live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. tonight, this multimillionaire ditches everything and becomes homeless for a week in 100-degree fresno. joe, he is trying to make a point. reporter: he is. his biggest point is he is running for governor. he is way behind brown. but he is getting a lot of attention now for this video. jerry brown calls it the california comeback. so i want to see what the comeback looks like. reporter: he says he took the bus to fresno with only $40 in his pocket. are you hiring? no, at this time we are filled up. reporter: that is where he spent a week posing as homeless. a camera crew watched him. subsisted on convenient store bananas and subways. and he even went to a food bank. why did he do it? he wanted to refute governor brown s claim that the economy is back to normal. policies in sacramento have crushed this middle class. it is a stunningly cynical stunt. reporter: dan newsom is a spokesperson for the ca
the boss helps jimmy fallon poke fun at chris christie and new jersey s bridgegate scandal. today, january 15th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. i m savannah guthrie. alongside al roker and natalie moral es. for chris christie, it s been a hard couple of weeks. but to have the boss poking a little fun. your hero. bruce springsteen. we re going to show you more of that tape from jimmy fallon show in trending coming up later. we re doing something different this morning. it s called a helpathon focused on women and issues that affect us most. we ve got experts answering your questions when it comes to health, money and more. this is tied to maria shriver s doing it all series and the shriver report that maria will be releasing soon. she s joining us from the newseum in washington, d.c.
somebody made a mistake and it was not us. or did they? that s the news coming from nbc news today is that somebody made a mistake. don t know if it is on purpose because it gets more life out of the controversy. you guys saw the cover of rolling stone, you remember what you saw, we talked about it yesterday. julie louis-dreyfus is wearing the words of the constitution. and at the bottom there is a signature and it is john hancock. here is the problem. for all you historians. john hancock did not sign the constitution, he signed the declaration of independence more than ten years before that. we re all so stupid. we didn t point it out yesterday. we didn t think it was necessary to make people feel stupid. anyway, so she did the funniest thing, though, she tweeted. she tweeted this, hancock signed the declaration of independence, not the constitution. just another like another i watched the first one last night. i can t stand how funny it is. she is at a b
watch out, a massive cement truck flies into a van. the terrifying driver who somehow managed to survive. from nbc news, this is today with matt lawyer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone, welcome to today on a thursday morning. more news from the southern indian ocean. buoys they have dropped in the area where they heard pings in the past have detected another ping sound. they are saying they think this comes from a man-made object. they are looking into it, of course, we will get a live look in kuala lumpur in just a moment. we will start with that tragic story at franklin regional hospital t. 15-year-old suspect appeared in court while the community held a vigil for those injured. peteral sand alexander. good morning to you. reporter: doctors are hopeful all of the victims here will survive. we just spoke to the hospital. they say there are still three students in critical condition, including one student
business in washington, incredible. the house found another way to kick the debt ceiling can down the road. janet yellen has passed her initiation. what i really want to know is what was for dinner last night at the white house. there was ribeye for the main course. a dozen variety of potatoes around the country. i like it. a dozen variety of potatoes, seven wines, must be a very important dinner. ah, but of course, a state dinner. president obama welcoming a solo french president francois hollande. state dinners do not happen very often. the number has fallen off, look at that, maybe it has to do with the price tag. cbs found out these dinners can cost about $500,000. they got the information through the freedom of information act. that is enough to buy a house in virginia. this must infuriate the deficit hawks. paul ryan was there after he had voted against raising the debt ceiling. he stayed until the very end. paul ryan closing down the white house. you go.