morning, brutus.ldwide fella. >> reporter: locals say brutus lost his front leg after a run-in with a shark. he's missing teeth from regularly feasting on wild boars. >> he's one of the best hunters in the world. fantastic animals. >> reporter: deadly and extremely powerful, saltwater crocs kill their prey using their incredible jaw pressure. a sight to see for this group of tourists. >> unbelievable, huh? >> i've never seen anything like that before. it's magic. >> it's amazing. my hear's still racing. it's scary. >> reporter: and while brutus may be a monster, he's not even the biggest beast of the bunch here on the river. his brother, known as the dominator, has brutus beat, measuring in at 20 feet long. >> that is amazing. the whole croc is always good to look at. could be out to get the territory. >> reporter: the largest of all living reptiles, salties as they're known in australia, are thrilling tourists. making headlines and posing for pictures. for "today," natalie morales, nbc news, new york

>> really, the only two that we know are casius and brutus would be the big names. and desinus brutus, also. >> there were a number of people that stabbed him that ceasar had helped. >> yes. yes. they are all in there. i mention them all, but, yeah, well, they weren't -- they weren't interested in, i mean, he gave them back, as i say, their estates, choice appointments, but this was not what they wanted. >> rome was what? how big was it? how many people there in those days? >> rome was about half a million. >> was it, you say was it a republic? >> it was still a republic, yes. it was a republic. it had these assemblies. that had these people's tribunate. it had the senate. the senate was not elected by anybody, well, actually, that's not true. anybody, it's a strange aristocracy. it was somewhat her ed tarry, but it was also electoral. the way your family became an aristocratic family was whe if u had someone in your lineage who had been elected to the highest office which was council. roman council. there were two elected every year. and usually they were elected f

. >> good morning, brutus. >> reporter: 70 to 80 years old, locals say brutus lost his front leg after a run-in with a shark. he's missing teeth, they say, from regularly feasting on wild bores. >> this is one of the best hunters of the world, survive millions of years to observe this. they are probably the last of the dinosaurs in the world. >> reporter: deadly and extremely powerful, saltwater crocs kill their prey using their incredible jaw pressure. a sight to see for this group of tourists. >> unbelievable. >> i've never seen anything like that before. just magic. >> amazing. my heart is racing. scary. >> reporter: and while brutus may be a monster, he's not even the biggest beast of the bunch here in the river. his brother, known as the dominator, has brutus beat, measuring in at 20 feet long. >> live an amazing life. their life is on the lookout for another croc out to get his territory. >> reporter: the largest of all living reptiles, salties, as they're known in australia, are thrilling tourists, making headlines and posing for pictures. >> natalie river cruises has come under

as with the speech of brutus, i make it. >> good evening. my name is donna boyle.shawn marmon. i want to thank my district supervisor for all your support from the time this stuff erupted. i am asking that you all take a parent's stand. we have all told our children at some point to do things, and when they step away from us they tend to do just the opposite of what we said. i told him to pull his pants up. and he did. but they apparently went right back to the upper part of his but, where the underwear was showing. there were not blow his buttocks. -- they were not below his buttocks. what did my son do wrong? i still have not found that out from u.s. airways, other than not getting up when the pilots said get up. his reasoning was, "i did not do anything." i asked him why. "i paid like everybody else. i am like everybody else." the pilot replied, "know you are not. -- no, you are not." i am trying to find out where my son did wrong. there are charges on him. i cannot understand how they are going to charge him. the police jumped on him and hurt him. boarding the

the two-ton monster is named brutus said to be 80 years old and lost one leg in a battle near a sharkthat leads us to wonder, how big was that shark? >>> on the "cbs moneywatch" a restaurant bans kids and subscribers get negative over netflix. susan mcginnis is here. in new york with the latest on those stories. >> good morning betty. the financial markets it was an up day for asian markets. tokyo's hang seng was up a fraction and hong kong's hang vention do seng down a frangs. wall street will also be hearing from fed chairman ben bernanke. we will he'll give an update. stocks finished lower on tuesday, more worries on stocks. concerns about stocks pushed gold to a new record high. the price jumped $13 to nearly $1,562 an ounce on tuesday, the precious metal up nearly 10% this year and on track for its 11th straight annual increase. silver is up 15% this year. >>> netflix is raising prices and subscribers are not happy. gone is the $10 a month plan that lets customers rent a movie one at a time and stream unlimited movies over the internet. customers have to pay 60% more, nearly $16

brutus, 17 feet long. >> is that real? >> that's the question, robin roberts.t ones. >> is it real? they swear, the photographer selling the photo, this is brutus and very much real. i can't believe it. >> i don't buy it. >> if that's actually real that seems like 35 feet long. i mean, that's the head essentially. look where it is relative to the people next to it. they are -- or they're the calmest tourists i've ever seen. >> that's true. >> i'm not in that photo. >> you would be a good private eye because seeing that. >> if that's real i don't want to say what i'm thinking. >>> let's get over to the hot news heat index. turn it over to lara. what's cool and what's not? >> right to it. we start in pop news with a very buzzy story. no pun intended. all right. there is new research on food. the next time you eat an entire bag of chips, it may not be totally your fault. research showing that fatty foods trigger marijuana like chemicals in other bodies that make it difficult to stop eating that food. member the old potato chip slogan, bet you can't eat just one, n

brutus is the croc's name. into a fight with a shark, according to the -- he lost his front leg. >> how do you know he is 80 years old? >> he's -- >> a good way to lose friends. apparently they are a good way to lose mosquitoes, too. >> story in "the washington post" says smelly socks are being used to prevent malaria in tanzania. they attract mosquitoes, not repel them. you're right. mosquitoes go towards the smelly socks which could along other ways to prevent malaria. malaria is a serious disease and kills 900,000 people around the world. >> that's why you see hollywood stars, 99 cents for a mosquito net can end up saving the life of a family. >> where do polar bears come from? >> the north. >> where? >> you thought alaska? >> i did. >> they are irish! >> they are not! >> a team of scientists traced the ancestry of modern polar bears to a single brown bear who lived in ireland a hundred thousand years ago when they say polar bears and brown bears interbred on a regular basis. they are not saying they created