alexander: there are two elements to that.e to make sure that we create an environment that the very best investors want to work at. think about it like a university. why would a talented university professor want to go to a university? that is not to be underestimated. one can screw that up easily. the second is, frankly navigating where we think the puck is going to go in three to five years. if you go to the demographic growth of the world, it is in asia and africa. that emerging wealth buys the european version of useful funds. we are very focused on making sure we meet the trajectory was a demand is. francine: thank you so much. gam holdings ceo, alex friedman. guy: stay with us. we are talking to the vice president of the european parliament. that is coming up shortly. that interview is right here on "the pulse." plus, the former italian prime minister mario monti. ♪ . francine: welcome back to "the pulse." guy: i am guy johnson. these are the top headlines. francine: mario draghi speaking this morning at an event in fra

in a police line-up, diane alexander identified her attacker as 34-year-old derrick todd lee.had previous arrests for burglary, stalking women and peeking into their homes. if lee was the baton rouge serial killer, diane alexander was fortunate to be alive. you forgot the milk! that's lactaid®. right. 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can drink all you want... ...with no discomfort? exactly. here, try some... mmm, it is real milk. see? delicious. hoof bump! oh. right here girl, boom! lactaid®. 100% real milk. no discomfort. and for a tasty snack that's 100% real dairy, try lactaid® cottage cheese. >>> derrick todd lee, a manual laborer married with two children, was identified by diane alexander in a police lineup as the man who assaulted her in her home. but he denied he was the baton rouge serial killer. lee's dna sample was sent immediately to the forensics lab for testing. it matched the biological samples from all five victims. >> just a sense of relief and joy come over me. you know, and it's like, i had to smile. i said, "we got him." >> derrick todd lee

the next name up -- >> alexander. >> reporter: alexander, as in litvinenko. >> scaramella says that ishy he met with litvinenko in london to tell him about the hit list and to warn him. but, he says, litvinenko didn't buy it. >> he said, "mario, don't care about that." >> reporter: he says it's bs? >> i think it's -- just a provocation, but please check what's happening. >> reporter: but after what happened to litvinenko, scaramella says he takes the hit list seriously. are you frightened for your life? >> well, do you have another question? >> reporter: scotland yard questioned scaramella and eventually cleared him. why? because if you're looking for it, polonium is traceable. using specialized equipment, investigators were able to track it in people and places. >> once polonium-210 had been identified, then across europe, like the slime from a slug all the way across, polonium was popping up everywhere. >> reporter: but not in scaramella. no polonium in his body or anywhere he'd been. so scotland yard took a hard look at the two russians, lugovoy and kovtun. >> reporter: when detecti

we will have more with michelle alexander after headlines.gress has resolved a standoff over the department of homeland security after a retreat by the republican leadership. the agency nearly shut down last week as republicans sought to link its budget to reversing president obama's executive actions on immigration. on tuesday, house speaker john boehner brought down and brought up a clean spending bill. the measure funds the dhs through the end of the year. president obama's signature health care law's spec before the supreme court today to determine whether millions of low income people lose their health insurance. right-wing opponents are waging a technical argument against specific language in the law which concerns tax subsidies to help people afford insurance. the challengers claimed the language does not allow people to receive subsidies if they get there and the -- insurance through a federal exchange. if the supreme court sites with the challengers -- sides with the challengers, more than 9 million people in the largely republican s

they had fled here after alexander litvinenko, called sasha by his wife, got on the wrong side of theutin regime. marina litvinenko recalls what it was like arriving in the british capital 15 years ago. marina: i was just feeling im safe, with my family, with my child, with my husband. but in a few days, i realized im in a great place. and for months, we felt like tourists. we've been everywhere. >> the family spent six happy years in london before the former k.g.b. agent fell ill and died as a result of poisoning with radioactive polonium. since then, marina litvinenko has been determined to clear her husband's name. day in and day out, she travels to the high court in london to attend the inquiry designed to find out exactly how and why alexander litvinenko died. marina: people sometimes dont understand what really happened. they discuss he might have committed suicide or he smuggled radioactive material. of course, it makes me very sad about this. >> for 20 years, alexander litvinenko worked for the russian military and later joined the russian intelligence service. later, he becam

