thanh trung, nbc news, ashville, north carolina. >>> up next, intimate portraits for families kept far apart. it's our making a difference report. >>> finally tonight, as families spend this holiday weekend together it can be especially tough for military families far apart. to make things just a little bit easier, some professional photographers are volunteering to capture happy memories. and they're making a difference this holiday season. here's nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: while tens of thousands of troops are scheduled to be home for the holidays, denny rindle won't be one of them. he'll not only miss christmas with his wife shannon and son dawson but the birth of his second son due in march. >> it's difficult, knowing that i got a little guy coming and i won't get to see him until he's a couple months old. >> reporter: so on a beautiful fall day in an oklahoma city park, they made time stand still, if only for a few hours. >> this makes it a little easier and gives you something to look forward to. >> reporter: the photo shoot is courtesy of operation love reunited, a gro

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snow in memphis and ashville and nashville. then over the next 48 hours over to indianapolis, columbus. how about 6 to 10 inches in part of michigan. one of the best known names in the house of representatives is leaving. barney frank of massachusetts, a liberal member of the house since he was first elected back in 1980. he announced today he will not stand for re-election. over the years he's become a big target for republicans. could very well have faced a very tough challenge had he chosen to run again. redistricting has changed his long-time constituency. he never did suffer fools gladly or a lot of other people for that matter, which he more or less admitted today. among his legacies besides his legendary sharp tongue he was the first member of congress to publically acknowledge he was gay back in 1987. >>> in the insult to injury department tonight three financial executives, asset managers from greenwich, connecticut, are your new winners of the powerball lottery. $254 million. it is the biggest lottery prize in connect

flight 6132 flying as delta connection from ashville, north carolina, to laguardia was at 10,000 feetn the copilot contacted. >> the pilot has disappeared and i have someone with a thick foreign access. i have a situation. >> reporter: the pilot went to use the lavatory, but while inside the door jammed. a passenger tried to help free the pilot, then went to the cockpit to tell a suspicious copilot what was happening. >> i'm told he's stuck in the lav. someone with a thick foreign accent is giving me a pass word access to the cockpit. i'm not lietting him? >> reporter: there was jets on standby. >> you ought the to declare an emergency and get on the ground. >> reporter: former captain john cox said it was reasonable for the first officer to fear a hijacker maybe trying to talk his way into the cockpit. >> since 9/11 the doors are hardened, the locks are hardened. it would be virtually impossible for someone just using their body to get into the flight deck. it was designed that way specifically to prevent that. >> reporter: finally the flight attendant who was in the cockpit as a sec

and offer six months on the international space station cosmonauts and to ashville safely returned to their russian spacecraft three other space explorers will stay on the i assess for another four months probably giving them a quite the view of the upcoming december new year flying. as are the headlines but for now what caused the fall of one of the biggest financial brokers in the world and just where did all of its clients' money go the sordid details right now with cancer. i am as cars are this is the kaiser report the m.f. global scandal we've been talking about it for a couple of shows now it's becoming more of a festering sore on the collapsing global economy stacy herbert what's the latest i'm not surprised. well the latest is the entire system has been utterly destroyed by the m.f. global collapse presenting the first m.f. global casualty yes max has borne hard capital management and they ceased operations and in their matter to clients they say the reason for the decision to pull the plug was excruciating lee simple i could no longer tell my clients that their money's imposi

the airlines flight was coming in from ashville, north carolina. pilot went to the bathroom, but the lock got stuck. he was banging on the door and told the passenger to alert the crew. when he approached the cockpit, the co-pilot became suspicious. he called air traffic control. >> captain disappeared in the back went to use the restroom. he's stuck in the lav, i'm being told and someone with a foreign accent is giving me a password for the cockpit. i'm not about to let him in. >> is there any disturbance on the airplane? >> negative. the captain was in the lavatory and couldn't get the door open. >> the pilot freed himself. fighter jets had been alerted but not scrambled. authorities figured out it was a misunderstanding. >>> people at aaa are expecting 4% up tick they say, in travel this holiday season. that is despite prices going up all over the place. 42.5 million people are expected to jam the airports, train stations and highways this holiday season. it will come at a higher cost. it will cost 20% more to buy an airline ticket this year tha

the airlines flight was coming from ashville, north carolina. pilot decided he had to go to the bathroom. the locks jammed leaving him trapped inside. when the passenger went to the door of the cockpit, the co-pilot got suspicious and thought something was going on on the plane. he called air traffic control. here is how the story unfolded. >> can tan disappeared in the back. wenlt to use the restroom. by all indications by what i'm being told is he's stuck in the lav. >> declare emergency. get on the ground. is there any level of disturbance in the airplane? >> negative. the door latch -- had to get the door open. >> the pilot did eventually free himself. he cleared things up with air traffic control. police talked with the passenger and figured out all of this was a misunderstanding because he had to go to the bathroom. >> embarrassment 2000 feet up. >> yeah. >>> caught on tape. >>> coming up, more to come including the deal of the day segment. ♪ [ jerry ] attention shoppers. your groceries are the size of idaho but the interest rate on your c

. >> reporter: for the past eight months, they've shared this four-bedroom house in ashville, north carolinait's a living arrangement that allows them to maintain, even elevate, their quality of life in retirement. >> i could be blanch. >> i'm the old ma m the old mama >> i'm the old ma mma. i'm not quite as goofy. maybe i am. >> yeah, you are. >> reporter: each has her own private space. rent ranges from $550 to $950 a month. >> i couldn't afford to live in this neighborhood if i was living on my own. >> reporter: nearly half a million single baby boomer women now share a home with a female non-relative. with millions approaches retirement, that number is expected to grow. matching services have popped up nationwide. >> in the kpi now, there's a lot of people who aren't quite where they thought they would be in their retirement. so boomer women are looking at alternative housing choices. >> reporter: money is important, but lori says the companionship is priceless. >> i love the laughter and the sharing. >> reporter: she lives here with her husband, ron. a second marriage for both. >> somet

that is exactly what happened during a flight from ashville, north carolina to new york's la guardiaast night. the captain, he decided to head to the head, let's say, before landing, but the door jambed, he -- jammed, he couldn't get, a passenger tried to help by letting the crew know that the captain was locked in the bathroom. the first officer who was flying, clearly worried when he spoke with the control tower. >> we're at 180 naughts, can we leave the frequency for a minute? we're going to try to contact dispatch. the captain has disappeared in the back and i have someone with a thick foreign accent trying to access the cockpit and have i to deal with this situation. >> reporter: you can tell in his voice he was clearly concerned. bill: how did that tower react, by the way? >> the air traffic controller took the situation seriously, as he should, maintaining an open line with the first officer of the plane. >> inaudible] >> that's affirmative, this is the f.o., the captain disappeared in the barks went to use the restroom. all indications, i'm being told, he's stuck in the lav a

this appears to be ashville prayer of praise that -- [inaudible] the issues occurring between the twoarties at that time and sat at the end. let me ask you this. i have been asked to ask this, he wrote about elizabeth hurley. he wrote about their private life. if you see the tablet had become overzealous by reporting, why do you yourself write articles about celebrities? >> ecocide been writing since the 1990s about the mistake i think celebrities make a putting too much of their private life in the public domain. of course i didn't bring them out. i didn't ask them about her private life. they put that in the public domain. if you read the article, what i am saying is this is a very dangerous thing to do. i said the same thing about the late princess diana and it goes back to something i said earlier that people think they can put their private life in the public domain and still control what is said about them. what worries me is given the underlying touching at the tablet to somebody at the time elizabeth hurley was pregnant and i thought she was in a very vulnerable state under su