stereotyping us. >> yeah. >> reporter: but it was chipotle who had to later apologize to the manager, offering her her job back after a rush to judgment over a video many feared would spark a wave of social media outrage. >> unfortunately, this might be a case where the beast has just gotten too big and it's sort of run away from them, and that's the world we're living in now. >> reporter: as the video began amassing millions of views, chipotle discovered the 21-year-old who tweeted the video -- >> why did you not have to pay? >> reporter: -- has eluded to not paying food before, even writing "chipotle catching up to us." the manager, who knew the group from a previous encounter, was just trying to do the right thing. >> she's just making crazy accusations. >> reporter: in a world of viral videos, sometimes the first response may be the wrong one. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>> up next, our

st. vincent de paul homeless shelter. she said she picked the shelter because it's a reminder a lot of work needs to be done to address oakland's homeless crisis. she also ryeterated a promise to build more housing and displacement of oakland's african-american community. >> i believe it is four more years of demanding that revitalization can actually lift up our most vulnerable residents, lift up our long-term residents. >> mayor schaaf will not formally be declared the winner for weeks after the city and county certify election results. >> there are a lot of propositions on the ballot that impact a lot of people. how about the gas tax? the gas tax was just approved last year with the money earmarked for public transit and

. >>> an explosion that rocked a neighborhood in st. paul minnesota this moing. e moment a house exploded sending flames and debris into the air. a house was destroyed and neby homes were damaged. officials say the cause appears to be a gas one person was injured. >>> now to the black friday bonanza, tens of millions packing stores or increasingly finding deals from the comfort of tir uch. you know which one you are. as nbc's jo ling kent reports, the bargain hunters are just getting started. >> reporter: black efriday rushed inly across the country from california to chilly new york. >> i'm wearing everything in three layers. >> reporter: at minnesota's mall of america, 3,000 shoppers bundled up to kick off the holiday shopping s >> 40, 50% off. good deals. i like them this year. >> i have saved more than what i expected. >> reporter: but experts and shoppers say on the ground, black friday felt ter this year. >> i thought it would be packed, lines everywhere, it's not. >> reporter: thanks to soaring consumer confidence, this black friday is still on track to be

. >> reporter: tonight, investigators in st. paul, minnesota, working to pinpoint what triggered this massive home explosion captured on surveillance video. >> house explosion, payne and preble. start fire and medics. >> reporter: the powerful blast leveling the house. debris everywhere. >> checking -- and payne, looking for victims. >> reporter: first responders looking for possible victims. >> reports of somebody trapped in debris at 600 payne. >> reporter: teams rescuing one man who was inside the home. his feet sticking out of the rubble. he was rushed to the hospital. windows of nearby houses shattered. >> we're going to start taping off this block, keeping people out of here. >> reporter: the explosion rocking the entire neighborhood, damaging several other homes, two of them condemned. at least 11 people displaced. whit, about 40 first responders were called to this scene. the atf now on site, as investigators work to figure out what exactly caused this explosion. whit? >> alex perez, thank you. >>> now, the new climate change

. >> reporter: a manager at chipotle quickly fired after she asked a group of men in st. paul to prove thed pay for their meals before taking their der. >> y'all are stereotyping us. >> reporter: but it was chipotle that had to apologize to the manager, offering her judge back after a rush to judgmen over a video many feared would spark a wave of social media outrage. >> unfortunately, this might be a case where the beast has just gotten t big and has run away from them, and that's the world we're living in now. >> reporter: as the ioideo began amassing mill of views, -yhipotle discovered the 21ear-old who tweeted the video has alluded to not paying for foode. even writin chipotle is catching up to us. the manager who knew the group from a previous encounter wasju st trying to do the right thing. in a world of viral videossometimes the first response may be the wrong one. miguel almaguer, nbc news. >>> up next, our exclusive with the mini mogul who has his own toy empire.if ou have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture now might not be the best time to ask y

