the fallout over what was iran's nuclear secret. tonight, new pressure from president obama and what could be a concession from tehran terror plot. we're now learning about the man behind what's being called the biggest threat since 9/11. embryo mix-up. after that heartbreaking case in ohio, it's happened again. a new scandal that's raising doubts for about 100 patients. and what recession? it could be the one place in the world where money is truly no it could be the one place in the world where money is truly no object.

captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. a day after being called out by president obama and other western leaders for building a secret nuclear facility, iran took atep today to try to ease tensions. announcing it will allow on an unspecified dade international suspe inspectors. the white house is continuing to press iranian leaders to come clean about what it suspects is part of a nuclear weapons project. mike viqueira has the latest on the story. he joins us from the white house. >> reporter: iran appears to have been caught off-guard by the disclosure of their nuclear facility. even after the announcement they will allow intnational inspectors to visit the site,

the administration here is still taking a tough line. the president today back in washington and enjoying a family outing. one day after joining allies to deliver a startling revelation. >> the islamic republic of iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near qom for several years. >> reporter: today iran declared it would allow international inspectors access to the newly disclosed site. a move quickly noted by the secretary of state. >> well, it is always welcome when iran makes a decision to comply with the international rules and regulations. >> reporter: but the administration wants more transparency from iran. in his saturday internet address, the president sought to keep the pressure on. >> iran must now cooperate fully with the international atomic energy agency and take action to denstrate its peaceful intentions. >> reporter: the site, located in iran's northwest, is said by u.s. officials to consist of a series of tunnels built under

mountainous terrain whose size and shape suggests iran had only one purpose, to develop weapons grade material. >> intended to keep it in a sensitive pocket and if it made a decision to build nuclear weapons, to be able to use it to facilitate that decision quickly. >> reporter: for mr. obama the challenge now is to get russia and china on board, though the two countries have been reluctant to get tough with iran in the past. >> iran was caught red-handed cheating. the world knows it. it can't deny it. russia and china can no longer hide behind a fiction this is not a nuclear weapons program. >> reporter: the president says a united front is essential if key talks scheduled to begin next week fail to yield progress. >> when we find that the diplomacy does not work, we will be in a much stronger position to, for example, apply sanctions that have bite. >> reporter: and in an interview too air tomorrow on "meet the press" former president bill

clinton says this latest news means a boost for diplomacy. >> i always think it's a good idea, if possible, to look somebody in the eye and have a chance to have a conversation before there's a total breach. >> reporter: that face-to-face meeting next week in geneva will see iran on one side of the fable facing six world powers, including russia and china, on the other side, and in the meantime here the administration says they want to see iranian promises matched with actions. lester? >> mike viqueira tonight. thank you. for more on the story we turn to cnbc's chief washington correspondent john harwood. john, we've seen this president absorbed by the economy and health care,omestic issues, now suddenly the iue of whether to introduce more troops into afghanistan and this growing iranian crisis. are we seeing a new level of test for this new young administration? >> reporter: there's no question about it. over the next couple months this iran situation is going to be kind of a rolling 3:00 a.m. phone call for him, lester. it's a challenge. a lot of pressure on this new

young president to show he can handle the situation, but also an opportunity. if he's able to either get iran to back down or to lead the world in imposing tougher sanctions than we've seen so far, he'll get credit that his advisers, i talked to one senior official, who said we may get some political capital. >> it looked like and extraordinary show of solidarity seeing these three leaders coming out hard against iran. what does it say about potential sanctions with real teeth and the message that sends to iran? >> reporter: president obama spent a couple days before that announcement trying to lay the groundwork with u.s. allies in particular with russia who has been reluctant, as you noted before. so it's a promising step, but, of course, we're not going to know until we actually get a sanctions regime laid down and approved by the united nations. that's when we're going to see whether barack obama can deliver on this promising moment right now. >> quick question to you on afghanistan. some republicans are pushing for general mcchrystal to brief -- to offer congressional testimony ahead of the president's

decisionmaking on additional troops. is that unprecedented? >> reporter: well, as i recall, lester, commanding generals in iraq testified before congress at various points during decisionmaking deliberations on the iraq war and what to do before the surge, for example, so i think it's not all that unusual, but i think the republicans want to get stan mcchrystal out there to try to give some umf to that recommendation. it's demeanor who are most reluctant about escalating troops to afghanistan. they're worried about a repeat of the vietnam situation. >> john harwood. john, thanks very much. this reminder, as we saw in that report from the white house a moment ago, david gregory talked with former president bill clinton about iran and many other topics. that airs tomorrow on "meet the press." now to the latest in the alleged terror plot targeting new york city. the suspect is set to appear here in new york on tuesday, but tonight we're learning more about how close he may have come

