jeff rossin, nbc news, new haven, connecticut. >>> we learned shortly before air time tonight that jody powell has died. he was a rural georgia boy who got his professional start as jimmy carter's driver. and later as one of the young kids who helped carter get elected he was rewarded with the job of white house press secretary. he was a fixture at the daily press briefings, served 1977 to 81. and a fixture in washington ever since. very informal, irreverent. the duo of jody powell and hamilton jordan received a lot of attention as the young turks in washington and now they are both gone. powell's southern drawl was distinctive enough to earn him a spot as narrator of the ken burns pbs documentaries on baseball and the civil war. jody powell, dead of an apparent heart attack was 65 years old. >>> when "nightly news" continues on a monday night -- the ongoing debate over the amount of radiation that comes out of your cell phone. is it a cancer risk? >>> later, training shelter dogs to be the best kind of best friends and making a difference in the process. 365-horsepower-generating, ecob

nbc's jeff rossin has more on wh to look out for. >> thanksgiving is coming. that means christmas and new year's are not far behind. before you celebrate, the airlines are ready to collect their targeting holiday travelers. delta, northwest and us airways will charge $10 extra just to fly on the sunday after thanksgiving and the weekend after new year's. >> another way and another scheme to, you know, continue to pump money out of the consumer. >> it's never ending. fees are every ending. >> fares are dropping, and it's the surcharges that are skyrocketing. the airlines collected $2.3 billion in fees alone. this year it spiked more than 50% to 3.5 billion. >> it's the fly wur beware. their mission is to show you rock bottom prices, and then once you do that, you get the travel fever. >> customers complain the fees are hidden. you book a flight and the fare seems reasonable and then you get tthe total price and the price jumped, and then that's before you get to the airport and pay the checked baggage fees. >> all of a sudden we think, boom, what the heck just

. >> nbc's jeff rossin is live in new haven, connecticut. jeff, i understand you received an e-mail from a former co-worker of clark's? >> reporter: yeah. actually they still do work together. this is somebody who is very current to the situation and also very familiar with this murder case. she is friends with annie and she works in the lab as well writes in this e-mail, we can put it on the screen, very telling, talks a lot about ray clark and how much of a control freak he was. that's in the words of several lab workers we have spoken to. here is the e-mail. "ray has always been very controlling over the mouse room" the room in the basement, "often bothering people to the point of damn near harassment. last thing i knew was annie got a message from him saying her cages were dirty." now, police have not come out and said that they know of any motive. we do know that they are looking into this as a possible motive. they have ruled out at least one theory, and that is that these two had some kind of romantic relationship. the police now say t