i'm somewhat dating myself with gold jewelry, air jordans, sony walkmans and car stereos in the 80s. i know i'm going back a bit. so we wanna focus specifically /tkhrao*es to get this rolling on public awareness and the safety and not fighting back necessarily. a lot of these people are fighting back and getting hurt, either hit with a weapon, assaulted, kicked, to save their iphone. i understand, because it's very expensive. i wanna point out exactly what happens here and here's two examples i picked directly from a crime alert that i get everyday. we do have our task force that works on this and this is from our task force and i wanna show you what we're talking about here -- how they happen. and hopefully we can get this out with cooperation with the media and get this out to the public to let them know about the safety concerns that they have. >> [inaudible] as soon as that back door opens this suspect and this suspect [inaudible] in this one -- this next one you can see this is another typical robbery that we see where the assailant comes up right behind the two people -- that's

. >> time to bring out the glass air jordan. >> a matchup that could bust up your brackets as the hp pavilion plays host to the ncaa tournament. >>> we give you a live look. the port of oakland, bright lights can get your day energized. we are back in a matter of minutes. unlv. both teams seen here practicing. this will be a rematch, cal having lost to the rebels back in december by just one point. also, an opportunity for cal to redeem themselves from last year's poor showing in the ncaa tourney. >> i think everybody was aware we were not prepared mentally. they were dispointed. we played the conference championship and, granted, we didn't win it. we were right there for the conference championship. mentally, we were not prepared for that. >> we are still conscious of what that feeling felt like last year. that's not a good way to go out. we are very conscious of going out there, putting out our best effort and being motivated to keep one another. play every game like it is our last. >> first game at hp pavilion this morning, 11:10, mu mexico versus st. louis, 1:40, oregon versus ok

. >>> air jordan. the next leg of president obama's middle east tour takes him on a quick flight this morning to israel's next door neighbor. we'll go live to ahman for a preview. plus it's friday. so it's time to take a tally of all the tid bits on the 2016 scene that may seem small now but could be huge as the next fight for the white house unfolds. and a major traffic report of sorts seeks to shake up washington's wavering on funding for roads, bridges, and more. we'll talk to the authors of a dismal report card. >> good morning from austin, texas. it is friday, march 22nd, 2013. this is the daily rundown! >> now back to you, chuck todd. >> thank you to the university of miami cheerleaders and of course sebastian. the canes play the university of pacific today and they are there at the university of texas. georgetown, where is your good morning chris soliza video? chuck todd is in the middle east with the president. he'll join us live in just a moment. president obama is preparing to head to jordan,

jordan is one of only two arab nations that signed a peace deal with israel. a lot on the plate to discuss as president obama gets ready to board air force one and head to jordan today. laura? >>> big day ahead. it continues. thank you very much, tracy. >>> we have an update to breaking news. the chp searching for the driver that struck and killed a woman on interstate 280 in san jose. that happened earlier this morning. she was found in the southbound lanes near mclaughlin avenue. this happened around 3:15. right now, caltrans crews arriving on the scene trying to help with the cleanup. investigators say they still don't know exactly who this woman is or what she was doing out on the freeway in the first place. our bob redell is live on scene. he will bring us the latest coming up at 6:45. >>> a peninsula man facial dui charges after officers say he drove the wrong way on interstate 280 for about 14 miles at 70 miles an hour. mike inouye first told us about it yesterday morning when the chp found the car near trucedale boulevard in burlingame. the chp caught up to the car. the driver, about 14 miles later just south of farmhill bo