fred: no, but if you look at bob kerr and alexander, they didn't take a strong -- bob corker and alexanderthey did not take a strong stance. they simply chose not to sign in. mark: one eight on the record before you go. one named answer. who is the republican front-runner? chris: jeb bush. fred: jeb bush for the establishment. scott walker for the farther right wing will stop mark -- farther right wing. mark: thank you. john: after the break, our exclusive report on what you will and likely to use for her campaign. might use. is likely to use. probably won't use. ♪ mark: well hillary clinton the side when combining if, if she's going to announce her campaign madison avenue is already bringing up -- dreaming of slogans she could use. we asked them to bring some about her very best possible campaign bumper sticker themes. -- brainstorms about her very best campaign bumper sticker themes. collect hillary is all about convenience. hillary clinton: i opted for convenience. convenience. correct i'm thinking "hillary, putting convenience first." that is just one option. there's also family. hilla

gordon mahone, alexander all back here in the appomattox river valley. here is gary, out protecting the left flank. long street cannot help in this because he is about three miles away, around a place called new hope church, facing the federal second and sixth core. the last thing i'll touch on real quick is this confederate cavalry. they flank out to the north. the federal cavalry is watching them. they hit their lynchburg stage road to the west and there is fighting right around the walmart. they are battling over the walmart. [laughter] that is where the walmart is today. at the time, there was a house called the robinson house. this is where the last casualties at appomattox -- the battles of appomattox take place. at the robertson house. the federal cavalry commander henry davies, right there facing off against tom's mad. and there are casualties in this fighting. what gets captured and taken to lynchburg. norm reynolds is wounded three times in this fight. he is a lieutenant. there are confederate casualties. many killed. these are the last man to

and what happens partly with this breakdown of greek city states and the rise of alexander the great empires in the period, you start to get empires based in egypt based in other -- macedonia and other parts of the larger met -- mediterranean people think.poll picks and many in prison it can expand beyond a particular city's walls or laws. and so this becomes the idea of what the first person who uses the term i am a citizen of the cosmos, as opposed to being a citizen of athens can a citizen of sparta and that develops into a kind of ethical ideal that maybe one can live according to a kind of set of universal values and laws that aren't bounded geographically. and i think that really is the origin of our idea of cosmo cosmo poll tip. >> that was da daring idea to declare you war cools mow poll continue. >> guest: absolutely. the first person who did it he mentioned in a kind of mentioned in a rejecting way. he was famous for rejecting not just the city's boundaries but also all kinds of human conventions. so he lived in a barrel. he often defecated in public or had sex in public. h

we sit down with alexander schultz.f bay area olympic champion, barry schultz whose death was chronicled in the movie "fox catcher." he turned his grief into motivation to begin his own startup. people in the bay area remember one of the most important events in the history of civil rights. don't go away. >>> the time is 7:30. let's give you a look outside. a little gray and hazy back there. things will be warming up. good morning. thanks so much for waking up with us. i'm vicky nguyen with anthony slaughter who is standing by right now with a look at the micro climate forecast. >> planning ahead. this morning, waking up to the cloud cover, you may think it is going to be raining, that's just a marine layer that's moved back in. this is a live look from palo alto. that's going to mean for warmer temperatures later where they are clear right now. cooler temperatures where we have the cloud cover. overall, the micro climate forecast really sticking today. showers do return to the forecast by mid-week. you will notice what

