it is pretty clear he is tweeting himself. >> there was a whole thing about having celebrities tweet for them. >> he is just not one of them i don't think. >> were you surprised alec baldwin didn't know who i was. i am kind of a big deal on twitter. >> i wouldn't know. >> i shouldn't have to repeat myself at this point. just accept the fact that i am huge on twitter and just build the show accordingly. >> what is your definition of huge? >> whatever i am. at any given moment. i have an end closing for greg and bill, but i won't say it because i don't want to keep our editors here late tonight. >> wimp. >> what did you google f-bomb? >> no, didn't have to. >> i didn't like that stair. that is the stair of daggers. >> i guess i will move on. this is getting awkward. >> he is still staring at me. >> even off camera i can feel the heat of his blue eyes searing bullet holes in my skull. >> go away. get him off the camera. if he -- is he gone? no he is still there. >> is running a child's rights institute a great front for under age on? am i smart or not? but first, what will our debt corr

if the central park peacock is tweeting, i think it's time -- >> when i feel i have something worthy of peoples attention, i will --

. ♪ jamie: celebrity tweets are all the craze, we're not talking about rick folbaum, but did you knowing in on them? what will they do next? courtney friel explains live from the newsroom. >> reporter: hey, jamie. yeah, the advertisers want to cash in as well, after all, they pay millions for celebrities to endorse their product, and now it's just a small fee for fares to send -- stars to send out a promotional tweet. mariah carey and lindsay lohan are just a few of the celebrities that are paid to tweet to their followers. one of many companies capitalizing on this trend launched charlie sheen on twitter. the agency helped actors, athletes and musicians send out sponsored tweets from over 150 advertisers such as a, the -- at&t, microsoft and sony. >> typically, those fees will vary from the low four figures to the low to mid five figures per tweet. >> reporter: advertisers can easily see results by tracking the clicks and online conversations. >> if nobody's talking about a brand today and a bunch of celebrities tweet about it, more often than not you're going to see a significant li

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one person tweeted, bart needs to learn the difference. and finally, if they just said we are sorry, never happen again, this whole business would be over. why? dan kerman, kron 4 news. >>> cooler today and it continues into tomorrow thanks thanks to additional fog. temperatures cooling a couple degrees to 10 degrees in some spots. a look that fog. tomorrow morning, pushing into the inland valleys, delta, north bay and bay smores starts scaling back by 10:00. oakland, hayward and peninsula and back to the coast line where it remains. temperatures cool a couple degrees in the south bay. 85 lose got matches morgan hill, 88 degrees. cools 2-3 degrees for the inland valleys. 90 in antioch. 89 pleasanton and 85 in livermore. 70 oakland. 74 hayward. 76 fremont. peninsula locations, close to the coast line, cool, 59 daily city. 60 ocean beach. north bay, 90 fairfield. extended forecast, continued cooling for, the weekend, less fog expected, warmer temperatures, 90s inland valleys but we will cool down next week and the fog returns. >>> the a's ta

after a tweet from his account around 5:20 friday night. one of them, the phone number to the compton sheriff's station. >> they thought initially that this was a phone malfunction. >> it was wall to wall calls for 2 1/2 hours. after hundreds of hangups and questions about the internship, captain mike parker tweeted the rapper. the gang who was born and raised in compton said the tweet was an accident and said you can all track a tweet down, but can't solve murders. >> i found it very interesting. we aren't the ones that created a crisis. we are the ones trying to serve the public. we reduce homicides by over 50% in the last few years. >> these are some of the calls that did make it through. >> they involved two robberies, a missing person, spousal assault, and an auto theft. >> the sheriff's department believes there's a number of emergency calls that didn't make it through. they are trying to find those people who may have been adversely affected. reporting in compton, i'm susan, cbs 5. >>> wrapped up about an hour ago and as in past year

