my name is steve williams, and i am with power. i appreciate the issue that family flight was continued to a future time, but i think it is important to underscore the connection between family flight

steve williams once to find a new job and thinks the president laid out the plans for the economy. " no there are a lot of people looking for work. there is just not enough jobs out there. >> maryland voters say the president offered to little too late on the jobs front. the state of the union is not enough to change his decision to vote against obama. >> i was out of a job or two or three months and i cannot find one. i feel like there should be more jobs out there available to every american citizen. >> the president today said tax breaks and manufacturing incentives will be one of his big items. republicans have supported that in the past, but they made clear they do not support the presidents post to raise taxes on the wealthy. >> if you missed last night's state of the union address to wjla.com. we have all of the details for you. you can tell us what you thought of the speech and of the republican response. >> a mother and father are hospitalized and their son is under arrest following a stabbing in fairfax. police responded to a home on lacrosse court. a family argument turned

i'm joined by goldie taylor, jimmy williams and steve benen.want to be beaten by stephen colbert. i think that -- every time i hear i got to thank him for letting me hear from herman cain sing again every time i hear him sing i feel closer to jesus as in dead. but at the end of the day, it means that people are really dissatisfied with their choices. stephen colbert has a message and it's about keeping big money out of politics. it's about telling the truth. he's making a mockery to show us what the truth is. i applaude what colbert and others are doing to point to the issues. >> no doubt. steve, you have a weekly feature on your blog highlighting the most offensive mitt romney falsehoods of the week. what is this week's biggest romney lie? >> a lot to choose from this week. we had a handful. >> a lot to choose from, give me the number one thing. >> my favorite one, my top choice would be the claim that the president did not yet have a jobs plan. that struck me as astounding he would make that claim after we had months of debate about the ameri

. >> steve: maybe the disney corporation reads that. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, actually it's ted williamsly? >> jimmy: yeah, it's by ted williams. [ laughter ] battle of the frozen heads? >> steve: yeah. that's what i said. >> jimmy: isn't that weird? >> steve: yeah, true. not making it up. >> jimmy: yeah, it's just true, right? yeah. this is a good book right here. >> steve: oh, i love it. >> jimmy: if you like exercise books. "jogging with jesus." [ laughter ] you guys love it. yeah. pretty awesome outfit that dude's wearing. [ laughter ] the back is good, too. he's just casually resting against a flag pole. [ laughter ] taking a breather. taking a little breather. >> steve: i like how relaxed he looks on the front cover. >> jimmy: yeah, he's just chilling out, jogging, man. he's not even breaking a sweat. >> steve: he's going to break a few fingernails from those clenched fists. >> jimmy: yeah, that's a weird thumb move. he's holding his thumb like that. [ light laughter ] weird. but i found that's not the only c.s. lovett book. he's got another one out there. it's called, "help lord,

hear from steve hays, juan williams, kirsten powers when the election special returns. >> at 5% and everystion i got, when do you, why don't you pack it up and endorse another candidate and now ten days later you're saying, oh, you've got to win. >> at a time people were watching me getting beaten up. a nice guy is not getting beat up. >> there's a lot of differences between myself anl rick santorum. as michelle talked about he's got a spending problem and earmark problem. >> bret: well, it's time to break down what we know, what we expect about the iowa caucuses and joining us tonight, chris wallace anchor of "fox news sunday", steve hays, writer for the weekly standard and juan williams columnist with "the hill" and daily beast and kirsten powers. >> bret: getting a lot of focus and shows rick santorum with the biggest surge. is this real from what you've seen anecdotally around the state and can he sustain. >> i think it's real, first of all, and you saw in the poll when you break it down the first two days versus the last two days as you discussed he picks up steam in the last two day

