>> well, jeff zucker's legacy is complicated. the news division was relatively successful and enjoyed a lot of successful transitions as you pointed out. but there were a lot of missteps in the primetime and the entertainment side of the network. everything from failing to develop a successor to "seinfeld" and "friends," to installing ben silverman as head of entertainment for the network and seeing him fail spectacularly. and then having the jay leonardo -- jay leno debacle, and destroy conan o'brien's career as the future of late night on nbc. you had this long string, and he also alienated the creative community in los angeles by installing jay leno at 10:00 across the board and getting rid of so many 10:00 p.m. dramas that producers and writers and actors hoped to work on. he had a misstep there. >> that was in part a cost-cutting move. >> let's remember that jeff zucker, as brian williams said in the setup, he's never worked any place else. he came as an intern to the olympic division right out of school. he was the executiv

the company says burke will work with zucker during the transition. the 52-year-old burke first joined comcast in 1998 as president of comcast cable. he's been president of abc broadcasting, the president and chief operating officer of euro disney as well. >>> and if you want to take steps to get healthier this week in baltimore, it's the time to do it. healthy city days kicks off a week from today. >>> let's move to "extreme makeover: home edition." big news. christie norbert says the young girls from girls hope said june 9th was the best day of their lives. >> that is the day they were surprised by -- and the crews from "extreme makeover: home edition." they kicked off the season with a two-hour special on girls hope in baltimore. it took nine days to finish the project and they worked through humidity, rain, even an earthquake. the girls now in their new home say it was all worth it. >>> we're looking at a different situation here. we got a storm coming through now. the storm brought heavy rain earlier this morning. we're watching maryland's most p

in an email to employees, zucker said he'll stay in his job until the deal is completed.'s chief operating officer, steve burke, is expected to take the reins at nbc-universal. >> tom: sears plans to open dozens of toy shops inside its stores, just in time for the christmas shopping season. the pop-up toy shops will be in sears' key markets like chicago, washington d.c., new york, new jersey and big cities in california. they're aimed at parents of two- to-five year olds. toys-r-us has already announced plans for 600 temporary stores and 10 f.a.o. schwarz pop up stores this holiday season. a spring time bear is waking up to a more bullish outlook for the stock market. he's mark leibovit, chief market strategist at vrtrader.com and he's tonight's market monitor, joining us from phoenix. welcome back to n.b.r. >> tom: welcome back back. >> same here, tom. thank you for having me. >> tom: so what makes you shed some of that bear skin from the springtime. why do you think stock prices can move up to these levels. >> we're taking a seasonality point of view, and here we are in

jeff zucker took the network from first place in prime time to fourth place.he company. he said the choice to go was not his own. he held a press conference. he was remarkably candid about some of his -- i guess you'd call them failures during his time at nbc. >> it's clear to me this is the right decision for both me and for the company. i'm very proud of all the programs i helped bring to fruition during my tenure here at nbc universal. and i'd like to highlight just a few of them now. ♪ lipstick jungle. daddio. gladiators had to go. cy tv. identity. l.a.x. jay leno's show. the men's room. how we do it. i was drunk. age of love. e-ring. not as bad as coupling. go fish. hang time. neither one made a dime. bionic woman. singing bee. my own worst enemy. heroes. mercy. kind of lame. joey. kidnapped. down in flames. merlin. drama. say good-bye. kath and kim up and die. i just got fired. me jeff zucker. why the [ bleep ] hey now i just got fired. by the jerks at comcast. they can kiss my bald ass. come to papa. weakest link. bingo night. that wasn't me. thank god

is exiting that network after six years on the job, and a memo of jeff zucker chief at nbc universalates he's stepping down from his position after nbc is taken over by the comcast cable television empire. so, what about the departure of these two, what does it say about the media age? >> well, in john klein's case, i think it says something about cnn ratings. he's had six years to try and address the loss and in fact, things have gotten worse and the issue is, why did it take them so long. >> the new york times online posted an article about klein's departure and i found this quote interesting attributed to the online new york times, he said some reporters like anderson cooper, sole dad o'brien and sanjay gupta transformed into global news superstars during my time here, that's one of achievements, is that what they're supposed to do turn people into stars. >> i think that's what they puzzled over, the glossy advertising campaigns and billboards and you know, really trying to convince people that these are people that you're really supposed to want to watch, but meanwhile, you know,

the subscribers to the magazine is mark zucker berg. she an incredibly rich young man. >> that are is amazing. and single, ladies. >> yes, he is. >> never mind. time now is 5:19. the immigration debate is no laughing matter, but a comedian will be the next big witness. stephen colbert will testify tomorrow as well as the president of the united farm workers. he spent a dayworking in a vegetable farm in new york state. that aired last night and featured an interview with local democrats. >> this new campaign of the farm workers is so interesting. take our jobs please. >> 'do you think so few americans have taken up this challenge? >> it's tough dirty work. >> are you saying americans are not tough? >> it's hot. >> agriculture workers will lobby for the jobs bill, but it's unclear if colbert will appear or be there as himself or in character. the hearing is tomorrow. >> cal graduate and detainee sarah shourd will be hitting the wear waves on the oprah winfrey show. sarah's motherer will join her for the interview. bauer and fattal remain