, if you want to a tweet, your girlfriends can tweet for you, so enough of the tweeting. >> were theyweeting in their own personal lives, but putting stuff out there that he felt should not be out there, it was inappropriate. if you want to represent the university of south carolina football, end it. >> that's true. a lot of people look up to the athletes, obviously. >> we should mention some of the players were tweeting, go out and support the south carolina football team this year, and others were using it for religious avenues and talking about their faith, and it was not all bad, and some were putting bad stuff out there and sperrier said, enough. >> before you go, you can't go, because both are too good looking in the suit. and then we have video that will take your breath away. take a look. oh, my gosh. this is yesterday's in china where a high wire tightrope walker failed in his attempt. who do you call for help? that's what i want to know. he was trying to make it across a long-steel wire suspended between two hot air balloons, and he gets back up. he gets back up. i guess the

and tracking disease through tweets. all that and reporters seidel of national public radio and sarah lacey of tech crunch this week on "press here." >> good morning, everyone. my first guest sold her first company at age 25 for $90 million. and then she really got her act together. her second company a named after her grandmother is much bigger though in many ways far more simple. >> stella and dot is like mary kay or tupperware. stylists sell jewelry out of their own homes or at parties. its founder, jessica heron, said the company's purpose is to give women freedom to work part-time. a nice side benefit is the company is practically printing money. >> and the award goes to -- jessica heron, stella&dot. >> ernst & young named her one of the entrepreneurs of the year, one of the most prestigious awards in business. >> this award goes to the 20,000 entrepreneurs. >> jessica, ceo of stella&dot recently sank $37 million in the company, 10%. easy math that makes the company worth $370 million. joined by lois and sarah lacey

and police should be spending their time solving murders instead of tracking down tweets.t or not, he could face several charges, including obstruction of justice. not so good there. >> get intentions. but 500,000 followers, i guess that was the problem. >> that was not a good thing. and haunted by heroes -- those guys are really cool. >> they sound like a claiks heavy metal band. >> thanks for joining us for bay area at 11:00. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every activity. ♪ he even hangs out with the camp director. just like that. [ male announcer ] the new citi thankyou premier card gives you more ways to earn points. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >>> this is cnn. >>> tonight, a cnn special event. congresswoman michele bachmann's response to the president's

we couldn't decide if it was a twit or a tweet or what. and why would they want to be tweeting? we started our twitter site, we actually have the i think 15 or 16 sites live now, twitter feeds. for each of our regions plus our administrator tweets. i think he was tweeting hourly during the hurricane and earthquake. and right when we start setting this stuff up we had a discussion with one of the other social media companies, and actually said to us, we are not sure if we want the government on our site. because you guys will take over. that was their concern. and right in the middle of doing this i actually went on vacation, and believe it or not, fema employees to take vacation in november after hurricane season is over. and i was in europe, and my public affairs officer was sitting in washington, and in the middle of this someone started a terrorist attack in mumbai. and i'm watching it on cnn international, because i was getting ready to go out that night. and he's in the office and i'm e-mailing him and we are watching this thing unfold from the tweets. and cnn was basically

why are you tweeting me? there's a devotee everyday and definitely information for everybody that's relevant, and you just have to work really hard, the twitter team has to work really hard on delivering those will tend tweets to the people who need them right now where ever they are on their mobile device so their lives can be made smarter, richer, and better for it. >> yes, ma'am? >> this is for all of three of you. [inaudible] sorry. for the three of you, could you speak to the conversation about the cingular ready and the role that you have adopted that this is coming into maybe a lot of them simply have accepted that this merging is going to happen? >> the singularity, that is a book that i read in sixth grade. go ahead. >> i'm not that well versed in a single lardy. walter, what's your take? >> i've read a lot about -- [laughter] i don't think we have to worry about i don't think we have to worry about yet. i don't think -- you know, i've read the wired magazine and other accounts of it. i just don't th

