that event coupled with the unprovoked shelling of the island in 2010 provides reminder that yang is willing to utilize military capabilities with deadly consequences. these demonstrates the united states and iraq need to take further steps to bolster deterants and preserve security. we're working closely with iraq allies and armed forces to ensure the responses to any future north korean profs indication are effective and appropriate and integrated into alliance plans and conducted from an alliance perspective. further more through our extended deterant's policy committee we meet by annually to identify ways in which the full range of alliance capabilities including conventional forces, missile defense, nuclear capabilities, strategy and doctrine can be leveraged to maximize deterants. the potential for a north korean provocation in 2012 remains a major concern. the april 15th sentinel celebration commemoration of kim ill song's birth provides a milestone to show this become a strong and prosperous nation. kim joperhaps through a provocative act or display of force is a real possibi

this is going to be a yin and yang problem. >> i am not sure i'd understand your yn and yang analogy. oil and gas is extracted, coal is extracted. nuclear is somewhat more sophisticated, but you at some point have to extract uranium. so it all has some extraction. it is most acute with oil. and it is endedgenes of the bush family, so naturally they will look to that. but it is interesting that george w. bush when he was president, we would see him riding around with a white pickup truck, that was running on gas. it was not running on -- >> not natural gas -- >> it was petroleum gas, that is it. someone wrote to me about it when i mentioned this -- >> i think maybe at this point, i might like to talk to our viewers -- or our listeners on siurus xm potus channel 124, our program can be heard on channel 124 saturday's three times -- the first, 9:30 a.m. in the morning, 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon, and 6:30 p.m. in the evenings on siriusxm potus channel 124 and it can also be viewed on 200 channels in the united states and on a voice and american television. we are very proud of that. we r

commissioner yang, present. we have a quorum. >> welcome to the first ever joint meeting of the police commission and youth commission. i want to give you a brief outline. i see supervisor campos has come in. we will start with introductions from members of the commission and ask you to tell about what we do in our day jobs and what we do for the commission. the same for the youth commission. and some introductions by supervisor campos, the master behind the ceremony. he has done some great work doing -- putting this together. we will talk about that and have a presentation from paul henderson from the mayor's office. we will move to line item four, public comment. we want to hear what the kids have to say. this is your night to tell the police department or you're interested in and we will move into expert testimony from groups that give their career some life to the youth in the city and we will hear from the police department and the occ. that is the format. before move forward, let's start with introductions

>> john yang in kansas. another of the nine states hit overnight. al roker is part of our team on the road covering this story tonight. he's also in harrisburg. al, i mentioned at the top, this is a real component here. you go to bed at 11:00 in late february in this part of the world, among the things you're thinking of, tornados isn't one of them. >> reporter: that's absolutely right, brian. this thing happened 4:52 central time in the morning. we are standing in front of what was a mini mall that just went up two years ago. as you see, it has been flattened. since 1950, there have been 15 leap year days, this is the worst one since 1952. the danger is not over yet. we have a potent brew going on right now, as a cold front makes its way to the east. we have currently tornado watches in effect until 10:00 a.m. eastern time, stretching from northern mississippi all the way up to just south of cleveland, and as far east as roanoke, virginia. we are not out of the woods yet for this area. we've got a very, very rough area coming in. warm air coming up

john i can't think john yang is at the post where robert bales is being held. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. government prosecutors are alleging that robert bales carried out his rampage in two waves. he carried out a first attack, they say and then returned to base and then snuck out again to continue his shooting spree. this is i cording to his defense attorney john henry brown who late today told nbc news this has been the government allegation from the very beginning. brown, of course, said that bales told him that he has a very spotty memory of that night. he can only remember some things before the incident and after the incident and has no recollection of the incident itself. lester? >> john yang, thanks. >>> and a program note, monday on "today" staff sergeant robert bales' wife carolyn will speak out for the first time since charges have been brought against her husband. in an exclusive interview with matt lauer. overseas tonight, president obama is in south korea for a summit of dozens of world leaders, gathered to discuss the threat

