sox series finale fenway park and young came in 0 for his last 17 and there is a slump buster off john lester. hits the sport authority sign. boston would tie it up and then they take the lead in the fifth. david ortiz and big poppy. he is flying hawaii an. he gave up six runs. in the eighth, more from chris young. he has clout. his second homer of the day and over the green monster and into the parking lot. the a's close to within a run, but they lose it 6-5 and go one and five on this road trip. the sharks had a chance to take sole control of fourth place in the west. couldn't get it done against the phoenix team that has been eliminated from the playoffs. how about romantic hot air balloon ride over the desert. phoenix is playing for pride. this is deflected and off the stick of brad stewart. 2-0 phoenix. it is his 9th of the year, but the scoring would end there for the men in steel. they have one game left in the regular season. that is saturday in l.a. the sharks are clinging to the 5 seed and they will have a chance to finish fourth. the warriors are back home after scorching the nugge

sox series finale fenway park and young came in 0 for his last 17 and there is a slump buster off john lester sport authority sign. boston would tie it up and then they take the lead in the fifth. david ortiz and big poppy. he is flying hawaii an. he gave up six runs. in the eighth, more from chris young. he has clout. his second homer of the day and over the green monster and into the parking lot. the a's close to within a run, but they lose it 6-5 and go one and five on this road trip. the sharks had a chance to take sole control of fourth place in the west. couldn't get it done against the phoenix team that has been eliminated from the playoffs. how about romantic hot air balloon ride over the desert. phoenix is playing for pride. this is deflected and off the stick of brad stewart. 2-0 phoenix. it is his 9th of the year, but the scoring would end there for the men in steel. they have one game left in the regular season. that is saturday in l.a. the sharks are clinging to the 5 seed and they will have ash fe warriors are back home after scorching the nuggets in the playoff victory last nig

sox series finale fenway park and young came in 0 for his last 17 and there is a slump buster off john lester the sport authority sign. boston would tie it up and then they take the lead in the fifth. david ortiz and big poppy. he is flying hawaii an. he gave up six runs. in the eighth, more from chris young. he has clout. his second homer of the day and over the green monster and into the parking lot. the a's close to within a run, but they lose it 6-5 and go one and five on this road trip. the sharks had a chance to take sole control of fourth place in the west. couldn't get it done against the phoenix team that has been eliminated from the playoffs. how about romantic hot air balloon ride over the desert. phoenix is playing for pride. this is deflected and off the stick of brad stewart. 2-0 phoenix. it is his 9th of the year, but the scoring would end there for the men in steel. they have one game left in the regular season. that is saturday in l.a. the sharks are clinging to the 5 seed and they will have a chance to finish fourth. the warriors are back home after scorching the nuggets in

thank you very much. >> brian: the boston red sox pitcher john lester shut down the yankees 8-2.. >> gretchen: yeah, right. >> brian: the 2013 season got underway. john lester the starter. here live, congratulations. >> thank you. >> brian: five strong innings. what was it like being out there? just as nerve racking as when you were a rooky? >> oh, yeah. yankee stadium is always fun. it always adds that extra pressure and excitement. it's a great place to pitch and i've always loved pitching. >> gretchen: people would say, why would he come on a tv show the next morning when his team is still here? it's because you are a cancer survivor. you faced lymphoma six or seven years ago. you survived obviously. and now you want to give back tg your child. why? >> well, i felt like we needed to. just going through what i went through and having our son, just made me realize, you know, i couldn't imagine him being in my shoes. so was approached by a nice man with this idea and we ran with it. me and my wife have been running this deal for about a year now and it's just kind of getting star

red sox pitcher and cancer survivor john lester plus clay walker has a brand-new book called "jesus was a country boy." it kicks off at 6:00 a.m. >> it's ten minutes before the hour. here's a quick look at headlines. starting next year voters in arkansas will have to show a photo i.d. at the polls. the house voted to override the idea by the state's governor and approve the bill. >> are ipads bad for your kids? researchers find children who are calmed down by electronic devices are less likely to learn how to calm themselves down naturally. they may also have behavioral problems later on in life. but all that screen time doesn't appear to harm their eyesight. right now there is no hard data on the effects of it since the ipad is so new. what else is a parent supposed to do? >> it comes down to just 14 this saturday in atlanta, georgia. if you're thinking of heading down there to watch the final four, we've got all the information that you need to know. joining us now is our orbitz senior editor. thanks for being with us. let's start with flights, air fare. if you're flying from differen