. >> talk about the air jordan to jump.. >> people are saying this is the bulk of the year. >> is it because of the height? or because of the jump over a guy. >> brandon night was the guy he ran over. they were repeating rest in peace brandon knight . >> someone made a good point there were st. detroit is the opponent and they are going there were getting killed last night destroyed gave up 70 points in the first half. everyone is making fun of this little guy he is about 62 or 63. at least he was trying. did you see the look on his face after he made the dump. >>--the dunk. >> the biggest part of the nba game individually is the dump. >> did you see the site mayors player get his front tooth knocked out what over to the coach and gives him the bloody 2. >> the coaches like yet i don't think so-desk bloody toweoth. >> the coach would not take it he ran over to give it to him. >> he points to the assistant. how many teeth have you taken? my kids and meaty. >> that is different when you're 22-best of my kids had the means the

iraq,l as an impact on lebanon on, and jordan to rid -- iraq, lebanon and jordan. >> air sea battle is an operational approach to defeat accessng enemy anti capabilities. i am a huge fan of it. as a soldier, you cannot get anywhere unless you travel by air or sea. the use of the joint forces in the position to do what they need to do. how does it get to a strategy? it would have to deal with the four continuities of war we discussed at the beginning. on syria, i cannot really comment on that because i am not an expert at all by any means. the main thing to consider looking back at iraq is we have to understand all of battlegrounds contested between us and our enemies. we cannot assume that what we decide to do is going to agree -- is going to achieve our objectives or explain everything that's wrong. any comments that go towards the equivalency of what our forces do and what force is due to take a 13-year-old girl and strap her with explosives and half are held the hand of a 3- year-old mentally disabled girl walk into a crowd and remotely that need -- detonate them, i don't except a k

jordan. he boarded air force one earlier this morning headed for petra. it strengthens bonds with israel but left some palestinians angry. they say president obama is playing favorites and need to more strongly condemn the settlements on palestinian land. in his address he focused on domestic issue calling on congress to vote on three gun control measures that would ban high capacity ammunition magazines, fund school security and crackdown on gun trafficking. >> these shouldn't be controversial. they are common sense. they are supported by a majority of the american people. i urge the senate and the house to give each of them a vote. >> katie: also new this morning, it was just a few hours ago that the senate passed its first budget in four years approving a $3.7 billion spending plan for next year. the 50-49 vote ended a grueling all night debate. no republicans voted for the package. this sets up contentious negotiations with the republican dominated house in april to reconcile what are two plans in dealing with the deficit. senate version called kaults

is the door and now there are several different allied armies in jordan and you do they are training our rebels there i mean idea aires you've got the turkish from to now you can have the jordan from to distract the syrian government attacks it take them on two planks and in the next hour we bring you a report on the human cost of the conflict in syria and the scale of violence with eyewitness accounts. hard. to. liberty. to be free to sway. the bad weather upset plans for the international space station's crew back to friday two russian cosmonauts and an american astronaut have now added safe and sound what with more on the team's voyage home here's our correspondent. kevin ford oh leg novitsky and you have guinea terror in our back safely on earth after their five month stint up on the international space station on the video screen here at mission control in moscow we can see them being fished out of their soyuz capsule and kept warm after that rough descent through earth's atmosphere and down on to the step in kazakstan their return to earth delayed by a day because of bad weather they're casual came in today over

jordan now. he just boarded air force one. , the president will meet with king abdullah has part of his middle east trip. the president spent his final hours in israel meeting with the prime minister and visiting graves. at rabin's grave, he placed a stone that came from martin luther king jr.'s memorial in washington. . >>> the amazon tax makes its way to the senate floor today. it would allow states to collect sales taxes on internet purchases. now, the vote won't be binding, but many states and bricks and mortars retailers think it could be a step in that direction. let's bring in cnn business correspondent, zain asher. good morning. >> reporter: the senate is addressing this as part of the budget department. we're expecting to see an amendment filed on it today. even though this would mostly be a symbolic vote, it does raise the chance of actual legislation later on. here's what officials are trying to do. they want to level out the playing field between store retailers and online retailers. we have a situation right now wh