hear from steve hays, juan williams, kirsten powers when the election special returns. >> at 5% and everystion i got, when do you, why don't you pack it up and endorse another candidate and now ten days later you're saying, oh, you've got to win. >> at a time people were watching me getting beaten up. a nice guy is not getting beat up. >> there's a lot of differences between myself anl rick santorum. as michelle talked about he's got a spending problem and earmark problem. >> bret: well, it's time to break down what we know, what we expect about the iowa caucuses and joining us tonight, chris wallace anchor of "fox news sunday", steve hays, writer for the weekly standard and juan williams columnist with "the hill" and daily beast and kirsten powers. >> bret: getting a lot of focus and shows rick santorum with the biggest surge. is this real from what you've seen anecdotally around the state and can he sustain. >> i think it's real, first of all, and you saw in the poll when you break it down the first two days versus the last two days as you discussed he picks up steam in the last two day

tiger venting his frustrations about steve williams, his caddie.een at odds since williams left amid tiger's cheating scandal in 2010. woods said he found it hard to trust people ever since. and finally, victor cruz warming up for the super bowl by busting a move in times square. you're looking at the new york giant wide receiver teaching local kids how to salsa dance at a store in times square. cruz is known to break out the same smooth moves when he scores a touchdown. 9-year-old max bailey got a dancing lesson he won't forget. >> what's that like dancing next to cruz? >> i just thought that -- it makes me feel so good. >> hey, you can catch cruz and the rest of the new york giants as they take on the new england patriots on february 5th and cruz says i never took a salsa lesson but he said i'm just puerto rican. and we can all salsa. >> in "the daily news" today, it actually shows you the footsteps to do the salsa. >> so brian, pay special attention to that when you're at the super bowl, you can get your own salsa lesson from victor cruz. >> tha

i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, manchester, new hampshire. >>> william daley is stepping down. the president said yesterday that daley wanted to return to his family in chicago after just one year on the job. after praising daley, the president named jack lu as his new chief of staff. he currently the white house budget director and has extensive relationship with congress. >>> last night's bcs title game at the superdome in new orleans, here is nbc's fred roggin. >> good morning. alabama came into last night's bcs title game as the second ranked team in the nation laevent new orleans as national champs. with a combination of field goals and stifling defense, the crimson tied led from start to finish from lsu. tied a bowl record with five field goals and their defense did the rest. they shut out the tigers. alabama wins its second national title in three years. 21-0. we will have much more on the bcs title game coming up in sports. for now, back to you. >> thank you very much, fred. >>> here is a look at the stories making news early today in america. nothing stealthy about an

steve hayes, for "weekly standard." juan williams, column fist for the hill. ndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, what about this whole stuff about nancy pelosi and the back and forth? >> well, if i'm not mistaken, didn't nancy pelosi in october of 2010 say that democrats were going to keep the house? he is said i know the democrats are going to keep the house. her predictive abilities are open to question. look, this is what you expect in a tightly fought battle like in florida. the big difference is mitt romney spent most of the week in south carolina on the defensive. whether it was on bain or his taxes, whatever it was. he was on the defensive. the shift that we're seeing in florida it seems to me is newt gingrich is on the defensive. he is having to answer questions about the ethics charges. he hassed to pull down an ad about immigration. after marco rubio sort of smacked him down for suggesting that mitt romney was, quote/unquote, anti-immigrant. >> bret: let me go to that. marco rubio told the "miami herald" "this kind of language is more than

senior political analyst brit hume and juan williams and steve hayes with the weekly standard.t gingrich and second place for mitt romney and third place for rick santorum and pointing out raw vote totals are confusing and you will see the check mark and that is the order they will finish based on the exit polling. brit, something interesting. voters in south carolina believe that newt gingrich is more electable than mitt romney. >> there is a clear answer. if the voters in south carolina said to us. what they mean by electabilitiability to take on barack bum wum in a debate. there is no doubt who was the strongest debater. you saw this when newt gingrich took on a question from my colleague juan. and hit the thing out of the park and got a standing ovation and similarly on thursday night in the other debate. he took on a question from john cane something his ex-wife said and got a standing ovation. this is what they are hungering for. somebody to make the case for the things they believe in or don't believe in can like barack obama and main stream media outlets and on mitt rom