>> reporter: good evening, lester. john kerry has now opened the door to direct u.s.eace talks with north korea, appealing for a step back from the threat of war, even as though the north has flatly rejected south korea's offer of direct talks with them calling it a "cunning ploy." the contrast could not have been more dramatic. in pyongyang, runners from around the world celebrating tomorrow's birthday of kim jong-un's grandfather, the nation's founder. while in tokyo john kerry re-assured japan the u.s. will defend it from north korea, but says the obama administration would negotiate with pyongyang under the right circumstances. >> what we really ought to be talking about is the possibilities of peace and i think there are those possibilities, notwithstanding the rhetoric and the provocations. >> reporter: japan was under t

john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester.r, this round of the river versus man is going to the residents of clarksville, missouri. four days of furious sandbagging have kept the water from inundating downtown. >> okay. ready? >> reporter: trish connelly had planned to open a new fine arts gallery in clarksville's historic downtown this weekend. instead, she's been sandbagging to try to save it. >> everybody's pulling and helping. we could just still use more help. >> reporter: this town 75 miles north of st. louis has flooded at least 4 times in the last 18 years. this year, it's come early. the high water forced the army corps of engineers to close locks and halt traffic. two bridges were closed for several hours after more than 100 barges broke loose saturday night south of st. louis. it's a far cry from just a few months ago when drought conditions threatened to bring river traffic to a standstill. rivers are rising fast across a huge swath of the midwest, a result of last week's storms dumping a month's worth of rain in j

>> brian: tomorrow holly robinson peet, john lester, the ace of the red sox staff. >> steve: a busy show and a busy after the show show. go to our web site to watch us live and we'll see you tomorrow. bill: as we begin a whole new week, fox news alert. manhunt still underway and community on alert after the murder of a direct attorney. kaufman county, texas, d.a., mike mcclellan, and his wife incident cynthia were found shot to death in their home over the weekend. police are stepping up security to protect other district attorneys. that is where we start. here on "america's newsroom." welcome back to you. martha: good to be here. very nice week off, thank you. thank you. hey, everybody, i'm martha maccallum. this is a terrible story. bill: sure is, yeah. martha: local leaders there at this point trying to calm everybody down. watch this. >> this appears that it was not a random attack t appears to be targeted. so i don't think the community at large is in danger. best thing we can do is remain calm, remain supportive of the mcclellan family and those handling the investigation and conti

>> reporter: good evening, lester. john kerry has now opened the door to direct u.s. peace talks with north korea, appealing for a step back from the threat of war, even as though the north has flatly rejected south korea's offer of direct talks with them calling it a "cunning ploy." the contrast could not have been more dramatic. in pyongyang, runners from around the world celebrating tomorrow's birthday of kim jong-un's grandfather, the nation's founder. while in tokyo john kerry re-assured japan the u.s. will defend it from north korea, but says the obama administration would negotiate with pyongyang under the right circumstances. >> what we really ought to be talking about is the possibilities of peace and i think there are those possibilities, notwithstanding the rhetoric and the provocations. >> reporter: japan was under the flight path of north korea's last missile test in february and is now protected by u.s.-provided patriot missile defenses. but kerry found strong support for luring pyongyang back to disarmament talks. >> the united states will do what is ne

. >> and john lester was dealing. he looked good yesterday. of course, the sox could lose 161 games, it is a first game of the season, but lester yesterday, man, looked really good. >> going to have a huge year. >> you think so? >> yes. >> okay. is it too late to pick fantasy baseball teams? it was great to have him. and mets had a good day, right. >> they won. >> mets won too. that's great. >> a long day. because after opening day, we ended up at the graduation of the 10,000 small businesses program for goldman sachs with -- we did a panel, i did, with arianna huffington and tory burch, valerie jarrett and it was -- and gary cone, the chief operating officer of goldman, and it was fantastic. there is a graduate there, malene, who has a carpet business she started and it was so cool to be -- i think our fourth one we were at. >> really cool. and it is always -- whenever i see these things, i'm reminded of my parents, small business owners. when you're a small business owner, you live it. 24 hours a day. and seeing these women coming up with an

reporter: about those calls for stronger action, lester -- republican senators said they are against sending american troops into syria. in the words of john mccain today -- that is the thing the u.s. could do right now. >> peter alexander, thank you. >>> we turn to the boston bombing investigation. now new questions tonight about the path the suspects may have taken leading up to that violent and deadly day two weeks ago tomorrow. nbc's michelle franzen is in boston now with the very latest. michelle, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. nbc news has confirmed that russian authorities in the initial days after the bombing here in boston reached out to u.s. authorities and told them back in 2011 that russian authorities had actually had a wiretapped conversation that they had recorded between tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother and a conversation where the russians say where they discussed jihad. this conversation, authorities tell us, say there is no link or connection at this time to the bombings here in boston but investigators are still tracking leads here and overseas. a key focus for investigators centers on tamerlan's tsarn

