people pointing out if the school is trying to track lost or stolen computers, there s software to do that a low jack system like for cars, so why do they need to use web cams and see inside their students s bedrooms. one of the stories in the news, that of ben roethlisberger, the pittsburgh steelers quarterback to didn t show up for practice today after a couple of allegation by two women of not so good behavior. it s interesting as well that it seems to have been the team s decision he not turn up for the off-season workouts. they re saying he would have been a distraction there. of course these are not compulsory workouts but far be it from me to talk about anybody s weight but roethlisberger seems to carry off-season weight and a workout might not do harm.
by crashing the white house state dinner. remember there is an open investigation. speaking of the old maxim the only thing worse than bad press is no press here comes nike, reportedly shooting another commercial with tiger woods. nike was one of the few sponsors to stay with the golf star when the news broke of his multiple extra marital affairs. today we re learning more about the rape case against pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger. a supporter of the woman making the accusation said that roethlisberger was helped by friends who allegedly blocked the entrance to the restroom during the supposed attack. joining us in the msnbc newsroom is the public relations expert. welcome. to give our audience a little background on you, some of your past clients include mariah carey, kim cattrell and star jones. this is sort of ongoing and it isn t clear how this is going to go but this is a public relations nightmare for him would you agree? absolutely. this is a matter whe
office. we ll ask the significance of that. i guarantee you it s not good for whatever party is in power. let s go right now to willie geist with sports. william. an update on the ben roethlisberger story. pittsburgh television station kdka says roethlisberger has admitted to having sexual contact of the woman accusing her of sexual assault in the state of georgia, however, he denies having sexual intercourse with her. he claims hold on. he claims the woman fell and hurt her head after their sexual contact. she immediately visited a hospital, where the 20-year-old woman accused of roethlisberger of the assault. and an attorney for two pennsylvania offduty law enforcement officers who were traveling traveling, having fun with him, were with him at the georgia nightclub but did not see anything at all inappropriate. they had sexual contact and fell and hit her head.
case now in which he s accused of sexually assaulting a woman. how strong are the charges against roethlisberger? we re going to investigate right now.
and roethlisberger s agent is saying he s skeptical, but cooperating. severe spring floods, heavy snow could cover, heavy snow cover could lead to flooding depending how fast that snow melts and how much rain the region gets. meteorologist domenica davis is in the weather center with more on the forecast. yeah, that s a problem we saw last year, rather, with all the snow on the ground and this year even more, three feet that will be melting and we do have some shower activity up through the northern plains to monitor today rather light snow showers and rain snow showers, but it s off to the west we are going to keep an eye on this, the developing low pressure system that will go to the east and yes, bring wet weather to the los angeles area. a very big weekend for those folks down there and looks like showers will pretty much be around through today, tapering off by sunday, with below normal temperatures. here is the winter weather