alexander bradley. prosecutors describe him as hernandez's former right-hand man.shot in the face, dumped out of a vehicle, and left for dead. still wearing his now blood-soaked vip wrist band from the club. police retrieve this bullet fragment from his head, but bradley won't give them any details. >> when the police investigated this incident, alexander bradley didn't point the finger at hernandez. >> that changes when bradley sues, claiming aaron hernandez cost him his right eye. bradley later tells prosecutors he was shot after hernandez felt disrespected during an argument over a missing cell phone. after bradley is shot, prosecutors say hernandez gets a new right-hand man. a man named earnest wallace. >> this defendant is more commonly known by his nickname, which is hobo. >> or bo. wallace has a long criminal history. prosecutors say he sells and uses drugs. including the hallucinogen angel dust, or pcp. he's not the only one. sources tell cnn aaron hernandez also smoked a lot of pot. one calling it a boatload. prosecutors say the tight end would give odin l

. >>> and we enter the dark world of the late designer alexander in the region original way i felt andhe way i felt people were talking to people are nervous something like that could happen again? we have also seen individuals who have tried to infuse violence in movements to degree rail their focus. anything could happen throughout the year from august until now. there are moments in a sense, concern for my safety individuals but we believe that our fight here is just and that even in the risk of violence or our own personal harm we believe we are standing on righteousness and it's worth any harm or danger that may come to us fighting this fight. >> the last 24 hours, we have seen the resignation of the police chief the city manager step down two police officers have stepped down. what more do you want to see moving forward? >> reform in our municipal court system. the report from the department of justice outlined that we want to see individuals vote in this area. >> that's going to protest or need to go out and vote as well. going to approve the new chief of police that came in so

none other than alexander graham bell stepped forward to help. bell, a young restless genius had invented the telephone just five years earlier when he was only 29 years old. 1881, the telephone had earned him some money and a lot of -- -- a lot of fame but he wanted nothing to do with the company that he grown up around it. he said it was hateful to him at all times and that it fettered him as an inventor. worse even than the business was the lawsuits against the telephone. there were 600 lawsuits against him, five of which went to the united states supreme court. finally, bell had had enough. he said he was sick of the telephone and he quit the bell telephone company. bell just wanted to help people. he had lost both of his brothers to tuberculosis before he was 24 years old. both his wife and his mother were deaf, and he knew that he could make life better for people, maybe even save lives. but he worked so hard that his parents and his wife were terrified that he literally woodwork himself to death. when he was working he wouldn't stop to eat

i have been tweeting out details with the ceo of alexander the queen -- alexander mcqueen. can find us on twitter. mark: coming up, we will take a look at alternative investments. how much is that stamp collection in your attic worth? ♪ mark:mark: here is a look at the top stories, federal officials are investigating possible manipulation by herbalife stock by ackman that is according to a person familiar with the matter. ackman has accused herbalife of inflating sales. the leader of the u.k. government opposition party labor has described the idea he made to a coalition deal with the scottish national party after the election. speaking during a question and answer session on bbc three television he said i don't want a coalition, i don't need a coalition with them and i am not planning on it. it is nonsense i promise you. the s&p is expected to make huge gains in the may election after joining a search in popularity following the scottish referendum last year. and we're launching bloomberg politics and u.k. election, 2015 every day between the budget and the general electio

brian lamb: and alexander hamilton. we know it he died of. how old was he?hen he was shot and killed? and what financial shape was he in? david stewart: 48. he was in pretty terrible shape. he had been a very successful lawyer, but he had a great many debts. which he left for his family. so these people were doing great things in the world, and they were not building fortunes. brian lamb: did he owned slaves? david stewart: hamilton did not own slaves. he was an abolitionist in new york. brian lamb: george washington at the end? david stewart: washington had money. he was a good is listening. -- he was a good businessman. he was a fine steward of his plantation. he left a great many slaves, and a great many of them were his wife's. he married her when she was a widow. he left in the will that his slaves should be freed when his wife died. that turned out not to be a good situation. it made mrs. washington very nervous because the slaves had a vested interest in having her die. so she just freed them herself. there was a tradition, of slaves poisoning their m

