if you encounter some tweet me. spweather. not much of a breeze. just a puff at fairfield at six. that's not much. overall, the pattern is taking all that cloud cover and sending it northward. there is a lot out there. in fact, streaming up from the hawaiian islands. seems to want to take aim together north and not us. i will keep an eye on it. light offshore wind. not much. warmer weather will kick in. some low-to-mid 80s today. i think we will top it out tomorrow. some upper 80s possibly in the warmer locations. today will be a few high clouds. compared to the past few days warmer and not as muggy. a lot of 80s on these

starting now to move in towards men sec county -- mendocino county and you can tweet me if you are starting to get some rain. santa clara with some 70s, pam? >>> palo alto is making sure kids get to school safely, allie rasmus is here to talk about it. allie? >> reporter: right now we are outside the elementary school in palo alto where they have school crossings and also they have signs warning it is a high traffic area and they should use caution when walking towards the school. this week palo alto police will enforce the laws. they are looking for drivers who are speeding drivers who yield to pedestrians and police will be looking for people jay walking and giving them fines as well. also looking foresee the belt violations, parents and children who are not seat belted correctly and they are looking for texting. this enforcement period comes days after a six-year-old was killed in east palo alto which happened on bay road in east palo alto. she was walking with her mother when a driver struck the little girl as she was in the crosswalk again on her way to school. now tomorrow they will h

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me. let me know what you're doing up at this hour and what you're wearing for halloween. is that weird of am he to ask? or do what cameron winklevoss does by text the word "awake" to 622639. the next 30 minutes had be a cram session for halloween, monday, october 31st. a lot to tell about you today, including the white house won r wondering allowed whether romney has a soul. rick perry pleased as punch in new hampshire gives an oddly giddy speech there. you'll see what i mean later in the show. this is good stuff. >>> first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. more than 3 million homes are without power after an out of season winter storm dumped record snow up and down the east coast over the weekend, leaving at least 11 people dead. 750,000 without power in connecticut. 650,000 in the state of massachusetts. and more than 500,000 in new jersey. connecticut governor writing in a tweet yesterday, this is the largest number of outages connecticut has ever exp

if you are getting rain you can tweet me. that system will continue to drag southward. 50s and 60s. 62 napa. upper 50s for many. everyone is really close here on the temps. the system will continue to drag south l. is a lot of moisture. the atmosphere will get thickened up a little bit with clouds. our forecast model for clouds and rain keeps a lot of clouds over us. watch how the rain makes it by early this afternoon north bay and hangs out towards the north bay. it finally slides south but not until this evening. by then it kind of washes out. rain in the north bay very light amounts to the south. holds on to it until tuesday morning. a lot of clouds by tonight and today. heavy rain towards the northern part of the state. some of that is going to drop south. there is a lot of cloud cover. after that system goes by and then high pressure back for warmer weather. rain to the north. foggy mild coast and bay. there is mist and drizzle. 60s and 70s. cooler to the north and warmer to the south. very tropical feel with all of this

>> one of them just tweeted me the question. >> my name is anne marie. i represent in north of market community benefit district, the tenderloin. we are very excited to have your company coming in. just talking about the burning man twist, that is an interesting phrase. this may be premature. any ideas in place to affect our immediate neighbors? especially the children in the tenderloin. there are more children per capita than anywhere else in san francisco. i see it as a fantastic opportunity to collaborate. >> the we moved in and everyone is talking about going up, but when we came in, we did a press conference. we said, we are immigrants here. we want to learn, we want to meet the people that live here. and we are getting to know people better. i will give you an example of something that could be done. i had an idea, based on an installation that i saw in europe. i am struck by the fact that there are more children in the tenderloin than anywhere in san francisco. people are amazed by this. it is a wonderful opportunity down here. by law, it will be

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me. let me know why you're awake. or you can do what josh beckett does and text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, october the 19th. a lot going on today, including the impact and meaning of a big quarterly loss for goldman sachs. plus, bill clinton assembles ben stiller, kevin spacey, sean penn matt damon for a video that i think you'll enjoy. but first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock here in new york city. last night the gloves did come off and seven republican president shial hopefuls square off. all eyes were on herman cain at least at the beginning of the night. his republican rivals took turns slamming the 9-9-9 plan to reform the american tax code. >> 84% of americans would pay more taxes under his plan. >> i love you, brother, but you don't have to have a big analysis to figure this this thing out. go to new hampshire where they don't have a sales tax and y

