. >> 3-9 season could get vince lombardi fired. cal fans will tell you truth is really look at it closely. this program has been in decline since aaron rodgers left for the nfl. never a star quarterback developed. the team never won the conference outright. in recent years decline has ago vell rated to the point where cal became easy prey. most importantly the bears have the lowest graduation rate for their players in the pac 12. time for a change. >> make no mistake. we have ambitious goals for cal football. as an athletic program, as a university. and we have a broader definition of winning. it's wins in the win column. it's being great role models in our community. but winning is what we intend to do. >> meanwhile a team on the other side of the bay. in the nfl the 49ers future looks great. the here and now not bad either. this guy chasing quarterback. 5.5 sacks last night. everybody was talking prior to the game about who is better defense the bears or 49ers. i think that was answered as well. >> coming in i think there were qu

her secret, she says, is prioritizing, she referred to green bay packers vince lombardi's three prioritiesgod, family and the packers. >> for me, it's god, family and yahoo! in that order. >> why the packers comparison? meyer drew up in wasaw, wisconsin. >>> we go back to the summit on highway 17 and check in with bob redell with the wind conditions there. bob, luke soaked? >> reporter: yeah, it's slightly wet up here. we've got a break, that's one thing that chp is pointing out just because the rain has stopped, you know the roads are still wet. psychologic psychologically, the drivers think hey i don't see rain on my windshield, so i'll go back to highway speeds and that's when the accidents happen. you've got the wet roads and poor visibility and the visibility has gotten worse in the past ten minutes. looks like we've got an inversion layer coming in here. especially on highway 17 which is unique because we're in the mountains this is where the ground is saturated that we'll start seeing things like mud and rocks pushing its way on the road and the possibility of trees coming down. we'

. >>> and marissa mayer, the 37-year-old ceo of yahoo, paraphrases football coach vince lombardi, sayinger priorities are god, family and yahoo, in that order. >>> well, stupid criminals caught on tape. you are going to want to see this one. >>> plus, rock memorabilia, including john lennon's last autograph and those gold wire rim glasses. those are all up for grabs. details are next. you're watching "early today." >>> some other stories making news early today in america. two men suspected of trying to break into a detroit business got stuck on the building's roof and had to be rescued by firefighters. a passerby who saw the suspicious duo alerted police who were then there to arrest them once they reached the ground. >>> it took three thieves about 13 seconds to make off with around $19,000 worth of watches from a macy's in garland, texas, earlier this month. surveillance video shows the men running off with counter display cases. police are now searching for the suspects. >>> memorabilia from some of rock and roll's biggest legends are up for grabs in an auction in new york city. item

we have the vince lombardi turnpike. >> just to give you an idea, we have spoken with drivers who say been waiting anywhere from 25 minutes to two hours at this rest stop. it depends whether you're coming from the south or the north. we want to pan to give you an idea of how long this line is. this is the end of the line, so to speak near the pump. what you can't see is the beginning of the line that stretches to the offramp for the rest stop off of the turnpike. similar scenes are playing out all over new jersey. long island's been hit hard too. long gas lines forming there yesterday, they remain today. the long island gasoline retailers association say less than half of their 600 members have gas and power. shell saying a third of its new york and new jersey branded stations are damaged or have no electricity. the post storm situation has some drivers crossing the state line in search for gas, others just frustrated. >> now it's impossible. can't get it. >> we have no lights on so we have to have a gas can for a generator. it's been tough. >> it's just a game. we have so much gas ri

take a look behind me, you can see the line at the vince lombardi station. and what you can't see is that it stretches down just about a half a mile to the entrance to this rest stop. our cameraman waited in line to get gasoline, he said it took him about 25 minutes. and brian sullivan drove past it yesterday and said the line was at least 200 cars deep. similar scenes like there are being played out all over new jersey as well as long island. residents driving across state lines to find gas, others expressing increasing frustration with the situation. >> impossible. can't get it. and we have no lights on, so i have to get a gas can for a generator. >> it's a game. we have so much gas right down the street in elizabeth. no reason we can't have gas. >> reporter: but there is a reason. yesterday just from personal experience, i drove around morris town for two hours before i found gasoline. most only selling diesel at this point. the reasons for the lines are different this time. and here's why. first of all, there is no power at the retail outlets. a number j

