newark, new jersey, airport no fly list. >> banned from flying into newark airport. so mayor>> booker i apologize. i do. i truth is, i love newark, new jersey. it is one of america's great cities. i guess newark that's all. a beautiful waterfront.at [ laughter ] a thriving art scene. exciting regional cuisine, four star lodging.laug and world class live theater. and mayor booker you think your can keep me out of newark by o banning me from newark airporti nice try. there are other ways for me tor get to your city. your c i can navigate the sewer systew because everyone knows that ale sewer pipes lead to newark. >> we can'top

i love newark, new jersey, it's one of america's great cities. a beautiful waterfront. [ laughter ] a thriving art scene. [ laughter ] exciting regional cuisine. [ laughter ] and world class live theater. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> now mayor brooker you think you can keep me out by banning from knew washing airport. nice try. there are other ways for me to get to your city. i can navigation the sewer system because all sewer pipes lead to newark.

you on the newark, new jersey no-fly list. try jfk, buddy. >> that was good. >> that was great. well done. >> you don't want to go to newark. >> i'm telling you. you guys are going to be put on that list. >> that's all right. >> a great response. a funny joke too. >> i guess they must have a lot of money in their budget to be able to do that. >> that is the beauty of youtube. it doesn't cost much to put anything on there. good response. >> take a look at what is going on with the weather conditions around the region. it is a cool start to the day. we are at 51 degrees here in d.c. a lot of spots in the 40s. check out pittsburgh now has dropped off to 39 degrees, steve. quite cold there. new york city, 5 #. newark, probably right around that temperature as well. norfolk, virginia is at # 1 degree at this hour. here is a look at the satellite- radar combo. we can show you a couple of things. first of all, some of the clouds out there off to the north and west. we have a clot of clear skies from washington to points east and we'l

i love newark, new jersey, it's one of america's great cities. a beautiful waterfront. [ laughter ] a thriving art scene. [ laughter ] exciting regional cuisine. [ laughter ] and world class live theater. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> now mayor brooker you think you can keep me out by banning from knew washing airport. nice try. there are other ways for me to get to your city. i can navigation the sewer system because all sewer pipes lead to newark. >

conan o'brien shot back. >> last week, i told a joke about newark, new jersey. it was quite a good one about new, new jersey, and as a result, the maker has -- about newark, new jersey, and as a result, the mayor has bannecd me from the airport, so now, i have to get their like everyone else does, through a series of bad choices -- i have to get there like everyone else does. greta: san francisco mayor gavin newsom, and david letterman is talking again about his sex scandal. letermaterman stunned his audiee last week after falling victim to an extortion plot, and he was still cracking jokes. >> did you are we can just fly by? -- your weekend just fly by? [laughter] [cheers and applause] i mean, i will be honest with you, folks. i would give anything to be hiking on the appalachian trail. [laughter] [applause] i got into the car this morning, and the navigation lady was not speaking to me. [laughter] greta: letterman also made some apologies, saying this -- greta: yes, he certainly does, and there you have it, the best of the rest. but one more quick call before

, and the mayor of that city has now banned me from flying into newark airport. [cheers and applause] so, mr. mayor, i cannot tell you how sorry i am that i did not make that joke 15 years ago. greta: i have a suspicion that this one is far from over. the lights are blinking, and we will see you all again on monday. now, do not forget to go to gretawire.com to block, because there is so much more going on. -- go to gretawire.com to blog. -- go to gretawire.com to blog.

. >> the mayor of newark, new jersey, wants to set up a citywide program to improve newark residents health. the program would consist of a bus ticket out of newark. >> reporter: newark's mayor fired back. >> did you say what conan o'brien said about the city of newark? >> no, what'd he say? >> you don't mess with newark like that. >> reporter: and then the mayor clipped conan's wings. >> i'm officially putting you on the newark, new jersey, airport no-fly list. try jfk, buddy. >> reporter: some actually thought the mayor was serious, calling it an abuse of power. no, it was more of an abuse of humor. "saturday night live" also picked on new jersey with an impersonation of new york's blind governor, david paterson. >> by the way, you take the holland tunnel straight to new jersey! >> reporter: but if you think newark has an image problem, wait until you hear what had the wisconsin tourism federation going, what the [ bleep ]? the wisconsin tourism federation has been around 30 years, but lately its initials have taken on new meaning. >> i have decided i'm going to do a quick segment