jordan. he just boarded air force one just a few minutes ago. he's headed for petra. he will be during that area. his trip has strengthened u.s. bonds with israel but it's also left some palestinians angry. they apresident obama is playing favorites and he needs to more strongly condemn israel's settlements on palestinian land. in his weekly address he's calling on congress to focus on three gun measures that would ban some assault weapons. >> these ideas shouldn't be controversy. common sense. they are supported by a majority of the american people and i urge the senate and the house to give each of them a vote. >> the republicans, the budget -- >> senator mike lee of utah gave the republican rebuttal saying the budget proposed by senate democrats raises taxes by $1.5 trillion without saving entitlements. >>> also new this morning, around 4:00 the senate passed its first budget in four years. approving a $3.7 billion spending plan for next year. the 50 to 49 vote ended a grueling all-night debate. no republican voted for the package. it sets up contentious negotiatio

obama back home after a busy trip to the middle east and he arrived at andrews air force base after the trip that took him to jordan and the west bank. secretary john kerry did not arrive on air force one. he stayed around to talk to the israeli leader e. >>> the motion to vacate is granted. >>> david ranta spent 23 years in prison for a murd her didn't commit. he was wrongfully convicted of killing a rabbi, and the lawyer says that his client plans to kill the city of new york. >>> and joe weeden died today. he is a legend in body building and controlled the world's biggest sports empire. he also introduced the world to mr. arnold schwarzenegger and also brought flex and he died at his home. he was 93 years old. here is what else we are working on. >>> did you know that your neighbor or friend could be a sociopath with all of the high profile murder trials, we checked to find a surprising statistic. hope you are sitting down. >>> we announce you married. >> is going gay? at least on the path to marriage. so goes the court goes the entire country. >>> and the late night shuffle, jay leno, seth meyer, tina fey, who

. >> because they couldn't air it because no one could say a bad thing about me. >> michael jordan is the daniel tosh of basketball. >> that's true. >> true. >> i would pull the plug on my dying mother if daniel needed to charge his cell phone. >> a lot of the people think daniel is gay. that's because he's insanely good-looking. >> it's pretty big. >> he knows. >> daniel tosh is a king among men, and we all love him. >> go easy. >> there's absolutely wrong with this guy. there's nothing wrong with this guy. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i hate to see you go but i watch to see you leave. >> no more callers. [eagle caw] ["the colbert report" theme music playing] captioning sponsored by comedy central [crowd chanting "stephen] >> stephen: welcome to the report, everybody. thank r- thanks so much for joining us. folks -- [cheers and applause] nation, please thank you. heros. you know, folks -- please we've got a thing to do here. i don't grow tired of it either. [laughter] nation, i dont need to tell you that the republican party is in crisis. and ever since they lost the election, the

jordan. this is a look at air force one from the airport in tel aviv. abc7 news reporter is following the president's trip from washington, dc and joins us, live. ait has been a busy and historic three days for president obama in the middle east. he concluded a meeting in bethlehem and the place of birth of jesus. he held final meetings with the israelis and palestinians. >> on the final day in israel, he paid tribute to the history of the jewish people laying wreaths at graves israeli cultural icons and preparing victims of the holocaust. >> they were men and women and children, so many children, send to their deaths because of would they were, how they prayed or who they loved. >> the trip has been rich with symbolism reaffirming the allowance in a send off toast with israeli leaders. >> in a speech to israeli college students the president tried to rekindle hope that peace with palestinians is possible. >> as political leaders, they will never take risks if the people do not push them to take the risks. you must create the change you want to see. >>

air strikes. we're going to need some forces on the ground. the u.s. and allies are training forces near jordan, because there are understood to be about four chemical weapon sites. that underscores the magnitude of this problem. the president will want to put a coalition together. it will take a lot of people to do this effectively. it will require air assets but also ground forces. >> when people hear that there are may be the use of chemical weapons, there will be concern, but also skepticism based on what happened in iraq. how does anyone know that chemical weapons have been used? how do you verify 100% that they have been used? >> there are western groups around aleppo where these weapons were apparently used. they'll be able to send evidence out in the next couple of days. the traces of this on the skin will be obvious. there are doctors that know what they're looking at. they'll figure out what kind it was. i think it was a fairly light chemical weapon, maybe chlorine. early reports are saying this. so i think we'll know pretty sure in the next two or three days. we'll have people being

