texas brian is installing wells to volume out the gas but that could take years.ot of residents here say they moved to bayou corne to live out the rest of their lives and now they have to flee. what do you say to those people? >> i definitely share their pain and feel their pain. we were as surprised as anyone that this occurred. >> reporter: texas brian gives residents $850 a week to get out. some think that's not enough and have filed a class-action lawsuit. the merritts took a buyout and are moving to baton rouge. >> looks like i'm just going to be in baton rouge until my time runs out on this earth, you know? >> reporter: the natural setting that drew residents to bayou corne is now driving them away. adriana diaz, cbs news, bayou corne, louisiana. bayou corn ee is now driving them away. adrian diaz, cbs news, bayou corn, louisiana. (pop) (balloons popping) i can see the edge of my couch! (balloons popping) . >>> good morning. we'll have the top headlines in just a moment but first let's head over to the first warning center. good morning, tim. >>> good mornin

. >> texas brian gives residents 875 a week for evacuation costs. some think that's not enough and filed a class-action lawsuit. >> merit took a buy out and moving to baton rouge. >> looks like i'm just being baton rouge into my time. >> the natural setting, is now driving them away. adrian diaz, wjz "eyewitness news." >> some property owners and residents filed a class-action lawsuit as we herd in the story against texas brian. >>> still ahead on "eyewitness news," raves get ready to face a large crowd. >> mark has more on the ravens' preparation coming up. ,,,,,,,,, >>> the ravens go for the first road victory of the season, when they play on buffalo on sunday. sports director joins us with more on what the ravens are saying about life on the road. mark? >> mary, the running super bowl champions, when they leave baltimore for a road game, there's added incentives in the other cities to knock them down. and buffalo is a blue collar town with die hard fans. even though the bills have struggled for a decade, theirs have loud and crowd. and i asked ab

texas brian is installing wells to volume out the gas but that could take years.ot of residents here say they moved to bayou corne to live out the rest of their lives and now they have to flee. what do you say to those people? >> i definitely share their pain and feel their pain. we were as surprised as anyone. some think that's not enough and have filed a class aksz lawsuit. the merritts took a buyout and are moving to baton rouge. >> looks like i'm just going to be in baton rouge until my time runs out on this earth, you know? >> reporter: what drove them here to bayou corn ee is now driving them away. adrian diaz, cbs news, bayou corn, louisiana. (pop) (balloons popping) i can see the edge of my couch! (balloons popping) >>> well, good morning and welcome to wusa9. today is friday, which makes everything so much better. no matter how many technical problems you have, traffic, bad weather, it's friday. we'll get through it together. i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >> sounds good to me. good morning, i'm mike hydeck. happy friday monika. >> the commuters d

maybe it's time to move your business to texas. >> brian: that's an all-out push. ? >> competition is quite fair, i believe. i'm pretty sure the maryland terrapins want to win games and the country wants to create an environment that allows people to take care of their families. that's really what this is about when you get down to it. who is out there that's going to help create the most competitive environment where those entrepreneurs know they can risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on their investment, hire people in the states and create jobs. it's a blue state, red state policy discussion that we're hoping to help lead across the country and getting people to talk about it and talk when it in a civil, thoughtful way, what are the best policies, whether it's in maryland or whether it's in connecticut or whether it's in texas or oklahoma, and that's what this is really all about. >> brian: you got a democratic governor there who wants to be president, i think. he says this, instead of engaging in pr stunts, governor perry should come to maryla

>>steve: meanwhile let's talk about controversy down in alvin, texas. >>brian>>steve: apparently one of the arts teachers gave an assignment for september 11. it was a homework assignment where you essentially pretend you were in the twin towers or on a plane; you were not going to make it out alive. the exact quote was if you knew you were about to die, who you would to be the last person you would talk to. write a letter to that person. what would you want them to know? please give a lot of thought to this letter. a number of of the parents, like kate right here, upset. >> they were supposed to pretend they are in the twin towers or on the plane and not going to make it out. this is their goodbye letter. it was almost like reading a letter like -- almost like a suicide note. she said the teacher wants us to write a letter like we were stuck in the towers or on the plane. she showed me the paper and i thought it was ridiculous. >>brian: the school says we sincerely apologize to any of our families -- see the full screen. of any of our families. they found this