we'll talk with steve king, juan williams, chris stirewalt, rich lowry and alan colmes as we count downaucuses. plus, those new missile tests from iran after it threatens to shut down the strait of hormuz. what's really behind rapp's aggressive -- iran's increasingly aggressive behavior? we'll see you in just a few minutes, "happening now." bill: see you in ten minutes. >>> all right, a family trapped in an icy river. how a group of quick-thinking bystanders rushed to their aid. we have the dramatic rescue in a moment, and we have one of the russ key you ares -- rescuers with us lye to explain how thiss happened.e pr there , [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ '80s dance music plays ] [ sighs ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. martha: this is an incredible story, a utah man ask and his three children escaped certain death thanks to the bravery of good samaritans. the driver lost control in icy conditions, the car went into the river upside down at one point, but in seconds a team of onlookers had rushed to their aid. joining us now on the pho

williams. >> oh, wow. >>> steve is saying this afternoon's commute won't be quite as bad.there will be wind. this morning is the worse of it. let's take a look at 80. its improving there. you can -- it's improving there. the traffic is moving along okay. can cord, walnut creek, pleasant hill -- concord, walnut creek, pleasant hill. let's bring steesk in. >> thank you, sir. i heard from david out in antioch. the system is accelerating towards the sacramento valley. very windy conditions. it looks like things on the back side will begin to slow down a little bit. mostly cloudy. there's cleaving northwest of santa rosa. it will eventually -- clearing of northwest of sore -- of santa rosa. it will get here. most of that was in the north bay and over parts -- over to parts of the east bay. up in the peninsula, near burlingame, gusts to 50 miles an hour. up about 1,000 feet, though. there's the line that stretches. that's part of the system, but it stretches all the way back to -- all the way back to -- you know what i'm saying, back to the east bay. so the rain will tart to die

. >> steve: all right. william lajeunesse live in l.a the old i can't remember. tive steam leaking out of a nuclear reactor? officials say don't worry. that's not dangerous. nuclear steam reactor in byron, illinois, says steam has been release to do prevent an explosion after a power failure. no one know why is it lost power, but the people who run the plant swear the levels of radioactive material are very, very low and safe. >> brian: freddie mac is betting against your house. according to a report released last night, the government-run mortgage giant spent years placing multi-billion-dollar bets that the housing market will not recover. in other words, they get paid as long as interest rates stay high. freddie mac insists it's on the american people's side and loan departments are separate. you're probably not buying it either. >> gretchen: remember these jedi powers? they were so powerful, you couldn't hear them. folks what looks like star wars doesn't actually work in real life. this oregon man is being sentenced to 45 days in jail for reenacting the star wa

steve hayes, senior writer for "weekly standard." juan williams, columnist with the hill.dicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, thoughts on the prebultal and what we know -- prebuttal and what we know. >> it's clear that the president is going to continue the theme he developed in the speech from teddy roosevelt, which is going to be the basis of his re-election campaign. this is all about re-election. it's not "state of the union." it's the state of the presidency. that is what happens in the last year of any term, so it's not unusual at all. he can't run on his stewar stewardship. added that much to the debt. high unemployment. can't run on ideology. obamacare. and stimulus are highly unpopular. and you would expect therefore that his speech would be about what he wants to do, major initiatives in the second term. major overhaul of the tax code. perhaps he will do that. but it looks like the main theme is going to be i will protect the middle class. i will protect those who are oppressed. and again, protectors of the democrats. the republicans in congress and t

steve young! >> i like kyle williams there. >> look at you, going all football on me. >> i'm zoraida sambolin andd o'brien, at a diner. >> yes, i'm at a diner, once again. you know what, i've gained 15 pounds on this tour. we are continuing our tour. welcome, everybody. we are doing our diner tour and this morning we're at the tick talk diner. we did a tour at diners in iowa and went through new hampshire, as well. we enjoy the experience so much because we get to talk to folks around a table full of food, what is not to love? we're at