brian. >> john yang, thanks for your reporting on that story today. >>> now to a bizarre and terrible story overseas. in france, there's a manhunt for a gunman who opened fire outside a jewish school, killing four people. a rabbi, three children, then fled the scene on a motor scooter. tonight police say there's a connection to two other shootings in the same area just days ago. nbc's jim maceda is on the scene tonight in toulouse, france. >> it was mayhem and cold blooded murder carried out in a jewish school down the road right behind me. and just as children were arriving for the beginning of a new school week. the shooter, wearing a helmet and driving a scooter began firing allegedly at whatever moved. first, he kills a 30-year-old teacher and his two sons, age 3 and 6, then he got off the scooter, walked into a courtyard, and kept firing. one woman saw graphic surveillance video of what happened next. this video, by the way, not released by french police, but here is what she saw. >> and then he grabbed an 8-year-old little girl, put a gun to her head, and blew her brains out. >>

our report on that tonight from nbc's john yang. >> reporter: for 6-year-old aralynn barnett dinner is not at home, it's at a child care center. she's here from the time she leaves kindergarten at 3:15 until 9:00 at night when her mother finishes work as a restaurant cook. >> not everyone has a grandmother or a mother that doesn't work that can help you out. >> reporter: abc child care in ohio is open 24/7. the first child is dropped off as early as 1:30 in the morning. the last pickup, around midnight. child care is not just an issue from 9:00 to 5:00 anymore. according to census department data, 40% of americans work nights, early mornings or weekends. >> reporter: in ohio, centers open overnight have doubled since 2003 and those open weekends have quadrupled. alicia, the mother of 6-year-old twins marco and mateo lopez works nights as a waitress. >> 9:00 to 5:00 jobs are all taken. >> reporter: they try to do more than just baby sit for their clients. >> whatever i can do to aid in helping them to aid in making life maybe a little bit easier for them i do. >> at night children have

. -- a yin and yang in the energy industry. george w. bush came from that. therefore, he went there to look for his solutions in energy. this is going to be a yin yang problem for a long time. >> i am not sure if i understand your analogy. oil and gas are extracted. coal is extracted. these are extraction industries. nuclear is somewhat more sophisticated but at some point you do have to extract the uranium. it is most acute with oil. it is in the genes of the bush family, so naturally they would look to their. it is -- look to there. it is interesting that george w. bush would be driving around his pickup truck, running on gas. >> natural gas? >> not natural. >> petroleum gas, that is it? >> someone wrote to me about this, sending me the drawings. >> i think that maybe at this point, llewellyn, i met -- i might let you talk to our viewers on the politics of the united states, or people of the united states, channel. channel 124 on siruius. >> that is sirius xm radio. >> yes. at 3:30 p.m. in the afternoon and 6:30 p.m. in the evenings, at the potus channel 1

>> john yang, thanks.ou can see matt's full interview with karilyn bales tomorrow morning on "today." >>> tomorrow the supreme court takes up one of the most important cases in decades. the obama administration's sweeping health care law. a major issue in the presidential campaign. now the justices will decide whether it's constitutional. our justice correspondent pete williams has the details. >> health care now, health care now! >> reporter: it touched off tea party protests in the streets. >> throw out this bill! >> reporter: brought condemnation from republicans running for president. >> i will stop obama-care in its tracks and get it repealed. >> reporter: and made a huge change in federal law, a landmark in the obama presidency signed two years ago. >> everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their health care. >> reporter: but 26 states and a national business group are challenging the law's central requirement that all americans get health insurance. here's the key question. how m