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me and let me know what you're doing up at this hour. or you can do what herman cain does and text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. mr. cain always adds 999 to the end of that, as well. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session. a lot to tell you about including president obama's jobs bill voted down in the senate with a couple of democratic defections. what's next? the president drowns some of his sorrow by knocking down beers withs in florida and rick perry visited a fraternity house presumably for a keg stand photo-op. more on that later. first, though, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. eight republican presidential candidates got together at dartmouth college in new hampshire last night and sat around a table to talk about the any for a couple of hours. the format allowed for the candidates to ask questions of each other. many of them as you might imagine were directed at the frontrunner mitt romney. texas governor rick perry looking to gain back some of th

the coolest 34, temperatures i think we will get a lot of 30s and you can always tweet me, napa airport was just crazy. i think it went from 39 to 57 and they lose that and temperatures also fall apart. there is some cool numbers, calm conditions, no breeze to speak of, that's it, everything goes up and over, no sign of any rain, maybe subtle changes as we reach the first week of november. and the low into the pacific northwest, i don't see any rain for us yet. cold morning, then sunny, nice day temperatures in 60s and 70s a little slight bump into saturday, cooler still quiet sunday and monday into halloween, pamela? >>> thank you steven. >>> take a look at this, it may be open to skiers and snowboarders, they fired up their equipment and if it's cold ,it can be open by tomorrow. we will ask steve paulsen how cold it will be in lake tahoe. >>> a change of plans, live team coverage of a possible police raid being called off,, stay tuned. this is a room where an army vet put his life back together, where a family lived when they were displaced by a flood. but it's more than a room. it's

fort brag, almost to ukiah so if you are getting rain you can always tweet me. the information is much appreciated, believe me. here comes the system of what will be two and a half and i say that because the stronger one will come in tuesday and linger into thursday. there will be one inch amounts far lessor 10th of an inch to hand -- less or 10th of an inch to san jose south. there are two cool systems one into tuesday night into wednesday and this one opens the door starting in the north bay. relatively south. over an inch is certainly possible the further north you go. higher clouds, cloudy cool in the morning the system is a slow mover. the one behind that will come in pretty quickly, rain in the afternoon, 60s or 70s, we had some mid-70s in morgan hill, clouds and rain come in, it will kick out and rain moves in, showers on thursday, looking out ahead, it does look warmer but it should be sunny to mostly partly cloudy, pam? >>> we want to take you to san diego this morning where firefighters are working to put out a wildfire that is burning near some homes.

shoot me an e-mail at waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me and let me know what you're doing up this hour or do what mark block does and text your response to 622639. the next 30 minutes will be the cram session for this wednesday, october 26th. a lot to tell you about including single digits approval numbers now from congress in a new poll. how much lower can that body go? plus, international reaction, as i said, to herman cain's smoking ad. it's coming in from around the globe. the star of that ad basks in his new found celebrity. wait for the smile. wait for the smile. there it is. details later in the show. first though, let's get to the news live at. . 5:30 a.m. dozens of police officers clashing with protesters supporting the occupy wall street movement in oakland, california, last night. riot police gave repeated warnings, they say, to the crowd before firing at least five rounds of tear gas on protesters. oakland interim police chief howard jordan defended the use of tear gas saying we had to deploy gas to stop people from throwing rocks and bottles at police. protesters were atte

and then yesterday, suddenly, donald trump started to tweet me, which has given me the opportunity, morene thing i have said about him this year that is not true. one thing. today, he finally came up with one. and only one. in response to lawrence my net worth is substantially more than $7 billion. very low debt, great assets. i have said that donald is not a billionaire but he valiantly tries to play one on a reality tv show and he does it for a paycheck which he desperately needs to survive fblly. there's no amount of money that a tv network could offer a billionaire, a real billionaire to induce him or her to become a reality tv perform mare. and that is the only factual standoff that remains now between donald trump and me. he says, he's a billionaire seven times over. i say he's not. throughout his life, which began as the fortunate son of a very rich man, he has felt compelled to lie about how rich he is as he's made his way in his father's real estate business. but that is not all he has lied about. i've said repeatedly he lied about hiring investigators to go to hawaii to investi

