kristen dahlgren, nbc news, hollywood. >>> that's our broadcast for this thursday night.hank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you later this evening for "rock center" tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central and then back here tomorrow night for "nightly news." and then back here tomorrow night for "nightly news." good night. >>> good evening and thank you for joining us. i'm jessica aguirre. >> and i'm raj mathai. students and parents, beware. a security breach is forcing a delay for standardized test results at dozens of california schools, including two in the south bay. test materials and even some of the questions have been posted online. nbc bay area's kimberly tere joins us from san jose this evening with the details. kimberly, this could dramatically impact a lot of students here. >> reporter: yes, raj. worst case scenario it could impact funding for some schools. in san jose's case probably not. there were just two students involved and they go to different schools. nonetheless, this matter is being taken very seriously by both local and state

i was so frustrated about what to do. >> reporter: kristen dahlgren, nbc news, los angeles. >> ann curry is here with us. we saw you talking to two of those people. what more can you tell us? >> i can also tell you that patricia, the last two people in the story we just talked about was hit with shrapnel in her leg. can you imagine trying to face this trauma with two small children. jamie and patricia talked about being so stunned. all they could think about was trying to save the children. they covered them with their bodies, threw them on the ground and when they heard the shooting slow they ran to save their children. interestingly enough jamie and patricia are boyfriend and girlfriend, both 25. it is today, brian when jamie realized what could have been lost, how valuable, how important, how fragile life is. it is today that he asked patricia to marry him in the hospital and it is today that she said knowing what she could have lost, she said yes. >> another side of this coin. we don't want to judge anyone or anything after this tragedy but a whole lot of parents woke up this morning

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, honolulu. >> that's our broadcast for this monday night.hanks for being with us. i'm natalie morales. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. we hope to see you back here tomorrow evening. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good monday evening. >> hi fire danger and the fourth of july holiday could prove to be an explosive combination this year. the fear that the fire departments so scaled back from budget cuts, responding to a fire might take much longer than usual. in contra cost

more now from nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: there is no such thing as a holiday on the fire lines. from montana -- >> with this fire, with these fuels, we can't get in front of the fire. it's just too dangerous. >> reporter: to utah where almost 3,000 acres have been charred outside salt lake city. >> i went out and looked out of my front door. it looked like it was right in the subdivision up here. >> reporter: to california where the flames shot up in the tinder dry ranch land north of los angeles. crews across the west cannot stop their frantic efforts to contain fire after fire. the massive waldo canyon fire near colorado springs, so big that it could be seen from space is now almost completely contained. the start of monsoon season brought slight relief to parts of colorado. but many of these teams will soon be moved elsewhere. according to the u.s. forest service, 54 major wildfires are now burning in the united states. and today a colorful reminder that it's not just nature they are fighting. according to officials, fireworks are one of the most frequent causes of wildfires

. >> nbc's kristen dahlgren has more on the lives lost friday. >> reporter: 12 people killed in the simplect of going to the movies, but sometimes the real superheroes are not on the big screen. 26-year-old john blunk wanted to become a navy zeal, but his life ended right in the line of fire at home. >> what a great hero he is. he provided me the opportunity to survive. >> reporter: matt mcquinn took a bullet shielding his girlfriend and her brother, 24-year-old alexander tavis was hit has he pushed his girlfriend out of the way. and jesse childress died trying to save a female air force colleague. friday was alex sullivan's birthday. he was secretly engaged to his girlfriend and last night was honored at his high school. >> he played on the baseball team and had more friends than anybody i have noun. >> reporter: 24-year-old mckayla was a green bay fan, and this mom was pursuing her degree. and 24-year-old john thomas larimer, a petty officer in the navy, the youngest of five siblings. >> he was an outstanding shipmate, a valued member an an extremely dedicated sailor. >> reporter: finall

our report tonight from nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: the end of the marriage came as quicklyit started. >> have you ever felt this way before? >> reporter: tom cruise who once jumped on oprah's couch to announce his whirlwind romance today issued a joint statement with katie holmes asking for privacy and expressing respect for each other's commitment to each of our respective beliefs. >> i think when they make reference to each of our respective beliefs, they're really talking about scientology and the fact that katie was never very much onboard with tom's religion. >> reporter: cruise the world's most famous member of the controversial church of scientology. holmes was raised catholic and portrayed in the tabloids as a woman trapped in a controlling marriage. today she was spotted taking 6-year-old daughter suri to a museum and divorce experts say the split and settlement within two weeks may have been perfectly played by katie. the pair had lived here together in los angeles, but holmes recently rented a place across the country in new york. where she was often photographed