. >> reporter: there are questions about zuckered berg's timing. >> they're saying we stole facebook. >> less than a week before a liz-than-flattering portrayal of the the entrepreneur hit the movies. >> if someone shows up on your doorstep with a check for $100 million your first instinct is to say thank you and i think it should be. boy the second day i think you should start to wonder who are you again and how come i've never seen you in my neighborhood. >> reporter: most parents and student, although skeptical, are thankful. >> i just hope they do a good deal dwooed that money. >> reporter: newark already spends more than $23,000 per student, one of the highest in new jersey. mayor booker says money alone is not going to solve the city's problems and intends to get the community involved to determine how to make zuckerberg's donation add up to success. jeff. >> glor: all right, jay dow tonight. jay, thank you very much. after a very cool summer, southern california tonight from los angeles to san diego is baking in an early-fall heat wave. temperatures hit the nigh 90s along the c

even zucker beg's best friend stewed him. >> they are saying we stole facebook. >> he plays the first facebook president. >> i kicked down the door to get in to this film. >> reporter: most in the movie say they are in awe of what zuckerberg created. >> he was able to invent something where you got to reinvent yourself. >> reporter: an he knows reinvention he did it after a cocaine bust in 2001. zuckerburg maybe doing it, too. before the social opened he donated $1 million to newark new jersey schools. while facebook is everywhere. >> they don't have roads but they have facebook. >> reporter: he may be looking for more friends here at home. >>> howard is here with a quick look at the forecast. >> no problems today. a little cool and cloudy. maybe a sprinkle late. other than needing a light jacket this morning today will be fine. tomorrow could be flooding rains beginning on the. let's show you what is happening. we have clouds streaming in from the south. although the clouds are fairly thin we are seeing clouds out there. showers in southeastern virginia in to the carolinas and some o

it's not excluded mr zucker would. we did a this is not a political situation this is a legal situation whenever there is an international. requests through arrest somebody the countries and the police forces are forced to and they have the obligation to honor someone the moment that they come along this person. but that doesn't mean it's not a politically driven decision to have somebody iris to direct it because of that russia's requests all right but it is on an international wanted list he has traveled to a number of european countries while being on that list and has never been a raskin why do you think that is. well because he doesn't have to be arrested i mean. there is a situation only if for example he had a situation if his car he's in is being stopped on the regular check by police and then the police finds out that this is the person who is indeed one to the person then they have to arrest him but if they would know where he is they don't have obligation to go there and arrest him so that when he crosses th

jeff zucker, the ceo of nbc universal, a former executive producer of this broadcast and the "today"w announced he'll be leaving his post pending comcast assuming control of the company with regulatory approval. he's a 24-year veteran of the company, or as he put it in a note to all of us employees today, that would also be all his entire adult life. >>> word has arrived from california that eddie fisher has died. ♪ i believe for every drop of rain that falls ♪ >> he came to fame with love songs for the bobby socks generation of the '50s but known just as well for his marriages and divorces with debbie reynolds and elizabeth taylor. and as the dad of princess laya, kerry fisher. he was 82 years old. >>> when we come back on a friday night, making a difference with all kinds of stuff that other people thought was just a waste. copd makes it hard for me to breathe. but with advair, i'm breathing better. so now, i can join the fun and games with my grandchildren. great news! for people with copd, including chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both, advair helps significantly improve lung f

identical twins went to school to harvard university with zucker berg and that they hired him to worktheir social network. he didn't do the work, strung them along, and then founded facebook which they are saying was their idea. in 2008 they settled for a reported $65 million but now the twins are saying the settlement was not worth anywhere near that. so now they want to vacate that settlement and presumably open the door to forbes estimates that he's worth about $4 billion. it's the most popular social networking site. an estimated every 14 people have a facebook account. here's what the twins say about zuckerberg and their allegations. >> a guy that was a team partner with us and did not want to play as a team member and took an idea and has run with it. >> now, for their part, facebook has issued a statement saying, we've considered the lawsuit closed for years and wish them well in their future endeavors. so facebook considering this closed. the biggest irony is that the winklevoss twins have facebook profiles. facebook has gotten a lot of bad press recently but it's not keeping

