for the latest we turn to ayman mohyeldin in cairo tonight.ood evening. >> reporter: good evening, savannah. it's been a week of deadly protests and thousands remain in tahrir square behind me. they are calling for a million man march on friday that is going to be a political showdown between the protesters and the military rulers. it was the front line of intense fighting all week long. this street off of tahrir square, the site of day-long battles between egyptian security forces and protesters that continued late into wednesday evening. by thursday morning, a shaky truce seemed to be sticking. the military erecting a barrier to separate the two sides. the fighting on the street may have stopped, but the political standoff still continues. battered but still determined, protesters are demanding the military immediately hand over power to a civilian government. not so fast, says egypt's military rulers, refusing to take their marching orders from the tahrir protesters. they say the path to democracy begins with monday's parliamentary election

ayman is in cairo for us this evening. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. for months, the regime of bashar al assad has tried to suppress a popular revolt against his rule. the united nations estimated 3500 people have been killed. tonight the strongest attempts to stop that killing is coming from the arab league here in cairo. a critical vote in the arab league, a near unanimous decision by arab countries to punish one of their own. the syrian regime now under sanctions for its deadly crackdown on an eight-month-old protest. qatar's prime minister announcing the list of measures, they include, quote, a ban on syrian officials traveling to arab countries, banking restrictions including the freezing of syrian government accounts and restricting trade with syria. just outside the arab league headquarters in cairo where the vote took place, the future of another arab revolution unfolds. on the eve of egypt's first post revolution parliamentary elections, a warning from the head of its ruling military counsel. egypt is at a crossroads, either it succeeds politi

we get more now from nbc's ayman mahadin. >> reporter: the investigation into what happened to natalied 30 years ago this week now turns to the boat where she was last seen alive. ron nelson bought the "splendor" five years after her death and now docks it in honolulu. >> this is where the argument would have started. >> reporter: wood, her husband robert wagner, actor christopher walken and the captain were all aboard the "splendor" thanksgiving weekend in 1981. nbc news confirmed investigators will be in honolulu early next month in search of new clues into the death of the three-time oscar nominated actress. john nazarene is a private investigator. >> i would want to look at boat, sitting where it's at, the conditions that night, and getting a feel for what people could see. >> reporter: initially wood's death was ruled as an accidental drowning but now the boat's captain says he lied to police in the initial investigation and points the finger at robert wagner. police say wagner is not a suspect. for years there has been speculation that natalie wood was the victim of a love triang

let's now talk to dr ayman salama he's a professor of international law at karo university well there you are in the car robot accounts the voting has been peaceful there a very big turnout is this good reason to be optimistic what is the feeling like there in cairo at the moment. actually although the overwhelming. voting for the first parliamentary the movie collection after the january twenty fifth revolution that astonished and startled the whole mean people worldwide in particular the west. pragmatically and objectively this is just initial a step forward to the present we have. now with two other phases of the parliamentary elections which ends and the decisive final results will be shewn. or late january next year and then there are some doubts that the special interaction special relationship between the muslim brothers on one hand and the military council on the other that actually may sound or raise some clouds and doubts whether the. some bully whose job is to craft then can a situation immediate and in particular i mean that probably that mr to sin is going to put today to

nbc's ayman joins us from tahrir square. what's the latest?> reporter: well, you know, it's almost 11:10 here local time. several thousand egyptians still behind me in tahrir square. you can probably hear some of the noise and the ambulance and the sirens actually, and that's because off to my right, one of the major streets that leads to the ministry and interior building, that's where the clashes have been taking place over the past five days and that's where they are still going despite efforts by the military and others to try to calm the situation down. there is a crisis here on two levels really for the military. there is the on-the-ground situation, the clashes that are taking place, more than 35 people killed. today the military brought in some senior religious figures to try to calm the protesters down and create some distance between them and the security forces. that doesn't seem to have worked and at the same time you have the political crisis. the government has resigned. the military is trying to put for the a plan, perhaps even

a week later, ayman's body was returned to his family. he had received no medical treatment and had been terribly tortured. one of his eyes had been gouged out. abu khaled said we needed to leave. he told me, nearly every day, in towns like these, security forces shoot and kill protestors. >> navai: in the next town, 2,000 people had gathered to mourn the deaths of more protesters, including that of a 14-year-old boy. he'd been killed in nearby douma. >> navai: every now and again, we get rained on by sweets, and this is people in their houses and apartments throwing sweets out at the protesters, showing their support. the protestors burned the russian flag, angry at russia for being one of the regime's closest allies. abu khaled thought we may have been spotted by informants. we had to leave immediately. >> navai: finally, we arrived in douma. i wanted to see where the 14-year-old boy had been shot. the 14-year-old boy was killed at protest on friday, and they're taking us to the spot where he was killed. you can see the trail of blood.

