was supposed to be in woodstock. and when we couldn't be in woodstock anymore, i wanted to take the name with me because i thought it really gave everybody the idea of what we were doing in kind of a nice, concise way. but i wanted to be close to woodstock, so we looked in expanding circles from the town and found the perfect place to do the festival 10 miles out of town. and it belonged to mr. shaller who was the owner of shaller and weber meats, an old sort of, you know, well-known german meat packing company. and i spoke to the caretaker, he said, yeah, it sounds interesting, and i'll check. and he checked and said, yeah, we'd like to talk about it. of course, they didn't know what they were talking about. but they never used the place except for hunting. and so i said, great, you know, we have a site. and we thought, you know, we would offer $5,000, and we'd be off and running. so in the meantime, through an attorney i was using we met with john and joel, john roberts and joel rosierman to finance the studio idea

mark potter, nbc news, woodstock, georgia. >>> speaking of health care, there's news tonight about a very controversial part of the obama health care law that will eventually require just about every american to purchase health insurance. today a federal appeals court in atlanta said the requirement's unconstitutional. this means the courts are now split on the issue, that likely means it's headed for the supreme court, perhaps next session. >>> overseas this friday night, defiant protests continue in the streets of syria, even in the face of a brutal crackdown by the government of president assaad who's ignoring pressure internationally to step down, there was more bloodshed and killing in syria today. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has our report tonight. >> reporter: in syria, they called today the day we refuse to bow. and in at least 12 cities, thousands of protesters after friday prayers showed they will not bow or be cowed. chanting against syrian president assaad. it is a brave act of defiance. at least 25 demonstrate fors have been gunned down by the governmen

. >>> in just a few minutes, we'll head to the town of woodstock, vermont.e with a vermonter who opened his homes to his neighbors who have nowhere else to go. >>> i also want to update you on the tropical storm in the atlantic. it could become a hurricane today. it has winds of 65 miles per hour. it's about 1,000 miles west of the cape verde islands. the national hurricane center says katiy is expected to have winds above 110 miles per hour by sunday. forecasters say it's too early to know if it will pose real threat to land. >>> president obama is saying the nation faces unprecedented economic val challenges. requesting time to deliver his long awaited jobs speech to a joint session of congress. in a letter to the speaker of the house and senate majority leader mr. obama said he would like to do it in prime time one week from today at 8:00 p.m. eastern. he'll lay out proposals that lawmakers could act on immediately to continue to rebuild the economy. he says the plans would strengthen small businesses, help the unemployed get back to work and put more mon

offered at the first baptist church in woodstock. the line this morning stretching 20 football fields. people that didn't get treated today will be seen tomorrow. staff from the georgia dental assosoation pitching in to do it. one dentist said they looked around and with this economy, knew they had to do something. >>> we turn to the bare knuckle political fight. in iowa. last night's debate. today, the candidates rushing to corner the people making headlines with their choice in the ames poll tomorrow night. and guess who joined everyone? someone not in the race but trying to upstage them all. jake tapper is in des moines. hello, jake. >> reporter: good evening, diane. greetings from the iowa state fair. last night, the eight major republican presidential candidates intensely debated. tomorrow morning the iowa straw poll, after which some of those candidacies could end. into the iowa state fair today tore a tasmanian devil, as yet noncandidate sarah palin grabbing the attention of iowans and yes, the media. sucked up in the palin vo

the hearst newspaper chain used this prefabricated template they described this event as another woodstock style concept and they got it completely wrong. these underground newspapers started emerging as i say in the mid-'60s. someone pointed out technically they represent maybe one of the largest and most spontaneous growths in the history of publishing. in 1965 there were five such newspapers. there was the berkeley barb and the free press there was the east village in new york and there's a paper the fifth estate in detroit and ironically for me and for matt because we went to michigan state the first campus newspaper was called the paper and it was in east lancing. towards the end of 1966 these papers started sprouting up in every region of the country and by the end of the '60s you had literally hundreds maybe 4 or 500 in every city every campus and community with readership that stretched into the millions combined. people sometimes ask how i got interested in the topic. i just got out of my dissertation and i used these newspapers as a source material and i was interested in trying