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me and let me know what you're doing this hour. or you can do what freese does and next your response. the next 30 minutes will be your session for this friday, october 28th. a lot going on including a back-and-forth between john boehner and the white house over the use of the president and executive action. >>> plus, regis skins it off for all the world to see. mercy. love regis. the things we do for snooki, huh? that clip a little bit later in the show. not that bad, actually. >>> before we get to the news live here in 30 rock, a world series game that's already being placed up there with the very best in history. it was a game riddled early on with little league errors and mistakes. the st. louis cardinals battled back, coming from behind to beat the texas rangers in 11 innings. the cardinals were twice down to their last strike in the game. in the ninth, hometown hero david freese, grew up in the area rooting for the cardinals hit a triple. looked like it might end the game. drops before the wall. in the tenth, rangers took a t

or you can tweet me@willie geist 1 and let me know why you're alike or text the word awake to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, october 5th. a lot going on today including the results of yet another special election, this one in west virginia, that republicans hoped will an referendum on president obama. the returns in just a moment. >>> plus -- >> why should i do everything you want and you won't do a thing i want? that gives you the privilege to be the way you are? >> donald rumsfeld gets chip pi with a journalist. that clip later in the show. but first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock. president obama once again urging voters and especially congress to move forward on his plan to put americans back to work. in a speech outside dallas yesterday, the president also cited a key part of his deficit reduction plan the so-called buffett rule which he said would not only help small businesses, but also the middle class in raising taxes on the rich. in support of his argument, p

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me @williegeist1. do what rocking rick santorum does text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, october 18th. a lot to tell you about today, including iowa announcing a date for its caucuses. so how does new years in des moines sound? we'll tell you what it means for the rest of the republican primary season. ♪ imagine there's no pizza ♪ i couldn't if i tried >> yes, you heard that right. an omaha newspaper unearths a 20-year-old video of herman cain singing "imagine there's no pizza." >>> breaking news out of the middle east. israeli staff sergeant, gi lashgs d shalit appearing moments ago on egyptian television in good health. he is now reportedly back in israel. shali it was 19 at time of his capture and has been held in gaza since 2006. he will be reunited with his family and undergo routine medical checks later today. the exchange is part of a massive prisoner swap between the palestinians and israel where more than 1,00

shut us an e-mail or tweet me @willy glooet geist1. you do what the young yankee fan who found gadhafi does and text the word "awake" followed by your response to 622629. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this friday, october 21st. a lot to tell you about today including secretary of state hillary clinton in pakistan admonishing the government there to crack down on the terrorists in their midst, you know, terrorists like osama bin laden. plus, if your two teams stink, you might as well have a good old-fashioned brawl to spice things up. ucla and arizona throw down on a thursday night. the bizarre story that led to this fight ahead in sports. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. two months after being run out of power in tripoli after 42 years, moammar gadhafi was killed yesterday. early reports of his capture were met with guarded optimism. witness secretary of state hillary clinton who received the news as she prepared for an interview in kabul, afghanistan. >> wow. >> unconfirmed

. >> but people -- >> tweet me, too.ndyraquel. >> people were like tell tasha mack i said what's up. how does it feel to be so popular? >> it's interesting. i guess i don't really see it or feel it. being in los angeles everybody's an actor or something like that. it's when i go out of town, and it's like pinkie, regina, tasha. but it's wonderful. it's humbling. it's really an honor. >> that's pretty amazing. you had two really big roles in terms of how people see you. regina grier and now tasha mack. two very successful shows, both in syndication, both going really well. did you expect that? >> no. this is a business where you can have no expectations. you know. and even with tasha mack and "the game" we were canceled. so you know, we thought it was over. it was like okay, on to the next, try to get something else. and boom, there was a whole -- i want to say it was a resurgence. we got resuscitated. and now it's even bigger than what the network thought it could be, what the actors thought it could be, what the produce

tweet me at willie geist 1 to let me know what you're doing up right now. or text the word awake to 622639 to let us know. columbus day, monday october 10th. a lot to tell you about, including news that france and germany making a big move to shoren the european economy, a live report from london in just a moment. plus "snl" recreates the magical moment last week when hank williams junior compared the president of the united states to adolf hitler. >>> but first the news live at 5:30 a.m. a new look at recent census data shows a disturbing trend for u.s. incomes. according to a study spotlighted in today's "new york times" that shows from june of 2009, the official end. recession, until june of this year, median incomes fell 6.7%. that decline was more than double the 3.2% fall that occurred during the recession. which lasted technically from december of 2007 to june of 2009. those numbers only raise the pressure on the frustrating debate in washington. on "meet the press" yesterday, paul ryan claims the president's plan is just a rehash of programs that ha

