joining us now, melissa russo, political reporter for nbc's new york station, wnbc, at today's press conference. thanks for being with us tonight. i appreciate your time. >> thanks, rachel. thanks for having me. >> by your record of things, how do congressman weiner's public statements about his misbehavior and record of his misbehavior jive? was he dishonest that the original scandal was not of his making? >> the original scandal, of course, he lied about it. he was asked today if he's going to drop out. that's one of major difference is that today he's trying to say, oh, i'm being completely forthcoming. the question is, has he changed? he's saying he has changed, but apparently he didn't change until much later than we thought he had changed. one of the most stunning moments in that news conference today, i thought, rachel, was when anthony weiner sort of corrected the media's misperception of the resignation from congress as having been the important moment in the public discussion. it was sort of a news flash. apparently it was not an important enough moment for him to stop that

exclusive to wnbc in new york. >>> a 35-year-old cleveland man is being held on $6 million bond today accused of killing three women, wrapping them in plastic bags and stashing their bodies. taken into custody after a standoff with police, his name is michael madison. he's an ex-con. he's a registered sex offender. and he was formally charged yesterday. two of the victims have yet to be identified. madison has apparently told police he was influenced by the so-called cleveland strangler, that's anthony sowell, who was sentenced to death for killing 11 women and burying their bodies around his home in cleveland around 2009. madison's family says he is not a killer. >>> the legal wrangling over whether detroit can declare bankruptcy is just beginning. >> if these cut goes through it will destroy my retirement. i have to try to find a full-time job with benefits that, you know, aren't in abundant supply. >> we are people that sacrifice our lives. we may not come home one day. so to look at us as a spreadsheet is to me, un-american. >> a state judge has called for the withdrawal of the ci

wnbc's rod schmidt found one mcdonald's worker yesterday in union square who is following the mcdonald'sof carrying a second job. >> i have two boys, six and 12, i couldn't afford to buy anything for their graduation. >> kareem starks works for a mcdonald's in brooklyn, and says he pays about 800 a month, his second job pays the rest for food. he barely gets buy. >> let's talk about the wage and what it is in the city. >> it just doesn't add up. >> the president knows what raising the minimum wage would mean to these workers. >> this would raise the income for millions of working families, meaning the difference between groceries or the food bank. rent or vacation. scraping by or finally getting ahead. >> mcdonald's refused to comment, and instead relied on their washington lobbyists to respond for the company. the heartless lobbyist said, restaurants operate on very thin profit margins, significant additional labor costs can negatively impact a restaurant's ability to hire or maintain jobs. but running the numbers of labor costs at mcdonald's tells us another story. and the university o

what we're seeing in the wnbc/"wall street journal"/maris poll is there's been quite a drop in his supportnd christine quinn, the city council leader, is now on top and anthony weiner has dropped quite a bit from 25% down to 16%. >> i think that new yorkers are correctly reading this not just as a matter of something private that happened between him and his wife but really, untruthfulness in the year-and-a-half -- more than a year since this story first broke. he strongly, strongly suggested to new yorkers that this was done, that they were participating as voters in a redemption narrative. turns out we're not. we're more participating in an ongoing therapy session and i don't think that that's what people want to do. i don't think that people feel that clip he played when he said all he did was went out every day and if there's one camera or one person, you have the feeling in the person holding that camera or the other side of that communication was maybe a young woman that he wasn't focused so much on the issues. i just don't think that people -- it's getting a little boring for people

it was sent on facebook to wnbc meteorologist rafael miranda, who's probably not the most popular man in town today. temperatures will still be near 90 tonight for the opening pitch of the major league baseball's all-star game. that's something i follow very closely. it'll be played over at citi field, home of the new york mets. mets' ace matt harvey will start for the national league. last night he pitched himself out to jimmy fallon and some pretty unsuspecting fans. >> hey, i'm matt harvey, all-star pitcher for the new york mets. i'm here to find out what new yorkers think about matt harvey. what about matt harvey? >> he's a stud. >> thank you. who's your favorite player? >> dude, harvey, man. >> you think he'll start the all-star game? >> no. >> who do you think will start? >> is kershaw, i think. >> i'm matt harvey, by the way. >> wait, what? >> yeah. >> i'm matt harvey, by the way. >> very low key. >> now, let's turn to some pretty important hearings happening on capitol hill this week. when the supreme court struck down a key part of the voting rights act last month, which many