our report tonight from nbc's john yang. >> reporter: the battle for votes in the heart of dixie is a crucial struggle for the heart of the republican party's base. >> i've been getting hugs from the southern girls today. and i mean from, like 12 to -- well, a lot more than 12. >> reporter: mobile, alabama, businessman ken schwartz is undecided. >> trust is the thing. if you come out and you try to talk a certain way -- >> morning y'all. >> i've got kin here in mississippi. i'm not sure -- i'm very proud of it. >> -- or you try to dress a certain way, that's a cue that there's something there you can't trust. they can spot a phony right away. >> reporter: newt gingrich, rick santorum and mitt romney have all been running hard, trying to connect with the region's conservative voters. tomorrow's balloting could change the dynamics of the race yet again. >> it's like groundhog day. it's like every week it's a new election. >> reporter: in birmingham, voters say these east coast based candidates aren't generating much excitement. nita perry is voting for gingrich but without enthusiasm. >

>> john yang, ft. leavenworth, kansas, tonight. thanks. >>> as we mentioned, in illinois today, it's another summer like day in march. and it's another gop primary evening in our never ending political season. nbc's peter alexander is with the romney campaign on the trail in schaumburg. peter, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, brian. mitt romney is expected to win here in illinois, a state with a lot of moderate republicans. to give you a sense of the dilemma facing republicans here and across the country in this drawn out republican primary campaign season, consider what with bob michaels, a retired veteran house leader from peoria, told me just this week. he's supporting romney, but he worries he's not a very exciting candidate who can rally republicans behind him. and he may be missing, what he calls that magical spark. romney still has been trying to cast himself this week as the presumptive nominee, focusing his attacks almost exclusively on the president. in fact, just yesterday at a speech at the university of

john yang, nbc news, joplin, missouri. >>> that's "nbc nightly news" for this sunday. hope you'll join me shortly for

our report tonight from nbc's john yang. >> in 11 hours of conversation, staff sergeant robert bales told his defense attorney his memory the night of the shootings is spotty. >> if you woke up and didn't realize what you had done last night, and people were telling you had done some really awful things and you had no memory of that. that kind of gives you an idea of what i'm talking about. >> john henry brown has seen this kind of thing before. in cases involving head injuries, like the one bales suffered in iraq. he questioned the strength of the military's case against his client. >> there's no forensic evidence, no medical examiner's evidence. there's no evidence about how many alleged victims or where those remains are. so it's fascinating. >> reporter: as the military's criminal investigation continues. the u.s. commander in afghanistan announced an investigation into bales' chain of command. >> it will look at the entire command and control process, how he was assigned, why he was assigned. >> reporter: outside seattle, movers emptied the house where bales lived with his wife

good morning, i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist filling in for vacationing joe krebs. welcome to "news4 today" on this friday, march 9. a live look outside now as some of us had to deal with rain. meteorologist tom kierein's here and moving out now. >> yeah. it's march madness time of year. yesterday we had a slam-dunk. it was in the mid 70s. then saturday morning, it's going to be air bal

john yang, nbc news, harveyville, kansas. >>> that's our broadcast on a thursday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening, everyone. >> we begin with an inside look at bart. in the past few years, mostly negative headlines. after several missteps, including the deadly shooting of oscar grant bart is trying to clean up its act and image. jodi hernandez has the new details for us tonight. she joins us from oakland with the story. jodi? >> reporter: raj, for

john yang, nbc news, henryville, indiana. >>> and that's "nbc nightly news" for this saturday. i'm lester holt reporting from henryville, indiana. see you tomorrow morning from here on "today" and again on "nightly news." good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good saturday evening. i'm

>> john yang in birmingham tonight, john, thanks. one more note, by the way, on election-year politics, not one, but two state voter identification laws were overturned today. this is a charged topic right now. nbc's pete williams is with us with more on this from washington. pete, good evening. >> reporter: a charged topic and requiring a government-issued photo id is an idea that nearly every state is considering. many have already done it. but now some of the strictest laws are on hold. the justice department today refused to give legal clearance to a voter id law many texas, saying it would hit hispanic voters especially hard since fewer of them have the required ids. the state said anybody could get a voter id at a driver's license office. but 81 texas counties don't have one. and in wisconsin, a judge said the id law there imposes a voting requirement that goes beyond the qualifications spelled out in the state constitution. it's the second time the court has blocked the law. the state says it will appeal. that brings to three

john yang, nbc news, harveyville, kansas. >>> that's our broadcast on a thursday night.ou for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. right back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