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. >>> speaking of president obama he's on his way home aboard air force one, he left oman, jordan, ang abdullah was there to say farewell, jordan is a close ally. during his whirlwind four-day visit to the middle east he stopped in israel and the west bank and urged young israelis to seek peace with the palestinians and got israel to apologize to turkey for a raid that killed nine activists on a turkish ship. >>> the president is flying home if you're flying out across the country, starting next month the faa announced it's shutting down 149 air traffic control towers because of those forced spending cuts. the closures will be phased in over a month starting next month in april. controllers many of them now out of work have concerns that the skies will be less safe. speaking about the skies being less safe a man from france headed to florida tried to dupe an airline crew into thinking he was the pilot a cording to philadelphia police. they say the man got off the plane but didn't get away. they've charged him with trespassing, impersonating a public servant and lying to police. lisa

president obama and air force one, live pictures here, touching down in jordan.o be a ceremony, but there are going to be some foreign men it fry level officials. a little later on he will meet with king abdullah, and there will be some talks with that ally. this following his three day visit to israel. talks are to focus on the middle east peace process as well as the war in syria. the president laid a wreath at the holcast member or cal saying it's our obligation not just to bear witness but to act against racism and especially anti-semitism. joining me now is senior correspondent with the washington post. good to see you. good morning. >> morning, chris. >> so as we wait for the president to come off of air force one. let's start with prospects for peace talks. as you've been watching over these last three days, do you think any progress was made in. >> we have some important rhett tor cal shifts that have occurred with the president walking back from some of the statements he had made in his cairo speech a few years ago which had really angered the israel isr

air force one with diesel? >> the plane is filled. >> that's true. >> the other one was from jordan. i didn't realize they fly them, and where's the stock of presidential limos in the middle east, but it's off the air and preparation for it, but it's funny israeli tv was saying it's the americans who filled it up, not the israelis, to avert any other scandal. >> how did they not know it was regular? >> where do you fill it up? >> a big mistake. >> do you take it to, like, a gas station, fill up my giant limo that weighs 20 ton. >> we basically have a lot more questions than answers on that. let's move on. here's one with a surprise ending. thirty years ago, a man stole $800 from a store in michigan, lived with guilt all this time so he made amends and repaid the $800 plus an extra in $4 # 00, sent the money to the sheriff who tracked down the store's original owner and is working to get the money back to him. that's amazing. >> that's sweet. >> what if working on getting the money back to him? like that sheriff pocketed what was going on. how do you work on -- like he found him, but w

jordan. we'll take you live this morning. this is air force one. the airport in tel aviv. we're waiting for the president. his motorcade is there. hyenas not boarded air -- he has not boarded air force one as we understand. he met with both israeli and palestinian leaders. he encouraged them to restart peace negotiations. he says a two state solution is the only way to achieve lasting peace. >>> time now 6:36. back here at home an audit of two oakland city council members now in the hands of district members. courtney ruby listed more than a dozen alleged violations. among other things the audit accuses them of using their power to influence the bidding process for the $2 million cleanup at the former oakland army base. both reid and brooks deny any wrong doing. ktvu news has also learned that councilman reid is also the target of a second investigation. this is the story you will see only on 2. we have obtained a report from a private investigator working for a business that was concerned about alleged corruption. that report includes an interview with a man who claimed h

