treasure goodell to fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds. million beds of three hundred species come here the spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over the us just south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately that many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they had ants with feathers hair and thought this will very much invoke the heron only has five feather is on its head so its thousands of parents were killed it's in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in one nine hundred twelve found no trace of the the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment. nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the situation

. >>> and first lady michelle obama teams up with nfl commissioner roger goodell and former nfl coach tony dungey to highlight the league's role in promoting a healthy lifestyle. >>> 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. koran controversy, does a florida pastor's plan to burn the koran put u.s. troops in danger? >>> and a "today" exclusive. joran van der sloot, the suspect in the case of missing teen natalie holloway, speaks out from jail. >>> and 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.

you lied in the face of the commissioner roger goodell. to everybody and their mama because you knew you were breaking the law and tried to circumvent it. he paid the ultimate price for it, 18 months locked down at levinworth. one is ignorant, one is intentional. when you talk about intentional, you talk about hangers-on and people who shouldn't be around you. >> coach, in the unique position of coaching lebron, you knew what his future was probably going to be, yet you still had to figure out some way to say, look, man, at the end of the day i'm your coach. talk to me about, even a lesser player and today's athlete, how difficult is that sometimes when these cats believe that -- yeah, you're my coach right now but i'm getting ready to get paid in a year and i don't really need to listen to you, i need to showcase my talent. >> yeah, it can be very difficult. i think if you haven't built a trust factor with a player and luckily for me, i had been coaching lebron since he was 11 years old. he understood that i was for m him, that i loved hi

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as a result, goodell is implementing a training program for all teams on conduct in the workplace.derwritten by the jets owner woody johnson. all this media attention, of course, is bringing up the age-old debate of whether the women belong in the locker room. joining us now with her thoughts on all of this, author journalist, and fox news contributor liz trotta. hi, liz. there are many people right now raising the question about whether women sports reporter face bigger challenges than the men when they cover the sports stories. if there will ever be an an etch playing field out there. what do you think? >> let me make sure i get this right, now. a woman dressed like a hooker walks in a locker room and the next thing we hear is the team is getting sensitivity training and the league will get sensitivity training. there is something wrong with this logic. something very wrong. the whole case whether they should have access to the locker room was settled in a federal ruling in 1978 where complete and equal access to the locker room was granted to women, same access that male reporte

senate with senator goodell. and coated -- coincidentally, i just missed practicing in the law firm with bill goodell, so i am delighted to get to know that family. senatorial speeches in new york have are rich, but sometimes dubious history. [laughter] i'm reminded of an event several years ago when a man was introducing william howard taft, the president of the united states, at the waldorf astoria. president taft was a very large man. he weighed about 315 pounds and had a protruding stomach. after the opening remarks, the man back and the president to the podium. as the president walked to the podium, senator pugh said, ladies and gentleman, as you can see our president is pregnant with integrity. and then he said, our president is pregnant with courage. finally president taft took the podium. and he said, as he rubbed his stomach, that if this is a girl, we will call her integrity. if it is a boy, we will call him courage. but if it is simply gas, we will college -- call it chauncey depugh. [laughter] so, it

i want to thank steve clemmons for organizing this effort, as well as bill goodell's leadership on this. as well as the center for international policy. i also want to thank all members of the team that we have assembled. their consensus is now in this report. what i would say is now the most important thing for people to consider when they review this report is that this is the work of a network of policy professionals, experts, practitioners. while no one probably agrees with 100% of the report, including myself, the fact is that we have a feeling counter productive strategy -- a feeling and counterproductive strategy in afghanistan. we have five tenants of the report that we have come to consensus on as a new way forward and a new approach for the u.s. in afghanistan. but the overarching theme of this is that our policy for several years has been not just failing, but counterproductive. i will come back to a specific statement in a moment. we are moving to a more classic counterinsurgency strategy here in afghanistan. is a fairly sycophant change in terms of our tactical approach on