journal poll shows mitt romney falling behind in the presidential race, and that was before news of his secretly recorded videotape dismissing nearly half of american voters. nbc s tracie potts joins us live from washington. she has more on all of this. tracie, good morning to you. president obama pulls ahead just slightly more than he was a month ago. five points ahead of mitt romney in that latest poll a among likely voters. the nbc wall street journal poll. all of this as romney tries to bounce back from those comments he made last spring. here s what mitt romney was secretly recorded saying last may about the 47% of americans who don t pay taxes. who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. and so my job is not to worry about those people. i ll never convince them. reporter: romney now admits that some of those not paying taxes aren t victims as he said last may are wealthy americans. i think people would like to be paying t
to cancer. he was perhaps the most popular hitter in history. an 11-time all-star, won the mvp award in 1969. last week he made the decision to end treatment and spend his final days with family and friends. he passed away peacefully yesterday in his arizona home. robin killebrew was 74 years old. the braves ryan mccann took a play out of killebrew s playbook. in the ninth, he won it with another homer. two at-bats, two home runs, not a bad day at the office. the braves won it 3-1. now for another look at your forecast, here is bill karins. i think as long as it s nice on the weekend, everybody will forget what s happened this week. rain moving through new york city. overnight we had bands going through. this one is impressive. only going to last about 15 minutes or so if you re leaving the door now. in coastal connecticut, another
we begin this morning with schwarzenegger shocker. this morning, one of the most powerful families in american politics is coping with the stunning confession that former california governor arnold schwarzenegger fathered a child with a former household employee. for the latest reaction, we go to nbc s stephanie stanton. reporter: the los angeles times broke the story early tuesday morning, stunning front page news that the former governor of california, arnold schwarzenegger fathered a child more than a decade ago with a long time household staffer. schwarzenegger, seen here leaving his office surrounded by the media, issued a statement to the times saying, quote, after leaving the governor s office, i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disappointment among my friends and family. the news comes exactly one week after the schwarzenegger and his wife, maria shriver, announced their separation a
today we begin with schwarzenegger shocker. this morning, one of the most powerful families in american politics is coping with the stunning confession that former california governor arnold schwarzenegger fathered a child with a former household employee. for the latest reaction, we go to nbc s stephanie stanton. reporter: the los angeles times broke the story early tuesday morning, stunning front page news that the former governor of california, arnold squats neigher fathered a child more than a decade ago with a long time household staffer. schwarzenegger, seen here leaving his office issued a statement to the times saying, quote, after leaving the governor s office, i told my wife about this event which occurred over a decade ago. i understand and deserve the feelings of anger and disa-appointment among my friends and family. the news comes exactly one week after the schwarzenegger and maria shriver announced a separation. i just kept thinking, there has to be another
military training center in pakistan to avenge the killing of osama bin laden. this morning s bombings in northwest pakistan killed at least 80 people. most of them paramilitary recruits. dozens more were wounded. most of the victims were boarding buses to return home to the base or from the base. witnesses say a suicide bomber detonated the first bomb at the compound s gate. it is unclear what caused the second blast. also in pakistan, it is reported that u.s. intelligence officials have questioned bin laden s widows. the three were in bin laden s compound during last week s navy s.e.a.l. raid. cnn reports the women were hostile during the interviews, with the eldest wife speaking for the other two, and offered little information. we are learning this morning how bin laden was able to e-mail his supporters without being detected. lacking internet access, bin laden was able to type a message on a computer and save it on a flash drive. a courier would take the flash driv