jordan. we'll take you live this morning. this is air force one. the airport in tel aviv. we're waiting for the president. his motorcade is there. hyenas not boarded air -- he has not boarded air force one as we understand. he met with both israeli and palestinian leaders. he encouraged them to restart peace negotiations. he says a two state solution is the only way to achieve lasting peace. >>> time now 6:36. back here at home an audit of two oakland city council members now in the hands of district members. courtney ruby listed more than a dozen alleged violations. among other things the audit accuses them of using their power to influence the bidding process for the $2 million cleanup at the former oakland army base. both reid and brooks deny any wrong doing. ktvu news has also learned that councilman reid is also the target of a second investigation. this is the story you will see only on 2. we have obtained a report from a private investigator working for a business that was concerned about alleged corruption. that report includes an interview with a man who claimed h

air force one just landed in jordan where the president is about to meet with king ab abdullah, one ofrica's closest arab allies. welcome to a brand new hour of "happening now," i'm jon scott. uma: and i'm uma. on the agenda today will be the huge influx of refugees into jordan from syria's civil war, and king abdullah has voiced fears islamic terrorists could create a base in his country. meanwhile, president obama spending his last day in israel paying his respects at two memorial sites solemnly reaffirming the jewish state's right to exist. lelandleland vittert is now jois live from jerusalem with more. >> reporter: we started with ceremony in the morning today, and now as president obama has landed in jordan, this turns to really hard core, nitty-gritty diplomatic work of trying to shore up one of the last remaining u.s. allies in the arab world. king abdullah controls the linchpin, the united states has, of course, lost the president in egypt as an ally, the president in tunisia, the president of yemen, and king abdullah is one of the last friends america has. he, too, is under th

jordan. secretary of state john kerry didn't return on air force one. he stayed behind to hold separate talks with israeli and palestinian leaders. >>> the defendant's motion to vacate the judgment is granted. >> david ranta was freed from prison after spending more than two decades behind bars for a murder he didn't commit. tonight he is recovering from a heart attack. david ranta was wrongly convicted of killing a new york rabbi in 1990. his lawyer said he plans to sue the city of new york. >>> and joe weider died today. in the 1960s, he introduced the world to a young athlete from austria named arnold schwarzenegger and he founded the mr. olympia competition. he died at his los angeles home. he was 93 years old. >>> here's what else we're working on -- did you know your neighbor or friend could be a sociopath? with all the high-profile murders lately, we checked and found a surprising statistic. hope you're sitting down. >>> is america going gay? the supreme court is about to weigh in. so goes the court, so goes the entire country. >>> the late-night

the president prepared to board air force one for a trip to israel, the west bank and jordan.may be on this president's agenda, israel prime minister is expected to focus on iron. in case anybody needed remounding fortune ministry told reporters. >> we face a very, very difficult challenge here because the iranian regime is committed to achieving nuclear weapons. the regime continues to march towards that goal. >> and according to the latest the pew poll, americans aren't afraid of a war to stop iron from getting weapons of mass destruction. better than 60% said stopping iron was important even if it meant taking military action. 25% said avoiding military conflict with iron was important, even if it meant seeing iron develop nuclear weapons. for more on the president's trip to the middle east, i'm pleased to be joined by two former diplomats, james jeffery served as our ambassador to iraq, turkey andal bain i can't as assistant to the president and at a deputy national security advisor and p.j. coli, a professor at george washington university and former special assistant for

jordan the last stop on his mideast trip. >>> time is 4:36. today we will find out if any bay area air traffic control towers will be closed. five air traffic control towers here in the bay area are on a possible closures list. they include concord, livermore, santa rosa, and napa. the faa has decided to shut down as many as 238 air traffic control towers across the country because of sequestration budget cuts. >>> there are more impacts on the way. the house of representatives passed a stopgap spending bill yesterday to keep the government running for the next six months. the bill now goes to president obama for his signature. the legislation leaves in place $85 billion in spending cuts to the pentagon and domestic programs. as a result hundreds of thousands of government workers can expect temporary furloughs over the next six months. >>> time now 4:38. that spending bill requires a clause a saturday mail delivery to continue. despite that plans to cut saturday service should continue. they say they have to make the cuts to keep the postal service in business. >>> the golden gate bri

