0 ford was born 100 years ago today as leslie lynch king jr. three years later the future president s mother married gerald rudolph ford and began calling her son gerald r. ford jr. his name wasn t officially changed until he was 22 years old. thanks to awful you for being part of my program this week. i will see you next week. stay tuned for reliable stay tuned for reliable sources. captions by vitac www.vitac.com in the circuit court of the 18th judicial circuit, seminole county, florida, state of florida versus george zimmerman, verdict, we the jury find george zimmerman not guilty. so say we all, foreperson? good morning, everyone. i m kate bolduan. it is 11:00 in the east. thank you for joining us this sunday. and i m chris cuomo. welcome to this special edition of cnn newsroom. from potential life imprisonment to free man, george zimmerman found not guilty. you just heard it. in the death of trayvon martin. jurors deliberated for 16 1/2 hours before clearing zimmer
plan in nevada and bracketing the president s big economic speech, he s now looking i think to be a more present figure out on the trail especially because he knows rick perry is coming at him and he needs to be aware of that. he needs to make the pivot to be presidential, to jeb bush s point, you have to put something positive forward, so this is the pivot. we ll be back. more to come. but, first, trivia time. we asked which u.s. president was born with the name leslie lynch king jr.? the answer, president gerald r. ford. president ford was originally named after his birth father. but his mother remarried when ford was young and began calling her son gerald ford after her new husband. ford didn t legally change his name until he was 22 years old. we ll be right back. you re watching the daily rundown only on msnbc. ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but i
inside just fell off the shelves and is ruined. so, that family that owns the grocery store has a big cleanup effort under way. let s talk about washington, d.c.. the washington monument is a big concern right now. the park service confirming that there are cracks, they think, up near the top of the monument, so you got engineers that are going in there today and taking a close look at the washington monument to see how sound it is and what kind of repairs might be needed. national cathedral up in northwest washington, d.c., that also sustained damage yesterday. three of the spires that sit on top of the tower if you will have fallen off or been significantly damaged, and the tower they fear might be leaning, so they re looking at the national cathedraled is to see what, if anything, needs to happen. the cathedral is, of course, where they did the funeral or ronald reagan and gerald ford and the 9/11 service, really part of the national fabric, especially in washington, d.c.. the d.c.
congresswoman james harmne harm didn t get to talk about southern california politics and the spending and debt problem facing the country. we ll have to have you back to talk about it. thank you for your expertise on libya. from montreal to martha s vineyard and capitol hill to chicago, the earthquake that shook more than 100 million people. we re live at the epicenter next. plus, can democrats hold on to the senate majority in 2012? hold on to your pocket protectors. i know i m holding on to mine. we re busting out our cal calculators. and next is the daily trivia, which u.s. president was born with the name leslie lynch king jr.? the answer and more coming up on the daily rundown. ve i got a surprise for you! [ barks ] yeah, it s new beneful healthy fiesta. gotta love the protein for muscles whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat.
bahamas. already a major hurricane, it s got the eastern united states even as far north as new england in its sights. it s wednesday, august 24th, 2011, and this is the daily rundown. i m chris cillizza in for chuck todd. all that, plus the virginia earthquake, so powerful it had eyes in california rolling. let s get right to today s political headlines. there are a few of them amidst a lot of other news. mark murray s nbc news deputy political director. mark, let s start, it s been a quiet week. mitt romney, though, out on the campaign trail. we talked about this. a little bit of an up-and-down summer for mitt romney. there was good debate performances. michele bachmann, tim pawlenty fighting, but there s been some bad, too. let s look back on the summer that was for mitt romney. so, in a large part of the summer we had of kind the sense that mitt romney was the nominee in waiting. he has the laser light focus on the economy. his debate performances have been very s