a live tweet?yes. talking about on live on espn. >> athletes now attend tweetups to meet their followers. in june chargers linebacker shawne merriman hosted an event and called out his nfl twitter rival. >> if you guys haven't been watching twitter and the little thing that's been going on with me and this other guy named ochoa, i know i feel the same way, don't worry about it. >> bengals chad ochoa not only exchanged trash talk but also considering tweeting from the end zone. >> i'm just bringing the fun back my way. i'm sure they are going to bring a fine some way but got to understand. >> according to twitter athletes.com more than 700 professional athletes have twitter accounts. >> hi, i'm kathleen he is earth. >> the president of sports media challenge a public relations firm that advises a number of professional teams and athletes. >> twitter enables athletes to go directly to the fan. so that they don't have to have a p.r. person saying be here, do this, say this. or don't do this. or don't

oohs ] >> ashton: which is tweeting in the past tense. >> jimmy: oh, all right.g wrong with that. >> ashton: a previous tweet is a [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] >> 'cause a lot of people that do tweet are [ bleep ]. >> jimmy: no, no, no. [ laughter and applause ] that's a different -- >> aston: i was just trying to help. i was trying to help. >> that's over the line? >> jimmy: yeah -- >> ashton: i was trying to help. >> jimmy: if it was tweeted, it 'twas. it 'twas, yeah, i guess. i don't know. but -- you might be right. i've got to check my stats on that. i must say, we had the video game. we have "smackdown." and we play all the time in the office. and i always play you. because i want to win. >> cool. >> jimmy: so -- but now i heard you have a new one coming out -- >> we do. >> jimmy: and you have some downloadable content -- >> we do. >> jimmy: where people can play as me. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's an amazing new concept, you can download the infallible jimmy fallon. >> jimmy: "that's amazing" they call me. >> that's amazing as your finisher. "that's amazing," yes. >>

we'll talk about tweeting and facebook. then we'll talk about john telling us about the outdoor amphitheater that you can set up this weekend. >> i was traying to find speakers all summer. now i knowy can't find them. he's got them. >> and omarosa, remember her from "the apprentice?" she's going to talk about a power summit. it will be good news. she will give us good lessons here today. >> action packed hour. >> let's get it going. >>> it's been a fantastic week in ocean city except for rain yesterday. they've added huge results from the great weather this morning they were down into the 60s, which is rather unusual at least during the mid-august. 70 degrees right now up the coast of rehoboth. we'll have the beach outlook coming your way in just a few minutes. great weekend to escape and tray to break some of that heat at the beach. 72 right now, a gorgeous start in downtown baltimore. a great day here. our two degree guarantee gets us up to 85 degrees. a fantastic day and a steam bath coming our way. >>> now to our top st

among them, who should tweet? we're going to explain some of the less trivial uss for the increasingly popular twitter. >> it's a fast, fun, sexy dancing workout that makes losing weight fun. >> it promises fat-burning benefits along with fun, but does it really do that? we're going to check out the zuba fitness program. >>> and he did not even know english ten years ago, but he graduated at the top of his class.s. one local valedictorian's story. >>> first, though, can a cold remedy cause you to lose your sense of smell? one local man said so. he used zica an over-the-counter product, and those products have caused hundreds of people to lose their sense of smell according to the fda. michael flynn talked to a patient who said he can't smell or taste anymore. >> felt like someone had ignited gasoline in my nostrils. it was awful. >> this 33-year-old sterling resident says that's what happened when he used this zicam nasal cold remedy almost two years ago. since then, he complaints, he hasn't been able to taste or

most people sign on and bypass the terms and tweet away. >> how binding is tweeting? >> it's your word. it will cost you your reputation whether it's binding or not and can be as binding as an e-mail if you give your word. the reputational damage and the risk could be serious. >> could it be evidence in court? you said this on twitter and therefore it is so? or used against you? >> it could be the basis of a civil lawsuit or criminal prosecution. if someone is tweeting out insider information or a tipster tweeting out that my company is merging and i'm about to retire and stock holdings are going to double, intending it or not, that could be the focus for litigation. >> most company when is they make any type of announcements, they usually have to hedge or protect people from saying something. with tweets, they can make a comment without it being filtered. it seems to me it doesn't make sense to communicate without a type of filter. >> i agree, but there filters that you can apply. you can put a dis-plamer like i'm an anchor at cnbc and the views are mine and not the

