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a tweet sent out late night by comedian conan o'brien, poking fun at republican presidential candidate timlenty about being unexciting on the campaign trail saying, is it too early to predict that tim pawlenty will not be a popular halloween costume? a couple hours pawlenty wait until i unveil my team coco wig, then everyone will want a wig of me. >>> a narrow alaskan mountain pass and they both land safely, no one was hurt. the pilots didn't see each other until the very last second on sunday, one skimmed the top of the other, then they both landed with little damage. wow. hear that? that's a sigh of relief from all 13 people on board the two planes. >>> there are certain things you expect to find in the seat back pocket of a plane, the emergency manual, leftover magazines, but a stun gun isn't one of them, exactly what a jetblue crew found friday in new work, looked something like this. the fbi is joining the investigation into how it happened. the flight originated in boston, made several stops throughout the day. >>> tom stuker first person to hit the 10 million mile mark in united's m

. >>> so presidential candidate tim pawlenty has a little bit of an image problem, but he's spifing it up on twitter. we're talking pawlenty v. o'brienormally when you talk about a candidate having an image problem, you're talking about somebody who's hypocrite call or somebody who, you know, lies too much or whatever. but this thing tim pawlenty has is completely different. his image problem people say is that he's dull. he puts people to sleep or he's boring or whatever. and, you know, it's kind of a tough position for him right now. but maybe what we're seeing is him trying to fix that problem. tweeting with conan can't hurt. conan tweeting this. is it too early to predict that pawlenty won't be a common halloween costume? pawlenty said wait until i unveil my team coco wig. it might even deliver iowa for me. back in conan. if it hem heps you win iowa it's probably because iowans think it's corn silk. so there you go. he does have a sense of humor, but for the record, he's actually said he doesn't care people call him dull. he's been quoted as saying, if people want an entertainer in chief, they should vote for someone else. >> let