umar farouk abdul mutallab is charged with a plot to blow up a detroit airliner with a bomb planted in his underwear on christmas day 2009. he's charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism and attempted murder. >> we will certainly hear about the way he tried to evade security, the way that he obviously tried to hide the explosives in his underwear and the training that he received around this. >> the government said abdul mutallab told the fbi he was working for al qaeda and was directed by an american-born cleric recently killed in yemen. >>> hurricane jova is expected to slam into mexico's pacific coast sometime today. tourists are leaving some popular tourist cities. jova is a powerful storm with sustained winds at 120 miles per hour. jova is moving towards the northeast and is expected to make landfall as major hurricane near manzanillo. >>> in new zealand, bad weather hampering efforts to remove fuel oil from a grounded cargo ship. the 775-foot container ship got hung up on a reef off northern new zealand last week and has been leaking oil ever since. now, clumps of the heavy fue

. >>> umar farouk abdul mutallab stunned the federal courtroom when his lawyer announced he wanted to plead guilty to all eight counts against him including attempted murder and the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. the accused terrorist calmly and clearly told the judge he understood exactly what he was doing by pleading guilty. he admitted he tried to blow up a bomb in his pants on a jetliner from amsterdam to detroit two years ago. the judge asked him a series of questions to determine his competency. then she began to list the crimes he was accused of, one by one. conspiracy to commit terrorism, attempted murder on an aircraft, attempted placement of a destructive device. the 25-year-old man listened and agreed to everything, including decades in prison the counts carry. >> abdul mutallab is the educated son of a wealthy nigerian businessman. in a statement he read in court, in clear, well spoken english, he described what he did and why. he said he had an agreement with at least one person to carry out the attack. that his attempted bombing was to fulfill a religious

umar farouk abdul mutallab was arrested on christmas day in 2009. prosecutors say that he tried to blow up a northwest airlines flight between amsterdam and detroit. he supposedly confessed, saying that it was a suicide mission, inspired by anwar al-awlaki. he was the american born al- qaeda leader taken out last week. >>> a federal appeals court has upheld restriction on gun ownership in the district of columbia. the restrictions on assault weapons and high capacity magazines was imposed after the supreme court struck down the district's handgun ban. the court also upheld some but not all of the district's handgun registration requirements. which include fingerprinting, vision tests and background tests. >>> well, the defense and the carmella della rosa trial is trying to paint a picture of a disturbed woman who did not what she was doing when she tossed her grandchild over a sky bridge at tysons corner. rangers testified about finding her minivan down a mountain after she drove it off skyline drive and one of four suicide attempts. her psychologis

prosecutors say umar farouk abdul mutallab tried to blow up an airliner plane with a bomb in his pantsesearcher in the south pole may have suffered a stroke. the problem is, the pole's outpost was simply too cold there for an aircraft to fly safely. 58-year-old renee desora of seabrook, new hampshire, has been waiting for evacuation as temperatures outside fell nearly 75 degrees below zero. >>> more than half of american adults take some sort of dietary supplement. but a new study of older women raises questions about whether supplements are effective or even safe. sandra hughes reports. >>> like millions of americans, hildature takes supplements. >> i take vitamin c, fish oil. >>> new research suggests taking dietary supplements like multi vitamins may not make you live longer. international doctors looked at almost 40,000 women around the age of 61 who took supplements. they say taking multi vitamins, magnesium, copper and zinc appears to be associated with increased risk of death. >> they are able to tell that use of multi vitamins increase the relative risk about 2.4%. >> the assoc

during the second day of his trial, umar farouk abdul mutallab pleaded guilty to all counts against him including attempted murder and terrorism charges. he admitted on christmas day 2009, he tried to bring down a northwest airlines flight from amsterdam to detroit with a bomb stuffed in his underwear. he's scheduled to be sentenced in january. >>> a suspect is in custody this morning, following a deadly shooting in southern california. police say the gunman opened fire at a busy hair salon in seal beach wednesday, killing eight people and critically injuring one person. authorities are still trying to determine a motive. witnesses say the suspect was the ex-husband of one of the stylists. >>> the outages which are plaguing blackberry users overseas have now come here to the u.s. >> that's right. a worldwide service outage has put millions of blackberry users and subscribers without internet e-mail and messenger access on their smart phone. as lesli foster tells us, outraged customers say the problem has disrupted their business and personal lives. >> reporter: millions of blackberry us