jordan the last stop on his mideast trip. >>> time is 4:36. today we will find out if any bay area air traffic control towers will be closed. five air traffic control towers here in the bay area are on a possible closures list. they include concord, livermore, santa rosa, and napa. the faa has decided to shut down as many as 238 air traffic control towers across the country because of sequestration budget cuts. >>> there are more impacts on the way. the house of representatives passed a stopgap spending bill yesterday to keep the government running for the next six months. the bill now goes to president obama for his signature. the legislation leaves in place $85 billion in spending cuts to the pentagon and domestic programs. as a result hundreds of thousands of government workers can expect temporary furloughs over the next six months. >>> time now 4:38. that spending bill requires a clause a saturday mail delivery to continue. despite that plans to cut saturday service should continue. they say they have to make the cuts to keep the postal service in business. >>> the golden gate bri

air force base. officials setting a low expectation for the trip. president obama will meet with yahoo and then separately in the west bank before heading off to jordan. >> a new clue could help catch a copper thief. fremont investigators believe it may have been stolen and then used in a break in. thieves stole $25,000 worth of copper wire and then allegedly fled in this orange truck. you're urged to call fremont police. >> the city sweetening the pot. tonight, the city council agreed to give up millions of dollars in revenue if the 49ers end up hosting super bowl xl. the league says it will announce the home city in late may. >>> it is being built as the next antenna row. >> crews are working on a massive retail and residential village. nbc bay area is live with why not everyone is a big fan. >> well, jessica, supporters and opponents agree that traffic here in san antonio road is already bad. and critics of the development say it will just make things worse. >> chef lawrence chu has been serving dinner for 43 years. he's watching a new dense housing and retail development go up across the street with great interest. >> it is long overdue. >> phase

jordan and there an f.b.i. gulf stream 5 jet was standing by to take abu ghaith to an air force base just north of new york city and that's how he ended up in court today. >> pelley: so many of the other 9/11 suspects are at guantanamo facing military trials. why was abu ghaith brought to new york city for a civilian trial? >> the administration looked at the options, the justice department weighed in, but if you look at the statistics you have people waiting trial in military tribunals in guantanamo where they've convicted four people in major cases. over that time, there have been 500 terrorist cases in the federal courts, 67 of them people like abu ghaith captured overseas and looking at the conspiracy charge and the extradition rules it just seemed to be the way to make sense. >> pelley: john, thanks very much. we found out today, that the election of the next pope will begin next tuesday. 115 cardinals including 11 americans will vote and any one of them could be elected. an american pope has always been considered a long shut, but one of the candidates is cardinal o'malley, archbishop of boston. and we as

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. >> we are happy to report, by the way, jordan is doing well and back in school. after our story first airedtart an experimental program to compensate donors. that could help her other two daughters secure a perfect match. there are more details about the fund on our website tonight. >>> up next, it's the cultural be in of the season. kate snow unleashes her inner rock star at south by southwest. ♪ jesse's a friend, i know he's been a good friend of mine ♪ >> you know the words! ( birds chirping ) exceptionally smooth with a harmonious blend of flavor and aroma. green mountain coffee for your keurig brewer. brew a better day. ♪ >>> welcome back. it is called south by southwest. south by for short. it's under way right now in austin, texas. for those who love music and movies and tech, it is nirvana. this year, over 150,000 people have descended upon that great city. it is nothing short of a cultural invasion. i so badly wanted to go this year. reluctantly, i could not. we were happy, however, to be able to send fellow music fan kate snow. >> reporter: on a regular old day in this town, the m