on the rare occasion of too many tweets, the site's message is a whale. but today's crash swallowed even the whale. and facebook was also slow in places, all the result of an apparent denial-of-service cyber attack. unknown hackers likely used malicious e-mail to gain remote control of thousands of computers and then directed them to wamp, the social network's servers. >> there may be some blackmail involved. it may be a prank or to just prove that this kind of attack can happen. or it may be a competitive action. >> reporter: with more than 40 million users, twitter is the world's fastest-growing form of communication, forcing politicians and celebrities tweet major announcements like paula abdul's "american idol" departure. and iran is still reeling after election protestors used twitter to organize. all of this thanks to a three-year-old company run by a handful of young dot com upstarts from a small san francisco loft. >> what we're seeing with twitter is that people in general are good. and they want to do good things. >> reporter: but all it takes i

. >> good morning, i'm just sending a tweet out. >> are you tweeting? >> right now! it is sunday, august 2nd. twitter's everywhere. it's everywhere. >> i thought we banned it from the set? >> no, i just sent your picture out. check it out, folks. 140 characters can it really get you into trouble? a lot of times we don't even think before we tweet but you really should because what you tweet could land you in court. one woman who slammed her landlord on twitter found out the hard way and she's being sued for defamation. we're going to get into this whole legal issue of tweeting. >> youl be hearing from my lawyer on that one. >>> also, if you think your job bites, wait till you meet the man who wades through the florida swamps acting as human mosquito bait. why? well, he's really the only way in 2009 to gauge how bad the pests are where local authorities need to spray. our intrepid reporters suits up and goes with him. >>> speaking of intrepid reporters, we are also going to take you on a really bizarre tour of london with one of our intrepid reporters. you've never se

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do you guys tweet? >> i don't even know what tweet is. i'm bad. >> you don't know how to spell it? >> but you don't tweet either, fred. i heard that. >> i know, i'm in that camp, too. avery, is this the first of many cases to come before the legal courts? because of saying too much? >> it may be. but let me just be very clear. one of the things that was left out of this package is that jeffrey michaels, who owns this big real estate company, said after he was sued, we're a sue first and ask questions later kind of organization. >> a little advertisement, too. >> yeah, but wait until the jury gets their hand on this case. it's going nowhere fast. seven tweets, this should be dismissed. i hope the ten apt prevails. >> avery's right, and the professor we just saw, defamation cases are so difficult to prove, fred. just because you made a comment, maybe there was water damage in her apartment, truth is a defense. i don't know where it's going. >> let's go to the guantanamo case. a federal judge says, you know what, young man, young detainee, at this point he needs to be freed. avery, wh

, no tweeting, blogging or texting at all. >> that's probably a little much. i think they need to relax it a little bit. if they want to endorse that over the players, that's probably cool. >> reporter: from the playing field to the real battlefield, th

give us an e-mail or a tweet. go to our show page, c nrks nr s cnn.com/a.m.fix. >>> the government sweetening the pot for folks looking to take the cash for clunkers program. they can use the rebate to order cars out of stock and have to be reordered. the rebated had to be spent for the cars on the lot. that was making it difficult for people to get their hands on the top models. >> this is tough for jay -- a o aerosmith is cancelling the rest of the summer tour a week after front man steven tyler fell off of a stage in a concert in south dakota. the band's statement says the doctors are recommending the singer take time off to recuperate. he broke his shoulder. he had to get stitches on his head. exactly what else happened or how he's doing, not giving a lot of detail on that. >> keeping it quiet for now. >>> some people dream of making $1 million in a lifetime. that's chump change for this man. a new survey shows steven schwartzman who heads up the blackstone group made, you're ready for this, $702 million last