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for a few with alexander mcqueen.he sthoe is as theatrical romantic, and extravagant as the late designer. it is a celebration of his famously vivid imagination and entree into his fan it's a call world. >> he really did have an extraordinary mind and it's not really about clothes. i mean it became about clothes, but to some extent you can see here, it could be about anything. you could call this art. you could call this theater. >> reporter: the exhibition starts with alexander lee mcqueen going from degree show sensation to international fame in the early '90s, having disrupted the world of fashion with his dark meets gothic provocative collection. he made dresses from layered silk, glass, wood metal, and mussel shells. and access rised them with head gear and shoes. this is perhaps the most theatrical room in when is a theatrical show. it's the cabinet of curiosities. . features many of mcqueens wilder experiments, collaborations, and in the case of this dress, creations, this was made by two robots sprays paint. t

and thank you, chairman alexander, for holding this hearing. senator alexander: thank you senator murray. we have good attendance already of senators. i would say that we've formed a working group of staff, a single working group, on this subject for the purpose of identifying how we'll proceed. and after this hearing, the next few weeks, the working group and senator murray and i will sit down and talk about how we can have a bipartisan process and take into account and focus our efforts in a way that gets a result. in that, we'll be aware of what the house is doing, and we'll work with secretary burwell and with the president, especially on their precision medicine initiative. each witness we've asked -- i'll ask each of you to summarize, if you can, in about 10 minutes your testimony so the senator also have a chance to have a conversation with you. i thank you both for coming. dr. collins first. thank you. director of the national institutes of health, the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. he's been director of nih sinc

and thank you, chairman alexander, for holding this hearing. senator alexander: thank you senator murray. we have good attendance already of senators. i would say that we've formed a working group of staff, a single working group, on this subject for the purpose of identifying how we'll proceed. and after this hearing, the next few weeks, the working group and senator murray and i will sit down and talk about how we can have a bipartisan process and take into account and focus our efforts in a way that gets a result. in that, we'll be aware of what the house is doing, and we'll work with secretary burwell and with the president, especially on their precision medicine initiative. each witness, i'll ask each of you to summarize, if you can, in about 10 minutes, your testimony so the senator also have a chance to have a conversation with you. i thank you both for coming. dr. collins first. thank you. he's the director of the national institutes of health, the largest supporter of biomedical research in the world. he's been director of nih since 20

they shot 26-year-old alexander santiago, he is on the run. he is 5'6," brown hair. he was wanted on possession of drug trafficking as well as possession of a firearm. several crews have been helping deputies track down this man. they also immediately notified surrounding law enforcement agencies. this is the second time in less than a year that something like this has occurred. this is around 5:00 saturday morning a. 30-year-old inmate as well. they ordered him and asserted that the inmate was hiding out at a nearby homeless shelter. this time, once again, if you see santiago gonzalez, do not approach him, just call 911 this morning. live in san francisco, back to you. >> thank you for the latest on that. >>> this morning we learned an inmate escaped from the custody of santa clara deputies. they are looking for john l. carter. there is now a $6,000 reward for information leading to hills arrest. the family of a young mother hit by an suv in hayward says she will now be taken off life support today. she and her 11-month-old son were in that crosswalk on the tennison

the number given by general alexander was 57.we'll go with that number rather than the adjustments later. 57. what i wonder is why in the world the oversight committees, intelligence oversight committees of the house and the senate, why they didn't know that number themselves, and, two, why that number has not been in some way incorporated into analysis of the strategy of what we're doing. it's caught and arguably intrusions into american society. >> yeah. that's a great question. and it gets to the reasonableness argument in the front half of the fourth amendment. the judge is emphasizing the back half that no warrants shall be issued except upon probable cause. but you realize, certainly any of you who came here by airplane, realize that not all searches are prompted or legitimated by a warrant. but it's the overall standard has to do with reasonableness. and lou, you're right. the judgment on reasonableness has to include the factor whether or not it's worth doing. do you get anything out of the other end? i mean, i understand

