you have to wake up and smell the coffee. what they re demanding, the response from the studios, and what it means for the entertainment you were looking forward to this year. plus, it s been so hot on the pavement out west, you could literally sere food. millions under threat from extreme heat today. we re in phoenix where it could be the hottest week ever. and has a serial killer been caught after a string of murders more than a decade ago on a long island beach. what our investigators team is learning about the suspect now in custody. it s 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m lindsey reiser in for ana cabrera. hollywood movie sets and television studios are going dark. failed contract negotiations with the major studios. let s bring in nbc news correspondent dana griffin from outside headquarters where picket lines have already formed this morning, and nbc news entertainment contributor chris witherspoon. comcast is a member of the alliance of motion picture and television produc
and through the super tuesday march 5th primary, and what the rest of the field tries to do usually is try to be the conservative alternative to the establishment candidate. that sometimes works with ronald reagan and sometimes doesn t work with say mitt romney. the failure of the nonestablishment candidate comes when they have to piecemeal together the first state so iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, and nevada. even if they are successful there, if they re not able to convert and raise enough money this that short period of time until super tuesday, they will lose massive momentum and it will be very difficult for them to catch up. so that s the big challenge. by admitting that they re not going to have a national campaign, that is very bad news for ron desantis. all right, rick tyler, and alencia johnson, we ll have to leave it there. new developments in special
phil, we know a pupew poll h the president up like 65%. does the gop cringe when they are out on the campaign trail and say mitt romney is an extremist. i didn t hear the president say mitt romney was an extre extremist. i think they should have jimmy carter speaking for this campaign because the environment in which president obama is governing really representing the carter years. we re dealing with carter 2.0 in a lot of ways. but to your question about bill clinton yes, please, to that question. president clinton has pursued an active role in the democratic party, does a lot of good things through his foundation, i m sure he ll help raise money. at the end of the day people are not voting for president bill clinton. they re voting on the economic record of barack obama. the bottom line on that one is there s a lot of work to do and a big case to be made.
houses and obama signed the bill. i sense from republicans in the house more frustration in the sense that transformational change would not be something that would be a disqualifying perspective to hold going into a new congress with a republican president. frankly, if the election is about big, big directional questions in this country and it s framed up around essentially a structural reform conservatism verses a liberal approach, i believe that s a pathway for romney to be elected, for republicans to maintain the majorities. i subscribe to your thesis that that provides for a platform around spending entitlements and that s actually needed. isn t that man-made fatigue? the overreach thing is a big deal. i also think the charles chuckles schumer point is relevant. look what s happening in some of the congressional races, whether
bill clinton can be out in the narrative and be part of the surrogate stream and probably help energize and make the left field good about them sells. i don t think it s going to have a measurable impact on the outcome of the election. but that voice, that voice. it s like question haves yea. a warm brandy. that warm fuzzy feeling. i fear what we ll see is an election between bush and clinton, that we ll have george w. rob portman will be mitt romney s vice president. you ll have bill clinton running around. barack obama is going to say we should go back to the policies of clinton. mitt romney arguing they should go back to the policies of bush. you are looking where president obama and the first lady are set to speak to troops in a few minutes. that s all ahead on now. uncer) most life insurance companies