steve young! >> i like kyle williams there. >> look at you, going all football on me. >> i'm zoraida sambolin andd o'brien, at a diner. >> yes, i'm at a diner, once again. you know what, i've gained 15 pounds on this tour. we are continuing our tour. welcome, everybody. we are doing our diner tour and this morning we're at the tick talk diner. we did a tour at diners in iowa and went through new

steve. for more coverage on the iowa caucuses, stay with us for "nightly news with brian williams" after this newscast. >>> we'll take you to the san francisco zoo for your first look at banana sam. back home safe and sound. >>> how to get a jump on the hottest tickets in town, they go on sale tomorrow but you can buy them tonight. >>> minutes away from the fiesta bowl, stanford and oklahoma state. a preview from glendale. check in on one of the biggest viewing ports in palo alto. >>> temperatures right now in the 50s. a lot cooler today, a lot more cloud cover around here from santa rosa to livermore. as we continue through tonight, we'll see plenty of cool numbers dropping into the 40s for the south bay. we'll have details on cloud cover. [ male announcer ] for some reason those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. fantastic! pro-gresso ] they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progr

steve handelsman, news 4. >>> there was a change tonight in the top ranks at the white house. william daley will be stepping down as chief of staff. daley was chosen for the job a little over a year ago. he recently told the president that he wants to go back to chicago and spend more time with his family. daley will leave at the end of the month. he'll be replaced by budget director jack lou. >>> people who live in ward 5 spoke out about a replacement for former council member harry thomas, jr. thomas resigned last week just before pleading guilty to stealing $350,000 in money intended for youth organizations. he was also convicted of tax evasion. at the wilson building earlier today, the name plate outside his office was removed. the door was locked. tonight residents gathered at a church in northeast d.c. to talk about the challenges faced in that ward. >> tonight is an opportunity for the ward 5 leadership and the ward 5 family to talk to each other about our current void in ward 5 d.c. council leadership. >> thomas will be sentenced in may. he's facing up to four years in prison.

joe williams covers the white house for politico and steve mcmann -- >> romney and seamus supporter.> you know, welcome to south carolina. everything is on the table. >> true. the dog incident even as well. >> yes, sir. >> is romney ready? >> it anybody is read ty's governor romney. those of us here around the table know south carolina is where the messiest games are played. he has a professional team. he surprised everybody in iowa that he won and everybody in new hampshire that he said he'd win by as big a margin as he did. he is totally ready for south carolina. i want to go to the quote of your guest i think it will only make him stronger as he moves into the general election. >> that is the argument you have to make. you always say, well, well. >> yes. you know, steve mcmann, what's interesting about the seamus thing as much as it seems like a cheap shot it is also this attack that gingrich and others are trying to make and even the white house trying to say romney is a cold-hearted guy. it's painting the bain thing. just worried about a profit not the people he laid off. romney

williams. those are the headlines. >> steve: join us back here at the same time, same channel tomorrow. we'll tell you all about what happens tonight with the state of the union. everybody. after pressure to release his tax records, mitt romney now giving the country a built of a glimpse of his personal income. the former governor making his most recent tax returns public this morning. that's where we start today. good morning to you out there. hope you're having a good day. it is "america's newsroom." i'm bill hemmer. martha: certainly is "america's newsroom." good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. everybody has been scrambling to look at these documents and now they are out. his reported income in 2010, $21.7 million. he paid a 14% tax rate. meaning he gave $3 million to uncle sam. he also gave $3 million in charitable donations. half of that went to the mormon church. romney drew most of his income from very successful investments over that period of time. bill: at the moment jim angle is on a conference call with the romney campaign talking about the release going through th