east since his election campaign and the president aboards air force one where he goes to israel and then on to ramallah and then finally on to jordanan and petra. the president said this ahead of the trip. >> the president wants to speak to the people of israel, the people of palestinian and the people of the region and not lay down a peace proposal but express his vision for what the possibilities of the future are. >> joining me now on the set is amon. i want to remind everybody, and spending time in the conflict in '08 as well and there's no doubt that it's very difficult to have a breakthrough without u.s. leadership. the u.s. -- and this is something that the u.s. has said, and there's no major breakthrough when and what's the plan going to look like and president obama has insight from some meetings he has ahead of the upcoming visit and the indication is that he's not going there with any plan. that's been said. >> finally, another milestone this week on tuesday. hard to believe it's going to be the ten-year anniversary of the iraq war. how have the tlast few years goe when we talk about and reflect on the rebuilding of iraq

jordan, saudis, and qatar. while it's been going on for quite some time, they are expanding the arms air lift, the cia is.cting it's a game changer, by the way? >> well, what's changing is that slowly, but surely, the assad regime is failing. the free army controls 30% to 40% of sierra, and, yes, as the continued arming of them gives them strength, defections in the %-regime flow towards the rebel, but if it goes too slowly, we're seeing, also, the radicalization of syria and seeing which countries are flowing the weapons in. qatar, saudi arabia, not governments that necessarily help people that are our alis, but the muslim brotherhood and their allies. it's time that we not do this covertly, but openly in order to get a shortcut to the end of the this massacre that's happening of the syria people. sandra: if this is indeed effective and brings the regime down, what blow back does the u.s. face after all of that? >> well, the blow back would come. bya, for example, we saw a lot of the weapons used against us by racal groups. we have to ensure we follow weapons, put homing devices so we know where they are

air force one" and fly to israel for his first foreign trip of his second term. the president will meet with members of the new israeli government, palestinian and king of jordan while on the trip. prior to leaving the white house, president obama will meet with the leaders of northern ireland. >> call this one the battle of the tech titans, samsung taking on apple in another venue this morning. reports are the asian tech companies working on a wristwatch that works a lot like a smartphone. if that sounds familiar, you're correct. just last month rumors started flying apple was working on a wristwatch that would perform the same functions as the iphone and ipad. at this point there's no word on how much either of the items would cost. this just the latest venue in which samsung is going directly, head to head, against apple. just last week samsung unveiling galaxy s4 newest competition for iphone. >> normally it doesn't react but galaxy s4 seems to have the cupertino company scared. right after they created a why iphone site to tell people why iphone is the best choice. the site includes 12 reasons the iphone is better including a camera, siri and the icloud. just b

air force one and fly to israel for his first foreign trip of his second term. the president will meet with members of the new israeli government, palestinian leadership and the king of jordan on this trip. prior to leaving the white house, president obama will meet with the leaders of northern ireland. >>> there's more to be cleaned up, more than crews first expected after a bridge demolition down in texas last night. that's called rocking the house. crowds cheering, watching the lakeside park, not knowing that that blast to tear down the lake marble bridge that was no longer used. it also destroyed a verizon fiber optic cable, killing their cell phone, internet and tv stations. it went to black in bridge debris. the good news, it will be cleaned up today. restoring the fiber optic line will take a little bit longer. >> what? >> yeah. it's called pulling the plug. >> somebody's mad, yeah. >>> san jose is getting ready to host the ncaa tournament. >>> also, pretty amazing new video of a close encounter with a pair of whales off the california coast. >>> locally, the bridges are up, still, and running. this is the san mateo bridge. i'll show you what's going on just south of

jordan. it will help provide aid to syrian refugees. >>> the faa says it will close about 150 air traffic towers to budget cuts. >>> investigators are working to determine if the man killed in a shoot out is linked to the colorado prison chief. >> due to much subject matter viewer discretion is advised. >>> at indiana's wabash valley correctional facility the men considered to be the most dangerous and disruptive are housed in the secured confinement unit. most inmates have assaulted staff or other offenders and are in windowless single man cells 23 hours a day. they take their meals alone and phone calls made once a week are made from the isolation of their cells. >> in this confinement unit we have to deliver all of their services. i try to make contact with every one of my offenders at least once a week. that's all 144 of them. >> case manager beverly gillmore is the primary link to the rest of the world for the inmates. >> i came from the south. i was so protected and so green when i came here. and when i started learning more about the needs of offender population i thought why can't i be a