you're following me, so we're tweeting and taking our viewers' tweets as well. josh, thank you very much. some of the people, josh, are saying, come on, don, i respect you but now you're you seem right wing today because i'm reporting on an event that happened here, i'm just reporting the news, guy, there's no partisanship in this. that's what we're trying to get out of this whole thing is the partisan fighting because we really all need health care in this country so we can get beyond that, then we all have health care, don't you think? >> that's right. >> so my guests are going to help us through this, organize this event here. we're awaiting the president, pictures there. grand junction, colorado. president barack obama is going to walk at any time. it's all covered. plus our question, we're going to get to our panel, our experts here and doctors standing by for we'll have your tweet, concerns and questions as well. between consuming less and conserving more. there is one important word: how. and it is the how that makes all the difference. to the planet we a

there's a lot of people tweeting normally. there's a lot of social networking sites that can be very dangerous. i don't think we can wait for the administration to act. we've been waiting a long time for the cyberczar to be chosen. there's a lot of conversation, they are standing up now, in cybercommand. these things take time when trying to boil the ocean. you are changed in the way that government handles security. until that time i believe the enclaves need to stand up, the pentagon needs to stand up and start taking direction on policy, setting policy and enforcing policy. >> what else is coming down the pike by way of social media that will complicate the situation? there's always new technology. >> i think the normal advancement of people getting more comfortable using twitter. the capability of watching it over encristed networks. how do you stop it? if there's a ban on it how do you stop it? somebody can log on and use twitter and would have no idea what they are actually doing, what they are logging on. i think what w

. >>> silencing those tweets.hy so many organizations are cracking down on twitter. >>> a new way to kick a bad habit that you may not have thought of before. >>> a new survey shows fewer people are able to afford to get away this labor day weekend. the air transport association says 1 million fewer people than last year will take to the skies. 16 million passengers are expected to fly on domestic carriers the holiday weekend, down from 17 million last year. 3.5% decline and experts say it is due to the economic climate. the air transport association says airports will be less crowded but planes will be near or at capacity. >>> depending on where you are, we do have a range in temperatures today where i was standing today, it was cooking. >> hot and steamy, i'm sure. yes. big range in temperatures from those locations that have gotten the cooling storms. they dropped almost 20 degrees. western maryland, i will show you those locations in just a moment. and if -- listening and maybe you are like what was that, some

i'm joining, i'm a member and want to send out tweets i can choose. >> you choose. so it is different than -- it looks a lot like a social network but it's actually fundamentally different in how the relationship structures work. >> rose: explain. >> so a social network like facebook being the classic example is about finding -- encapsulating real world connections with where we know each other. we say we're friends on the soes social network and then we can communicate and it's two-way. twitter is anacin cron us relationship model. so i can be interest in you and you are sending updates. you don't know who the heck i am. or you just don't care about my updates. and you ignore me. >> rose: whereas if i was on social networking and you wanted to be my friend, i would have to confirm. >> yeah. >> rose: but here i don't know who is getting it. just the people without want it can get it. >> right. so it's much more open. and it creates a different kind of dynamic. so what you are doing is you are just kind of putting stuff out there and sort of like you would put stuff

paula abdul typed four tweets, used a hash tag and avoided at replies when she tweeted about not returning "idol" on twitter. sounds confusing, but if you're between the ages of 25 and 55, you're more likely to understand what i said. >> i have a personal twitter, and i started to work twitter. so i have two. >> reporter: a new nielsen study finds that 64% of people on twitter are adults. nefa. ss my own bu toh ucse to it keep in . with clients. >> reporter: only 16% of teens tweet. even baby boomers have them beat. a columnist for federal computer week and a twitter- holic says he is not surprised. >> text messages and web access east cost money. and they would rather use the money they do spend to send text messages directly to their friends. >> this is my work phone. it has unlimited texting and unlimited internet. that means i can twitter all day, and it doesn't cost a thing. >> if you look at the people that are the most popular, they tend to be computer programmers, marketers, salespeople, entrepreneurs, celebrities. >> reporter: many teenagers don't even have twitter in their vocabu