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kristen dahlgren, nbc news, honolulu. >>> take a look at the future of man in space. this the oryan capsule and will take humans farther in space. 2020 will travel to an steroid, by the 2030s, set to take astronauts to mars. >>> a new study from today.com and dating site match.com, 30% of single women would rather give up sex for a year than favorite food. only 16% of men said the same thing. in case you're curious which foods were more popular, chocolate, steak and pizza were most commonly chosen. what's life like when you're the younger brother of one of the biggest stars or movie stars? not all champagne and red carpet for brad pitt's kid brother. he shows off his less than hollywood lifestyle in a new ad campaign for virgin mobile. >> what i like about the car? look at it. it's sporty, stylish, me. >> usually starts on the first pull. >> this baby right here, it scans, prints, faxes, 1200 dpi black and white. i'm going to upgrade to color. right now this baby gets it done. >> doug said he's mistaken for his brother brad three times a week. like his brother, doug d

as kristen dahlgren reports, their special bond proved to be life saving. >> reporter: at first glance are your typical bffs. >> we met working at victoria secret. >> reporter: ali and stephanie finish each other's sentences. >> i decided we were going to be friends and hang out. we hung out that weekend. >> we have been inseparable since then. >> reporter: almost every sin sentence ends in a laugh. >> she was like, hey, do you want to go see batman tonight at the movie premiere? and i'm like, heck yeah i want to go. >> reporter: but what started as a typical night out ended in a story of friendship so extraordinary, even the president was moved to share. >> when the gunman initially came in and threw the canisters, he threw them only a few feet away from ali and stephanie. >> and i get up, because the people behind us are like run, run, go i just remember opening my eyes. i'm on the ground, blood everywhere. and i just hear her saying ali, get up, ali, get up, ali, get up. i couldn't talk. i was like, steph, steph, i can't. >> i never heard her voice sound like that. >> i can't move.

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, honolulu. >>> now at 5:00, the storm is long gone, but the consequences lingerthe storm. for some, the power has finally been restored, others, not so lucky. >> transformer out, power lines down, tree across the roadways. some residents in this neighborhood say they've reported it to pepco and have been told problem fixed, power's back on. but is it? >>> people are mourning the loss of andy griffith, the television star who remitted smalltown americana has died. >>> and first on 4, a d.c. fire crew called in after the storm and used to fill up a private pool. >>> and good evening on this tuesday. i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. first up at 5:00, the death toll from friday night's storm in virginia now stands at 11. today governor bob mcdonald's office says death in loudoun county is a result of the storm. that's in addition to three in fairfax county. >> across our region, crews continue to work around the clock to turn the power back on for tens of thousands of people. pepco still has 97,000 customers without electricity, dominion, 66,000, bg & e 40,000 ou

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, los angeles. >> melanie bromley is a senior correspondent for the "e!"us. hey, melanie, good morning. >> good morning. >> this is justin bieber's second little run-in or brush with the law. are we starting to see the beginnings of maybe a bad boy image coming out here? >> maybe justin's always kind of had that bad boy image. that's been one of the things he's been marketed on, but we have to bear in mind, this is a guy who became famous when he was 15 years old and he's growing up in front of the spotlight. we're watching him as he's kind of getting his expensive cars and going through that period that people go through in those ages. so, i don't think he's necessarily becoming too much of a bad boy. it's just like him naturally growing up. >> sure. do we know if this has anything to do with his possible breakup with selena gomez? i know there are reports of that this week. >> well, actually, justin and celi selen rank doing just fine. there are some reports that are not true at the moment, but i think that's the problem, is that he's got himself into a

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, honolulu. >>> 11:49. still ahead, a case of fraud. the emission from one of the world's largest drugmakers. >>> poison ivy, how to avoid it and whether those >>> there is encouraging news out of georgia this morning. aimee copeland, the 24-year-old who lost a foot, leg and both hands to a deadly flesh eating bacteria is out of the hospital. she will now spend six to eight weeks in rehabilitation. her parents joined natalie morales on "today" show and said her progress is unbelievable, but still has a long road ahead. >> amazing the things we take for granted in our life. the ability to get up and go fix a cup of coffee and go sit back down, again. she has to basically relearn that ability just to get up and go get whatever she needs to satisfy her needs. you know, whether it's to go to the bathroom, to fix her something to eat, so, she just has to learn to be able to have some mobility in her life, again. >> copeland is also receiving a lot of support from her community and has held a race in her honor to raise money for her prostheti

