back to you. >> michelle kosinski.middleton chose a pair of blue suede high heeled shoes designed by student rebecca hunt. those shoes will now be made and given to the future queen. >>> when we come back, a story that gives new meaning to the term playing possum. a krit they're learn how'd to snowboard. >>> and >>> st. paddy's day is a week away, and irish-related merchandise is flying off the shelves. now urban outfit sers coming under fire for claims some of its products are offensive. one shirt reads, quote, kiss me i'm irish or drunk or whatever. and some irish groups are offended for the negative stereotypes it portrays. a new york congressman also asked the company to stop selling those items. he has yet to hear back from urban outfitters. >>> move over water skiing squirrel and skateboarding dog. a snowboarding possum is going viral on the internet. take a look. usually he likes to play dead, but he is showing off some real skills at a resort in maryland. the video was posted yesterday by employees at liberty s

ted kosinski was writing to me, ok. i would see this chapter. i would have no knowledge whatsoever how he would have reacted to what i had just sent him a few days before. our only goal was to react and to advance the "plot." i would read it, and i would go, oh, man, what am i going to do with this? about a day later i would go, all right, all right, i will show him. i would write something. generally, it got to a point in my chapter -- the chapter was only about three or four pages long. we wanted to keep going back and forth. i would get to a point where i do not know how to get them out of this situation. let him to figure it out. like i said, revenge. >> the weird part for me is i am used to you finish it before you show it to anybody. this is mr. collaborative medium person. he writes like the first sentence, which is, what a wonderful day, and he sent it to billy crystal. he says to me, billy loves the first sentence. >> i was just taking the temperature of how this was going. he liked the first sentence. ok, i will write another sentence.

representative model which is the one we currently use in apportioning political power articulated by judge kosinski and his partial assent in garza, this approach assumes there are inherent rights to the political process. the assumption of the individual right to vote turns representation to a privilege. it turns it into the assumption of a vote as privilege. in the political firmt of the united states, this notion of rights as inalienable and inherent verses privileges earned is one of the principle divisions in american politics. i'm not speaking as a legal scholar. i'm a political scientist. i think of this in the context of democratic theory. this seems to be a difference that defines where people and their politics come down in support or opposition to this approach. and it is where the debate will be held, because until the court engages this ambiguity, those individuals who seek to define voting as a privilege, will continue to run at concepts of qualification for apportioning power, qualification for voting based upon the notion of earned privilege rather than inherent rights. >> so thank

nbc's michelle kosinski is at london's heathrow airport and has details on this.morning. >> reporter: hey, matt. lightning strikes are happening every day and planes are at risk. every commercial airline is struck on average once a year but generally there is no damage thanks in part to scientists here. lightning. fuel of mythology and magic. beautiful. but not like this. airplanes grasped by those violent armed. but at an unusual lab tucked away in wales, full of dire warnings and giant capacitors, they make their own lightning. yes, take something that doesn't conduct like ceramic big ben and -- >> fire in the hole. [ explosion ] >> reporter: wow. there must be a million pieces. the job isn't to have fun blowing things up. >> oh! >> reporter: the point is that the aircraft skins he tests here don't. just basically scorches the surface a tiny bit? >> yeah. look at the other side. it's not even a dent. >> reporter: he tortures airplane skins. and the best news we have heard all day, nothing bad happened. the electricity is diffused and doesn't get in. same concept

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michelle kosinski outside buckingham palace, thanks. >> the numbers stopped being counted at 50 million. so many people viewed the short film online. now we are on the ground in uganda to see first hand what's igniting the controversy. for now, back to you. >> thank you, brian. now for a quick round-up of what has you talking online. the internet phenomenon that's kony 2012 has no signs of letting up. today invisible children has a new video after critics raised questions about its mission, finances and one of the founders with military weapons. jason russell addressed questions during an appearance last week on this program. a mysterious uh white flash has people headed to youtube to check out this video from a fox news affiliate. the strange light ace peered during a predawn traffic report. there were no reports of lightning or explosions in the area. long-time basketball fan president obama is using his campaign website to capitalize on march madness. it features his version of the ncaa college tournament pool. anyone who enters the

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nbc's michelle kosinski has details. michelle, what can you tell us? >> good morning, matt. this gunman may have struck three times now, and is still loose. in this latest case early this morning, it happened just as school was starting at this jewish school in toulouse. a gunman rode up on a motor bike, opened fire with what might have been a small machine gun, killing at least three children and one adult with more wounded, and then sped away. and stranger still, just about the last week in this same area there were two similar shootings, in which three paratroopers were killed. might have been also a murder by possibly the same caliber weapon. and in one of those shootings the gunman approached two of the soldiers while they were using an atm, killed them at close range, and then sped away on that motor bike. so now authorities have called in anti-terror investigators. they're tightening security around jewish schools in the area, and telling soldiers not to wear their uniforms while they're off base. they're still searching for this gunman, who is out there, possibly sti