the news comes on the heels of zucker who spent an entire career at nbc announcing his planned departureeek. >> courtney, thanks so much. >> reporter: thank you. >>> the new place to press their look, perriesville, maryland. the hollywood casino will open three days ahead of schedule. it features 1,500 slot machines, which is expected to bring in some $100 million in annual state revenue. >>> another tough monday morning for the redskins and their fans. the burgundy and gold help the st. louis rams snap their 14-game losing stream. sam bradford looked like a asoned vet picking apart the defense. after getting behind early, they climbed their way back into it by the third quarter taking the lead, 16-14. hope was alive then. but then it was all rams from there as they went on twin. many are questioning wheer this redskins team changed at all last year. >> it was a different team than last year i think it's a completly different team. unfortunately we're in a bit of the same situation. this team will show its chacter in the next couple weeks trying to btle out of a hole. >> the redskins str

. >>> zucker is giving a huge gift to america's crumbling school system. >> i've committed to starting the start-up education foundation whose first project will be a hundred million dollar challenge grant. >> $100 million? >> yes. >> it might have been a bigger audience response if we didn't already know he was giving a hundred million dollars. zuckerberg appeared on the show along with corey booker and new jersey governor chris christie who helped plan that deal. under the a i -- agreement mayor booker to take control of the schools. >>> monday, a interview with president obama on look at the state of education in america series. the interview will air live on msnbc for a full commercial-free half-hour beginning at 8:00 a.m. eastern. you can submit questions to the president. david gregory interviews key decision makers on the education system. >>> a young mother under arrest. her 10-month-old baby missing after more than a week. details about this mystery from tennessee. >>> white house shake-up. the latest high profile member of the obama team who could be walking right out that do

pair of twins accusing the founder of facebook, mark zucker berg of stealing their idea for the sociale, both are characters in the movie "the social network" and will join us on "studio b," 3:00 p.m. on fox news and a dallas cowboy's rookie mistake costing him, the teammates sticking him with a $54,000 dinner bill. it started back in july, when the wide receiver dez bryant refused to do what all new guys do, carry the teammates' shoulder pads to training camp and this week the rookie pick up the tab dinner, it was supposed to be for offensive players only, and, we're told more than 20 guys showed up at an expensive dallas steakhouse and bryant should be able to afford it. he's making $2.8 million, this season. it will cost new york city a bundledal to fix what the feds call a potentially fatal problem. tonight what is wrong with this picture? would you look at that? and the price tag for changing it will blow you away. plus, beam me up, blago, the next court date is hours away and now, trouble in the blago's legal team! he doesn't look troubled. blago! >> shepard: a fox urgent now, ch

these part abouts and they have said, you know, alternately how did jesse eisenberg capture mark zucker same screening you'll hear people say we didn't lay a glove on him. so it's a tricky thing. i always try to make sure that, you know, it's not my intention to present an argument where i've already drawn my conclusion. i like the fact there were four people at a table who ought thought they were right and i think that makes the most interesting drama and argument. >> and i think if i were mark on facebook i would want the story told from only my perspective. but this is a story told from mark as well as the people accusing him. i do think that it's fair. i think that like david said you can't create a movie character that you don't empathize. i don't think any of us... >> rose: that's true whether it's the writer or director. >> or the actor for that matter. >> rose: if you're not fascinated and empathize with your character... >> yes. and i understand... i don't think any of us would want a movie made about the things we did when we were 19 years old. but this is a movie... he's a fa

>> you're right, jeff zucker has been real visionary here. what was going on up there. we were stunned. this entire week, you look at what's happened -- >> they brought in everybody. i remember almost eight months ago i went to see phil griffin about something. he was in the office dreaming about doing these kinds of things. i think, one, i wanted to give a compliment to you guys. but i think the real issue now is what do we do coming out of education nation, and what do we do is i think we have to get in the trenches. i think what jeffrey canada is doing. but we've got to make that live in the public schools. we've got to bring the teachers, everybody in. with randi weingarten tomorrow, we've got to find common ground. >> including charter schools. >> including charter schools. >> you're exactly right. this is not about cherry picking charter schools and making them successful, making them an oasis in the middle of the desert. we have to figure out what's working in harlem with zucker. how do we take that from the public charter schools and