to pulling off an attack. nbc's jeff rossen now with the latest. >> reporter: back in his hometown na ji bulla zazi returns to new york city under heavy protection. u.s. intelligence officials say zazi was close to pulling off an attack here in the city where he grew up and worked as a coffee cart vendor. >> zazi could have been within weeks away from putting together a bomb. >> reporter: zazi most recently lived in denver where investigators say he was caught on surveillance tape buying gallons of chemicals at a local beauty supply shop. >> his joking response was, i have a lot of girlfriends. >> reporter: he checked in a hotel in a denver suburb where he allegedly mixed the ingredients. on september 10th federal agents were watching as he headed into new york, they say to launch the attack to coincide with the september 11th anniversary. counterterrorism officials call zazi their worst nightmare, a home grown suspect who knows the city, blends in, and can travel in and out of the country

legally. >> he's a new yorker who ran a coffee cart, nice guy, a smart guy, an articulate guy, an engaging person. this is someone you would never suspect is a terrorist. those are the worst kind. >> reporter: investigators say behind the scenes zazi was plotting. after receiving al qaeda explosives training in pakistan. just this week osama bin laden released an audio tape threatening european countries as germany holds elections, and in the u.s. two other arrests. michael finton is accused of driving what he thought was a car bomb to a federal building in illinois. and o sam smadi was arrested for placing what he thought was pa bomb at a 60-story office building in dallas. >> there's no direct links between any of the recent arrests but it representing a broader threat as well as with self-starters inside the united states. >> reporter: prosecutors claim e plot was well advanced but his lawyer says authorities

never found explosives. >> i didn't think there was reas to keep him detained. it was not a surprise to anyone. >> reporter: he remains in a new york city jail cell awaiting a court appearance tuesday. jeff rossen, nbc news, new york. in pakistan, two separate suicide car bombings have killed at least 16 people. the explosions happened outside a bank and a police station. more than 150 people were injured. the taliban is claiming responsibility for one of the bombings and warning there will be more. in afghanistan this has already been the deadliest year of the war for u.s. forces an nato forces. as we mentioned a moment ago, for president obama a decision is nearing as to whether to xhilt more american troops to the war. there's been a major push to make sure wounded troops already on the battlefield are getting the critical care they need more quickly. nbc's jim maceda reports now on the medical surge in afghanistan. >> reporter: when flight medic emmett gets the call to help a wounded soldier, he faces many

threats. high altitude, treacherous peaks, and taliban attacks. >> sometimes i go out and i think, is this the last time anyone is going to see me? >> reporter: but then the mission kicks in. >> this is a good 16 gauge. >> reporter: the so-called golden hour between life and death. >> we're giving you more medicine. everything is fine. >> have your penetrating injuries like gunshot wounds, multitrauma, land mine strikes. >> would you grab the goggles? >> reporter: this exclusive footage shot by an embedded freelance cameraman last spring shows how 101st airborne medevac team goes to the limit to save precious time. landing near the point of injury and often under fire, this u.s. soldier was hit in the arm by shrapnel. >> had he not gotten here fast enough, the chances of -- >> reporter: why do they do? sergeant nate warton gets emotional when he describes the

bond with his comrades fighting on the ground. >> he's risking his life every day to protect my family back home, and i'm going to do what i can do to pull him out. >> reporter: but to save the lives of u.s. soldiers and marines who are increasingly sustaining severe traumatic injury, a medical surge was needed, and not just in the air, but on the battlefield as well. and that led to the nautilus, an armored m.a.s.h. on wheels used for the first time in battle. this u.s. marine shock and trauma platoon can go into the fight to treat the wounded. >> hang tight, buddy. >> reporter: stabilizing patients well within the golden hour. >> we're good to go. >> we are taking physicians and corpsmen right out to the battlefield instead of transiting patients back. >> reporter: operating on the wounded in battle conditions is dangerous work. needing this kind of realtime

training and this, fresh blood kept on base in a frozen blood bank. >> we're pretty much the first ones to be able to actually start doing this. >> reporter: and more high-tech vehicles are on the way. >> from a medical standpoint, i guess we were part of the surge. >> reporter: on and above the battlefield, medics taking more risks to save more lives. jim maceda, nbc news, with u.s. troops in southern afghanistan. back in this country, it's a rainy night in georgia, which is not good news since much of the southeast is already trying to recover from severe weather that swept through the region earlier this week. at least 11 deaths in georgia, alabama, and tennessee are already being blamed on the storms. in california family and friends gathered today for the funeral of annie le, the yale graduate student who was found murdered at her university lab on the day she was supposed to be getting married. nbc's miguel almaguer has our report. >> reporter: surrounded by family, annie le's casket slowly made its way into the church she

