goalie is to get traffic in front of the net. that s exactly what the devils did. after they were shut out in game one, they scored two goals by deflecting the puck past henrik lundqvist. carter tied it in the second and then in the third, david clarkson tipped the puck out of midair and that s your game-winner. tip the hat to the devils. they earned the split in new york with a 3-2 win. game three is saturday on nbc. finally, extra innings in kansas city. adam jones in his first six at-bats picked a perfect time to snap out of that slump. a home run in the 15th inning, and that s your ball game. o s won it 4-3. that s your first look at sports. i m fred roggin. and now for another look at the weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good morning. you re in such a good mood because you re already planning your sunny, nice weekend. what? maybe just a little bit. just a little. yeah, i know. a lot of people are going to enjoy this stretch of weather out there acros
and we begin this morning with debt ceiling redo. president obama sat down with congressional leaders in washington yesterday aiming to get a jump-start on an expiring budget deal that went down to the wire last year. but critics say it is a long-shot before november elections. nbc s steve handelsman has details. reporter: at the white house, the president lunched with congressional leaders to avoid a repeat of last summer s fights that trashed the nation s credit rating. barack obama versus john boehner on spending cuts and tax hikes. they failed to make a grand bargain, and their short-term deals expire in december. buying hogies to serve at talks, president obama would vow no down-to-the-wire talks this fall. right now, he wants tax cuts for small businesses that hire more workers, saying the recovery can t wait. and one of the ways that we can sustain momentum is for congress to take some actions right now, even though it s election season, even though there s gridloc
for the first time in american history, most newborn babies come from minority groups. we ll look inside those numbers. plus, the epic meltdown in the final round of wheel of fortune that stunned even a cool veteran like sajak. look at that clue and tell me you wouldn t get that. wait until you see this. first, though, let s get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. vice president joe biden is heading to martins ferry, ohio, this morning, finishing off his two-day swing through that battleground state. in a fiery speech at a youngstown manufacturing plant yesterday, the vice president addressed the challenges facing the middle class, something he suggested mitt romney knows very little about. i resent when they talk about families like mine that i grew up in, i resent the fact that they think we re talking about we re envy, it s job envy, it s wealth envy, and we don t dream. my mother believed and my father believed that if i wanted to be pres
suggested mitt romney knows very little about. i resent when they talk about families like mine that i grew up in, i resent the fact that they think we re talking about we re envy, it s job envy, it s wealth envy, and we don t dream. my mother believed and my father believed that if i wanted to be president of the united states, i could be, i could be vice president. my mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire! my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams! absolutely! they don t get us! they don t get who we are! the vice president was introduced by a former paper plant employee who lost his job after a company owned by bain capital took over. romney s tenure at that investment firm has emerged as a major topic in this campaign. republicans say that in a free market, sometimes businesses go bust, but the vice president argues that position overlooks the people, the american workers i
attacked by karl rove s conservative super pac. today i m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. broken because he hasn t even come close. reporter: vice president biden attacked mitt romney over bain capital s takeover of steel dynamics in the 90s. 750 workers lost their jobs and romney and his investing partners walked away with $12 million. that s romney economics. two sets of roles. reporter: romney in florida said the obama/biden campaign had turned to character assassination. there is this fiction that some have that somehow you can be highly successful by stripping assets from enterprise and walking away with lots of money and killing the enterprise. there may be some people that know how to do that. i sure don t. our approach was to try and make the enterprise more successful and the purpose of the president s ads are not to describe success and failure but somehow to suggest that i m not a good person or n