nbc's kristen dahlgren has more. >> reporter: it happened to al and tipper gore, robin williams and hisaria. divorce after decades of marriage. according to new research out of bowling green state university, there is a growing group getting late in life divorces. >> back in 1990, fewer than one in ten people who got divorced were over the age of 50. and we find in our paper that today one in four people getting divorced are 50 or older. >> reporter: the gray divorce revolution shows marriage isn't what it used to be. >> kids suggest that marriage is becoming more optional. >> reporter: the piece says it is women more than men who initiate the split, which according to pepper swartz, aarp's love and relationship ambassador, says makes sense. >> they're the ones that get tired of doing all the work and they say, i'm not getting back what i need here. >> reporter: karen filed for divorce from her husband at 53 years old. >> i've been married for 32 1/2 years. the last several years were tough. my ex-husband was not a bad man at all. but every marriage has its ups and downs and ours just w

kristen dahlgren is live with more on how these victims have being remembered. >> reporter: hi, there hospital here, two of them still in will critical condition. but especially today when we're hearing so much about that rather strange court appearance from the suspect, the family of the 12 who were killed in this really want the focus to remain on those victims. 12 people killed in the simple act of going to the movies. but sometimes the real super heros aren't on the big screen. 26-year-old john blunk wanted to become a navy s.e.a.l., but his life ended in the line of fire right at home. >> what a great hero he is. and like he provided me the opportunity to survive. >> reporter: matt mcquinn took a bullet shielding his girlfriend and her brother. alexander teves was hit as he pushed his gir friend out of the way. and jesse childress died trying to save a colleague. friday was alec sullivan's 27th birthday. today would have been his one year wedding anniversary. meantime veronica moser's mother was still in critical condition when she was finally told she'll never see the 6-year-old

kristen dahlgren, nbc news, aurora, colorado. >> and so so much healing that needs to be done here. you can see in that last shot from kristen's piece, that there were white crosses, 12 of them brought here by a man from illinois who also brought crosses just 13 miles down the road to columbine during that tragedy and now, perhaps you can see people starting to gather behind me for this vigil tonight. miguel almaguer has been here in what has been a day, a really fast moving developments, but i think it's at its heart, the people here in aurora, want it to be a day of healing. >> we're expecting upward of 5,000 people to arrive. certainly a lot of people have come to support victims, remember those who lost their lives. 12 people. we know this event should start relatively shortly. we'll hear from the mayor, we'll hear from other elected officials, as well as the governor. we know this is a time for folks that really want to come together and be part of a healing process. all in the same place at the same time. so it allows an opportunity for all of these folks who are grieving with

kristen dahlgren in los angeles. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt.'s been some talk a deal cook imment but no word from either tom cruise or katie holmes over the weekend. kathy holmes in new york this weekend shopping at the grocery store, carrying daughter suri down the street, and stopping by her attorney's office for the second day in a row. she had no comment on the divorce providing while estranged husband tom cruise remains out of the public eye. family law attorney lisa meyer doesn't represent cruise or holmes but says she wouldn't be surprised if they never go to court. >> at the heart of it she doesn't want suri to go through a custody examination and for them to be examined about all their personal details and neither does he. >> holmes asked for sole asked of 6-year-old suri. >> i think by having joint custody katie felt there wasn't any way she was going to really be able to negotiate with her soon to be ex-husband in that way. >> reporter: when cruise split from nicole kidman they shared custody but the kids remained mostly with cruise

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kristen dahlgren has more. >> your name is john coffee? reporter: michael clark duncan is perhaps best known as the gentle giant in the tom hanks movie "the green mile." in the film he plays an inmate with supernatural powers to heal. >> i helped dale's mouse. >> reporter: but it was the 54-year-old duncan who needed healing on friday morning when he had a heart attack at home, and it was his girl friend, reality star amrosa, who saved him. >> allegedly she performed cpr and kept him alive until help arrived. >> i think you're one of the finest men who ever lived. >> reporter: amarosa is best known for being a villain on "celebrity apprentice." she's reportedly been at do you known's side since his heart attack. >> she made a career out of being a villain on reality tv and now in real life she's something of a hero. so this could completely change our image of amarosa. >> reporter: a new view of a reality star after a real life turn as a life saver. for "today," kristen dahlgren, nbc news, los angeles. >> up next the countdown to the olymp

the story from nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> the team deployed to south l.a.eir new weapon into play. >> the formula for the tv show "bait car" usually goes something like this. >> undercover deputies act out a theme and abandon the bait with the keys in it. >> reporter: they wait for a would be car thief who inevitably gets in the vehicle equipped with hidden cameras and drives off. for sheriff's deputies, it's an easy bust. >> making a u-turn southbound central. >> reporter: 28-year-old keenan took the bait last july when he found this cadillac too good to resist. the tape eventually turned over to the public defender's office shows los angeles county sheriff's detective anthony shapiro making the arrest. but it's what he didn't say. >> you know you're rights, right? you know all that stuff? you watch tv and know your rights? >> yes. >> i'm going to ask you some questions. >> no problem. no problem purchase the detective is never seen or heard reading miranda rights even though he repeatedly assured his fellow officers he had. >> i already mirandaized him. i