if you are getting rain you can tweet me or e-mail me. you know that old e-mail thing. very mild temps. upper 50s. low 60s. i think south it will be one of the tropical-like days. a little bit of al south wind in advance of that system right there which is spilling over a lot of clouds and some rain. there are protections that rain will make it over. we'll go with it even though i really don't want to. i can't argue with the forecast models. north will be the heaviest rain. south of that lesser amounts. after that high pressure will build in after today. your forecast does call for the system to slide in rain northward. mild temperatures. sun and clouds. rain to the north. a light breeze but still a tropical feel with 70s and mid to upper. only 60s towards the north bay. 60s and 70s today. clouds. rain to the north spreading south by this evening. we start to clear it out tuesday. wednesday and thursday sunny and warmer. thursday warmest day of the week. a little cooler friday. rain returns on sunday. >>> time now 4:41. people in san antonio, texas are cleaning up damag

tweet me at @williegeist 1 or do what blackberry users could not do yesterday, text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. >>> a lot to tell you about today, including an international trade deal being called this morning, the most important since nafta in 1994. not everyone is thrilled about it, though. >>> plus, jimmy fallon shows some skills, impersonating half the republican field in a single sketch. that clip, a bit later in the show. >>> but first, let's get to the news, live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city the latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows republican presidential field has new front-runner. the surging ceo of godfather's pizza, herman cain now leads all candidates according to the poll. cain receiving 27% support. look at that righthand column. he's up 22 points since august. the poll also shows former massachusetts governor mitt romney holding steady and almost within the margin of error of herman cain. texas governor, rick perry, look at the slide, 16% in late august he was at 38%. according to the same poll, cain wildly popular with the bas

parliament you will drown under the anger of the uprising so i was treated this stacy herbert you can tweet me there oh oh you're trying to keep me on twitter you're trying to get more followers to the twitter so after the soccer game apparently the police started searching vehicles leaving the soccer stadium to find who posted this banner riot police also came and once they had identified the vehicle carrying the banner they started beating people randomly the police finally arrested the passengers of the vehicle carrying the banner without giving a reason for their arrest the hash tag means the banner in greek well this is an interesting development in the information war because they're using a mass media that does pay attention to a football game to put a subliminal message on the television which gets picked up by twitter that uses the hash tag nomenclature to communicate to the global mouses which then fed back into a police action so i see this as a very encouraging sign that's right now max i also start at the top of the show i mentioned khadafi being killed now here's some post mortem

shoot me an e-mail or tweet me @willygeist1. we'll read the best responses a little later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this tuesday, october 4th. a lot to tell you about including the market down more than 250 points yesterday as those wall street protests now spread across the country. >>> espn was not ready for some football after hank williams junior, the man who sings monday night football's long time opening theme compared president obama to hitler on a news program earlier in the day. we'll have that clip a little bit later. first let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> president obama heads to texas today in support of his american jobs act. in an interview yesterday the president acknowledges he faces a tough campaign with so many americans still struggling in a tough economy. >> i don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. they're not better off than they were before lehmans collapsed, before this extraordinary recession we're goi

quick, somebody tweet me. january 7. so close! so close to actually being kenny loggins' birthday tonight. geoff: we could celebrate a belated birthday. craig: or an almost birthday. we couldn't be farther away from kenny loggis' birthday if we actually planned it. remember that time it was kenny roger's birthday? geoff: yeah, i remember that. craig: it was much like tonight. except replace the name kenny loggins with kenny -- geoff: oh, man. craig: yeah, yeah, i know. well, we'll do another one tomorrow and see state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get to a better state

your thoughts about the passing of steve jobs, shoot me an email at waytooearly@msnbc.com or tweet me, or do what users do is text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. >>> steve jobs revolutionized the computer industry, and he also turned the music business upside-down with itunes, changed hollywood with his animated pixar movies and has altered the way we lk at newspapers and magazines with the ipad. cnbc's job fort takes a look back. >> visionary. rule-breaker. creative genius. steve jobs more than any other figure shaped our digital era on his own terms and created hundreds of billions of dollars in value along the way. his story has an unlikely beginning. steven paul jobs was born in san francisco in 1955. given up by his birth parents, he was adopted by a family in the heart of silicon valley. he dropped out of college to pursue his ideas and teemed up with a friend to build a new kind of computer, one that anybody could use. the company they founded was the first to make computers truly personal. at a time when pcs were green text on black screens, apple brought