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texas. here's where the story gets complicated, brian. near him was found an id badge belonging to another person who worked at the washington navy yard. that person was detained by washington, d.c. police at home and is now being questioned. a key question at this point is, how did the man who fired the shots inside the navy yard get that id? is there any connection? is it just someone who lost a badge. that's what police are trying to determine at this point. so more unanswered questions, what's the motive? why did that happen? why the navy yard? that we don't know. we do know the man that's dead that fired the majority of the shots was heavily armed. he came into the facility this morning dressed in black, carrying a shot gugushotgun, a style handgun and an assault rifle. >> this is a military base where weapons are familiar and prevalent and, pete, this kind of mass casualty event puts it on par with a ft. hood and aurora, colorado. >> is its a terrorism like ft. hood or is it more like a pork place shooting, that's the question. >> p

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texas. >> thanks for your time. >> brian: 90 seconds before the bottom of the hour, coming up next, real life to pick up and leave? >> elisabeth: and if there is a bump in the middle of the night, who can be counted on to investigate? the house and wife, stick around for this. >> brian: i'm not counting on that guy. ♪ [ male announcer ] progresso's so passionate about its new tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] ♪ but finally, it happened. perfection. at progresso, we've got a passion for quality, because you've got a passion for taste. he was a matted messiley got in a small cage. ng day.ty, so that was our first task, was getting him to wellness. without angie's list, i don't know if we could have found all the services we needed for our riley. from contractors and doctors to dog sitters and landscapers, you can find it all on angie's list. we found riley at the shelter, and found everything he needed at angie's list. join today at angieslist.com we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first, we were protecting networks. then, we w

texas. recent polls show americans are evenly divided as to whether the u.s. should take military action against seyrisyria. >> thank you, brian. >>> we mentioned a moment ago that lawmakers have been at capitol hill for a briefing on national security. here elijahcummings. let's listen in. >> i think a lot of people and my constituents, i attend a church of 10,000, and most of these people, i say the average education is about four years of college. i don't think many of our constituents understand the full significance of chemical and biological warfare. that is something the president has got to spend some time explaining the significance of that and why it is off limits with regard to 98% of the world. because i think people have -- i think we have to be careful that the administration is not talking above people's heads when they don't understand the bas basics. another thing that i think we want to know and my constituents have asked over and over is what is the relationship to the united states? in other words, is there a threat? a lot of this comes with the background, of course, of being war weary. people are concerne

which reacts just like an addict's brain to drugs. >> brian: 23 minutes after the hour. texasefforts. in addition to senator rand paul right there, cruz got a little help from his friends. >> we can't be exceptional without the american dream and that's what's being undermined by big government and by obamacare. that at the end of the day is why we're so passionate about this. that's why this is an issue worth fighting for. >> steve: all right. there he was last night. there he is this morning live from washington, d.c florida senator marco rubio. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning. i better stop drinking coffee after that report about the rats. >> steve: no kidding. >> brian: you're not a teen-ager anymore, so you're okay. >> that's true. >> steve: let me ask you this, we've been noticing over the last couple of days, it's a big number of republican senators who did not want ted cruz to do this. why? >> can i just start by welcoming elisabeth? it's great to have her in the mornings. >> elisabeth: now that's a filibuster right there. >> steve: that was a filibuster. >>

texas, it's the holcomb family. let's get it on. give me jimmy. give me brian. let's go.eering and applause] >> hey. >> all right, jimmy. steve: fellas, here we go. we've got the top 8 answers on the board. we asked 100 men, name something you've never had but