williams. they will break down this year's playoff game. alex smith made history on saturday doing something not even joe montana or steve young ever did. gary has that story and all the sports coming up. >>stanley: this trash was pushed against a fence until someone could clean it up. it was just trashed, the company would not care, but this trash and up someplace else. this is candlestick point. a state park next to candlestick. with the trash left behind, when this is a decade of low across the road and got lodged in a bush. if you looked up you could see plastic bags in trees. there are a lot of plastic bags that make their way from the parking lot to the park. it is not just plastic bags and diapers, it is pretty much anything that the wind can carry or, a fan. there are signs where fans can recycle but apparently it is more fun to trash the parking lot and wait for someone else to clean up. the parking lot fall under parks and recreation, they hire outside contractors to clean up. the >>jaqueline: sunday afternoon when the game starts, we could still see if you spotty showers. >>gary: just like the good old days, the 49ers are pla

steve, thank you. as we look ahead to florida, the candidates will debate in tampa bay on monday during a special edition of rock center. brian williamsill monitor that debate. you can watch it monday night at 9:00 p.m. right here on nbc 4. still ahead tonight, the future of the alexandria waterfront has been decided. the results of a vote that could bring major changes to old town. how marion barry's friends say he's doing after surgery. and ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. it's a win win. good? [ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i try yours? >>> the council approved a plan by a 5-2 vote tonight. more than 100 people weighed in on that issue during an eight-hour public hearing. critics worry that tall modern buildings would disrupt the city's chark ferps subpoena porters say shops would bring money to the area.

steve hayes, bill krystal, welcome back juan williams. you heard the governor there.t it's a battle for fourth. what about his statement that he fights on? >> the only way it makes any sense, brett, if he sees there is an opportunity for him specifically in south carolina. if disappointing performance in iowa, i think it will be more pronounced in new hampshire. governor perry plang on his southern roots as governor of texas and he believes the heart of the republican party is in the south. he can definitely get a better result from all the money he has in his pocket. as we noted earlier, we spent a lot of money in iowa. >> at one point in the interview of this campaign in the past tense. i think this is a man feels he made his case, bad luck. didn't catch on. >> megyn: why is it? santorum does have a fall as we've seen with the other gop candidates, a lot of guys don't believe ron paul is a serious candidate, why would somebody like governor perry, i came in fifth so it's done for me? >> well, i think we overdo this rise and fall. voters in this state have looked at

steve handelsman, news 4, tampa, florida. >> now tonight's debate will take place during a special edition of nbc's rock center. brian williams will moderate. and you can watch it at 9:00 tonight right here on nbc 4. >>> when news 4 at 4:00 continues, a surprise announcement today from aretha franklin. >> the oscar nominations come out in the morning. we'll preview what to expect. >> also a controversial comedian rushed to the hospital after collapsing at an awards ceremony. ♪ >> and strong reaction "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" test. "access hollywood" >>> actor tracy morgan is recovering in the hospital after collapsing at a film festival. the "30 rock" star just stepped off a stage at an awards ceremony at the sun dance film festival in utah. witnesses say morgan was acting dizzy and confused just before he collapsed. morgan's publicist says he was overcome by a mixture of exhaustion and altitude. he is expected to be okay. >>> you can hold off on buying that wedding gift for the queen of soul. today aretha franklin called off her engagement to willy wilkerson. just three weeks ago th

steve. >>> there is going to be a new chief of staff at the white house at the end of the month. today william daley resigned. daley says he wants to go back to chicago to spend more time with his family. daley was chosen chief of staff about a year ago. he was not expected to leave until after the november election. he'll be replaced by budget director jack lew. >>> after three days of silence mayor vincent gray is speaking out. he says he is outraged by the crimes committed by former d.c. council member harry thomas junior. tom sherwood is here with more on how the mayor plans to move forward amid the scandal. >>> doreen, thomas stole money intended for children. he is gone but some are asking shouldn't there be more outrage? even the d.c. government directory shows no sign of harry thomas jr. or his ward 5 office. and the d.c. elections board meets wednesday to set a replacement special election in may. thomas left federal court friday a convicted felon for stealing more than $350,000 in city funds intended for youth organizations and tax evasion. he'll be sentenced in may to as much as fou

