the middle schoolers launch 5d 00 balloons carrying encrypted messages containing personal poems and haiku poems. some didn't think they'd get a response but some 60 miles east a student stuck abouted on bar codes. she used a smartphone to unlock the message had her students write back with a digital age approach to creating new pen pals. >>> well, i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> good morning, everyone. a baby girl left out in the col has died. we have the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is an extraordinarily sad story. an infant girl left on the porch of this house here over my shoulder there. police were called here because a neighbor found that baby. we're told that she was naked and wrapped in very little. basically either a blanket or a towel. she was rushed to the hospital where she later died from her injuries. now, here at the 3000 block of northeast channing. she was discovered at 11:30 last night. neighbors called 911. she was taken to the hospital. we have reports that the baby girl

the middle schoolers launch 5d 00 balloons carrying encrypted messages containing personal poems and haiku poems. some didn't think they'd get a response but some 60 miles east a student stuck abouted on bar codes. she used a smartphone to unlock the message had her students write back with a digital age approach to creating new pen pals. >>> well, i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. looks like a quiet start on this monday morning. temperatures on the cold s ide. 18 at the airport. 15 at taneytown. mostly sunny skies. high temperatures into the upper 30's and both arelow 40's. >> thank you. 4:57. a state trooper is involved in a hit and run. reaction from ravens fans. >> today we remember martin luther king jr.. >> we will update you on an early morning accident that has burning high weight shutdown [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, late-breaki

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they launched cryptic messages with haiku poems and personal messages. some didn't think they'd get a response. 160 miles east, a teacher stumbled po ed upon some of the bar-coded notes. she used a smart phone to unlock the messages. she then had her class write back, creating a digital-age approach to making new pen pals. very cool. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today." just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> a virtual city was chiselled out of ice in moscow. architects and sculptures gathered to construct nearly 20 mini sculptures and a castle made of ice for a competition in russia with. temperatures hovering around only 32 degrees, the mild winter has left the creations susceptible to melting. weather permitting, the castle will remain open until march. >>> in england, 50 cars from the iconic james bond flicks are starring in their own exhibition. marking the movie's 50th anniversary, most of 007's rides have been put on display. some of the cars bore the battle wounds of filming the movies. others had their secret weapon syst

haikus are welcome. >> i would just say, look, look at what happened in the last year, in 2011, and,you know, it started in tunisia, we saw what happened in egypt, in bahrain. it's not just social networks, it's social networks and cell phones. protesters in bahrain when -- the cell phone and the ability to take a photo of what was happening to them and their ability to transmit that around the world helped, like, save them at some very, very, very difficult, dark moments. and then what we saw with occupy wall street where people, the horse has left the barn. people are documenting their experiences. and, um, and social media is here to stay, and learning how to use it responsibly and in a smart way is everyone's responsibility. >> i'm just amazed at the way that we can connect now. um, when i was doing my christmas shopping, i was out walking in d.c. and spotted a whole bunch of women's stuff spilled out onto the sidewalk, and i assumed that maybe she'd had a fight with her boyfriend, and he had dumped her stuff outside, but i spotted a prescription, and because i'm naturally curiou

we've been getting a more haiku volume of those. we will add other products as we go over the course of this year and take complaints on those as well. we are hearing a lot from people. >> what are you hearing about complaints relative to credit cards? >> we hear all kinds of things you can imagine. we hear all the things you hear. we hear complaints about charges and fees that people don't understand why they are there. we get complaints about changes in interest rates that they don't understand why that happened had we get complaints about -- >> excuse me for interrupt team. let me ask you this. financial privacy is a huge concern to most consumers. when you fill out your application for credit card and mortgage company returned for that specific purpose, not to have it then sold to third parties to be used in whatever way they deem appropriate. some states have passed laws to protect financial privacy and give consumers the ability to opt-in or opt-out. do you have any interest in pursuing that within your euro? >> we inherited a

[laughter] haiku. >> all that kind of stuff. >> are you aware of the anecdote that robert gibbs was apologizingo the first lady about that? is that something the president was upset about? >> while i was at the white house i wasn't in the meeting at that time and i don't have anything more for you on it. what i can tell you is that robert is, as you know, focused on helping the president get reelected. he is out there if he did as much as the team and a member of the team as he was back then. and i would point you to what i said before about these are high-pressure jobs with a lot of -- a lot at stake. the fact of the matter is the overall story here is how collegial and harmonious and focused everyone here is on the task at hand. stephen. >> what is the white house's response to these attacks on the president by republican candidates over iran, saying that his policies, sanctioned policies are feckless, weak and ineffective? >> again i don't have anything specific to those criticisms. pretty clear about what our approaches to iran. we have sanctions that are unprecedented, that are having demo

[laughter] >> haiku. >> all that kind of stuff. >> are you aware on the anecdote that brown was talking about, about robert gibbs apologizing to the first lady about. was that something the first lady was upset up. >> while i was at the white house, i wasn't in those meetings at that time and i don't have anything more for you on that. what i can tell you is that, you know, robert, as you know, focused on helping the president get re-elected. he's out there every bit as much of the team and a member of the team now as he was back then. and then i would just point you to what i want before, these are high pressure jobs with a lot at stake but the fact of the matter is, the overall story here is how collegial and harmonious and focused everyone is here on the task at hand. >> what's the white house's response to these attacks by republican candidates over iran saying that he cause sanction policies -- [inaudible] >> again, i don't have anything specific to those criticisms. i'm pretty clear what our approach is to iran. we have sanctions that are unprecedented that are having demonstrable