verizon and at&t have customized plans and manufacturers have customized the equipment like the jitterbug. >> because the phone is a lot simpler with fewer bells and whistles there's more room for larger, higher buttons. >> reporter: or samsung's haven. >> it comes with a button for 911 calls. if you can't figure out, oh, no, 191, you just hit that button. >> reporter: but not so smart phones are also attractive to those who want to save a money. >> if you get a smart phone, it is cool but expensive. >> reporter: expensive meaning up to $700 a year. half of which gets you a simple cell phone. chris crackum, nbc news. >>> here's marla tellez with what's coming up on "today in the bay." >> good morning to you. the bay area could be in for a multi-billion payday. but getting the world fair to come here is far from a done deal. we'll look at the hurdles and who could be the big winner. >>> plus, we know the president is a sports fan and the first lady is a proponent of eating healthy. just wait until you see what was on the white house super bowl menu. >>> these stories, plus, christinaing a

we call that jitterbug. we have the area covered by air but night was a problem everything moves and there was a lot of an emmy. ammunition replaced, could not talk on the radio. they had runners instead of talking on the radio and people were hiding out but could not stay in the same place because they would find them with the people sniffer. we had had a tactic one of our brigade commanders said we would pick out three platoons ambush sites when nighttime came they went out to the ambush site. that would cover 400 square yards. we would have nine squads the last thing that we did was our most famous event for the snipers. we got a 44 sniper rifles and trained our troops we had one sniper that raise the whole elevation of things that were going on and the rest said we can do the same thing so now have the night coverage and said how can you cover the whole area? we decided we would go with our aviation and that puts night-vision device into a helicopter and have a man looking down. then they come into zap t

recall that jitterbug and. now we had the area covered by air. but knight was a problem that in the delta everything move. there were a lot of enemy there. you have to get personal replace, ammunition replace. they couldn't talk on the radio. they had runners instead of talking on the radio. the people were ducking. they're hiding out. they couldn't stay in the same place on because if they did, you would find them with your people sniffer. before they could move ahead of guerrillas dig a new play. we had to get some kind of tactics and ambushes at night. one of our brigade commander said let's use a push master. a bushmaster was a simple thing. we would pick out three platoon ambush sites, insert the company at dusk. when i time came they would go out to the ambush site. that would cover about 400 square yards. things got better. we would do a checkerboard. we had nine squads that would cover a square kilometer. the last thing we did to go to work at night with the infantryman. our most famous man we had for our snide. he wanted stivers. he got

i could first talk, i started repeating the songs that i heard on the radio, and they called me "jitterbugthat was kind of the popular music form at the time, and my grandmother gave me a guitar when i was 12 years old. it was a guitar that she had played in her younger years. >> and i got the guitar out, and i let him pick around on it, and he just tried to sing up a storm. he was singing little nursery rhyme songs at the time, and i says, "john." i said, "would you practice if mom would give you music lessons?" i said, "if you will, grandma will give you this guitar." and so he asked his mom, and she says, "if you'll practice." so i gave him the guitar, and that's where he is today. >> when john first walked into the audition with a smile as wide as his face, i was immediately attracted, and i was won over completely. it became, you know, probably the strongest relationship i ever had in music. i worked with him, you know, from four days after his audition to the day he died and felt closer to him than anybody. >> leaving on a jet plane was the song that really, to me, opened the door fo