were not buckled up. caller: i did, one girl, you know, opposite me, flew and hit the ceiling, and, i saw a number of people that way. bill: hope she s okay, 30 injuries on board the plane, thanks for sharing your story, hope you are doing okay today, waking up in los angeles. caller: thanks so much. martha: keep your seatbelt on, lesson learned for me, how about you. keep it on at all times, never know what could happen and a short time from now, president obama plans to sign a bill that will drastically change the rules of our financial markets. mr. obama is calling the measure the toughest financial reform since the aftermath of the great depression but critics say they fear it could lead to overregulation and may further hamper the economy and prosperity in this country. malini wilkes is live from washington. reporter: martha, we expect the president to talk about how
could become tropical storm bonnie later on tonight. we will watch that for people in south texas but it s not going to be a big, huge story. as far as the forecast the rest of the run goes, we re looking okay today. just very hot in the deep south. you re watching morning joe, brewed by starbucks. [ jet engine roaring ]
down into the rio valley. that storm will push eastward then saturday as well. and we will see the middle and lower mississippi river valleys having that threat of severe weather. now, today nothing severe here but we are dealing with rain showers and heavy downpours at times. and just enough to kind of make for some slick roadways and potential air travel delays. the nation s mid section doing okay today. the western storm waiting in the wings today. bringing some heavy snow into the higher elevations and really strong winds associated with this, expect to see gusts up to 45 miles per hour across the four corners as well as southern california. and we could see a few isolated thunderstorms out of that system today, as well. fredric fredricka. okay, thank you. i know they re not thanking you. thanks for keeping us informed. i m just the messenger. appreciate it. same-sex couples have been fighting for the legal right to marry. but now they may be fighting just as hard for the r
time later. her dad and that good samaritan also doing okay today. the much anticipated apple ipad hit the shelves yesterday, didn t stay there too long as consumers snatched up hundreds of thousands of these new devices. some think the ipad is a game-changer. here s what one new owner said in philadelphia. this is going to change the world for most consumers. i know most of my friends who use computers, they only need to brows the web, go on e-mail and watch video and view photos and this will do it so much better than any desk top computer is ever going to be able to do. okay. here with me now the senior editor from cnet.com dan ackerman. what about you, do you agree with that guy s assessment? a very enthusiastic ipad supporter. we ve talked about this, a little skeptical and i will say it comes off better in person than on paper. you consider yourself a techie. a little bit. a lot of techies are not so
spectacular close-ups. talk about a foul ball. the lead-off hitter in last night s twins-yankees came in tampa managed to take a good swing at the pitch and connect it, but the ball flew into the stands, and wait until you see this. and it hit his own mother. the ball hit her in the chest and knocked the wind out of her. by the way, she is doing okay today. but he will have to buy an awfully nice present for mom. and then quite a treat for the u.s. women s soccer team playing in brazil. that field got 2 inches much snow. when the u.s. team scored the winning goal, the women got to make snow angels. some of the key events we are watching for later today on msnbc in about ten minutes, one of the men accused of being part of the christian militia is due