we'll talk to his parents but first here is nbc's kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: 15-year-old tyler madoff with a bright future. >> we love you from the bottom of our hearts. >> reporter: captain of his rowing team, madoff was paddling in paradise, kayaking and hiking around hawaii's big island when his tour stopped on this piece of rocky shoreline, the last place tyler was seen alive. >> all i heard was a boom, a hand-shaped wave came up and went clearly over us. we were being pulled, sucked through this little tube. >> reporter: a kayak guide, hired by the tour operator. >> i grabbed the girls right here. >> reporter: tyler's family called them heroes. while they couldn't stop tyler from being swept away they saved other lives. >> i had one here and here, one on my shoulder and another in my grasp. i blocked the girl with my body. >> reporter: that's when reed noticed another teen, matthew, being swept away. >> i seen him being sucked into that right over here. i ran into the water and i dove off the cliff. he was lifeless. i proceeded to flip him over and do what i, to my knowledge, ope

. >> kristen dahlgren, thanks very much.ning the conversation how is pastor doug lassit from the pearl church is which is about 15 minutes away from the movie theater and a place of worship for several people who have had family or friends affected directly by the shooting. thanks for joining us. >> thank you very much for having me today. >> over the next few weeks and months undoubtedly we'll see people searching especially in your community, searching for answer. and they'll want to take action. what would you tell your congregation, what have you been telling folks in the community, what kind of messages are you giving them to make sense of something that really is so senseless? >> one of the questions that i've been asked over and over again for the last 72 hours is the why question. i think the family and the friends, those that are most affected by this, i think the why question will come later for them because they're going through such an emotional time right now. but my congregation yesterday in church, i discussed

and nbc's kristen dahlgren is outside the suspect's apartment.know that this is still an active crime scene. give us a sense of what they were able to find there yesterday. >> reporter: well, the investigation does continue. a little while ago i saw officers walking out with cases they were inside collecting evidence as well. what we know they have been able to find yesterday they left the laptop and hard drive, presumably taking any information they can off of that. but also, with what they are calling this network of sophisticated network of explosi explosives, he boobytrapped the apartment and so they available to save some of those elements and will -- be using them in the prosecution. yesterday we saw them, they came here and broke the windows and you can see there. and then with a robotic device they were able to disarm this network of explosives. they found a trip wire and about waist height on the front door. and the police chief here said that was clearly intended to kill anyone. first person that went into the apartment we heard about h

first kristen dahlgren. >> reporter: it was a day of kayaking. dr.en, hi a full-time job. i was too busy to be thinking about my spirituality. >> reporter: the spine surgeon who was an admitted cynic said she died. her bolt was pinned under t rapids and she became trapped by the rushing current. >> i was out of air and i was too far from shore for anyone to see me, let alone come and save me. >> reporter: neal was with her good friend, experienced white water rescuers chad and tom long. when they noticed mary was missing in the rapids, they followed safety protocol, they started a watch. more than 15 minutes later, they saw her take a breath. did you think she was dead? >> absolutely. >> reporter: she saw her peel away from her body. >> i was overcome when w this physical sensation of being held, comforted and reassured. >> reporter: she said a group of spirits were there to greet her. >> they took me down this exceptionally beautiful path toward this great domed structure of sorts. >> reporter: but she was told it wasn't her time. >> i was sent back

let's get the latest from kristen dahlgren from aurora. good morning, kristen. >> reporter: good morning, melissa. you can see holmes' apartment behind me here, the one on the third floor there with windows broken out by authorities. as they were disarming those bombs. his building is still roped off. unclear when residents will be able to return. but as you said, in four buildings surrounding here, they have been allowed back home. i spoke with one woman a short time ago and she said i'm so glad it's over, you can imagine what it's been like for them. meantime, doesn't look like any investigation going on inside right now, but yesterday quite busy here as they worked to disarm what they are calling a sophisticated net wok of bombs inside the building. authorities found a waist-high trip wire at the door. 30 improvised grenades and three jugs of some kind of improvised napalm. they designed the bombs using a remote-controlled robotic device. we could hear a small blast outside here yesterday, and they also worked to preserve what's going to

let's get the latest from kristen dahlgren from aurora. holmes' apartment behind me here, the one on the third floor there with windows broken out by authorities. as they were disarming those bombs. his building is still roped off. unclear when residents will be able to return. but as you said, in four