the tweets, you know, at hand were not tweeted out until later that evening.ted call this number for an internship. >> reportedly there was a response from you earlier in the game which said that you were hacked? >> right. it was hacked, but by my friend. my phone was laying around. whenever his phone is laying around and my phone is laying around, we tweet from each other's page. that's what happened. >> what is your response to the l.a. police saying legitimate calls about assaults and accident calls did not make it through because of the mishap? >> it's a real sensitive subject. i never want to be, you know, the source of anything happening wrong to anybody or anybody not being able to get through the help lines at the police station. but it was a 10-digit toll free number. when people are in trouble, they call 911, and that's not to take away the police and them doing a job or them saying there was a robbery, and i don't want anybody hurt, and i have kids at home and i'm not that guy. my sincerest apologies to the sheriff's department, and it was a joke go

but he tweeted this earlier. he says y'all can track a tweet down but can't solve murders.that was or dat as he says was an accident but maybe now y'all can actually do y'all job. what's your response to this and why do you think he won't apologize? at least so far he's not. >> the well, we find it very interesting, but i would say that in terms of the comment, what we really are waiting for is a comment that says that this was done in error. it was a mistake and nobody should do this because it puts people in harm's way. we've got some people that we believe that there's some people that tried to contact us to report emergencies and couldn't get through. we had several critical emergencies that we were dealing with. and the community of compton has really formed a partnership with the sheriff's department and over the last several years, we've reduced homicides and serious crime in compton by over 50%. and so i think he's got his facts wrong on several counts. >> you all right. captain mike parker from the l.a. county sheriff's department. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >>

there are tweets in "the new york times." there are tweets all the time on cnn. chances are he has read a tweet. he is a twitter user. >> but people can get by without social networking, like speech are the people who can get by without social networking? >> is social networking going to be a fundamental part of our lives from here on in? >> on the web? >> on the internet. >> yes. probably. [laughter] let me open it up. either raise your hand and shout or run for a microphone. yes. i repeat it at the microphone get to you in a minute. [inaudible] >> the other side of the internet is connecting the massive can shooting power that has a lot of knowledge. latest example is ibm watson. and it seems to me that made we should be thinking about those kinds of uses where, say physician wants to get best practices, or something like that. you're not going to get out on facebook where you get a whole bunch of ideas from wacky people. you're going to want to get it from something that has distilled all of this knowledge and really gives you something to go. so there's going

he was born and raised in compton saying the tweet was an accident and said you can track a tweet downut you can't solve murders. >> very interesting in trying to deflect responsibility. we aren't the ones that created a crisis, we are the ones trying to serve the public. >> we reduced homocides in compton by over 50% in the lats few years. >> reporter: these are some of the calls that made it through. >> they included two robberies. a missing person. a spousal assault and an auto theft. >> reporter: the sheriff's department believes there is a number of emergency calls that didn't make it through. they are trying to find those people who may have been adversely affected and believe those people may have a valid civil case against the gang. reporting in compton cbs5. >>> a community left in the dark. how thieves have stolen, taken hardware, stealing people's sense of safety as well. >>> and the early voting is in in iowa. who won what the pundents call a beauty pageant for the gop. >>> and anyone outside at outside lands today certainly enjoyed the weather. gorgeous today. clouds not t

. >>> and the tweet that tied up phone lines at a california sheriff's department for hours. quick tour around the bay area here. 75 in san jose and 65 in oakland and a good strong sea breeze blowing into san francisco and sunny right now and what about the rest of the weekend plans? we will is are the forecast coming up. swipe your card please. excuse me...? this belongs to you... o...um...thank you. excuse me... this is yours... thank you! you're welcome. with chase freedom, you get cash back on what you buy everyday. this is yours! thank you! that's 5% cash back in bonus categories every three months. and an unlimited 1% everywhere else. activate your 5% cash back today at chase.com/freedom, or at your local chase branch. >>> the beautiful blue water of lake tahoe isn't as clear as it used to be despite the well-known efforts of quote "keep tahoe blue" and the annual state of the lake condition reports that it is at the second lowest level since scientists started to keep records in the 1960ss. the most recent reading shows that the lake's water is clear to average depth o

