on track with the alabamas, oregons, ohio states of the college football world. the implications are saying it s so big, it s the biggest game in acc conference history. wow, big. and florida state, the road team is a three-point favorite, but clemson being at home, having the fan, 81,000 in death valley, gives them a little bit of an edge. and tonight, a great story trending on bleacher report this morning, pushing it fashion forward once again. yeah, how fashionable. the pink helmets, pink cleats, and we re used to seeing the nfl do this. they have the accessories with the gloves and the towels, and they started this a couple of years ago, and now org organization is taking it to a whole new level with the bold, bright helmets, and they ll have the famous alum sign about 25, and then auctioned off, and the money donated. the whole point is to make sure women get checked, mammograms.
country efforts to save the environment are actually killing communities. many logging towns have been hit very hard. in parts of oregon conditions getting so bad the governor wants to take over. dan springer is live in seattle with more on this. hi, dan. reporter: yeah, hey, rick, lawmakers in oregon are saying if they don t create a safety met that is being pulled by the federal government many counties will go bankrupt, places like curry county where the federal government owns two-thirds of the land. it s rich in prime timber land, since the spotted owl was listed as an even damage erred species logging has lagged 90%. they paid the counties not to log. it s called timer payments. the payments have been dwindling and every year are on the chopping blocks. many feel this is the year that they go away. county services that are scarce now could also go away. in curry county they have four deputies patrolling an area the
size of rhode island. there is no response at night. they are looking to take over elections, building inspections and taxation and the most controversial letting the governor impose attacks to pay for public safety. what we re becoming in the tim per dependent countries are the april pa lay sha of the pacific northwest. that s not what we want to be. reporter: leaders in these timber counties say they don t want the federal ral handout any more and they don t want a state take over them. want to get back to work but that would mean changing the environmental laws this allow groups to sue federal timber sales to death. the answer is loosen the regulations. let us use what we have. quit trying to come down and scare us and terrorize our citizens with taxes and impositions and taking over of services, and state involvement. that doesn t help. reporter: oregon s congressional delegation is working to ease some of those regulations at the same time pushing for payments to continue
joining us from atlanta, the moderator of meet the press, david gregory. and here with us onset in washington, we have the democratic senator from oregon, senator dan widen. and host of the daily rundown chuck todd. what do you call that? pinhuelo. he is just making up stuff now. nobody s heard of that. david gregory, it s very exciting. joe biden makes news. the administration, the president, now supports gay marriage. how exciting, right? yeah. they spent a lot of time afterward trying to walk that back. first saying that the vice president was speaking for himself, and then saying that he was totally consistent with president obama. this was newsworthy. why? because this administration appears poised to change its position on same-sex marriage. the president has said before that his views were evolving.
circumstance. but i went through a campaign in 2010, and i told the people of oregon that i was going to approach problem solving and putting the country s interests first. i came up with a democratic chair and a republican chair in each of oregon s 36 counties. and i said, if you send me back to washington, that s what i m going to focus on. and frankly, it works. one of the first fights we won at the beginning of this congress, senator jerry moran, a republican from kansas and i, teamed up and we won this fight to make sure that the internet stayed free and open. you wouldn t turn websites into web cops. not only does it work sub constant tiffly sub tan stan tiffly, it works. we have luger about to go down. they say by double digits. i ll be surprised if it s single digits. wow. and i think europe, there s a