liberty and dodge rams. it s all due to a brake problem. the party s heating up in miami. lebron james was given a heroes welcome. he was lowered in by a forklift along with dwyane wade and chris bosh, this in front of 13,000 screaming fans. talk about a spectacle. all three men signed their six-year contract with the miami heat right before that event. the very versatile nbc stephanie goss joins me live in new york. we re all used to seeing stephanie out globe trotting somewhere in front of riots or afghanistan. now you re dealing with miami and the heat. you d be surprised how insightful i can be about the nba. you said it was a spectacle. that s what it was. there was smoke, cheering fans. these three guys who are arguably the trio of nba prowess on the stage in miami. to be honest, it reminded me how
to be cool. thank you for joining us. thank you very much. back to miami now for some live pictures. the new orleans saints climbing on board the plane that will take them back home to new orleans to their cheering fans, who had a lot of revelry enjoying their big win over the colts. i m contessa brewer. i ll see you back here at noon tomorrow. that s eastern time, it s 9:00 am if you wake up on the west coast for this hour. up next andrea mitchell reports, joe scarborough talks about sarah palin s address to the tea party convention and those notes. i do remember sitting down with my boys, and i m like, oh, promise mommy you ll never ever pick up a cigarette. and brian looked at me at eight years old and said, promise me you ll quit. i had to quit. my doctor gave me a prescription for chantix,
return much uncertainty remains in the weeks ahead. some will be lacking their houses and basic necessities after weeks of bombing others fear a return of regime control could spell trouble for them and their loved ones. we re all cup hosts russia have been hailed as heroes despite losing to croatia in a nailbiting penalty shoot out thousands of cheering fans greeted the team back in moscow today at the capital stand fast to bring us up to date on the world cup i m joined in studio by nick mechanic line from detail these for its nick this match had all the twists and turns of world cup classic survey data was quite tense and kept fans of the edge of their seats of course because it went all the way to ninetieth minute and then specialities there s a certain amount of back and forth which is lovely for the neutral fan but of course the fans the two teams would have been really a bit worried russia were hoping to reach their first world cup semifinal since one
things to get headlines. i said this entire week is leadership in america, you ve left the building and taken the show on the road. it s really great, though, and nice to have the interaction with the audience members, a full house, a packed house of cheering fans, but it s at the 92nd street y. which is uptown here in new york city. we have left the building but not gone that far. right. it s still technically walkable for me to do. and we ve got hundreds of people in the audience. and we re doing our shows sort of as normal, but with the special focus on leadership, on not only being right, but being persuasive and getting your way. and that s honestly it sounds a little brutal, but that s a lot of what leadership is, it s being willing not to carp from the signed lidelines but show t it needs to bee done and take people along with you so it changes stuff. we ve talken to thought leaders and people that have shown great