. >>> in other news of the world tonight from north korea, yang says it intends to launch a satellitethis coming april despite protests. the launch will allow north korea to test the latest version of a missile with a range that may be able to deliver a war head as far as hawaii. just weeks ago, yang agreed to suspend long range missile tests and made over concessions in exchange for food ate -- food aid from the united states. >>> a group accused the teacher of christian profittizing. the t áf yemen has seen an -- yemen has seen an increase of al-qaida based attacks. >>> they are in mourning tonight in the south pacific nation of tofga. king george tupou v died today. he was 63. according to media the king had a liver transplant last year and suffered other problems. king tupou is credited with bringing forward democratic reform. >>> police in london ontario say about 1,000 people rioted saturday night lighting fires and throwing things at officers. a tv news van was set on fire. damage is estimated at $1,000. police are reviewing video in hopes of making more arrests. >>> actor cloo

food aid in february john yang says the launch is just intended to send a satellite to space. former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn claims he has diplomatic immunity in a civil case in which he's accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last year the international monetary fund says he's not entitled to the unity though because he was in new york on personal business i think tyler the alleged crime strauss kahn is also under investigation in france over allegations of being involved in a prostitution ring. u.s. authorities have charged a u.s. pilot with interfering with the flight crew after his behavior became increasingly erratic on both onboard playoff wins last vegas bound flight made an emergency landing in texas tuesday after he allegedly shouted that bombs from iraq were going to take down the plane and could face twenty years in prison and two hundred fifty thousand dollars fines if the found guilty he's currently being held at a texas hospital for medical evaluation. to ireland now where a two and a half ton elephant named baby has a skate from a circus in the

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>> nbc's john yang. many thanks. >>> will american troops be brought home sooner as a result of this massacre or could troops wind up staying in afghanistan longer now? we'll hear from an investigative journalist who spent a lot of time in afghanistan and is going back. let's go now to the weather. spring officially arrives on tuesday. but in much of the country, winter seems to be already gone. here's a live look at new york city where the last-minute preps are under way for today's huge st. patrick's day parade. will the warm trend continue? let's ask meteorologist bill karins. good morning. >> good saturday morning to you. a happy st. paddy's day to everyone out there. ed midwest. let me show you what the average high temperature map should be for today. it should be around 47 in chicago today this time of year, 41 in minneapolis. we have been so much warmer than that as of late. yesterday's highs was 82 in chicago. 40 degrees above average. summertime heat has moved through the middle of the country

the hong kong be a move in incorporation of china is setting around supercenters and the stronger yang this side is dragging japanese exports down as well so only is losing around super side as well but on the positive side we have news that japan's forever retail sales rose around three and a half percent which was much more than x. the go over to the u.s. markets there are closed but what we saw on the way as they was that they'd. worse levels still and then lower and that was led by might cereals and their g. basically investors were disappointed because of the global weakness as well as some disappointing economic data and that they'd i'm talking about is durable goods orders were rising less than expected at around three point two percent in february walking to business investment also as the forecast when it comes to oil it's still trading near the lowest level in almost a week and that's after us in the stories surge that western countries started discussing releasing their reserves to push prices lower now if you look at currencies the euro is slightly higher against the greenb

i'm eun yang.4 today the always anticipated cherry blossom festival will start. the trees will be in full bloom. what will be the best day to head down through the tidal basin? we'll tell you what's happening at this year's festival and why it is unprecedented. wake us with us tomorrow morning for your overnight news, weather, and traffic from 4:28 to 7:00 a.m. see you then. >>> the filmmaker behind the wildly popular kony 2012 documentary is recovering from a mysterious meltdown near his home in san diego. >> the bizarre situation was captured on video before he was picked up by police and taken to a hospital last week. today his wife offers some insight. craig melvin has the story. >> reporter: this is not the internet video suddenly famous filmmaker jason russell thought people would be talking about. this footage with tmz shows a man reported to be russell naked, ranting, and behaving indecently in broad daylight along this san diego street. he was detained but not arrested. >> during the evalu

