. >>> and this comes from wat waterloo, iowa. phillip hendricks says he stumbled into this monkey business three years ago when he saw a pet monkey riding a dog holding on to the ears. now the lawyer turned ring master has a show on the road showcasing what he calls the banana better dee, the greatest job in the world. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> good tuesday morning. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thank you for joining us for 11 news today. >> to tone tony pann is joining us with the weather. >> it's in the 40's. that's pretty chilly for this time of year. we're not breaking any records. but it's going to warm up. it wil

. >>> and this comes from wat waterloo, iowa. phillip hendricks says he stumed into this monkey business three years ago when he saw a pet monkey riding a dog holdin on to the ears. now the lawyer turned ring master has a show on the road showcasing what he calls the banana better dee, the greatest job in the world. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the y today on your nbc station. [ male announcer ] it's sunday afternoon. time for football on veriz fios. the nfl in 100% fiber-optic hd quality. that's a good start. but what's this? i can check my fanta stats without changing the channel. and get an alert any time my team enters the red zone. and then watch every red zone play on nfl dzone. watch out couch, you've got competition as daddy's favorite. it's time for fios. call the verizon center for customers wi disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty/v visit verizon.com/getfios. >>> cool and crisp. delightful out there this morning. 57 degrees. clear skies at 4:28. good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. >> i'

. >> well, this comes to us from kwwl news channel 7 in waterloo, iowa. one man turned a gimmick into big business. phillip hendricks says he stumbled into this monkey business three years ago when he saw a pet monkey riding a dog holding its ears. now the lawyer turned ring master has a show on the road showcasing what he calls the the banana derby. the greatest job in the world. never lose a video like that. >>> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> classical music got a makeover at one party in romania to mark the would-be 200th birthday of chopin. artists around the nation gave the music a twist. that brought out a celebration of young and old, which organizers hopes attracts an entirely new audience to the genre. >>> it's a far cry from being king of the jungle, but these lions are still commanding attention. in south korea, three lion cubs in a baby's crib celebrated the country's three-day thanksgiving holiday dressed in the korean traditional costume. they were on display at a seoul a

i think he's about to get waterlooed by tea party king makemaker senator tim demint. >>> christine o'donnell admitted she dabbled in witchcraft and once had a picnic on a satanic altar soaked in blood? am i reading this correctly? what were they have done with barack obama if this was the case? we've got talk about it. i'll tell you the lies that they're pushing about the president. and of course, we'll have that in "the playbook." >>> but this is the story that has he fired up tonight in the nation's capital. now, at this hour, the republicans are down the street and they're cooking up this scheme, let's say they want to cut social security, so we're all straight on this now. if they get the majority, they want to cut social security. they want to protect the tax cuts for the billionaires. and they want to choke off the funding of health care reform that, let's not forget is saving lives. now, this is all part of this brand-new contract with america for 2010. now, the tan man and his other gop leaders will unveil this contract in a very interesting place. at a hardware store in virginia, wh

if this is his waterloo, if we could break him?esident supposed to -- he should have cut off all of the olive branches right there and he did it. >> i would have ignored it. >> you would have ignored it but it was said on the right, ron. it was said on the right, no doubt about it. >> so what, ed? >> so what. >> so what. >> a dialogue in washington. i want to know, where is the con? where was the con? what was the big con that was committed by president obama? and you're saying -- >> the big con was perpetuated -- jack, let me say one thing. the big con that was perpetuate is this president and his economic team, unemployment came into office was 6.7%. he used if spend nearly a trillion dollars kehl keep it at 8% and now it's at 9.6%. that's a con that's disingenuous. >> that's a misperception. and the bush people did it all of the time. jack, final zmeent you're absolutely right. at the end of the day you blame president obama for this. is it his fault too that people other than marching up and down -- that was his fault. >> they

. >> reporter: few dozen people came out to the waterloo restaurant to help out jack with his cause toend snack packs to troops. >> troops, feel better v them have a taste from home. >> reporter: his passion for the snack pack is contagious. >> it's amazing the sport that people continuously give. knowing are men and women, that are over there every day. >> reporter: a lot of items in the snack pack. cookies, hand sanitizer, peanuts and gum but the message they are trying to send is the most important. >> that they know that the people back home are thinking about them and we care about them and know they are over there and not forgotten. >> reporter: one thank you letter jack got say itself all. >> the sergeant -- sent a letter -- like the one says that when i gave my troops snack packs their eyes lit up likeliest mass. >> the giants have another shot to gain ground in the west and college football season sundayway. . >>> we were hoping san jose state could pull this one off. >> it'll be a tough game. come on. >> i know. >> two out of three isn't bad for the day. >> some dropped 50 an