pulitzer prize winning reporter nd best selling author whose biographies of bill clinton and vince lombardi of compelling. his latest is barack obama thhe's david maraniss. this is overheard. ♪ >> david maraniss, welcome. >> thank you, evan. >> great to see you. >> terrific o be here. >> this is a great book and the subject is so big, but i want to go kind of away from the book and ask generally about this president and why after all these years we still don't know where he's from, who he is, donald trump is asking for his college transcripts. i mean, there's not been a person in public life i would submit to you, about whom so much has been written, although out in the world so much apparently is still unknown. >> well, it's not unknown. >> of course i'm being facetious. >> he's the first african-american president. that's the first and only reason for all of this. >> this is all about race. >> it's all about race. >> at the end of the day you never asked for a birth certificate from a white guy. animosity and hatred that i saw directed towards bill clinton too so i can't say that all of t

in that order. >> evoking vince lombardi. you can catch the entire interview.>> hour two here, i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. live from new york, the news is popping in washington though today. right now, the white house announcing president obama will host mitt romney for lunch tomorrow. so the president breaking bread tomorrow with his vanquished opponent. we also have this. the president meeting, right now, with his cabinet, perhaps the final cabinet meeting for several administration stalwarts. among them, secretary of state hillary clinton, and treasury secretary tim geithner. hold the phone, though, because we he potential movement in the talks to avert the troublesome tax increase set to take effect january 1st. a top house republican is apparently, today, breaking ranks. essentially siding with the white house here, saying, protect the middle class from higher taxes come january 1st. but not the wealthy. not that top 2%. go ahead, raise them, he says. here he is, congressman tom cole after a meeting with house republicans. >> in my view,

time to bring in the vince lombardi of viral video debunking. aka. captain disillusion. >> greetings children, captain disillusion here. >> i would be willing to take my reputation on the fact that these videos are not real. >> here's a highlight from the captain. >> gentleman, i give you nfl fantasy files. chris cooley positions himself behind the wall, but the pass serves as a transition to a shot of him behind the wall where a hole is cut. a he thrust his hands through the hole and elegant animation of dust and debris does the rest. a moment later the football is placed in cooley's hands, and cooley emerges victorious. >> pull. >> and what about joe flaco at the shooting range? >> they filmed every element that makes this happen separately. joe throwing the ball, the ball flying there the sky, and the clay pigeon exploding and combined them together to make it look real. >> all interesting theories, but until we hear otherwise from the source, that is just what they are, theories. we may never have a clear winner in the bogus versus bona fide riva

this is a nice supply of gas here at the vince lombardi truck stop. back towards the west, you can see here this gentleman, this police officer is actually directing traffic coming in from the exit into which line they should get in. as we show you where that line is, it travels all the way back up around to the turnpike. last night we understand this line was all the way out into the turnpike, which creates a dangerous situation there. so this is pretty good. you have about an hour and a half wait to the end of the line so you're able to get gas. there's no limits here on how much to get. they ask everybody to be respectful of everybody else. if you have five five-gallon tanks strapped to your roof, that won't make a lot of people happy. you have 50% of all the gas stations out there that could be giving out gas without power. whether they have gans in the tanks or not, there's no power to the stations. another 20% run out of gas. with the population concentration up through here, it's important to get the power back on and the gas reserves, under he

a teammate gave gonzalez a book of vince lombardi quotes, and the tight end realized he'd have to workt the great ones do. when i go out before practice now, i catch, you know, at least 50 balls before practice even starts. >> reporter: he changed his life off the field as well, and looked for a way to give back. what he found was a second family. >> miles is my little brother. >> reporter: miles is miles postelwaite born prematurely with multiple birth defects. will the had dozens of surgeries when gonzalez met him in the 1990s. he complained about not having any friends like him and his mom made him a doll and shadow buddies were born. just as the friendship between tony and miles grew, so did their cause. >> this is the cesare buddy, and he's got a little helmet. >> reporter: shadow buddies are 24 condition-specific dolls, little friends for kids who can feel all alone, whether they are suffering from heart defects, asthma or cancer. >> you can see the hair is falling off, just like the child. >> reporter: tony, and now his wife october, visit hospitals to help distribute the buddie