. >> a house exploded in st. paul. >> at least one person is >>jured and eight others displaced. >> a louisiana couple nearly $2 million richer after finding a lotto ticket while doing some holiday cleaning. >> the couple bought the ticket that june and just never checked it. >> that ticket days away from expiring. >> i'm going to go clean out all of my pockets. >> brown: good evening. jeff glor is off. i'm james brown. and this is our western edition. if black friday is any indication, this holiday shopping season is on target to beat last year's sales by 5% and could be the strongest in more than five years. americans rose before dawn to look for bargains. shopping malls from coast to coast were humming with activity all day. analysts predict about half of all americans will shop this weekend. omar villafranca begins our .overage. ( cheers ) >> reporter: retailers are seeing green as black friday shoppers across the country snatch up big-ticket items for a attle bit of cash. e we came for a 43-inch tv that's, like,

department of housing and urban development surveyed by ramsey county minnesota which included st paul the twin city of minneapolis it was found that quote stagnant wages guy rocketing rents and a lack of affordable housing were the biggest contributors to a rising rate of homeless people in cities across the united states for the residents of a wall of forgotten natives their ability to found a follower of fordable housing has become much harder in the last decade see in twenty ten the average rental price in minneapolis was about twelve hundred and ninety dollars a month by twenty fifteen that price of risen to fourteen hundred fifty thousand dollars a month and by twenty eighteen the average rental price now in minneapolis has jumped to over sixteen hundred dollars a month clyde bell in court one of the founders of the american indian movement told the guardian. it's unfortunate that they have to occupy these urban lands to demonstrate the fact that we don't have access to affordable housing anymore and the racism is what is pushing the american indians of minneapolis to the brink i

green in 2018 as people line >>> a security camera captures an explosion ripping a house apart in st. paul, minnesota this, morning. a man who was inside is recovering at a hospital. the blast sent debris flying and caused significant damage to some other buildings nearby. 11 people are displaced. the cause of the explosion is under investigation. >>> new jersey police are trying to track down the vandals who left lit fireworks on a strange are's doorstep. -- stranger's doorstep. you bet a security camera captured the suspects dropping the fireworks and taking off running. no one was injured, but the homeowner was startled by the prank. >> i'll bet. >>> a glimmer of hope in san jose tonight for victims of the camp fire. >> three, two, one. light it up! >> the city invited the smith family to light the downtown tree. the smiths lost three homes in paradise to the fire. earlier this year they lost their daughter and her fiancee in a car crash, but there will soon be some relief headed their way. the city announced 100% of the donations collected at christmas in the park this weekend will go

rochelle ritchie she is a political analyst and a former press secretary for house democrats and in st paul.

st. paul's, then sinclair's. and we learned our values, ourobby and me, at kitchen tables.e at my grandfather's table at 2446 north washington and i think bobby at his father and family's kitchen table. i campaign, which was a great privilege, got elected when i was 29 years old. the first out-of-state campaigns i spent time campaigning was for governor casey. at that time it was the senate race. it was a bad year. .nd i got to meet ellen casey i think bobby's mother, my word is one of the finest women i have ever met in my entire life. [applause] bob will tell you, as we senate, if in the you excuse a point of personal privilege, there was only one exception -- my mother. thegranddaughter of one of first irish catholics ever elected to the state senate in pennsylvania. 1904. was elected in bobby's entire family is here. love, --tracy, who i carolina and julia. all of them are here. i know matt's family, too. both sides. marion has the better part. only kidding. >> got that right. vice pres. biden: and theyre're all good people. and they have the same value set, in lackawan

maire norm coleman the mayor of st paul who they always i found it very interesting. that humphrey was always referred to by his political title of attorney general humphrey coleman was always referred to as mayor norm coleman and even though coleman had no more mayor than i did i was always former. jesse ventura so why was the only candidate that had his private sector job put in front of his name where the public and i have been a mayor so should shouldn't be former mayor jesse ventura because we're talking politics here but that's the body or so that i face but in hindsight that was probably good but if they did name the other two private sector jobs i don't want a landslide because then it would have been former warrior skip pomfrey and former lawyer norm coleman or some of the substance of those debates was really surprising to people and all those things that happened in the debates had never happened i mean they would ask. a question and skipped as the family disease of luxury is so he starts talking immediately and you can see him trying to formulate an actual

to any more of the shows in saudi arabia that we'll see a lot more of this kind of thing now is st paul's quest to become a professional footballer has suffered a major setback after his trial with the australian club central coast mariners came to an end the eight time olympic champion joined the club in august for an indefinite training period and was hoping to win a contract but talks have failed the jamaican scored two goals in a friendly much last month but never played an alien game last season's n.b.a. runners up the cleveland cavaliers aren't doing any better since sacking their coach last week and turncoat larry drew did his contract negotiations no harm as the caps showed just how much work the game needs since the loss of le bron james they blew a twelve point first quarter lead on home court the denver nuggets coming back to win one hundred ten to ninety one that's a very subdued quicken loans arena. elsewhere joel embiid scored forty one points on thirteen rebounds to help the philadelphia seventy six as the los angeles clippers one hundred twenty two hundred thirteen. some o