. >> the mayor of newark, moij wants to set up a city wide program to improve newark's health. maybe a health program would include a bus ticket out of newark. >> oh, man as a jersey girl. >> get no respect. >> you're enraged by this. >> i'm enraged because newark is a hot bed of corruption. >> pollution. >> polluted and smells. >> industrial buildings. >> that's no reason to diss it like that. conan. >> it started a heck of a war on words-- a war of words between conan and the mayor of newark, new jersey, who answered back to conan on this youtube video, take a listen. >> not only am i mayor of newark's largest city, but mayor of a city with one of the largest airports in the united states. now accord to go the powers invested in me by the people of newark, i'm putting you on the newark, new jersey, no-fly list. try jfk, buddy. >> i was telling you to me that looks like a bit after joke. i haven't seen that before. >> sure. but seems to me at first this was spun certainly in media reports he's, he's really upset with conan and really doesn't want him there and the mayor took t

if you diss newark, prepare to be dissed back. the mayor -- >> conan o'brien took a swing at our city. >> the mayor wants to set up a program to improve newark residents. maybe the health care program will consist of a bus ticket out of newark. the mayor fired back on you tube. >> did you hear what conan o'brien said about newark? >> who is conan o'brien? >> you don't mess with newark like that. >> i'm officially putting you on the airport no-fly list. try jfk, buddy. >> some thought the mayor was serious, call together an abuse of power and it was more of an abuse of humor. "saturday night live" had an impersonation of new york's governor, david patterson. >> you take the holland tunnel straight to new jersey. the tourism federation has been around 30 years and the initials have taken on new meaning. >> i decided i'm going to do a segment called what the. [ bleep ] . >> wtf moment. >> the modern family has not gotten the word. >> i surf the web and i text lol, omg, wtf. the wisconsin tourism federation saw their initials mocked o

a newark airport guard was arrested for making threats against the guy. what the hell is going on? why are there so many threats? >> um -- i -- i -- do not -- i don't know what the evidence is. i would be shocked if there were more threats against obama than there were against president bush. >> i'm telling you. what is this another, i don't believe the poll? i'm telling you. trust what i'm saying. >> i think they may be more aggressive about investigating it. >> he's getting more threats. >> as i have not only witnessed in my whole life but described in "guilty," every presidential assassination or attempted presidential assassination was committed by some kind of left wing loan or communist or -- >> the home-grown terrorists are another group we have to worry about here. >> they're all liberal. >> don't make that jump from murderer, terrorist to liberals. that is an outrageous statement and you all know it. >> it's all described in "guilty." we can go through it, assassin by assassin and moreover go to -- >> they're not liberals, ann. they're murderers, they're terrorists. stop i

a newark airport guard was arrested for making threats against the guy. what the hell is going on? why are there so many threats? >> um -- i -- i -- do not -- i don't know what the evidence is. i would be shocked if there were more threats against obama than there were against president bush. >> i'm telling you, trust what i'm saying. >> i think they may be more aggressive about investigating it. >> he's getting more threats. >> as i have not only witnessed in my whole life but described in guilty, every presidential assassination or attempted presidential assassination was committed by some kind of left-wing loon or -- >> the home-grown terrorists are ones we have to worry about here. >> they're all liberal. >> you can't make that jump from murderer, terrorists, to liberals. it's outrageous. >> it's all described. assassin by assassin by assassin. moreover, you can go to -- >> they're not liberals, ann, they're murders, they're terrorists. stop it. >> what's the ideology? >> stop it. >> they are communists -- look -- lee harvey oswald tried to move to the soviet union. he was on h

from flying into newark airport. so, mr. mayor, i can't tell you how sorry i am that i didn't make that joke 15 years ago. >> leave cory booker alone now. here he is with us, executive editor of politico jim vandehei. he has a look at the morning playbook. >> how you doing? >> i want to talk about sarah palin's new book "going rogue." we don't have a lot of insight into what kind of book it's going to be. >> we know the co-writer, who probably wrote the bulk of it is lynn vincent, who's a christian conservative writer. she was the co-author on the book on bush who was forced out because he was talking about the war on terror in religious terms. she helped write donkey kongs where she talked about how the democratic party was rooted in pro treason and subversion. there could be a nice sharp edge to the palin book. we do know it's not going to be a poll ti book. it's going to be more of a view on her life and politics. people seem to like it. it's already on the best seller's list a month and a half before it comes out