teaching the youths a lesson in the all the french ju with little trouble against the lesser known at waterloo and a real show is about was the moment wrapping the tie up in straight sets six four seven five six three the final score in this one which means that the sweep for france after the drug free swarm the two singles rovers earlier. in the final france will face either serbia or the czech republic with the czechs currently better placed to reach to the side i saw after their pairing of robert stepanek and thomas birch the visitors to on late in the best of five contest serves in fact djokovic. among each did take the first set six three but they couldn't live with the czechs after that losing the following three sets six one six four six. there's a new king of the russian trucks edward nicholai of best thing come us teammate on dried favored charging to win the twenty ten silk we rally the country's most prestigious motoring event no smoots or mark in this tournament or even fencing to keep the spectators eye but neither nor rocky roads but stop nick alive topping off a superb stage to

. >> reporter: a few dozen people came out to the waterloo restaurant to help jack with his cause to snack packs. >> i want the troops to like have them have a little taste from home. >> reporter: jack's passion for the snack packs for the troops is contagious. organizers are overwhelmed with support. >> it's amazing i think. the support that people continuously give. you know, knowing that you know, there are men and women over there, mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers over there every day. >> reporter: there's a lot of items in the jack snack pack. there's cookies, peanuts and gum, but the message they're trying to send that's most important. >> the people back home are thinking about them and that we care about them and they're over there and not forgotten. >> reporter: one thank you letter says it all. >> it says it is like the one sent that when i gave my troops their snack packs, the eyes lit up like it was christmas. >> well, the community says it plans on more snack drives in the future. >>> all right, that's it for eyewitness news at 11:00. thanks so much for watching

our next question tonight comes from josh nelson of "the waterloo courier." josh? >> governor branstad, specifically, how would your proposal for a public/private economic development agency result in the creation of more jobs in iowa and how many jobs would be lost by immediately eliminating the current state economic development agency? >> well, the present economic development agency has been discredited under governor culver's watch by mismanaging the film office now required or five peopleavquit from that agency. the travel budget has been dramatically slashed. they're not making the outreach efforts. if you want to sell people on jobs, you need to have people that really understand it involved. what you have here in siouxland, what they have in dubuque and many other places in iowa is a public/private partnership. i did it before when i was governor, when we started the iowa blue ribbon foundation for the state there and we revitalized the fairgrounds. so that's why i think businesspeople, not bureaucrats can be the best sales people that convince decision ma

take a look at this race in iwampt the banana derby in waterloo is a hit.e decided to quit his job as a lawyer and te his show on the road. he travels across the country with his animals. at least they are light. thanks for joining us. tune in to news 4 for all the days' news. see you tomorrow morning at 4:3 a.m. hope you join us then. see you tomorrow.

it was done in ontario, canada at the university of waterloo which i believe is a fictional place like hogwarts and narnia. that's all i have. >> that's good enough for me. >> if it is good enough for you, it is good enough for me. >> it is good enough for america. go away. you make me sick. >>> we will take a break. coming up, mail time. it has been awhile. go away and 10 come back. -- and then come back. >> are you hungry? yeah? okay. tell you what, come say grace. come say grace. dear lord, thank you for this day and everything have you given us. thank you for allowing us to be the man and puppy you have allowed us to be. father, thank you for our friends and family, their prayer and support and energy they give us. father, just guide and guard and watch over them as they go through the days ahead. father, i do ask a special prayer that you help me not chase the neighbor's cat and listen to my master when he asks me to do something. in your heavenly name we pray. amen. go eat. >> that is beautiful. keep praying, sparky, but god is not giving you your balls back. >> mail time. >> the

this was a race in waterloo iowa.dricks says he has the greatest job in the world and says people have a natural fascination with monkeys. so you throw in a man's best friend and you've got a hit. >> the time is 6:42. 52 degrees on tv hill. coming up we'll take a look at the morning headlines. >> seems like there would be easy jokes with that. weather-wise things quiet. chilly, though. take a light jacket with you. sunrise is beautiful. 0 downtown. big range from temperatures suburbs to the city. summer like temperatures coming >> welcome back to 11 news today. it's 6:44. baltimore city police aring asking your help finding a missing teenager, 16-year-old rosa torres was last seen long the 1,300 block of wood moore avenue and is 5 foyt the and has reportedly threatened suicide and may be headed toward family in montgomery coun. anyone with knowledge of her whereabouts should call police. one of six people charged with carrying out the murder for hire of a baltimore coun gas station owner has been convicted. a jury spe