brian? >> pete williams start thing us off from washington. thanks. >>> now to politics in washington. the man who was up all night, the republican senator from texas on a one-man mission to stop president obama's new health care law. critics called him crazy, irresponsible, even dangerous. others find him courageous for staying on his feet for 21 hours to get americans focused on what's about to happen to their health care. more on that in a moment. first kelly o'donnell has more

the most profitable football programs, texas $77 million, michigan $61 million, on and on. this is, brianh money texas a&m has made and in large part how that revenue has skyrocketed over the past year because of johnny manziel. >> it's fact. and he blows out a knee, regardless -- depending on his insurance policy, he gets nothing. i did a lot of work on my time at espn and cbnbc, the debate i how they get paid. there are issues with title 9, gender equity, nonrevenue generated sports. everyone has a theory. it's great to bring it up in this light. i still don't feel that how to pay them has been revolved and there's an answer. >> what's the answer? >> well, if we were willing to go to a complete free market these programs would have to pay these kids hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. the most conservative proposals is the one we've tabled here, keep the discussion going is 30,000 to 40,000 a year. >> for all players? for starters for stars? >> college would get a certain amount of pool of money a percentage of its overall revenue, some of the schools are bringing in 70, $80 millio

texas. >> anna: all the way. >> tucker: so cool. >> brian: right. >> tucker: friday night lights at its best would want this? a way to stop yourself from speeding. >> tucker: the government stepping in to stop you whether you want to speed or not. the european union weighing a law that would prevent speeders from speeding involuntarily. you would have a unit installed in your car to read speed signs as you pass them. if you exceeded the limit posted on those signs, your brakes would deploy automatically. >> anna: first you would get a warning, at least. but still, can you imagine literally the government essentially is taking control of your car and is it safe? >> brian: to jam on the brakes at 70 miles an hour, no. i wouldn't think so, unless you're on smoky and the bandit, which somehow they all survived. i would say this, there are times in life you have to speed and break the law. there are times in which there is an emergency, you have to get there as quick as possible. your wife is pregnant or your friend's wife is pregnant and you're the only one around. and you're going fast. now you

texas. now let's head over to brian. >> brian: one quick sports story.heir fan base upset. they have traded trent richardson, their top pick a couple years ago, to indianapolis for a first round selection. the coach says he was not a good fit there. richardson was the browns' number one pick 17 months ago. i tell you what, the colts couldn't be happier. they got a running game to go with their quarterback and offense. that was just quick what's going on in the world of sports and football. i'm sure your husband already knows that. >> elisabeth: he'd be in his dream to have these cool tvs behind us. we are finding out some good info today. >> brian: i went tv shopping. i have no idea what i'm talking about. with us right now is "consumer reports" expert, dishing their top big screen picks known for the effect purchase and helping us out, jim wilcox, senior electronics editor. welcome. >> good seeing you guys. >> elisabeth: great to have you here. you're talking about why these are the best to buy. >> yeah. the good news is that on our ratings, almost all

brian? >> pete williams start thing us off from washington. thanks. >>> now to politics in washington. the man who was up all night, the republican senator from texas on a one-man mission to stop president obama's new health care law. critics called him crazy, irresponsible, even dangerous. others find him courageous for staying on his feet for 21 hours to get americans focused on what's about to happen to their health care. more on that in a moment. first kelly o'donnell has more on the marathon on the floor of the u.s. senate. >> reporter: with texas-sized ambitions. >> i intend to speak in support of defunding obamacare until i am no longer able to stand. >> reporter: 42-year-old ted cruz in the senate just eight months, held up all of congress's work to make his point. >> the frustration that the united states senate doesn't listen to the people is deafening. >> reporter: cruz stayed on his feet for 21 hours, 19 minutes. his goal, derail funding for the health care law. stopped only by senate rules. >> pursuant to the order -- [ applause ] >> did uh you accomplish something here? >> i hope this filibuster gave the american people an opportunity

