stories about his background and in particular the stories about the massive amount of money, $1.6 million that he was paid by freddie mac are going to be particularly problematic. which gets us back to romney/obama. i would say this is someone with a 40-year record in public life and lots of statements that could be picked through. but we were struck we re always monitoring the twitter universe.รง you tweeted yesterday, doing the daily rundown on msnbc tomorrow a.m., see if i can link the iowa caucuses to the nba lockout, go. i can t. i was suggesting that much of the analysis or what passes for analysis in politics strikes me, if i may channel gingrich as stunningly strange. the fundamental point is this
for scattered showers. only a few showers making their way into the big city. here s how the forecast looks on this tuesday. rain from texas to the tennessee valley. thunderstorms this afternoon in the auto southeast and again, there s a chance of showers in the east, veronica. the heavier rains for new york, boss, philly will come later tonight into tomorrow morning. wonderful, bill. looking forward to it, thanks. a big fine for tarmac trouble and the oracle goes high tech. your first look at this morning s business headlines is straight ahead. coming up, the packers remain perfect and another dark day in the nba lockout. you re watching first look on msnbc. if insurance were sold in the grocery store
you can look at all of my music monday interviews. tell me who you re listening to, what artists you think we should profile each and every music monday. now hour two. watch this. welcome back. i m brooke baldwin. here are a couple of stories we re looking at. the supreme court decides it will weigh in on president obama s health care law. a charity chief resigns among the penn state sex abuse scan l scandal. and an american is on a russian rocket heading to the international space station. jessica yellin, let s begin with you. first just give us the news. tell us exactly what it was the supreme court will be deciding upon. brooke, they ll hear arguments about the affordable care anl act, the health care law, and specifically whether the individual mandate is constitutional, the provision that requires every american to buy health insurance or pay a fine. they ll also decide whether the law can stand without the individual mandate, and that s a decision that will affect e
welcome. great to have you here. great to see you, ali, good morning. up first, the growing penn state sex abuse scandal s. the university is vowing to find out who or who else failed the victims. right now in state college p.a. they are bracing for game day. the last home game of the year, the first in a half century without legendary coach joe paterno. the small college town swells to the largest on game day and given what we saw on campus two nights ago, police are under intense pressure to maintain control. our jason carroll is live in state college this morning and, jason, i imagine s security hey been stepped up quite a bit? reporter: that is true, and the mood on campus, really mixed in terms of how the students are feeling about everything that s been going on. you ve got a number of students who are quite frankly, have that same amount of anger that we saw out here on wednesday, but alina, also there have been a number of students who have come up to me who sai
$9.95 a month to households with children eligible for free school lunches. and more evidence that politics has gone digital. the hill reports that herman cain s campaign anticipating internet searches on harassment allegations against him, placed ads on google targeting likely words, such as herman cain harassment or herman cain scandal. then an ad appears at the top of those search results for cain truth.com. coming up, off-season tragedy strikes a major leaguer. a strange approach to offense on the ice, and more gyrations in the nba lockout. plus if you re going through pro basketball withdrawal, we ve got some of last night s college hardwood highlights. your first look at sports coming up. you re watching first look on msnbc. this is $100,000.