she referred to vince lombardi's three priority, god, family and the packers. >> you know, i think fort's god, family and yahoo!, in that order. >> why the packers? she grew up about two hours out of green bay. you can see more of the interview on the "today" show. coming up at 7:00. amazon says it can deliver a kindle by december 21st if you order today. kindle is the bet sell thing amazon has ever sold period. apple fired its manager in charge of maps. the epa said vp would not be allowed to bid for any more contracts because of their behavior. we talked yesterday about how companies would start doing that. and finally virgin america says it sold that flight we were talking about on monday for $49,000. you can have the whole airplane for a flight to vegas. virgin said it got a lot of bids. the airplane seats 130 peep and it was available for charter to the consumer electronics show. some of my friends talked about all contributing but we were too late. >> scott will just take you. >> we'll have to take the small jet. >> we'll settle. thanks. >> appreciate it. 6:15 now. we continue to

we're on the jersey turnpike and a lot of cars moving through here at the vince lombardi station, very quickly, because they seem to be keeping things moving. let me first show you an area of the port of new york, we have tankers moving through. the coast guard has been have power. power is restored to the terminals to get the fuel, of course, on to the trucks. that's a priority. now, there are trucks moving and there is gas here. the issue are those other two issues really kind of slowing things down and then by the way, we still have some of these huge massive refineries taken off-line trying to get them up and running but that could be a while as well. this part of the country consumes more oil, more gas, than any ear part of the country on a daily basis. it drinks it. they have goat this stuff moving not only to power cars but generators because of people, people don't have any electricity. they need generators to stay warm. let me tell you, andrea, it is cold. it was about 38 this morning at the moment we're about 49 or 50 degrees right now, but it's a chilly day with, you know, t

we're on the jersey turnpike and a lot of cars moving through here at the vince lombardi station, very quickly, because they seem to be keeping things moving. let me first show you an area of the port of new york, we have tankers moving through. the coast guard has been working hard to make sure that both the port of new york and new jersey are clear and able to take in these tankers as many as six have been sittingoff shore waiting to get in. that's good news. a couple developments here. the state and federal government authorities have signed an executive order that weighs state requirements fuel tankers register and pay a tax before unloading, that's supposed to expedite things and the obama administration has issued a temporary blanket waiver on the jones act which will allow additional oil tankers coming from the gulf of mexico to enter the ports up here. recall this was a big deal during katrina. the jones act requires all vessels carrying products between u.s. ports to fly under the u.s. flag, be built in the u.s., and be crude mostly be u.s. citizens the fact they're waiving th

the vince lombardy rest area in ridgefield, new jersey. we have a police presence here just to make sure that things are kept in order. if you are traveling south on the new jersey turnpike and get off to get gas here, might take you about 25 minutes to get to the front of the line, but if you were traveling northbound, it's going to take you about six times longer. listen to jersey city's clearance lewis. it took him two hours today to get gasoline. >> it's been horrible. lines are long everywhere. ran out of gas once. survived it. got back on the road. then got up early this morning, like 7:00. get over here to get gas. >> the lines began forming in new jersey as well as along in island yesterday. a lot of gas stations in these areas aren't open. the reason, they don't have any power. those that are open, well, a of them -- take a look at the partial list of some of the terribleals in the area that have been impacted by sandy. either they're without electricity or may have experienced damage from flooding. as a result, they can't take in

the vince lombardi gas station on the turnpike is a very busy one. thanks guys. >>> the dow is up triple digits, 13,228. today's institute for supply management manufacturing number providing a lot of propellant for the market rally. this is gauge on how manufacturing is doing. we know that manufacturing numbers from the summer pretty much a disappointment and are perhaps at fault for the lower corporate earnings or at least some of them this quarter. u.s. chief market strategist for ing investment management, 170 billion in assets over there, he is joining us exclusively. i don't know where to start. we have the corporate earnings picture which to me wasn't that bad. somebody yesterday told me what do you mean 72% have beat on their estimates of s&p 500 companies, the beats weren't that great, but i'm looking for silver linings. you see this carrying over into q4? >> yes, the big number today is manufacturing. why it's so important, it is a predictor of future corporate earnings. i was very concerned when i saw three consecutive months during the su