host: we have eight tweet from host: we have eight tweet from jim -- we have a tweet from jim. guest: it would cut costs a bi t. this year will still deliver 167 billion pieces of mail. we still have a substantial volume of mail in our system. it plays havoc with people who use know from advertising standpoint. to be able to say monday to friday, you can still have that window of delivery. it is a lot more reasonable for people who use us for advertising. we think td import five days a week and plan -- we think it is important to have five days a week delivery. caller: i am assigned to a small route. i am an rca. host: what is an rca? caller: i am a sub. route. assigned to a i would love to go down to write five a day workweek. route will have to be prefigured -- refigured. that will be more full-time routes. routes. where you are saying all these people are going to be out of work, some of them will go full- time. guest: nancy, thank you. i agree with you. there will be changes that we have to do from six to five. we will not have people delivering mail on saturdays. most of t

there are tweets the and the new york times. there are tweets all the time on cnn. chances are he has read a tweet. >> can people get by without social networking? is social networking going to be a fundamental part of our allies from here on out? -- of our lives from here on out? >> on the web? >> on the internet. >> yes. [laughter] >> let me open it up. either way your hand and shalt or go to a microphone. -- either leave your hand and shalt or go to a microphone. >> the other side of the internet is connecting to knowledge. the latest example is ibm. it seems that maybe we should be thinking about those kinds of uses where, say a physician wants to get best practices or something like that, you are not going to get it on facebook where you get a bunch of ideas from wacky people. you want to get it from something that has distilled all this knowledge and gives you something. there is going to be a place for the side of computing i would like to suggest. >> i totally agree. i think that is a great example. when it comes to the collaboration we are talking about, it

and you have been getting tweets, too, and i have been getting tweets here. i have spent a number of years working in the same building with pete williams, and if you think that folks in washington, d.c. are freaked out by an earthquake, talk about the carolinas, that is where i'm originally from. south carolina, i have gotten a number of friends down there sending me e-mails and tweets and text messages saying that the buildings there in south carolina have been evacuated as a result of the earthquake, so apparently the tremors are being felt. north carolina, south carolina, virginia, and we heard obviously from the folks there in the d.c. area, and detroit, michigan, and we have just heard here in the newsroom that a number of folks in the detroit area say that they have felt aftershocks there, and again, we are trying to gather exactly who felt this earthquake and everyone that we are hearing from so far say that it was about 60 seconds that they felt it, and fortunately at this point, we have not heard of any reports of any injuries, any reports of major

radio host tony bruno called giants reliever ramon ramirez an illegal alien in a tweet. it's all in response to that brawl at friday's giants/phillies game. monte francis is at at&t park with more. take it away for me, will you? >> reporter: good evening. tony bruno has already apologized for his comments but it hasn't done much to stop the criticism. now, the controversy stems from, as you said, diane, a tweet that knbr radio host posted after a brawl broke out between the giants and phillies during the sixth inning of friday's game. the fight broke out after giants reliever ramon ramirez hit a phillies batter in the lower back. that prompted a plonged fight on the field between the two teams and led bruni to tweet the following message. he said gutless giants. bochy is a coward for having his illegal alien pitcher hit a guy post stops right there.s and the bruno quickly removed the tweet and later apologized calling his comments insensitive. but before today's game bruce bochy had this reaction. >> forget the remarks about me. that doesn't bother me. but, you know, for

