mitt romney wanted to shake up his candidacy, and he has. today he selected wisconsin republican congressman paul ryan as his running mate. ryan is chairman of the house budget committee. at 42, he s the same age as one of mitt romney s sons. with 16 days to go to the gop convention, with 87 days to go until the election, the gop ticket is set and a new phase of this race begins now. our political team is standing by tonight, starting with nbc s peter alexander, who covers the romney campaign, and has followed them to their next event in northern virginia. peter, good evening. reporter: brian, good evening to you. by picking paul ryan, mitt romney bypassed more moderate republican candidates. in the end deciding to go with a man who will help him fire up the republican base and also will help him draw a clear contrast with the president over key issues in this election, like taxes and spending. with the retired bathleship uss wisconsin as the backdrop, mitt romney introdu
on the train platform. he pushes her into the train tracks. how horrified bystanders jump into action. and a guy takes his baby for a walk. this baby grand piano weighs 650 pounds. see one man s uphill battle to bring music to the people. it s time to get this edition of right this minute started. steven will kick things off for us. guy shows up look for a job at a welding shop in sacramento, california. no word if he remembered his resume, but he definitely forgot his clothes. there he is the man is butt nude. we saw this story on news 10 in sacramento, california. jose, 36 years old, looking for a job. the owner of the welding shop, chris johnson, said he appeared to be under the influence. there s a surprise. he told me he was good with his hands and needed work. of course the police show up and the man ignores the police commands and begins fighting, all the while while completely naked, with the police, even grabbing the female officer s hair. he go
county and in fairfax county, prince george s, charles, calvert, st. mary s, anne arundel, and up into montgomery and frederick counties in maryland, we do have still creeks and streams out of their banks and high water on the potomac too. time of high tide this morning at around between 6:00 and 7:00 this morning from the washington waterfront down to alexandria, there could be three to four feet above normal flooding there at the time of high tide. so that s something to watch out for. could be high water coming up into the alexandria waterfront and right around washington s waterfront. let s take a look at what s been happening over the last hour. the radar showing a developing area of some showers. these are not heavy downpours, just light rain now. calvert county, southern prince george s. these stretch across the potomac across into northern fairfax county and across loudoun county, the panhandle of west virginia. these are showing some tendency. they may be developing.
plea deal, a grand jury investigating whether he used campaign money to cover up an extramarital affair. three people in the united states are hospitalized with a deadly new strain of e-coli that has europe on edge. all three had recently visited germany. the same strain has killed at least 16 people in europe. minutes ago, we learned that jack kevorkian, the so-called doctor of death has died. the michigan pathologist openly assisted terminally ill patients to commit suicide. it fueled a national debate. more evidence that the recovery and the economy is losing steam. we learned the economy added just 54,000 jobs in may. that s just awful. it is a breathtaking drop from the month before when 232,000 jobs were created. as with all things, business, the numbers tell only part of the story. ali velshi in new york, with a closer look. hi, ali. i m an optimistic guy. i usually try to find the good part of these things. we create jobs instead of losing them. more jobs are
numbers, the winners will be lulled into some complaisancy. as always, we appreciate your perspective. we ll look for that column, too. it s okay to self promote. we get it. break out tcon i did ments. today is national mustard day. a museum houses 5200 different kinds of the yellow stuff. the oscar mayer weiner will cruise through town. you ha you have mustard bowling, fishing and custard as part of the activities. sorry, ketchup, you re not invited. and mustard custard, nothing good about that. here, kitty. here, kitty.