- in prince william county and taken to the wildlife center where officials discovered it was suffering from lead toxicity. the bird died today. a third is currently being treated now. stevemer accident director of the birr conservation -- palmer, director of the bird conservation alliance joins us to sort all this out. explain how hunters are to blame for this. >> well, the eagles are being poisoned by lead and they obtain the lead by eating carcasses that have been left over from hunters that were not found by hunters. it's important to understand hunters have been in the vanguard of conservation and now that they realize that their bullets are putting eagles at risk are now moving to non-lead alternatives which are available on the market. >> let me ask how many other eagles could be at risk? >> like the wildlife center reports, several eagles dying each year. we get similar reports from other rehab centers around the country. this is a nationwide problem. it affects not only the bald eagle, our nation's symbol, but the golden eagle and ravens and other scavengers that find carcasses and gut piles and things out in the wild. >> hunters are now trying to think of differ

steve handelsman news 4. back to you. >> all right. see you at 11:00. thanks. >>> tonight's debate does take place during a special edition of nbc's "rock center" and brian williams is the moderator. we invite you to watch it with us here tonight at 9:00 and join me for a live web chat during the debate. just logon to nbc washington.com and look for the link at the top of the page. >>> at least two people are dead more than a hundred injured after a string of violent storms struck in the middle of the night. they pounded the southern part of the u.s. knocking down trees, flattening homes, tearing roofs off buildings. the governor of alabama has declared a state of emergency there. the national weather service investigating to see if this damage was caused by some rare, january tornadoes. >> it was over in about five minutes and we started -- we could feel wind blowing on us and looked in the bathroom. the ceiling is all mashed in with limbs sinking in. >> we lost our house baut we go our family and that's all that matters right now. >> the storms also caused damage in arkansas, mississippi, and tennessee. let's check in with our meteorologist veronica johnson up

steve: we're loling. what did you think of the debate last night? brian williamswas presiding over an episode of "rock center" said no clapping, no whooping, may have neutered some of newt's biggest supporters. >> you came close to saying neutered newt. but i do know what you're saying. look, there is no clapping, no booing, no fun. okay? for me, this debate was kind of a snore. >> gretchen: exactly. >> i kept thinking, are we going to have a conversation about the differences among the various candidates, policy position as soon as instead, it was you had brian williams who himself seemed like he needed sleep. the candidates for the most part -- he's so ponderous and i found when they brought in the local reporter, i felt like i was watching not rock center, but i was watching "saturday night live." that local reporter, god bless her, she was asking questions, that i guess liberals care about. but it meant the candidates all agreed with each other. so it did not illuminate much for people. >> gretchen: i don't know if you saw newt gingrich on, but he said he's no

steve. pretrials for 9/11 mastermind khali shaikh mohammed are expected to start as early as this march and one author is already drawing comparisons between that and the nazi trials in 1945. williamins that in his new book "just and the enemy, the trial of khali shaikh mohammed." he joins me now. his father, by the way, was the chief british prosecutor in the trials. what do you think are the similarities to that and what we'll see with ksm? >> the biggest similarity is these are evil man put in the dark for unbelievable crimes. nazi war machine was on trial there and the key people who still survive and who are arrested quite properly by the united states are on trial for the crimes of 9/11 and many other crimes, of course, al-qaida continues with the big crimes. >> what do we learn from the trial that instructs what happens with ksm now? >> the biggest difference and this is an important one to stress that if any of the nazis in the dock at nuermberg were hp transported to guantanamo, they would be astonished by the privileges the united states give them. those people on trial will have all the safeguards of american justice and if they're found guilty, they can appeal all the