. >> in his effort to stop obamacare, text senator ted -- texas senator cruz spoke for 21 hours 19 minutes nonstop. >>brianve another hour and he said i'm done. harry reid was going to give him another hour. >>steve: he was? i heard you want to go more? yes, i do. i'm not going to relinquish my time. he came close. although it wasn't technically a filibuster, but third-longest speech. congratulations. meanwhile moving on, you saw it here on "fox & friends" last week. take a look at this. >> oh my goodness! it's the last second. that's the last second. elisabeth hasselbeck falling out. look how happy those girls are in their balloons! >>elisabeth: we were happy. >>steve: elisabeth kicking the boys' butt. but how will she do against our nation's toughest heroes? >>elisabeth: you're about to find out. the advisory board of team r.w.b., an organization that rebill taeuts our nation's -- rehabilitates our nation's veterans by keeping them active and connected. i took over the 5k portion. take a look. >> anyone who knows me knows i love to run. when there's meeting behind the miles, that is what is wha* it is --

texas. she has tried to keeping a low profile after she was sued for racial and sexual discrimination. a judges dismissed the suit last month. >>> mika, good morning. >> good morning, thank you, brian "morning joe" president obama's top pick for fed chairman larry summers takes his name out of the running. could this open the door for the first female fed chair? we'll discuss that with "the new york times" annie lawrie. >>> joe biden takes iowa by storm in what looked more like a 2016 campaign stop than a local fund-raiser. we'll show you what he said about his favorite secretary of state and a hint, he actually wasn't talking about hillary clinton. >>> we have an all-star lineup including senators elizabeth warren, john mccain and dick durbin. they join us along with reverend al sharpton, richard wolffe, barnicle is here, willie already on the set. >> yeah. >> halpern with the chin today. >> no, no, no, i don't want to talk about it. >> still ahead on "way too early," what is the perfect age -- i wouldn't mind mika's take. the best and most creative tweets and "morning joe" just moments away. hero: if you had a chance to go anywhere in the world, but you had to leave right now, wo

texas and parts of theñrñr gulf coast temperatures in the 80's and 90's. >>brianun. that is a huge hole. steelers haven't given up that hole since terry bradshaw retired. the defenders go all the way. that would be a touchdown. the final score 40-23. ben roethlisberger, beautiful catch but would not be enough. here is the best of the rest. best big upset in a big game has to be andrew luck against his former koefrp jim harbor. they were good. what's wrong with the 49ers, they lost this game and have now lost two in a row. catch of the day, titans and chargers. nice catch, nice throw. justin hunter pulls it down. titans win 20-17. the mets showing off brand-newÑi uniforms. rookies forced to dress up like a bridal party. mets kind of bored. >>elisabeth: yuck. >>brian: an outstanding rookie has been shut down because guess what? his arm hurts. coming back on radio between nine and noon, we go over the emmys and talk to james rosen, ambassador bolten and a few more surprises coming up on "kilmeade & friends." >>steve: meanwhile on this program everyone is talking abou

one of you is in texas and one is here on the set. >> brian: first, what do you think we still need to stopping us from arresting people that killed americans? >> why would that shock any of us? the north africa has become hostile ground to the united states and it is not in their best interest -- >> brian: the same way we killed bin laden, we should be killing them, don't you think? >> absolutely. people should be brought to justice. both fred and i don't believe that they'll end up in a court in the lower district here in manhattan. however, they will one day be served justice one way or another. >> steve: fred, let me ask you this, steven hayes has an item in the weekly standard where he talks about how the c.i.a. director, john brennan, has written a letter to mike rogers, the chairman of the house intel committee, and he says okay, c.i.a. is going to help you. however, it says that he denies that c.i.a. officers were subjected to polygraphs or required to sign nondisclosure agreements. that is different than what we've heard, isn't it? >> it certainly is, steve. it's my understand