just look at the force of this water at woodstock, vermont. those are propane tanks picked up and carried away. nothing can escape the current once it falls in. not even cars. trapped in the raging waters this sedan was batted around like driftwood. fortunately no one was in the vehicle. >> whoa! get out of here. grab the mic. >> that's a reporter with wcbs at ashbury park, new jersey. she and the crew thought they were far enough away from the water, but they were wrong. on long island large sand berms to protect the life guard station worked for a while. but in the end the building smashed into the pier. hello. thanks for joining us. i'm martin as a savidge. don lemon is off tonight. irene may have lost hurricane status but as a tropical storm it's been just as menacing. it made landfall again this morning in new york city as a category one and in recent hours has been sweeping through new england with nonstop wind and rain. now the center of the storm is at the u.s./canada border near mount pelier vermont. irene's impact is deep and widespr

mark potter, nbc news, woodstock, georgia. >>> the frantic church under way in utah after a 12-year-old boy scout goes missing. you'll hear from his mother next. >>> more on the iowa straw poll. who will be in today's top vote? we'll check in with chuck todd next. >>> a couple with more than 200 million reasons to smile. you're watching msnbc saturday. wouldn't you like to be them, right? ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] more people are leaving bmw, mercedes and lexus for audi than ever before. experience the summer of audi event and get over 130 channels of siriusxm satellite radio for 3 months at no charge. >> iowa is the state that launched barack obama and iowa will be the place where that presidency is coming to an end. you get to choose tomorrow and i couldn't be more excited. >> michele bachmann just one of nine republican presidential candidates on the ballot today in the iowa straw poll and that voting will run for six hours during the day. for a preview i'm joined by ames, iowa, by host of msnbc's "the daily rundown," you need no production but i'll say it any way. good morning, chuck

electric guitar, so he has his own personal rock 'n roll band to jam with, and he bought jimi hendrix's woodstockr for $750,000. he likes science fiction; he subsidized an antenna farm listening for aliens. an avid reader; he showed us a shakespeare folio he keeps at his estate. you became the owner of the seahawks. he likes football; he bought an nfl team. he likes basketball even more: he also bought an nba team. he's a movie buff, so he invested in dreamworks, the hollywood studio. he wants to travel, so he built himself a yacht longer than a football field equipped with its own submarine. he has spent over a billion dollars on philanthropy, including building an institute to study the brain and, like gates, he's pledged to give most of his money away to charity. now, he got married. >> allen: right. >> stahl: you never got married. >> allen: not yet. >> stahl: not yet. >> allen: i'm still optimistic. i still believe i'm going to meet somebody and that's going to happen but... >> stahl: you want to. >> allen: i want to have a family. >> stahl: but he's often described as a recluse. something s

this is showing gushing of what is a river in woodstock, vermont. i remember this area from a summer i spent up in middlebury. you don't see this much. what's happening here apparently, we're told by our ireporter that at one point the waters managed to pull off some propane tanks and carry them down the river and that they came gushing as well along with other debris throughout the day. i can tell you, i've been following this on youtube and other places as well. a lot of video now of different angles in this area. just gushing. really, really powerfully. i mentioned earlier north carolina, nags head. i want to come back to this here. we're talking about nags head, north carolina. we've gotten more photos as well. i want to show you some of the ones of this residential area. when you get closer, you can see what ends up being the most powerful parts of the destruction. which are these little pieces of what were people's lives, people's stores in some cases, people's livelihoods. all showing up in these latest ireports as well as some homes that are

woodstock to james fletcher about our local forecasts. here is the shot we have been looking at all morning long. >> the fog is traded over the golden gate bridge. the road surface is damp. the fall will be with us along the coast until noon. that is what it will pull back enough that we might start getting some decent warming in the city. temperatures compendious able still be nice and warm. the fall will pull back by noon and will get some decent heating in the city along the peninsula before the fall resurgence. there is one hour 12 minute travel delays. temperatures are still on the wild side. the cloud cover over might tempt some insulation. mid-upper 80s is what we're expecting for much of the south bay. almost 90 degrees in morgan hill. the east bay's shoreline, oakland, 71, 76 in castro valley. cooler along the coast. so in the north bay, depending on where you are, you'll be the upper seventies or low 80s. here is your 7 day forecast. today's fine, tomorrow is a little cooler. next week things will cool off as quickly as they war