se determinÓ que alexander muriÓ ahogado.5. 1373 han sido robadas en los Últimos aÑos. otras, siguen las reglas. >> categÓricamente no compramos absolutamente nada, por cuestiones de seguridad, de revisiones de nuestra empresa y como una polÍtica de nosotros, de no fomentar los actos delictivos. claudia: alexander fue despedido por su familia y la comunidad de tijuana. en medio de un inmenso dolor, su padre enviÓ un mensaje. >> van a pagar por sus delitos, nos quitaron un pedacito de nosotros. pamela: al dÍa siguiente emprendieron un operativo para tapar esas alcantarillas. bÁrbara: bueno, nos despedimos, pero las dejamos con un impactante rescate de una perrita y su cachorro en chile. ♪ ♪ enrique: gracias por acompaÑarnos en esta noche del lunes 16 de marzo. un gran jurado en texas exonera al policÍa que disparÓ pistola contra un hombre. pide al fiscal de los angeles que retire los cargos contra los manifestantes que protestaban en contra del abuso policiaco. reactivan un proyecto de ley que busca prohibir las ciudades santu

." >> alexander hamilton was the only immigrant among the seven key founding fathers. came from nothing and helped forge a nation. ♪ now his story is a musical that has revolutionary as the man himself. >> that hip-hop music is the music of the revolution. >> from the page to the stage with alexander hamilton. ahead on "sunday morning." spoiler alert he dies. >> osgood: joe sartore photographs monarch butterflies taking flight. steve mart man watches a special delivery. seth doane marks the first anniversary of the disappearance of malaysia airlines flight 370. and more, first the headlines for this sunday morning the 8th of march, 2015. it's called bloody sunday, the day 50 years ago when civil rights protesters clashed with police in selma alabama. yesterday selma saw very different gathering on the edmund pettus bridge bill plante reported from selma 50 years ago and he was there for us to cover yesterday's events as well. >> with a perfect sky above, civil rights icons, members of congress former president and mrs. bush and the nation's first black president walked

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at one time alexander was doing great.putin, turned billionaire. he owned pieces of russia's most powerful energy companies, airlines and banks, and still publishes the "novaya gazeta," one of the only opposition newspapers left in russia. but running a newspaper that's been harshly critical of the ruler has cost him. he's been stripped of nearly everything. it can be a dangerous thing to do investigative journalism in this country. your own paper, five journalists, six lost their lives? >> yeah. probably the biggest number because there was no war in this country. so in peaceful times to lose six journalists killed is quite a lot. >> six journalists murdered, one paper. presumably for their reporting on political corruption or human rights abuse. though pointing a finger directly at the government is impossible, one can say that the climate here is such that what you say can certainly get you killed. you have at various stages made life difficult for yourself. business was very good for you, and then you had to have an op

peter alexander, nbc news, boston. >>> coming up next why this afghan woman strapped on some armor and took to the streets all to make a point. >>> iraqi government forces continue their fight against isis. they have launched an assault and recaptured the city of tikrit in the anbar province. the iraqi defense ministry released footage of its air strikes. shiite militia members are helping in the effort. but progress has been slow. tikrit is the first major city that iraqi forces have attempted to recapture from isis in northern iraq. the militant group took over that region last year. >>> a woman who took to the streets in afghanistan to protest sexual harassment is now afraid for her life. this afghan performance artist says she's been molested many times. the first time she says she was just 4 years old. to protest how women are treated, she wore a suit of armor in a short demonstration. that demonstration not well-received. but she's not keeping quiet. >> if i am a good girl i shouldn't say to my mom or my brother or say anything in public. >> despite efforts to raise awareness, wo