brek was arrested tuesday for allegedly making threatening comments in newark's airport one day before the president flew there. the secret service says he's denying making these threats. brek's father, listen to this, he says he is not surprised by the allegations. >> it was coming, okay? he did plenty to me, plenty of rotten stuff. my son takes advantage of everybody because he owes the government a lot of money. he had a business big, he was making $2.5 million a year and blowing it up his nose. i don't want to know. he's not my son. >> brek works for a private security firm which screens airport employees. authorities say that they searched his home and they turned up at least 40 firearms all of which appear to be legally owned. >>> the fbi is trying to track down a russian mobster so powerful he can affect the global economy with a phone call. semion mogilevich is accused of arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire. his alleged schemes stretched throughout europe, the south pacific, even into the u.s. and canada. according to authorities, in one cam, investors

it's a 90-minute delay in newark, new jersey. also la guardia, a 65-minute delay all because of the wind. low clouds in philadelphia. here's what we have the rest of the afternoon. philadelphia right now, it's a 70-minute delay and that's probably going to keep up through the early part of the day. d.c. metro, including baltimore, short delays, but same thing, morning wind and san francisco, morning fog. more details in about half an hour. >>> one of the most popular children's books of all time is now coming alive on the big screen. should you walk into a dark theater, though, where the wild things are? our movie review up after this. >> we're going to try to kill the bad guys by beating them in the head with these dirt clubs. we're going to try to find the biggest pieces.

it's in newark. laguardia, about a half hour delay for detroit. near atlanta, big travel hub, most of the rain, down to the south. the low clouds are here. one hour philly and atlanta. more on that in just a bit. >>> can you make your house 100% flood proof? make it float. >>> you may remember this moment that changed the lives of so many u.s. troops. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al-qaeda training camps and military insulations of the taliban. we will not waiver. we will not tire. we will not falter and we will not fail. >> nearly 800 american troops have been killed since the war in afghanistan started eight years ago today. richard lui, the war started to destroy al-qaeda's safe haven in afghanistan. how has it progressed on that front at least? >> perhaps well. al-qaeda's role has faded drastically. james jones saying fewer than 100 core al-qaeda fighters remain in afghanistan. some experts argue here. president obama's camp may be underestimating al-qaeda's numbers in afghanistan because the group prefe

after takeoff that teterboro tower gave the small plane pilot a new frequency to talto the tower at newark. whether the pilot got the info correct is unclear because his response was gashled. the plane's pilot was never heard from again. three minutes later is when the plane's collision with a sight-seeing helicopter is first reported. a collision captured b a passenger on a tour boat and confirmed by other pilots in the area. >> be advised there was an airplane crashed into a helicopter south of lincoln a minute ago. >> reporter: both aircraft plunged into the hudson river below, leaving nine people dead, including five italian tourists on board the helicopter. chris clackum, nbc news. >> those tapes also record air traffic controllers shortly after the small plane took off. they were joking about a cookout just two minutes before that midair collision. >> coming up on our broadcast this evening, a lot of people are trying to consolidate their debts and control spending by switching from credit to debit cards. what can i say? i love clothes! the only thingetter than a great pair of boots.

hudson pilot, that is captain, rather, sully sullenberger, who has successfully made that trip from newa newark's laguardia airport to charlotte. us airways flight 427 which successfully landed. last time he attempted that flight was, of course jarngs 15th when a flock of geese struck that airbus. you're seeing pictures of the aftermath 90 seconds into takeoff and the engines lost all of their thrust. sullenberger had to land in the water, icy waters of the hudson river. 150 people on board and every single one got off safely. that was the heroics of the captain and co-pilot, the two of them back in the air again for u.s. air having completed that flight and very happy to have done so. >>> well, david, speaking of dynamic duos, the dynamic duo of oprah winfrey and first lady michelle obama met with the president of the international olympic committee today in the ongoing effort to land the 2016 summer olympic games for chicago. >> yeah, alex, the lobbying doesn't get more interesting than this. and with less than 24 hours before a host city is announced, the first lady also had lunch with the que

[cheers and applause] >> and then terminal a of newark airport lies in my city, i will rename it, this is absolutely honest to god truth the conan o'brien terminal for your visit. [cheers and applause] steve: however, if conan has to go to terminal b which is not in elizabeth, look for a citizen's arrest. gretchen: very important point there. that war, that fun war between the two of them continues. let me bring you headlines. pay czar kenneth fineberg taking no prisoners. is he going to start clamping down on the paychecks executives get at bailed out companies. specifically banks. maybe insurance companies. fineberg will put a chunk of their pay into stock that can't be touched for years to try to prevent them from taking risky moves with taxpayerey he will decide on the pay for 125 executives or employees at seven firms. those companies include g.m. and chrysler, bank of america, citigroup and a.i.g. just to name a few. steve: meanwhile president obama wants to paint federal government green. meet ambitious climate change targets by the year 2020. under the president's order, agenci