that was his most recent tweet, but he had tweeted before, it was just yesterday there were tweets about how worried he was, how frustrated he was, and you could tell in one of his reports too that he was so concerned of one of those guards behind him, that he was going to anger one of his guards, that he moved around the corner, he looked very worried. at least when he was able to tweet he was able to give a clearer picture of what was taking place inside the hotel. >> my favorite tweet, he announced we're going to send out personal tweets to people who may have loved ones in the rixos, through him, they were able to update their loved ones on how they were doing. thankfully, once again to all our viewers who are joining us now, these journalists who have been trapped for five-plus days in the rixos hotel, the five-star prison as it was known in libya, are out and headed to a safer location. great news as far as we're concerned. but the battle for tripoli and perhaps other parts of libya continues, it's still an uncertain situation. >> we don't know at this point. the big question is wh

this morning more fallout over an angry tweet directed at a giants pitcher.ruce boche getting into the fray. it started friday after the brawl cleared dugouts during the phillies game. the players fighting after giants reliever ramirez hit a batter in the lower back. radio host tony bruno tweeted gutness giants, bochy is a coward for having his illegal alien pitcher hit a guy since mighty frisco boys. bruno removed the tweet but bochy says sorry, doesn't cut it. >> forget the remarks about me. but for a guy to make a racist comment like that and have it air to so many people, yeah, that bothers me. i can defend myself as a coward but i don't know if you can defend yourself making a racist comment. >> ramirez is from the dominican republic, he is in the u.s. completely legally. he's on a work visa. in the interest of full disclosure bruno does some work for comcast sports which is owned by this company. let's check in with christina loren for a week ahead forecast. >> week ahead, looking good. good morning to you. doesn't even feel like august. if you want to

if you followed melissa's tweets today, this is what you saw as she tweeted from the theater.he help" movie, i'm not sure i can make it through to the end. i read the book, i knew, but the images." then, hard to tell whether it's the representation of black women or white women that's most horrible. and then "thank god magical black women were available to teach white women raise their families and to write books." and then "and thank god plucky white girls could give black women the courage to resist exploitation." then "and man was it full of giggling good times in the kitchen." then "oh, i loves me some fried chicken. this line was just uttered in "the help," seriously." "i just timed it, miss skeeter's date got the same amount of screen time as medgar evan's assassination." "the first real moment, violent arrest of black woman." and finally, "the help movie reduces exploitation to a cat fight that can be won with cunning spunk." melissa also sent us an e-mail saying i think msnbc is going to have to give me worker's comp for putting me through this. joining me now is melis

if you want to tweet great. but twitter actually like we were showing before provides a lot of personality into the world without you having to do it. >> i love things like flip board that take the twitter experience and put it at least for me into a format that feels more familiar and engaging. the way i typically use twitter is very much like there are number of people i follow, many in the digital arena but many people in the art arena or the marketing arena or the designed arena and it really allows me to sort of customize my news source. i have to say i don't tweet much. >> to go back to your original question i came across a great company, that peter grossman started which is akin to no longer typing but doing audio. you bring humanity back to the web. i don't tweet a lot. i don't follow it a lot. it is like a to do list i will never get to. a constant overwhelming i can never keep a. my son will say a tweeted than tuesday at you have got to be kidding me. i have to go through all of the tweets to find you

when that happens. >> sometimes those who tweet last tweet best. >> there you go. >> remember that.thanks larry. >> "nightline"up next. a bit of wisdom. >> good night everyone. >> see you tomorrow. >> good night everyone. >> see you tomorrow. >> all i got sorry. [ male announcer ] using frontline plus shows your pet you care by unleashing a complete killing force against fleas and ticks. and not just adult fleas. what makes frontline plus complete is that it breaks the flea life cycle killing adults, eggs and larvae. and it keeps killing fleas and ticks all month long. that's why it's the #1 choice of vets for their pets, and yours. unleash a complete killing force in every dose of frontline plus.