i know i was the first representative to tweet from the house. i started on twitter on may 28th of 2008. i went to lunch with a friend in houston, erica o'grady, i want to give her a shout out because she got me launched on this. i realized this was a great way for people to communicate in realtime. >> host: your first experience with the idea or the concept of? >> guest: was with erica o o'gry who does a wonderful job of bringing this technology to individuals. she told me about facebook, about twitter, about quick which is a site which allowed you to stream live video to a web site which i've used successfully. i generally always carry my live quick camera so that when i got ambushed, for example, by the -- let me go in here, i'll show you. i got ambushed once by tmz, and i was able to whip out -- he pulled out the camera and said i want to talk to you, congressman, and i said, well, that's great. why don't you let me -- see if you can see this. now i'm streaming live to my quick web page. in fact, i'll show you here. there w go, see? there's t

celebrities are tweeting.l people following them and all their opinions are out there, too, for good, for bad. >> let's listen to a kule of tweets we picked up from "inglorious because bass tards. here's one. how much does this build with the movie and keep the movie's momin item going? is there a way to gauge this at this point? >> you can't gauge it specifically. of course, it's all about momentum in hollywood. people want to get in on the action, they want to see it in the opening weekend. everybody's talking about it. you don't e want to miss out on the big thing everybody's talking about and the company which produced "inglorious basterds" has done a good thing. people wanted access through twitter. so that's a great way. >> that is good. now people who may not have such a celebrity name, i mean if quentin therriarantino twitter, consider the source. but other people behind the scenes, hollywood types, they can use it too. >> absolutely. if they're talking about how fantastic it is. a celebrity who's not

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i have to tweet or post a facebook status. >> and she wasn't tweeting just to loved ones to hundreds who paid attention to tweets like on my way to the hospital. if they even try to send me back home i just may punch them in the throat. and six centimeters with complications. c-specks bound. she's not the only woman sharing off the births process. there are women giving birth to their babies. some with dolphins. just saying. have we crossed the line? are we too wired? >> well, there was a very famous supreme court decision that says i know it when i see it about pornography. i think we will collectively rise up and say enough is enough. >> reporter: john able who writes for "wired" magazine says that hasn't happened yet. some things, lying childbirth, ought to be sacred. psychologists jeff gardier argues we share too much on line. facebook can become a marriage buster, because couples share personal information with virtual friends instead of each other. >> the internet, if you will, becomes an escape hatch where they don't have to be intimate with one another. it's easier to be inti

why knock on doors when you can tweet. he began tweeting during a spanish lesson. and later during a yankee game. >> today he managed to twitter five, six, maybe seven times. he will be not be twit he tering with that regulator every day but expect to see him pop up through the campaign. >> well, twiter and "facebook" seem to be the domain of the young. bloomberg is counting on tweets to reach new yorkers of all ages. >> going high tech. wisconsin man is going to jail convicted for drunk driving. 15 times. it is latest episode. you have to keep score here. all right. in the latest episode he drove drunk now, hit five cars in a neighborhood. and a tree while police were giving chase. he will serve six years. tonight state lawmakers are now floating ideas around on strengthening the punishment for people like this guy. >> michigan man faces charges after police say he used his son to try to meet women. people at out ca's grant park started to call police when they saw a 7-year-old boy crying saying his father, who by the way was drunk in a parked car. forced the boy

>> of course. >> i'll tweet you when we're about to arrive. wait, that's hard. >>> this timid terrier protecting his turf in california over the weekend turning the tables on a coyote after it hopped a fence rht into his backyard. meet ronald the wire fox terrier that took on the intruder. the cote by e way took a bite of ronald but the terrier bit back sending the coyote back over the fence. ronald is expected to be just fine. >>> over to brian now for a check of what's coming your way on the news edge at 11:00. >>talk about a minor fender bender, it's causing controversy tonight. at the center of it all, mayor fenty. this report going out against what the mayor's office says actually happened. you have to see what we dug up inside those documents. >>> first he was tied up and sawpted by his four lovers -- assaulted by his four lovers in that hotel. why the y im ctis now facing charges himself at 11:00. there's something big happening at pizza hut. - woooh, nice! - that's a lot of food! now get big meals like our stuffed pizza rolls, pizza mi