. >> testimony resumes in a few hours in the terrorism trial against umar farouk abdul mutallab, a nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up a northwest airlines flight in 2009 using explosives in his underwear. >>> yesterday, witnesses testified pandemonium ensued once abdul mutallab attempted to detonate the device. prosecutors told jurors the defendant openly admitted his alevening tunes al-qaeda after the botched attempt. >>> the group's protesting the wars in afghanistan and iraq along with the economy can stay in the district through the year. the national park service approved a permit through december 30th. now, we're taking a live look outside of freedom plaza northwest washington. where they've been staying. the group, the october 6th coalition got approval from the national parks service to stay. it is in charge of that square and the park service says the group will be asked to move on days other groups have permits to use the space. the occupy wall street movement in new york went uptown tuesday. activists said union members went on what they calmed a millionaires march.

. >>> making news now at 5:49, jury selection begins today in the trial of umar farouk abdul mutallabhe's accused of trying to bring down a detroit-bound airliner on christmas day of 2009. he has legal assistance but he's acting as his own lawyer. >> people are wading through chest-deep flood weathers in parts of the philippines after two typhoons hit there in the last week. thousands of residents need food and supplies. four deaths are blamed on the storms. some people were trapped in their homes for days! >>> in pennsylvania, richard moyer jr. is lucky to be alive after he was attacked by a bear. the bear ran into his home yesterday morning while chasing the family's dog and knocked moyer's wife to the ground. moyer says he grabbed the bear and it would have killed him except unknown reason, the bear quit attacking and went back into the woods. >> on the university of maryland's campus, you should not only fear the turtle but also the beaver and the crocodile and a host of oro bottic animals. instead of crafting human-type robots to perform tasks, graduate students started building

umar farouk abdul mutallab pleaded guilty yesterday to hiding a bomb in his underwear then trying to detonate it on a flight from amsterdam to detroit. it happened on christmas day two years ago. he said it was retaliation for the killing of muslims worldwide. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray is asking the city council to review a law that lets police arrest you just for driving with expired license plates, even if your plates are from outside the district. >>> we told you about this crackdown last week. several people from maryland, virginia, and other states have been arrested. city council chair kwame brown says the council could take up the changes by next week. >>> nothing worse than being away for a month and you land back in the city. you get in your car to go to work and you forget your tag is expired then the police locks you up. that's not what this was -- what this bill was intended to do. >> the crackdown got a response from senator jim webb. the virginia democrat wrote an open letter to mayor gray suggesting the city had better ways to spend its money. >>> 6:08. jessica doyle

he acknowledged meeting with umar farouk abdul mutallab, the accused bomber, but denied any role in thed attack. and faisal shahzad said he was inspired by online contacts with the cleric. shahzad has pleaded guilty to trying to set off a car bomb in times square in may of last year. awlaki was also suspected of involvement last october, when printer cartridges laden with explosives were found on cargo planes in dubai and britain, but addressed to chicago synagogues. still, he was never charged with any crime, and the decision making him the first american on the cia's "kill or capture" list drew fire from civil libertarians and others. in fact, a second american-born militant, samir khan, also died in today's strike. he produced the al-qaeda web magazine "inspire," focusing on ways to carry out attacks inside the u.s. at the white house today, press secretary jay carney declined to answer questions on the legal standard for killing american citizens. to assess the implications of awlaki's killing, we turn to brian fishman, a fellow at the new america foundation and the combating terror