an exhibition like this, is that brand recognition, people who already by alexander mcqueen or do you you will see sales? >> we did when it was in new york. it brought the brand to a different audience. i don't know, let's see. this -- we have not done this for any commercial reasons. we've done it because we had to and we felt duty-bound. this is more about lee mcqueen as more than a brand. francine: the brand is doing phenomenally well. what is most exciting about the brand for you? what are the challenges and what are the opportunities? >> the most exciting thing is that we have proved after losing the founder that was a true genius that five years on we have become probably one of the biggest and best brands in the u.k. we are very proud of that. we are going to build on that. lots of areas we are focusing on. we've gone from being a brand that was very much seem to be a conceptual designer brand to an international luxury brand. that is exciting and that is what we are focusing on, to strengthen that. francine: within the group, you are one of the most successful brands. in the u

>>mark:sheriff's deputies are looking for 26-year-old alexander santiago-gonzales.t night in san francisco. >>mark:a sheriff's deputy went after him, but he got away. >>mark:the old fashioned wood- burning >>james: a live look for the cemetery where tamil i will show you the shot right about here we atomize little strip of sunshine lighting up the rows back disorder backed off a little bit but it is the cloud in response to that most crowded skies and in this will be nice and mild today and a little bit warmer than there were yesterday beginning with the morning hours we're looking for temperatures still right now and the low to mid 50's with the slightest chance of a spurt a lot of santa rosa and nothing is one to turn into anything at the moment it seems to be my noontime and the convict in this is one of the low 60s and that more to the upper 60s and low '70's by 3:00 this afternoon it will be slightly breezy out their the ones of picking up starting at about 11:00 it will not let up until 5:00 p.m. tonight that is the way the weather is looking in general a quic

peter alexander, nbc news, the white house. >>> and that is nbc "nightly news" for this sunday. lester holt will be here tomorrow. i'm carl quintanilla reporting from new york. from all of us here at nbc news, good night. >>> good evening. i'm vickie nguyen. >>> we are following break news. a major earthquake has triggered a tsunami warning. that a is in effect within 620 miles of the earthquake epicenter. new guinea and islands are most at risk. western hawaii islands could see effects from this quake. we'll have updates as they happen. let's bring in our meteorologist rob with

alexander, his wife and their children fled russia after he was released from prison. six years later in november 2006, he was poisoned with radioactive and died in a london hospital. we met his widow. she's been campaigning tirelessly to have the murder investigated. who kimmedlled her husband and why? >> people sometimes don't understand what really happened. when they discuss he might committed suicide or smuggled material it makes me very sad about this. >> alexander spent 20 years in the soviet military and later joined the intelligence service and then started to criticize the leadership. at a conference in london he accused paout ton of ordering the murder of a journalist. british authorities suspect putin's secret service agents poisoned him when he drank green tea in a london hotel bar. the russian government refused to extradite the suspects which has strained relations. >> it became the image of brutality of putin's russia. and the political dimension to the relationship has not recovered. >> marina says the situation in russia is becoming increasingly tense

one of the men that he is with is alexander bradley.secutors describe him as hernandez's former right-hand man. by morning, bradley is shot in the face, dumped out of a vehicle, and left for dead. still wearing his now blood soaked vip wristband from the club. police retrieve this bullet fragment from his head, but bradley won't give them any details. >> when the police investigated this incident, he didn't point the finger at hernandez. >> that changes when he sues and says hernandez cost him height right eye. he says he was shot after hernandez felt disrespected during an argument over a missing cell phone. prosecutors say hernandez gets a new right-hand man. a man named ernst wallace. >> he is more commonly known by his nickname hobo, or o. he has a long criminal history. they say he sells and uses drugs including angel dust or pcp. court documents show his sidekick carlos ortiz admits he's regularly using pcp, alcohol and thc. >> sources say aaron hernandez also smoked a lot of pot, one calling it a boat load. >> prosecutors say her