let me show you a tweet. send a us your tweets or an email. new haven, ohio. mike, independent caller. are you with us? let me go on to ed, republican, cape cod, ma. cape cod, ma. caller: yesterday's vote along with today will produce the following. our friends on the left want to talk about how america has been taken hostag but several times the debt ceiling has been increased since the mid 60's. let me straighten that out a little bit. they are only half right. in the mid-60's, we had a great society. several times since then, americans, taxpayers and hard- working people have had to pay a ransom, 70 different times. today will mark the end of the beginning of america taking itself back. host: next is mike, new haven, independent. caller: the woman from florida in the last man that talk is right. i am outraged. has anybody read the bill? this administration has been as transparent as a brick wall. the old republican plan, they had two wars -- everything was off the books. now everything is on the books. we have been in trouble. they have been playing smoke a

[laughter] but folks, scandal is rocking newt's tweet-o-verse. >> a former staffer claims newt gingrichid an agency to artificially pump up his twitter followers to show more than a million followers.ñr >> stephen: what? [laughter] his twitter followers aren't real? are you telling me today's youth don't fancy a 68-year-old, semi-employed, former politician who tweets such gems as "had great lunch at mabe's pizza." [laughter] and "stopped in for lunch at the pizza shack." [laughter] he's speaking their language, man! kids love hearin' about the 'grich eatin' 'za. [laughter] the former staffer alleges that 80% of newt's followers are inactive or dummy accounts. oh come on. are you trying to tell me that devoted newt follower "at 41113846806103" is not a living, breathing person who just happens to have no photo, no profile and has never tweeted? [laughter] now, newt insists his twitter followers are legit, and i have no reason to doubt the word of a man who cheated on two wives. [laughter] but let's say he did hire a firm to create his twitter followers. well, i say, making up fake peopl

you can do that by sending your tweets. our address is @msnbctv. make sure you include hash tag irene. the bottom of the hour irene headlines after this on msnbc. . >>> i'm concerned about all of these wonderful folks from the guard to highway patrolmen who are out and willing to risk their lives during the storm itself. i'm concerned about the folks who think they're going to ride it out for the joy or the thrill, which is befudling for me. afb the storm passes we'll be concerned ar if immediacy of the recovery and the damage and devastation we're concerned will happen to north carolina. >> that was north carolina governor bev perdue speaking about her concerns regarding hurricane irene. i'm back with continuing coverage of hurricane irene on msnbc. the national hurricane center reports that sustained winds for the storm have decreased. but irene will remain a hurricane as she travels up the mid-atlantic coast even as the storm is expected to lose more strength as it hits land. strong winds are extending 100 miles from irene's center. at least 60

host: here is one tweet.st: on the last question, and insurance companies under medicare, which are regulated, and have pretty much the same profit level or not any more than they get in the commercial lines of business. for the most part, savings go back to the beneficiaries in the extra benefits. every year, medicare reviews the bids for those plans and tries to make sure that there are there. in terms of the specific questions that you have come you may want to look in the end "medicare and you" handbook which lays out the appeal rights. they are fairly extensive, but i also know that i have heard many complaints from people who find them still confusing and get frustrated when something in their doctor thinks they want, they cannot get. i cannot answer your specific questions, but i can appreciate why it may get frustrating. host: there are over 120 pages in this pamphlet. guest: there are people you can call the help you when you do not want to read all that stuff. you can call the 1-800 number for medic

and you tweeted me letting mooy know children conduct themselves better than i do. you are correct, and i can only hope to one day mature to the point where i can conduct myself in a more mature manor and storming out of the room with my shirt off. i ask only for your patience. team breezy, thank you. and thank you for the creative possibilities of spelling. possibilities i never imagined before last night. in particular, i would like to thank the female members who have taught me as long as you can sing you can beat the living hell out of a woman and other women will still love you. and lastly i apologize that it is disgusting a guy who put his girlfriend in the hospital can be warmly welcomed back into society and appear on "saturday night live" as if everything he did magically didn't happen. it won't happen again. >> that's nice. >> thank you. >> really, greg, the only thing chris brown is guilty of -- >> what? >> a felony. shall we go on? libertarian island. pam, you said you would live on one of these except for the commute to work. it is called a helicopter.

