inside on ryan braun. you hit our best player, we hit yours. just missing him. next pitch. there he goes. gets braun, back-to-back pitches. things got testy. lance berkman singles to left, that scores matt holliday. cards win 8-7. milwaukee still two and a half up on st. louis in the a.l. central. phillies looking to improve against the colorado rockies. big night for ryan howard. baseball s best team in the fourth inning, he hits a bomb. 443 feet to the second deck in right field. in the eighth does it again off matt lindstrom. his 23rd of the year. phillies beat the rockies 5-0. they have the best record in baseball. the mets lost last night to the marlins 4-3. still a night to remember for one young mets fan. 11-year-old jake resnick won a contest to announce part of the
failed to come up with emergency pay for them. and back to the breaking news of the pre-debt fight world, there was an escaped peacock on the loose on the upper east side of manhattan yesterday. complete team coverage later in the show. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. after months of negotiation and political rhetoric, and just hours before the midnight deadline, congress passed legislation to raise the nation s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. the senate voted to approve the deal 74-26 guaranteeing the u.s. will not default on its obligations allowing it to begin borrowing more money to pay the bills. president obama signed the bill into law in the early afternoon, seen here without observers or fanfare. speaking in the rose garden just after the vote, the president praised congress for finally passing the compromised deal. but he immediately shifted his focus to fixing the economy and creating jobs. it shouldn t take the risk of default, the
news of the pre-debt fight world, there was an escaped peacock on the loose on the upper east side of manhattan yesterday. complete team coverage later in the show. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. after months of negotiation and political rhetoric, and just hours before the midnight deadline, congress passed legislation to raise the nation s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. the senate voted to approve the deal 74-26 guaranteeing the u.s. will not default on its obligations allowing it to begin borrowing more money to pay the bills. president obama signed the bill into law in the early afternoon, seen here without observers or fanfare. speaking in the rose garden just after the vote, the president praised congress for finally passing the compromised deal. but he immediately shifted his focus to fixing the economy and creating jobs. it shouldn t take the risk of default, the risk of economic catastrophe to get folks in this town to work together an