it has been six years since travis alexander was murdered viciously and the woman who did it has beenooling her heels waiting to find out whether she will live or die for the crime. found guilty long ago, a second jury had to be called in to decide whether she will get the death penalty. after more than 24 hours, they came up with their justice. it may not be the justice that even wanted, it may not be the justice that even jody wants. they could not decide. and ultimately the justice is that it will be life in prison and the judge in this case, judge sherry stevens made the announcement just moments ago. >> i have received two juror questions from you. the first juror question submitted late yesterday afternoon states that we are not unanimous, votes have been steady since last thursday. jurors have indicated minds are made up. some have indicated we either let you know today or they want off this jury. in my assessment we are hung and additional time will not change this. submitted by the foreperson. this morning i received an additional juror question indicating the status is uncha

substituting tonight, peter alexander. >>> good evening. after this already relentless winter, severe weather is punishing much of the country tonight. millions of americans marching into another month of exhausting cold and snow. thousands of flights grounded and ice producing dangerous conditions for drivers. to give you some perspective, right now, nearly two-thirds of the u.s. is blanketed by snow, and boston is bracing for its snowiest season ever. we begin tonight with nbc's kristen dalgren. >> reporter: in minneapolis today, drivers were going nowhere fast. >> i got the car stuck now. my wife ran it down and we can't get it up the driveway. >> reporter: at least 6 inches of snow catching a lot of people off guard. >> i can't believe it accumulated so fast. >> reporter: getting around was down right hazardous. in rolla, missouri, crews finally have i-44 opened after this pile-up on saturday involving at least 25 cars, trucks and a greyhound bus. in virginia, state police were working at least five separate crashes on route 60 alone. n

nbc's peter alexander has the tape. >> reporter: frightening moments just minutes after takeoff. an unruly passenger started yelling, claiming there was a bomb onboard and headed toward the cockpit. >> he was saying jihad. he was saying the plane's going down. >> reporter: don digby and another passenger scott maldonado quickly reacted. >> i immediately put my arms around his torso. and i believe i kicked the bottom of his leg and flipped him on the ground. >> no, come on! >> reporter: the pilot, en route from washington dulles to denver, calmly alerted the tower. >> united 1074 state nature of emergency again. >> there's a passenger in the back. he ran forward towards the cockpit and he is being restrained by other passengers. the cockpit is secure. >> reporter: the plane was cleared to return to dulles. once on the ground, the disruptive passenger was detained and placed on a 72-hour mental evaluation hold. he was not arrested and not charged and no weapons were found. >> the amount of power that this individual had for a solid 20 to 30 minutes was just unbelievable. >> reporte

nbc's peter alexander takes a look. >> reporter: it's a generation driven by distraction. teenagers juggling music, makeup, cell phones. hands off the wheel, eyes off the road. spinning out, nearly rear ending a pickup, barely missing this semi. lexi is one of thousands of teen who had two cameras mounted on their car in exchange for a discount on auto insurance. watch what happened when she was 16 looking down at an ipod. her eyes off the road for six seconds, almost barrelling through a road sign. >> if a car would have been coming, i would have hit them straight on. and who knows what condition my car or i would have been in after that. >> reporter: the wisconsin teen wasn't hurt, but it could have been much worse. >> she could have been killed, could have totalled the car. and she wouldn't have even known what hit her because it happened so fast. >> reporter: aaa found distractions contributed to 58% of the teen crashes it studied. cell phones a factor 12% of the time. >> over 50% of the teen drivers that were on a cell phone took no evasive action. they didn't steer a