. >> as you can see, there's a police presence here at the vince lombardi stop in ridgefield, new jerseyhat could become a trying situation. however, most of the drivers we spoke with today were showing a lot of patience and some resignation. >> it's about three hours, i think. if you have to do it, you have to do it. this is the only place where you can come and get gasoline. >> well, we've been waiting here for, what, over two hours, trying to get gas. we're working up in new york city with the flood relief trying to clean up some of the that water. we haven't made it there yet. >> so what's behind the long lines? first and foremost, a lack of electricity. gas stations without power can't pump gas. the new jersey gasoline retailers association estimates 75% of the state's stations lost power or were damaged by sandy. second stations that have gas may run out quickly because of high demand. third, many terminals storing gas and delivering it may be without power themselves. the solution for now, truck in some gas from out of state. something that should be made easier by a waiver signed

and that's why i really believe in what vince lombardi said, and i have on the top of my wedge, "god,." >> pelley: when rodgers arrived there was a fourth word on the wedge-- "god, family, packers, favre." rodgers warmed the bench for brett favre for three years. then, in 2008, a teary "mr. green bay" announced his retirement. >> brett favre: and i wish aaron the best of luck. >> pelley: rodgers would need that luck when favre changed his mind. packer backers went online to "bring back brett." >> i've been a packer fan all my life. right now, my allegiance is 100% to favre. >> pelley: the packers didn't bring back brett. they promoted rodgers, and a lot of their owners were furious. some of the fans hated you. they said some rough stuff to you. >> rodgers: yeah, some of them weren't very nice. >> pelley: you had little kids using words about you that i can't repeat on this television show, right? >> rodgers: yeah, their parents probably should have washed their mouths out with soap a little bit maybe. >> pelley: they would say things like, "we want brett! we want brett!" >> rodgers: t

all day we've been showing our viewers the long lines that have formed here at the vince lombardi rest stop in ridgefield, new jersey. we've been here since about 4:00 in the morning. since then, there's been a steady stream of cars lined up. it might take you 25 minutes to get gas traveling south. if you're traveling north, it can take you up to two hours, as it did for clarence lewis. >> it's horrible. lines long everywhere. ran out of gas once. survived it. got back on the road. then got up early this morning, like 7:00, to get over here to get gas. >> the reason you can't get gas, gas stations can't get power. without power, they can't pump gas. if they have power, they may not have gasoline because they've sold out and can't get their tanks refilled. that's because the storage terminals are without power too. so they can't pump gas to be delivered to stations or receive any new shipments. one solution, trucking in gas from out of state. this is going to be made easier because new jersey governor chris christie signed a waiver allowing this to happen. nevertheless, the crucial elem

it could take you up to three hours here at the vince lombardi rest stop to get gas. the primary reason for the long lines -- lack of power. in new jersey more than 2 million homes or small businesses are without electricity and a lot of those small businesses are gas stations. if they don't have electricity, they can't pump gas leaving some drivers dry and pushing their way to the pump. second, some stations that have gas may run out quickly. the new jersey gasoline retailers association says the average station has a 30,000-gallon tank and on an average day goes through one-third of that. of course, demand is much higher after sandy. last week some important cogs in the supply chain are without power or damaged. that's a problem, too, as you'll learn in a moment. a couple of arcses have been taken. new jersey governor chris christie signed a waiver that allows new jersey gas stations to buy fuel from out of state distributors. that could keep the supply going. and then secondly, the epa basically waived clean air restrictions until november 20th along the east coast

. >> reporter: the vince lombardi truck stop. we have quite a bit of cars backed up. that's not the real story though. here is the real story. the police are having to watch this closely and managing traffic here because this line goes all the way up and around the service center, up onto the freeway. i had to walk in a mile and a half this morning because there simply is no way to drive in, and i can tell you if you're trying to get into new york city, the order stands, you have to have at least three people in the car. in a region where people are already tired, hungry and fed up, no electricity, no subways, no water, this has got them fuming. commuters standing in line for hours to catch a bus. on the roads, mass gridlock, and no gas. >> i hope i don't have to push to the gas station. >> reporter: as many as 80% of the gas stations have no gas or power to pump gas. those with power are running out fast. the lines stretching for miles. >> here in new jersey it seems to be particularly bad. >> reporter: the line at this exxon in cram ford, new jersey snaked blocked t

it's like the green bay packers of vince lombardi until somebody stops me.nd my sense is we knew where they were coming and they ran right over us. bill: as long as you are getting first downs, keep the football. martha. martha: election day seeing its shaffer ballot problems as it always does. and again reports of electronic voting machines showing the wrong candidate chosen. we have a live report on that. bill: people still reeling from sandy can see half of foot of snow. what is up with the nor'easter that is going to hit the same folks that were hit 10 days ago. '! but there's more in you than just circuits and wires! uhhh. (cries) a machine can't give you what a person can. that's why ally has knowledgeable people there for you, night and day. ally bank. your money needs an ally. music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate wha

