everyone. i m erin burnette. is the president hiding up to 200 layoffs. assistant labor secretary jane oates posted this update. now, it was quietly posted to the labor department s website just yesterday. as we reported 46 days ago the law called the warn act calls for employers to announce layoffs of employees 60 days before hand. we re talking about ones like the ones related to the defense industry thanks to the 2 hnt $1 trillion in sequestration cuts. since they take effect on january 2nd, here s a calendar. layoff announcement that the depence contractors would go out november 3rd. as you can see, that s three days before the presidential election. obviously those are not headlines barack obama wants. enter the labor department. here s the letter. the warn act notice to employees of federal contractors including defense industry is not required 60 days in advance of january 2nd 2013 and would be inappropriate. yes, the administration is reinterpreting the law on the sly
pain. rodriguez left the game and we found out later he has a broken bone, a fracture in that hand. he s expected to be out a couple of months, we don t have an exact projection. the yankees lost the game 4-2, their fifth loss in the last six games. more importantly, though, their third baseman writhing in pain on the ground. coming up on morning joe, the negative ads and negative campaigns taking a toll on both presidential candidates. does matter with what happens in the fall. and when we come back to london, 1908, 1948 and now 2012. a look at how london is making history hosting the olympic games for a record third time. including the last one that was a couple of years after world war ii. way too early coming back to london. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol
airlines who refunded her half of the $1,400 ticket. oh, boy! so the guy was dead, they took off and gave her half the money. yeah, that s not a good deal. is it? no, oy! mr. kilmeade, i hope you have something cheery. i do. most of the people i fly next to are healthy. yeah. and noisy. let s start with soccer, italy scoring a ticket to the semis in the euro 2012. they beat england 4-2 after a shootout. they played like for like four days after a score. after 90 minutes of regulation and 30 minutes of extra time, there it goes. penalty kick would decide it. england has their heart broken again. they would dominate throughout. dimante scored the decisive healthy kick right there. he guessed wrong, did the keeper. let s talk baseball. the red sox trading the third baseman after over eight years with the team. some call it almost nine. boston shipping the all star to the white sox. they get pitcher zach stewart,
your childhood. and so that s why for me it s about the dodgers. it s hard to follow the dodgers from 3,000 miles and three hours away. right now they are doing awesome. but the to have three kids into baseball, and i m just a hometown guy. if you look around the office, i m a huge steve garby fan. i see that. is that because he was the first baseman on that fabulous infield? well, for me n the 80s, he was the man. i ve got i ve got his rookie card over there. one of our producers gave that to me as a nice gift, and i have one at home as well. and have you interviewed him? i have not interviewed him but i m in touch with him now. and i wanted this cover from sports illustrated from 1982 which asked, is he too good to be true? i loved him as a kid with pictures of him all over my
orioles, 17th inning, darnell mcdonald takes the mound, davis takes him out for i three-run shot. 9-6 orioles. up to chris davis to close out the game, orioles win in the 17th win, the first baseman turned pitcher wins the game. that s your first look at sports. i m mario solis. now for another look at the weather, let s check back in with nbc meteorologist bill karins, good morning again. maybe the first baseman can pitch, you and i could switch it up every now and then. i m all for that. bill, you re just wa waiting for your moment in this chair. you re waiting for this moment. that would be more entertaining. good morning, everyone. i don t know if you would call what happened on saturday, but amazing pictures out of japan where a rare tornado, about 40 miles outside of tokyo, unfortunately killed one person, about 20 injuries, 400 homes sustained damage. this was a pretty