newark, liberty, about a half hour delay. philadelphia, an hour. denver, you have the snow. las vegas, wind for the afternoon, one hour or more. more showers towards d.c. and the fog is about gone for atlanta. in new york city, part of the problem for the travel delays is the fog. what about the world series game tonight? looks like it will be okay. looks like cloudy with some drizzle. >>> police are on the lookout for a bank robbery suspect who looks like he's got a few years on him. look what he brought to one of his hold-ups. >>> president obama is expected to decide in the next few weeks whether he will send as many as 40,000 new troops to afghanistan. just this week, 23 families learned their sons or daughters went be coming home alive. richard lui has more. >> good morning. one of them was captain eric jones. the 29-year-old was in a helicopter that crashed in southern afghanistan on monday. his best friends says jones' parents are devastated by the loss of their only child. >> i can't even imagine what it's like for them. they loved him so much and he loved them. he d

a newark airport guard was arrested for making threats against the guy. what the hell is going on? why are there so many threats? >> um -- i -- i do not -- i mean, i do not know what the evidence is. i would be shocked if there were more threats against obama than there were against president bush. >> i'm telling you, trust what i'm saying. >> i think they may be more aggressive about investigating it. >> he's getting more threats. >> as i have witness in my own life but described in guilty, every presidential assassination or attempted presidential assassination was committed by a left wing loon or they had no politics at all. >> the home grown terrorists are the ones we have to worry about. >> they're all liberal. >> you can't make that jump from murderer, terrorists, to liberals. it's outrageous. >> it's all described. assassin by assassin and moreover, you can go to -- >> they're not liberals, ann, they're murders, they're terrorists. stop it. >> what's the ideology? >> stop it. >> they are communists -- look -- >> they're communist. >> lee harvey oswald tried to move to the so

trying to catch a flight in or out, newark,laguardia, jfk, delays. the wind will really be a factor, especially later this afternoon, richard. still looks pretty good there. >> beautiful. what do you mean? >> yeah, but laguardia across the river there -- >> not so hot. >> two-hour delays. >> 1700 elms in that park. this list i got to keep on, you know, using it somehow. >> appreciate it. >> all right. thanks, bob. >>> new this morning, scientists found a new ring around saturn. this is actually bob's expertise. and it is so big can you fit a billion earths inside of it. unlike saturn's other rings, this one is almost invisible. the ice and dust that form it are so spread out. nasa found the ring with a special telescope that picked up on its heat. invisible but there. >> yeah, see. there you go. it's the biggest thing we've ever seen but we just found it. >> wait a minute. what? is it there? >> see, nasa, they need more money to get more telescopes to see more invisible things. >> smoke and mirrors is what you do, bob. all right. thanks. >>> what do

a newark airport guard was arrested for making threats against the guy. what the hell is going on? why are there so many threats? >> up -- i -- i do not -- i mean, i do not know what the evidence is. i would be shocked if there were more threats against obama than there were against president bush. >> i'm telling you, trust what i'm saying. >> i think they may be more aggressive about investigating it. >> he's getting more threats. >> as i have witness in my own life but described him guilty, every presidential assassination or attempted presidential assassination was committed by a left wing loon or they had no politics at all. >> the home grown terrorists are the ones we have to worry about. >> they're all liberal. >> you can't make that jump from murderer, terrorists, to liberals. it's outrageous. >> it's all described. assassin by assassin and moreover, you can go to -- >> they're not liberals, ann, they're murders, they're terrorists. stop it. >> what's theology. >> stop it. >> they are communists -- look -- >> they're communist. >> lee harvey oswald tried to move to the sovie

here's what it looks like, traveling in or out of the big city area, including newark, i think you'll be just fine. clouds increase later this afternoon, some producing heavy downpours overnight tonight. watch for thunderstorms tonight nyc, dropping the temperature by tomorrow. look at the maps, where is the strong weather? rice right around oklahoma, south of oklahoma city, north of dallas and the ft. worth metro. the ryan shield itself is rocketing in towards indiana, getting in towards michigan, stretching into north dakota where it's turning back into snow. that snow is heavy at times this morning, faitds apart later today. an inch or two more the morning. oklahoma city, line of showers to the south. severe thunderstorm watch is in effect until noon. no warnings until now. heavy rain, small hail, gusty winds out of that as well. rain just blasting through missouri now, right past st. louis. rain showers still over the city, but the severe weather, the strongest stuff stuff, is over to the east. no warnings right now, good news. there were a couple earlier this morning. they're fal