quick, somebody tweet me. january 7. so close! so close to actually being kenny loggins' birthday tonight. geoff: we could celebrate a belated birthday. craig: or an almost birthday. we couldn't be farther away from kenny loggis' birthday if we actually planned it. remember that time it was kenny roger's birthday? geoff: yeah, i remember that. craig: it was much like tonight. except replace the name kenny loggins with kenny -- geoff: oh, man. craig: yeah, yeah, i know. well, we'll do another one tomorrow and see how that works, state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get t

it, they are just getting close inching close but now stretching from northwest, you can always tweet meil me. fort brag had certain amounts. crewing on the lows at 47, the city is at 58 degrees. rain heaviest towards the north bay, a trace of 100s further north an inch plus in some locations possible, 47 at the napa airport, lots of mid-50s, 53 for livermore, our system continues to inch closer and the key word has slowed down. right behind us that will give us clouds and the stronger system is taking shape up in the gulf of alaska and it is tapping -- hold on, it is tapping -- like when i do a tap like that tapping the tropical moisture and it will have much more of an impact but that will not be until wednesday. and it's moving in giving us rain totals mainly to the north. rain comes in later on, so unless you are in the north bay, it is okay. a few 60s towards morgan hill and gilroy. rain into thursday and two inches out of that system. with your weekend in view it does look mostly sunny and warmer. >>> something really strange on away area freeway, this is no joke, why did this sea

all they have to do is tweet me or facebook me. >> we've seen him do tons of videos before.n. this is one of his more good samaritan type videos. >> i'm -- >> we can't talk right now, we're clubbing. >> are you with your boyfriend? >> yes. >> would you get him on the phone? >> it's mark malcoff. your girlfriend is breaking up with you. >> mark! >> you can see in the shot, super-fun, they filled the cab with popcorn. >> how can you ease popcorn out of a popcorn-filled taxi cab. >> did he pay for this with money out of his own pocket? did he have a sponsor? how did the money work. >> it was his own money. >> what was the total at the end of the day. >> 14 hours, 60.2 miles and hundreds of dollars of free cab rides. >> just think what kind of day each person that got to experience this had. this was a pay it forward minute. i bet they had the best day ever after they experienced it. >> exactly, one small thing and then your day is good for the rest of the day. >>> "right this minute," new twitter research from cornell university. basically it creates data graphs for twitter. th

feel free to let us know you can go to our you tube page which i'll give you the end of the show or tweet me out lauren mr. aczel had right here on the capital account as greek protests continue on the streets is the euro zone heading for a banking crisis and put it spread to the u.s. are there already some banks teetering on the edge here in america but first here closing numbers. to the capital account i'm learning the story. all right welcome back so people are writing on the streets again and greece more than one hundred thousand people reportedly took to the streets today to protest new budget cuts take a look at this video. so you can see just how violent it is that i just ran by literally on fire so needless to say it's not just protesting i mean there are people getting hurt out there there are people getting. lit on fire so this is what's going on in the midst of greece trying to pass a budget cuts spain was downgraded two notches moody's is hinting that france's credit rating may be at risk a german bond auction failed europe ban credit default swap trading and hopes that the europ

you can tweet me.will have some mostly cloudy skies today to partly sunny and then that next system which will be in tonight, i think later tonight into tomorrow morning will give us more rain. in fact, it will be a much stronger system. 50s on the temperatures or even some low 60s. we're off to a mild, balmy start. that next system has a lot of cold air with it an a -- and a much stronger jet stream supporting it. that's gonna drive into us. some sun today. we'll be a little bit on the miss tick. a lot of -- optimistic. we should escape this next rain until the nighttime hours. rain moves in. showers thursday. there will be some fog, the actual fog, the ground -- the tule fog, the found fog. tori? >>> the race for president could change in a few hours. the republican who has just made a last-minute addition to his schedule. ♪ we were skipping stones and letting go ♪ ♪ over the river and down the road ♪ [ female announcer ] nature valley granola bars, where toasted oats, with rich dark chocolate, or sw