the money will help jordan provide humanitarian assistance to syrian refugees crowding camps within its borders. >>> the faa says it will close about 150 airll airports due to budget cuts and investigators are working to determine whether the man killed in a texas shoot-out is linked to the murder of colorado's prison chief and two others. now, back to "hubris." >> with congress back from its summer recess, administration leaders prepare to make their case to invade iraq. to eliminate saddam. inside the white house, paul wolfowitz's deputy, under secretary of defense, douglas fife, an iraq hawk like his boss, presents a slide show to national security officials that is full of questionable assertions. >> of all the places where intelligence was being manipulated in the bush administration, the fife shop was the key place. >> there was a debate about how one characterizes the relationship between iraq and al qaeda. nobody made the argument there was no relationship between iraq and al qaeda. >> i want to thank did >> the administration deployed its biggest guns to push congressional leaders for quick passage of a resolution to authorize the

we've got to take out some of his air power, and we should be using military force. craig? >> nbc's andrea mitchell in amman, jordandrea, thank you. safe travels. >> reporter: sauthank you so mu craig. >>> and president obama is back at 1600 pennsylvania avenue after a busy four days in the middle east. he met with israeli, palestinian and jordanian leaders but did not get a happy homeum canning this morning from house intelligence chairman mike rogers. >> this has such global implications, and i really, candidly i thought the trip was a dus appointment for us. i think the president's squandered great opportunity to actually show leadership. >> reporter: and epic week for same-sex marriage. in two daps the supreme court hears cases on proposition 8 and at defense of marriage act. daze boies, famous lawyer, ar gug against prop 8 thinks his side will win. >>> and putting up $12 million for a campaign ad, bloomberg is. on "meet the press" this morning, nra executive vice president wayne lapierre says bloomberg's stances were "insane." here's what bloomberg said about his pitch. listen. >> he can say anything he wants

jordan and as promised a bit earlier we're looking very closely at the plight of the ongoing plight of guantanamo detainees and breaking the set that programs on air after this break. all since the new pope was chosen the calls for reform are analysts everyone wants the new pope to allow this and to allow that but the problem is that the catholic church is a religion not a product if people don't like the way a pepsi bottle looks while the company will have to in theory change it to meet public demand but the pope claims to represent the will of the creator of the universe the pope supposedly holds and protects an ancient and eternal truth so how can you expect this eternal truth just up and change big. public demand even though they pretend like they dulled religions do change over time but how can you expect the pope after hundreds of years of saying that people would be condemned to the fires of hell and eternity in the charred walls of the day i'm for certain sins just now say well i guess those sins are ok if you're catholic and you want your religion to change constantly then why do you believe in it why bother having principles and rules in

protect syria's largest city, aleppo, which has been pounded by air strikes artillery and even scud missiles. wolf? >> ivan watson in jordano jessica and john in jerusalem. this is the tenth time that the president of the united states has met with the prime minister of israel. and, jessica, those of us who have covered all ten of these visits and these meetings and you and i and john have, this was, by far, the most effusive in their mutual praise, their warmth. what happened? >> never seen them quite so cozy as they were today. it was probably a little deliberate for the cameras. >> a tad calculated, maybe. >> also a sign that these two men know they have to work together and get along if they get anything done. at one point i know the president said in his meeting with netanyahu when they first came together, his wife was in between us two men and the president said, she's a rose between two thorns. there is a self-awareness that both of them have been prickly with each other at times, had a frosty relationship and now it is time to heal those wounds and move forward because the president is looking for a legacy move he