kosinski.ildren you would tell them not to wear them. >> i do. >> bill: not to wear certain clothing because it attracts attention from not only law enforcement but maybe other bad guys. this trayvon martin. this had hood on,. >> right. >> that you think might have attracted the attention of the shooter, zimmerman? >> my thesis is parents don't let your kids go out wearing these damn hoodies because they being attract the attention not only of the cops but of nut jobs apparently like this george zimmerman. when they see and respond, it is a stereotype. it is repugnant. it all the things that offend us. >> why are people blaming the victim for his own demise and. >> this is exactly. i hate this because i have so much in common with geraldo who is a loon. >> grow a mustache. this is what happened what happened to me when there was a murdered girl from jerusalemy. 18 years old. >> murdered at 4:00 in the morning when she was wondering around the meat packing district with no shoes on. i said that'

kosinski.ou would tell them not to wear them. >> i do. >> bill: not to wear certain clothing because it attracts attention from not only law enforcement but maybe other bad guys. this trayvon martin. this had hood on,. >> right. >> that you think might have attracted the attention of the shooter, zimmerman? >> my thesis is parents don't let your kids go out wearing these damn hoodies because they being attract the attention not only of the cops but of nut jobs apparently like this george zimmerman. when they see and respond, it is a stereotype. it is repugnant. it all the things that offend us. >> why are people blaming the victim for his own demise and. >> this is exactly. i hate this because i have so much in common with geraldo who is a loon. >> grow a mustache. this is what happened what happened to me when there was a murdered girl from jerusalemy. 18 years old. >> murdered at 4:00 in the morning when she was wondering around the meat packing district with no shoes on. i said that's not wi

nbc's michelle kosinski is at buckingham palace with the very latest. michelle, good morning. >> hi, natalie. he was gone for six weeks. not as prince william but as flight lieutenant william wales a rescue helicopter pilot which is a tough job. they go out in the worst conditions to save people's lives. this was also considered a controversial posting because britain went to war with argentina over the falklands in the 1980s, argentina has not accepted the outcome and considered prince william going there provocative. back home the palace has kept william's bride kate very busy with appearances. just this week she gave her first speech in which she said she wished william could be there. the palace says william will take a little time off and return to his usual post in wales. natalie? >> hopefully catherine gets to spend a little time with her husband. thank you so much michelle cosenny outside buckingham palace. >>> for the first time since they were born in november polar bear triplets ventured outside of their den tuesday at the moscow zoo. they en

michelle kosinski has the story. >> reporter: while william was away, kate could play.irlwind six weeks she's had while her husband as flight lieutenant william wales was on helicopter duty 8,000 miles away. for kate it was appearance after appearance. letting the public see her personality and humor shine on her own. getting rave reviews for her natural poise, very personal approach to charity, and of course her style, setting the bar for elegance whether accepting valentines from love struck boys, getting to know her grandmother in-law the queen a little better, traveling at her side, or on a solo mission wearing a dress she bought second hand. kate celebrated a very chic st. patrick's day, played some tangerine jeans olympic field hockey, helped prince charles learn some chores, and here in a dress borrowed from her mother gave her first shy public speech. >> first of all, i'd like to say thank you. >> reporter: but couldn't help adding this. >> i'm really sorry that william can't be here today. he would love it here. >> reporter: when a tiny girl gave her a special

nbc's michelle kosinski is there this morning. good morning, michelle. >> reporter: hey, savannah. this forbidding place -- and it's been a warm winter -- is the perfect place for a global seed vault. built four years ago but now thriving, a place to keep humanity's treasure in seeds for crops just in case who knows what might happen. here we are in 2012. this strange monolith jutting from a frozen mountainside on the rooftop of the world. hi. >> hi. >> reporter: so this is the place. >> this is it. >> reporter: the vault. planted here by american scientist kerry fowler, the first global seed bank. >> this is a big long tunnel that leads us back to the coldest place in the mountain. >> reporter: drilled 400 feet straight through solid rock and permafrost, through sets of frozen doors. >> brace yourself. >> reporter: the minus 4 degrees fahrenheit now with 700,000 varieties of our planet's food crops. more than 100,000 types of rice. north korea sits peacefully next to south korea's. just this week through a raging blizzard samples managed to come in from violence-ravaged syria. and

nbc's michelle kosinski is in buckingham palace with more on this story.n't seen any photos yet of william with kate. which is great for them now that they finally have some time together believed to be at their cottage at kensington palace. we did, though, get an early glimpse of kate's parenting skills with her new puppy. while william was away, kate could play. in the park behind kensington palace, with a cute little cocker spaniel puppy. kate appeared to be instructing her fluffy friend. he, as puppies are, seemed to be thoroughly preoccupied with a lovely piece of garbage. an empty bag of chips. no indication that kate had eaten them. but what a whirlwind six weeks she's had. while her husband was on helicopter duty 8,000 miles away. for kate it was appearance after appearance. letting the public see her personality and humor shine on her own. getting rave reviews. with natural poise. her very personal approach to charity. and, of course, her style. sect the bar for elegance, whether she was accepting valentine's, getting to know her grandmother in la