peter alexander, nbc news. >>> there is news tonight of a political shakeup.he long-time leader of the democrats in the senate, minority leader harry reid of nevada, says he will not run for re-election. and there's already a big name making moves to replace him. nbc's kelly o'donnell with details now from washington. >> reporter: the senate's most powerful democrat is stepping out of the ring. >> i'm not going to run for re-election. >> reporter: harry reid, still bruised and partially blinded after a serious home exercise equipment accident in december. >> but this accident has caused us for the first time to have a little down time. >> reporter: aides say around christmas, reid and his wife decided he would not battle for a sixth term. but in january reid told me despite injuries he was ready to run. and is there any situation related to this that would cause you not to seek re-election? >> no, at this stage i'm fully intending to run. >> reporter: today on nevada radio president obama surprised him with a call. >> he's got that crumb curmudgeonly charm. it

abuses there -- and, after hosting ukraine peace talks in the capital minsk, the country's president alexanderashenko is even keen now to portray himself somewhat as a peacemaker. but the problems in belarus are still very much there - as our reporters found out when they met up with a mother who says her son was wrongly executed. reporter: lubov kovalyova feels compelled to speak about her pain -- again and again. she tells how her son vladislav was executed in march three years ago. he was 26 years old. his mother doesn't know where to go with her grief. she doesn't know where her son was buried. lubov: we don't have a grave. that's why, when our neighbors heard that vlad was no longer alive, they laid flowers right in front of our door. and now here they are. he was such a good-looking, intelligent boy. a good boy. reporter: vladislav kovalyova and a friend were accused of setting off a bomb in the minsk subway in april 2011. 15 people died in the attack. some human rights activists regard the proceedings against them as a show trial based on coerced, false confessions. but they were both f

more from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: with the white house and congressional republicans clashingver a nuclear deal with iran, today a direct confrontation on capitol hill. secretary of state john kerry blasting the letter sent by senate republicans to iran's leaders this week. >> in my reaction to the letter was utter disbelief. >> reporter: that letter warns one of america's enemies that any nuclear deal reached with the president and u.s. allies could be undone if it isn't approved by congress. kerry called it irresponsible and misleading. >> it purports to tell the world if you want to have any confidence in your dealings with america, they have to negotiate with 535 members of congress. that is both untrue and profoundly a bad suggestion to make, i think. >> secretary, i know that's a well-written speech -- >> not a speech, my friend. this is not a speech. >> this indignation and breast beating over this letter is absolute nonsense. >> reporter: this morning on "today," rand paul who signed the letter insisted it doesn't undermine the president. >> we're going to have to get

here's nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: how much would you pay to connect? how about five bucks? >> you're not playing board games with your friends -- >> reporter: at game house in glendale, california, five bucks lets you dive into more than 900 different games. similar spots are popping up nationwide. it may sound like child's play, but board games are back big time. some even say this is a golden age of games. board games are booming. sales up 10% last year totaling $1.5 billion. over the past few years monopoly keeps passing go up 15%, operation more than 40%. and long live the game of life. its sales up 45%. at hasbro's factory in massachusetts they pump out more than 27 million games a year and 29$29 trillion in play money, of course. nine of the top ten best selling games in the country. brings families back together. >> brings families back together. >> reporter: a refreshing connection says hasbro's john friscotti. >> in this age where people are disconnected games create a great opportunity for people to reconnect with each other. >> you sank my battleship. >> reporter

i'm peter alexander reporting from new york. for all of us here at nbc news, have a good night. >>> there was just flames coming out of the side of one of the windows completely. when you went across the street and you looked the whole roof was just on fire. >> right now at 6:00 a deadly fire lights up the sky in oakland. the apartment complex nearly destroyed by flames. how people now are recovering from all that damage. good evening to you. i'm peggy bunker. >> i'm terry mcsweeney. in oakland tonight, the red cross stepped in to help 30 people find a place to stay after a deadly fire early this morning near the corner of 24th street in west oakland. firefighters did not save two men. christie smith live at the scene with more. christie? >> good evening, terry and peggy. we've seen some residents coming and going to look at the building. the red cross is helping displaced residents tonight after this deadly fire. two men died in the fire in what neighbors are saying is at least the front part of the building where many musician