attended as a child. grief ran deep for the generation of lives she touched. this would be the final good-bye. >> may she now share with him eternal glory. >> reporter: it was a service to celebrate her life, but one also filled with immeasurable sorrow. le's mother read a poem to her daughter, translated by her son. >> my deepest sorrow and unceasing heartaches. >> reporter: then show spoke to the man annie loved, jonathan ma do you s madowski. >> even now annie is gone, but i still have you and love you very much. >> reporter: annie grew up in california and as a standout student later enrolled at yale. on september 13th her body was found inside a university research building where she worked. missing for five days, she was discovered on the day le was to be married. lab technician raymond clark is

charged with her murder. investigators have said nothing about a tive. while le's family is left with unanswered questions and overwhelming grief. >> i believe that from annie when i say it was through these little things she did, her silliness and friendliness, and not academic achievement she made the most impression on us. >> reporter: annie le was 24 years old and her life was just beginning, a promising student a young woman in love, the victim of a senseless murder. she is gone, but her memory remains. >> i miss you, and i will always love you. >> reporter: a tearful good-bye for a young woman surrounded by love in both life and death. miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. when "nightly news" continues this saturday, it's happened again. an embryo mix-up at a fertility clinic. this time it could effect hundreds of people. later, a place where billionaires are a dime adozen,

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>> reporter: in new orleans -- >> we have become deeply concerned about the reliability of the overall ivf program itself. >> reporter: officialing at the in vitro fertilization clinic suspended operations indefendant knitly admitting its staff mislabeled embryos belonging to 100 parents. >> we are deely sorry for the concerns and fear we know this causes our patients. >> reporter: the ceo said, however, that no embryo was ever implanted in the wrong woman, as was the case for this ohio couple. >> he just said i have really bad news, and i kind of sat up. he said you're pregnant, but they transferred the wrong embryo. >> reporter: this week carolyn savage gave birth to a baby boy but agreed to return him to his biological parents. >> we will wonder about this child every day for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: today, the biological parns, paul and shannon morell of suburban detroit called her a guardian

angel. mix-ups like these are raising questions about the dependability of ivf procedures which are often used as a last resort to conceive. more than 130,000 such procedures are performed every year in the u.s. resulting in about 50,000 births. one prominent fertility specialist who is no way connected to these mishaps said mistakes are extremely rare. >> there have been over 3 million babies born from ivf, and there's about three or four cases where this has occurred. so, i mean, this is literally the onen a million event. >> reporter: back in new orleans, challenges appear to be mounting for the clinic. an attorney is seeking a class action lawsuit against the clinic. >> they didn't know which embryos were my couple's, my client's, and which were someone else's. that causes a lot of anger and upset, humiliation, just a lot of feelings. >> reporter: a lot of feelings,

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extravagance. mon co-is a tropical and tax free paradise for the world's elite with more millionaires in a single square mile than anywhere else on the planet. where the rich and the super rich come to relax and do business in style. at this year's boat show, 100 yachts worth nearly $3 billion. they say the billionaires are back. >> they are back and they're richer than ever. >> reporter: for a cool $105 million this is a pleasure palace at sea with a helicopter pad, a plush cinema, and the ultimate personal bar. >> that's a private bar. >> reporter: if is doesn't flow your boat, nothing will. wow. among its unique amenities -- this is the panic room. >> where you evacuate to get away from pirates. >> reporter: pirates. so who can afford this luxury? spencer days strength is investing in exclusive land, but his weakness is toys at sea. the latest yacht to catch his eye, the prize maryu designed by

giorgio armani. >> it's an image thing it's driven by whe you're docked and where you're seen. >> reporter: this man owns the world's biggest yacht. here in monaco flaunting your wealth isn't just accepted, it's celebrated. if there's any hint of the tough economy, it's that the billionai billionaire's see the chance for a bargain. prices have fallen up to 30%. >> that's worth a lot. >> reporter: even at lower prices, these yachts have inspired an industry focused not just on extravagance, but excellence. >> okay. this is a submarine, of course. >> submarine for three. >> reporter: and when that beautiful yacht is still not enough, for $750,000, the sea quester can take you to another world. this is like living a james bond movie. anything is attainable when the

recession is no issue and money is no object. peter alexander, nbc news, monaco. that's nbc news "nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from new york. i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." then right back here tomorrow evening. then right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com