i'm so glad jeff zucker and nbc universal have pushing this the way they have. >> great to be a partrt of it. we have seen this debate framed with the teachers and town hall meeting and our town hall meeting sunday night and the conversation has continued. you actually see most americans don't want teachers to automatically get tenure after three years. they want kids' results in the classrooms to be tied to teachers' professions. >> i understand that and buy into that. my mother was a teacher. the thing that bothers me about that whole tenor, the conversation governing, you just got to it. detroit. pupil performance. you grade the teacher and pupil performance. when you look at school systems like detroit and other large cities, you have an enormous population of very poor kids sometimes without a family, never mind a single parent family, the school is often the safest place they'll ever be, the only place they'll get a meal during the course of the day. how do you bridge that grap in ter -- that gap in terms of grading the teacher? >> you don't put 100%. it's on progress, not just

they say they and not mark zucker you areberg are the real brains behind the facebook. him to put together the software code, but instead he stole the whole thing. arthur they went to harvard with this guy, with mark zuckerberg who is the founder and ceo of facebook. they say they came with this web site called the harvard connection, and basically hired him as a minion to put together the software code. instead he stole the whole thing and now is worth almost $7 billion. should they get paid? >> they took him to court, and zuckerberg did not win on summary judgment. he already made a ton of money, so he wrote them a check for $65 million and said that's our settlement, good-bye, go away. there is a lot of ways to interpret that. you could say what a nice guy giving away $65 million. would you give away $65 million to two individuals with no claim whatsoever? but here is the point we are at. stunned securities laws if during those settlement negotiations there was some fraud, some lies that were told, parts of the statute that says they are entitled to four times what t

but i heard that from jeff zucker himself.? >> i don't think there are that many coincidences in life. i believe jeff, but i want to hear it from the man himself, mr. vilsack. >> we'll find out. how was your weekend? >> it was slow. i'm glad i didn't go to the giants game yesterday. i watched it at home. oh, my gosh. >> what? >> i was on the treadmill, i had to turn it off, not the treadmill, the tv, several times. that would hurt if you suddenly turned off the tadmill. that was ugly and a lot of lack of sportsmship which i can imagine mrs. mara in the booth was furious. this guy lost the game for tm two times he was called for 15 yards. >> whatever his name is, but we know. >> he knows who he is, and i'm not the coach, but that's the one thini would never, ever allow. >>any kind of unsportsman-like conduct. the most heart breaking game and since we're talking football is the saints, in overtime, and i love the kicker and my heart broke for him. 20-yard kick, and i know that -- it is a head game and he msed it. god love him. i

. >> finally on a serious note, nbc universal's ceo justify zucker announced that he will be stepping down this winter. and i just want to take a chance to express my -- >> they take no prisoners, do they? >> oh, well, it was very funny, i thought on saturday night. >> still ahead from here at the white house, our exclusive half-hour long interview with the president, he has said that the success of our students will determine success of this country in the 21st century. so how do we fix our schools? we'll talk about that with the president at 8:00, but first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> coming up, how early should you start your kids in school? i'll take you to a kindergarten class to take a look at some of the challenges facing students and their teachers. >>> and we'll take a look at whether lindsay lohan will go back into rehab. that's coming up after your local news. [ female announcer ] "i can't believe it's not butter" with no trans fat and 70% less saturated fat than butter. butter taste, better health. it was a real shock. i remember being at the hospital thinking, "i should

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john donvan and karen zucker tracked him down. this is a fascinating story.d it reminds you of something that's kind of unbelievable. it wasn't too long ago that people even knew that autism existed. >> and donald's parents raised him in a small town in mississippi, called forest. they had a little boy that began acting this way. and the local doctors thought he was mentally ill. that he was insane. the parents institutionalized him briefly on recommendations of doctors. then, they pulled him out of the institution. they started looking for answers. they brought him to a psychiatrist in baltimore called lea conner. who saw donnell. and said this is something different. and connell began to see something different in other children. and in 1943, he announced there was something different with donald, and it was autism. >> he was pretty disabled as a child. now, has grown into a man who is caple of enjoying his life. he travels all over the world. when you look at his experience, what are the lessons you draw from it for other mothers, fathers, family members,

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re-election battle, and the online site facebook is the product of a genius kid at harvard named mark zuckerit says he's a thief, not a thinker. kelly's court, top of the hour. jenna: who says hollywood leans left? a tea party rally held over the weekend in, of all places, beverly hills? william la la jeunesse with this story. why does this tea party story stand out besides the obvious? >> reporter: yeah. the location is the headline here. this tea party was in the heart of liberal los angeles in beverly hills. democrats outnumber republicans by a margin of two to one, but this was hardly the racist, homophobic, hill billy mob often depicted by critics of the tea party. the emcee was singer pat boone, a black preacher spoke about race and religion, and a former "saturday night live" comedian, victoria jackson, she played a uke ukelele while complaining about the size of government. in this crowd of about 500 they said there are conservatives in hollywood afraid to speak up for fear of being blacklisted in the culture of los angeles and hollywood. >> there's a lot of conservatives in be holly