>> john yang, you spoke to bales' attorney.re can you tell us about the defense and what he is telling his attorney? >> reporter: well, i tell you, you heard the sound bite you used coming into this. he says he remembers things before and after but not the incident itself. he says the attorney, john henry browne says it's as if you woke up morning, couldn't remember what you had done the night before and everyone starts telling you you had done these awful things. it's interesting, the defense has never denied the accusations. they've talked instead about extenuating circumstances. they've talked about his repeated tours to, his three tours in iraq and then this fourth tour deployment to afghanistan. of the attorney browne says that bales suffered a head injury that are went untreated in iraq for one reason or another as he puts it. he won't give any more detas about that. that seems to be the defense, a diminished capacity that he had some sort of head injury that caused him to black out during this period. brown says he's def

food aid in february killing yang says the launch is intended to send a satellite into space.former i.m.f. chief dominique strauss kahn claims he has diplomatic immunity in a civil case in which he's accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid last year the i.m.f. says he's not entitled to immunity though because he was in new york on personal business while being charged with the alleged crime strauss kahn is also under investigation and friends over allegations he was involved in a cross to fusion rape. authorities have charged a us pilot with interfering with a flight crew after his behavior became increasingly erratic while on board playoffs binns las vegas bound flight made an emergency landing in texas tuesday after he allegedly shouted that bombs from iraq were going to take down the plane has been could face up to twenty years in prison and two hundred fifty thousand dollars fine if found guilty he's currently held at a texas hospital for medical evaluation. republican candidates continue to duke it out in the primaries across the country in hopes of challenging democr

live to john yang.hat's expected to happen today during the scheduled meeting between bales and had his lawyer? >> reporter: the lawyer says this will be the first time the defense team is able to hear the full story from the staff sergeant. and also to get a face-to-face assessment of the guy. all their previous conversations have been on the phone. they've been relatively brief. when the attorneys, the civilian defense team arrived, they were hoping to go straight to the detention center and interview the staff sergeant, their client, but they are unable to. that meeting is taking place today, richard. >> john, family and friends of sergeant bales now talking, all of them are stunned. but what else are they saying about bales? >> reporter: well, it really is the reaction of shock both this the seattle neighborhood where he lives now, where neighbors describe him as a good guy, a good father, a good neighbor. he was sophomore class president. they say in that neighborhood where they grew up, no one ref

. >> and i'm eun yang. it is thursday, march 29. we begin with a developing story. this shows george zimmerman hours after he shot and killed the florida teen. it could be damning to his account of the confrontation. you can see him getting out of the police car and getting his pockets searched at the sanford police station. he said he was attacked by trayvon martin and acted in self-defense. in the video he looks fine but he said he was attacked by trayvon. martin's family says the video is seg can't. >> we know that police report is a fabrication. >> was there a cover-up ma? >> absolutely. there was absolutely some misleading the public. there was a broken nose, blood on the back of his head. there's no blood on his clothes. >> some remarked on the casual nature of the police officers. they're conducting an extensive review of the case. >>> robert zimmerman came to his son's defense in an interview with fox 35 in orlando last night. zimmerman maintains that his son was attacked by martin and the teenager even threatened his son