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let's bring in technology analyst michael belfure live from woodstock, new york, author of "the department" how darpa is remaking the world. michael, what's next for this style of travel? are we really going to get on this some day? >> we are going to get on it. it might take awhile, though. in 1986, ronald reagan announced that we were going to have an airplane that could take off from dulles airport, fly to tokyo in a couple of hours. they have been working on this problem ever since. >> these guys are only $3 billion into our pocket every year but they have made some amazing inventions, some discoveries that we can't even put our hands around and we only know about 50% of the stuff they did because they won't tell us about the rest. what do you know that we don't know that these guys are doing? >> well, i know they are a great american success story, a lot of people don't know that. it's precisely because they have permission to fail. the current director of darpa says that the same nerve that's required to do something extraordinary and succeed is the same nerve that's required to foll

privately financed rocket to outer space and you found your own guitar that jimi hendrix played at woodstock and the chair that captain kirk sat at in the star wars movie, is that true? >> not as impressive as -- >> there was a for injured 14-foot yacht. >> are there any of these that he would want to do that you haven't actually done? >> we haven't talked about the brain yet but you start talking about the scientific problems or challenges and the fact that the space ship one succeeded nobody knew that. nobody knew that was going to happen so you start by being ambitious and try to accomplish some of those same things sometimes you feel and you never succeed to win a prize but it's the ambition, the tribe a great team of people, that is just enthralling. so there are many challenges out there. i'm excited about anything where the brain keeps doing with artificial intelligence i still have always had a nagging interest trying to get some attraction there so i think that you are talking about more things more related to -- >> talking about sheer fun and was just in antarctica a couple of mont

. >> going to go check out woodstock. >> have you ever been up there? >> i love it, yes.> we were raving about it in the winter. i heard it's even more gorgeous in the summer. >> we have a bunch of reporters fanning out. obviously right now all about the trail. i saw the president's speech yesterday. that was probably the most 2012th centric speech, i think the white house is getting more political and i think you'll start seeing more fist to cuffs going forward. >> mark halperin, were you surprised that david axelrod basically discounted the entire politico article? did politico get that completely wrong? >> about taking down mitt romney. >> you were pushing him particularly on the question of whether they would tolerate it. i think that story they did think was unfortunate. i have confidence in our colleagues at politico that they were talking to people of at least some standing, in some cases significant standing within that circle. that is not a good story for the campaign. the senior people in the campaign were very unhappy with it. your question puts him in a brit o

. >> check this out, jeff captured a flash flood in woodstock, vermont.ne tanks being carried by the powerful waters. >> and let's move on to jersey city. adam rice sent us this video. he took it at the height of the storm yesterday. that's the hudson spilling on to the walkway along the river. there were evacuations in this area. we'll show you more i-reports throughout the morning. >> new this morning, fled his country after an alleged assassination attempt. the president of yemen says he will return. president ali abdullah saleh is in saudi arabia right now, severely injured in a bombing attack at his palace back in june. saleh says he will not come back to yemen until the investigation is complete. opposition leaders say he's stalling. saleh has agreed to step down from power at the end of the year. >>> irene didn't stop hundreds who trekked to d.c. to visit the newly opened national memorial. the official dedication of the king memorial was postponed sunday because of the hurricane. the memorial features a 30-foot statute of king and an inscription w

long term, i do not think it is a problem holding like woodstock long term.hink that, if there is a correction, these things always go in cycles. that will be fine. there are fundamental businesses that are here for the long term. >> jerry murdoch and gina, where are you? first of all, i want to thank jerry murdoch who hope to get the twitter guys here. no wonder you came. he is a board member. and gene will come up in a second and talk about the yoga that we can do. first, let me thank our people here. but me thank evan and then for being here. when is the hash tag for this? >> i do not know. >> thank you all very much. appreciate it. >> next, a discussion on national security since 9/11. then a speech by ron paul. then, a forum on the future of social security. >> tomorrow, a political roundtable with democratic strategist karen finley and republican strategist tony from no -- tony fratto. peter gaytan on military veterans and employment. >> it is a country fraught with corruption, natural disasters, and islamic extremists. >> what was shocking to me and ma