john kerry has been hopscotching across asia in an effort to dial back tensions. andrea mitchell is traveling with the secretary. she has more now from beijing. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good eek, lester. secretary kerry claims success, but china complained that the u.s. has been too aggressive in confronting pyongyang. in beijing, john kerry tried to persuade china's president xi jinping to lean own his ally north korea, arguing that pyongyang's erratic young leader is threatening the stability of the entire region. >> mr. president, this is obviously a critical time with some very challenging issues. >> reporter: in whirlwind meetings with all of china's top officials, kerry won the commitment to get north korea to abandon its threats and restart nuclear disarmament talks. >> china is firmly committed to upholding peace and stability and advancing denuclearization process on the peninsula. >> reporter: kerry claimed china's promise was unprecedented. >> what we agreed to do is immediately bear down with further discussion at very senior level in order to fill out exactly what steps we can take together to make sure that this is not rhetoric. >> reporter: lot of pushback from the chi

tension on the korean peninsula, including secretary of state john kerry stopping in japan today, coming up at 6:30 on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> the sound of explosions this morning, the noise coming from a burning garage. several cars inside destroyed. we will hear from a man that lost his car in the fire. >>> plus, a spring avalanche in washington state. new developments in the search for a missing man. >>> and a broken promise, the >>> a woman is dead, the search for a missing man was called off after a pair of avalanches in washington state. they hit yesterday at snowqualmie pass east of seattle. they were found on red mountain in blizzard conditions and she died this morning. two managed to escape, but a 60-year-old man was still missing. the search was called off today because of poor weather conditions. >>> friends and family gathered in centerville today to celebrate the life of erin peterson, one of 32 people shot and killed in virginia tech in 2007. tuesday marks the sixth anniversary of the shooting. today peterson's family held its annual gospel concert at mount olive baptist church. it raises money for t

exception, but senator john mccain and two republican colleagues tonight says that doesn't go far enough. they want tsarnaev treated as an enemy combatant under the laws of war. lester? >> michael isakoff, thank you. for more on the government's attempts to find out what motivated these suspects, we're joined by nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. in our washington bureau, andrea? >> good evening, lester. intelligence officials, the fbi, a global search for what motivated tamerlan tsarnaev's terrorism. was it chechnyan nationalism, at the white house today, the president met again in the situation room with his national security advisers. he was briefed by the fbi director and top counterterrorism officials and others for 0 minutes. an official tells us afterwards that so far, there is no evidence of foreign involvement, but they're looking. they also say they are getting good cooperation now from russia, with whom as you know the u.s. has had very rocky relations over the last few years. russia's president vladimir putin spoke with president obama last night and the two leaders are discussing the importance of working more closely together o

lester? >> frightening photos. thank you. >>> now to the latest with north korea. the u.s. has tried to downplay the country's firepower ahead of an expected missile test. secretary of state john be a big mistake. jim maceda is in seoul, south korea, with the latest. jim, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lester. it's ironic that in a country that could be on the brink of war, the people who seem the least concerned are the south koreans. those most in the crosshairs. there is plenty on this peninsula to worry about. north korea's threats of a nuclear strike or the launch at any time of a deadly missile that could hit targets all of the way to guam. but at seoul's oldest standing market, it's just another saturday. this woman has sold her rice cakes here for 30 years but lately sales are off. i'm a bit concerned about the threats from the north she said but i'm more worried about how the bad news has hurt my business. she is lived with the threat of war most of her life but knowing they live within range of north korean artillery or missiles doesn't warattle them. they say they have seen it all before. tensions rise with new provocations from an unpredictable north kore

john, good morning, it's good to see you. >> good morning, lester. >> are we seeing the effects yet of sequestration, all those jobs that will be lost due to automatic federal spending cuts? >> not much. maybe a little effect. it's only been in effect for one month. more likely that we've seen some effect from the expiration of the payroll tax cut, which ended with that fiscal cliff deal at the end of the year. but look, we've got an economy that is growing, but growing slowly, and is likely to for some time. demand is pretty weak. when you add a little pressure, whether it's uncertainty over things like cyprus and continuing stresses in europe, whether it's the expiration of the payroll tax cut, or a little bump from sequester, it is a fragile recovery and we're seeing some of the effects. >> i want to get your thoughts on the president's latest budget offer, his attempt at a compromise to cut some social security and medicare, some entitlement, in exchange for more tax revenues. republicans have discounted it. even some liberals in the president's own party don't like it. is that pot