, i tweet. >> you tweet?everybody tweets. >> not everybody tweets. >> cree, when it's lit up, that's cree. what i've been saying is forget about what the fed is doing, this trend is bigger than the fed. >> that's also a trend, it doesn't matter if you don't feel like making a bet on blackberry versus iphone, you got to have a light. >> that's a solution. that's cree. >> t.j. said something interesting, we own the technology in the country for cell phones, nokia has too come to microsoft to make the phones smart. most i would describe as being not smart. this is a very big move. we've only had -- apple has only 3% of the phone market, but it has, nearing 40% of the smart phone market. >> who is going to get that -- this is the holy grail product, you can deal with -- and there are big mobile companies talking about merging right now -- none of them are american. in africa and india, you can provide somewhat smart phones to people because all they use is cell phones and now it's too expensive, if someone can ge

bloomberg is counting on tweets to reach new yorkers of all ages. >> going high tech. wisconsin man is going to jail convicted for drunk driving. 15 times. it is latest episode. you have to keep score here. all right. in the latest episode he drove drunk now, hit five cars in a neighborhood. and a tree while police were giving chase. he will serve six years. tonight state lawmakers are now floating ideas around on strengthening the punishment for people like this guy. >> michigan man faces charges after police say he used his son to try to meet women. people at out ca's grant park started to call police when they saw a 7-year-old boy crying saying his father, who by the way was drunk in a parked car. forced the boy to say that his mother was dead and his dad needed a woman. >> i just talked to the kid.

do you know how to tweet? blog? what about logging on to facebook? if you want to get a job or keep the one you have, you might want to consider learning now. kimberly suiters explained why in this "jobs 4 you" report. >> reporter: if you read her first morning tweet, you knew amy had arrived before we did. >> we follow the changes in technology and the trends and we provide people with hands-on learning immediately. >> reporter: that's how fast technology is evolving. blink at your own peril. >> for everybody who is trying to get digital skills to either further or save as the case has become their careers. >> reporter: for 129 bucks a month, you can keep pace with we webinares. >> i was sitting in a meeting with my managers, and everybody decided that we needed to have a twitter strategy. i shook my head, yes, we need to have a twitter strategy. i have no idea what twitter is. >> reporter: webb tweets a lot, everything from where she's working to what she's drinking. >> i'm hankering for some coffee, dark roast, non-commercial. you should treat soc

i have no idea what twitter is. >> reporter: web tweet as lot. everything from where she's working to what she's drinking. >> hankering for some coffee, dark roast, noncommercial. treat social media as if you're on a constant first date so never -- definitely let it know what you like to eat. not all the time. >> reporter: be honest but not too honest. you are your own brand, manager of your digital identity. it could be the reason you land or lose your next job, according to an h.r. director web knows. >> one of their current resume requirements is listing how many twitter followers that you have. >> reporter: tha might seem silly, but not to these students back in the classroom to master it . no neyitrkcialwoeting is changing business communications. this perp follows come kals t cable for convenience. >> comcast is down convenient. where's my internet? and they'll respond, say, oh, yeah, there's a service outage in your area. >> reporter: julie parsons tweets on the job. >> we're a member-driven organization so anywhere wer we can create meani

the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff tweeted that he will continue to tweet.ll as the pentagon reviews policies across the department of defense. the nfl is developing a broad policy, they already ban cell phones and electronic devices on the sidelines. but they are pushing to tweet during games, the san diego chargers fined quarterback $2500 for tweeting complaints about training camp food. the ncaa scrutinizing how coaches use twitter, they can send direct twitter message but can't post public tweets. espn issued guidelines for behind the scenes employees. the uneducated communication is becoming a go-to source for information. paula abdul announcing she's not returning to "american idol." we have to expect more companies to enforce guidelines, which raises the question if twitter communication is limited, it is less interesting? >> less discuss that. we'll get more from john able and dennis neil who once made the mistake and upset pr when he broke news on twitter by mistake. let me start with you. what do you think about the marines and nfl coming out again

