the attacks were carefully planned. >> my name is ali mohammed. >> reporter: this man, ali mohammed,ive. he married a californian in 1985 and became an american citizen. he joined the u.s. army. >> at the same time that he was a u.s. army sergeant and actually working at special forces headquarters in ft. bragg, north carolina, he was also intimately involved with al qaeda, training bin laden's bodyguards. >> ali mohammed had done what they call casing of the american embassy in nairobi in december of 1993. a five-year span between casing and operation. >> reporter: and listen to what ali mohammed said in a u.s. court. >> my surveillance files and photographs were reviewed by osama bin laden. bin laden looked at the picture of the american embassy and pointed to where a truck could go as a suicide bomber. >> reporter: shortly after the terrorist attacks on the two u.s. embassies, this man, abdul, approached bin laden with a new scheme. two years of planning followed. on october 7th, 2000, in the yemeni port of aden, two al qaeda suicide bombers steered their small boat up to the "uss

. >>> mohamed ali will join families of the two u.s. hikers detained in iran to appeal for their release. sarah shroud will also be in attendance. >>> and bob dylan celebrates his 70th birthday. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. al roker reports live from joplin, missouri with more severe weather on the way, the wake of that deadly tornado. and the kung fu panda himself, jack black, stops by studio 1a to tell meredith vieira about the second installment of his animated hit film. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

mohamed ali suffers from parkinson's disease but he lent his support to jane bauer and josh fattal. fattal's mother hopes ali's advocacy will broaden support. >> sierra shroud was released last year. >>> the family of bryan stow sued the l.a. dodgers for the lack of security and proper lighting and that it provided a perfect opportunity for crime. the family's attorney says he is seeking as much as $30 million from the dodgers. >> they got rid of the head of security and two thirds of the security people. what happens then if you have no security? people can do anything they please and you have things like this happen. >> the man described as a primary aggressor, giovanni ramirez, was arrested sunday. >>> the owner of the staples center in los angeles also faces a file suit over the death of a 2-year-old boy. a 2-year-old boy fell from the luxury suite at a lakers game. >>> researchers say they plan to comb the area near the golden gate bridge for signs of a missing teenager. allison bayless was last seen at san ramon high school. her bicycle was found in a lots near the bridge. the

and mohammed ali hung this drawing in his training camp as an incentive to get back in shape. bill gallo was 88. and coming up next, restoring joy to children traumatized by tornadoes. tornadoes. allegations against bay area cops. what we uncovered in an exclusive investigation next on cbs 5 i'm frank mallicoat. and i m sydnie kohara. >> couric: natural disasters have been a big part of the news lately. we end tonight with what happens after the disaster. elaine quijano has the story of a woman who drives into damaged communities to help the children there heal. >> reporter: when dozens of tornadoes slammed into the south, children were among those directly in the storm's path. >> everything was shaking and stuff, and we heard trees falling, and nobody know what to do exactly. >> reporter: in tuscaloosa alabama, where many kids and their families lost everything, kathryn mart and i know her team at t.j.'s bus hoped to restore some normalcy. >> when we drive sointo a disaster site they know this bus is for them, that it's special. >> reporter: martin understands loss. her son c

mohammed ali joined others at a news conference in washington, d.c. >> we're here to pray that iran will hear this appeal and at last show the compassion to shane and josh that was demonstrated through my release and, of course, to ask people around the world not to forget these two innocent men. >> shane bauer and josh fattal have been held for 662 days. >>> a search is going on for a missing teenager from danville. 15-year-old allison bayliss was last seen by her parents yesterday morning riding her bike at san ramon valley high school. then today before dawn, the girl's family told authorities that they found her bike in san francisco in the battery east parking lot near the golden gate bridge. allison is only 15 years old, 5'8" with blonde hair. anyone who has seen her should call 911. >>> new details about a contra costa county kidnapping that's stranger than fiction. 4-month-old ramy gallego was reunited with her family in knightsen last night. the family reported her missing sunday morning taken from her bassinette overnight. authorities got a tip that she was with her paternal gr

team producer lucy calf now ok i got a really good job for you guys if colonel do if you barr and mohammed ali went to dinner together what would they be called in tennessee. and i guess and i guess and again not then i would go with. are you going to go on you know we've always talked about this on our show before that tennessee is joining the list of other states out there like oklahoma the want to legislate on non issues which is creeping shari'a law but now it turns out that if you look at some of the deeper language here you basically can be considered a sharia law is a shoe in if there are two or more people involved so if you want to start some kind of a supper club or a charity now you're the devil and that's illegal and you won't like what the hell can lie and let's keep in mind that practicing shari'a isn't necessarily some sort of organization or a law that's just being a good muslim that's like saying you know christians i don't know but i'm not religious i don't really know christians doing whatever it is that they do you know they're really not a terrorist organization for believ

you know, i think one of the greatest boxers of all time was mohamed ali who is gym is named after.me off the streets, out of trouble. kept me focused, gave me discipline. that's all we are really trying to offer. >> reporter: the gym was actually an afterthought. the mosque's 500 members acquired the warehouse ten years ago and converted it to a worship space. problem is they needed only a fraction of of the 50,000 square feet. i'm smelling something down this hallway. today it holds a deli, barber scho school. >> so you bring people in and keep them here. they don't have to leave for lunch. >> we come in. you know, just like a lot of times we go to meet at restaurant or something. somebody can come in, get something to eat, sit there, have a meeting, whatever they are doing or do their work. >> reporter: the mosque holds ghosts as well of the great fighters who emerged from the hard streets since the 1800s like sonny liston and joe fraser. a lot of the boxing clubs have closed their doors. in fact, joe fhrazier's facility shut down. this is somewhere people can train for free. so

. >> weeks and months passed and he was 20 points behind of it was almost like that thing with mohammed ali. >> rope-a-dope. >> he was letting it go and taking the punches. then we realized he and plouffe had this plan. tell this story. >> it was the plan. they knew the caucus states, they knew the primary states. they had chosen where they would do well, where they wouldn't, how they would do well. they had it all laid out. >> tim russert was following it, the late tim russert. he knew it. >> he had that piece of paper. it was uncannily accurate. >> it was about -- their mantra was it's about the delegates. keep your eyes on the prize. don't get distracted by polls -- >> bring the movie forward to the last couple weeks. there we had people running around. i do think there's an ethnic piece to this. i know there's an ethnic piece looking at the latest numbers. people who still think he wasn't -- let's look at this number about born in the united states. still people in this country, 14% republicans, 16% conservatives who say he's not born here based on the facts. this is driving while black

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ali for human rights violation. discontent with a president who had lingered in power for too long had been brewing in tunisia for quite some time public anger erupted after students mohamed was easy satam cell phone fire and publish stories of runaway corruption eroding the top echelon of the trinity and government. after when. reagan. came and the hummingbirds did what he did. i think tradition was made sure to. to start to change what's happened in tunisia and also in egypt and it's happening in a few other places and it's diplomatic cables troll people. they were actually right in not trusting in thinking that there was something that was corrupt. steinberg shams the public spotlight he's going to stay in the shade although in actual fact he's just as much a godfather of the wiki leaks project as julian assange has. yes my name is daniel smith this is julia sons and we're here to make a short presentation about what we can extract what we don't daniel don't steinberg could be described as co-creator of the internet's most scandalous web site together he took the idea of creating a site where any person can safely post secret information anonymously and made it a reali