. >> good morning, i'm aaron gilchrist in for eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" on this friday, march 23. we begin with breaking news this morning. two people dead in a fiery crash near the maryland/d.c. line. this happened on connecticut avenue at the chevy chase circle. news4's tracee wilkins at the scene for us with the latest on this. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. we have two people dead and two people injured after this vehicle crash that happened here. police were following this vehicle. they say that it was a stolen vehicle. at some point the suspects crashed into the tree here. you see behind me the scene. police are still investigating. this is definitely going to impact traffic this morning. the circle is closed right now. whether you're coming from d.c. or montgomery county, you are not going to be able to go through chevy chase circle until they're done with this investigation. let me give you a closer look of the scene. this is the way montgomery county police described this. they say that just after 1:00 th

. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to "news4 today" for this wednesday, march 28, tennessee valley. good morning to you. new this morning, prince george's county police are looking for one of two gunmen connected to an abduction and police-involved shooting. detectives say the pair got into a house on 59th avenue in riverdale, kidnapped a man inside, and took him to an atm. police were at the house when they returned. detective say that's when the two shot at officers. police nabbed one of suspects and got the victim to safety. no police officers were hurt. >>> for the second time this month, d.c. firefighters are investigating a fire at the fbi headquarters. firefighters responded to the jay ed far hoover building in washington around 1:45 this morning. a fire was burning in a trash closet on the sixth floor. they found a similar scene three weeks ago. smoke from a fire burning in a trash can set off sprinklers. no one was injured in either case, and there was no major damage in either case. >>> today is the third and final day of oral arguments at the supreme court over the obama

i'm eun yang. >> good morning to you. i'm joe krebs. for the second morning in a row we're off to quite a foggy start out there. take a live look. you can barely see the u.s. capitol this morning. we could see it earlier in the day, but it has completely been obliterated by the fog out there. at least the view of it has been obliterated. the capitol itself is doing very fine. it's still there. >> yeah. we've got fog. we're talking dense fog advisory. that goes like yesterday until 10:00 a.m. but a little more sunshine. that's going be good. yesterday we only hit a high of 70 degrees. we're shy of that mark by about five degrees, but sunshine will break out today. it's looking better. based on where this little weather system is, we're at 59 right now. richmond is at 62 degrees. elkins, west virginia, is at 52 and hagerstown at 60. your fog, there in gaithersburg, we just dropped -- we were well up above a mile visibility in d.c. but manassas, culpeper, pax river. noontime we're close to 70 degrees. by 3:00, 4:00, 5:00, we're in the uppe

michael crowley, jill zuckman and fred yang.the predictable thing, dog bites, michael crowley. it is now republicans figuring out how to best utilize their endorsement. guess what rubio gets today. i don't want the v.p. >> rubio has been pretty firm in saying, he doesn't want it. it is not going to be him. i am trying to figure out how much of a game is being played. does everyone in washington say, he kind of makes sense. it would be a lot of fun. let's keep asking him. he is denying it firmly enough if i'm starting to wonder if there is a disconnect here. >> i believe he knows this isn't the best path for him. i could make an argument that being a vice president or an unsuccessful vice president nominee is not good for your political career but he has a book coming out in june. >> he has his book out and he has a book from "the washington post." >> they want to talk about his. when you have got not one but two books coming out about you at the same time, you are in the hunt. >> i'm looking back. it has not been -- i guess bide

i'm eun yang. >> good morning. i'm joe krebs. seeing early signs of the sun out there, starting to brighten our skies. we have 57 degrees. looks like we still have some clouds out there, tom. have the rains left the area? >> they have exited stage right and they are ot and we had some flooding last night, but those waters are receding right now too. we do in the wake of the storm have patchy dense fog. we have a little bit of fog hanging right over the washington monument. low clouds there. it was down at ground level an hour or so ago. now it's beginning to lift. 52 at reagan national. visibility is not too bad there. it's generally about a mile or so. it will come and go as we get through the next couple of hours. patchy dense fog across maryland, virginia, and west virginia. so watch out for that. allow yourself some extra time as you head off to work and school on this thursday morning. it's near 50 in washington. now it's beginning to drop back into the 40s in fairfax. arlington, montgomery county. still in the 50s. here are