a tweet from senator specter. called senator grassley to tell him to stop spreading myths about health care reform and imaginary death panels. had to leave a message for now. i will talk to him soon. so senator grassley twitted or tweeted back specter got it all wrong thai ever used words death boards. even liberal press never accused me of that so change your last tweet, arlen. sure, senator grassley but you did say this. >> there is some fear because in the house bill there is counseling for end of life. i don't have any problems with things like living wills but they ought to be done within the family. we should not have a government program that determines you're going to pull the plug on grandma. >> so grassley is not technically a death eater. he would instead be a grandma plug puller. let's call in democratic strategist chris kofinis. good evening. >> good evening. >> grassley first. it would be merely absurd if this were not so maddening. he's been fueling death panel fear and now is trying to mince words

click on it and shoot me a tweet. or you can go to twitter.com/carloswatson, another way to find me. >>> next, president obama heads to the heartlant, elkhart, indiana. >>> later, say it ain't so, joe! why are critics being banned from getting a sneak peek at the new g.i. joe movie? we got that straight ahead. . you're watching msnbc live. i'm carlos watson. during times like these it seems like the world will never be the same. but there is a light beginning to shine again. the spark began where it always begins. at a restaurant downtown. in a shop on main street. a factory around the corner. entrepreneurs like these are the most powerful force in the economy. they drive change and they'll relentless push their businesses to innovate and connect. as we look to the future, they'll be there ahead of us, lights on, showing us the way forward. this is just the beginning of the reinvention of business. and while we're sure we don't know all the answers, we do know one thing for certain, we want to help. come see what the

. >> reporter: paula abdul typed four tweets, and avoided at replies when she tweeted about not returning to "idol" on twitter. it sounds confusing. but if you're between the ages of 25 and 55, you're more likely to understand what i just said. >> i have a personal twitter, and i started a work twitter. so i have two. >> reporter: a new nielsen study finds that 64% of people on twitter are adults. >> i own my own business. so i use to it keep in touch with clients. >> rert: eronly 16% of teens tweet, even baby boomers have them beat. a columnist for federal computer week and a twitter high pressure holic says he is not surprised. >> text messages and web access cost money. and they would rather not spend the money or use the money they do spend to send text messages directory. >> reporter: this is my work phone. it has unlimited texting and unlimited internet. that means i can twitter all day and it doesn't cost a things. >> the prime minister that are the most popular, they tend to be computer programmers, marketers, salespeople, entrepreneurs, celebrities. >> reporter: many teenagers do

what you do is you send an date or a tweet as theye co to be known. >> ros first you have to join the site and first a by joining theite, you he access to what? >> you have access to a few million people's tets, whoever you wa to tap into d keep up with. >> rose: yh. >> andhey're not even all people. they're coanies. they're sports teams, th're media organizations. and friends and people you may just want to know about. >> roseso if i want to senout tweets, if i'm joining, i'm a mber and want to nd out twes i can choose. >> yochoose. so it is diffent tha-- it looks lot like aocial network but it's atually fundantally different in how the relationship structures work. >rose: explain. >> so a social networkike facook being the classic example is about finding -- encapsulating realorld connections with whe we know each other. we say we're fries on the soes soci network and then we can communicate and it's twway. twitr is anacin cron us relationship mod. so i can be interest in you and you are sending uptes. u don't know who the heck i am. or you jusdon't care about my uates. and you igno

out there tweeting in the dark.ur poll says matching up against folks like mi mike huckabee. she's still in alaska, doing the same act that got her to a state -- to the head of political leadership in a very small state but is not enough to carry her past president barack obama. we should remember what he said when he heard she was tapped as the a vice presidential running mate. he said look, it took me four months to get my footing as a national candidate, she'll never be ready in time, and i think the way things are going by 2012, she might never be ready. >> thank you both, great to talk to you. >> great. >>> monica, i think one could argue that sarah palin will never be ready. i mean, i think there's just a lot of people out there who are convinced she just doesn't have what it takes, doesn't have the intellectual capacity, maybe great political skills and a lot of charisma, but at this stage in the serious times we live in, it takes a lot more. >> but she's not going away any time soon. we know that. >> it's tr