and winning. >> vince lombardi says, you know, in my life there are three things, god, family and the bay packers, in that order, right? and, you know, i think for me it's god, family and yahoo! in that order. >> and in a few hours, mayer joins a group of ceos for a meeting with president obama about the ongoing negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff, and then she'll have just enough time to get home for her son's two-month birthday on friday. matt? >> diana, thank you very much. >>> just ahead, more on tonight's $500 million powerball jackpot. we're going to talk to a couple. they recently won over $200 million. they will tell us how it feels, but first this is "today" on nbc. >> "two and a half men" apologizes, sort of. >> after your local news. ♪ ♪ ♪ music is a universal language. but when i was in an accident... i was worried the health care system spoke a language all its own with unitedhealthcare, i got help that fit my life. information on my phone. connection to doctors who get where i'm from. and tools to estimate what my care may cost. so i never missed a beat. we're m

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he's not vince lombardi. and rex makes it sound like he's won five championships. rex, as a defensive assistant, that doesn't count as a championship ring. but sparano was a bad hire as offensive coordinator. he's an offensive line coach. he's not an offensive coordinator. obviously tebow has caused some distraction. and sanchez, some. >> some. >> some. it's too much. too much. >> sanchez is awful. >> it's going to be a tug-of-war between rex ryan and mike t tanenbaum playing out behind the scenes. >> i think woody would be afraid to fire those two. i think he's joined at the hip with tanenbaum. >> that was a public humiliation, the entire nation watching after thanksgiving dinner, everyone saw that. >> it's the funniest play of all time watching sanchez fumbling, runs into the offensive lineman. it's actually funny. >> it's a broken play. so he misreads the play after calling it in the huddle five seconds before. he gets confused. he runs into the posterior of a lineman. >> it's funny. >> falls down and fumbles the ball! >> the posterior of the lineman was thrown

tom costello joins us live from the vince lombardi service station located along the new jersey turnpike where he, himself, has had a pretty interesting morning, haven't you, tom? >> reporter: you heard about that, huh is this i was supposed to be here for the "today" show at 7:00 a.m. and my car, we couldn't get here. the bottom line is i had to hoof it in, get out and walk up the jersey tp to get here in time, about a mile and a half or so. here is what's going on behind me. we're between the lincoln tunnel and the george washington bridge. it is backed up significantly. the real story is all the way over here because the police are really trying to watch who is coming in and trying to keep some order here and you mentioned why, what happened in queens yesterday. take a look, this line extends -- well, i can tell from you personal experience, at least a mile and a half to two miles, probably longer by now because i started walking at about 5:45 this morning all the way up and around the ramp, down around it wrapped around the jersey tp. it's a long line indeed. it extends all the way d

you're like a vince lombardi trophy all or some pain.[inaudible] >> top sports news over twitter. >> jealousy or wit. >> i am a sportswriter at the nation magazine. i host a show called sports radio. my question for you is given everything we've seen over the last several months in the nfl season. when i say that, given continued push by the nfl for an 18 game season, given the regimentation of thursday night games that a lot of players don't like what the mouth rest and recuperation plan every thursday night and given replacement referees, which as you commented created an unsafe work environment for nfl players, do you feel you have a working partner in roger goodell and the national football league and creating a safer game? >> i do. and dave, obviously everyone around the room knows that when it is time for a quote, unquote dustup to happen between the commissioner or roger and myself, it typically happens. it also means we have separate constituent these that we represent and sometimes we see the world through two different lenses.

a teammate gave gonzalez a book of vince lombardi quotes, and the tight end realized he'd have to work the had dozens of surgeries when gonzalez met him in the 1990s. he complained about not having any friends like him and his mom made him a doll and shadow buddies were born. just as the friendship between tony and miles grew, so did their cause. >> this is the cesare buddy, and he's got a little helmet. >> reporter: shadow buddies are 24 condition-specific dolls, little friends for kids who can feel all alone, whether they are suffering from heart defects, asthma or cancer. >> you can see the hair is falling off, just like the child. >> reporter: tony, and now his wife october, visit hospitals to help distribute the buddies. to date the tony gonzalez foundation has handed out more than 55,000. many who wear number 88 and look a little familiar. >> you think it looks like me? >> my family is a big falcons fan, aren't we? >> reporter: for kids in the hospital and their parents, it can be a big boost. >> we're happy because it's kind of sad, like i've been here for four or five day. >> t