texas. i went through clearance background check, it took a year for me to get. >> brian: when?s revealing two very important factors. one, that there are gaps now in security background checks and two, there is a mental health problem at the military -- that the military has to address. i don't recall going through a mental background check. i recall going through where they looked into my finances, my employment. they came to my neighborhood. i think you said earlier, they asked my neighbors if i drank, if i gamble, if i had a bmw, smoked pot. >> elisabeth: how did the arrest slip through? are you saying this is an isolated incident or systemic? >> i don't know. i can tell you this, back when i got a security background check, it would be impossible for that to slip through. so they had to do a police record check. what's more troubling is knowing now that the government treated him for mental health issues, it should have been pulled there. so you got two red flags. >> brian: we also see he visited thailand and had been to japan and worked with information technology. so it s

texas. brianna, you are of next, a republican caller. what do you -- brianne -- brian, you are up next, a republican caller. what do you think of the message from vladimir putin? i think obama is the weakest president since jimmy carter. i think we should have gotten him out sooner or we would not be in this position. i just wanted to say that and thank you for taking my call. host: this debate over syria continues in washington. if you go to our website, c- /syria, you can see all of the documents. we will continue to cover all of the relevant hearings. our conversation continues about syria. coming up next, we will talk to to members of congress. later, a republican of new york and an iraq veteran will give us his perspective. we will be right back. yes, the world is changing. we cannot control every event. america remains the one indispensable nation and world affairs. as long as i am president, i intend to keep it that way. >> when the president is talking about us being the indispensable nation, what he does not want americans to contemplate is we do not know how

brian roberts to score. the orioles win 5-3. does continue to move closer. -- the o's continue to move closer. they will finish the night one game out because texasplaying tampa right now. they are tied 3-3 in the 12th. one of those teams has to win and the other has to lose. that means the o's will be a game out starring tamara. cleveland lost, so the indians will not move into one of the top two spots in the wild-card race, and the o's are still right there with only 11 games left to play. read had only limited participation in the texans practice today. -- doubiak did not can not commit to read playing. darius webb summed up with -- summed up what everybody knows. joe flacco has plenty of experience playing against ed reed. flacco also understands the fans perspective of how strange it will feel seeing ed reed in a texans uniform. after all, flacco used to see read from a fans perspective himself. -- see reed from a fans perspective himself. >> i think it is strange, because everybody views him as a raven. it is strange for me too. it is the same inc. -- same as playing against an old teammate. knew ed reed as a baltimore raven before i starte

brian? >> all righty good morning phil and good morning to you. yeah you have to remember this is a part of the country, colorado along with parts of texas that had previously been experiencing drought. so now they have rain but all at once? there's some good news with the satellite map that there's rain in the forecast but it's more widely spread. this is after last week, boulder, colorado picked up as much as 15 inches of rain between monday and saturday. and aurora, colorado had nine inches of rain and today they're getting rain right now around denver. but this is a more widely scattered shower sort of regime. nevertheless they are asking people? they don't get out now they're going to be without power and electricity for a listening time without the cell -- long time without the cell phones and that kind of stuff. it's going to be easing up this week after a couple of widely scattered showers in the area and maybe some thundershowers this afternoon. phil, ann? >>> a major highway in yosemite national park is completely open again after being closed for nearly three weeks. state route 120 was shut down by the rim fire which burned about 400 s

texas to play. >> and they beat them. alfred morris had 200 yards rushing that way, so they couldh do it that way. >> dallas isn't the oakland raiders, it's a great receiver, this des brianthey got other weapons, romo is having a pretty good year. we got to look at the opponent, the raiders are a bad team. it's nice to get first win, butt keep it in perspective. >> sports junkies, good to talkt to you again. we will talk to you again this week. >> thank you, guys. >> my pleasure, 106.7 the fan. the sports junkies. >>> the major leagues, the gnat skip he were managed his final game in arizona on sunday.na on as for the nats last game theth season, top of the 6 tied at one, teef lombardozzi comes first. and as the bottom of the 8th, tied at two, aj pollock. >> pollock. >> pollock, thank you, with grounder off pitcher brian matthews allowing the game-winning run.g i neee-d you, earlier, tony, thk you. and here is davie on the final goodbye. >> i said something last night, that is enough for them. i'm not dropping off the face of the earth, i'm still going to be around. so i might even see you guys again, who knows.s. anyway, it's nice seeing you guys, goodbye. >> not a fina