erica hill is already tweeting about it. >> i'm blogging about it. i'm not so good with the tweets.eed to get better. gary, thanks. >>> still ahead on the eve of president obama's 200th day in office, how is he doing? we'll break it all out for you. >>> plus, undecided voters? remember them? we met plenty of them. we went back and checked into one-time undecided voters to find out who they did vote for last november and get their take on how the president is doing now. >>> also ahead, 40 years later, the manson murders remain one of the infamous and horrifying crimes the nation has seen. new perspective on why this killing spree and its mastermind still has such a grip on the american psyche. >>> tomorrow marks president obama's 200th day in office. pretty good time to take measure of what he's done so far and how he's doing as president and who better to ask than you? we did. we asked you to weigh in. our online polling has ended. which means it's time to bring in tom foreman who has the numbers and the "raw politics" behind the grades. >> it's a good time to do the polling. this i

she tweeted yesterday she's going to be leaving and missing the show. we're finding out more from our sources from american idol. i guess ol had come forward with an offer for her. she said no. she counteroffered. she came back with a second one. i guess she was really upset about it and she went in and twittered about it. she didn't get back to them. she were shocked. that's how they found out they didn't want to come back to the show. so they put our their official statement saying they're going to miss paula. it's an emotional twitter no one really expected. >> i guess from your sources this is pretty much a done deal? we were thinking well, was it a stunt or another negotiation unt on her part but with the network responding, it seems to give it a little more closure. >> you know what? all signs are pointing owards it being a done deal. if idol wanted her back, she could easily offer up a lot more money. all she was asking was for about $5 million. we hear she makes around $2 million, $3 million. this he wanted to bump up to $5 million. idol can eas

watch what you say. >> watch what you tweet. >> i did notice a tweet from you the other day.t was like -- you are arriving at the airport. i guess atlanta airport. you talk about hoping that everything goes according to schedule. >> i didn't say anything out of line. >> it's not going to get you in trouble. that's safe talk. safe chat. >> okay. you have something at the 4:00 hour? a big -- >> yes. to delve into health care in a very big way. help people get a better understanding of what exactly is at stake. what might you be able to count on particularly when congress gets back from its august recess. we want to hear from you, e-mail. don't tweet. i'm sorry, i'm not on board yet. you can join me on facebook, and tap into my blog. >> there you go. >> 4:00 eastern hour. thank you, t.j. >> no problem. just trying to hem. 4:00 hour. but she'll be here in ten mists to get this thing started. >> i'll have no more tea. i'm a little -- i'm ready to go. >> ten more minutes. >> it's all this. >> you get all this in ten more minutes. we'll see you. >> thank you, fred. >>> all right. >>

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. >>> the redskins say no to members of the media two tweet.tell you their reasoning. >>> outside on the weather terrace, a little breeze is comfortable in in spite of the high humidity levels. not that comfortable this afternoon. we will talk about the heat and threat of thunderstorms and the seven-day forecast is coming up next. fa >>> new information about how to handle the h1n1 strain once school starts. officials hope to have 120 million doses of the vaccine ready by mid october. now it is reduced to 45 million doses. in virginia governor kaine says the department of health is expanding the call center to handle questions about h1n1. the toll-free number is 877-275- 8343. questions can also be submitted through www.vdh.virginia.gov and we have links on our website at wusa9.com. >>> as we wait for h1n1 shots to become available, a reminder that now is the time to double check your child's vaccinations to make sure they are up to date. youngsters headed to kindergarten are a big focus. >> 5-year-old laura beach is a couple of weeks away from

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i'll be tweeting all morning and every other morning as well. still dealing with debris on the roadway and cleanups at security boulevard. 695 between 895 at hollands ferry road, the two left lanes are blocked. they have the southwest side of the outer loop between washington boulevard and bw parkway running slow. looking at the jfx at 41st street, both directions are running along smoothly. southbound side looks good. jamie, back to you. >>> michael phelps was in a car accident. now, he's not hurt. mees say you can forget beer and liquor. so when the biggest olympic champion of them all is in a car accident in his hometown, we send sherrie johnson live to hear what people have to say. sherrie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. we're here in loch raven talking to a lot of people at the 7eleven and what they are talking about is michael phelps. he was in a car accident last might. it happened around 9:00 at the intersection of biddle and calvert streets. now, he's okay. he was not injured in the car accident, but the other driver, a female

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