if the central park peacock is tweeting, i think it's time -- >> when i feel i have something worthys attention, i will -- >> you can talk about the weather. this is "first look" on msnbc. stay tuned because "way too early" with willie geist starts right now. >>> president obama signs into law the debt bill, and immediately vows to put the partisan fight over the past several months behind the country moving on to the matter of jobs. the question is what is the president's plan to get america back to work and get the economy growing again? >>> we were told a debt deal would calm the financial markets but the dow dropped 266 points yesterday extending its longest losing streak since that treacherous fall of 2008. the question is what is driving the markets down? >>> and in an amazing spectacle just this morning, former egyptian president, hosni mubarak wheeled into court on a gurney and kept inside a security cage as he faces charges of corruio

bruno removed the tweet and later apologized. today giants manager bruce bochy had this reaction. >> forget the remarks about me. that doesn't bother me, you know. for a guy to make a racist comment like that and have it hear by so many people, that bothers me. i can defend myself as a coward, but i don't know if you can defend a racist comment. >> reporter: ramirez, who is from the dmin it can republic didn't react to the comments but he wants to assure everyone he is in the country legally. bruno does some work for comcast sports. dnbr management has not commented on the situation. live in san francisco, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> coming up next at 6:00 -- >> i think it's sick what they've it done just over a -- >> a riot overnight ended in dozens of arrests and dozens of police in the hospital. why london exploded overnight and why the riots continued tonight as well. >>> plus -- part of highway 101 shuts down tonight. we'll show you exactly when and where. >>> and one bay area county is sweetening an already sweet d

here is a tweet from neal lewis wednesday. john tester of montana quote a vote against the bipartisan budget bill is a vote against montana.erinis his opponent danny rehberg boded know this evening. . at is from roll call. a couple more calls here, redcliffe content is next up on our republican line. >> caller: good afternoon. talking about what happenedo today. i agree with obama and what he did. it is the best for the countries. country. and also. >> host: do you agree with the outcome and the presidents agreement with leaders of a d congress on the legislation that is justream past? >> caller: i agree with the congress.li >> host: with what passed this evening, are you in favor of it? >> caller: yes, because the ia,ntry will go into default and they had no other choice. >> host: let's get a call from woodland hills california on art line.ican >> caller: i think we are in the silly season a little early with amer couple of comments, bi hear republicans and democrats and maybe i havefa a little more prenab domestic outlet as

we want to let you all know who have been tweeting us at #irene, our tweet deck is full. this is the number one topic on social media right now as there were 65 million people up and down the sea boord affected by hurricane irene. we'll get out great tweets. take a look at new york city, surrounded and engulfed in fog right now. little bit of rain, spotty rain of course. we're about 400 miles north of nags head, north carolina where things look much different. this is all important. one half-hour from now, everybody, mass transportation in new york city will be shut down. it is unprecedented. we've got you covered here on msnbc. we'll be right back. they're two of a kind. and, just like toddlers, puppies need food made for them. that's why there's purina puppy chow... with all the essential nutrients your growing puppy needs. purina puppy chow. >>> 30 past the hour. getting a live look at manhattan's time square. you see the taxis running up and down broadway there. that's about. in a half hour you're going to have an unprecedented move by new york city. they're shutting

you can tweet me directly and you can tweet maria malina. . ansley is on facebook and looking at your comments as well. you posted some pictures? >> i posted pictures of the water and everybody is commenting like, where is the beer? we need serious comments. we are hearing zip lock bags and medications. if you are on medications get enough jie. have no beer? >> have i that covered too. >> we have an update coming up from the national hurricane center. we will have it for and you we are live here on fox newschannel as hurricane irene heads toward north carolina. we will be right back.