texas. hurricane ingrid a category one storm, maximum sustained winds at 75 miles per hour. >>steve: mr. kilmeade is doing sports now. >>brianow that? you looked at my empty chair and thought i would be somewhere. i know most of you watched this game but the manning bowl 3 in new york, eli hosting payton and the broncos. giants still in at this point. 24-16. lie did not have a great -- eli did not have a great day. off an ankle into the arms of a bronco. you got the sense even though the giants were home it would not be their day. in the end a blowout 41-23. this was all payton. it's hard for me to imagine a team beating the broncos in the a.f.c. i have a sense they could be back here for the super bowl. meanwhile your team is about to play the cleveland browns but your wife is in labor. what do you do? what do you do? if you're joe flacco, honey, i've got to work. his decision? go play for the ravens. they're paying us a million dollars. joe flacco's wife played birth and he played tackle football. joe flacco's team, the ravens were happy to have him. i don't know what they would have done there this as they went on to win

brian: no, a shirt. a lot of guys walk around without shirts. >> actually, you're right. a lot of people may not want to wear a shirt in texas.'re talking a lot of sunshine and very september-like high temperatures. many of you experiencing temperatures into the low 80s and even widespread 70s across the northeast. otherwise we have a large area of low pressure. it will be spinning in some moisture. we need the higher humidity because we have a number of wildfires here that does help firefighters out. the problem is that we could be picking up heavier rain and there is even the risk for severe weather, not just today, but even into tomorrow out west. that's something to keep an eye on. otherwise, also this storm system is going to be producing possibly snow showers. snow showers across some of the higher elevations of the cascades in washington. not too unusual this time of year. still neat to start to see the flakes flying in the mountains. >> steve: thank you very much. good news is, governor rick perry doesn't have to wear a shirt today. >> brian: he probably won't. he also doesn't wear boots anymore because they hurt his

texas hot, 97 for your high. in san antonio showers and storms forecast across florida. we picked up as much as six inches across florida so flooding is a concern. >>briananning and broncos, a blowout on the field. manning offered an incredible start. he's playing like he's 21, not 38. in second quarter you'll see the broncos go up by a score of 17-7. to julius thomas. he runs for 13 yards out. on other side three touchdowns for manning. broncos win 37-21. raiders did have offensive moments but in the end the broncos are too good. ravens wide receiver jones injured after a brawl on a party bus, reportedly hit in the head with a champagne bottle by an exotic dancer. no arrests were made because witnesses refused to say what happened. john harbough said afterwards do you want to be known as a great football player or be known for stuff like this? >>elisabeth: 35,000 injured service members are helped by the wounded warriors program. anna kooiman live at the first education center designed specifically for wounded vets. >> good morning. we're in jacksonville, florida, at the track center. there is another one in san antonio, texas. this program is designed

brian: a lot of times you don't tell me during the commercial. >> steve: actually, i'll tell you during heather nauert's headlines. >> it is better what he did than what that texasmcdonald's in texas is averted when the robber's gun malfunctions. take a look at this surveillance video. it shows the suspect pulling the trigger at least five times, but the gun won't go off. the man even went outside to unjam his weapon. but when he came back in, it jammed up again. police cannot plain why the gun didn't fire inside the mcdonald's. they're suggesting it was a moment of divine intervention. indeed. >>> subsidiary that specializes in credit card transactions has stopped servicing the nation's largest gun store because they sell guns. the owners of hyatt gun shop says they were sent an e-mail by the firm announcing the sudden end of their business relationship after four years. the letter cited the sale of firearms or any similar product as the reason. >>> you are not welcome here. that is a shocking message. illinois neighborhood has for one wound veteran who bravely fought for our country in afghanistan. residents started a petition there protesting the habitat for