. >> finally on a serious note, nbc universal's ceo jeff zucker announced that he will be stepping down this winter. and i just want to take a chance to express my -- >> they take no prisoners, do they? >> they do not. oh, well. very funny i thought on saturday night. >> still ahead from here at the white house, our exclusive half-hour long interview with the president. he has said that the success of our students will determine success of this country in the 21st century. so how do we fix our schools? we'll talk about that with the president at 8:00, but first, this is "today" on nbc. [ male announcer ] barbara boxer. she fought to get our veterans the first full combat care center in california. her after school law is keeping a million kids off the street and out of gangs. and she's fighting every day to create new jobs. i'm working to make california the leader in clean energy. to jump-start our small businesses with tax credits and loans to create thousands more california jobs. i'm barbara boxer, and i approve this message... because i want to see the words made in america again.

i remember the first time i got exposed to this, jeff zucker told me to go to a school in harlem to seet was going on there. i had no idea. it was a revolution what you and joel klein and the teachers in this city are doing, is nothing short of remarkable. >> there's an awful lot of people who are involved here. you all the people who started these charter schools. you have the parents who care. i went to see "waiting for superman" yesterday. we showed it for our staff meeting. some reporter afterward asked me what i thought. i said, if you looked at the parents, the parents who knew the one chance their kids had, and they couldn't do it. they were depending on a lottery to do it and you looked in their eyes as the numbers were called and their kid wasn't called. and you think what would you do if it was your kid? you so much want to take care of your family. most of us to some extent in control. these people are not in control. it's not charter schools that are the answer. it's all the schools that are the answer. charter schools give you competition and try new things. that's great. w

interestingly facebook ceo mark zucker burg didn't qualify as a billionaire ranked higher than apple'sbs. doing a lot of good with that money. >>> let's look at sports. red hot phillies looking for their tenth straight win continuing the home series against the braves. funny moment in the seventh inning. phillies starter roy oswalt wanted a new ball, lobs it from the plate, wanted one from tum. he drills martin prado. only contact the braves made all night. oswalt and company held them to one hit. 8th inning ibanez scores jayson werth. that's all the phillies needed. they've won ten straight games in philadelphia, six games up on the atlanta braves. >> unbelievable how that has changed. >> they're hot, started slow and getting back. >> ais atlanta going to win the wildcard? >> they're a half game up from san francisco. >> exciting the last couple weeks. >> get bobby cox in the play-offs for his last season. >> rays, it looked like a single. a.j. burnett goes around the bat. burnett only went three innings because of a two-hour rain delay. skies cleared and stadium emptied out. after th

. >> walking down the street -- >> was it jeff zucker? >> was not.y had a bag of food in his hand and it flew up in the air like it was insane, like -- >> the man wo was brushed up against or the man who did the brushing? >> the man standing there holding his food. the man brushed up against him lightly. the food went flyingand fell down and the couple went, i'm sorry, i did bump you, did you drop all your food. he reached in his pocket and gave him 20 bucks. i said, boy, i can't believe that whole chaotic thing happened there. i was with a friend. she said, i think that's a scam. i said, why? i went running down sixt avenue, six piles of food just like that -- >> had been dropped. >> had been dropped. someone is stding on street, waiting for people to come by, knocking them and the food is not -- it looks like scraps and stuff, doesn't look like a real meal, they feel terrible becau they bum pd the person and they get 20 bucks. >> i'm happy to hear there are still people in new york that will give you 20 bucks if they knock you -- if they stop and s

. >> when do you think about mark zucker berg wberg this thing an fiction, would not see it. >> i would but we have to be careful because at the end of the day, there are thousands of students and teachers in new jersey now who don't care why he gave a gift. >> your mom and dad would be proud of that answer. >> yeah. will you let them know? >> we have do say, armie, one of the most beautiful weddings i've ever been to, married his gorgeous elizabeth last may. and elizabeth chambers. they are the ken and barbie of the world. it is unbelievable. >> how did you meet, armie? >> through my best friend, tyler ramsey. he introduced us and it was love at first sight. i remember what she was wearing the first time i saw her. >> what was she wearing? >> jean, wavy hair, gladiator >> that's love. >> and tyler is getting married this weekend. >> tyler is. >> there is nothing but huge stuff ahead for you. what are you working on next? you have a pile of scripts waiting for you. >> this is a lot more doors open to me now. we're trying to keep that open. i think nothing concrete, nothing i want to jin