good morning, ayman. >> good morning. that's correct. three american students according to egyptian officials at the cairo airport have left cairo on their way back to the united states. some conflicting reports originally about which destinations they are going to, but officials have confirmed all of them left egypt early saturday morning. this all coming at the back drop of a lot of unrest. parliamentary elections are supposed to get under way monday morning. the protesters behind me are waiting for that announcement as to whether or not this military counsel is going to hand over any more power to a civilian government. back to you. >> ayman, thank you. >>> it is game on to the nba. the deal, reached early today, called for a 66-game season beginning on christmas. if both sides can ratify the hand shaim shake agreement by the end of this weekend. that lockout jan july 1st. >>> it is begin to go look a lot like christmas at the white house. the official white house christmas tree arrived friday and was pulled up the driveway by a horse

for the latest we turn to nbc's ayman mohyeldin in cairo. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. it was the prime minister's first day on the job and one that began with tragedy. outside the cabinet office where he was going to assume his responsibilities there was a protest there physically trying to prevent him from entering the building. in the ensuing confrontation, a protester was shot by a security vehicle and he was killed instantly. now, the general prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the incident, vowing to hold accountable anyone responsible. but the protesters felt the attack was deliberate. they've seen these types of attacks on the protesters in the past. it gives you really a sense of the tension between the two sides. now all of this coming against very intense political negotiations taking place between the military and key protest figures. they've demanding the military step down from power and hand over control to a civilian government. but the civilian government has not been successful in rece

ayman in turn currently in d.c. and i find myself being used for my ability to rely on the social media and use social media more than two thoughts and ideas that i have. [laughter] and perhaps that is because i am young and unwise but i also feel that perhaps you have an over saturation point with media and the hyper connected world that you are speaking of where we rely on the communication told but we don't care about the idea is transported on it and we don't care about the people who come up with ideas coming and i wonder if you can comment on that, both of you or one of you. >> well, i've gotten in trouble. so don't tell anybody that i said this. but i've never been on atwitter. i've never been on facebook and i've never smoked a cigarette and i am planning on the sameÑ old story. [laughter]ÑÑÑ because i do believe it is about the content, you know, and that i find that it's really hard at least for me to focus on traditional reporting, writing, thinking and editing when i would be tweeting or whatever ev

well earlier we spoke to dr ayman salama he's a professor of international law at current university and he told us that whoever heads the government will still follow the lead of the army. either going to the or someone else whatever would be in the. control this would be a government of salvation salvation government. that anyone. in the. cabinet god by focusing. word to actually see the commitments from the government from the first marcelo his tongue power and his generals actually authorized them and. comprehensive authorities otherwise this would be similar to the what was called. the puppet government in the hands of the generals of the higher military council so the person is not the issue the issue is the how the the the the german the world's top by fellow muslims is going to actually reflect another shift in the management e.g. . russia has called the new american sanctions targeting iran's financial and energy sectors unacceptable and contradictory to international law moscow also on the line that such measures would hurt the chances of renewing talks with iran over its n

the ayman who broke into a mcdonald's speaks out. he's known as the real life hamburglar. whitney teslo turned himself into police after he broke into a cedar falls mcdonald's over the weekend. security cams ra caught the 21-year-old climbing through the window. teslo admits he was drunk but he stale managed to operate the dee fryer, even though he's no r never worked in a rest raun. he says he's sorry. he hopes this will not change his college graduation plans. >> i regret it all. it's really messed up a lot of my life. my clear plans and everything like that. it's something that is really tough on me right now. >>> local police are not laughing. one officer said teslo would be disapointed to know there's a 24-hour mile a few miles away. a drunk guy and a deep fryer turned out that well. >> he's worried about clear plans i think he's set. rob is in for christina this morning. >> not a bad forecast later iron this morning. we have light rain across the bay area right now. as we show you some of the temperatures outside. thanks to the cloud cover, it's not that cold. we hav

nbc's ayman is in cairo for us.g process but we are hearing there's a lot of enthusiasm for the vote. you've been watching this. i understand it as well, they've extended voting hours for today, correct? >> reporter: absolutely. it gives you a sense, really, as to the kind of voter turnout that has emerged today in these historic elections. the high electoral commission announced they're extending the voting two hours, that's also in conjunction with the fact vote is going to take place tomorrow. all of this is just for the first nine governorates, districts, if you will, for votes. it is going to take place over the next six weeks and that's jut nor the lower house of parliament. they'll we'll do the whole process again at the beginning of 2012. you won't get a fully functioning parliament at least until march 2012. all of this this underlying the importance of egyptians claiming stake to their very own first parliament. >>> when we talk about what's going to take place, what has taken place over the past several d