a new study from the university of waterloo says men are more likely to say i'm sorry.at they apologize less on purpose apparently, it's just that they're less likely to feel they have done anything wrong in the first place, which many women have probably figured out. the study found that men are less likely feel an apology is owed to them. that leaves us can a conundrum. either women needs to let more things slide, and i'm sorry, i don't think either of those is likely to happen anytime soon. so back to the drawing board. maybe we should call deepak and ask him how to solve that one. b. sawner had a question on our first segment. in particular one graphic we had. the tweed is this. the title screen that each union ping pays for grandma, how about the hundreds that grn ma paid that was referring to the amount of money that all of the old people have paid into the medicare and health care system compared to how many they take out. in this case for every dollar that has, was or would have been paid in, well, $3 are coming out. xh the total amount is that. so i'm not sayin

on monday night, senator "waterloo" jim demint warned he would place a hold on any legislation that would not been cleared by his office before the close of business today. demint, as i said a couple weeks, he's drunk with power and he's showing it tonight. he's drunk with power after spearheading tea party nut jobs like christine o'donnell and rand paul right into the victory lane and republican primaries where they've had some success. now he's on a one-man wrecking crew, a mission to shut down the government until election day. now, if demachined and hi tea party buddies grab the reins of power, they will shut down the government completely. during one of the worst economic times this country has ever seen. is that a good answer? that means no social security checks, no food stamps to people who need it. no unemployment benefits, which they really love, and no money left on the table to help create jobs in a tough economy. now, this is life or death for millions of americans, and demint, well, he's acting like he could care less. it's more about him and his power. in the meantime, pres

he called the health care fight obama's waterloo. all he wants to do and all the tea party republican folks want to do is slow down any effective legislation. basically prove that democrats can't do anything. >> is that -- is this some sort of preview for after november 2nd? the democrats may retain the senate, but there will be republican candidates. nobody's predicting otherwise for that. that's not in doubt. assess this in terms of that. is it, in fact, some warm-up action? is there a preview what life will look like under a smaller democratic majority or a republican majority in the senate? >> well, so here's the thing i would look for after november 2nd. i want to look for exactly who is winning these races. we're going to lose a few democratic seats, that's what everyone is saying. it is true we don't want to lose everything. but i'm going to look at people who are progressive. whether those progressives have won. i think there's still an opportunity for progressives to make the agenda here. or if we don't have clear and contra

our next question tonight comes from josh nelson of "the waterloo courier." josh? >> governor branstad, specifically, how would your proposal for a public/private economic development agency result in the creation of more jobs in iowa and how many jobs would be lost by immediately eliminating the current state economic development agency? >>well, the present economic development agency has been discredited under governor culver's watch by mismanaging the film office now required or five peopleavquit from that agency. the travel budget has been dramatically slashed. they're not making the outreach efforts. if you want to sell people on jobs, you need to have people that really understand it involved. what you have here in siouxland, what they have in dubuque and many other places in iowa is a public/private partnership. i did it before when i was governor, when we started the iowa blue ribbon foundation for the state there and we revitalized the fairgrounds. so that's why i think businesspeople, not bureaucrats can be the best sales people that convince decision mak

>>> and to waterloo, iowa, jim demint's favorite city, where we find monkeys sitting on dogs. these are not your regular dog-riding monkeys, these are racing dog monkeys. and they're off! abu pulls ahead on the outside, but curious george is investigating the inside route and down the stretch they come, and abu entering a whole new world of victory. no animals were harmed in the making of the video. monkey! and time marches on. >>> an anti-gay online slur mainlined right back to the office of republican senator from georgia. it has now been confirmed to be the point of origination. >>> and john mccain's famed temper returns along with his exclusive ownership of facts. don't ask, don't tell him that he's wrong, next.it'll to insure you. nationwide insurance, we need a freeze-frame here. let's give parents a break, right ? let the discounts they've earned be passed down to their teens. save mom and dad up to 25% versus the competition. we'll call it the nationwide family plan. here you go, and there you go. unfreeze ! keys ! savings ! ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ road trip ! >

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we do have some strong storms, risk of these storms from minneapolis, waterloo book to north platte. we had some pretty strong storms move into the northwest yesterday. and along a frontal system, there's storms brewing through northern and southern wisconsin on into minnesota, we could be talking two to five inches of rain before >>> good morning. we have clear skies over much of the area, but the winds are really up. you can see the flag blowing here. thanks to a trough it is the first day of fall and it feels like it. current temperatures 40s and 50s. there are the winds, especially strong over the area bridges and coming through the passes as well. we are talking about cool weather today, forecast highs making the 60s and 70s but this weekend a warmup is coming our way. we'll see inland temperatures getting up into the 90s. summer and fall. >> that's your latest weather. >>> there are new details in the tragic death of a police chief's daughter in north carolina. hundreds attended funeral services for 23-year-old valerie hamilton tuesday as the man accused of killing her appeared