a st. paul was fired saturday after the men posted a video of her telling them, quote, you got to pay because you never had money when you come in here. that sparked outrage on social media. the company says additional information has come to light. the man who posted that video had also tweeted multiple times about dining and dashing at chipotle and other restaurants. chipotle apologized to the manager for being put in this position. anne-marie? >> i'm glad she got her job back. diane king hall -- >> absolutely. >> diane, you're at the new york stock exchange, thank you very much. >>> ahead, presidential pardon. meet the turkeys who will be spared the dinner table as part of an annual white house tradition. art of an annual white house tradition. to severely active crohn's disease, stelara® works differently. with dosg every 8 we stelara® may lower your ability to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatm

now, from the mall of america in minneapolis/st. paul, please welcome podiatric surgeon dr.midon and stuart pankin. [cheers and applause] >> stuart: hello, twin cities! wow! >> mimi: and you all have walkfits in your shoes, right? [louder cheers] yeah, whoo! >> you know, it really is amazing how many people are now walking pain-free because of walkfit orthotics, people just like many of you and you at home who had foot pain and foot-related pain. we're talking leg cramps, aching knees and hips, lower back pain, and it all began with their feet. walkfit orthotics went into their shoes, straightened out their feet and the other problems went away too. >> stu, you've heard me say this for years: it's alignment, alignment, alignment. you align your feet and you help align your whole body. you know, as a doctor, it is so gratifying to hear from so many patients and friends whose lives have been dramatically affected by wearing walkfits. they're up, they're out, they're golfing, walking, shopping, doing whatever they want to do pain-free. >> but you're probably all wondering what

rochelle ritchie she is a political analyst and a former press secretary for house democrats and in st paul we cross to david schultz he is a hamelin university professor of political science all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it rochelle may go to you first in new york we know what the results of the election. elections are but what are the lessons to be drawn from it i mean we both have the room we see the republicans and democrats claiming victory and they have their points but we still have the same kind of polarization and as i said in my introduction it looks like we're going to have doing investigations is this what the voters voted for go ahead rochelle in new york. well you know i had a lot of hope after the election that maybe the tide had turned in maybe that the divisiveness that we saw in our country would start to diminish but as you have seen that does not seem to be the case we have the president coming out and already calling some things take news we have.

it happened friday in st. paul, minnesota. it damaged multiple homes and gildings. were shaken by the blast. >> i was just watching tv, playing video games and it was a loud explosion. like somebody came and kicked the house. >> next thing you know the whole house started shaking. and it woke him out of bed. >> authorities believe a natural gas break may be to blame for that explosion. >>> meanwhile more news with "smerconish" straight ahead. (chime) - [narrator] meet shark's newest robot vacuum. it powerfully cleans from floors to carpets, even pet hair, with ease, and now for cleaning surfaces above the floor, it comes with a built in shark handheld. one dock, two sharks. the shark ion robot cleaning system. we've transformed this home to show the new keurig k-cafÉ brewer is so easy, it makes any house a coffee house. rinsky's coffee house is open! pop that in for a coffee or brew a shot and froth fresh milk for a latte or cappuccino. easy peasy. now she's a barista! we've got the best coffee in the world being made by an under-skilled staff! excellent. it's so fr

andy and i met in sixth grade basketball camp at st. paul lutheran school where he went, where his kids go and we have been friends ever since. went to high school together. when i moved home to run for congress he was the go who helped me. he's been my partner in in -- in this venture all along and i am so grateful for his friendship. i'm so grateful for his partnership. i also am just grateful for the people of janesville, racine, lake geneva, racine county, kenosha county, rock county, waukesha county, everyone in between. since becoming speaker of the house, which is not something we're used to in wisconsin, i'm the only one who has done that i appreciate the indulgence of the people i work for who indulge the fact that i had other responsibilities in addition and when i took on these adegreesal responsibility the people of our staff really stepped up. and really helped serve our constituents so that they continue to enjoy those flawless constituent services. i am just so grateful for these people in my life, i'm so grateful that they we