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. >> ayman vice president with the heritage foundation. bashar al-assad christine and some of the people of -- regime and some of the people of syria. israel, jordan, and iraq. in your view, what are the interests of the united states in this region and what would>> herman cain, governor perry called for a no-fly zone for the u.s. over syria. would you support that? >> i would not. i would work with our allies to put pressure to be able to try to get our allies to stop buying oil from syria. zone. the most effective tools we have in any of these situations are strong military. and our own economic strength. this discussion about cutting enough time talking about the other part of the problem growing the economy. this administration has failed at growing economy. home but would not solve the problem until we have economic>> why would you support a no->> that is one of a multitude of actions that work very well from the standpoint of being able toi think there are a number of ways. when you put the no-fly zone opportunity to disband when the

ayman economist of the economic policy institute in washington, d.c..by professional peer reviewed research standards the cost of the air toxic are very large but somewhere along the way the debate moved on the ground of job creation which is a little odd because regulatory changes just aren't big drivers of job growth. but in my testimony, and especially my written testimony, i sketched out of a regulatory change in general in the air specifically can affect job creation and unemployment. i conclude that the rules like almost old regulatory changes will have trivial effect on job growth over the long run but over the next couple of years particularly if the rate remains high the rule will likely create jobs and lower the unemployment precisely as the unemployment rate is high to did will was implemented would have clearly positive impact on job creation so in short the deily to the implementation of the rule based on the deals to the wider economic weakness have the case entirely backward. there is no better time from now from the job creation perspect

ayman economist of the economic policy institute in washington, d.c.. by professional peer reviewed research standards the cost of the air toxic are very large but somewhere along the way the debate moved on the ground of job creation which is a little odd because regulatory changes just aren't big drivers of job growth. but in my testimony, and especially my written testimony, i sketched out of a regulatory change in general in the air specifically can affect job creation and unemployment. i conclude that the rules like almost old regulatory changes will have trivial effect on job growth over the long run but over the next couple of years particularly if the rate remains high the rule will likely create jobs and lower the unemployment precisely as the unemployment rate is high to did will was implemented would have clearly positive impact on job creation so in short the deily to the implementation of the rule based on the deals to the wider economic weakness have the case entirely backward. there is no better time from now from the job creation perspec

coming into the country for the education the other side of this is the previous caller just mentioned ayman engineer with a masters. i haven't been able to find work for years. the reality is it is a rich and poor issue to read a lot of these children are wealthy children from other countries being sent here to find work. i don't know what their standards of living are to the american standard of living and expectations for in come but i believe the truth is they are driving down buck off pay curve for the individuals in this country. >> host: let's. the impact on that? >> guest: i think all of us want more americans to have jobs. people are looking for work to be able to find that so we have to find a way in the economy to make the position and our focus in high gear education is how to refocus on our kids and employees of the future or are they going to need to get jobs whether it is an engineering or any other field and they are going to need to know something other than the world and people from other countries and some international education is aimed at providing that. >> host: when y

ayman mohyeldin was the face and the voice for many of us the biggest story of the year -- the arab spring. you saw him many years ago as a desk assistance. he migrated to al jazeera where he had a chance to do something that was a lifetime thing. it was truly transformational. he has cast that in and has gone back to nbc as a foreign cobblers -- a foreign correspondent. ollie a american media company would call and at international correspondent a foreign correspondent. anything that is not american is foreign. jim warren is the dean of the chicago press corps. one of the things that is ed -- that is fantastic about jim is you are one of the few people in the business who actually manages to know how to keep the best ad important of shoe leather and journalism, and how do you measure that with the new media, with twitter, with facebook? jim was the managing editor for the chicago tribune. we now -- he now writes for the atlantic's monthly, the chicago times, -- the new york times. we are going to figure everything out today. we chatted a little bit beforehand and basically this is a conve

ayman economist of the economic policy institute in washington, d.c.. by professional peer reviewed research standards the cost of the air toxic are very large but somewhere along the way the debate moved on the ground of job creation which is a little odd because regulatory changes just aren't big drivers of job growth. but in my testimony, and especially my written testimony, i sketched out of a regulatory change in general in the air specifically can affect job creation and unemployment. i conclude that the rules like almost old regulatory changes will have trivial effect on job growth over the long run but over the next couple of years particularly if the rate remains high the rule will likely create jobs and lower the unemployment precisely as the unemployment rate is high to did will was implemented would have clearly positive impact on job creation so in short the deily to the implementation of the rule based on the deals to the wider economic weakness have the case entirely backward. there is no better time from now from the job creation perspec