patricks church is about ten miles west of newark. the body of father ed hinds was found this morning. he did not show up for mass. authorities are not releasing di tails about this crime. >> we're doing numerous interviews. we have over 50 detectives and police officers working on this kals. we don't want to taint the public in those interviews in terms of what we're doing. we're not getting into the nature of the wounds t manner of the wounds, or the weapon that may have been used. >> police have closed off a four-block area around the church. the killing comes one day of police held a public safety seminar there. >>> investigators are trying to figure out how a plane shot 150 miles past the airport destination might not get any help from the cockpit recorder. the recorder was an older model. this thing only records about 30 minutes of tape at a time. newer recorders catch up to two hours of conversations at a time. they missed they're their destinations. they first lost contact with the plane as it was flying over the rocky mountai

because you were talking about her alleged drug habits and she said, if this were back in the day in newark, i'd meet you outside, but not now, because i'm a lady with class. >> i'm from new jersey, i don't know nothing about going outside and fighting no one. you know what i mean? >> do you feel that now you're on tv, you have to be a little nicer to people than when you were on the radio, because you have to book the show. >> well, it wasn't that i was ever mean. i'm not a mean person. >> yeah. >> you can say the same things that i say, but because you're a white woman, you know, a new york city, you know, staple, somehow, you could say the same thing as me. they'll let you pass. >> not really. >> oh, yes, really. >> oh, no, don't -- >> oh, yes. cindy adams, armey archer, go back to hetta harper. we could say the same thing. >> i've got to go, baby. >> i really enjoyed this, though. >>> when we return. janeane garofalo. ddddddd >>> it's really not pushing a point of view. and the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way and we're

because you were talking about her alleged drug habits and she said, if this were back in the day in newark, i'd meet you outside, but not now, because i'm a lady with class. >> i'm from new jersey, i don't know nothing about going outside and fighting no one. you know what i mean? >> do do you feel that now you're on tv, you have to be a little nicer to people than when you were on the radio, because you have to book the show. >> well, it wasn't that i was ever mean. i'm not a mean person. >> yeah. >> you can say the same things that i say, but because you're a white woman, you know, a new york city, you know, staple, somehow, you could say the same thing as me. they'll let you pass. >> not really. >> oh, yes, really. >> oh, wino, don't -- >> oh, yes. cindy adam, arnie archer. get back to hetta harper. we could say the same thing. >> i've got to go, baby. >> i really enjoyed this, though. >>> when we return. janeane garofalo. >>> it's really not pushing a point of view. and the bigger thing is that other news organizations, like yours, ought not to treat them that way and we're not going t

, it's national pasta month and take a look, we've got the pastas, nice folks from ray seeny's from newark here, mushrooms, that's fall, mushrooms. >> absolutely. >> stay with us, we will be right back. >> welcome back everybody. here is your shot of the morning. check out how the talented beluga whales, well, they play in a japanese aquarium and they blow bubbles. >> look at that. >> are you sure they're not belching. >> no, they're blowing bubbles. they're sol creatursome of the smartest creatures, and roll over. >> do you know how they did that, early over. >> smoke rings, they're big smokers. >> a bad habit. >> this is what you get when i am here, mike jerrick in for dave briggs. >> mike jerrick in national geographic. >> good morning philadelphia, hi, philly. >> a stern warning from afghanistan about the growing threat of the taliban. the country's defense minister say that thousands of foreign fighters have poured into afghanistan in recent months, giving the taliban insurgency a big boost. most fighters are believed to be from pakistan, north after can and chechnya. >> the u.s. mili

newark, what you think about afghanistan? caller: i think the president to deal with it. that is what i have got to say. host: larry, rocky mountain, n.c., independent. caller: i will try to make it short. we had at the window of opportunity to go in there and take care of business eight, nine years ago. we did not do it. when things get messed up so bad, there is no getting it right. afghanistan is the type of worar -- our military is now a defensive force. we do not have a lot of troops. i do not know what is wrong with those generals. a lot of times people say, listen to those generals. a lot of times those guys will get you in trouble because they are trained to go in and win at all cost. they do not want to lose. we have to look at this in a smart way. and just tell the american people the thing is unwinnable now. we had to go there to keep america safe. if al qaeda wanted to come in, they could come right across the border. the biggest problem is our borders. let me finish up, sir. as far as the stuff going way across the water to fight somebody to keep us safe and