a new poll by our new york station wnbc, along with "the wall street journal" and marist finds spitzer out to a nine-point lead in the dramatic primary race for city comptroller. now, tonight at midnight is the deadline for spitzer to turn in nearly 4,000 signatures to city hall so that he can make the candidacy official. we'll be right back. >>> we submit that's an integral part of our theory of defense and in error by not instructing the law of this jury properly on the law -- >> i understand. i have already ruled. and you have -- you continually disagree with this court every time i make a ruling. i have provided you on three separate occasions with the court's professional conduct in the courtroom, and included in that is do not continue to argue with the court after we've ruled. >> welcome back to "hardball" that was defense attorney don west and judge debra nelson going back and forth earlier today in the latest of what has been a series of tense exchanges throughout this trial. now as the defense prepares its closing arguments, the question some people are asking is could west's

according to a new wnbc/"wall street journal," spitzer has a 17-point lead in the primary. it's spitzer leading stott stringer, 49-32. we're hoping to have him on next week. we'll be back with deeper insight into anthony weiner, right after this. >>> well, for most of us, the nature of anthony wean area's online sexual activities, if you will, came as a shock, certainly a surprise for people who cover politics. how can such a public figure act so weirdly, basically in public. but even more shocking was news this week weiner continued his online activities even after he was exposed and humiliated. he just kept doing it. some people are wondering can he ever control this? or if elected, can he be in the basement of gracie mansion where the mayor lives in new york, sending out nude pictures to women online? would he keep it up? why would you believe he wouldn't? we wanted to find out what those drives were. dr. jennifer berman is a psychotherapist and sexual health expert and dr. sheri, she goes by dr. sheri, dr. sheri blake is a clinical psychologist. but both for joining us.

brand-new wnbc/"wall street journal," maris poll showing weiner to second place and quinn a nine-pointswitch there. yesterday's weiner's attempt at damage control continued as he tried to answer more questions from reporters about how many women he sent sexual explicit messages to. >> it's not dozens like i told "the post." and they made a big headline out of it. it's not dozens to dozens. it's six to ten but i can't tell you absolutely what someone else is going to consider inappropriate or not. >> were they sexual? how many conversations did you have with women after you resigned that were sexual in nature? >> i don't believe i had any more than three. >> also thursday a woman named sidney ledgers came forward and said she had an online x-rated relationship with him and spoke "inside edition." >> he was making these campaign promises that he was totally changed and he was a better man now and he learned from his mistakes and i am proof that that is not true. >> do you think that he was trying to pull one over on the voters of new york? >> oh, absolutely. otherwise, he wouldn't have w

the hardy new yorkers we are, we find creative ways to handle the heat as wnbc found out for us todayer sweating up the stairs at the smith and 9th street station, commuters were left with little relief with intense heat baking half of the open-air platform. commuters endured their wait with a bit of shade and a new design. >> i get a breeze, which is why i'm standing by the window. huge difference. a 20-degree difference between here and the other stations. >> the hot weather didn't affect the coolest moment in baseball this year at the all-star game here in new york. as he entered the game in the eighth inning, retiring yankee reliever mariano rivera was left alone on the mound as players from both teams lined up at the dugouts. the greatest closer in baseball got a one-minute standing ovation from the crowd of 45,000, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. after the ovation, rivera retired the national league in order. after the game, he was named mvp, the first reliever to ever get that award. he will retire at the season's end. >>> "iron" has been known for ironically not being

. >>> a new wnbc/wall street/maris poll shows anthony weiner is down nine points from last month. worse. at an event in brooklyn this morning, anthony weiner admitted to trading messages with as many as three women since resigning from congress. wiener estimated he traded lewd messages with 6 to 10 women while a member of congress. loufr, he insists he has now stopped. that's all for us. thank you to gopher rendell, and jonathan. we'll see you back here tomorrow. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. american success story," "that starts with one of the world's most advanced distribution systems," "and one of the most efficient trucking networks," "with safe, experienced drivers." "we work directly with manufacturers," "eliminating costly markups," "and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country." "when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions of americans, everyday. "dedication: that's the real walmart" ♪ even superheroes need superheroes, and some superheroes need complete and balanced meals with 23 vitamins

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. >> well, at 23, i started working weekends at wnbc. >> were you 23? >> yes.he kids. i mean, you sit there, and it is like, that you think that life can't get any better than this, because of course, you don't know any better life. but when you look at the little faces, and you are like, oh, man. >> and then six months later, you realize no life and no sleep. when that kicks in. >> yes, and then the next kids, you already know the deal. >> you know what you are getting into. >> and you are up to it. >> and the 69 number that other people cited is a different one. you are happy with the life and satisfied with what you have done and the kids are gone. >> how far away are you both from 69? as if you are going to answer that. >> well, first you have to do the math. i'm 31 years away. >> that not bad. >> i'm almost there. i'm ten years away. >> wow. ten years of happiness, al. >> yes. exactly. i can see it on the horizon. >> right around the bend. >> we want to show you a great photograph and maybe you have seen it, former president h.w. bush has shaved his head.