. >>> the rapper known as the game is being investigated tonight, all thanks to a tweet. angeles sheriff's office says that the rapper tweeted to call the sheriff's office for an internship. the officials say the lines were tied up for more than two hours. the game later posted that the tweet was an accident, and he criticized authorities for not doing their job. he could face criminal charges for obstruction of justice. >>> time to talk about the sports and the a's, and not looking so good, right? >> i would say a really sloppy day today, as a matter of fact it was former catcher fosse the catcher today. but the visiting texas taken, dejesus, doubles, scoring, the only run they got today. but sweeney thought he got a run, but hamilton snags it, and oakland's only real rally of the game. a's commit four errors, and pitching there, sizemore, allowing him to walk home. the rangers win, 7-1, cahill takes a loss, now 9 and 11 overall. >> he pitched very well, we gave him no help as a team. and it is difficult, and embarrassing as a player, you better be embarrassed, as the co

. >> a woman has been kicked out of a restaurant for something she tweeted. it happened in a downtown restaurant in houston, texas. after the woman dined she went on twitter and called the bartender a twerp. she admits, she went back the manager told her to get out. >> he go to someone's house and start calling them names i wouldn't expect to stay around after that. >> now, others are tweeting about what happened. one person saying the down house owns her a big apology. on the other hand it brought the restaurant a little fame. >> interesting. >> dangers of tweeting. >> yes. >> michael finney. >> turning our attention to weather outside. you may hear a buzz, may just be in our area. i can't tell. and nice day. >> and it's going to be another beautiful day tomorrow. a mirror image of today's temperatures and really gorgeous. then after that, we're going with a cool down the only thing people are buzzing about is how great weather s look at the live picture. from our high-definition sutro camera, you can see fog down below, you can see higher clouds moving in.

host: florida abortion tweets in -- floridagordon tweets in -- just a couple of comments that we have coming in. here is one from william -- denver, matt, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. first of all, i would like to point out the ownership of "the wall street journal." i don't understand how they can quote an obscure former -- farmer. economic experts and all kinds of people praising obama talking about how he is saving the country from the debt ceiling crisis and the bailout. i think the bus tour -- i would like your personal opinion on the bus tour, if you can. but i think he is doing a great job. what he is doing is trying to get people involved again. but hopefully it he can get it again. host: matt, were you a supporter of obama in 2008 or hillary clinton? caller: definitely obama. contributed to this campaign and everything. host: what is your level of improve the of some four years later? caller: i still love him. i don't care what the public says or what the republicans are trying to do. he is doing a great job. the country is in dire straits and he is doi

he started tweeting in january 2009. john mccain was an early adopter. at the top 6 his twitter feed today you can see his tweeting about libya, including a link to a statement he put out with lindsey graham. the statement congratulates all the other nato countries involved in the support mission in libya but as for the u.s., they say, we regret this success was so long in coming due to the failure of the united states to employ the full weight of our air power. one interesting thing about twitter is that it can be kind of a time machine. if you have the patience you can control down, down, down the page of john mccain's tweets until you get to, say, two years ago this week when the same john mccain today criticizing president obama for not waging enough of a war on gadhafi, even as gadhafi appears to be being overthrown, two years ago this week john mccain was instead tweeting about his, and i quote, late evening with colonel gadhafi at his ranch in libya. interesting meeting with an interesting man. >>> the war in libya does not knit neatly into americ

host: we have a tweet. guest: i am not aware of any foreign assistance that is going directly to china any more. i think over the years we have assistance going to india and that is waning as the indians are becoming much more powerful. but the chinese are big competitors of hours. the chinese are all over east africa building roads, sewers, water systems. they get access to precious minerals that help them become a much stronger economic power. to some extent, the new challenge in the world is for us to compete with china and other countries who are developing these relationships and building these societies so that they can ship things and produce more back at home. host: usaid is part of the state department. they do their own foreign assistance. these are the numbers. guest: but the state department is in many respects in war- related developments like an afghanistan and pakistan. the part of the u.s. foreign assistance is run to the u.s. agency for economic development. we have been leaders in the worl